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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL S.

A MORE curiously impudent proposition than that
of Mr. Secretary WALPOLE on the suffrage, was
never made in the House of Commons,—ahlch is
saying a great deal for it. The men who refuse a vote
to the rate-paying artisan of the towns; who object
to the suffrage being extended to respectable twenty
pound ur ten pound householders in counties ;
who deny that the electoral system requires
extension; and who exclaim against the " nox-
ious influence" of democracy and the people—
these men come forward to say they will
give • vote to every militiaman who has served for
two years! We may be sure this offer, though made
so very late at night on Friday, was not determined
upon without what its authors thought sufficient
reasons, and what these reasons may. be it be-
comes the duty of the public to ascertain. Louis
Naroteoe encourages army-votes, and we know how
readily his army polled fur that despotism whole
bidding it pertormed when 'blood was to be shed
in Paris. Lord Dtenv must surely admire
such fidelity when he wishes to give a
portion of our army the votes he refuses
to the rate-paying housekeeper. Upon what fair or
explainable principle can he support his plan? Under
his mode—should it be permitted to become law,
the man who was a -hardworking, respectable
artisan. living in apartments in • respectable town.
or even occupying& ten pound house in any place not
included in • parliamentary borough, would have no
vote but this same man, if he became drunken,
diwolute, and characterless, lost his work, became
homeless and penniless, and in a tipsy fit at a
beerehop took the bribe of the four pound bounty
and entered the militia, would then—as the
slave of military rule—have a vote. Never,
surely, was anything more shameless. But
we have taken the ease of a townsman. Let us see
bow Lord Deitee's plan would work in a county.
A trader, or a man of moderate fortune, being
tenant at will of a house rented even at -tat a year,
has no vote ; but his ploughman, or his stableman, or
any drunken lounger about the village beer-
house—half-labourer half-poacher—by taking the
militia pay. would obtain the franchise denied
to the industrious, the intelligent, and the
small-propertied people of the town or village. The
occupier of • forty pound house in Kensington
Knightsbridge is denied the suffrage; let him
penniless and worthless, and chararterlem and Lord
Drzter's plan offers him a militia bounty and
Mtuition in parliament.
t as, before taking another view of this propo-
sition, repeat, that we arc--as we have always been—
strong advocates for a large extension of the suffrage,
from the sincere belief that by a representation of
the voices of all the worthy and intelligent and pro-
ducing people of this country alone, can the true
interests of all classes—rich and poor, high and
humble—of this nation be secured. We are not
averse, therefore, to a man haring a vote because he
is a militiaman ; but we do object to his enjoying the
trar.ehise because he is a militiaman, whilst others
more socially fitted for the trust are refused it. We
do object to the principle of giving votes to indif-
ferent soldiers—which militiamen must be—whilst
good non-military citizens are without votes. And
then, if soldiers are to elect our members of parlia-
ment,why give one class a privilege denied to others?
Why give a power to two-year militiamen denied
to a seven years dragoon ? Or is the present only
the first stage of the journey we are to
travel, and arc we hereafter to be told that, as
militiamen bare votes, the troops of the line cannot
be refused • similar privilege ? Does Mr. Secretary
WALPOLE wish to take a leaf oat of the book of M.
DR MORNT? Or is the Earl of DERRY emulous of
having hereafter such a quiet general election as the
military one just concluded in France?
The new Secretary of State, whilst announcing
his tory proposition, that every militiaman
who served for two years should be enfranchised,
left us in the dark whether the vote was attached
to the coat and the musket, or whether it is to
belong to the man. Is the fact of a conscript or a bounty
recruit having been drilled 21 days the first year,
and 14 the next year—is this amount of service, we
ask, to make him a voter for life? Is he to be a sort
of military freeman—like the freeman of the old
cities, who became so great a source of electioneering
corruption and disgrace, that Reform Bill had
to sound the knell of their gradual extinction ?
