The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-19 00:00:00

the etPregO• I DIL24 TB. a twat Edition ef"TM ISsweah" watalatad the awe arigNe. s. lissom; pubtahad way Tarts; sad Maw Weld, ea awe tw pot. Ceestameetetatesded fee Thwesa"Lwasa Zama( pew, awl be et the Oesta 111, Itsawste-fisedd. Tate Velma oa the day of yabiliediest. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIMS Tms luv—illerMilis. Ob. 11 1. T ..oasovEr-4N111114. fL 15...---Ahersols, S*. See. LONDON. FRIDAY, NO1•BMBER 19. Our WELLINGTON lain his grave. Some of us re member the dread of hearing that news in our youth. Some who were infants at the beginning of our cen tury remember, as a dark cloud resting on their holm bold day, the death of Net.sos. They remem ber hearing what Nit.. PITT said—that be had often, while Minister. peen called lap in the night toreceave news good or bad, aad that he had always before been able to lay down his head, and sleep imme diately ; but that when Lord Co Ll.lNGWlam's despatch with its tidings from Trafalgar came in the night, he was so restless that he rose at three o'clock. From 1:409 to 1813, there wits a dread that news of the like kind might come about WELLING TON. The death and burial of Sir JOIIN MooitE had touched all hearts; and whenever tidings arrived of a new sweep of the French armies over the provinces of the Peninsula, men held their breath in the fear that the next news might be of WELLINGTON lying under the sod—'• left alone with his glory." a would all the millions of our people have been to know that the hero would stand before Parliament to receive their thanks—would enter the House of Lords under the singular circumstances of In. accumulated honours,—having risen through the whole gnulution of ranks before he took his seat at all. (aid would theme multitudes have been to know how their hero would outlive most of them, and would at lost lie, not under the sod, but under the high-raised cross of our . greatest cathedral ; not le ft alone with his glory, but with NI:LSON by his side, and the certainty of being visited by successive generations, till that lofty roof shall mumble down,' to be the outermost coffin of England's two greatest heroes. _ _ _ Glad, again, would the thoughtful among those multitudes have been to know that WELLINGTON would live till his precise position in modern history should be determined by the lapse of a long period of peace. We are not among those flatterers of the great man who rate his political services as high as his military achievements. We would rather point to the truly civic tendencies of his military services, and to the singularity of his position as bridging over the passage from the military to the civic age in Europe and its history. WELLINGTON'S wars were for the preservation of national exi-tence;— of our own, and a good many more. The days were over when Sovereigns went to war for personal offences, for bite of debateable land, or for want of excitement, or of something to do. It was that England might remain England, with her govern ment and laws, and language, and her liberties, that WELLINGTON paid the glorious ransom of his seven rani' warfare and his fifteen victories. Those ric • tones were so splendid that the barbaric pomp of the old military ages could not but stretch itself out to enfold them; and thus, in one sense, the fame of our hero is connected with those military periods of the world which are passing away, to be regarded, at some future time, like the encampment of the Greeks before Troy, or the progress of ALEXANDER in India, or the march of CAMETSES from Memphis to Thebes. This being one aspect of WELLINGTON'S achieve ments, what is another? He was attending his duty in the one House of Parliament when that warning was given in the other which will never be forgotten while Europe has a hist , ry—CANNING'S warning and prophecy of the inevitableness of a War of Opinion in Europe. This warning was uttered on the 12th of December, 1826; and deep it must have lain in WELLINGTON'S mind, as in many others, from that time forward. War was not over; but war would in future be for new objects, and animated by new principles. WELLINGTON'S wars secured civic fruits, and future wars must be for purely civic purposes. We see now, year by year, that it is even so. We see that the War of Orinion in Europe began in 1818, and that it must break out again and again, or be protracted till the great con flict of opinion is settled. The warfare on which Europe is entering received a sort of civic prepara tion ages ago; when, for instance, our Barons assem bled at Runnymede; and when a middle class was growing up at the mouths of rivers, and within the walls of towns, under cover of the feudal wars of sovereigns and nobles. When our own House of Lords met, after the close of the wars of tho Roses, and found their numbers reduced by two-thirds, while the burgher classes had increased and mul tiplied, that clearing of the field for a far distant war of opinion had begun which WELLINGrow was to complete. He swept away the last military power which interfered with the opera tion of civic principles; and he has delivered over to lee, clew of barbaric intruders, and swept of every ambush the field on which the war of opinion is to be fought. That done, he has retired into his grave ; and we must look for leaders as appropriate to the coming time ash. was to his. Nations and their rulers know very well that it is the first principles of social liberty that have now to bo contended for on the continent of Europe. It may probably be the pooh* War that the world has ever seen. If the esgessiens of tyrants should bring it on very mom to mot living is likely to see the end of it. The sing* will be, in fact, between the Asiatic and &repot Milos reliving in society—a much larger question duo woe nationali ties and territorial tionsiniet. The s 1e will be between despotism and regneemiledee - Getitritium ism lives in that peat d imp which I. l otru i ng by an Asiatic atemegitoot while, in the most advanced countries it *ma d &rope, the representative system d hoo sever her mere than a W ere Tewasetell hob* how ever, as the Western boa Awe illo_sepeassil. begia 4eugemagg it is strong enough to get Illestort °Orden to some hard shifts ; and latterly, to that hardest of all, unbearable tyranny. WILLLIXOTON lived to Ns ter ritorial alliances giving way before politico* *Safi. ties—the old before the new—the mechanical heifer the essential union; and many of us may live lasso the thickest of the fight, when Pope and Hahn% Emperors by ancient prerogative, and Suspense by vulgar usurpation, may be struggling for a supre macy rendered vain by the actual disintegration of nations. It may be for • puratioa yet unborn to see the issue of the warfare. What that issue will be, no man will presume to say. We can only say what it will not be. It will not be, ea in many wars of the olden time, a mere re currence to the