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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. IIOOSE OF COMMONS.—SATCBDAT, JOLT 19. The St•ZAZIII took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments on the Midland Railway (Er- Session of Time, &c.) Bill, were considered. Jackson's Estate Bill, Lethbridge'. Estate Bill, and the National Land Company Dissolving Bill, were read a third Nee and pored. The Duke of Bridgewater's Estate Bill was read • Ns Coed time. PUBLIC BUSINESS. IPETI [IONS PRESENTED. RSOINTILATION or A9eVRANCII3.—By Mr. BROTHER. TON (I) from building societies in Manchester and Safari for • local registrar in preference to • metropolitan one. FUNERAL OF QUEEN ADELAIDE. On bringing up the report of the Committee of Supply, Sir B. HALL, with reference to an item in the civil matingencies of 2,8141. for the funeral of the late Queen Dowager, which included • fee to the dean and chapter of Windsor ter interment in the vault, as'acil the Chancellor of the Eschcquer whether he could elate what was the amount of the he paid to the dean and chapter ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that the fee was 2201, not 1,0001., as had been supposed by Sir Benjamin on the previous night. Sir B. lIALL animadverted in strong terms upon what he characterised as extortion on the part of a hotly possess ing • revenue of 53,000/. a year. The taking a fee of T 201., which was to come out of the taxes of the people, for such a purpose. lie thought disgraceful to the dean and chapter. The CIIANCELIAIt of the EXCIIEQUEIt commented upon the exaggeration of which Sir Benjamin had been guilty in magnifying 2001. into 1,000/. Mr. GLADSTONE likewise accused Sir B. Ilan of want of accuracy as well an of candour in holding up the superior clergrto public reprobation without giving notice of his in tended attacks, and confounding the innocent with the guilty. Some oftbe canons had limited incomes, and, there fore, bad no interest in the alleged extortion. Mr. Glad stone took this occasion of calling attention to the legal disabilities of the colonial lii.hops, clergy, and laity in com munion with the church of England in regard to making provision for their internal religious concerns, inasmuch as they had neither the powers appertaining to the established church at home, nor the freedom of voluntary societies. Ile hoped the government would next session take up this ques tiou ; hut, if they . wee, nut disposed to take the matter in hand, it was his intention to propose to parliament in the outset of the ensuing session some enabling hill which would give the eiergy and laity of the church of England in the colonies that (.üb)ect or not to reservations) which in sulwtance every other religious community enjoyed. Sir D. 1.. EVANS protested against the extension of the episcopate in our transmarine possessions, by the appoint ment of colonial bishop., who obtained money out of the resources of the empire, calling themselves " lords," and wrangling for meet,. nce with Roman catholic bishops. CoIoniISIITTHORP, though a sincere supporter of the j ostablidiril church, thought this practice of demanding fees for the interment of a member of the Royal family more honoured 41 the breach that/ the observance. Mr. W. WILLIAMS considered that it would be a dis grace to the church, to the government, and to the house if WI sum were allowed to be paid out of the pockets of the peopThe. - Mr. rIIMISTOPIIER 11 , fended the lion. and Rev. Mr. Cud, one of the canons of Windsor, who lint been described by Sir 11.1hdl as a pluralist, and protested against limber. of that house coining forward anti silifying the clergy without ascertaining the facts of the case. Sir 11. 11.1,1 A. justified what lie had asserted. Colonel SALWEY cen.ured the than mid Chapter with gelation to the Military knights of Wiralsor. Mr. I:KYNOLDS approved of the proceedings of Sir D. Mall; and Mr. DAWES stated that it was not the present intention of the government to bring forward any measure of the nature iielleated by Mr. Gladstone. .1 hi r. pmrt having been brought up, Mr. %% 11.1.1.01 S mused :IS an amendment that the vote of 511,Ismu. fur risil contingencies should be reduced to 49,7811/. (or, in other word., that the item of 21.40/. for open ing the vault for the funeral of the Queen Dowager be dis allowed). The !mouse divided Yoe the am, nilment Against it 37 Majority against the reduction On one of the nes al votes, sir tr. l'Et111,1,1„ called attention to the ease of the sur viving officers, seamen, and In:drum who were present at the ow cessful action between four English frigates, under Conitioalore (J. Moore, and tour Spanish frigates, in 1804, whose claims for naval meads had been rejected. Sir F. Il.11: ISt; said the Admiralty hail laid down cer tain rules, :mud hail appoint. il a committee of experienced officers to consider the claims and services of parties, and the house, 1w thought, would not act wisely if it interfered with On it deenauil. Captain St:OIIELL complained that the principle on whedi medals were granted was faulty. Ily that system a midshipman, a midshipman's hov, or a purser's steward (the hat ut whom would he in the cockpit and know nothing about the battle) would, if in a particular action, go about decorated, while the most meritorious officers and men, tbongh they hail served during the whole French war, ro ttenest no medal. To take a ease. Just before the great battle of Trafalgar, Sir Robert Lewis was detached on an expedition with 5 sail of the bete. lie went much against ▪ will, and having used all spied, returned just after the osengenieut. The f,ll.erprener: was, that though it was by his means the fir.ses were saved, Sir Ruben himself did nut obtain a Medal fur Trafalgar. To take another ease—an eater who had destroyed. at different times, a hundred French ',sets in the Mediterranean, had taken 'several batteries. caul bad been at the end of his extraordinary ex ploits promoted, did not reeeive the medal. Ile thought that As there were now but few survivors, the government ought to nuke it a war medal. (Loud cheers.) It was no merit to he in the selected actions, and no demerit to be out of them. for they only obeyed orders. (liens', bear.) After some conversation, Sir DE 1,. F.V ANS gave notice that he should next week call the attention of the house to the Cale of Mn. Ricks. (Dear, hear.) The rest of the votes in supply were then agreed to. MERCANTILE MARINE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. Mr. A N DEILSON, in clause 17, moved an &menden the object of which was to render owners sat vemels liable to the payment of advance ticket., whether the sailors to whom they hail been grunted widest or not. Ilia object was to render the giving of such tickets (which were for two months' wages before the ship sailed) so haidadolla as greatly to cheek the practice. Mr. J. CLAY approved of the motion, but thought it would he better to abolish the tickets altogether, or to limit them to ono month. 