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London, England, 1852-03-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, M,iliCH 29.

INDER a parlianientury simarnment like ours, po-
litical power is, in ordinary circumstances, exercised
exclusively by a comparatively *w sera and active
politicians. Members of parliament.mfdtes far the
political press, electionesseig agents, mmitene perty
E, political &decennia. andie=a4;644of
tical theories, take the Wed ninnliwnit
agitations. It is net they the gent Mike* of
the people—enfranchised and wee-enfranahhed
apathetic in regard of public affairs ; but they have
other things to mind—shops to look after, webs to
spin or factories to keep at work, suits to plissd, decd.
to engross, bills of lading to examine, Demos* to
write and preach, patients to physic or phleboteenise,
anti so forth—and can bestow only a secondary and
intermittent attention to political boring's. They,
toe, have their favourite systems of policy, their
favourite statesmen, but busied about many things,
they in general have the active, business of politics
to • those who may be said to make a task of it.
They stand and look on while the battle is fought
by then self appoiuted champions. This, however,
is the way in which public affairs are left to be
=nagged, so long only as they arc conducted in
general harmony with public opinion, and with ave-
nge prudence and success. When the political ma-
chine appears to be getting out of joint—or when the
political workmen appear to be getting into a scrape,
—the multitude, who have been contented lookers
on. interfere, insist upon matters being set to
rights, and then fall back again into their dia-
meter of lookers-on till some new emergency shall
again call for their active interference. In
other words, party and party men are allowed in
England to work the machine of government; but
under a pretty sharp look-out on the part of the in-
telligent. industrial portion of the community,. who,
whenever the party in power evinces a disposition to
act in defiance of the common sense or prevailing
opinions of society at large, throw their weight into
the scale of opposition, and re-adjust the deranged
balance of the state.
The impending election is an appeal to these non-
combatants in political strife; a calling out of the
farriirr-bun or land-stern, to put a more speedy ter-
mination to the indecisive, interminable, and there-
fore mischievous struggles of parties (ill-natured peo-
ple might say factions) too equally matched. It is
an occasion on which all "no party men," or indif-
ferentists owe it to their country and themselves to
shake off for a time their habitual indolence or
apathy, and strengthen the politicians who seem to
them most capable of steering aright the vessel of the
state—most worthy of confidence as the more honest
or Ices dishonest of the competitors for power and
place. Whip, tortes, and radicala—proteetionists and
ikee-traders--conservatives and pragres icu • is—are
sure to be busy enough, giving their votes, and driv-
ing their followers or allies to the poll But this
Section of the community, in the country at large as
in parliament, is split up in four or more parties,
each of which ia too weak to outnumber the others,
while any one of them may be checked and paralysed
by the vexatious opposition of the rest. This is ex-
actly the occasion when the sensible and patriotic
among that part of the public which is too much
engrossed with necessary private business to have
much time left for public affairs, ought to bestir
themaelves at the elections to ensure the return of
able, sagacious, honest members of parliament, —men '
lastly to unite in support of a really good ministry,
and of none other.
Now, the form in which the appeal is made to
these holders of the balance of parties is this:—
Have you confidence in Lord De.ant's govern-
ment? Do you believe that it is conducive to the
interests, that it is compatible with the safety, of
treat Britain to allow the men who, by a curious dis-
location of parties, have lately contrived to creep into
office, to remain there?"
Now, what is the character and composition of
this Dam ministry, now, by a dissolution of par-
liament, about to ask the suffrages of the country for
its continuance in office? Let us first look to their
capacities, apart from the principles which they en-
tertain or profess. Their leader, Lord DERBY, is
known as an able and accomplished debater—the
effect of his eloquence being somewhat marred
by a vixen tongue. But he is also known
to be habitually indolent and self-indulgent ;
easily roused to anger, but without the power
of continuous exertion; and afraid of incurring
responsibility to a degree that paralyses him for
action. The member of his cabinet next to him in
place, if not in influence, is the CHANCELLOR of the
Mangum Mr. Dissusizz's brilliancy as a writer
and speaker is not more universally acknowledged
than his general want of judgment and inasmon
sense as a thinker; yet these are the only two
active and efficient men in the ministry. The talent
and taste of Mr. WALPOLE are barely sufficient
to enable him to palliate the eccentricities of the
ministerial leader in the Commons. The benevolence
of the fluke of NORTHUMBERLAND, and his profes-
sional enthusiasm, would make him a valuable adjunct
to an efficient cabinet; but be is a mere accessory—
he cannot stand alone. The remaining offices are
filled up with the worn-oat hacks of obsolete yartitw,
like the venerable fliaam--ehesr aon-entities, like

