The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-17 00:00:00

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Ankl. lielmorp . Mir Tony. —A ACKAP DI PAPER. Morn. A. Won° sod 4 woo- Mrs Urban and Wm A. Miro —Air ItlV. PUMA rif MLILV. -Ormormoor bolLpool 7. lIIUTAWNIA. Tim tsar.,. - ME (3 7 1 - effilibilial. Mrs I. Yarnn ld ny Martinson and Mr. C. Momlmam Yr. %I Ylogr.Lll33 lo3r(311KIL Mrs IL Amin rad Ike Little •• owlet. —And I Lt4El IC ill & NIG II W trElt AT LONDON BUDGE. Tn DAT —‘l.nolmg, 1.1 44.• . Alloramm. 711. I?rn T.> 41011110 .- 11 .ramit. 7k. ... Aftwomem. Mk. 17m. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 17. Tn► longer the Budget debate lasts the stronger does the position of the Government become the more clearly and triumphantly is the form of the measure vindicated on both sides of the House. Indeed, the only objection that can be fairly urged against the discussion is that it is too completely one sided. All the arguments and all the authorities go one way. The Opposition really have no case at all. Not a single member who ham the slightest weight with the House on constitutional questions has ventured to say a word against the proposal of the Government. There is nothing to contest. This of course makes the debate leas interesting and lively than it might otherwise be. But the constitutional question nominally at issue will of course be all the more completely established from the concurrent arguments and unanimous support of the ablest constitutional authorities on both sides of the House. In this respect the debate last night is of signal value and import ance. The case for the Government had indeed been established on Monday evening by the un answerable speeches of Sir .1 AIM GaAnAn and Lord &nix licsseLL. No subsequent speaker on the Opposition benches has attempted to deal with the conclusive arguments adduced by these distin guished constitutional authorities. Vague charges of a covert attack on the Upper House, and still vaguer threats of possible resistance, have indeed bee., thrown out in the course of the debate, but no Opposition speaker has ventured directly to assail the strong parliamentary position taken up by the Government. if any further vindication of that position were needed it is amply supplied in the two striking speeches delivered by the members for the University of Oxford last night. Contrary to hie usual custom Sir WiLuam Humans ap peared as the champion of his colleague the CM•MIMILIAI of the EIi:IMAM; so far as the form of the Budget is concerned ; and his testimony on this point is entitled to the greater weight as he en tertains strong objections to some of its contents. The hon. baronet is indeed, as all the world knows, not only an influential but a very decided member of his party ; having strong Conservative convic tions, and uniformly acting on them on questions of general policy. He justly, however, stated last night that the question raised with regard to the relative position and rights of the two Holmes must be regarded as a judicial rather than a political one, and looking upon it in that light Sir WILLIAM I:IIIATMLNYTE expressed his strong conviction that the course taken by the Government was thoroughly sound and constitu tional. In a short but weighty speech the hon. baronet defended the plan of the Government on the various grounds of precedent, principle, and policy. He showed that the plan of including the financial proposals of the year in a single Bill was supported by a bug and decisive series of dent& And he at once destroyed the spurious precedents adduced on his own aide by the pointed remark that the mere fact of division —the dividing the Budget for the year into several Bills—really proved nothing at all. It touches no point of privilege, and does not bear at all on the question at issue. The Lower House divided the bills merely for its own convenience, without any reference to the Upper House at all ; and the only period, there fore, from which pertinent precedents can be drawn is the period when it was usual to send up all the financial propositions for the year in • single bill. This course was at one time the common one, and it was never objected to by the Lords. This was in itself sufficiently decisive; but the bon. baronet added to the weight of his testimony by the im portant statement that be spoke nut only on his own behalf, but on behalf of the right hon. gentle man the Member for the University of Cambridge, who was Chairman of the Committee of Prece dents last year. Mr. WALrois being prevented by indisposition from attending the House, autho rised Sir W. }turmoil-re to state on his behalf that be entirely supported the course adopted by the Government. After this decisive testimony from the Conservative Members of both Universities, whose authority on constitutional questions is cer tainly se high as that of any member on their side of the House, Mr. GLAnnose might well say that nothing was wanting to the argument. If any thing had been wanting it was effectually supplied by the right hon. gentleman in his admirable state ment to the House of the real points at issue in the debate. As usual, the CM•MCSLLOIL of the Exensecza proved that both in learning and logic be is more than • match for his opponents. Mr. GLADSTONE showed himself far more learned than his critics in the mere lore of precedents. But he did not rest the justifica tion of the course the Government had pursued on parliamentary precedence alone. He vindi cated it on AA own merits, as