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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11.

in bringing in the
bill reorganisationeronfmtheent4
wood,
and
mows
Tnafor
tdheel delay yo f the government,
has rendered the conduct of the affairs of e
depart
meat, as at present organised, simply imnoseib:e.
aloe has become utterly lost in the opinion of
men of every class and party. Not a single indi-
vidual can be found to extenuate its dr linquencies
ae
bold a shield over the delinquents. Or all the prep,
there is not one newspaper to defend it; even
the very government organs offer up the Woods and
Forests as a sacrifice. Under such a state of thing,
the government measure ought to be complete; se
imperfect bill will very little satisfy the tublic feeling.
Two things are to be dealt with—revenue and ex-
Pen• ditnre The first thing to be done, we should sp.
prehend, is to provide that all the revenue should be
received by the treasury; this will of itself prevent
the expenditure of any money unauthorised b- per.
'lament. hitherto, the Woods and Forests have
received everything and spent all they chose to spend
out of it, without accounting for a giver. Let us see
what that has brought them to.
The last Woods and Forests' account that reached
as was Mr. Deputy Paymsster-Generai ANDEasoN'it
exposure of the financial affairs of that department.
A pretty account it was. With almost unexampled
difficulty he had threaded the labyrinth of their
twelve years unaudited accounts, and the result
which he arrived at was that they had 197,000 f. cash
to meet 1,047,0001. liabilities. The present state of
the Woods and Forests is therefore summed up in one
word—" Insolvency." We will venture to say, too,
that their case is such, Out if their feeler's submitted
to Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS, he would never pan
them. Such a thoroughly rotten balarce-shett never
before met the public eye. On the 3lst of March
lest half their banking accounts were overdrawn.
Upon the laud revenue capital account they owed
nearly 4,00C1. On the new Houses of Pgriiament
account they had overdrawn 7,000/. T..ry lied ex-
, pended 2,001. more than they were filth, rifttl to
spend on the ambassador's house at Paris, and they
had overdrawn the Metropolis Improvement Cu-.
Account by no lets than 25,000/. ! In addition to
these overdrawn accounts, amounting to 18,ths!;., the
commissioners had incurred the following liabilities
for "money borrowed "

For Metropolis Improvratents tigl.lq
For Chelsea Susprnsion-bridpe 2n r,nn
For Battersea-park .7,r)r.)
For Holyhead roads ....
.... . .. .

For ditto (another loan account)
For ditto (mortgage account)

