The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-27 00:00:00

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pan], it is sahl, will give ap for the Cambia line the pre- there is such andostme ea there of our govern-
GERMANY. gilt Court.
gilt eratreofs. FRANCE
louation•ovearde Lyons, and ni consequently, oases to
plocie the. Wants of the Paris to Lyons company' is peril. - meat to enforce this treaty, se MO can well imagine.
----••- PARIS, FRIDAY EVIIIIIIINO We ars snared Mat the Orleans company, In exchange for BERLIN, Bunco 22. Besides the waters and the tributaries of the La
To eottnIMPONDIDITIL The Monday contains to-day several decrees of theytion Id the oonemelon of the Centre, Bordeaux, Re
and Zit:7egenti ,ilweys, will moues of a ministerial crisis still circulate, not-
withstanding the contradictions they reoeive every Plata river are open to us and to our trade for expleeThe Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday
at Buckingham Palace
ration, and our morbid Secretary of State refuses, - Palace.
ow., eelose,re llie Femme," emOrMan the mem eventieri high importance. I announced to Son several weeks e line • yesterday was the birthday of the Duke of Cambriar
of the Centro the railways et:prole, CilleertruniZ, antbd Li-
. Genet. ,`• is publedict every Teseday ma rtukey 'led. i° tb" ago that there was a project on foot for extending few Sys' lif .M. Bethmann-Hollweg, the leader of the even after the nomination and confirmation of our Prises Albert, attended by Lieut.-C I
thei afternoon
e The ton the Duke.
f c,tamthlittl
gree
M, and on the Bordeaux line, to euntinue the railway
bureaucratic conservative, whose opinions are rere- consuls in that quarter, to give them their instrue-
...ditetienoriwnee.ilthsevte.llon
Gordon, paid a visit of congratulation at three Weir
WI r'''.- -ie. eat:mended toe" The Itsreweketankin averts, papas the powers of the prefects, and erecting these civil frpm powor„ to Rochefort
41''' 1.• "m«, 10, ficeverie.stresfs be Twa o'clock se the governors of the departments into a sort of tented by the. Preussischellischeroblatt, of which ho is dons, that they may proceed in their duties.
w„..:1, 0 i
The minister of finance, the day before yesterday, ;
di, sil ;shillalas. with discretionary power over concerns whictraltav ' Commodore Goldsborough has been appointed flag eta. at B •
gave • prinite audence to MM. Ardoin, ltiLardo, Ex- 'ndeed the principal founder, is mentioned in all the tea rayuckingham Palace.
111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. been hitherto referred to the ministry of the interior.e pellets, and other memrs of the beard of directors hypothetical combinations that one meets. There is captain, and Commodore Stringham commodore, of ri e Alfred and the Princenes Helena and -
v-is nat-Wormus. ie. sta..........aftemem sa. ss- This project, styled by a singular abuse of languaste tour squadron in the Mediterranean. their accustomed ezetem yesterday in the gar
little doubt that the king, and still more the Prinoe
a..„..-110asss. WI Ste. ...-...Atmeasen, eit.Csa.
aof d ' • • - c'•
project ecentralisation, is developed at length the Bordeaux t Cetto Ital way, aooom •d b panic y „„, .
of ruesta, would be very glad to get rid of H. Man- Kossuth has arrived at St. Louis, whore he was lathe= Palow.
the rtiresentatives of Meyers. Locke, Massey, Betts,
in the official journal, and is certainly one of the[stiffed, if he knew how. This minister's position is per- escorted from the steamer by several companies of '
vtratleesr Majesty and Prince Albert, with
LONDON, 8.177-111)..1 Y, MARCIE 27. gravest picece of legislation by dec on which the and
et°'
members
of
this
English and
h the directors of the foundries of Decaseville, committer,
Chu: ana the most anomahusoccupied by any public man German militia. He keeps up his spirits admirably, by the Countsun
f Royal, and the Price,
Captain
thefirmoJM
fueutntlEdgeumbe, t'
President has yet ventured. Properly
. .speaking, to tillon, and Commeetry. in Europa at the present moment. He is anything but seems to be a little fretted at the diminution of .1 tut, R.N., u
We cannot swell the chorus of approbation be- decentralise is to increase
the municipal indepen- The Gazette de France says: but popular ; the chambers dislike him, and out- the material aid which ho has so earnestly implored. honoured the Princess'. Theatre at'
stowed by our contemporaries upon the Loin) CHAN- deuce of the departments and communes • whereas vote his party. lie is not regarded with favour by The Hungarian Bonds find little or no sale, and I evcuing.
. ind 'teas
Orleans, The treaty of union which 0 to take plate between thel.:ler
_Majesty's Private Band act
al toil, in consequence of the bull introduced by him the present decree destroys all municipalthe court, and yet he manages to hold office to the very much fear that the estimate that I formed
i.aonttloa.::%,
ilii,:ririle, 111md Nantes Railway Company,
ander the title of the Law ist Wills Amendment. dente, and arms the deputy of the central goci;tran--The fact is, the king and some months ago of the amount he would receive is rprolatminrotV played t'
signed.orou'llOhrre cePrciT'tiatt::,?..l7ototr. exclusion of better men.
His first appearance as a law reformer is, in our went, the prefect, with the arbitrary authority Of a It"" companies yesterday'teY
hadarc so glad to have been delivered, us far greeter than t, ut which he will actually receive. Finale, "Martha"
laktnent, a failure, and gives bad promise as pro-consul. The prefects will continue to subinit to to
of Public Works. The new company, formed from this his
friends
they hope, from the revolution, that they will put up The Senate of the United States has voted 5,000 dots. The Duchene of Kent visi'
will execute a branch line from Clermontyesterday, at Uloucesterli
out of its contingent fund, to pay KoNsuth's expenses to the larger and more comprehensive reforms for the decision of the Minister of the Interior the `mien
of
the
kw'
a groat deal of personal unpleasantness to keep }errand tou Boanne, and thus open a line parallel to that with
oho, the public look, and which are to be introduced departmental and communal affairs which' raff t from Pans to Lyon.. things quiet. The Chamber are at the mercy of the while in the city of Washington.
A deputation from t'
slider his auspwes. The subject to which he called directly the general interest of the state, affect
The
Prefect of Calvados has communicated to the government, and the people arc not in a political Robert Stephenson, •
attention wee of general interest. Theobject proposed as the approbation of the depart ntal budgets,,nun
council-general the followieg letter, which has been mood. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
~ Tyler, R.E., had car
to he I Meted -namely, the nanoval of doubt and on- traordinary aseessments, and territorial delimitatioa
nsa
; addressed to hint by the Minister of Public Works, The dramatic poet, Ernst Raupack, was buried to- The f New YORK, MARCH 13.
r .atn advises received this morning
per Asia
- yesterday, at the
certainty in the mode of executing testamentary die- but they will henceforth decide upon all other affairs and which 'flakes known the intentions of the govern- ._ . •
day His funeral was attended by nearly every actor were cemsindeered favourable in ico m quainting him t'
'anions -was WIC whose importance is admitted on which required hitherto the decision of the head of meat relative to the railway from Paris to Cherbourg : °
