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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23.

Lout) MALMESBURV does not very much resemble
!Innis in his eloquence; but Lord MAIM E:lltUtlY
appears to resemble Maks in regretting that the I
age of chivalry has passed away. On Monday Lord
MALMESItUItV told the House of Lords that Mr.
Marnmt, in seeking redress, had "three courses
open to him;" and the first of these enumerated by
the Sir /.minx (ITriorr of the Foreignothee—that
which, from his naming it first, would seem first to
have occurred to him was that of" calling out" his
assailant. " Had he [Mr. MATHER) lived thirty
years ago," said Lord MA LMESIJCII 1", reverting to the
cherished reminiscences of his own youth, " there was
one which he, and any of their lordships, must have
been, with the opinions that then prevailed in thin
country and on the continent, induced to follow."
Lord NlALmEsntlix did not, indeed, absolutely
say that Mr. MATHER ought to have fol.
lowed this course ; nay, he went so far
as to mutter something about its being " for-
tunate" that men's opinions hove changed on
this point. But assuredly Lord MALMESIICRY
"damned Mr. MATileit with faint praise" for fail-
ing to do so. Instead of saving that Mr. Manisa.
had acted quite right, LordMaLmEsnuav coldly ob-
served that " Lk did not blame Mr. MATIIEN for not
having adopted that course." Decorum forebode
the FouEIGN SECRETARY to express more explicitly
his regret that the young Englishmen of our day
have less spirit than those of thirty years ago.
Lord NIALNII:Sitt'RV had given some broad hints
previously that he thought Mr. NIATIIEtt, with his
complaiuts, a sad bore ; that he was decidedly angry
at that gentleman tOr troubling the repose of the
Fureignaiffice. The earnest remonstrances made to
induce Mr. Nlsimin, junior, to carry his com-
plaints to the Tuscan courts of law ; the impe-
rious urgency with which ;Mr. MATHER, senior, was
ordered to place a price on his son's blood ;
the bland apologetic tone in which the Tuscan
court was assured that Lord Msf.stssawav thought
Mr. MsTntats demand quite unreasonable, and was
ashamed to be made the channel of intimating it; all
showed how siucerelj he wished to get rid of his trou-
blesome client. But this cool hint that Mr. NIATUE

ought to have spared the FOREIGN SECRETARY all
trouble by challenging his assailant to deadly combat
throws all the former evasions of Lord MALaKsnuttv

into the shade. Of the result of a duel in which a

raw English lad—no more familiar with the use of
arms than young Englishmen of the mercantile class
generally arc—would have been opposed to a man
whose business is fighting, and who has been carefully
trained to the use of his weapon—there could be
little doubt. Lieutenant FoitsvilustAt would have

effectually relieved the FonmuN SECRETARY from
any further persecution by this tiresome Mr
MATif En. _ _

