The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-13 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS

SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR.

(ST su)simun Imuiesang. I

Mho following snowed in nearly the whole of our law
pngsginntot ysigeroisty evening :1
PAHL% Yoram Amazons.
This day the session of the Legislative Chambers
was opened by the Emperor Napoleon, in the fol-
lowing speed,
" Messtrems LE4 SINATEIM, MIIIMIABDUP iri
Domenic,

" The Legislative Corps b about to commence lte •
last session. To have anticipated the term awed by
the constitution would have been in my eyes an aet,
of ingratitude towards the Chamber, of distrust
towards the country. The time is past when it
Wit eokliddeied necessary to seize the missal=
of some happy incident lb Mettle • tb.--inzahigele
of a limited number of electors. Now,
everyone sees that these is no longer
amongst the masses the fickleness of other days,
and men's convictions are not changed by every
passing breath that seems to agitate the political
atmosphere.
" &nee we find ourselves assembled for the last
time, it will not be in vain to look back upon what
we have dime together during the last five • years,
for it is only by embracing a period of some dura-
tion that we can appreciate the consistent spirit
which has marked the direction of affairs. People
are usually pleased to seek in the acts of sovereigns
concealed motives and mysterious combinations.
My policy, however, has been very simple—to
increase the prosperity of France and its moral
ascendancy, without abusing as without enfee-
bling the power which has been committed to my
i hands. Abroad, to favour within the limits of
right and treaties the legitimate aspirations of the
peoples towards a better future. To develop our
commercial relations with the countries to which
we are drawn by the greatest community of in-
tercets ' • to remove from diplomatic litigation ques-
tions long disputed, in order to take away all
pretexts for misunderstanding. Finally, to prose-
cute boldly the reparation of every insult to our
r flag, of every injury to our fellow-countrymen.
" See how according to circumstances I have
been enabled to apply these principles.
"In the East the national desire of the Danubian
Provinces to form only one people could not find
us insensible, and our concurrence has contributed
to cement their union. We have supported whatever
was well-founded in the complaints of Servia,
of Montenegro, and of the Christians of
Syria, without disregarding the rights of
the Ottoman Porte. Our arms have de-
fended the independence of Italy without com-
pounding with revolution—without impairing, be-
yond the field of battle, our good relations with our
adversaries of a day—without abandoning the
Holy Father, whom our honour and our past
engagements obliged us to sustain.
' We have suppressed the causes of dispute
,11 which might have arisen with Spain, either from the
on-settlement of boundaries, or from the old debt of
'1823 ; and with Switzerland from the difference re-
specting the Valley of Dappee. Treaties of commerce
have been, or are on the eve of being, concluded with
England, Belgium, Prussia, Italy, and Switzer-
land. Finally, expeditions in China, in Cochin
China, and in Mexico, prove that, however distant
the countries may be, an attack on the honour of
France canuot be made with impunity.
" Such events have not occurred without occasion-
ing some complications. The path of duty always
leads through dangers. Nevertheless, France has
become enlarged by two provinces ' • the barriers
which separated us from our ueigbbours have been
lowered • a vast territory is opeued to our activity
in the extreme East; and, what is much better than
conquests, we have acquired titles to the sympathy
of the peoples without losing the confidence and
the esteem of governments.
" During the years which have passed, it has
been my lot to meet most of the sovereigns in
person, and from these interviews have arisen
amicable relations, which are so many pledges for
the peace of Europe. This peace will not be dis-
turbed by the events which have taken place in
Greece.

"This rapid survey of the past answers for
the future, and despite the pressure of unpropi-
tious events and opposite opinions, you will recog-
nise, I hope, that I have always followed with
firmness the same bus of conduct.