the well-meaning Seawall he the CoLOXIss ; or
failures, like Mr. HENLZT, vles haw already "whited
as a sinieter the repeledes Ise psi judgment
whisk hearquired as a use easate, isidelletS. The
blab Wirers of state are ItimMlM a mart with Oesige
for die liseash, Lord Dun has bees
=it As
tako for Lord-Advocate a sweeping
fres the led raia.iday of Bir Rowe lei Whin we tarn to umpire into tha plasiples ol
this' fiat setae are still
worse. /leek chid slidsinif is Irk life
by the Tinders we moth an by tbmaraYof
Me whir the time ef Ste side himself
equally esespiseene he rabid nitra-tveyhes Sines
he lea last teen in opreeides he made preteeties
the
wives
of feeds be in new pip*
mums to • that &minim Hie CILBSCIILLOS
ci the Excnieume, deisimanemiskrd the tory party,
boa in one breath that to were
advocated_ by the bides spied tegirlimahip and in
the next deck es his eislisfikedre Snag the re-
turn to them. He Lemon w esesest that the
continuance of his he pewit is granary to
avert refers in , sad the meet ram&
his hearers that IZIST was aim of the Re-
heat Bill mairtry. Mr. NAP= sad lased DIJUIT
declare that it is their ishadies is 'give the
Osage press of Imbed sees
_pewee, and
the national amides et Ivied; Warw.'
presets that they men esa&g of the kind. Prom
the higher te Se Sweet el ha party, from Lord
Dine to Mr. G. F. Teem. they are elaborately
nips in that prallimins aid They
hint to the Whistle that their psi wishes go along
with this, to the Illestele that they se the heji
tryiag es resist the Issiessies of the sip
try ht gaol& every Etas that they ear of his
Sea, bet they weak thesselme to as.. by a frank
avowal of their intentions. They has me Axed
principles, no dodged mine of action. They will
gloss and fawn open everybody, and ad ht the ex-
• _ et their owa sell& sinister
terests. Utcy seaset be bided by the peet in-
y
?mire* by willerniatin& sod ebetruet-
mg which dry ease Ste else t they cannot be '
treated ma by die eseervatise whoa they are'
evideedyireresd let if they est gain any-
thabeen imemeheetese whiimers-in, and
e and at epee et the DERBY party, !
there is me amen in lighed whir her anything to
pia by their sootiness in Asa Rven the landed'
Lave nething te her from them, for I
they are delft to lemma their numbers by re-
tithing into their maks. What have
..he eeisaial interests to expect he. a ministry at
tee head of whisk_ they me the meet peevish, self-
ImMdier Wats het meemmented
the GLEE it not serted P
What hme the **gift litterelaisSd Is sagest has em ass
YonHee* tell thin shat the balsa et the 4lt
MGM II 69 twigs*. laws MMeeeleilliet

woo west se the mans ease am
I -.the, km . who undertake W. ea ere
60 'blss twr • piths* that &shill, Mews]
ehth them Amo battle is at Isola*. The
alutinuanee d a WI a faction in power can only lead
M the °Wrathy' se isrielatioa, and to the paralysis
ad adminiat reties gevesnment.
Them oonsiiimatiewars for the " no-party men " of
tame wham overwhelming industrial
/ROI tarn of mind and owed-
-47;1=88i inisaldad
se distrust of all public men
:411111:ilea laical arena, keep apart from
and political strife. Tbe mere
iMnis= indissile, unprincipled, self-seeking
Whoa as that which • has now crept into office
obtaining a majority at the coming general election
is too pregnant with danger and discredit to the
whole community, to lave any man the option of
remaining neutral. Whoever may come into parlia-
ment at the approaching elec.iot,, as many Derbyites
must be kept out as possible. To be an avowed sup-
porter of the DERBY ministry—even to evince by
the phrase of giving it "a fair ti ial" a disposition to
coquet with it—ought to be sufficient to ensure the
rejection of any candidate. The friends of liberal
policy at home and abroad—the advocates of safe
rational progress—the friends of civil and religious
liberty,incur no risk by perilling the issue of the
election upon the question whether candidates sup-
port or the Dearly ministry. Within the last
thirty oppose the
years a change his coma over the
public mind that ensures is against barefaced, per-
manent re-action. Even a DERBY ministry will
abet illiberal and oppressive government only by
indirect and mnessW none; but they will by
every means in their power embarrass, obstruct,
thwart, all efforts for political and social improve-
meet. The really liberal conservatives will support
a rational commercial and financial policy, and
as the only means of upholding it, such a diffu-
eisa of intelligence as must tell upon political
Ileitious also. The eclectic, timid liberals, who
sweet the name of whigs, will allow themselves to be
=onwards by more clear-sighted and ener-
tures. Rational reformers, untrammelled by
prey alliances, will promote all substantial reforms.
Theis three shades of opinion divide among them the
whole " no-party public"—the great comparatively
inset mass which in seasons of emerrnoy holds the
Wows of power =cog parties. The candidates
who by Issesseed in their appeals to this section
lithe pills, must be friendly to general education, a
liberal commercial policy, benevolent care of the
rights and interests of all climes of the community,
moderate taxes and an honest appropriation of the
public revenue, a pacific policy and abstention from
the internal intrigues and squabbles of foreign
states. A deep conviction pervades the " no-
party ".public of the urgent necessity for a search-
ing revision of our electoral system. It will soon be
seen, after the assembling of a parliament composed
of members attached to these principles, who among
oar public men enjoy the confidence sod support of
the greatest number among them ; and then, and
not till then, will it be possible to determine what
new combination of leading statesmen is most likely
to give us a ministry animated by the principles of
rational possess that can command a working ma-
jonty in the Bosse of Commons.
The Weans of the present day and hour is to put
down the DIRIT ministry. When they have been
effectually put out of the way—disarmed of all power
to do harm—then it will be time tomb who are to be
their successors.

