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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 11.

LORD JOHN RU WELL proposes this evening to sum
up the demerits of the first four months of the
!homy administration;—for the notice which the
noble lord has placed on tlw books of the MUM! of
Commons refers not merely to the ICI' II ER COW. hut
to the ,tare of public affairs generally. Aid in doing
ao,Lord Joni acts rightly. In the presence of a dis-
solut um, and with a general election impending, it is
fit and proper that the country should have a correct
view of the wet of men who seek its confidence.
Lord ions ltt•s4ll.l. will have an easy task to
perform. Ills materials are abundant; the facts are
pcpul .1' and 11 otof iUOS ; the inferences are natural
and iireaiatible. A few bold strokes. happily dashed
istiire all that is needful.

With one momentous exrption (the new Militia
Bill), Lord Di Ray and his colleagues are not to be
judged by the mentors they have passed or introduced
thiAwssion : for their legislation was all, more or less.
replied fur them by their predecessors. For their
law reforms they are indebted to the reports and
labours of the commissions appointed by the late
government. The utmost tredit they can take is
that they have Irked into shape the suggestions they
inherited), and that they availed themselves of the
strong desire of parliament not to allow even this
samoion to elapse without some large improvement.
the County Courts Extension Hill is not theirs;
the Metropolitan Urand Jury Bill is not theirs.
So with the Metropolitan Water and Inter-
ments Sills ; Lord Joni MANNERs found the one
actually intiodueed by Lord SErstoun, the other
lyin all ready iti his portfolio. Of the New Zealand
Constitution Bill Sir Jolt's Px•tscrox had all the
materials and mane of the details prepared for him
by Earl GREY. The chief of its merits are of Lord
GREY'S preparation (as the draught of the measure
now on the table of parliament testifies), the most
glaring of its defects Sir Jolt's's. After the same
fashion Mr. HEN LEY dealt with the Itesertion of Sea-
men Bill, whith Mr. U0'01%11E10: left behind him in
the Board of Trade; he managed to engraft on it
provisions utterly repugnant to the genius and spirit
of our Irak which would have entitled foreign powers
to search our ships; and fur their expurgation from
the act as it now stands, the country has to thank
Lord 'Witter STUART and Mr. Assns.
The truth is that no sooner did these sucking
ministers get into office than they ransacked the
papers of their predecessors to extract therefrom sug-
gestions for small measures of improvement whereon
to erect huge pretensions as great reformers. But
in their clumsy unskilled efforts to make the stolen
property appear their own, they tortured, and
spoiled, and deformed it ; and it has only been by the
original parents looking well after their bandings,
that a few stein of improvement have been taken in a
session which ought to have been most profitable for
steam
'llw present Militia Bill and Lord MALMESBURY'S
Extradition measure, like the Execution of Wills
Bill, are all their own. The first they have been able
to carry by the weakness of Lord JOHN RUSSELL
and the patronage of Lord PALMERSTON:; bat so
bad a measure ts it, that no later than last
week Sir Gattamt GREY was obliged to admit to
the North Northumberland farmers that it would
do far more harm than good. And as fur
the Extradition Bill, it is too bad even
for Lord MURDERS. It exhibits poor Lord
MALMINDURY in a most pitiable light—ready to
conciliate de President of the French Republic by
any concessions; yet without the wit or the skill so
to frame them as to give them a chows" of passing
through the legislature. Undertaking in his rash-
ness and ignorance to settle and determine a ques-
tion which, for the last fifty years, has puzzled and
defied the ablest of his predecessors, he has rushed
into a convention with France which half an hour's
consideration will convince the youngest apprentice
in our law cannot be carried but by the abandonment
of one of the most deeply cherished principles—
that which throws round accused persons the protec-
tion and the safety of legal forms.
And then their budget. With a surplus of two
millions sterling, we have had not a single tax re-
duced or modified; but instead, after seven and thirty
years of peace, we have six hundred thousand pounds
thrown away on a militia. And why have no reduc-
tions been this year made in the public burthens?
No man can doubt the reason. A larger surplus is
next year wanted to be applied to the relief of land-
owners to shift the incidence of local taxation from
yto labour; to refund the five millions of
property
it is falsely alleged the squires have lost
shies 1845.