supported by con siderations of principle, of expediency, and of public convenience. A feature of the debate which ought not to be omitted wee the speech of the Member for Stroud. The right hon. gentleman favoured the House with one of hie laboured efforts in the grand ar grandiloquent style that he affects. It was in his happiest manner—a favourable speci men of that monocrats mock-heroic style of eloquence which is happily well nigh obsolete. The speech abounded in the sounding platitudes, paradoxes, and prophecies in which the speaker THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY . EnbitiG, loves to indulge. The first part of the speech ' was devoted to an elaborate emaciation of rotund common-places on despotism, de mocracy, limited monarchy, and the like. Further on Mr. Homuss expounded, with fresh unction, his irrational paradox of last year— that the Upper House should have the entire con ' trol, without any of the responsibility, of the finan cial arrangements of the year. But the right hon. gentleman was as usual greatest of all in prophecy. And as usual, too, his unhappy temper infected his judgment and imagination. The Member for Stroud is a dyspeptic seer, and his visions accord ingly are alwaysglooniy, his prophecies are of misery and woe. His finest passages are all in the tragic strain. He mounts the cothurnua, gathers his mantle about him, and pours forth his denunciations in the deepest and most hollow tones. Last night he was more solemn and sonorous than usual, pronouncing that the step the House was recommended to take was one full of danger. It menaced in his view not only the authority, but the existence of the oldest and wisest legislative assembly in the world. If once taken it could never be retrieved ; and he entreated the House to pause before it entered on such a reck less, such a perilous, such a revolutionary career. All this, of course, for the moment, sounded very awful ; but a simple fact turned it into the richest burlesque. It was enough to remember that the course thus denounced is formally recom mended, sanctioned, and supported by those reac tionary politicians, the right hon. Member for the University of Cambridge, and the hon. baronet the Member for the University of Oxford. Argument wiui out of the question. That fact at one destroyed the point of the whole denunciation. Unfortunately too the oration was thrown away on an empty House. But the Member for Stroud had his reward. The meek spirit and tone of abject submission to the Upper House which animated his speech, though it excited little approbation from the Opposition generally, won the hearts of two noble lords—Lord ROM,' Cat IL and Lord Roster MONTAGU. These twin champions of divine right stepped across the floor of the House of Commons and warmly congratulated the right bon. gentleman. Virtue, no doubt, is its own reward ; but, even if it were not, this cha racteristic appreciation of his labours must have amply satisfied even the somewhat exacting temper of the right hon. gentleman. At length, however, the Bill is read a second time. The financial and the political principles of the Budget are equally affirmed, and the Members of the House of Commons may separate with a conscience somewhat disburdened. Tens who are curious to learn the state of parties in Germany, the hopes and fears which agitate that country, and the feelings which ani mate its different classes, would do well to peruse an important communication from Frankfort, which will be found in the Daily News of this morning. Not having the sources of knowledge and opportuni ties of appreciation possessed by this German corre spondent, we cannot make light of his fears, or declare them ill-founded. We can merely hope that he exaggerates the danger which threatens his Fatherland, as well as the treachery which he denounces as the policy of its Princes. If what he writes be true, all is rotten in Germany. Independence or patriotism are not to be sought in any court—at least in any that has the power to act upon them. Aud that great country of thirty millions is nothing more than a manacled victim, not yet brought to his certain doom, but merely awaiting the coming of the cxe cutioner. But ►t whatever discount the prophecies of the correspondent must be accepted, the most important of his statement► is undeniably correct. And this is, that thu secondary Sovereigns of Germany —we may name them, Bavaria and Wertemberg, Hanover and Saxony--are pursuing ► policy ex clusively selfish, without any regard for the com mon weal of their oountry, for its power, inde pendence, or development. It is not that they are gratuitously traitors. But their situation is so critical, menaced by the two great Powers of Ger many on the one side, and by the people on the other, that they have conceived no hope for the future save flinging themselves into the arms of Prance. We have every reason to believe all that the correspondent says on this point to be perfectly true ; and the facts furnish the strongest possible condemnation of that system of dividing a country between federated primes, from which Italy has just escaped, and which has flung Germany, now under the military power of France, now under that of Russia. The secondary Kings of Ger many are, and can be, but mere tools of either of those great Powers for the nullification in time of peace, for the subjugation in time of war, of that Fatherland, to which their whole lives and reigns are but wearisome and dastardly treason. But if this zealous historian of