The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1850..

Mr. COCKBURN said be bed made eg Me Mei thlit
wee hesituhes moot thrlabs He fag wawa id
!d
t bad las iron lhe geetiletime wht NO
down es *the ha in eedi be tbe
of jetties. Hs be amid it es bla Oar Of eursaalail=
rds, sad that it was of the asset
ewe ; end the only growl as whist; be bed made
to rappert the mum MB eseellest he believed
women number or seen is whisk Iliteey SOW le
thimitwd whilst witnesses were elliosi to she eh es*. U
all less weld be get to give dole semimegt "pea sub, tiles
lie set It we mot to be abatis.; bee abed this. existed,
es there did fa many oasis, a osesoisolooo Stalin 111 dill
taking of it. then the parties, embedding Akan
ought to he allowed to give their twin., yea elleibillea.
He believed that scrotal religious setts Inked apes it se a
iesdaisestel principle slat they 'heel& mitt take an eeld.
Was the bone prepared to withdraw the plass* grained
to Heckles sad Hsravtees / II they were, thee they would
shut est the testimony of au whose 'videos, was aecessery
hr the eresiehhation of jasttse.

Kr. 0017LiIIIIN oboinvell k was no part of his armnost
that the phew a ssj le withdrew& nroon Qookon
mad Morevlono.

COCK BURN had certainly understood the right hon.
gentlemen to denominate the privilege an " eburdity."
(Hoer, Mar.) The erne point as whisk he took hue Mend'
we. this—that we could net compel sea who entered • wart
of justice to take so oath, and that, es ewes ia which they
refused to take the oath constantly area, society lost
the benefit of their evidence. The utmost are
and pr. caution, however, were nemerary to protect
cuurts of justice from being impanel appeosa by
persons cooties forward, and making a false deelantloa,
for he freely admitted that mute might make a Ulm decla•
ration who would not make a declaration falsely it they were
upon their oath. (" Hsu " sad chars frees the opposition.)
He had seen person. kieslog their thumb end finger instead '
of kissing the book, end when they were made to hisl
the book, then he had obserwd • total change in their de-
meanour. (Hew, beer.) He believed *bet the imerrate of
the public required that the principle of this bill 'Mould be
adopted ; and thersfuire he would give it his support.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. NBWDEOATE opposed the bill. He thought the
'feet of the suggestions of the hot. member (Mr. Cockburn)
would be to introduce two kinds of evidence into
courts ofjustiee—evidetnes oa oath, end evidence not on oath.
Sir R.N. BUXTON quoted the evidence of the clerk of
the Central Criminal Court takes before the House of Lords
committee to show that upon the credit of testimony given
upon affirmation in that court no questim ever arose. He
was certain that if the present discretion were continued to
be left is the bends of the judges no inconvenience would
arise from it ; but on the contrary the ends of justice would
be promoted, whilst the conscientious scruples of individuals
would be respected.
The house then divided when there sopearsd
For going into oommitte• es the bill 129
Avant it l4B-19
The anuounesment was received with loud chain by the
I opponents of the IltelleUre.

SMALL TENEMENTS RATING BILL.
Several araeadaaeata sad some elms ware twougbt ap
sad added to this bill.

Dlr. W. PATTEN objected to the Clang* which only
gm an abatement of the rates to owners to the extant of
nine tenths. He had no objection to throw the rates upon
the owners, but he thought if they paid 3-4ths it would be
ample. Re moved therefore to substitute three-fourths for
nine-tenths, which amendment was speed to.
Mr. P. SCROPE moved that that put of the clause
giving the parties power to compound for two-thirds of the
rates, be altered to one-half.
After a diactudon Mr. BAINTS suggested that the parties
should be at liberty to compound at any amount not less
than one-half, instead of two-thirds, in which lons the
amendment was agreed to.
Other clauses were added to the bill, and the bill was
ordered to be reed a third time.