'lwo months' by was :doom the price of a kit, and consequently SCAMOII knowing that they could by means of these tickets procure a new kit tor their nest voyage, were in the habit of pledging the old one. Bence arse the habits of iniprovidence complained of. Mr. I. t 1101.'ellEltE was sensible of the evils of the system. but was afraid that its sudden abolition would be a great hardship to the seamen. After a few words front Mr. Moffat, Admirals Bowles and DUMIAP, and Mr. Duncan, Mr. ANDERSON withdrew his motion, and the clause was agreed to, as were the remaining clauses of the bill. Mr. LABOUCIIEIIE then proposed a new clause, the effect of which was the same us that of one proposed by Admiral Bowles—namely, to enable any naval or consular cater to head an inquiry into the circumstances of any shipwreck. sir J. GRAHAM observed, that in the royal navy no ship woo lost without an inquiry into every circumstance connected with the ease ; and he thought that, considering the number of wrecks of metehant vessels which had taken place of late, and the extent to which insurance was now carried, it would soon be found necessary to go even fur ther than the clause, and establish on inquest on every merchant vowel that should he; lot. (Hear, hear.) Admiral Dowses withdrew his clause, and Mr. La. boneliere'S was unanimously agreed to. Admiral BOWLES then moved the following clause. to be inserted after section 23 —"Any naval or consular officer duly authorised to summon naval courts under the provi sions of the Mercantile Maine Bill of 1810 (13 and 14 Vic., cap. 93, sec. 82) shall, if be so think lit, summon such court to be held upon the complaint of two or more of the crew of any British ship, anything contained in the said act not withstanding." Mr. LABOUCHERE opposed the clause. on the ground that it would give power to any two or three ill-conditioned persons, who were generally to be met with in any crew, very seriously to annoy and to injure the master of their vessel, besides to cause very serious delays. At present it was necessary for a third at least of the crew to concur in the complaint. After a short discussion the clause was negatived. Mr. ANDERSON moved the following clause That OD much of the act 7 and 8 Vie., c. 112, s. 50. so exempts seamen quitting merchant ships, and entering on board of a ship of war, from forfeiture of their wages. as in other cues of breach of their articles of agreement, shall be repealed." After some discussion. The committee divided : For the clause Against it Mr. ANDERSON then proposed the following clause:— '• That such provisions of the General Merchant Seamen's Act, Bdc 9 ie., e. 112, and of the Mercantile Marine Act, 1030. as compel seamen in the merchant service to obtain and reduce mister tickets, shall he repealed. - The pre sent system was tucks* and exceedingly vexatious. Mr. LABOUCIIERE considered the subject much too important to be disposed of in this incidental manner. The question had already been discussed, and though he would not say that the present system was not susceptible of im provement• he considered that very ill effects would result from its abolition. The clause was then withdrawn. Mr. ANDERSON lastly proposed the following clause : I " Thnt such provisions at this act, and of the Mercantile Marine Act, 1550, a. apply to the personal supervision of shipping masters over the eninigements and discharge of 1 @cameo, shall only be applicable when the services of a shipping master for that purpose anal be required by tho master, owner, or any seaman or seamen, concerned in each engagement or discharge : and nothing contained in the said sets, or either of than. Phan authorise any shipping master to interfere in the engagements or dish Lrge of any seaman or seamen, unit ft. the master or on race. seaman or seamen, shall request the interference of such shipping Mater for that purpose." Mr. LABOUCIIEItE PAW, that thouzh the proposal omen spat than in the modal guise of a claw, it WA& in reality to repeal the principal feature of the 31encantile Marine Bill oflast year. The clause woe withdrawn, and the house resumed. CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAILWAYS BILL. On the motion of Mr. C. LEWIS this bill was read a seem' time, in order that it might be committed pro forma for the Introduction of amendmenb. COUNTY COURTS FURTHER EXTENSION BILL. The report as to compensations was agreed to. NEW DEER REMOVAL, &c. BILL. This bill passed through committee. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH. Lord SEYMOUR obtained leave to bring in a bill to con firm certain provisional orders. The house rose at 5 o'clock. Zitt erprtiPs. TO CORI LES PON DENTS. I Sewed mien •f E5p....." t.t MEM Ill•fllinirS Geneva," pattlitied every Twoday sad Fridey :ugh% la Use for poste Aden 'temente intended !or "The Laprees," Leaden Evenbut paper, most be at lb* Ofbre, 10, rodveriaatneet. by Two oVeck vie tha day of pablicatiea. DIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Torts DAT—MO.IIIOC lb. Iw. Aftersona. 714 31ta. To-neutow—Lormlng. lb. r thermion, bl. WA. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 21. THE discussion in the French Assembly of the pro posed revision of the constitution has already lasted a week, and is likely to last during a second, if not a third. Most of the speeches arc destitute of personal interest to the foreign reader, and political import ance, even in France, they have none. There arc remarkable exceptions, however, which deserve our notice, and demand our best consideration. General CAVAIGNAC and M. DE FALLOUK may be considered as the exponents of the two most powerful, if not the most directly antagonistic, ele ments of opinion in France. It is a good sign when two such men conic forward frankly at the outset of such a controversy as that now pending, to proclaim in temperate but unequivocal language the sentiments they entertain on the momentous question of the day, and their views and aims regarding the future. M. F.tLi.oux avows that the party of which lie is one of the ablest and most accomplished champion, desires a revision of the constitution, in the hope that thereby the door may be opened to the speedier re-installation of legitimacy. lie does not, indeed, affect to believe that the Count de CHAMBORD is per sonally popular, neither does he commit the impru dence of eulogising the BOURBON race. The whole of his reasoning appears to be limited to the doctrine of necessity and the logic of fear. Out of monarchy there is for society, according to M. De Faiioux, no salvation. And among the rival dynasties he ac knowledges of course but ouc—that upon whoso impresenptible rights the claims of the houses of Bosarsure and ORLEANS were never in his esti mation anything better than lawless and violent usurpations. France having in turn tried all, if she be wis: would take the first opportunity to confess her contrition fur political dissent from the fold of the unchanged and umhangeable faith in the divine right of kings to bear rule over mankind. There is no shamming of subserviency to the principle of univer sal suit age. HENRY V., in the estimation of all true legitimists, is as rightful lord of the soil of France to-day us he would be on the morrow of his being summoned back to his long-lost inheritance by six million of votes. Men like M. DE FALLOUN are too sagacious to submit their cause to electoral arbitre mint. 