TO•NIORT the question of militia or no militia is to
be put to the House of Commons. Conscription or
no conscription?—that is the problem. Are we to
have our fleet ready for our defence when needed?
or are our ships to be left abroad, and our coasts to
be entrusted to raw town lads and slow country
bumpkins who have had a few days' drill?
Are we to keep governments, both tory and whig,
out of continental wars, by keeping to a regular
military force P or are we—under pretence of na-
tional defence—to levy a militia, whereby good
workmen may be made into bad soldiers and bad
citizens, but be ready for transfer by thousands into
line regiments for fighting abroad?
In order to understand fully the question respect-
ing the militia, it is necessary to inquire whether its
practical utility will compenaate the vexations which
it must Game to the poorer classes, and the expense
which it will entail on the country. No man, what-
ever political party he may belong to, can be found
who will declare that a militia can, at any time,
withstood successfully a regular army. The French
beat the militia in Spain, and in Prussia ;—nay,
almost aoaihilated them. The allies not only beat
the Reuel militia in 1814, but the French rulers
theimielms have never reckoned upon the National
Guido, damp as a force available for the security of
mad when CATAIONAC was named dictator
flo7tretY perpos of putting down the insurrection of
1848, be bond the National Guard not only useless
bat he the way. The Doke of WELLINGTON has
wow advocated the militia in England, but as
a pis oiler : and Lord Joule Bunn!. himself, when
bruigiag in hie militia bill, stated that he did so
"blame there was no prospect the home ever
wispdag any lion for en increase of thirty or
men." In this his lordship was per-
fectlyf
right. The House of Commons was not
hiely to listen to a plan for creating an unnecessarily
Imp standing army when there was no necessity for
as bat at the IMO time it was not paying the
goad Neese cliche house a very great compliment to
tell them that whilst they were being startled with
this scarecrow of 90,000 regulars, they were in return
to vote 80,000 ;—eighty thousand discontented,
useless Utopia uniform. For, indeed, of what was
the 'proposed militia to °mist ? Boys of 20 to 21,
trained the flat year for 28 days, and afterwards for
14. Did his lordship ever see a recruit at drill?—
does be kiwi* how long it takes to make a soldier P
Why, it would take nine-tenths of these militia-
men the whole of the twenty-eight days to get
through their " goose step" alone. Yet this is the
force we are asked to vote as an opponent to the
splendidly organised troops we were told to look
for on our coast led by men of the LAYWOMEN
school.
Mr. PITT kinlelt the soul of that sanguinary con-
test which Megiend carried on for so many years,
and who would willingly have availed himself of any
kind and demeiption of military force, saw as far
back as 1804 the inutility of the militia as a imam
of defence, and saw also the hardships it inflicted on
the people. He not only recommended its reduction
to the number of 48,000 men as a preliminary step,
bat with respect to the balloting stated, “ I very
lately had the means of awing an amount of the
number of those balloted emu who came personalty
to serve in the three I am speaking of; and I ma at rue the house that out of 30,000, the number of theme
lin Great Britain is not mare than 2,000 or 3,000—a
number so trifling that everybody must feel how little
beoeflt was likely to be derived kom the ballot as it
Alas hitherto been constituted." The balloting that
failed in Puss's days are not likely to work-better
now than then.
No great addition of any kind is required r our
army, and as some more men are to Is added he
1 our cavalry and artillery ; if oar infantry kepaw-
Vi'es :pgt.3l7dadififineocrnaclyare
be, the pordion of our Chaneel—thss all thet te
middle bee hem done. With respost to military
arreaseasels there ana be but two oyeeems attempted
—a ragoler may era militia. In driest of duns we
know mostly what we ass depend apes. We know
that so away thiamin:Cs give mummy acidities.
sad net, se in the that the iptiMespart, if ass
the whole mak, is playbir selilhoe„The
first imolitered by ma SlMlllowed to alma bas desk
boyhood, and peastised le bedlag ma, it nee be in
the bedi of Esilkatts, with, seadp.piela of Wads. In
the tweeted, wehave aesnellibstisa for en m wisdoms, not
fitness or capability, bat WM • Lesibeient
oponialnuns in allies Yon 'Cy al Me.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1852.

