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lICNOARY.

Mr. ANSTEY moved the following resolution :—" That
this house, recognising the undoubted title of the Queen's
subjects resident in foreign countries to the continual pro- I
tection of her Majesty, in respect of their liberty, property,
and other personal rights, and considering that in the ease ,
of the Rev. Messrs. Wingate, Smith, and Edward, arbi-
trarily expelled from the Austrian dominions in the month
of January last, with their wives and children, under cir-
cumstances involving much sacrifice of property, end other
hardships to the sufferers, those rights were violated, and
that no redress has been hitherto obtained for the violation,
is of opinion that the case is one calling for prompt and ear-
nest measures on the part of her Majesty's government."
The hon. member said ho should p,ocred with his state-
ment, notwithstanding the rumour that had reached him
of the determination of the government not to allow this
question to be brought to a decision in the home. Public
opinion was very loud in favour of this case. Ile should
proceed with it. After a passing allusion to the resolution
moved by the Earl of Derby, in the House of Lords, on the
Greek question, the hon. gentleman proceeded to say that
the noble lord's support of despotic power on the conti-
nent had been seconded by the kindly congratulations
which he received from the Austrian and other govern-
ments on his accession to office. With regard to the case
of these missionaries the government had promised to lay
the correspondence upon the table of the house,
but they had failed to do so though it had
all appeared fiat Exeter Hall and in the newspapers.
The hon. and learned gentleman then entered in detail into
the facts connected with the expulsion of Messrs. Wingate
and Smith from Pesth and of Mr. Edwards from Lemberg.
The facts of the case were not denied. It was admitted,
amongst other things, that there was a loss of property ;
but Lord Malmesbury condescended to be the apologist of
the Austrian government, and would not ask redress for
the wrongs which had been inflicted. The parties com-
plaining were told, in effect, in the name of the Austrian
government, whom the noble lord wished to conciliate, that
they had no right to endeavour to convert Jews who were
the property, soul and body, of their Austrian master. It
was not to be expected that Scottish blood would remain
quiet under such treatment. Accordingly meetings were
held in which was used language adequate to the
occasion ; and it was determined no longer to me-
morialise the government but to appeal to the le-
gialsture. It would appear that Lord Malmesbury
then began to reflect seriously on the course which he had
pursued ; and on the 28th of April, 1852, he desired his
under-secretary to write a letter which closed the corre-
spondence. lii this letter the under-secretary said he
was desired by the Earl of Malmesbury to state that after
several urgent appeals made to the Austrian government
through the Earl of Westmoreland, a reply had at length
been received; that the reason assigned by the Austrian
government for the delay which had occurred in giving
this reply was the necessity of awaiting the detailed
' report of the local authorities on the matter;
that this report had now been received, and that Lord
Malmesbory regretted to say that it was completely un-
favourable ; that the local authorities said that the mission•
' arise first confined themselves to the reading of divine
, service. The hon. and learned member here appealed to
, the house to attend to these documentary references ; ob-
r serving that they wore very important to the proper under-
, standing of the case, when
An Hon. Mustier( moved that the house be counted,
and strangers were ordered to withdraw. After the lapels
of two or three minutes strangers were re-admitted, and
, it was then found that the house had adjourned, there hiv-
ing been only 37 members tiniest.
'the adjournment took place at about 10 minutes to 8.

" I
THE LABOUR OY THE SESSION.—From a panto,
mentiry paper, it appears that during the session and up to
Saturday lut, there were 126 public bills brought before
parliament, which have been &spoiled of in the following
manner: 20 had received the royal anent, 42 were intro-
duced by the present goser.ment now in progress, end II
by the late government now in progress. There were 31
bills brought forward ay private members of both houses,
sad '22 bills had b...en rejected or withdrawn, making the
total 128._

Tim MASTER AND WARDENS OF THE NiERCERB'
COMPANY have received a letter from Sir Harry Smith,
rpretting that it will not be in his power to accept their
invitation to a dinner at Maroon'

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LONDON, WED.VESDA l', JUNE 14,,

LORD MALMESBURY has added another leaf to his
chaplet of blunders—another bell to the cap he ap-
propriately wears. Ily his own confession on Monday
night, it appears that he had the astounding ignor-
ance and temerity to introduce, a few days previously,
a bill regarding the surrender of foreign refugees to
the French government, the effect of which he did
not understand, but the real and practical meaning
of which, as suggested by his lordship's friends at
the Elysee, would have been to constitute England a
new department of the French police ! Literally so;
for when the silver paper covering was torn off this
precious "gift of the Greeks," the scandalous truth
became so obvious to all, that the miserable sham of
a Foreign Secretary was fain to deprecate all further
discussion, on the ground that having made a mistake
he meant to abandon the bill.