'I hey are resolved to stake nothing on such a hazard. The nephew of NAPOLEON may risk a presidential Waterloo, there being nothing else left for him to do; but the philooo - and far-sighted hierophants of re-action fight for a system, not an impatient and penniless pretender. Ile it dignity or sloth, the heir of Louts- I.E-OltANI) has manifested little eagerness to push his way back to the Tuileries. It is the remnant of the old aristocracy, the ensploy of foreign absolutism, a certain section of the parti-retre, and a compact clique of adventurous politicians of all classes, that constitute the energetic centre of the legitimist fac tion ; and to these it signifies little whether the inert Count DE CHAMBORD shall ever be re-seated on the ancient throne, or whether the infant Count DE Pants shall be anointed future king in hereditary succession—provided that succession is re-established and the right of the people to choose their own governor is once more crushed and overthrown. M. Be FALLOUX dues But, however, leave this to be inferred horn what he forbears to say. If a con stituent assembly can be had that will peaceably re store the monarchy—sa much the better. The re vision as the first step towards that great end ought, in his opinion, to be adopted. But should revision be rejected, or the constituent assembly decide otherwise—in a word should France remain much longer impenitent—then the judgments Of Russia and Austria arc sure to come sud denly. ; and swift beneath the tread of the Cos sack and the Croat will be the annihilation of re publican presumption. For the gaolers of mankind have gathered themselves together, their counsels arc taken, the whirlwind of their allied wrath is pre pared, their faith is in the weakness and weariness of the people : hereditary right to dominion is in alienable, and this, at any cost must be asserted! It is certainly creditable to the et-If-respect and dignity of the popular side in the.assembly that these audacious threats so insulting to the national honour were re ceived without any uuthmak ofsurprise or °mot ion. That they are calculated rather to cover the Boutteos cause with an air of fanatical Quixotism than to inspire any serious belief in its proximate importance, we can hardly doubt. If M. de Fats.oux had been thinking practically of the contingencies of 1852 with refe rence to a dynastic restoration, it is inconceivable that he should have spoken thus. The frozen inflexibility of General CkVAIGNAC'S address is not less remarkable in its way. He deals with the sovereignty of the people and the inviolability of the republic in the manner of a metaphysician of 1793. He cites the successive dethroncments of Lolls XVI., CHARLES X., and Louis l'itimere as assertions of the will of the nation in favour of the republican form of rule, and argues with cogency that the go vernment which tolerates public debate as; to the specific principles on which it is itself founded, is in the condition of a man deliberating about suicide. In one sense this is true, but in another it perhaps implies too much of the spirit of misgiving as to the fixed strength which can alone tolerate complacently the speculative discussions whose practical results it does not apprehend. More to the purpose., because more savouring of the actual and real, was the gene ral's exposureof the solemn affectation of mere abstract desire for sonic species of constitutional improvement by the heterogeneous advocates of revision. With out pretending to deny, or even to extenuate the knits of the constitution of 181$, he justly in veighs against the treachery of those who would ask for a solemn condemnation of all that now exists, without avowing in what direction they wish the alteration to be made. Let us have a revision whenever we are prepared to set about it in a spirit of loyalty to freedom, nut of conspiracy in favour of reaction. Let us have a revision whenever we are prepared to improve and fortify the republic, but not while legitimacy lies in ambush behind every move ment or change." Still better is the manner in which the cant of " stability "is dissected and disposed of. " Stability is either of institutions or of individuals—of the form of government or of those who happen to exercise its powers. If the latter be meant, then the history of the last sixty years is one unbroken testimony to the fully anti futility of the effort. It was the at tempt to maintain the stability of particular families I and ministers that rendered so many revolutions in evitable; and whatever is conceived in the like spirit will terminate in the same manner. For the sake of the institutions, sacrifices of personal interests are worth making; but when Louis XV. exclaimed that the decadent monarchy would last his time, the sys tem was doomed." And it can hardly admit of rea sonable doubt that if any essential modification of the existing constitution shall be made in the man ner which the Elyaie would dictate, the change will be an adaptation of national to individual wants and a subordination of the interests of a great people to the paltry necessities and small ambitions of a very ordinary person. The address of M. Mime'. (de Bourges) appears to have elicited unusual expressions of admiration, even from those whose sentiments do nut coincide withthose of the orator of the Mountain. Confessedly, the impression left by his speech was one rather of the kind created by a peat actor than a FOIHICRI THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1851. chief. A sonorous voice, unaffected vigour of phrase, and a singularly effective elocution, are gifts which I fin► of the republican party lar claim to in the Assembly ; and the contrast supplied by M. lifultsz with the inartistic and graceless vehemence of his associates contributed doubtless in no small degree to his &loom As a counter-weight the legitimists looked, not without reason, to the practised skill of BERRYER. There was little novel or striking however, in what fell from the forensic advocate of monarchy. It was but a reprodu,ction in somewhat more cautious. and, therefore, less exciting language, of the views developed by M. DE FALLOVI. MINISTERS have met with little opposition hitherto in their efforts to accelerate the close of the session : they . will meet with none now. "G. F. YOUNG is coming," is a threat sufficient to make the most sturdy reformer stint in his talk, in order that the sessional business may be wound up, and the new member for Scarborough deprived of opportu nity to inflict his tediousness on the house. The cir cumstance of Mr. YOUNG'S return for Scarborough will inspire members of parliament with unbounded gratitude—in the first place for the approaching ter mination of the session, in the second place for the probability of an approaching dissolution. There are good grounds for hope that their new colleague may not be long enough among them to bore them to death. One important lesson is taught by the result of the Scarborough election to the party which was repre sented in that contest by Lord MULGRAVE • that no thing is to be gained by playing fast