The Express. — London, England, 1858-04-21 00:00:00

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Tots ['yam. TEN TLOWIIII I OIII. N. Crenlak. Palter, Norice, Yollaire. and Shighwill• NW N. lOrssma—AULV RODIN Oka T. Yr. H. Phalpe; Era 1, t 0111•11011.—Aed TEC INTTLZ DAUM AT TUB BOI1►:Y. SIGH NATI& AT LONDON NEMO& Tom DST—Yonne. 11111 on Afton's,. IA lba issonov—MoAnor. i► is Maw Ik. in. LONDON, WEDNESDAT, APRIL 21. ALTHOUGH not yet formally avowed by those among our contemporaries who desire the immediate and un conditional restoration of the late Government to offioe, there are still indications that an attempt for that purpose may be made when the House of Commons is called upon to go into Committee of the Whole House on the India question. We say for that purpose, because there is obviously no other to be answered by raising a party debate and provoking a party division on such an occasion. Whatever people may think of each particular Resolution which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposes to move, and whatever suggestions or amendments may be usefully elicited in the course of discussion, it is palpable that the magnitude and gravity of the topics in dispute, and the great diversity of sentiment which is known to exist thereon, de mand a full, Gil., and ample deliberation on the part of the Legislature, before any details should be em bodied in a Bill. But faction does not deliberate. Its instincts are simply aggressive and offensive. Taking counsel is with it mere waste of time, except in the sense of caballing against rivals, or plotting the defence of a jealous system of personal monopoly. The candid, open, and conscientious examination of a great Imperial question, and the weighing of its merits one by one before legislative judgment is irrevocably passed upon them—all this to the im patient eye of faction seems to be but child's play. To get in by the window if not by the door, and when in to browbeat and baUy all who don't like the system and style of the establishment, is the sole business of what are called your staunch and thoroughgoing partisans. In the case now contest plated there is a double motive to stimulate the intem perate and disreputable zeal of such persons. If they could only persuade a majority to refuse the SPEAKER permission to leave the chair, two distinct ends would be gained : Ministers would be placed in a minority on a highly important question ; and a public affront would be offered to the long-tried and valued leader of sincere Liberals in Parliament. We do not dispute the consistency of these ends. It is quite natural that the hacks and hangers-on of Lords CLARENDON and CL kNRICARDE should be anxious to Use these noble lords agai#ln power ; and it is equally natural that they should fear the restoration of Lord Joffe Rt - ssett.'s influence in the direction of public affairs, and the recognition of the claims of those ad vanced Liberals who have been steadily excluded or ignored daring the last three years. It is, indeed, plain enough that unless a Parliamentary triumph can be snatched, and office thereby won, without the OR operation of the independent portion of the party, victory would be shorn of half its gains. There could no longer be any guarantee that profligacy should be again at a premium, and that aristocrelie jobbing might be perpetrated with impunity. To oust the Tories from office without any decent /tre te t for clutching the undivided spoil, and ede appropriating it in the fashion of the last twelve months, would be only half a victory ; and yet It must, under ordinary circumstances, be difficult to avoid this provoking result. Upon any broad or in telligible question of policy, the instincts of the entire Liberal party would naturally lead them to vote together. Shades of difference there might be in the reasoning made use of in debate; but all would concur when it came to division, and the fore most by right of service, talent, and experience, would be necessarily included in an administration formed by the victors. But this, it is clear, would never do. The damaged half of the late officials would in such case be pretty sure to go to the wall, while new or better men would as a matter of coarse take their places. Hence the desire to get rid of all broad and general questions like Reform. Had Lord Pumeasroc wished to make the profession of greater zeal for popular rights a matter of distinction between his party and that of I.ord DERNT, ho would never have answered the question of Mr. Driecomitz ea he did the other day. So great a master of Parliamentary peri phrase would have found no difficulty in shadowing forth the mature consideration which the late Cabinet had bestowed upon the various important branches of the subject ; he would have significantly hinted that had they not been agreed as to prin ciples and details, and impressed with the urgency of the question, they would never have advised her MAJENTT to speak of it in the Address from the Throne; and though it did so happen that a complete and perfect Bill ready to be laid upon the table had not been left in the pigeon-holes of the Home Office, he could, if he chose, inform the House what sort of a Bill he and his friends had made up their minds to bring forward this Session. But however popular such an answer might have been, it would clearly have quite disconcerted all schemes cif the kind we are de precating. Whenever Reform is talked of as the flag under which Parliamentary battle for power is to be fought, men's thoughts instinctively turn to other leaders and to other guides ; and it is deemed, there fore, morn convenient to raise an issue which shall be of a narrower and more personal nature, and which, if successful, may entitle the personal followers of the late Premier to raise again the shout of " Who but " he?" We repeat the conviction we have before expressed, that a course so violent and so reckless would, if attempted, prove to be an utter failure. No man possessing a spark of political independence would lend himself to a proceeding in which he must be conscious of being used simply and merely for the' purposes of selfish faction. If any section of the Opposition wishes to try its separate stns ngth with the present holders of office, let it initiate a solsstan tire proposition either in the form of implied or 1 direct censure, and witti the avowed object of re versing the sentence viewed upon the foreign policy of the late Cabinet two months ago. That would be a fair and intelligible course ; and everybody would then understvid why and for what he was voting; and if the country remained passive while a majority of the House of Commons decreed subser viency to France, and the subversion of our national laws and usages, there would be nothing more to be said upon the matter. The battle of a national policy as against a truckling and a dastardly one would have Len !ought out and lost; but it would have been fairly