The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

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VERY considerable light has been thrown upon the nature I die writing of constituthstal government amongst us by the speeches of Lord Sra:st.k.c and of (Ater lord 7. ad honourable gentlemen in explan•a tiro' of Caeir conduet during the present ministerial cries land SIANILI:i, in taituncniting the dillieul ties whirls prevented lihs ((Anoint( a government, put forivnnl us the gr aLtst, the ortannstiutec that al dough he numbered so very large a proportion of the llotee of Commons as las adherents, un ~,,, gst them was hut one who hod official expe writ um. In eon,cquence Lord Stvst.r.T tsruld not all the ministerial bench in the }louse of Commons with na tubers of his rabinet capable of decorously and a opposing, even fa: a short time, a hostile noajortty. We may here oler rve, that of all the mu upon Lead Stv.ss.Ev's list, the wad ince 'whit: was precisely the individual with official ex- hence. It follows, front what Lord STANLLY said, tlutt no out is thought worthy of being a minister siive a mun who Lis served Lis political tieeship in some of the great parties. But whigs and lambs confining their patronage to the aristocracy, it. is a mere chance if one or two capable nun of inferior rank arc allowed to he initiated in the mysteries of office. These are ensile interested and bound up with the great parties that knee ad viewed them, mid the cousequeace is that British stmesnuoiship is eel touch a monopoly as any of the old guilds or corporations which existed centuries which issrpettrated their narrowness and their indscility by self-dertion„ We have striking examples in the cabinet just defunct of the tind of politicians which this system has saddled on the nation. We do ant want to uAdtal own wan have fallen, or sinter. out individuals en ;Adepts of attack. Hui it is quite t vident, that very minor of Ow dilation tits of g.At t unient wen: in the Louis or %torn-out or incapable men, who would never !rive held such plums but tiir their connt shuts, mai in whom that connexion has supplied the place nittwity and youth. It is in this way, indeed, that the tdtl aristorratie parties have always IThen bonne flute in pumession or office, all ad viatettiwid. evtli the lawn of appn titiceship, has bust giten to a young genenition, ill chosen mid unable to support the weight or tlie "nice. Whilst the piety an opposition rteruited talent with more facility unit sun n y'. P1:1:1. was perhaps the only leading statesman woo turned tlw time and the patninage or ascendancy and °Mee tort cruit a itirty and this he Ilutt the party whtint he ftwontsi and hit behind, is isiwerful cif itself undid* its very eavirity. though . ainicd without prin ciple, or without uny clear connexion with eitlu r country tir trsnux•rcial interests. But of what u.c mould thew thernhers be. Lad not i'LEL favoured them with once? Nothing save PE►L'.i elvi t ee and favour, then, has moth• statesmen of them. Fur we cannot ea:wider Ile,sra. SIDNEY ificirm.r and r any elevcrer men than thoteiantls mho have not Chanel:a to have thoue falv.ui- t agt.s. 1'lu• tenet. flirt', is. upw.trds of twenty years after the Itchirni Bill, that mere patronage unit couuexion, thote.Th somewhat more restricted than of old in the fabrication of legislators, forms a greater monopoly than ever of the maouractme of ministers. 'flu• work, have evidently no choice in the matter. Nue has talent any power. Alen like those who set on foot the league agitation, nod carried the abrogation of the corn laws, they have died in the breach they ?donned, and have been unserviceable since. Why—becattse by the very aw e they div!cased tit.• 'uvulae* who dispense power, and who deem and avow that own thus raised to eminence by the popular voice would prove troublesome monliers of a cabinet. would disturb it• unanimity, mid offend its gentility. Now, we say at ins. that the ceuntry will not much lousier stand this system. It will not look on tad see for sears Sir JOHN Ilomtot•+tz entrusted with the affairs of our Indian empire, and Sir l'it sates Woo', lord of our tinamr•, tlu•ir iodic claim being their einmesion or their appnntieeship, whilst such own as Hew:, ('arena, ()Emus Vll, Laps, Itueurc►. BRIGHT. and are scouted as the Pariah of official life. If it is the prineiple of the unanimity and friendly finding together of a cabinet that is the cause of this—and we believe this, rather than any mean jealine-y, to he the real cause it will be for the country to outsider whether the whole system of governing by a cabinet may nut be wrong, and whether separate responsibility might not be esta blished for the chiefs of tlte dittervitt departments of govenoneut. Of what use is the voice of a subor dinate minister on the' question of finance for 07(3111- '4e, which he never studies? Why shoukt a Ilona, liveretary be displaced by a blunder in foreign polities, and so on ? But above all things it is necessary that the public and tho Sovereign should hare a large fit id of choice. Them are but two or three men in the empire to whom at present it would be thought wise to entrust the msnagement of the Foreign-office. We will be bound to say that sae h a A.. the ',mailing maxim in France up to IMO. lint since then the mows successful ministers of fuseign affairs were men who never entered the edits:, till they entered it as ministers. M. Ovum and M. 'filiects were supposed to be Raffish:lady fitted fur it by historic studies and sums parliamentary eepericnce. General LAIIITIE proved no 11111,11CrOill ful or inapt minister; Yet he left the head of a regiment to guide t&e legions of diplomacy. Swing these examples, we cannot but look upon Lord Sranp.rr u declaration that he saw no one in his party to whom he could give foreign affairs as a eery great insult. especially to such a man as Mr. Dtsittut. What in the world is the British em pire to do, when in a few years Lord ABERDEI-N and P it.unisrox are past the age of holding office? The riaiug or risen generation are evidently considered iscapable of bearing the burdens of these men. Mao of the present day arc pigmies compared with the great of the past. .tnd it is not one party that titters, but all who echo this twaddle of aristocratic and official monopoly, which will neither itself raise and educate tit candidates for power, nor allow the popular voice to discover and provide them. Lord Alir IWEEN and Sir JAMES GILLILUI made long speeches the other day to say, that although the would adopt an extension of suffrage, they would still not sanction any such extension as would weaken lordly influence, or disturb the present balance of the constitution. In the same breath with this declaration they gave their assent to the establishment of a Roman catholic hierar shy, with cardinals, and legates, and synods, out-topping and over-ruling the