The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1851.
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Bat worse far must be that government which repels other printed in London. The author was sentenced
honest and just pecuniary claims on its treasury by totem years' imprisonment and one thousand francs
criminal proceedings against the claimant, and file.Yestar
which supports those proceedings by testimony that The CoMmittbs'on the treatise of, La Plata
is proved to be false. day gave its apprebatien to the report
babe. It recoalmends the Aseembq to adopt the
yes oncesd In the government for
.the ratification
Tiara years ago Lord SrawLtz would not Auffor of dm Lc vmsro„ treaties.
the House of Lords to repeal the obsolete Navigation The parliamentary club of the Rue des Pyramids
Law. In 1849, he was less obdurate, or his followers hsid „wog yesterday evening to rooted to the
were in lees perfect drill, and the repeal passed the monthly renewal of its Wean. M. Montalembert
upper house of landlords as well as the lower—every was elected president in the sword Admiral Ceeille,
Ilardwicke, Eglinton, and Richmond protesting at and M. Aubertin, questor, to replace M. Augustin
the top of their orthodox Voices that the glory (Jima The bureau is now composed es follows
:
of England was thereby jeopardieed, and the do. MM. de Broglie, de Flasigny, de Mootalembert,
minion of the seal was sure, in CVISIVIeneeg to s pro4idyr.4., ••••=l. MX, Dam% Totipa, II" 2:rB°s.,
.paro away. Lord STANLEY, himself, ett that and Aubertin, pesters.
occasion, talked more Pcelishly. If the Cr If the Bank continues for some time longer to
experiment must be tried, he would console If absorb the metallic capital without replacing it by
with the reflection of having warned in vain and notes, it will soon absorb more than one-half of the
having done his duty; but should it fail, as he prog- specie in circulation. It is said that the directors of
nosticated it would do, then he trusted that the re- the Bank are at last beginning to be moved by this
turning sense of the country would speedily justify state of things, and that they are not averse to make
those who thought es he did in counselling a prompt advances to the department of the Seine for the exe-
and penitent return to the ways of their forefathers. elation of the central balks of Paris and of the Rue
Well, the competition of the seas has been thrown de Rivoli. The establishment might also be induced
open, and fora year and a half the avariciotui foreigner to advance 100 millions for the execution of the
has been permitted to fetch and carry for us just the Lyons and Avignon Railways, if M. Dufaure's plan
same as our own winged sea-horses. And, according to should be admitted by the Assembly. The Bank
Lord STANLEY and his Liverpool lack-aday-men, could readily lend 100 millions at 4 per cent., in
all the mischiefs and miseries have come to pass that taking for guarantee the revenue of the portion of
were foreshadowed. Spain remains as stupid as the Lyons line now at work between Paris and
ever, France as jealous, and the United States, with Chalons. It would not run any risk, and would re-
professions of perfect reciprocity on their lips, have store to circulation a part of its unemployed capital,
shown cunning and equivocation in their construe- whilst assuring to its shareholders a new profit of
tion of the words " coasting trade " with regard to four millions a year.
California. There has been an increase of strange The funds continue to improve. To-day the Fives
sails in our harbours, and a fall of several shillings closed at 92.90, with a rise of 20. The Threes rose
per cent. in our freights. "The ling that braved a 13c., and closed at r 5.80.
thousand years the battle and the breeze" is about to
be lowered before—well it is hard to say before what
or whom, that interesting particular is not yet clear,
but certainly before that of some other nation (to be
hereafter named); and a case for prompt and peni-
tent retrogression in the matter or navigation laws
has manifestly therefore arisen. Whereupon Lord
STANLEY, in his usual off-hand style, undertakes the
patriotic task of demonstrating the proven accuracy
of his past forebodings, and the necessity of doing
something effectual and immediate to avert the im-
pending ruin of our marine.