and loose with principle in order to conciliate antagonists. Lord Metotisve, professing all the while to be a stanch free-trader, claimed the votes of the Scarborough electors on the ground of his opposition to the repeal of the navigation laws. " He voted against the repeal lof the navigation laws in all eases except one and then he paired off with a member who would one voted for their repeal." After such a declaration of inconsistency, Lord .NIULGRAVE had no right to count upon the support of intelligent and sincere free traders; and as for the protectionists, they must have been fools indeed to give their votes to the candidate who was against them on every point but one, in stead of the candidate who was, or professed to be, with them on all points. The lesson, we say, is for Lord Mui.Glisve's party. They have ever been addicted to holding with the hounds and running with the hare. Not to go back further than the present session, have we not seen them introduce a clause into the QuEEN's speech, canting d la RICHMOND about agricultural distress, and heard them in the debate on the address, in reply to that speech, labouring to prove that there was no agricultural distress ? Have we not witnessed them successfully impl3ring !cry tit! throw out Mr. LOCKE KING'S bill for extending the 10/. franchise to counties? If the Whigs would not have Lord NIULGRAVES defeat ominous of the defeat of their whole party, they must adopt a more honest and straightforward course; they must either be for the people or against them. The great law of nature, they will find, " immutably survives"—the law which decrees that " between two stools the backside comes to the ground." As for Mr. G. F. YOUNG, his career draws near its close. The parliamentary touchstone has ever proved fatal to reputations like his. Ile is of that class of agitators who contrive to persuade some people that they are fit for parliament until they are tried. lie will find his level there like many who have gone before him; he will first be silenced; then forgotten ; and lastly relegated to his old sphere of after-dinner specchilying.. Mr. G. F. YOUNG begins to hedge already. He knows his out-of-door hyperboles will not stand the test of parliamentary debate. Already he is prepar ing to argue, ri la DusitaEtt, that lie is a free-trader, after some peculiar fashion of his own. After some declamation about the Mercantile Marine Bill, he suddenly appealed to the crowd before the hustings at Scar borough—" Now was he a free-trader or was his noble opponent ?" Of a verity they are, as the old adage has it, " six and half-a-dozen. Lord 'Mu.- ORATE is a free-trader who would retain the navi gation laws; and Mr. G. F. YOUNG prOtcmSCS to advo cate protection only that free-trade may flourish under it. Mr. G. F. YOUNG waxed indignant on the Scar borough ,1 hustings at the imputation of his being' friendly to the old corn law. " The protectionists did not want to return to the old corn law : it was a foul libel on them to say so." How long have the protectionists deemed it a foul libel on them to have it said that they supported the old corn law? They certainl never offered any compromise before it was repealed: they fought for it tooth and nail to the last. Do they want a new corn law more stringent than the old ? If the Duke of Iln:inmost) spoke his mind frankly, probably he would answer " aye.' But Mr. G. F. YOUNG has quite a differeut game in view : he is preparing to declare with Lord STANLEY, that protection must be given up if the party isdefeatedat the next general election; with Mr. litsiivett, that it is not the re-enactment of protection, but some compensation for the loss of it, he wants. In short, agricultural protection is a weapon of assault which Mr. G. F. YOUNG holds loosely in his hand, ready to throw it away the mo ment he finds it useless or cumbersome. In so far as principle is concerned, the two candidates at Scarborough appear to have been about matched. Their claims on the constituency appear in other re spects also to have been pretty equal. Lord Mut- GRAVE, the electors were told, has lust got an ap pointment at court, and Mr. YOUNG s father, they were informed, had a sword given him for his naval services. With two such candidates before them, no wonder that the electors felt considerable difficulty In making up their minds, and that the election was a close run. It is not easy to choose between 71ceedle dam and Ttccalk-dre. M. Raspail, in defence of the insurrections of May and June,for which he was subjected to the cen sure, M. Bataille was admitted to take his seat for I the Haute-Vienne. The tribune was then occupied by M. Odilon Barret, who began by saying, that yes terday an orator had expressed surprise that the real , question, namely, that of the merits or demerits of the constitution, had not yet been put. He shared this surprise, and notwithstanding his admiration for the fine speeches which they had heard, he thought that instead of trenching neon the ground of the future constituent, it would be expedient to limit their present debate as much as possible to the examination of the defects and advan tages of the constitution. lie regretted that the signal for this deviation should have been given from the quarter whence it had emanated, and that opinion should have been expressed there, which led to no possible solution, because the sentence did not lie with this Assembly. It was not their busi ness to fan political passions, but to consider whe ther the greater danger lay in revising the constita . tion, or in refusing to allow its revision. He ac knowledged with M. Dufaure that the constituent was , perfectly free when it voted the constitution, and , that the committee was selected with a certain degree of impartiality. But M. Dutliure, himself, admitted that the committee acted under the in fluences of a certain current of ideas which then pre vailed ; how often did he say to us upon certain questions, "Yes, you are right, but at a fu ture time, not now." This moral pressure was I inevitable, for constitutions are always made the day I after revolutions. Republican ideas had not then been long enough subjected to discussion, and the republic , came forth ready armed, as it were, from the brains o f certain honourable men, who had long imagined a republic in their closets. Good constitutions are not made in a day ; they arc the work of time and experience. This cannot be said of the constitution l of 1S P 4. Many of us dreaded the notion of placing two powers of co-equal origin face to face, with no mediator between them in the event of a conflict. It was tilt that to act thus was to start two engines with all the steam on one against the other. It was innocently said that no conflict was possible, be cause the legislative power made the laws, and the executive applied them. To talk thus was to despise the lessons of experience which teach us that those two powers are always in contact at a multitude of points. It is true the constitution sur rounds the President with ministers alike respon sible with himself, but who can do nothing unless it is to hinder him front doing something. That, as M. de Tocqueville