l;
It is scarcely too much to say that the whole of
this large amount, for which of course t
lh,eoSc7,o2mlemi,.
sioners are paying interest, is lying wholly and eon:-
pletely unproductive. For example : the rent, re-
ceived from the property included under the head of
"Metropolis Improvements" amounted to no more than
3,4001. Out of this amount the solicitors to the board got
1,0781., and their architect, 1,501/. At the commence-
ment of the year the board had overdrawn their oath
account by 79,0001., and the interest upon their loan
amounted to 39,0001. They were therefore obliged
to borrow 100,0001. at 4 per cent. from the bank
of England to pay Messrs. COUTES and t•-.. the
money borrowed. Was there ever such impro-
vidence as this ? Nothing can equal it but Le
case of the 70,0001. borrowed for the Chelsea Sue-
pension-bridge and Battereespark Improvemen..
The first work few people have ever even heard of;
the second has been talked about, without anr-
, thing having been done. Of course, not a sing:e
fraction is brought to " Credit" on these accoun:e;
bat on the debtor side we find the money b..ing ra-
oarfchtte,rtehote buopoardn's
tsonelicirouren,o.tndpay
pidly frittered away in heavy payments to the board's
'iaTclo et h eI
hme ae du t-
road ease is a tearful one. Not only is there 25,t i.V.
owing as interest upon the sums borrowed on ac-
count of these roads, but absolutely there is no hope
that the receipts from this source will pay the
interest hereafter. The whole affair is one of utter
and irretrievable bankruptcy.
For all these misdeeds, let it be remembered,
the Woods and Forests are alone responsible.
They cannot pass off the liability upon the pubic
by any sleight of hand. Parliament has uni-
formly been kept in the dark about all that they were
doing. It is oily after the money has been spent
that parliament has been called on to register the
deeds and whitewash the acts of the Commissioners.
There are two things which the public must impe-
ratively insist on for the future; and the first is, that
an annual estimate of every item of contemplated
expenditure by this board shall be laid before the
House of Commons for its sanction. This is essential
to due and proper management, and to the
control and check of the nefarious jobs wh:oh
the department has heretofore openly perpe-
trated. This requirement, moreover, is reasonah.e. it
is accordant with the ordinary practice of otter go-
vernment departments; and it comes strongle re-
commended to the government by their own ofiier,
Mr. Deputy Paymaster-General ANDeasos. At the
present time, says that valuable officer, there is -no
parliamentary control. In my opinion the property
might be managed by parliament with more advan-
tage by bevies an estimate annually placed before it.
The Commissioners are trustees for the crown, and
parliament ought to see that they fulfil the duties
imposed on them./
The next reform which the public should demand
is an entire separation of the department of Woods
from the department of Public Works. As long as
the land revenues of the crown are coupled up with
the works of the public, we shall have nothing bat
confusion and mystification. The two things have no
proper connexion, and their conjunction only serves
the purpose of keeping the public in the dirk as to
the real cost of the multifarious jobs which are perpe-
trated by our rulers. Mr. ANDERSON says that it is
to this combination of accounts that we must
attribute the financial entanglement' of the de-
partment. The Commissioners, for example, want
to expend 100,0001. on a job. Do they apply to
parliament for the money ? Not in the least.
They take it out of the revenues of the Woods and
Forests (if they can get it), debiting the Woods and
Forests with the expenditure. It is only by divid-
ing the departments and placing them under distite.
control that we can stop this system, and stuffed we
need not say it must be.
Lord DUNCAN said in the House of Commons that
from the Woods and Forests, properly adminietereel.
he would undertake to produce a revenue that .should
equal the amount of the window-tax, and thereatheeby
enable the government to relieve the public
obnoxious burden. The opinion was *pressed before
the state of the Woods and Forests revenues had teen
Gifted, and the CHANCELLOR of the Excneitcen, who
knew nothing of the subject, took apon himeelf
to
scoff at it. Lord DUNCAN te now fully confirmed by
the results of the publics inquiry, and by the (mint
of the most able public officers. It is the duty of ;
government immediately to take steps to secure thatt
suck a boon should no longer be unnecessarily lest a
the tax-payers of Great Britain.

IT is quite evident that we are not in posseveioa
of the true motives for the attack on Greece,
malty carried, as it has been, to the eitreme• the
statesman at the head of our foreign affairs is not mad.
Mr. WYSE is no belligerent, to treat European
Greeks like Borsean llyake ; and Admiral PtiosEs
has been remarkable for temper and prudence.
There is evidently, therefore, some latent
so portentous secret. The King and the
cabinet of Greece must have 'misbehaved
some very flagrant way. And our govern'