Are we to have a re-creation of voters for life
et that bad class, or is the vote not to attach
be the individual, and to be lost when he leaves the
Militia? If so, it will be said that shouldering the
arealtet is the qualification—that the franchise re-
alise in the firelock—and that this is only the first
Op towards a subjugation of civil rights to military
hem. And what a wholesale vote manufacture
dm military constituencies threaten to be! The
hat year eighty thousand men are to be put
wise arms. Eighty thousand men means the year
sitar aszt—in time for the second election
from the present moment eighty thousand
votes. And let it be remarked that, short as Mr.
WALPOLE'S speech was, he said these new levies
should enjoy a vote, not for the county in which they
were kried, but in which they resided. In the event
of their being under arms they are moveable to any
county in England. Would not any county into
which they marched be the county of their resi-
dents And could they vote there ? If so, these
eighty thousand votes could, by a tory executive, be
marched in detachments to ant county where votes
were wanted. Let such a view of this most unconsti-
tutional proposition not be forgotten either by the
opposition in the House of Commons or by the people
of the country. A ministry of • minority are not
to be trusted.
people to
sufficient time must elapse before the
Militia Bill again makes its appearance in the House
of Commons, to allow the public to examine its pm-
tensions and speculate on the secret motives of its
propounders. Though stanch friends to enfran-
chisement we can see no good likely to come of so
sinister • plan. Whilst claiming votes for thousands
now denied that advantage, we repeat our objection
to the enfranchisement of a body of men—poor, de-
pendent, at times under martial law, and privileged
an virtue of that servitude—being empowered to
vote; whilst industry, intelligence, and property
are refused representation. Are the farmers be-
coming too intelligent and too independent for the
landlords? Are they beginning to obtain too much
political information ? We know Lord Ihritev's
opinion of • landowner's privileges in reference
to • tenant's vote, and are Lind MERBT'S party in-
tent on a wholesale manufacture of county votes
among their dependents ? Do they want to give arms
to the least intelligent part of the rural population—
men bought at four pounds a head—paid be it
remembered out of the public money--and who,
when so purchased, and when under the military
command of county colonels and county captains,
will of course be under county influence. The mili-
tia substitutes must be again what they have ever
been before—the slav, s of the farm and the scum of
the streets. And yet of such men, Mr. WALPOLE
tells us, he wishes to makes voters, whilst rated house-
keepers —men who pay income tax, and whose labour
and whose intelligence help to keep the national
industry alive are ignored altogether. No :
aslant we want an English copy of the old
forty *billing frosholden of Ireland,we must have none
althea! eighty shilling militia votes. If Lord DERBY
wants armed and voting serfs and servants to do
his bidding, do not let him have them with our free
will, and do not let us be made to pay for them.
Postponement seems to be very much the order of
the day just now in parliament. If the house is not
willing to crush this audacious absurdity at once, let
postponement be tried upon it—lot it be reconsidered
this day six months in the new parliament—when
we get one.

THF. Itommr.v Munnes.—The condemned criminals
Eyresaad Kevaish are reprieved, a Ratification to that effect
having been received from Me Deerstary of State by the
it'iester gaol authorities on Thursda_ y mottle:
respite iv a general one, viz., during ha Iblotty's

FRANCE.

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PARIS, BATORDAT EVIISTWO.
The Illositeur of to-day.publishes, in the shape of
an extract from the minuets of the Senate's sittings
of April 1, the Senator-Consultum relative to the
Prince-President's civil list, which was voted unani-
mously by 79 senators present. The extract is as
follows :
The Senate, with M. Mesaard, the first Viee-Preeident,
in the chair, having taken into consideration, as prescribed
by Art. 17 of the organic decree of March 22, 1862, the
collective proposition presented by the meniben composing
the bureaux, has voted a Sissatue-Consultum of the fol-
lowing tenor
:
Art. 1. ht execution of ArR 16 of the Ceenitaties, a
sum of twelve millions of names is allowed soweally,
from January 1, 18:4, to the Priaes-Prodion of the Ills'
public.
t. Art. 2. The National Palaces, amnesia in the &ores
of March 27, 1852, the furniture, the gardens, sad the
parks, which are depimilent thereon, are sppeepriamd
the habitation and use of the Prinee-President. The In-
ventory of the furniture, previously drawn up is virtue et
the laws sad regulations, shall be verified, at the crown al
the State, at the period of hie entering into pommies. The
Priam President shall enjoy exclusively the right of shost-
Mg sad heating in the woods of I ersaillea, and in the
forests of Fontainebleau, Compiigne, Marty, sad IS.
