The Express. — London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

Bite Orprelso. TO colt/ex:wow DIMS. aOkered *Mak •t" Ilse Ewer" arars tun.. mob "warre," is paired ray Theory r 4 Mar shilit, hi Ire par umrstetsierad for Error," Lam 1.. Evening rpm iv Mst the 4160% 10, Ilrearrirset. hy Two drek ea re dr of vallhorr. MON WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tate Dan—Manias. In 242. Aftaissas. Teawasew —Roma,. 3n. La A2anass. no. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL S. A MORE curiously impudent proposition than that of Mr. Secretary WALPOLE on the suffrage, was never made in the House of Commons,—ahlch is saying a great deal for it. The men who refuse a vote to the rate-paying artisan of the towns; who object to the suffrage being extended to respectable twenty pound ur ten pound householders in counties ; who deny that the electoral system requires extension; and who exclaim against the " nox ious influence" of democracy and the people — these men come forward to say they will give • vote to every militiaman who has served for two years! We may be sure this offer, though made so very late at night on Friday, was not determined upon without what its authors thought sufficient reasons, and what these reasons may . be it be comes the duty of the public to ascertain. Louis Naroteoe encourages army-votes, and we know how readily his army polled fur that despotism whole bidding it pertormed when 'blood was to be shed in Paris. Lord Dtenv must surely admire such fidelity when he wishes to give a portion of our army the votes he refuses to the rate-paying housekeeper. Upon what fair or explainable principle can he support his plan? Under his mode—s ho uld it be permitted to become law, the man who was a - hardworking, respectable artisan. living in apartments in • respectable town. or even occupying& ten pound house in any place not included in • parliamentary borough, would have no vote but this same man, if he became drunken, diwolute, and characterless, lost his work, became homeless and penniless, and in a tipsy fit at a beerehop took the bribe of the four pound bounty and entered the militia, would then—as the slave of military rule—have a vote. Never, surely, was anything more shameless. But we have taken the ease of a townsman. Let us see bow Lord Deitee's plan would work in a county. A trader, or a man of moderate fortune, being tenant at will of a house rented even at -tat a year, has no vote ; but his ploughman, or his stableman, or any drunken lounger about the village beer- house—half-labourer half-poacher—by taking the militia pay. would obtain the franchise denied to the industrious, the intelligent, and the small-propertied people of the town or village. The occupier of • forty pound house in Kensington Knightsbridge is denied the suffrage; let him penniless and worthless, and chararterlem and Lord Drzter's plan offers him a militia bounty and Mtuition in parliament. t as, before taking another view of this propo sition, repeat, that we arc--as we have always been— strong advocates for a large extension of the suffrage, from the sincere belief that by a representation of the voices of all the worthy and intelligent and pro ducing people of this country alone, can the true interests of all classes—rich and poor, high and humble—of this nation be secured. We are not averse, therefore, to a man haring a vote because he is a militiaman ; but we do object to his enjoying the trar.ehise because he is a militiaman, whilst others more socially fitted for the trust are refused it. We do object to the principle of giving votes to indif ferent soldiers—which militiamen must be—whilst good non-military citizens are without votes. And then, if soldiers are to elect our members of parlia ment,why give one class a privilege denied to others? Why give a power to two-year militiamen denied to a seven years dragoon ? Or is the present only the first stage of the journey we are to travel, and arc we hereafter to be told that, as militiamen bare votes, the troops of the line cannot be refused • similar privilege ? Does Mr. Secretary WALPOLE wish to take a leaf oat of the book of M. DR MORNT? Or is the Earl of DERRY emulous of having hereafter such a quiet general election as the military one just concluded in France? The new Secretary of State, whilst announcing his tory proposition, that every militiaman who served for two years should be enfranchised, left us in the dark whether the vote was attached to the coat and the musket, or whether it is to belong to the man. Is the fact of a conscript or a bounty recruit having been drilled 21 days the first year, and 14 the next year—is this amount of service, we ask, to make him a voter for life? Is he to be a sort of military freeman—like the freeman of the old cities, who became so great a source of electioneering corruption and disgrace, that Reform Bill had to sound the knell of their gradual extinction ? Are we to have a re-creation of voters for life et that bad class, or is the vote not to attach be the individual, and to be lost when he leaves the Militia? If so, it will be said that shouldering the arealtet is the qualification—that the franchise re alise in the firelock—and that this is only the first Op towards a subjugation of civil rights to military hem. And what a wholesale vote manufacture dm military constituencies threaten to be! The hat year eighty thousand men are to be put wise arms. Eighty thousand men means the year sitar aszt—in time for the second election from the present moment eighty thousand votes. And let it be remarked that, short as Mr. WALPOLE'S speech was, he said these new levies should enjoy a vote, not for the county in which they were kried, but in which they resided. In the event of their being under arms they are moveable to any county in England. Would not any county into which they marched be the county of their resi dents And could they vote there ? If so, these eighty thousand votes could, by a tory executive, be marched in detachments to ant county where votes were wanted. Let such a view of this most unconsti tutional proposition not be forgotten either by the opposition in the House of Commons or by the people of the country. A ministry of • minority are not to be trusted. people to sufficient time must elapse before the Militia Bill again makes its appearance in the House of Commons, to allow the public to examine its pm tensions and speculate on the secret motives of its propounders. Though stanch friends to enfran chisement we can see no good likely to come of so sinister • plan. Whilst claiming votes for thousands now denied that advantage, we repeat our objection to the enfranchisement of a body of men—poor, de