The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-27 00:00:00

~ r~, ~. ~ ~~ _ . friends or patrous are intere:teth e. That a/Settee to pretest an aitheeesuiryoumber of houses, the reason generally assigned for refusng permission t o open homes, built for Public-bourses, where the. reasonable wants of the Politic tequice ahem. is evidently' linitteere - 1 because eke same licensers grant licences to PoMie:homes in clusterswkere, the interest of their frieuds is thereby apitelck, i suet - houses can only be supported by allowing and encouraging bad 10. That' the sitailar Pretence, that ernipetitioa is preemie& In' 00er that the Issontords of the favoured homes may floorisli,and • not he iv - doers!, t'irtsugh eceessity,' to sulfdr disorderly coodnet on their premises, is equally fallacitios ; because the (inners of the favoured hirnito, whWaregesterally Brewerror Spirit deal • ern. always require premiums of their tenants, equal to the:salute G e t h e ino i ssipois; to them, or an additional rent; thus keeping the tenants' profits down, however valuable the monopoly mAy be to the 11. "'sn i t the t ipposilion of correcting the licentionstiessca• Coinage() at wine Poi:lse-houses. by denying bermes for °them only calculated to benefit the Monopoly Stift. it heir evident. in run sple, will nut drink - lee, or be less . #11..441001( st n together in one house, ihawthey would he if divided among tan tsr Hire*: and it 1.1 notorious in prase tics. that saute ut the most profitable houses are among those *hid( are owe iiijusissus to the public !width and morals. 1.. Th , il such tr the value, however, of the prohibition of Voispetition, that thousands of pounds ore frequently given for 'the consider:oml of a licence to a home, in usher Words, fnr per %lmhof, to trate, which expenre, tog..torr with the extra pro fits secured tat nu.yuindy, foil si,nuts the consuiners, and be tome a cries Rs toirdeu to the lower- che se, of the community. 13. That it i• unreasonable to invest Justices of the Peace With the tie] of is•oing exclosive power( for trading in victual., . a l o of tile issuing of *sloth powers by the S orereign himself is de- Oared tore void in L.a. • That r(III;lity unreasonable to authorise the said. Justices to disseize men of their liberties and fretseustoms, at, their oo Is Kin and Lleaaure, w ithout-iiring arcounialsk ht shy hicn;,n being. while toe Thrmie, is interdicted from s• bonnie ue i,j urine' she meanest subject, wafts by due COMM 4 0 tan . aiuA i. answerable for hi( acts in the persous of his mi n a..sets - 15. Tim after all, these extraordinary powers, even in the purest hands, - are in.- fficient fur .he ii4ject of keeping Victual.. Ilne-hooses in stad order; to Ca (lie they are only in action on one day .io the year, when piiiiishineui, as regards the pas!. is easily gatvid of, b. shiftily.: sae tenant. add as regards the fattier, it is as inthossitile for the lickarers . to know that such houses as they patronize will be well conduced, us it is that those'whisb they refuse is °old he disto sleety. tit IS. That it is. therefore, equally in vain to eXpect an Ogre: seal contrast! over Public Reuses, us a termination of the wriows in'keted on the owpers of houses, ow Victuallers, and ou the Public at large, under th.• I resent Licensing Systeen—a syststiii which is pr:wred to he equally IsiciAcient for good purposes, and all powerful for bad ones—errcibg a power over the Comfort s , the property, and the rights of the subject, which is atitunaltius in :he Constitutional tioverinnent of this country, and which Ii believed br he unknown in - any other. 1;. That to produce a mestietlV, it is necessary for the 31A• gi.t rates' power to he removed from the patronage of the trade ..4sictitallitie,to the coffees ion of the d 'sunders which so mellows , at ise out of it —from the exercise of t..eir ow n uncoutruliable Si ills, to the administration of Legislative rules equally ap plit thle led extending to all, and its which the penalties are proporlitined W the ,fen. e•, and attach to them immediately. le. Ma- in as far ;es it is deemed espedieut to restrict the num ber of Public-houses, that cod will be most fairly and beneficial ly accompli•bed by impming a beim' ditty on the Weiser to open any pro - amuse. thus diverting the value of the restriction from the pockets of the licence jobbers to the uses of the State. . 