Well might the Opposition cheer. At the very
same moment the House of; Commons was ringing
with similar expressions of derision at the same bur-
lesque on a minister. Perhaps Lord lons ItrssEt.t
might have deemed it unnecessary to aim so many
and keenly barbed arrows at the tory Secretary of
State, had he known that in the other house the suc-
cessor of CINNING and PALMERSTON was actually
then doing penance in a white sheet for a far more
important and heinous error. The wound of Mr.
MATHER, though chaffered about, and trifled wit;i,
was at worst the reckless net of a mercenary soldier in
a petty Italian state. That the name of England's
Qi• stEst should ever have been associated with a bur-
tering parley for the price of a wound wrongfully in.
flicted on one of her MAJESTY'S unarmed sub:pets
in the streets even of Florence, is humi-
liating enough ; but still our indignation
is somewhat tempered by our pity when we rvcol.
lect how helpless and passive is the condition of the
Tuscan government, from whom alone our discreet
foreign minister ventured to ask redress. But the
attempt to obtain the assent of parliament to a bill
for the surrender of every fugitive front France
whom the ruler of that country chooses to demand
as a criminal, was a far different affair. It was the
first effort made since the infamous days of CHARLES
11. to render the permanent law of this country sub.
servient to the policy of France. Various adminis-
trations have, under var ing circumstances, been ac-
cused of too ready a compliance, in matters of diplo-
macy with the wishes of our somewhat exacting
neighbours ; but neither Nrwcssrix, nor NORTH,
CASTLEREAGII,OTCYCII LOUIS PHILIPPE'S "dear friend
ABERDEEN," were ever suspected of the un-national
baseness of undertaking to get a bill passed through
parliament to please the I. rench government, the
provisions of which bill, if put plainly before the
nation, would have been spurned as an insult and
degradation. The revival of the too famous prece-
dent we have alluded to was reserved for the Right
Honourable the Earl of NIALNIESBURY, the confiden-
tial friend of LOUIS NAPOLEON, and the confidential
Minister for Foreign Affairs in Lord DEntiv's admi-
nistration. Why he was selected for such a post,
or by whom his notelette name was first suggested, it
is difficult to say. At the first formation of the pre-
sent cabinet, its supporters in the press did not
scruple boldly to assert for Lord Mst.srEstieta the
extraordinary claim of being tho personal friend of the
Prince who still calls himself in badinaye President
of a constitutional commonwealth. Men stared at
one another, as they heard such a recommendation
ostentatiously put forward on behalf of an English
politician; but among an unsuspicious people un-
worthy thoughts seldom spring up spontaneously,
and wo will even confess that we were of the many
who were rather disposed to laugh at the folly of so
clumsy a puff; than to consider how far it might
betray the existence of a grave and specific disquali-
fication. We should have been ashamed to have
cherished against a new and untried man, whatever
his party or opinions, misgivings such as Lord
MALMESBURY'S conduct has subsequently justified.
We gave him credit for the ordinary spirit and in-
telligence of an English peer and an English politi-
cian ; and had anybody insinuated the contrary three
months ago, we should have felt rather inclined to
reprove than embrace what common charity and the
common pride of country would have prompted us to
consider as an unwarrantable imputation.
-But Lord MALuttsnuar, unhappily for himself and
his colleagues, has become his own accuser. llis
despatches to Mr. Sesat.tivr and Sir HENRY But.
WEE convict him of inconceivable ignorance and in-
capacity, and of still more amazing insensibility to
the claims of individual justice and national honour.
His hasty and humiliating confession in the House
ofLordson Monday last,that he did not know what he
had been doing when he brought in the Extradition
of Refugees Bill, and his abject admission that by its
provisions any subject of any state—ltalian,German,or
oven Enylisli—might have been demanded as a victim
by the French government, and must have been there-
upon given up to the justice and mercy inaugurated
on the 2nd of December—these are counts in ;the in-
dictment the like of which no British statesman of
our times has ever had preferred against hint, and the
like of which, for the safety and dignity of the
country, it is to be hoped we may never hear of
again. .
But if the national sense of what is right and dc-
tant—(it were farcical to talk of p they or wisdom)—
is not to be again outraged by the same hand, not a
day ought to be suffered to elapse without the only
effectual means that is possible being taken to pre-
vent the recurrence of so discreditable and dangerous
a contingency. The stock of political reputation
with which Lord DERBY'S cabinet started was not
buge. It has since suffered many and heavy losses;
and whatever may. be supposed to remain can ill
afford further diminution. To retain a man thus
stultified in the office of Foreign Affairs would be
poetically impossible, as the Paoli: MtstisrEit well
knows; and if he really clings to the hope of being
able to meet the now parliament, Lord DERBY must
be conscious that it is indispensable Lord NIALMEf-
BURY should be forthwith cashiered. His retention
of the seals can admit of but one interpretation.
namely, that Lord DERBY feels his desperate experi-
ment of a tory cabinet has already failed. and that
it is hardly worth while making any serious effort
to defer its inevitable doom.

To-DAY a Bill that has already been read a second
time, is to come again before tho House of Commons,
under the title of Corrupt Practices at Elections (:io•
2) Bill. Its object, as its name denotes, is to provide
further cheeks upon the practice of bribery at elec-
tions. Its scope and tenour are extremely simple
and intelligible; and in brevity it stands pre-eminent,
inasmuch as it contains neither recitals nor preamble,
but consists wholly of two clauses not exceeding a
score of legislative lines.
The sound and useful portion of the bill is that
whereby it is proposed to give the County Courts
jurisdiction to try suits for the recovery of penalties
for bribery under the existing law. Few persons
who talk about the necessity of enacting new and
stringent statutes against corruption are aware that
by the law as it actually stands any person being an
elector, candidate, or agent, who shall be proved to
have given or received any consideration for a vote,
is liable to penalties to the extent of 500/. for every
such offence.
These penalties have hitherto been recoverable
only by action of debt in one of the superior courts
of law at Westminster ; and to this mainly is attri-
butable the fact, that the statute 2 Geo. 11. chap.2l,
under which the right of action for the recovery of
these penalties was originally given, has practiCally
lain a dead letter. The cost of bringing such suits.
certain as they were in most instances to be defended
with all the resources of long pleadings and long
purses, has almost invariably prevtmted their being
brought. To this must be attaeil also, that the ex-
cessive nature of the petial.',:tes was at all times cal-
culated to frustrate corr:tietion and punishment. To
be condemned to pay 500/. was felt to he equivalent
j in the east, of a poor man to a sentence of ruin; and
the experience of everyday proves that exaggenition
of punishment tends to prevent its indiction. Men
of humane disposition shrank from tho odiou.s duty;
men of cautious temper, from the cost of tortuous.