(hernias.
'• Art. S. The State, continuing to receive the revenues
and produce of the forma, remains charged with their
administration, as well as with the keeping-up of the Na-
tional Palaces, and their dependencies.
hives at the Palace of the Senate, on this let day of
April. " President.
"(lea. RIONAULT Di ST. ZIAM-D.ANUELT, CANDA.
CRILT.I3, Baron Di LAIIIIOIIIII, Secretaries."
The Senatus-Consultum was presented yob*?
So the President of the Republic. Jesse, Ifewo-
parte, it seems, out of motives of delicacy, declined
iliattir any part in this measure. It must be con-
that this is the only modest feature in the
tree action. Louis Napoleon, who had the other
day the face to assert that he was doing all for
Prance, nothing for himself, has thus become pow
messed of all the royal palaces and their furniture,
while the expense of maintaining them is, as I NEW
tinned yesterday, laid on the nation. The pains,
alluded to are the Tuileries, Louvre, Fontainebbel,
Comvi4gne, Versailles, Trianon, St. Cloud, Nissans,
the Elysee, and Palace of Pau.
It appears that tho Council of Ministers has de-
cided that the dotation of the senators should be ir-
revocable. It was, no doubt, out of a reciprocal feel-
ing of kindness that the senate has voted at once,
without hesitation, the 12 millions that were de-
manded from it, thus rendering unto Caner the things
that are Ccesar's. It has been observed that the
above Senatus-Consultum makes no mention of the
crown diamonds. These jewels remain. therefore,
in the bands of the state until fresh orders, bat it is
supposed that the favour has been only, rommoi hl
order to leave the senate a margin for offerhe siker*
proof of its devotion on the eventuality of as
sident's marriage, or which is of nearer •
his elevation to the imperial throne.
It seems that to compensate the sort of independ-
ence which would be given to the senate by the ir-
revocability of their salaries it has been decided in
council that the President shall have the faculty of
gradually increasing the salaries of senators from
10,000 up to 30,000 francs; so that the Prince will
begin by an instalment of favour, and administer
huh encouragement in proportion to the good be-
haviour of his pensioners.
I understand that the President fingered Tester-
I day the first quarterly three millions of his new
allowance.
M. do Turgot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is
in disgrace about the affair of the Prince of Canino's
stoppage at Civita Vecchia.
The decree which appears in the Motateur of to-
day, organising the service of chaplains in the navy,
and attributing to these functionaries • certain salary,
is generally remarked as an infraction of the con-
stitution, and an encroachment on the powers of the
Corps.Legishitif. According to the constitution, this
body is to vote all money bills. Now, here is a whole
service of functionaries created by a decree of the
executive to be paid out of the public pane, and
forming no item of the budget, without the Chemise
of Deputies being in the least consulted. If inns-
larities of this kind are to be tolerated, the
Llyislatif may be considered as the fifth wheel °Cort?:
state coach, which is absolutely • superfluous incurs-
brunet. Another circumstance which has drawn at-
tention from its apparent inconsistency with the
abolition of the state of siege, and the restoration of
vigour to the ordinary laws, is the order sent to a
notary of Beaune to quit France, without instituting
any trial before the tribunals.
To-day was adjudicated the loan of 50 millions
contracted by the city of Paris. The loan is rum-
, hamahle in let years, and bears an interest of 6
per sent. It gives the right of 37 drawings by lot,
with pima that vary from 2,600 t. to 60,000 E
Three osiapeniss sent in tenders—(l.) The haws of
02•1*, krisapa sag Ca, which offered 1,222 E 60a
tin auk et WOW. which would have made
Istri albs moos' to 61,126,000 L (2.) The
awed 1,17 M. Ma.
=soli lave sails In total among to
i8,375,11•1L (3.) The haws et Doe^ As Thumb
mod Oa altered 1,227 f. 82e., whisk assupsois ti the
add of 61,391,000 f. The loan wen saissit
to the last mentioned compuly.
tilli=dore, highly satisfied with this losarial op-
Miss.
