The Express. — London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

Wit ffenarefso. OUTGOING MAI La. The mails for British Nona America and the Unita States will be made up cis the eminiag of May 17. The inns far Lisboa, Spain, god Gibraltar will be made up es his, 17. The Won India 11111 s. imeladius Bermuda, Haveaaah, Now, Unadures, New Orleans, and Mezico,and itialudias mem for Madeira, Bt. Jamode-Nissempaa, New Granada, sad Pam will be model* eta the usoraiag of May 17. The mails Me Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the balms laleads, 'opt, Ceyies, ladle, sail Chios, Bwathamptoa, will be made up ea the moraine of May 20. The sat eid t•the Mediterranean, Egypt, Pyles, McsarEotig, to., will be made up au the swamis of May 24. The Buda for Maderia, the Brasil.. sad Buenas Ayres, will As made up an the mains of Jam 4. TO COILIARPONWORP. tor ^ Tb• lisrbs. - bodes ~Mt M aish r . bbyriblaybK. by Tv. bbiodi dr day II won Wallet At LONDON MUMS. li D...-kmggs, I. Oa. .." Amin. Ali. Os. f•-••••nw-Meistai, r. LONDON, NONDJY, MAY 13. Tut debate upon the third reading of the Irish Franchise Bill, must have struck every one who pe rused it, as about' the oddest series of con lased confessions and random revelations, recently delivered either in or out of parliament. That the occasion was an icviting one for thou who were so minded, we do not deny. Nevertheless it will hardly be disputed that a more singular, and to all appearance more spontaneous, outpourrog of loog pent up opin ions upon all manner of questions, seldom has been known. Through the dreary dulness c f Sir form WALSH'S spoken pamphlet against the bill, few of our readers probably have bad the industry to wade ; and our innate indisposition to commit any act of cruelty forbids our dwelling, however briefly, on the imbecile bigotry of his only genuine supporter, the 'ochry muse Lord BERNARD. From the feeble and infatuated fa naticign of these doleful defenders of the principle of protestant ascendancy all their shrewd followers in debate hastened to show themselves tree. Mr. NAPIER anxiously strove to rear the blun der they had committed in avowal that with a real representation of the Irish people in parliament the anti-Irish church establishment could no longer stand. Being somewhat more in the secrets of the party he knew that the attempt to throw out the bill vu but a sham—that the tory peers have neither the pluck nor the power to reject the measure altogether—and that the real aim and de sign of the struggle on Friday night was to make a case on certain minor details of the bills which might seem to warrant the House of Lords in attempting partial mutilations of it. With the tact of a practised advocate be pleaded in mitigation of punishment for the convicted _political offender ; but looked with well affected wonder at the notion that the fate of the ecclesiastical accomplice not yet brought to trial could in any way depend upon tne sentenco about to be pronounced in the present cue. As counsel for the church in Ireland, he was prepared to contend that its strength lay in the affections of the people • and he consequently wished it to be inferred that the greater the popular power, the safer that marvellous job would be. To the credit of the House of Commons be it noted, that they neither laughed at this as a serious joke, nor applauded the temerity which cooly thus trifle with a shocking and scan dalous truth. Whether Lord CASTLEREAGH and Sir JOHN YOENO had made up their minds on the main queo'ion, " Is it desirable the bill should pass ? " or not, we have no means whatever of ascertaining. They seem to have been equally impressed with the conviction that it would never do for them to vote its rejection ; while at the same time they saw no harm in doing it all the injury they could, and thus, as Mr. DISRAELI bitterly but truly said, throwing the responsibility on the other house of parliament of acting en their sug gestions. But the position of men who, after four years' buffeting by the waves of faction, still cling to the sinking raft of Peelism, is one in which it is, perhaps, unreasonable to expect any other than spas modic efforts and the utterance of incoherent cries. Very different was the tone of Lord Jocurx and those who slaving quitted the wreck and shipped themselves anew in the old hull cf toryism, eagerly seise upon every occasion to show their repentant seal In the service of their new commander. And a stranger speech than his on Friday night, even he, the diviner of Asian and of British mysteries, seldom has pronounced. Affecting to address himself to Irish sympathies, he solemnly declared his belief that what the Celtic heart at present longed for was —not franchisee, WA/terries . Tenant right be dis posed of parentheticatly, but " trout and turbot " was the real question. Material interests now absorbed every Hibernian thought and feeling, and the de mud for repeal had been forgotten in the desire for red herrings. Still more marvellous were the political ethics enunciated by this sage counsellor of aristocracy. With imperturbable gravity Mr. DISRAELI asked, where was the necessity of making such a concession to Ireland, at a time when not a seditious whisper was to be heard throughout that long distracted land. Did the sardonic leader of the tories mean to convey to them, in ironical shape, a just rebuke for their put mode of dealing with popular de mands--never yielding in times of calm and with the ambiances of generosity or reason, hut ever stupidly resisting change, until all power of resistance was rudely wrenched from their hands ? Or did the spirit of mockery rise uncontrollably in that dark bosom and prompt the utterance of so plain an instigation to violent counsels and to violent onuses on the part of the people ? It almost seemed as though the phrase was intended to recall soother equally remarkable, in which a young aspi rant sought some years ago the favour of an Eng lish radical constituency, by the assurance that — 'sedition was his forte." But whatever may have been his purpose in re sorting to such language, it was certainly unsuccessful. Received by his usually docile followers in moody silence, it served to point one of the best replies which has lately fallen from Lord fours Russell., who when be appealed to the justice, manliness, end =of parliament, not to wait in this as they have too often done for the importunate voice of disturbance and of threats— ealled a heartier response than has greeted the ministerial ear for many a long day. In the division which eared, a majority of 68 in a house of 440 tanned the amemity and policy of the bill; and is the majority we And the names of every man who has ever held eminent political station in the country, with the sole exception of Mr. GemerroNa. With wary outlook to the future, Mr. Swm HIRBIRT shrank from participating in the satrap which his associates had resolved on else's; to an entire nation. Even Mr. GOULBLIEN Mete away. But nothing is too strong for the stomach Of Mr. GLADSTONE. Tne man who but the other day argued and voted for two democratic chambers in a melee colony, now grudges