Bat this is the positive—the absolute side of the
gaieties. There is another; that which relates, not
to what the ministers have done, but to what they
ham undone, and this is by far the most important
=whence to view the DERBY administration; for
we leers the coarse they would have followed
had they the power to work out their real will.
First dell, them they have unsettled faith in the
hemmer and integrity of public men, by now aban-
&Meg, and re-mabrad4 protection,—by now re-
ihrratiag their adhesion to their pest promises,
by thee declaring that.progrees is the inevitable law
d bursae affairs. Opinions they may have, but policy,
it is dear, they have Bone. Tbeylegan the minion
with a is duty, and they end it by talking about a
general revision of taxation. They commenced by
mewing their intention to rob the people openly, to
eslor them on the highway of their cheap loaf;
the community able and resolved to pro-
test they now whisper into their followers'
slq
eaues—• sit a little, and we will pick their pockets
he pe emently.* Why, even Mr. S ewueo&tx (the
Minded orator of the party) rejects this flagrant
=l. Per the Immtiag after Mr. Ihmeemett's
.o the limb dodoes appeared, the great
Pesteetiosiet Aameiatios —to a deputation from
wile net two yeses ago Lord DERBY exclaimed
"U foiltik=amd at timese"-- this association published
time advertisement :
" At a of the &env committee of the National
Ameleeleet he the wheel= et Industry and Capital
throughout lb, BROM lamista, held at the South Sea-
Mmsr es Masi y, the 7th of Jose, 1862. C. N.
ILP.,in to stair, the following molls.
Neu peed
:—"'That, :—.. That, in the opinion of
We eelelMilase.c• swatdisath news, of lazatioos eats
Vairibedlaraiss=:lloVasZ/CT;rieftitulows. sramiii.'" for
leas mile issiffr the Imam te4ieli May Bawls prow
a. spew f/if /me Wade. At the some time this
smoriora tally admit that a revision of %elation mast he
as • mattirofJustee, unless the err sent ememereisa
be slevised; bet they coofidently recommend their
sesetrymea is adhere to the policy which this sass.
Bluffs Meow advocated." "That a copy of the foregoi2
' suriatien to tormented to each tiv•tober of the gene
oswatittsa, to the Meal societies, and that the same be also
eavertimed."—C. N. NSWOROATS, chairman; ClinaLes
Baas, essestary."
Bet free trade and taxation are not the only things
they have unsettled. The principles of Irish educe- I
tion are again at sea. Those thew are going to
exarsine. Bat as for the terms of saministration of
the British educational grant, they have altered
without even the formality of inqairy. And again,
they. lime opened up for painful and distressing die-
warm the whole Irish question, by the attack they
have encouraged on May nooth College. Lord DERBY
i " Areerriew mmsiey" still.
la short, on no one domestic question of the
alighted importance have they pursued a plain,
straightforward, born at, and intelligible course. They
leave played and trilled with, and unsettled every-
thing without giving any real substantial hopes of
snaking hereafter a single rational improvement.
They have dealt fraudulently with protection,
and they propose to deal still more fraudulently
hereafter with taxation. They denied with one ,
breath any extension of the franchise to the growing !
Intelligence of the country, and next day they offered
it to all the penniless vagrants nurchaseable tor a
six pounds bounty. With a huge surplus, they have
refused to remit any taxation; cram tang into the
estimates of expenditure, as an argument against re-
daction, a great sum for the Rallis war, which they
are now compelled to admit is not required. In
Dublin their Lord Lieutenant has surrounded his
meet with all the old bigotry; and in Loudon the

traetarians have at last gained areas to, and inflame!
in, the COUII6Is of the crown.
Abroad they have appraised the Urea of
.• •
men at the SUM of 2201. Go where we w travel
where we please, we are 'l‘o longer ROIIOW ;
we may now be cut down and salved tot 1,001 frail:-
ersteoni, if only the foreign gavernment, so indulging
is ruffianly salient, will r..y it as a measure of lota-'
penaation and not "as an act of generosi.y." '
France we aresupr •rting and upholding and cucourag-
and 5i,4611" extratii:ion treaties (which we had
refused to eonerude w itb t w u count it ut halal monarchies
and a republic) with a despotism fouuded on the
principles and practices of brigandage. In Switzer-
land we are signing protocols with the gnat de-
spotic powers to overthrow the liberties of the gal-
lant little canton of Neufchatel. In Spain we have
ceased to have any influence whatever; and our um-
! basaador is coming home on six months leave—to
avoid probably seeing the extinction of that
constitution, to the establishment of which we con-
tributed so largely. Front Austria we have sun.