pendent, at times under martial law, and privileged an virtue of that servitude—being empowered to vote; whilst industry, intelligence, and property are refused representation. Are the farmers be coming too intelligent and too independent for the landlords? Are they beginning to obtain too much political information ? We know Lord Ihritev's opinion of • landowner's privileges in reference to • tenant's vote, and are L in d MERBT'S party in tent on a wholesale manufacture of county votes among their dependents ? Do they want to give arms to the least intelligent part of the rural population— men bought at four pounds a head—paid be it remembered out of the public money--and who, when so purchased, and when under the military command of county colonels and county captains, will of course be under county influence. The mili tia substitutes must be again what they have ever been before—the slav , s of the farm and the scum of the streets. And yet of such men, Mr. WALPOLE tells us, he wishes to makes voters, whilst rated house keepers —men who pay income tax, and whose labour and whose intelligence help to keep the national industry alive are ignored altogether. No : aslant we want an English copy of the old forty *billing frosholden of Ireland,we must have none althea! eighty shilling militia votes. If Lord DERBY wants armed and voting serfs and servants to do his bidding, do not let him have them with our free will, and do not let us be made to pay for them. Postponement seems to be very much the order of the day just now in parliament. If the house is not willing to crush this audacious absurdity at once, let postponement be tried upon it—lot it be reconsidered this day six months in the new parliament—when we get one. THF. Itommr.v Munnes.—The condemned criminals Eyresaad Kevaish are reprieved, a Ratification to that effect having been received from Me Deerstary of State by the it'iester gaol authorities on Thursda_ y mottl e : respite iv a general one, viz., during ha Iblotty's FRANCE. - PARIS, BATORDAT EVIISTWO. The Illositeur of to-day.publishes, in the shape of an extract from the minuets of the Senate's sittings of April 1, the Senator-Consultum relative to the Prince-President's civil list, which was voted unani mously by 79 senators present. The extract is as follows : The Senate, with M. Mesaard, the first Viee-Preeident, in the chair, having taken into consideration, as prescribed by Art. 17 of the organic decree of March 22, 1862, the collective proposition presented by the meniben composing the bureaux, has voted a Sissatue-Consultum of the fol lowing tenor : Art. 1. ht execution of ArR 16 of the Ceenitaties, a sum of twelve millions of names is allowed soweally, from January 1, 18:4, to the Priaes-Prodion of the Ills' public. t. Art. 2. The National Palaces, amnesia in the &ores of March 27, 1852, the furniture, the gardens, sad the parks, which are depimilent thereon, are sppeepriamd the habitation and use of the Prinee-President. The In ventory of the furniture, previously drawn up is virtue et the laws sad regulations, shall be verified, at the crown al the State, at the period of hie entering into pommies. The Priam President shall enjoy exclusively the right of shost- Mg sad heating in the woods of I ersaillea, and in the forests of Fontainebleau, Compiigne, Marty, sad IS. (hernias. '• Art. S. The State, continuing to receive the revenues and produce of the forma, remains charged with their administration, as well as with the keeping-up of the Na tional Palaces, and their dependencies. hives at the Palace of the Senate, on this let day of April. " President. "(lea. RIONAULT Di ST. ZIAM-D . ANUELT, CANDA. CRILT.I3, Baron Di LAIIIIOIIIII, Secretaries." The Senatus-Consultum was presented yob*? So the President of the Republic. Jesse, Ifewo parte, it seems, out of motives of delicacy, declined i li attir any part in this measure. It must be con that this is the only modest feature in the tree action. Louis Napoleon, who had the other day the face to assert that he was doing all for Prance, nothing for himself, has thus become pow messed of all the royal palaces and their furniture, while the expense of maintaining them is, as I NEW tinned yesterday, laid on the nation. The pains, alluded to are the Tuileries, Louvre, Fontainebbel, Comvi4gne, Versailles, Trianon, St. Cloud, Nissans, the Elysee, and Palace of Pau. It appears that tho Council of Ministers has de cided that the dotation of the senators should be ir revocable. It was, no doubt, out of a reciprocal feel ing of kindness that the senate has voted at once, without hesitation, the 12 millions that were de manded from it, thus rendering unto Caner the things that are Ccesar's. It has been observed that the above Senatus-Consultum makes no mention of the crown diamonds. These jewels remain. therefore, in the bands of the state until fresh orders, bat it is supposed that the favour has been only , rommoi hl order to leave the senate a margin for offerhe siker* proof of its devotion on the eventuality of as sident's marriage, or which is of nearer • his elevation to the imperial throne. It seems that to compensate the sort of independ ence which would be given to the senate by the ir revocability of their salaries it has been decided in council that the President shall have the faculty of gradually increasing the salaries of senators from 10,000 up to 30,000 francs; so that the Prince will begin by an instalment of favour, and administer huh encouragement in proportion to the good be haviour of his pensioners. I understand that the President fingered Tester- I day the first quarterly three millions of his new allowance. M. do Turgot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is in disgrace about the affair of the Prince of Canino's stoppage at Civita Vecchia. The decree which appears in the Motateur of to day, organising the service of chaplains in the navy, and attributing to these functionaries • certain salary, is generally remarked as an infraction of the con stitution, and an encroachment on the powers of the Corps . Legishitif. According to the constitution, this body is to vote all money bills . Now, here is a whole service of functionaries created by a decree of the executive to be paid out of the public pane, and forming no item of the budget, without the Chemise of Deputies being in the least consulted. If inns larities of this kind are to be tolerated, the Llyislatif may be considered as the fifth wheel ° Cort?: state coach, which is absolutely • superfluous incurs brunet. Another circumstance which has drawn at tention from its apparent inconsistency with the abolition of the state of siege, and the restoration of vigour to the ordinary laws, is