FRANCE.

h and thankleas proceedings. The common
'as
;'„f•orma was indeed ever ready to sue; but the
pans wen •
gene-idle wanting to enable him to do
. %tier mina ttttt ig on the statute book for upwards
et 1:1t yt..rs, people have forgotten the existence
of the enactment we have named; and though
wind formally in various subsequent acts, it mel-
t:was to the present hour as utterly inoperative as
thouzli it had neer.'
WWI is now propomd is this—to give the county
iear:s jurisdiction to hear mid determine all suits fur
of remain,* for bribery, limiting, of
Nye,,. •
the amount recoveruble to 501. By this means
justly eonceived !hat the chief impediments will
be rose iced w Inch have heretofore stood in the way of
the radical execution of the law intended to reetraim
be rani•littig corruption. The risk of loss incurred
in the proiseiling will be reduced to comparatively
st
Ling • and no man, whatever be his station ee
,i,4ng. can /milldam that he is amerced in a sum si
50/. fa hating ailfully and wantonly committed the
of,..nee against public law and public morals whisk
heihire implies. With the aid of the new law of
eridrnie conivalnient or evasion will be impossible;
and we rejoice to leern that preparations are already
soaking in numerous places to watch and detect the
political 'Mips who are busy at their old trade of
el.:do-al di bauchery. It only requires the adoption
of romesuch measure as that which is now suggested,
to render impunity in corruption for the future im-
ree',le.
to the see n it clause of the bill we are not inclined
',assent. Its object apiwurs to be to make the in-
habitants gem roily of the county or borough in
which malpractices shall have occurred responsible
Lir the guilty Mw by whom the crime has been
committed: and the way in which it is proposed
that this should be done is by enabling election com-
mitters of the Mouse of Commons, or commissions of
inquiry like that which sat at St. Albans, to award
pee taint of the costs of petitions or of investigations
gsiest the town. county. parish, or hundred where
corrupt practices shall have been shown to prevail.
There is much that is übjectionable in such a prop°.
*Mon. The pecuniary mulct would of necessity fall
upon individuals nine-tenths of whom must be not
only innocent of the crime for which they were
panishisibut utterly ignorant of its perpetration, and
rtahy powerlese to prevent it. The ancient Saxon
Law, which tined the hundred for outrages on person
or psoperty committed within its limits, weighed
heavily enough ; but there was a certain rude ap-
prach to justice therein, for undoubtedly the policy
of that law mated on the presumption that where
marauders and thieves were not harboured, violence.
andth.Rs were not likely to take place. The rule
win a rude and undiscriminating one; and, like all
riles of the kind. mast often have worked °ppm-
eledy. But the modern attempt to apply it meows of
corruption at elections fails nib intik inasmuch
es the eery nature of the offence renders all
reeloue know ledge or prevention by others
Impracticable. In truth this section is so little
in harmony with the temperate and practical spirit
'skid' manifestly dictated the preceding clause, that
we are tempted to doubt whether they have erne-
isat.il from the same mind, and whether the learned
author of the hill (Mr. Aeeree) has not been in-
diked to &pried the suggestion of some incon-
siderate friend to his own more obvious and unex-
ceptionable scheme of bringing corrupt practices
within the cognieunce of the county courts.
But while expressing unreservedly our objections
to this supererogatory portion of the bill, we would
n.it be undershod as in the least degree desiring to
aid the protectionists of bribery in the efforts
they will doubtless make to frustrate its pro-
p.. during the present session. A thousand excuses
sill of course be trumped up for not agreeing, on the
tic of a dissolution, to any molly stringent bill.
The professional anti-reformers will wax eloquent on
the propriety of leaving all questions of the sort to the
superior courts, because, as they well know, the said
dignified tribunals are certain never to hear of them.
The zealots for the maintenance of privilege will
act to be scandalised at this further encroachment
by courts independent of parliament on its inherent
and "end jurisdiction. Finally,every tine gentleman
who is impatient fur a dissolution, and apprehensive
lest his only ground of reliance for a seat In the new
parliament should be curtailed or destroyed, will
be sure to exclaim that there is not now time
to deliberate un any novel proposal. But the public
will be deceived by no such pretences.. Reduced to
a single claim the bill might easily go through corn-
mime in a quarter of an hour; and should discus-
sion be deemed requisite as to its wording, a morning
sitting or a portion of an evening could not be better
spent than in its consideration and adoption.

Minister of the Interior has decided on the suppres-
sion of the subsidies hitherto granted by the go.
vernment to the Polish refugees. This statement is
completely destitute of foundation. The Minister of
the Interior has made no decision on the subject."
The court martial at Lyons has just convicted M.
Larcher, the manager of the property of M. Cre-1
mieux, of having joined a conspiracy to murder all
the officers of the 13th regiment Larcher Iran been,
in custody since ho was committed upon this
extraordinary charge, which was made some time
before December 2, and generally discredited at the
time. No details are now given. Two sergeants of
the regiment, named Fiel and !lentils, have been
also found guilty. They, together with Luther,
are sentenced to transportation. Another sergeant
and two civilians, included in the indictment, are
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, 100 fr. tine,
and deprivation of civil rights.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a• Half per Cents.
closed without change at 100.05 ; the Threes fell
10c., and closed at 70.15. The Rouen railway rose
21.23. Versailles (right bank) fell 7.50. The other
lines closed at about yesterday's prices.

