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against it from the Isle of Wight were so strong, that lie hoped the Noble Lord would not persevere in it. Mr. M. FITZGERALD said that the tax would be a prohibition upon the poor of his unfortunate countrymen against their coming here, and that it would, in many instances, he a tax of 300 per cent. upon the passage money. Mr. R. COLBORNE agreed with those who praised the Noble Lord, and did not blame any one for criticizing the taxes which the Noble Lord proposed to impose; but he did blame those who got up incidental discussions like the present.—(Hear, hear.) —Let him take this oppor tunity of observing, that some Hon. Members were alwa)s goading the Noble Lord to lay on a property-tax, and yet they must well know that neither this House nor tl.e other would agree to such a tax.—(Hear, hear.)-11, was convinced that the declaration of a Noble Earl on this subject, in another place, had given general satis- faction. Mr. H. SUMNER was not at all surprised at the alarm which some Hon. Members had expressed lest the proposed tax should prevent the ingress of labourers from the sister kingdom. The Irish labourers came here on the speculation of maintaining themselves during the har vest, and of carrying away with them 5/., or 61., or 71. The proposed tax would of course diminish their earn ings, but he was sure it would not prevent them coming here. But there were other parties, whose interests had been altogether overlooked—he meant the inhabitants of the maritime counties. The Irish labourers came into those counties with their savings probably in their girdles —which girdles we could not search—and, throwing themselves on the parishes, got passed back to their own country at the expence of others.—(Hear, hear.)—Bris tol now paid 2,5001. a-year for passing Irish vagrants, and if this tax were agreed to it would pay double that sum. Liverpool would have to pay a much greater sum. Mr. WARBURTON said that imposing this tax upon passengers in steam-boats would have the effect of putting down the steam-boats altogether. What would be the consequence of this? Why, they were going to put a duty upon the export of coals, amounting only to ss. per Lon don chaldron. By this measure foreigners would prome coals at so easy a rate, that they would be enabled to start steam-vessels from Calais, Ostend, Dunkirk, and other places. Thus our own steam-boats (if the proposed tax were imposed) would be utterly unable to compete with the steam- boats of foreigners. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER must say that Hon. Members, though extremely glad to have taxes taken off, were more naturally than reasonably loud in objecting to any new taxes being put on.—(Cheers.) — It were surely unnecessary for him to remind Hon. Mem bers that he must substitute some taxes for those which were removed. The tax upon passengers in steam-boats • was objected to as being contrary to principle. Why so was almost every tax. It was hardly possible to point out one tax which did not militate against some principle. With regard to this tax, however, he must say, that while every mode of land-carriage was taxed, he did think that a tax, in some way modified, on the rival mode of carry ing passengers was not improper. —(Hear, hear. )—He said, "in some way modified," because, after receiving more particular information upon the subject, he might find that he had not modified it on the best possible scale. What, however, he must contend for was this, — namely, that when the one mode of carriage was taxed, it was not unjust to tax the rival mode of carriage. But then it was said that the tax on land-carriage was im proper, and that the tax on stage-coaches and post horses ought to be taken off. He should be very glad to take off those t ,xes if he could ; but he was sure that, when there was an opportunity of reducing taxation, no gentleman would say that the tax of stage coaches and post horses ought to be the first to be taken off.—(Hear.)—He ad mitted that on small distances, and particularly on ferries, the tax he had proposed was too heavy. That he readily admitted, but an alteration in that particular was easily made. An Hon. Gentleman, not now in his place, had talked of the many changes that had been made in the budget. That he had made changes in his budget was true ; and in stead of being sorry for having done so, he should have been, and should have bad great reason to be, ashamed if he had not made changes in those parts of his plan against which reasonable and substantial objections had been ad duced..—(Cheers.)—The House must be aware that, with regard to any plan for alteration of taxation, and for lay ing on new taxes, it was his duty to preserve complete secrecy, and that consequently he was precluded from adopting means fire acquiring such information as was ab solutely requisite for the formation of any plan that would not be liable to objections.—(Cheers.) Mc. PRICE thought the proposed tax upon passengers by steam-vessels a very objectionable one. Mr. TENNANT said, that if this tax were laid on steam-vessels, strong representations - against it would be made to the House from the stage-coach proprietors, as a tax upon stage coaches.—(Much laughter.)—He was ac quainted with a set of adventurers—(A laugh)—as they might be called, and he was at this present time in com munication with a committee of capitalists and specula tors, who were about establishing a steam navigation company for the conveyance of goods and passengers to all parts of Europe, and he would state that this was considered by all those parties as a most objectionable tax. kle hoped it would be abandoned. Mc. Alderman THOMPSON trusted that the Noble Lord would not persevere with this tax, which would be It most cruel one upon those shopkeepers in London who, after being for the whole week in the city at their busi ness, sought for recreation and amusement at Gravesend and Margate. Mr. SHAW observed, that this tax upon passengers by steam-vessels was a most injudicious tax upon the in tercourse latween the two countries, and that it had been already laid hold of by the anti-Union faction in Ireland, fcr the purpose of raising an outcry in that country. Mr. P. THOMSON remarked, that the steam-vessels would be very little affected by such a tax as this, while they would be materially bentfitted by the removal of the duty on coals. The resolution for reducing that duty was the subject now before the House, and this, therefore, was not the proper time to discuss the proposed tax upon pas sengers by steam-vessels. Lord STORMONT professed himself quite, opposed to the tax upon steam-vessels, more especially on account of the injurious effects