The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21.

II I futile to affect to deny the retrograde tendency
of Preadellt FILLMORE./ Eleellerl on thew t: of
Castes Deltas. The priociple of prat/otiose is bt-
Las eannoiated with bated breath, and, as it wee%
parenthetically. Haw else could it be set forth under
the arcansstances ? A majority is claimed by the
defeedere of the existing tariff in Congress. As
overwhelming preponderance of the citizens of the
mublic is notational, on the side of free tied..
What possible inducement then could a man in Mr.
Fit Loonies position have to do more than party
bower seems to require in the direction we have
mused P The whirr, by *bow suffrages he has
berm raised to pre-eminent station and 'total.
nal, if not real, power—the whirs of the Union
chaff to the traditions of protection. If the men
of foresight and ex,erience amongst them did not
halo.* this to be worth adhering to, if they believed
their revival in smie shape or other possible, the
world would hear no more about them. Tne formal
reiteration of such a belief by their chiefs in office
would otherwise be wholly unaccountable. Bat the
naked avowal of their aims and hopes by a whig pre-
sident would be still more so. _ _

Where a system firmly compacted exists, and the
object of its assailants generally is to effect a small
breach in its entirety—the best wedge is that whose
point is most carefully attenuated. The blunt end is
of no use whatever, and nobody think, of trylog it.
But how profound must that stupidity be which con-
soles itself with observing on the fineness of the edge
of the insinuating implement! Pretty much of
this sort are the ingenious criticisms upon the
reactionary inaendoes of Mr. Plumose, wherewith
certain of our contemporaries indulge. Custom duties
sat not recommended primarily for the sake of the
iron masters of Pennsylvania, or the cotton weevers
of LowelL The wants of the federal exchequer are
professedly the cause of increased duties being pro-
posed,the advantage which would accrue to the said
saanufsctarers being only " incidental.* But where-
fore the suggestion of a consequence which the quick
sagacity of three-fourths of the community will at
once translate into an intimation of an incidental dis-
advantsge to themselves? And wherefore the sug-
gestion of such an essential change in the mode of
raising the duties as is plainly calculated to eked the
greatest amount of protection to the particular
branches of each kind of manuracture which in Ame-
rica has always sought for an extra profit by mesas
of a differential tariff? _

If the proposal were an augmentation of so much
per cent. on the value of all imports for a given time,
is order to provide a food for the redemption of the;
debt cootracted on account of the Mexican W.; the
amount of protection thus incidentally gives would
be hardly worth notice, so far as the manofecturing
interest a coccerned. The sum of national disadvan-
tage would be equably diffused, as in all cams of just
taxation it ought to be, over the whole community:
and the means of wealth thus curtailed would not be
rwoceotrated by a refinement of the principle of
monopoly in the hands of a few. The idea of invidi-
one preference would not be suggested. Toe notion
of particular gain equivalent to the general logs
would not be rainvested with a seeming sanotioe.
Toe delusion would not be conjured up anew that
enterprise can build safely on fiscal fonadations.
A perfectly fair ad referent customs duty is in every
sense equivalent to a fair income tax, perhaps we
should rather say to a fair expenditure tax. All pay
according to their outlay upon the necessaries and
comforts of life. A sense of public equity se between
man and man is called into being. Koh and poor,
thrifty and prodigal, pay according to their own mea-
sure of enjoyment. The state is felt to be no respecter
of wrens. Is affairs of taxation justice to all is