absolute, and invariable. There was a confusion of two
ideas in the decree. Did the decree really intend to regu-
late both the pest and the present for a political purpose.
PARIS. Tetanal' Ilvionni. The government could not go against a law of Cod, and in.
The whole interest of to-day's news is comprised Untrue. The Thgeovoevmerntmheent Still metro
a kietrithp that
tmwahin cot; Ilirsdposes-
in the sitting of the section dos corstentietsz of the aims, but it g hail so right to dishonour him. It
Council of State, in which the question of the Orleans might say that a man should cure to be a proprietor today,
estates has been argued. The sitting was presided but it could not enact that he had not been a proprietor
over by M. Baroelle, vice-president or the Council of Inter"Y• it emild not make the lights of third meths rut
State. M. Cornudet presented his report, which, t they keel been The past belonged to no one. It
belongs,' to the truth.. It .1.4 a to bo judged of-not to be
after a detailed history of the question, and a retie- governed. it would be a cad thing if,- to n ' • at the con-
tition of all those documents concerning it, most of fiseation of property, it Phoul.l be neck ssary to hold that
which have been already published in your columns, justice bench had been confiscated. But t6o decree had
terminates in the manner described in my letter of sot dared to go so far oo that. There were none of the
dal mealtime of a judgment in the decree, for the first
yesterday. M. Coriludeee report consisted entirely :nu these conditions wee that then could be no judgment
of documents, which were handed to the clerk of the unless both sides had an opportunity of being heard. The
court' to read. Whether his voice or his courage Constituent Assembly and the Convention-political powers
failed him, whatever there was of original compost. -rendered judgment", but at that period the manner of
tion in the report was suppremed, excepting a few raising a conflict was not settled; the administrative power
words at the conclusion. and the executive power were delivered up, defenceless, to
.. the pleasure of the tribunals, and the only control was then
M. Paul Fabre, advocate of the Orleans family, the Court of Caasation.
then addressed the court in a long speech. M. Fibre then at much length, explained the
He drew attention to the crowd of persons who thronged ' . practised,
the court that d y in order to hear a simple question of nature of the raising of a conjitt, as now
competence decided. It was not the dignity of the party and was left speaking.
interested, so much as the vital importance in the question [l'.S.-When M. I. avre had concluded, M. Maigne,
iseieh assembled in their presence so distinguished an
audience. A coofter, or appeal to die Connell of Stale, on • commissioner of the government, demanded the con-
x.nion of competence, generally demanded what judge firmation of the decree of the ninflit, as respected the
decide, but the present con*/ demanded that no Property comprised ' indonation of the 7th of
the
judge should give a decision. This was the excommunica- August, 1830, and the annulling of that decree as re-
in's( the noddle ages addressed to a tight knead of to a epected the property the Princes of the family of
ma; It was • right denied; (or where there are no judges
awes ma so longer exist any right. Of all the debts of a Orleans have inherited from Princess Adelaide. At
half-past 3 o'clock, the pleadings being closed, the
nesiessemat towards the country, justice was the most sacred,
swim the psy spent of that debt depended the confidence of council retired to deliberate. Judgment will not be
are peelle. The greatest princes bad increased their great- delivered till Saturday.),
sass by practising justice. The advocate then proceeded to The preamble (expose des motif:) eg the bill for
ammaset on the facts. They knew that among the domains imposing new taxes sets out by rming that the
whisk the government claimed the right to cent: there was
not oas which had eve r formed the f
the °pinny.. They the last
present financial situation, when compared with that
were all patrimonial in origin. l'he sperm,. had reverted of
even with the • years pre-
to the State in 1830. The house of 0: teens had kept no ceding the revolution of February, presents remark-
part of it. The property, to which their title was disputed, able ameliorations. The sensible monthly augmen-
. they possessed by the same right as any one present held tation in the produce of the indirect taxes us a proof
his jruperty. It was a fortune which they inherited from of the return of public confidence, and justifies the
the Duke de Peuthievre. It was a fortune of which soother
part consisted of purchases of lead nude by Louis Philipps hope that the actual receipts for the future will at
sharing his reign. At this moment two estates were in gum least realise the estimates. But it is the duty of a
non, Neuilly and Blonceaux. Ne'uilly was bought partly be- provident government to place the finances of the
foreB3o,partly alter 1830. Monceau' belonged by hereditary country upon such a basis that they may not be dc-
right halt to L"" Philippe and hall tuMde. Adelaide. This ranged by any of those ordinary accidents to which
property had been given on the 7th of August, 1830, by the
father of the family to his children. On the 2nd of March, the best regulated nations are subject. It would be
1832, a law was passed to settle the question of the trans- imprudent not to be prepared for a bad harvest, or
mission of the property of a private domain. The 22nd a commercial crisis, which have often disconcerted
Article of this law said . " The 'deg shall retain possession the most confident calculations. After premising
of the estates which belonged to him before his accession to these general considerations, the preamble proceeds
the throat. These estates and those which be may acquire
during his reign shall compose his private domain." The to justify the imputation of each new tax in a se-
during
Article said: "The king may dispose of his private pasts argument.
Uulnain." Under this law estates of the private domain let. The increase by one-fifth of the proportional
have been Wad to the amount of ten millions of francs. The registry fees on the conveyance and transmission of
roulettes of DM arrived. Levis Thilielie had had during
yht=6: civil list and a domain of the crown. 'These the landed property. Time existing duties were mien-