it would have upon the western coast and islands of Scotland. Mr. Alderman WOOD thought that Scotland should be exempted from such a tax as this. Therefore, when it should come to be proposed, he now gave notice that he would move that Scotland should be exempt from it. As it would be necessary to find a substitute for the deficiency which would arise from that exemption, be would propose to supply it in this way. Scotland had at present a draw back allowed her to the amount of 200,0001. upon malt. That was a complete robbery on the country, for the malt was never used. He gave notice, therefore, that when the Noble Lord brought forward his resolution for the imposition of this tax, he (Alderman Wood) would move that Scotland be exempted from it, and that as a substitute no drawback shall he allowed here atter to Scotland on malt. There were other means, by resorting to which the Noble Lord could effect a conside rable saving. There was a motion which stood in the order book for a reduction of salaries. Now he would tell the Noble Lord that if he did not effect reductions in the public salaries to the amount of '700,0001., he would loot do his duty to the country. If he did that, he might let cotton and other articles go untaxed, It the Noble Lord would reduce the salaries of 69 departments which received about 3,000,000/. annually of the public money, he could do without the tax upon cotton, and other taxes which he proposed to impose. Sir G. CLERK would second the motions of which the Worthy Alderman had given notice, for exempting Scotland from the tax upon steam-packets, and also for taking off the drawback allowed there on malt, when they should be brought forward. He could not avoid remark ing, that last Session the Hon. Member for Callington (Mr. Baring) had stated that a commutation of taxes would afford little er no relief to the people of this country, and the little satisfaction which the present budget had given appeared to him (Sir G. Clerk) to afford a strong proof of the correctness of that statement. Sir C. BURRELL did not see why steam-coaches em ployed upon the railways, should not be liable to a tax of this description, if such a tax were to be imposed, as well as steam-vessel s . Sir C. FORBES said, that the Noble Lord seemed to be pretty much in the situation of the old man and his ass in the fable, who by endeavouring to please everybody, succeeded in pleasing nobody. For his part, he would sa y that he thought the proposed tax a fair and reason able true. Mr. F. LEWIS said, that there was in Northumberland a peculiar duty to which Newcastle coals were liable, he meant the Richmond ship duty. He wish e d to know whether the Noble Lord peoposed to repeal that tax as well as the tax upon coals generally ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied in so low and indistinct a tone that it was impossible to collect accurately the purport of what h e said. We un_ derstood the Noble Lord to say, that the tax in question had been under the consideration of Government, and that they had not found it practicable to remit it. After a few words from Mr. W. BURRELL, Mr. As- After Colonel Stweuuar, the report was received. The resolutions were put and agreed to, and a Bill was or dered to be brought in pursuant to the same. . . Mr. EVANS obtained leave to bring in a Bill to pre vent the application of corporate funds to the purposes of elections of Members of Parliament. Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON presented a petition from an individual, complaining that he bad been illegally de prived of his freedom of Dublin by the Corporation of that city. The petitioner set forth that the municipal body of Dublin consisted of bankrupts, insolvents, and people of low and infamous character. Mr. SHAW said that the Hon. Member had not given him any notice of this petition, and when he bad asked him of its nature, be replied "No matter what the peti tion is, it will do for a breeze in the House between you and me." He (Mr. Shaw) would once for all protest against his entering the list in this sort of Irish political pugilism, and he wished that the Hon. Member would not occupy the valuable time of the House for the sake of what he called a breeze between individuals. There was not the slightest foundation for the allegations of the petition. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said that many of the persons whom the petitioner vituperated were, to his knowledge, men of unblemished reputation. The gallery was cleared for a division upon the petitions being received, hut we understood that it was allowed to be brought up without the House dividing. [nd EBRINGTON moved the printing of petition presented on Friday last, complaining of corrupt practices in the borough of Bridport. Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON seconded the motion, and at the same time gave notice that to-morrow lie should make a similar motion respecting the petition against the Corporation of Dublin, which he had that night presented. Sir R. INGLIS opposed the motion for printing the petition. Sir C. WETHERELL also resisted the printing of the petition. Mr. RICE thought there was not much in the objection of the Hon. Baronet (the Member for the University of Oxford). It had long been the custom of the House to print the petitions of individuals—whether that was a wise practice or not, was not then the question. Mr. HUME supported the motion for printing the petition. Mr. WILKS also spoke in favour of the printing of the petition. After a few further remarks from Mr. CUATEIII and Lord EBRINGrON, Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON wishing to take the sense of the House on the subject, the House divided, and there appeared— Noes 55 Ayes 3B Against printing the petition —l7 Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented petitions from the town of Hertford for Parliamentary Reform ; and from Ludgershall, for the abolition of all rotten boroughs ; also a petition from Hertford against negro slavery. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from deputies of Protestant Dissenters of three denominations, in favour of the admission of Jews to the enjoyment of civil tights, and declared his intention of supporting the motion for that purpose when brought forward. Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON regretted the postpone ment of the Bill to remove the disabilities of the Jews, and promised his cordial support to the measure. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the in habitants of Crete, complaining of the evils under which they I,thoured, in consequence of Turkish oppression. Mr. HUME objected to the reception of a petition coming from individuals who were not British subjects, and who claimed protection against their own Government —a Government in alliance with this country. Lord J. RUSSELL said the object of the petition ap peared to be, to induce this country to make representations calculated to obtain for the Cretans the benefit of the treaty of 1827, and place them under the same protection as the Morea. Mr. HUME observed, that when petitions were pre sented to the French National Convention, on the part of certain societies in this country, their reception was con sidered by us as an act of improper interference : a similar objection might be taken by Turkey to the reception of this petition. The SPEAKER said that the first point, which was important to the consideration of the House, was whether a petition from persons of this description could be re ceived ; they were persons who owed no allegiance to the Crown, and could claim no protection. Their object was to sue for the interference of the Crown of Great Britain to protect them from the miseries to which they were ex posed. The next point was, whether this was a petition at all, and if so, whether it was to the House of Com mons. There was not any beginning in the usual form, and where the prayer should be, it was said that the Cretans looked confidently up to the people of England that they would advocate the cause of Crete. It was, therefore, not a petition to the House of Commons, but, through the House of Commons, to the English nation, instead of addressing the Crown. Both these points were worthy the consideration of the House. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that after this opinion, he wished to withdraw the petition ; which, after a few words from Mr. GORMAN MAHON, Lord F. L. GOWER, and Mr. RUTHVEN, was granted. Petitions for Reform were presented from Lyme Regis, Wootton Bassett, Lyinington, Newport, and two places in Monmouthshire, by Lord J. Russell ; from Lynn, by Lord G. Bentinck ; from Mansfield, by Mr. C. Tyrell ; from Thornton, in Yorkshire, and Great Bedwin, in Wilts, by Mr. Slaney ; from Oxholm, Lincoln, by Sir W. Ingilby. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from Hunt ingdon for the repeal of the assessed taxes. Lord BRABAZON presented a petition from the cotton weavers of Dublin for a repeal of the Union. Sir C. COOTE presented a petition from a place in Ireland, against the Kildare-street Society. Mr. N. CALVERT presented petitions from Hitchin and Bishop Stortford, for the repeal of the coal duty. Alderman WINCHESTER presented a petition from St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, against the select vestry act. Mr. HUME presented several petitions for the abolition of slavery. Colonel DAVIES presented a petition from Worcester, with the same prayer. Lord F. L. GOWER presented a petition from certain separatists in Scotland, complaining of the oaths and disa hiliti.s to which they were subject. The NOBLE Loan also presented a petition from the Magistrates and others in the western part part of Galway, respecting the kelp trade. Mr. HOBHOUSE brought in a Bill to repeal the laws relating to apprentices in cotton and others mills, and to make certain regulations in lieu of them. It was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time this day week. Mr. LAMB presented sundry returns. Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from Ireland, respect ing the Galway election franchise; and another against the repeal of the Union. The House then adjourned at Half-past Eleven, CONTRACTS FOR THE NAVY.—The con tracts which are about to be taken by the Commissioners of the Navy have excited much interest. Yesterday the following notice was sent from the Navy Board to the Baltic Coffee-house, fur the perusal of the Russian mer chants and others engaged in the Hemp trade, with re ference to the contract for the supply of a considerable quantity, of which notice has been given by Government IlEstr.—The Commissioners of the Navy having, since issuing their notice of the 9th instant for Hemp, had the question pot to them—' Whether they would receive tenders for Hemp from the market at home as well as for Hemp to be imported ?' do hereby give notice that the said advertisement was not intended to exclude Hemp from the market at home, if on survey at the Dock-yards it is found fit for his Majesty's service ; but all tenders for Hemp from the market must contain proof of the time when the Hemp was imported." EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—At the last Lancaster Assizes, an old man of the name of RIGBY, was brought up to give evidence on a trial of con sideralk.. importance. This witness was handed into the box with great solemnity and parade, in consequence, as it was then alleged, of his having attained the extraordi nary age of one hundred and one years and upwards. The old man swore that he was born in the year 1729, gave a string of hearsay evidence very distinctly, said that he very well remembered the Battle of Culloden, and when the rebels marched through the country, he acted as guide to the Pretender over the river Irwell, fcc, It has since then been clearly proved by the deposition; of his relatives aml undoubted documentary proofs, he was horn in the year 1750, and baptised 22d day of July of that year. His parents, Enwaan and RACHEL RIGBY, were married at the parish church of Warrington on the 10th day of July, 1730. Five children were born of that marriage before their son Cita 14. gs, the subject of this article, and were all baptised and regi►tered at that church. In point of fact, he was 80 years of age in July last. This old im poster died in November last, in Texteth Park, Liverpool. When he was on his - death-bed, the person with whom he lived requested a clergyman might visit him, but he said he wanted no parsons, he had made his peace when he was a lad, and he cried " bring me some brandy."