But the scheme of the American wbigs is based oe
far different principles. Their aim is not only to
make the rich richer by operation of law, bat to do
so by making the poor poorer by the operation of the
mate law. Instead of ad valorem duties on imports
of general consumption, what are termed " amine
duties," or those which impose the same amount of
tax on quantities of equal weight wholly regardless
of the otter dissimilarity of their respective values, are
recommended. The palpable consequent* of this
most be to tax the coarse fabrics which the working
man n quires for sae as mach as the finer Gees which
the opulent and luxurious covet.
The New England and Pennsylvanian 0'14'4144
es yet attempt to vie with Lancaeliire and &afraid-
shire chiefly in those branches which require the
least am mot of skilled labour. Wages are high and
land is cheap, beyond the ocean, and sa yet capital is
lees abundantly applicable to mines, foundries, or
mills. In the natural growth of society these
elements might possibly cheap their relative propos.-
dons. But the whip are d ttrinairea. They watt
to force a wealthy dam into existence. They sigh for
an aristocracy of wealth ; and they would hamper the
*award progress of their country in its hitherto un-
rivalled development, for the sake of realising this
their political dream.
How futile all efforts of the kind are likely to
prove, we may, perhaps, infer, from the &dare that
has attended every attempt which has been made for
the purpose in question, since the formation of the
Union. Tilers has never been wanting a party
anxiously bent upon schemes of the sort we have
indicated. At vil lons times they have temporarily
gained an apparent estenassey in the legislature
and the edmiotstration; and they have seldom
forborne to set about experiments like that
now launched by President Ptht.dols. In-
variably, however, resistance and defeat have
eat short their schemes, sad the instinctive policy of
the nation bee is the main prevailed. Nevertheless,
we freely own oar disbelief in the wisdom or prudence
of affecting to treat the renewal of each attempts at
the present day sa mere unmeaning bagger menaces.
It is not true to say that the alteration in the tariff
suggested merely by the desire to pay off the war
debt. Nor is it safe or honest to accustom men's
minds in this country to the notion that whenever
there is a deficiency in the exchequer (so matter bow
caused) an lamas° of import duties is a just and
equitable way of meeting it. Wears mach 'Bielsko
if tile be not the very doctrine which oar own
plotting protectionists are preparing to urge
daring the coming melon se so moms for
going back in the commercial poliny of Great Britain.
They are ready to vote sway say existing tax that
will leave the Treasury enacts, and, having einem-
plished that feat, they are quite prepared to resist all
reductions ofexpenditore to a eommensarateasoent,
and to oppose the levy of any other impost than one
on imports. For this new dodge we mart be pre-1
pored. It is not for notbieg that the open talk of
getting back a corn law has been abandoned. Under,
the plea of duties for revenue, whit Mr. FILLMOIII
calls " the ineitental advantage of protection to no-
mastic industry" will be sought for; gad to make a
case for the remedy the wound will, if permitted, be
deliberately caused.

°Ns of the most distressing tumefies@ ever
pr. vented to the public of this country oases to
us in recent &dries, from the island of Jamaica. Pro-
vidence has been pleased in a most awful manner to
visit that Weed with the fearful pestilence which, in
a very mitigated degree, we endured in Englaad is
the &Mum of Let yew. Human efforts have bran
unable to stay it. The emerge bad literally ewer the
scathes gam el the Wang of its population. Death

in the towns Dos visited
the victim have boos so
have owed to tell ot thou

of dm yew by the gram
Us Aid dimes first
Poet Boyd. We have r
titers. All we bear is '

weather was elresdiegly

nice stoned to have

black aloe& bum like .
district. Meat probably
was misdeed to Port
anemias from the authorities.
we view it is England r
its name ocean meet

