The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15. 1851.

difficulties, obscurities, and refinements, which give FRANCE.
him a protection and an immunity he has ill deseg ed. _______ _
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The investigation has shown that 4. C con- Ps a ~,FARlSsEeisey Evreiset.
seta of two foundations.M The c; , the t
- TecAisikehly (nryen&tiow)efecided Testerdar,
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century, was made by HENRY Pe Be.otlia , Bish_opo -,-
spinet 348pdhat this, new ,Electoul B.
Winchester, and brother to Knife --OrSEN, Int . resented* the government should not be rend a
support of thirteen poor and itteetertf old main In second tines, Cunoudy enough, this important re-
fer the daily feeding of 1(110 mite.--Clver these was vault eudeekted with the opening to public eorrespon
placed a master, bound to residence, and entitled to idence df the submarine telegraph, which enabled me
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receive Si. a Year as a pension; and the superinten- ,to send you the news in a few minutes. M. Michel
dance of the hospital was consigned to the bisho ,of '
de Bourges wound up his speech with declaring that
Winchester. In the fourteenth century great abuses' f the law of May were not repealed, every dielhaa-
prevailed in its management, owing then, as now, I chilled citizen might present himself before the -41/A- I
chiefly to the nepotism of its episcopal patron and I torsi urn with the President's message in his hauls
visitors. These abuses were, however, resolutely and claim his right to vote. M. ])aviel, the
and perseveringly corrected by that great reformer Minister of Justice, protested against this
and wise and generous prelate, WILLIAM of Weer- declaration, and said that if the law erste
HAY ; he disposed of and refuted the legal chicanery maintained the government was prepared to cause it
behind which the muter of that day, ROGER DE *co be scrupulously observed. fhe remainder d
Ccorxe, took refuge; he checked the alienation oft M. D„iops speech was drowned in a thank of
its estates, had inventories taken of its moveable I
, noise made by the majority. After him M. Dam
property, compelled the due maintenance of the I
the reporter, replied briefly. The division then took
fabric, enforced residence ; and, as Lowyic says, "he place in the ordinary form. The defeat of the govern-
so far restored this charity to its original design and merit is attributed to a manoeuvre of the majority,
left it under such due regulation, that his immediate
„ whose leaders held a meeting in the morning, at
successor, BEAUFORT, having resolved to dispose of which they agreed to admit large modifications in
some part of his great wealth to the like purposes, I the law of May 31. Among those who were absent
chose rather to make an enlargement of this institu- from the division are noted NI.NI. Baroche, Beugnot,
tion, than to erect a new one of his own." Bineau, Berard, Dumas, Augustin Girard, d'Haut-
The second, or as it may be called the interior hoe - pool, Magna, de l'arieu, Itoi-her, and Pepin-Lehal-
pital, was founded by Cardinal BEAUFORT, within /
, eur—all more or less friends of the Elysee; so that
the precincts of St. Cross, in 1446, for a master, two i it is surprising how the government managed to lose
chaplains, thirty-five decayed gentlemen, and three the day, when it only wanted four votes to become
sisters to attend the sick. This BEAUFORT called the victorious.
" House of Noble Poverty," and over it the Bishops A change of ministry seems inevitable, after the
of WINCIIEITER were likewise appointed guardians. ta
oorfs of incapacity given by M.M. de Thorigny and
In the Wars of the Roses BEACFORT'S Foundation lost viel ; since it is clear that with the smallest par-
much of its property, and the number of its inmates liamentary tact and experience on the part of the
was reduced. But even now the larger part of the government the day might have been won.
wealth of St. Cross arises from the Cardinal's endow- Generals Cavaignac and Lainoriciere voted with the
ment; though, practically, the objects of that endow- government. The names of Poesy, Lanjuinais, Victor
ment have been abandoned. lathe reign of ELIZABETH Lefranc, Barthelemy St. Hilaire, and others of the
abuses were again found to prevail, and proceedings ii,,,-
parti, arc to be found on the same side, and ge.
were instituted against the then master,Dr.ltevsous, neatly the Bonapartist', the whole Left, and the
to set aside leases he had granted to one CHEVELEY, extreme Right.
on secret trusts. These proceedings were terminated The argumentative part of the debate of yesterday
by the enactment of a statute prohibiting the leasing turned upon the domiciliary condition of the elec-
of the home lands and tithes. Unfortunately, how- tore! franchise. This M. de Vatimesnil held was
ever, its provisions do not extend to the outlying implied in the constitution by the express omission
property of the hospital, and thence part of the die- of the same condition as a limitation of eligibility.
cults, in making Lord Gritsoiw refund the fines he Michel de Bourges, on the contrary, attributed, with
has received, and in voiding the leases he has evident justice, the omission of the qualification of
granted. continued residence as regards the elected to the
And so, more or less abused according to the greater wish of the constituent to characterise henceforth the
or less sense of moral duty of its successive masters, mission of a representative as not confined to