Mr. MATHER, however, though a young man, was
not quite young enough to follow the course which
Lord 111sLmEsittity so considerately suggests he
might have followed. Mr. MATHER was probably of
the opinion we once heard expressed by a carter. It
was in the time of the Reform Bill agitation, when
unpleasant discussions sometimes took place between
soldiers and radicals of the working classes. Hot
words had been exchanged between the wielder of
the whip and one of her AIAJESTV'S "full privates;"
which ended in an invitation to the former to
" turn out, if he was a man." The carter re-
plied :—" Fight you! I dare say; that's your
trade: but I'll drive a cart with you uuy day."
At all events, Mr. MATHER declined to seek
"satisfaction" for having been wounded by putting
himself in the way of receiving a more fatal wound;
and Lord 4NIALNIESHI:IIS has nothing fur it but to
protest that he dots nut "blame" Mr. 'MATHER for
so acting, and to endeavour to persuade the public
that Mr. MATIIER has been giving him ur necessary
trouble, inasmuch as the assault complained of was a
strictly private, not a national wrong.
Lord ltlsLmEsuuav will find it as difficult to per-
suade the public to assent to this second position, as
to persuade Mr. MATHER to assent to his first. Had
Mr. MATHER been cut down in a chance-medley
scuttle with a private civilian, there might have been
some show of plausibility in the FOREIGN SECRE-
TARY'S assertion. Had he even been cut down by
a military officer in the employment of the Tuscan
government, when that officer was off duty, some-
thing might have been said in support of it. But
Lieutenant /C'ORSTRIUBER was on duty at the time
he committed the assault, and we are told by his
superior officers that he did no more than was re-
quired of him by the regulations of his service. It
is, therefore, with a man under authority, simply
doing what he bad been ordered, and was expected
to do, that Lord MALMESBURY has had to deal ; it
is from the government under which the lieutenant
was acting that redress had to be sought.
Some discussion has been raised as to whether
redress ought to have been asked at the hands of the
Austrian or Tuscan Government. There can be no
doubt that to the latter, and to the latter alone, could
the application be made, in the first instance. Tus-
mny is not yet incorporated into the Austrian domi-
nions. The Grand Duke of TUXANY claims to be
regarded and treated as an independent Sovereign.
As such he is bound to uphold law and administer
justice in his own territories. As such he is bound
to procure redress for every private or national wrong
done in his dominions. Lieutenant FORSTUUBER is
an Austrian soldier, but the corps to which ho belongs
had been lent by Austria to the GRAND DUKE; he
was in the GRAND Duties service at tho time he
committed the offence. With the terms upon
which Austria lent its hireling soldiers to
the Tuscan Government, this country has no
concern. The GRAND DUKE owes reparation
to this country for the outrage offered by the soldier
in his employment, it is alleged out of a sense of
military duty. He owes reparation to this country
in the first place ; if Austria, by the terms it exacted
for the loan of its soldiers, has got him into the
scrape, let him ask compensation from Austria in the
second. That is their concern only. lf, indeed, the
GRAND DUKE, when asked for redress, had pleaded—
" I am no longer my own master; I have voluntarily
become a vassal of Austria; and Lieutenant Four-
HUBER and I only obey the commands of our common
master;" then, indeed, it would have been necesauy
to turn for redress to the real sovereign. But this
the GRAND DUKE has not done.
This is certain, that the British government can-
not admit the plea of military orders to that effect,
when an unarmed British subject is causelessly
and wantonly cut down by an armed soldier.
The Austrian or Tuscan governments may
authorise their hireling ruffians to treat their
own subjects in this manner, but it is not to be tole-
rated that they shall enjoin them to deal thus with
British subjects. It is no extenuation to say that
the assailant did not know it was an Englishman
he was assailing. The assertion is evidently false;
the allegation that Mr. MATHER put himself in " a
boxing attitude," shows that the Austrian Lieutenant
knew that an Englishman stood before him. But
even though he did not, ho knew that there were
Englishmen in Florence, and the military bullies of
the continental despots must be made to undentand
that where Englishmen are present they must ab-
' tain from cutting at random; they must make sure
before they strike that it is not at an Englishman
they aim, for Englishmen arc above their mark. If'
Germans and Italians choose to be made objects of
such sharp practice, that is no concern of ours ; but
the executioners must first make sure that they have
Germans and Italians to deal with.

ANTWERP, JUNE 21.—Our London steamer Daron
Osy, Captain Jackson, arrived hero this morning, at the
early hour of 5 o'clock. His ExcellencyM. Van de Weyer,
with his lady and family, returned to Brussels by her. The
following were also amongst her passengers: Lady Louisa
Loftus, the Viscomtess de Limoges, Mrs. Colonel Dray,
Col. Hill, Mayor Lovell, ate.
TIM REMOVAL OF TILE CRUSTAL PALACE. An
influential movement, it is understood, is about to lie made
for the removal of the Crystal Palace to Chiswiek,Battersca,
or Kew, instead of Sydenham, so as to make the Thames
and the old road the great holiday highways instead of the
railway.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVEMINU.
I have already, T believe, called your attention to
the circumstance that the law passed by the Corps
Legislutif for the better prevention of crimes mid
misdetneanours against the state and citizens of
France in foreign countries, does not appear among
those laws which have been ratified by the Seuate.
It is said, in fact, that this law will not receive the
sanction of that body, in consequence of its having
furnished some of the most telling arguments in the
House of Lords against the extradition treaty.
The President of the Republic, accompanied by
M. Duces, was present at the sitting of the Corps
Legislutif to-day. Ile sat in the corner of one of the
reserved tribunes, in such a 'position us to he coo-
-1 eealcd as much as possible from observation. The
proceedings were commenced by the presentation by
M. Bithialt of a bill relative to the eouctssion of a