--
must tare peimd an opportunit give it
Ina
'lemon. There is really oother yto
way of amounting
for what has happened. For es to Mr. FINLAY and
id. ruin.), the Wets of Stags and Wisdom, so oas
esrele will poleninly pretend, with at least any pros-
r" d of belief. the' we have gone to war far them.
It his King Ovuo been about P His Maj sty
j..„ coolie& enough,LollDOS. knave enough
for suything. Have they
. been plotting new on-
upon Turkey. in understanding with Austria
and Kumla ? Oar I. num government is egeduloas,
cow 'owl., and sue.eptible enough to entertain any
'opinion. or to prompt the wildest acts. But surely
neither SirWARD nor Mr. Fluent, however
demented or petv.sh, oould persuade the Admiral
to tireike the even tenor of his way, tulles' there
was peasething at bottom more important than the
ground-rent of the King's palace, or the fee simple of
a few rocks.
A. to the debate in the French Assembly or in the
Eng WI parliament., or to the very natural fumes'
of the prom r.il over Europe, it would be gaits'
time Ice to di.cnss them. We may leave the Mornay
Po.' and Lord ABERDEtN to diecuss the geographical
que.ii. n. Such a solemn our of triflers are well
worts of etch other. And we feel quite certain that
Lord Patlarasrog, in gravely discnasing the line of
dintircation through the Archipelago of islands, is
• ammid at the wrong and idle went upon
which the pandits have set off in such keen research.
'11:e French, we tear, will not be so easily bom-
b:l(7lA. They hare already been tricked and ballad
most egregiously. M. FISCAToIY delivered a meat
foriou• anti-Anglican speech, the whole effect of whisk
was dc-troyed by the announcement that England bed
accepted French arbitration. The Freuch ministers de-
clares! :hi) had beio)me judges in the case, and amid
no' tinture to speak. Ina few hones alter, the Freeck
public, will have learned that this arbitration merely
meant •'good °theta." and that Gcneral liatrreout, le-
veed of arbitrator, was only empowered to recommend
Kiog Onto not to be .o violent or defiant. Wedge* say
that Load PALIIERsTON was able to inform the
French foreign mini-ter of the true reason of this
times menace to, and vengeance upon, the Greek
court. And as the French government is interested
that the Greek cabinet slnu:d not become altogether
• ocond fiddle to that of St. Petersburg, we have at
dcuat the French can give very good and wholesome
advice.

'reit with this sane or supposititious solution
of ti. liusanees, we do not the less condemn our con-
do, s, unwarrootoble. The most faulty system of
government in the world is that of a protected awe-
ttigr.tv, eepecis.ly when the protection is affwded by
several foreign powers, all with conflicting interest,.
The roverriin to the position of King OTHO
cm away► have recourse to his protectors
gine: his ',object', to his !objects against his pro-
Wetors. to one protector against another. And thug
dating bet,..o all, he has done his duty to none,
bferlie in reality he fears tone. lie levies the eery
extreme of texts upon his subjects, without paying''
tree L. itare.r. of his debt to hie protectors. On the
Norte, :twit he s to as an incubus, rucking neither
pOrl!ari.y. nor good government, nor free 'petite-
tin oti the fr.endship or the councils of a
c• ti. tr iobil power like England, and sinks into the
giros of Rd.- a. bemire she will entice him to Erni
sad tr rely on cotruptien, instead of laying the
foundation !er the future freedom, independence,
p.oepeeity, cud cre.tness of Greece.
A king tr.d-r the protection of one power, is but a
puppet ; neer- e protection of several, be is but
the fertile so ir.r of rivalry, and perhaps of war be-
tween this_ The or;gieal fault was in having
toweled st.i.'t a m mart h 7 ; and one of the coon-
aetees MO being obliged to administer to it a
spec . ',weans which all Europe will mimeos-
strew to eur d *Avatar, and of the disguised nature
of which tt, Greek mart will take advantage in
order to aw..n.e the character of martyrdom and in-
jured ;newel. C.

Now !be• 'be 'nuns to divert pablie attention
from !te e• of dutch reform, by obscuring it in
the chui of a tort Ode discussion, is over, it is, per-
be '. p,s• t, rotors usefalv to the consideration
of the mini•:. tiel bill for the 'Potation of the ended-
small row c:,-ioa, which has been read a second time
it the f Lord,.

rlhriag ..
nrent debate in the Commons it wan
sawed ..m.s.t in terms, and certainly in inference,
by !be Hcnw S.vsetary, that the provisions of the bill
02g1t at 1.a.. to come up to the reeommendstione of
the Cam's s elmm:ttee of 1848. Tried, then, by this
Esndsrd,l: e miniverial measure is insufficient.