the order sent to a notary of Beaune to quit France, without instituting any trial before the tribunals. To-day was adjudicated the loan of 50 millions contracted by the city of Paris. The loan is rum , hamahle in let years, and bears an interest of 6 per sent. It gives the right of 37 drawings by lot, with pima that vary from 2,600 t. to 60,000 E Three osiapeniss sent in tenders—(l.) The haws of 02•1*, krisapa sag Ca, which offered 1,222 E 60a tin auk et WOW. which would have made Istri albs moos' to 61,126,000 L (2.) The awed 1,17 M. Ma. =soli lave sails In total among to i8,375,11•1L (3.) The haws et Doe^ As Thumb mod Oa altered 1,227 f. 82e., whisk assupsois ti the add of 61,391,000 f. The loan wen saissit to the last mentioned compuly. t illi = d ore, highly satisfied with this losarial op- Miss. A sitting of the Council of State, wholly devoid et public interest, was held to-day. Part of tie ! duties of this body is of • nature much like those performed in England by the Judicial Cons ultive the Privy Consols `he business of this =wig was to hear appeals from private individuals against decrees of the prefects. Although the matter lin hand had nothing of state about it, the councillors eat in their new clothing. A curious instance occurred today of the horror of publicity which pervades all branches of the pros* irisrime. A printed order of the day is daily pre. pared, to let the members of the council know Aril business is coming on. It has hitherto bees mai to give a copy of this not very . interesting deseselmt to the few journalists who might ears to ask for one. To-day, a Councillor of State clearving a sows paper reporter carrying off one of them dips el paper, sent a tipstaff after him to fetch it bask, sod enders were given that such shocking fetch should not recur. The Senate and Corps Ltegislatif do not sit to-day, and it is stated that during the latter days of next week (Passion week) there will be no sittings. I have been able to obtain some fragments the ac curacy of which may be depended upon, of the debate of yesterday, relative to the objections to the validity of the election of M. de Bt. /famine in La Vendee. M. Doubler de l'Ecluse said he was not about to launch into political subjects, nor to speak of recent events. It 'belonged to history to appreciate them, and to dud to judge them. M. Billault, the president, hers interrupted the speaker and called him to the question. M. Bouhier de rßeluse called to mind all the manceuvres employed by the prefects throughout France, the dismissals of mayors, the suppression of I voting lists, and of the circulars of those candidates who were not supported by the government. This oppression had been very grmt in La Vendee. An electoral committee famet— under the protection of the prefect had dared to pu blish a placard stating , that the Abbe de flipisay (th e opposition candidate) was not eligible because heft led an office incornE= with being a deputy, that of Vicar-General of That was a false ho od, and yet M. de rEpinai's frisni were not permitted to refute ft. He beil arrival that office eighteen months ago. Ma chrle Liglu. latif paid no attention to the last aulddi soma 18,000 electors to abstain fro=. After a speech from M. do Kerdrel, who the dal* scent of M. Bouhier de PE/Am" sold s reply from Y. Bt Ilermine, the whole Asnimbly MI in a body, and, of course, declared duo obeedon valid. The Mont . /eve contains • eirenlar from M. de Maupaa, the Minister of Piles, relative to the man ner in whith they are to carry eta the police regula tions connected with the organic decree of Feb. 17 on the press. The minister dwells upon the necessity of evincing constant severity towards all journals tending to socialist opinions. A communicated note in the Moniteur states that the delay of 20 days granted to those holders of Five per Cents., now converted into 4), who might desire to be reimbursed at par, expired on April 2, at nail night. The dementia for reimbursement received at the Ministry of Finance, and those of which the as sortments have given notice, amount to 1,553,014 fr. of "rente," representing a capital of 31,060,186 ft. The reimbursement will - be made immediately upon proof of title. For Paris the payment will begin on Tuesday, April 6, and terminate on April 10. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY 1 mationed patertley that *dui had Ilmereent .e by Mimpjlph the asperture hem Mar selioe the • there mho en under matesce of tranipertattoo to Algeria. Itv that gene ralordsre have bees seat to commanding the military dietitian aid su Ashes to suspend all movement of transpartedim to AMU, and to stop the marsh of the primate already on their way there. This order dose set apply to the prisoners who are being sent to Nresse. But inasmuch as by a recent dechion of the peernment none but minis& in the ordinary amegledis oldie word are to be seat there, it is greatly leged thee the whole sale slatimore of i t a mortats conan s=ed upon political prisoners by the will not be car- We Wait. read ht the Petrie a-- The swpetralira et a modeling_ sehllttlea at Paris has ham wiled do sines the Ilad Dieseek* by all do twat pewees. Ilizty4we dinghies aseserse, shethe nut iwierresa weemlialiesing trees lan bei r t fas,.. : a mews that Ir= v e aessees bee pops ma% =hasil the lay ler pvern ers sa 'Agonies This fact is et eneark, ad Area 111111111kIIN with which Zmegliislifalesissu s imphes ethic Wiens. The teaming moreamisatad a* appears in the Pairie :—AReporb el a change of ministry have been agate) pat in ambition. nay are veil of the etlthtest ibundstios." The Pattie also publishes the Itlloanissfiat • :st r =b l sr of putties. far pesiea have been ad hered by the Nisdiel and Mends et *West prisoners. Their hesiliss ere bomb, lafinmed diet the committee on perisas admit me Whims sr en gi but such as arc sigm by a the esedsraesdi prowes sveg. A dinner tee place ea areday, at the E at which were present the ordinals, arch and bishops sow in Paris, mid several of the mideat any. It is slated, says the Patrie, that a company has . bees fermi for the establishment of a railway from Lyme I. the Sardinian frontier. A demand for a ceoesmies of this line, which will stop at the Pont de Besusehin, has, it is said, been just made to the government. It is positively stated that this mil -1 way will be continued across Savoy by an Italian company. from a private source that the funetiona- 1 ries who contributed to the double election of M. de Moray in the Puy-de-DOme, in spite of the orders of M. do Persigny, that his election was only to bo sup ported by the government iu one district, are threatened with dismissal. At the Bourse, the Fire per Cents. closed with out change, at 101.30; the Three per Cents. rose 10e., closing at 72f. Bank of France shares rose sf. Railways, with the exception of Marseilles, which fell 2.50, were firm. Orleans rose 17.30 ; Bordeaux, 10 ; Central, 8.75 ; Tour and Nantes, 5 ; Northern, Rouen, and Lyons rose from 7.50. to 10 PARIS, St NDAT EVEXINO. No saying could be owe apt than the remark of the Parisians on the eenversion of the Five per Cents., "The rentiers will have to pay the Prince President's civil list.