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LONDOY, MONDAY MAY 30.

PRINCE MENCIIIKOVE has at length taken his de-
parture from Constantinople. Authentic intelhgcnce
of the fact reached this country at a late hour on
Saturday evening, and during the interval which has
since elapsed communications of more th. an ordinary
importance have, we understand, been interchanged
between the British and the French Governments.
Wit et the precise effect of these communications may
have been must necessarily be for the present a matter
of conjecture, but of their character and tendency
wo are not permitted to entertain any reasonable
doubt. The answer given by Lord J. eltussu.t. on
last Friday night to the questions put to him by Mr.
I Halt %ELI, regarding the affairs of Turkey, leave no
room fur question but France and England are
acting in concert, and that the two Governments
have already intimated to that of Russia that they
will cot tolerate any wanton outrage against the
I'ortc, or any attempt to upset, by a coup tie ut2tn,
the balance of power in Europe.
It is probable that ere this the French sqqadron
Las arrived within a few boars' sail of the Golden
Born ; and its presence there will interpose an in-
superable barrier to any hostile movement,--if such
should have been rashly prcjcctcd, of the Ituseian fleet
recently stationed at Sebastopol. The force under
the command of Admiral LASUSSE consists of
nine sail of the line besides steamers; and what-
ever the numerical superiority of the Russian fleet
may be, there can hardly be a question as to its
absolute inferiority in point of strength and skill. It
is scarcely possible, indeed, to imagine that the Rus-
sian commander would bring his ships advisedly into
collision with those which sail under the tricoloured
flag. On the other hand, there appears to be good
ground for believing that the armaments lately
collected at Odessa are not only more nu-
merous but better equipped than was at
first supposed. It was pr rbably earlier and
more correct information as to the strength of the
corps trarnat'o ostentatiously placed under Prince
3lescuitioev's command that led Colonel Rosa
several weeks ago to suggest the movement of the
British fleet from Malta. 'rho subsequent duplicity
of the Muscovite envoy and the misleading assur-
ance* given by M. Bausiow in Londcn and M. Kle-
tt:LEY in Paris, seemed, it is true, to falsify the ap-
prehension of the English charge trafaires at Con-
stantinople, but the event has more than vindicated
the promptitude of the measure recommended by
Colonel Rose. Three ships of the line have
within the last fortnight been sent to reinforce our
squadron at Malta; and it is generally understood
that Admiral DIINDAS is no longer without orders.
If we are to pay for a fleet in the Mediterranean,
we may as well have the honour and advantage of
its presence in quarters where it may be of some use,
rather than have it idly anchored during the summer
in the harbour of Villetta. We say this in no desire
or anticipation that our flag should be unfurled in
useless menace in the Greek waters. On the con-
trary, it is just because we are confident that its pre-1
sence there would give the best chance of honourable
peace that we wish to bear of its arrival at the
mouth of the Dardanelles. Whatever refinement of
diplomatic courtesy to Russia may have induce&
Lord ABERDEEN to withhold instructions from Ai.
miral DUNI-US up to a certain period, theme
can be no pretence for any further prolongation at
such questionable deference to the humour of the
CIA R. The ministerial organs, which so long occu-
pied themselves in panegyrics of the magnanimous
and merciful NICHOLAS have within the last few
days been campelled to own that the British and
French Governments have been thoroughly du and
deceived, and the most abject flatterer of Wenn*
despotism is now compelled to admit, that
if the treachery of the Russian Court was
really intended to cover projects of actual
aggression upon Turkey, the promptitude of the
French Government in sending its fleet last month
to the Bay of Salamis, evinced more wisdom than
the complaisance which has hitherto detained the
British squadron in the port of Malta.
It has always been clear that any determine-
fine of England and Franoe, promptly and plainly
shown, wottld effectually intercept the blow aimed
at the head of their ancient and unoffend-
ing ally,—the uplifted hand of Russia would
fall silently and sulkily, perhaps, but still
without any actual attempt at violence of any kind.
The only real danger of as open rupture has always
seemed to consist in beguiling the CzAst into the
supposition that the powers of Western Europe
would quietly look on whilst the SULTAN was
robbed of his inheritance. Pusillanimity however,
clothed in the garb of philosophic isolation
and indifference to the quarrels of otheis, is
alike unworthy a great nation and its Government ;
we feel that neither our people nor their riders will
ever willingly merit the reproach, bat it is necessary
that they should not seen seem to do so. The but
use of the possession of arms is to be able to pre-
vent others from wantonly or wickedly abusing them.
And the best means of preserving to ourselves and
our neighbours the inestimable benefits of a general
peace, is peremptorily to interpose with a strong
hand wherever our interposition can prevent the
outbreak of unjust war. In the npble and manly
task of shielding the Porte from 1110povite rapacity,
an honourable jealousy may well animate the British
and the French people, lest either should appear to
fail in performing their part on the occasion. The
feeling of all that is generous and brave on both
sides of the Manuel is that for the sake of European
peace.andpublic right we must never be unprepared
to resist, if need be, designs which are at variance
with international justice.

