The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-08 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNEIDAT,AtnitteT 7.
The Bream took the ebsit is the now hone at 12
irelork.
Leather temporary reef, •onstructed differently from the
lest Gee, sedation more nobly is it. erpearanso, bad bees
Intel up, sad the ride gall.ries wsre sanded about then
len farther into the body of the hone ; sad no result of
thin experiments was, so Air es we ens :4 ledge at, single
sin/4, improves( et la the Marks, propertieof the
Imam.
COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDERS BILL.
Sir W. CLAY staid that it was an his fatemoin at this
late patio i of the session to Foetid farther with this hill,
bet that he would brie, it in *shy seat esesiee.
SESSIONAL RETURNS.
Oa the =oboe of Mc BIOTHIIITOX, a rears was or-
dweed, to onthe the Will parliaanatary slineruck of the
yen, niehfyiag the days of sitting, the dates of tannin
and al soup. sad the number of hours deemed to behaves,
ilth, by bob home daring the seniors of 11150.
CUTFE STREET SAVINGS BANK.
Kr. REYNOLDS inked the en molter of the Esthete*?
whether it was his ieteetton to propose that the Wan» of
34.0001., 'eternising due after the payseat of the 30,0001 I
already voted by the house. be paid to the depositors I. the
Cale-street Savings Bgik ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
lb' 30,0001. already need would b. paid as soon as the be-
nem, neesticatioa had been instituted. He could not say
nisei be would do sett 11968100, nor could be maks any pro- I
sane as to the baleen.
Mr. REYNOLDS pr; notice lb .t he would move nest 1•
mhos that the house would at the earliest opportunity re-
melee itself into a roasittor of the whole haw, in order to
tak• into roasideratioa the state of the depositnrs in the
Caffe.strest Savings Beak, with the view of grunting then
the fall mean of their &rain in the said bank.
THE VICAR OF EPSOM.
Mr. ALCOCE. moved for a core of the ecrrespandenoel
between the eastilia•s at the Epsom Usios sad the Right
Rev: the Bishop of Wiachestrr, r, spittle, the conduct of
the Veer of Eps oa at the tent ral of • pauper elated
Wll-
li.m Potter.—Agreed to.
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INCUMBERED ESTATES BILL.
The second reeding M the Ineutabsred &tato, (Ireland)
Bill was mom 4 by
Mr. HAMILTON, who mooning' the impossibility of
eemploting the mossure this year, altlyieght it bad already
passed the Lords, bat wished it to Letup) egist.i. ration lo
committre, that it might native the Commons' amend-
ments.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL objected to the principle
of the bill, which, under the pretence of reetrainine dales of
imeambered estates at leads gore calms, flied a 'Mullions el
15 years' purchase, whisk would Is pasties hequently en-
able the holders of laad,d pr lefty to set their creditors at
drfienee The bill was altogether a landlord ovum», and
would to a great degree neutralise the beneficial °wades of
the set now in face f v the isle of ineutoberml estates. Ex-
pressing his 'urea, that so onesided a statute should have
emaaated from the Home of Lords' the limped gentleman
moved. as an amendment, that it be re ad a mond time that
ley throe months.
Mr. FRENCH deferded the peers and the landlords,
whom be declared the Att mey•General had attacked upon
incorrect statement. in an savanna:able, meaner.
Mr. STAFFORD preferred leaving the priming net to
operate. with-,at fettering it by a Mt• 1111.0 like the premat,
which effixted eonsPerable alteration, but co eseadment.
Colonel DUNNE looked upon the original Income:weed
Estates Act, ea an act of coufiamtim. la the lacer's! of the
erroitore upna landed properties, he supported the second
reading of this bill.
Mr. BRIGHT fanatic./ that the bill was one of four Irish
measures which bad mate down this semios from the upper
hoax, ell eq tally devoted to the landlord interest, sad
equally unjust end objectiosahle.
Mr. NAPIER eomplei,:ed that the opposi.ion of the
goveraniest bed taken the friends of the bill by earpriee.
Mr. HATCHELL replied to some strieturi s pawed during
the mane of the debate upon the /taunts Ineumbered
Estates Art.

It,. 11CIJLLAO R acknowledged the ohliga•iou due from
the Irisk peep:, to the asiaisters, for iiiecmfi ior so mis-
chievous a saran. He hoped they would follow their owe
example I. ether isisteaces.
The ameadimmat gilds A'tsraee Omen' was then agreed
to without a eisisiew, sad the ►ill is Cs•egaently lost.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.
The ►aar west sate committee ea this bill, which was
proeteded with is Übe 37th slaw, wiles the ehairotaa re-
ported prime.

Cal-REAND OUTRAGE ACT (IRELAND) CON•
TINUANCE BILL.
Tb weed readies ot aim ball was liaod for 12 o'clock to-
/sorrow (ibM day.)

STAMP DUTIES ()1,.2) DILL.
This bill w rood • third tsar, sad passed.
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE BILL.

ba;;;;Trakwi
ASSESSED TAXIS PILL.
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Thi. > i 9 was read a third Vs. aad phased ; ea Am were
the Aia,s s (Ireland) Bill, cad Police Bspereasaan.n Fund
Bill.

LONDON-BRIDGE ArPROA.CREB FUND BILL.

lAu Dill was road a eqad Uwe, sod to bs sows-
situ 4. _

The remastai order. were thee dives. d of, and the
house 64jouraell at • quArt r to 8 o'Cork.