previous state of things;— a burying of the dead out of eight, and going on as before. It will not be a set of grants and concessions of territory, agreed upon by potentates, without reference to their peoples. WELLIXOTON saw the last of such doings. When the conflict is about the establishment of the prin ciples of western civilisation—with the representative principle for the leading feature—the terms of peace must be something very different from that. We will not prophesy that which shall be. It is enough to say that we have done with the past, and that we know it by the toten, that the military achievements of our greatest soldier were, in fact, civic services, and that thus, while one pier of the great arch of his fame is hung all over with the banners of armies and the trophies of the field, the other is planted on that table land where, if men go to war, it is because pence beckons them on ; and if men strive to lay one another low, it is that manhood itself may arise to live in a higher freedom. The Sovereigns of Europe sent mourners to Wep.lNOTotell boreal. They, as they bent over his pave yesterday, probably thought of him as a wittier in the old en sense. We trust there were native Englishmen among that vast assem blage who thought of him more as the p reserver o f our nationality; and, in that, as the champion— unconsciously perhaps, but most truly—of the popular liberties of Europe. A trrAremattrr appeared setae weeks again several journals of diverse treatiment and tendency that the gallant SECRETARY-AT-WAR wee about to heat a precipitate retreat to Jamaica. We gave at the time but little credit to the rumour. Under the very peculiar etreametaame ill which the right hon. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1852. FRANCE. PARIS, WIDWUDAT The remonvlzamies of the legitimist journals against placing the Count do Chambord', protest in the same category with the red republican manifestoes has provoked the following article in the Moniteur, which may be taken u a deliberate argument put forth by the highest authority in support of the lcgi timacy of the present dynasty : In pablisbing on the same day the protest of the Count de Chambord and the manifestoes of the demagogical patty, the grsornment bed not the idea of assimilating documents se diarist ; it could not wish to place on the same line a party which no doubt commits the grave error of disregard ing the rights and the wish.* of France, but which respects the principles of order and social hierarchy, with the savage emetalttess who do net shirk from OMNI sad make an ap peal to ermine; it knees air the to which it owes to a prince the victim of the milligram of his rase. Never theirs, it is very difficult not to see eat asi manifestoes end the protest ere inspired by • ossmasa error, and wive definitely at the same rink. On both sides, in fact, national eoveashinty it denied ; the demagogues reject it to substitute their own will for it, the Count de Chambord to place his pommel rights above the rights of the country. la both err the consequence' Is the same ; it is that all that the nation his done, and all that it may do, even if assaimous, is null ; but the former proclaim it with insult, on the lips and the poignerd in the band, whilst the Count de Chambord con tents himself with declaring it with painful resignation. Nothing can excite astonishment on the pert of certain de magogues; the most ineentestible principle is only for them an instrument which they break the moment it no longer serves their ambitious views. It is thus, that after having placed the principle of popular sovereignty above all, so long r they could turn it to account, they reedier it when the people separate from them. To hear them now, it is no longer the nation which is sovereign, but the re public. The contradiction is not 10211 striking in the protest of the Count de Chambord. In reeding it, would it net be said that the right recognised is the nation of choosing the form and the chief of its government is a principle created yesterday amidst revolutionary storms ? How, however, can it be forgotten that this principle, true as logic, and old r the world, hes sever ceased to be the basis of our public law; that the di monarchy proclaimed it on numerous edema asseieme, end that fir it could be plated in doubt, ell NUM OD many usurpations; that consequently It timadadon of their right? What other principle than indinal raweentstp rendered the last rasa of our kings legitimists? Was as heir wanting to the throne of Cherie when Hugon Capet seated himself on it? Was that of )evil vacant when Pepin occupied it? The accord be tween the weer and the will of Frence has rendered all dy nastic.' legitimate; in separating itself from them the country has not disregarded either their services at their glory ; but is virtue of the same right by which it placed them et its head when they represented interests and wishes, it set them aside when they ceased to he in accord with their principle, and when the spirit which animated them was no longer the national spirit. These are elementary truths. How could they bedisregarded ? Napoleon was profoundly ' penetrated with them ; when receiving the Senalut C onsu l. lens which called him to the empire, he pronounced before the Senate these memorable words, which his nephew, in identical circumstances, retailed and confirmed : "My spirit will be no longer with my posterity from the day on which they shall rue to deserve the love and confidence of the nation." The national will—such is then the principle and the right of a dynasty. Its conditions of duration are to remain the living representation of the great interests of the country, as its duty is to devote itself to them without There is little of interest in the political world to day beyond what is to be found in the columns of the official journal. In giving an account of th e return from Fontainebleau, it states that the Prince was accompanied by all the personages who had been his guests at the palace, with the exception of Lord and Lady Cowley, who took leave of him on Monday, and proceeded at once to London. It appears from the following extract that the President's apparently inexhaustible private purse has been liberally opened during his visit to his sporting residence: The Prince President, when at Fontainebleau, visited the hospital, the house of the Sisters of Charity, and the Orphan Asylum. In each ho left marks of his munificence. The Prince was accom panied by the prefect of the Seine-et-Marne, the sub prefect of the town, and the mayor. The Prince afterwards visited the church, and was much struck by its small size, and its want of repair. Tho mayor and the curt , told the Prince that the town ardently desired to ace a new and larger church constructed, but that funds were wanting. The Prince reminded them that he was christened at Fontainebleau, and promised to give 200,000 francs from his own purse towards