TURKEY.

Prince Menchikoff left Constantinople on the 22ad
with his suite, but not with the personnel of the
resident embassy.
Yesterday (Sunday), the Moniteur contained the
following article to which the first place was assigned
in its non-official columns:

" The government has received news from Constan-
tinople, dated May 20th. The Ambassadors of
France and England, the Minister of Prussia, and
the Charge d'Affaires of Austria, had concerted to
make in common a conciliatory attempt, but their
endeavours were not successful. Prince Menchikoff
persisted in claiming a guarantee of the immunities
of the Greek church. It was rumoured that the
Russian Ambassador proposed to quit Constantinople
on the night of May, 21.
" Another despatch from Vienna announces that
Prince Menchikoff left Constantinople on the 22nd
for Odessa.

"Notwithstanding this intelligence, it would
seem difficult to believe that hostility should follow
the rupture of diplomatic relations between Russia
and the Ottoman Porte. Against such a result our
guarantees are, on the one part, the wisdom of thei
cabinet of Petersburg and the as which it
I had recently given to all the courts of Europe ; and
on the other, the law of nations, which does not re-
gard as • COM belli the refusal to accede to
a demand for concessions and advantages not stipu-
lated for by anterior engagements."
It was expected at Constantinople on the 22nd,
that 31. Ozeroff and the personnel of the Russian em-
bassy wouldfollow Prince Menshikoff immediately.
Our Constantinople correspondent writes :

TIM news from CHINA alleges that the English,
French, and American representatives had yielded
to the request of the Imperial Government for assist- 1
asce, and had engaged to protect against the forces
of the Chinese insurrectionary leaders the cities of
Shanghai and Nankin, and also the entrance of the
great canal, near the last-named city, which forms i
the great channel of commercial intercourse between '
the rich southern and the poorer northern provinces i
containing the capital. If all this be true,—aban- i
doting the French and Americans to their
own whims of imagioary profits from intermeddling i
in the internal affair* of a foreign country,— I
we have no doubt that our own diplomatist
has committed a great blunder, to say nothing of his
acting at the same time in direct contravention of
the policy of his Government as expressed in Par-
liament. Let any man of common diplomatic sense
look at the state of affairs in China as described in
the accounts brought by the Overland Mail, and we
think he will not fail to come to the same conclusion
with ourselves. A native insurrection had been in
program for three years, and an insurgent army,
defeating one army of degenerate Tartars after an-
other, had advanced from the 24th degree of latitude,
where the rebellion was concocted, up to the 32nd,
where the last accounts left it laying siege to the an-
cient native capital, both known to us for having given
name to the fabric that formed our fashionable nether-
garment A years ago, than by its geography, hic
tory, or statistics. The left wing of this army la
at the city of Wosung, 400 miles distant from Nan 'n
It
and lying on the same river, the greatest and t e
best, not only of China, but of all Asia. The
insurgents, in fact, seem to domineer over the richest
half of China, and to be in occupation of all the
southern portion of the empire, except a strip of the
sea-board, which they are stated to avoid invading
and stbduing in order not to come into collision
with the European nations, and espetlially with our-
selves—to them, at lease the most powerful of all.
According to the last news, the insurgent force, after
just defeating two imperial armies, was within ;00
miles of Pekin, with, apparently, nothing but
rooted and discouraged troops to oppose them, and
with the certain prospect before them of establishing
a native dynasty, and of expelling the intruding
. e and its militia. Seven hundred miles, with the
rincipal resources of the Empire behind them,