CaitDtl RAWDOR 114, piked • I with S.r A lITHCS Brooc•
for the lessfadlit of UM amiss.

Elie erprelifs.

OUTGOING NAILS.

The malls for British North Americo, Bermuda, sad
the Ueit.4 Nadal will be wad* I. te morrow eveeie.g.
The Wog India Mai's, elaielieg Header's, Name. Ha-
'meth, and Jambi (St. Deniao.), wed iseladiste Vt..
see:a, Nile Grasade, sod Grey Town (Bt. Jun de Nicaragua)
will be made spec Asgeet 17.
The mails to Mammal., if Adana, Nassau, hand,
Chi!i sad Pere, will he nide up oa August 17.
To. meth for Lid.., Spam, and tilbraltar will be made
so es August 17
The made too Gibraltar, Malta, Omer, the lonia& Islands,
Egypt. Ceyloa, India, mid Chime, via Solithaeaptoo, will
be made ep os the messing of Aveuit 20.
The moils Mg Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
C India, Hoag-You`, Ate., will be made ap as the
eve. lag of Assist 24.
Tte mails 'or Mexico will be made up cis September 2.
The maim foe Modena, the Brasile, sad Buenos Aye.., will
to made up ca the evening of Sept. 4.

Elea WATER AT IAniDU/11 WU DOM
Ts. L.,. -11nyllnka, 1•.:•.•.... NS.
7yp1.•16W-41IMEMS.

LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8.

head of the movement, and for csking to intricate
hereelt from the subordinate position se a power fat-
tered in its views of German reform to the rirograd•
and bigot policy of Aligns—it la to Finish Prussia
for this that Austria, Russia, and FralllW lima tilted.
and that • league has been formp., nelninally for the
=anti-nano, of the power of I).srlt, blltreally fair
reducing Prussia to its old state of deppotisM, and to'
its complete subserviency to Austria and Russia.
As to Denmark and its istegrity, that is a
mere pretext ; ss to the restoration of peace to the
duchies, this is just the same mendacious humbug, as
the represeetieg theresistanco of the ilehleswigers and
Hobiteiners to be a Jacobin or revelatiosary move-
ment. The Vag of DAMMAM( can restore peace to
Holstein to morrow by guaranteeing or ptomain
to them their old and rightful institutions. Bat the
Kiss of Minium will do no such thing, the un-
settled state of Holstein being the desired pretext
for either toning Prussia to menhir the prison of
the old Federation, and thus forfeit its last claim to
bead a liberal party is Germany, or for allowing
Russia to invade and coerco a North German
province.
The effect of the life resolutions of the conference
in London can be soother than to eneouragethe King
of DErsx•xx to invade Holstein without offering to
the Holateiners that fr. edom and partial independ-
ence guaranteed to it by the law of the Confederation
and the treaty of Vienna. The Germans of the neigh-
bouring states cannot be kept in each a state of things
from aiding the Holsteiners. So that we are to have
• Russian army, with a French and English
&et coercing Gamma, in order to serve
the occult and retrograde designs of Austria and oil
Russia.

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Such an act or each en 'Maws would be highly
disgraceful to England, and highly prejudicial to its
future interests. If Englard, as &presented by a
liberal ministry, haves friends in Europe, these friends
are, or rather were, to be found in North Germany,
throughout which prevails that love of representative
institutions and Eberty of commerce, unfortu-
nately stifled or eclipsed in every other part
of Europe. If England is seen joining in
the north with all the despots of the
world to cheek and stifle progress, whilst it stood so
lately in opposition to those despots in behalf of
liberal progress and national independence in the
south, what will be said but that the foreign policy of
England has undergone a change, and that ministers
have seen fit to counterbalance their anti-Russian
policy in the Mediterranean by a pro-Russian policy
in the Baltic ?

We should deplore this fur many reasons, but fur
none mcre than that of seeing England plane itself
in antagonism to the liberel spirit in Germany, and
thus rteommerce with regard to Germany that
mutual hostility, which bred so many wars and such
rivalry between us and Fiance. As to patting Ger-
many beck into the old and narrow conservatory of
the Confederation, one might as well attempt
to put a forest tree ander a hand-glass.
The ocipaannuated and periwig party of
Europa imagine that if they could brim Prussia
to the ways of 1813, all would go straight, and
revolution would be crushed for ever. On the
contrary, we feel convinced theta* violent and popular
revolution is to be prevented, it will be by some great
state Ike Prussia attempting to realise some or the
hopes and promises of 1848, and succeeding in some
essay at national amity, and representative freedom.
If Prussia fails, or is thrust forcibly from her purpose,
none will be so delighted as the ultra-democrats,
since it leaves the stage cuter for them, and turns the
thoughts of every German be his class, or pro'esaion,
what it may, middle or lower, military or civilian,
towards some new way of attaining those national
desire', which the crowned heads and allied courts of
Europe have most bolistily and most inigaitoosly
leagued to prevent.