@hippie( movammts teem
small, miserable, dirty. wet,
spit of sand which runs from the main .
disable distance into the sea. Poet Royal has always
been • most unhealthy spot. Its positing Ms contii-
hated to this; still more the soaked chamstse of its
lanes and the flyby mods eflife of its lentsbeee meals-
tioo. By water Port Riyal is distant from Kinvieswa
about three miles : by land it cannot loireselnd ender
ten or twelve. But the oommanieatton with FJEgolows
is, neverthelese, Ineneast, and it is not to be wondered
at that the pestilence sacs introdaoed into Part Royal
soon found its way to the waterside streets of King-
stown, and took ;on among tLe black inhabitants.
It might have been expected that in Kingstown the
havoc would be frightful. In the lower parts of that
town the streets are not only mast cinfloed, but they
are all absolutely devoid of every provision ter
drainage, and of nearly every provision for cleansing.
The natural indolence of the population had prevented
their taking the slightebt precaution, and the moment
the prevalence of cholera became known among them
they become pnic-stricken, and fancied it was too
late to do any thing .fftctual.The town soatained 'boat
40,000 inhabitants, nine-tenths of the population being
coloured. Unaceustomed generally to seek medical
assistance, these poor people, when attacked, knew se,
better r, source than to lay themselves down sad sub.
mit to the fate awaiting them. After ems the a
board of health was formed, and memos woes
taken to stay the spread of the disease, but it was rest
until it was too late. By the period that preventive
measures began to be taken, the town of Port Royal
had lost one fuss ra of its entire population, and the
deaths among the people of Kingstown had risen te
100 and 160 a day.
The amount of the state of Kingstown during the
Ipestilenee 'sends in gloom and misery any-
thing that has of late years come under our
notice. Entire families had been cut off. The
living of a household commonly proved inset-
Sliest to bury its dead. Coffins could not be
melded. The bodies were collected and carried in
Owlet° the graveyardinnd there they were accumulated
Ida such numbers that it was found impossible to bury
them. In one churchyoud no less than seventy
bedles were lying at one time without a prospect of
interment. At length the governor nosed an order
that the painful work should be performed by the
convicts of the district prison, promising that those
who engaged in it should have their sentences com-
muted. In another case it was found necessary to
engage the troops in the awful task. Trenches were
dug and the bodies of the dead thrown into them by
wholesale, bat still the deaths continued to exceed the
means at command of disposing of the deed.
From Kingstown the pestilence spread to Spanish
Town, the east of go_vernment. One of the earliest
victims the was MT. JOHN GALE VIDAL, Clerk of
the Assembly. From Spanish Town it spread to se-
veral estates in the adjacent parishes of St. Dorothy
and St. Thomas in the Vale. At the miserable little I
village of Old Harbour Bay there were no lees than'
102 cams reported in one day. At the Bushy Park
estate,where we should think therecannot be above 300
people, there were so It.. than 60 deaths. Bot this
seems to have been nothing compared to the ravages
of the disease in Kingstown and Spanish Town, In
the Penitentiary at Kingstown the deaths were as one
to every four of the inmates. On one day the num-
ber of interments reoorded reached 203: and this is
supposed by no means to have represented the num-
ber of deaths; for not only were the majority of
patients unattended and %tinctured, but the authori-
ties thought it accessary to refrain even from stippl
deg informatics as to the deaths, in order to me
po-sible, the public mind.
The horrors of this pestilence have been fearfully
increased by the absence of medical men, and the
threatening of an evil still more dreadful—the es-
hanstion of the supply of the most requisite medi-
aloes ! Upon the lacer feet becoming known, a man-
of-war steamer was dispatched to Con, and a supply
of drugs was obtained. But the absence of medical
men hes all along been fearfully felt. There is said
to be but otos medical man to every 6,000 of the island
population ! We observe in the Jamaica papers, ad-
vertisements from different parts of the country for
medical assistance. We copy one of them :
Leal Board of Health, fit. Mary, Port Marts,
Oat. 29, 1860.
lIRDICAL 01JITLIX11111 ISQUI/MID.

Three Medical Gestlean en required to he etetkeed In
different districts within this tsarist. to whom a liberal salary
will be pins daring the prevalence of the existing epidemic.
Every facility for temporary resides*. will be afforded by
gentlemen to the Miran% diarists. The rwidest member
of the perish offers accommodation totes gentleman regain .6
in hie distrin lamellate spplicatios to be made ea above.
—By ardor Ono Board, Theodore A. Geogliogsa, Joseph
A. Illpyer. Boners" Secretaries to the Baud.
The Armies Hominy Journal says :
The diens odour =mina ems have ben ie this calamity
beyond all praise: but their energies are nearly exhausted ;
you an see this la the 11•101,01111 liantilliliaes that betoken
no went el stoop sad net, and die trans of deep, latices
anxiety, that show but too plainly bow deeply they are is
snood with the solemaitv of the limn It Is utterly Im-
possible that, unaided, they en hold out sea loses
Think of bat on medical sae to every Aire thousand of the
populants I What could they do foe their own immediate
friends and patients were the disease saintunately to spread
rapidly and nasally sesoupt us ? It is physioallv imps
sib's that they amid sops is such unequal tonal with the
true destroyer of human life—: ay, it is men thee probable
that, exhausted. dispirited, sad were down with the excep-
tive fatigue, both of body sad mind, they these Ives would
(all victims to no tissue, and this our population would
fell by themes&
The position of Jamaica with regard to medical men
is this. During the period when slavery existed in the
colony there were a limited number of medical men
settled is each pariah who contracted with proprietors
to attend the people on their estates at so mach per
bead per enema. Virtually, the medical attendance
of each district was monopolised by some Gee
medico who kept under him an assistant to do all the
fagging at a small fixed stipend. When slavery was
abolished the coat of menioal attesdence was one
of the items which the proprietors tiseght proper to
reduce. The consequence was that Unsold apothecary
system was broken op without soy eiherbeieg subitt.
toted for it. The doctors, mast of when hat made
ample fortunes under the old system of peachiest left
the country altogether. The proprietors of estates
deleted from ordering out from &gland eves the
deader ripply of drugs they had bees atoastomed
annually to procure. Taking the einistry districts
generally, no such thing as a chemist's shop is t, be
found, and
be coneequently eves the mat ordinary
remedies may be said to now entirely usprocurable.
Surgeors are still 1110111 swat, sad osasigneatly the
state of Jemmies der og this calamity has, for waist
of proper medial attendance, been meet awful.
The cholera has been thus raging in Jamaica from
the beginning of October. The accounts last
meeteived from the island amok to the 14th of
November, and the pestilence at that time appeared
scarcely to have abated. We really take some shame
to ourselves that we have not called attention to this
state of things before, but if we may not entirely
stand excused, at least the blame which fall. spoa
the press recoils upon a still higher authority. It
eonsirts wilt our knowledge that several weeks since
the attention of the Colonial-office was direeted to the
dreadful rate of the island of 'enlace. We know
an instance is which at least one gentleman, to whom
this country is most largely indebted for his able ex-
ertions during the period of cholera a* home, solicited
an interview with Mr. Hawes, is order to lay before
him information as to the state of the Island, and to
offer his services to proceed there at once for the
purpose of organising measures of relief. This
gentleman waited in the " sighing rooms" of
Downing-etteet —not until hi, patience was ex-
hausted, for that is inexhanstible—bst until
the late hoar at which the Under-Secretary
came to bushier. And when Kr. Hewn did some