CONSTiNTINOPLB, Ms: 15.
On Friday, the day before yesterday, Prince Men- ,
chikoff was expected at the residence of the Grand
Vizier, where Rifest Packs and Mehemed Pacha '
awaited his arrivaL Instead, however, of attending
this conference, the Prince went direct to the Sultan
without apprising the Sedrazan (Grand Vizier) of his
intention to adopt such a proceeding. The latter, not
thinking it proper under the circumstances to submit
to such an outrage, at once resigned his office, and
when the Prince, on leaving the Sultan, was about to
wait upon Mehemed Ali, he was informed that that
dignitary had divested himself of his functions and
could no more receive him or entertain diplomatic re-
lations with him. The Sultan, informed of what
had taken place, accepted the resignation of his
Grand Vizier, but immediately nominated him to the
ministry of war, and with a view to increase the
diplomatic efficiency of his council, modified it as
follows : Mustapha Pacha, Grand Vizier; Mehemed
Ali, as before stated, Minister of War ; Mehemed
Resehit Pacha, General in Chief of the Imperial
Guard, with a scat and deliberative voice in the
council ; Reschid Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs ;
and Itifaa t Pacha, President of the Council of [State.
'All these events took place within four hours, as I
can affirm, having been an eye-witness of all the
movements which caused and accompanied these
changes.
It isjust to Mehemet' Ali Pacha to attest that in
this aihsir he manifested the complctest self-posses-
sion and a profound sentiment of patriotism.
Since yesterday the diplomatic circle here has been
greatly agitated. The Russians are very pressing,
but I greatly doubt that they willattain their end. I
persist in believing that supported by France and
England. Turkey will come with honour out of this
unjust and unequal contest.
Another of our correspondents, waiting also on the
15th, having related the change of ministry, says:
Lord lkdcliffe, it is confidently stated, has been
more than usually active within these last few days,
• and assumed an attitude proportionate to the gravity
• of the situation. It is moreover generally asserted,
that he has availed himself of this favourable oppor.