Tt ee r. commended that the ecclesiastical
dainv o' t a ”orumission should, as far as possible. be
seir.r.ted r the management of its property. For
tt.le putpnee they suggested the appointment of a
am comm.ree of the commission ; that three paid
cianni4oo is eh 'old be appointed, two by the
man. rnr hr the Primate; and that the presence of
eat of the re 4 e, mrsissioners at the committee should
be ind'e,,,en,nle to the transaction of business.
The hill bwore the Lords substantially evades these
raommeed whilst apparently carrying them
oat. Fur, inevad of three paid commissioners, it
lothorisew th appointment of two only, one by the
tromp and the other by the Primate, and thus
tettrali-es the power which it was proposed by the
tommilee 4houla be conferred on the Crown Com-
zaise.ocers, wno were, of course, meant to represent
the pchlic. It c-netitutes a " small " es'ate commit-
tee t composed of these two paid commissioners
and et retry 4.1 the ordinary commissioners ; and thus
makes a majori7 of three to one on such committee in
favour o. church management. But even to the
cornai•tee eicomposed the bill does cot assign the
adrc:: ibtraiion of the p•operty ; it limits its duties to
"consider " all matters relative thereto, and to " re-
port fully trevespon " to the ecclesiastical commis-
sioners' vaunt:tire and by the commission itself the
propaty i. t 6ealt with.
These pr.visions do not, it will be obvious at
a glue', carry out the recommendations of the
etariamOte : ar,cl they contain in themselves no ade-
quite seeur.l for the better management of the pro-
perty which has been so scandalously and so erase*.
papally aburad. The object of the committee was
to Papery« the administration of the property from

the endeel.e.ticial affairs of the commission aid to place
it salietalitieily in the hands of three paid and respon-
sible lsyrnen. The object, apparently, of the bill is to
keep both property and ecclesiastical affairs in the
Lande of the bishops.
It is Lot, therefore, to be wondered that the
toads no opposition to the measure on its aesemilitM,
his in the lards. It is not, therefore, sargehieg that,
thnoeh charged with the serious misappropriation of
property c'immitted to their custody, they should have
ken extent with silence, rather than draw attention to
tie details of a measure to which they can have no
its'. objection. For, of what use will be the union of
tli- episcopal and the capitalsr funds into one
EvirraLn fund, if this general botch-pot have to re-
main in the control of the bishops? What security is
there thatch. y will not as much abuse the common
hate they have misappropriated the episcopal fund?
It is in valL that this fusion will take place, if it have
to nitric pro'ected from, and influerced by, the
bieLope. Situated as the bill will leave the property
tte commithion, it is just as liable to be squandered
on Pew. v. lilting, or ornamental gardening, or to be
laid on• in 'nun tug new bishoprics as ever it was.
And tEr only proper security against such abuses
of it, t, deprive the episcopal portion of the
como.i,et r all power over it, as was recommended
by tut roatn.i.tee of 1448.
But ti.e .ill, in other respects, contains episcopal
and cspito er job% of no little magnitude., For,'
pending E, duration of the bishops' coommimiss,
which ban Low lasted in silence for several years, it
authoritee ti.e ecclesiastical commission, that is, the
hemselves, to secure to nob other fixed in-
comer, instead of the fluctuating incomes whisk many of
them ory Ltot afflicted with; and it abets to ram* all
dothte ae to whether the tooleniaMisalemnadreismen
11!vo t`.• • 'Ater to endow certain deaneries with mere
442 I 'O.O. s yt ar, by increasing their madeemsais
beyoul vicy liberal anemones. The advantage
to 1.4 taw' fy gained by the *imp is, el=
anwis ~gh ; bet a little ex ea i. I. otpo* 114 paws of the intended Dossed
hpf sib.
lb. & 4 Vier. e. 113, 5. 66, the Means* of
the Geste .it the Beglish cathedral churches are, with
UM except of the deaneries of Bt. Paul's, West-
Intuatar, lei, barn, and Manchester, fixed at 1,0001. a
Test. No. , by the 4 & 5 VIM.. 36, IL 20, Wined
ecretion wan tZ:site the eseamionissers as to the
bode of anti Mecums hat this alteration la
141_ n"'ch payment was not Winded to raise those
"Kvuttb to the
that "e language of the section states,
that "loth ofdpayments and reeelpta, may from
t, in say case be revised, sad, if mod be,