suppressed. The private duinain was by decree lated according to the law of 22 Frimaire, year VII.,
of Feb. 28, 1648, placed under sequestration in the interest upon a sum equal to 20 times the annual income in
of the creditors of the king, whose personal fortune was in- the ease of a fee simple, and at 10 times the an-
debted to the amount of thirty millions of francs. nual income in the saw of an usufructuary in-
' This decree of sequestration left to the COCLIgi•
recut Assembly to decide what should be done with tercet. It is proposed to raise this proportion
to 2- fem.' the annual income in the first, and to 121
the property of the house of Orleans. In July, 1848, • d I- -
representative, using his right of initiative, demanded the times in the latter case. 'rho basis of the legislation
' adoption of the measures announced iu the decrees of of the year VII. was just at the time. Landed pr,s-
Jul. 21. The report upon this motion, made by M. Ber- party then paid 3 per cent. interest upon the par-
ryer, recognised in toenail terms the right of possession in
the Orleans prince's. In February, 1860, it was proposed chase money. Half a century has brought about
to the Legislative Assembly to restore to the Prince de Join- great changes. Land is more in demand, and more
vine and the fluke d Aumale their venous' property, divided, and seldom pays a purchaser more than 3
but to maintain indifiuitely under sequestration the per cent. for his outlay. The measure now proposed
remainder of the property of the Orleans family. M. Was brought forward by the government in 18,10.
Achille You'd, then minister of finance, declared in the tri- The National Assembly, with the concurrence of the
Irene that the sequestration was essentially a provisional Minister of Finance, thought fit to postpone the aug-
measure, and only justified by the gravity. o, circumstances, .
and that it was far from the generous spirit of the govern- mentation, on account of the difficulties with which
meat of Louis Napoleou Bonaparte to wish to prolong it landed property bad then to struggle. Circumstances
unnecessarily. The National Assembly sanctioned the have now changed, and the time appears to have
words of N. eouid, by passing, on the ith February, 1830, some for realising a fiscal amelioration, which has
a law, deckling that the sequestration should be removed
on the Ist of August following, and authorising a loan of already been admitted to be equitable in princip:e.
20 millions on twinge go, to pay off the creditors of the 2. Tho increase in the duties on alcohol. The de-
Orleans princes. This loan wt.* realised, and the minister cree of March 17, 1632, in regulating the budget for
intervened to approve it, and to cede to the creditors the the present year, has raised the duties on wine, cider,
peturity of the state, represented by the Cairo. d'Eanniesple. perry, and plead, sold by retail from 10 to 16 per
M. Fabre maiatained that it had always been at all epochs
the jurispreilease of the Council of State to refer similar cent. There can be no reason why spirits, not an
pastioas or the tribunals. It was in vain to attempt toarticle ofthe firstnecessity, should enjoy greater
mho art the posed that the question was concerning an favour than wine. It has always been the custom to
alto the oevetument-an administrative act. It was • maintain a proportion between the two in the duties
queihia Oftemmen law. The first question be would sub- levied. It Is now proposed to raise the duties on the
mit he the Omen of State was this. Had they the right to consumption of pure alcohol from 34fr. to 43fr. par
annul this twsglitt Was it their duty to do so ? The first
pest of the question admitted not the least doubt. When hectolitre. This will about establish the accustomed
me prefect raised a mufti. in the name of the executive proportion between wines and spirits. In Paris tits
power, was he the sole judge of the political interests the tax is to be filfr. The estimated produce of the pro-
administration of which was confided to him. In that case, posed increase of duty will be 7 millions of imam.
the Council of State had only to submit and register. The 3. The tax upon paper. As if to anticipate oh-
day they wen tied by a declaration of the prefect the . . ~__
country would be under the most deplorable des- Iceboats, ine e.rposf enters into elaborate arguments
putiem. If the appreciation allowed to the Coun. to justify this tax. The example of England is re-
cii of State was not free, all they s• before peatedly referred to, but of course no allusion is
them in that court was a sorry farce. If they made to the efforts now being made there to repeal
were of opinion that it was not an act of the government
that was submitted to them, it was their duty to declare it. thiriapeL tax
willas one of the worst that can be im-
Se now cams to the question as to what was the character posed. toil appreciate the value of the follow-
et the act invoked against the family of Orleans. What tag reasons with which this part of the preamble
opposition was made to the demand of that family. It was opens :
said to them, "You ceased to be proprietors in 1830, and
For a long time past paper his been considered as a neer-
you cannot maintain the possession which you invoke to-
bandies that unites all the conditions most desirable as a
;lay." Their answer to that was, that they had kept pos-
senion of the property in 1830, end until the decrees of subject for indirect taxation. In fact, if paper is an article
in the relations of lit , it has not that cha-
Jau. 22, and that the state had no right to take it away of necessary
There were two questions of competence, which ought to racter.of neetedbigt which at. tubes to ealimcatary substance,
be examined separately. One was, that the Odium= the price of is amp* or aspented without sleeting
. the existence of tb• mem& It is mincipally sapispd by
were legitimate proprietors up to the time of the
and the other, that they ceased to be so after the decree: the,..clesse2Ln,,ess,
be dense
_tat
byAssesamersalight augmentatileawbe
mai
As to the question of the past, ought they to interdict the in "•17"" "`"," t=" ""'
tribunals from examining if from 1830 till 1862 the Or- ON 0 paperttalor some correspowilter sad ameasedal_
leans princes were the legitimate owners of the property in IrriliZ•LM ,___w_,.__lmr• LI if ~_aa 6.88,,____, s._ ed
.._,,....114,...__