Cannot be a difficult Barth Its men t"
in nine I tunitT to tarry oiit ;Lc avowed and friendly- inten-
months'
!e.
time, have alresdy advanced froM the tions of our gove.nms.nt—by urging the r.4.ptioa of I
marshes and fastness of Quangsee to the Cite of a bold anti libernl policy in regard to tb.e Ra.;slis,,
Nankin, a distance of at least 1,000 miles. The in. and the rellailnulg,ition of a tdisimet *t tide to that
surrestiou, in short, seems to bp ii keg contempleted iffect:-..rhis expediot would broueelo4-4n,bly remove
national movement, and its lipid and trukAglianl alit:awl tcomPliiiit—all 11169,1; isM foreign inter-
progress shows that it has he iepport gf thipeeple,, vend" n.be, •at the. same time, a triumphant
estranged from the MANCROO dynasty by its feeble- reply '.to the preteasions, of the Rassian envoy.
nem, corruptions, and exactions. Yesterday, soon aftel sunrise, the house of
Now, every one knows what en Oriental revolt* Mustapha Pacha wP.'s literally thronged with visits •
ending in a revolution, means. It is in the cast what of congratulation and his elevation to the highest
a reform bill is with us, and a simple unsuccessful I dignity under the' crown has been hailed by all as
insurrection is equivalent to a petition to Parliament an event full of hope and an earnest of better days
against a grievance. The Eastern nations have had, for his country. A happier choice could not pos-
time immemorial, no other means of reforming their sibly have been made. Mustapha Pacha is ems-
Government, than axebellion. One of these great nently qualified to advise his young sovereign.
reforms is at this moment in progress in the greatest Moreover, he is well known as a patriot, a liberal,
and wealthiest of the Oriental nations, and here are and a thorough reformer ; but, what is besides of
we, in violation of the law of nations, of justice, and the greatest importance, he is in a position to speak
of common sense, stepping in most impertinently out his mind on all occasions without reserve, being
and foolishly, with a poor attempt to stop what is totally independent of office and its emoluments.
inevitable. The effort will assuredly be to carry Reschid Pacha also was visited by Lord Radcliffe
beyond the measure of its present unpopularity the and by his other numerous friends and adherents.
Tartar dynasty, and to make enemies of the future He is unquestionably and above all others, perhaps,
rulers and their subjects. If our diplomacy has eminently qualified for the department or foreign
many been such as it is represent d, it must be pro- affairs, and precisely what is required at the present
nounced as at once both stupid and mischievous. juncture.
Let us, however, suppose the present insurrection The following is an abridged but faithful tremolo-
successful, and a native Government established over tion of the reply of the Porte to the note in which
the whole empire, and then glance at the results to Prince Menchikoff first demands a guarantee for the
our own commerce—which, we must remember, is of rights of the Greek Christians.
great annual value, the principal import being Opium, PRINCE MENCIIIIOFP.B NOTE.
the principal export Tea. Nine millions a year of the
eeyireerM jraiinsterilorcPbc;irieoikas
ntrrai,r); rekaowledges the re-
national revenue depnd on these two commodities, Zseld r
the saesineselith attention's, as the 16th ins
h triolusblo-as
teafurnishing nearly two-thirds of that sum to the Bri- '-
cements by which it is accompanied. Inumuch as the
tisk and opium one-third to the Indo-British treasury. Ottoman government is desirous of maintaining the friendly
A sonsiderable amount of disorder must follow the relations at present existing between Russia and the
present insurrection, detrimental to commerce, but ,Port• i and inasmuch as, above all, his Majesty the Sultan
we are satisfied it will fall far short of that which ;.2vualryiTprexiouisetohiastealpoletrhasth:sbjwit:nadtgi tot strengths
nhgstshonss
took place on the establishment of the existin long existeds
between him and his Majesty thep Emperor MI
MANcitoo dynasty. The last was a conquest, which Russia, the Sublime Porte, conformably with the duties
began in 1616, and did not' end until 1644 ; and, in- of a good neighbour, is firmly resolved to regulate amicably
deed, it was not until 1683 that the great island of all matters connected with the demands of Russia, in as far
Formosa fell under the yoke of the Tartars. The saanidtiiind"rikle.sweetsordsilew4ttlitosut catAstroimssising the interests
country, in fact, was laid waste by fire, sword, and In ripely 'gibe different points contained in the document
famine for at least 30 years; so that its population sanexed to the note of Prince Menchikoff, the Minister 1w
was no more by census in 1643 than 150,000,000, in- to observe, in the first place, that the Sublime Porte by no
creased by near two centuries of peace to 360,000,000 metns objects' todso:a6rm its
decision adopted in a late
in 1813. The impending revolution, being a na- '
rearneieregptit, =lnks pilgrims,s;tdretia :we'll°. demands
rchc*annd.
depot movement, cannot be attended by any hospital at Jerusalem.
such direful results. It will be attended only by The Sublime Porte and his Majesty the Sultan have
the expulsion of a comparative handful of strangers, always considered it a duty to preserve intact the religiose
denuded of the military virtues of their shepherd rights and privileges accorded to its subjects, but Russia
forefathers, enervated by inaction and plenty, and ameevneurthienle:ardeartoinfhteo doubtrsei:!ileiss sincerityiessoifedthsehelettsesti;
become mere drones in an industrious hive. If the should be gguaranteed. As, however, his Majesty the
pride of a native Chinese Government be not wounded Sultan considers it a sacred duty to maintain perpetually the
by wanton aggression on our part, it will, we privileges of the Greek., as well as of all the other subj.'ss
think, be its natural wish to conciliate us by a more of his empire, there is not thy smallest intention of destroy-
liberal intercourse, and the result must be the stria- ittgattriet;
maintenance.bit, e n contrary s
t ,hosceensseurrsistfonwg"
shno:ittsesallpesras.-
sion of our commerce—a source of wealth and re- cal the friendly sentiments and confidence existing between
venue to which no Chinese is insensible. It appears Russia and the Sublime Porte, it is nevertheless manifest
certain that our tea trade and tea revenue are not that one state, by signing an engagement with another, in
likely to suffer much disturbance. The insurrection a ratter so internal, would entirely destroy the basis of its
has already been in progress for three years, and, InTlipeend Sublime Porte which has voluntarily maintained from
notwithstanding, every year the exports of tea are the earliest times the rights and privileges accorded to its
increasing. Last year we find that they exceeded by subjects, and above all to the Greeks, and will continue to
three millions of pounds those of any former year. preserve and maintain them in a like manner henceforward.
Although the insurrection was in the midst of In renewing ones more the assurances of its unalterable
the green tea districts ; there has been no want roes: toltimoannia.athtitgregreienti,atyheitiOttostmnlnn governmentnu o respect iisd e s
andir-
of green any more than of black tea. It must be regard for the Emperor and his government.
the interest of every Government of China to protect PRINCE MENCIIIKOFF'd REPLY.
the growth and the trade in tea; for from this article, Prince Menchikoff acknowledges the receipt of the Minis.
in the shape of transit and export duties, it derives a fir's note, April 213 (old style), and expresses the high sa-
tisfaction which he has experienced at the sentiments of
large branch of its revenue. friendship and regard manifested therein by his Majesty
Assuredly the Indian opium revenue does not the Sultan towards the Ezperor of Russia—as well as the
stand on so secure a footing. Paid by strangers and assurances of the Porte of its desire to strengthen those
not by subjects, it is in its very nature a precarious bonds of amity which unite bath governments. He is, how-
fiscal source, on which no well-conducted and pin- ever, compelled to express his astonishment at the want of
dent Government ought implicitly to rely. it •rafteneedan evincedli they
demands,he Posrs
s'unchseasfusesi" to accede to
d
amounts to about one-seventh part of the financial his note. Thu mistrust displays itself principal) in the
resources of British India; and its loss, with the suspicion of the Porte respecting the intentions of Russia—
unelastic and unimprovable revenues of India, were supposing them to be of a nature calculated to infringe on
it to perish—and an accident might destroy it—lndian the sovereignty of his Majesty the Sultan.
bankruptcy, or recourse to the pockets of the people unwillinghaHseesiswsede stet recu
ears srftohthe caussess and motives whdich
of England, would be the alternative. There seems, the future lot and welfare of sithseu'ivastearnaselfriTtians.as His
however, in so far 48 consumption is concerned, no mission is only to negotiate and to come if possible to an
risk that the people of China should cease to consume amicable understanding on these points with his Majesty
a drug which they are now well ascertained to have the Sultan. However, he would feel himself under the
used for a period of 350 years, or from the first Oetcemton:atiyi of
p consideringsesndspshssisitssalioinnaLanen
refusal—bitd— in ease
is stillSie
appearance of Europeans in their waters. The risk disposed to allow for the consideration of this matter sno-
t° the Indian revenue arises from the growth of the thee term of delay ending on Saturday, May 14.
poppy, and the manufacture of opium, being legalised The following is published in Galignanes Mes-
by- a new Government in China itself, which pos- sersger as part of a letter from Vienna, dated May
messes the soil, the climate, and the cheap manipula- 24 :—" From the moment that it was convinced that
lion necessary to its production, at as cheap a rate Prince Menchikoff had made demands upon the
as any province of British India. Were such a measure Porte which, if granted, would virtually deprive the
to be carried into effect, the Indian Government Sultan of his sovereignty over a large portion of his
would no longer get 1301. for a chest which is subjects, the Emperor of Austria did not hesitate to
intrinsically. scarce worth 301.; and Chinese con- instruct his ambassadors in Paris and London to de-
sumer* ceasing to consume Indian opium, the Clare that he would faithfully execute with France
3,000,0001. of Indian revenue would be annihilated. and England the engagements into which Austria
Indian extravagant* ought to contemplate the pro- had entered for the maintenance of the independence
bability of such a malt and integrity of the Turkish empire. Believing,
however, that Prince Menchikoff had exceeded his