every man
_Ow
But proffimM•imtwo *ea, the tide corps,
which ee freely mrang.up throughout Rogleadcisem
Gess this advantage. They are sol basis of
under bloodthirsty leaders, but mss of station and
influence. They are willing to be seganieed by the
government; to be drilled by government; to arm
themselves with the regulation rile, so se to ensure
all the field ammunition being alike; they are will-
ing to be officered by government; and to charge the
country nothiog for uniforms or drill meetings. In feat,
instead of giving England a unitise expensive mili-
tia, recruited as Lord JOHN RUMILL would bon
with boys, or as Lord Emile/awl prove n. alba
with the hard working mechanics, we should
have in rifle corps a molly valuable force,
which added to tho yeomanry, would allow the
regular army to take the greatest advantage of its
numerical proportion. who sought out
whatever force he considered could add to the
strength of England, fully felt the importance of vo-
luntary service. "As to the refusal of adequate
pecuniary and military aid to the volunteers, I must
observe that it is amongst tAe most culpable and in-
consistent part of ministers." So spoke Mr. Pin in
1804, and yet, half a century later, the English peo.
pie have to complain of a similar refusal.
We are to expect an odious ballot, a forced
conscription, causing discontent throughout all
classes. The rich man will not like to
pay a substitute, the poor man cannot afford to serve.
But supposing jut substitutes are not to be allowed,
who then is to be exempted? The clergyman is re-
quired in the cottage and the school; the doctor is
wanted for the sick; the lawyer cannot lase his Urea
neither can his clients wait ; the architect, the
engineer must be at their post, or the community
will be embarrassed; the farmer moat look after
his crops ; and the manufacturer can not spare
his mechanic. When will the government learn
what every other class has so fully understood--
the importance of the division of labour? We
are no longer living in those boasted feudal times
when the peasant had to work in the field with his
weapons close to him; the king can no longer call
out his ban and arriere ban ; the lord of the manor,
instead of mounting his war horse, and gathering
his clan, finds Westminster a more congenial
bivouac, and likes his tenants not to be behind-hand
with their rents. Yet, now we are told to try
bygone fashions, and to disturb every hearth in the
country, to benefit no ono but the military clothiers,
unless the militia regiments are also to have their
clothing ooloools.

41/110W4 •
awd 40eoen •
lie opts by that time
tin woalarilelaD isAidni by way of subvention from the
Paris am initsabearg ltdhray Cempaey a wasa of 10,000.000 f.
Is tee meal iembilassia. the INS elm not to be payable
mill the she Genie fiee.• State guarantees
is theme/aging Opus an la0:814f 41 per met.,
eadlhe eieldeg saMlinel eke at per mat. Ise
the sem thee ill a Mal et 22, whisk it it
astbseissi to boom. 'The sem @Mies hem the Mee
of the heeds sweet be apphed to di useisdties of
serest ht prepense as .oft.tin Mimes
Pim Me seste Mall have, hi its lefty oles,
paid the whets or the part of tha pees lamest sad
Midas Mid. it shall be repaid from the est mats of the
entarprips whetter, they may arise, sad Wm say divi-
des& ate paid to the sompaay. If at the expiration of the
esessmise the 'Me sitall he a weaker of the company, the
assert shell be pissed against what may be due to the coo-
-1 piny hr the metsrial leiseging to it. The state also
penniless an latemst of four per cent. on a further sum of
16,000,4100 fr., to be laid out by the company on the works
the Mal snmal interest guaranteed not to exceed
640,0006.
In order that the state may have some security far
the good and profitable management of the line by
the company, a clause avowedly borrowed from
Prussian lelation is introduced by which the stab
in case it should be called upon for five years con-
secutively to make any payments in respect of its
guarantee of interest, is authorised to take possession
of the railway and work it until the accounts shall
show that it has been carried on with a profit to the
state of four per cent. for three connecative 'ears,
and then the line is to be rastorsd to the anspany.
The remaining clauess merely consist of the usual
details inserted in the Cahier des Charges generally
drawn out for railway undertakings.
All the decrees registered in the official journal to-
day are of secondary importance. The first in order
is an evident feature of preparation for the empire.
By it the royal and imperial chapter of St. Denis is
restored to its pristine affluence and dignity under
the monarchy. In 1832 the salaries of the canons
were cut down to a standard of economy in harmony
with the reforms expected under a citizen king; but
Louis Napoleon, who seems eager to seize every oc-
casion of marking his attachment to those pomps
and vanities, which the constitutional monarchy
was obliged, in deference to public opinion, to shake
off, has of course restored to the canons their
!it purses. The salaries of the six ausonicates of the
first order are raised to 10,000 francs. Those of the
eight canonicates of the second order are increased to
2,300 francs. The next decree offers some slight
compensation to the members of the old council of
state, for having been deprived of their handsome
salaries oa the morning of Dec. 2. It declares that
ritalor teiperary indemnities may be accorded
l husososhers of the former Council of State as
have not been reappointed ; pensions alter 20 years'
Savvier, and indemnities for a shorter service, but
neither can be accorded unless in case of insufficiency
ot income.