varied, so as to preserve, as nearly as nay be, the in-
tended average eantial ineeaws respectively." Ia other
words, the male of payment aught be varied sad
altered, so that the imams 111111121110 d about 1,0001. a

yrsr.
Yet, in the lase of these settatments it is proposed by
the bill before the Lader ander the flimsy pretence
that them are doubts about this latter ovation, to re-
peal the settlement made by the first mentioned set,
as to the Deanery of York ; to raise its Moses per-
mausatly, from the 1,0001. ayes', which the suesessor to
Dean Coo:straw would become entitled to, to 2,0001.
a year, sad to augment tee Moome of the present
Dams of Salisbury, and of Wells, by 5001. a year
each.

This is not only a job, but a very andacionajob.
Parliament has already flied the income of the pre-
sent Deans of Salisbury and of Wells, aid of the
future Deans of York at I,OOOL a year. Yet, here
have we ministers, by raising doubts where the words
of the act are so plain that he who eons may reed,
proposing to undo what parliament has done, and to
waste the funds of the church on giving these deans
inordinate incomes. Why, let the House of Commons
only encourage ministers, by adopting this papal-
' lion, and, under similar pretences, we shall, step by
atop, have every reform of the Church Temporalities
Act rcpealed.
To appeal to the 'House of Lords against the pro-
posed repeal of what was a fundamental and a very
liberal stipulation in the Church Reform Act, would of
course be altogether useless. But, as this bargain
was essentially made with the House of Commons,
this surreptitious and dishonest attempt to delude it
into a variation of those terms ought to teach that
assembly what the intention and the object of the
whole measure is. Under the guise of church reform,
it is an attempt to confirm the power of the Whops,
and to augment the incomes of deans. What faith
can church reformers have in Sir GEORG' GREY with
each a bill before them P

Faint the tone which pervaded the conversational
observations made upon the introduction of the
bill extending the Irish franchise, we may per-
haps also assume that no serious discussion is
likely to wise upon the second reading. It is
part of the tory game to affect candour and mo-
deration ; and merit will be made on this score of the
forbearance which abstained from taking a division
on either of the primary stages of the bill. But in
committee it is said that an amendment will be moved,
the effect of which, if carried, would be to limit the
exercise of the suffrage to those who occupy lands or
houses valued at 201. a year. Throughout the greater
portion of Ireland the poor-law valuations have gene-
rally been estimated at about one-fourth under the fet-
ing rent; so that a 151. rating test would, in point of
fact, admit but few persons who do not possess farms'
or dwellings for which they pay 251. a year. In the
thirty-two oonnties of Ireland, this would not give a
total constituency of 120,000, or an average of less than
4,000 for each county ! Against this renewed mock-
ery of a popular suffrage, every man who effects the
faintest shade of imperial justice or equity, will of
course record his veto. To create a set of snug Chan-
doezed electoral bodies, one half of which would con-
sist of the landlords, and their immediate retainers,
while the remainder, from their numerical vreeknees,
most obey the bidding of their Orange masters—this
were infinitely worse than allowing the scandal
and iniquity to remain untouched, in all its
undisguised enormity. The Stanleyites do not expect
to m eke much of a fight for such an amendment in
the Commons; but they are sanguine in their hopes
of carrying it in the Home of Lords, and to this end
they will poll every reckless adherent of the party
whom they eau perm into the service, in the lower
hone. To meet the, the only effectual way is by
.a
decisive preponderance of votes on every division in
committee. We trust that liberal members, whether
English, Scotch, or Irish, will not be found wanting
on the °cession.

The franchise 'wormed by Sir WILLIAM SOMER-
VILLE is limited to the occupants of holdings valued
at and ab)ve 81. We have always contended that
even this is too high a pecuniary test, and that no
arrangement is likely to prove permanently or gene-
rally satisfactory but that which would recognise lia-
bility to the payment of rates of any amount,
whether large or small. To this it must, sooner
or later, come throughout the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile let its secure every substantial instalment
of the great debt due to the nation ; and as a means
of future good let every radical reformer aid in pass-
ing unmutilated, if sot improved in committee, the
Irish Franchise Bill.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 6 30. r.ll.