A sitting of the Council of State, wholly devoid et
public interest, was held to-day. Part of tie!
duties of this body is of • nature much like
those performed in England by the Judicial Cons-
ultive the Privy Consols `he business of this
=wig was to hear appeals from private individuals
against decrees of the prefects. Although the matter
lin hand had nothing of state about it, the councillors
eat in their new clothing.
A curious instance occurred today of the horror of
publicity which pervades all branches of the pros*
irisrime. A printed order of the day is daily pre.
pared, to let the members of the council know Aril
business is coming on. It has hitherto bees mai
to give a copy of this not very. interesting deseselmt
to the few journalists who might ears to ask for
one. To-day, a Councillor of State clearving a sows-
paper reporter carrying off one of them dips el paper,
sent a tipstaff after him to fetch it bask, sod enders
were given that such shocking fetch
should
not recur.
The Senate and Corps Ltegislatif do not sit to-day,
and it is stated that during the latter days of next
week (Passion week) there will be no sittings.
I have been able to obtain some fragments the ac-
curacy of which may be depended upon, of the debate
of yesterday, relative to the objections to the validity
of the election of M. de Bt. /famine in La Vendee.
M. Doubler de l'Ecluse said he was not about to
launch into political subjects, nor to speak of recent
events. It 'belonged to history to appreciate them,
and to dud to judge them. M. Billault, the president,
hers interrupted the speaker and called him to the
question. M. Bouhier de rßeluse called to mind all
the manceuvres employed by the prefects throughout
France, the dismissals of mayors, the suppression of I
voting lists, and of the circulars of those candidates
who were not supported by the government. This
oppression had been very grmt in La Vendee. An
electoral committee famet— under the protection of
the prefect had dared to publish a placard stating ,
that the Abbe de flipisay (the opposition candidate)
was not eligible because heft led an office incornE=
with being a deputy, that of Vicar-General of
That was a falsehood, and yet M. de rEpinai's frisni
were not permitted to refute ft. He beil arrival
that office eighteen months ago. Ma chrleLiglu.
latif paid no attention to the last aulddi soma
18,000 electors to abstain fro=. After a
speech from M. do Kerdrel, who the dal*
scent of M. Bouhier de PE/Am" sold s reply from Y.
Bt Ilermine, the whole Asnimbly MI in a body,
and, of course, declared duo obeedon valid.
The Mont./eve contains • eirenlar from M. de
Maupaa, the Minister of Piles, relative to the man-
ner in whith they are to carry eta the police regula-
tions connected with the organic decree of Feb. 17 on
the press. The minister dwells upon the necessity
of evincing constant severity towards all journals
tending to socialist opinions.
A communicated note in the Moniteur states that
the delay of 20 days granted to those holders of Five
per Cents., now converted into 4), who might desire
to be reimbursed at par, expired on April 2, at nail-
night. The dementia for reimbursement received at
the Ministry of Finance, and those of which the as-
sortments have given notice, amount to 1,553,014 fr.
of "rente," representing a capital of 31,060,186 ft.
The reimbursement will- be made immediately upon
proof of title. For Paris the payment will begin on
Tuesday, April 6, and terminate on April 10.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

1 mationed patertley that *dui had Ilmereent
.eby Mimpjlph the asperture hem Mar-
selioe the • there mho en under matesce
of tranipertattoo to Algeria. Itv that gene-
ralordsre have bees seat to commanding
the military dietitian aid su Ashes to suspend all
movement of transpartedim to AMU, and to stop
the marsh of the primate already on their way
there. This order dose set apply to the prisoners
who are being sent to Nresse. But inasmuch as
by a recent dechion of the peernment none but
minis& in the ordinary amegledis oldie word are
to be seat there, it is greatly leged thee the whole-
sale slatimore of
itamortatsconans=ed upon political
prisoners by the will not be car-
We Wait.
read ht the Petrie a--
The swpetralira et a modeling_ sehllttlea at Paris has
ham wiled do sines the Ilad Dieseek* by all do twat
pewees. Ilizty4we dinghies aseserse,
shethe nut iwierresa weemlialiesing trees lanbeirtfas,..