question i If so, them the primes invoked their purism. r_n_,,_2.'""alo2r of eke L-a-zie-pineed
Mal title, sad it that wm dialed as lea sisat 1830, they in- "`"7",T2: nr_i • •. • a
is divided Into 600 shoes,
raid** right ressitiag boa thesistete of firaiteriess.The i."! `• •
dm" of the !rd paean ad not fay a i aim right
sad
women cut isms* CIL share of the duty imposed.
satchel to the Praia alt the &Isas inerit, slue MO beesmes infinitely stronger when each
by the shaft af Dmitedma. Was it berme the hems II" I is ihe de sight Puts'
h" oat the Minded of dasidial WI 00000 The It is then that, mince 1711, when the paper
screenassmn that the lelbemals eimseld be mashed ef duty was first isEngland, the consumption
au its."l"thas lit whin 61.7 age .Mai b, the am" et of hes hieressed, notwithstanding the
the Odom ihmily. M. P. Feesemelembed that as dash. Mir
on the =vise was admasima. sad Swig at the 1••••dest• tax and figures are weed from English documents
of the Glued of !se wee esahemslie le the t to bear out this saast Abundant use is made of
filo the Odom tally. Be would Wham des Kthe favourite tof all vernments when NEAPOLITAN STATE TRIALS.
W Cease k the matter relative to the peril, et the impogeg teem th • pert to be paid by NAPLES, Jena 9.
alai. ml.pOrhit. "gladwualhrissistih.halhilreports of of the consumer, who bays by retail, will be very trifling. It is truly wearying, day after day, to witness the
thst With impost es the mamiegs For instance, it is said that a book of 500 pages, cost- perversion of justice now taking place in a court
ass tee *lap was dear. Either the correita ing from 2fr. to Mr. will only be rendered 121 cen- where 45 human being. are under trial for acousa-1
Ibe denied yyftdeleitatie treaties, eM thus am Rents times dearer, and that upon a pamphlet of 200 pages tiona which involve life and death. Over the 4udges
' Plowen,„ ~_ ffivali.
____„„_ka" ih• liaM,..,o,ll",,,_Mittilliet,_ the amount of the tax will be scarcely perceptible. is a large crucifix, to which all concerned in 0101
ss 'suss " "'""' ""'"""1" ''' '""' '"' The expose refers to the position of the printers, trial have lifted their hands and sworn ; but,
it wield be lie the mutts ef law le whether lite Mete
Gould take test Lade PhOligm's papaw which booksellers, publishers newspaper-prop.rietors, and for any sentiment of the sacredness of justice
had bus seeded upon them as iiinsper- paper sellers, and declares that they are an reality to thence derived, the judges might as well have looked
nom. They meld es 7 wbenee, new that be considered merely intermediate agents, reimburs- up to the pagan figure of Astro& which is painted
Louis Philippe had net Carissi Private to Zto the manufacturer the duty advanced by him, on the ceiling of the court.
endow his shadies, Mete Welt wadi set
have, ward* te all owe, felt beast he = which they are in their turn to obtain from the For some days past the court has been employed
suitably llse thems ash abeam the some sad ormsemers ; the periodical press, however, the dot in hearing witnesses for the crown. It &mid be
law slim& bed .s
_by roses ef thieved alth, =ld admits, will suffer most by the imposition of known that the depositions on which the Procureur-
add is rem b the eight he retain the retenf of the saw duty, from newspaper-proprietors employ- General builds his act of aceniation are taken in
wideb,_lt.n_wes_.______wew inlikt_...,_.n deiene__._n2nTbwtn2j ing es peat a weight of paper for their daily circa- secret ; and when the case is brought into court, the
seas „cm' ""d=lBl, thiy.“'"""hdrriir.".'"dmiss,b.„'M r i ....." 11 . , and from their charge to their subscribers said witnesses are called upon to verify in public that
suds. orgasm et me is tooth& yew uhe beteg calculated to so nice a point, as to leave but an which they have sworn to in the private interFoge-
right4ll died petiss were Wave blyhe
he sil hels• e y emell "rat, after all charges of paper, lion. Now, what will be thought at the morality of
lane& lie .mbar of the eeturall he alt .aced, plaiting, &c., have been paid; yet, the a Neapolitan court, when, out of dams elf witnesses
be seleebbea„. ~ „Ase eb.e..enZetelleiet ....., .L.a 1,1 ..wl*.,,° =el* as the perusal of *milk is a want thus cited, sterol one has appeared who is able to
=fa- -imo-fartro-Ql-6-toi. alb is -ito''''''--amo,i oi ot the wealthier clams, walk pastes can support that which he is stated to have uttered when
TIER Pligniutl" Atip CISIMMAL C°111"I'll tliathwiL He now mate is the emend s well to pay a slight asimsedaties et pries for secretly interrogated ! Nay, more ;in some instances,
~_°"nane,l_,ammr'-'llm Ma ...sr 1111..._11.11.2••.,__,_,__1i••_.•••w„..,_aw5m._,- the imessa to restrain the /Minim hem their jourasis. There are to be bat two rates of witnesses have confessed to threats and intimidation
5r,,,..,„""' "'"F'",6 ......b"="4` Taa'e, 1...„....c.nar'",,,,,"",_ when*: ble ellen* bY Aetna of their title, daq, 10 osatimee per • upon very muse on the part of the police, if they did not put their
llsas.l*- r.,4„„Th• ...a a. --a..--r,s."-•,....,-- - wen set es the day helm kern wee ia• and 26c. apes all the qualities ot paper sad signatures to !suggestions. Such revelations would
of the 141 ''..---••••"- ime"."-b-••••••NaeiT6l7-er '•-••st•-•......--'--- willsad
mimmuslML T. a.? waidairleit s liar ?fieWbdimdas ii sak ~,," imbinat dm 11°4 pudebosrd. It is seisulaisa fiat the tax will yield be enough, in a real court of justice, to
M 7" nem Wm' )lAbrir " °Nat Biitab the Mad, ma he em very Uttis elbsset by Os tlO =Wiens of flialli be SO lIPMMOS. break up the whole fabric of amosatieds.
"""I,l4•ll'sr___ besideoe....""m" 1hj,1111_.2.! 2141__„_,°"114 draws bees article NI of the watibill=d 4. The tar apes animas bonds, sad dogs. The However, this is not the case in MOM I
'"'"",.... ~......." ""v ""•••••• ..A• At.....a•••"'..1"'"1,,,, .„, that the assess of the Freda:Mot die obsold have expel treats of this caltlect very bristly. It state, the original depoidtioos are allowed to remain at the
- - - ----. - as hild ens' The moms di 411. NI .11.1 he eanninad that the bill now presented Mows the system minutes of trial in meet instance' • with
aa eammaeled bY 11,840, lin wlian aim la °h. la seder te sadtestead it abassesse. H. meld see
alalleis "Ma' Th• "alill a1...10 1112111.1 Owl la the set sap of the ebeniesehilec el a law. Wu ha in Belgium Other than that in England, fiat contradictioim. On a late ooembia heard the