he received, not an omitr to go to Jamaica, but a sort
of rebuke administered by the porter, by Mr. HAWES'S
authority, for his presumption in coming there, and a
cold intimation Vast " an answer would be sent."
Wass the inseam was sent, the long fo.lsosp ex-
pressed, meet tersely, that the Colonial-office saw no
occasion foe any interference. " I am, Sir, &0., B.
HAWED..

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

Our correspondent write, as follows :
BERLIN, Die. IL
The difference respecting the osessaisearies for
Hesse Cassel, which was mentioned in my letter yes-
terday u having arisen between Austria and Prussia
WIMP not of very recent origin, and was on the point
of being, if it was not then already, actually settled.
Count Leiningen has at last been appointed
joint commissary for Hesse, in addition to
the office of civil commissary to the allied army
in the electorate. lem told that his appointment
is signed by Austria, in the urns of the governments
easembled at Frankfort as the Bundestag. He has
arrived in Camel with General Pucker, sod has, in
conjunction with him, given the inhabitants of the
town to understand that, unless the ordinances of
Hochberg and his employers be obeyed within 48
hours, the execution will proceed unhindered. This
period expires to-morrow (Thursday). Prussia bee
again given way to the interpretation pat by Austria
on the Olusit,s articles; the sovereign authority
of the Elector (as you are already aware) is to be I
restored, his guilt and the greater crimes of his
minister are to be ignored, the people are to submit,
and, having submitted, are to come before the repre-
sentatives of the two great powers with their com-
plaint.. The result is plain. With thousands of
(.:reign troops eating up the wealth of the land,
with trade and industry prostrate, it is hardly to be
expected, even from the Hessians, that they will
venture to state their case in all its fall colours.
They will be convicted of passive resolution and re-
sistance to the just ceders of their sovereign, the con-
stitution will be declared dangerous, and will undergo
those lopping, which Austria and Fronds may see
fit to make. The cons'itstion in Herne is doomed.
The agents of Manteuffel in HMSO are perhaps doing
good in retarding the return of the Elector to Camel
until his evil opuccillor, Hassenpfitse, has let him for
Dresden. The presence of the originator of all their
calamities would naturally decrease the pliancy of the
Carolers, and might reader still more obnoxious
measures neesseary. I understand that the Eieotor
will not return to Cassel until Hassenpflag is on
his road to Dresden. _ _ _

Count Alveasleben is to be accompanied to Dresden
by Count Flemming. The Austrian representative,
Count Beol, is still in S.. Petersburg, where he is
Austrian ambessadra. He will hardly be able to
get to Dresden in time fee the opening. It is not ex-
pected, however, that the opening will be delayed in
oonergeence, more particularly se Prince Schwar-
senberg, accompanied by Councillor Werner, will be
urgent. The Austrian ambassador here will also be
present at the opening sittings. Herr von Man-
teuffel will leave Berlin on Saturday night or Sunday
morning. Baron von Rudt, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, will represent Baden.
The Deutsch* Reform defends the expenditure of
the millions consequent on the mobilisation, on the
ground that they have been spent in the country,
and calls on the public to rejoice that it has not been
necessary to spread any part of these abroad. The
tax-paying public would have been better ples.ed to
have kept their quota+ in their pockets, and rejoiced
their children with presents or a better dinner than
usual on Christmas day.
The king came to Berlin this morning, to attend a
cabinet council and to review a regiment of the guards.