: a mews that Ir=ve aessees bee pops-
ma% =hasil the lay ler pvern-
ers sa 'Agonies This fact is
et eneark, ad Area 111111111kIIN with which
Zmegliislifalesissu s
imphes ethic Wiens.
The teaming moreamisatad a* appears in the
Pairie :—AReporb el a change of ministry have
been agate) pat in ambition. nay are veil of the
etlthtest ibundstios." The Pattie also publishes the
Itlloanissfiat
• :str=blsr of putties. far pesiea have been ad-
hered by the Nisdiel and Mends et *West prisoners.
Their hesiliss ere bomb, lafinmed diet the committee on
perisas admit me Whims sr engibut such as arc
sigm by a the esedsraesdi prowessveg.
A dinner tee place ea areday, at the
E at which were present the ordinals, arch-
and bishops sow in Paris, mid several of the
mideat any.
It is slated, says the Patrie, that a company has
. bees fermi for the establishment of a railway from
Lyme I. the Sardinian frontier. A demand for a
ceoesmies of this line, which will stop at the Pont
de Besusehin, has, it is said, been just made to the
government. It is positively stated that this mil-
-1 way will be continued across Savoy by an Italian

company.
from a private source that the funetiona-1
ries who contributed to the double election of M. de
Moray in the Puy-de-DOme, in spite of the orders of
M. do Persigny, that his election was only to bo sup-
ported by the government iu one district, are
threatened with dismissal.
At the Bourse, the Fire per Cents. closed with-
out change, at 101.30; the Three per Cents. rose
10e., closing at 72f. Bank of France shares rose
sf. Railways, with the exception of Marseilles,
which fell 2.50, were firm. Orleans rose 17.30 ;
Bordeaux, 10 ; Central, 8.75 ; Tour and Nantes, 5 ;
Northern, Rouen, and Lyons rose from 7.50. to 10

PARIS, St NDAT EVEXINO.
No saying could be owe apt than the remark of
the Parisians on the eenversion of the Five per
Cents., "The rentiers will have to pay the Prince
President's civil list.* This is so far literally true
that the financial eatimasy achieved by paring 10
per cent. from the loosens of the ftuidhol is ex-
belly balanced by the enorbitant doted.* settled
upon Iduis Napoleon. The 18 millions of frees thus
mewed" have been, by dm bream& of a nasals
minsulttim, conveyed into the pocket of the Min
President. I say 18 millions, as the charge et =de-
taining the palaces, which has always the
heaviest item of expenditure, has been trans-
tarred from the 41111 list to the state, a proceeding
equivalent to adding six millions more to the twelve
millions already Tiled. The mancouvring which has ac-
companied this triemestion exhibits inn striking light
the services while France is likely to reap from that
body whisk the Passident declared in his recent
spma be lad mei feespendent, because unremova-
blw
lan the =gore granted what was desired
of *ilia they stipulated for the permanence during
Ilk of dr& salaries as well as places. No sooner
was this tamed Why the government than the grate-
ful Senate voted four millions more than were asked
by the Minister of Finance. But lest independence
should take root with permaneence of salary, the
Prince-President reserved to himself the power of
gradually increasing senatorial Incomes, according to
good behaviour, up to 30,000 fr.
The Patrie contains an article by M. Delamarre
upon the various applications of which the French
Crystal Palace, to be erected in the square of the
Champs Elysdes is capable.
M. E. do Girardin continues to support the present
government in his own peculiar way. Assuming, as
his argument throughout assumes, that the President
was sincere when he disclaimed imperial pretensions,
M. de Girardin is by far the most able advocate of
Louis Napoleon's cause that has yet appeared. But,
if the almost universal opinion that the empire is at
hand be well founded, then the articles in the Preue
are terrible two-edged weapons, which unite the im-
perialists with all the force professedly directed
against the royalists. France is divided by four po-
litical parties, which in their chronological order are,
the legitimists, the republicans, the imperialists, and
the Orleanists. So long as these parties exist, the
one that for the time being may be the governing
party, will always have the other three against it.