said, is an unprecedented novelty. M. Barrot then proceeded to attack the permanence of the Assembly, which altered the fundamental con dition of a representative government. He then blamed the institution of a Committee of Per- 1 !!'lnfSZ IY:treen the alternatives of ringing the tocsin too soon or too late. He proceeded to find fault with the system of a single chamber, the excessive cen tralisation, the frequent change of foreign ministers, and unsteadiness of various institutions, which placed France in an inferior position to those powers which maintained tradition, sequence and consistency in affairs, while at home the country was deprived of all the guarantees of stability and security. In ex amining the question of opportuneness in the revi sion, he said that if the detCets of the constitution had been of a secondary order, there might be some colour for the objection against entering immediately upon the task of amendment. But the vices of the constitution were fundamental, and called for reform without delay. M. Barret took occasion to make a flattering acknowledgment of the merits of General Changarnicr, and to express sincere regret at his dismissal from office. He then pro ceeded to pass in review the objections of M. Do than., and confessed that he could not find in them sufficient weight to determine him to oppose revi sion. Ile declared that he was not alarmed either for liberty, or for public order, or fur society. He was surprised that auy one could discover an objec tion to revision in the chance of the President's re election. _ M. de Rcmusat demanded hereupon, with em phasis, leave to speak. The speech of M. Barrot would probably termi nate the sitting, The loan of 50 millions of francs voted by the Municipal Committee of Paris is to be effected by bonds of I,ooof. each, bearing interest at 5 per cent., payable every six weeks. Besides the interest a sum of 168,000 f. is to be distributed every six weeks in premiums upon a certain number of bonds. The re payment will begin in 1859, and finish iu 1870, and according to the custom of the munieipalitv, lots will be drawn every six weeks to ascertain which bonds are to be paid off. The ..Wsitcur pubishes a comparative table of the receipts of the customs for the months of June,lBlo, is" and 1851. The amount received last month was 9,156,512 f., being a decrease of 1,257,861 f. as compared with the corresponding month of 1850, and of 1,267,320 f. as compared with 1849. The amount fur the first six months of 1851 was 54,053,161 f. ; 1830, 37,501,643 f. ; and 1849, 59,944,150 f. To-day there was a considerable cheek in the re cent improvement of the funds. The Fives closed at 94.85, with a fall of 45c. The Threes fell 30c., and closed at 56.75. P.B.—After the speech of M. Odilon Barrot, the general debate was closed. The Assembly then pro ceeded to divide. The result will not be known in time for the post. THE I►IVISION, REJECTION OF THE REVISION. PARIS, SUNDAY MOILNINO. In the National Assembly, yesterday, after post hour, M. Charamaule withdrew an amendment he had proposed, and the Assembly proceeded to vote l o n the proposition in favour of the revision of the constitution. The total number of votes was 724. The votes in favour of the revision were 416; against it, 278. Majority in favour of revision, 168. Nevertheless, the votes in favour not amounting to three-fourths of the whole, or 513, the proposition was pronounced rejected. By an error, for which, we presume, the autho rities at Dover arc answerable, the mail-bag contain ing our Paris letter of last evening was sent up by the mail train to the London Post-office this morn ' ing. A messenger sent to the Post-office for our de'patches was informed that they had been returned to Dover by the next train. We are consequently without our usual letter. GERMANY. AUSTRIA. 7 -TIIE . NEW LOAN. The ne;.lustrian loan, of which so much has been said of late, has been taken by Baron James Roths child. The particulars have not as vet been made public; but the issue of the loan will be preceded by a new system of sinking fund, and other financial measures. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-'MAINE, Juts 19. In the last bitting of the Diet on Thursday, the answer to the English and French protests against the legality of the incorporation of the l'olish provinces of Prussia, was drawn up and agreed to, and was on the same day forwarded to the English and French ambassadors by Count Thun, the president of the Diet. Its tenor is the same as that of the reply given by by the Prussian govern meat. The Diet declares the measure against which the protest is directed to lxlong to the internal arrangements of the confederation, and therefore denies to the English and French governments the right of interfering in any way. The next step of the protesting governments will, I suppose, be a reference to the treaties of Vienna, and a legal exposition of those portions on which they found their claims to interfere. What England will do is of I course doubtful. The question is not very important, and German politics do not take high rank in Downing-street. But the French ambassador to the Diet, M. de Tallenay, is understood to attach great importance to the protest, and to be somewhat annoyed at the answer he has received. The following is the protest presented to the Diet by the Duke of Augustenburg against tho accusation of the Danish government, that he was a party to an insurrection ag ! i" it Ills majesty th e fl ing of Denmark, in a royal patent, dated Christiansburg, Mao' 10, 18.51, has published an ae ciliation against me for having taken part in an insurrection, or having been active in promoting it. This accusation, which is utterly unfounded, but which assumes the appear- Sue, of truth from the mere assertion, demands from me a frau= contradiction. FRANCE. PARIS, S...TURDAY EVENING. The greater part of the Assembly's sitting yesterday was absorbed by petty personalities and trivial recri minations. An allusion of M. do Fallout called up M. Carnot ; and the former in apologising fell foul again of Victor Hugo, who clamoured in vain to exercise the right of reply. Ney de la Moskowa had then to recur to the painful subject of his fathers execution, which appeared in the list of the poet's charges against monarchy. M. Baroche, as if to divert the attention of the Assembly from the irritating assault which he had made on the legality of the elections of the constituent took to heaping fresh abuse upon M. Victor Hugo and plunging the debate once more into the noisy sphere of personalities. M. Hugo having painfully succeeded in obtaining permission to defend himself against all these attacks, grazed in his reply the sus ceptibilities of the Mountain by repudiating all alli ance with the insurgents of May 15 and June 21. MM. B. Itaspail and de Flotte required all the vigour of their neighbours, Michel (de Bourges) and others, to hold them down. In short, during three hours the Assembly exhibited a scene, as it were, of par liamentary pugilism ; closed at length by a timely mint from M. Dupin, who said when M. Dufaure mounted the tribune, that it was past five o'clock, and the