' Berlin. The Rev. Mr. nydow, who officiated at and had a good effect upon. our marketre taeneporaili;yt .of
sLim pointed a corer
whines, and
all sides. The grievance was one loudly demanding the state, or of the Minister of the Interior. These the interment,
. delivered an address over the bier, improved. Exchange on Europe was hallyy ,• billion Lon-
mment has decided on concedieg
mins.: for sonic noent judicial decision, in the affairs art• eltiesed in schedules, each item of which the Coltirie rranflnt'-
;rho rye.
ens to Cherbourg. This line will use and alluded in excellent taste to the services which d°" sold at 1101 to 1101; I'aris 6.171 to 6.18/ ; Amster- ~.„("hli'o. tiler
Etvleadastieal Courts were not too strongly de- is well deserving of attention; but the examination the It^uin iil7tlyitr:nny, whence it will be directed by Levee:, Rau pack had pa rendered to the German stage. dam, 41 to 411; liandiurgh, 36 to 3111 ; Bremen, 7141 - min-
nr
to tial indi•
Refilled alien characterised by one noble lord as of a few will exhibit this incredible levity with which ;--erquigny, Berney, Lesieux, and Mesidon, to Caen. From •
lesterday's number of the (!onstitutional Zeituny - •. •
781. Since our last re rt there has po • twin no change re- Adr
Cherbourg It will follow a direction to be ultimately de• quarin a notattt in the mow market '1 he su I over
sroolting.- lit this, therefore, his find reforming so vast a revolution in the internal administration was confiscated. end .E.,the regular Y • - pp
Y jurY
dby the government. The section from Paris to e
attempt, the l'il %Nil tiox had everything in his has been undertaken and carried into effect. Thus t'll'in' ..ingsbury Gazette states that the Emperor of is large and increasing, anti if the Culifornii 14'
istateerioviiltlitebecocuu mpleothed in at delay of three years from the The
favour- a popular subject. a real grievance, and the no department of administration prownts more dirt- eiiiisnin
nian,
The
mincenisca
itto
.Clwrbourg in Austria has accepted the invitation of the Czar to be steamers to arrive bring anything near the esti-
eymeathits of his audience and of the public. Yet he cultic. than that relating to riven and water con the three sepresent at Moscow during the fetes of June. mated quantities of gold, the price for money
Leh. nwt In a
h whiche...
nay mit oeyes.ful. His hither& introduced, contained The convenient and equitable distribution of these have beer ""nd
by the councils-general, will remain to assist is WURTEMBERG. lower than the rates now ',aid. Fir.t class paper fin
lair clause.: the remedy proposed by the first clause natural sources of mechanical power, fertility and armed ready sale at 6to 61 per cent. bloney "on call** is
i.l.,imrsubivoeuntion which the state promises to grant to this
The Filet or Upper Chamber has confirmed the abundant, that it is not an easy matter to place it at '
far an rill universaPy itdmitted was questioned, but in health, so indispensable to the communities settled it
understand Monsieur le l're . t.•et, bow im-
the Lower II ouse, cancelling the declaration cent. ;merest. Many of the banks have large sus
consequence of the magnitude of that evil, allowed along their bunks, tonna one of the chief desiderata Pole.■nt it will
olthat the ''l. nvote of
councoif
age eral ot your
i departmenti f
with hi soution to stand. The house refused to sane- and most perplexing problems or a central govern- should assist in the success rights promulgated in 1849 by the Frankfort par- and ,sre anxious to dispose of them at our IllitIRIV
GM the alteration, of the present law contemplated ment. A raver like the Loire, which flows thron h
. interests it. You wall also see project
that the cioeceinewumnitte.Tig 1).
shall
iio. lament with the approbation of the king. for approved securities. We quote-First else
have already voted funds in aid of this measure notes and acceptances, short, 6 per nrinurn ; km
to the ....veld and third clauses, and rejected them; • dozen deitartments before reaching the sea, er.v.
1- rnediatel ratify their 'yh previous deliberations, in order that per annum. First-class single names paper, 6
and the fourth clause was allowed to remain as me dent'', involves a multitude of interests, which require th • num. Second-alas t•ndorsed notes mud acer
Cozzirsycl'eehacemme at the same time as the votes of the DENMARK.
of minor importance. and become its injurious effects for their adjustment the vigilant control of the cen- Larrtivan.DvitrYl.6. 7 to 8 per annum ; long, 8 to 9 per one
bad not tarn notiecel. Such is the result, so far, of Owl government. Now according to the present de- The i'a gives the following ys
the bill a Melt, ha% Mg peered through committee, was cree every prefect is perfect lord and master of the • which
the Bank of France will make advances on The session of the Danish Chambers was clotted miscellaneous securities, 6to 7 per e
money we observe more activity us th
reportut as misled to the House of Lords last lion of the river which flows through his department. railway securities: • on the 20th by commission. On the previous even-
creases. The rates, however, arc ate'
night. WI:. n '.:rd LtNeinALE introduced the pre- Ile may autheriee without appeal all mills, forges, 1. The • ing the King had a
int
.will lend 80 per rent. on the par of railway
rent Wiris ait. ilitre was nu point upon which he sluices, works of irrigation, and employments of th bods whebna both houses. 'fho term for ehich the lower house rations see principally in red am
quotations
in IthierBqtoucuittatii;,reshaphaloll'im
laic
par, rid on the
dwelt mom earnest:, than the nerd of providing one water for public or private use. It is needless toelected expires on the 4th of Ikeember next ; it Ilisheelst of the forms, r brought 97
anew decision, however, only 761
peribeewnLenwirinbeeraelvatb'neicidi was
clear. simple. and uniform mode of execution of wills, point out the confusion, abuses, quarrels, and reels-sleitrected that its dissolution will take place very osisatiihoi latter at 1087... laoydis 1;
on the bonds of the Avignon to /Armlike line. 2. Aileen
and it RA. with Rib, Alen. enacted that every will mations which must arise from the independent o. the amount of 60 per cent, will be made en shares °l't y. opening of the river, at 7,
should he signed "at the foot or end thereof.' In management by a dozen prefects of' successive sec f railways of the first class n • , namely, Northern, Rouen, - ---•---- -- opening of the canal in
adopting this, the onlinary mode of signature, and in tions of the same river. Phis arrangement will, if I St. Cierm.tin,Orl . ' .ans entre, Strasbourg and St. Etienne queer at 76 to e. 80c., wit'
prescribing it in words so simple and so general, it am not mistaken, be found to be one of the most to Lyons. These advancesI.
are to be calculated'
on. the ITALY.more quo- - firm, Jersey and
would seem that it was intended to establish the fruitful sources of discontent in the present decree. tations, deduction made of the calls remaining to be
t,id. State, 45c. to 47e. C
NAPLES. export demand is d'thug, der the Northern, the paid-up shares of 400 fr. being
safesttrweible form. but the judges of the Ecclesies- Another feature of great pulite is that which cm- "
NAPLES, MARCH 17. Southern white ar
quotedt. at
would
at the par of 600 fr., the advance of 60 per
teal Courts have darken( d knowledge, and if the sig- powers the prefects to make concessions to a ia- calculated on the real capital represented The official journal contains a new treaty of coin- this port from be