fought, and fairly lost. There is nothing, however, fair, or honourable, or seemly, in the sugges tion we have been combating ; and we are equally doubtful u to the possibility of its being carried by dint of mere numbers, or made effectual by the do cility of those against whom it is ostensibly aimed. We do not believe that such a motion would be car ried, if resisted as it ought to be by the various inde pendent sections of the House ; and we do not be lieve that, even Harried by an inconsiderable ma ! jority, it would induce Mr. DISRAELI and his col leagues to resign. One, and one only, effect it would certainly have, viz., to widen and to embitter the schism unhappily existing in the Liberal party. THE kXPRF:SS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, WA ITALY. THE POLICY OF PIEDMONT AND THE FRENCH ALLIANCE. The following are the most important passages of the speech made by Count Cavour in the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies on Friday last : We learn from ancient sad modern history that re publics have always followed • very 'relish policy. [He referred successively to the Greek and Roman republics, to those of Venice and Genoa in the middle ages, and to the United Stales in our own day.) But within the last sixty years the mail), we have wen in France two republics —a warlike and oonqueriog republic, and a pities republic, both of which, with regard to Italy, were ROMS than tallish. (Hear hear.) The first republic did, it is true, expel the Austrians from Italy, but in order that it might immediately traffic with the conquered provinces for the profit of Austria herself, and gave away the Venetian provinces to secure its ems conquests on the Rhine and the Scheldt. And the second espublic I In its councils sat at tint the men who are said le represent the most advanced opinions of the revolution— Lein Rollie, Lamartine, and Bastide—and what did it do? It denied us all aid, not only of men or money—not only of some, but even the assistance of • general, which we were so 'mistaken as to ask. (Hear, hear.) When afterwards a partial change having taken piece in the form of the government of France, it was approximated somewhat to &monarchical government, when the Sardinian ministry re solved +pinup= wseand applied for aid to the chief allied government, do you know what happened ? I will tell you, sad I know not whether I commit an indiscretion in doing so, but I think an historical fact which occurred nine years ago may well be known to all. The chief of that govern ment bad resolved to listen to the invitation addressed to him by King Charles Albert, and to lend him etil acious material al to sego war with Austria; and do you know who pre vented him ? The chiefs of the National Assembly pre vented him—the ministers prevented hits, amongst whom sat some of the republicans of the day. This I can state with perfect certainty, for I have heard it, with immense re gret, from the very lips of an illustrious orator, who even presumed to boast to me that he had taken • leading part in the fatal resolution which those who di rected the French government imposed, as it were, uppoona their ehief. And this is the generoery et republics. .) I think I have disposed of the Honourable iirofferices arguments, but there are otber persona, not any in this chamber, who say, " We want no alliances with govern ments ; our ally is the revolution." But they are madness! madmen to think that a revolution threatening the principles of society can be favourable to themes of liberty in Europe ; madmen, who know not that is surest effect would be the destruction of all liberty, and our return perhaps to the state of society such se existed in the dark ages—madmen perhaps honestly and in good faith, but still madmen, who love revolution more than they do Italy. (Loud cheers.) He then proceeded to give a very satisfactory account of the general relations existing between the Sardinian cabinet and the go vernments both of England and France, stating moreover that Piedmonterm also on friendly terms with Russia and Prussia . He said the government was of opinion that 'dillst it ought to observe a sincere, friendly, and obliging demeanour to wards all ite allies, it should never sacrifice the interests, the dignity, or the honour of tho country, nor even the prin ciples on which its own policy was based or the maxims and mann:lents which werein Piedmont rega rded as just and equit able. He did not hesitate to ray that this limitation had always been maintained by the government in practice. As an example, he mentioned this t The Chamber is aware how much we all hove the English alliance at heart, and that I, myself, have often been called an ,Anglentano—(a laugh); —yet, we have never winked our principles, or what seemed to us just and equitable, to that alliance, and we have not hesitated to repro-ate ourselves from England on questions where we did not think her quite in the right. Mier the Conferences of Paris and the treaty of peace, England was still greatly concerned with the Eastern question, and showed • desire to push the consequences Melee treaty of perm to the utmost—even to an extent beyond what seemed to us reasonable, arid on one particular question, that of Bolgrad England insisted on • certain application of an article of treaty, and addressed friendly, but strong solici tations to us to support her views. Having examined the qesetion, and not found it in eooordence with strict justice, or at least contrary to the spirit, if not the letter, of the treaty, we did not hesitate one moment to differ on that question from England, and resist her solicitations, without, however, acceding altogether to the opinion of Franos and Russia ; we adhered to • middle course, and, after several months of more or lees warm diacuseion, we bad the satisfaction te see both parties come over to our opinion, end adopt it as the Ueda of a new convention. So also in the question of the Danubian Priecipalities, we have fait bound, to our great re gret, to differ with England ; we have felt it our duty not to kesike the cause of the Roumanian populations, and to continue to advocate the same principles which had for a moment, by the aid of powers much stronger than ourselves, prevailed in the Congress of Paris. In like rummer we have been unable to follow England in the rapprochement which she has thought lit to metre towards Austria. This shows that we know bow to join the deference due to our alliance with a feeling, I do not say of oar own dignity, but of oar own duties with regard to the greet principles of our policy. Alter some further observations, Count Cavour went on to mask of recent event,. The criminal attempt of Jan. 14, in the midst of a state of things generally satisfactory, pro duced, he said, considerable excitement, on account of the ctr cumstanoes that accompanied that execrable attempt, the number of its victims, the means employed, end the danger to which