a fund for a new church. He subsequently charged M. Blouet, architect of the palace, to draw up a plan of .the church. When the generosity of the Prince became known it excited great enthusiasm amongst the population. The withdrawal of a new regulation which had caused& great outcry among the sugtr manufacturers is thus announced in the Moniteur : The regulations to which beetroot sugar manufactories am subjected impose on manufecturers the obligation of lodging in the , interior or depeudencies of their establish ments the employes of the state who are charged to levy the tales. This obligation having caused some disquietude amongst the manufacturers, the Prince President hes just decided that they shall be freed from it. By this decision his highness has given to the manufactory of native sugar and agricultural industry a new proof of his solicitude. The Muniteur next publishes an electioneering ad , dress from General 'Laudon, Governor of Algeria, to the inhabitants of that colony, and a pretty specimen it is of the true method of drilling universal suffrage. After alluding to the proposed Senafits Consultum, and anticipating that it would result in an appeal to the , he ells, addressing himself to generals &Timms and prefects of departments: Ti yen It likep to prepare the population under your =he the nean. which will doubtless be de. hoes them. It is for you to make theca understand that they menet espleate their vote from that of their mo ther reentry i owl that to refuse mow to give their support to the proasnmeat, would be to betray the national similmeat est to disregard the interests of the colony. There still owlets us certain localities an old leaven of Wilily to the present government, and men of illsordsr will, perhaps endeavour to excite it under cover of the agitation sawed by political events. Let the police be vigilant and active to prevent such anarchical efforts, or 61111111111111 the. . The transported politics) el Jere multifog la iit>Msm l parts of the territory should be ontgested to the surveillance of the local ved of the right of voting, they may Meer by mesas to Usage the siguidestion of the veto. lewd Mama the fespormass of it. Name to me all these whose enslns yeensdiess JIPS may inspect, mid =t*dm &ell be Mae Hugs) that the o sleet le be will find every man in your * illseseurist es to associate himself sla m whit the will The themes-General, AMMON. The ifesesbur also speaks of extraordinary honour having been paid to M. Roche, the French consul general, on his arrival at Tripoli. This demonstra tion, it says, was " the result of the appearance of our squadron before Tripoli to support our good right. We must also perceive that the good recep tion given to our consul-general in this town so full of fanatics is due to the wholesome influence given to us by the exergetie front and powerful authority which now prevails in France." The Prince President went last evening in state to the Open Comiguo. He arrived about half-past seven, and was received with loud cries of " Viva rEmpereur r The front of the theatre, in the Rue 1 Marivaux, was lit up with gas, representing the cipher of the Prince, and eagles with outspread wings. The entrance of the theatre was ornamented with flowers, and hung with crimson velvet. In the saloon, the bust of the Emperor Napoleon was placed at one end, and that of the Prince, his nephew, at the other. When the Prince entered the box reserved for him, the whole audience rose and received him with acclamations, even the ladies joining in the cry of " Vive rEmpereur !" In the Prince's box were the ex-King Jerome, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, his son, and Generals de Lourmel and Roguet. In the adjoining boxes were the Ministers, Oen. Magnan, General d'llautpoul, Prince Mont, M. de Money, M. Mocquart, and other persons of note. The per formance consisted of the Donsino Noir, with Mne. Ugelde and Coudero in their original parts, and a cantata called the Fetes des Arts, Chant de Arent's., the words by M. Merl, and the music by M. A. Adam. The usual curtain wee replaced by a new one, prepared for the occasion, representing palace of Fontainebleau. When this curtain rose, another was seen behind it, representing velvet sprinkled with bees, and bearing • colonade, on which were inscribed the names of the towns which the Prince visited during his tour. Towards the end of the cantata the scene changed, and discovered a view of the Louvre es it will appear when terminated. This view called forth loud applause. At the end of the cantata, two figures of Fame descended from the clouds bearing an imperial crown. A very strong guard of horse and foot surrounded the theatre during the per formance. The Italian Opera opened yesterday with Madlle. Cruvelli as prima donna in " Otello." Louis Napo leon, to encourage tho theatre, has paid 4,0001. fur his box for the Demon. An engraving of Louis Napoleon in imperial robes is now exhibited in the shop windows. lt is in all retpects but one a facsimile of the well known picture of Napoleon in his coronation dress. The ' artist has purposely fashioned the features of Napoleon 111. in the likeness of his predecessor "of that name the first." Tho solo variation' oonsists in the enormous pair of moustachios which have been faithfully copied from the original. But these appendages, so little in keeping with the classic portrait of the real Emperor, excite an irreverend titter among the loungers at the picture shops. It is really curious to observe the effect of this trifle upon the - keen sense of the ridiculous which the Parisians possess In such an eminent degree. 1 have watched the groups collected in front of several shops where this print is exhibited, and without any exception I have seen the people laughing. It would really be wise in Napoleon 111. to suppress this engraving, and to cutoff his monstachios, for no one can say how dangerous it might be if the French people, thrown into tits of laughter, like Byron at the idea of " Sir William Curtis in a kilt," were to "awake and find it was no dream." Apropos of these unlucky moustachios a capital old story is now in circulation. In the time of the empire the Austrian General Tettenboon was invited to a soir4 at the Tuileries. Etiquette was then rigorously enforced, and even foreigners were obliged to appear at court in court dress. Tottenboon presented him self in regulation costume, but with the moustachiee which ho wore as an officer of the Hussars. The Emperor meeting him in one of the saloons, said, " It cannot be denied that moustachios are ridiculous with this costume." "Pardon sire," replied 'ret lenboon, " it is rather that this dress is ridiculous with moustachios." The Emperor smiled assent. An engraving of the Primoess Wasa is in an ad vanced state of preparation, and will bo published as soon as the approaching marriage shall bo offi cially announced. This announcement will not be long deferred. The