* This is so far literally true that the financial eatimasy achieved by paring 10 per cent. from the loosens of the ftuidhol is ex belly balanced by the enorbitant doted.* settled upon Iduis Napoleon. The 18 millions of frees thus mewed" have been, by dm bream& of a nasals minsulttim, conveyed into the pocket of the Min President. I say 18 millions, as the charge et =de taining the palaces, which has always the heaviest item of expenditure, has been trans tarred from the 41111 list to the state, a proceeding equivalent to adding six millions more to the twelve millions already Tiled. The mancouvring which has ac companied this triemestion exhibits inn striking light the services while France is likely to reap from that body whisk the Passident declared in his recent spma be lad mei feespendent, because unremova blw lan the =gore granted what was desired of *ilia they stipulated for the permanence during Ilk of dr& salaries as well as places. No sooner was this tamed Why the government than the grate ful Senate voted four millions more than were asked by the Minister of Finance. But lest independence should take root with permaneence of salary, the Prince-President reserved to himself the power of gradually increasing senatorial Incomes, according to good behaviour, up to 30,000 fr. The Patrie contains an article by M. Delamarre upon the various applications of which the French Crystal Palace, to be erected in the square of the Champs Elysdes is capable. M. E. do Girardin continues to support the present government in his own peculiar way. Assuming, as his argument throughout assumes, that the President was sincere when he disclaimed imperial pretensions, M. de Girardin is by far the most able advocate of Louis Napoleon's cause that has yet appeared. But, if the almost universal opinion that the empire is at hand be well founded, then the articles in the Preue are terrible two-edged weapons, which unite the im perialists with all the force professedly directed against the royalists. France is divided by four po litical parties, which in their chronological order are, the legitimists, the republicans, the imperialists, and the Orleanists. So long as these parties exist, the one that for the time being may be the governing party, will always have the other three against it. There will be an opposition of three parties to one, striving in every possible way to prevent their ab sorption by the fourth party. The imperialist party owes its existence to the excesses of the first revolu tion. But for ambitious intrigues, each as those of There and Guizot, the Orleanist party would not have come into the world in 1830. There would only have been two parties in France, the legi timists and the republicans, the one being to the other what manhood is to infancy, ' negation to affirmation, motion to immobility, responsibility to infallibility, enquiry to super stition, liberty to subjection, right to fact. The to be desired is that parties in France should be reduced to the two last mentioned as soon as pos sible. When the President on March 29, so unex pectedly said, " Let us keep the republic," ho set a grand example to Orleanism, for, to use a common though misapplied expression, he thereby_ achieved the " fusion " of imperialism with the republic. whose sphere he thus eniarged. Let Orleanism do likewise, and merge itself in legitimacy. Orleanism was a Igovernment of fact, nothing more. What rights eau such a government have after it hes ceased to exist? None whatever. Orleanimm, that mixed regime which existed from 1830 to 1848, was not and never would be either a ' monarchy, or a republic, or hereditary right, or election, or the right of the first born, or the right of universal suffrage or authority, or liberty, or peace, or war. MM. Ouixot, Salvandy, and Duchitel have been the cause of infinite confusion for want of cou rage to assert this simple proposition, " the youngest are not the eldest." They therefore culled them selves " fusionists," being all the time in reality I legitimists. Orleanism I. hopeless. Orleanism, therefore, had better disappear. There will then be but two parties, legitimacy and republicanism, the peat and the future: the past based on divine right and ancient hereditary descent; the future based on the national will and universal suffrage. N. de Girardin then proceeds to argue that so long as Louis Napoleon maintains the republic he will have all the advantages on his side, in the struggle with the principle of legitimacy. But that the moment he attempts to found an hereditary dynasty of his own, he will immensely improve the position of the legitimists. Now, the President may rely against all the world upon his eight millions of suffrages, but, were he to establish the hereditary empire, royalty might appeal to its eight centuries of reigns, and the conflict would be interminable ; there would be no judge between the parties, because an hereditary empire pro-supposes the extinction of a government based upon universal suffrage. There is reason to believe that between December 20, 1831, and March 29, 1832, Lous Na poleon has often deeply pondered over those two programmes,—The empire and war, or the republic and peace. There is reason to think that, after full reflection, he has discarded the first, and adopted the second of these propositions. If so, mays Girardin (who, if he assumes too much to be allowed credit for sincerity, is, at all events, splendith , triendas), we need not despair of progress. On the 'future conduct of the President epends the judg ment of posterity upon the act of December 2. The preservation of the republic may become the justifl make of that act. The overthrow of the republic would, on the contrary, be its condemnation. The republic preeerved is stability founded ; stability founded is liberty restored. Liberty will be restored became the pretenders who would not give it to us will promise to do so in order to get back to France. Now the infallible means of preventing them from returning will bo to give us liberty, to keep without Laving promised the promise which they will make but would not keep. The daseroblio Natsonale publishes as old letter, without date, written by the President of the Repub lic to the Pope's