HIGHWAYS BILL.
Mr. C. LEWIS, in answer to a request to postpone this
bill to • distant day, said he would oertaialy proceed with it
on the Bth of May.
COLLECTION OF FEES BY STAMPS (COURT OF
CHANCERY)
The home went into committee, and agreed to the resolu-
tion oa which the bill on this subjeMt is to be founded.
FEES—COURT OF COMMON PLEAS (COMPEN-
SATION.)
The report of the reeolutiou on this subject was brought
up and agreed to.
NEW WRIT.

A new writ wee ordered for Lymington, in the room of
the Hoe. C3l. Heppe!, who had accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.

.11e-e-hoWae adjourned a hw urinates before eh o'clock.

.11Fites,,Orlirt00*

I P,'

ING MAILS.
The ugh hp =North Allergia sad the- Gaited
States we he ma, y to-raorrow evening.
The waft Ifes Liebe., Spain, sad Gibraltar 'KU be made
up ca W.
The West India Mane, Inehidiag Beraaitia, Havaaaali,
Sassaa, Honduras, New Orleans, sad Mizico, sad excluding
shear foe Madeira, St. Juan-de-Nicisragua, New Gnash,
Chill, sail Penh whU be atadeup on May 2.
Tao mails for Maderia, the Braille, sad Buenos Ayres, will
be wade up on the 4th of May.
The mails rid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
yloa, ladle. Hong-Kong, he., will be made up on
the @venlig of May 7.
The mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Greta', the lonian Islands,
egypt, Csyloa, India, and China, vim Southampton, will
be made up on the moraine of May 20.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25.

IN all the annals of financial blundering there his
rarely been a parallel to the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER'S new scale of Stamp Duties. "Sir
CHARLES WOOD'S scale" will inevitably go down to
posterity as a joke. No Irish Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer could have made a funnier blunder. It is
recorded of the late Mr. MARTIN,
of Galway, that in
order to impress a city capital,st with the extent
of his resources, he 'misted that his debts amounted
to twice as much as the citizen's accumulations. The
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S new device for
raising revenue is of a piece with Mr. MARTIN'S cal-
culation of his wealth. Sir CHARLES Woon has the
singular merit of having, by a most ingenious artifice,
proposed a tax that nobody need ever pay. If he
has a majority to-morrow night he will deserve it,
for ench a scheme must make him wonderfully po-
pular.
Sir CHARLES WOOD proposes to adopt the duty
fixed by the House of Commons upon a Bond
Stamp of the value of 501. That duty is
le. or 2•. per cent. Upon all stamps, however, be-
tween .501. and 2001. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QVER ears that the necessities of the state re quire
that he should impose &higher scale. He will there-
fore take these duties at the rate of 6s. per cent.
Thus, upon a consideration of 1501. he imposes a
stamp duty of Bs. Gd., for the purpose of raising reve-
rue. If a mac, therefore, wants to raise 501, he
will have to pay Is.: if he wants to raise 1501., the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposes to make
him pay Bs. 6d.
But Sir CHARLES Woon has forgotten that there
is nothing to prevent Tom JONES, who desires to raise
1501., giving three stamps, each of the value of 501.,
instead of one stamp of the value of 150/. The three
stamps of 501. would cost him 3s. ; the one stamp of
1501. would cost him Bs. Gd. "We calculate" there
can be very little doubt as to which description of
stamp Tom JONES would be likely to prefer. A man
at a beer-shop, who started on the principle of un-
derselling his neighbours, proposed to retail his ale at
Id. a pint, making up his loss thereon by charging
an additional price upon the gallon. Bat customers
who brought their own cans requested to bo served
with a gallon of ale, in pints, thereby paying Is. 4d.
for what, taken in the larger form, would have cost
nearly as much again. It is just such ano.her " ope-
ration "that is contemplated by the great national
financial COCKER.