The Press. says:
The Central Agricultural Congress has been this year
refused an authorisation for its stetting'. The government
is said to have declared that the existence of the congress
was justifiable so long as there were neither ccosultative
agrieultiiral chambers, nor a well organised council general
of agriculture; but that the views of the Congris Central
having now received their fulfilment, this assembly had
become useless. It is well known that the congre4 has
been for some years past presided over by M. Duple, senior.
'rho restoration of the Articles 291, 292, and 294
of the penal code and the law of the 10th of
April, 1834, contained in yesterday's Moniker,
amounts simply to the entire 'oppression
of the right of public meeting. According
to those articles, no meeting of more than twenty per-
sons whose object was to meet every day, or on cer-
tain fixed days to consider religious, literary, politi-
cal, or other matters, could take place without the
consent of the government. Every meeting held
without such consent, or infringing the conditions
upon which the consent was granted, was to be dis-
solved, and its leaders or managers punished by a
fine of from 16 to 200 f. The same penalty was ap-
plicable to the proprietor of any house or room who
might, without the like consent, give to the use of
them even to any lawful meeting. The law
of 1834 greatly aggravated the severity of
these provisions, by extending them to meet-
ings of more than twenty persons even if
divided into sections, each containing a less number,
and although they might neither meet every day nor
on fixed days. This law further menaced every mem-
ber of the society, whether present at any meeting or
not, with from two months' to a year's imprisonment,
and from 60 to 1,000 francs fine. For the second
offence, the penalty was doubled, and the offenders
were subjected to the surveillance of the high police.
All this is now once again the law of France. Not
an exceptional law applied to particular places, or
justified by temporary considerations, bat the per-
manent law as laid down by the organic decree of the
founder of the constitution now on the eve of ooming
into operation. You may remember that this law of
1834, presented under the ministry of Thies, Guizot,
sad Broglie, occasioned for a month together some
of the most celebrated debates in the annals of the
government of July. On the very day of its promul-
piton an insurrection broke out at Lyons, and three
days afterwards the famous outbreak of April oc-
curred in Paris. Now, its revival after the many
monstrosities seen since Dec. 2 appears insignificant,
and scarcely excites a pulsing remark.
The Bank of France has given notice that it will
be open to receive applications for advances on rail-
way shares on and after Monday next, the 29th inst.
The Duke de Valmy and Count de Clermont
Tonnerre, leading members of the legitimist party,
have had a private audience of the President of the
Republic.
The Coosstidutionnel says :—" A decree has been
spoken of to reduce the rate of interest in cermet-
cal matters to 6 per cent., and in civil &Shire to 4
per cent. We think we can declare that the rumour
is altogether devoid of foundation." Notwithstand-
ing this semi-ofilcial note, it is reported to-day that
the lowering of interest alluded to will take place;
se it is evidently in conformity with the financial
policy of the government, which wishes to force
down the rate of interest.
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 40c., closing
at 100.40 ; the Three per Cents. fell 66c., and closed
at 71.06. The Four and-a-Half continues at 101.26.
Bank of France shares fell M. Strasbourg Railway
shares were inquired for at the opening, but fell
subsequently, and closed 2.50 lower than
St. Germain rose 16f., and Versailles (left Mer)dlaii
The other lines scarcely varied.