a woman was exposed—a woman not identifixl with parties, and only known by her acts of beneficence. It Is not surprising that the French government should have felt this deeply, and have addressed itself to the neigh bouring states, in order to prevent the renewal of similar acts. The French government rent a despatch on the sub ject to the Piedmonteee government. It was couched in very moderate language. It was not officially replied to, because, according to diplorwitic usage, a despatch is not a note, and needs no reply. But a confidential answer was returned, which, when communicated to the committee, appeared to it perfectly in accordance with national dignity. It was simply thls:—That we were ready to do anything in our power to prevent the repetition of such crimes, but that we thought oar laws, as they were, met the exigencies of the case. At the same time it was observed that all restrictions laid upon refugees would be but palliating, and that the real remedy would be found in preventing the renewal of those events wbich caused men to flee from their country. I addressed to the governments of Rome and France a de mand respecting the places from which this emigration oomes. On the 11th of February last, in a despatch d inned to our clime d'affaires at Rome, the Count Della Minerva, I insisted on the inconveniences of the emigration, upon ire fatal consequence,. I pointed out that men who are forced to fly into a foreign country without the means of subsistence were the instruments of revolutionists, and hence the extraordinary vitalityof the Mauled party. Under these circumstances, the Ravi as, prosecuted for its defence of sesareinatien, ICY acquitted : this acquittal made a sensa tion both here at home and in Europe. Taking into con sideration the political circumstances, I determined to lament the project of law which is submitted to you. Another con sideration influenced me likewise. Atter 1831, a sect was formed in Italy, which, being impelled by sentiments of patriotism, had independence for its object, and for that very MUM was dear to the youth of Italy. Its attempts having miscarried, even before 1848, this sect bed already lost much of its prestige. The opposition it made to Charles Albert contributed greatly to our disasters. In 1849. when the old governments were re-established in Italy, this party being exasperated resolved to change their swords into daggers, and to resort to secret acts rather than venture bold and open deeds. This transformetion opened the eyes of a great many persona, and the sect again lost adherentre Every man of honourable sentiments withdrew from the prophet. The fac tion then attempted to rush into extreme violence • at their meetings they strove to justify the theory of political enamel natio in. It s grievous that in our days such a doctrine should be protested ; what is • still more melancholy reflection is this, that such Memnon are germs find ing • soil already prepared for them in Italy, thus prepared by the influences of reactionary deepoolism. It is therefore to the advantage of Italy, that in Piedmont, the only state nurtured in liberty, the govern ment, by the organ of the great voice of the nation, should protest egainat the fatal Mendota of political assassination. Such is the political motive for the presentation of this pro ject of law : there is another yet more delicate. After the attempt of January the Kings government learned that the sects were more ardent than ever, and that there was a talk Mot merely of rene w i ng th e exec r able attempt, but even of making such against other sovereigns. The case no longer affected merely the Emperor of the French, but even a sove reign who is surrounded with all our affection. Then items of information did not reach us from goverrum nth having an . interest in urging us to the adoption of repressive measures ; they came to us from a source that cannot be suspected, from a government excessively jealous of the rights of est lam— from a government which daily makes greater efforts to maintain intact the right of nylon', and to prevent any ex emirs or revere measures being adopted with respect to refugees. This information wee such as we CORM not doubt ; and what IRA then to bo done ? Were we to meet such precise information with sceptical in credulity? Ought we to have rejected this information as though it were morally impossible it could be true? When in** have once entered on a criminal course they know not where to stop; and it might appear to be the interest of the sects to have no longer opposed to then Victor Em manuel, feeling sure coo they must that he would be able alone to repress and subdue them. We could not possibly doubt the fact, and in the presence of such a danger, to limit ourselves to precautionary measures of police, not to attempt the prevention of reevaluation by material and moral nwmy would have been most culpable conduct en our part ; the o n unme adon lvete woul th d en h' , bo ve un in d d t i o gu" dischar tily aiasal.edic,:truselo statingdu tm t W y; b i to b u hat :t uS w a ho h : an see foreign pressure is all this ? If there has been pressure, it is a pressure to which it is honourable to yield— letbeft Preas it to ure t o h f s ou lLe o pe wn r m o nsci f tire ct iie legal question, and that ministers only thought of reform elungd the tha t j t u b r e ie law fw e might the u be ke duly ythatpuctiipinanrifoutoircet.:,i°:thurietriell,:rteeWoirdentheoft of the Council went onto say .—On the question that E sub mitted to you the fate of the cabinct depends, and that will not be so through the effect of any our personal susceptibility, but by the mere force of things , thtlohfnnsaytp:tplheshweiptuutmlncitahe .tyr:7beuhaini°ofvonerenhnyootoftzthtigteootorwulthn:i.cohirOernwiritYlintoku;kfeeet:pierenthip°:eremawmn:atisttittOtalths.ii: government. We shall naive your verdict with r ope d. Dot should it be advert° to as we Alai/ declare that surt etc court. The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by Ms Princess Alice, rods on horseback yesterday morning, samba by the Han. Mary Baited, Lord Colville, Colonel Ur Hrs. L. N. Hood, and Captain du Plat. Ilse Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Prince Leopold and the Princess Beatrice took a drive in en open carriage end four. The Prima and Priem Consort, accompanied by Prince Leopold and the Princess Louisa, took a drive In the after noon in an open carriage and four. The• equerries in waiting attended. Her Majesty end the Prince Cousmt honoured the per at the Olympic Theatre with their pruiroce in the evening. The royal suite coedited of Lady Macdonald, Hon. Lucy Herr, Hon. Mary Bakes, Viscount Strathallan, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Otutaln du Plat. Lady Macdonald hoe sucessded Lady Churchill u the Ladr•tn Waiting to the Qum, sad Viscount Strathsllan and Sir Frederick Stavin have saceseded the Earl of Sheffield and Lieutenant• Colonel F. Cinema* ea the Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. A deputation reepecti r agas had an interview with Home-office. Mr . Mr. Secretary Walpole y, at the Home-office. The de putation consisted of writ T. D'lffeoger, jun., Hatters- Hendry, Jacob Bell, and W. R. Ontimwell. vestry clerk, from Marylebone. Messrs. Gusts and Chinook, from St. James's. Meese. Cameros, Young, Perkins, Sandy', Tornlinsoo, Eldridge, Anal* and G. W. F. Cook, vestry clerk, from St. Peaces. Mews. Potter, Leath, Sows. and J. DangerSeld, clerk, from St. Martin in-the-Field.. Mews. Stratte T n e efikin, Tyson, Wood, and Alfred Warren, assistant clerk, from Bt. Mary, Lambeth. Mews. Thomas Waring and Steddale, from St. Giles's district. Mews Clarke and Godson, from St. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster. Mews. Filcher and John son, from the Fulham 'Hetrick. Mews. Smith, Metres, and J. C. Reynolds surveyor, from St. Gila, Camber ' well. Mews D. Nicholson and A. F. Jackson, front the Wandsworth District. Mews. Walker and G. F. Fry, sur veyor. from the Strand District. Messrs. and F. Tutton, vestry clerk, from St. George the Msrtyr, Smthwark. Mews. Redfere , Price, Jooes, Holland, sad Chester, vestry clerk, from St. Mary, Newing ton. Messrs. C. H. Mt and J. Layton, vestry clerk, from laliagtea. The deputation was sows panted by the Hon. G. Byng, M.P., and R. Hanbery, M.P., for Middlesex ; Mr. W. WWiama, M.P., and Mr. W. Roupell, M.P., for Lambeth; Mr. J Locke, M.P., and Sir C. Napier, M.P.. for Southwark ; Lord Ebrington, M.P. for Ma labors; Sir J. Shelley. M.P. for Westminster; Mr. T. IL Duseombe, M.P. for Finsbury; and Mr. W. Ayrtos, M.P. the Tower Hamlets. conaiating of Mr. Lamely Chairman, and Hr. Deice Heatneary Secretary of the Caatorna Super.nnua dan Commitsse ; Mr. Owen, Chairman, and Mr. Sorel!, Honing Secretary of the late General Committee of Cori! Servals, istroduced by Mr. Haifa, H.P., Sir James El- M.P., and Mr. Wilcox, H.P., had an interview with Mr. Hamilton, Sesretary dile Treasury, yesterday, on ths subject of Civil Seeks Superannuation. Mr. H. Ple, agent for the Soottish licensed victuallers, transestai .nass at the Home-office yesterday. )).'patches were received yesterday at the C..lonial-ofice from the Governors of the North Ansariain Provinces. (TllOll LAST 1110/rell CIA 11111.) BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 16.—Thia day had andi,noe of bee Wejesty, his Biosnosey the Marshal Duke of Malakoff. Atobor from his Majsety the Emperor of the French, to deliver his credentials. To which moldiness his Excellency was introduced by the Right Hon, the Earl of Malmeabury, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for F..reign Affairs. sod conducted by Major General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, H.C.H., her Majesty's Meeter of the Ceremonies. WHITEHALL, APRIL 19.—The Qaeen ham betn 0.00.0. i to cm:minim and appoint the Right Hoe. William D nit!. Earl of Mansfield, K.T., to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Amembly of the Church of Scotland. Her Majesty will hold a drawing-room at St. lassee's Felice at 2 o'clock to-morrow (Thursday). The Osborne returned to Queenstown on Friday from her cruise along the southern coast, leaving the Prince of Wale* behind. His royal highness is enjoying himself in the romantic regions of Olengariff and Killarney, the weather being splendid It is believed that he will return to Queens fawn by the Killarney Railway ; but u he seems to la, travelling on an Irish jaunting car it is not unlikely that b, may prefer coming from Killarney to Cork by Gouges. Barre, Ineheseels, ►nd so on, by Macroom, along the valley of the Lee. All vieeregaldom has been thrown into ecstasies by a report that at some tutors day —not yet named—the heir to the throne is to assume the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The Marchioness Dowager Townshend and Mr. Laidler have arrived in town from Brighton, where her lady ship and her husband have been pawing the winter. _ _ The Countess of Derby will give a ball at the official residence of the Prime Minister in Downing-street, on Wednesday, the sth of May. Viscount and Viscountess Galway have arrived at Clartdge's Hotel, from Ber lby Hell, near Bewtry. The Hon. 0. Dormer and family have arrived at the Qemeie Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Brookwood Park, Haat" Sir Alex. and Lady Hood, accompanied by Sir P. F. P. Acland, have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from St. Andrim, near Bridgwater. Sir H. Baring, M.P., and Mr.. Baring and family have mired at Farranea's Hotel, Belgravia, from Paris, for Ms season. Lieutenant-Colonel Alison, son of Sir A. Alison, arrived in Glasgow on Monday morning, and proceeded to Polon House. YOrIIG ME,e'n CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATTON.—Last eight a meeting wee held at No. 411, Marlborough- to epee the new rooms of the west branch of this The Earl of Sheftesbury took the chair, and woe ma by the Hon. A. Kinnainf, M.P., Mr. Hanbury J. Labonchere, and other gentle men. Mr. Han stated stated that 5001. had been collected towards the expenses o f enlorg- Mg the premiees, and 2001. more had been promised, but mon, wee required. During the past year the expenditure had exceeded the receipts. Captain Trotter said the I ircum etaneee of the present meeting were very peculiar to him, for it was in that home that, actue pars back, he wax taught dancing, It then being an academy for that swims meow plahment, sa it was termed; and if he recollected right, it was in the same place, and under the same foamier, that the noble rod in the chair also learnt dancing. (Loud laughter, let which Earl Shafte.bury joined, at the same time A his heed moat Incredulou s ly.) Captai n Trotter explained that he did not mention the fact to glee any levity to the prece,adirip, but to show the important progress that bed bees wide, and the nest difference between the purpose, which h,sd called hint into that building. The chairman, Mr. Elon.aird, and other gentlemen, also spoke in support of the object., e the tosociatkm. NOFtw telt Me sorAcTrieg.—Trade has been reviving in testi?' fabrics bre daring the lest month. Large quanUties of fancy fabrics In sluhair have been pro duced for the spring mem, sad It is expected that there wiU be a greet demand. Tbs fabrics are silk-like, new, and elegant, and the pat ' erne r good sa any ever produ ce d in this city. About 5,600 weavers are now employed In sari on I mantartnres, besides the operative. engeged in the factories. Employed in the mohair and worsted-yarn manufactures, ! about 1,000; employed as winders, cbitfiy children, abut 1,200; employed se warpers, pickers, sewers, dyer. packers, ' hot-pressers , and in other breaches , shout 600. The annual value of woollen and worsted yarns and fabrics produced of late yeses is tetimated at 2,000,0001. But besides then goods, there is • very large trade in mixed tabrics of silk and wool, silk end cotton, wool, silk, and cotton under a variety of names, poplin, de lanes, lunettes, organdies, berigea, pers.