19. That with a large dusty imputed on leave 10 open a new !maw, and doe means provided f r immediately stopping a trade conducted in a disorderly manner, sin good reason can be ad vanced against restoring to the Public the benefit of a free cutn petit inn,- and to V irttiallers the common right. of their coontry men—namely, tine liberty to tarry on their • rade in such places as they fin I most eligible (not being locally solfonsive), and to purchase their goods of such manufacturers as offer to supply them on the best terms. Mr. GALE Jane-B.—However unwilling he should feel to interrupt for a moment the passing or such Resolutions as had been just read, still he thought no apology was necessary for an Englishman in rising to looms his sentiments upon a subject of such vast im portance as the present. This be did with the less reluctance, in ebosequence of an apparent orersrAht, by the Gentleman who had already spoken, of one point connected with this matter, and which referred to the quality of the beverage used by the Public.— Ile stated himself to be a member of the medical pro. fession, And as such most unreservedly declared that the health and lives of his Majesty's subjects were alarmingly endangered by the deleterious substances used in the companion of porter.—(Lond cheers.) —The Corporation of Brewer; consisted, as the Aleetiii4. had been told, of honourable men ; perhaps the information was correct in the general acceptation of the word. But honour. was of two kinds:—one was applied by the courtesy of society to almost every-individual who filled a certain rank, and had the port and bearing of a gentleman; hot the other was lees general in its application. lie could not conceive men honourable who sought to grasp the rights and immunities of the People, who extracted their property to pamper pride and gratify avarice, or who would take advantage of-the season of misery and distress, to convert the necessities- of the poor to the means of their own indoleore.--(Applause.) —lt had been oln.ei red by one Gentleman that, 'at an earlier period of our history, the Minister-of the day hesitated to impose a• duty on melt that ss unto have increased the beer b y o a halfpenny a quart, lest rebellion should be the conaegsencei' 4 ' 'This obsera tuition," said Mr. JOllec Si ncited Mytmind'aitrvirt of reflections whleh I'Skinlylilaiaiourert to repress. . .1 Could not avoid Ostensibly intepariog the charac. ter of the People in theplesent day with what it must bore been at . the prfod alluded to, and I. found • contrast by iio_meens flattering to ourselves. Bot,t, Sir, although' the conduct of Brewers in modern I !Jays may not excite a rebellion, I can assure you, that their productions, if I may be a little facetious, have not unfrequently been attended by intestine commotions.—(Much laughter and applause.)—.The frequency of bowel complaints has been within the few last years a matter of much astonishment to my learned hrethreu; but in thoie cases where I have been professionally consulted, I bare no hesitation in saying that the disease has been caused by the use of beer or porter, and could be cured solely by ab staining from that beverage."—Mr. Jones then pro ()eked to remark upon the cruel effects of the system of licensing, end•ef He influence exercised bier the licensing Magistrates by the Brewers. as they wire exemplified in the Priblicans. This dab. of persons were in **state of more deplorable servitude thin were .the reds under the feudal Barons. The Pebli. Min stand' In awe of hie Landlord, of his Brewer; and should he fail in the obsequiousness of his he; ttrility to Ahem, he was at their mercy, for the Go vernment had deprived him of his constitutional pro tection—a Trial by Jury. He had expected that the Brewers would have had some persons to defend them at the Meeting that day, bat he was disappoint. ed. He thought that their influence and their de. pendants were so widely extended, that like the Forty l'hirres, they would have sprung oat of their barrels to defend themselves.