a decent number of scanty electors to one-third of the United Kingdom; sad he who but the other day . worried parliament with insidious supplications to Ire extra -legal rode elastics' powers to the church in Australia, doss sot maple to abet the stolid bigotry and intolerance by which the great mass of the catholic and peesbyterian inhabitants of Ireland have been reduced to a con dition of absolute disfranchisement. One speech only remains to be noticed; we could wish that in some respects it had been other than it ewes. We allude to the rather equivocal account given by Sir Judas OZAHAX of what he facetiously termed his mums for supporting the bill. One excellent and all sufficient reason he certainly did give,— namely, that es things already stood, and u they were likely to stand, in this and in surrounding countries, the attempt to maintain national institu tions upon a circumscribed electoral basis was dan gerous in the extreme. He added further in signifi cant term, his readiness to see the principle of household suffrage generally adopted u the groundwork of the repreFentative system. To what perversity of mood this are we to ascribe the ostentatious association with such avowals of regret that joint-tenants should be allowed to vote, and that the Irish county franchise had been fixed in the ministerial mews so low as W.. tested by liability to and actual payment of rates? Barely the time for doubts and "mixed considerations" u to which side Sir J. Ottawa mast henoeforth espouse is passed. Hie sins are too many against toryism to be for t=gthe liberal party he is sure of a welcome, if • the foppery of official indecision, which mesas ustaceountably to eliag to• him, he remerhimes only what he cam was, and what he might and resumes that post in the popular minks ought never to have quitted. L SHALL Germany ferrs . sse *tit Or shall it b. divided into two, or into thew parte and powers? These are the vertices, independent of the liberty end development of each poetise of the German ou ting, which have been for the last two years the @ab ject of ezz o tiat and diecussioa. The simple , straightforward Osman patriots said, e will all firs ewe :we are brethren —we ars a people ; and we will men* the several princes join, and submit to a general legislators, which shall decide and direst all thins affecting the comma fatherland. The Germans are bemocked for' having failed ia this gigantic aim. With hundreds of princes, their relatives, functioneriee, court and retainers, opposed to them, and with armies of linaurtda of thousands of soldiersorith such facilities of concentration on a given point as never before existed, how could the GAMMA succeed at once P Neither the English nor the French middle classes would have secured their liberties when they did so, had they such obstructions to overcome. The task of the German liberal is infinitely more tedious and more difficult. It requires time and prudence, and unswerving determination. For the preset the people have failed. Bat they retain all their original etrength. Foe without the support . and adhesion of the German people, no one single aim that German potentates may propose to themselves, can be attained. Whether the aim of these monarchs be to exist, to aggrandize, to overcome rivalry and defeat domestic ambition— whether the necessity be to mist French demodocracy and its military aggression on the one n hue sian dictation and intrigue on the other, the German princes have but one permanent force to rely on, the attachment of the people. This, however, must in these days be won. Loyalty is no longer a wild and Reties growth, springing up spon taneously in men's minds. It nue: be won, and cherished and deserved. Whatever prince does so win the attachment of the Germans will succeed. If no prince does so, farewell monarchic Germany. The king of Pavesta is making the essay ; if he fail, which can only be through his own walusem, then every German constitutionalist will fall back upon democracy, democracy again upon socialism, and wo shall have the people on both sides of the Rhine fraternising, and ehall probably see the red flag floating on every battlement from Bayonne to Dantzrc. For the moment the fate of Germany is in the hands of its princes. The people have " sent in their resignation, and so weary and fearful are the middle classes of prolonged convulsion, that a fair and moderate satisfaction given to their twin desires of constitutional liberty and national unity and indee pendenoe would satisfy them. Unfortunately then are deeper dissensions between these princes, wider incompatibility of interests, greater selfishness of aims, and perhaps more mar incapacity for political combinstion,them were to be found even amongst the popular parties assembled at Frankfort. Your parties amongst these princes may be clearly distinguished, that of Austria, that of Prussia, that of the four minor kings, and that of the inferior princes. Amongst them the moment, the forward, the active power is Prussia. Its aim has been to take advantage of all that wee sofa and sane in the revo lutionary movement, and by gratifying so much of the popular aspiration for liberty, form a League, in which Prussia meet be the head. The aim of Austria is lees anything definite and fixed than a desire to counteract Prussia. The events of the last century have in reality ejected Austria, not only from the lead in Germany, but from any great or permanent interest in its organisation or welfare. When France destroyed the catholiqclectorates,elevated the greater princes to the rank of kinge, and gave them full power over the old inarneduite noblesse, it literally flung Austria out of Germany. And the restoration of its old supremacy in the diet was merely subjecting the country to a foreign and a mili tary despotism, which might indeed defend Germany with its own troops, but which could not make use of the force of German feeling and German soldiers in a European war. The federation of 1813 was in every sense, what it afterwards proved, organised weakness. But the' great dissolvent in Germany Is not so much Austria as the minor kings. These potentates, to whom NAPOLEON gave crowns, in order to un- Germanise them, thereby acquired all the pretensions of sovereign princes without either the power or the attributes. The armies of these kings are worse than nothing. Without national spirit, tradition, or glory, they are nothing but as Germans, and this these; monarchs forbid them to be. The constitution mid civil government in these monarchies are equally null. With the military expenses fixed by the Diet, with the civil list equally fixed im- Wpedim parliamentary enta control, there was nothing e a representative chamber to debate or for a piety le draggle about. A eemslitution in each kingdom is a mockery. Then kings are universally at variance with their obinsisse t held in aversion by their subjects, and in avails it being aught but 111arplots either in their OM ihmdelons or in the confederation. They even eruse of the duties nor ends of kingship ; nor e believe that it would be in the power of the mhitrlotic and liberal amongst