- mattes, tsmatavee, crinolines, also elk goods in gauzes, crepes, velvets, satins, satinatoe, &c, The manufacture of 1 fin-over shawl* still continues to some extent, though dimi nished by the introduction of millinery mantles. Nov designs in robes and dresses hare been produced in great variety for the spring season, and no doubt will boon be seen in ;dates of inationable resort,Rery eisit4Yonrkh Ant, EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (riox ova ovni col PARIS, Trunk; EVININO. The knowing is the text of the article in the Constitutionnel, signed " Renee," the substance of which you wi I have received by telegraph: The acquittal of Bernard has excited deep indignation it Francs, and the intimated tuntimentesprand by the Unbars en the subject has been understood by emeytody. Neverthe less, we most remark in mitt jostles that thisis not the mo ment to a,,eck the Moss, ea the Univers ham dose, since that journal supported with energy the .Conspiracy Bat," de nounced the assassins, and trhulicated England's honour. We will not dwell at any length on such an acquittal, which throws an unheard of scandal on public morality ; for what honest man in France or England could entertain a doubt of Beniffiree guilt P We will merely Inform those of our neighbours who desire the maintenance of good relations be tween the two countries, that if, by misfortune, the address pronounced by Bernard's counsel—that address which was ;flowed to teals with calumny and insults against the Em peror, against the nation which elected him, agidnet the nosy, and against our institutions—were to be circulated in the towns, barracks, and ma: districts of Fresco, It would be difficult for government, with the beet intentions, to stay the oonaequencee of public indignation. It is my deliberate conviction that all this "sound and fury" mean nothing ; and if so, one can only be astonished that such a childish exhibition of pointless anger should have been allowed to appear in a semi-official print. It has, however, as it was intended to do, made • great sensation here, and no wonder. It is known that M. Renee is the eon-in law of M. Mocquard, the Emperor's private secre tary, that he was placed at the head of the Con atitutionnel by the government, and that on the rare oorasions on which he signs an article he receives special instructions from a minister. The present manifesto is the result of three days' consideration. With the exception of the Univers, whose monstrous sally I sent yesterday, all the Paris journals have maintained silence on the subject, not knowing what tope they might be expected or allowed to take, and now the principal semi-official print comes out with a threatening and insulting article against England, which, unless it were to be understood as a preliminary to a declaration of war, im devoid of common sense. Except at the Bourse, however, where it caused a momentary panic, it has been universally read with a broad grin. The notion of the " people" of France boiling over with indignation at Bernard's acquittal, to such an extent that if Mr. James's speech should be circulated the government will not be able to restrain them from making war, is simply ridiculous. The French people will never fight with us upon such a quarrel, and you may be well assured that nine Frenchmen out of ten consider a war between the two countries as utterly out of the question. Nobody desires war except, possibly, some few enthusiastic republicans, who would see in it the certain and speedy down fall of the present government. The folly of the paragraph in advertising Mr. James's speech, of which it professes such terror, is much remarked upon. The speech was entirely suppressed by the Moniteur, and mutilated by all the other French journals. Now the curi osity to read it will be universal, and it will no doubt be extensively propagated, but not assuredly by Englishmen, as the wording of the article seems to imply. There is one question which occurs to me on reading this production. Did the Constitution nel never hear of the respect exacted by French law for the chose jugle? It knows well that it could not make the slightest reflection upon the judgment of the smallest police court in France without being punished, and yet it dares to say that the British jury who tried Bernard are not honest men ! . . At the Bourse the Rente fell to 68fr. 80c. under the influence of the article in the Constitutionnel, but in the course of the day a well-known specula tor—who, by the way, is interested in that journal —bought in a 'very large amount of Rente which he had sold yesterday, clearing an enormous profit, and it rose to 69fr. 5c., closing with a fall on the day of 10e. only. Mobilier, after haring fluctuated, rose 25fr. The railways also fluctuated considerably, but were not much lower than yesterday at the close. M. Jules Fans hesitated a long while before con senting to stand for Paris, but he was ultimately in duced to come forward by the entreaties of a depu tation composed of some of the most influential merchants of the Rued(' Sentier, who said that they themselves were ready to stand at the door of the mayoralty, on the day of the election, and distribute his bulletins. M. Louis Fonld, a brother of tho Minister of State, died yesterday, after a short illness. Prince Jerome has left Paris for his estate of Vil legenis. the Pram saes in its weekly commercial review: • Trade in Paris has been exceedingly calm during the week. It is only within the last two or three days that buyers have begun to frequent the MOW 04141,6 shops. This is the effict of the first hot weather; but scarcely any but chits p goods are being sold. In the ready-made shops, although some orders for the summer meson have beta given, there is not to be observed that activity which generally exists in the middle of April. There is no appreciable im provement in the manufactories of Paris. The travellers from the provinces have reduced their usual orders by one half. Foreign agents would buy more freely, but the ques tion of credit Is in most oases an insurmountable obetscle. Money, or good security, are the terms generally demanded. Some houses, whose profits are habitually very large, Bak for cash to the amount of ono half or • third of their invoice., so as to reduce their risk of loss to a trifle. Some purchases of " Paris articles" have been made on English account this week, principally for exportation to Australia. Advises from the English manufacturing districts mention • marked revival of busi ness. Should this movement be sustained, it will probebly be followed by a similar improvement in France. But, un fortunately, with regard to raw materials and colonial good., it is impossible to conceal from ourselves that there is such an accumulation both in French and ft reign markets that two years' consumption will be required to reduce *teaks to their normal state. On this account affairs continue languish ing in all the sea ports. The passing of the new law on dock warrants is awaited with great impatience. The imumseters have had a meeting, In which they voted • petition to the Emperor praying for an augmentatinn In the duties on foreign iron. They have no doubt suffered heavy Diaper for several months past ; but, considering how ditßetilt the rail way companies find it already to get rail, delivered by our manufacturers, it seems very unlikely that government will consent to • surcharge on foreign iron, which would threaten to act as a prohibition. The corn markets both in Frame and abroad remain In a state of stagnation. The fall, how ever, continues. Holden both of corn and flour refuse gene rally to make further conoessions. TKE " UNIVERS" AND THE EDICT OP NANTES.