nuncio concerning the Prince of Canine, width it introduces by the following obser vadat.: It wee NM today that M. de Rayncval, the French am holeaderr at Items, applied to the rope for permission that the Prime di Casino, who had arrived at tivita Vecchia with • pamerest of the French Minister of FOrt*ft Affa lt irs, le might peened to Rase to mettle some private aftir e . affirmed that the holy father did net grant Air parmissise and declared that if the eir-preel&nt of tie BiMaa Constituent demeably Mond attempt le atter his capital, he tao , 4 met whams mast @madame force to prevent him. bud that be himself wadi at mass leave Row. We that we knew that Tt. de lisyneval did not press the MAW derther. He eeuM mid do otherwise. M. de Itamenal has bud= not hemetts• the letter which Pllbilla m Papissabiserly wets to M. R. Monseigneur the mmmaks. This is the Idler: a set allow the reports wldelitend to map me am asssestilme of the Prime de Genie's conduct te imam meat with yea. Fee a very long Yin I have had an kind of relations with the eldest Mu of Leda& Bcesparte, and I deplore with all my soul that he Ime not felt that the =inti mate of the Impel sovereignty of the venerable lead of the shank won as intimately allied with the' dignity of catholicism as with the liberty and independence of IWy. Receive, Monseigneur, the assurance of my sea aureate of high esteem. LOUIS NAPOLION BON AAAAA The Moniteur contains a decree appointing the AbW Felix Coquereaux, a canon of Bt. Denis, and formerly principal chaplain to the squadron of evolutions, to the newly-created office of chaplain in chief to the fleet. The Muniteur also contains an administrative de cree of the Minister of Finance relative to the mode of proceeding, in pa'isg off the holders of Five per Cents who have claimed repayment. A list will be drawn up of the sums duo to the claimants, and, as was stated yesterday, the repayment will commence is Paris on the 6th of April. In the departments the local cashiers will begin the repayments on May Lit. Interest at five per cent. will be allowed from March 22 to the day fixed for the repayment. The =mounts will be paid upon the production of the pro visional receipt, and, where necessary, of the papers proving the title and quality of the parties. In cases where the title is not satisfactorily made out the treasury will relieve itself from responsibility by paying the sums in question into the deposit office (came des depi;ts et consignations). It must he borne in mind that the thirty-ono mil lions and upwards of capital hitherto claimed by fundholders from the treasury is not the definitive amount—claims have yet to come in from the de partments and from abroad, which will probably swell the sum to forty millions. The government, it is said by means of its arrangements with leading capitalists, was prepared to pay off as much as from 130 to 200 millions without salting for time. It is to be observed, however, that the amount of reimburse ments claimed, taking it to be forty millions, represents but in an inaignficant degree the effect produced by the conversion. • The Bank of France made advances to the extent of 80 or 83 mil lions upon Five per Cent. Renter. The bills in the hands of private bankers were all sent in for dis count to the bank, and the money employed in buying up all the stock that was offered. In this way, taking the 40 millions and the capital displaced to support the market together, it is estimated that 300 millions of francs have been employed to effect the conversion. General Teacher do la Pegerie, formerly an aide de-camp to Eugene Bcauharnaia, who has been long residing at Munich, is about to return to France to occupy, as it is said, one of the few seats in the Senate that still remain vacant. Today the President reviewed four regiments of the line, two regiment of cavalry, and a battery of artillery, formin the third brigade of the army of Paris, in the cou g rt-yard of the Tuileries After the review the President went to the chapel of the Tuileries, to present to the newly-made cardinal, Monseigneur Donnet, the Archbishop of Bordeaux, the red hat which has just been sent from Item* by the Pope. This ceremony was conducted with mach pomp. The chapel was sumptuously decorated far the occasion. The senators, councillors of state, and the members of the Corps Legislatif, received invita tions, and many . of them were present. A choir, con sisting of the principal singers of Paris, under the direction of M. Adolphe Adam, performed a musical service. At the hour appointed, Prince Gighi ap proached the President, bearing the red hat upon a velvet cushion. The President then presented the hat to the cardinal, at the same time making a short complimentary speech, to which the cardinal replied. The recent railway concessions will, it is said, lead to a demand for iron larger than France could supply for two ears to oome, and it is expected that there will be larger exportations from England, notwith standing the heavy duty of 91. per ton. Immedintely after the publication of the last Aus trian tariff, M. de Lemur, the French ambassador at Intone, applied fur a reduction in the elation upon Parisian fancy articles, on the groond that the new tariff would operate r a prohibition. The Austrian Chambers of have pronounced in favour of lowering the dasfas. provided the French govern ment will lower their duties upon Austrian wool. The reply of the French government has not yet been given. 'G, APRIL 5, 184. - SWITZERLAND. A letter from Bute states that the new rifle in vented by M. Bruderlin, and adopted by the war minister of the confederation, has been proved after repeated tests, to be a weapon superior at once to the Prussian needle-gun and the wahines of the Chasseurs de Vincennes. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. The Neue Prussian Gazette states u probable that in its legislation for eubmitting railways to taxation the government wiU propose to levy on all shares that pa 3 a dividend of 4 per cent. • tax amounting to one fortieth part of the income derived from them ; the maximum of the tax for those paying a higher rate will be three-tenths; but neither the interme diate rates, nor the manner in which the relative amount of the tax is to be calculated, have yet been announced. ____.