But the faith of the chief priest in their exploded
mystery is dead. Diana of the Ephesians may be
great as ever still, when a mob is to be piled or a
tumult to be raised; but silver shrines are made for
her no more; the great goddess is no longer wor-
shipped by the world; and if it were not for the
sake of decency and form, her effete worship would
be silently abandoned by all the craftier of the craft.
Lord STANLEY made the other night one of his vehe-
ment onslaughts on the government for having re-
pealed the navigation law, and stated at length the
various hardships to which competition had subjected
our mercantile marine. But when he came to name
his remedies, far from proposing in any way that
we should retrace our steps, his consistent lordship
earnestly.adiocated a remission of the stamp duty
upon marine insurances, and—oh, tempora ! oh, mores!
—that the owners of British vessels should be at
liberty to hire foreigners instead of true-born Britons
for their crews, inasmuch as the foreigners might be
had cheaper in wages and food.
Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG, we feel for you.
From the bottom of our economic heart wo tender
you the tribute of our sympathy and pity. " Drops
of compassion tremble on our eye-lids To be thus
trifled with and mocked by the great chief and
champion of monopoly and retrogression. It is
more t bun human patience can be expected to endure.
Lord STANLEY'S suggestions are all, with a single ex-
ception, in the direction of more complete and perfect
competition. Ile would by all means try to pick a
quarrel with Spain, or some other country, because
it did not reciprocate our unconditional offer of free
shipping. But who imagines that it was for any
other consideration than our own self-interest we
abolished our navigation laws?
Who, then should we vex by what are termed
measures of retaliation, more than ourselves? If
the Spaniards, or the French, have not the wisdom
to follow our good example, more fools they. But
if the principle of free navigation be worth anything,
the idea of retaliation is absurd.

SVIMAT ETENINO,

The amendment of M. Sainte-Brave was rejected
yesterday by a majority of 393 votes against Wo.
All the interest of the debate on the law of clubs
turned on the question of electoral meetings, for
there is no point upon which all shades of conserva-
tives are more united than in their dread and abhor-
rence of political clubs properly so-called, which, so
far from becoming a source of enlightenment, breed
confusion, and inflame passion upon subjects in
which it is of the highest importance for the peace
and order of society to avoid both one and the other.
It may, therefore, be regarded in the present state
of French society as a settled axiom that no govern-
ment can co-exist in France with the liberty of clubs.
On the other hand, the right of holding electoral
meetings without being subject to prohibition or dis-
persion by the agents of the executive power is
claimed by all parties, which are independent
of the government, and regarded us the
main guarantee against the erection of an
arbitrary and absolute authority. But there is
by no means so clear a distinction between an ordi-
nary political club and an electoral meeting in point
of practice as in theory. Hence the doubt and diffi-
culty of the conservative parties as to the exercise of
the right of electoral assembly; for they know that
complete freedom could not be grantcl during any
considerable term, for the exercise of such a right,
without the soil of France being covered with swarms
of conspirators, under the pretext of assembling for
electoral purposes. This is so obvious, that even a
staunch legitimist, like M. de Kerdrel, is obliged
to confess the necessity of deferring to the govern-
' ment the powers necessary for the instantaneous
dispersion and suppression of electoral meetings.
This, rightly considered, is equivalent to the admis-
sion that France cannot be governed in the present
state of things without vesting a discretionary abso-
lute power in the hands of the executive. The
rejection of the amendment of M. St. licuve is the
most unreserved proof of confidence which it is pos-
sible to place in a government, for the law of clubs,
which it proposed to mitigate in favour of electoral
meetings, puts into the hands of Louis Napoleon and
his ministers an authority as absolute as that of the
King of Prussia. In the legislative signatures
attached to such a carte blanche we have conclusive
proof of the insincerity of those who, like Jules de
Lasteyrie, never lose an occasion of imputing ambi-
tious designs to Louis Napoleon. Logically, a legis-
lator who made the speech of Lasteyrie ought to
have put in a saving clause against the sway accorded
to the executive power. In his conscience he must
have felt that the intentions of Louis Napoleon were
too honest to need such a clause. Why, there
fore, rake up the stale story of the Dix-
Decembre conspiracy, the Satory reviews, &c.,
when all such arguments militated against
the vote which M. de Lestcyrie and his friends were
about to give? As for the power of the Assembly
to interfere in order to arrest the abuse of such ex-
traordinary authority, a practical eye like that of
Alfred Nettement sees clearly encfugh that such a
reserve is illusory. It is a control which must ar-
rive a day too late, and after the elections are finished
and a new Assembly has already entered on its
functions. Hence the ultra-legitimists proposed,
through the organ of M. Yoshi, to reduce the term
of three months for freedom of electoral assembly to
forty days. This amendment was rejected by a
majority of 130, in a house of 630.