Wausx Ross, accused and declared by a jury,
at the last Yorkshire Summer 41mi:es, guilty of
poisoning his wife, is ordered for execution on Wed-
nesday. Various circumstances having conspired,
subsequently to his sentence, to suggest a belief that
he might be innocent, steps have been takes to make
minute inquiries by an intelligent and trustworthy
agent among his ceighbours. The result ban been so
strong and salvers-la conviction of his innocence that
memorials, signed by large numbers of the inhabi-
tants of his own village, of rue immediately adjoining
and of the neighbouring town of Ashton-ander-Lyne,
and by 2,000 citizens of the town of York, heeded
by the Mayor and other influential individuals, have
been transmitted in his behalf to Sir thottoe GREY.
The evidence upon which the memorialists pro-
coed has been submitted to us, and we invite the most
earnest attention of our readers to the following neces-
sarily brief and imperfect abstract of its contents.
We waive altogether the question of the utility
of capital punishments for the present : we frankly
admit that while they are legal their infliction
ought not to be averted indirectly by getting up
probable cases in favour of emivices. We admit that
anapiciom attaches to all extra-judicial attempts to
establish the innocence of a prisoner judieially con-
victed ; that the humane are in such cases apt to be
too fac,le of belief. We do not maintain that the
statements to which we are about to direct attention

PRVSSIA is certainly buret by one of the most extra-
ordinary and formidable leagues that ever availed a
single power. We have read of the League of Cam-
bray against Venice ; and W 3 have seen the tong.
nental Ragas that NeiroLeosi banded against Eng-
land. Both leagues were inepired and concluded by
several countries jealous of the freedom and prosperity
of a small one. The jest nay which Prussia hes ex-
cited in the governments of Europe is something of
the same kind. Prussia was a small kingdom, one
of the most recently risen in Germany and in Europa.
It has gradually raised itself, in part by the ability
and genius of its rulers, but in a still greater part by
its representing all the newer and more liberal
elemente, which have sprung up in Europe. It long
represented the cause of religious freedom, opposed to
the bigotry of Austria. To this it now adds the
championship of representative institutions and con-
stitutional government for Germany.
We are far from either admiring or approving all
that Pru•sia has done, either in the last years or in
the devious ones. Even when in pursuit of liberal
aims the cures of the cabinet of Berlin has been tor-
tuous and timid. Bat the difficulties of its position
should be taken into account. Thus the late Ring and
the present are fiercely censured for not having con-
ceded, of their own free will, a full and fair represen-
tative system to their suhjects. But Prude which
has been, and is, ever in presence of a jealous and
&seems% rival in Austria, cod of an inveterate foe
in France, could never at any time with prudence or
in safety, have separated herself from Russia, which
has saved and supported the Prussian monarchy in
trying time. But friendship with Russia is am to
be maintained by a monarch, who makes liberal
0011C011305/.

Then is in truth but one RTMIIt NOWT. of
from which Prussia could derive the means of
shaking off Russian iSBOSSCS and defying
Austrian enmity ; and that is popularity with
the German nation. After the events of the
sprieg of 1848, the King of PRUSSIA tried to obtain
this support. He accepted a most liberal constitution,
abetted a alssilar one for Germany, and fell in with
German enthusiasm for 'maintaining the rights and
indeperdence of the Germans of Schleswig and Hol-1
stein. In the end, however, the Prussian court and
the German liberals vuld not agree, and the rupture
was owing quite as much to the eatravagant fatuity
of the liberals, as to the vacillation of the
Prussian vovernment. We will say this too for the
wart of Prussia, that nine* the failure of the Frank-
fort Assembly, and the utter subsidence or destruction
of democracy, it hat made ►iocers efforts for the pre-
serTativo in Prussia of a representative system, and
for the establishment of German unity upon some
basis in re era?, more rational, and more liberal than
• mere c )'trio of diplomatists of Frankfort, calling
itself • Diet, but in reality a mere succurnal of the
Ault° touted of Vienna.
It la to punish Prussia fur thus daring to be liberal,
far having thus placed hi reel( fora moment at the

FRANCE.

PARIS, WZDNICADAT
The following is the official note of the itinerary
of the Presideot in his approaching journey:—
Aug. 12th: Departure from Paris for Dijon, by Ton-
Deere; reception and review at Tonner►e. 13th:
Stay at Dijon. 14th : Journey from Dijon to Lyon;
stay at Chitties; reception and review at Macon.
16th and 18th : Stay at Lyon.. 17. h : Journey from
Lyons to Loos-le-Satilnier ; stay and review at Bourg.
18th : Journey from Lone- le-Saulnier to Besancon by
1161 e ; stay AMA review at 1)41e. 19th : Journey from
Beeaocon to Belfort. 20,11: Journey from Ilelfort to
Colmar by filulhotre. 21st: Journey from Colmar to
Strasbourg. 22nd: Stay at Strasbourg. 23rd:
Journey from Straabourg toSarrebourg by Phshbourg.
24th : Journey from Sarrebourg to Nancy by Lune• ilk;
re-viption and review at Laneville. 25th ar.d 26:h :
Journey from Nancy to Mets ; s•ay at Matz.
27th : Journey from Metz to Chilon-sur-Marne, by
Verdes. 28th : Return to Paris.
The Piesidect will therefore pus the
.Pie of Na-
poleon at Lyons, a eity in which the memory of the
Emperor is cherished with peculiar veneration.
To-day a cabinet council was held at the Elystc, to
deliberate on arrangements relative to the policy and
administration of the government daring the absence
of the President. The Danish question wee also
brought under die...vision.
The government has just given some lamentable