and at all times neglected by the Bishops of WIN- his local constituency, but extending to all France.
CHEATER, the Hospital of St. Cross went on until In the decree of the provisional government ap-
the close of the 17th century. Then was perpe- pointing the first elections after the revolution of
tented either a strange blunderer a very gross fraud. February, a domiciliary condition of six months was
For in 1696, the then master and brethren met in introduced to trace the identity of elector, and this
their common hall, and resolved that they " could is still left in the bill of the government.
not, after diligent and quick search, find any statutes M. ..e Vatimesnil's speech contained only one
or footsteps of any statutes." They thereupon em- point worth noticing, the announcement namely that
bodied all their lost practices and abuses into Con- the conservative coalition intend to retain the term
sueloulinarium' which they declared to be the laws of three years residence, and only to allow fresh
of the hospital fur the future. That document re- modes of attesting that qualification. The speech of
ceived the sanction of the Bishop of WINCHESTER, Michel do Bourgee is remarkable for the great mo-
and has for more than a century and a half been demtion and mildness of its tone. But such is the
acted on ; though towards the clue of the last con- French taste that the absence of frothy declamation,
tun! Sir WILLIAM WINNE. advised Dr. LACKMAN, instead of being considered as an excellence, has
the. Earl of GUILFORD'S predecessor, that in law it caused this calm appeal to conscience, reason, and
was not worth the paper on which it was engrossed. a sense of justice, to be slighted as an inferior effort.
When proceedings were instituted against Lord The incident in the speech most noted is the implied
Geteroen, this Cumuetudinarium became the first admission of an alliance between the Moniker and
obstacle to be overcome and removed; for admitting the Elysee. M. Michel, speaking of the President,
its legality there would perhaps have been a justifi- said to the Right, '• He was yours until yesterday."
cation of the system of management it contained at And M. de Tinguy repied, ' And he is yours to-
tting an apology for. It purported, we have seen, day." " Yes," said the orator of the Mountain, "he
Is have been based on the inability of the master i,, mine," meaning, doubtless, that Louis Napoleon
and brethren "after diligent and quirk search to could not stop short half-way in his policy, but
find any statutes or footsteps of any statutes." would be necessarily driven to make common calm
What, however, they either could not, or, more pro- with the Mountain upon other matters besides the
bablv, would nut, find in the seventeenth, the Court abrogation of the law of May. This is also the
d Chancery quickly discovered in the nineteenth con- opinion of Girardin, who sees no alternative for the
tarry. For there, on searching it,in their own strong President but to appoint resolutely a new cabinet,
box, lay a copy of the charter of HENRY DE BLOIS, of from omong the supporters of the celectoral bill of
which almost every item of the Consurtudinetrium November 4. Towards the close of his speech M.
was a violation. One copy produced another ; Michel, in alluding to the possibility of a military
until at last, agreeing in almost all particulars, the dictatorship resulting from the course pursued by the
British Museum, the lloneetss Library, and the conservatives, said "Ifit is Cromwell, you have a
Bishop of WINCHESTER'S Registry, yielded other protector; if Monk, you have Ilenry the Fifths
copies of what, in 1696, "diligent and quick search" if Napoleon of the 18th Brumaire, you hays
could not discover or trace. And now, the original the empire ; if Otho, Vitellius, or Ceiba, you
charter being recovered, the customs which abused hare the lower empire." The veteran orator
that charter became, of course, illegal, and cannot be of the Mountain was succeeded at the tribune
opposed to any future scheme for the better applica- by the Minister of Justice. I believe that never in
turn of the property of the hospital, first taking care any public assembly did a functionary of that rank
to provide for the founder's intention. experience before so merciless a reception. However
Other questions then unfolded themselves, as well deserved might be the storm of ridicule which
whether Lord GUILFORD had been properly an- assailed M. Daviel, the indecent uproar of the " party
pointed master of Besuroer's foundation ; whether of order" was ungenerously directed against his phy.
the mastership was or was not an ecclesiastical bone- eical defect of utterance.
five; and if so, whether it was a benefice cow or Changarnier, Thiers, and 15 other representatives,
sine cure. !tut as these are not likely now to be slept last night at the Assembly, thus ostentatiously
discussed, it is unnecessary to explain them. A exhibiting their apprehension of a coup d'etat. But
fur more important question was and is, the validity these geese of the capitol are not called upon to save
of the running leases. As the statute of ELIZABETH the commonwealth.
only iaeladed the home property, which never hied In the Assembly's sitting to-day, M. Anthony
been hired by Lord GUILFORD, its inhibition to Thourct moved a fresh ballot on the vote of yester-
great WIN on fines cannot affect the other, and far day, assigning as motives the importance of the vote,
meenhable property, which he had leased on lives. the division of the Assembly into two halves so