them to make either revered or beloved. The crown is to them a ruin and a cane. It is different with the dukes and princes. They have not those overweening pretensions that make them reject all idea of confederation except in the shape of sovereign alliance; their dignity is of the old German creation, which harmonises both with a German representative system and with a head of the empire. Hence, in the general effort to reconstitute Germany after the putting down of democracy, all the minor dukes and princes joined Prussia in her proposal to erect a Breed based on a representative assembly elected throughout Germany, whilst all the kings held apart, and formed an alli ance and a scheme of their own. Th's scheme was nothing lees than a repartition of Germany, its divi sion into seven or eight sovereign powers, and the absorption of the minor primes into so many king doms. The four kings' scheme, as propounded by M. VON DE PrOIDTEN. the Bavarian minister, and sanctioned by Austria, was, in truth, a dissolution not merely of the confederation but of Germany. As, however, it was outrageously =vs of the minor princes, and still more of rights, their scheme was no seem pmmriated u than it was abandoned, and that at a molimslia at the old diet Formed in its place. We pbYsb Ia smother column an important demi wide dhows that Prussia and the Princes of lawt roiled and repudiate this attempt at suilefte Gems aboolatism. A ussliestims et the old diet now would be WI mewled anarchy. It had the appearance of a tion and a government, when Austria sad Prussia, united in triumph, were not hos tile in purpose and inflamed by open rivalry. Now the diet would be but a scene of straggle between them, the other princely members obliged to side with one or the ot he r. It would nt not two Germany*, but three to any natiaaal foe. For the princes, harmed and abased by the rival pretensioos and ambition of the two eagle*, would recur, as thry did in 1806, to Ramis, or to France, or to some other power for protection. And all German aims and interests would - be lost in the struggle of dynesties,whose mutual enmity would only hasten the hour of their joint annihilation, under the first prevalence of Eopular power. We repeat it, if the Osman princes will have no thing beyond a princely alliance or confederation, they split and are lost. There is bat one cement of German unity and power, and that is the popular and representative element. It i s by embracing ancu holding this principle that Prussia, if it remain stanch to it, must prevail. And no effort of Austria, unless aocompanied by a similariKerP e o . Pular appeal, can succeed at Frankfort or elsew The days ' are gone by when the attempt could be made to nor ' glints. a great and civilised country without takieg the people into account, consulting their i nc li na ti ons , and fulfilling, at lomat, the most prominent and urgent of their desires. T HE EuzopA, C,aptain Lott, sailed from Liverpool as Batsrday, far Hslifiz sad New Yoe*. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.-1110 parlia mentary committee bare decided that the standing orders ought not to be dispensed wits in the ease of this company &Wag leave to deposit a petition fora bill Ws ostsios. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1850. FRANCE. • PARIS, ithstressr, II sot. The distension' in the buries:day era the Eleetorellteform Bill wend snob of Boa izteffl6.42 the Mountain & to take any part Masan the elootion'dthe new esesattatse of is them preliminary debates an the bill. The bureaux counted about 480 members, of whom 326 voted far candidates favourable to the law. The only member of the new committee opposed to the law is M. Combated de derone the Tiers-part. The members of the ettneittes a repudiated with vehemence the impu tation of having originated the measure in conse quence of the late Paris election, and protested that they were eineemly attached to the constitution. Among the members of the moderate opposi tion who criticised the bill were MM. de La martins, Gustave de Beaumont, Coquina, Ferdinand, de Lu:syrie, Corns, Oscar de Lateens, Rsudot, and Monet. These found fault with the revision which exacts an absolute majority for the elected, with the three years' domicile, and the mode of attesting the same; with the arbitrary power placed in the hands of masters in regard to their workmen, and of mayors and municipal councils In the preparation of the deo total lists. M. Napoleon Bonaparte has published as address to the electors of the departments of the Barthe and the Charente Inferiure, protesting against the proposed changes in the electoral law, and stating that, if the bill should pare the people Easy have to consider whether there may not be reason to organise the re fusal to pay taxes. He adds, "As universal suffrage must be the fierce organirotrice of Republican Franca, the refusal of taxes must be its force of resistance." On the 9:b, a meeting of more than fifty niemb-rs of the Tiers-parti was held in the house of M. Coquerel, to consult upon the course to adopt in rela tion to the new electoral law. It was agreed to vote against the ensemble of the law, and to reject the tax qualification, fixed domicile of more than one year, and the influence of masters of servants and work men over the franchise of those whom they employ. Orders have been given to recall to Paris several regiments of horse and foot which lately left the capital. The 2nd Dragoons, 5.11 Lancers, 11th, 61st and 57th line are mentioned. The number of troops conoentra:ed in Paris and the baulks* is 150,000. _ . The Toulosnais says that several vessels haws flailed with provisions for the French fleet in the Mediterranean, which seems to contradict the report that the squadron would teturn to Toulon. M. de Segur Dupeyron is appointed French consul at Damucas. M. de Segue Dupeyron was charged with a mission to Wallachia. 8•TVIID•T Evveino, 7 P.M. M. de Broglie bas been appointed president of the committee for the examination of the electoral bill, and M. Leon Faucher secretary. The report is an ' pounced for Monday : the debate will take place pro bay on Thursday. In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day, IL Placatory gave notice of en interpellation on Greek affairs, which was fixed for Thursday. Several motions for introducicg modifications into the electoral law, were referred to the committee ap pointed to examine the bill. Several chapters of the budget of finances were adopted without any debate of interest. Upon the chapter relative to the expenses of collecting the revenue, a reduction of 193,000 francs wu proposed by M. d'Olivier, but rejected by 330 votes against 259. There was a good deal of conversation in the house about the arrests mentioned by the Pays. No im portance is attached to these except as a proof of the energy which the government resolved to exhibit. The Evenernent was seized yesterday in conse quence of the tenour of a letter by Alexandre Dames which appeared in its columns. In the debates in the bureaux on the Electoral Bill, 2d. GOSTATZ DC BEAUMONT was of opinion that the pee s:at electoral law stood in