There will be an opposition of three parties to one,
striving in every possible way to prevent their ab-
sorption by the fourth party. The imperialist party
owes its existence to the excesses of the first revolu-
tion. But for ambitious intrigues, each as those of
There and Guizot, the Orleanist party would not
have come into the world in 1830. There would
only have been two parties in France, the legi-
timists and the republicans, the one being
to the other what manhood is to infancy,
' negation to affirmation, motion to immobility,
responsibility to infallibility, enquiry to super-
stition, liberty to subjection, right to fact. The
to be desired is that parties in France should
be reduced to the two last mentioned as soon as pos-
sible. When the President on March 29, so unex-
pectedly said, " Let us keep the republic," ho set a
grand example to Orleanism, for, to use a common
though misapplied expression, he thereby_ achieved
the " fusion " of imperialism with the republic. whose
sphere he thus eniarged. Let Orleanism do likewise,
and merge itself in legitimacy. Orleanism was a
Igovernment of fact, nothing more. What rights eau
such a government have after it hes ceased to exist?
None whatever. Orleanimm, that mixed regime
which existed from 1830 to 1848, was not and never
would be either a ' monarchy, or a republic, or
hereditary right, or election, or the right of
the first born, or the right of universal
suffrage or authority, or liberty, or peace,
or war. MM. Ouixot, Salvandy, and Duchitel have
been the cause of infinite confusion for want of cou-
rage to assert this simple proposition, " the youngest
are not the eldest." They therefore culled them-
selves " fusionists," being all the time in reality
I legitimists. Orleanism I. hopeless. Orleanism,
therefore, had better disappear. There will then be
but two parties, legitimacy and republicanism, the
peat and the future: the past based on divine right and
ancient hereditary descent; the future based on the
national will and universal suffrage. N. de Girardin
then proceeds to argue that so long as Louis Napoleon
maintains the republic he will have all the advantages
on his side, in the struggle with the principle of
legitimacy. But that the moment he attempts to found
an hereditary dynasty of his own, he will immensely
improve the position of the legitimists. Now, the
President may rely against all the world upon his
eight millions of suffrages, but, were he to establish
the hereditary empire, royalty might appeal to its
eight centuries of reigns, and the conflict would be
interminable ; there would be no judge between the
parties, because an hereditary empire pro-supposes
the extinction of a government based upon universal
suffrage. There is reason to believe that between
December 20, 1831, and March 29, 1832, Lous Na-
poleon has often deeply pondered over those two
programmes,—The empire and war, or the republic
and peace. There is reason to think that, after full
reflection, he has discarded the first, and adopted the
second of these propositions. If so, mays Girardin
(who, if he assumes too much to be allowed
credit for sincerity, is, at all events, splendith,
triendas), we need not despair of progress. On the
'future conduct of the President epends the judg-
ment of posterity upon the act of December 2. The
preservation of the republic may become the justifl-
make of that act. The overthrow of the republic
would, on the contrary, be its condemnation. The
republic preeerved is stability founded ; stability
founded is liberty restored. Liberty will be restored
became the pretenders who would not give it to us
will promise to do so in order to get back to France.
Now the infallible means of preventing them from
returning will bo to give us liberty, to keep without

Laving promised the promise which they will make
but would not keep.
The daseroblio Natsonale publishes as old letter,
without date, written by the President of the Repub-
lic to the Pope's nuncio concerning the Prince of
Canine, width it introduces by the following obser-
vadat.:

It wee NM today that M. de Rayncval, the French am
holeaderr at Items, applied to the rope for permission that
the Prime di Casino, who had arrived at tivita Vecchia
with • pamerest of the French Minister of FOrt*ft Affalt irs,
le
might peened to Rase to mettle some private aftire.
affirmed that the holy father did net grant Air parmissise
and declared that if the eir-preel&nt of tie BiMaa
Constituent demeably Mond attempt le atter his
capital, he tao, 4 met whams
mast
@madame force
to prevent him. bud that be himself wadi at mass leave
Row. We that we knew that Tt. de lisyneval did not
press the MAW derther. He eeuM mid do otherwise. M.
de Itamenal has bud= not hemetts• the letter which
PllbillamPapissabiserly wets to M. R. Monseigneur
the mmmaks. This is the Idler:
a set allow the reports wldelitend to
map me am asssestilme of the Prime de Genie's conduct
te imam meat with yea. Fee a very long
Yin I have had an kind of relations with the eldest
Mu of Leda& Bcesparte, and I deplore with all
my soul that he Ime not felt that the =inti-
mate of the Impel sovereignty of the venerable
lead of the shank won as intimately allied with the'
dignity of catholicism as with the liberty and independence
of IWy. Receive, Monseigneur, the assurance of my sea-
aureate of high esteem.