following "communicated note" relative to the recent arrests at Nantes Las been sent to the journals of that city : M. Enterand de la Hachette, the principal editor of the &prance da Peuple was set at liberty yeNtarilay. It has been erroneously sai d that he was enlarged by order of M. ds Maupas, the Minister of General Police. His liberation wai the spontaneous act of the prefect. M:Tavresu, one of the editors of the asses journal, remains in the house of detention at Nantes. The prefect, who, by reason of ur gency, and in pursuance of Art. 10 of th- Code of Criminal Instruction, took the initiative in the affair, has transmitted all papers relating to it to the judicial suthorities, with whom It now rests t. prosecute the matter. A letter from Malta, of the 9th, states that the Magellan steam frigate, having on board Count Bac ciochi and Vely Pacha, the new Turkish ambassador to Paris, has put into that port. The Magellan is to stop two or three days at Naples, and may be ex pected in France about the 25th inst. The Cburrier du Nord states that the increased duty on Belgian coals has net as yet had the effect of diminishing the quantity introduced into Prance. In consequence of the increase of duty and a some what dearer freight, the additional charge on Bel gian coals to the consumer in Paris is ab ou t 30 c . th e hectolitre. The collection of antiquities and autographs of the late Baron de 'Fremont is not left to the Bibliotheque Nationale, as has been reported. Ho has left the bulk of his fortune to charities, and this collection will be sold by auction on the 9th of December and following days. The sale is expected to last nearly a fortnight. Among the autographs there is a series of letters from all the Kings of France since Louis VII. The following are the questions proposed by the academy of Belles-lettres and Inscriptions for 18.53, the prize in each case being a gold modal worth 2,000 fr. : How and by whom have been executed in France, in the feudal times down to the death of Charles V., great put die works, such as roads, bridge., canals, churches, Ste." st What new no loos have been bro .ght to the hist .ry of Greek sculpture, from the most an , lint times to those of Alexander, by the specimens placed in the muse... of Europe since the beginning of th. pre eat century ?" Its ore the ancient geography of I•.dia from the earliest times to the period of the Mustmloian inventor)." In ad dition, the following kasha subject peop^eed for the ordinary prize of 1854 To ersmine the a ate of accentuation it. the Latin inscriptions to the end of the fifth c ntuary, and compare it with the rules laid down by Quintilian, Prim ian, and other grammarians, and to endeavour to Rive • complete theory of the employment of the tunic accent ' 1 amongst •he Romans." - - Business was done at the Bourse in the Four-and s-Half per Cents, at 107 f. ' • for account opened at 108 f. and closed at 107 f. 90c.; Three per Cents., closed at 86f. 40c.; Bank of France, 3,000 f. Orleans Railway new shares, 1,140 f. • St. Germaine, 1,525 f.; Paris and Rouen, 1,0251.; R ouen and Havre, 570 f.; Northern, 940 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 905 f.; Paris and Lyons, 1,0001 .; Lyons and Avi gno n, 830 f .; Western of France, 810 E; St. Dicier in Gray, 6001. • Dijon to Besancon, 640 L; Dieppe and Fecamp, PARIS, THOWIDLT Evairixo. The 21/oniteur undertakes to answer the great question now in everybody's mind—What secunty is there that the rote on the 21st and 22nd instant will be fairly conducted ? The following official explana tions will be found well worthy of an attentive pe rusal: At a moment when the ballot is about to be opened upon the it-rustua contention of Nov. 7, it is well to call to mind the principal clauses of the electoral law which assure the secrecy, independence, and sincerity of the votes. The bu reau of every electoral college is composed of a president, four assessors, and a secretary, chosen from among the electors. The mayor or his delegate is to preside in each electoral college. The assessors are taken from the municipal councillors according to the order in which their muses stand os the list. In default of these, the two oldest and the two youngest electors present are to he chosen. Three members of the bureau at least must be prevent during the whole proceeding, of the college. The list of electors remains constantly upon the bureau. No one can be admitted to vote if he is not inscribed upon this list. The vote of every elector is acetified by the signature or initials of one of the members of the bureau in the margin of the voter's name. The battening boxes are sealed upi and deposited during the night at the secretary's office, or in the ball of the mayor's house, and the seals are also placed upon the doers and windows of the hall where the bows are placed. After the close of the ballot the casting up of the votes is made. The box is opened end the number ofa bulletins ascertained. The bureau selects from among the electors present a certain number of seratineen able to read and write, who are divided among several tables, four at least sitting at each table. The pre sident divides the bulletins to be checked among the dif ferent tables. At each table Doe of the serutinern reads aloud what is written in the bulletin, and passes it en to another scrutineer. The result is written down upon lists prepared for that purpose. The president and the members of the bureau watch the operation of the scrutiny. The tables are so arranged that the electors may circulate about them. Immeliately after the scrutiny the result is made public • it is drawn op and signed by the b . The minutes' of the electoral proceedings o f each commune are made out in duplicate. One of thew duplicates remains deposited with the mayor,. the other is transmitted to the prefect of the department. When it has quitted the commune the result of the ballot is still, however, under the pretection of the law. Art. 31 says, the general census of the votes for each electoral circumscription is made at the chief town of the department at a poblie sitting. It is effected by a COMMiIIIOO composed of three members of the council-general. To the census of the votes of all the com munes succeed the general census for all France. To give to this operation the authority mud solemnity which it ought to have the President has convoked the Corps Legislatif for Nov. 2.5, to certify the regularity of the votes, to cast them up, and to declare the result. Thus all the proceed ings in the national ballot will be controlled by the repre sentatives of the nation. The law gives besides to all who may be distrustful the right and the means of ascertaining themselves the regularity and fairness of the operations. - - - - - - The Journal de iAivie publishes the following communique: In order to keep protestant electors away from the Ingot log urn, a fetes report is spread that it the empire should