—(Laughter.)—He concluded by strongly ecforcing the necessity of their relinquishing the use. of porter, if the Bowers were found perseveringly hostile to a fair rice (Optic* -• r - manufacture. hit. kin:LT= said, It was a dervrideb humaDir, inculcated, that every one should endeavour to pro. • 12;ZiCiaggtagg===== 4110 1 401, .* Trict leis likiio Ttber of bowies. .Insl ~..~-r te; . THE .S'IA ,or igatiat - . 4p .. ress"" ittriot.r"rotic - a, ----- „: , : „...4 the . cbief end Ind design of civil society, and for thht purpose laws Wive likt hairier! and Governments Isloblished. Whenever, theeefore,. it he ppeeed . that sie,brsosst powerful individuals confe.., derated together to ettede ;bedews sod exercise asbi • triry confront over the rights and . litserties of ethers,. . . it became necesseiry to Call . upon the . Public totaili e l the oppressed, and defeat the measures of thefr op pressors by every possible means of. counterectires.— , ' It was (he 834) in conformity with the principtes:ef distributive justice, and to defend the commenisy in,i general from the trievittand,sprice of greed, and ambitions Men, that Magna Charts declared, that' The subjects of this Realm should have'itt their liber ties and =free customs to hold to them and their heirs' for ever. And so inviolable were their liberties coo-. sidered, that in the reign of Henry 111., the Arcls-.' bishop of Canterbury and 13 Bishops, in the presence II of the King and his whole Council, most solemnly denounced the heavy curse of the Church, or sentence of excommunication, against all people who secretly or openly, by deed, word, or counsel, should make Statutes, or observe them after they were made, or should introduce customs, or keep them after they were introduced, which in any manner might abridge or restrain the liberties contained in :Wagon Chsrts; and the aim. dreadful curse was extended to all the writers, law-makers, councillors, and others, who should, directly or indirectly, do any act contrary to those liberties, or presume to give any judgment against them; and in order to perpetuate this curse, all the Prelates set their seals to the denunciation, which had ever since bean recorded, anti embodied in oar Ststote Book. Hence the Meeting would per. ceive, that in those conscientious times, both Church and State co-operated to support the rights of indi viduals.- (Hear, hear !) —But now the corruption of the times was such, that a race of serili.l stiventuaers had been enabled, under the sanction of Legislative enactments, to colleague together, and usurp the civil and' chartered rights of a class of trailers, whose services were indispensitile to the Public, and who were moreover otiligki by Jaw to afford protection and hospitality to every guest who entered' their dwellings. In this 'respect alone the condition of an innkeeper ought to be free. Ile use a trader, awl :Was certainly as much Untitled as others to site full benefit and enjoyment of his rights, liberties, and free customs; but protec.ed as an [nuke per former ly used to be by the Legislature, innevatiuns of Isle years had crept into our 'AKA, and established a Licensing System, which had reduced Victuallers tit the most abject deg. relation, and pre:lotted them from exercising their rotations as ill ',they British traders were entitled to do_r 'bar, hear.ll.4 sys. tem, which had tended to create a moue/sots., whereby the poor were deprived of their arcustnmed comforts, the price of a most necessary article of sub sistence arbotraril) oisitliired, and she mermunt of, discontent excited throughout the coulers.