— The Univers publishes the following version of the historical facts relative to the revoestion of the Edict of Name* : " The revocation of the Edict of Nantes did not affect the state of France. Louis XIV simply prohibited a religious worship which had been abandoned. This celebrated act of the great monarch had been preceded by the abjuration of ea 'ire provinces and towns. Nothing bore less resemblance to a proscription than the revocation of the edict. Nobody is ignorant of the effort s made by the King to retain in his kingdom the new converts who were tempted by the brit. Bent prorate."' of Hontlid. Louis XIV., ter from having proscribed thern, despatched agents to the various countries where they had vounkt refuge, in order to persuade the fugi tives to return. The emigration caused by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes wee of little consequence, and the po pulation of the menhir, far front having diminished in oun eequence, experienced after the revocation a regular pro gromive movement. At least, this appetite to have been the case from the civil register of the town of Tours. It we. to 1689 that the population ocounenced to diminish, and the following years were fatal to our unhappy country, whit* was overwhelmed by every epeeists of misfortune. It le a folly to say that the refugees, in quitting their native lend, sorted away our trade sad transported our manufactories to foreign °nutrias " commences will not be able to ratify your decree. Oar conduct may not have been exempt from all error; it le passible that I may hays deceived myself respecting th progress of the country ; my strength perhaps has fallen 'hart of my seal ; but my not and myself are at least smeared of one thing, which is, that in what concerns foreign relations our conserves reproaches us with no act or word n inspired by the fervent love of our country, by an ardent desire to serve its Interests, whilst raising Its dignity, and by the firm resolution to maintain the national honour Intact, and to preserve pure from all stain, upon the fields of battle and on the diplomatic arena, the tri-coloured deg which has been confided to oar keeping during the last few yews. AFRICAN MAILS. (ET ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.) MON OUR OWN PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. The Armenian, Captain Corbett, the last overdue mail steamer, from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Plymouth this morning, bringing with her also the passengers, mails, and specie, of the Gambia mail steamer, due the previous month, but delayed at Sierra Leone. The Armenian dates are Old Calabar, February 27; Cameroon*, March 12 ; Fernando Po, 13; Bonny, 16; Lagos, 19; Accra, 21 ; Cape Coast, 22 ; Monrovia, 27 ; Sierra Leone, April 4 ; Gambia, 6 ; Goree, 6 ; Teneriffe, 12; Madeira, 14. Her cargo consists of palm oil, ivory, cochineal, arrowroot, wine, pepper, and 6,000 ounces of gold dust. Her passengers are twenty-six in number. She brings also five distressed British seamen. Her Majesty's ship Myrmidon was at Fernando Po ; Brune, at Lagos ; Ardent, at Teneriffe ; and the United States frigate Cumberland, at Madeira. The company's steamer Gambia, bad finished re pairing, and was to sail for England in a few days. The Candace was at Cape Coast Castle, and the Ethiope arrived from England at Gone. Dr. Livingstone left Sierra Leone in the Pearl for the Cape of Good Hope, March 31. The Calcutta steam transport from Bombay, with invalids, called at Sierra Leone for coals, and sailed, March 30, en route for England. The Niger expedition had been heard of at Lagos up to February 22. After the loss of the Dayspriug it was encamped at Geba, where it then was. The coast trade was dull, the natives holding out for higher prices. A conflict had taken place between the natives at Borny, and some of their principal men killed, but peace had been restored through the influence of the Europeans. The Armenian was detained five days in the Cameroon River, through getting aground on a mud bank, and had had contrary winds since leaving Madeira. THE UNITED STATES. 010111 01:1. OWN COI/LIMPONDINS.) NEW YORK, Aran. 6. The " revival," or, as it is more generally called, " the great awakening," has vow for two months ' divided the public attention with the Leoompton constitution. The former is certainly one of the most remarkable movements of modern times, and, as regards the earnestness which characternes it and the wideness of the area over which it has been diffused, has certainly had no parallel since that ini . tiated in the last century by Jonathan Edwards. It where wears so extraordinary an aspect as in New I York, though none of the great cities have been ' exempt from its influence ; but here nothing is ever ; done by halves. AU public excitements, no matter , in what they originate, are fast opinions. Almost in every church in the business part of the city , there are "business men's prayer meetings" in r the middle of the day, which are crowded by merchants, clerks, brokers, porters, et hoe , genus come. Five minutes are allowed for prayer • or exhortation to those who feel disposed to avail • themselves of the opportunity, and these is inva riably a vigorous competition for the privilege. r Rigid punctuality is enforced by the leader, and, the allotted five minutes once expired, the most fervid i supplication, or most moving recital of "experience," • is sternly interrupted by a stentorian call of " Time !" from the pulpit. Some curious cases of conversion have occurred. One member of a com mon council which governed the city three years ago, and was so corrupt as to earn the appellation of " the forty thieves," has publicly declared his sincere 1 repentance and detestation of his former courses. A ; noted pugilist, rejoicing in the sobriquet of "Awful t Gardner " is also amongst the most enthusiastic of t the converts, to the greet edification of the faithful, I and the great confusion of the scorner.. I Those who know the intense devotion of the New ° York