Such a blunder as this shows at once the dilemma,
the CHANCELLOR of the EECHEQUER has fallen into
by abandoning the principle of an equable ad valorem
scale. how he is to get out of such a difficulty, it is
impossible to foresee. It would be impossible to irtro-
duce a clause compelling every man to use a stamp of
a specific value : no clause could be drawn to meet
the case. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER may
rely upon the inconvenience, which the multiplication
of stamps would necessarily occasion, or upon some
idea that solicitors would charge more in tl.e
shape of outs, if a bond was given in the
form of three stamps instead of one. But the incon-
venience, whatever it may amount to, will be quite
counterbalanced by the pecuniary saving; and as for
the charges of attorneys, we are fast arriving at those
halcyon days when every man will be his own attor-
ney, at least in cases of small transactions. At
the present time anyone can obtain a printed form of
bond upon stamped paper at the nearest law sta-
Itioner's ; and if the transactions are to be multiplied
under the new scale of stamp duties as the CHANCEL-
Loa cf the EXCHEQUER expects they will be, it will be
only in those which involve large considerations that
the aid of a scrivener will be necessarily required.
The fact we have above noticed shows uomisbake-
ably that the scale as it now stands for adoption by
the house is simply impract'cable. We pointed out
yesterday that it was exceedingly unjust, proposing,
as it does, a rate which levies an additional per
ceettage upon the small borrower, whilst it relieves
the very rich one from the ad valorem duty. Be-
tween Sir CHARLES Wooli'S scale and the scale
of which the minimum has already been fixed
by parliament, there cannot 100 a moment's choice,
provided the revenue is not affected by the greater
diminution. Now, on this point we have the advan-
tage of the calculations of a correspondent practically
acquainted with the detail' of the subject, and he
Eroves very conclusive ly that the CHANCELLOR of the
XCHEQUER has estimated his loss of 286,000/.
upon conveyances, on data which will not bear a
moment's scrutiny. It is on " conveyances.," remem-
ber, that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER esti-
mates his loss; upon the other stamps he admits that
any diminution would be counterbalanced by the gains
upon the larger items.
To establish his cue what has the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER dons? He has estimated that t wo-
thirds of all the stamps issued, which are am/int/de
to conveyances, are actually used for conveyances.
This estimate he has followed throughout the scale,
without reference to the amount of the stamp. He
then takes seven items from the list, and he says,
I shall lose as follows :
Upon 10s. stamps £ 17,008
„ 11.
„ 11.10 s. .7
„ 21. „
OP
It a II
DO 91.
The great items of loss are upon the stamps between
109. and 30s. Upon these he calculates that he shall
have to sacrifice no less than 187,000!. of the total.
But the fact is, that those stamps on which the CHAN-
caLLon of the EXCHEQUER assumes this lose, are
stamps used for a vast variety of other purposes than
for conveyances. A 10e. stamp is used as a stamp
for receipts in full of all demands; as a stamp upon
protests; as a stamp upon bills of exchange ; as a
stamp upon appraisements of particular amounts—
end above all, as a stamp upon memorials. The
statement of " &rotator " kith the number of memo-
rials registered in Middlesex proves in the most con-
elusive manner that scarcely any of the 10s. stamps
could possibly have been used u stamps upon con-
veyances. Indeed we all know that in practice
scarcely such a thing exists as a conveyance of land
of a value of lea than 201. And yet the CHANCELLOR
has calculated that there are nearly 60,000 such con-
veyances annually, and has shaped his estimate of loss
accordingly !
In the same way with the 11. stamp. This stamp
is used for all the different purposes in the list
following :