nature has not Errs placed precisely at the foot or tions, compenics, or individuals of works of depart. b)ln wNonortheber
wr share, that .is to say, on the 400 fr. merce and navigation betwceu France and the king- Wheat...
end of the will, and even when plated after the con. mental interest. Thus a temptation to endlessjob- mu a
p, th the premium of 150 fr added, or dem of the Two Sicilies.
elusion ,'f the will if it be not written immediately bing is held out to an officer whose pa be 660 fr. When on the shares of the L • *
y ranges - a a yens Railway, .
rho moat important articles are : C0r0....
2.50fe, shall be paid up, they FLOUR
below the end, the language of the act has tween twenty and forty thousand francs. A.nether the "re "nit-tenths' or
toare to be ranged in the first class. 3. Advances up 1. All productions of the two countries, or of their respee- export '
been held not to have been complied with, and important responsibility, which was hitherto vestedwill be made on shares in the railways of live dominions, coming from the one, or that can be ex. rates ,
the will ha. consequently been set aside-although iu the councils-general, but is now transferred to the IN. ecoPcesr mitre. Tarr
etneothet%tehers,asmheallsbdevapnlaced under the tam- tariff, East.
the document on the whole has been such as to prefects, is the acceptance or refusal of gifts and vance. on these Tr' -willtr-e,tl
2Lt.3.13a1et.
fu The ad-
or French v tar
In the sashs:i a ped in
11,.
leave no doubt of the intention of the testator. The legacies to the department, a discretion which ought that is to say, on the value indicated bine henquotation,
of the previous day, deduction being made the
the cans all productions that can be legally exported wayor #
tedges have assumed that the signature to a will manifestly to be controlled by some competent Sri- which remain to be paid up. 4. Nothing will be reexported from the one or the other country, shall
amt he in a certain position. tuelthey have considered banal, and not veated in the hands of a single person.
...tnetton the shares, of railways which do not give regal_ enjoy the same rate of tariff, and shall receive the same
that it was simply their duty to consider whether the Many of theprot isions will be found impossible toexe- It
reaaundtoAnTry", Bore ryivitegees., reductions,
r coneeinsolia, or. restrictions, whern chiaoshtthazeroftom7-I'.""tt
will h..' such a sin-mature or not. In this estimate cute. 'rhos, the prefects are to appoint the directors deauseteo"feeet:teaw, rte,:t;oenueinto they
o becouhrrey. re-exported in ships of the one or
°Eaten' defies they contrast unfavourably with and agents of the de`, es de losendietV, while fee- Beaune. 5. The railway of the Grande
Courne,
which at the same time works coal !Legg, 2. All vessels of the Two Sicilies, which may ar
earlier judges who upheld the validity of a will qui:idly •a single establishment of this kind is main- to a rrnp"y
cannot, on account of that mixed position, be admitted to ports of France, and all French ships which may e
(then nquired to be attested in the presence of the tamped by the contributions of four or five separatethe ports of the Swo Siciliee, shall be equally '
thentdbeneofit of the (levee. 6. A decision has been postponed
treater in case it appeared that the witnesses, departments. Scarcely less perplexing for the
neantitnoa4nhall bteheol)deciltreispecting etivery.resdprutesu
rorefekttouorge, Vats, and, •
when signing their names, were placed in such a feet will be the exercise of his new power of appor.tet-- It
he securities of etl:enll).c
Versailles right hank, and Versailke left Dieppe
a ocamP' respective porispof France. nand', the Twowwmft;iP
position that they might have been seen by ing the commissioners of police in towns of lea., than
The situation of the last two lines will be regulated railways.afte 3. In addition to such advantages already
the testator. The older judges stretched to the 8,000 souls. So obnoxious to certain classes of the the definitive constitution of the Western Company and Sicilian Majesty NM" that ell Ffeinch
lament limit the construction of the Statute of population are those functionaries, that it is found the exchange
7of their shares for the bonds of that corn- the French postal steamers, shall be al'
Freed. in favour of the testator. so as to give effect continually necessary, in order to protect them from In case or a fell in the quotations of bonds ports of the Two Sicilia on the same'
to trot one wary dispositions, which, if not established, popular vengeance, to shift them from one depart. ti7nys•hari:s supplementary security will be demanded "la. although they May have tour'
are incite:Oily lost ; and by this wise admiuistration, ment into another; and nothin less than the from ''
g - borrowers when the fall shall be 20 per inerchandoe at any intermediate y
that statute remained in all material points, eo far as tige given to them by the direct appointment of the rent' on bonds and on shares of the first class, and of
per cent. on shares of the second class. Income the sup- _ ____ _
wills were concerned, unaltered for 130 years, while central government is sufficient to make their autho- in
elementary securities shall not be supplied by the borrowers
the narrow views of their successors in Doctors' rity respected. But, as soon as they become the within three days after a simple demand I.y an extra judi- UNITED
of
Commons compel an amendment of the law within nominees and creatures the • Prefect, -
15 years after it has been passed. of both parties will be diminished, and their ann.. Bourse, by an agent de change, the whole part of the
But if the authority of parliament be requisite to pularity Increased. On the whole, it may
be said
'....- securities ran which it may have made advances.c 8. Any ARRIVAL C
person of known:solvability who may demand from the Bank A sum of th remedy the present very defective state of the law, of this decree, that it bears throe hout the a loan oa railway bonds or shares•must subscrib.. an engage- the Express"Y we agree with Lord CRANWORTII that it weal be stamp of the despotic system of Louisg N
wmietrintonlztythdeayssilfvnarnes nrlsi.thVltie sixty
4t lenigenftorylthalll7.tntasnit i, i:i
far better to deal with it in general terms than by lean. For the cake of swiftness and despatch,a
special enactment to point out particular modes and it destroys th.e. guarantees which shield the citizen besides on the part of the borrower, the obligation to make The s-ram'
tart. oflrsiagnatuporTul‘:ihricrho shall
rm bel hpertn:scurtrier be
bcd forlUanffiy. against the injustice, caprice, caprwitoer ,u and
temitneitintiton of an whenevere t o this ltluatiihk
tall
tscrnatttaiikif thehe fallro whriteihohmaydnrise
ea way to Hate
9 The council-general of the Iranlir shall fix, ran thet
dollar.
I.
Puree, there moat always be a point of alight Several other decrees follow, of which it is import- abwae.each week, the sum which may be employed o'"'„,:o-'
:Lest!
..
d meetingncet dof
dertation, which may appear to constitute a hard- ant to notice two. The first of these abolishes ther-
For the first week te...u•
ship in invalidating the whole process, and in this decree of the provisional government on clubs, with the creditn
will probablyl
sharesize7 'l'ooo
,n nnn~„,„ fi.„be for
instance, if, instead of one place of signature to a the exception of that articlewhichprohibits