are at present to be regarded as mu:naively proved. instacets of sweetness and irresolution. The sanitary
AU that we my is that they establish the necessity of intendance, or board of health at Marseilles, choose to
farther inquiry by government before the man is subject to an arbitrary and illegal quarantine vessels
allowed to be hinged; and that if he is executed arriving from Malta. The government, jus'ly
of-
Ware such inquiry takes place, we must look upon fended at this presumption, dissolves the board of
lila as a murdered man. health, and repliers it by a single commissiot.er. But
It was proved at the trial that Ross had purchased at the first step of popular excitement in consequence
arsenic a short time before his wife's death at a of this decided step, the ministers take fright, and
druggist's shop. His father-in-law swore that the consent to submit to the dictation of the mu-
night before his daughter's death, going up stairs, he nicip.al authorities. They abandon their com-
saw Ross holding out hie hand as if in the act of missioner, who durst not show his nose for
giving her something to drink. A man named fear being mobbed, and agree to reconstitute
Geone DYER, swore that he had found arsenic in an the bond which they bad just, with perfect reason,
old mattress which had belonged to the prisoner. A although somewhat briskly, dissolved. The Phocean
police officer swore that he had found a small portion colony is, therefore, allowed the full tether of its
e. arsenic in the bottom of the watch-fob of the caprice on Tie...ions of the gr ivest import to French
trowsers which Ross wore when arrested. It was commerce, and the central power eats its decrees at
proved that on occasion of a quarrel between Rosa the bidding of a Marseilles common-councilman.
and his wife he was heard to express violent anger. First humiliation. Now for the second. Everybody
It was proved that on her death he was entitled to knows what a noise has been made in the papers for a
receive 41. from a burial club, of which she was a month past about the formation of a camp at Ver-
member. It was established beyond doubt that she millet. It should seem that this scheme was
had been poisoned and with arsenic. When the in- hatched in a quiet way at the Elysee,
quest on the deceased was held, Ross stated that he under the auspices of General &maguey
had purchased arsenic for a sister-in-law, and that d'Hilliers, who had no sooner returned to Paris
she had given some of it to his wife in mistake for from planting the Pope in his chair at the Va-
cream of tartar; the woman denied that he had pro- tic= than he conceived the audacious design of de-
cured arsenic for her. To the best of our judgment throning. Changarnier at the Tuileries. But the com-
ers have fairly stated the case against ROSS as it mender-in-chief of the army of Paris was not to be
appeared on the trial. caught napping. The scheme soon got wind; for
On the other hand it was admitted, that except on bow were the troops for this same camp to be got,
the occasion of the vine above-mentioned, Rosa's except by taking them from under the command of
treatment of his wife had been uniformly triad and General Change:Bier, whose military jurisdictim, in-
affectiocate. It was proved that he took a witness deed, extended over the place selected for the
with him when he went for the arsenic; that be at- camp. Memiwbile, in order to conceal the conflicts
tempted no concealment of the purchase; and that he and jealousies which prevailed upon this subject,
said then, as afterwards, that it was for a woman at the organs of both sides declared that the scheme had
the place where he resided. It was also proved that been undertaken with the approbation of General
though he might gain 41. by his wife's death, he lost Changarnier, and would be executed ander his super- '
by it 10s. a week, which shammed by working In a intendenoe. For the rest no extra grant of money
mill. would be required from the Chamber. Well: the
We now invite attention to the facts—or alleged plain of Satory, near Versailles, was selected for the
, farits—that have been elicited since the trial. ground; =guise= went to work to mark out the
In the first place it appeappearthat the poverty of plan ; temporary buildings were constructed, and an
ROBB prevented his bnogieg forward any exculpa- immensequntity of tents ordered ; enough in fact to
tory evidence ; and that it was only by a subscription sosommodate 12,000 men. Lastly, several of the re-
uses/ the villsgers that he was enabled to obtain giments of the Paris garrison received orders to march
miteace of counsel. two of their battalions out to the camp on the 10th
la the next place it appears that the character of of August. It was settled that the Pr, sidunt
SON up to the time of his being charged with the should reside at the Petit Trianon, to amuse himself
eandire was =impeached. On the other hand it ap- with the camp and play at soldiers dating the) yea.
poem *it him mother-in-law and her son were per- time Meantime the Minister of War scams to have
sew of drunken and dishonest habits. It appears changed his opinion about the cost of these walle-
d= in oseesquence of a felonious attempt made by meets ; for he finds it necomary to apply to the bila-
terale two on the room of a lodger, they had been Ware for some 12 or 16 milfions to over extraor-
term into custody by the polio* a few days before dinary expenses, amongst which the cmap figures for
the death of Boss's wile upon his information. nearly two hundred thousand francs. In submitting
It is stated that alter their arrest the sister-in-law this proposition to the bateaux, General d'Hautpoul
for whom Ross said he purchased the weenie began has given the public an opportunity of testing
to pay frequent visits to her sister. This woman de- the sincerity of those professions of mutual
nied that he bad purchased arsenic for her bat a amity and agreement put forward latterly by
female neighbour stator that, previous to the death of the prints of the parlianientaiy majority and of the
Mrs. Roes, this sister, Meanie DUCKLISY, told her, Elysee. The moderates, who never lost any coca-
"l've a fortnight's week to do at home; I've my sloe of testifying their displeasure against General
whitewashing and cleaning to do, and when oar Baraguay d'Hilliers, by driving him from the tribune,
MART and BILL go to Astaos I'll get him to boy me and pronouncing " cloture" as often ma he came
moms eserk'rp." (" Murry," to north country forward to deliver a set speech, generally gave an
phraseology, is arsenic.) additional sting to these mortification/ by heaping
Some other remarkable speeches are also attributed fresh tokens °Moir confidence upon Changaruier.
to this sister. The same woman who relates the Thus, they granted the President's dotation to a word
conversation about the " nuok'ry " states that of the latter, while they would not lot the former open
MARTIIA BUCKLEY, meeting bur on the Friday after his mouth. OR the present occasion, of dii.
Mrs. Ross's death, said, "If she's payload wijj, coming the supplementary credit, demanded by
has not done IL"
MARTHA BUCKLEY suisequently the Minister of War, General Bareguay d'llilliors
said, in the presence of the same woman, " I'll do presented himself u the advocate of the Versailles

