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such an urgent necessity as to render it a duty to risk the moral authority of justice ? If a political jury is to be applied to, upon plausible grounds, to demand judicial explanations from men who boldly proclaim the rights of the Duke of Bordeaux, and to inquire whether this boldness of speech is connected with any crime, would it not also be tolerated for the purpose of criminating the theories and acts of a popular assembly ? Is it very certain that the dan ger is greater, the suppression more urgent, when the question relates to such a meeting held with open doors, than when it respects congregated agencies, which not long ago had power, and domi. veered over the Throne and the Ministry, Paris and the departments-which :night, at the present mo ment, with perfect ease, take up their scarcely broken threads, reorganize their intrigues, and resume their correspondence with foreigners ? Whatever be the fact, the scene which took place yesterday in the Correctional Police is most dis tressing. It was not the accused who were upon trial; the Judges, with their President, M. Dufour, could not conceal their perplexity, to say no more; and were compelled to confess their obligations to the defendants for restricting themselves to generalities. raetacts ratans.--PAuts, OCT. 4.-Five per Cents,, 951. 211 c. 40e. 70c. 65c. 70e. Boc, 85c. 90c. 961. 951 90e. 85c. 75c. '7oc. 50c. 65c. 45e. 40r. 35c. ; Three per Cents, 65f. 15c, 65f, 65f. sc. 65f. 651. sc. 15c. 20c. 25c. 65f. 200. 25c. 30c. 10c. 651. ; 'tellies de Naples 651. bk. 65c. 60c. 65c. 25c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 19 ltif 19; Royal Spanish Loan, .50i 50; Rentes per. petuelht d'Espagne, 38i /$S BS/ ; Ilaytian Loan, 870. Exchimge on London, one month, 251. 30c. ; three months 251. 15e.- Caere Authentigue. DISCUSSION on the PROJECT of LAW to SUBMIT OFFENCES of the PRESS to a JURY. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Om 4. The President took the chair at twelve o'clock. M. de la Ponsonniere made a motion—l. Pot ex tending the jurisdiction of the Juges tie Paix to causes in which the interest at stake does not exceed 200 f. ; 2. To 0811411 to them the rectification of acts of the civil state; 3. To give to the Juges de Nix two Councillors without salary. Ordered to be taken into consideration after the elections. M. Etienne brought up the report of the Petition Committee. The Hon. Reporter said—M. Gallery, an elector at Laval, has petitioned for the suppres sion of every establishment of the Jesuits, and the final and irrevocable expulsion of the Jesuits them selves from every part of the French territory. This petition was sent to the Chamber anterior to our glorious Revolution. Before that broke out, M. Gallery called the attention of the Chamber to the sinister influence of this society, which had wearied mankind by its intrigues and pernicious attempts. The ordinances of July, and the bloody consequences by which they were followed, attest that the peti tioner was not deceived in the melancholy forebod info which induced him to denounce those ambitious priests as plotting the ruin of our institutions, and the debasement of our country. The great national victory has dissolved this sacrilegious league, which, under the mask of religion, spread throughout France principles of disorganization and moral cor ruption. It was the natural ally of an hypocritical and crafty Government, which speculated upon the degradation of the people to delude and enslave them. Invading the schools in order to deteriorate the instruction of the public, the Jesuits founded those secondary ecclesiastical seminaries by which, not content with forming in them a clergy sub servient to their commands, they allured, with easy terms and hopes of future rewards, the younger branches of the lairs to become their creatures and their slaves. By degrees they obtained the distribu tion of every favour and every office, and, infusing their poison into the Royal cradle, and down to the lowly crib of the cottage, it may be truly said that they had obtained universal influence till the 25111 of July came, to prove that they had attained absolute power. The terrible full they then experienced ought not to caotio the Government to be supine as to their projects, which, it is well known, are never relinquished. They ever tend to re-unite their seats tered remnants, even when apparently annihilated. 'tire society resumes its form and consistence by de grees it continues to watch every weak point— discovers, excites, and foments every discord, and where it cannot dominate, conspires secretly. The fallen Government fostered it with every care, be cause it wait a fellow-conspirator. It bends itself with wonderful ability, and exercises its delusions equally on both Kings and people. In proportion as k wits the accomplice of the fallen Government, which it had entirely subjugated, and with which it marched to the violent destruction of our liberties, so will it be the more inveterate enemy of an authority founded upon rights that are most hateful in its sight. its whole tactics must henceforth be eat. played upon the mass of the people, and by them to raise against an order of things it detests all the ob stacles and all the dangers its restless anti crafty po bey is so capable of multiplying with an infernal art. The new Government, therefore, cannot fix its eyes too attentively on this dangerous association, whose doctrine has always taught that oaths may be falsi hed, and whose statutes are a complete code of per fidy, immorality, and revolt. By its numerous elli liations, it has constantly formed the ptioriple that has wrought the dissolution of States, oven when best organised. Though received into the bosom of the nation, it takes a pride in disowning its laws, and acknowledging only those of a foreign chief. In short, it levies imposts by its miesione—eorrupts the schools by its doctrines—divides families by its in trigues, and disturbs tire kingdom by its treacheries. A Government that has any sense of its duties can never tolerate a society which establishes it self as an arbitrary power over the legal and regular authorities of the State. Under these considerations, the Committee are of opinion that the observations of