commercial world to the business of money : making—of New York sinners in general to their sins—certainly cannot help regarding crowded • prayer meetings a few yards from Wall-street, at 1 ' the very busiest of business hours, as amongst the most curious phenomena of the day. In the more fashionable quarter, as might be expected, the move ; ment wears a soberer character, but is not less r general. A few of the Episcopalian clergy have denounced it as indicative of spiritual decline, and as " lowering the dignity of the priesthood; " those of all other denominations have gone into it heart and hand. One meeting is being held daily in the forenoon in one of the leading theatres—Burton's—and Mr. Burton himself, the manager, was on one occasion held up to the assembler as an ex cellent subject for their prayers. This was followed by an announcement, on the following day, of his conversion, a statement which he indignantly denied at the evening theatrical performance in the same plate. The contagion, as I have already said, has spread far and wide. Every little New England town has now its three prayer meetings a day, and its weekly list of " hopeful conversions." New York prayer meetings telegraph " grace, mercy, and peace," followed by a string of scriptural phrases, and a verse or two of a hymn, to prayer meetings in Philadelphia, and are answered, by the same means, in the same strain. The movement unquestionably, however sincere and praiseworthy in its origin, has reached either the border of extravagance or of decline, and, as regards good or lasting results, it matters little in which of the two it ends. To enable it to leave behind it any traces that will distinguish it from the ordinary ephemeral "rages " will require more discretion and good sense than all the leaders seem to possess. The Lecompton Constitution had, on Thursday lest, an amendment tacked on to it in the House of Representatives, by Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, providing for its submission to the vote of the people of Kansas, as a condition precedent to ad mitting tke territory under it to the Union. As this conceded almost all that its opponents ever con tended for, and ensured its final rejection—for there can be no question as to its fate, in case those whom it most concerns hare an opportunity of ex pressing their sentiments about it—the Republi• cans and Douglas democrats coalesced in sup porting the amendment, and carried it by a ma jority of eight, in a house from which there was only one member absent. This result has caused great rejoicing all over the north, and was received in New York with a salute of 120 guns and a great display of fireworks. These triumphal de monstrations are, however, somewhat premature, as the battle is still only half fought. The bill as amended was sent back to the Senate, and by them the amendment was peremptorily rejected. It re mains now to be seen whether the house will adhere to its determination, and fight the Senate in a con ference. The delay, however, is unquestionably a misfortune for the anti•Lecomptonites, as it leaves the more doubtful of their adherents still exposed to the temptations and blandishments of the execu tive, who are anything but scrupulous in the use of either. The blood of the north is so tho roughly up, however, and men of all parties on this aide of the Potomao are so thoroughly outraged by the daring and open attack of the Ad ministration upon the principle of popular sove reignty, the darling doctrine of the democracy, that few, if any, Northern members will venture to re. cede from the position they have taken. The Plena. bens of the Southern section of the American, or Know-nothing, party have,- however, neither the same stimulus nor the same restraint ; and their de. fection alone would make a serious gap in the slender majority of Thursday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tau DAY. The Elszazza took the chair at 12 o'clock. The Barnstable Waterworks Bill wee road a third time and lewd. PBTITIONS. A large number of petitions were presented praying for th e abolition of church roam. Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Bawled But, M r . Liddell, Mr. Deeds. Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Briscoe, Kr. Phillips, Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Coe presented a portion of them. Petitions aga inst the abolition without an equivale n t were presented by Mr. Packet, Mr. Her fleymer, Lord Eliuley, Sir Brook Bridges, Mr. Calrd, and Mr. Henley. General P. THOMPSON said be had • petition to present from the Dewsbury Debating Club, praying for the restora tion of the kingdom of Oude. Mr. WALPOLE apprehended that a petition could DO( be received from a debating club in it, collective capacity. General P. THOMPSON maid the petition was eigeed by many Individuals. Mr. WALPOLE would advise the gallant genet.' to have the petition amended, so au to make it as coming `. from the undersigned membeliofilaiDewabury Debating Club." Genial P. THOMPSON said the petition should be amended accordingly. An HON. MEMBER observed that petitions from Chan. bore of Commerce had been frequently received, that wen only alined by the chairman of such bodies. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from a place in Hunting donshL-e, praying that Cknetlanity may be made the basis of the future government of India. Sir J. V. SHELLEY presented a petition from the in habitants of the metropolis, praying for inch an adjustment in the income tau as shall make a distinction between fluotuating or precarious Incomes and incomes derivable from realised property. PROBATE DUTY. On the motion of iii:ifkobk the following return was ordered:—•' Return of the amount of money lost to the revenue since 1815 on account of there being no progressive increase in the rate of probate duty on grants of probate d above a mfll steeling. LUNATIC ASYLUMS. On the motion of the same hon. menarr an ultimo to the crown was agreed to for return of the number of licensed houses in England and Wales for the care of lunatics, nom. ber of patients an the Ist day of January but, with the amount of land attached to each, and how appropriated. _ _ CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. On the motion for going into callosities on this bill, Mr. PAMIR moved u an amendment that the bill bacon. mitted this day sla months. No one respected conscientious objections in matters of religion more than be did, but he sp• preheaded that in this case the objection to pay church rams resulted from a leas elevated feeling than that of conscientious scruples. He cited a number of witusees who were emuliatd before the church rates committee, including Mr. Courbold, Mr. F. Crawley, and Mr. A. Pellatt, to show that the principle objections hitherto advanced against church rates did not arm out of, nor were they made a matter of conscience. He dented that there was any general desire in the public