--Not one of his relations would follow him to his graves EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the Times.) We have just received, by express from Paris, the following letter from our private correspondent, and all the Paris papers of Wednesday. On that even ing, it will be seen, the city was tranquil, and the recent tumults fortunately, to all appearance, at an end. There had been some scuffles on Wednesday between a few drunken people, who were at their carnival frolics, and some patrols of the National Guards; but it was of no moment, although pre tended to be so by alarmists. The following is from our private correspondent : PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Last night and this day have passed off, as I had hoped they would, in perfect tranquillity. There had been, as I mentioned in my last letter, various scuffles throughout yesterday between the populace and the National Guards, owing to the determined and steady manner with which the latter maintained their posts; but in most instances, I have reason to believe, the efforts of the people to penetrate the military lines were impelled by a desire to return to their own homes in besieged neighbourhoods, or see their friends during the conviviality of the car nival. Many (as I mentioned yesterday) were knocked down in these affrays, but there was no serious accident. Before I relate to you some further particulars of these tumults, I wish to state, and I have this in.. formation from unquestionable authority, that fortnight ago the Government here was fully ap prised that the adherents of the unhappy family of Holyrood were engaged in plots to revive civil war in France, and that London was the central point of communication—the pivot for the organization of this conspiracy. I believe, too, that some informa tion of these projects was made known to the British Government, and that cordial friendly feel ing was manifested at your side of the water, to prevent as far as possible England from being again made the theatre of these cold-blooded experiments upon the peace of a neighbouring nation. The anniversary of the assassination of the Duke of Berri was, I am told, an after-thought, as the signal for an attempt at explosion. The first inten tion being, the proclamation of a foolish regency of the Duchess of Berri for her son. A negotiation for this purpose was opened in Spain, but the precious head of that monarchy, " nothing loth" if he dare, was afraid to commit himself with France, at this moment in so perilous an exploit, it being, as I learn, distinctly communicated to him, that any such act upon his territory would be considered as " his own." The next sagacious thought of these unhappy - people at Holyrood was, to ascertain if upon any rock, or outlet of a port in Brittany, some fool with a white flag could be planted for a time just long enough to read to the sea-fowl the procla mation of a baby regency— and by the performance of this exploit upon the French territory, to give it a mock validity according to the law of nations. The Vendeans are, however, worn out as brigands; their old pay is still continued to them, and the Royal survivor of the intrigues of Coblentz and Brompton has failed now among his followers to find a Georges Cadoudal to devote himself in so desperate an experiment for a worn-out cause. The mock regency being, of necessity, abandoned, the pious scheme of a mass for the dead was fixed upon as the next signal for civil commotion, and priests were found to profane the altar for the promotion of this guilty purpose. As I am informed, it was on Wednesday last that the Government re ceived conclusive intelligence that a plan was nearly consummated for endeavouring to execute such a conspiracy, that pains were taking in Bordeaux, Nismes, arid among some of the clergy (curates) of Brittany to act in combination for the proclamation of little Harry the King; that signs and modes of intercommunication were pre-arranged, and that if Paris could, by a well-directed moventent,be thrown into confusion, the provinces would soon be found desirous of extricating themselves from the political influence which the capital has by some been thought too long to have exercised over them. I mentioned in my letter yesterday, that the good sense of the curate of St. Roch defeated the project of having the mass for the Duke of Berri celebrated in his chapel, ,and the Archbishop of Paris was pleased not to exhibit the same degree of good sense or feeling in preventing the Curate of St. Germain l'Auxerrois (a weak and silly old man) from uplifting his hands to invoke civil war: they have paid for their folly by flight (as I understand) and by summary destruction of their moveables. It is right I should mention, as part of the infor mation I have received here, that the strong repub lican party,—upon whose heated impulse, after all, these ultra-Royalists rely for an unintentional co operation,—impugn the Government of Philip for its conduct respecting this last tumult. They say that the Administration might have prevented any popular explosion, by seizing at once the known in stigators of these tumults,—by deposing the Arch bishop when he wa , found yielding,—and by nail ing up the doers of the church of St. Germain Auxerrois; but that they preferred the bustle of a row in the hope of strengthening the interests of the throne, by the support of all who love quiet rather than liberty; and thereby evading the pledges of the revolution of July to give free institutions to the people. They say that Ministers had no obs jection, by this momentary excitement, to turn away, for a while, the demand of the people for a new electoral law, and the dissolution of the Cham ber. And they go farther, and add, that this eva sion of a pledge to the nation is partly accomplished by the wish of the King and his principal advisers, to conciliate the monarchial prejudices of foreign stater. It is, I know, the intention of the party of M. Mauguin, in the Chamber of Deputies, to make,. as I have before said, th e re ce n t troubles a stalking. horse for urging a new charge of weakness against the present Ministers, who have been raising " heaven and earth" 'to moderate the conflicting questions which mitigate the dangers of foreign war. It cannot, I fear, be denied but that in the present excited state of the population, the chances tend more to strengthen extreme than moderate opinions. The delay, I know, to give the formal and final re fusal by the King to the Belgic Deputies, was con trived to soften down party asperity both here and in Brussels. This act upon which the King had long determined, when he found that a contrary course would inevitably lead to war, was, for the purpose I have mentioned, postponed from Monday last until next Thursday or Friday. The interven ing inflammation in the metropolis is most unfavour able to a calm execution of the King's purpose; while, on the other hand, the still fu r ther procrasti nation would only add to the cry of the violent party in the Chamber of Deputies, that this Go vernment is weak and dependent, and as such un able to wield the destinies of regenerated France. Even such an effect at this moment here has an apprehension of popular excitement, that Baron Rothschild trembled for the result of his grand ball last night, owing to its having been preceded by some attacks in the journals, for some Russian loan which he is said to have contracted. The Baron was not, I have heard, quite free from apprehen sions of an uninvited visit from the