M. Gallery. are just and patriotic, and entitled to the anxious attention of the Government. However, that part of the petition which requires the expulsion of the Jesuits from France, individually appears to the committee to be entirely at variance with the principle of personal liberty, which happily is not more conformable to the national character than to the !awe under which we have the happiness to live. Proseriptione in the mass belong to other epochs, and are repelled by the generous sentiments that presided at 'the revolution of 18130. The opinions and modes of faith of hob viduele are sacred rights; but the Nieto can, and in deed ought tt, discard from all participation in the management of public, attire those whose professions are at variance with our social institutions; but here the rights awl duties of the State ore bounded. Opi piens cannot be subject to punishment, tintless they lead to reprehensibie acts or deeds. Tyranny begins to re i gn w h enever power attempte to prescribe menb s droughts ' or regulate their consciences. The ex pulsion of arty &Warhol whatever would be the Inflic tion of the penalty of bertishment, which cannot be pronounced but upon criminals judicially proved, Let 110 hasten to proclaim, there principles of uni versal toleration, which are invoked by all modern societies, and prove to the undoes who have H ot th e happiness of enjoying liberty, dint it is the prOteetOr even of those who despise its benefits, so long us they do not transgress the lows of the land over which it presides. It is only no far, therefore, as re hates to the establishments under the direction of a society at open war with our imtitutioni, that the committee proposes to refer the petition of M. Gal lery to tire Minister of Public Inattention ; but us to the second pert, it proposes to pass to the Order of the Day., The reeemmendatione of the committee were adopted. Several other petitions were reported, mid dis posed,of, but none of them presented any points of PO, l lO interest. The President announced that u great number of Depot" bad applied for pasepotts to go to the elec tient. ii 4 therefore proposed that the Chamber should assemble At noon every day this Week, in order to dispose of the important, measures sub.. tnitted to their deliberations. The Chamber could then adjourn on the lOth of Oct. to the tOth of Nov. M. &nerd objected to the adjournment until the law for attributing offences by the press to the jury should have been adopted. What took place on Saturday before the Tribune of Correctional Police demonstrated the necessity of this demand. Such a scandal ought to be avoided in future. The President replied, that this law was on the order. of the day, and would already have been un der discussion, if the number of Deputies present had been sufficient to constitute a Chamber. After some further observations from several Honourable Members, it was decided that on the 10th instant, the Chamber should adjourn until the President should summon the Members at their own houses. The order of the day was the discussion of the law project for the application of trial by jury to off,,ncea by the press and political offences. The President read the first article as follows: " Art. 1. The cognizance of all offences committed either by means of the press, or by any other of the means of publication set forth in Art. 1, of the law of May 17, 1819, is attributed to the Courts of Assize." M. de Schonen proposed to substitute for the above article the following : " The law of March 25, - 1822, is repealed. Conse quently the provisions of the laws of May 17 and 26, and June 9, 1619, repealed by it, shall resume their force and effect." The Minister of the Interior said that he should be the last to disavow the law of May, 1819, which was the most effectual measure, arid the most con formable to the constitutional regime of any law upon the freedom of the press that had ever been enacted in any country. It was impossible, however, to sweep away by a simple amendment a whole law which regulated the liberty of the press. The measure now- under discussion was not one fur a ge►►eral legislation of the press, but merely for a change of jurisdiction. There were certainly pro. visions in the law of 1822, which it was necessary to change, such as that which punishes an attack upon the rights which the King derives from his birth. A law for making this change would be pre sented to-morrow to the Chamber of Peers. It was requisite that the principles of the revolution which bad changed the right of the Crown, by de claring that they emanate from the people, should pass into the legislation on the press. There were, however, other articles in the law which it was ne cessary to retain, such as that which punishes bad faith in the reports of the sittings of the Chambers and the Tribunals. The right of the Chamber to summon to the bar those who insult it, and the power of the ttibunal►i to protect themselves against insult, must also be maintained. It was lawful to blame the, entire magistracy, or a part of it, but it Could not be permitted that a whole tribunal should be insulted. Magistrates exercised functions for the protection of society, and by protecting themselves they protected society.—(Bravos.) The Minister concluded by proposing the rejection of the amend ment. M. de Schoen was glad to learn that it was in tended to change some of the articles of the law of March 25. In proposing his amendment he had no intention of sweeping away the whole legislation. As to insults offered to the Chambers, it was his opinion that they should be left to die away at the foot of the tribune. M. Pelet de la Lox,:re considered it urgent to adopt the law under discussion without amendment, because, if un amendment were introduced, it would have to be sent back to the Peers, and then it could not be posed before the adjouinment. M. Valentin proposed an amendment, which was objected to by M. de Martignac, on the ground that the present was not a law for regulating the press, but merely for fixing the jurisdiction by which offences were to be tried. At the suggestion of M. de &honer), M. Ville main carried forward his amendment to article 5. The first article was then put and adopted. " Art. 2. The cases provided fear• by article 11 of the law of May 26, 1819, are excepted." M. Vatismenil proposed the following amend ment : " All offences of verl.