Wes. whin MA WWI= 1118.1WIMPIng ad Allneddst mo,„,,ti„ taw 1 A „simiat„ ta, ~,,, bi the words of a. that the tax on bases will produce, it is calm- president at the grand court lerture a geedarnes on
I hkdol-hesdia% !listen% ..._liewiel sew._ ile_t_nre pleading pared* a law a clime sad cramuus, ass lated. 4 saiSion; that en carriages, 3 millions ; and perjury because the unfortunate mart declared he
"I" eagrimmaPullignimiamw. am igrus....s..guisr I=ll ben ibe as wirla such a low lead be admitted nen, the@ sa ism $ millions more, or 10 minims in all. knew nothing about what the polies bad put into
4roraillb. Imese.the he la-yam- --by tess-lhet-lbetthe heavy---wasa— IF"ig._...-___llumweilhe*.- a_ W-a--aag "Mar- _____a___,___ll9.lM. of mull ,__' a' BMW eel's dm deemend in eenninni°l3, " the his dePcniiidli.
et do latiamellisastessmasuihmmtealtelbsemsMlliar_ ta„,t,',ussiteengots" .—.. .....k........mantitt00 aka= romeimmat will sat bee shire bet that these One of the most glaring indium of the halm
la. Imiltk Tvtt it loft agri•ad WI W. Mks soil arise away by vs statute./ NO enid it WY Impesibie on new two; thetas
wzght to enter used to incriminate the accord mods out from a eel-
aarali Wee mu the MIL The 1411dmulny mg Winn that the P of the Republic could ham wads a law est the path thwe amid to it ally pact sir- dier, a certain Carpentieri, brother of the celebrated
C""8" 11. now 1.1"1" five new 16.1114411811.1".612 of Wale. It was a "Wm, he say that be benned tO 011111111p1d011 1 and nothing will be neglected in the paid denouncer of that name. He stated that on the
slue their Seel is awmplere, it •dll ansmat______l• - de 'O. Ink . °in" !INI" el" • ivellasti" law, et those mamma to prevent discontent, 14th and 16th of May he had seed all the 'loners
11"."' Tigl 'll stn'w dlindgidi remm*llait7"" who Fogless was tos may ffist law Ye east i Were to mu trimming mnestibiritims
Um il to awn ths bempees Illeppme imi forming and fighting at the • (one
and at lienebeinplesth.
„ih
..,
A.....e. gm*, Le, old essral".2). rho retriellsi"otboott, ?'llHkadesil„prthelliSk ellhiS
sit igigeilliSais miver TM ahem premoble is ergeed by MM. Cherie- of the moused M. phi was at Turin at that
Australia as - - '''''n'''' '''' seas °MP"' 8 the Osumi et Cemetkm. I M
no Ilima--1-- magas, Stoma, Denovilliers, and Leroy de Saint time). After this assertion a prisoner, M. Visaed,
mew semerier Maass, beard err the lassebsees, hes jest gal des Oka OMEN a Crew wad an bow watch Arnaud, councillors of state. rose and presented the
colonelh " a certificate of
"wit
the Pam,rerte..........116111.6111.1"11668...„."1.,......a1as dan ewer th• owned= et the Mw wad i• • ladallaisq day Ia the Corps • to-day the bill for the service," signed by the of this witness's regi-
"Mtslohillsinsg. -- s--e--------' -'--- ---- - ---- f.„....13.81 rilatt.....llllL Id: ass=6".,, ....dm.Ler I" )1"111811".... .. aa,..161 on.th• lonsetion at the monopoly till Jan. 1, 1863, merit, and -General Saluzzi, which proved that the
Tut: Ss six Mut. STUN= CHOBAS.--idlelli--- .......-"-eleggiav7pWrer....eishree geggagigg- --"h7 ag-- boom- ---iewl; wee UMW unanimously in a house of 211 members. soldier Carpentieri, on the 14th and 16th ot May,
Pa", has reached Settatauctnn teem the Wand of St. Via- The executive power mist Wheal hem a hiss.•,k ardor The YE kir an extraordinuy credit of 170,000 francs was on duty in the barracks! The court was obliged
eat of the Peninsular eat °Matti eampsey 'a screw mail that it might act is Ms salseessearsitemeeesllski It far the xotoration of the church of St. Onen at to accept this document, became it was a military
rawer Chases, which left flosthempose as the 16th sit. apa rot that it Auld be imemerdebto Rem, was also carried unanimously. declaration.
for Sydney, New teeth Wales. The Chasse mud Ma- hams, Rat it was ft a mils. Weed The itembew states the Council of Admiralty Another witness declared be had seen one of the
'aim on the =ad sot., sad arrived at as. Thome es lice line ibe
eel.. sod has peeved an eveolans am I'm- el" .21.- =dim 61:71:: th°l•l6.l"ligardinary diestrlei."l".llto the o=o4 •ta owlet: Is adoldveli constituted as follows :-The minister prisoners kill 60 Swim soldiers on the 16th of Msy .
Ln''''''l "aaarloilla of head whiffs which was the memo el He ben eiwg several ewes team that =ea atm Tern. Of IllarbdC add Colonies, preeident; Vice-Admiral whereupon the amused reminded the court that the
- t rel ••
It" 4ti St. Viacrat The P WWW.._
_moil as adscialstratim ask sever ebsord the OW t, in his quality of senior general official report stated that only 46 Swim had fallen cc
*.IIAT, which Mft Plymouth fee the °Sid nine Ile it wee milt sae sa Gel et Om pievernment, sea dideltril=iral Parseval-lleschtros, Vice- that day.
"' rte taa. dry that the Chests left tl
.1. ween. as saeh scald, set ealy his alljadislal sempetsass, tat Aimee Brom, Rear-Admiral Le Barbier de Titian, Such is the character of most of the evidence
ll' 'll.taftlhentleassimsd, 'viol the
t sailstauirsel,ememlthe ths-Propse-- aliminli:litiuty,rotbejuidiewnterpretrittZwbwelebat. whether law of as". Violate Jurien, Cotnmiewry-General of the Navy, brought forward by the crown. Whether any or all
of Naval Constructions, an
ta with 15 mils set. Bath, the Chess. and Praraane wen/ government ? It was • paha set. Laws of tronlesation M. Bade, Director* d Cap- of the accused under trial did or did not take part in
at St Vincent ea the 27th alt. were above all thhms Ohba Wm. Granted, but they lain Deirdre, members; M. Penaud, Comptroller the events of May 15 is a question ; one thing, how-
E..to.rti Senses-The pollee of Amsterdam have were always applied y tie adieu,' tribes Per ea- of the Navy, seorstary ; and Captain Doenes and ever, is quite certain, that the means employed to
1,0 teed notice that a Spaniard has recently left Perin for ample, if the governmeot Meoght at to wiser the rob M. Le Bee, naval engineer, assistants. prove their guilt is the most degrading and illegal
Weise, the hearer of a ecesidersble quantity of forged of emignuite ant dismiss wad Musks Mimesis mem- The following communicated note appears in the that could be employed in a court of juatioe.
tithe mock, which he iatesded to throw upon the itches meat and third parties, IS wadi le ar NS Nadi et law to
-deepseesees. decide all such dispels.. Thee ids*. very mum. Petrie:-" &vend loathes have tnnounced that the More than ono prmsonor has declared to the court