-111earl —lie observed, that it was very 0011 known, that the Licensing System enahlorl the Brewers to con. federate together, and raise the price of beer when ever they thought proper, which was a thing that could never be done in this country, till the begin ning of the present trips, whets an Am was made, with the advice of the Lords iiritnel, who entirely forgot the dreadful anathema which their ecclesias tical predecessors, the Prelates, had denounced against all those who should act contrary to the free customs of the People, which Act gave a liberty to Brewers to raise the price of Beer, any Law, Sta tist., or curse to the contrary notwithstanding.—[A laugh I-- This, he COUIPAIIWI, was the death blow to all the former provisions made for the benefit of she poor in the supply of beer. From that . period, he ststed, fraling Justices arid 13rewerg hail conspired against the liberties• of the Puhlicsns, and agsiust the health and pockets of the poor and labour tog classes, by establishing a monopoly, which, acrorilitig to the law laid down by Log(' Coke, in his Institutes oil the Laws of England, was against the Liberties 'declared and granted by Magna Charts. It wss untiecessary, he slid, for him to iletsil tbe grievances which the Public at large, and particularly. the poor, suffered by the present System of Licensj ng and the li!eeets' MttooPolYs because they m d be fesed, illustrated pretty much at, large, in the late Police Report; bst be must ob serve, that however grieirousty the 'practices of Brewers might operate A - Er the 'irvitiibitants of 611 4 Nitiv;Peiis, the.plor in the cnontry, - he 'contended, Were infinitely more aggrieved .by the • t practices of country Brewers. He stated, that mast of the Pub. lie I wltonies in Berkshire, where he 'hat) lately re sided;' were tinder th e controul of Brewers or: lTeiritsdebtirs, end' that the evil had been so 'loverely felt by the Lsbourtng, Poor, as well as the Pliblieici, •tiit severe! of the County Magi,. trntes had petitioned the LegislatUre list yogi on the: ,subject. Many' a the Pubtiestes were . Iyissin'd not ate deal with .aor other persnus . than theit . resPelive' 'lan fords, for beer, wine, spirits, and other neces series. If a PUblit-hoote happened to get isito Jibe' llyieands ef . a , Sp . irit-de ,e a d le . e,. be . obliged his tenant!. 4 1 ,41 it ir ib li e4 a i s r r i O ec :l ; 6 o t d..P m ol al t r. . t!i til L er 9 d ( ‘ El i.a . Brew e r,C e t er . b r ), n ! a r ) n b e t rl b4e :P e mbhrr.illnGpre°ni:did:tisbYt antis ri tiuie Physiciant tenan t, !d *ki fr r o i t ps t 1 tb 'fisasitt .11 ' ' throughoutthe towns.end vii ese ~... ry resvers . )ageh,' wss Triipiently of such esecrableqUOity, as to diive the poor occasionally tithe r use of ardent Spirit 4 fn lleisield them tn'abasie the Government , .l a . ... . ... . 1 every rebitaboese as The cease utthese.evils . .— c i . S. adisitted t that !here tees e many aretre_Ke of . eat betteititeike iiad . integrity. Some tie _knew s t i o,m t be . tieili litapected, Miring *his tteitteuce in *rliatiiie; to As years' ISIS and 1816; he was Miffed ; to discontinue the use of Brewers` beer in oosesjoence Of the general badness of its quality.— ; - tivi'it' 'einivirOct, tti4t forrherly porter was a Cry ootritietts beterage, for tssenty-two years ago et, porter as i ioedicine'; o did so, and fled tea. . [ ioiss sattiketorily to retriember, abet after Using ;one tor, r-ros! ' 'mob Os, 0%10 - happeded to be prechred ., 4sise4 I ei the istemer of late.ilit. Caked, hi neerlett no Monger a physician. Sbnse of the,por ter be Met' hit, Hbout town floe/04s phyiiihi'dted.--( Laugh'ler.)—lf Atte porter and beer of the Brewers . of the presen , t_dei "ere of gliseise salubriopi eltriiiiy;thrPubitc.,m o . "F t hl , k re no 'cause !dr comPtaiaft.t . lyi was peClVldet!, owing . 'at to . the MortepolY sii. Public-hisi,,s)ea,‘ she, bealth of the ConifneoitY tees Thilittle-coor olte3 to , A i lte'ireparitieg of malt linos?, esrcial , kF I, ,illg! ;...., TESTAAN. ' — ^'' — . , .fr...ci•_ ~~~ ;.` ••• ". • • • 4 0., _. .. entiniirlikeyiell, many el gehapt wept Nagistraina in. tinge respective! districts, and, to whom . gemplaitits ' stoold be Unavailing. Besides all" this, he said, the tenant,. of • Poblic-hosses in• E 1 Borough 'tennis in ,ile,k.shire, were 'AO to iota et Elite.ions *coat& A L to the will of their leagilinda, or ,be termed oat' of, thiir hooses; so that it was epparent,thet4lse.pra s,int System of Lice:ll%in( not only , affected the lisle and e properties of the Publie;bot controlled the dear. est prerogative Olin Englishoiat4 ; namely, the right -of giving an eabiessod vote ettrthet.Election of a Re present. ti re in Parliament-e-y(Heor,. Israr !)