►ul defamation and slander are ex cepted." The Honourable Deputy conceived that defAtna. tion committed by means of the public journals, or other branches of the press, ought to be submitted to a jury; but that veibal slander should remain under the jurisdiction of the Correctional Tribunals. _ _ M. Armin supported, and M. Bavoux opposed, he amendment. M. de Martignac could not deny the advantage of the proposition, but conceived that, with the present forms of process, it went against the end proposed. The person defamed was the only judge as to the prosecution, and the action could only tie brought with his consent, without the intervention of the Attorney-General. He admitted that there was room for useful reforms, but was of opinion that they could be brought about by an amendment. M. Benjamin Constant said that the amendment was good in itself, and he concurred in the senti ments by which it was dictated. Ile was fully dis posed to support the principle, and recommended it to the attention of the Government; but was con. vineed that the moment had not yet come to intro. duce into the legislation all the ameliorations which he was among the first to desire. Defamation, in the opinion of the lion. Deputy, wa s one o f t h e great&st offences against, and ono of the most painful afflictions of, society, and the public would find the beat guarantee against it by applying the trial by jury to actions for defamation. • This new benefit of legislation ought not to be allowed to escape, and i t had bis best wishes for its speedy introduction. M. Berryer did not see why the proceedings might not be brought before the Court of Assize, by following the forms adopted for the correctional tribunate, and therefore voted for the amendment. After several observations on both sides of the question, by NI. lticard and M..lacipinot de Pam. pelune, M. Vatismenil withdrew his amendment. Art. 2 was adopted. " Art. 3. All citifies in which the Chambers, courts, and trikinsh shall think proper to exercise the rights granted to them by articirs Ili and 16 of the law of the 25th March, I 822, arc also excepted." M. Minh Salverte was of opinion that the penalty comprised in this article would not attain i the end proposed. Representative assemblies, he said, were protected by their own acts and the pub- lie esteem. 'What Chamber, was ever more subject to such attacks than the National Assembly, and yet it never prosecuted its slanderers ? Recently a cer tain Ch am b e r called the editor of a journal to its bar, but it was very questionable whether by this proceeding it raised itself in the public opinion. The Hon. Member voted against the. article. M. Lameth conceived that the Chamber ought to preserve the right of summoning . to its bar such ,persons as commuted outrages against it. He said that each Peptity might personally despise such attacks; but in their collective capacity they could not do so. Would the Chamber suffer to be printed and published with impunity journals which defamed it, and encourage the public to massacre its Mem bers? In one of these journals it was said—" The Chamber of Peers is despised. Tho Chamber of Deputies is beneath contempt." Could such out rages be supported, when all France was testifying to the King and the Chamber confidence and attach ment ? Another journal said—" 'I he present Chamber is afraid of the elections. The elections are to the Chamber what the rope is to the culprit." ..-(Expressions of indignation.) 7 -Such outrages certainly made no impression upon enlightened minds, but these, Unhappily, did not form the ma jority of the community. The Hon. Deputy con cluded by declaring . his opinion that the Chamber ought to maintain its privilege of citing before it those who insult it—not for its own sake, but for the good of the country. M. de Tracy thought the question had been de cided by a formal provision in the new charter,which declares that all offences by the press shall be sub mitted to the jury. The Chamber, by bringing the author of scandal to its bar, would but give oppor tunny for its diffusion. The calumniator would thrill, unti in the very face of the Chamber, repeat his outrageous language, which probably few, if any one, had previously read; and at the same time the Chamber would at once be judge and party. The article was then put and adopted. " Art. 4. Prosecutions for offences mentioned in Art. I of the present law shall be ex-officio, at the suit of the Public Minister, who shall conform to the provisions of the laws of the 26th of May and the 9th of June, 1819." —Adopted. " Art. b. Consequently Art. 17 and 18 of the law of March 25, 1822, are repealed." M. Villemain proposed an amendment extending the repeal to Art. 12 of the law of 1822. M. iticard opposed the amendment. M. de Schonen proposed leaving article 5 as it stood, and adding to the other articles repealed that of article 12 of the law of March 2.5, 1822.—(This article relates to the censorship upon engravings.) These propositions gave rise to a discussion, in which Messrs. Guizot and Dupin, sen., supported the repeal of article 12, in order that the word " censorship" might entirely disappear. M. de Martignac, though concurring in the senti ments of the above Hon. Deputies, conceived that the repeal could not be introduced into a law which was merely a law of jurisdiction. The article was adopted. " Art. 6. The cognizance of political offences is like wise attributed to the Courts of Maize." The committee proposed the following amend ment " All political offences attributed by the existing legis lation to the Tribunals of Correctional Police shall in future be judged by the Court of Assize." M. Ricard proposed that functionaries and magis trates guilty of political offences should be sent be fore the Courts of Assize, instead of the Royal Courts, as before. The Reporter stated that the committee had not thought proper to meddle with so important a question, or change the existing laws. M. Dupin, senior, would vote for the article, be cause the amendment contained numerous excep tions. It could not he proclaimed too loudly that there were no longer privileges for magistrates or ecclesiastics. They should all be taught that if they disturbed public order they would be tried by com mon law. The amendment was rejected, and Art. 6 adopted. "Art. 7. Are reputed political offences-4. All the offences provided for by chapters 1 and 2 of the 3d book of the Penal Code, and by the ►9th article of the law of March 25, 1822 ; 2. All other offences committed upon the occa►►ion of public meetings, speeches, writings, acts, or deeds." After a brief discussion, Art. 7. was adopted. Art. 8. The offences specified in the present law, which are still pending, shall he judged according to the forms therein prescribed."