Carnival folks last night ; but a splendid party, attended by all the diplomatists and strangers of distinction, went off without interruption. However, with feelings of this kind afloat among parties much operating upon the public mind, if is not impossible but that the King may find himself placed in a most painful pre dicament in his external relations. The affairs of Italy, Poland, and Belgium, are elements of com bustion, which are constantly stirred up here by the firebrands of all factions ; and in Paris there is an excited population, upon which each of these parties (always excepting the Ex-Royalists, who only fish in these troubled waters through mere despair) in its turn likes to play. The populace will undoubtedly feel themselves stronger after the exploits of the last two days; and if churches have been opened upon this holyday, for the performa nce o f di v i ne wors hip, for the comparatively few persons in France who now desire to visit them, the permission is one at this moment dependent upon suf f erance ; for, no doubt, although the National Guards will prevent general riot and plunder, the doors of any church would have been this day nailed up at the command of any of the bawling mummers of the maskers who are now finishing their silly Carnival. To revert to the local proceedings of this city since I wrote yesterday: the night, as I expected, passed off without riot, but with the usual noise and foolery of a popular carnival, which here is a bad representation of the London Bartholomew fair. The National Guards, regiments of the line, and cavalry, were in numerous detachments, and strongly posted, their pickets thrown out in all directions and main points of intercommunication well pre served, any attempt at serious riot would, from the civil and military arrangements, have been instantly extinguished. The troops were all night under arms, and their bivouac fires blazed in the Courts of the Palais Royal, Louvre, and Tuileries, and at the stations in the quarter of the Luxembourg. The streets were almost universally illuminated, some of the windows of the houses up to the attics, so that any attempt of miscreants to destroy the ordinary lamps, and profit from the confusion of darknees, would have been unavailing. The prospect from the bridges along the quays at either side was beau tiful, from the streams of light shed by these illu minations, and the reflection in the sky from the watch-fires. The people were in many places talk ing in groups about the conspiracy of the Jesuits, to whom in fact they ascribed all the malignant attri butes of the fallen angel; and it was ludicrous to hear some of them say, with perfect gravity, that the priests got up this riot to spoil the Carnival for the people : from some mouths the nobles were mixed up with the clergy in the alleged conspiracy, and it required to depth of conjecture to ascertain, that in the opinions of these groups, the old privileged orders were, at this moment, in not very high re pute. As far as my personal observation extended, and I remained in the streets from dusk to mid night; the people were every where civil to the sol diers, joining them in condemning such:outrages as the destruction of furniture at the Archbishop's Pa lace; for, as some of the National Guards observed to them, the people of Paris would have to provide new furniture for the old which had been broken. This provident hint was not, however, conclusively adopted by some of the common people, who w ere .talking the matter over as they suggested a coun ter-expedient which would save the city from this fresh imposition. It was to knock down the remain der of the prelate's palace, and have no future Arch bishop ! Were this question put to the population of Paris, with the privilege of voting by universal suffrage, even without the ballot, I fear the abolition of the clerical functions of this high oflice would be now decided by acclamation. The knocking off the fieur-de-lis, and upsetting the church crosses, seemed also to be an exploit very much in unison with the prevailing taste of the Parisian crowd. I observed last night, that where these dilapidations had been perpetrated great sa tisfaction was expressed, and bits of the broken stone and iron were eagerly borne away as trophies. The removal of the rich old cross from the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and the smashing the roof of the entrance by its fall, was deemed a capital pu nishment of the offending curate ; and the proposal was, to supply the deformity thus caused in the ve nerable architectural front of this building, by hoist ing a large tri-coloured flag on the site of the old cross, which had been deposed from its original station. At ten o'clock this morning the authorities pro ceeded to erase the fleur-de-lis from some of the churches, to prevent that process from being under taken, as it had been yesterday, by such workmen as the mob furnished ad libitum. 1 saw them erasing the fleur-de-lis from the church of the Ascension, and they were, I am informed, similarly employed throughout this morning at other churches. They did not, however, touch the cross of the Ascension, nor do I see any disposition on the part of the people who are idling about the streets this day, to renew this part of their clerical vengeance. The ruin is far more complete at the Archbishop's Palace and the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois than I had anticipated. It was dark on Tuesday night when I saw the former; but the domiciliary visit of the populace yesterday morning completed the work of destruction; all the ornaments of the altar, some I believe presented by Mary Queen of Scots, with whom it was a favourite chapel, are de molished : the painted glass is mostly safe ; but the pews, divisions, beautifully wrought Gothic orna ments, near and upon the altar, are a heap of dust. I saw the Archbishop's Palace this morning : it is a complete ruin; it is, in fact, to use a London mob phrase, entirely " gutted." A magnificent library costly furniture, curious ecclesiastical records, a rich wardrobe,—all for ever torn and scattered,—all the elements of fire, air, and water, in fact, employed in this work of devastation. I have just received letters from Bordeaux, dated on the night of the 13th. The arrests were still going on in that town. The son of one of the Ma gistrates was there seized on the previous day for wearing a white cockade. The other arrests, with the exception of two half-pay officers and those I mentioned yesterday, appear to have occurred amongst workmen. I have likewise Tuesday's Brussels papers. The Courrier des Pays Bas has a curious letter from a Gottingen student who signs himself " H. Ahrens, Doctor