Thu illgpiity or legality of those leases is a question nearly equal, the remonstrances in the -11oniteur,
to be added by general, and not any special law ; and the errors denounced to the Assembly. M. do
and time rem too much reason to fear that the Ladoucette explained that he had by mistake put into
very substantial fines he lately took for their re- the ballot-box yesterday a white card (that is, in
newel will protect the lessees. favour of the second reading), bearing the name of
And the sum of the matter is, that Lord Gun.- M. Achille Fould. M. Beugnot complained that he
FORD, in quitting St. Cross, will have to put the was reported in the Mortiteur as absent at the ino-
hospital in perfect repair; will leave behind him a ment of the division, instead of which he voted
present income of 1,0001., and a prospective revenue against the government. After some remarks by
of nearly 12,0001. per annum. For its better appli- M. Du pin, the Assembly adopted the minutes, and
elation es it falls in the Court of Chancery will have set aside the motion. M. I)upin then announced
to sanction some scheme, probably an educational that the corrected division presented a majority of
one; hereafter a noble foundation will have been 333 against 347 against the second reading. The
' rescued from the nepotism of the Bishops of Win- house then adopted, on the first reading,
cheater, from the alienation of its own masters, the the bills confirming the treaties concluded
neglect of its own visitors, and be applied in a man- with New Grenada, the Imaum of Muscat,
nor worthy of its founders and its great reformer, Russia, and the Two Sicilies. The debate on
WILLIAM of WYKEHAM. the treaty with the Argentine Republic was ad-
Nor is this all that these proceedings will in time journed in consequence of the importance of the lent
have accomplished. It was in consequence of their events in that region. M. de Thorley prenatal a
institution that Lord GUILFORD resigned—first, the bill for maintaining the state of siege in the Ardeelie,
great benefice of likeeford. worth some 1,8001. a Cher, and Nitvre. The election of M. Schlcigt for
year, and afterwards the still larger and more im- Senegal was annulled on the ground of his being a
portant living of St. Mary's, Southampton, yielding contractor for government supplies when elected.
him probably not less than 2,5001. a year. Already The Assembly next proceeded to discuss the bud-
Alredord (the patronage of which may probably get of the Ministry of Marine. Scarcely had a few
tarn out to be vested in the Hospital of St. Cross, chapters been voted when M. de Vatimesnil appeared
and not in the Bishop of WINCHESTER), is re-divided in the tribune to state that he was deputed by
into three livings ; and preparations are in progress the Committee on Internal Administration to
to break up St. Mire's into five separate incumben- request that the chapter relating to they,
cies. And all this is owing, not to the zeal or czar- municipal law might be placed on the order,
time of a bishop, but to the worthy endeavours of of the day for Monday, in order to disease
Mr.Honz to correct an enormous scandal, and to the that portion relating to the matrieular register of the
honesty, ability, and determination with which Sir commune, and to the communal elections. This pert
Joan Innis, Sir JOHN ItomiLLT, and Sir Autx- would be detached from the rest of the bill The
ANDER COCKBURN and their subordinates have Assembly had expressed, at the close of last session,
worked out the intentions of the House of Coin- the desire to discuss this law on an early day of the
mons and the orders of the crown. re-opened sittings; and he reminded the house that
the powers of the municipal councils, already pro-
longed, would expire on the Ist of December.
M. Emanuel Arago successfully exposed the incon-
-1 sistency with which the Right had formerly refused
to detach the part of the Municipal Bill alluded to,
merely to shirk a debate on the law of May 31; and
now wanted to bring forward that chapter separately,
merely to lump the commercial and political elections
in the same measure, using as a pretence, the necessity
of renewing the powers of the municipal councils.
M. Odilon Barret supported the motion of M.
Vatimesnil. Nothing was fairer, more in accordance
with the dignity of the Assembly, and more favour-
able to conciliation ; while nothing better explained
the vote of yesterday, by which the Assembly vin-
dicated its dignity and independence against a ays-
tem:die encroachment on parliamentary rights. The
anger on the Left sufficed to show the true sense of
the law rejected yesterday. Notwithstanding the
momentary coalition of two fractions of the As-
sembly, the ephemeral nature of such a compact was
exhibited by the words of hatred and indignation
which followed. M. Odilon Barrett was much ap-
plauded by the Right, and frequently interrupted by
the Left. After several speakers of the Left, and
Jules Fevre, among the rest, had objected that
the debate on the Lyons railway was fixed for
Monday, M. Vatimesnil's motion was put to the vote,
and carried by a large majority, the Mountain only
rising against it.
The budget of marine having been voted without
further incident, the house rose at six.
The Assemble%e Nationale, after alluding to alarm-
ing reports in circulation last night, reeommeuds the
Assembly to return to the first form of the Queetorie
.Bill. The anti-Bonapartist journals distinctly exhort
the majority to erect a dictatorship in the name of