instructions, and thinking that the
tions of the French and English ale=
would suffice to prevent j any result injurious
to the just rights of the Sultan, and having
a ggranteful remembrance of the recent services'
wadered by the Emperor of Russia to the throne of
Austria, a great desire was felt to abstain from
lain any active part in the affair, unless a strict
MIS at duty should prescribe a different course.
Thismas the real cause of the apparent hesitation of
the Ambles cabinet, and not a secret treaty between
Rossi& and Austria, which, according to rumour, was
catered into in 1849, but which really never existed.
This delicacy on the part of Austria has been fully
appreciated by the cabinets of Paris and London,
and it will be agreeable to them to see the hope of
a retractation or disavowal by the Emperor of Russia,
manifested by the Austrian government, realised be-
fore
the departure of the Baron de Bruck. Of the
sincerity of Austria in her declaration that she will
cordially concur in all that is necessary to secure the
independence and integrity of Turkey they have no
doubt."
A letter from Aleppo, of the 7th, says: "The
Porte has just ordered our Pasha to form a tribunal
of commerce at Aleppo, composed of European and
native merchants, to judge the affairs in dispute be-
tween the Franks and the Rayas. This prudent
measure is applauded by the European commercial
men, who always found difficulties thrown in their
way by the merchants of the country."
The Sieck has received a letter, dated May 15,
which confirms the news that the Sultan is about to
accord additional liberties to his non-Mussulman