protestant church. ~_ THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1851. Why. that is a more serious abrogation of tire consti- lon to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Lion than any extension of the suffrage. Allowing line; and thereby transfer it from the Great to the the POPE to nominate dignitaries, independent of the I North Western. sovereign, rivals of the reers, enforcing temporal ob - su eh at le as t is the theoryry of this arrangement; sequiousness by spiritual outhofity, this is a treater though whether in operation it will turn out so ems breach of our tcmtoriul constitutton than naive o.ci r eceatal as it looks on paper. events only can prove. suffrage itself can be. But these men would grant It is at all events a retaliation such as the Great to the Pope of Rome what they would not cede to Western was bound to have anticipated from its the people of England. Chester aggression . For he who plays at bowls They will have no extension of suffrage which will I must expect rubs. prevent a few lordly houses arid a corporation If not in competition, experience is telling on of official pundits from monopolising ministerial railway companies in other respects. Some years power, and perpetuating it in their caste, but they ago such arrangements as the Great Western has will allow a foreigner to establish an absolute and made with the Chester line, and the North Western uncontrolled domunon over one-third of the popula- with the Oxford and Wolverhampton Company, would tion of England. They will look on, see this dime. , have been concluded in the shape of leases at fixed declare the powerlessness of the law to resist it, and rents, or guarantees oer.r pre Nowferences, the y or are e ntered then call call this toleration. Hone in one way or oth And this forsooth is the liberal parts of the day. into in the form of working contracts only. And Verily, it is time for the people to tell us what they I the difference is most material and important. For consider a popular policy. It is time for them to a working contract guarantees no large fixed pay declare in what direction they would have liberalism meat, whether earned, or not earned, by the working move; time for them to have a voice not merely in company. It merely fixes the rates at which the the men who pnv for their beer at clectione, but the I working expenses arc to calculated, and the pro men who actually govern, who impose taxes, and portions in which the profits after pnyment who can let loose or restrict the public liberties. of those expenses are to be divided. Thus the risk is small to the working company whilst the advantage may be very great - A feeder is snatched from a rival, and incorporated with the working company, which pays nothing either fur the immediate advantage or for prospective benefit that it does not actually earn. One defect, however, these working agreements have, but it is adventitious, not inevitable. It is that, by the theory of railway management, they arc beyond the control of the proprietary, and ore matter.] on which the directory may of its own power irrevocably pledge the faith of the company without consulting its share hoiders.—an anomaly so manifest that the sooner it is corrected the better. Toe interminable war of the gauges ought to have a IttecvnitiLs of its own to record its various for tunes., to describe its changeful events, to unravel its knotty combinations, to trace with historical accu racy the desertion of allies and the transformation of old dependents into present foes, and, above all, to draw with phitosoplucal truth the proper moral from this lengthened struggle. For, after slumbering and smouldering for years—after truces that seemed, in the coarse of events, to have become pat:Mentions— ' here the war is again upon us, with all the interest and vigour of a new struggle; and, to under stand its present position, we bystanders are obliged to brush up all our rusty topographical knowledge on all our disagreeable railway reminiscences. Fur its potentates, Mr. Ressw. and Mr. GLYN, have re• commenced their military operations, without the usual formality of declaring war—nay, whilst cry ing aloud "peace, peace r—where, apparently, there is and can be no peace. Our duty is, however, to record its transactions with the aid 'of such lights as are at hand; and though we do SO without much pretension to what is not indeed necessary to u gene- • rul comprehension of the campaign, very minute ac curacy, the following will, perhaps, sufficiently' explanatory for ordinary purposes or use. It is not many days SUM we had occasion to show how on the failure of somc negotiation between the Chester companies and the North Western, with a view to the avoidance of competition between the former laid their rival the Grand Junction division of the North Western—how, on the failure, or tem orary suspension, of these negotiations, the Great Western interposed and arranged to work the traffic on the ('hester lines, by means of which it hoped to share in the traffic of Liverpool, Ireland, and Ame rica. which now centres in the North Western. We then pointed out, that already the Great Westeni had a line opened from oxford to Banbury, and was thence pushing on to Birmingham where in sonic twelve months it hoped to be; and that then, by this, its arningement with the Chester lines, there would be two great competing lines of ' railway between the Mersey and London, worked by the two mast powerful of our railway companies. We I remarked that in this fresh revival of the old rivalry the Great Western had certainly gained a diplomatic success over the North Western, wriich, however, it was very unlikely that Mr. Gls:sand his colleagues would quiescently submit to; and we hinted that reprisals might be expeeted. And they have, it appeals by the report of the Oxford, Worcester. and Wolver hampton Company's meeting in Saturday's paper, befit very quickly made. The Kurt:tots of that lino undertook, of cou.'se, in It i 6, to lay a railway on the broad gauge from the Great Western at Oxford by way of Worcester, Stourbridge, and Broitwich, and running tlwough Lord WARD'S great mineral property, to Wolver hampton, for two millions mid a half sterling • and the °nut Western undertook, when it was MAC for FRANCE. rmus, BATI:RnAT EVENING, 7 P.N. After an extremely stormy debate, such as has not been known in the Assembly since In Pt, the proposi tion of M. Orton has been adjourned, at the demand of M. de Rover, to this day six months. The vote took place by nut's el lea. the personages of most importance noticed among those who voted against the adjournment were M. taangarnier and IM- 1 Lure. The legitimists voted fur the adjournment to a man. The Left was divided pretty erimilly. The sitting of the Assembly vestelay not break ing up till 7 o'clock, I was unable to send von an important incident which marked its close. the ad journment of M. Creton's proposition to that day thrto months arty moved by M. LeAiboudois, but riectol by the Assembly bv . 