German politics is not more than justly severe upon what he calls the Wurzburg Coalition, the League of Secondary German Kings for their own exclusively kingly and personal interests, is it either wise or just on his part so sweepingly to denounce Prussia, not only as incapable and supine, but as even in some degree treacherous oleo ? One of our leading contemporaries told Prussia the other day in a passionate article, that if its police continued to be so rude, England would not object to see her Rhenish Provinces made over to France. The writer of such a threat no doubt thought it very unpalatable and severe. Yet this correspondent informs us that Prussia is ready to give up her Trans-Rhenan provinces to morrow, on being indemnified by equivalent terri tories east of the Rhine. We must confess the difficulty we feel as to this part of the accusation, which, indeed, is incompatible with another re proach, that Prussia fatuously thinks itself pre destined to march again upon Paris and achieve another conquest of France. Prussia cannot at one and the same time be guilty of puerile hostility to France, and of treacherous connivance with it. It is a great misfortune, as well as a disgrace to France, that its traditional policy is that of op posing the unity, strength, and regeneration of Germans as well as of Italians. Paris senators and journalist. thunder against English selfishness in the East, because we persist in supporting the Turks till we see who is to take their place. With how much more severity and truth might we de nounce the French for most shameful selfishness nearer home, grudging not distant people, but brothers and neighbours, like Italians and Ger mans, the natural blessings of a united country and an efficient government. France has always striven to make a party of the secondary princes, both against the great ones and against the Gor illa& people. The policy of keeping that country divided into the.. was that of Louis Pinurra as of Loom NAPOLION ; and it is argued from it that he seeks altogether to subjugate the country and conquer its Cis-Rhenan provinces. We do not imagine, indeed, that the political morality of NAN/LION 111. is more rigid than the domestic principles of Charles Surface, who would not answer for himself if temptation were' thrown in his way. So with respect to Germany. If the Germans will conduct themselves lilts the Poles in the last century, they may meet the IMO fate. But thirty millions of Germans, developed as they are, have surely brains, and arms, and power equal to defend their country'. indepen dence against France, even although neither Eng land nor Russia could interfere, nor Austria. be in a condition to take the lead as an empire. The French Fairmaoa liked a divided and federated Italy. He wished to substitute his own influence for that of Austria, and perhaps thrust one of his own family into the place of one of the Austrian princes. He resolved upon invasion in pursuit of such aims. What has it produced / Results the very contrary of what he meditated. And why I Because it awakened and gave con sistence and power to the national spirit of Italy, which cannot suffer foreign influence _ or at its expense. The same policy would have the same effect in Germany. A French campaign beyond the Rhine might shake down the princely rookery of the country, as it did beyond the Alps that of the Italian princes. But it would give no preponderance to France. It could not but prove in the end the making of Germany. And France face to face with an armed Germany would find it as impracti cable as an armed Italy. But, however little tho actual invasion of France in Germany may be to be feared, it is certainly a serious symptom when four German monarchs prefer French alliance, dependence, and policy, to native progress. Since Prussia and Austria are both opposed, and naturally so, to such a state of things, it is for them to unite to remedy this. And should the existing anarchy of its empire preclude Austria from participating in other than domestic cares, Prussia has but to appeal to popular opinion by • broader adoption of liberal principles, in order to be quite strong enough for the teak. Should the Prussian Government prefer remaining under the control of a Yunker party in its Upper Chamber, and in the fear of its own bureaucratic, to giving more ample freedom to the press and scope to popular opinions, then indeed it can do nothing beyond beating time without advancing, whilst the whole nation cries " Forwards." In this respect we fully join in the exhortation of this cor respondent to Prussia, though we may think some of his reproaches unjust and severe. But they are the well-meant reproaches of a German patriot; and we only wish that some trumpet tongue would sound them forth iu that country. MAY LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCS AND SYRIA. M. THOUVENEL'S DESPATCH. 