that for BILL that he'll never Ito against Berry' camp. The essmiltee replied by ehusing fee their
Borronhsr—her mother, arrested Melt M chairman Ungliaot, dof Mugu-
tion. . nier, who spoke y against the wafttllsisess
the Ibis the York *seises in-law and nucleon/blesses of the project. It is now
ssother•in of Rossi with a ter,' affirmed that is hoe of the decided opposition which
arid, the wi Tea, lodged in the of a re- has been supsitested lithe Assembly, the whole=
hie erietterein that city. The of the Welch wee on the eve of completion, has hut
osentatesthat one night the mother-lielaw, who cloned. It is certainly unfortunate for the President
was in Square at the time, said in ber presence, that he allows himself to be beaten upon points which
".The boy Ross has no business to inshore, but re- preclude all sympathy with the defeated.
venge is ew:st;" adding. " but I hope he will get Oweral Orsmmont, nothing deterred at hie first
clear, the oil was eery kind to Mr daughter." The defeat, has leveght Averse& d fresh modem foe fa.
father-in-law also said we eloy, " The boy Rosa has moving the seat of government to Versailles on the
no business here, bat it is hard to go against, we's 1 of May, 1851. Colonel Lernercier has presented
own." When asked who he meant by " kiss own," ate amendment to the Ceittaied Pews:Bill, propels,
he said, " Her as was hers to dinner the other day." that the press shall be suspended in Mertielqae, Oct
This was his daughter MARTHA HUMILITY. damps, and their dependencies, esti! Jan. 1, 1862. '
The witness Dees, it is stated, Las been discovered The Assembly, in its sitting of to-day, voted the
to bon a man of most abandoned habits. He is said to budget of reeelpts, and adopted a Series of bills on the
have declared repeatedly that he would not have following subjects :On the prorogation of the laws on
owe to the assizes "if he had not been well paid as the coast fisheries; on a grant applicable to the por-
e within." It appears that the matters, in which Main manufactoey of Sevres; on the improve-
he declared be found &resale, though the property of meet of the roads of Toulon; on grants for
WILLIAM Ross, bad been sold to HERM by Ross's the service of the Conseil d'Etat, and the tidal-
and that two of the deceased's sisters nistration of justice in Algeria: on supplementary
had slept on it. pants for the ministries of marine, finance, and jus-
Other spied:es of the same tenoar and tendency u Lice; on the national furniture; on the charging of
those quoted above are attributed to the father, mother, ex; sums relative to elections; on the stamp of docu-
and asters of the deceased, and to HYRIL We omit meats concerning the jurisdiction of the commis de
them, however, sad only notice one other circumstance. priedlsommes aid on extra credits for the collection
The father-in-law received the 4L from the club, of of revenue. The President of the Amembly read a
which his daughter was a member, and spent nearly letter of the Minister of Fiosnce,communicating tome
the wilder of it in drink. details relative to the progressive amelioration of the
We admit that statements such as we here submit financial situation, and promising the distribution of
to our resdere, collected by the extra-judicial investi- the general account of the administration of finances
kition vriyats outut nnia nooodare woo !for 1849 for next Saturday. The deficit of 1849,
weight attributed to them as depositions confirmed according to the latest calculation, is re!uced to 235
by oath, and uttered in open coon, under a strict millions. The declaration of the Court of Acoontes
cross-questioning. But they have been collected by on the budgets of 1847 and 1848, will be inserted
parties of great intelligence and high probity. Tug shortly in the Monsieur.
are in strict beepiog with the character of the convict The house then divided on the ensemble of the bud-
on the one hand, and of the witnesses against him on get of receip's, which was adopted by 460 votes
the other. If they ars true they go to establish that against 162.
he has been the victim of a conspiracy ; that the A debate was then opened on the Colonial Press
poison was administered—possibly by accident—to Bill, of which the urgeccy was passed by a large ma-
ths demand woman by her sister, rot by her husband; jority. Several amendments, and among the number
slid that the relatives of this sister and HEIR have that of M. Lemercier, mentioned above, were rejected,
combined to save her—possibly, also, to avenge her and all the articles of the bill successively adopted.
mother's quarrel—by fastening the guilt on the The following amendment was presented to-day to
husband. the law on the organisation of tho national guard:
We do not assert that this is the case. We are "The rational guard shell be diesoleed and disarmed
well aware of the force of the argument which may be is the department where the National Avembly hold.
drawn against such a °omission from the site mpta mode its sittings."
on some notorious trials to transfer suspicion from the The committee on parliamentary initiative has re-
prisoner to the witticisms against him. But we main- commended the rejection of the proposition of MM.
taut that, locking to the circumstances which crippled Schrelcher, Perrison, Barbarous, and de Oresland, for
the prisoner's defence; looking to the high character opening to the Minister of Finance a credit of
of those who instituted and conducted the poet- 10,800,000 fr. for the construction if Transatlantic
judicial inquiry ;looking to the number and respects- steam-packets.
bility of those who by their memorials have declared Yesterday Petrie was fairly deluged by the rain
their conviction of Ross's innocence; and looking which fell during a violent thunder-storm. At three
to the fact that so many of these memorialists are his the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, and several streets
nearest neighbours who have watched the character in that neighbourhood, presented the appearance of
and conduct both of him and his accuser., a sufficient rivers, the water being in some places five feet deep.
cote has been made oat to warrant—to Armand an Cellars were inundated,- carriages stopped, wine casks
arrest of execution until the whole story can be probed and other objects swept off by the torrent. The
to the bottom by a regular and authorised investigation. !twine, who haunt the precincts of Notre Dame de
If WILLIAM Ross is allowed to be executed before Lorette, 'seized (cession to take a swim. The Tuileries
each so investigation is instituted on the part of go- became a lake. Tne streets snrroundir.g the legisla-
vernment, the authorities will incur the awful risk tire palace were entirely submerged, and the soldiers
of authorising the judicial murder of an lemon at were obliged to beat • retreat from their invaded
man. We expect, therefore, that S:r GEORGE °SKY guard-houses. The sewers on the Seine were observed
will in so far comply with the request of the memo- to vomit an immense quantity of black object., which
rialists, as to move the crown to leans a reprieve for were discovered on nearer inspection to be drowned
a fortnight, or such further time as may be required for rats. Never within the memory of man has such a
the inquiry. In the present state of the question, we deluge fallen upon Paris.
do not ask foe more ; but we feel that the demands of The Boone was very fiat. Very little business
justice cannot be satisfied with less. was done in railways. Vague epprehensims of poli-
Heal conflict seemed to obstruct the movement of
affairs. Tne tendency of the funds to sink continues.
The Fives closed at 9;fr. 30e., a fall of 10a. upon
yesterday ; and the Threes fell 20c., and closed at
SUc.