PARIS, 8011 DAY EIIINIIIII.
The Monibsir contains to-day several decrees of
great importance.
The first in order as in gravity of these is that by
which the various purposes to which the spoils of the
house of Orleans were applied are now provided for
by the sale of forests to the amend of 35 millions.
This decree, after alluding to thole:see of Janaa7
23, and reciti • law of August 7, 11,40, w
the Minister of was asdheelmall to sellhlerrOt
and knob of the dab to the ooloot of 50 millions
of lbolow• mid =alleauglZarla ciple that when
two mho me Le property most
WNW= I. keep acsahl Sot to be disposed of,
amil aMmaing that diks beets comprised in the
labodaie to the law of 1880 are in that
, and noticing that the grand chancery of
eallseteagril m of honour is not so creganised as to be able
to manage real property, deercos that the minister of
' finance is authorised to sell the woods and forests
' above mentioned to the eetent of 35 millions of
francs, and to apply the pr'joeeda in satisfaction of
the following purposes rrientioned in the Orleans
decree, namely, 10 millio WI for the meeeet.eseinesece
, societies, 10 millions for the amelioration of labour-
ers' dwellings, 10 milli one for the encouragement of
institutions of credit bier, and five millions for a
retiring pennon fora for assisting the poor clergy.
The decree then di recta, that in lieu and satisfaction
of the surplus c/I the Orleans property given to the
Legion or Rancor be the decree of Jaa. 22, the minis_
or of finance is authorised to inscribe in the rend
livre of tha 'public debt a rents of 500,000 broom
lat 4 percent., which inscription is to be de ,
the oof Honour. By the 4th article tee lAjir
livered to
,eh teau Itambouillet is appropriated for the establish.

chancery of
education,
or or-
obtained
directs
hectares
it of the
Fere, in
u of the
the Cotes-

Lepeud, in
s of the do-
the Seine ;
in the de-
-Of the-Seine and Seine-et-Oise. The sur-
plus of the property restored to the state by the de-
cree of Ilia. 22 will be annexed to the domain of the
state, subject to ulterior sale by virtue of the present
dears&
The waning of the above decree requires some
explanation. No feature of the ordinance by which
the property of the Orleans family was confiscated
was more odious than the application of the spoils to
objects of charity ; because it insulted the public con-
science, by the offer of • gross bribe, to
Wink at a grow violation of law and justice. The
clergy were the first to repudiate their share of the
plunder. The honour of the army was affronted
at the dotation of the Legion of Honour from so
impure a source. In short, every institution that was
to be enriched at the expense of the exiled princes
seemed disgraced by the iniquitous gift. Iknee the
specious destination of the wealth intended to pal-
liate its confiscation only made the wrong more
glaring. Too late it was discovered that it would
have been perhaps more politic to have decreed the
confiscation purely and simply, without indicating
any application of the proceeds. In the present de-
cree the monstrous proceeding of the executive
power, in disposing arbitrarily of 50 millions of the
public money for the creation of charitable institu-
tions, appears in its true light. The law of the
budget ordered the sale of forests to the amount of
15 millions of francs. The remaining 35 millions of
the 50 millions authoristal to be raised in this way
by the law of August 7, 11450, arc now applied to
the redemption of the rash pledges given in the de-
ans of Jan. 22. The sale of several domains of the
Weans family is also directed, although the pro-
tease, instead of being applied immediately to the
purposes indicated in the decree of confiscation are
to recruit the deficient treasury. Meanwhile a debt
of upwards of eleven millions is created for the do-
tation of the Legion of Honour by Four-and-a-Half
per Cent. Bootee.
By another decree the following persons are
created senators :—The Duke de Montemart, Gen.
Petit, the Archbishop of Paris (Monsigncur Sibour);
General Pyat ; M. Bineau, Minister of Finance ; the
Marquis de Barbancois, and Baron d'Heeckeren.
The two names which merit most attention in this
list are those of the Duke de Mortemart and the
Archbishop of Paris. Monsigneur Sibour had hi-
therto maintained a decorous attitude of reserve
towards the government. His nomination must be
regarded as the sign of his defection from the
republican party of Cavaignac, who appointed
him Archbishop of Paris. The Mortemarts
have been noticed as constituting almost a
solitary exception to the neutral policy observed by
the great legitimist families ; and you may
.remem-
ber that much sensation was created some time ago
by the General de Mortmart accepting a command
in the Nievre. The bestowal of the dignity of sena-
tor upon M. Bineau is regarded as a symptom of
the impending retirement of this minister.
The next decree is that relating to the removal of
the state of siege. The report of M. Abbatucci,
which precedes it, is as follows :