The German papers received this morning bring
no news of importance. The Prince of Prussia,
after a review of the regiment of guards, declared to
the officers whom he assembled around him that the
question of pesos or war was by no means yet de-
termined.

The piooeediegs of the commissioners and of the
" execution force" in Hew, is exciting the strongest
feelings of popular indignation throughout Germany.
WURTZ BURG, Deo 14.
The society for the support of the Hessian officers
who hare recently retired, from constitutional mo-
tives, from the service, is abolished by the following
magisterial edict :—" By command of the govern-
ment, it is hereby announced that the society
for the support of the so-called constitutional o
cern and officials is, by the 19th article on the law
of association, abolished." Art. 19 is as follows:
" Every police authority is required to hinder the
assamblinir of any society by which the subversion of
the religious, moral, and social principles of the state
is threatened."

Santur, Doc IL—Voluntary Low 104 j ; Now Loan,
Pour-and-a- Halt par Coals , 08j ; National NU, 84} ;
Communist Marine Society's Premium, 190; Besk
Slum 93j.

$ pit
! Pot

Daa. 18.—Fire per Cent. Metalligate, 934;
Four. ead-aaelf par Craft., 81k. Beak Ohara, 1140.
Easaaagv a Laa, 12.38.

INTRODUCTION OF THE AUSTRIAN
TOBACCO MONOPOLY INTO HUNGARY.

The Vienna Gomel*, of the 14ih, contains it me-
social, Mined by the ministers, recommendiu; the mammies
of the goveroment snoupoly of minus into iiongary, DSO-
sylvania, Creeds, liclavonia, Sonia, mid the Bust; end
else • royal dune in which Mt /taperer gives ti this mesa-
inesiaties the force of Isw. Tim main ground alleged lot
this innovation, which follows elate upon • similar estimates
of t he salt monopoly, is tb nseasity of giviog unity to the decal
systems of the empire. The abolition of the enstomafrentkr,
shish oath lately orperated the kingdoms avid mows Made
above mimatioud hem the ether ponies oldie 'lapin, has far-
ther made the operation of the lobes.° euespoly unfruitful and
thable is those proviso.. In which it him long
It thus legally sr well se politically usessery either to
eased the mooepoly to the whole empire, or to abolish it
altegether. The ministerial inommial takes um of the
many varies. whish have bees mimed for the total entation of
the tobeose mosopoty, sad, indeed, easeedes that awt from
the simetaithe of the state, sad epos simple pollteeeso-
ale moods, it were better to ;leave the eanution of an
objets so intimate' to agricaltaral end sommereial industry
as tobacco to open sompatition. Two airountanme, how-
ever, decide the miotetry to wend* these reelamatiou ;
the diet, the fact that the mosepoly yields at remit maw
than 13,000,000 nodes to the state treasury ; the meeml,
that the politieei •sod sommunial elteation ot the empire
demands that monstbing may be due at coos to feeniude
free intercourse Milne= all the provisoes of the Aostirlein
sacciaisky, and attribute the prosure of imam equally
over all the oatiesaaties. These fasts made It hopoile to
pompon* a decision, while the soodidea of the state tear
ray towboat all tratesttala esperimeetiag ea the national
revenges. flesh experiment Milt be reserved flat a Weise
when the balsam betimes the isoome tad expenditure
of the realm shall have bees restated, and whim
all the other *mom of revenue shell be gield.
lag pleateimaly. Until that period an meet eine that
a Attest ablest 44 indirect Walks In sot tit he fossil tom
tabus, is the various forms is which is is ellalphOled This
greeted, the matins of the article by MOWN of a moupoly
of ill eels, has the decided Mummy@ that the impost only
aff. me the rummer of the object es which it is laid, an
esly exactly io the properties is whisk he seasunos it ; that
the revesue le railed- is the smallest meals anumenta, the
amber et which le is the power et blot who has to pay It;
sad that It is left to the Is.. chaise at sae to withdraw
ken dm paymmit of the tag by thaw of the
artists. I. lamaseries the Debra, mosopoly law
lieagvy sad the Assist WOW% lanes, the govern.
meat will strums the right of appointing its estate to
whoa alma theesltivstonsttsbescomaylegally ell 084
predate". It will oleo nominate the establishment., aid the
tomato sad en which the suusufacranre of tobacco leaf may
be serried en; end, further, will regulate the expo:maim of
the raw and sarmiafeaqtml ankh, to foreign yowls. limy of
the ioluibitenta of Hangary now minute tobacco for tlitir
ewe 0011161711liti0111. To these We right will be outiaueel
wader certain reotrietions ; for future, it eta only be emir•
eisrd by ikon who cultivate their own freehold; the piste of
land devoted to tob.ceo cultivation mut be 'aides ground,
and near to the dwelling of the eallvator, w oe
be seder his own rs potable pardisaahip ; its testae mom
bear a proper proportioa to the n aireamate of the ae sal
smoking mombeis of the it. Tido tobacco eo cul-
tivated must only be used fur smokieg la pipes, sod it meet
not be permitted to rind it late muff, roll it into titan, or
twist it into pigtaiL As it would sot be jut to em, tons the
prisons to privileged Item a tobacco tar, a studard of ewers
.nt, based upon the when cultivated, Is proposed. The
mosopoly In the abov.-mestioned proviso's 5. proposed to
date from /Limit I, 1851. Is the Interval government will
save to provide warehouses. managers, sad lb. si•www,
Oaten for cooduatiog the sow busiesse of the stem. Blade I
a large ostabot of penes. saw nag god is the manufacture
or sale of tobacco will lad thasadre pradsded hoot fol.