Will being directed, namely the foot or end thereof, societies; and subjects all public meetings whatever branch banks. A'
halta-dozen places are particularised, the only to the jurisdiction of the penal code and the law of
The Times, alluding to the opening address of the
change is, that there are an increased number of April 10, HIM, thus • restoring matters to their for-
President, to be delivered on Monday next, to the
cues in which the ingenious minds of judges mcr state under the monarchy of July. Assembly, .
Legislative says •
may disport themselves. But Lord ST. Leo:autos The other decree is more deserving of attention. After having spoken of the internal situation of
thinks otherwise, and he insists that the best It abolishes the law passed May 15, 18,10, which country, it is anticipated that the President may touch
way of meeting the present difficulty is by enacts that no national property can be appropriated no less difficult subject of foreign policy ;on the gre
enacting that a will shall be valid .. if the eireateee to a public service except by a law ThusLo' Na-
n's peas questions; on diplomatic negotiations; on t,
Atli he so placed at, or after, or fulloseisg, air solder, poleon takes away all obstacle fro. m the future ap- the 1 tepublic; and on the disposition toward
Or besar •• • 1•to • . . ippos/ / the end if the arid, that a shall propriation to his own service of the domains of Fun- powers. Ile may, too, mention that
itt appirrni time the testator intended to pore effect to tainbleau, Compiegne, or any others he may take foreign
1815 had been imposed by fcrce on Fn
the erding siynerl us his rod( by sent his signature." a fancy t 0• and conquered ;" that France never aver
With all submission to the author of these words- By another decree, the directors of the Colonial herself to those treaties, but submitted
and with unfeigned deference to his talents and legal Bank of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and the Ile de la annulled them twice, both as r
seamen as a draughtsman-we much doubt whether Reunion (Bourbon), are required 'to be of
without Europe have
the law uto the execution of wills will be even as 20 shares in the respective banks, and the director e°Datiniti°°'
therefore, she has establiahed
Clear at the end of another fifteen years as it is now. of the Bank of Guyana of 15 shares. Then comes a
If the plain words .. at the foot or end thereof" very long decree, preceded by a report of the mi- regulate her own affair. as she t'
have given rise to the painful questions of which meter of marine, regulating with great detail the she pleases. The President
r
they have been the innocent occasion, what may not authority of captains of merchantmen on board their nevertheless, continue to
be the effect of the six additional illustrations by, vessels, the discipline of the crews, the form of pro- 1816, or rather t° what r
which these plain words arc proposed to be rendered ending in prosecutions of sailors for cri and have an influential vole
plainer ? Simple-minded persons may now not offences, 8:c. &c. This is followed by a decree, claim the justice she '
unreasonably ask for an explanation of the difference which, for the better despatch of civil and comma, and 1815.
between a signature placed" under, or beside, or oppo- dal affairs in certain parts of Algeria, enacts that the
site to the end of the will ;" for if opposite mean the " commandants de place" shall continue to exercise
same as " under or beside," then it would be as well the functions conferred on them by the decree of the
omitted; and if not, it is difficult to know what it Governor-General of Algeria on the sth of August, One of
intends, unless " opposite to the end" be construed 1843, in all localities in which there is no civil an- tenant
as" at the beginning." And if these doubts arise even thority, but that there may be an appeal from their arrest,
before this legislation be complete, it is more than decisions to the Tribunal of the First Instance
probable that the prophecy of Lord CIIANWOWni will of the nearest province. Lastly, a decree raarn
be verified, and that this amendment will be the declares that, in consequence of a tax of ;-
,
fruitful parent of litigation, and thus the cause of lofr. per 100 kologrammes having been placed ''
bitter distress and suffering. But even here the ob. on salt employed in the manufacture of soda, it it
jections to the clause, as now framed, do not stop. important to augment the import duties on soda art
l'oiler the present act, signature " at the foot wend native carbonate of soda, in order to reserve to'
th
ereof" is conclusive, except of course in the case of soda manufacturies the supply of the home mar'
fraud; but wider the intended alteration, the will is and it accordingly enacts that the import dot
good only where the signature is so placed " that it all sorts of sodas shall be 26fr. 50e. the '
shall be apparent that the testator intended to give grammes, and on native carbonate of sods
effect to the writing ;" and therefore the fact of SW I infer, from the Mondeswoontaining tar
nature will not be hereafter conclusive, but it will changes in the ministry which I war
Its open to any disappointed legatee to raise the terday were oficially decided, that r
question of intention, and to harass the rightful occurred in this matter. Still I am'
possessors by dilatory proceedings. It surely would to the present time the change,
have been better to have left the law as at present, For the rest you will find the
contlesive as to wills conforming to the present confidently announced in the I
enactments-and to have given a power to the judges The Public has an article e
vritbin defined limits to establish any will which bore in Switzerland, on the plea
sport the face of it an intention by the testator to of the Great St. Bernard.
give effect to it-although it might in some slight ment lays down a doe
degree vary from the precise form now required to be PatieY of the flint rev'
adopted. the nght to interven
In reference to the second clause, by which it ie It is said that M
enacted that " the provisions of this act shall ex- end M. 41 hi Gl'
tend and be applied to every will already made," it
,__Tha Jowl": i
is not pueblo to speculate upon the interpretation ~,,,e
aaaaal:rminiater
which may be hereafter given to it. It may be re- te=moZboaerr
striated to wills trade since January 1, 1838, when . errih7.
the present act came into operation ; but if, on the of the de/
other hand, it be construed according to the sense of The
the words, then this claase will throw a doubt ea the We
validity o sills of oenonaltv which, dated st,4„ to Fear
DOI, are now exempt from 'the forms provided by 7'
the present Wills Act. The questions raised by the
bill affect, however, so closely the interests of every
One that the measure will doubtless receive from t)
Commons a more careful consideration than bee it
bestowed upon it in the house of its parentage.
Tice COMIItaND at MALTA.-I 1 is 'dread-
AM Lieut.-General Ellice returns fres% the '
flreas at Malta immediately hie sWHOM, IS ' cc.
ar
altheagh the name of the general officer wh
lend..Cieneral Ellice has not been °Skean,
ban beard it stated in military circles the
will sin the emensead in question to
Barre 0. Smith OR his arrival in tit'
Cape if Oeed Hsu.
Aronscmuss' HALL.-Na'
posse their examaaatior. in th
sodienee, and received middle
day. March 26, 11452 : -Thole
And rt w'a court. It'd hom t
M"Y`' 7 Bartlett Long./it
Willhiln, ilionieghsm •
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Sutton-place, Baehr

