The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

POISONING IN FRANCE.

Hamburg advice, of the 4th state that eevisider-
abla business had been transacted during the wait in
coffee, chiefly on *peculation, and that about 28,600
begs of Brasil on the spot bad ewnhanged bands at
4! re sch., and 9,000 bags rktto for delivery at
5 7-16 to 6 seb., which shows a slight inkpgietiest
over previous rates. Good ordinary Brasil had been
taken at 51 web., but the principal holders were firm
in demanding 6 seh., which, however, had nut been
seceded to. The market was very firm and higher prices
atill were confidently looked. tor. In sugar sans busi-
ness had been done at rather better prices, at which 500
chests brown Bahia, ant several parcels of brown and
yellow Havannah had been disposed of. Refined
sugar was also more in request, and 1-16 to soh. nu
better price had ben paid for this description. In-
digo showed symptoms of improvement. In cotton,
tobacco, rice, and bides nothing was doing, but the so
prices were firm. The opinion for coebin. al was I°
favourable, and some business had been done at an so
improvement. About 8,000 centner spelter for deli- so
very had been disposed of at 10 to 101 marks. The lyl
wool market had been very animated, and consider- su
able parcels had been taken at rather better rates, so
consequent upon the advice. from Breslau for that so
stap'e. Money was very plentiful. Funds and it
shares were firm. Uuld was quoted 436 marks. Bills 111
on England of all dates were in demand, and the ex- sr.
change was quoted 13.81 for 3 months, 13.91 for a
short. so

The pollee have already arrested the man suspected
▪ hairleteent the penned pastry to the female in the Rue
du Vert Bova, after e 11.12, which, two persona died, and two
wen taken seriously ill. This rasa, it appears, sent on the
ease day another parket of pastry to a female living in the
Rae dolt Victoire, 33; she gave part of it to the concierge,
and *hand the net with her servant. The concierge. his
Wile and son, parter.k of the pastry ; and about half an hour
alter al. three were taken ill, and vomited violently. The
female and her servant were attacked in the same
way. Medical assistance was called in, and It was
ascertained that arsenic was contained in what
had been 'need. Remedies were immediately
applied, atd the concierge, his wife and son, were yester-
day in • fairway of recovery ; the female, however, to whom
the pun wee sent, remained in an alarming state, and
her servant, who woe gent to the Hospital Beaman, died
in gr.at eufferiug, notwithstanding that every possible
sesistanee was afforded her. Aecompsaying the pastry was
ea
anonymous letter, bootleg the female to accept it from
as ell friend. The female recognised the handwrite',
sod was able to desigrate the man by whom it mast
have been wristen. The name of this individual
have g been e,masanicated to the girl in the Hoe du
Ter Bas, she rated that come yens ago she bad
pia enforce against tint, which had caused him'
to be condemned to fifteen months' imprisonment,
sad to that °cession he had sworn to be revenged. The
pasteyerok of whom he bought the articles a!so recopied
hiss ; this tradesman of course states. sad there is no reason
so doubt his assertion, that the pastry mast have been poi.
soled after it was taken from his shop. The prisoner did
Mee Masai, ecinftde the irides to consasirionaires, but
slimed boys whom be met in the street to do so, and these
boys remain bias
Oa of them boys was oa Saturday confronted with him,
bat, hem a &sage la the dress, the boy did not at lint
him. In presence of the boy, Myatt persisted in
denying kis gat, int be was greatly agitated. The
bey having stated that the person who het given him
the pastry wore a jeeket, a search was mad. in the pri-
ann's lodgings, and a ja.k:t having bean toned, he
was made to put it ea. He IMO then again confronted
with the I.d, who, on steles tim. immediately cried ;
t' Pah ' yes, that is the man that is the jacket
which be wen —1 rico/aim him perferly " Tee
eceused attempted to deny_ this, bat be could
only seethe • few words. He, however, requested a
3101811.. t to collect his ideas, and this having been preyed,
be made • full confession, sod rated all tho circumstances