THE COUNT OUT.

Members present last e
the Scottish :Missionaries
noTed the count out:

vetting at the debate on
caw, when Mr. Plowden

Mr. Ewart
Mr. Grainger
Mr. George Duncan
Mr. T. buncombe
Mr. John Evans
Mr. J. Hume
Mr. Cowan
Lord R. Grosvenor
Mr. W. J. For
Air B. Hall
Mr. Milligan
Sir H. Verney
Capt. &obeli
Mr. J. Ellis
Col. Salwey

Mr. Smith Child

MT. Lary
Mr. Fuller
Mr. Nigh
Lord Stanley

Sir E. Colebrooke
Col. Thompson
Lord Dudley Stuart
Mr. Cuter
Colonel Boyle
Mr. Monts
Hon. C. P. Villiers
Mr. A. llionsird
Mr. V. Scully
Mr. Robartes
Mr. Brotherton
Mr. Jacob Bell
Mr. H. Aglionby
Mr. Anstey.

FATIVIIIII.
Mr. H. Saints
Lord Jocelyn
Mr. Plowden (mover atlas
count out.)

GERMANY.
PRUSSIA.

Some correspondencelithogmphedParis* from Ber-
lin states that the Prussian government is preparing to
organise popular demonstrations in its favour at
Neuchitel, in aid of ulterior negotiations.

BERLIN, Jest 12.
The newspapers print to-day at full length the
written declaration given by the Prussian govern-
ment at the Zollverein conference on the 7th tort., in
reply to the repeated demand of the coalition states
for entering on negotiations for a treaty of commerce
and a subsequent customs' nnidn with Austria, simul-
taneously with the negotiations for renewal of the
Zollverein. Prussia states numerous arguments,
which force it to decline, for an indefinite length of
time, the idea of a customs' union with the imperial
states. The proportion of production and consump-
tion in the two territories is too different; the
mode of dividing the common revenue, as
proposed in the Vienna draft, is too faulty;
the Austrian state monopolies would, in
spite of the union, prevent free intercourse, and
so forth. As regards a treaty of commerce, the de-
claration repeats that the Prussian government is
very willing to effect one, and fully convinced of its
high utility ; but, until the Zollverein shall have
been reconstructed, and the one contracting party
thereby culled into definite existence, it would be
waste of time to negotiate, particularly as the busi-
ness of renewing the Zollverein involves the discussion
of so many weighty points, and must occupy so much
time that the task dare not be incumbered by adding
all the difficulties of a treaty with Austria. With
reference to this argumentation the official Dresden
Gazette wakes some remarks, which indicate the
mode in which the coalition governments are
inclined to meet the declaration in question. "The
Prussian declaration," it says, "is a renewed refusal;
but its tenour gives room rather for the hope of an
agreement than for the fear of a breach. Prussia
enters for the first time on the merits of the case, and
this, indeed, may be regarded as the commencement
of a negotiation ; the argumentation brought forward
imposes on the Prussian government the duty of re-
linquishing its resistance, as soon as its reasoning
against the expediency of entering on the treaty
with Austria shall have been refuted."

After the Gallery was cleared last evening, the
Speaker proceeded to count the house, and was about
to atop at " thirty-seven," when
Mr. Hume spoke to ceder. He said that them
were many members present whom the Speaker
could not see. Some were behind his chair at that
moment.

Mr. ANsTET also said that there were three at that
moment at the elbow of the chair. _ _ _

Mr. SPEAKY.II, looked round his chair, when the
bon. members in question retreated into the lobby
behind the chair.
Mr. SPLAKZI said that he could count those mem-
bers only who were actually in his sight; and he
proceeded again to count the house; when no hon.
members coming into view besides those already
counted,
Tht house immediately adjourned at a quarter to
eigLt o'clock.