gilt @x moo.

FRANCE

pony, it is midi. win give up for the Gabe line the pro-
lontion • owarde Lyons, and nil, uentl, ewe to
plangea the. taunts a this Paris to Lyonsconseq eonipanyy in peril.
We are mewed that the Orleans company, In exchange for
the prokagation Id the ocutemaion of the Centre, Bordeaux,
and Nelda h away., will engage to complete on the line
of the Centre the railways to Moulins, Clermont, and Li-
Mean, and on the Bordeaux line, to continue the railway
from Poltien to Itochefort.

GERMANY.

there is such a reluctance on the part of our govern-
ment to enforce this treaty, no one can well imagine.
Besides the waters and the tributaries of the La
Plata river are open to us and to our trade for explo-
ration, and our morbid Secretary of State refuses,
even after the nomination and confirmation of our
consuls in that quarter, to give them their instruc-
tions, that they may proceed in their duties.
Commodore Goldsborough has been appointed flag
captain, and Commodore Stringham commodore, of
our squadron in the Mediterranean.
Kossuth has arrived at St. Louis, whore he was
escorted from the steamer by several companies of
German militia. He keeps up his spirits admirably,
but seems to be a little fretted at the diminution of
the material aid which ho has so earnestly implored.
The Hungarian Bonds find little or no sale, and I
very much fear that the estimate that I formed
some months ago of the amount ho would receive is
far greater than t• ut which he will actually receive.
The Senate of the United States has voted 5,000 dole.
out of its contingent fund, to pay Komuth's expenses
while in the city of Washington.

Zbe Court.

TO CORR Iit3PONDZIITS.

PARIS, FIIDAT Rvanrxo
The Mietitenr contains to-day several decrees of
high importance. I announced to you several weeks
ago that there was a project on foot for extending
the powers of the prefects, and erecting these civil
governors of the departments into a sort of
with discretionary power over concerns whictraguive
been hitherto referred to the ministry of the interior.
This project, styled by a singular abuse of language
a project of decentralisation, is developed at length
in the official journal, and is certainly one of the
gravest pieces of legislation by decree on which the
President has yet ventured. Properly. speaking, to
decentralise is to increase the municipal indepen-
dence of the departments and communes ; whereas
the present decree destroys all municipal indepen-
dence, and arms the deputy of the central govern-
ment, the prefect, with the arbitrary authority of •
pro-consul. The prefects will continue to submit to
the decision of the Minister of the Interior the
departmental and communal affairs which affect
directly the general interest of the state, such
as the approbation of the departmental budgets. ex •
tnionlinary assessments, and territorial delimitations;
but they will henceforth decide upon all other affairs
which required hitherto the decision of the head of
the state, or of the Minister of the Interior. These
affairs arc clused in schedules, each item of which
is well deserving of attention; but the examination
of a few will exlibit the incredible levity with which
so vast a revolution in the internal administration
has been undertaken and carried into effect. Thus
no department of administration presents more diffi-
culties than that relating to rivers and watercourses.
The convenient and equitable distribution of these
natural sources of mechanicul power, fertility, and
health, so indispensable to the communities settled
along their banks, forms one of the chief desiderata
and most perplexing problems of a central govern-
ment. A river like the Loire, which flows throngh
a dozen departments before reaching the sea, evi-
dently involves a multitude of interests, which require
for their adjustment the vigilant control of the cen-
tral government. Now aceoldiug to the present de-
cree every prefect is perfect lord and master of the sec•
teen of the river which flows through his department.
Ile may authorise without appeal all mills, forges,
sluices, works of irrigation, and employments of the
water for public or private use. It is needless to
point out the confusion, abuses, quarrels, and reels-
' niations which must arise from the independent
management by a dozen prefects of successive sec
tions of the same river. This arrangement will, if I
am not mistaken, be found to be one of the most
fruitful sources of discontent in the present decree.
Another feature of great gravity is that which em-
powers the prefects to make concessions to associa-
tions, companies, or individuals of works of depart-
mental interest. Thus a temptation to endless job-
bing is held out to an officer whose pay ranges be-
tween twenty and forty thousand francs. nother
important responsibility, which was hitherto vested
iu the councils-general, but is now transferred to the
prefects, is the acceptance or refusal of gifts and
legacies to the department, a discretion which ought
manifestly to be controlled by some competent tri-
bunal, and not vested in the hands of a single person.
Many of the prey isions will be found impossible tocze-
cute. Thus, the prefect+ are to appoint the directors
and agents of the deii;es de nay ndiciV, while fre-
quently a single establishment of this kind is main-
tained by the contributions of four or five separate
departments. Scarcely less perplexing for the pre-
fect will be the exercise of his new power of appoint-
ing the commissioners of police in towns of less than
6,000 souls. So obnoxious to certain classes of the
population are those functionaries, that it is found
continually necessary, in order to protect them from
popular vengeance, to shift them from one depart-
ment into another; and nothing leas than the pres-
tige given to them by the direct appointment of the
central government is sufficient to make their autho-
rity respected. But, as soon as they become the
nominees and creatures of the prefect, the authority
of both parties will be diminished, and their unpo-
pularity increased. On the whole, it may be said
of this decree, that it bears throughout the
stamp of the despotic system of Louis Napo-
Icon. For the make of swiftness and despatch,
it destroys the guarantees which shield the citizen
against the injustice, caprice, and corruption of an
individual armed with power uncontrolled by laws.
Several other decrees follow, of which it is import-
ant to notice two. The first of these abolishes the
decree of the provisional government on clubs, with
the exception of that article which prohibits secret
societies; and subjects all public meetings whatever
to the jurisdiction of the penal code and the law of
April 10, 1834, thus restoring matters to their for-
mer state under tho monarchy of July.
The other decree is more deserving of attention.
It abolishes the law passed May 15, 1650, which
enacts that no national property can be appropriated
Ito a public service except by a law. Thus Louis
Na-
poleon takes away all obstacle from the future ap-
propriation to his own service of the domains of Fon-
tainbleau, Compiegne, or any others he may take
a fancy to.
By another decree, the directors of the Colonial
Bank of Martinique, Guadaloupe, and the Ile de la
Itimnion (Bourbon), are required to be possessors of
20 shares in the respective banks, and the director
of the Bank of Guyana of 15 shares. Then comes a
very long decree, preceded by a report of the mi-
nister of marine, regulating with great detail the
authority of captains of merchantmen on board their
vessels, the discipline of the crews, the form of pro-
ceeding in prosecutions of sailors for crime and
offences, 8:c. &c. This is followed by a decree,
which, for the better despatch of civil and commer-
cial affairs in certain parts of Algeria, enacts that the
" commandants de place" shall continue to exercise
the functions conferred on them by the decree of the
Governor-General of Algeria on the sth of August,
1843, in all localities in which there is no civil au-
thority, but that there may be an appeal from their
decisions to the Tribunal of the First Instance
of the nearest province. Lastly, a decree
declares that, in consequence of a tax of
10fr. per 100 kolagrammes having been placed
on salt employed in the manufacture of soda, it is
important to augment the import duties on soda and
native carbonate of soda, in order to reserve to the
soda 'manufactories the supply of the home markets;
and it accordingly enacts that the import duties on
all sorts of sodas shall be 26fr. 50e. the 100 kilo-
grammes, and on native carbonate of soda 21fr. 50c.
I infer, from the Moniker containing no hint of the
changes in the ministry which I was smeared yes-
terday were oficially decided, that some hitch has
occurred in this matter. Still lam informed that up
to the present time the changes in question hold.
For the rest you will find the same modifications
confidently announced in the Independence Beige.
The Pitblic hue an article in favour of intervention
in Switzerland, on the plea of restoring the harpies
of the Great St. Bernard. This organ of the govern-
ment lays down a doctrine worthy of the foreign
policy of the first revolution. It say% "France has
the rlght to intervene wherever justice is violated."
It is sad that M. Granter de Caravan will Eno-
cud If. de be Guerronniere as editor of the Pays.
Tbs albsrusal du Havre says :
The INlleiser of the Marine hes, it is rid, just given
seams he semi vessels of war to paned to La Plata, for
the pesessebe sf the iatenets of the French subjects, in the
=Wet et As prism events which may aria la esereptease
ef the atm rad flight of Beep.
The Petrie says :
Ws ape lIIIIIIred that the areselediss el **Casio of
Freon ell be sandaled by the new assess ea niseetion,
whisk are Me pinkie of elrisee ap-
plainest IltiasMreeetee Is be spelled is tbe mimeo,
sal the loleuelien ta Me weabllimmee wlll be=
MI die poet of OINIIIIIIIt eardessdey d a im
earelsred indisputable die every bean* ef the tuluesity.
The first proldemib and pessorsenegeedrass of
the provincial alerts of appeal lave boss anmseed
to Paris for the 10th of April nest, in order te tabs
the oath before the Prince President prescribed by
the constitution.