of Law," in which he raves against the Government of Hanover as a dis grace to the 19th century, and speaks of great cruel ties inflicted upon two of his friends, named de Helmont and Winzingerode. I have received a letter from Munich, dated the Gth instant, from which it appears that the popular journal La Presse Libre has been subjected to a censorship. I have the editor's protest against this violence, which is ably drawn up. Intelligence received from Turin confirms the in surrection of Bologna, Modena, and Reggio, and the flight of the Duke of Modena with his family to Mantua; and adds, that Romagna, of which Ravenna is the capital, i 3 also in a state of com motion. There is no doubt that the Russians were to have crossed the Bug and entered Poland on the sth instant. Each party anticipates heroic success; the Poles have with them all the sympathy which a good cause inspires. P.S. The King has this day visited several parts of the metropolis, and been every where received with great enthusiasm. (From another Correspondent.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16. The French are indeed an extraordinary people. If they are prone to excitement, and are often guilty of acts of violence, it must, on the other hand, be admitted that they are equally remarkable for their readiness in returning to a state of tran quillity. The commotion produced by the criminal and absurd proceedings in the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of the Duke de Berri, is already at an end, and people begin to regard it as a mere inter lude to the ludicrous festivities of the Carnival. You are aware, that on Shrove Tuesday the lower classes in the French capital indulge themselves in all manner of boisterous mirth. In the morning vast numbers are to be seen parading the Boule vards, and all the principal thoroughfares, in chaise carts, cabriolets, and carriages of all kinds, decked out in every possible variety of fantastical costume, and many of them displaying no small degree of in genuity in the arrangement of their groups, and the style of their decorations. In consequence of the local tax on wines, introduced into the capital, there have long been established at all the principal bar riers, a number of guingueiles, or drinking-houses, where music and other entertainments are provided, to induce that concourse of company which an occa sion like that of Ilfardi Gras is sure to assemble. Having yesterday wit nesse d the vengeance which the populace had taken on the church which had been made the scene of the insane attempt to which ' 4 l I have already alluded, on the house of the Cure, who had assisted at the ceremony, and on the Palace of the Archbishop, who is believed to have been its secret instigator, I was curious to watch the progress of the popular feeling; and soon after midnight, when the streets of Paris had resumed their wonted tranquillity, I proceeded with two French friends to the Barriere de la Raptse, near the Jardin du Roi, and from thence pursued the exterior boulevard, as far as the Barriere de Cour tille, the chief scene of these festivities, visiting as we went all the principal guinguettes, and mixing, as we were prepared to do by the disguises we had assumed, in all the dancing and merriment which so speedily followed the deeds of violence and yen geance in which many of those around us had been prominent actors since they last had slept. The number of masks to be seen on the streets in the morning was smaller, perhaps, than in former years, but the extravagance of their midnight revel s was evidently increased by a consciousness of the victory they had achieved over the party who are justly regarded as the unforgiving enemies of the revolution of 1830, and of all its results. In spite of the numerous proclamations of the Government, which will doubtless have reached you through other channels, calling on the people to pay respect to private property, arid to leave the punishment of the offenders in the hands of the constituted autho rities, it was obvious to me, from what I had yester day an opportunity of observing at the sack of the Archbishop's P.dace, that the troops on duty had been specially charged to prevent the appropriation of any part of the moveables in the Palace by those engaged in the pillage, but at the same time to wink hard at its total destruction. I saw a person de cently dressed pick up three or four volumes in ele gant bindings, which had been thrown from the win dows, and placing them under his arm, prepare to walk off with them; but on the movement being observed by a party of the National Guards on duty it was civilly hinted to him that he was at liberty, if so disposed, to throw the books into the river, but that he could not be permitted to carry them away with him. The house, in fact, was com pletely gutted, and the very floors torn up, and sent floating down the Seine. Further down the river a number of boats might be seen filled with people eagerly engaged in the task of fishing up the wreck of the Archbishop's property; but I am not one of those who have any great fai,h in the assertion that it was all for the purpose of restoring it to the hands of its owner, or of placing it under the custody of the Government. This afternoon I have again made the circuit of the city, and although the streets in the neighbour hood of Notre Dame and the Louvre are more than usually thronged, the only apparent feeling i 3 that of curiosity. No further pillage is now permitted, and I have not the least doubt that the general ten dency of the whole proceedings will be to strengthen the hands of the present Government, and to bring to it a great accession of popularity. The National Guards are still under arms in all the quarters of the city, and a regiment of the line is posted in the courts of the Palais Royal ; but these demonstra• tions of force appear to be displayed rather to evince the watchfulness of the Government than from any necessity for their longer continuance. To-morrow I have little doubt that the attendance of the Guards will be dispensed with. The following are extracts from the Paris Papers of Wednesday " The solemn reception of the Belgian Deputies by the King was fixed for yesterday, but in conse quence of the disturbed state of the capital it was postponed until to-morrow. " The following proclamation of the Minister of the Interior has been issued this morning : " Inhabitants of Paris,—A feeling of indignation, for which there is unhappily too much cause, has produced melancholy disorders. Forgetting the justice of the King, some citizens took upon them selves to execute justice. They have thereby only supplied our most cruel enemies with arms. The conquests of July should