The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-15 00:00:00

IT will he 'teen from the debateri that Lord John
Russell hum deferred the bringing forward the budget,

in consequence of the thr'eatieting motion abitut
even ii„. BUBSIXO OF THE BEILLIN UPPI7.It rAit
Ceylon. We fear that the senoion la loot,
the castigation of admitted abuses. At a meeting I LIAMENT-I1OU:1.
held by the conservatives at lord Stanley's on ', BERLIN', MAUCH 11.
Thursday, the conservatives who voted with lord 1 All Berlin wee, yesterday evening, roUra.4 from its
Duncan were blamed for seeking to precipitate a usual aspect of quiet by the spectacle of a large cooftagra-
premature crisis. tion. The inhabitants, who rushed front all quarters in
the direction Of the flames, found on nearing them, that the
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newly-built Upper Chamber had taken tire. 'the building
FRANCE. in which the sittings of the chambers %ter Feld is in a gar-
' den, lying in the quadrangle between the Oberwall, the
PARIS, Fetnar LIMNING. I Yager and Markgrafen streets, and the palace of the Priacera
It
ri:_iin.....el,oseth,proiLitilit.y., with the cilhuls
A telegraphic despatch has been receivud from Iflut'lregull,;
Strasbourg, announcing that the disarmament of the Prince of Prussia's 'palace. It is connected with. thell house
the
national guard was effecting without the least dis- iin which the offices of the chambers arc by a turridor.
order. But the mayor and deputy-mayors, according ! The tire, which broke out about lualf.past Tut thoevening,
to some, and several municipal councillors, according appears, as was the case with our own houses of parliament,
to have originakd from the overheating of the tlues in prepa-
to others, have resigned. ! ration for the sitting which was to have taken place noday.
The gland review of the garrison came off this . These tlucs, runninghthind the waiuscoting,were eased with
afternoon in the Champs Elysi es. The President ' wood, and having been heated red-hot, the wood caught
in his usual dress on these' fire and communicated with the wainscoting of the chain-
appeared on horseback,
occasions, the uniformof a general of the national het. The rapidity with which the fire spread must have
guard, with the broad ribbon of the Legion of Ho- 11-.lUrfi'-inlZ,
it=acitetutil'e foro
one
et
esofasthair deputiesost uve 2°6"
takea
nour. Ile was accompanied evcrywhete by General ,by the limes during' an attemptmm Which' he instantly made
HUI&
Servitor, who wore the same order over his general's 1 to lift the doors of the chamber from their hinges, in order
uniform. Wheu the l'resident, surrounded by Ito facilitate the ingress and . :Tress. The wind was light
moment when the, fir :.coke out, ur the rapidity with
his staff, had taken up a station near the iat the
riich the flames spread wo.
... have produced a fatal Ca- ,
corner of the Pont de la Concorde, the troops !
titteztitre ia a ptelf.penidmicr.tdriamteassntio ahn.
filed off before him. I have already: stated ener2OusAshieti:hl4,'
that strict orders had been issued to prevent all cries bourhood with great' elfecutp. The epics-house, neigh-
that
of whatever kind. The President distributed several 1 theatre, the library, the dome of the catholic church,
visible to
decorations to the officers and sergeants of the de- I the two churches in the Genselarmen Market, were so mag-
tuittlitly illuminated. pat with which all these
parting corps. There tiled oft' in succession before
the l'resideut two battalions of gendarmerie mobile, the smallest deTtuallise,surcir as the decoratedfolds o'f'``tirtra Large
a battalion of the garde iepublicatne, a squadron of ' masses of burning paper—the reports of ravy• speeches,
the same guard, the 9th dragoons, and six regiments still heavier reports of the committees, measured motions 1
of infantry. The troops were ranged on the quay and amendments, blue books, &c., were sent up into the
air and blown about the neighbourhood—a more danger.
beside the Cour-la-ltetne, extending between the
i oticie:irmaisbugeoNtootrhteht,Laec and
wore.e.ir gethwectne:frOpOiliN 1.0
bridges of Concord and of Jetta. The President re-
turned to the Elysie about five. Four of the re- imagined them likely to prove. The yfbarwthatrawtheur4Zerar
viewed regiments quit l'aris to-morrow. Maw might take fire, caused the performance •'Gothe's
General Exechnens had yesterday an audience Faust." to be interrupted, and the audience quitted the house
with the President, in which.the gallant veteran re- lin terrible haste though without accident. The exertions
eeivecl from the hands of the nephew the baton which of the military and of the fire brigade, if it deserve the name,
succeeded in confining the flames to the chamber itself and
I had been destined for him by the emperor. the offices, where it raged with indescribable fury until all in
The Assembly was almost deserted. Many of the , flammable material within the walls was exhausted. The
reptesentativest 'had crossed the bridge to look at the' fire burnt itself out, and the inhabitants of the neighbouring
review. M. Itesmou.sseaux-de-Gieve complained to I houses have-in truth to thank the thickness of their party.
empty benches, that the petition of the students had walls for their escape, more than the efficiency of the tire-
been brought yesterday by an attrourontnt, and that tonfe&anL.l thweeirreeenlinweiLd Twhee.s.treetess ii3yinthtch....,iticahturhizod
this proceeding was a violation of the rules of the liners, whose peculiar witticisms flavoured Le eigisten'rt"
Chamber. The Assembly passed to the order of the with dashes of political allusions. It was generally held
day. end. after the adoption of a bill disposing of the to be a bad omen for the constitution that the mem.
remainder of the Mexican indemnity, heard the bee of the second institution in the kingdom were left
. houseless. The principal archives of the chamber were
report of petitions. sapzgedreissoonflythae portion of them were devoured by the rapid
In the papers there is a good deal of discussion on The treasury, however, with a sum of
••4 of - M. 3liehelet's leetr- 500 dialers, perished in the flames. The
...

~e subeet of closing m..,.._ .'s .... tures. In one
M.Mic elet is accused of having turned his chair into
a tribune, his lecture-room into a club, scorned the
remonstrances made to him from authorised quarters,
provoked demonstrations of political feeling, palliated
the same when they occurred. and only given about
13 lectures in the year, instead of SO, as he ought to
have done. The other side cry out against clapping
[ a jesuitical extinguisher on liberty of thought. and
declare that, in the average calculated number of
lectures annually delivered during ten or thirteen
Years by M. Miehelet. a year has been reckoned
lauring which his course was suspended.
The so-called manifestation of the students in fa-
vour of M. Miehelet is valuable, as affording a test
of the calmed tone of opinion among the students.
iThe number of students in Paris is 12,000. Among
the 300 who presented themselves before the National
Assembly, there were, it is said on conservative
authority, at least five blouses to one student. It is
inferred.t.hat the revolutionary and disorderly spirit
exists in a very small minority of this important
' class, and that. in case of a row, the great majority
would be found on the side of order. Paris witnessed
' the procession with the profoundest indifference; nor
did a single policeman anywhere interfere with it.
This passive attitude of the authorities is censured
by the conservative opposition ; but it was calculated :
it shows confidence in the tone of public opinion,
and does mach to impart that confidence which it
shows.

conflagration
lasted till past 10 o'clock, and was kind enough to go out
just when the usual Berliner hour of bed-time approached.
Several of the royal princes, General Wrangel, and other
notabilities, were early on the ground to as 4,4 by their pre-
sence in keeping order. Three of the firemen mot with
severe accidents from the fall of a burning beam. The
chamber will probably re-assemble in the Aula of the Uni-
versity.