need of reform. But although he approved of some features in the bill proposed by the govern ment, such as the extension of the present short term of six months required for residence in a fixed domicile, the dis franchisement of persons convicted of offence against the law, the cessation of the separate publication of the military vote', and the uncretionary power given to the government to defer, for a period not exceeding six months, elections for suppljiDer • vacancy—although he approved of these features of the bill, he entertained many weishty objections both against its substance and spirit. The time of bringinethe bill (orwud was most inopportune and if the measure wee sot an attack upon universal su ffrage, it had the appearing of Minn an. It was • common them. of the papers, which supported the government, to insist daily upon the necessity of proceeding without delay, and in the teeth of the law, to the revision of the constitution. Universal suffrage was painted as a devouring evil, which mast instantly be scotched, otherwise the country was lost. There were eves persons who openly expressed their opinion, that it was desirable to bring on a crime, and an immediate conflict. He acquitted the government of any connivance at such views; but although the best government could not escape calumny, every government ought to act in such wise that no per son of sense could give evidence to such calumny. He believed the opinions he bad described to be fraught with dangerous won. Society was certainly is a state which betrayed great perils. But to come trim. phaut out of the struggle the party of order had only one arm which it could employ with safety and ef fi cacy ! and that was universal suffrage. This principle loyally applied would heal its own excesses. It was the arm with which the whole of France would conquer the demagogy of Paris. It was a common argument to say that socialism was on the increase ; that he entirely denied. During two years what progress had socialism made ? It had produced the Nati tuent assembly. Well to that assembly M. Prouthon had made a socialist motion which aimed at the destruction of property ; end how many votes did he enlist 2 One ; that of M. Oreppo. Then came the election of the President of the Republic. Wu Louis Napoleon chosen as a symbol of socialism ? In the month of May the legislature had been elected, in which the conservative party had gained 100 new vote*. Then as to the partial elections, nearly all except those of Paris had been in favour of the party of order. And who could per suade him that the 130,000 pangs who voted for M. Eugene Su were enemies of property, of (amity, and religion ? He did not believe in the inners of socialism ; on the contrary he thought its tendency was to decline. He saw no gulf yawning at their feet ; sad did not comprehend the conduct of those, who in order to avoid being swallowed in that gulf two years hence, wanted to precipttate them into it imme diately. Not only it was necessary to abstain from attacking universal suffrage, but to avoid carefully even the apps of doing so. A peat mischief would be accomp=e a r they seemed desirous by a stretch of ingenuity and sone technical saving of legality, to strip of their right a gnat mass of Onion; If the law seemed to aim not at the regula tion of universal !suffrage but at its mutilation. He would par over the provisions of a secondary order, such as the dependence of the workman upon the master, of the sea upon the parent, foe the genies of his vote ; of the clams which puts the right of the citlseu of Path and 12 map cities la the heads of the municipal conniption. But lookho at the spirit in which the measure had been trained, it wee evident to his this the provisions of Art. 1., midi sensed three yams of desileile, combined with the trecillsey ow Hiss, seemed aimuleted for the end, not of securing the mesas of Mho sernlarly ineseibed in 1852 to the electors, *op might te be se esesedimg to the law, but on the eon. Wry to issomelhesiliiii ofeenolderabie number of them, mod se poise edam Orem emir upon the lists until the me. mat Iry egossileg their right wu peeped. Thais's:mod se hie to be bed, very bed. Let then take aro • they ran the risk by the unteat that would be an t ed of deist a great dsel m w hum then the aim would de The electoral body eves after the redassioos eesasmpY W would stilt be very sumereas. They Asked two Wogs, the dialog of rebellioa swag the eadadod, sad the ey may who would hue yeti OM thou bedi er ti sr ei with wee fairness. People wove Whoa of ilia; into wagd the quid= _ ogee pt il a opinion, end sus wpm the soommumtless thouseivac. He would borrow ea mean* freselike destine of Perk After the duties of the lethal Heidi, it wee thought *auks w eer of the seatenetive party would be mond by sulking off tea or twelve *used bad vote. Osneeffinor *see votes m i g h t h ave Dena goeser, bat whet WM ea ? Aft er r ereA r r opr en electors had bout illskeibiad, there was still a mirky of tea thomead wee soli then. Therein* he was spinet &liking *fund wage. He would, ea the ontrery, hue it manutodeil hey sir raisersary guarantees. He wished the mamma of ilia& se b e limeade/ beyond six swathe. Is the eseetkutiou of the desseeratie suatriee—for isitease, to the Vatted States of America, the exereies of neiveleei maw was con pseud with the ice**. of =fi n e tax, and having a residence . In Flamm it unconatitu- Urinal to introduce the aloolate smiths of usesusent sine' each a cosititutios was expressly excluded by the c h or u s of 1848. But that was a roma for being all the strider in exacting the audits et damisile. To exercise the skis of a citizen it woe isesollel to have a fixed resi diesels a semasuns. When he esooldsied all the rights, z i=gaisrly the right to orilmosselliehed to ousimenal bethought that elitism smooths, et two yew% p er ., Wall set he too ma* tedsimai is the bursa* oi the He wiled she that the userommet of the skater should set be the gay aims of eirtifyiss hie g es i wk , why Do adept tie Vet noise by the civil code at a double de dinibui toe_ quitted and the new sae Mend? He g qies m i goo* slog _hotodissosii ef the' master to ve difp the Ismoihke of wonsusa or eaaa. He was equally egoist** dielowel its of Pads lad other greet oltiorbeleg soleseled to the !Annoy boodlist er : tha t the municipal sea- Nilo* which. the ona ea dos of serous &hie esomelsokl woad have the Fewer of eroding or destroy ing weak Is Auld wish te um the kw famed k meek a seism Ile these citizens who it his spike were 'stilled is lie, would set be deprived of the power of giving those wets at the sect elections, nor be plass& he the dimities of sok Despising electors six mosithe Mar the elections were 1 01 i. If the bill won said* be this Imo be would gladly teits unsessenablreess. jig. Maas showed that the floatiog population of workmen h r t system. in 41 IN"' Men voted, la monquenoe of t p eve for it, and forget the reproach which he had addressed eat works's* en th e Lines to 5, versed by the line, and when their peeked of l o strusents in the wares of the ro sto c le t y ot n ed r. i• F o ro ns m et ft° the