Appraisements I Mortgages
Apprentice Indentures I Money Bonds
Annuity Bonds Powers of Attorney
Duds of Bale Ws:rents of Attorney
Lessee Protrusive Duties
Is the shape of progressive &sties (or "followers")
alone it is calculated that at least 150,000 of these 1/.
stamps are used annually. Upon leases many thou-
land more must be used, because this IL stamp is the
stamp almost universally employed for building leases
and others where the rent is of a small amount. In
the same way with the 30s. stamp. This stamp is
the stamp applicable to counterparts of leases, and as
every leu• has a counterpart, the number of these
stamps must be reduced by so many as there arc
leases annually executed in Ureat Britain. And yet
the CiteNeaLLOß of the Excitecinxit has absolutely
calculated the amount of his loss upon an estimate
that no lean than two-thirds of all such stamps as
these are stamp. used as ad ealurras stamps upon con-
veyances. The fallacy of the wools calculation is so
transparent that we wonder the Stamp-office should
nave fancied for a moment that any one amid be de-
ceived by it.
At a very favourable calculation to the CRANCRI.I.OIt
of the ExcitaguEtt, so far firm losing 260,000 i. upon
conveyances, the utmost amount of his losa in the

least favourable years could not possibly exceed
120,0001., and would probably be as low as 100,0001.
The Stamp-office calculates that the ad valorem scale
of duties upon bonds and mortgages, commencing at
Is., would entail a loss of 150,0001. additionaL For
our own parte, we do not believe that it would entail
a loss a 60,0001., to may nothing of the rest. But
grant that the loss will be 150,0001: add this to
120,0004 the loss upon conveyances, and the total
would be just the amount which the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER originally. proposed to give the pub-
lic in the shape of a remission of taxation.
Sir Cumuss WOOD threatened us on Monday
night, that if he could not carry his unjust and (u
we have now shown) impracticable scale, he "should
be obliged to abandon the bill alfogether." As it is
at present shaped, we cannot say that we think the
public would weep over its loss. There is nothing
more ardently to be desired than an Equable ad valo-
rem duty upon stamps of all kiwis, commenc-
ing at the lowest practicable EESIe. This bill
gives us nothing of the sort ; all it gives us is a most
objectionable scale, commencing much too high.
Rather than such a measure as this, which unsettles
the text of the Stamp Acts without reforming them,
we would prefer to take the 300,00 W. the Cuut-
eguka of the EXCHEQUER has to give us in almost
any other form he may think right to offer it. Whether
he applied it to remove the window duty, the adver-
tisement duty, the soap duty, or some other obnoxious
excise duty, would matter very little. In either of
these forms, or in many others, we might get the
300,0001.—noder this Stamp Unties Bill no one will
ever receive a farthing of it.

Tue feature of the Conference of the National Re-
form Association, now in session, which inspires with
most hope of good results from its deliberaiions, is its
reality. The association may be at present numerous
or it may not; the public mind may be ready to come
forward with enthusiasm to support the association,
or it may not; but this is certain, that the members
of the Conference really represent the sentiment& of
the provincial as well is the metropolitan reformers ;
that the political leaders of opinion in our provincial
capitals are present =once Them.
For example, Mr. HUME and Colonel THOMPSON
will be allowed on all hands to represent fairly the
old and stanch reformers of the metropolis. Messrs.
KitasuAw, BRIGHT, and COBDEN are entitled to speak
in behalf of the mighty mass of public opinion wnich
was organised in the late Anti-Corn Law League.
Messrs. LATTTMORE and TILLETT bring to the coun-
cils of the Conference the spirit and in'elligenen of the
reformers of the agricultural districts. And when
we turn to look to individuals more than to classes,
every person acquainted with provircial politics will
admit that no more reliable representative of Lei-
cester could be found than Mr. BIGGS, of Sheffield
than Mr. SCHOFIELD.