or:mjajlyuly7, 7'ism, and
19:17. The
to the ekoirge of those companies an part
of the liability which weighed upon the public
t
treasury. The line from Paris to Orleans had 64..„
CewnwonucedtlraldedflialnlefoinwrtasoNctohne ceyiars fed ate
for 39 years and 11 months
from a date which may be taken to be 21st Septem.
ber, 1852, and would therefore fall in Aug. 21, P 492
The Orleans and Bordeaux line was conceded
ginally for 27 years 278 days, and subscipiently far
.50 years from 24th Oct., 1844. The fours and
Nantes line was originally conceded for 31 year,. and
15 days, and afterwards for 50 years from 27th Nev.,
1843. By giving to these different companies a new
prolongation of their term, which would enable them
to spread the repayment of their capital over a period
of 99 years, as by preceding decrees has been done
with regard to the Northern and Straabourg com-
panies, annual resources would become disposable,
applicable to the effecting of loans, the pro-
duce of which would furnish ail important
part of the " subventions" necessary to
the completion of the Central and South Vlestera
Rally system. But the companies have gone further.
Their amalgamation into one and the same company
is evidently advantageous for the interests of the
companies by the reduction of the number of admi-
nistrators, the diminution of general expenses, and
the simplification and economy of working, all of
which is equally advantageous to the public interest,
for which uniformity, regularity, and spied are such
important conditions. A just consideration of the
interests engaged in the lines lately conceded front
Pieria to the Mediterranean, required that the exist-
ing prohibition against the amalgamation of the
companies to whom these concessions laud been
made, should be removed. Thu New Orleans Amal-
gamated Company is, however, prohibited front
making any treaty of amalgamation or alliance with
the two railways from Lyons to Avignon and from
Avignon to Marseilles. The new com.pany is to he
governed by the "caller de charger of the old
Central Company. The prolongations above-men-
tioned from Chateauroux to Limoges, and front Al-
lier to Clermont, with a branch from St. Germain
des Fosses towards Itoanne, are conceded to the
company, and also a branch front Poitiers
to Rochelle and Itoehefort. In return far
these advantages the new company engages to pay to
the treasury a sum of 16 millions of francs, which
will be a deduction from the expenses which the state
was to have incurred in executing the Central
branches. The sums paid by the company in six
successive halt-yearly payments being added to the
sums allowed by the annual budgets, will permit the
line to Clermont to he finished in two years instead
of six, and to Limoges in fourycars instead of eight.
The company further engages, at its own risk and
peril, to execute the branch from l'oitiers to Rochelle
and ItoAtfort as soon as the amount subscribed by
the localities interested shall amount to four millions,
of which 2,500,t5a/ have been already voted by one
of the departments. The report announees that the
section from Bordeaux to Angouleme will be open
in September next, and that the works
from Angoulione to Puitiers will be delivered to the
company by the end of the year. Thus the entire
line from Paris to Bordeaux may be opened in the
autumn of 1833. It may be hoped that the central
prolongations may be opened at the stone time as
far as Argentin and Moulins. By an article of
the convention the state guarantees to the Orleans
company a minimum of interest of 4 per cent. fur
years from January 1, 1832. The 99 years for which
the concession is made is to be reckoned front that
day. The state reserves the power to repurchase the
whole concession at any period after the expiration
of 13 years from the time fixed for opening the lines
newly conceded.
By another decree, of equal novelty and import-
ance, the servants of all the railway companies in
Prance are placed under the surveillance of the go.
vernment. The government is to have the right,
after hearing what may be alleged by the company,
of requiring the dismissal of any " agent" of any
railway company.
The review to-day which took place in the Car-
rousel, was less remarkable for the number of the
troops assembled than was expected. It presented
no feature of interest.
You will observe that according to the decree re-
moving the state of siege, the departmental mixed
commissions are to cease their jurisdiction. M.
Quentin Bauchart, councillor of state, has been
charged with the mission to visit the departments of
the south for the purpose of recommending for par-
don all those victims of the commissions whose li-
beration shall appear unattended with risk.
The Moniteur of to-morrow will contain a final
batch of dictatorial decrees, one of which will settle
the butchery question.
In consequence of the journey of the Duke
d'Aumale from Naples through Germany to Eng-
land, there is much talk about fusion again.