HANOVER.

The accounts of the King's health up to the even-
ing of the 11th state, that his Majesty is excessively
weak, and that a continued diminution of the
natural powers was visible. No official bulletin
had been published on the above evening, but
that was not considered an indication of any im-
provement.

M. Hossrrn (says our Southampton correspondent)
is to leave Ragland for the United States in the American
Ocean Spam Navigation Company's steamer Humboldt,
Cason' Limos. The Humboldt is to call uff Cuwea from
Havre, on her way to New York, at 4 p.m. on the 20th
instant. At 2 p.m. on that day, M. Kossuth 6 to leave
Southampton for Cowes Roads in a steamer, to embark on
board the Humboldt. A large number of frieuds will ac-
compute him. Tile Humboldt will reach New York about
the 2nd or 3rd of December.

An adAreas to M. Kossuth was, on the motion of
Mr. J. F. MAWSift. unanimously voted at the last meeting
of the Tows Council of Cork. This is tke only tribute yet
!slid by Ireland to the illustrious Magyar, a circumstance
which the speakers at the meeting endeavoured to account
for by referring to the very peculiar circumstances in which
!Mimi was placed.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 14.—The Sharpshooter, 5,
steam screw sloop, Lieutenant-Commander J. C. Bailey,
came into harbour last eight to be plot off. A court of in-
quiry u to be held to-morrow, into some circumstances in-
volvsng au alliged neglect of duty by one of the officers of
this vessel. The Rattler, screw stews-sloop, Commander ,
3.l,llerth, arrived at F.inehal, Makrie, on the 3dth ultimo,
when she landed thereLieutenantGeneral Lord Frederick

Fit&Wince, G. C. H., Coasiaauder-in-Chiof of this du-
tact, Lady sad Rua Pita!armee. The Rattler had had •
bad pantie, having iscouatated rough had winds.

the iffilffiallant, M. Vitcre report on the Guestors
Bill is\ expiated to be presented to-morrow.
741.. Bloodel hs* arrived, and accepts the post of
ifingter Of Finance.
M. Labonlie's report upon the third part of the
Municipal 11111 has been laid on the table of the
Assembly, so that the bill is now completely reported.
An expedition, consisting of the steam-frigates
Gomer and Sane and the corvette Caton, is directed
from Toulon, under the command of Admiral Du-
i bordier against the coast of Morocco.
Narvacz set out ouWednesday night for Madrid,
where his proximate return to office is expected.
Before his departure he took leave of the President,
who bestowed upon the Marshal's two aides-de--amp
the insignia of officers of the Legion of Honour.
The Chevalier de Paiva, Portuguese minister at
Paris, has presented his letters of recall, and
proceeds to St. Petersburgh, at which court he is
accredited in the like capacity. Count d'Azinhaga,
M. de Paiva's successor here, has presented his cre-
dentials to the President of the Republic.
The questors' proposition for a parliamentary
army has excited the indignation of M. Lamartine,
who has again dictated a long letter to the Pays
from his sick bed. Ile thinks that a proposition at
once so contrary to common sense, so puerile, and so
revolutionary, was never seriously presented to any
assembly since the beginning of the world. He
cannot believe the proposers of the measure to be
sincere, but thinks they must be the tools of some
Brutus, feigning madness as a cloak for his ambi-
tion. M. Lamartine is of opinion that the article of
the constitution which authorises the Assembly to
provide an armed force for its defence is a bad
one. He agrees with General Fabvier that a na-
tional assembly should rely without reserve upon
public respect for the dignity of its functions. But
the article in question should at least be suffered to
lie unused in the arsenal of power. He draws a
striking picture of the absurdity of a parliamentary
and a Presidential army on either side of the Seine.
If he were in the councils of the President. and
could be sure that he had no unconstitutional designs,
his only advice to him would be to cross his arms, like
his uncle, and adhere firmly to the law.
The Courrier de l'lndc sailed from Havre yesterday,
for San Francisco, having on board a number of
emigrants, men, women, and children, bound for
California. Some of them are being sent out at the
' expense of the state, and others from the proceeds of
r the Lingot lottery.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has
declined 4 millions in Paris, remaining nearly as it