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SPAIN.

MADRID, Atom 2.
The Queen will receive Lord Howden at a private
audience to-morrow, when the British envoy will pre-
-mit his credentials. The decreed:implying the Cortes
is on the paint of appearing.
MADIUD, A.VOVST 2.—Tbrur per Cents., 32 15 16 ; after
Bills, 32i 15.16 cash, 33 paper. Four per Cents., 121 cub.
Firs per Ceuta., 121 cash ; after 11.14 a, 121 cask, 121 paper,
with Couples, 19. Coupons, 71 paper. Puaives, 31 ;
afar) hole, 313.16. Bank of Bt. Ferdinand, 86. Butting*
on Louden, 50.40.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

We have news from Berlin of the 4th inst.

It is affirmed that the temporary differences be-
tween the French and Austrian governments respect-
ing alleged legitimist conspiracies have disappeared
bet ore more important affairs which have become the
subject of negotiations. M. Hubner is said to have
received vo!uminous instructions from Vienna. The
events in Mayeoce and the march of Baden troops
for Prussia are represented to the French go-
vernment by Austria as reasons for replacing
the affairs of Germany order the control of the
old diet, which may devise a more complete system of
centralisation. Similar representations have been
made in Paris on behalf of the court of St.
Petersburg. The Austrian circular despatch of the
19th does not call upon the government to nominate
representatives to a diet, but infers the necessity of
such a proceeding.
Lespite Austrian state intrigue, however, the at-
tempt to derive a diet from the three months
old plenary assembly will not succeed. The
fact is, that the members of that body
which wee to be the Deus ez tufiehina in
the midst of complications do not agree. Hesse
Darmstadt is all at once alarmed at the prospect of
the old diet; so is Luxemburg, so is Limburg. The
nine voices necessary to give a majority of the ordi-
nary diet, which consisted of 17 members, are thus
reduced to 7. Another difficulty is that some German
f cling shows itself, even in the plenum, and the
Holstein ambassador's presence is objected to. The
restricted council is thus reduced to 6, a number with
which no bu►iness can be transacted. Prussia has
answered the late Austrian ne'e, on the subject of the
march of the Baden,, troops through Mayeece, to the
elfcct that under no cireumstanee 6 will she permit the
march of those troops to be retarded by an arbitrary
interpretation of the federal law., since Austria is eirt-
dently only wresting the meaning of these laws
to make a political demonstration. Austria has
moreover no right to give orders to the governor of
Harem's. They mast proceed from the commission
of the Bund.

The CJojae Gazette contains the following tele-
graphic dispatch:
"BERLIN, Avousv 6.
"The semi-eflleial organ declares that the smaller
oauccil (elvers Rath) cannot be constituted."
The reports relative to the proposals and advice
with regard to Prussia's participation ars without
foundation.

The Stades Anseiyer publishes the authorisation of
the Bund Commission in Prussia, relative to ths treaty
of peaoo with reservation of the rights of the Band,
and conditionally on Ito ratification by all the states
of the Bund.
Count TOO Chambord has arrived hers.
BSSLIN, AUGUST el.—Voluntary LOSS, 1061; New Less,
Four sod a-Belt per Nut., 99; Netleael Debt, 851 ; Com-
suereiel Marine &witty's Promisee, 106 ; Butk Shares, 991.