310 votes against 31t1. l his result took everyhddy Inv surprise. An exami nation of the division shows that the majority against the adjournment was formed by the Left en maw, the Tiers-parti, end the regency men of the Orleanist party. Only four legitimists voted ngainst the ad jountmcnt. But what surprised people most was the ectivity of General LamorieWre m eativaming vales fur M. Croton. The names of Thiers, tory, Jules de Lastcyrie, de Remusat, and generally of the old Orleanists, who had previously voted the adjournment, are to lx• found in the majority of yes- 1 twiny ogaitu , t. The object of the Left was probably ' to g..t. rid of the proposition more effectively the next day, by throwing it out altogether. The Journorl des Detsits has surprised people by espousing the proposition of M. Creton. The Perch , speaks in its favour, Republire against it. To-day the Assembly entered upon the diseu,sion of the motion of M. Creton for repealing the laws of exile against the princes of the house of Bourbon. The report of the committee declared against taking the motion into consideration.—M. Creton combated the conclusions of the committee with much energy, upon grounds of scut imont andkuuke. Ile reminded M. Berrver of a speech which he had made in 11831 against laws of proscription.—M. Berryer made great mnfessions of respect 14 all the exiled princes. He W 3.4 still of etc same op . otion as for merly, that laws of proscription were bad. Hut, once enacted, in the prt,..ent instance it was useless to abrogate them; for it was not merely the laws which kept the primes in exile, but pufiticul case , . They could only re-enter France by a I change of principle. The adoption of the mopo sition would only tend to direst the exiledrinees of a portion of their dignity and to lower their personal posititm. The questum at stake wits not a qtestion of sentiment, but of policy. To adopt the propo sition would be to risk furnishing a pretext to bad pus: ions and criminal enterprises. Because he was Oestrous of excluding front the situation every cloutent of (aggression, he would rote against taking the motion into consideration. that auto, to lease the• line at I per cent. on its ori ginal capital, and make a division of sw-plas peer Ins beyond that he•r centage. It is alm•ist nesilksw to sap• that experience showed that the lhte could not he made for any such sum ; that, in consequenm, the Great Western could nut he compelled to talc a leas• of it; and that what the law cannot eoane•l the• Great Western to do, it never in such caws does on other grounds. It had, indeed, or was about to have, another route from Oxford to llinningluun, and thence would, it hayed, act to Wolverhampton, where, it is to lie noted, the Chester lines come into play. What, then, could the Great Western want with Oxford. Worcester, and Wolver hampton ? Nothing ; and it acted necordingly. Practically it threw that line overheard, but kept up its influence at its hoard to control its fortunes, whether as an independent concern or in the hands of others. The Oxford, Wnrecster, and Wolverhampton was in extreme distress; the capital was nearly spent ; its line was not made, and dreary were its prospects, when, of all persons in the world, Lord Want), a no blenum of untold wealth, both above and under ground, of tine taste. of fashionable habits, combined with more strung sense than he generally has credit for, came to its rescue. Ile took the elutir of M. Desmousseaus de ()iyre was of opinion that the laws ought to be repealed; and that voluntary exile would, instead of detracting, as M. Berryur supposed, from the dignity of the princes, on the tontrary add to it, and be much more honourable than forced exile. M. de Royer did justice to the intention of the proposition, but maintained that the circumstances of the country were not such as permitted as yet the abrogation of the lows of exile; not that the govern m,itt entertained the least doubt as to the loyalty of the princes who would benefit thereby, or thought that it would serve as a pretext for unconstitutional attenr,!is; but because it would prove the source of fresh lAions. its direction ; a well-devised seheme for raising pre• ference capital was successfully issued : the necessary additional contracts for the execution of the works were entered into: and every preparation was n:acle to finish and work the line, independently of the Great Western. Lord WARD swum to have thought that indepen dence of the Great Western involved independence of every other company ; and so probably it would. had not the Great Western rushed into competition with the North Western by its arrangement to work the Chester lines for the Mersey traffic. That ag gression on the North Western threw it on defen sive and offensive meayarts; ; and, looking about fur the mints of retaliation, there lay the Oxtud Woreester, and Wolvcrhaniptoa, iu the most tempting of positions. Though possessed of a very keen appreciation of, and a very careful re gard for, his own personal interests—a fa shionable peer could not, of course, be ex pected to be constant in season and out of season at railway offices. So, in Lord WARD'S absence, his co-directors listened to the /wren voice of Mr. GLYN and to the plain speaking of /fr. Ents of the Mid lands; and before Lord WARD knew much about the matter, Mr. Purer had negotiated terms whereby the line when made had to be worked by the North Western. Such an arrangement offended at once Lord WARD'S p,c,os.itire as chairman, and Lord WARD'd theory of independence for the Nix; accord ingly, he resisted it. So, atter having negotiated with the directors. the North Western had, by a curious inversion of order, to negotiate with their chairman. This discussion re solved itself into Lord Wimp's person..l demands. First, Lord WARD wanted to have a most favoured nation stipulation with the North Western for his minerals ; that was granted. Next. Lord WARD required a scat at the North Western Board to protect that stipulation ; that was granted so far as Mr. GLYN could. But, lastly, Lord Waal) required an allotment of 5,000 preference shares. which were at a pentium ; and that, in mercy to his own character, was refused him. Thereupon Lord WARD continued to resist Mr. PEro's anungement. But an appeal to the general body of the proprietary of the company has confirmed it and his tord s yap retires from the railway board disgusted with rail way peop le . fly this decision a line of 100 miles, intended to extend the broad gauge from Oxford to Wolver hampton, and thereby to - he - part of the Great West ern system, becomes, for all practical purposes, part of the narrow gauge and North Western system; and thus the North Western has resented the aggression