was in the branch banks. The disctiunt accommo-
dation has increased 21 millions in Paris, and has
fallen off 4 millions in the departments, the amount
of the:former being 37,063,271 fr., and of the latter
62,110,036(r. On the side of the liabilities, the notes
in circulation present an augmentation of I of a
million, and a diminution in the provinces of nearly
f a million. The account-current of the treasury
has fallen off 3' millions, the present amount being
.14,709,736 fr. Ordinary accounts-current have de-
clined in Paris 14 millions, and in the branch banks
11 millions, the amount of the former being
117,75.3,638 fr., and of the latter 32,496,91.3 fr. The
whole amount of the metallic reserve is at present
6001 millions to 3321 millions of notes in circula-
tion.

At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rase 30e., etc),
ing at 90.81), and the Three per Cents. rose 20e., and
closed at 043 c.

GERMANY.

VIENNA, Nov. 11.

The National, a democratic newspaper, published
in Berlin, hoe been prohibited in the Austrian do-
minions.

There was a regular panic on 'Change yesterday,
but of a different nature from those financial terrors
which frequently manifest themselves in Vienna as
well as elsewhere. Yesterday's panic had its origin
in the appearance or, 'Change of the redoubtable
Stadthauttmann Chevalier Weiss von Starkenfels, not
in the character of bull or bear, or of any other
animal accustomed to transact business on 'Change;
but as chief of the police, and for the purpose of per-
sonally watching the proceedings of the humble
brokers and capitalists who are suspected of having en-
tered into a financial conspiracy against the Austrian
empire. Attended by one of his chief agents the
chevalier slowly paced through the extensive pre-
mises in which the moneyed world of Vienna assem-
bles to barter in valuables of all kinds, with his eye-
glass in constant operation, closely reconnoitring the
faces and figures of all parties. Luckily his piercing
eyes detected no signs of guilty consciences, or, still
worse, of those kinds of clothing, such as hats, &c.,
which are considered by him to be a political demon-
stration against the government. Having suffi-
ciently scrutinised the assemblage, the would-be
Fouche of Austria proceeded to the tables
of the " Sensate " or sworn-brokers, and personally
inspected their book, in order to discover the
names of any parties who may recently have pur-
chased foreign exchanges to any large amount. After
taking some notes the chevalier retired, leaving the
capitalists, bankers, merchants, and brokers assem-
bled in a state of terror similar to that experienced
by a brood of chickens when a hawk makes his
appearance. No business of any kind was transacted,
excepting by the friends of the Minister of Finance,
whose offers of bills on London and Augsburg, were
gladly aecepted at a few kreutzers lower rate than
they were quoted at on Saturday. This will account
for the slight fall which is mentioned in the list
of prices this morning. To day a guard of gens-
darmes .has been plead in and outside of the ex-
change, with orders instantly to arrest any traitorous
broker or speculator, whom the regular police com-
missary on'Change may point out as having attempted
to purchase foreign exchanges. The value of the
quotations of the Vienna market will at once be
apparent to your readers in the City.
Very considerable indignation has been excited by
the rudeness of the Emperor on a late visit to the
Burg theatre. The audience applauded most loyally on
his appearance; the Emperor contented himself with
a short and ungracious nod, sat down in his fauteuil,
and all the nudges of his archdueal mother, who
' wishes to see her son popular, could not induce him
to thank his people in a more gracious manner.
Several new regiments are to be created in Tran-
• Sylvania. Instead of a reduction, this will be an in-
crease to the army of about 20,000 men.