be proclaimed, the Roman catholic religion will be the only one recognised in France. buck a report is too abetted to be seriously contradicted. The prefect of the Moselle has suspended M. D'lluert, the mayor of the commune of Florange, and de Puymaigre, mayor of Inglange, " for havimg broken the oath which the swore to LonisNapoleon." I shall look out with some interest for further par ticulars of this cue. The oath is very simpl e . I t is, " I swear obedience to the constitution, and fidelity to the President." It would be curious if a want of seal in favour of the empire, or even an undisguised hostility to it, should be construed a breach of this oath._ A letter from Nismes speaks of the probable re signation of the Marquis do Calvii.tres a member of the Corps Legislatif. This resignation--supposing it to be confirmed—is mado in o obedience" to the voice from Frohsdorlf. Hut the Marquis do Calcie'Tes is understood to lament bitterly the policy which pre vails there. He thinks, with many other members of the legitimist party, that abstention from public affairs is nothing but a barren confession of impp-I fence. It is quite possible a crisis might arise, tu which the course taken by mon in office, members off the councils-general for instance, might have a decisive influence. But tho tendency of the Chambord policy is to place the most devoted ad herents of the ancient race of kings in such a position that they will never have an opportut.ity of aiding their cause except by an appeal to arms. It is doubtless very honest to withhold all professions of allegiance, but the party generally by no means admit that such honesty ' the best policy." The difference of opinion that prevails upon the subject increases the difficulty of action. If some thirty or forty members of tho Corps Legislatif who may be supposed to cherish feelings in favour of one or the other branch of tho Bourbons were to resign en masse, the demonstration might I produce a considerable effect. But the Bonapartist' could desire no better evidence of the weakness of the legitimist party than two or three isolated re signations in pursuance of the commands of its chief. Count Thibeaudeau, the regicide, the senior mem ber of tho Senate, and the only survivor of the judges who condemned Louis XVI. to death, claims the honour of having given the single vote against the empire, which has been generally attributed to Louis Napoleon's old tutor M. Viellard. At the clubs tho favourite dates mentioued for the approaching changes are Dee. 'god for tho proclama lion of the empire, the month of January for the marriage with tho Princess Was., and May 21 for coronation. The manifesto of the Count de Chambord has been seized at Toulouse, where a considerable number of copies were sent through the ;wet -office. At l'eri-i gueux the letters contuining it were seized before they were distributed. At Le Mans the persons who received it handed it over to the police. The letters bore the postmark of Switzerland. The Refurntiate of Douai, of Nov. 10, says : Domicialiary visits were made in our towd last Friday. Justice was in search of copies of a manifesto of the Count de Chambord. Perquisition were also made in our office. A number of letters have been seized in the post. The Correctional Tribunal of Marseilles has iust condemned a person named Bloch to 10,000 fr. fine, and six months imprisonment, fur having a clandes tine press on his premises. Count Alphonse de Thieffries, residing near St. Amand-lea-Eau: (Nord), and his servants, have been lodged in prison at Valenciennes. under the charge of distributing political writings clandestinely. The police of Troyes arrested a man named Luchesi, a native of the Grand Duchy of Lucca, who was found hawking about and selling legitimist and sedi tious emblems and medals; among the latter was one bearing the motto Henry IV.-11., different portraits connected with the same political opinion, and several subjects relative to the republic of 1703. Several persons at Troyes have received by the post copies of the proclamation of the Count do Chambord. A man has been arrested, by order of the prefect of the department of the Gors, upon the charge of disseminating false news. The High Court of Justice for the trial of offences against the state is constituted by a decree published tu-day. It consists entirely of judges selected from the Court of Caseation, whose names wo may be per mitted to hope may never attain any greater degree of notoriety than now belongs to them. The decree nominates M. ltocher, M. Brier° de Valigny, M. Legagneur, M. hoorahs, and M. Foucher, judges of the Court of Cessation, judger of the Chambre des Mises en Aceusatian of the High Court of Justice for the judicial year 1852-3, and M. Fuilhade de Chauvin, and M. Quenalt, also judges of the Court of Cessation, substitutes of the same chamber. The following judges of the Court of Cessation are appointed judges of the Chambre de Jugement of the High Court of Justice for the same year—namely, M.P;tcourt,lll. de Boissenx, M. do Glos, M. Moreau (de la Meurthe), l and M. Leroux do Bretagne ; and M. Gaultier and M. Mater substitutes. The following extract from the non-official part of the Mom leer reveals the extent of the truth of the rumours so long in circulation about a reduction in the army : On the Ist January, 1848, the effective of the army amounted to 380,400. After the revolution it was 440,h08. It was so at the time of the first election of Louis Napoleon. By successive diminutions, the number on the lit Janusry, Ibl2, had descended to 400,404 men. /Lis highness the Prince President has just given orders to the Minister of War to reduce it to 370,177. This effective wil comprise the army of Africa and that of Rome. On the let of De cember next this important measure will be realised; it will form a reduction of more than 30,000 men in less than • year. You may remember that in September last an order was issued permitting soldiers whose term of servitude would expire on the 31st of Dec. to go to their homes wooer than usual, upon the condition of their being in constant readiness to rejoin the service when called upon. Of course all the men who lett their regiments pursuant to that order have been struck off the effective list. The reduction of 30,000 men is therefore of a very temporary nature. In June last a bill was passed calling out the full num ber of 80,000 recruits for the year 1852, and in this very day's Voniteur a decree appears directing that the tables for the levy of 80,000 men for the army of the class of 1852 are to be published on the 30th January and the Bth February next, and the draw ing by lot of the 80,000 men is to take place on the 28th February. For anything that appears then, the army will be at least as numerous early in the spring as it was at the beginning of the year. It is moreover to be observed that the gendarmerie has been very considerably increased. Tho Conititutionnel, in