Milted to outrage and insult—we have allowed
her police to drive away in the midst of winter
missionaries whom we were bound to protect. And,
protected by Austria, the court of Home threatens to
deprive an English salved of his life for an offence
of which no one in England knows a single authen-
tic pot Ocular.
With materials so ample as those we have rapidly
run over Lord dons ltussiaa.'s duty this evening
will be clear enough ; and with such a catalogue be-
fore the country, the duty of the voters at the coming
election will be even clearer.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SVITUDAY RVENIXO.
A highly important result has taken place today
in the Corp.. Legislatif. The government proposed
that the new sumptuary laws should be referred to
the committee of the budget. The house, however,
decided that the laws in question should be referred
to a special committee. On a show of hands the
government was beaten by a considerable majority, a
result which occasioned an immense sensation.
It is proposed to modify the budget fur 1833 in
the following particulars :—From the date of the
promulgation of the new law. landed property is to
be rated for the purposes of levying the stamp
duties on conveyances and transmission of property,
at 23 years purchase, instead of 20, as is now the
ease. From and after the Ist of August next, the
duties on pure alcohol are to be mired to
43 francs. In the city of Paris the ditty is to be 61
francs. From and after the same period a duty
is to be laid upon paper. This duty will be 10 cen-
times per kilogramme upon packing paper and paste-
board, and for all other papers 25 centuries per kilo-
gramme. From and after January 1, 1833, a duty
will be laid upon private carriages.. At Paris this
duty will be, on foul-abet:led carriages, 120 f. ; on
two-wheeled, 60f. In other parts of France the duty
will be, on four wheeled carriages, GO, 30, and 20, in
proportion to population ; and on two-wheeled car-
riages, 43, 30, 13, and 10. A further duty of 301.
must be paid for armorial bearings painted on car-
' riages. Private carriages habitually employed in
transporting goods and merchandise are exempted.
From and after January 1, 1833, there will be a duty
et
60f. upon riding horses in Paris, and of 43, 30,13,
or 10 in other places. Stallions and mares kept for
breeding are exempted. A tax of 31. per head is put
upon dogs from the same period, shepherds' dogs and
dogs kept to guard the house only excepted. M.
Billault proposed that as the bill just presented
related to the budget it should be at once sent to the
budget committee. (Several murmurs.) M. Daude-
larre said that the questions raised by the bill were
most serious, and were deservilg of attentive exami-
nation. Ile moved that the bill be referred to the
bureaux, who would elect a special committee.
(Loud cries of " Yes, yes.") M. Mercier (de l'Orne),
would add, that to send the bill to the budget com-
mittee, would be contrary to the regulations which
prescribed that every new law should be sent to the
bureaux for examination. (Yes, yes.) M. Roquet
observed that it was impossible to deal with the
measures now introduced as mere additional items of
the budget ; they were essentially new bills.
M. Omuta said—the committee of the budget
had examined with care the budget which had been
submitted to it; it had prepared Important amend-
ments therein which it was necessary to send back to
the Council of State for its examination. Before re-
ceiving the opinion of the Council, it could not termi-
nate its labours. In tho present case new taxes
were in question, which the house was celled upon to
vote ; he thought that it was indispensable that they
should obtain the opinion of the bureaux upon the
projects now set forth. seeing thatthey were entirely
now. A member observed that in the projects just
laid on the table taxes were proposed which should
be collected during this year, whereas the budget
commission was appointed to consider the budget of
1853. (True, true.) The President then put the
unison, when the reference to a special committee
was ferried by a large majority. It was then decided
AM two committees should be nominated, and
Miniay was appointed for that purpose.