After your report of yesteidiy's sitting of the As-
aetubly was despatched, M. Thiele' went on to say :
If Amain be free, England is alsofree, with more prandeur,
and for a longer perio4. (Bravoes on the right.) Y. Thief"
text presented general considerations on the law. It did not
deetroy the university nor secular bistruction. The com-
mittee framed it is conformity with the conetitutioa, which
proclaimed liberty of instruction. 1" Not for the priests," ,
cried a member on the Left.) "Liberty for everybody,"
replied M. Thins, He was not originally • p.attisan of that
principle but he had accepted it se he bad the republic—
not from choice, but in obedience to the laws. The
'constitution permitted every cdtiaen to teach, pro.
tidied he gave guarantees of morality and capacity,
and accepted the surveillance of the state. A member
had read rime days ago passages from • work used in each-
elastics' secninarie, is which the imperial armies were
traduced in the most shameful manner. If those works bad
been submitted to the revision of an independent council,
that abuse would have been obviated. If similar books,'
advocating monarchy, wen now placed in the hands of
yeath, would there not be a general outcry against the
goverment ? M. Thins then proceeded to describe the
advantages public instruction would derive from the compo-
sition of the Councils of the University. The clergy, he
said, cannot ituipect themselves ao more than the secular
professors ; and the constitution wisely provided that both
should be planed under the nireeillancs of the state, which
was superior to all. A party he knew understood by the
state IMO who professed their politi-al creed. (Murmurs
on the Left.) The committee could not be charged
with injustice for introducing four catholic archbishops
sad bishops into the High Council of the Unites-
ally. That number wee not even in proportion with the
immense majority of the catholic population. M. This..
had lived on intieneo terms daring the last two years with
men he had been In the habit of considering as adversaries.
They had diseased together questions far more difficult
than the composition of the Academical Council', and they
had perfectly understood each other without either tatty
being obliged to make the sacrilles of his opinions. Bishop
Pllfilil, he was sure, would met contradict him. (The
bishop bowed went.) Youth, sontlaud M, Thin", re-
quirecl to be respected. and books, insulting to their religion,
should not be placed in their lands. (" There is no State
religion," cried:a member on the Left.) " I admit it," re-
pllad M, Thiers, " but I will ask my honourable interrupter
to take up a map of France, and to tell me in what
esteeory would • geographer class a country containing
31,000,000 of catholim oat of a population of 38,000,000.
Say what we will, you cause* prevent France being a catho-
lic nation." M. Thien bad, on • former oxasion advocated
the salon of the church and philosophy. He believed that
union possible, and the law had bees framed with • view to
cement it. ("It is impracticable," exclaimed a member on the
Left.) "Do you desire the destruction of philosophy 1" in.
quind M. Thten. ("No, ao," on the Left.) "Do you
desire that of religion?" (." No, no," exclaimed the same
voices.) "Then," added M. Thien, "let them live together.
You tell as that our law will be unavailable, and that we
cannot succeed. I will tell you, in my turn, that we will
be the oaly party who has not succeeded for the last two
years." (Loud laughter throne out the assembly.)
At the conclusion of the bon. gentleman'. speech
the sitting remained suspended for • short time, durirg
which he wu warmly congratulated by his colleagues,
who flocked round him.

M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire replied to M. Thiers,
saying that it was unfair to accuse the university of
democratic tendencies. Liberty, he allowed, was in
the constitution, but he maintained that it was not in
the bill, and it therefore must no longer be said that
the constitution bad canoed the law. An appeal
had, he said, been made to conciliation and conoord,
bet he denied that any such existed, when it was
evident from the reservations made by the Bishop of
Langres that one of the contracting parties to the mea-
sure only waited for the contract to be finished to rejectit if it did not suit him. The hon. gentleman then
alluded to a reply made on a former occasion bM.
Thins, in the Chamber of Deputies, to a speech by
M. de Mostalembert, in the Chamber of Peers, when
the former said that he wryer would NI short of the
spirit of the revolution. He (IL de St. Hilaire) was
quite as positive now in the support of the principles
Betbee the debate was resumed to-day in the
Assembly, it was decided that questions to be put
with respect to M. Proedhon's confinement should be
heard to-morrow. Tbeedneatioa bill was again slightly
advanced, without Isadiag to any important speeches.
Claws 7 and 8 were =tad.