debate was going now to begin. The austere presence and authoritative oratory of M. Dufaure restored the par liamentary.tone, which had been during the two last days sunk in hideous clamour and discordant uproar. Tlie leading idea of his speech was the maintenance of the statusrin. It was curious to hear an intimate friend of N . de Tocqueville, professing maxims nearly identical of government, draw from these an inference totally opposed to the conclusions of the reporter on the revision. The constitution, accord ing. to him, was far from being so seriously de fective as to require immediate revision. It was free from the taint of socialisio. Conflicts between the powers could scarcely under any circumstances be avoided. France would soon get used to electing the head of the executive power. Family, property, religion were safe, under the republic. The laws were observed and applied without difficulty ; the taxes were raised with greater case than ever ; order was preserved, and all was tranquil. To put the question of monarchy or republic would be to give the signal for civil war. The only object of revision was to strike out the 45th article, which he for his part approved. Therefore he was opposed to revi sion. This speech. which seems sincerely republican, is severely criticised by the organs of the majority, and finds great favour with the Nation a l an d :sie(k. In the si tting of to-day, after some words from "It is the fact that his Majesty the King of Denmark was they . went. The prisoners, who were sentenced to driven by a popular movement on the 20th March, 1818. imprisonment, on being conducted to prison by the dismissing, at the tame time, his ministry, to decree the abo- constabulary, attracted the attention of the rioters, lition of the Danish fundamental law, the introduction of and who immediately attempted to rescue them, and constitutional charter, the abolition of the ancient and the indis so luble union of the latter with the not the prisoners Holstein, legal relations of the duchy of Schles w ig with the duch y of probably would have succeeded in the attempt, had The military soon succeeded in driving the rioters from the scene of their atrocities. summon the leaders of that movement into his ministry. this DHentsmmarakj,etwtyhthreesbyetththeel,cgmtiteimtaimtee esteliegeedssiotne w ki astrecte o d f . The season was extremely favourable to the agri " His Majesty the King of Denmark acted in all and good will. copious showers of rain. cultural interest, and scarcely a day passed without doubtlessly contrary to his wishes and against hi s own free " For it is fact that his Majesty only on the 28th Jan., BRITISH. GUIANA. 1848, pronounced in a solemn decree the promise that no- __ _ thing should be altered in the existing connection of the The Iluyal Gazelle (George Town, Demerara), in duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. its "Review for Home Renders," says: "It is the fact that his Mejesty'spredecessor on the throne, We are obliged to commence our present review by and making a fresh complaint respecting the irregularities of canned the Royal Mail steamers. Ihe mail was duo here on futhteer, Inc , Kdientglarits to the a'l augustll. o D n ietthe that he dll4 notfl Tuesday last, but up to the present moment there arc no signs at it. Diet accepted the solemn promise thus given, founding upon t t h hu e n tfu h e t h o y f o fin"Hoing hte a i n h y st e i h th an t g h e at in ef th se e h r i t e l t a tt ti i ti g n ;s and m ic t h h at unite the Since the date of our last review, the 10th init., the it, with the reservation of its competency, the federal rc.o- colony has been tranquil. This happy state of things is, no lotion of the lith Srpt., 1840, for the maintenance of the doubt, attributable, in a great measure, to the popuiurity of legitimate law cf succession and other laws of the D uchies. the administration , of our present ruler, Governor Darkly. It is further the fact that the fundamental law of the The Court of Policy met at three o'clock this afternoon, permits hoer introductionll en rk, the f D . Li m n i s s t h ric ro ti , y e a law,l formof least ou of tiatull: and a "grim" of the contract for steam communication to I Berbiee and Essequebo, signed by all the parties with the tion such as at present exists in Denmark. exception of his honour the highelicritf, one of the committee, "It is finally the fact that Art. '2O of 01.2 Danish royal law w h o i s ou t of town, 'sus handed in by the registrar's sworn decrees, that whenever anything shill be obtained from a c l er k. Mr. F o rster. It included the alterations which had cs King of Denmark calculated to lessen or destroy the abso- been proposed at the previous meeting. The contract was ratified and confirmed, end a notarial copy of it ordered to h lu tit te ed so e v t er e e h ign taih p e o d 7 t r ofsh shall be monarch, ceetidete no d m u aL ti ter a be placed on the minutes. The governor brought to the done, and that those who succeeded in cluing so shall be re- notice of the court the circumstance of their being two gardt!el as insulting majesty, and traitors. how e p u r n o: vessels in the river with immigrants from St. Michael's, fee " If, therefore, it ieimpossilde for his Majesty the King whom bounty woe claimed; but the immigration agent general reported that a very small proportion only of these t o i f e rt D e c t u t m a y . t r e k m voluntarily e t . o itt t h h a i t v e in est. D ab e l i i , s m he r il k " h o e r ctoonshtiat,tre people were agricultural labourers. This report, however, was contradicted to a certain extent by a certificate front tho Portuguese consul, awl by a memorial from the CU1131111.A3 gi de ren rt b ed y I f i ro is m aig h u is st o f w at n her w ; l it n ' i h n e p w ro aTt i rrive a u nd to popular movement, which was a criminal insurrection, it is f d ro . m s , b t 'pr a t of one of the vessels, Messrs. Mayfair, Allen, and Co. After impossible that that can be insurrection which was done by sonic conversation it was decided that the court would not the duchies with the consent of all the governments of Ger - consent to the payment of bounty on any immigrants other than agricultural labourers; and a comniittee, consisting of many, and under the protection of the Germanic confedera tion against the siolent changes made in Copenhagen. The the elective members of the court, or any two of them, was appointed to gu on board and examine the people in company conduct of the august Diet of the confederation, and of the sovereigns of Germany in these events more particularly, with the immigration ageut-general. The court then ad excludes the possibility of casting upon them the accuse journed to Monday week, ith proximo. flint of insurrection. The colonists were gratified to learn, on the arrival of the last packet, that the directors of the Demerara It eilway " The august Diet of the confederation acknowledged the Compauy in London had sent out instructions to their ma totvetrnhemehnete,(.st.ehe rl S : ta c t i t e h f : n it e c e rsc o li f af t t h ) e whi ch ti constitutedofte uagiug engineer iu the colony, Mr. Manifold, to proceed meat with