I enderstand that the sitting of the tonne du eon-
at which the Orleans affair was to be
tairto-day, has been adjourned until Monday.
etext for this delay is the alleged indispoei-
dub of M. Corandet, the reporter. But if lam rightly
Warmed, the real modes is to change the reporter,
as it is known that M. Osenadet's report is unfa-
vourable to the views of the rearament. People
searrofy as to affirm that ilhe pmsea who will be
with the new nem. is IL Boniadgaier. I
ma not gaits ewe that M. Rewerehass, the commis-
mime et the government on this gamitios, hes been
atialesaiasi=sethjestrarshe=rbed M. lance ;
to
Oreilhat of the adios, de estetentieux. that, in
his requisition, he mold net seal concluding in
'avow of the erimpeteses of the ordinary tribunals to
adds epos the legality of the seizure of the Orleans
MINN of Mama= and
The eommittee of the bald has adopted by a
mr‘wity of two webs, the ommatont of M. Merode,
g to molipt from the dump duties and re-
daces Go Appiumil yminety which the
'of Orissa isoillsoi to all is outaapience of
the Amanita Jan G.
I unitsimmi that a misting of some of the most
dmimultilltenosta of the Elyse* has been lately held,
milt Go vim et ergaakiag a society for the sake of
0111Ztho puma- it the Prince Louis Napoleon.
Oiddialemeste I believe of the Elyse,
seems to bum bum the presiding spirit at this meet-
ing. He *MI the personal danger to which the
prince ass MIMOSA by his fearless policy, and pro-
posed the' limmeilea of a phalanx of ardent and de-
voted adherents, who should be ready at any moment
to devote their lives for the safety of the President.
This may be regarded, if true, as a proposal to revive
the society of the 10th December.
I understand that the Rouen Railway Company is
to have the Cherbourg railway disputed by the
Western Railway C.ompany. This is expected to
mate a rise in the Rouen shares. The fusion of the
Lyons and Avignon Company and of the Avignon
and Marseilles Company as said to be highly probs.
bk. A guarantee of 4 per cent. has been demanded
from the government. This has not been yet
granted, but is expected to be.
M. de Persigny has returned to Paris and resumed,
his functions. A decree in the Monsieur puts an end
the ad interim administration of M. Lefebvre-
Dandle.
II The definitive junction of the Versailles (Right
ndlway with the Western line took place this
weak by scam of the connecting line of Virofla
It is desided that the Strasburg railway will by.
e
opened ae dlr as Nancy on the day fixed, the 17th
instant. The municipal council of Nancy will cele-
brate the asemien by public fetes. A dinner of 200
covers will be given.
At the Beams the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. refuel
15, closing at 100.53. The Three per Cents. rose 3,
and closed at 70.15. The railway market was of
an undecided character. Most of the lines fell
PARIS. SUNDAY EVENINO.
Not one of the newspapers mentions this morning
the defeat sustained yesterday by the government in
the Corps Legislatif. Yet no fact more deserving of
notice, or tame egnant, perchance, with grave
results, bas for a long time stirred the inner political
world than this, no trace of which appears upon the
surface of publicity. Perhaps no more remarkable
proof could he alleged of the fist prostration and
(wren insignificance of the daily press than this
universal omission of the only incident of the day

wortKrocording. The importance of rsteering the
neve*ritptuary laws to a special committee is evi-
dent, but the moral fleet of &successful retdatance to
the overbearing dictation of the government spreads
beyood the immediate question, and the effort
eviani a spark of vitality eomfortab'e to
witness at the outset of pit parliamentary
journey which is to lie through sixtong years. The
proposal of M. Bill:mit to refer these hi is to the
; committee of the budget shows the sort of deference
to standing rules to he eXpected front a spent er of
the house appointed by the executive. By this
manteuvre it was hoped, doubtless, to prevent that
peculiar impersonation of the opinions of the Cham-
ber touching the new bills which results from the
election of a committee in the bureaux fur their spe-
cial examination. This rule is the more indispen-
sable as regards the present legislature, inasmuch as
no amendment can be referred fur consideration to
the Council of State until previously adopted by the
committee. The strong objections very general y
entertained against the new sumptuary laws will
probably cause the special committee appointed
to consider them to be much less favour-
able in their conclusion■ than the ccm-

mit tee of the budget. Meanwhile, it may
be not amiss hero to describe tie nature of Rome of

those obligations. A sumptuary tax is held to be
an Ineligible mode of balancing the deficiency of the
revenue, because its net returns are inconsiderable,
ittitnode of collection vexatious and arbitrary, and its
effect prejudicial to industries which produce the ar-
ticles of luxury taxed. The tendency of Frenchmen,
particularly during unsettled times, being frugal and
economical even to parsimony. a wise government
should rather encourage expenditure and foster
luxury than seek to raise revenue from the rare mani-
festations of a disposition to indulge a costly taste.