FRANCE.

PARIS, BATOIDAT EVINING.
To-day the President held a grand review in the
Champ ae Mars, of the Ist division of the garrison,
coni.ting of four brigades of infantry and one
brignde of cavalry, under the orders of General Car.
relet, • hose head-quarters were in the Place Vendome.
General Carrelet, you may remember, was the suc-
cessor of General Neumaycr. The manceuvres were
executed with complete success and great brilliance ;
I but the weather was sultry and clouded, and the
troops were drenched with fitful thunder showers,
which drove the spectators to shelter under the
fringe of lime trets round the plain. No disorders
occurred. The President was received with more
than usual favour by the public, and the cries of
Vive Napoleon," were more g neml than ever.
To-day the Assembly proceeded to discuss the bill
for authorising the government to close clubs and
political meetings of all kinds, the report on which
was laid on the table yesterday by M. Jules de The Madrid Gazette of the 16th publishes an order
Lasteyrie. Urgency was adopted. M. Chauffeur from the Queen for one of her ministers to proceed
objected to the bill as unconstitutional. M. Pons- to Seville on the approachingoccasion of the accouche-
Tande took the same line of opposition. M. Madier ment of her Royal Highness the Duchess de Mont-
do Moutjaa recalled to remembrance the eulogies pensier. The corps diplomatique and a deputation
which had been passed upon the Right of the of the grandees of Spam are invited to attend, in
Assembly by the greater part of those who were now order to do honour to the event.
exerting all their efforts to destroy it. Ho dwelt in MADRID, Jrxm 16.
conclusion upon the perils to which they would ex. The Chamber of Deputies was crowded to-day with
pose the country by giving to the government an persons anxious to hear the debate on the vote of
arbitrary control over the power of meeting. censure against ministers, moved by 1). Manuel Ber-
M.
Jules de Lastcyrie defended tho bill. After mudez de Castro. That deputy is one of the most
showing the necessity of suppressing ordinary politi. vehement members of the old moderado party of
cal clubs, organised for the express purpose of con- Sartorius and Narvaez. Owing to the long financial
spiring against order, ho came to the more delicate statement with the budget of 1832 read by Bravo
question of allowing the government power to put Murillo, the motion of Bermudez de Castro did not
down electoral meetings. After dwelling with cm- come on till nearly four this afternoon. 1). Manuel
phasis upon the disclosures with regard to the Society began by attacking the violent and arbitraryl
of the Dix Decembre made in the notes of M. earlier, acts which had disgraced the elections. This
and alluding to the manceuvres of the government in accusation, it may be observed, would have
obtaining signatures to the petitions for revision, he come with more propriety from the mouth of one
said that it was law which put wide powers into the less intimately connected with a party notorious as
hands of the government, but the Assembly always that of Sartorius for its unscrupulous manoeuvres by
had the means of revoking those powers, if force and fraud upon electoral occasions. Therefore,
it should find them abused for ambitious purposes. when D. Manuel spoke of banishment of candidatesl
M. Sainte Bence then moved the following amend- of the opposition, dismissals of einp'oy,is en mos*,
mcnt to the bill on clubs, as an additional paragraph with appointment of relations of the milliliters in their
to the Ist article:—" Nevertheless, the provisions of places, threats of assault, and fire and pillage by
these laws shall not be applicable to the electoral hiredruifirms, he enumerated no more than what every
meetingseheld during the three months preceding one knows to be the invariable accompaniments of
either the.election of the National Assembly, or that S ish elections under the modemdo rule, and
of the President of the Republic."—M. Leon Faucher w 'eh disgraceful aids to the ministerial can-
op need the amendment,which would annul the law. didatures had been used by no government
Bacjsupported it, and drew the attention of the more freely than that which had the complete