Tee Conference is composed of men who have re-
spectively earned the confidence of their fellow-
citizens; who are reco.rnined in their localities as
leviers or organs of public opinion. Collectively
taken it has a personal hold on a large potion of the
electorate of the kingdom. The views and senti_
ments expressed in it may be confidently received as
those which animate the great body of the industrial
middle classes, at d which are sure to prevail in the
first political movement to which any incidental
circumstance may give cccasion.
Scarcely less important is the spirit of mutual coa-
-1 ciliation observable in the members of Conference,
and the firmness with which they adhere to the pro-
gramme adopted when the association was originally
formed. The tone and temper of their discussions have
been eminently satisfactory. As their energetic and
indefatigable president remarked, they have met not
to decide upon the nature or extent of the prrliamen-
tary reform they shall seek, that having been already
determined. 'their "discussions and deliberations
have reference to practical measures for carrying out
a previously adopted, and gent rally accepted, scheme
of representative improvement." A rather inc,..n-
siderate attempt to re-open the question of the exact
measure of parliamentary reform they were to seek,
has elicited a most unequivocal expression of the Con-
ference's agreement in pinion with their chairman.
In the words of Mr. TirwarrEs, their object
is "to give practical suggestions for the operations of
the association;" or, as Mr. TILLEIT expressel him-
self, " to consider the best practical means of carrying
out the principles which had been stated as the basis
of the association."

In this spirit two important resolutions were
adopted by the Conference on the first day of its
meeting, instructing and empowering the council to
take measures for organising local cammietets and
facilitating the enrolment of members; and for dis-
tributing tracts and sending lecturers to visi: various
district.. An equ .11y important resolution was carried
yesterday, to the effect that " the council be r quested
to prepare a bill containing the plan of reform pro-
posed by the association, with a view to its intro-
duction in that shape into parliament."
The resolutions we have alluded to appear to us to
combine all that is required for an efficient combina-
tion of a parliamentary and out-of-doors agitation of
the objects of the Conference. By embodying their
plan of reform in a definite and tangible bill, the
evasive pretexts under which professing reformers in
parliament shrink from supporting it are exposed in
all their hollowness. And with such • bill in their
hands, the agents of the association's missionary ex-
ertions among the general public have their tuk in-
calculably simplified.

The skit in which the Conference received and re-
sponded to the remarks addressed to them yesterday
by Mr. CURIES convinces us that they will rot do the
work slackly. It is indeed true, as that gentleman
observed, that it is " only by long and arduous
work " they can look to attain their objects.
The whole polvical power in this country sprang from
registration ; that was a subject to which they must pay the
greatest attention. The only political, moral, and c4nstitu-
tional means by which they could edect any object in this
country was by attention to the register. Every man, when
he got home, must attend most earnestly and zealously to
this subject ; must form associations for this purpose. It
they did this, they would gain a great influence in parlia•
ment. TM+ was an object which could not be effected by
central efforts ; local efforts were the great means to be ap-
plied. But it was not only in the boroughs that they mug
wort ; the greatest opposition to the cause of reform was to
be found among the county members. • • • lle firmly
believed that it was by actiqr upon the counties that the
Anti-Cora-law League had succeeded in its efforts. lie
bad always said, during that agitation, that let them
osly get South Lancashire, the West Riding, and East
Surrey, and they would carry the repeal of the corn. laws.
Well, they got them, and they carried the repeal. Let
them, then, by means of the National Land Amociations,
work upon the counties, and there could be no doubt that
they would in like manner carry their citjects.
The members of the Conference are no mere theo-
retical poachers of abstract principles of parliamen-
tary reform. The Conference embraces the members
of parliament who supported Mr. Ilt-stE's motion and
the representatives of the reformers among the consti-
tuencies. They meet to deliberate on the best way of
rousing and organising the electors to support them.
At present the old aristocratic parties are in a state
of helpless disorganiaatios. They growl at each'
other, but neither of them can muster strength
to strike a decisive blow at its adversary.
They aro both more afraid of the growing inde-
pendent middle class than of each other. In
this their paralysed state, the National Reform As-
sociation presents to the people the nucleus of an or-
ganisation by means of which they may wrest from
either, or from both united, the concession of their
rights. Disgust at the imbecility evinced of late,
alike by government and the legislature as at present
constituted, and the pressure of taxation, and of ob-
scure, half obsolete, and vexatious laws, is in all parts
of the country making daily new converts to the prin-
ciples of reform, and stimulating the zeal of old be-
lievers. At a more suspicious moment the Con-
ference could not lays taken the field. It it go on
as it has begun, BUM'S is certain.

EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THOMAS SIIEE- '
TON YON EMNIZZL 22222 AT IPSWICN.—TbiIi individual,
who has recently been secretary to several building societies
in Ipswich and its vicinity, was fully committed (Or trisl on
Monday last, on three separate charges First, for o►taining
money under false Pretences on lechalt of the East Anglian
Building and Investment See,ety ; wood, for rata Wing
money belonging to the Suffolk Improved Buildieg and Im-
provement Company ; the third charge bring for a similar
offence against the same compon). The Ipswich E.rpress
states: "Since these cases were heard, we understand that
the prosecutors had originally intended to °online their pro-
ceedings to four cases--twn te, each society. Same threes,
however, have reached t►e ears of the directors to the effect
that it Smeeton be not &oat ,4 mildly " with, he •rtit endea-
vour to implicate some of the gentlemen who have been
intimately connected with t►e eceiteties. Tha *Met of this
has been to induce the prosecutors to carry the entire case
still further against the prisoner, in order that the value of
such threats may be tested, and the cherae:.er of the directors
vindicated ill the epee of the public."

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNERAY, 7 r h,
M. Culler continues to wage a war of extermina-
tion against the Erenement, which he causes
seized wherever the sergens-de-ville can
hands on it. As the police cannot vent
to invade private dwellings for this purpose,
I:tenderises take refuge in the shops of liberal tradeti
men, several of whom have offered to establi
depids for the sale of the pereesuted evening psi
M. Girardin declares that the Prose having be
singled out for extinction, he will carry on a war
resistacce against the authorities, in which he wit'
shrink from no sacrifice. He redacts the ahead,
low subscription to six francs for three months, ar,
offers to take weekly subecripticins at ten sole.
A great dinner was given on Monday at the El\
All the ministers were present. General Charil
bier, Berryer, Mole, Tellers, and Lamartine,
among the guests.
The candidature of Leclerc was first proposed r
meeting of the moderate press in the Rue Bei
The earliest notice which tie public rt Nicer' of
selection was a huge placard composed by the
mittee of that Assembly, in which the trait of heroism
before the barricade in the Hue de Ciery was put for
ward u the main title of M. Leclerc to arpire to
votes of the moderate party. In other II rivets
Leclerc was not a bit more fitted to he put up
candidate at the election of the 28. h than hundt,
of hie fellow-tradesmen. Now it has been proved
clearly as it is possible to prove anythicg, that t
is not one word cf truth in any of those cero c
tures of the etory which hit the imaginations of
Assembly of the moderate pre's. The seventeen'
with which the eldest son was killed have dwil
down to tao. The father played a much more oat
and equally courageous par. in riendirte the rest
the day in efforts to console the ben aved mother. "
second son was far off in the quarter of the Invt,
drawing up an inventory for the notary wima clef
was. He was not conducted by his father to the it
cadet', but reached his brotner's house I to in
evening, and remained there with his family tint
funeral. These Lets are attested in a public le
by an indie idual who affirms that he had them
has companion Camille Leclerc, the youth in I
tion, and who is ready to give his nnme at .d edi
Three days were spent in getting 25 sioa!ures
a whole company cf national guards to a lett
skilfully composed as not to deny poeitiv ly
the above facts, while it c.tnvet s to the rev er's
a far different impression. 'l've equivocal com
tion of which the letter is capable, and the p
signatures have rather damaged the iefereLce inert
to be drawn. Thus all the tine leathers with w
the candidature was dress( d up has been plucked
and M. Leclerc stands revealed to the public I
honest paperseller, who lost a con at the barrica4
June. Many of tae moderates are now opt
their eyes rather late to the feet
they would have acted mote sakly to cal
for M. Fernand Foy, who had at least the el
having obtained 120,000 votes at tee
March 10, of bearing 9.4 iffaerious nem-, ai
having been an hereditary peer of Frazee. i
events, the brisk renunciation of his claims, alb
had been proclaimed as the candidate of theElet
Union, to set up another candidature, which it
appears had no better motive then a romantic 1:1
has completely diecru,ted a large party of his
porters, who intenrcr.ll to give him their ewes.
The moderate papers of this morning are I I
with a letter from M. Ltcle'e, who states the
motive for breaking silence is to repel the all
which have been made upon his probity as a to
man. Ile leaves his friends to set in the correct]
m'urnful event which drew ou him the p
attention. But he defies any one to fix the
wain upon his private cheracu r. He has no pr
lion to be a hero, but takes a legitimate pride in '
an honest man.