subjects.
We read in the Courrier de Marseille, of the 26th :
" Admiral Stewart, the new second commander of
the English fleet in the Mediterranean, arrived yes-
terday at Marseilles. He immediately installed
'himself on board the Caradoc, which is waiting for
a courier, who is expected every instant with new
instructions for Lord Stratford de Radcliffe.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVEITINO, MAY 30. )853.

FRA.NCF.

PARIS, Suankt Ettanio.
The grand review at Versailles to-day was in great
measure spoiled by the weather, which was cold and
wet. The Emperor, who is usually extremely punc-
tual, did not arrive at Versailles till an hour after the
appointed time. It is probable that in the morning
some idea of countermanding the review must have
j existed. Bet about half-past one, the rain having
then ceased for a while, tho Emperor, accompanied
by the Duke of Genoa, entered the court in front of
• Versailles Palace, in on open carriage. Ile instantly
mounted on horsebeck and advanced to the group
of generals waiting to receive him. In less
than five minutes from his Majesty's arrival the
brilliant cortege was in movement towards Satory.
The Lake of Genoa wore aiguillets and a black
plume. As the Emperor reached the ground the
rain fell heavily, and showers, accompanied with a
cutting wind, fell with but little intermission during
the review. As the troops had been under arms for'
many hours, it was desired to spare them as much as
possible, and but few movements were executed.
There was no firing of any kind. As the troops
marched past, they cried " Vice l'Empereur" with
as much unity and precision as they displayed in all
the rest of their military duties. The ground was
exceedingly heavy, and the artillery movements were
necessarily slowly executed. Just as the review was
over, the Empress entered the field in an open
carriage. She was looking exceedingly pale said
thin, and much astonishment was expressed at her
venturing out on such an inclement day. As soon
as her Majesty appeared, the Emperor rode up to her
carriage, and after a few minutes airing on the plain
their Majesties passed through Versailles together to
see the grandee came play in the gardens. There
were to have been races, but these were postponed
on account of the weather. It has been much noticed
as a symptom of the prevailing disposition to revive
all courtly habits, that the intimation given that the
Emperor would "see with pleasure" general officers
not on duty join his suite on this occasion, was confined
to generals of division. When Louis Napoleon mado
I his triumphal entry into Paris, on the day of hie
' proclamation, generals of brigade were included in
' the invitation to meet him at the Barridre de
l'Etoile. _ _ _ _ _