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The somber of Teasels which entered the port of g
Hamburg during 1849 was 1,570 from Great Bri-
tale, 397 from Holland, 336 from Bremen and the IL
Weser, 245 from the Lower Elbe, 240 from Olden- ea
burg and East Friesland, 143 from France, 47 from to
Holstein and Schleswig, 37 from Spain, 34 from
Italy, 53 from Belgium, 21 from Portugal, 14 from 32
Prussia, 10 from Asia Minor, 7 from Archangel, 4 ;
from Sweden, 3 from Norway, 7 from Trieste ;
34 from the United States, 9 from Mexico, 41 from h's
Cubs, 28 from Hayti, 15 from the West Indies, 13 so
from Venexaels, 74 from the Brazils, 5 from Buenos g
Ayres, 5 from the west coast of America, 9 from N
Africa, 10 from Batavia, 16 from China, Singapore, 33
Oilcutta, and other Esat India ports, making a it
total of 3,459 vessels. Of thee. 1,146 were English, to
918 Hanoverian, 408 Netherlande, 337 Hamburg, It
187 Holstein, 128 French, 50 Norwegian, 40 Spanish, 14
24 Russian, 24 Prussian, and the remainder is made iss
up of various nations in smaller amounts. The total 160:
number of vessels which entered the port of Hamburg so
in 1848 was 3,304, against 4,178 in 1847, and 3,779 t
in 1846. The number of vessels in harbour on the no
let instant was 233, of which 28 were English. We ..30
reserve a statement of the amount of the leading im so
-
ports sod exports during the year 1849, for another 17
occasion. ss

eh al prided and accompanied the crew. It appears
that h had purrhas d the pastry at different elope, is erg,'
sot to glebe suspicion. He has stated 1116 &dime ci the
druggist frost whom h. procured the errant. Ti. servant
of trip female of the Rue de la Victoin, taken to the Hos-
pliai Beaujon, af.er ;totalling of the poisosel pastry, is
sot dead, as was reported, and hopes are entertiesad
that her life will los saved. The Dr* .t lays that ce
Setueday A:29t was confronted with this woman, ant
thee, n nwithstanding her horrihle sufferings, she, os being
told who he was, limped imprecations on him. Ho was
pea'aundly affected, sad auk is a chair in a state of stupor.

Aiwr of AIIstietWIS.—BORRISOK %NE, JAN. 5. I
rpos rha sight of Friday. the 4th lost:Ale, the family of Mi.
Maisel Mean, • farmer, midis, at Fituh, within three miles I
of Borrigokane, were alarmed by the ba king of their dogs,
wherepee one of the young men went outs,de the door, and
!mein, sees some men approaching, r •turned is and told his
brirher, who then got out of b,d, and partially dre,,ed him-
self; both brothers west out, each h Atrium • 1 itchfork ; they
them saw men staadine seal the tt-tee, challenged them,
and, in reply, war. desired to stand back; at the same mo-
lar:lt two shoes were diseharged at them; but wor.iag
desired, they charged the miscreants, foal in number, who
rte away. After • brick but short chase, William Mears
succeeded in capturing one of them, armed with a pistol,
which, ea subsequest examination, was found t) have been
mostly discharged. The Meares immediately conveyed
their prise to their house, at.ii one of them went for the
police, who, having speeoily turned set, search was made at
Miters's bower, ard • notic- was found posted on the wall of
• car heave. The polite teen proceeded to the houses of
suspected parties, gui led by footmarks which were manifest
is the wow racially feJlen, and arreettd some parries who
ri-se stand committed to Bridewell, together with the party
caught. I understand that bleara's offence consisted in
hev.ng become tenant to land nom which another party was
evicted.—Eceising Mail.

MONEY MARKET.