of the Great Western. While the Great Western is pushing on to the Mersey, the North Western steps in and wrests from it Worcestershire and South Staffordshire, seeking in the heart of England a re compense for what it may lose at Liverpool. From NVolrerhampton the North Western will be able by this line through Worcester to compete with the new line of the Great Western by Warwick and Banbury to Oxford and London ; and having by it reached Oxford, will there pour the traffic on to the Buckinghamshire lines, and so bring it on the North Western proper to London, while this arrange ment will m the west of England, by means of the Midland linos which reach to Gloucester, divert the Tewkesbury, Cheltenham, and Gloucestershire traffic M. Barthelemy St. Hilairo said that it was the interest of the republic that laws of exile should be abrated, the severity of which was no longer ne cessary. M. Dufra6se maintained tho legitimacy of laws of proscription against the whole lineage of the royal races. He expressed this opinion in tams the 1 violence of which excited the disapprobation of the Assembly ; and for an allusion to the condemnation of Loos XVI. was called to order by M. Dupin. The speech of M. Dufraisse was, however, applauded by the Mountain in proportion as it called forth main festations of disgust from the opposite side of the chamber. It was a sample of red-hot dacobinism. M. Herrycr aseentkd the tribune to rebuke the violent chimes:2on of M. Dufraisse, and affirming that it was impossible that the house could come to an unbiassed vote under the influence of such a speech, moved the adjournment of the debate. MM. Piseatory and do Royer denwnded to speak. The sitting was suspended for a short interval at a quar ter to Mx daring the prevalence of great confusion. The Assembly presented a very crowded attend ance of strangers. Among the distinguished ap peared General Sarvaer, who is noticed as being very regular in his attendance at the debates in the Assembly, which he follows with every sign of at tention and interest. M. de Thorn, formerly charge d'affaires of tho Austrian government at Paris, and since 1849 minis ter in Switzerland, is arrived in Paris, and is about to take au active part in the negotiations on the Swiss question relative to the refugees. The buoyant tendency of securities at the Bourse was checkt . :d a good deal to-day by the uncertainty prevailing as to the proposition of Creton. There was a rise of 3 centimes in the Fives, winch closed at 93 70. The Itwitteur publishes a decree, permitting the importation free of duty of lead and pewter in pigs destined to be refined in France, and divided anto ingots of one or two killogrammes for exportation after refinement. whether imported by land or by water, under the French flag or that of the pro ducing country. provided the re-exportation takes place through the same port or custom-house within three mouths. The table of the price of wheat per hectolitre, pub lished today, gives —fur Paris, 13f. 27c.; Lyons and Marseilles, 13L 34c.; Bordeaux, 14f. le.; Strasbourg, 14f. 31c.; Nantes, 13f, 43e.; Metz, 11L 69c. The Tribunal of Correctional Police yesterday con demned the getters-up of another Californian com pany fur swindling. The name of the company was the " Francaise tt Americana" and it was este blished in the Rue de Bondy - , It Faudot, the moat lactive director, was sentenced to two years' impri lsonment and ZA.I. fine ; another, named Larivicre, to eight months' imprisonment ; and three others, Dampscanx, Orenit a and Itaparlier, to biz months. SCXDAT EvEsixo. I gave yea, in my letter of yesterday, a brief sketch of the stormy sitting of the .Isiemblc. and announced its important result,—the adiaurnMent of the motion of M. Cretan for six months. The ab sence of IL Dupin from the chair Wai an indication that his substitW, M. Benoit d'Azy, would not find his seat a bed of raises. M. Dufraisse, whose remark able speech glare such an unexpected turn to the de bate, by rousing the indignation of the majority, is rapres saaativs far tie Dordogne. After the revolu tion of February, M. Dafraisse, who had distinguished himself by his vigorous defence of jacobinical prin ciples as a journalist, and had even carried his hostility to royalty to the extent of writing an apology for the attempt of kleschi, was employed as one of the emu missanes-general of the provisional government, and acquitted himself of his charge greatly to the satisfaction of the democratic party. Ile was afterwards appointed by the executive commission prefect of the Luke. His speech yesterday laid down the principle of expatriating the royal lineage. until they did homage to the suzerainty of the nation. In stigmatising the covert royalist de signs of those who invoked compassion and justice for the repeal of the laws of exile, he was led to speak of the vote of the convention for the death of Louis XVI., and said that experience had af terwards proved that those who had recommended pity were royalists. and enemies of the republic. Th's assertion was the signal for one of the most vio lent scenes that ever disgraced a deliberative Assembly. Several members rushed to the foot of the tribune, and offered gross insults to the speaker. M. Benoit d'Azy called M. ])ufraissc to order, and said that history had pronounced the death of Louis XVI. a crime. Leo do Laborde. rising in his place, stigmatised as an in famous wretch any one who made himself the apologist of the murder of the king. But M. Du fraisse, whose pale head, compressed lips, intense expression, and resolute accent, reminded his audience, not without a shudder, of a thorough-bred young Jacobin of '93 such as St. Just, nothing daunted by the fists shaken in his face, and the menaces addressed to him, recalled to mind that the grnndfbther of the princes whose banishment they wanted to repeal had voted the king's death. M. Ilcrryer, having succeeded. through the violation of the regulations by M. Benoit d'Azy, who presided, in depriving Emile de Girardin of his turn to speak, branded the words and sentiments of M. Dufraisse as " detestable," whereat a long burst of applauso eased the indignant breasts of the majority. M. Berrycr said that it was impossible for the Right to vote on the same side with the advocates of such abominable doctrines. At this MM. 