But it seems especially inconsistent in the present
government, which loses no occasion of displaying its
love of magnificence, to impose with one hand the
check of taxation upon luxuries which it fosters with
the other. Functionaries have theirsalaries increased
that they may be able to indulge themselves and their
families wtth carriages and horses; ministers and pre-
fects are ordered to give great entertainments,
all with the view to promote that expenditure which
it is now proposed to repress by taxation. 'the ex-
ample of England in this matter is nothing to the
purpose. Ihe rich there spend their money freely,
undeterred by political fluctuations. But even in that
luxurious country the sumptuary tax produces little
more than a million sterling. Then, again, us to the
conditions of the amount imposed, the distinction
between town and country, between different classes
of towns, is equally untounded in theory and incon-
venient in practice. The richest proprietors arc those
who live nearly the whole year round in the country,
and these will pay .only 301 r. for a four-wheeled car-
riage, while a Pannell is obliged to disburse lour
times as much. Many other objections urged on
various grounds, from different quarters, 1 omit.
Suffice it to say, that whenever a proposal has been
made in the French Chambers for the imposition of
a sumptuary tax, it has been always put to flight by
the host of objections stated on all shies.
In the long sitting of the Council of State on the
loserptuary laws an incident took place which shows
dot some of the councillors are in the habit of ex-
pelling their opinions freely, notwithstanding the
presence of Louis Napoleon. M. Boinvilliers, an
en-representative and old advocate, said that such
projects of taxation as were now proposed were cal-
iodated to create a belief that the government was
week, and sans nectar. Upon this Louis Napoleon
addressed the hardy councillor, and -aid, es I am in-
breed: I beg you, sir, to believe that my govern-
Pent is not a weak one ; and I have every reason to
believe that it is not sans arenir."
By a decision of the minister of the interior the
subsidies that were allowed by that department to
Polish refugees have been withdrawn.
To-day is the Fite Dieu. In my letter of Friday
last I mentioned that the government, weer ing a
former decision, had authorised the public elevation
of the host in the streets of Lille on this day. It has
been determined to encourage the revival of religious
processions throughout the country to the utmost ex-
tent compatible with any unrepealed law, however
obsolete. In Paris this morning the churches have
been crowded, and in many of them the ceremonies
of the day have been conducted with much of the
ancient long-forgotten pomp. At the Madeleine a
long procession marched round the exterior colon-
nades. From the perystile in front of the Rue
Trtemhet, the Abbe Deguerry, the curl of the parish,
gave his blessing to a large crowd that knelt down
upon the pavement as the procession passed by. I
have not seen, or heard of, any procession appearing
in the public thoroughfares in Paris. But wherever
any garden, court, or open inclosed ground adjoin.
ing a church has enabled the letter of the law to be
evaded, the processions have come out and displayed
themselves as much as possible. In the 10th arron-
dissement the national guard was ordered to attend
in arms at the church of the Missions Etranffne, to
escort the procession. In the provinces it is-believed
that the revival will be observed with still greater
ostentation. Much astooishment has been felt at
Lille by an announcement that the provisions of Na-
poleon's imperial decree, dated from the Palace of St.