—Adopted. Podenas proposed the following additional article : Two-thirds of the jury, at least, ehail be necessary to return a verdict of Guilty." M. de Martignac observed that there was a law on the jury, and it could not be changed by a simple amendment. 11, Podenas replied that it was in this way that good propositions were always got rid of. The additional article was put and rejected. The Chamber then voted upon the whole of the law, which was adopted by a majority of 191 against l.s.—Adjourned. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. CHAMBER OF DEPI/TIER, TUESDAY, OCT. 5. 'The debate opened by the discusSion of the law concerning the duties to he levied on corn. The President read a letter, in which M. Vassal, the banker, resigned his post as deputy, in conse quence of his present unfortunate circumstances. M. Alexandre de la Borde spoke as follows on the law respecting corn :—Gentlemen, with regard to provisions and means of subsistence, it is necessary to have too much in order to have enough : and in this matter the monopoly of bread and corn is the greatest evil that can befal those who make use of those articles; it is also diametrically opposed to the Ist article of the charter, which declares that all men are equal. The monopoly is the reason why 50 bushels of corn are sold for 26 francs at Marseilles, and 16 francs at Nantes,—why the farmer is obliged to send his corn from Nantes to Marseilles, arid al ternately from Marseilles to Nantes, in order to sell ; for such is indeed the nature of the laws of 1819 and 1821, which it seems now to be the intention of the Government to soften and to reform. This end would be attained with great efficacy, if the amendment proposed by our honourable colleague were adopted. The degenerated Romans asked for bread and spectacles; the French, regenerated as they now are, ask for labour and liberty—labour to have bread, and liberty not to pay for that bread at too dear a rate.—(Laughter.) M. Anisson Duperron pretended that every kind of tax laid on corn is a heavy burden for the people; however, the Government does not seem to have understood the question, and we have been threat ened with entrepots of corn, as we have already en trepots of tobacco. After having entered into some' details concerning the project of law, the orator con cluded by voting for the project, rejecting at the same time the amendment proposed by the Com mission relative to the sth article. M. Cabanon, the author of the amendment, was of opinion the ameliorations in question ought to be grounded on experience; and it was to be appre hended that hasty reformations in the present corn laws would only aggravate th e ev il. It was to avoid such a calamity that he bud proposed an amendment to the first article of the project. The orator con cluded by supporting the amendment. M. Demarcay—The question now before you is very different from any of those which generally at tract your attention, so that when any one intends to speak on this subject, he ought, first of all, to re call to his remembrance a great number of facts, not to substitute without reflection an inconsiderate system, and badly constructed, for another grounded on facts and experience. I confess, that though this question is somewhat famili a r to me , 1 h ave not had leisure to prepare all I should wish to say on the subject. The new law still maintains the same obscurity by referring to the old law. I intend to propose certain amendments when the diicussion of the different articles shall mice place. The discussion of the whole body of the law being closed, it continued on the different articles, Art. 1. "On the frontier* and coasts the maximum of, the variations on duties leiied on the importation of corn will be 3 francs per hectolitre, and the minimum b soh. 'Moe duties, and the intermediate degrees between 2 francs and 1 franc, shall remain in force, according t o th e legal p r i ce o f corn , con f orma bl y to the laws of the 15th of j u i v , 1819, and the 4th of July, 1821. Thi s d uty shall be.' franc more for corn imported into France by foreign vessel* under a foreign flag. It shall be levied without any other surtax, and without any distinction Of the place from which it Cannes." M. Cabanon proposed the following amendment to the first paragreph.:— , . "The maximuril of the duty shall be if , 60c., and the minimum 25c. The intermediate degrees between lf . and 2f. arising from the rite of the legal price of corn, will henceforward determine the diminution of the duty in the proportion of 10 sous to ft" wasM . o d p e pol a ed int b e y ric m. g opposed dei4 tlßiorisatniet, who endrent;as o whi c h f opinion, that if any thing ought to be changed in it, the modification ought to effect a still greater dimi nution of the duty. The amendment was rejected by a strong majority. Another amendment of M. A.nision Duperron was already re4ected. The Commission proposed the following amend» merit to the second paragraph 44 These duties shall be levied without any distinction of the place front which the corn comes, and with the surtax of If. Tor the importation of corn in foreign vessels." This amendment was adopted. The Commission proposed another amendment, which ran as follows " The maximum of Sf. shall he applied to rye and In dian corn , w h en t h e pr i ce of first•rate corn shall have risen to 10f, ; that of the sec on d c l ass to 14f. ; that of the third to 12f. ; and, In line, th a t o f t h e fourth class in 101. The minimum of the duty, or 2bc., the prices pass iSt, lot:, If., and I s j. " "e- 'Mel' when " The minimum of the duty oil flour, when imported in French vessels, shall be 50e. on every 100 kilogrammes, without distinction of the