Aseenibly.to an article which appeared this morning approbation and support of the speaker. D. Manuel
fa the...issenibleeNutionaieontitled, " League for the then said that if any one doubted his word for these
Public Good."—M. do Kerdrol then occupied the facts he was ready to drop the privileges of a deputy
tribune. to maintain his assertions. He was surprised that
Among the usual procession of representatives no judicial investigation had been ordered by the
charged to present petitions for the revision, M. government into the violations of correspondence
Discos was signalised by the mass which he we. which had been committed, and no employes of the
sented on behalf of the Electoral Union, signed by government prosecuted. Two royal orders had been
citizens of Paris. M. Laurent (de l'Ardeche) pre- despatched forgiving a district its whole debt of
rented a petition against the law of May, signed by arrears to the treasury, which had been revoked as
• great number of citizens at the offices of the B - soon as it was known that the same district had
publiqrse newspaper. The petitions presented by M. voted against the ministerial candidates. He charged
Duca to-day in favour of revision bear 23,7.17 gig. with base ingratitude those who, owing their pod
naturest those presented by M. Laurent against the tion to Sartonas' former Minister of the la.
law of May sre signed by 20,76/ citizens of Pans. tenor, committed a thousand illegalities to
The Cmatitutionnel attempts to make the most of insure his election. He then accused Bravo
the petitions for revision, the signatures of which Murillo of trampling upon and insulting the
amount to nearly a million; 30,000 have been fur- press by the daily confiscation of newspapers, which
niched by the Meuse, and 13,000 by the arronclisse. he accused of falsehood. This deputy was expected
ment of ltheims ; 13,000 have signed at Sainte& to speak for another hour after the closing of the
The committee of revision met to-day to examine post. His harangue was listened to with great at-
the various motions which have been submitted by tendon by a crowded house.
representatives for revision. MM. Larabit, Payer, The Senate has beear4Tr.gi occupied with discussing the
Cretan, and Bonhier de rEclme, eaccessively dove- mode of procedure with to the concordat,which
loped their propositions. The committee adopted is to remain, as usual, three days upon the table. The
no resolution, but adjourned till Tuesday next, when Minister of Grace and Justice, Oonsalesitovero. made
If. Odilon Barret is expected to be appointed re- a speech in eulogy of this treaty with the Holy see,
porter. which was regarded as an important pledge of the
1 understand that the note of remonstrance of the adherence o the present cabinet to the most retro-
Senate of Hamburg against Austrian occupation was grade measure of the preceding one. For the not
not officially distributed to the representatives of the this minister's speech was a complete failure.
foreign powers. Jews 17
The Quirt of Amine has given sentence to day by The debate on Bermudez de Castro's motion 'of
default against Ledru-Rollin in the matters of the censure against ministers goes on increasing in vie-
publication of two pamphlets entitled respectively, lence' and irritation. Yesterday, at the close of the
"Le 24 Fevrier—Les Elections," and Le 13 Juin." sitting, Bertran do Lis replied, but entirely without
The former was lithographed at Brussels, and the effect, to the charges of Don Manuel. The minister's

SPAIN.

speech 4teginthien a bile. Bermudez de Castro
'pined today the renewed debate with a rectifica-
tion, in which Se pointed to the seam ien n the de-
laee the cabinet of the charged having violated
ce. Escomara followed, and traced the
=1:111the progressista party towards the go-
verment, showing that the cabinet of Bravo Ma-
nila bad deserved no quarter at the hands of the
liberals, but had repeated, with an affectation of li-
berality and economy, the system of oppression and
extraverMos pursued by its predeassom He ended
, ,
ilegging• the illegalities committed at the
Mich had been exercised not less against
tiss premimeieta than the other parties oppositioa.