Cloud, the 24th Measidor of the year XII., with tea-
pet to the presence of the military at religious pro-
saism/ are to be acted upon on this occasion. Ac-
adia, to this decree, when the host passes within
Fight of any military post the troops are to turn out
and present arms, kneeling on the right knee with
the right hand raised to the head. Officers
en to salute with their swords at the
Mai of their troops, carrying the left band to
die bead. The Wears are to salute. Each post will
tandsh at lest toe soldiers as an escort. The decree
farther contains splatases for the manner in which
troops of all arms dims up in battle array are to
receive the proceeds' In the principal place* of the
town. The artillery will fire three salvos during the
promies. lle lamb secrecy has been observed in
aid /mem apes this subject, that I have been
sable to kilo whether the revival of this decree
usumatee Mostly from General St. Arnaud, the
Mlakiter at War. It seems improbable that the
=1 oceseanding the military division at Lille
haw token upon himself to resuscitate a de-
ems sthktie bough unrepealed, has not been acted
upon kr nearly half a century. If the order has
been general, we shall hear of this extraordinary em-
ployment of the French army, in 1832, at Rouen,
Brest, Arras, Limoges, Nancy, and many other places
where these street processions have been authorised.
'f he oath has recently been refused by M. Marie,
the mayor of Binic; M. Perret, the mayor of Clouray,
and M. Houvenagle, captain of the national guard of
St. Brienc--all ex-representatives of the people; by
the Marquis of Doris, councillor-general of the
Somme; and M. Bayard de Saint-Mess, receiver
oldie domains of the canton of Oisemont. The re-
tinae hitherto publicly announced give but an im-
gesinotion the total number of abstentious.
of
Asa dpralm et eminence who avail them-
selves d tea rsedl oath to make a political de-
emiisliallse Ida* it find their way at once to
Paris. But en stay. members of the councils-
general and municipalities in the provinces who do
not intend to take the oath, whose names have not
yet been struck off the lists. The prefects is
many instances postpone this final measure es
long as possible, to leave time for repentance and the
operation of official influence. M. Marie, the mem-
ber of the provisional government, is a councillor.
general who has hitherto made default without
stating his reasons publicly. A zealous prefect in
one of the departments has occasioned some amuse-
aunt by stating in a printed circular that ho expects
the oath to be taken with " sincerity." It is inferred
that this prefect can have but little experience in
ipolities.
Petitions for the establishment of the empire are
now extensively circulating in the department of the
Basses Alper. At Barcelonnette, Beyne, Javie, and
Terriers, a large number of signatures have been
collected.
The government has at length determined to abo-
lish the butchers' monopoly in Paris. A measure for
this purpnee was in contemplation long before the
12nd of Dec., and has since been repeatedly upon the
lapis. The strenuous efforts of interested part ies, aided
by absurd prejudices, have hitherto parried every at-
tempt to effect this desirable reform. It was firmly
believed by a large proportion of the good citizens of
Paris that, without high artificial profits assured to
the butchers by law, there would be no securitY for
a steady supply of meat to this vast city. A succes-
sion of statistical reports, showing that London and
other large towns where no monopoly exists, are
always abundantly supplied, has well nigh dispelled
this delusion from the minds of all but the

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most obdurate. The experiment of alloy big private
individuals to purchase whole carcases by auction at
the Central Hallos has been productive of the best
effect. This innovation, for which the public is in-
debted to M. Curlier when prefect of the police, has
taught the Parisians to calculate tho heavy price that
they have been paying fur the interposition of the
prie ilcued butcher. The bill now in preparation, and
about to too immediately presented, proposes to re-
peal all laws and rovultet ions restrictive of the flee-
' dom of the trade. of n butcher, and especially thou•
bens which limit the number of butchers, oblige them
to deposit caution-mo cy, or to form themselves into
corpotuttons. The caution-money already deposited
by existing butchers at the bank at Poissy will be
returned to them within three months.
The late storms have done much damage in the
south of France. The rivers Sez and Mosson, near
Cette, have overflowed and swept away a public
bathing establishment and several houses. Many of
the roads in the neighbourhood are impassable.
Bridges have been carried away by the floods.
The water has made a breach of several hundred
yards in the embankment of the Cette
and .Montpellier railway. The Vistre overflowed, and
the waters rushed with impetuosity along the Cais-
sargues high road. It is reported that several per-
sons have been drowned in attempting to swim
across the torrent. At Cette a custom-house officer
and a Genocst• sailor have been killed by lightning.
The accounts from Nimes are as disastrous as from
Cette. The Vidourle bad overflowed, and the Gardon
was menacing. Fortunately the waters of the Rhone
arc not very high.