The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-06 00:00:00

FRANCE,

PARIS. WIDNLIDAT, 11 A.M.
In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the proper
within of M. Chum, to have nominations in the
Legion of Honour published in the Moniteur, with
the reasons assigned for each appointment, was read
• third time, and adopted. Some money bills were
passed without discussion ; and on that to authorise
the calling oat of 80,000 men for 1850; M. Francisque
Baguet having proposed an amendment to reduce the
euxibar to one half, the Assembly decided that it &d-
-isarmed the discussion to this day.
The Patric of yesterday evening says t—f, A
council of ministers was held yesterday evening after
the sitting of the National Assembly. It was in con-
sequence of this council that the note inserted in the
Monsleur of this morning relative to the maintenance
of the bill on the duty upon potable liquors was re-
solved upon. The report of the committee on this
bill has been sent to the printing-office, and it is
thought that it may be distributed on Thursday, and
the discussion commenced on Wednesday next."
The system inaugurated by the nomination of M.
Lacoste to • sort of proconsulate, is about to be
followed op by two or three important decrees,
tending greatly to increase the power of those pro-
vincial potentates (that are to be) the prefets. The
minister of the interior will shortly present a project
of law to the Assembly, by which the teachers in
normal schools (institutions primaires) are no longer to
have the privilege of being inanwethie. This law is
intended to prevent the spread of socialism, which
hes always found in these teachers its most ardent
propagators. Another law will enable the prefer, in-
stead
of the central government, to dismiss the amaree
of parishes This also is meant to atop the canoe al
certain socialist functionaries of this description.
Finally, the project of law on stamps for newspapers
going by post, of which I spoke a few days since, is
also to be presented for sanction.
Already in anticipation of fuller powers, and se if
in answer to the circulars of M. F. Buret and the
address of the President of the Republic to his pro.
Jets, several acts of vigour have taken place.
The prefect of the Haute-Loire has suspended the
mayor of Champagnao-le-Vieux from his functions for
intentionally absenting himself on the day of the
arrival of some soldiers sent into that commune to
protect the collectors of the taxes. The object of the
mayor was to leave the det:chment unprovided with
quieten.
M. Fournier, communal surveyor of roads in the
Haute-Vienne, has just been suspended from his
functions for two months, by the prefect of that
department, for continuing to engage in manifesta-
tions of a demagogic tendency in the commune of
La Jonchtlre, notwithstanding the warning given him;
to desist from such conduct.
The superior committee of primary instruction of
the arroadimement of Thiers (Puy de Dome) has just
dismissed nom his post, in consequence of his having
promulgated socialist doctrines in Rastoin, the school-
master of Saint-Genest-la-Tourelle.
In the Chamber to-day a debate commenced on the
subject of a levy of 80,000 men for service from the
reserves of 1849. M. Raudot proposed that the levy.
should be of 60,000 men, but his amendment, as well
as one from M. Buret, making the number 30,000
men, were rejected. The project then passed.
It appears that the gover! meat will do all in its
power to have the projects of law on the excise on
drinks voted by secret scrutiny. A demand to that
effect is in course of bziog signed.

BOURSE.

Foe Amount.
PARIS, Dawes 5. For
Money. I Opening Higheet. Lowest. Clewing.
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3 per Cent*.
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Exchange on London : 30 days, 25 50; 90 days, 23 83.
Belgian, 5, 1840
Do. 8, 1842 ..... a Boman Loan
Du. 44
Do. 28
Booxsa.—Pula and Rouen, 340; Rouen and Havre, 235;
Avignon and Marseilles, 220; Eltraabourg sad Biala 102 50; Contr.
(Vier4ol4). 320; Bordeaux, 405; Nertk, 447 50; Paris and Bras-
burg, 300; Tours and Nantes, 276 75 • Orleans, 750; Versailles
(right bank), 211 23; Versailles (left bank), 170; Dieppe and Fe.
camp, 175.

MADRID, Nov. 28.—Three per Mks., IS IS-If:paper. Four per Cents.,
Ilk. Fire paw. °auras, I. Bank of S. Fern-
mod, Is paper. F.rcLaDS es Landon, 30.33.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Letters from our correspon-
dent at Rome, dated the 27th ult., state that General
Baragnay d'Hillers was to leave the capital for Por-
tici, and some anxiety was felt as to the result of his
first diplomatic efforts. It was rumoured that the
camarilla would refuse to enter into negotiations with
him, on the ground that the office of commander-in-
chief is incompatible with that of plenipotentiary.
NAPLES.—Letters from our correspondent at
Naples, dated the 24th ult., state that otft•:ial letters
from Madrid,recalling the Spanish troops in the pen-
insula, had caused great anxiety amongst the papal
camarilla.
Neapolitan Fives were at 91.

SWITZERLAND.—The Swiss papers state that
the widow of Count Louis Batthyanyi, with her
children, has arrived in Rorschach, in Switzerland,
where her sister, Countess Westerhold, has been re-
siding for some time.

TWENTY PILOTS DROWNEo AT THE
MOUTH OF TEE TYNE.