_
There is to be a ball at St. Cloud on Tuesday, to
which the members of the Corps Legiolatif are invited,
and most of them will postpone their departure from
Paris till after that day. There is a talk of a
matinee dansante for to morrow to be conducted
by M. Strauss, who will leave to fulfil his new duties
at Vichy immediately afterwards.
It is said that the Emperor has promised the Duke
of Genoa to use all his legitimate influence in favour
' of the Lombard refugees, many of whom were for-
merly intimately connected with him at the time
when he espoused the Italian cause. French in-
fluence with Austria is, however, according to all
appearances, very small at the present moment.
According to the latest intelligence from Germany,
one of the consequences of the Eastern complication
has been an alliance between Austria and Prussia, who
have agreed to pursue one identical course of policy,
both foreign and domestic. This promises badly for
German liberty. More stringent laws against the
press and an increase of the powers of the police are
said to be among the measures concerted between
the two powers. The Journal de Francfurf, contra-
dicting some recent reports, affirms that Austria
has not the least intention to relax the decree of se-
questration against the emigrants.
The Minister of the Interior has granted a pen-
sion of 600 fr. a year to Madame Balsa% tho mother
of the distinguished author who died two years ago.
The Prcase in its weekly Commercial review says:
"The situation of commerce is regular. Busineu is
gradually becoming more active in the manufactories, and
if the purchases for the provinces are not more consider-
able at the present moment, that symptom can only be at-
tributed to the present fecilitles for communication by
railway. Formerly provincial tradesmen made their pur-
chases twice a year, either through the agency of travellers,
or personally in Paris. But since the railway system has
become more extended in France, journeys are more fre-
quently made, opportunities of transport are more easily
tound, and consequently lem stocks are kept in
hand than formerly. There are many men who used to
lay out 100,000 fr. for spring goods, and who now boy but
30 or 40,000b.wotth at • time, and replenish their warehouses
as they effect sales. They home thus the double advantage
of having a constant succession of the newest fashions, and
being able to trade upon lees capital. The cabinet molten
in the Faubourg St. Antoine are exceedingly active. They
have had a good winter and have searcelyfelt the dead
season. Several considerable exports of Paris articles have
been made this week to England, Spain, Rum's, and the
United States, and the foreign agents continue to give
orders which will ensure full work for several
months. Our departmental manufacturers have for

some time been compelled to diminish production on account
of the high price of raw materials, but consumers ere
now reconciling themselves to the laureled Tau s, and there
is consequently much more manufacturing activity in the
province".

PARIS, SATURDAY EVINING.
The trial of the "foreign correspondents" was
brought to a conclusion at a late hour to-day. The
court has in the main confirmed the judgment of the
tribunal of correctional police, which sentenced the
prisoners to short periods of imprisonment with
trifling fines. It has refused to aggravate the sen-
tences or to pronounce the prisoners guilty of be-
longing to a secret society, as it was asked to do by
the public prosecutor. It decides, however, that the
introduction into France by the post of slips cut out
of a prohibited foreign journal is tantamount
to the introduction of the journal itself; and
that the prefect of police did not, under
the circumstances, exceed the powers conferred
upon him by the Code of Criminal Instruction, in
breaking open the prisoners' letters in the Poet-office.
The absurd decision that the Duke of Rovigo and
Count Alfred de Coetlogen were unlawfully iu pos-
session of " munitions of war," because some family
relics, such as, for instance, Marshal Savary's sword,
were found in their houses, is reversed, "considering
the nature of the arms, and the circumstances of the
case." The sole charge confirmed against the Duke
of Rovigo is that of having applied a nickname to
the Emperor in Tortoni's Cafe. Some variations are
made upon technical grounds in the decision of the
court below as to the solidarity of the prisoners with
to the payment of fines and cats; bat the
judgment contains nothing else of interest. No
report of the trial, beyond the text of the judgment,
will be allowed to be printed; but M. Stadion
Barret has published a professional opinion on the
sanctity of the Pest-office, in which the legal argu-
ments advanced by him upon that point may be
found. I understand that MM. Odillon Barrot,
Hebert, andDufaure, spoke out quite as boldly as M.
Berryor. M. O. Barret characterised the prosecution
as an attempt to make the judges accomplices in the
destruction of the miserable remnant of liberty which
in the present "abject state of France" was yet left.
M. Procureur-General Roulland liked his case so