of Reuses, for example—where they voted a scoond time. Bath an abuse of the suffrage ought to be put an end to. deeliPetrawa;teatriland immediately passed to author line—that With respect to the threats held out to the commission, the oonsaimunas that they were seeing member despised then). encouraged e t a, were by the country. He did not believe the people woult descend to the streets; bat eve. were it the case, the National Assem bly ought to est Gaudin* to the dictates of its tionacienos, and not be leflamised by fear. M. LawAßTttts endeavoured to reconcile his pres e nt Op p o sition to the ministerial project with his late publication, In which he imposers the glaring defeats of the present system, sad proposes remedies which, if adopted, would be am ste m, as the reject of the othimindoo. M. Lama:tine, ne vertheless, did not believe that the ethstitution was violated in Its form by the law , bat the hoisting on a residence of three years would, in kis °pinkie, establish a species of "aristocracy of sesidanee" mane the elector'. M. Lamar tine defended at some length 14 pprenvious writings. and maintained they were not ineoatra&slloa with his present opposition to the maim*. M. 13swour D'Ath raid there was no use in disguising the feet that in the departments there existed a permanent ethspirmy ageing the republic, not fomented by those who were generally supposed to be hostile to It, but by those very nun who boasted of being Its exclusive defenders. The result would be disorder, moray, and pillage; and the proofs of this were clear ete the noon-day. He did not mei. eider the law as tourist. ly ellemiotts, but he was of opinion lhst its affect, would ba good. It beenme absolutely peer eery to defend society, menaced as it was, and this would be done by adhering, as they had adhered, to the spirit and I the text o the constitution. 111. I'ISEATOHY was equally clear and decisive in giving hie opini ss. He said that the members of the commission who framed the law acted with all due respect to the con • citation. The question at issue really was whether the country should or should cot be saved. The republic its: If was menaced of the actual system of universal suffrage was maintained. For tis part, be had wished for the re. public, but when it was founded he accepted it frankly and honestly. M. Laos FAIIEHNIs defended the commission from the attacks hurled at it. It was complied of men who had had mush experience in the nunegement of pubic aflais. To y were at all events men who had never *conspired against the laws under any farm of governmer.t. What better guarantee could be given of their intentions ? The agitation in the public mind that had been reentaked was not owing to the bill or Reform; that agitation had b en occa sioned by the elections of the 29th cf April, which tad fling a horrible light en the real situation of the country. They showed what they had to expect from univerral suffrage without organisation sr limit. It was felt that social orth r was menaced with destruction ; every one looked around, and found society without protection. Hmoo the alarm that existed ; and hence the minden sosponaion of business and all commercial affairs. H. Leon Faucher showed that even at present the suffrage was not universal, as women and chil dean, who also are interested in good government, are excluded. It was not too much to require that the elector shall not be • vagabond or an outcast of society owing to his crimes. The present project was the best deferee of the suf frage, which, if it remain without organisation, will not be the basis of representative government, but an instrument of destruction and rule. M. DE CoMssisAL Ds las Test, a moderate, ar.d the only dissentient member of the present commission, did not attack the principle of organiain; and reforming the law of universal suffrage. He, however, objected to the period of residence of three vein as too long, and he considered sin months too short. lie objected to some other details, and hoped some modifications would be made in the bill. M. ANTHONY TuuCTIET, a delontignard, thought it be swath his dignity to discuss such a project. The only speech I he should make would be crying " Vera la Constitution !" M. Thouret, who is an immense'' , corpulent little parson ' at ones suited the action to the word, and shtuted at the full pitch of his lung., sod in a manner that made the perspire• tient burst from has Lrehcael, and his ',ins swell and strain like whipcord, '• la 11*;.nblique !" By a decree of the President of the Republic the railroad company from Marseilles to Avignon is autho rised to raise a loan of 30,000,000 of francs. M. Napoleon Bonaparte yesterday deposited in the bureau of the Asetmbly the following declaration : Inasmuch as the sovereignty of the people resides in the universality of the eit:zens ; inasmuch as the sovereignty is inalienable and impreecriptible, and as no fraction of the people an attribute to lull( the exercise of it ; inasmuch as the repreeeetative cannot annihilate the rights of the persons electing him without snail ihtting his mandate; inasmuch as the tight of suffrage is a primordial right, higher than all others; inasmuch as the project of electoral reform, if con verted into law, would deprive an important fraction of the people of a part of their rights, the uedenigned, reprmenta tive of the people, declares solemnly that he persists in the line of conduct which be entered on in moving the previous quake, that, in consequence, faithful to the principles of the soversheety of the people and of the constitution, not considering that he has any right to do injury to universal suffrage, he protests by his abstention against a revolutionary measure. The Pays mentions a rumour of the discovery of a Socmhat plct yerterday, and states as positive that 30 members of the democratic eccialist committee cf the Salle Martel bare been arrested. Six other members are stated to have &l. _ PARIS, SCNDAT, 6 P.M. M. Lahitte, in his answer yesterday to the inter pellation of M. Piscatory, stated that the French government had received from Greece news equally unfortunate and unexpected : that explanation. had been demanded from the English cabinet, and that an answer was expected before Thursday. He would lay before the Assembly with as little delay as possible all the documents relative to this affair. I This was the subject of much private conversation in the house. It was said that on Friday evening an interview had taken place between Oen. Lahitte and Lord Normanby, in which the former had given vent to vehement remonstrances against the list pro ceedings of Mr. Wyse, and the conduct of the English government at the close of tho negotiation.. The elections of the six democratic members for the Seine-et-Loire were confirmed. The official majority was stated at 25,000, which agrees exactly with the first statement I sent you on this subject. The Estafette say.: "M. Pierre Bonaparte his, it is uid, the intention of imitating his cousin M. Na poleon Bonaparte, in laying before the Assembly a new protest against the modications in the existing electoral law. The of Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures, brought its sittings to a close on Saturday evening. The fate of the Electoral Reform Bill seems the only subject on which any Frenchman can at this moment speculate. If the government bill pass, h will only be by so narrow a majority as to take from it all authority. A fearful event has signalised the fete of the 4th of May at Algiers. This day had been fixed by the engineers for the explosion of a mine in the quarries of Bab-el-Owed. It was charged with about 8,00016 e. of powder. The numbers who were on the heights at the moment of explosion may have been about five thousand. The match was lighted, and about twenty minutes passed before the two receptacles, one holding 6,000 and the other 3,0001 be. of powder were reached, when the twenty-one boxes filled with powder ex ploded ; some minutes afterwards a detonation was heard in the interior of the mountain ; a thick cloud of smoke covered the quarry, and a shower of stones and pieces of rock were thrown in the directionof the town with prodigious force. Persons at more than 800 yards from the quarry were struck, and the pro jectiles even reached the terraces of the Cabash. One universal consternation prevailed, and as the specta tors were divided into groups, it was not for some time that the whole extent of the evil could be appreciated. Eight persons were killed, and many dangerously wounded. Amongst those killed is M. Jourdan, jugs d'instruction, who was struck more than 000 yards from the spot. The festivities were after such an event, postponed. Strong remonstrances having been made against the _government project of macadamising the boule vards and quays, the Prefect of the Sake has received an order to adjourn the execution of the contract for the present. The President of the Republic, accompanied by Generals Changarnier and Perrot, reviewed on Satur day, at the Champ-de-Mare, the troop. under the com mand of Generals Franoois, Ouillabert, and Forey. The organisation of the association (Hose-Coniptoir) for guaranteeing railway securities, shares, or bonds, is now complete. All the companies have given ad hesion to the articles of association, some only reserv ing the condition of consulting their shareholders. The votes have by common consent been thus divided between the companies who will be represented in the direction of the earceiation : the North will have three votes ; Btrubourg, two ; Orleans, two ; Centre, ono; Bordeaux, three; Nantes, one; Rouen, two; Boulogne, one; Havre, one; and some other com panies of minor importance, one. The number of votes has been divided by the com parative amount of the capital of the companies. The capital of the association will be two millions of moms, and will be considered to be formed so soon u 800,000 francs are paid up. Tho Chantilly races continue to-day, and equipages of every description are now wending their w a y con voying the "beauty and fashion" of 1 to the scene of action. The weather to-day affords an additional in- . dneement to the Parisian lovers of the distractions of "BERLIN MkT 10. the " Ditnanelte," being almost the first day with lln yesterday's sitting of the as of th e anything of spring temperature that we have had here. which be gave the princes the best hopes es t o th e Princes' union, the King made a spirited speed, i n _ .... . _ ... . _ . _ - Ike - The Petrie and other journals positively deny that there is any truth in the rumour of a socialist plot Toted above Aram the Pays. M. Puny has brought up his report on the govern ment end administration of Algiers. It proposes a spatial ministry for Algiers, to be resident at Paris ; that Algiers shall be divided into three provinces, those of Algiers, Constantine, and Oran, to be rupee- tively designated the centre, the east, and the west, which shall be confided to provincial governors, bar ing speaal councils. The military power is to be divided from the civil. The committee on the budget heard yesterday the Minister of Finances with a view of coming to a re solution relative to a new estimate of the Paris and Lyons and Lyons and Avignon railways. This re solution will not be adopted until the next sitting of the committee. On the 10th inst., on a strike by the miners of Cienzot, a serious outbreak occurred. The Place de rHotel do Ville was occupied by 730 or 800 of them, when one of them was arrested. The others rescued him, and the procureur-general was obliged to be celled in to restore order. The workmen of Montabenin remained peaceable.. The ninth committee of parliamentary initiative heard yesterday the Minister of the Interior, who brought to the committee the opinion of government on the proposition of M. Creton, having for its object the abrogation of the laws of proscription. The Minister regretting that " the doors of France could not be opened to the illustrious exiles who are under the operation of those laws," declared that the council thought the motives which had determined the Legis lative Assembly six months since, to reject a similar proposition still existed, and that the return of the family of the Bourbons might become, even with out their knowledge, the occasion of disturbances; it therefore was opposed to the measure. successor tgeßundentaat. The Grand Duke of Baden, Bret in rank, replied for all the princes. He thanked the King for the past, and expressed his trust in the future. In to-day's sitting the definitive plan for enwi. toting the union were presented on the part of Pritains.n By electric telegraph there is news from B.rlin to the 11th inst. Prussia has declared, in the Princes' Congress, for the simple exception of the revised stitution. Hassenpflug was the only minister wh o did not declare himself. AUSTRIA. From Vienna, under date May 7, we learn the beak committee concluded its sittings on the 4th inst. Ile concluding report was then signed, and it was re solved to receive the memorial of the Deputy Si am° . netts., of Milan, and recommended it to t h e attention of the finance mini,imr. The pre s i, dent, Prince von Salm-Rtifferscheid, then addressed to MM. It,shisdorft, Brenta-o, Scessor, and th e two ministerial commissioners, liadda and liaele, a short valedictory speech, thanking them heartily for their co-operation. The members of the cou millet met in the evening at a banquet given to the two raj. nisterial commissaries. The report of the commission was forwarded this morning to the Minister of Finance and a copy of the same handed to the Minister of Commerce. The report gives fair evidence of ra•riot ism, candour, industry, insight, aid intimate quaintann with the subject,on the part of:he corona. tee, as well as of the common aim of its memht ra to restore and place in a state of security the credit of the Austrian government. BAVARIA. Minister Von der Pfordten laid on the tat e Second Chamber at Munich, on the 6.h in m• - •re following documents: The declaration made I t —h e Bavarian g .vsrnment to Austria and Truss's th e 13th of April, refusing to consent to a prolorer the Interim; the Austrian note of April 2 1 4 Bavaria and other states to send plenipotemi.., to a congress to be held at Frankton ; a: .d • answer of the Bavarian government to Ono ; 4 The documents in question have already 1), HI • liehed, with the exception of the last, which i, tially an expression of agreement with the government. The minister stated that a L'isar.r: plenipotentiary weuld attend the Frankfort on the 10th of this month, provided V. Ph a Int , : instructions concerning the formation of a new pr r: sional central power, and a revision of the Coi tii.n of the confederation. The Bavarian m, ment hoped that this revision would be and accomplished as specilly as possible, and :lia• would satisfy all right and equitable Bavarian government would not consent to en ir.!. nite prolongation cf the interim, but was w:ii.ng •• its present council should administer such aff,r• might call for immediate decision until the cart , should ba able to agree on a new nistraticn. The main points of Cc at-. to the Austrian government are, that the censer.