'fliers and Remusat pricked up their ears, and addressed them selves to applaud, supposing that a complete change had been operated in the tactics of the legitimists. and that M. Bereyer was going to declare in favour of taking M. ereton's proposition into consideration. Indescribable was their vexation and disappoint ment when the legitimist orator proposed , the adjournment. The lieutenant of M. Thiess, M. Piseatory, instantly darted, in a volcanic state of excitement, to the tribune; but there he ran foul of M. de Royer, the Minister of Justice, who, according to the rules of the constitution, was privi kged to speak before him. M. Royer accepted the adjournment proposed by M. lkrryer, fixing the date at six months, which is equivalent to the rejection of the proposition. But there Is an important differ ence as regards the manner of voting, for, whereas a ballot night have been demanded on the rejection. the adjurnment could only be voted by awns-et-beer. The ballot which had taken place on the adjournment the day before, was occasioned by the vote by wisis• a-lere being twice in succe,sioti doubtful, in which MC the ballot may be resorted to. M. Piscatory raved like a hull to stave of this result, but his impotent bellowing"' were drowned by the cla mours of the Chamber for a division. Six out of the seven members composing the bureau declared that the decision was in favour of the adjournment. Thus the Assembly appeared to stultify its vote of the day before, which had given a majority of 21 against the adjournment. But I have altraily stated Fe cloudy that a portion of the Left voted against the adjournment for three months on Friday, in order that they might throw out the motion altogether on Saturday. And this, in fact, is the result which has been obtained. Girardin having been robbed of his tarn to speak, has thrown his opinions into a letter to the Presse. These are in favour of the abrogation of the laws of exile. M. Berner and M. Dufraisse, he say , , were in fiat advocating the same yrineiples, as both of them were arguing for expediency against justice. According to Girardin, the Assembly, in confirming these decrees of banishment, usurps the functions of the judicial powers, and becomes a re volutionary tribunal. Charles Lagrange hail pro posed an amendment for the abrogation of all the laws and decries of exile or transportation, as well as political eonebninations since tall One of the plimsea that most startled the Assem bly in this sitting was uttered by M. I iesmousacaux de there, who recommended the government of Louis Napoksm to wipe out the remembrance of the mur der of the Duke d Enghien by opening the gates of France to the Bourbons. A ministerial council has decided on sending General Anpick without delay to England. The Marshal nude de la nruncrie died on Friday night. This reduces to five the number of surviving marshals, Soult, Gerard, Sebastian, Iteille, and Je rome Bonaparte. fhe marshal was made lieutenant of artillery in the Egyptian campaign, appointed colonel after the seige of Saragossa, and attained the rank of marshal after having directed the gigantic fortifications of Paris. The procession of the Deed Gras has just passed along the Boulevards. Right and left a sea of heads, dotted with the white caps of the women, waved from the Madeleine to the Ca& de Paris. First came a picket of the mounted Garde Ikpublicaine. The Breuf Gras, with gilded horns, dressed out with garlands, stalked stately between four mum mers masked as Indians, and armed with clubs. The whole bevy of the Hipp odrome followed, and in the midst a car adorned with wreath'', in which stood upright a handsome stout young woman, attired as Ceres, wearing a wreath of gilded ears of corn, and bearing in her hand a gilded sickle, with a white mantle falling from her shoulders. She smiled, as mighty well pleased with rivalling as an object of admiration the tat ox which preceded her. A rabble of boys followed, shouting. It is a sign of the tran quillity which reigns, when a show which has not been permitted since the revolution for fear' of sonic row occurring, goes of without the least apprehen sion of disturbance from any quarter. SWITZERLAND. We find the following in the Coum'er Suisse of the 26th: In the absence of official information relative to the late measures adopted towards the refugees, we publish the Pd. lowing particulars which have reached us : On the 20th the refugee , residing at Lausanne received an order to present themselves immediately at the office for foreigners, in order to hear a communication made to them. On the following day the refugees, being informed of the fate which awaited them, sent a delegation to the office, composed of MM. Felix Pyat and Duchesne for the French, and Sterbini and Fare for the Italians. The secretary made known to them verbally the measures which applied to them all without dis tinction, and then lacing before them a map of Switzerland, requested them to point out which of the non-prohibited can tons they would select as their future residence. The dele gates replied that they refused to make choice of any canton, that they would onlyrecognix a written order signed by the federal authority. countersigned by that of the canton, and officially communicated. In this position the Council of State was called on to decide. What will it resolve on? Will it persist in executing the orders given, or will it draw , 1 back ? Everything appears to indicate that it will adopt the latter course. The A mire/lisle, in mentioning the petition which has emanated from the Patriotic Association, and another to the same effect from the students of Helvetia, adds that it cannot sec without pleasure these manifestations of public opinion. This declaration adds to the account published by the Tribune Suisse that "the government of Vaud had decided, in consequence of the objection felt by a part of the population against the measures adopted rela tive to the refugees. to represmt officially to the Federal Council the desirability of releasing the cantonal authority from the execution of them." If such be the case, and the representation of the government of Vaud be favourably re ceived, it is to be presumed that the Federal Council will send a commissioner to Lausanne on the subject. TURKEY.—Samos has surrendered to the Turks without a blow. Eight ringleaders have been de livered up. DEATH IN A DITCH.--On Saturday Mr. W. Carter, held an inquest at - the - Europa Tavern, Church-stto t. Rotherhithe, on the body of Richard Tenser, aged 29, *ho was found dead in a ditch. Deceased was in the service of Mr. Hineks, a coal merchant, of No. 69, Fetter-lane, Holborn, and on Wednesday last, shortly after eight o'clock, as a man named French was going along a field on the Seven • Islands ' at Rotherhithe, to shoot a bl ac kbi r d, h e di scovere d the body of a man ltinalaoa downwasdairs-a remote dit The deceased was unity embedded in the mud, and the: was scarcely any water. The-preeumption was, that th, i deceased being found in such a position, and on private property, he must have been placed there or have walked there in the dark, and by some means have fallen in. The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased was found dead iu the water of a certain ditch, without marks of violence, but how he came there they had no evidence to prove." GERMANY. The intervention of Austria in Bosnia, says the New Prettsaische Zeit ang, appears to