place from which it came. The minimum shall he 2f. 50c. when the importation shall take place in foreign vessels. The supplementary taxes shall continue to be levied in the proportion determined by the fourth article of the law of the 16th of July, 1819." These two paragraphs were adopted. " Art. 2. The legal regulating price of corn of the first class (frontier of the south extending from the depart ment of Var to that of the Eastern Pyrenees inclusively), shalt be fixed according to the medium between the prices of the markets of Marseilles, Toulouse, Gray, and Lyons." M. Dugas Montbel proposed to reduce all the different classes to one, in order to obtain one single regulating price. M. Guizot—The only object of the law is to fa cilitate the importation of corn. The question is, does the law attain that end Y In the present legal prices, no corn can come in by the southern frontier. The project of law proposes a diminution of five francs on the duties of importation; and this mea , sure appears to me sufficient to ensure a considerable importation of corn. M. Demarcay proposed the establishment of two classes instead of four,—that is, the suppression of the first and last class. The discussion continued between MM. Humblot- Conte, Delaborde, Demarcay, Duvergier de Hsu ranne, and St. ricq. Several amendments were proposed and rejected. Demarcay proposed that the markets serving as regulators should be reduced to three, and Lyons excepted, M. Guizot opposed the amendment, and Demar cay withdrew it. M. Dugas•Montbel proposed a second paragraph, which was rejected, and the 2d article was adopted. Art. 3. 44 When, in consequence of the legal price, im portation ceases in a sea-port, the cargoes which have not arrived in due time in that port, they shall be received, if it be proved that there he no deception, but they shall pay the maximum of the duty of importation." This article was adopted with an amendment of the commission. The 4th article was then read, and the discussion continued. (From the Times.) PARIS, OCT. 4. The Prussian Government Las sent fresh cre dentials, which arrived last night, to its Ambassador, and it is said that the message accompanying them was of the most conciliatory and satisfactory nature, importing not merely a frank recognition of Louis Philip, but a decided determination to imitate the example of France in abstaining from all interference with Belgian affairs. Now that all Belgium is in arras, owing to the mad policy of those who advised the settling a political question by grape shot instead of argument, the interference of a third person would, even if successful, have merely the the effect of compelling a hollow reconciliation, to be broken the moment the compelling force was re moved. I take it for granted that the most absurd of " legitimate" politicians do not contemplate the perpetual presence of a compelling force. How the great and important problem of Belgian politics is to be solved, it is in this crisis of furious excitement idle to attempt to predict; but I may mention two rumours which are indicative of the feelings or wishes of some of the actors in this deeply-inte resting drama. One party, consisting of some of the Nobles and wealthier citizens, would have no objection to see the Prince of Orange at their head, but the mass of the population would not, it is well understood, assent to such an arrangement. Another party has suggested that the young Duke of Nemours, second son of Louis Philip, should be the chief of the Government; but there is not a Power in Europe more disinclined to so impolitic an appoint ment than the French King and the French Go vernment. Every day there seems to be a greater disposi tion to support the Government, though no decisive opinion can be pronounced on the real sentiments of the nation till the result of the appeal about to be made to so many departments shall appear. About 130 new elections will take place, from which a tolerably correct judgment may be formed of the general inclinations of the elective body. You will see that the Peers will not commence even the preliminary proceedings in the trials of th e Ex-Ministers till the let o f November; and one main motive of this delay is to ascertain the dispo sition of the country, before they embark in an in quiry of such vast moment to themselveP, as a tribunal on which every eye is turned, and to the kingdom, whose tranquillity depends in no small de gree on the issue. I observe that you speak with contempt of the suspicions which the report of the committee into the conduct of the Ex-Ministers has promulgated, with respect to the fires in Normandy. You are probably correct in exonerating the Ministers of the blame of such monstrous atrocity, but it must be remembered that some ground of distrust was na turally laid by the circumstance of all the official correspondence relative to those conflagrations hav ing been destroyed. There seems some doubt whether Marshal Maison will go to Vienna after all : Mortier, who was in tended for the St. Petersburgh embassy, it is now found cannot go, because he was the officer em ployed in burning the Kremlin. The Ministers wish Maison to go there, but he hesitates, thinking it a sort of indignity to be transferred so cavalierly from one capital to the other. Sr. Aulaire bus been spoken of, but the appointment is not very probable. The Duke de Choiseul will, it is said, go to Rome, and his mission is quoted as another instance of the strange principle of selection by which Count Mole is actuated. lie would have sent the burner of the Kremlin to Petersburgh, and he sends to Rome a philosophic Liberal, the son of the roan who expelled the Jesuits, and who inherits all his father's hatred against political priestcruft. But these blunders are rather objects of jokes than of serious indignation. Indeed, generally speaking, the mind of France may be said to be m ustied with its present condition, which it considers a full indemnity for past mortifications. The taking of Paris, the defeat at Waterloo, the occupation of France by foreign troops, were all sources of painful regret, but at the same time were the not unnatural consequences of war. It was the imposition upon them of the infatuated Bourbons which was felt as a revolting injury, a result too intolerable to be for given. They have now delivered themselves from the burden, the night-mare of that dynasty; th e y are pleased with themselves and all the world, and are ready to go quietly to work in consolidating their own Constitution, and to be at peace with all mankind. N. _ Two great failures were spoken of yester day. The great house of Vassal has broken up, and the debts are said to be 12,000,000 of francs: the respectable house ofJacques Lefevre and Coulomb is insolvent to the extent of 5,000,000 f. Both Vassal anti Coulomb are missing, and are thought to have destroyed themselves—a catastrophe not un common here with great bankrupts. In France, more even than in Englund, the bankers and mer chants affect an expensive and magnificent style of living, and the transition from a palace in the Chattasee d'Antin, to a fourth floor in the Rue Montmartre, is a mortification which neither their habits nor their principles enable them to endure. N. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. Notwithstanding the loud denunciations by the Society of the Friends of the People against the sentence passed last Saturday in the Pettis de Jus ticeupon their leaders, accomp an i e d w i t h threats of a h arrangement for continuing to hold th e i r me fied e x t ings in defiance of the law, t ere was no as fourthly of these clubbists last night at the hour when they have heretofore usually met at the riding house, nor is there any reason to believe that their sittings will be prolonged. The attempts, too, to c onvene mobs of the unemployed workmen appear to dwindle into inefficacy. Placards were issued yesterday for the purpose of collecting one of the bodies upon the Boulevard du Temple, but no meeting took place. The Patriot, a paper lately established upon the ultra popular side, is making a desperate effort to induce the wounded Pa risians, who are now fast recovering from the injuries which they received in the memorable combat of July, to assemble in a body, and pro ceed to the Chamber of Peers, to implore vengeance upon the devoted heads of Polignac, and his criminal associates; but although this journal makes its best effort, 1 understand this call has been very feebly obeyed; and there is certainly in every class of so ciety, and in none more than that which has tri umphed during the late revolution, as anxious desire that the momentous trial of the ►ate Ministers should be conducted with as little of popular excitement as the circumstances of their case will admit. M. de Martignac is constantly engaged with Prince Polig nac at Vincennes, in making the necessary prepara tions for ins defence, and the Prince is, ►t is said, resigned to his fate. The Freemasons will on Sunday next give a grand dinner at the Town-hall to General Lafayette, and 50 of the wounded patriots are invited to par take of this festival. The commercial embarrrass ments of the capital are very great. lam credibly informed that among the bookselling trade alone there have been within the last month 180 failures. Y. PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, TUESDAY, OCT. 5. FANNCH FUNDS.-Five per Cents., 94f. 60c. 55c. 50c. 75c. 80c. 70c. 80c. 94f. 'Mc. 80c. 70c. 60c. 50c. 60c. 50e. 60c. 70c. 94f. 60c. 55c. 50c. 40c. 20. 94f. 94f. sc. 94f. ; Four-and-a-half per Cents., 90f. ; Four per Cents., 82f. 50c.; Three per Cents., 134 f. 10c. 63f. 90c. 64f. sc. 64f. 64f. sc. 63f. 95r. 631. 90c. 64f. 63f. 90c. 80. 60c. 40c. 30c. 63f. ; Bank Stock, 1,700 E ; Rente de Naples, 631. 90e. 60c. 40c. 63f. ; Rents d'Es pagne, 5 per Cents. Cert. Franc. jouis. de Mai, 18 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 37i 38 37i, 37 ; Haytian Loan, 370 f. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25E 30c., money, 25f. 30c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 15c., money, 25f. Isc. DUTCH PAPERS. (From the Journal de la Belgique of Tuesday, Oct. 6.) BRUSSELS, OCT. 4. An officer of the garrison of Charleroy, sent by the Commandant, has arrived here this morning, in order to obtain of the Provisional Government per mission to go to Prince Frederick to give him an account of the state of that fortress. A deputation has arrived here from Courtray to bring to the l'rovisional Government the act of ad herence of the permanent committee. M. Hardieleis at this moment at Brussels,whither he has come to ask of the Provisional Government money and arms, to complete the corps of volun teers which he has begun to form at Roulers and the adjacent communes. M. Barthels sets out to-day for Bruges, whence he will return with his company as soon as it shall be formed. M. Ducpetiaux is still in close confinement at Antwerp. It is not true that he has been sent on board the Eurydice frigate, as a Dutch journal stated. A great number of young men of good families at Brussels have united to form a free com pany, under the command of the Matqui. de Chaste lees. They equipped themselves at their own ex pense, and will, it is said, set out this morning, as it seems, for Termonde. Eight hundred volunteers, under Colonel Mayard, with some cannon, went the day before yesterday to Vilvorde, which the troops had evacuated. The following night they attacked, about a league beyond Vilvorde, the Dutch rear guard, and took seventeen horses and three horsemen. The position of the troops was a league beyond Vil vorde, and does not seem to be changed to-day. There has been a sanguinary affair at Termonde, between the inhabitants and the troops; several men were killed on both sides, and the town was on the point of being taken by the citizens, when the 1,500 infantry, who passed through Wellebreck, as we stated yesterday, to reinforce the garrison, ar rived, and restored, for the present, the ancient order of things. A letter from Courtray says, that several Dutch officers and quarter-musters had been stopped there, who were going to carry away the military chest, which is said to contain a large sum. In the citadel of Tourney, which surrendered yesterday, there were 200 pieces of cannon, a great quantity of ammunition, and a military chest, con taining 300,000 florins. The inhabitants of Bouillon have taken the cita del, and keep the whole garrison shut up in the barracks. The garrison of Arlem, having arrived at Neuf chateau, was lodged in the houses of the citizens, who required