- Bavaria to the formation and continuance hit:- the Interim had been a renunciation of its prey, tr fluence in the affairs of Germany; that this c,' had been given in the hope that Au-tria and 1'; . were asking it with the aim of then: by moting the work of a union of Germane : that as this hove had not been just.tir . d, consent of Bavaria to the continued &beep% of its rights must be withdrawn. The instructie; - the Frankfort plenipotentiary, said Von der Pfard. would be in exact accordance with the tenor of document now Lid before the hcuse. The Bava: government had no desire to cling to antiquatcl stituticnF, and desired to create a ansti . :. conformable to the spirit and wants the time e. At the close of the discuss:a... minister announced that the treaty respactirc railroad from Augsburg to Ulm would be the following day. Herr von Welden, the governor of Suabli. withdrawn from Dr. Gross, a physician of Soul permission to practice or reside in that account of his participation in the ca. • and acts of the radical party during last two years, and especially for his rot ship of the ' March union," a democratic club. a proceeding is entirely without precedent. this physician broken any law, it had been a convict him before the ordinary courts; bit conduct cannot be impeached before the law, surely a crime to deprive him of social advanta4e,. BTRT IT, MAT IL—Voluntary Loan, 193 J ; Nattrasal Shares, U. VIENNA, 11AT 10.—Fire per Cent. Metalliques, 921. UNITED STATES. On Saturday we announced the arrival at 1 pool of the American ocean steam-ship , tats West, direct from New York, with later dates than those received by the Herm.rn. The follotting is the letter of our correspon6:.: NEW YORK. A From Washington we hear that Mr. t chairman of the committee of 13 on the slur tion, has submitted to his colleagues the 1.).. propositions as the basis of their report : lat. California is to be admitted as a gate w:th sent boundaries. _ . 2nd. New Mexico and Utah are to hare governments, without any reference to slavery w' 3rd. The right of Teas% to be divided into tour states, with or without slavery, as the people wit! may desire, whenever there is a sufficient popu.stior recognised. 4th. The boundary between Texas and New M be adiusted agreeably to the line and plan lir. Mr. Clay's resolutions. sth. The right of the South to have their fu;.*: delivered up as to be strongly and emphatically at. 6th. The slave trade in the district or Cohunt , I abolished. This plan will, it is believed, carry a largc ! in both houses. - -- • The affair between Mr. Benton and Foote 11: in smoke. Both persons have lost caste,,by duet, and the prase generally has cilled ter • pulsion of both these parties from the Bens': calm, deliberate, and universal opinion American people is that both hare disgraceful manner. The material provisions of the treaty ar with our government, by Sir Henry liti:e.er, ing Nicaragua, have been published. P.,y follows: _ . 1. The United States and Great Britain mac:. • reciprocally pledge their faith to either that ttir take, use, hold, occupy, nor exercise domosi:r. e• • --! part of Central America henceforth and for es, r 2. They further agree not to establish nor any fortifications nor military posts upon or v • t • costntry. 3. Each government pledges itself to teepee: its best offices to cause to be respected by wt..: • the complete and perpetual neutrality of the p : • Atlantic and Pacific Oceans which shall be • • respectively of the proposed Ship Canal threui.:. • • America. 4. They will also respect, and use their best • Cause to be respected by others, the perpetual i.,::• of said Ship Canal, the vessels navigating it. -L.- • thing permuting thereto. 5. They further agree to respect the neutrality s • ; eels within a reasonable distance of either ternoes. , canal [no distance yet agreed on, but two geographical miles have been suggested end el,' •: objection], and to endeavour to procures general of such neutrality by all nations whatsoever. 6. They mutually agree to protect and snare ••• • tions of such company as, under the authority et ts, of Nicaragua, shall construct and maintain the • ship canal. 7. If the company now holding a contract w ith of Nicaragua for the construction of the ship canal 6 : ° two oceans shall, within twelve months, d e moilstr.t• • satisfaction of the two governments its ability le • said canal, the foregoing stipulations shall ensure : • fit; but if not, then any other company, duty guy Nicaragua, and which can satisfy the two g 0 if L its ability to make the canal, shall enjoy all tts. which this treaty is intended to guarantee to the ,• ' • of the canal. • S. The contracting rattles recipmeally pledge •h‘l to use their good odices respectively with the (governments of Central America, to induce they tutu stipulations based upon and according going. Each party pledges to the other th at it w , .: its good offices kr the amicable settlement et it' , l which may arise respecting the construction of the'' OS its assuagement thereafter. 10. The two governments are not to interfere construction or management of the canal, es , ‘l' t I /overman:it, should tolls be levied on vessels pour it which in its view are exorbitant and oppeesnl"", the right of withdrawing from the compinY f' ,ll 1 1'„ 1 ,1 tion and favour which the treaty pledis., it W • this will sot affect the international stipulauces • treaty. SPAIN. Oar correspondent at Madrid, in his letter of the 7th, states that the Queen's health and spirits conti nue to be excellent. In the event of her Majesty's happy delivery a dinner is to be given to 12,000 per sons of the poorer classes in the Pratt°. - • 11,111,11111, MAT 7. Three per e.ente., 311 paper; after Dolma, 3P 8.18 ea-h; POUTS. 