BERLIN, Mime' 22.
Rumours of a ministerial crisis still circulate, not-
withstanding the contradictions they reoeive every
few days. M. Bethmann-Hollweg, the leader of the
bureaucratic conservatives whose opinions are repre-
sented by the Preussische Wocheralatt, of which ho is
indeed the principal founder, is mentioned in all the
hypothetical combinations that one meets. Them is
little doubt that the king, and still more the Prince
of Prussia, would be very glad to get rid of M. Man-
teuffel, if he knew how. This minister's position is per-
haps the most mimed ma occupied by any public man
in Europe at the present moment. He is anything
but popular ; the chambers dislike him, and out-
vote his party. He is not regarded with favour by
the court, and yet ho manages to hold office to the
exclusion of better men. The fact is, the king and
his friends arc so glad to have been delivered, as
they hope, from the revolution, that they will put up
with a groat deal of personal unpleasantness to keep
things quiet. The Chamber are at the mercy of the
goverood.nment, and the perple are not in a political
m

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The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday
at Buckingham Palace.
Yesterday was the birthday of the Duke of Cambridge.
Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Culimel the lion. A.
Gordon, paid a visit of congratulation at three o'clock in
the afternoon to the Duke at his residence in St. James's
Palace. The Duke of Cambridge afterwards visited her
Majesty at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Alfred and the l'rincenes Helena and LOlll4/I Wok
their 'condensed ezeseise yesterday in the garden of Buck-
ingham Palace.
liar MMesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the l'rinceu Alice, attended
by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, the Earl of Morton,
Captain the Hon. J. Denman, R.N., and Colonel llutiverie,
honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence lust
evening.
Her Majesty's Private Band attended in the Palace on
Thursday evening, and played the following piece.:
Overture. ''llerseret" •lN3br.
Finale, "Martha'. ..
The Miami of Kent visited the Duchess of Oloucei.ter
yesterday, at biluucester.linuse, Piccadilly.