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so
3 per Clot. Consols DUBLIN 13TOCTL—last.
961
.7. lit
31 per Cent. Steak ...—.......... 976 141
Bank teak 139 pe.
Dublin sad Detthsda RILL
Belfast end Bellymnis l7l toe
Gnat liontbern and Western 3Ol
23
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=CHANDRA AND STOCKS ABIOAD.
Ilmisrno, he. e.—Prises ot !nods: Hamburg Threaand-s- 2. 2
Half per Cent., sei bills, ssi money; Hanoverian rim per Cents., tt
1.3/ b.us. 1061 money 1
; Runes English LOAM, 1064 bilk; Five per ....0
Cost. Hands. °ETU, 110 bills, 991 ; Hope and Co., led and 4th L
settee, 95 money; Pour per Orb, ta, 841 bills, 911 morn; ~..'
Pnemisa Fire per Cents , 104 messy; Danish English teen, Three 3,2,
per anti. 701 bilk, 701 money; Ditto in 1001. sham, 711 bills, 71 ~.1.0
money; Ditto, live per Cents.. 931 bills; Bwodisn Ilm., Roar per ..
Ceuta, 979 atones!' Naewrioo7oo,_Pet Cents-. 991 lit 99 00M; "
20
Tye pm gent.., i 1 i bills; Ditto, nave p.r Cents, 271
et looney; Morrie= Ms per Cesta., 1031 bills, 103 rconty. Es. 90
;tassel ea Leetion.—liambare, 4th tan, 3 mamba, 13.81; fhtto at
stibt, 13.91 ; Seasklebs, 28th Des., 90 days, 12.10. 131
AIegTOIMMI. Jam. S.—Active Del; wo-end-a-Half per Cents., 111
131 914; Dim% Tints per Ceuta, 64 641 ; Ditto, your pee Cents, L-
-941 73; Amort hysel., Them-444a rer Cents., 034 Of ; Com. ...
mereial Company, Toor-and.milell per Cann, 1681 168; ; East Inds
Loan, Four pm Omaa, $34 944. ea

THIB DAY.

TUESDAY EVENING,

The English stock market has been exceedingly
bunyi.nt to-day, and mote d. scriptions of stock were
more or less dealt in at as advance. In the present
**ate of the mosey market, and whilst the payment of
the. dividends it going on, this may be regarded as an
unmistakeable evidence r.f the additional supply of
capital thrown upon the market seeking investment ; '
and judging from appearance s, there is every proba-
bility of the advance of !, which has taken place in
Cei wale durii g the day, being not only maintained,
but &so followed up by further improvement.
Conaols for money were first called at 97 to ex di-
vidend, being an advance of over the closing price
of yesterday. They were. next done at 971, and, last
at 971. For the openitl on the 16,h inslant, they
were fiest marked h, es chvidend, from which point
they steadily advanced, frovion by fraction, until
they marked 911, the las* and highest print ; they
were officially quoted. at the close, 97; to 1.
The Three per Cent. Reduced were done at 97t,
and I. Mr 111. w Three-and-a Quarter per Canto.
were first marked 981, then 991., and, last, Pit!. The
Three per Cent. Annuities (1731) wire dealt in at
93. Negotiations were ale tie :led in South Sea Old
Annuities at 984, and in ditto New Annuities at 931,
ex dividend. _ _

The buoyancy of the English funds still continues, E.
and the market wears a steady appearance. Consols I:
far money opened at 971 to .- ex div. •, but no great sg
amount of business has been done in them for Gash, :4
and they have not varied from that price. ye
For the opening, the 16th instant, they
were first called 971 to ;4, between which ,g20
,
and the present price, 971 to 1, ex dividend, IS
they have oscillated during the mot ning, but at pre- I
sent the market is firm. A rise of not less than 1 per ii;
cent. has taken place in the Three per Cents. Reduced 22,
this morning, owing to the broker who usually acts ne
far the government having bought largely of as
this stock. It was done at 97:4 to 1, the latter 2:,
showing the last operation. The New Three- se.
and-a-Quarter per Cents. opened at 99t, and, :
after touching 100, they again fell to 99:, at bt.
which they are last marked. At one time, early. in to
the day, they were marked 991, the lowest point. 1:.
'Exchequer Bills are in request at 594. tend 62e. prem. so
Bank stock has again advanced ; it marks 207 and 9. 1
India Stock, 265. Ly
lii the foreign stock market, though not much be- IR
siness is g, aping forward, the tendency of prices is !p-
wards and Buenos Ayres, Peruvian, and Russian a
have been negotiated at an advance. The prices of :
actual transactions are as follows :—Buenos Ayres 13
Bonds, at 50 and 1. Equador, at 31. Four per Cent si
Dutch Certificates, at 86, 1, and 86. Mexican, at 291 :54'
and I. Peruvian Four per Cents., 1849, at 621 and 14
63. Portuguese Converted, at 37 and 36t. Russian, ill
at 111. Five per Cent. Spanish, at 19 and 1 ; the ao
Three per Cents., at 371 and t.
10