134 paper Fires, 121 paper; atter Bobta 121 cub; Pantry., 4 paper; after B olea. 1 11-16 Coupo ns, paper ; alter boles, 71 oak; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 84 paper. Lx. change on Lceadon, 30.33. ITALY. LOMBARDO-VENETIAN TERRITORY. Letters from Padua, to the Concordvs of Turin, of the 4.h,say:—Yester2ay, at four o'clock, died Marshal d'Aspre. He is said to have confessed to the bishop who /Mended him in his last moments to having shot 70 p^rsons at Leghorn, without any seri us cause. PIEDMONT. The Chamber is now• occupied in the discutsion of the expenditure of Isl 7. The first five articles Lave been voted. _ _ . _ . . . The Piedmontese Gazette of the Bth contains a decree dissolving the Divisionary Council of 13_nort, and ordering the convocation of the electors fur a new election. The Concordia of Turin of the Sth has the fol lowing : The Gruttle, ordinarily so mute, announces that on the 7th Mty the council of ministers was convened by the King, end if we are well informed this is the history of th► affsir : ♦ note from Austris d,manded in certain eventualities, di. sturdy hinted at, a passage for its troops across Piedmont, and in ambiguous terms made allusion to the neat city of a certain pledge, such as the occupation of fortresses, &c. It is said that our ministers cornumuicated a note to the am bassador of England, who in the name of his governm:nt promised that the Piedmontese territory should not be violated, but meanwhile the country should arm ital.. It is said that in the council it was resolved to follow the ad vice of England, and that consequently three cAstingents will be ordered to be embodied. We give this news with the 1 greatest reserve, because we do not free tent the scions, a,.d still less the ante-chanabers of the minister. We have our selves received this news with much doubt. ROMAN STATES. The Journal de Rome, of the 3rd, states that the Pope had remitted several persons from the punishments in flicted by the councils of censure, and had appointed a commission to inquire into the circumstances of other cues of greater gravity, with a view of ex.end jog his clemency towards the offenders. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. The Prussian go!ernment has forwarded the fal lowing reply to the circular notes from Austria, on the subject of the congress at Frankfort : The Austrian ambassador at this court, Von Proktsch, • written document einanating from din government, according to wbicb he is commirsiOned to in vite the government of his Majesty the King of Prussia to take pan in the proceedings of a collective assembly of the German Bund, at which it is proposed, in the first instance, to make inordinate, relating to the Interim, and afterwards to make such alterations in the constitution of the confede ration as may meet the necessities of the situation. The government of his Prussian Majesty regrets that the negotiations carried on between it and the government of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria should have been hitherto without result. At the same time it expresses the conviction that it is the duty of every member of the Confederation to exert itself, in order that the affairs of the collective body may not remain longer without a common guidance, and that since it is no longer possible for the German states to remain in their present relations, they must endeavour to e ffect suck changes in the constitution as are acknowledged to be neces tare in the only right and lawtal way, name, that of a com mon agreement. The government of his itlejesty the King of Prussia has already made each proposals to the Austrian cabinet as appeared adapted to the actual state of thing.. It must now decline all responsibility, if through the non acceptance of thine propositions the present Interim expires, tearing Germany without an inheritor of its power. It is from the same actual state of relations that the decision arrived at by the Prussian government on ice questions which concern the revision of the constitution have proceeded. Without the recognition of those facts, can no agreement be arrived at respecting the principles on which the work of revision should proceed, of the want of which in all the preceding experiments the Austrian government has not cozen:lathed without reason. These facts are not only the events recited in the resolution of the Bond adopted in IBIS. On the one aide stands the constitution of the Austrian empire promulgated in October, 1848, which aimed eta more intimate connection of the various portions of that empire, and thus bound up closely the Germanic with the non- Germanic states; and on the other side the close union of a large number of princes of the confederation in a narrower bond than that which was recognised in the constitution of 1815. It is thus at the same time upon rights solemnly guaranteed by treaties, and on the actual state of relations that Prussia desires to take her position in coming to a resolution on her present course. As to that which Austria has proposed, concerning the congress to be called at Frankfort, in which the princes united with Prussia in the treaty of May 26 are concerned, his Majesty will advise with his allies. For this purpose his Majesty has already issued invitations to those princes, who will meet at Berlin, each attended by a responsible minister, on the Bth of this month, and there consider of how the common want of Ger many may be supplied. The further decision of the royal go verament will depend on the remit of those deliberations. The government of his Majesty, the King of Prussia, cannot, however, omit on the present occasion to protest against the assumotions contained in the despatch addressed by the imperial government to the several German states. In that document the right of Austria to summon a congress of the States of Germany, is based en the 4th and .sth articles of the Benda Act ; and thereby the summoning of the Frankfort congress, becomes a resumption of the former presidial right of Austria to call a plenum. But the Diet itself was abolished in a legal manner in 1848, and therefore the right of calling it together perished in the same moment. The Prussian government can, therefore, regard the summons calling on the governments to send plenipoten tiaries to Frankfort as an invitation to individual govern. ments. It considers that the Austrian government is perfectly entitled to invite the states to such a common consultation on the general interests, should, however, a :pretension be in any quarter raised. In any OW, however, can no disadvantageous consequences milt from the participation of the govern ment united with l'russia, since an usurpation of the hero padres of the old diet by such a conference would have no application to them. These principles the Pruesian govern ment has considered it to be its duty to set forth with plain ' nen, while it reserves its further resolutions and declaration for deliberation with its allies. Berlin, May 3, 1850. To Count Bernedoff. A telegraphio despatch from Berlin, dated the 9th of May, announces the despatch of the above circular, • adding that the question as to whether tho constitu tion of the union shall be considered u decided was still to be decided by the Princes' Congress. Nor was it decided how thel union will partake in the act of • revi si ng the said constitution. • A subsequent telegraphic despatch, dated the 19th, I gives the account of the sittings of the Princes' Con greys on the 9th and 10th of May. 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