be definitivelyde eided on. Troops art already coneentered in Semlin and .11tgradiska. They will in all probability be placed under the command of the Ban. The * little fleet cruising off the Dalmatian coast is also to be I augmented. The march of troops towards Italy had' much increased within the last few days. The Prussian government has suffered an equivo cal defeat in the Second Chamber. In the debate on the budget the following amendment of M. Simson was adopted, and on a second verification of votes rejected : " That the Chamber should resolve that the government is not lawfully entitled to appro priate the expenditure of the financial year be ginning . on the Ist of January." In the last I ministerial council held at Berlin it was determined that, in case Austria should refuse to admit the parity : a return to the old Diet should be insisted on. A declaration to this effect, with a long setting Mrth of motives, has been sent to Vienna. In the late plenary sitting Prussia required that all the states should give theireousent to the nine-vote pro ject, thus rejecting altogether the proposal of a one sided signing of the protocol. Brunswick and Nassau both declared fbr the reduction of votes. The greater number of the other states sheltered themselves be hind their " want of sufficient instruction." . . la the Nigic Preussivhe Zeitung there is an article maintaining that Prussia's consent to the entrance of Austria with all her states into the Blind should be dependent on Austria's adoption of the dualistic purity principle. TIM DUCHIES. A letter front Hamburg, Feb. 25, sacs: Commercial and manufecturina affair+ inilinhitcin already begin to huffer the ruinous influence of the customs line eqablished on the Eider by Iktunurk. All the produce of that duchy is now subjected on its entrance into Schle‘wig to the same (Nth.. a. tire levied in the rest of the kinirdnin. . . It it impossible for the HoLoteiners, shut up within their preaent territorial limit,. to maintain their ground much bower as a commercial people. A fact of tome im portance in this respect hoe just transpired. Con plaints having become every day more general, a number of the principal merchant. , and manufacturer. from several towns in Ilolotein, met on the 23rd ult. at Neuminster, and adopted tmanimously u petition praying the King of Den mark to extend the customs line to the Elbe, no before the revolution, and to re-cotablisla on the former f.mtiti the maritime commercial relation: between Sehleswia-llobarin and Denmark no they existed betime the revolution. It is probable that this petition will in a few days receive the sianatureo of all the principal firm of the country. and that a .I, , putation will pruceed to the oeat of government in orler to make known there the real wants of the two duchies. We are informed that very shortly Austrian troop, to the number of 20,000 men, will he concentrated in this neighbourhood, to he reviewed by General Legeilitsch. The majority of the general and stmf officers of the states of North Cierutiny will be invited to this review, which cannot fail to prodace ti decided moral effect in this part of Germany. FATHER GAVAZZI'S NINTH ORATION YESTERDAY IN THE PRINCESS'S CON CERT HALL. "HIERARCHICAL USURPATIONS OF ROME." A crowded and brilliant auditory testified to the intense interest the Italian preacher's vigorous in vective 4 have created in this metropolis; and with unflagging energy he continues to demolish the su perstructure of iruud and delusion which successive Popes have built on the weakness and credulity of Christendom. That this mighty empire should just now feel in the present crisis of its government the insuffentble annoyance of papal into-meddling to the obstruction of its proud progress in grandeur and prosperity, and that the "Nourishing kingdom of England" should be liable to encroachment and in stilt from such a puny quarter, would appear at first sight a marvel and a mystery; but the father un ravelled the complicated web of sophistry and im posture through which these pretensions were framed and fabricated, and exhibited their ti busy texture and " devil's dust" materials to the alternate scorn and indignation of the assembly. The tenor of his discourse was almost entirely historical, and the rapidity with which he traversal the several centuries of ceclendastical annuls, drawing m i d nis inferences as he dashed along. renders it hopeless to convey a vivid idea of the plenitude and piquancy of his argument. Ile insisted at the outset on the manifestly popular and elective constitution of pi Witless churches, pointing out the utter absence of Lair approach to a despotic centralisation in the proceedings of the early Christians. Scriptural records are ied merely silent, but absolutely in direct land repugnant hostility to any notion of that kind. Not only are the three hierarchical ranks of bishop. presbyter, and deacon expressly set forth, but the form of appointment and the nature of their tune dons. To the assembled faithful was invariably en trusted their scleetiou, and the notorious example of the great Ambrose, civil governor of Milan, raised by popular acclamation to the archiepiscopl dignity without the slightest reference to any other Italian diocese or prelate, shows the Christian flocks of that period in the full possession of their primitive privi ;or was the practice of the African church less Kkes. palpably indicative in the ease of his great cotem porart- Augustin, who ores by the voice of the people of Hippo culled to the priesthood and to episrsipal functions in 395, irrespective of bulls from Italy, then equally unheard of in Spain, Brittany, or Gaul. how were the Roman bishops created i—not a whit otherwise than their brethren throughout the rest of the Roman empire. The faithful met in crypts and catacombs, and the corapnhensive conclave was coextensive with the whole 'stay (if believers in the imperial city. Silvester 1., in 330, marked the first years of emancipated Christianity by a solemn enactment that such should ever be the elective franchise regulating that bishopric to which the whole Ito man empire naturally yielded deference and precedency. Yet a few centuries later we find Gregory V. the nominee of a German monarch, ousting the popular incumbent, John XVI., cutting MT his nose and cars, and parading hint on a donkey through the streets. Hildebrand next appears, like Guy of Warwick, to make and unmake popes until it suited him to seize the mitre himself and trample on the rights of empire, episcopacy and universal humanity. With Innocent 111. that ferocious autocrat, the close corporation of cardinals becomes consolidated, and ore is the nomination of Popes equally from emperors and the people ; but s c hisms and strife for the tiara are not abated by the new arrange ment, but made chronic and inveterate ; the imputed work ing of the Holy Ghost in