To the Prince President of the French Republic.
Monseigneur,—The constitution which the confidence of
the people expected from your wisdom is about to be put in
execution. To-morrow the great bodies of the state will
commence.] by a solemn oath, the exercise of their func-
tions. The moment is come to restore to the
laws of common right all their empire. Twice eon-
seerated by the most striking manifestations of the
national will, your government draws from this same
will the strength to defend society, and you may
without danger follow the impulses of your heart
by causing to cease the exceptional measures and jurisdic-
tion which were created by the neceuity of saving order
and civilisation. In order to realise the thought which you I
have done me the honour to express, I propose fur your
approbation the following decree.—l am, Ike.,

A inarruce 1.
" Art. 1. The state of seige is removed in all the depart-
ments of continental France. Nevertheless, the individuals
tried by the councils of war shall be, if taken in the repeti-
tion of their offences, subject to be tried by courts-martial.
" Art. 2. In future no arrest shall be made, no prosecution
undertaken, except in conformity with the ordinary laws.
"Art. 3. The departmental mixed commissions shall cease
their functions from the date of the promulgation of the
present decree.
"Art. 4. The commission of pardons instituted at the
ministry of justice shall continue to decide upon the memo
rials presented to it."

The next decree is as follows:
Louis Napoleon, President of the French Republic, upon
the report of the keeper of the seals, minister of justice,
considering that the composition of the civil code is due to
the powerful will of the Emperor Napoleon ; that it was he
who selected the eminent men by whom this immortal work
yes papered and finished; that under his presidency. in
the esinaril of state, and under the inspirations of his genius,
the gravest questions of our civil law were resolved ; that
this cede nu, by public gratitude, decorated with the
title of Cede Naooleon ; that the re-establishment of this
desomisatioa is-only a homage to historical truth, as well as
to the national sentiment, decrees
"The Civil code shall resume the title of Code Napoleon.
"Louts NAPOLZON."
By the next decree the libraries of the royal
palaces are attached to the department of the minister
of state.
A decree follows for the establishment at Paris of
a central consistory of the reformed churches, the
members of which are appointed b 7 the head of the
state. The aim of this institution is to heighten the
principle of authority in the protestant churches, to
obviate the frequent disputes between the protestants
and the situ authorities, and to define the powers of
the damn orders of the reformed church and of the
oils& Of the confession of Augsburg. The central
salMissirm consists of the following members :
AMP* banker; Admiral Baudin ; Boudet, councillor
id state; Coquerel, pastor of the consistory of
Paris ; Matthien Dollfus; Ferdinand Fevre, de-
puty to the Legislative Body; Gauthier, senator
and sub-governor of the Bank of France; hill-
ier:at, pastor-president of the consistory of Paris.
Lam de Ladebat, councillor of the prefecture of the
Wm; Mounin Jappy, mayor of the Gth arrondisse-
Meat of Paris ; Morin, deputy to the Legislative
Bart Rollin, former pastor, president of the cou-
gh's!, of Caul Seydoux, deputy to the Legislative
Beige Illmgmr, director of the Post-office; Verne*,
of the Bank of France. Admiral
I=ffeirelfLointed president of the central com-
mission of the reformed churches. M. Charles Read,
head of the department of worships not catholic
in the Ministry of Worship, is appointed steretary.
A decree follows for the purpose of giving greater
vigour to naval courts-martial, for the repression of
desertion and other maritime offences.
Another decree organises mutual-aid societies.
The next in order authorises the Orleans Railway
Company to spread the liquidation of its associated
capital over the 99 years of the lease granted, in-
stead of liquidating the same in forty-six years, ac-
cording to the law of July 15, 1840.
The Mortigessr also contains a decree approving of
the amalgamation of the four companies—the Paris
and r. s- the • Orleans -

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to expect from the financial measures of the meanie under the eye dark ellsemses hefted to habits of '• • 11:41 .;k exercised eiaapt far the whole of of a house of ed
and fantastic author of " Conley's' ".. Sybil„. • order and discipline. The Edit* is billets, de- I the ..: ....• to the Paris and Strasburg oom- : ' -Sir Igeat daughters
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and in de J.'M. •I : , Idi, Josiah Wilki 0 me; 656 heetasse Of the domain de La I
of Ireland, and the t
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by the DERBY ministry is to play off all task in subduing the Peuissula had i I •t been for the line from"Bleentas' aid St. Dialer to Gray, upo iist•Nord; 295 hectares of the domain de Lep
parties and shades of opintaa againstnach other that tha guerillas. .I.V.auliLinatsau _havaJost Jimmie • • • • 44opriseipel r the
department of the Crease ; 10 hectares of
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for which others are squabbling. They emulate the perhaps, be new iaterferisillsoitk • the- 'Cabal ASA wim'''nnanaaan"ady vnalarellwsy of and 188 hectares of the domain of Neuilly, in
tar that r°!la awl with the here- ilar 1146#1.1116' mg Ilaktll.l#llllll62ll._ liiiii-Airgbaus —es-rain ii. end. tt,...t .1111...! Parftnents of the Seine and Seine-et-Oise. •I