"In that which relates more particularly to
home affairs, I have purposed, on the one hand,
by a complete amnesty to efface, so far as it
was in my power, the recollection of our
civil discords ; on the other, to increase the impor-
tance of the great Bodies of State, I have called
you to take a more direct part in the conduct of
affairs ; I have surrounded your deliberations with
all the guarantees which liberty of discussion can
demand ; I have renounced a prerogative
which was until then deemed indispensable,
in order to permit the Legislative Corps to con-
trol the public expenditure in a more absolute
manner, and to give more solidity to the bases
upon which public credit reposes. In order
to relieve our finanoes, our army and navy
have been reduced to more limited propor-
tions. The floating debt has been reduced, and
by the success of the conversion of the Reutes a
great step has been made towards the unification of .
the debt. The indirect revenue augments unceas-
ingly, through the simple fact of the increase of the
general prosperity ; and the situation of the Em-
pire would be flourishing if the American war bad
not come to dry up one of the most fruitful sources
of our industry. The forced stagnation of labour
has engendered in many places a distress deserving
all our solicitude, and a credit will be asked of
you for succouring theme who suppot t with resignation
the effects of a inutfortune which it does not depend
upon us to arrest. Nevertheless, I have attempted
to convey beyond the Atlantic counsels inspired
by a sincere sympathy ; but, the great maritime
Powers not having believed they could yet join me,
I have been obliged to defer to a more fitting pe-
riod the offer of mediation, the object of which was
to stop the effusion of blood, and to prevent the ex-
haustion of a country the future of which cannot
be a matter of indifference
" I will not enter with you into the details of
several administrative ameliorations, such as the
creation of the reserve of the army ; the reconstruc-
tion of the fleet ; institutions favourable to the
poorer classes ; great public works ; encourage-
meets to agriculture, to the sciences, and to the
arts ; the maintenance of the prosperity of our
colonies, in spite of the suppression of negro immi-
gration ; the strengthening of our African posses-
sions by our care in gaining more and more the
affections of the Arabian people, and in protecting
our colonists. The ministerial survey of the situa-
tion of the Empire will unfold to you each of these
measuree. . . . .

" You are about to distinguish by useful la-
bours your cloning session ; and when you return to
your respective departments do not allow your-
selves to forget that if we have surmounted many
obstacles, accomplished many useful things, it
is due to the devoted concurrence et the great
Bodies of the State, and to the harmony which has
reigned between us ; that, nevertheless, much re-
mains to be done to perfect our iostitutions, to dis-
seminate true ideas, and to aacust•,m the country to
rely upon itself, Tell you fellow-citizens that

'ENCg

I shall ever be ready to al that is for the
interest of the greatest number hat if they have
at heart to facilitate the work which has been com-
menced, to avoid the coadicts which cause uneasi-
ness, to fortify the constitution, which is their
work, let them send to the new Chamber men who,
like yourselves, accept the actpal regime without
reservation, who prefer to burin contests serious
deliberations ; men who, animated by the spirit
of the age and by genuine patriotism, enlighten
in their independence the course of the government,
and who never hesitate to place above the interest
of s party the stability of the State and the great.
nem of the country."

KR. GLADSTONE AND THE THRONE or
011XMOZ.

The Greek josses's& publish a letter addressed by
Nr. Gledstosse to Cloent Mereatis, of which the fel-
lowing is the re-translation :
" I have read with much interest the letter you
have done me the hamar to write to mi ; and,
according to year via, I have read it to Level
Palmerston and to Earl Rumen.
" Reasons, which appear to be peremptory, pre-
vent England from complying with the desire of
the Greeks to obtain Prins. Alfred for their King.
an *NOW. nevertheless, te, liars that the
eentimeste whieh have been menifested me this
occasion is Greece will form a new bond of anion
between the two nations, and may thus produce the
happiest results."

The Moniker, in it bulletisef yeeterday, sayer-
" A more decided movement in fanner of peace is
taking place in the tufted States." The only cir-
cumstance, however, that it adduoesia support et
its assertion is a proposed convention se Louterilk,
referred to is the last advises from America.
• MAIL PAOLI'S' flismwers ro tea' CAWS or GOCEP
Hors—We medembead bet be matinee fen shim service
be spin been oilibined by the Union Steam Ship Com-
pel. which be hitherto performed theserrimr very midis-
factorily.

DEAF ATCH OP Till BOMBAY MAZIL—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Compauy's steamship • ila. Captain
Rogers, sailed from Southampton yesterday, at Itp.ro., with
the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, !Copt, Aden,
Bombay, and Upper Bengal, together will! St pasimigers,
including those proceeding wd Marestiless.ameeget whom
are AssistaotAnrgeon Fox, Bev. A. Forbes, Captain 81111014

Colonel Leith, Ersigo Maude, Captain lienter,rand Captain
Webb. The Marais took en freight 775 bowls sperm,
velem 292,9541., of which amount is, for Almandisin, love.
reigns, 50,9771. 10a ; sod for Bombay, bar elver, 230,5751.;
bar gold, 15,00 W.; gold coin, 8,50014 fire frees picas,
7,5001. ; and watches, jewellery, ke., 1,4011- lb. The
Naesilia also took out a fall cargo al general merehandiss.