the soldiers to deliver up their arms, which was done without opposition. The tri-coloured flag is dying on the Town•hall of Diekirch; the citizens have taken for their motto— " Union and Force." At Remech and part of the Line, the custom house officers have quitted their posts. The fortress of Marienbourg has hoisted the flag of Brabant. The Governor surrendered: the for tress contains a great quantity of powder. A capitulation has been concluded between the town and the citadel of Namur. Lieutenant•Gene rat Van Geen has consented to evacuate the latter: the hour and the day are not yet fixed. The magistrates of Namur have, in consequence of this capitulation, resolved to send deputies to the Provisional Government to concert the necessary measures for the execution of the capitulation. The Provisional Government has published a decree for the formation of the City Guard of Brussels, which is to be called Garde Urbaine Bruxelloise; to wear the ancient colours of Brabant—fed, yellow, and black; to be composed of all the citizens settled at Brussels, from 18 to 50 years of age ; and to con sist of eight battalions of six companies each, 145 men and officers to a company. (From the Journal du Gand of Tuesday, Oct 5.) GUENT, OCT. 4. A letter from the Hague, of Oct. 2, say.— " This morning, at ten o'clock, all the Belgic members of the two Chambers of the States-General, and M. Van. Stade Van Ysselt, assembled in consequence of an invita- tion from the Government in the hall of the First Cham ber. It is said that this Assembly debated on the choice of a Commission, which should, under the Prince of Orange, consider of means to effect the pacification of the provinces. " At noon the Second Chamber met, and discussed the proposal of M. Sytzama, which was rejected by 47 to 10. The two Chambers afterward* joined, and the Extraor dinary Session was closed by the Minister of the Interior, who mid in his speech that the King had appointesi a Commission to draw up a project of law for the separation of the two parts of the kingdom. " I bear that Messrs. Van Cromhrugghe, Domatius, Thierry, anti Ger!ache, make part of the Commission." (From the Dutch Papers of Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 4 and 5.) THE HAGUE, OCT. 3. SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENE- RAL. Or' OCT. 2. Seventy•two members present. After some de bate, and the rejection of the proposal of M. Syt zamn, the Session was closed by the Minister of the Interior, with the following speech : " High and Mighty Lords,_ The King Lae commis sioned me to close the present Session of your High Mightinesses. " The extraordinary assembly of the national militia rendered this session necessary. It has besides been chiefly for the purpose of examining two questions of great extent and importance. " The Xing being informed of the wish expressed by your High Mightinesses on this occasion, and desiring to take the most suitable means to fulfil this wish in a speedy and regular manner, has appointed a State Commission to draw up those legal enactments which must be necessary to make those changes in the fundamental law and in- the existing relations between the two great divisions of the kingdom which the interest of the whole and that of each of the parts require. " The time which will intervene between the present anti the approaching ordinary Session of your High Might', noises will be employed in the labours of this commission. It will also be employed in considering of means to im prove the finances of the kingdom, and to support public credit, " Supported by the sincerity of his intentions and the Justice of his cause, the King will leave no means untried to put an end to the disorderp 'which affect a part of the kingdom, and, above ill, vigorously to defend and to pro tact the province. which have hitherto remained free frog► them. " Carry, gentlemen, those assurances to your homes; sr well as the testimony of the satisfaction which, in the midst of so much sorrow, the King has felt at the evi dences of your patriotism and loyalty, which have beau manifested in this auembly, as well as the calmness whieli has prevailed during your deliberations. In the name of the King I declare this extraordinary Session of the State. General to be ended and closed." ANTWEIIT, OCT. 2. Prince Frederick bas arrived here this moraisg, with his head-quarters. General Cort Hart has not joined the Prince's troops. Tint HAOUS, OCT. 2. " ROYAL ORDINANCE. " We, William, &c. " Seeing our message of the 13th of September lota whereby we announced to the St des-General our &ire to know the opinions of the representatives of the,natiou on the two following questions; (The well-known questions are here repeated.) " Seeing the answer of the States-General to thetaie; "Desiring to take the most suitable meant to foltil this wish in a speedy and regular manner; " With the advice of the chief of the several depa,rt ments of the administration ; " Have ordained and ordain— " Art. I. A State Commission shall be aerials' ~.°) propose the legal measures which :ball be mu icaulrY , N Z make in the fundamental law and the esistlog Tels t i °lll ,3, tween the two great divisions of the kialtiotot , Tallrr ~,,7' required by the common interest and ostifettea,o. *"" , o j s e n t bohr may, SecondtV. : 1 l f,) ' T i 3rtae ‘ , nh n 1 , nga l K ae in e e ,tii h isa m e et div is ions .e v v ht : o e jeta Chamber r ( e) 1 in e i n d 5 eA 8 : r o — g eeV3nhNeae m em be rs:— Me ss r s. vac o c omm i s sion la. K r i s a ie: Van shall Members c ha B i o P s r r * l ' he b o t °iii i D u sp : P 1 as e d O th i 1 114 . V ri t 3 i e r: d e : f 1 : 4 , ch im , ri w e ' f °B . : * m i I "::::' ~.' . of the Council of State. ' l.. Chi " Baron Van Lyndon Van Heinmen Nam i f .... ---, _ -7 " HuyasmLedthaneeiibesoindtraoti:Afutcinitpolhnieceff.osrsiroldtaaix.itl,eaDoo:detGonekaeGeperrresisirculae. dertibenwil:ravilson://,&000.:: " The highest in rank of the Counsellors of Su& Pri 4 mission shall be attended by Messrs. W. .L Pitkere• to w rendary of the let, and C. de Thymbaret, rare. LW: d i a. the Qd class to the Council of State, Who 141 """ r - • "3. It shall immediately assemble at the Wet . commence its labours. "4. It shall by the result before us in th e shortest dos- object possible, ee t e 7. G en e ra l, pie 2 br: : :la . 