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line of railway to connect the Bordeaux and Cette
railway with that from Marseilles to Mignon. The
debate on the budget of expenses wits opened by
B. A. r. Keubtiet., who opposed th..bunget in .t 4

tirety. Ile complained that the Assembly woo called upon
to elikcuss the budget with men—who were doubt)
honourable men—but who had in reality no sort of mom c-
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lion with the budg. t. Formerly the builm t was defendtd
by the ministers who had prepared it, and the Chamber wan
at liberty to make all such amendments us it might think
necessary. Now, this system no longer existed, awl he he-
tiered he spoke the opinion of the majority of that Assent.
bly when tie said that the house did not feel that its ro:e
was free, and that it would therefore decline the rispolisi-
Nifty which it was inei7ed to share with the ; ortromeht.
The question of the part to he taken by the Corps Legi,
Edit in the discussion of the budge t was a serious one. It
was a question which had recently attracted the
attention of foreign journals, and which tlw mem-
bers of that house had also much considered.

The committee, in its report, alluded hi the poaition ip
which it had been thought fit to place that Abeelnif:y.
What time had the Assembly had to study the budget f It
would have beett better not to have convoked the Awe eddy
until the Counci. of State had concluded its labours, M.
stead of calling them tugether, and leaving them for
nearly two months in such u state of idleness the* people
were asking efieli other, in many of the department*, white
the Assembly was going to mint. They were told that it
slut not tit the moment when the country was recovering
itself, after the shi,ek of a revolution, that great reforms
could be attempted. Doubtful' it might be necessary to
wait fur great reforms till the vessel of the state hail righted,
and UMW Mlle to spread all her sails. But, unless they
would see the vessel founder, they must at once make
some reforms. The mutt reduce the army. They must have
an limy ID glorious so ever, but less ruinous. Ile re-
membered that in 1818 M. Billault, their now president, hail
made a speech in favour of a reduction of the army. The
reasons then urged by him were at least equally cogent now.
M. Stourm at the same time prop:wed reductions. One
propisition made was to reduce tine army to 360,000 ;
another to :1.:O,1100. General Lamoriciere wan even of
opinion that '292,000 men would be sufficient. Ile could
cite the high authority of the President of the Republic
himself, who had written much and thought more. M. de
Kerdrel here read a passage from the works of Louis Naps.
Icon, in which he said that the standiu_: army ought to be
diminished, and that the service should he organised in
such a manner as that, in case of the least dung, r, it might
be able to pass at once from a peace to a war footing. It
was not in the army alone that reforms were essential.
They were required in everythiug; in all the goserurnent
establishments; for the more clerks there were in public
offices, the more the nuti.n was weighed down by tase.:.
But, in order to effectuate reforms, it was necessary that they
should clearly into the affairs of the country, that they
should be enabled to study measures of reform with the
ministers who prepared them. In no other way could they
attempt ameliorations without the risk of throwing the
public service into confusion. Members of the house ought
to have the regre!iy in the ministerial officer. Now these
offices were closed against them, and whenever they eked
fur any details they were, its effect, told to seek for light
anywhere else. They were expected to discuss the budget
with the Council of state. Ile wished to avoid personality,
but he would say that the Cousril of State was' from its
constitution, eminently incompetent to deal with a budget.
lie was tempted to reverse the saying of SieyLe, and to say
that the Council of State ought to be nothing in this matter,
and was everything. There were no men in the Council of
State who necessarily possessed the special practical know-
ledge requisite to deal with the public finances.
The amendments proposed by a committee of
that house were scut to the Council of State for considera-
tion, but no member of that house was allowed to aid their
deliberations, and support the amendments. The natural
consequence was that they would almost always be rejected.
The amendments were nut printed or communicated to the
house, which was therefore left in the dark, and unprepared
for debate. This was not all. The Council of State did not
in terms reject an amendment, but declared it to be a nul-
lity (non arena). That was a form insulting to the Assem-
bly. (Applause.) It was true the Assembly might reject
the whole of any article in a bill, but that was a serious
and
tre-
sponsibility,mfore itw hi,ciohpitte Tee,
anrottiyerh Jr like
Assemtobzscum,
did so under compulsion. The committee had nut thought
it right to insist upon all the amendments it had presented.
Discussion was clearly impossible now. It would be illusory.