little, that after some general accusations against the
counsel for the defence that they wished to erect in
'that court the political tribune from which they had
been driven elsewhere, he gathered up his papers and
went away, Waving his substitute to battle with an
opposing bench, on which sat no less than four ex-
muusters, and among them two ox-ministers of Louis
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Napoleon himself.
"he session of tha Corps Legislatif terminated to-
day, the very general expectation that there would
be a further prolongation not having been realised.
In the course of the sitting the house voted the bills
for prohibiting the wearing arms in Corsica, for
the conversion of the communal and departmental
debts, and for the restoration of Articles 86 and 87 of
the penal code. This latter bill has been so altered
by the committee from its original terrible character,
that, so far from being a law for the revival of the
political guillotine, M. de la Guerronniere, in hie re-
port, describes it "as the definitive abolition of the
political scaffold by Napoleon 111. and the Corps
Legislatif." This extravagant attempt to attribute
to the Emperor the glory of an act of the provisional
government, which he has in vain endeavoured to
abrogate, is very much laughed at. The bill, as now
passed, is as follows:
Art. 86 of the Penal Code. The attempt (allental)
against the life or person of the Emperor is punished with
the penalty of the parricide.
The attempt against the life of the Imperial family is
punished with the penalty of death.
The attempt against the person of the members of
the Imperial family is punished with transportation to •
fortified place.
Every offence against the person of the Emperor, com-
mitted publicly, is punished with an imprisonment of from
six months to fire years, and with a fine of from 500 f. to
10,000 f. The guilty person may besides be deprived of the
whole or part of the rights mentioned in Article 42 of the
Code fur a tattled of time equal to that of the imprisonment
to which he has been sentenced. This limo dates from the
expiration of his imprisonment.
Every offence against thu members of the Imperial
family committed publicly is punished with an imprison-

oast of from earl mouth to three pars, and with a Ras of
from 100 f. to 5,000 f.
Art. 87.—Tao attempt, the object of which is either to
destroy or change the government or the order of succession
to the throne, er to mite the citizens or inhabitants to arta
against the Imperial anthotity, is punished with the penalty
of transportation to a fortified place.
MM. Guyard-Delalain, Baron de Montreuil, M.
de Belleyme, Lanquetin Taillifer, and the Marquis
de St. Croix obtained leave today: to print the
speeches delivered by them on the civil pensions
bill and the budget.
The substance of Lord Clarendon's speech was
known on the bourse to-day, and produced a good
I effect. There were many fluctuations, but upon the
whole it was thought that the Eastern question was
more the pretext than the cause of them. It is not
true that the Russian Minister went to St. Cloud
yesterday.
Ten individuals under surveillance of the police,
declared by M. de Maupas to have broken their
ban, have just been removed from Limoges to Brest,
I preparatory to their transportation to Cayenne.
The Bank of France has announced that it will
henceforth make advances at 3 per cent. per annum
upon grains, such as wheat, barley, rye, oats, and
lucerne, colza, and clover seeds, deposited in ware-
houses designated by the direction.
At the termination of business to-day the pub-
lic funds bad again lost a portion of the advantage
obtained the preceding day, and during the day
prices underwent very sudden changes : the market
for cash was so much better supported than that for
the term, that an interval occurred during which
purchases for the account for sale for money could be
advantageously effected. The concluding quotations
were :—For cash : Three per Cents., 79f. 95e. ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 60c. For the
account:—Three per Cents., 79f. 85c.; Four-and-
, a-Half per Cents., 1021. 50c.; Bank Stock, 2,700 f.
, I A considerable decline in prices occurred in the
railway share market yesterday. Closing prices:—
INortherns, 902 f. 50c. ; Paris and Orleans, I,oBof. ;
Paris and Strasbourg, 922 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lys ors,
945 f.; Paris and Rotten, 1,115 f.; Lyons to the
I terranean, 762 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 765 f. ;
Rouen and Havre, 525 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
L 635 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 630 f.