the line as far as the terminus originally contemplated, immediately after is installation, preteetien and d e e . cl e a td red is th to at h, go . the village of Mahuica. Previously to the receipt of these f v ornd either in the nrmistices of the 'Stith of August, 1848, and of instructions, it had been arranged that the railway should the 10th, of July, 1819, or in the peace of the 2nd of Ju . ll - ; only be carried as far as a place called Victoria, several 1830, and the explanatory memorial and protocol wine miles short of the former village. We entertain little doubt accompanied it, which acknowledged the right of the crown ourselves that in coining to this resolution, the directors of Denmark to stigmatism as insurrection the occurrences in have not only acted honourably, but prudently; because, the duchies since 1818. If, notwithstanding, his Majesty the w hil e Victoria is the centre of nothing in particular cxci pt king, iu his royal patent of the 10th of May, speaks of in- a few houses, Mahuica is the natural entrepot of a large and surrection and declares me to have been concerned is it, I important district, comprehending the entire of what may be tan only see in it the continued unweakened influence over called the grazing district of British Guiana. By terminating , his Majesty the king of those persons who induced him, in the line, therefore, ut Muletica, the directors may calculate Morel, 1848, to destroy tire Danish fundamental law which on commanding the whole traffic of the surrounding ills had existed with unshaken validity more than 200 year, triet, including the droves of cattle constantly sent down to to abolish the ancient rights of the Duchies, and to consider supply the markets of Georgetown. It is understood that, as nothing the solemn promise given to the august Diet of as soon as the dry season sets in, Mr. Manifold will com the Gerinanie confederation. =nee operations on the line between Victoria and Mahaica. " I theref . ,r,•: w4ninly protest against the sccusatioa and We regret to say that early in the morning of the 22nd its consequences contained in the royal patent of the 10th instant, a valuable /lieges' logic, on plantation Montrose, of May, living in the conviction that a time will come in eas t coas t o f Demerara , was totally destroyed by fire. Thu which his Majesty of Denmark will not refuse me a proper origin of this destructive calamity has not yet been f,cer satisfaction.—Given under my ducal hand and seal. tamed. Another logic in the immediate vicinity was liar "C it ILI,TIAN Annear, buke of Seitle.wig-Holstein. rowly saved. " Nicustadten, the 22d of June, 18.31." The weather during the fortnight has been excessively This protest was accompanies) by a petition, bearing the rainy. There are sonic apparent signs of its won breaking same date, praying the Diet to interfere to procure the up ; at which, should it prove to be the case, the planters, restoration of the estates of the duke in the island of Aiwa generally speaking, will not be sorry. In coneepaeute of and in Suede. it, which have been sequestrated by the the rains, sugar-makiug for the present has entirely ceased. Danish government B 3 the property of an insurgent. The Gotha conferences respecting a law of settlement 'J ItINIDAD. have terminated. The representatives of eighteen German Th e latest dates from this island mention that governments have ugreett to a draft of a treaty, according heavy showers had fallen, and the rainy season had to the provisions of which each of the contracting states set in with appearances of unusual severity. The agree, when called upon, to receive:persons born its subjects, though front lung absence or other causes they may have lost Port of Spaiu G «:ctte, of June 17, says : their civil rights, and if they have not acquired them in any The sugar crop of 18.51 may be 110 w• said to have been other. In cases of individuals not natives of any contracting duly reaped in. Mere and there, where the estate being state, their settlement to be considered in that state in which near to the sea, there is assurance of being able to get the they have last resided five years. It will be seen at once that sugar to the shipping place, u few more hogsheads arc being the conferences dealt with the political and nut the social made by planters belated in their arrangements; but thu law of settlement, and have sat merely to decide into what sugar thus made must be so mere a trifle as not to present state non-citirens of either shall lee expelled, whenever such any obstacle to making a computation of the whole crop sent a step may be necessary. away,afloat,and in course of shipment. Very good judges c sti- The insurrection and riots at Ilicillingin, in Wirtemberg, mate the totality at 30,000 hogsheads —as large a crop in June 1819, in which one of the five democratic regents as we have ever made, hut one which we see no guest reset was concerned, arc now before the assizes at Ludwigsburg. for doubting will be maintained, if not surpassed,in any fir- Nineteen individuals, more or less concerned on the occa• ture year. Trinidad may safely, therefore, take rank from sion, including Becker (the regent alluded to), were put henceforth as a 30,000 hogshead colony ; and, seeing the upon their trial on Thursday last. The trial is expected to large proportion of hogsheads of 40. inch truss, made this last several days. year, and the very considerable number of 12's, the whole crop may be taken as an average of 10-inch truss. The Soo Fernando Gitr..t.'e, after complaining of the scarcity of labour in many districts of the island, says :—" The wet season loss now completely set in; abundant rains are causing the canes to spring up with great rapidity." LEEWARD ISLANDS. The St. Lucia Palladium says: The week has been one of alternate sun and rain, sonic good soaking showers having fallen pretty genemlly through out the island. Sugar making is still going on, and a goodly quantity has been already turned off. Of the e resent crop, there have been already shipped 2,733 hhds., 140 trs., 1,031 brls. sugar, and 213 puncheons molasses ; and there aro several vessels in the harbour taking in cargo. At Martinique, heavy rains had been succeeded by line sunny weather. Admiral Vaillant had addressed the colonists on taking possession of his post as Go vernor-general. From St. Thomas, we learn that the Great Western had taken out the new Governor, Fedesen. Ole is the fourth governor the island has had within four years.) ITALY. [For markets see last page.] AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF TILE EUROPA. At noon yesterday the British and North Ameri can Itoyal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, arrived in the Mersey from Boston and Halifax, having left the former port at 1.33 p.m. on the I.lth inst., and at Halifax she was detained for fourteen horns by u dense fog. She brings 124 passengers, 580,000 dollars in specie on freight, a good average cargo, and the usual mails from the United States, Canada, New foundland, &c. . . _ The general and political intelligence by this ar rival is again comparatively unimportant. Agc.in there is no telegraphic despatch front New York to Halifax; this omission mostly occurs when the mail is one of the British line of steamers. The Roval Mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Lang, which left Liverpool on the 28th ult., had arrivEd out at Halifax on the ith inst., at 20 minutes past 2 in the morning, and sailed fur Boston in two hours afterwards. 