—T he crisis had now arrited, w)ticbdemanded that somq. thing should be - done to corb'the rapacity of men, Who would dare to abridge the comforts of the poor;' and; Mr. S. thought, there could be null:in; ao ef. foetus! as the total abolition of the Slate Trade, asi it regarded the licensing of particular Victualling. houses. There would then be an end of monopoly, and competition would be.promoted, which would certainly hring.haptier atuttleality of twee to its fair and natural standard, at all limes. We ought,- he, continued, on all occasions, to endeavour to prevent Magistrates from trading in English liberty • for he believed, that if one dais of melt were suffer ed to be enslaved with. impunity, another class would share the same fate, till slavery became universal- If the present arbitrary ru e of granting Public-house Licences, and the gri ances consequent thereupon, were passively submit ad to, he said, we j might per.; haps be obliged• hereafter to have Government Licences for every thing. The danger had been re-' presented fully to the Meeting; it. was for the Pubs lie to avert it. if the principle of usurpation was not vigorously oppciaed in this instnnce, the Public might be compelled to put out their fires and candles at t he sound of a Magisterial curfew.—(Applouse )" Mr. Houses admitted that the remarks of those who 'poke were applicable to some Brewers, but not all. The defect, he said, was in the Licensing System, with which those respectable men who encouraged a free• trade had nothing to do, and would most, willingly join in a petition to Parliament for a remedy. It was, he said, a fact, that those who had the greatest trade, were possessed of the smallest number of leases; because the excellence of their article rendered it unnecessary to force a trade, a resource to which many applied in order to have their wretched stuff swallowed. There was another thing highly injurious: some Publicans were in the habit of making seven butts of beer oot of.the lit sent them by the Brewers. (Cries of no, no !) lie referred them to the conviction of two Publicans in the Exchequer, for the truth of the statement. Mr. Bcatinosr said, that if the Hun. Gentleman had waited, he would have heard just such a resolu tion as that to which be alluded. '1 he first Resolutions were declaratory, and if the Meeting approved them, he should then move, That a Committee he appointed, to be entitled " Tee Atiti.'Monopoly Committee," for the purpose of reducing the regulations now agreed to into a Pe. tition to Parliament, or in their discretiona l framing and presenting a BM in the spirit thereof. Mr. GIRDLER (a Magistrate) observed, there was a Monopoly in bread as well as beer ; the'', the quality of see was as bad as the other, and that be tween the two the Public were to be poisoned. Mr. [AWRY explained some of the calculations which he had previously stated to the Meeting. The great evil, he said, was in caressive taxation. He was satisfied the Brewers would join in repressing the teal abuses in the Licensing Sys eta. Mr. !lonics trusted the title of 66 Anti-Alonopoli Committee" would be omitted, as calculated to create • differences. A Gentleman, whose same we could not learn, said, so far from taking from the title of the'Corn mittee, they should add the words " Criminal Con spiracy." The Resolutions were thencarriell, and the Thanks of the Meeting were then voted unanimously to Sir Henry Wilson, the Chairman, and to Mr. Beaumont, who expressed their acknowledgments to the company for the honour that had been done them. The Meeting, at five o'clock, adjourned. FLANDERS MAIL. TIAMOVIR. J AN. 13.