an article on the opening of the railroad from Metz to Sarrebruck, remarks oft the facilities which will now be afforded for the supply of Prussian coal in the French markets, and urges the completion of the French lines in the coal districts, which are in the course of construc tion, in order that the French coal owners may be able to compete successfully with foreign producers. The Conatildionsel, also, expresses a hope that the French railroad companies in the coal districts will lower their rate of charge for carriage, so that the Centre and the North may with the greater certainty carry on the work of competition. Unless this be done, says the Cututitutiontiel, French coal will find no vent at Mulhouse. At present the coal of St. Etienne is sold there at 29fr. 50e. per ton, and that of Rive de (tier at 27fr.; whores. the coal of Sarrebruck can now, by the opening of the railroad, be sold at 25fr. 10e., and the coal of the Loire will lose the market of Alsace, as it is two months in reaching Mulhouse, whilst that of Sarrebruck can arrive in one or two days. Tho Prince President has ordered M. Feburier, engineer-in -chief, and director of bridges and high ways, to make surveys for a railway from Rennes to Brest, with a branch to Loriont, The Minister of Marine has purchased by private contract a large quantity of timber for ship building, at a reduction of one million of francs upon the adju dication annulled by lien on the 29th of Oct. last. No accounts have been received in Paris to confirm the news given by the Pain's of the return of Ur quirt to Buenos Ayres. !gentleman stands before the public, the Wag sp. to to he impossible,—that is, morally rp:md us ible, for as to what may be officially feasible or desirable in the estimation of thopreeent Government we do not venture to form au epaulet). But we took for granted that, were it only for decency's sake, the alleged accomplice, or rather the allerd instigator of the infamous pros' e&np at Derby in the month of July last, would be ready to meet the charge as he had undertaken to do, on the floor of the Howe of Commons. He had publicly branded the imputation as the result of "• vile conspiracy," intended to' blast the character of an honourable man • and pro mised that "an hour should not elapse after Parlia ment met" until he should triumphantly clear him self of the malicious accusation. The opportunity for doing so has at length arrived. Sir ALLIANDER COCKBURN brings the subject under the notice of the House this evening; and as Major BERESPORD dw dained to take refuge from the charge against him, in a colonial appointment, so we trust he will lay aside in his defence all Disraelitish devices and Derbvite dexterities, and say point blank on the word of a soldier and a gentleman, whether or not he wrote the letter sworn to be in his hand writing. The member foe North Essex has been for many years the confidential councillor of Lord DERBY, and his confidential manager in all election matters. It is well known that he had para mount control over the Tory nominations, cannotings, and arrangements in 1847. For a brief Beeson Lord Groner BENTINCIL's influence with; his party served to check, and at length almost to para lyse, that of the turbulent and unacrupulouswhipper in whose violence disgusted, and whose dullness pro- voked, the former secretary and friend of the festal one CANNING. Lord GEORGE refused to be account able for his party so long as they were left to the mercy of such a man as Major RERESPORD, and DISRAELI actually invented a new whipper-in, in the person of Mr. FORBEs Maexr-Neir., in whose favour the obnoxious member for Essex was speedily obliged to give way. As some compensation for this humiliation and indignity, when the present government was formed, to the amazement of all who did not know the fall extent of Lord DERBY'S rashness and contempt for public opinion, Major BERESFORD was gazetted as Secretary-at-War—an appointment which Mr. °swarm amid the cheers of the house, stigmatised as " about the worst of the entire batch." Every one who knew his temper and tarn of mind foresaw that even in this comparatively subordinate post the mischief Major BERESFORD might do would be incalculable. There was a new militia force to be organised and an old military system to be amended and keptl in order. It , seemed certain that a hot-brained, shallow, and overbearing pretender to administrative skill, with a real knowledge of no other tactics than those familiar to the little dark room at the Carlton, where boroughs are settled on and settled for, was not " the safe man wanted for Derby." On the contrary, most persons, even of the Protectionist sect, admitted, when the subject was pressed, that it was one of the chief hindrances and difficulties in their way to be compelled to provide for individuals like the combus tible colleague of Sir Jour; TYRRELL. But what could they do? The man had fastened himself in his own peculiar fashion round the party's neck, and would not be shaken off by any writh ings or spasmodic indications of aversion. He knew so much, had done so much, and might on a pinch do so much more. The very rea son, whispered Disittett and one or two others, why we had better be without him. Their suggestions, however, were overruled by the impetuous and reck less Parities, who is always sure to be fascinated by what is vulgarly termed " pluck" in a jockey, a game-cock, or a partisan. The ex-whipper-in had evinced this quality in a shining degree in 1846 ac cording to Lord DERBY, by heading the first out break of mutiny against Peet, and subsequently by taking pains to put himself out of the pale of that injured statesman's forgiveness by the coarseness and loudness of his abuse. This is the style of thing that with our sporting PanIIER passes for political courage and consistency, and which from him is tole rably secure of its reward. All this would nevertheless have been, perhaps, forgotten, and the mere impropriety . of the nomina tion of so unsuitable a person as Major BERESTOILD to the governorship of Jamaica would not have called forth any extraordinary manifestations of surprise, had not legal proceedings, involving charges of a grave and serious nature, been notoriously pending against a person said to have been employed under the secret directions of the Minister at War. It is not necessary to prejudge the case of Mr. FRAIL or his accomplices, in order to come to a clear and just conclusion as to the impropriety, indeed we should say the impossibility, of any man directly charged on oath with being implicated in their guilt, being recommended to the Quee:s for a high and lucrative foreign post. Lord Denise owes it to himself to afford full opportunity for inquiry into all the facts of the case in question, as far as one of his immediate adherents and fficial colleagues is concerned. If Major BUMMED has been falsely accused, if he never wrote the letters, one of which the