not be thus defended. Respect for the law and love of order are the true ramparts of liberty. The principal authors of the factious ceremony which took place at St. Germain l'Auxerrois are in the hands of justice. It is the duty of us all to await in silence the sentence which it will soon pronounce. At present no new disorder can find any excuse. Brave fellow-citizens, retire far from such groups of factious men as may attempt to form themselves at several points. It is time that the agitations constantly renewed should cease, and that the energy of the nation in arms, so worthily represented by the admirable National Guard of Paris, should deliver up to justice all those who may attempt to shake the popular throne of Louis Philip. " Feb. 16. " MONTALIVET." The Quotidienne announces, that, at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, that journal was seized ; and adds, that whatever may be the motive for such a severe proceeding. and the difficulty of existing cir cumstances, it is determined, without defying danger or dreading it, to support its principles. The Ga zette de France was also seized. The pupils of the School of St. Cyr have pub lished a declaration, in -which they disavow any con nexion with the pretended pupil of that school, dressed in their uniform, who crowned the bust of the Duke of Bordeaux at the church of St. Ger main l'Auxerrois. They at the same time express their warm attachment anti fidelity to Louis Philip, King of the French. The following persons have been arrested, viz.:--- The Baron de Vitrolles, an Ex-Peer of France; Viscount Felix de Conny, an Ex-Deputy; M. Hinaut, an Ex-Chief of the Central Police of Paris, and his son ; M. Auguet, a retired Captain and Ex- Adjutant of Paris, lately returned from England; M. Durouchoux, wine-broker; M. Gombaud, an Ex- Commissary of Police, and M. Galleton (the same); M. Devallergues, a retired officer; M. Liautard ; M. Valerius ; the Curate of St. Germain l'Auxerrois ; M. Rubelet. A warrant has been issued against the Archbishop of Paris, M. Ferdinand de Berthier, and several other persons. At the house of Vis count de Conny was found a rough plan of a Royalist Association between the South and La Vend6e. Printed pamphlets and some correspond ence were found at the lodgings of several others, By a resolution formed yesterday, the Royal Court has instituted an inquiry into this important affair, and appointed Chief President Seguir to conduct it. The Courrier Francais states " last evening, couriers were sent off by the Carlist faction to diffe rent parts of France, to announce that Henry V. had been proclaimed King at Paris, and that there was fighting in the streets. ' The Government, on Its side, has sent off tele graphic despatches to the departments, in order to tranquillize the public mind, and prevent any un favourable effect from unfounded rumours. The following proclamation was issued last even ing by the Prefect of Police : ig INHABITANTS OF PARIS ! " Immediately after the days of July, the coun ter-revolutionary party who, in the moment of danger, sheltered themselves behind misled soldiers, returned the course of their former plots. It is un der the shield of that liberty which our law guaran tees to all, without distinction of opinions, that this party seek to sub vert th e i nst i tut i ons w hi c h we have won. " They have now taken our forbearance for hesi tation, and our confidence in ourselves for weak ness. Yesterday they threw off the mask at St. Germain l'Auxerrois, by a senseless provocation to civil war, concerted, even by their own avowal, with Holyrood. This crime comes within the reach of the laws, and several of the persons charged have been arrested. " Our cowardly enemies have only one means of figuring still in our country; it is by creating divi sions, and sowing among us mistrust and discord. These manoeuvres have, during forty years, done too much ha r m to France for them not to resort to them again at present. " Let us remember that for a century the watch word of Jesuitism has been—' Hatred to the family of Orleans!' Let us confide in the King, whom this hatred and these persecutions have identified 71:: ' attempt will only have consolidated the revolu , 1 and shown how strong France is when she is uni isuoaurreetabtaistei.s laidlf n f o o n r e you among by yort. einsetutsd,upit 2 "They aim to impel the people to disorder, order to drive from theni labour and security. .. good sense of the people will spurn these perfidl insinuations, and they will cease to devastate pn NTaltiieouGaloGveuranrmdsentot thekn property. . the ' and order. This devotedness will never beliebit4 and this great city will be preserved from all c e d an d r 7 ., tosses that might endanger its tranquillity z, J. I BA° . . f ; The Minister of the Interior issued the folic's/1 i Proclamation : " CITIZENS OF PARIS ! „...„,.. 1 " RESPECT TO THE PUBLIC MONT./211bl, .~ • t i " These words addressed to a civilized ° a d will not be uttered in vain. The Parisian ,P e . e y offended by demonstrations hostile to the u l be King and the Revolution of July, will never their noble sentiments, so often tried. 1 " el confide in the Government, who, this morning:li knows s n gt,liteo oduer"intsettlue.tsis. rested and placed in the hands of justice, ° ye w '. h' the principal actors in the factious ceremony 0.: took place yesterday at St. Germain l'A.tote r c ?r,"' 41 moNTALIVPIitit General Pejol, Commandant of the Fir•t, rdi fts, Division, issued likewise an Order of tl e a f tli which says, that being informed that several f? persons who assisted at the funeral servic e ,- 0 0 Germain l'Auxerrois, and who wore on the„ lr f' and hat a crape band, had for Med part of t l ' e be it Gerdes du Corps and Royal Guards, that it r impossible that such manifestations could its garded otherwise than as acts of hostility be g public order, and as being connected with othe ditious attempts, it is ordered that all the of one officers or subalterns sh a ll quit P ar is within t o vti four hours; those who excee d t hi s d e lay, 9 . ° „"b e i t cannot produce a permi s si o n t o sojourn, Will t j rested, and their names sent to the Minister at The Journal des Debats has the following) tide :—" A document is said to have bee° i ia 9 s ) h ives the Cabinet of Holyrood, in which h ar wi the f °ll(j ort gives to the partisans of his family instructions :- 4 In the departments of th e rn il ast i drive to insults and the violation of foreign t e _ d e - ? in order to excite the Powers. At Paris, encotnZol publicanism. In the provinces stir up th e nr esti, against Paris, create jealousy against it, and t e i r an t! it as in a state of anarchy. In the south, holt', leg cause of religion ; and in La Vendee, that °' I,oi macy, in favour of Henry V. Intimate that h ,f/ 1 Philip cares little about the th r one, which %I ciii forced to usurp ; and that, if necessary, h e enter into an arrangement with the coaliti°ll 0 10f, legitimacy, when either of them shall appea r le acquired sufficient strength. Prove to the, t oe that they do not enjoy the liberty they thone t ortu had won ; that others had profited by their e. v e e and, finally, that legitimate powei alone can gd i e , the people true liberty, as well as work a° g el' merce ; and that, moreover, the l e gitimate g i , ° o ,o o/ ss m ap e me n ue t k ceiarnindr. the t Kt sameioe‘ by Keep up u s ue t pu b s e ec v ,a e ra r en y fdu lhal L l i icyr e e r tahtee . unea e wt t o ur so ur i niesd i tsoiro ll: tions of w ar religious part of the population. di foreign ,by challenging the revolutionarir IA Do not appear to rely upon foreign Pow er i g isW constantly maintain that the government wo l f itself, in consequence o f th e enm ity o f all th e t;, against it, not merely by attacks from w ithin' oe y i It is asserted that a great number of el e f t r yst e Paris have come to a resolution t o r e fuse the - mei upon the occasion of a new election, to any ',,,11 1° who shall have voted in favour of the law, by t o b l , a person must pay a c e r t a in am oun t of taxes i d id ' come an elector. Several departments ar e :0 4 " have followed this example.—Journal du o'o FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, Fan. 16.---Five per Cel,"' , loF„, 0 65c. 75c. SOc. 85c. 80c. 75c. 70c. 65c. 921. 7oc. i'''', c 11 , t ' 75c. 85c. 75c. 90c. ; Four per Cents. 77f • f; ThreePeA -e A•P'• ve fl e 75c. 59f. 59f. 10c. 45c. 60c. ; Bank Stock 1,5301. 1 vo,:„„te ' A Naples 611. 25c. ; Rente d'Espagne 15S: U V; i' n - n e .. 4 ' j tuelle d'Espagne 44 43%. Exchange on London--„.`'" paper, 2..11.15c. ; money, 25f. 10c ; three months, For - ' ' money,2sf.--Cours Authentique.• DEATH OF BOLIVAR, THE LIBEO f OF COLOMBIA. A Spanish newspaper, called the Mercutio , P i ti ;illf at New York, has just reached us, conveying t /be: intelligence. It gives it with great confidence. ear berator's death is stated to have taken place 0 . . 1 ' 101 house in the neighbourhood of Carthagena, wh e r re ll'i known to have been confined for some time b e ° ; 1 0 1 1,i ness, upon the Sth of December last. The deP' o etv such a man from the scene of struggle for South toe independence, with the origin of which big he Sr' # . , largely associated, is an event of magnitude in t of, of the New World. He had been the foun der, ed rator, and saviour of his country; but his se e . t I not always appreciated with gratitude, nor req ol oo ot justice. At the point of death Colombia wa i v e 1 make him amends, but a deeply-w ou nd e d spirit h i be l t rejected all atonement, and he died as many nib °, ceded him in the same cours e h ave died---n c sll from society which he had called into existencep stranger to those honest f ee li n g s o f exultation 'I if or exertions, more than those of any other in the 14e . ° : 0 0 ° contributed to justify. He was said to be ainind 00 despotic ; but when factious discord shall have dlesheoo. perhaps history will do his memory justice, n'aoicrt active, if not the most patriot, hero of South P 4 independence. 01 0 i The extracts which we subjoin from the sl id,' Papers have been translated with a view of sh° str relations in which the Liberator stood with t hat short time before his reported decease : . J o ,iiiv (From El .Mercurio, a Spanish Paper pub' foi , New York, dated January 8.) We stop the press to announce the receipt 0 0 0 01 lowing letter from Carthagena, written, tee P / 40 1 selves, by a person upon whose veracity we on o , ► utmost confidence. It is of the date of Dee' and is in these terms : • t f t44 o/ 4 0 0 ' " lam sincerely grieved to have to acqual a oft a vessel just arrived in this port, and which 1 060 Martha on the 10th, at eight o'clock in the 0 1 , 0, brought the distressing news of the death of the , which had just taken place. Bolivar had p he e e jferi for some time at the country-seat called SO ` o f KO' wds known to have been in a dangerous state o ,oti l ir and the last sacraments bad been several daY 4 ministered to him by the Bishop of the dioce se : ol .n( habitant, of the town are not yet acquainted f lancholy news." Thus terminates the career ;.I of America. (Fro) lm the Gaceta de Colombia.) THE LIBERATOR. If il I " CARTHAGENAt 5t- o o. ' "TO GENERAL URDANETA, CHARGED IV : ti EXECUTIVE POWER OF THE nerust.l.• ;els " I have had the honour to receive the In'l e t ; r / posed of Senores Pineres and Santaniara, Wil O f ," ire with the 2d and sth Acts of September n . je "- by which lam called on by this capital to preg i , ii/ destinies of the republic, which has unfortunete'o.leeV without a Government, the former one ha vi d isu ebi I solved, and in consequence of the state of-an'", 0 0, now prevails. Feeling most sincerely for bill)} mentable train of events, I can only deplore it , eV/ is a remedy ; but the first law of Nature---tb„et d, of existing—has provided for the most urg A e ;oo o through the means of the public opinion' - oi ll'i A according as circumstances permitted. h el d i t ' " Your Excellency has been placed at th e gle it i new Administration which has succeeded to tilloileol'i by the Congress, and which has reduced the r e r P e 00 .s i 0, state of the utmost distress. The people °JOS, deceived by such a state of things. You nre ,. elie' , by public opinion as the fittest person to resel l " cP i 0 0 it from the ruin which threatens it. ring d jee " For my part I cannot avoid contributlj ce, 0 /1 , 1 lies in my power for the re-establishing of g ° , o o o % rec i li o conciling those who are at variance in th ls „ ell'lpti li : ', restoring national integrity. In order t- the A lo e" happy results I offer to the country, an d t m ° osi* te j t tration, all those exertions and sacrifices O r / my duty. ta i for afie er , c , " I shall immediately set out for the c a l' d f One ..9 pose of repeating my solemn protestation 0 0 0 t leo p tit the laws and authorities now established, until o f * l ,i_j stitut'onal Elections afford us the advantegegb-oseo i 9; tive body, and a new set of Magietrateo c o ive s , I will of the nation. Until that moulen t S ~,: , 0,,, serve as a citizen and a soldier. I ho p e ._a - to r e- 0 0 order has been restored, I shall be permitte" ll , O r e private life, from which I am now force(' 16i c h t IN -molt a, "APa 46 /1,11 t, , rtit , I lan) dw e i articles articles k e t' "l'Ph ' a 1 uia r th, CrOsa or°, ft a Utz "red r. 'mer e b e t o he v eha Th e j 4r. c with tl,( lave ord beet: "al eta ,