'this is considered a very rapid run. The United States Mail steam-ship Empire City arrived at New York from ('hagres, on the oth inst., with the Californian mails, 375 passengers, and a million and a half of gold dust. _ _ _ The United States s itlail steam-ship Georgia, front Havannah, on the 2nd inst., arrived at New York on the 7th, making the passage in four days and three hours. At the tune of her departure the steam-ship Falcon, front Chagres, with 3t,i2 rs sengers, was at Havannah, and about to sail for Nov Orleans. _ _ . The screw steam-ship City of Glasgow had arrived at Philadelphia on the sth, having been detained 41 hours off New York, owing to a number of the wooden pinions of the driving-wheel giving way. The American steam-ship Lafayette, Captain Stod dard, of the Philadelphia and Liverpool line, put into New York on the morning of the 7th instant ter repairs. She left Liverpool on the 17th of June, but encountered heavy head seas with strong westerly winds during the entire passage. On the 22nd ult., while repairing her engine, the steam-ship Hermann passed, about four o'clock, p.m. At five o'clock the Lafayette started her engine, overtook and passed the Hermann in 1at..10 16 N. On the 29th, in lat. 43 long. 49, at six o'clock, p.m., while in a thick fog, the Lafayette came into collision with the Brit6h brig Jane, Captain Tickle, 21 days from Quebec, for Maryport, with a cargo of lumber. The vessel sunk at once, but the captain and crew were saved. Tho Lafayette lost her bowsprit and jib-boom, broke her cutwater and three flanges of the propeller. The brig at the time was running before the wind, with her studding-sails set below and aloft. At AS ashington, the fourth of July was selected for laying the corner-stone of the proposed enlatlv• went of the capitol of the United States. A great concourse of strangers was present, and the cerc • monies exciterl4eneral interest. A procession was formed, composed of various military, benevolent, literary, and other associations, the President of the • United States, and the heads of the different depart . ments of government, the officers of the army and navy, representatives of foreign nations, and an im mense number of citizen s from all parts of the union l The ceremony of laying the corner-stone was per formed by President - Fillmore, after which an oration , was delivered by Daniel Webster, in which he gave an eloquent exposition of the principles of the Arne- ROMAN STATES. Our corespondent, in his letter dated dated Rome, July -11, after confirming the account previously given of the arrangement consequent on the late interview between the Pope and the King of Naples, says : " A new featuro in the scheme is that no foreign soldiers at all are to be admitted into the actual city of Rome, whose safe-keeping is to be entirely entrusted to the loyalty of the scanty papal battalions that can be scraped together for the occasion, aided by a strong reinforcement of sbirti. By the ter rorism of these latter myrmidons, and by having a powerful circle of foreign bayonets all round the city, hopes are entertained of keeping its population in pretty good order." WEST INDIES. The Royal West India mail-packet Thames, Capt. Abbott, from the West Indies, tve., arrived at South ampton at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, and landed her mails and despatches under the charge of Lieut. Dennehy, lt.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are as follows: Greytown (Mosquito), June 1R ; Chagres, 23; Carthagena, 27; Santa Murtha, 8; Havannah, 23; Belize (Honduras), is; Nassau (Bahamas), no mail; Kingston (Jaiinaca), 28; Jacmci (Hayti), 30; San Juan (Porto Rico), July 2; Bcrbice, June 26; Georgetown (Demerara), 27 ; 1 Port of Spain ( frinidad), 28; Tobago, 27 ; Grenada, 29; Curacoa, 20 ; Barbadocs, 29 ; St. Vincent's, 29 ; St. Lucia, 30; Martinique, Guadaloupe, and Domi nica, July 1 ; Antigua, 'Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitt's, July 2; Tortola, July 3; St. Thomas's, July The Thames also brings mails of the following dates, received at Panama by the Pacific Steam Na vigation Company's ship New Grenada, which vessel landed treasure, value 829,877 dole., for transmission to England:—Valparaiso (Chili), May- 26; Coquimbo, 27 ; Hua sco, 28; Copiapo, 28; C'obija. (Bolivia), 30; Iquique (Peru), 30; Arica, June 1 ; Islay, 2 ; I'isco, 3 ; Lima, 9; Callao, 10 ; Payta, 12; Guayaquil (Ecua dor), 14; Beunavcntura (New Grenada), 17; Pa nama, 19. ..... _ The Thames brings 123 passengers, among whom arc the Hon. Mr. Petre, from New Zealand, ria Panama; Governor McDonald, wife, and daughter, from Dominica ; Governor Darling and daughter, St. Lucia ; Assist.-Commissary-General Clarke, from Belize ; and Gcn. Braun (Chilian service), from Val paraiso. The freight on board the Thames consists of— Silver from the Pacific ports, value 829,877 dole. ; gold, value, 244,600 dols.; gold for California, 40,716 dole.; specie and bullion front Carthagena, 200,000 dols.; from Jamaica, 20,000 dole.; in all 1,315,193 dols., or about 267,010/. sterling, of Which 087,689 dole. is in silver, and 327,504 dole. in gold and platina. The freight also includes pearls to the value of 2,000/. JAMAICA. From this island we learn that a number of co loured emigrants had arrived from the United States, which it is believed has something to do with cotton cultivation in the island, as some gentlemen have recently arrived there from Georgia to investigate the capabilities of the soil tor that production. The cholera has broken out at Kingstown. At Savannah la-Mar it has taken fast hold of the parish and town, and death is rampant at every door. In the coun try districts the malady is still raging to a frightful extent. At Hanover, also, it is still, raging, and it has reappeared in the Oxford wood district and in Spanish Town. The baptist rioters at Spanish Town had been found guilty. After the trial an other riot took place in Spanish Town, and the military had to be called out to suppress it. It is stated that the indignation of the mob at the judgment of the court, which condemned their friends to imprisonment, knew no bounds. They be came perfectly infuriated at what they termed the unjust decision," and determined to bo avenged on the unfortunate Mr. Philippe, to whose house they accordingly proceeded, with the firm resolution of razing it to the ground; which illegal and unjusti fiable threat they well nigh succeeded in putting in execution. On arriving at the house they threw brick-bats, stones, and other missiles at the win down and doors, tore down the fences, battered down the gates, and eventually rushed in es 111(1J8e, and destroyed the furniture &c. Nor did the place of worship escape their fury. They , tore down the windows, broke in the pews, and literally carried devastation wherever I I