LOUIS NAPOLION BON AAAAA
The Moniteur contains a decree appointing the
AbW Felix Coquereaux, a canon of Bt. Denis, and
formerly principal chaplain to the squadron of
evolutions, to the newly-created office of chaplain
in chief to the fleet.
The Muniteur also contains an administrative de-
cree of the Minister of Finance relative to the mode
of proceeding, in pa'isg off the holders of Five per
Cents who have claimed repayment. A list will be
drawn up of the sums duo to the claimants, and, as
was stated yesterday, the repayment will commence
is Paris on the 6th of April. In the departments
the local cashiers will begin the repayments on May
Lit. Interest at five per cent. will be allowed from
March 22 to the day fixed for the repayment. The
=mounts will be paid upon the production of the pro-
visional receipt, and, where necessary, of the papers
proving the title and quality of the parties. In cases
where the title is not satisfactorily made out the
treasury will relieve itself from responsibility by
paying the sums in question into the deposit office
(came des depi;ts et consignations).
It must he borne in mind that the thirty-ono mil-
lions and upwards of capital hitherto claimed by
fundholders from the treasury is not the definitive
amount—claims have yet to come in from the de-
partments and from abroad, which will probably
swell the sum to forty millions. The government,
it is said by means of its arrangements with leading
capitalists, was prepared to pay off as much as from
130 to 200 millions without salting for time. It is
to be observed, however, that the amount of reimburse-
ments claimed, taking it to be forty millions,
represents but in an inaignficant degree the
effect produced by the conversion. • The Bank of
France made advances to the extent of 80 or 83 mil-
lions upon Five per Cent. Renter. The bills in the
hands of private bankers were all sent in for dis-
count to the bank, and the money employed in
buying up all the stock that was offered. In this
way, taking the 40 millions and the capital displaced
to support the market together, it is estimated that
300 millions of francs have been employed to effect
the conversion.
General Teacher do la Pegerie, formerly an aide-
de-camp to Eugene Bcauharnaia, who has been long
residing at Munich, is about to return to France to
occupy, as it is said, one of the few seats in the
Senate that still remain vacant.
Today the President reviewed four regiments of
the line, two regiment of cavalry, and a battery of
artillery, formin the third brigade of the army of
Paris, in the cougrt-yard of the Tuileries After the
review the President went to the chapel of the
Tuileries, to present to the newly-made cardinal,
Monseigneur Donnet, the Archbishop of Bordeaux,
the red hat which has just been sent from Item* by
the Pope. This ceremony was conducted with mach
pomp. The chapel was sumptuously decorated far
the occasion. The senators, councillors of state, and
the members of the Corps Legislatif, received invita-
tions, and many
.of them were present. A choir, con-
sisting of the principal singers of Paris, under the
direction of M. Adolphe Adam, performed a musical
service. At the hour appointed, Prince Gighi ap-
proached the President, bearing the red hat upon a
velvet cushion. The President then presented the
hat to the cardinal, at the same time making a short
complimentary speech, to which the cardinal replied.
The recent railway concessions will, it is said, lead
to a demand for iron larger than France could supply
for two ears to oome, and it is expected that there
will be larger exportations from England, notwith-
standing the heavy duty of 91. per ton.
Immedintely after the publication of the last Aus-
trian tariff, M. de Lemur, the French ambassador at
Intone, applied fur a reduction in the elation upon
Parisian fancy articles, on the groond that the new
tariff would operate r a prohibition. The Austrian
Chambers of have pronounced in favour of
lowering the dasfas. provided the French govern-
ment will lower their duties upon Austrian wool.
The reply of the French government has not yet
been given.

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