On Tuesday forenoon a lamentable accident hap-
pened at the mouth of the Tyne. It had been blowing a
st-ong gale from the east for some days, which occasioned
consi-lerable loos to shipping propprtyon the coast. Be•
tween nine atd ten o'clock of the morning of the day men-
tioned the Betsey, of Little Hampton, • light brig, was seen
taking the her, a strong sea running at the time, and the
tide about half ebb. She was shortly afterwards observed
to strike on the Herd, a sand which runs out on the
Durham roast from South Shields. The Providence life
boat was immediately got out to rescue the hands and
as quickly manned with South Shields' pilots. Twenty-four
of them sprang into her. They rowed her down to the brig,
and laid her along side, on the starboard side of the brig, the
brig lying with her bows to the sea. A rope was thrown
from the 'brig, which they caught, and fastened the boat to
the brig by the bow. As they were getting ready to take in
the brig's crew, however, a tea broke round her bow, caught
the boat on the larboard side and completely upset her, and
threw the crew into the water. They plunged about in a
mass, and she did not right, but broke her painter, and
drifted away bottom up. There were no means for assisting
them, and the crew of the brig had to suffer the anguish
of witnessing those who had come off to rescue them from
peril sink one by one into a watery grave. Of the twenty-
four men who went off only four came ashore alive. Three
of them, John Harrison, John Millburn, and George Heirs,
got on to the beat's bottom, and were taken off by the
second life-boat, which put otr with another gallant crew es
soon as the accident was discovered. The fourth man got
on board the vessel, he does not know how. He and the
crew of the brig were rescued by theaecond life-boat as the
tide receded. When the second lifeboat lawied at the low
part of South Shields with the three men taken off the boats
the scone was mat terrific. Fathers, mothers, wives, sisters,
and relatives, rushed down to the water edge to see if it wee
t. their's " that had been saved ; and when the loss was
manifest to them, the wailing of women, and deep sobbing
of sturdy men—men who had stood many a nor-wester, sad
escaped many a peril—was most bean-rending. The most
of the men drowned hive left large families, and the South
Shields pilots, like most of those who join a living on the
coast, intermarrying into their own calling, the ties that are
broken are ostensive. The boat, after breaking her head
rope, drifted to the south, sad it being thought
that some of the men might be under her,
as soon as the second life boat landed the three men, she
put out to sea again, at the imminent risk of her crew, and
grappled the upset boat amongst the breakers. They imme-
diately got her in towards the beach—these on shore rushing
in up to the neck—and hauled her in; but, on righting her,
all that was found was the scarf of one of the men, which
had been fastened round the thawt, and with a slip hitch
round his wrist; but, in the working of the boat, the knot
had broken, and he had drifted away. The best swimmer
would have had no chance in such a sea.
The following are the names of the sufferers, men well
blown by those navigating the North Sea:—John Bone,
Lancelot Burn, John Burn, John Burn, jun., Wm. Smith,
John Deakin, Robert Deakin, Geo. Tynemouth, Henry
Young, Ralph Shotter, Wm. Purvis, John Wright, James
Wright, Thos. Marshall, Ralph Thillipeon, John Phillip-
son, John Marshall, jun., Geo Tindle, Ju. Mattereon, and
Jae. Young. When our correspondent cloud his letter to
catch post, bat one of the bodies was found, that of Lancelot
la ' Burn.
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BRIGIITON.—W. H. Mason, printaeller, King's.
!Nod, Brighton, was charged, on Thursday, u the East Sue-
llen Adjourned Seml.no, held at Lewis, before the Earl of
Cnicheater, with having indecently aaeaulted Mary Elisabeth
Ctar Thacker, a girl of the age of ten years, at the parish of
Poplin" on the Bth of September lut. After a prolonged
enquiry *4 jury returned a verdict of not guilty.'

Zbe Court.

OS BORNE, Dic. 5.
The inclemency of the weather prevented her
Majesty and hie Royal Highness taking the usual morning
wall.
The younger branches of the Royal Family were like-
wise kept in the house.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday.

In consequence of the lamented death of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager, the receptions at the Turkish
Embassy will be discontinued for the present.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoln at
the Foreign-office. The ministers preeent were Lord John
Ruston, the Lird Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of Minto, Sir George Gray, Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the E' :chequer, Sir Francis
Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right lion. H. Labouchere,
the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the
Right Hen. Fox Maul.. The Council sat two hours and a
A deputation, including Mr. Carmichael and Mr.
George Filer, had an interview with the Right Hon. H.
Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Lard Ashley and the Right lion. Sidney Herbert
had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
The Hon. Mr. Kinnaird had an interview with Sir
0. Grey, yesterday, at the Home-offiee.
Mr. Tidd Pratt and Mr. Higham had an interview,
yesterday, with the Chancellor of the Exehdquer, at his offi-
cial residence in Downing-street.
A deputation from the association of ship-masters
and others, for promoting a speedy and equitable adjustment
of the Merahant Seamen's Fund (Admiral Sir Edward Cod-
ringtan, G.O 8., President), consisting of Messrs. Burnett
and Purchase, ship-masters; Mr. Baker, Honorary Seem
tary ; and others, had an interview with the Right Hon.
H. Labouchere, yesterday, at the cffica of the Board of
Trade.
Despatches were sent off, yesterday evening, from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Hong-Kong and
Labuan.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lord* present were Lord Campbell, the
, Muter of the Rills, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn,
wall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir E. Ityan
sat as a Privy Councillor. The case of " Gorham v the
Bishop of Exeter" was appointed for hearing next week
An appeal fr mn Bengal was commenced—" The Host India
Company it. Ooduchuru Paul." The case was adjourned.