M. Forced*, the author cl several ()demist all-
eles in the limo des DfltS Monde', his beanie chief
editor of tits PAW*.

Though, according to a law_plaset by the Comaewent Assembly, the 24th of February is apt* day,
-
and hada are to be voted for public rejoicings, it is
improbable that any such will take place. The demo-
crats have, they say, determined to illuminate the
town ea the occasion, and hers are entertained eats
demonstration may take place. Whether there are to
be any festivities I know not, but pleasuring will not
be the part of the authorities at least, tor on this
matter the Afenikur du Asir publishes the following
nodes The govenunent, -having in view the ap-
pealing annivenary of the 24th of February, has
given georgette instructions to all the fneetionaries,
in order that they may oppose, by all means in their
power, any maWerWom likely to disturb the public
piece."
The Itepubliftsr quotes the following, as an extract
frees a letter written by General Gestate to the officer
chief in commend in the department of the Dross :
"Patriotic banquets, so called, being in geaeral but
pretexts for tumultuous demoestratiosa, which are
often hostile to goverment, and the slightest in-
°osmium of which le to came oe keep up agitation
in the country, I think it necessary to advise you that
I formally forbid every demonstration of the kind in
the whole of the Bth military clientele
The Bth military division being in a state of siege,
of course General Gentian has a right to forbid all
banquet' ; bat it is highly desirable that a state of
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thingsreq " such coercive measures as are need,
should asses. This end, however, seems somewhat
for off. The disturbed state of all those depart- 1
mann, and thous immediately bordering on
Switzerland, cannot be allayed U the following
be tree that is pablished by the Constito-
lioonei. It is a letter dated from the frontiers of
Switzerland, the 11th inst. : "The news received
from Switzerland is lees satisfactory than preceding
accounts. A great agitation prevails in the cantons
of Geneva and Vaud, particularly on the side of
Leman* and Nice,: and the moderate party at
Berne fear a rising against it. The Swiss radical are
hopicg for a movement at Paris, Lyons, and Strasburg,
and propose to make their movement ooincident with
those they expect to take place in France. The Ge-
novese reckon on a patriotic contingent furnished by
the communes round Geneva for the demolition of
the fortifications; the works continue in spite of the
opposition of the federal council, and are carried on
very actively. On Sunday, the 17th, a banquet is to
be held to celebrate the demolition of the fortifica-
tions, which is considered at Geneva as the triumph
of democracy. There is considerable agitation visible
in the district of Yverdun."

The Moniteur tin Soir announces that General Ds
la Hitt*, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, is amonirt
the number of candidates to be presented by the elec-
toral union to the electors of Peri'.

For Amount

PAM, Pis. 14.

lkir
litatary.

_ ___,,, .uirsont. LO.lllll. Olosiag.
$ per Cato. 54 0 57 83 36 10 47 33 68 10
3 per Casts.
S do. Nov Loan 0 n vs n is
44 pa Cana ,, • • • 0
4 per Cana • It • .• 10
nalsamp an Loudon : so days. 15 43 ; 90 days, 25 331
Bars, 5, 1640 l9 Yaw. Naples Banta 93 23 Mosoy
3, 11141
Do 4~
Do. t — ~ „ Tremors hoods_ 6
Bank Mara 2333 r.
Pisasont 6 pee Osas 111 73 „
Domm—Paris led Orteam 810; Paris and Boom, 370; Rosen
and Ilans,3lo ;looa and Mantilla, 308 73 ; Strasbourg and Bale,
111 If; 0111111111 sod Vaasa, 330; Orleans and Dardems, 411 33,
North, 46873; Montanan and Tays.. 110 ; Paris and araskoorg,
35730; Mars and Sontag, 261 23; Versailles (left bank). 168 75.