17 The following is the important despatch of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, to which allu sion was made by M. Billault, in the French Senate, on Monday. It is addressed to the Mar quis de Lavalotte, the French ambassador at Constantinople : Paris, May 3. Monsieur Is Marquis,—The Emperor has just given his orders that the evacuation of Syria shall take place within the delay fixed by the conventioo of the 19th March last. In begging you to make this known to the Porte, I must, is conformity with the intentions of his Majesty, request you to again call the attention of the Sultan's ministers to the duties which the departure of our troops imposes on them. It is solely from • sentiment of humanity, and with • view to arresting the effusion of blood, and preventing greater disaster; that France accepted the mission which the power, with • common accord, confided to her in Syria. That mission we have fulfilled without any afterthought, and with complete fairness ; we have employed all our efforts to realise the object which Europe proposed to her self. We could have wished, however, to be able to re establish order on the conditions and guarantees which would have permitted us to reckon on the maintenance of tran quillity after the departure of our troops. In our opinion, as we havealways said, and se we still think, it was necessary, in order to assure the security of the Christians in Syria, to reader the evacuation dependent on the entire execution of the political and administrative measures which are in- dispensable for enabling the government to exercise its action efficscioualy. If the Porte, as its interests certainly required, had seconded us, the powers would have been unanimous in sharing our views. Bat it preferred to eltim exclusively for itself the task of providing for the preserva tion of peace, and its plenipotentiary affirmed that it is able so to do. His declarations in this respect were so formal and absolute that the omferenee found itself under the obligation of taking them into account, and of confining itself, in its last deliberations, to simply proroguing the occupation for a period of three months. The Ottoman government has thus assumed a responsi bility which will throw on it the peculiar obligations which we shall be justified in indicating at the moment at which we leave Syria. After having co-operated, by sacrifices which France will not regret, if the populations derive the benefit of them, in re-establishing internal order in that province, the Emperor's government cannot permit that it shall become the theatre of new disasters. Such an even tuality, if it were to be realised, would excite public opinion in all Europe, and would demonstrate, on the part of the Ottoman government, impuissance which must be inevitably provided for. Unless the Sublime Porte itself proposes another combi nation, we are bound to evacuate Syria by an engagement of which we cannot decline the execution, without failing in the respect due to • treaty. It is in virtue of that act that we lent the co-operation of our troops, and we cannot refuse to recall them at the expiration of the stipulated period. We undertook to supply, in the collective name of Europe, the forces necessary for the occupation, and it is not permitted to us to alter the character of the million which the powers confided to us. We have asked our selves if it would not be opportune to propose to them to prolong, for another period, the mission of our troops. But the discussions which the first prorogation occasioned, and the invariable declarations of the Porte, have convinced us that our own dignity did not permit us to again assume the initiative of such • proposition ; It is only the Sultan's government, which, better enlightened as to its own in terests, would have • right to make it. We shall therefore evacuate Syria at the date fixed by the treaty of Paris ;but we shall not proceed with the swam ation without having loudly expressed our apprehensions,and urgently recommending the Porte to prove that it has at its disposal, as has been affirmed, the means necessary to guarantee the Christians against a recurrence of the cala mities they have undergone. We shall thus have failed in none of our duties—we have on the one hand pointed out to the powers the motives which led us to believe that the evacuation would be premature if effected before the ad ministrative reorganisation of the Lebanon, and on the other we have neglected nothing to oblige the Porte to satisfy the obligations which are incumbent on every regular government towards its own subjects. In presence of an international act we conidnot, Monsieur le Marquis, do more, and our responsibility is protected, but the very expiration of the term during which we were bound by the necessities resulting from an accord debated and regulated with the other cabinets, restores to us our entire liberty of judgment and of conduct. We shall be therefore free to examine, aloof from any special stipulation, the events which may take place in Syria, and we have not to conceal from the Porte that ancient traditions would impose on us the duty of affurdiug to the Christians of the Lebanon an effectual support against fresh persecutions. Yon will, therefore, explain yourself in this sense to deli Pada, read to him the despatch, and give him • copy of it. THOUVENZL. PARIS, Mar IT. _ _ The French Academy of Science has decided by 18 votes to propoeo to the government that the biennial prize founded by the Emperor should be conferred on K Thiess for his " History of the Empire." the Court. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Mina Djater Khan-Muckir-od-Dowle, Penian Ambas sador, attended by his escrelery sad interpreter, had aa audience of the Queen to take lama The Hon. George Mifflin Dallas led an audience of her Ma jaggy, and delivered his letters of recall as Minister Plenipo teatlery from the United States of Amnia'. Kr. Charles Francis Adana had his Snit aodienoe of the Queen, sod delivered his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America. Their Excellencies were severally introduced by Viscount Palmerston, K.G., First Lord of the Treasury (officiating for Lord John Russell, Secretary of Blabs for Foreign Affairs), ►nd condoled by Liositensat-Oeweral the Hon. Sir Edward Cuat, K.C.H.. her Majesty's Muter of the Oarsenonies. The Queen wee attended by Lord Harris. Lord in Wait ing, and Lieuterouit-General Sir Henry Bentinck, Groom in Waiting. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, visited the Doke of Cambridge, at the Horne Guards, yesterday. The Prince Consort rode an horseback yesterday after noon, attended by his Eynon in Waiting. The Directors of the Falkland Lauds Company, consist ing of Sir WiWein Gore Onesley, Mr. William Butcher, Bit George &Marina, Yr. George H. Crippa and Colonel Yew bed an Coleedalinterview with w the Duke of Necastle yea- Milky et tits -alles. Her Majesty's Comesiosioners for the International Exhi bition of 1862 bare received an intimation that the Duke of Brabant has been nand President d the Belgian Com mission. Panatella were sent yeeterday from Ilse Colonial-aloe to the Governors of the Walt India Was& and British Columbia; Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge mid the Princess Mary benonred General sad Lady Alice Peel by their eampmey at dinner on Wednesday even ing, in Part-place, St. Jamie's. The duchess and princes we attended by Lady Geraldine liossemet and Col. Purrs. A select party bad tbe ►oaour to joist the circle, and a small and distinguished company assembled after dinner. The Duke and Hucheaa of Hamilton and family arrivad in ArLinton-street yesterday, from Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough enter eased a large party at dinner last evening, at the family rookies*. in fit. Jammes-square. The duchess afterwards received a select party. . _ The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen are shortly expected to arrive from Egypt. The noble earl's health bee greatly improved. _ . . The Countess Cowper has issued invitations for a ball at her mansion in St. James's -Musa on Tuesday, the 18th inst. Lady Tredegar's first dance is fixed for the 4th of Juno. Lady Rolle'. concert will take place thin evening at 23, Groaveaar-aquaria Lady Louisa Douglas Pennant's ball will take place an Thureday, tie 30th inst. General and Mrs. Basil-Brooke have left the Droserick, Jermya•atreet, for Southampton, on their way to Barbados.. &r Victor Brooke, Hart., has also left the soar establidneat. Count Alexander Strogonoff, Prince Boris Ga lissin. sad Prince Wasailtchikuff have arrived at the Claren don Hotel Iron Puna. Baron Anthony de Rothschild has arrived in Paris, aid alighted at the Hotel Bristol. It is repodud that in last term in Oxford out of 1110 candhktee nn Ur than 70 were rejected, and that these bad been by the tutor; to io in for their The annual dinner of Etonians will take place at the Thatched Howes Tavern, on Saturday, the 25th inst. Hr. C. J. Selwyn, M.P. for the University of Cambridge, will compy the chair. It in said that the members of the United Service Chita ?ell•mell, Wised to give s dinner to Lieut,Gegisral Air :anise flops Gnat, early in June. On Wednesday last the Rev. Wm. H. (never, RA., nes inetituted to the rectory of Thoendou, in Suffolk, en hie own petition. he bring patron in full right. On the mane dry the Rev. Edmund Forster Hutton, M.A., WAS in stituted to the rectory of Ayltnerton-with-Runtoo, in Ned°Ur, ea the presentation of Major-General Chas. Ash. Iranian. Oa the same day the Rey. Edward Augustus Halyard Clerk wee instituted to the rectory of St. Law. raw, in Norwich, on the prams/station of her most gracious W etly the Qua's. _ _ The literary world (says the Post) has occasion to ramp the loss of a liber►l and discriminatieg patronage is W death of Wias Richardson Cuner. For more than fifty years elm was waseesi is the forrnatios of ► library at &h -tae, Wide* at bow death armband more 27.000 volumes, mos( them may nes editions of the Rely Scriptures MVPs awe% the Rap*l•sos Ka, is, geed maid to be by far the wet private wileaties Is the libisilem The oats loss*, et which m few aspics ware Oda for print* arm istice, is a work of intrinsic sake. After ► Lon life et charity cad =Medal himesubmea she is eirmesdel is this valuable plemesioa mmd her large loaded adages by her brother, Yr. Ma/bow Wawa, of Fabtos, formerly K.P. tar Clithsam. ROME. A letter from Rome of May 11 oontradiuts the telegraphic news of Francis IL having left for the villa which has been taken for him at Albano. The mischievous ex-king is still at Rome. He goes to a theatre nearly every night, and is generally re ceived with cold politeness by the people, but the other day his appearance in a box at the popular theatre Alibert was the signal for a general rush from the pit, which remained empty all the evening. It is stated that the Emperor of Russia has written to the Pope to beg him to issue a brief calling upon the Polish esthetics to return to the path of duty to their sovereign. In 1830 a similar letter was written by the Czar Nicholas to Pope Gregory XVL This letter says that the Russian fleet is expected at Civita Vemhia on its way to the "East," and that M. de Kisseleff, the Russian minister at Rome, had taken 15,000 tickets in the Pope's lottery, and Francis 11., 3,000. THE EAST. PAR/8. MAT 17. The Paris papers publish the following telegram, dated Constantinople, May lfi: " Omer Pacluk left to-day for Kustendje, bearer of a conciliatory proclamation, promising a reduc tion of the taxes and a remisaion of all arrears. " It further grants the right of free election of the municipal councillors. " The Christians are to be allowed to have bells on their churches. "The international commissioners arrived here yesterday. " A great fall has taken place in the value of money." AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 17. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Bavaria, from New York on the 4th, has arrived off Cowes. She brings 364 passengers for England and France. Ou the morning of the 7th instant, she hove to for nine hours, to repair her feed pipe. She was also detained three hours outside the Needles, by fog. She experienced throughout the voyage wet weather and dense fogs. On the 12th she spoke the British barque Devon, bound west, and on the 15th the American ship Ann K. Thompson, bound east. News anticipated. PORTUGAL. iagioN, TIVOIDAT, ItAT 16, 11 P.M. It is said that the Council of State has proposed to the King to create fifteen new ministerial peers, in order to overcome tho opposition pews. MM. Cabral and Avila are among the persona recommended for peerages. 18 el. HUNGARY. PE 6TH, MAT 16. The proposition of M. Desk, with reference to the address, were discussed to-day in the Lower House of the Diet. M. Tiede said that an understanding with Austria was impossible, and that he did not wish the adop tion of any address until the rights of the country had been restored. He requested the house to pass a resolution giving a greater extension to the pro positions of M. Desk. Some deputies spoke in favour of and others against the adoption of the address. THE GERMAN FEDERAL DIET. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Nam 16. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, the re presentative of Gotha urged the Diet to come to a decision on the proposal of Hesse Darmstadt to suppress the National Association (National Ve rem). In the same sitting, therepresentative of Austria made a vague declaration with reference to the pro posal of Prussia respecting the command-in-chief of the Federal army. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : BOMBAY MAIL MALTA, MAT 15. The Massilia and Delta, with the above mail, left this evening for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The latter may be expected to arrive on about the 24th inst. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROs ous owl, PARIS, THURSDAY EVIIIING. In my opinion there is no reason why IL Bil lault's speech which satisfied the Senate should not satisfy England. I can see nothing alarming in it. We have gained our point. France ac knowledges the force of treaty obligations, and is prepared at once to act upon them. That which the French papers have been boasting all the spring would not be done is to be done immediately. Orders have been given for the evacuation of Syria, and not a French soldier will be there after June 5. It is true that in making this declaration in the most unequivocal manner M. Billault made use of certain expressions which are supposed in some quarters to indicate that France shakes off the dust from her feet as a testimony against Eng land ; and that, once free from the trammels of the convention which she is called upon to execute, she means to have it all her own way in the East, even at the risk of war. This, I suppose, is M. Oueroult's notion, who says in the Opinion Nationale to-night :—" By the vote of yesterday the Syrian question may be said to be terminated, unless indeed it is the Eastern question which begins No doubt the policy of the Emperor, both in the Kest and elsewhere, is unreliable, and will require as constant watching as heretofore. But that there is any special and immediate danger seems to me improbable. I cannot think that he now affects extreme deference to the opinion of Europe merely as a preparation to running riot and taking his own line of country a month or two hence. What IC Billault and M. Thouvenel mean exactly when they speak of the " entire liberty of judgment and conduct" which France will enjoy with respect to events in Syria, as soon as the present convention shall have terminated, I do not pretend to say. I suspect that a great deal was meant for "bunkum." It is, however, quite natural and reasonable that the French go vernment should put forth to the fullest extent that old claim which it has time out of mind in sisted upon, and which it calls its " secular tradi tion," to exercise a sort of guardianship over the Christians of Lebanon. This " secular tradition" is nowhere very clearly defined, and does not appear by the documents read by M. Laroche jaquelin—for the purpose, as M. Billault said, of contrasting the Bonaparte' disadvantageously with the Bourbons—to have ever been anything more than the right of a powerful monarch to give advice to a neighbour. At all events, France is bound by the treaty of Paris not to interfere alone in Turkey, and that obligation, as the Gazette& France very well points out, will subsist as strongly on June 6 as on the day before. How is she, therefore, to be more free after the expiration of the existing con vention than she was on the day when she signed it 1 Evidently her obligations towards other powers will remain the same. Letters from Toulon state that, owing to recent events in the United States, the French govern ment is going to reinforce its squadron on the coasts of that country. Rear-Admiral d'Herbitig hem, it is said, has been selected for the command. At the Bonrae the Rente declined in the morn ing about 15c. on the news that the Bank of Eng land had raised its