,Pidal -Ordered that never aped iny former occasionl
suet steee'sous means of intimidation and cor-
ruption been need at the elections in the interest d
the government. Pidal's attack upon the miMefty
was, however, far from being so direct and vehement
es that of Bermudez de Castro. He sought an ex-
cuse for opposing the government in the necessity of
declining the responsibility of defending a blameable
course of conduct. Bertran de Lis, imitating thel
tactics of Arrazola in flying off at a tangent from
the main point in question' succeeded in irritating
the moderado opposition by his recriminations, while
he afforded no satisfaction to the rest of the home is
answering distinctly and directly the charges
against the government, He concluded bybirrilayt
that the party of the preceding cabinet were more
interested than any other in not ripping up certain
questions. Pidal challenged with warmth the
Minister of the Interior to speak out, and repudiated
the insinuation which was used as a screen foe
wading explanation. Barzanallana, in answer to a
allusion by Bermudez do Castro, referred to
violationof public correspondence, and insisted
tom knowing whether the ministry meant to ins-
pde any such act to the preceding administration.
He then made a startling disclosure, which forms
the event of the day: He charged Bertran
Is Lis with having intercepted a letter ad-
dressed to him (Barzanallanc) by an employe.,' Senor
Wise, who was immediately dismissed from
his post after the Minister of the Interior had satis-
fied himself of the contents. Great sensation is pro-
duced by this charge, to which Bertran de Ls is
now rising to reply. The minister denies having
intercepted the letter of Cries, but he confesses that
be read it. (Murmurs from the tribunes and benches
of deputies.) He excuses this act by saying that
every day his secretary receives and opens 30 or 60
letters for him (M. Bertran de Lis). Among this
correspondence was found, he knows not how, the
letter of M. Cries, which was handed to him open.
Although he knew that the letter was not addressed
to him, he supposed that it concerned him, from the
circumstance of its being put with his correspondence,
and therefore ho read it. The explanations of the
minister are very embarrassed, and exceedingly ill
received by the house and the public tribunes, from
which break forth frequent murmurs and interrup-
tions. M. Bertran de Lis having appealed to
the testimony of Don Bonifazio Fcrnandcr de Cor-
doba for the corroboration of these facts, that
deputy and functionary, decrepit with extreme age,
stood thrth to speak. So far, however, from cleanng
M. Bertran de Lis, as everybody expected, ho said
that the minister opened the letter, and such was his
displeasure at the contents that he turned deadly
pale, and staggered as if about to fall. At this un-
expected contradiction to the minister, who denied
having opened the letter, loud murmurs buret from
all the benches, and still louder from the public tri-
bunes. Order having been restored, Bravo Murillo
rose, and was left speaking.
It appears from the financial statement presented
yesterday by M. Bravo Murillo that the budget of
expenses for 1832 amounts to 11,838,9741. The es-
timated
receipts for the same year are 12,889,969/.
Thus there is a deficit of nearly two millions sterling.l
The account of the budget of 1852, presented in
the ordinary correspondence from Madrid, differs
somewhat from that of our correspondent. Accord-
ing to the former the ordinary expenses amount to
10,838,935/., the extraordinary to 142,600/. The
estimated receipts amount to 11,379,264/.; thus pre-
senting a surplus of 377,728/. It is to be observed
that in the budget of expenses the interest of the
debt, set down in preceding budgets at 1,080,000 L,
is given in the present estimate of expenses at
1,682,3971. Compared with the budget of 1831, the
estimated receipts for 1832 present an augmentation
of nearly half a million sterling. The Ga:ette also
publishes the bill for the settlement of the debt,
which is identical with that presented to the last
Cortcs.