Exchequer Bills were dcne at an advanos of Is;
they marked 62.., 63s and 60a.; ditto Small, 89..,
a•-c 1 625. rem. India B nds were rrught atter, and
obtaieed 341. advance over yegerday's prices ; trig
were done at 965. sad 98.. premium. Long Annuities
84 •Ind 8 9-16. Bank S'ock was done to forme extrnt
at 2061, 74, 6, and 208, being an advance of 24 since
yes•ciday.
In the coarse of foreign .x -binge for this day's
mail there was little vartetior. tr..m list F idat's
rates. On Hamburg n. aottatione were effecird a
shade hirer, and on Lri:to,rn a trifle lower. Oa
ot't r placer there was tor utile rvable d &relict in the
exchange.
The following compriann of the h;gliesr and
lowest prim of the re c pal railway routs on ihe
London Exchange during hut year, exhilare the ex-
treme fhtztaati .n which na naive place in *h./ elan
of recuritt a. While C ns4. have thic.uaord Isom
881 to 96k, or R per oeur. oaring toe sear, it will be
se. n that the variation■ in the market Wk.% s of rail-
way shares have been from 30 to 76 per c-rat., Ind
upwards.

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OUTGOING MAILS.
The mails for British North America and the United
Stites will be mods up ea the 'eluting of Jan. 11.
The West India Malls, szoludieg Bermuda, Mammoth,
Nassau, Honduras, New Orleans, and Mezieo, and Including
these for Madeira, Bt. Juan-de-Mieeraithai Mew Grimed',
Chili, sad Peru,will bs sada up on Jan. 17.
The mails for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made
up on Jan. 17.
The melts tor, Gibralter, Melts, Orates, the balm Lauds,
Egypt, Cloy's'', India, and Chime, Ma Southampton, will
be made ap on the eveniag ellen. IL
The mails rid Marseille", to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Ceylon, Ltd* Hoarioog, &a, will be made up on the
melting of Jan. 24.
The sells for Maderls, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayree,wlll
bs made up on the main, ei Feb. 4.

NIGH WATRA AT LONDON NJUDOIL
Nen DAT—Nondair. DA Da Afteommo. 111. AMA
To-aoasevr—alsoNAlG IN, Oft. AtiosomD I. No.

LONDON, WEDNZSDAT, JANUARY 9.

Tag measure which the whip announce for the
extension of the suffrage, and which is to be scot and
lot voting in towns, and ten pound freeholds in the
counties, is necessitated by their past churlishness. In
1832 they would raise the qualification fur the
franchise in Ireland to the mama rate as
in England. The consequenos has been, that
between famine and the landlords, the Irish
electoral body has almost disappeared from the
face of the land, or survives in such scatty mum-
bees that tory landlordism can count and pocket
all. Defeated as these landlowners have been in open
meetings throughout Ireland, the hustings might tell
another tale at a new election. And, for the sake of
their own party and influence, as well as for the sup-
port of the liberal cause, ministers are forced to
come down to parliament with a proposition for en-
franchising in 1850 the very classes whom they dis-
franchised twenty years before.
To give such political power to the Celt, and refute
it to the Saxon, would, however, be etrange inconsis-
tency in politicians, whose organs daily insist on the
utter superiority of the latter race. The measure,
however, is announced in such a way as neither to
alarm monopolists nor disarm reformers. The minis-
terial organ raps :
The ministerial messure appears to be rather a develop'.
ment than a novelty, or, to spook with still more strictness,
it will probably aim at carrying out those intentions of the
Reform Act which have been [nitrated by accident, or
seetralised by time. As Ireland is the strongest cue for re.
him, so, perhaps, will it furnish a ens to the intended
English measure. It is said that in that country the names
on the register are only one in a hundred of the whole popu-
lation, Willie only a moiety of the number are equally quali-
fied to vote at this moment. Hanes Mr. Cobden was en-
abled to boast that be represented a constituency as large as
that of all Ireland. Should the Irish then insist on a more
open franchise, it will be impossible to with-land so reason.
able a claim. But in various fauns the same substantial
wrong exists quite as much as in this country. and on all
accounts it would be difficult to set about a repair of the re-
presentation without going through it. Once put the con-
stitutim into the dry dock, and your shipwrights will be
sure to find work, or make it, from head to stern-post, from
deck to keel. On the present occasion we opine that just
suck an overhauling is projected as takes place in the inter-
val between the discharge of a serviceable skip and her new
commission.

