The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING JULY, 7, 1851.

profits from passengers and goods might be estimated
at 1,600,000 f. There remained 4,8)0,000f. to be
found. How was this sum to be get? The com-
pany ought to receive •from the gowrnment what
the Austrian Company received, and this was the
only means of establishing serious competition. For
a subvention of three millions they imposed upon the
company the traneport of letters, the regnitous con-
veyance of certain official travellers of arms and
provisions. In exchange for these conditions they
gave a subvention of 3 millions during 10 years, and
of 2,400,000 f. during each of the fallowing years.
It lone said that the company might iecome a com-
mercial company, but this was in fornal opposition
to the statutes.
To-day, in the renewed debate spot the Mcditer-i
ranean packet service, M. Dupont de Bassac read,
amid the noise of private conversation, a speech in
support of his daring misrepresentations, so clearly
refitted yesterday by M. Dufaurc. Ilis amendment,
to impose the working of the line upon the state, was
rejected by 477 votes against 180. N. Charimaule
moved that the concession should be adjudicated by I
public competition. After the rejectian of this mo-
tion, the two first articles of the bit, relative to
vs were adopted. The voyages will be made
regularly during 24) years, and during the month
, three shall be made from Marseilles to Malta, by
!Genoa, Leghorn,Civita Vecchia, Naples, and Messina;
three from Marseilles to Constantinople, by
Malta, Syra, Smyrna, and the Dardanelles with the
regular correspondence from Syra to Athens by a
steamer of 60-horse power ; two from Marseilles to
Alexandria by Malta ; one every 20 days from Con-
stantinople to Alexandria by Smyrna, lthodcs, Mer-
sine, Alcxandretta, Latakia, Tripoli, 3cyrout, and
Jaffa.
The house then proceeded to discuss the article re-
lative to the subvention which the conmittee pro-
posed to fix at three millions. M. Connarel de Ley-
val moved a reduction of half a million. After some
warm discussion the amendment was rejened.
Yesterday M. de Fabregue was brought up before
the correctional police for assaulting M. de Mirahcau
with a horsewhip in the streets, and sentenced to one
year's imprisonment and 50 francs fine.
The Pope has just created at Rheims an order of
St. Remy, all the members of the metropolitan
chapter of which will wear insignia. They will be
authorised to wear the violet frock, like the bishops.
Count Henry d'Aviselor has just arriasd in Pails,
from Turin, charged with a special mission front his
government.
The ('currier da Marsritle of July 2nd, contains
some remarkable exposures of the fallacious figures
of M. niers' protectionist speech. M. Thiers as-
serted that the price of wheat at Odessa was from
8 fr. to 10 fr. the hectolitre. Now since 18 17 no
wheat has been bought at Odessa under 11 fr. or
11 fr. 544 c., even of the most ordinary quality. So
long as England perseveres in her commercial policy
the prices quoted by M. Thicrs will never be peen
there again. The average prices in the mar- I
ket of Odessa in Isle-1817 were 15 fr.,
and houses at Marseilles received considera-
ble parcels from the Black Sea et :r. nearly
double what M. Thiers said the Itussitn farmer was
too happy to get. Again, M. Thiers says the freight
from Odessa to Marseilles is only '2 fr. y This is true,
when there is no demand at Marseilles, but, in 1817,
the freights rose to 6or 7 fr. M. liners takes no
account of the course of exchange in the exporting
country, but this enters largely into commercial cal-
culations. When the market of Odessa is flooded
with orders, they are accompanied by hills, and then
the exchange rises and augments Sae price of the
merchandise in a considerable degree. Details, such
as these, could not escape so acute a mind as that of
. M. Thiers, but he takes good care not to bring them
, forward, because they would shatter the whole
frame-work of his system.
• The report of M. Haze upon the proposition of
. which he is the author, relating to the sale of news-
papers or other periodical writings the streets,
was distributed to-day. As already intimated, the
commission propose to authorise the sale only in
libraries, reading-rooms, and in railway stations.
A dispute has taken place between the French
authorities and the British vice-consul at Rouen, on
the subject of the succession of a Mr. White, who
died suddenly in that town without leaving any
heirs, and whose property was then claimed both by
the state and by the representative of England, as a
British subject. The seals which were put on the
furniture and papers of Mr. White were removed
the day before yesterday by the juge de paix, in pre-
sence of the British vice-consul, and a strict search
made, but no will was found. The affair will now
undergo a thorough judicial investigation, in order to
ascertain to whom the property belongs, as the de-
ceased died intestate.

SPAIN.

The following telegraphic despatch has been re-
ceived, dated Madrid, 2nd inst., half-past three:
Yesterday, at a Into hour, M. Fidel presented to
the Congress a proposition to delay the adoption of
the regulation of the debt. Although it was unex-
pected, and several deputies of the majority were ab-
sent, the government obtained a majority of 129
Totes to 56. Nine members have to-day given their
adhesions to the vote of the majority."
MADRID, Jess: 30.
To-day the Chamber of Deputies entered upon the
debate of the bill for the settlement of the debt,
which was opened by M. Mon, who opposed the bill.
You are aware that in the Spanish
taichber
members speak from their places. on
were grouped all the notabilities of the oppo-
sition. to hear him with more attention, Fidel
Albaida, Medea, Bermudez de Castro, and Figueroa
occupied the nearest bench. The leading features of
Mon s speech was as follows. Ile said that the ministry
had done ill in presenting the bill for the settlement
in the former Cortes, where they had not a majority,
the ministry being less tolerant towards those who
I had opposed them on •he settlement of the deb:,
than towards those whose opposition they had
encountered on the reform of the tariff.
Ile then entered into a long history of
previous administrations of finance. lie stated
that the deficit amounted to three millions
sterling ; this he was prepared to prove by
positive and official data. -Bravo lklurillo, in his ac-
count of the treasury and of the budget, had done
nothing but blot so much paper without producing
one clear result. The economics of the budget pre-
sented were neither expedient, nor could they pro-
duce the resources necessary for the settlement of the
debt. Ile made one highly important admission,
saying that ho knew very well that the bill would
be voted. He was still F peaking when the post
closed. After Mon, Seilas and Madoz would
speak in opposition to the bill. Besides
several amendments would be presented. The
Moderado opposition intends to make the debate last
at least a fortnight. They arc not going to make a
turbulent opposition to interrupt the order of the
debate, but a strong one as to argument. For the
rest it is certain that the bill will leas. In the
senate, the bill for the settlement of the floating
debt was passed by a majority of 62, in a house
of 57.