0 :1 01 e: I p ro ject s sahhhf"possible theotcommission,revisal we the bi aelfundamental be gi n n in gmt li of be th ap pro vedaiebn p ro visional ebfyt 4t 1 us el 1 1 a esi lay r : 11 3 IPb I:b th 4 I I l'lrA afi $ to r te. si it m " -I'll .gin:l6ll:lLntePt.:l' c lo a r lly a to m g om ua e r n a et moment f or get t t w h n at gi la w reu ri e netd it ;poei ristgai d voiam e t il i bersti eoll lo : 4 : 4; ki 'l _ kal id :lii : from the influence which one night: to Copies of these presents shall be add _i_ ed a t e : fo i e ! their information and guidance to pt """`- -- ° et Princes of Orange and Frederick of the Netberlsils, . the heads of the several departments of the Aniteelettidrie Lion, and to each of the Members of the ‘-' 1 7 .-- kre• above appointed, as well as to the rekreedinal 1 7" mentioned. 17th " Given at the Hague, October 1 ISA the i • year of our reign. ri WILLIO' (Signed) "By his Majesty's command. ~..i f 'I lowing having (Signed) "J. G. de MEY VAN STREEFICisw•• 4.) (From the Courrier des Pays has of MoodsY, 04 ' ACTS OF THE GOVERNMENT.--PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF BELGIUM. 1 --riab e : itli t°'°: er. The Central Committee of the Provisional Goeeroalt r ile epo nt rt iti L de purpose of effecting the exchange of Messrs. Duc t Pletinckx, and Everard, have received from them the tar' .—I be la t " Gemini:lent—Having get out from Bru s se ls on I Gamond to I P w r as ince 4; F ar re s:o de ui ri i e k coo fa t of October at eight o'clock in the evening, with AL Ttr . see, Aide-de.e.amp of General Howen, I arrived !tiff, night at Walhem, the head-quarters of Prince Freda "We were introduced to his Aide-de-CarnpMajot Ca"' who, upon the announcement of the object of oar to retired to take the orders of his Royal flightier& flelw returned, and demanded from me tlut immediate Wan: nication of the despatches of which 1... r. tbs A be rribey h t p h ar e d.in, p beecel ur opn po bre se oeeposedrvxam o vi f d ithn e t l e: i a v e: e e r mxt in lyci g ehpoin t s h wgi e a m eejmore W s mar t wet bo hic: r n inh:: ° : : : " . n d_ sh: lconductedb:oo us to General Trip, in whose preseice be stated t prises.° Il n is ot e e ac xt h en s d ide so . far ; that besides, lative proportion of each respeetiaall: ° i d the r*. I . i . ih'teat did la nob is definitive orders. tppoe t i h eole, e s:,hii,t a tiii: b s:t i ,. i fe e sennds:je n oa ee nrtnthdcee o re f onvprd m idoniert o reredi r ,s e eih s i p l ec ity ifi n e r iinnadforn:aNtiihoiolitybliofTLideduch at to treat upon this equal basis. In fine, we u` s pro. tats WI in his name, and to transmit it to you. It is eubiou7, l 0 -:.lig chili" await your answer, at Sempst, in the course of toe nt_,,,,. (Signed) " CHEVALIER BE OABIOIw " Brussels, Oct. Q, 1830." t T u a r nhG n ed ed epnaenr ag rinino a c i em Tn,ps.ertiornrittiihinsetetriPedrl riv....nionn:eb.:it:to_tonLotroriar..:oo. " PROPOSITION Or VIE ?JUNO& , I aOO , Ott. it answer to a letter signed by Mrs"' A Ord* Rosier, Sylvain Van de Weyer, and Couot felit h w e doeleet dated October I, No. 9, and being chill ed f it- I:redo° powers on the part of his Royal IliglineesPnnetna" 5.0 e• of the Low Countries, I, the undersigned Littwia the neral, propose the exchange of all prisoners tole* mass, and without distinction on either side. t Go , (Signed) "A. D. TRW , lie° ';issET. "T i l , IY ANSWER GIVEN BY THE PROVISIONAL o°Vi s s o. 10 0 " npn.nTelnieeqPnroitavihalit,o. footing Oovenrannmaelinitnwewill niontsisia°l::_xelisolle (The Courrier r O position of an exchange of prisoners en otos.; , k. an Ab j ec t of ulterior negotiations. " DE POTTER, d H e . s ßO P G ay l s El fi l• as it itall3 lll e " SYLVAIN VAN DE ‘,— t ‘ lo t unce officially the surrender of tphrregeoderiiii°t:4stEfe arienhourg and Phillipville. The latter refused to lire upon the inhabitants, and 1/ bad ed the tricoloured Brabancon cockade. N amilt also surrendered.) garrison o f heir" guard H e • a te_ ft _r t : e i r a n y Th aarpo b fl e i y et.at noaltlidhesuevreaaGadno fevceemanneygeftvas lan: in E -ot pl C‘f ep eg guard,h ic theTuhafEets , 413:n altaep :: ffef d r. s e l iek el 1 l i i r D evi r i e ie f : t. hi gieside:iir a°l uj~l:iinolcreed;pckteeloiiir:' ell:4'lleid°l4l4,:::it:ll:iliuslottic:tihhoilli three pro t a tt e n rg ; ► ri ,' Colanel.ia.o Maynard, „f d, l tuak sante deserters near these advantages hie;fßofigtnhede horse s 1,000 Dutc h disorder • T at Sault*immediately flea in -1 Itisfilrj from . fi * T he want it0C 11; of "y a happy combination of causes, all then, po, tem Europe are interested in our itlepeaerie d e , sot j r is alike the barrier against Prus4ist 11 , 1 '. s i tould ' bourhood. Fanee. If the other Powers wish th‘ r "" with and The: t: n' dt interesties isgura o n f te t e he w o e tii 7 er n t 3 re we o r t: 4 i i : I ,l l.o i r t it e i l .fi g t . ; they not be invaded from without, or overthr°,vlll *nee, onf mght to guarantee our entire isuePeci.nettrei treaties of commerce and goou - with our own. Thel/4vexistting facts ste_ i e v '.) i n . by ynd took nineteen horses. That:lees,* tot „ i ..• more favourable to us.. • ,rupais mensal , w it :, to testine commotions, and.thillbenish -provn;fle not submit to their yoke without IsalV l ',l 4 n et Austria cannot answer either for Lomustu; l t i t e t r is a ai r a m i y a t is on d fa isc r o n n if. tent P el lan A d Hungary. England is bound down by her dehtt.i!'; Ireland which is a burden upon her, and hi i nui6 i pow er lesi if she leagues with any other Power, a counterpo's:e. from an opposite influence must instantly be PO I . fested, which will reduce her to inaction. , The power, however, which protects us still mot than the internal embarrassments of these ellblllol# is France. Her people, so generour, so enlightene, : so energetic, will never suffer an attack upon OUr Ilt dependence, nor permit the German landwher r:i come and revenge our country, for the purpose " returning us to the Dutch Stadtholder. e h Bur supposing it were possible that the Freo Government, or Ministry, should retract the pol l ciple of non-intervention the peoPl e °f Fr :a i would compel them to respect it, Ana es et • swords into the scale. iloenienssuhreteicetionary, ar. Thus the independence of Belgium is Isoured.