—His Royal Bighttess the Duke of Cambridge will pity another visit trsCassel at the end of this month, where his Marriage will take place about the middle of March. His Royal Highness will then go to England, nod will returo to this city with his Consort towards autumn. The Prince received here .official congratulations upon this marriage. The Princess's Ladies of Honour are already appointed. The Stales Of the Kingdom have resolved to Yeti. Ann the Prince Regent for the suppression of the i distiricrioit which still exists at the High Count of :Appeal at Celia, between the class of Nobles and Oat of CiMlialic thetisset.s, JAN. French Government .has Just taken siew.oseasure , , which ren4er it still . , more diicult than before to t•niuggle into the king. ideas foreign goods, either by sea or laod. The triple fiwa•orguards has been extended and augmented, and is eons* Cantons it has even been quadrupled. Oe the other land, the Generals of the Army of Oct.• potion have moot strictly .prohihited. all co-operation, is smuggling. Withip_these few days thersrhes beet peised French Flanders, a large quantity cirgulds of 3 &Peale origin. 411+11,014 a•Cabioot Messenger of his Britannic Majesty, lots passed throogh hero an his stem/' from London .10. Bsrlin. GERMAN PAPERS. ON 'llllll l -1 0 0LMCAL INTENII OF FRANCE AND . O Tt U N iiTstlilt LAN Os. &quirts, J.N. 23.—Eagland in uniting with France, as it teems to intend to do, would leave the *Moo imperfect if it did not admit the House of (Stange as a third party; and this !loose would not, in opposition to its own interest, if it did net adherreto this allisoce,.eupecially since Belgian is suited to Hollow]; for we must not look at 'France such as she now is, but such as 'Ole has efteu shown herself after tie tempest—hauihtr,. teirible, rind recriminating. May we ant fear, with Lk _ some reatoos that the southern frontiers of the. Ne. ,IFliaBilitatill would be a I wayi in. danger of being threat. ] as this kiugdow 40 1 . 13 4 ails a, st . It .~-~:, •;* . ..... common cease with Franco and" England (on the hy. ', potlsmis that these t r o Power's should unite cordially and siticerelj ). Lt wemayneer heliport* a jniraele . 1 80 extraordinary as that of this Triple ATliatite, it woblitrate . Prussia, which always has its eyes died L .epotr Westphalia, Ina - the 'WOrtheiW provinces of Hollalnil .woeld add. the alsengds• of Haeover to that - of the Netherlands, Isla* toli-14t4tislve fron tiers would be secured _on all gsfr;ts., Ibis union might tit the sequel be into aced in the south by Spain, Sevoy, and Naples; 404 on the north by Swea den, Deleon rk , end the Haiwasticrtities4 P These con. tigunus Powers would form an inexpugnable. marl. lime line, ,on which th ey 'tiould, rest with. see ev ity ; lied in case 'of 'aggression they might concentrate, 'lestiend, and divide their forte as necessity required, std successfully resift the 'evasions' of the north. The Alliance of the Netherlands is not to be dis. gained. Holland formerly proved, that • small m • ontry with bat a few inltlibitants may, by its sit"- tion; its tride, indite PAM, Wince the fortune of a great' State ansPepopelotill Nelms .whether we tompare thins. fee litrengilt or foir riches, there is nothing which wierelpowerfutly tends to establish this equality than a eterisse and commerce.. The "so. tress of commerce in all countries immediately follows tie progress of the marine ; and the marine lending *tags to commerce inbreales its prosperity, and pro. metes its extension. . = • ,The Netherlands want at Chid alt meent every thing that is necessary to form an agricultural, manufac turing, and maritime posier of the first order.