The minister of finance, the day before vesterday,
gave • priviite audence to MM. Ardoin, ltiLardo, Ex-
Pellets, and other members of the beard of directors
lof the Bordeaux to Cette MCI way, accompanied by
I the representatives of Messrs. Locke, Brassey, Betts,
and Peto, members of the English committee, and
the directors of the foundries of I)ecaseville, Chit-
talon, and Commeutry.
The Gazette de Fraser says:
The treaty of union which is to take place between the
Orleans, Centre, Bordeaux, and Nantes Railway Company,
is about to be immediately signed. The representatives of
these companies yesterday bad *conference with the Minis-
ter of Public Works. The new tympany, formed from this
union of the four, will execute a branch hoe from Clermont
Ferrand to Roanne, and thus open a line parallel to that
from Paris to Lyons.
The Prefect of Calvados has communicated to the
council-general the following letter, which has been
addressed to him by the Minister of Public Works,
and which makes known the intentions of the govern-,
ment relative to the railway from l'aris to Cherbourg : '
M. Ic Prefect,—The government has decided on conceding
the entire railway from l'srts to Cherbourg. This line will use
the }Lunen line to Rom y, whence it will be di reeted by Brevet,
t-a.equigny, Berney, I.sieux, and Mesidon, to Caen. From
Cherbourg It will follow a direction to he ultimately de.
tertainid by the government. The section from Paris to
Caen will be completed in • delay of three years from the
date of the COISCI wino j that from Caen to Cherbourg in
the three succeeding years. The local subventions which
have beer conditionally voted, and which will be con-
firmed by the councils-general, will remain to assist is
the subvention which the state propuses to grant to this
line. You will understand, Monsieur le Prefect, how im-
portant it is that the council-general of your department
should assist in the success of a project which so materially
interests it. Yon will also see that the communes which
hove already voted funds in aid of this measure shall im-
mediately ratify their previous deliberations, in order that
they may reach me at the same time as the votes of the
Councils General. Larstkvien.DeliCYl.6.
The Pays gives the following as the bases on
which the Bank of France will make advances on
railway securities:
1. The bank will lend 80 per cent. on the par of railway
bonds when their quotations shall be above par, and on the
quotations in the Stock Exchanee list when under. Until
new decision, however, only 70 per cent. will be advauced
on the bonds of the Avignon to Marseilles line. 2. Advances
to the amount of 60 per cent, will be made on shares
of railways of the first class, namely, Northern, Rouen,
St. Germain, Orleane, Centre, Strasbourg, and St. Etienne
to Lyons. These advances are to be calculated on the quo-
tations, deduction made of the calls remaining to be p tid.
Thug, ter the Northern, the paid-up shares of 400 fr. being
quoted at esker. at the par of 500fr.' the advance of 60 per
, cent. would be calculated on the real capital represented
'by • Northern share, that is to say, on the 4001 r.
paid up, with the premium of 150 fr. added, or
5.50 fr. When on the shares of the Lyons Railway,
the five first-tenths, or 250 fr., shall be paid up, they
are to be ranged in the first class. 3. Advances up
to 50 per cent. will be made on shares in the railways of
Linder., Nantes, and Strasburg to Bale. The ad-
vances on these shares will be calculated as set forth above,
that is to say, on the value indicated by the quotation
of the previous day, deduction being made of the calls
which remain to be paid up. 4. Nothing will be
lent on the shares of railways which do not give rega-
le, revenues, such as those of Montereau to Troyes, Bor-
deaux to Teste, Montpellier ro Cette, and Anelrerieux to
Roanne. 5. The railway of the ()rand Combe, belonging
to • company which at the same time works coal mines,
cannot, on account of that mixed position, be admitted to
the benefit of the decree. 6. A decision has been postponed
until more ample information shall be obtained respecting
the securities of the Rouen to Havre, the Dieppe to Fceamp,
Versailles right hank, and Versailles left bank railways.
The situation of the last two lines will be regulated after
the definitive constitution of the Western Company and
the exchange of their shares for the bonds of that com-
pany. 7. In cue of • fell in the quotations of bonds
or shares, supplementary security will be demanded
from borrowers when the fall shall be 20 per
rent. on bonds and on shares of the first class, and of
10 per cent. on shares of the second class. Incase the sup-
plementary securities shall not be supplied by the borrowers
within three days after a simple demand hy an extra judi-
cial act, the Bank shall have right to cause to be sold at the
Bourse, by an agent de change, the whole or part of the
securities on which it may have made advances. 8. An
person of known:solvability who may demand from the Bank
a loan eta railway bonds or shares must subscribe an engage-
ment to pay the advance within sixty days for share and
within ninety days for bonds. The engagement shall contain
besides on the part of the borrower, the obligation to make
up to the Bank the amount of the fall which may aria',
whenever such fall shall attain the proportion indicate;
above. 9 The council-general of the Bank shall fix, in the
first meeting of each week, the sum which may be employed
in advances en railway shares or bonds. For the first week
the credit will probably be fixed at 14,000,000 fr., of which
10,000,000 fr. will be for Paris, and 4,000,000 fr. for the
branch banks.

A deputation from the Society of Arts, consisting of Mr
Robert Stephenson, M.l'., Professor Sony, and Lieutenant
Tyler, R.E., had an interview with sir John I'akington,
yesterday, at the Colonial-office, fur the purpose• of ac-
quainting him that the Society of Arts had recently ap-
pointed a committee fur developing the resources of the
colonic•, and *vitae tiug his assistance and co-operation to
citable them, in the 14,4 instance, to !dote them,. Ives in
communication with kindred institution■, and with influen-
tial individuals in the colonies.

The dramatic poet, Ernst ltaupnck, was buried to-
day. His funeral was attended by nearly every actor
in Berlin. The Rev. Mr. lsydow, who officiated at
the interment, delivered en address over the bier,
and alluded in excellent taste to the services which
Itaupack had rendered to the German stage.
Yesterday's number of the C'onatitutional Zeilung
way confiscated.

A deputation, on the subject of the Irish Railway (hand
Jury Presentment■ 11.11, had an interview with the Right
lion. J. W. Henley, and Lord Colcheati r, yesterday, at the
Board Of Trade. The deputation conoilecil ail laird Mont-
eagle, Mr. Tennent, M.l'., Mr. Devereux, and Mr.
hPeullagh, M.P.
A deputation, on the subject of the Passengers Act, con-
sisting of Sir James Duke, Mr. J. M. Gull, Mr. J ohn Chap-
man, Mr. William Philipp, and Mr. Nornmn M'Lcod, bad
an interview with Sir John Pakington, yesterday, at the
Colonial. office.

The ..Ingsbury Gazelle states that the Emperor of
Austria has accepted the invitation of the Czar to be
present at Moscow during tha fetes of June.

WU RTEM BERG.
The First or Upper Chamber has confirmed the
vote of the Lower House, cancelling the declaration
of rights promulgated in 1849 by the Frankfort par-
liament with the approbation of the king.

The Marquis_ of Salisbury had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-othe...
Mr. It. C. Moldy&ld, had an interview with the
Hight lion. J. W. Ilenl, y, yestcriay, at the lim.nl of
Trade, to present a memorial from the shipbuilders said
ellipowners beloi.ginp to the port ..1 Whitt-haven.
A deputation, on the subject of the Hertford coal duty,
consisting of Lord Mahon and the lion. W. T. Cowper, had
an nib rview with Lord John Manners, yesterday, at the
Office of Works and Public Buildinum, in Whitthali-place.
A deputation, consisting oh the night lion. U. A. Chris-
topher, Mr. Hindley, M.P., Mr. Gore, M.l'., Dr.
Ryon, Messrs. Irvine, G. II ohm, .1. S. Christopher, At-
kin., Vardy, Spooner,M.P., N. Spooner, MWerinott, suit
Newall (parliamentary agent), had an interview with tho
flight lion. J. W. 11. nley and Lord Colchester, yesterday,
at the Board of Trade.

DENMARK.

The session of the Danish Chambers was closed
on the 20th by commission. On the previous even-
ing the King had given a dinner to the members of
both houses. Tho term for Nhich the lower house
was elected expires on the 4th of Ikeember next ; it
is expected that its diesulutiaft will take place very
shortly.

ITALY.
NAPLES.

The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yes-
terday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the
'Treasury, in Downina-street. Present—The Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Mater of Pembroke,
the Rev. 11. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev.
O. 11. S. Johnsen, and the km A. P. Stanley (secretary).
A deputation, including Me•sra. It Baxter, C. Few, and
Blunt, had an interview with Lord John Manners yester-
day at the Office of Works and Public Buildings in White-
hall.plaoe.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
front the Governor of St. Wiens. Despatches were sent
yesterday to the Governors of the North American pro-
vinces.

NAPLES, MARCH 17.
The official journal contains a new treaty of com-
merce and navigation between France and the king-
dom of the Two Sicilies.