The Right Hon. Sir .John j'akirigtou presided
yesterday at the annual meeting of an institution estab-
lished in Birmingham twelve mouths see, Asa fee hospital
for the relief of sick children. The right boo.. hugest wee
supported by Lord Lytteltoo, the Mayor of llseriesharm
the Rev. Dr. Miller, &c. The report of the met year's
erations was of a very interesting character; it showed
that in the coarse of the year upwards of 7.3ooebidno had
received medical aid ; of that somber 214 had beau in-
patients of the hospital. As a proof of the large need for
such an inetitutioe. it was mentioned by the oluirmen that
the number of applie tbms fur medical agleam. to children
requiring aid lam bsea at the rate of 60 per day, or nearly
19,000 per annum. It is proposed to stabil'', ie commotion
with the hospital, a department for coutagious.diesesee.
A meeting of the Juridical Society was held last
evening, at their rooms, in St. lilartin's.plue, Mr. C.
' Clarke presiding. The subpet of discussion, wee "Oar
Present Treatment of Criminals," which wee mama by
Mr. Wonky.
STATISTICAL SOCIETY. —At the third ordinary
emetics( of the Statistical Society, to be held es Tuesday,
the Nth MIL. at eight o'clock p.m. precisely, Professor
Lem* Levi, of King'. College, will read • paw "Oa the
Oottoe Trade and Manutacture, as affected by the Civil
War in America.*
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—Thit society
held its ordinary meetiog esterday eveniog at Bur-
lington-home, ander the y of Sir Roderick Mur-
chison. The compsay was nersereas. and included the Earl
of Sheffield, Lord Strangfud, Admirals Sir IL Belcher,
Elliot. and Collages. Lord Alfred Churchill, Y.P., Mr.
Moackton Miloes, M.P., Mr. Denby Seymour, M.P., M. Da
Cimino, Captain Maury, late of the United Stake Navy, km
Mr. Mann reed a paper "Ou an Ocean Current running
from the North-Eat of the Brasile to the West India
Islands." This paper gave rise to a decorum. is which
Captain Maury made some interesting observations. A
letter was then read from Dr. Livingstone, giving a
graphic so:omit of the country in whisk he was
travelling. He stated that some of the tribes bad
large accumulation of grain stowed in the woods which
they were not afraid of having stolen, though they were
much afraid of being stolen themselves. Dr. Warwick
thee read an elaborate paper urging the necessity for
making more complete soundings of the Athistic, preps-
=2.dto the Lying of say tolegraphic cable. He meow-
that there should be two hoes of soendiegs made
by government steamers. me on each side of the line
already 'arrayed by Capain Dayman. The opinions enun-
ciated in the paper led to an animated discureios, in which
Admirals Sir E Belcher and Elliot, the chairman, Professor
Tyndall, Captain Seine, and Mr. Webster took part
THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. —The claims of this
very ancient charity are, we are glad to find, sot forgotten
by Scotchmeo in London. On and since St. Aodreves.day,
about 8001. have been added to its funds. Among the con-
tributors are her M.j7rsty the Queen, 1051. ' • his Oral the
Duke of Buccleach, 521. 10s. ; the Caledonia Society and
members, 9.1/. lls. ; Joseph Beattie, Esq., and friends,
521. ss. • John Liddle. Esq.. sad friseide, 271. 7s. ; Sir
Archibald Alison, 5/. Is. ; Semen! Sir Joh. Low, 101. 19a ;
Rev. Dr. Cumming, 51. ss. ; Mews. Morris Brothers,
311. 10s., he. One of the best features of the charity is to
relieve poor Sootchmen without making pelmets of them.
Pensions, varying front 61. to 151. per annum, are granted ;
and it is • sine gad non that those in receipt of parochial
relief an not eligible for the beeetite of the hospital. At
this seems of the year there are always extra demands on
the funds of the charity, and it is hoped that all Scotchrom
in London will feel it • privilege to contribute to so excel-
loot an institution. _