Having thus communicated the intention of mi-
nisters to the public, the Times, with much frankness,
takes the opportunity of conveying back to ministers,
and the influential classes the kind of answer that the
public is likely to give, and the sentiments which are
uppermost in every man's mind. " Parliamentary re-
form," it declares, " is a question which cannot die,
nor even remain in a long trance." It may be lulled
by prosperity, forgotten as long as the nation is
tolerab:y occupied in produciog and consuming or
profiting and enjoying, but the first chill of adversity
will awaken it. " Sooner or later there will assuredly
be a day of reform."
Ministers, therefore, and all those parties concerned
in the preservation and adroit management of parlia-
mentary influence, are warned by that vigilant
sentinel who keeps wide-awake in the watch-tower
of the Times, that if they would avoid having the
" points " of some popular charter or another
forced upon them, they will set about devising and
preparing charters of their own, with such spe-
cious " points" as will flatter the people, and not
seriously menace the aristocracy. The aim and pro-
, tension of reformers must not be left to the people or
to their true friends, who are far Ur) serious and
straightforward. Such a mine of political capital is
too valuable to be left to the uninitiated vulgar to
work. Better to lease it immediately out to whig
and tory companies, in order to their extracting and
smelting for their own Nuefit the precious ore.
What a warning is here for reformers, as well as en-
couragement ! What a spur to their vigilance, what
a lesson to their prudence, what a promise to their in-
evitable success!

We have shown of late, in many articles, how
futile it would be fur pretended reformers to extend
the franchise in name and appearance, without add-
ing one iota of tmedom or independence to any
popular class. Any law, for example, extending the
right of voting in certain towns, proverbially and
traditionally corrupt, what would this be but ex-
tending the field of bribery ? If the remedy
be sought in swamping the town population
altogether in the section of a county, like the
Raps ot Bramber, what is this but a ft lerant and
fresh subjecti. n of town interests to country preju-
dices ? The civic clasp, that most needs entranehire-
meat, consists ot dwellers in the towns tha: are not
represented, and who can only enjoy that right by
beteg linked tigetber.
At the same time, the classification and grouping
of electors according to their interests rather than their
locality, would be intruding a new element into the
cotstitntion, and one the results or development
of which could nit well be foreseen. That
eminent statesmen are not adverse to the principle, is
evident enough from what Lord JoUN RUsBELL threw
out, of the elp-diency ot a kind of artisan franchise.
It would, however, be impossible and unfair to intro-
duce into parliament a certain number of members
who would represent classes, and act, as it were, as
the tribunes ot those popular classes; whilst the other
members ot the assembly were returned by the
mixed population and property of a district. Although
borough and county constituencies sanction this, it
might be carried too far. Such a principle would aggra-
vate the autagonipm already existing between different
classes of the population, and introduce into parlia-
ment a fiercer element of strife than has yet been
known there.

The Times of yesterday has treated the all-im-
portant question of reform in a convenient way. It
communicates ministerial intentions, gathers and
records popular tendencies and desires; it warns the
menobohrots of their danger, and having pio-
claimed the question to be a growing and a dangerous
one, it recommends proteesimal politicians to lay hold
of it, and guide it so as to suit their interests, lest it
shout I fall to popular management, and be made the
ground of a large and real extension of popular
liberties.

There is one danger, however, if it be a danger,
and one result, of which the 21,nes has not warned
its friends and patrons. And it is this, that
if the franchise be tampered with for mere
party purpose., if is be dragged in one oi-
rection to soothe tte fear of the aristo-
cracy ; rent in ano her corner to conciliate
the prejaniees of this or that dominant interest; it
errant of the popular class are to get the pried. ge
of representation because they are safe, and others to
be excluded because they are discontented or ambi-
tious ; if contending parties in parliami nt make
the frarchtee question their battle ground, and
come there to outvie, outbid, and out-manccavre
each oth-r ; it, for • xample, whist the whigs
are seeking to it elude in middle class rights the
mote skilled and industrious of the operatives, the
Wriest, or ary portion of them, should repeat their Old
trick of sopeilinl to the lower classes, and enlisting
their champions directly or indirectly in the cause—
then the result ot all this tampering, and m ceuvring,
and struggling, ul this ileitis,' patriotism and pseudo-
liberalism, will be the ailivtion of the surest mode of
patting an eud to all squabble about the franchise,
viz.,—the rends rieg it universaL