—. When 110:gium and Holland united shall be fall/ aware of their strength, their means, their resources, end the advantages of their sea and of their geo. graphical position—when those two countries, amalgamated by policy, shall be blended together by' confidence Red their mutual interest--wbee they shalt reciprocally favour the exchange of their several ad. vantiges—wlien a solid credit, and various relations shall be establisbed between these two parts of the same whole, we may predict, without presumptino, th,t the kingdom of the Netherlands will be of great weight in the balance of Europe. Let us cast oar eyes upon the past; it is the school of the Notre. In 1699, Holland and Zealand cue. Wiled a million acres of land, and France then coy faired 9,000,000 ; yet the riches' and strength of lirolend were estimated at one-third of thosenf France, and the rents of the lands iu proportion to those of France as 9 to 1. The butden of all the vessels belonging to Europe in the same year, 1699, amounted to 2,000,000 et tons ; the English had 500,0(X), the Dutch 900,000, The French 100,000, and the rest was divided smock the other nations. The semi levied 'small the United Provinces amounted to the halt of those levied in 01 300.000,000 of souls, of which the po.. pulvioit of the globe was at that time estimated, the Dutch traded with 100.000,000. Look at the Austrian hleriatchy possesses a great territory, a fertile soil, and ab klidaet mines, and yet it is in the greatest embark. rassmept its respect le its finances, and this embarrass. meta has nested Oise 25 years. It has created paper currency of various descriptions, which has but in creased its distress; it has adopted a great many pleas of finaoce, none of which have had any success; and notwithstanding its good faith and its good will, it has not yet been able either to repay its loans, or even to discharge the accumulated interest of them.— Whence comes this incurable malady, notwithstand. ing all the entleaeours of empitics to remove it ? It comes from the obstinacy with which the great Poweri persist in maintaining in time of peace a military forte disproportioned to the revenues and to the popok. it is this false system which throws Prussia into financial embarrassments, from which it tries to extricate itself at the rxrnce of France. We see by this that it is not the extent of a king dom which constitutes its strength and riches, and shit - the Netherlands, under a good Auministration, may, in the sequel, go on the same litre as the Powers which now seek to draw into their orbit, what they coil the States of the second order.— (Journal de la Belgique.) FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER 01 PEERS, J.% K. 2?. The discussion was resumed on the Project respect. iog the Press. Two new speakers were heard, and also Count StutuN, Commissaire de Rol, who deluded the Project. 'file discussion las : closed, and adjourned till to. morrow. Mim••••••• CHAMBER QF iIEPUVIES, sin. 23. The discussion of the Project reSpicting Recrett.- ment vies resumed. M. DE BotscHAttE*Av proposed an Amendment to the effect of applying. volontarY enlistment to all the corps of the army. M. BELIGNOT took en historical review ofite modes of Recruiting the French Army since the commence ment of the Monarchyond contended against volan. tary enlistment ate insufficient. He supported the looposition for an annual vote with regard to the emoonj of military force, and with this qualification, after a very long speech, he coecluded by supporting the Project. .. . . . M. BENOIT . 0 pPOR 4 II ythe rittilea t on the USN grounds as M. de Villelet , • - ~ M. COVRVoiSTRIViplikis in homer of the Project, •but reserved himself to suggest some amendments. The discussion was adjowritettill to-morrow. . . Prat - , JAN. 92.—ACC011.11111 Live been received of a very violent shock of an earthquake having been felt on the 13th ultimo, at half past ten in the morn ittz, at Cattaro. There cereals° very violeatshocks ia the territory of the.Montenegrins. • Five per Cents. Thoreau, 435 f. 95. c. 1 VIENNA, JAN. It—Oar Sovereign„.it,is said, pro• poses to take a journey to Dalmatia next spring.— The arrangement of it ari3 probably depend open the que4tion as to the Intersiew of the Emptier with the Sovereigns of Russia and Prassis. ft. li , . known bete that tie Emperor of Russia intends to petaileod.te .'Odessa nest month, and proposes to be at %way . 'in April. . •. It is said that the Cabiuet of London bss eon. monicated to our Court notifiationi of the 'hi Mit ' s i t' political Interest with regard to the stairs of i America. . u -1.- 71,F . gb a- MI ...~ -° Tevr r ' ." C S l• fy We' of. to.. Oa • a - 8 . r i bi - 7,