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Tun PROPORID LONDON RAILWAY (VICTORIA
Srariox).—The proposed London Railway is intended to
commence in St. George's, Hanover-square, by a junction
with the Victoria station and Pimlico Railway, oo the north-
east side of it near to where it crones the Gmereoor.road,
Pimlico, and terminate north-eastward of the corner of
Milner-street and Stanley-skeet, in the pariah of St. Luke's,
Chelsea. A second branch will run out of the north-west
side of the same railway and St. George's. Hanover-square,
and terminate by a junction with it mar to where it mores
Upper Delgrave-plaest. Its third extension will commence
near the north of the eastern eud of Miloer-street, Chelsea,
mil terminate by a junction with the authorised line of the
Kennington station and North and South London Junction,
where the latter James the end of Stamford-road, in St.
Mary Abhott's, Ixessington ; and the fourth extension be-
ginning in junction with the Mot line. near when it crosses
the New-road and Bytom 's-street. will terminate in the last
lioe near Smith-street, Marlborough-toad, Chelsea. The
estimated cost is 700,0001., and working arrangements will
be made with the Lemke end Brighton, London, Chatham
and Dover, and Great Western Railways.
A I.1,1:104HOTT AND FAIINDOROVOII RAILWAY.—
This new line, comsecting the mop at Aldersbott direct with
she emrropolia, will commence by a junction with the
London and South Western near its Fare immesh station,
and terminate near the Queen's Hotel on the Farnborough-
road. It is estimated to met not more than 10,0001., and
treflic arrangements are to be made with the London sod
South Western.

EPPING FORENT ENCLORI:REe.—A meeting of
freeholders of the county of Ewes and other persons inte-
rested in the preservation of Epping Forest to the use of
t►e public, which had been coavened by Colonel Palmer. of
Naiong-park, verderet of the forest, was hcld on Saturday
last, attlie lions and Groom, Woodford Wells, to determine
what steps should be taken to put a stop to the illegal en-
closures of the forest land, and to recover pornessioa of so
much of it PS has already heru enclosed contrary to law.
Colonel Palmer presided at the meeting, and under that
geutleman's advice it was unanimously resolved that an
immediate application should he mad, to the Lord Chan-
cellor to Onus his writ for the election of proper permits to
till the vacancies in the verdernahip of the torrst, with a
view to legal prorentieee being instituted against the
offenders in the Verilerses court, or at the iiistairos of the
Attontry.General, in pursuance of the met of parliament.
It was also n-solved that petitiona nunicnonly signed
should be presented to parliament in eupiott of tbe mo-
tion of which Captain Torreon. M.P.. has given notice, for
as inquiry into the subject of these illegal lockeures.
ROYAL FRET, tlretriTaL, tiltAY b-INN-SOAP.—The
member of patients relieved at this hospited during the week
emdteg Jan. 10 was of which WM were new eons.
BETTER THAN EVER.—Thu epplien to the 16a.
Whiter Trousers orlgtuated by Alfred Webb Mike. wthoe only
Radom' I■ Ts, Musk-amt. Hacerereroare, W.--Vierertise-
menet

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N.B.This establishment Is /timed at oin the evening, sad as
Ilattiedays at I o'clock.

CHAMPAGNE, DRY and =JUTE.
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IXIVRNT HARDIN.
Tll9 EMMA LOVNII TRIUMPH. Mr. G Ferret' and
Mlle Louisa Pros. —And tbe Pantomime, HARLEQUIN BEAUTY
ANL) THE BRAST.—Coaductor, Mr. A. Mellon.—Commence
at ten minutes to 7.

HAYMARKET.
IBM ZYMRSO. OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs.
&Ahern nod Baelotose ; Mee. R. Pitatrilltant. —RAS:ICUS
PRINCI Or ABYSSINIA. Mr. Compton and Mla L Kerley.
.—And MR& WHIM Mr. Campton and Was Hartteur.

PILINCIIIM

Tun EVWPS. THE ?Eiji ACCIANCI. M 1 Constance
Aylmer. And Um Pantomime ItIQUILT WITH TICE rorr
or, Harlequin Mother nnipton. Messrs. R. Power,
and Hadord, MN A. Collinson.

BRITANNIA..

This Emento, the Pantomime, ADON HASSAN. Mrs. Lane :
Yeats. Xmas, Lads, Newham, end Male. Celeste Stephen :
Tom Sayers and his two performing Holm—Awl 80.111
BELLS THAT HANG.—commence at half-pest 6.