The effect of the system was that the Council of State, and
not the Corps Iggislatif, was the real dispenser of the
public money. lie concluded a speech, which was much
applauded, by saying that IM had loved parliamentary con-
tests. Ile had sometimes taken part in them, but against
anarchy, against demagogy—never against power. But
when power was in error, it was his right and his duty to
raise a warning voice. The province of a representative
government was to control the ,finances, but they in that
house could not exercise that privilege. They could net
abdicate their rights without compromising their dignity.
M. BILLA ULT said the last speaker, instead of confining
himself to the budget, had spoken against the constitution.
Re had not stopped him, as he might and ought to have
done. (Slight murmurs.)
M. DM' regretted that the report of the committee
had not completed the information that it had given upon
the floating debt. lie would vote for the budget as it had
been presented. Ile thought the report betrayed a concealed
opposition, Ile preferred, an open and frank opposition.
M. ell ASST.:LOUP-LAU DAT repudiated the imputation.
M. MON TALEMDERT spoke shortly against the budget,
and repeated some of the arguments of M. de Kevin!.
At the end of the debate M. DE PADIEV, councillor of
state, expressed his astonishment that member should
have ventured to criticise the constitution which had saved
the country.
M. STOUUII, councillor of state, spoko to the same effect,
and observed that diamissions such as they had be.ird
would have been more in their place in a neighbouring
building (alluding the the Salle de Carton, where the late
National Assembly sat). This observation produced im-
mense uproar, in the midst which M. Stourm disclaimed the
intention of' hurting any members feeling.
M. Rm./cuts then read a letter, that moment received
from the minister of state, in which the minister said that
the President of the Republic had observed that after the
, amendments of the committee had been rejected by the Coon-
dlof State, the committee persisted in demanding the
rejection of the articles of the budget. That appeared to
him (the President of the Republic) uunconstitutional.
M. ettasnELoce.LAtillAT, with much warmth, protested
!gained the reproach addressed to the committee.
hie declared that his intention was to respect the constitu-
tion. The committee had acted according to their dutyand
conscience, and they would present in their amendmeau.
(Long-continued agitation.)
M. BaLavhr said that, in fact, the constitution did per-
mit the Assembly to reject the articles. The general de-
bate was thee declared closed. The house decided that the
debate on the article should begin to-morrow.
The Senate met yesterday, Prince JCrlone Bona-
parte is the chair. It decided that there was not any
ream to oppose. the promulgation of the bill con-
cerning the definitive regulittionof the budget of Isis.
The report on the bill relative to the definitive set-
tlement of the budget of 1549 was then presented by
the Marquis d'Audiffret ; and the measure, having
been forthwith discussed, was declared to present uo
reasons for not being promulgated. NI. Boehm
president of the legislative section at the Council
of State, was introduced, and read a senalas-rativil-
loin, deliberated on in that body, and tending to
regulate the constitution of the colonies of Marti-
nique, Guadeloupe, and Itkinion. The Senate de-
cided that a committee of ten members should be
named to examine the matter. After several bills,
lately adopted by the Legislative Body, bad been
presented by Baron de Lacrosse, the secretary, some
reports on petitions were heard, and the sitting
terminated.
There will this day be presented to the legislative
body a bill approving of the fusion of the different
lines of railway from Lyons to the Mediterranean.
The state will gain on advantageous conditions the
execution of a branch railway to Aix, and the pro-
longation of the railway from Marseilles to 'Toulon.
The company, in fact, in addition to the expenses
which the law of ht-t 2 places at its charge, will ad-
vance 10,000,000 fr. The railway from Marseilles to
Toulon is one of importance. The state will
also gain by the arrangement which is to le
submitted to the legislative body, for
lower-
ing by one-half the tariff for coals taken by its
vessels in the Nlediterranean. It had made a per-
petual concession of the railways of the Gard and
the Wraith ; they enter into the common rule '`f
concessions of 1.09 y•ears. Finally, the edders
charges of all those lines are replaced by one single
easier, similar to that adopted for the railways re-
i evilly conceded, the conditions of which are unit
more liberal than those of the old contracts.
administration of so many divided lines was neces-
sarily without unity, and consequently the working
of them was embarrassing, and not very profitable.
TItE I).tar.—A lino vessel. which ran between
London and Madeira, and which has just been lost on the.
coast of Africa, is the fourth vessel of the same nmie. and
which belonged to the same party, that has been lust.