it'Llr 1.
A grand democratic banquet was given yesterday,
at the Hotel de las Peninsulares, in honour of the
deputies °renal and Figuerns. Toasts were given to
the emancipation of labour, freedom of trade, and
other principles of the democratic party ; the liberty
of Hungary and Italy was given with enthusiastic
cheers. This is the fast dinner of the kind ever
given in Madrid.
lesterda)•, Bravo Murillo made an extremely able
reply to Mon, whose arguments he completely
re-
futed.

ITALY.
ROMAN STATES.

Our correspondent at Rome contradicts the report
of the Patric relative to the meal of Mr. Freeborn.
The I'opc was expected to set out for Castel Gan-
dolfo on the Ist July. The little republic of San
Marino had been invaded by Austrian and papal
' troops, and the capture of several political refugees
effected. The conversion of an English lady, named
Edmunds, had been celebrated with much ceremony.
The cardinal-vicar had issued a strange edict on the
coronation of a statue of the Madonna.
Exchange on London, 41.9!; Roman Five per
Cent. Consols, 55.70.

SUNDAY EvrNTNO.

The President started this morning at half-past
seven for Beauvais, accompanied by the ministers,
M. Leon Faucher, General- Rtuidon, Fould, de
Crouseilles, and Rouher ; his aide-dc-ccmp, General
Roguet ; and two officers of the household. Among
the rest of the company were observed M. Boulay de
la Nleurthe, the vice-president of the republic ; M.
Dupla, president of the Assembly; M. Nun, vice-
president, and one of the secretaries; General Hare-
gray d'Hilliers; M. de Nicuwerkerke, recovered from'
the wound which he received in his duel with l'ierre
Bonaparte, the President's cousin ; M. Fremy, and
the eight representatives of the Oise—in all thirty-
one persons. The cause assigned for the limited
number of invitations was the difficulty of procuring
conveyances from the railway station at Clermont,
from which station the party proceedyl with car-
riages and horses sent yesterday by mil, and reached
Beauvais at half-past ten. After breakfasting
with the prefect the President proceeded at mid-day
to the great square of the Norman city. In the centre,
above a sea of those towering lace coil's so familiarised
to us by the sketches of l'rout, stood the veiled sta-
tue. Round about the place tottered queer old jutting
gables, from the massive, worm-eaten balconies of
which the gay people, in their original costumes,
leaned, looking on, under the most brilliant, cloudless
weather. As soon as the ceremony of inauguration
was entered upon, the drums beat, the trumpets
sounded, and, the veil having been withdrawn, the
bronze statue of the fierce heroine, wielding the rough
weapon whence she draws her name, stood revealed
to the applauding spectators. As Orleans has her
Jeanne d'Arc, Beauvais boasts her Jeanne Hachette,
and the ladies of the Norman city still feel proud of
the feats of their countrywoman in the 15th century,'
who rallied the faint-hearted burghers against Charles
the Bold and his Burgundian, who were hated then
by the French as much as the English had been a
century. before. After the ceremony the President
passed in review the regiment of dragoons at Beau-
vais and the national guards. His reception was
not marked by any enthusiasm. At first, it had been
settled that the President should return to-night to
Paris ; but he yielded to the request of the municipal
council that be would accept the banquet and ball
given by the city. The President will make a
speech at the banquet, and return to Paris to-morrow.
The report of M. de Mehra on the petitions for
revision was read yesterday in the committee. The
total number of signatures is 1,123,623. Of these
the reporter acts aside 40,000 as unconstitutional.
Although the zeal of secondary agents of the govern-
ment is blamed, the central administration is excul-
pated from the charge of exerting a pressure for the
promotion of petitions. The committee adjourned its
decision until Monday, when M. Leon Faucher will
furnish explanations.
The motion of M. Larabit, for altering the 43th
article of the Constitution, was distributed yesterday,
with a statement of motives.
Henceforth the steamers of the South Eastern
Railway Company, corresponding to the Sunday
trains from l'aris and London, will ply between
Calais and Dover. The first starts to-day.
Franzoni, the exiled Archbishop of Turin, is now
at Paris.

The debate on the Municipal Bill is fixed to begin
on Thursday. The government will move its ad-
journment.
Several representatives of the south of France have
presented a motion for constructing a railway from
Bordeaux to Toulouse and Cette, utilising the works
of the lateral canal of the Garonne.
I Letters received at Toulon announce that the
French squadron has sailed from Cadiz.

GREECE.—Accounts from Athens of the 34th
ult., received via Trieste, state that the Greek Senate
had unanimously adopted a vote of censure on the
ministry. The unanimity of the veto caused sur-
prise, as only a few days before ten new senators
had been created.