TURKEY.—CONSTANTINOPLE.—The Vienna Wan-
derer says from Cutistsktinopie that a cabinet courier
arrived there hunt St. Petersburg on the 15th with
despatches for da• Porte and Herr Titoff. The dif-
ferences between the Porte and Rasura and Austria
stun to hive at quitted a more serious aspect than
More. The Ems ror Nicholas insists that he will
not resume diplomatic relation, with the Porte so
long u it Usti be subject to the influence of Eng-
land.

IRANCE.

PARIS, TOIEDAY, 5.90 r x

The ministry are triumphant, and M. Thiess hum-
bled ; such is the result of yesterday's de: ate. Two
thousand men will be sent to support negotiations,
and the La flats question will, it is soppowol, be at
an ehd. Inferything looks couleur de rose. The law
on the institideurs pritnaires will be voted, if the
arraigeraents consented to on both sides are kept to ;
and the great law on education is fixed for debate on
the 14th. The law on primary teachers will, however,
lead to a tierce, and, I suppose, protracted debate, and
the victory, if won by the ministry, mast be attained
also by a small number of voles.
M. de la Hitte did not disavow the words of the
Napoleon to which M. Daru bad referred. Ile merely
said that the attack against the ni,jority in the
Napoleon was sent round to the journals without his
consent or influence. These words abms would tend to
show that the sentiments e: reseed in the new Napo-
Isonian journals are those of an authority over which
M. de la Hitte has no control. The press all com-
ment upon the vote of yesterday. The Dihuts—ali
along a partisan of peace—considers it as a victory.
The t onseitutionnel considers
The Tots of yesterday is the absolute triumph of the po-
licy of the ministry. If it be said that a majority of 38 is
small one, we may reply that it is large, wben we considrr
the accidental opposition given to the cabinet on this
question.

The Prase blames the ministry for not having had
the courage to go farther than it did in its resistanc••
to the war party. This journal feels convinced that
the cabinet would have have recognised the treaty of
Admiral Le Predour if it had not been actuated by
fear, and thine, that, if it I ad had the c tursge of its
opinion, it would have succeeded to the full extent of
lite wishes.

The National blames the Assembly for leaving the
government free to take its own course., and says the
ministers will again involve France in the diplomatic
difficulties from which nothing but disappointment
and deception can result. The eud of this, acoordiug
to the National, will bo a recourse to the mediation of
England, which, it add, has an interest in preventing
the development of the maratime commerce of France
and the activity other navigation.
The first subject in order for debate in the As-
sembly to-day was the project of law relative to the
nomination and revocation of teachers in primary or
communal schools. The committee to which the
matter was referred, had put their motion as follows:
" Until the promulgation of the organic law
on education primary instruction is placed
under the immediate care (tarred:once) of the prefets.
The primary teachers will be chosen and appointed
by the prejet of each department, either amongst the
laity or members of religious societies under VJWII to
teach, and so recognised by the state. The option to
be on the advice of the municipal council of the
rnmmnno "