AUSTRIA.
The following is the circular despatch addressed by
Austria to the Darman governments with respect to
the calling of the Diet at Frankfort :
VIENNA, JULY 19, 1860.—1 n nay last note, of the 10th
inst. I detailed the counts of our late negotiations with the
Pruialan cabinet, and the game of their failure. Tun and
events impel nets a resoitatisa, which anal be one of •
decides character. We thereto» regard it as • duty nar-
rowly to »amino the present position which we occupy,

and to communicate the sank to our confederates, In order
that thof may be ebbe to judger whither one views
4 the prawn states of Wain, mad the cosolusiess we have
.denweklgan tram Iwo marat or not. We have paned several
eggealies before us, to which we have siadavennid to give
meisoientlous Mason. The Ara is, naturally—Whether
Ike exislonos o 4 the German nerd, without • onatitution,
sad ma • "(Ural (Ran of will and action, is possible 1
Bat 1 this is not the east, then it an.* be the duty of
every member of the indissoluble Bond to acknowledge the
coomeinstion settled by treaties, until a sow am has been
Canannetaid is • legal manes, and to take sans that
the Bend shall sot be left without • legal organ.
Without the conscientious fulfirnast of thes• two
emential conditions of tho existence of the Band, at acknow-
adamant of the validity of the federal treaties and the tights
anA u than* arising, is inossisisnist, glass the
Thititbtltr the Bend flies the very conception of those
' a and obligations, and provide* for the maintenance of
both only, through the supreme organ of the collective satin
Is it Permitted
suppose that these obligations are on all
sides reeipneeal ? Opinions aro divided on the validity of
the &dotal multitude's, Am by some only to particular
provisions of the constitution is that validity otheeded,
othen being rnarded as abolished. This different*
of °palm', which nails according to time and ctreneaseances, '
, his led to an arbitrariness of application of oar principles,
is assequenos of which a coniplot• confusion of id, as has
' ban brought about on tbt questions in debate. Ma revision
' of lb. federal convention, rendered necessary by the present
smut of Germany, is rendered more pressing by the daily
airnat of events. Bind th• lit of May of this year there
has been DO organ of the confederation presently acknow-
ledged as • legal authority. The control commission, which
up to that period DU recognised as such, it is true, continues
ies setivity,but the time for +MA it was appointedhaving ex.
plred, It cannot be regarded ies a court competent to discharge
, the general affairs of Germany.Aecordingly every confederate
, state is hound to offer hia hand to the (Graafian of a new
organ of the Bend. Can they who deny the existence of the
federal constitution, or who only admit it in part, and who
ream to co-operate hcnestly for a revision of the same, and
the formation of a new central organ, sincerely believe
that the treaties out of which constitutions and prov!rilis
alike grew aro yet valid: But is not this co•operotion virtu
all denied when it is made dependent on inadmissible con.
ditloas, and must not conditions be considered inadmiasible
which require that dining the negotiations for a provisorium
and the recoastruetios of the confederation the union
formed by Pratte and other states on May 2.5, 1819, shall
be 'maintained in unbroken power : a union which sets out
that its members, " to show their earnest desire to settle the
retain.= of Germany in the future, according to the neces-
sities of the times and the principles of justice, pledge
themselves to give to the German people • constitution con-
, formable to the provisions of their treaty ?" Innumerable
acts prove that the view. of the union are not renGunced.
Among these may be mentioned the letter scat to the
Saxon government ea reply to the note announci,g
the retirement of that government from the union and
the notes forwarded from the Prussian foreign office to
the Hanoverian government. There CTIV.4iII a clear proof
that the task which the united governments hays undertaken
in the 4th article of their treaty is still by them considered u
before thew May not it be properly asked on what grounds
a r.umber of confedereta governments *num* a right to
rule the future uf G. rmany and to give a coanitution to
the Germanic people ; and do s not the right which Austria
and other save/Damns have to oppose tho formation of •
union with such an object occur to every mind ? And further,
how is it pooible for the collective governments ever to sue.
ceed in transactions and resolutioes for the new formation
of the Bend if one past of the same consider itself entitled
to give constitutions and a future to Germany ? Would not
such efforts traverae and mutually thwart each other ? Or
shall the constitutional work be sunceded on the part of
the collective stater, and the relations of ell the governments
and maples be left in their yresent confusion without a ern•
tral power until the constituti n of the union is completed,
in order that the general constitution may be subxdinated
to it ? The Bond is a collective and independent whole,
c 'Reposed of states severally independent of each other, with
atonal federal rights and obligations. '1 ha prerogative of der
veloping and forming • constitution only belongs to the col-
lective members of too ownedoration. This right of the
entire body mast be preserved and ungeld as a
security for the future. While the imperial go-
tetanal/at has incessantly laboured to assert the
right of the 'thole, and to guard it from infiingernent, it
does not insist up.o a particular form for its exercise ; it
would rather state those considerations which "lipase to it
moot calculated to prostate harmony of action without
esdaogering material rights. In this sense were the codes-
yours of Austria to bring about an understanding with
Prussia commenced and carried firward. Ti this end it was
ready to mike sacrifices of its nearest individual inte-
rests In order to bring about • common actten with
Prussia, the cabinet of Vienna applied, in April last,
to that of Berlin, to procure its assent to the
calling of • e,e press cf all the members of the
lload. Those efforts tie ra devil of all result, Preis .ia
having always made a condition of its agreement the o cknaw-
lodgment, impossible to Austria, of the union. Since, under
each circumstances, net only the preparation of the way for
a revision of the cornitute.n but even the formation of •
saw provisorium was impossible, no other way stood open
to Austria than to toles her sta-d upon the ground of the