public are already acquainted with, prompting the proceedings at Derby, by which Mr. HEYWOOD was defrauded of his rightful seat, and a friend of the Government foisted into Parliament for that an cient borough ; if the plot was not hatched at the Carlton by members of the House of Commons, but at Shrewsbury or elsewhere, by a mere knot of ob scure and rapacious adventurers, then it will be easy for the SECRETARY-AT-WAR to make all this plain in his place in Parliament, and to vindicate not merely his own, honour, but that of the Administration to which he belongs, and the legislature of which he is still a member. But it were alike unprecedented and intolerable that any man being a member of parliament should be swf fervid to vacate his seat while such an inesstigatlem is pending. All law and justice, all decency and right, would be insulted by . a proceeding so wanton and scandalous. Denials in after-dialer speeches addressed to packed audiences in out ot the way vil lages, will never stop the importunate demand for inquiry on the part of the public. Of as little value are the authorised paragraphs that from time to time appear in Government organs, regarding " the entire groundlessness of the charges against the right hon. gentleman." Still less satiefactorT will be the un accountable non-appearance of witnesses before a committee, and the consequent failure of the aggrieved party to bring home any positive charge against Ebody. Major BERESFORD is himself the princi witness whose testimony in the affair of the by election the public at large desire to hear; and for the best of all reasons, that it is the only testimony which can decisively put an end to the imputations that have now for several months lain upon the character of the govern ment of which he constitutes a prominent part. Major BEIICSFORD cannot, as a straight. forward man, desire to elude this inquiry. Tho Commons of England must cease to be what they are —a high-spirited and constitutional assembly— before they could permit such an evasion of their authority were it contemplated ; and, to say the truth, we do not imagine that any such course on the part of the accused gen tl eman is in contemplation. We have the lowest opinion of Lord Deeev's judg ment, but we cannot believe him to be so weak and rash as to sanction a refusal on behalf of Major BEREEFORD to answer Sir A. ....,. I " , lieritN . B allega tions ; and, bumble as is our estimate of Major Br. nasroad's political character, we are unwilling to deny him credit for that one quality to which he owes his present position that, namely, of political courage. • As the course to be taken by the ex-Attorney. General will depend on then'', of proceedings which the SECRETARY-AT WAR may be advised to adopt, it were premature in us to •:prase any opinion on the point. But this we feel aided spoil in the strongest manner to urge upon all who value the character of representative institutions in this country, that while the discussion ought to be conducted with the utmost calmness and entire freedom from party or personal asperities--the accused having • right to be treated as innocent until the contrary is confessed or proved —it is the plain duty of the house in any event to vindicate exemplarily its insulted honour. If ono of its members has been defamed, let the slanderer be rigorously punished; if its dignity and integrity have been betrayed, let such retribution fall on the offender as may deter others in the time to come from similar violations of public morality and public law. The House of Commons cannot afford to trifle with en grave an accusation. The country awaits with no ordinary interest the pending issue. BELGIUM. The members of the Second Belgium Chamber as sembled in their several sections on the 16th, to con sider the proposed new law on the press and on the redress to be affordod to foreign sovereigns complain ing of personal attacks by word or writing. In four of tho six sections the law was approved, with the exception of the clause which proposes to render 'Belgian subjects liable for discours,cris, ou menaces. This was objected to in all the sections, and mini,ters will most likely have to eliminate it from the bill. One of the sections, instead of adopting the law, voted in favour of restoring the law of 1816, subject to the limitations im2osed on its operation by the constitution. ITALY. TUSCANY. The examination of witnesses in the case of Geer tarsi and others was continued in the sitting of the royal court of the 3d. The facts sworn to by the witnesses as yet only relate to the events of the 7th and Bth February, 1849, from which it appears that Nicolini was in the Palazzo Vecchio at the time, and conferring with the ministers after the arrival of Montanelli from Siena. There was some contra diction in the depositions of two witnesses on this point, in consequence of which they were confronted with one another. One of them confirmed his state ment that Montanelli arrived after the ministers had already assembled; the other, who had stated that tho ministers were only summoned to meet after he had arrived, was unable to assert the fact posi tively. There was a further discrepancy between them as to th . ' hour of Montanell's arival ; ono of them having stated that ho arrived after midnight, the other that he arrived at three a.m. The latter observed that, as the hour was after midnight also, ho was not in contradiction with the othe r witnesses; but the counsel fur the defence ti minded the court that, in common parlance, after midnight was understood to be before one n.m. The other depositions were of no interest. 'file court adjourn e d to tho 4th. PIEDMONT. It appears that Monsignor Franzoni, the agitating and exiled Archbishop of Turin, has addressed pastoral of a political nature to his late Hoek ; for th e Opiniune of Turin, of the 14th, addresses the follow. ing advice to its readers ‘Ve recommend the in habitants of Turin to abstain from any demonstras tiun whatever, on Sunday next, when th e pastoral of Monsignor Franzoni against the liberal papers of Piedmont shall be read in all the churches of the capital." The Vice delta Lils.rtn, M. Brofferio's paper, also alludes to the above pastoral, and states that it excommunicates all these who shall hence forth read liberal papers. The Opinions of Turin mentions a printed prayer that is now being widely circulated throughout Italy for the conversion of England. The Count de Samhuy has given in his resignation as Sardinian minister to the see of Rome. Count Pralormo is spoken of as his successor. The Opinione of Turin quotes correlipondence front Milan of the 13th, stating that political arrests con tinue to be made in consequence of the facts that come to light in the trial now in prognss at Mantua. M. Geri, the procurator fiscal of Milan. has been dismissed the following circumstances: A banker to whom the Austrian govern ince t owed a bill of 5110,000 fr., which s had