discount, but it recovered after wards, and closed with much firmness at yesterday's prices-69fr. 45c. and 69fr. 55c. Mobilier rose sfr. The Lyons Railway rose 3fr. 75c.; Orleans and Southern fell 3fr. 75c. each ; iu the other lines there was little change. M. Mires Las been removed from Muse to an infirmary (maiaon de sant4) on a certificate given by the prison physicians. M. Proudhon bas not yet been able to find a publisher willing to run the risk of bringing out his new book. M. Senator Velma, who is specially commissioned to perform the functions of Prefect of the Rhone, has just made what I conceive to be an extraor dinary exercise of his extraordinary power+. In a recent circular he charges the mayors of his depart meet to keep a very sharp look-out after little boys who take birds'-nests, it being • matter of public policy to encourage the multiplication of small birds, because they destroy caterpillars. Thus a paternal government relieves the fanners of the necessity of considering for themselves what birds, beasts, and insects are most inimical to their products. I remember "sparrow-clubs" in England, I when I was a boy, which used to set • pries (per hundred) upon the heads of small birds, and it was thought by agriculturists highly meritorious to snare, shoot, and net them. Whether these notions were right or wrong may be a subject for discus sion with the Royal or any other learned society, but I apprehend it will never take up the time of Downing-street. Humanity has nothing to do with the matter, because the physical and moral feelings of a mole, a rat, or a caterpillar (which the Prefect of the Rhone would allow to be destroyed), are as much entitled to consideration as those of a linnet, • lark, or a nightingale. Don Gabriel Garcia Moreno, who has just been elected President of the Republic of the Equator, was formerly a pupil of the Polytechnic School in Paris. The Levant Herald says :—" Lest week a party of Prwk surveyors, well provided with iftstrnmente, started from Pen for Asia Minor, on the ostensible mission to *muftis* and mop old Roman roads, for tie purpose of • • History at Cesar,' on which the Emperor Napoleon is soppd. The expedition is at the expesse of his Majesty, sad it likely to hue useful results." AMERICA. We have received a batch of New York papers to the 4th inst. The following is from the Herald of that date : Intelligence from Washington last night was to the effect that the war will be vigorously opened in a few days by demonstration. upon Alexandria and Norfolk. A move ment upon Havre de Grace was also ordered to take pima yesterday from Perryville. Three or four companies of Colonel Dare's command will cross the Susquehanna, with • battery of artillery, and occupy Havre de Grace. Troops will then be sent forward ten miles, to Bush river. The last movement may not be made till Sunday. On Mon. day • strong force of carpenters and builders will be sent forward to Bash river with timber and tools, and the bridge there will Le rebuilt. The bridges over the Big and Little Gunpowder rivers will be re. built as soon as a sufficient military force is sent forward to protect the workmen. The three bridges will be completed by Thursday next, and this road to Baltimore will then be open. Troops will be sent forward from Philadelphia to reinforce those at Perryville. The President has issued a proclamation calling for 41,000 volunteers-23,000 regulars and 18,000 seamen. The position of the New York troops in and about Wash. legion yesterday was as follows :—The Seventh were in tents at Meridian Hill, Georgetown ; Colonel Corcoran. with a detachment of the Sixty-ninth, arrived in Washington at 2 o'clock in the morning, and were quartered in the rear of the Kirkwood House ; the Eighth were still at Annapolis, and the Fifth (German regiment) were occupying the Naval Academy. Affairs rem►in quiet in Baltimore. Fort Madison, an earthwork fortification commanding the city and harbour, is in possession of government troops. The steamer Mary. land landed a force of the Mauschniestte troops front Annapolis and large quantities of stores at Fort M'ilenry yesterday, and afterwards steamed up to the city with the stars and stripes flying. The intelligence from Richmond is important. Consi derable alarm is said to exist there in consequence of the activity of the United States government, and the unexpected unity of the North in supporting the consti tution and the fin dishonoured at Fort Sumter. It wag believed in Richmond that Mr. Davis has just notified the governors of the border States now acting in hostility to the government to assemble at Montgomery, there to confer with the rebel government upon the momentous issues before them. The conservative portion of the people in Richmond are in favour of an armistice, in order that some peaceful settlement of the difficulty may be arrived at, and several leading men from Virginia, Mary. land, Kentucky, and Tennessee, it is said, are actively exerting themselves to bring it about. The Virginia Legislature adjourned on the let inst., until the 12th of June, by which time it was expected that the returns of the popular vote on the ordinance of secession would be received. The government, mearlime, is authorised to call the legis lature together at any time during the recess. It was stated upon reliable authority in Washington yea. tsrday that there are only 1,500 Virginians at Harper's Ferry, and that they are not half armed, and very short of provisions. A deputation of Kentucky gentlemen waited