old laws of the eonfederatien, and to do this formally ar.d
wish decision, until • new eons itution could be establiehed.
This must be acknowledged to be the only meow
by which the imperial government could hope to rescue
eke vital question of te ci., ral eTiIt••CII from the
fatal confusion into which it had fallen, and trov.d• for its
careful and happy a lution. The imperial court has incurred
great danger of being misunderstond. or of having its
motives misinterpret'''. But the confidence which ha,
bean extended to its declarations has allayed the anxiety
which may have been felt in seine quirt, n. Its wormer
that the calling of the plenary assembly was not in-
tended to prepare the way for I return to the earlier
condition of things, hut only to develop sad form
• iesw state, has met with general acceptaten.
The step which Austria tock on the 26th of April
hot was greeted with gratitude by the greater part of
Germany, and retarded on all -ides witte vat disfruot. A
number of confederates indeed declined to take port in the I
congress called at Frankfort on !travel prounde of • moot
doubtful character, and placed the treat ends of the Bund,
nay its very existent, in danger by their abstinence from
co-operation in the work of union, and by their
naleration that " °telly a free deliberation of the
sovereign states of Germany could be consented
to in an assembly where tam states might meet in complete
freedom and independency, while their agreements could
only be derived from the completest freedom of deltbtratiun.
But is auth a demand consistent with a belief in the
of the f. d ral treaties; which, indeed, provide for the inch- I
pendency and individuality of the sepsrate etre", but yet '
under limitations required, in order to render the aims of
the confederation attainable, and to provide for the fulfil.
mint of federal duties? Those who no more acknow-
ledge these obligations, and claim unlimited freedom for them-
selves, cannot acknowlcdo the validity of the federal treaties.
Although the governments assemtdcd in Frankfort on:the
ground of federal law would have been completely justified
in making use of their right, and taking m Hanes for up-
holding
the Bund and accomplishing its objects, the imperial
government, in ord. r to leave no means unsought to attain '
a union of sentiment and action with Prussia, advanced to
meet the proposals made during the pest month by the
Berlin cabinet, and showed a rare indulgence to its wishes. '
This attempt, however, remained just as fruitless as those
which preceded It, after Prussia had this time expressly
laid down the principle of • free union only, in order to leave
the special question of acknowledging the union open's well
as its relations to the other G.rman states. At the same time
the Prussian government declared, in direct contradiction to
the spirit of the foregoing extort Won, that it would reserve
the right of proceeding with the formation and development
of the union state according to the treaty of May 20, and
would c insider it as will infixing. That such • concession
must have been impossible to the imperial government, must I
appear from what has already been advanced. The act on
which the union of May 2G was formed lays down as its
basis that " the interior and external safety uf Germany is
endangered by the position in which tho German confedera-
tion is placid; and that, therefore, the circumstances
which call fur a single direction of Garman affairs 'soil and
require the narrower union of the cfntracting governments "
The aim of this Bund is further given in Art. I, as " the
maintenance of the interior and external security of Germany
and the independeaco of the individual states." Without
going back to the causes which brought about the necessi
ties alleged in this document we will coo fine ourselves to the
question whether the Bond formed as early as Into
has not imagined, in Art. 2 of the Bunches note, and
in Art. 1 of the concludiug sat of Vienna, the pos-
sibility of circumstances such as aro now adduced
, as justifying the formation of the union, and whether
the professed ends of Prussia might not have born equally
and better attained by • timely and powerful support of the
' central power by Prussia and her allies in the moment of
I danger ? If this be so, what need is there for the continued
so • • or existence ol • union which disturbs and restricts
, the affairs o( the confederation, and prevents the happy toll'-
, tioa of the constitutional question in Germany ? Why can-
not
the completion of this union bet delayed until the
1 general constitutional question her be settled; and why
may not the right of governments to unit* remain in abey•
anc• until the limits within which it may be lawfully emu-
dad are laid down is the now constitution ?
On examination of the present situation of public affairs,
we cannot avoid the conviction that it would ant be possible,
by a free assembly, that is to say an amenably not called
according to the provisions of the federal constitution nor
, acting under its processions to succeed in aiming to an agree-
moat on the formation of • provisorium, and still lens upon
the no less necessary and pressing revision of the federal
I treaty. By those *aviation, we are compelled to the eon•
elusion that only one means is lent of drawing Germany from
the confusion now reigning. This means is the calling
r together of Ws narrower council of the eonfederationin order
to disolarg• the humnioos of • antral power until • no-
,
many shall have beta appointed and installed, and in the
meantime to proceed with the aecoseery work of raininc
i the asstitution. The assembly of the Bund which ohm-
nlsSered thee attained the confederation limn its formation
to July 12, 1844, on that day declared its labours finally ten
alsateed, and transferred itsrights and duties to a pron-
e atonal antral power, with the expectation that • definitive
• antral authority would be provided by • new ocen;
• stitution which sou to he (brined. This rapectatir
has not ban ("Billed, and the Arehdeke Itrichsvarwear
, was compelled to transfer his authority in turn to as interim
organ of the confederation. By the expiration of the pawing
of this lase mestiotnad organ cis May let of this year, wiper
al
central power has aired ; the Bind is literally and ac
tation was again deceived, the new constitution is still a con!! o
to be untamplishid. The legal nativity of the prowst
actually
of forma-
-1 without • supremo and common organ. The hope. • Band,
i lag such have vanished, while ths existence of a
• which without such an organ cannot survive, is elanually
endangered. The lapsed authority must of necessity then