--. BREMEN. Letters from Bremen of the 31st ult. represent General Jacobi to be steadily proceeding in his work of reconstituting the political system of the free city. As, however, he has already abolished all the cardi nal points of the popular constitution, and no resist ance to his decisions is ventured, the general is at a loss for opportunities of enacting those brilliant deeds of despotism which marked the progress of tho federal commissions in Hesse. DENMARK. ..... A telegraphic despatch, dated Hamburg, Saturday,' April 3, announces that the King of Denmark has granted a general amnesty to all the inhabitants of Holstein wbo are liable to be called to account for resistance offered to his government. From this amnesty, however, those of the officers serving in the royal army at the commencement of the insurrection who embraced the cause of the provisional govern ment are excepted, and are to be exiled. The decree banishing the Duke of Augustenburg is also main sine& TURKEY, - _ A telegraphic despatch, of the 20th of March, re ceived at Vienna from Constantinople, states that the Sultan wrote under the Egyptian note demanding a modification in the tanzimaat, " This request I nei i ther can, ought, nor will grant." SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 30. The Gazette of to-day contains a royal decree, ordering that all the credits against the institution called the consulate of Andalusia, from 1698 to 17041, which amount to upwards of 3,380,000 teals, and which have given occasion to much litigation at different epochs, are to be presented at the office of the liquidation of the public debt, with all the necessary documents, with the understanding that the time granted for their presentation in the Peninsula will be three months, and those which come from abroad nine months. The Board of Commerce of Cadiz is to present its credits of the same nature; the governor of Cadiz is to tako an in ventory of the goods, tenements, &c., which belonged to the consulate of Andalusia, in order that a liquida tion may take place. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Oriental Company's steam jacket Montrose, Captain John Ilawen, arrived at Southampton yes terday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant Peter Ranier, R.N., Admiralty Agent. Her dates are—Gibraltar, March 20 ; Cadiz, 27 ; Lisbon, 30 ; Vigo, 31; with Oporto she had no com munication. Tho Montrose brings thirteen passengers, one of whom is Count Ordrotl; a brother of the King of Portugal. On the 22nd ult. a perfect hurricane blew for 24 hours. Communication with the shipping was quite stopped, and several fine merchant ships drove out to sea. All had, however, regained their port, save one. The majority If their crews being on shore, much anxiety as to their safety was felt. From the ship's making Cape Finisterro to leaving Vigo the weather was very bad, with torrents of rim ; and on the 20th and - 30th there was a heavy S.W. gale. In.the bay N.E. to B.E. winds and finer weather. _ . Her Majesty's ships Vengeance, Terrible, and Janus were in Gibraltar on the 26th, and her Ma jestfaships Albion, Indefatigable, Phaeton, Dragon, and Encounter in Lisbon on the 30th. Our correspondent writes: LISBON, MARC', 29. An apparent inclination of the government to stand by the financial decree of Dec. 3, the retention of the supreme military command by Saldanha, an expensive arrangement, and a certain impatience of the restraints of parliamentary government, are com bining to make the ministry somewhat less popular than they were, and increasing the strength of the opposition in the Chamber. In the estimates presented by Senhor Fontes Pereira do Mello, the receipts for the year 1852-53 are computed at 10,793,406,876; the expenditure at 13,507,484,233; and the consequent deficit 2,714,077,377 reds. Senhor Pereira boats much that the estimates of the ministries of Finance, Interior, and War (not comprehending certain classes) and Marine are inferior to 1830-51 by 157,925,285 ; while the increase in the ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs are more by 13,611,346 refs; but he is not sufficiently explicit as to the increase in the expendi ture beyond the estimate of 1851-32. In the last year Roves 12,606,215,420 refs; but Senhor Pereira de Mello makes it more by 900,768,833 reis, while he tells us, as a matter of congratulation, as it were, that the charge for the recent capitalisations of 6,497,751,629 rem at home,and 2,578,766,763 abroad, is no more than (at 4 per cent.), deducting the very modest sum of 25 percent. from the said taxable sum, or dividends upon the capitalisat ion, or, in other words, additions to the permanent debt—no more, indeed, than 272,293,350 reis. It is therefore obvious that the difference between this sum, or rather between this sum with the 25 per cent. added to it, and the 900.768,833 reis, mat be occasioned by a yet more expensive administration than even that which pre_ ceded it, or by, in a greater probability, the un heard-of promotions made by the regenerating Marshal Saldanha. The minister says that the causes which concur to make the deficit so great are, the additional charge placed upon the Junta do Credit.) Publico, and the omission of certain items of the expenditure of 1850-51. To meet the deficit the government proposes that the annual amount applied to the redemption of the external debt shall be suspended; that from the in terest payable to the Bank of Portugal for the balance of loans of 1835, as well as from the interest of the loan of 4,000 contos of 1844, the same deduc tion of 25 per cent. shall be made as from the divi dend of the internal and external debt ; the continu- ance of the new deduction of 5 per cent. from the pay of the active and inactive classes, as imposed by the decree of the 3rd of December ; that the item for the payment of the small capitals charged upon the " Junta do Credito Publico," which cannot be invested, shall be suppressed, and in lieu thereof scrip issued to be changed for inscrip tions upon the nominal amount being perfected and finally, what remains for the amortisation of Bank of Lisbon notes after applying the treasury quota of 18 contos monthly to that end, the total of which sums being 776,818,200, there will remain 189,864,167 rein, which it is proposed to supply by " effective economy, suppressions, and the discon tinuance of expenses in the various offices of the state, as well as by the increase which is to be expected in some of the receipts of the revenue." The Count du Antas has experienced such relief, that considerable hope is now entertained of his recovery. The King rode to his door and sent his aide-de-camp to inquire after him, and all classes express a deep interest in his recovery, whatever may be their politics. The Bank of Portugal has petitioned the Chamber to be reimbursed the forced loan they were obliged to furnish the Junta do Porto with. Senhor Jose Passes advocates their cause with vigour, and the petition is referred to a committee, who have also to report upon a similar petition of the Commercial Bank of Oporto. Exchange ;-641 ; discount of Lisbon Bank Notes, 2 per cent. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. ARRIVAL OF THE CONWAY. On Saturday the Conway, Captain T. W. Sawyer, arrived at Southampton with the West India mails, in charge of Lieut. Lyster, Admiralty agent. Her dates are—Santa Martha, Feb. 13 ; Grey Town, Feb. 21 ; Honduras, Feb. 22; Mires, Feb. 23; Havana, Feb. 26; Cathagena and Trinidad, Feb. 27 ; Grenada, Feb. 28 ; Barbadoes, Feb. 29 ; Martinique, March 1; Antigua, March 2 ; Jamaica, March 4 ; Porto Rico, March 7 ; St. Thomas, March 11; and Faye!, March 27. The Conway brought 56 passengers, and her cargo consisted of specie of nearly 1,400,000 dollars value on merchants account, from Chili, Peru, the West Indies, the Spanish Main, and California, viz.:- 948,079 dollars in silver and 157,073 dollen in gold dust, from Chagres ; 111,997 dollars in gold dust from Carthagena ; 13,981 dollars in gold dust from Grey Town ; from Santa Martha, 10,000 dollars ; from St. Thomas, 4,436 dollars in silver, and 6,048 dollars in gold dust; also silver and other coin, value 2,0321., and 113,500 dollars in silver and 9,822 dollars in gold dust, from the West India Islands. The Conway, on the 2nd March, 10 a.m., was in lat. 14.58 N., lon. 74.32 W.; she was distant from St. Thomas 583 miles, and from Jamaica 223 miles. Since leaving Boca Chica, on Feb. 27, at 6 p.m., she had run 213 miles, and had consumed 78 tons of coals, and she would have consumed 170 tons, at the same rate, to reach St. Thomas. But she had but 80 tons on board. It was therefore thought by the Admiralty agent, the commander, and chief engineer, to be advisable to run for Jamaica. She had expe rienced dreadful weather since she left Boca Chica, and there was no prospect of its becoming more favourable. The Conway would have been sent home before, if it had not been for the loss of the Amazon. At Grey Town, there were in port on the 20th February, her Majesty's ship Calypso, Capt. Forbes; her Majesty's ship Express, Capt. Feed; United States corvettes, Decatur, 18 guns; ditto, Crane, 18 guns; and Prince of Orange, Dutch frigate, 60 guns. The latter saluted tho Mosquito flag with 21 guns, which was returned. The ground at Grey Town is planned out for streets, &c. at right angles, and buildings are progressing rapidly. An icehouse is nearly completed. An American barque laden with ice and provisions was in port waiting to discharge her cargo. Labour and provisions arc high, and the influx of passengers is very great, two small steamers going up the river San Juan twice a week. Building lots are continually changing hands, and meeting with a ready demand at treble the sum of the original purchase money. On Feb. 24, United States merchant steamer Ohio left Chagros for Grey Town and Ilavannah, returning same route. She brought 1,300 passengers for California, who were to proceed up the river Chagres to Gorgona. While disembarking some of her passengers her paddle wheels were put in motion, and a boat alongside containing a number of persons, was capsized—eight were drowned, five males and three females. The boatmen here sometimes reap an extra ordinary harvest in landing the passengers and their luggage who arrive by the American boats. For this service they occasionally exact as much as 00 dollars a head. The American steamers do not undertake to land their passengers. The news from British Guiana possesses little interest. The Colonist, of February 27, says : The events of the past fortnight have been few, and those confined principally to its later portion. We have had an accession to our labourers, amounting in all to 570, by the arrival of the Lord George Bentinek and Svulathdar, fro m Calcutta, and considering the great demand for labour, we am bound to consider this as au auspicious opening for the immigration of 18412. The great objection to the coolies is the expense of their introduction, and we are glad to an nounce that in the present instance there has been a card derable reduction in this, as the Soulnihdar was chartered in Calcutta, at the rate of 71. 10s. per head, which is far leas than the sum usually paid, about 121. Again, WO are happy to he enabled to correct an erroneous impression which has hitherto influenced us against the Indian immigration, as we find by the statements of the most experienced and practical agriculturists in the colony, that the coolies work on the estates u regularly and efficiently as the African., sad though inferior to the creoles, they are, in reality, far more useful from the continuous labour which they freely give. The mortality during the three yi ars has not exceeded 24 out of 2.10, and of these a large proportion died in the first acclimatising. We mention these gratifying results with the more pleasure, because, iu the present depressed state of the colony, it is cheering to point out that what 1135 hitherto been regarded as useless and prejudicial also by reasen of its expense, bids fair to be the salvation of the country. Sugar, it is evident, must be the predominant cultivation, and every means of assisting the planters demands the earnest co-operation of the country. 'f he annual session of the combined court was opened on 'Tuesday, the 24th, by the governor in the usual form. The venerable Chief Justice was absent from indisposition, and the Fi nancial College showed one vacancy in the place of our lamented fellow colonist, It. Hick, Esq., whose melan choly fate on the burning of the Amazon, we fear, can be no longer doubtful. In consequence of this, Mr. Gilbert, the Vice-President of the Financial Section, proposed an I adjournment till the raceme) , was filled by election; but this being overruled by the opinion of the majority, his Excellency proceeded to read his opening address. The financial statement fur the pest year showed an exec. of 50,000 dols. over the expend itu re,and taking this in con uezien with the reduction of taxation in 1851, it is certainly no slight cause of congratul itiun, may it also pram an augury of still greater improvement in the current year. The views expressed by his Excellency in regard to the method of meeting the liabilities under the Loan Ordinance, 100,0001. of which fall due in August nest, are just and statesmanlike, and afford general satisfaction to the colonists. We trust that his anticipations of the ultimate results of the applies. tion of free-trade principles to the production of the colony may be fully and speedily realised, although the present unprecedented low prices induce many to fear an opposite effect from the immediate operation. By the unanimous consent of the e curt, the financial business of the session is deferred to the 9th March, to give time for the election of a new