MADIrD, Ts. L.—Three pa Onto., 191 c.raii;Foar pn Ceuta,
12i paper ; Fin per Ceuta., II 15.16 ant }Mai rack
dia. Manse!, $4. Eutaw on Lemke. SO.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Fan. 12.
I informed you a few days ago that Russia assumed
a tone more and more menacing on the buhject of the
Erfurt parliament :and the Prussian Bundes-staat. I
have to-day to report to you an overt step of the
Prussian government in regard to this subject,
which, while it leaves no doubt as to the opposition
manifested by the Czar, betokens an energetic deter-
mination on the part of the Berlin cabinet to prepare
for the eventualities of war.

In the morning sitting of the Second Chamber, the
minister of war laid on the table a bill for granting to
the government an extraordinary credit far military
purposes. Thismeasurewas imperioully demanded by
the continued maintenance of the army above thepsaa-
footing. The government would gladly sieze the op-
portunity when it offered of diminishing the armed
force. The great means that would be necessary in
cue of a war to mobilize the army could not be
suddenly procured without immense exertion and in-
convenience. Therefore a timely foresight was to be
recommended. The government would apply reli-
giously the assigned means to the end pointed out
and only with consent of the Chambers, which the
ministers believed would gladly co-operate in con-
ducting the affairs of the Prussian and Ger-
Irian fatherland to a satisfactory goal. (Bravo.)
The debate was then opened Ey Miuitenf-
fel, on the report of the committee on the muni-
cipal ordinance. It was intended to hold an evening
sitting in order to elect the ten deputies to the Erfurt
&oaten-haus.

BIOUJX. Y. 13.—Voluntary Loan, 117 1.6. rational Debt, 89.
Bank abates, 94. Funds end sham Armor.
'runty Fn. 11.—F1ve per Cents. Wetalliquee. 93j ; Four Ditto, 73.
Bask !Marta, 1143. Bzehange on Frankfort, 1123.

GREECE.

We have received a fresh batch of official docu-
ments relating to the affairs of Greece. The first is
a letter addressed by M. Thonvenel, tnioister. pleni-
potentiary of France, to M. Londos, communicating
to him a letter, in which M. Thouvenel declares to
Mr. Thomas Wyse that the President of the Republic
and his government had learned, with as much pain
as surprise, the employment of the naval forces of
England against a country placed under their pro-
tection.

The next is the letter addressed by M. Persiani,
Russian charge d'affaires, to M. London, placing at
the disposal of the Greek government a Annan ves-
eel of war (tbg Calypso), just arrived in the Pima&
Of this *shave already published the intelligence.
Another letter from M. Persiani is to Mr. T. Wyee,
of the same nature as that from M. Thouvenel, de-
claring the opinion of the Amnion government as to
Admiral Parker's measure. Iteoncludesasfollews: “It
is, then, to your most serious consideration, sir, that I
take the liberty of recommending the ultimate
consequences of a state of things which my august
court must regard as an attack upon the interests and
privileges granted to it by the treaty of London of
May 7, 1542."
The following is Mr. T. Wysys answer to the note
of the Russian minister. It is dated on board her
Britannic Majesty's ship Queen, in the Bay of Sala-
mis, on the 24th of last month :

It wee not Ulnae' last evening that I had the honour of
waving year letter et the 19th inst. I have bestowed the
utmost attention noon it, and entreat your immediate attic
don to my sawn. Sir, I have never for one moment forgotten
that the aides invitation ealneively concern the rights and
interests of ponces whom her Britannic Majesty is bound
to retook whose palace and indulgence bee been proved
to the Quon's government daring so any yeses, which has
had no other Mann upon the Grecian government than
to lanai it to neglect, and to treat with indifference, the
repeated obeervations and ethics which have been given to
it, that the demands of her Britannic Majesty's government
br I.IIIIIIIW whatever affect the independence of Greece, of
vita hoe liejesty is, and always ham been, the effective
sweater ; bet thus limns at the suss time demand from
the Sawa government that jean and equitable treatment
whish ors Aso bus ow sovereign power to the subjects of
soother.

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