It has been reported that tree socialists will
forward Dupont de l'Eure. There is not the
probability in this report, so the order of thi
moved by Dupont de l'Eure en the 23:h of Niirei
when Cavaignac was assetled, was a deed whicl
socialists will never forgive.
A Lotice, signed by the prefect of police, is r
up all over Paris, giving warninz that V e cxi
penalties against persons g an illegal e
tity of powder in their coesession, or fabricating
without the necessary license, will be strictij
forced, according to the law at Mar, 1531, ar
enacts that no person is allowed to hold in hi
session any quantity, however small, of the po'
used for artillery, and not more than two kilogi
of common gunpowder, under pain of impristirit
for a term cot exceeding two years. Another cl
in the same act suSjects to a similar penalty, and
not exceeding 1,000:r., soy one wit) manufacti
belie, distributes, or holds in deposit arms withoni
necessary license.
Yesterday, in the Legislative Assembly, the sir
200,0005% was voted for the celebration of the r
versary of May -1. The rest of the sittirg
found complete in my letter of yesterday.
In the Legislative .Assembly to-day the debat
the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture wi
seined. The discussion, which was languid
tedious, turned on the Agronomic Institution of
sallies. Alter hearing MM. Rude!, Massiii.
Darblay, the Assembly rejected a total reduction
posed by M. Itaudot.
Atter a debate without the least interest, tile cl
ter was adopted with the sum proposed by tr..: c
mittee. The Assembly teen adopted the chapter:
tive to encouragements to agilculture. Tars i
arnouttttng to 100,000:r., was agreed to. The Asi
bly aeljourned at six.
The National and Press,' anaemice that the
tary elections took place at Orleans yes-erday,
that Eugune Sue obtained -1$ votes, and Leclerc.
4 votes. This rumour seems to have had some u
ence on the funds.

The table of imports and exports for the first q,
ter of ISA is anything but satisfactory. There
falling off of nearly a million upon the quarte
compared with last year. In 1,4i9 the receipt
customs duties amounted to somewhat more than
millions. This year they are little more that
Cottons, coffee, and colonial sugars make up the
41 the account. In navigation, freights under
French flag have greatly fallen off. There is adi
nut ion relatively to the month of March comp:
with 1519 of .18,000 tons.
Tne government has just submitted to the exams
nation of the Council of State a bill on the teen,
ment of the army.

Borne.

PAII Aran Y. 1 Pee
limey. I Opening 11141 test. i Lowest.' t.

Vet Acwunt

30 55 55 35 33 3
40 39 49 b 9 13 b'

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„ Tre.e.iire Bonds ... 41
Piedmont 5 per Cents. 4:1 0 „ limik Miami

00;:aan —Carr ad (Mean, 717 30 ; Pan. And 11011,0. dt
Rouen and /lam... 21530; Avignon and Mantedlea, 177 30; sun..
and Bale, 101 ; Orleans and Imam, 31$ 73 ; I trleano nod Bon
J 00; Northern, 413: Lane and rantaboorg. ; Tour,. and /C
2:12 30; Vetaailles 0101 bunk;, 180 ; Ditto (kg bank), 140.