'rho most important articles are :
1. All productions of the two countries, or of their respec-
tive dominions, coming from the one, or that con be ex-
ported to the other, shall be placed under the sam• tariff,
shall enjoy the same advantages whether shipped in
Neapolitan or French vessels. In the same way
all productions that can be legally exported or
reexported from the one or the other country, shall
enjoy the same rate of tariff, and shall receive the same
privileges, reductions, concesmons, or restrictions, whether
they be exported or re-exported in ships of the one or the
other country.
2. All vessels of the Two Sicilies, which may arrive to
ports of France, and all French ships which may anchor in
the ports of the Swo Sicilies, shall be equally treated in
every respect u regards tonnage, pilots, and port Ferrule
tions and dues, provided such vessels come direct from the
respective ports of France and the Two Bieilies.
3. In addition to such advantages already rcciprocated,his
Sicilian Majesty agrees that all French vessels, especially
the French postal steamers, shall he allowed to enter the
ports of the Two Sicilies on the ume terms as national ves-
sels, although they may have touched at and embarked
merchandise at any intermediate port of the Mediterranean

UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN.

A summary of the following appeared yesterday in
the E.rpress:
SOUTHAMPTON, FILIDAT, 2 P.M
The Franklin has just arrived off Cowes on her
way to Havre. She left New York on the 13th inst.
Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 170,000
dollars. On the 23rd, at 4 p.m.' lat. 49.53., long.
22.09, she passed clipper bhip Mercury, nineteen
I days from New York. Sho encountered strong
easterly winds throughout the whole
Amelia her passengers is Mrs. It. J. ee
Walker,
lade of tho Hon. It. J. Walker, of the United
States.

The Times, alluding to the opening address of the
President, to be delivered on Monday next, to tho
Legislative Assembly, says:
_ .

After having spoke; of the internal situation of the
country, it is anticipated that the President may touch on the
no less difficult subject of foreign policy ; on the great Euro-
pean questions; on diplomatic negotiations; on the allies of
the Republic; and on the disposition towards France of
foreign powers. Ile may, too, mention that the treaties of
11815 had been imposed by force on France " betrayed,
and conquered ;" that France never accepted nor resigned
herself to those treaties, but submitted to them ; that she
annulled them twice, both as respects her internal
constitution, without Europe having protested ; and that,
therefore, she hu established her absolute right to
regulate her own affairs as she thinks proper, how and when
she pleases. The President may add that France will,
nevertheless, continue to resign herself to the treaties of
1816, or rather to what minims of them, until she shall
have an influential voice in the councis of Europe, and
claim the justice she was refused after her disasters of 1814
and 1815.

The following items of news are from the New
York papers of the 13th inst.:
The proceedings of Congress, which, during the
present session, have been unusually stupid and dry,
were diversified yesterday, in the house, by a bit of
• row. Two members from Mississippi, one, Mr.
Brown, a State rights democrat, the other, Mr. Wil-
cox, a Union democrat, were the pugilists on the in-
teresting occasion. Mr. Wilcox gave the he, and
Mr. Brown, a la Tom Ilyer, planted a blow in the
face of Wilcox. A rough and tumble bear-fight fol-
lowed, to the infinite amusement of the boys in the
galleries, but to the disgust of all lovers of decency
and decorum. The following is the report of the

Mr. Drown—l desire to ask my colleague does he moan
to say I have been guilty of a faleehood ? The inference
may be left in the minds of some gentlemen.
Mr. Wilcox—l have spoken boldly—my language cannot
be misundentood on that point.
Mr. Brown—De yes mean to my that what I have stated
is false t (Look* slimly at his colleague.)
Mr. Wagon—Uri mina to say there is nobody in Mir
sheippi in Sem olf envies, it is false.
The last VIM see seareel7 uttered, before Brown drew
off and *MA $ lbw in Wilcox's face. Wilcox returned
it, and hulk dumbed. Is • moment the house and
galleries were Seems lan the wildest alarm and °octagon ;
those in the selbeleeerneehing over to on the fight, while
the member imaged from their desks and Dew to the seen
of conflict. Several memento elapsed before the belligerents
were separated. Brown, with diflintlty, was removed fifty
feet from his antegenist. Wilcox jumped upon his desk,
crying "I can whlp kisa—let me go!" nundishing his arms
in the air. Cries se " Where's the Sergeant-at-Anna ?"
"Store the fighting." "My God, has Wilcox got a knife?"
"No." A hundred voices joined in the confusion, calling
for the Sergeant-at-Anns, &c. Several of the runner boys
were knocked over in the excitement. The greatest alarm
prevailed.

Ultimately, both of the combatants explained,
apologising severally to the house, and neither was
arrested. A duel, however, was anticipated.
A most heart sickening tragedy was enacted in
Baltimore on Saturday morning. James White,
rendered a maniac by liquor, cut the throats of two
of his children, fired the house, and finished his
sanguinary work by cutting his own throat. When
the fire was extinguished, the charred bodies of the
father and offsprings were found amid the ruins.
The Louisiana Democratic Convention have no-
minated Cam.

Five thousand dollars had been appropriated to
Koesuth by the Senate to pay for lus Washington
reovtion.
The following is from our New York correspon-
dent :

NEW YORK, MAIIOII 13.
With regard to the steam-ships plying between
this country and Europe, it is believed that some
grants will be made to the Collins' line, to Mortimer
Livingaton's line, and to the Sardinian line of Li-
vingston, Wells, and Co. In the latter instance, the
unprecedented liberality of foreign governments in
granting large and exclusive privileges to an
America line cannot but meet with some return
d liberality on the part of the American Congress.
One of the principal topics of UlO day is the arm-
ing of a squadron which is about to proceed to Japan,
under the command of Commodore Perry, and which
is to demand redress for the detention of some Ame-
rican seamen, and with this excuse to open by force
a trade with that country. /tumour says that a
landing is to be effected at Jeddo at all hazards.
The squadron consists of three steamers, the Sus-
quehanna, the Mississippi, and the Princeton ; three
sloops of war, the St. Mary's, the Plymouth, and the
Saratoga,
and the brig Perry. Public opinion seems
to be rather against this expedition, since it is an
evident violation of the policy under which we have
so long proceeded. It is rather considered an am-
bitious attempt on the part of the Secretary of the
Navy, and Conmodore Perry, than sit measure.
If the administration wishes to have a tight, it had
much better send the squadron down to Sun Juan,
where, notwith.huiding all the apologies of the
British government, and the civil letters of the
British admiral on the West India station, the treaty
of Nicaragua continues to be daily violated. Why

The Cherbourg Railway will be won Net about in
format. The council-general of the Seine-Inferieure
hes voted for its compfetion a credit of 1,800,000 fr.,
and that of the Eure two millions.

7'he Pays says:
-The council of state appears to have given • favour.
able opinion on the projected fusion between the Orleans.
the Centre, the Bordeaux, and the Nantes companies.
However, notwithstanding this opinion, the fusion meets
with serious diMeulties from the government. The legiti-
mate interests of the treasury and of the Paris to Lyms
company appi sr likely to gain the day, and the fusion
was gravely compromised, but the Orleans company
gave their consent to important ntodilicatious, and
they, it is said. have disarmed the Paris to Lyons
company, and, consequently, the Mans The Orleans com-

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