member in the room of Mr. (lick, and for the pre paring of an address in answer to the governor, as also for the examination of the public accounts for the year 1851. Six of the notorious convicts have again succeeded in effecting their escape from the penal settlement at the Masvarooney ' and, singular enough, they are all of th e number of those who performed a similar exploit mom months back, and were fortunately recaptured and sent hack to confinement. The yellow fever is still pursuingits devastating career among the seamen and the Pommies) immigrants, and in a few cases of the newly arrived Euro peans. The rate of mortality has been sufficiently alarm ing, and has been materially enhanced among the inhabi tants by the want of sanitary improvetnent.. The weather has been on the whole favourable to the planters, but the fall of rain has been le ss than in the pre vious tbrtnight, and the atmosphere has been close and sultry, which has acted prejudicially on the health of the colony. The scarcity of tonnage is partially alleviated; but even small vessels from the British North American colonies meet a ready charter for carrying produce to the different ports of Great Britain. The produce markets remain about the same. Superfine Demerara averaged from 325. to 40s. a cwt. By an order in council the Governor and Court of Po licy are empowered to make such changes in the constitu tion as may seem necessary, in the legitimate method of the introduction of a bill for the purpose, and not us here tofore, by royal instruction. This is one great step in advance. We have no items of news from Jamaica or Tri nidad, in addition to those brought nn the 29th ult., by the America, rid New York. The weather was extremely fine, and an abundant crop was antici pated. The Falmouth. Post mentions the occurrence of several fatal cases of small pox in that district. The Antigua Weekly Register of February 24 says : - - - The weather is rather dry. There have been some slight showers during the put week, but the fall of rain has been slight compared with the requirements of the crop. The present is good grinding weather; the wind was favourable during the last week; previously it win• too light arid us steady, and but little sugar was consequently made. From St. Lucia we learn that petitions to both Houses of Parliament were being prepared by the leading proprietors of the island, praying that a stop may be put to further reductions in the duty on sugar the production of slave labour. Her Ma josty's sloop-of-war Persian arrived at St. Lucia on the 15th ult. The Barbadues Mercury gives the following news from that island : From all the intelligence we can ascertain, there are scarcely lean than 10,000 hogsheads of sugar already mato factured. The canes in many places are very green, and it is stated that no leas than from 80 to 90 gallons have been taken to a pot. The sugar is of firm body, and likely to improve. An estimate of the crop is given at 40,009 hogs. heads. Many estates have not yet commenced reaping, and will not before M irch, while other estates have reached from 24 to 40 hogsheads, with every prospect of a speedy close. In Grenada the weather was favourable. A Muni cipal Council Act was in course of discussion before the Assembly. Sir John Campbell opened the legislature of St. Vincent's on the 27th of February, and stated that the usual term of six years for the administration of colonial governments having expired, he had re ceived instructions to continue in office pending the appointment of a successor. A bill was before the Assembly to encourage tho growth of free labour produce, by admitting into the island, duty free, re fined sugar the produce of the British colonies. The Sabrina, of Bathurst, Captain Itgxlolph, was wrecked on the 20th of January, at Limehousc, near Belize. The Sarah N. Johanna, of Aarhuus, Captain Collinson, was wrecked at llocarren on the 9th of January. The barque Bertha, of Hamhurgh, Captain Ode, was wrecked 17 miles N.E. by E. of the island of Gorgona, and 90 from Buena Ventura; the carpenter died in the boat, after leaving the ship seven days without provisions. The brig Nlilton, of Liverpool, Captain Little, was lost on the aril of February, on Long Key Reef, Belize. The Margaret, of Whitchaven, Captain Jackson, and the barque George Ilenry, Captain Grodt, were wrecked at Limehouse, Musquito coast. ARRIVAL OF THE ORINOCO. The Royal West India Mail packet Orinoco, Capt. Chapman, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at Southampton this morning, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. Oeo. Heatheote, R.N., Ad miralty agent. Her dates are :—Vera Cruz. March 8 ; Tampico, 6; Chagres, 11 ; Carthagvna, 12 ; Ja maica, 16; Demerara, 14; Trinidad, It ; Barhuloes, 16 ; Antigua, 17; Martinique, 17; Grenada, 15; Porto Rico, 19 ; St. Thomas, 21; La (luava% 20; Fayal (in sight), 30. The Orinoco brings 61 pas sengers. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 756,399 dollars, of which 146,420 are on account of Mexican dividends. The Orinoco has also brought two packages, containing Mexican bonds addressed to Colonel I ,7 acio; a portion of the specie is in golds value 363,827 dollars. About forty dollars was subscribed by the officers of the Orinoco, at St. Thomas, for the benefit of the sufferers by the burning of the town of St. Bartholomew. The railway across the Isthmus of Panama is now completed as far as Miller's-station, a distance about fifteen miles from Navy Bay. The passengers from New York, Ohio, and Cherokee, numbering 1,100, passed over to that point on the 9th March. There are at present 1,500 men at work upon the line, and it is expected to be completed to Gorgon by the Ist July. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company have pur l chased land, and are about erecting a Loafing wharf at Navy Ilay, for the use of their own steamers. Navy Bay possesses the advantages of a more healthy climate and better shelter for shipping than Chagrcs. The latter place will very shortly be deserted . The Californian steamer Isthmus arrived at Pa nama from San Francisco on Feb. 15, the day before the departure of the Orinoco front Cliagres, but no mails or remittances had arrived, and her news is therefore unknown. The agents for the Ave Maria Mining Company failed to convey the machinery they had for Cali fornia on board the Orinoco across the lake of Nicaragua, or rather presumed the attempt would be impracticable, and therefore did not land it, but reconsigned it for England by some vessel to he sent round the Horn, as the directors may d e termine.. Colonel Fremont had passed over to the rated States by the previous mail. Mr. Lewis, her Majesty's vice-consul at Fallow,