electioneering tactics become* more visibly the paltry handiwork of intrigue and cabal. Thirty contests disgrace a single century; popes and anti popes wage sanguinary battles, and lay siege to, mart be sieg!.ll by, each other; the battering-ram decides the pos session of infallibility; Peter de Luna suffers eclipse; Boni ' face the Bth forcibly deposes Celestin V. in the face of scan dalised Europe; the council of Constance demolishes with out ceremony two rival pretenders, to erect a pillar of truth of a composite order in Martin V., of the house of Colonna. So varied arc the influences brought to bear on the produc tion of this impersonation of the Italy Spirit, that skipping over intermediate maincuvres, and coming down to our own times, the elections of Leo XII., of Pius VIII., and Ore ' gory XIV., were all three the work of Cardinal Albani, a layman unonlained but paramo un t i n th e conclav e: Ilaa.si upset the chances of Lambruseltini, just as similar general ship among yourselves defeats the hopes of Stanley Disraeli or Ondunn ; and when Pio Nono abdicates, as the nay ;rill have it, if Wiseman plays the game of Austria and the Czar, so as to dsnaage England effectually, the man will get his wages and another Nicolas, of English origin, may mount the throne of Breakspear. (Cheers sad laughter.) The speaker, returning to the episcopal institution, showed, by a variety of proofs and instances taken from the first four centuries, that throughout Chris tendom the system of domestic nomination formed the rule—a reference to Rome the rare and remote exception; that the metropolitan's recognition was the only confirmation sought for or dreamt of in the various national churches of Europe ; metropolitans themselves were instituted by the patriarch of the east, to whom a letter is extant from the patriarch of the west, allusive to the acknowledged exercise of that right, as an inherent and independent preroga tive. Benedict XL was the first who dared to ques tion the free constitution of the oriental churches. Clement V. claimed the right of nominating the bishops in the vicinity of Rome. John XXII. fol lowed up this first attempt on the episcopacy, by taking advantage of the disturbances of Italy, and pat forth, from Avignon, a similar claim to nominate the bishops of Aquilea, ltavenna, Milan, and Pisa, hitherto elected by the respective chapters and clergy of these diocesan districts. John XXIII., in an edict still on record, avails himself of the continued troubles to prolong the exercise of a power, the illegality of which he is so conscious of, that ho limits it to his own life, pledging his sac s .2ssor to its restoration. But the next corner kept the ill-gotten advantage, and as the plunder of capi 7 . t alar rights had come into fashion, kings and feudal lords took their share in the general scramble; an iniquity which in the long run corroborated the usurped power of the first plunderer ; as the clergy and people fled from petty tyrants to the papal I throne, and voluntarily surrendered their immemo rial franchises to the Pope as a lesser cull than the monstrous intrusion of feudal patronage and kingly interference. Then arose the base and st-intlah ms transactions called rotarordats, by which a bargain was made between the bishops of Mane and the loca, sovereigns, for a division of tlw spoil of which neither had legitimate MaStendom, and thus the indepen dente of European churches was bartcrtd away. l'ho first of these nefarious negotiations was that between Nicolas V. and Frederic 111., to whom in exchange for temporal aasistance the Popo coolly made over the rights of every dirocvsan chap. ter in broad Germany. The disposal of advowsons by wholesale was exhibited on the very eve of the Reformation, when Leo X. for a consideration mado over to Francis I. what never belonged to him, the right of presenting to all the bishoprics of the Quill can church. Henry VIII. secured the .one right to himself and successors, not by an invalid papal grant but by a more legitimate course, the voluntary sur render thereof by the Anglican church in full convo cation. Charles V., in the general confiscation of Christendom, struck a bargain with the Fleming, Adrian VI., whom he had placed on the pupal chair, &Shaving been his domestic tutor, and received in re turn the complete investiture of Spanish bishoprics, a proceeding which the jesuit historian Mariana and the squalls} unscrupulous Thomas,ini, unblushingly describe a s regular quid pro quo between the con tracting parties. Clement VII., whom Charles had taken prisoner, came to terms with his captor by tho bribe of 27 bishoprics in the kingdom of Naples, which were accordingly put to his credit in the papal ledger, and per entdra he was set at liberty. And thus was the whole body of Christians swindled out of their birthright; their episcopacy become the property and tool of secular power. The pledge of Pope John 'XXII. remained unredeomed, and still *loan with I tire man tie!' in the grave—the original robbcry has passed into pro scription, and adverse possession holds what it neeer owned. Bull-created bishops replace the elect of the faithfol, and what have been, what are now the results ? Ask Switzer land, where a foreign-appointed eniseopacy Ise,-rates the bowels of the land, creates intestine broils, wed maddens tho ignorant cantons into a frenzy of Sunderl 1 retwllion. Ask Piedmont, where the outlaw and outcast, Franzani, has left beltiad him mitred fdlow-laboozerr, still lousy in the retrograde cause of obscurantism and treason. (Cheers.) Ask Naples, where cringing and courtier tiring. Moot the i bigot bonthardatore, and keep the dark deposit Of ignorance, vice, and brutality in its dismal integrity—aye, safe from the printing-press, the singling-book, or the gospel. (Cheers.) Ask Spain, whore downward das ;ty and um medicable decrepitude results not only from nhart her bishops did, but from what they have left under. Ark Polad, where the Roman court has hanthd over its eons:mind prelates to swell the ranks of Russian slave-driv,rr, and Austrian spie , . (Cheers.) And, tinally. ask England, into whose peaceful precincts twelve mitt., • has, be , o (lung (cum Rome, sowing broad-cam her venom is seed. whose rapid harvest is already reaped in rancorous discord. (Cheer.) The Father touched on the position of the parochial clergy, anti showed how the third conned of Car thage. in 397, as well as the third held at Orleans, in 1.38, had required the concurrence and acceptant:a of the flock in the appointment of pastors. In tho sacramentary of the great Gregory no priest could bo ordained without the publication of bouts. such as used now-a-days for marriage ; and the people was called on to object if the candidate were objection able. The M.S. codex, No. 4315, in the vatic min, still exists, but the formula has ilisappeared from the mo dern poulilirule, and