fallen due, ealhal upon M. Geri to sign the order for paynient, Tlb latter, believing that there wits not such a suet is the treasury at the moment, and unwilling to order a sale of paper money on account of the heavy discount with which it is clogged, had the banker that he must send to Vienna for instruction; and that ho would do so immediately by d ec t r i e telegraph. lie did; but the banker wrote too to one of his correspondents, who poblishul tine matter upon 'Change, which led to a heavy tail. The consequence was that the Minister of Finance immediately sent orders to raise the moony at any cost, and to suspend the unlucky oftieial. A f ew hours after an order came to dismiss him from office, NAPLES. The Risorgimentoase;il;esthe release of MM. Leopardi and Scialoia, political prisoners at Naplcs, to the good offices of M. Ferdinand flarrot, miuister of France to his Majesty of the Two Siciiies. M. Leopardi, formerly a deputy to the parliament of Naples, and minister plenipotentiary of hit Own so vereign at Turin, has been condemned to perpvteg banishment after an imprisonment of more than three years. GERMANY. I'ItChSIA. The Berlin Gazette of the l•ith contains the pro. clamation convoking the new members on the '_nth inst. The supplementary elections rendered neces. sary by several double returns, are ordered for the 17th and 19th. The Prussian newspapers generally express but small expectations of the work to be done in the new parliament. "The United Diet of 1847 " says, the If Z, dung. promised more then does the popular representation of 1852. Then the vs rious provinces vied with each other to send their most able and best considered men ; to-dav the best they can do is to accredit to Berlin what fterlin has first sent to them—officials and rural councillors. This is not the way to obtain a worthy representation of a great state." The constituencies whose members derive their right exclusively from the payment of the highest amount of taxes, send 90 deputies to the First Chamber. Of the 99 just elected 68 belong to tho titled classes, and only 15 to the commons. Among the 6t4 there are two liberals; amon g the 15 there is one. A better set of men is expected from the thirty towns whose councils have the right of electing to the First Chamber. Our own correspondent writes : BERLIN, Nov. 14. . . A commercial treaty between France and Prussia is said to be in preparation. The Minister of Trade, M. von der Ileydt, is about to hold a conference with the French minister, M. Magee, at Saarbruecken. France, it is believed, offers to put Prussian ships on the same footing as its own, to reduce the import duty on cattle, and to repeal the export duty on raw and thrown silks, in return for which Prussia is to reduce the import duty on French wines. The express trains from Cologne to Berlin are about to be still more accelerated, so that the post ' from Eng land and France shall arrive at one instead of three o clock, and thus enable the letters .o be deli vered before 'Change time. The Austrian government, i too, talks of arranging express trains, by which the journey from Vienna to Paris shall be accomplished in torty-eight hours. Tho railway accounts for the present year prove that the German railways are very flourishing concerns. The gross returns on the capital invested were, during the first nine months of this year, as follows :—Berlin•Stettin, 15; pet cent.; the Upper Silesian, 11,1; Berlin-Anhalt, The Upper Silesian Railway had made nearly 30,0001. more than during the corresponding period of last year. Count Rechberg has been definitely appointed Austrian president of the Frankfort I tier, and Cons Thun comes as ambassador to Berlin at the end el this month. M. Otto Huebner, who has gained considerable reputation u a writer on political economy and statistics, particularly by his collection of tariffs of all nations, his statistical survey on a single Act; and his Statistical Annuary has, for sonie time pita, corresponded with all governments, request in,: to be furnished with their statistical reports, and mit ring in return to furnish on application whatever sinhlar notices may be required regarding ahy branch or country, more espedit iously !hen they could be got through diplomatic sources. His undertaking has been very favourably received, the British Board of Trade, among others, haring fur nished very copious materials. M. Huebner has thus been enabled, entirely by private means, to torte • central statistical archive of reference, which he most liberally puts at the disposal of all scientific men who may apply to him, personally or by letter, for information. The Austrian government has published rigidre gulations for commercial agents. Persons doing commi•sion business require a special license, specify ing the provinces for which it is granted, and which will be given to no foreigners for more than a yes!. A commission agent dare not du any business on his own account, nor trade with any hut nu rehants, manufacturers, and tradesmen, nor dare he himself forward goods; he is restricted to showing patterns and samples and taking orders, whieh must be en tered in a book accessible to the polity; finally, he must pay, if licensed fur several Austrian province', a duty of 408. monthly. Travelling clerks kept by Austrian houses are not subject to these regulatiene, which aim at restricting the business done in Austria by foreign houses through agents there. A new protectionist dodge! The Augsburg (;a:ette announces that on the 4th inst., at Moravetz, in Moravia, Prinetss CArola Wass, on reaching her majority, publicly went over to the Roman catholic church, with the consent of her father, :and under tho guidance of the Bishop of Bruno. SWEDEN. Stockholm letters of tho 9th inst. report a consi derable improvement in the health of the King. Ilia Majesty had been able to transact tmaines. , with the hereditary prince and the members of the interim government. CORSO'S INSTANCE OP ItEnTITI'TIOni. —About two rnontha sinee, William Layton, a lob nicer residing near Widors Deck, wax robbed of bin watch by lour men, who stopped him on the highway, near Bold. The night we' , dark, and he wan not able to pine any dew intion of his assailant.. Shortly after thin nectar. nor, Layton, in jump ' ing from aflit to the canal towing ti ill, and received • severe injury in bin spine, from the ill-cts of which he has not yet recovered. A few days since, he received ti letter through the post, of which the following is • literal cony priscnt myself to Write few lines to you to sty that we have heard of the misf irtune that betel you 00 such a day. But will not name the day. the Witch you had taken from you we pot it Bark of thit Brow tie!tlgall bring afraid to present it on." S•arch was according'y made at the place indicated, which wax within • few yards of Lay ton's house,-and there the watch was lii ni conetly in the same state as when it was taken from hind—Low pool