mind for an abolition of church rates, and men. timed in support of that opinion that Sir William Clay, Bart., for many years the chief promoter of thews abolition bills, lost his seat for the Tower Hamlets in consequence ol his advocacy of such a measure. In the same wa y Mr. Mis 2, the editor of the Nonconforntiat, was ejected at Rochdale. Mr. R. SEYMER seconded the amendment. Mr. HUGESSEN said the amendment came with a bad puce from the ministerial aide of the house, because had the present government not been in power the future chirp of this bill would have been handed over le the noble lord (Lord Stanley) the secretary for the colonies. There wee a great and growing feeling in the country against church rates. Returns upon the subpar might not show that, because thousands who objected ts church rates in principle, paid them, on account of the smallness of the sums generally levied. Churchrates wet undoubtedly wrong in principle. They were a pima* to the dissenter, and so far from the objection to Sot being made a breeches-pocket question, they um contested on principle alone. The enforcement of the church rate was the coercion of the dissenter's conscience, and on that ground it was that the bill was @deck:wed. He denied, as had been warted, that the abolition of church rates would benefit the landed . interest at the expense of the church. A church rate wee essentially an occupier's tax, and when this bill peed the landlords would not be abie to extort asq more rent from their tenants. As a churchman be felt himself scandalised when it was said that the existence of the church depended on there rates. More than half the population of the country were dissenters, and for the lob of the church itself this Impost ought to be immediately abolished, leaving the fabric of the church in poor puisbee to be supported out of the funds of the Church Estates Cost mindosere. Mr. PliOR (Carmartheneldre) announced his intent"' Ss vote for going into committee, as it was high time that the animosities involved in the agitation of tbie question shay be set at rest for ever. The eacrtd cause of Christianity,. well as the peace of the country, demanded that such a roar sure as this should be now paned into a law. Mr. K. SEYMER admits, d that the object of church rata was one that required legislation. He also admitted that the application of church rates to the ornamental purposes of tbs church was wrong, and he was therefore, anxious to rams di,eentere from church rates , certainly not nron tie principle that no one ought to be celled upon to contribute I that tram which he dissents. If that principle we admitted in this ceise it would not stop at char. rates. It would very soon be extended to tithes, and we might have the Quakers refusing to pay war tuts because they conscientiously olleeted to the levying of wer under any circumstance,. He was quite reedy es go the length of relieving the dissent. re from the mud of church rated, on the understanding that he would sons& der his present right to vote in tbe election of chose& wardens, and to take part in select relines. That oompromise he was d to agree to, but the fact was the dissents. were aunious to carry this measure intact se NI instalmemt towards the separation of church and Mate. He protested, however, against that great cocition being dh finned or disposed of by a aide wind. Let the diesenten po ems the separation of church and state openly and above hard if they wished, and then the opponents of such a change, including the noble lord the member for the city of L oud en (Lord .Tohn Russell) would be ready to meet and defeat this upon fair ground. (Oheers.) Sir GEORGE GREY thought it woe undesirable to on. tinue the debate, eeeing that in a brake of 400 members a majority of 53 had resolved to go into committee on this tall. The hoar ought to yield to that decision unequivocally ep pressed. He thought the day for compromiee had rro by, and the country, he was afraid, would not be eatidied nee with less than the entire abolition of church rates. Lord J. MANNERS argued that no one but the dims.. had • right to complain of the existence of church retie, sai therefore he thought the house ought to diocese the gels. Lion a little longer before they reaseerted the princip' of their entire abolition. The debate was proceeding when our report left. THE CH.dirCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUUS STAMPS ON CHSQUAS. There seems to be every probability of a smog resistance to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's scheme le placing a penny stamp upon cheques. The London C mittee of Deputies from the Joint-stock Backs of Englelde Wales, and Ireland, have circulated the following meol~ Lions on the subject:-1. That the deposit system tif banking, which enables individuals to place money in bob and to make all their payments by cheques, is beneficial Is the depositors themeelvee, to the banks, and to the eter munity at large. 2. That the introduction of joint-enet banks has greatly extended this system and brought Is advantages within the reach of the has wealthy ober of society. 3. That the efficiency of this system treeli be greatly impaired and its progress arrested by the imposition of a tax of one penny upon each cheque, the to open banking eccomets will be dune sinyelilbe the publie will be driven to the use of noise and soli, d become their own bankers ; money will be thus hoarded, mil the country will be thrown back upon a system which pw railed a century ago, wi•hout any consummate sdreate. to the revenue. 4. That the tax being equal upon cheque of all amounts, will proportionably prom mo 4 severely yo those depositors who draw cheques for small sums, eati tkre classes having meat occasion to regard email ear* will be most likely to close their accounts. 6. The la pry portion as this tax shall MUM money to be sithdren or withheld from the banks, in such proportion will eyid be rendered unproductive, individuals will be lemmings& and pecuniary traneactious will be °l:strudel ; rubberised be facilitated, and demand* crested for additional mum* either in bank no.es or te .Id, while the banks will led AM operations materially reettimed and their mesas weal of aff rding faollities to commerce, or of sustainisg theleer cial operations of the government. 6. That, theta/0 1 the opinion of this committee, the imposition it the prePd tax ought to be strenuously resisted b eh by the bsokiag tenet and the public; and that a copy of these resolatices be respectfully transmitted to the Right lion. the Chancalke of the Exchequer, and forwarded:to every j ant stock honk in the United Kingdom. The royal commissioners appointed to inrestillig sad report upon the military warrant of 18.51, which lat caused such general di-Fatirfxctlon in the army, a rrankki this morning for the first time at the Horse Gouda I. determine upon their course of proosedieg. The inquhi" . held to be of a strictly private detractor.