with it the valuable Ivo:gni:ion of n sound primitive principle. lie described the de4raded condition of the Italian clergy; showed how ignobly its ranks were recruited; and dwelt out the frivolous (when not flagrant) pursuits of the priesthood ; tho coxcombry of ignorant m.updaturri, and utter a'tsenco of earnestness. honesty, or real. Hopeless at home the Pope had sought compensation hr the con tempt of Italians in the conquest of this country. and sent hither a prince and privy-counsellor of his puny court to carry out the joint intrigues of absolutism and Loyola. This man must necessarily aNure the interests of England to do his master's work. Hid thoughts and his talk an of It mile, his aconapliee, Illathorne, openly tells the country he will disobey the laws ; the bravado of an infuriated 0,4,4u:1i, nut the meek utterance of an apostle. (Cheers.) Tho hull of their appointment is equal in arrogance and hen& to the bull its mats Domini, which hail to bo igttominiourl, disavowed when the reel. -sty of Eu rope's monarchs and the parliament of Frunse thing back its insolent contents with scorn and derision. Rome, if she meet but faint resistance now, will quickly follow up the blow : her cardinals, once their foot has pressed the English soil, will never depart front the land that has endured the contact, but trample it into ultimate subjection. Let England understand her true position in the present crisis, and either scout the intruder or prepare to succumb. The Father continued in an animated strain to de nounce the aggression, and drew a ludicrous picturo of the amazement which would spread in Rome on receipt from a newly appointed English archbishop of Tiosteverc," of such re rigmarole from Ludgate, Bishopsgate, or Billingsgate, as the famous Naminian document dispatched from a gate of the papal city. For two hours he spoke with a fervour amid flow of eloquence which baffles all atiempt at transcription. REPREsENTATION OF nil: TOWER lI.I3ILETS.—Ott Friday evening a numerous and influential meeting was held at the Temperance Hall, Mile-end-road, consisting of depu ties from the various local socictie: organic d in the Tower Hamlets in connexion with the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, vis.—Kingsland, 1/e. Beau voir Town, llulstoa, Hackney, Bethnal-green. Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Mile-end, Stepney, St. George's Fast, Wap ping, Shadwell, Ratcliffe, Limehouw, Poplar, and other localities in the hamlets. Mr. Allem, of Wapping, was culled to preside, and said they were met at a mo-t eventful period, but as that was a special meeting, he should, pre vious to making any further remarks, call upon the gentle men who had signed the requisition for calling the meeting to state the objects for which they had met—Mr. Skillet. one of the requisitionists, mid he thought their present meeting justified by the state of the representation of the Tower Hamlets, and the absence of Mr. George Thompson at this juncture, when there might he an almost immediate dissolution of Parliament; and some steps ought to be immediately taken m order that they might he fully prepared to secure his re-election, or to return an equaUs•rlSeient subgitute.—Mr. Pryer referrrl to minutes of meeting held on 7th January, showing . that a resolution had been passed to the effect that the cu rious local ,acieties should be requested to send to the central committee the names of gentlemen considered by them to lie .uitable re presultutives of the borough.—Mr. Matson mated that steps should be immediately taken in accordance with the above resolution. of weertatning the opiaions of the serious local societies on this point ; which war agreed to, and also, that a subscription of lot. fnot each society bhuuld be furnished to the general fund.—Tho names of several gentlemen were mentioned as will qualified to represent the borough, hut it was deenu-t ads it..ble not to publish their names until the opinions of the local associatums had been ascertained. After disposing of some other business, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting ad journed for a week, when they would again meet to receive the reports front the various localities. St:l .- nous Ittor.—A disturbance, which is likely to lead to a legal investigation, took platy in the the town of Rade:A:Mead on Friday evening. The origin of the affray, as nearly as can be collected from the accounts given by the excited iultahitzults, was as follows :—The widow of Mr. Allehin, formerly a respectable farmer in the parish of Eastgrinstead, having Fallon into misfortunes, was admitted as au inmate of Sackville College. At her death, which oes curred at the latter part of last week, her daughter Odra. Jemt , w, • highly respectable person, who now keeps the charity school of Mrs. !toper, of Thornhill) applied to ' have the hotly of her mother buried according to the usual customs of the English church ; to this the Rev. Mr. Neale, the warden of the college, objected, and insisted upon the right of furnishing a peculiarly shaped medireval coffin, a cutain bier, and a pall bearing the sign of the cross. The relations of the deceased expo.- tulatol with the reverend gentleman, and during tho negotiations the college was declared in a state of siege, Warders were stationed at every portal, and all ingress or egress was denied; the relations, we are intermit were not even admitted to sec the remains of the dec eased.t As the funeral procession moved from the door, a grandson of Mrs. Alichin snatched the obnoxious pall from the coma, and the corpse was carried, amidst a crowd of indignant bystanders, to the Crown Inn, where it was unscrewed, to satisfy the friends of the deceased that the body was indeed at last in their possession. The funeral service was after wards performed by the vicar of the parish, the Rev. J. N. /forward. As night set in, symptoms of riot were per ceptible in the town; the street in front of the college was filled with the inhabitants ; a bier, in imitation of that used in the college, was surmounted with crosses, a scarlet mantle, and the inscription, " No popery," and burnt amidst yells and hisses. The mob next penetreted the gar den belonging to the warden, where they committed much depredation, breaking the windows and shrubs, and waving torches, accompanying their movements with rough musts of various sorts. This scandalous scene lasted till a lot* hour in the night, and it is believed that informations have been laid before • magistrate against several of the rioters. —Susses Express. ADMIRALTY, MARCH I.—APPOINTMENTE.--Capt. Robert Harris, Conunandor Henry Caldwell, and Lieut. G. W. Preedy, to the Prince Regent. Lieutenant Thos. Brandreth, J. B. Scott, R. B. Beale, and C. L. Waddilove, for gunnery duties. Lieut. lt. B. Miller, to she Ins preynabk. 0.... .0...=. 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