The first speaker that rose to oppose was M.
Lavergne, a member of the Left, who in ai y but
measured language stigmatized the proposed law as
an infamous one, and one that violated the constitu-
tional charter. He pointed out the anomaly that the
new project would withdraw the teachers from the
supervision of the minister of public instruction to
place them, through the power of the prefets, under
that of the minister of the interior.
M. Beugnot immediately replied, that the com-
mittee had been amongst the first to remark upon the
entire independence of the teachers. It proposed in its
report to have them appointed by the Academic
council, and dismissed in cases of faults by the same
authority. According to the law of June 1833, the
prefet is authorised to suspend a teacher who may he
dismissed by a decision of the c .nsul de prefecture,'
subject after all to appeal to the council of the U,
varsity. It seemed illogical to the committee that
public funcdenaries in the administration eh uld
subject to regulations and penalties wh.ch could not
fall on teachers. Passing from this to another con-
sideration, M. Beugnot entered into en account of the
harm done by certain teacher', who, instead of cen-
finicg themselves to the objects for which they were
appointed, spent their time in teaching children the
rights of man ; they had transformed their schools, he
said, into clubs, and spread those ideas of anarchy and
disorder which were the disease of our age.
Finally they had mace the children larder
them instruments to carry about and spread through
the country socialist books and pamphlets. It was
now a known fact that the socialist propaganda was
no longer carried on so much in towns as in the cow- -
try, where the teachers, who were the object cf tr e
present law, were its instruments.
M. Pascal Duprat followed, and was left speaking.
The President of the Republic, on the report of the
minister of the marine, has conferred the decora'ion
of the Legion of Honour on twenty naval surgeons,
as a recompenso for their exertions and devotedness
daring the prevalence of the cholera at the various
naval ports.
M. Gal me, a commissary of police, at Lyons. a
few days since, made a seizure at the hones of a M.
FdIICOTA a tailor of that city, of a clandestine library,
composed of from 8,000 to 111,000 works on commun-
ism and socialism of the most violent character. The
tailor admitted that he was employed by the socialist
propaganda to sell these publications to the working
classes. A espy of the " Democratic and Social Con-
stitution " was fcund at the same place.
A seizure of a quantity of almanacs, containing vio-
lent's icialist doctrine, took plaoe a few days ego, at
the shops of the booksellers at Cahors (Lot).
By the postal treaty between France and Switzer-
land, presented some days back by the minister of
foreign affairs, a single letter of 71 grammes (abant a
quarter of an ounce) is to cost 40c., of which 15c. are
for Switzerland, and 23c. for France. By a clause,
similar to that already introduced into the past-1
treaty with Belgium, letters are to circulate wi rain a
distance of 30 kilometres (182 miles) from the fron-
tiers for 20c., to be equally divided between the two
countries. As to letters sent to or from the ports of
the Mediterranean, where France has postal estali,h-
meat., they are to cost lfr. for each singe letter.
The budget committee has at last come to a deeition
on the question of the Paris and Lyons railway.
The Constitationnel states that the project of law pre-
sented by Mr. Bineau has been adopted. 'the govern-
ment will then be authorised to treat with a compauv
on the following conditions :
Guarantee of interest at 5 per cent. on a capital of
of 200 millions, a lease of 99 years, and stare in
returns above 8 per cent.
BOURSE.

PARIS* lan. S. Fat !For Account.
Money. MiglawL Lowest. Chains
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bank), 106 25 ; Orleans, 520; Paris and Konen, 3x2.1; Mourn and
Havre. 245 ; Marseilles and Aainnua, <2O ; Strasbourg and Bale, 115;
Centre (Vinson), 315 50 ; ilou'ogne and Aaiun+, —; Orleans
and vlorresiut, 420 • North, OM ft ; Montanan and Ileryes, 111;
Paris and litraaboaa. 360; TOW/ and Nantes. 271 23.

MADRID. UK. I.—Four per Cenba., 121 paper; Five per caw,
13j; Coupons, PI paper. Y.seliasiga ea bindum. 3010.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—A letter from Rime, of the
30th ult , in the Constitution/A says: "A few tights
back, simultaneously in all the principal towns 0 I Ro-
magna, the drugt,ists' shops were broken into anc, all
the poiannous substanoes tarried off; nothing else wee
touched. The quantity of poison thus taken ii,
to kill all the inhabitants of the Pontifical &aces,
and great apprehensions have been produced be the•
act. An arrest has, however, just been made, whiolt
may lead to a discovery of the parties concern, d
in the matter. The Advocate Salmi, governor of
Feud, has been arrested and taken to Ancona. There
were found at his residence an enormue packet of
cockade., two tricoloured flags, several pairs of pocket
pint Is, a great number of poniards, Owe of vel.ich
were prepared to receive poison, and, lawly, a cor-
respondence in cipher with the chiefs of the Italian
revolution."

The l'ope hu written a very lengthy enc3cl:cel
letter to the archbishops and bishops of Italy, de-
ploring late events, and stigmatising in no measured
terms their promoters.

The Marl of Liverpool sad the Rey. James Carmel' ere
expected to arrive at the Castle to•dq, of a visit to her Ma-
jesty sad Prism Albert.