on the PrireL dent yesterday, offering two volunteer regiments to the government from the western part of that state, in despite of Governor Magoffin's refusal to furnish any troops. Some gentlemen from Baltimore are also in Washington, for the purpose of tendering the service of one regiment from that city to the United States government. General Harney has prepared an address to the people of Missouri, urging them to remain in the union, ►nd pointing out to them that to join the secession movement would be to bring destruction upon their state. It bee been decided by the war department that no more troops, except volunteer regiments, are to be concentrated at Washington foe the present. THE EARTHQUAKE AT MENDOZA. FIFTEEN THOUSAND LIVES LOST! We have now received full information of the total destruction, on March 20, by earthquake, of one, if not three, populous cities of the Argentine republic— namely, Mendoss, Ban Juan, aml flan Luis. The former has certainly been destroyed, and very few of its population of 15,000 souls have escaped to tell the fearful tale. The news was sent by telegraph to Valpar.uao, and was con. timed by the subsequent arrival of • mail courier from the ruined city. The latter stated that he arrived at Hendon on the merging of the 20th ; that at half•peat eight p.m. a brie but excessively violent shock of earthquake, lasting but six or eight seconds, destroyed every building, public and private, is the city, and that the number who were enabled to escape was very limited. The streets being narrow, the buildings high, and t h e inhabitants totally unused to such rhenomerm, were paralysed with terror, and neglected to seek refuge in the open courts of their dwell• Pigs until too late. The postmaster was buried beneath the ruins of the post-office, the governor was missing; and, when asked why he brought no certificate that the mails were lost, the messenger replied, " There was no one left to write it, nor materials to write with." The aspect presented by the city after the first shock was terrific. Hoarse subterranean thunders deafened the air, mimes of all kinds rushed frantically through the open spools howling, the earth opened and vomited forth floods of water, while, to crown the scene of honor, flumes burst from the ruins and consumed nearly the entire business portion of the city, with its dead, its dying, and its wounded. On the 28th a number of letters were reoeived at Valpa raiso and at Santiago, by relatives and friends of Chileans residing in Mendoza, but the hope until then entertained, that the earlier accounts were exaggerated, soon gave way to the dreadful certainty th►t the calamity had not yet been painted in colours sufficiently vivid. The earth still continued to tremble, the few walls that bad milted the first shock one by one fell, until now no vestige of • building remains. The mountain roads are in a most dan gerous condition, not only on account of the huge masses of rock that have already fallen and obstructed the road, but because the vibration of the earth is still hurling them down from the heights above into the valleys. . The °ouches, or natives of the surrounding country, has. toned to the spot, not to assist the needy or aid in rescuing the wounded from a lingering death, but to seek for plun- der among the smoking ruins, and to snatch the little saved from the wretched survivors. One gentleman writing from thence, afterdescribing these horrors., says :—" I believe that in a few days we shall hare no other law here than that of the poignard." The Prison wee destroyed : out of 100 inmates 92 pe rished. The remaining eight, who were already hardened villains, formed themselves into ► band of freebooters, and bad gone, it was supposed, to the mountain passes, to is• tercept and rob the parties sent from Chili for the relief of the sufferers. One woman was found robbed and mar dared by the roadside. She was recognised as one wbo was on her way to Mendoza to see her family. They too bad all perished on the 20th. In the Jesuit church there was preaching that night. The Nervicee had just concluded, and the congregation was about dispersing, when the shock came. The few who had reached the pl►aa were saved, but the walls end roof of the building fell inward with a crash, and priest and penitelt together were hurried into eternity. - _ The latest advice' from Mendorat represent the suffer• lug to be extreme, there being neither food, clothing, nor shelter for the survivors, everything being buried beneath the ruins. They also state that Sea Juan and San Luis, two other populous cities of the Confederation, have shared • like fate, the Son Juan river having, after the shock, left its bed, and swept over the town, utterly destroying whit the earthquake had spared. This news is nut, however, fully confirmed. As soon an the disastrous news was rendered beyond question, the government and private individuals vied with one another in energetic efforts to send immediate relief to their suffering brethren. Without waiting for the comple tion of the work, on the 30th a party of physicians sod others left for the scene of the disaster, hearing medicines, food, and clothing, and accompanied by a small body of treFe. The gloom and terror spread thronghont the republic of Chili by this awful calamity may he imagined. " situated upon an eminently volcanic region," says a letter from Va. panics, " we have constant evidence of the insecurity of oor tenure of existence. 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