ECEMBER 21. 1850.

111 Sib of
sapid* IS
44 ladeaal•

your
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Too prin-
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part
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llhi maser to be siiiiited tree of duty into Algeria;
mad that lardy artiefes sisal be admitted into the
oolooy on payment of the tame duty as they are
subjected to is the metier-country. Tee ob-
ject of the bill, twassipwady, is to pleas Frames
sad Algeria on terms of perfect commercial
reelprooity. The first speaker was M. Deefobert, who
at ones length criticised the measures adopted for
the last few yeers in the colony, and declared them to
he of stab a character as to reader the creates' sue-
else of the colony exceedingly problematical. The
hon. gentleman declared himself opposed to the plan
.(general colonisation now in emerge of trial in Alge-
ria, and quoted 'me pansy" from a
pamphlet, pub-
lished by General Cavaignao in 1839, as in favour of
his opinion. General Cavaignao being thus referred
to, rose in his place, and assured the hoe. gentleman
that he bad quite misunderstood the views put for-
ward in the pamphlet spoken of, as be (the General)
bad always been in favour of a prudent system of co-
lonisation. After further some discussion, the debate
was adjourned, at the request of M. C. Depth, the
reporter.
On the resumption of the debate to-day, M.
Woloweki made a speech, which occupied two hour',
in which he opposed both the principles and details
of the measure, but there was so much conversation
and noise in the home that very few of his remarks
reached the gallery. The mesture was strongly sop,
ported by M. Nagy, who declared that, although he
bad been personally long opposed to the complete oc-
cupation of Algeria, he thought that in the present
state of matters, the bill, amended as it had been by
the committee, would be useful, and was even indis-
pensable. M. Darblay then rose to oppose the mea-
sure, after which M. Defame said that he
thought that at all events a bill so intereetiog to
Algeria and France should be allowed a second read-
ing. The discussion was then closed, and it was
canned by a large majority that the house should
pass to a second reeding.
It was then resolved that some iuterpellations with
respect to the mode in which cloth was supplied to
the army should be postponed till to-morrow, after
which the Aesemb!y adjourned.
The first meeting of the new club formed under the
auspices of Count Mole, was held yesterday evening.
It was thought that Count Mold himself would have
taken the chair as senior, but M. Ferdinand
AVM who was present, having clearly proved that
he was the senior by some months, he was called to
the place of honour. The business done was
very -limited. An attempt to bring on a discus-
sion on the dotation question, was checked by
Count Mole, who declared that the question should
not be discussed until the bill was introduced
by the government in the Assembly. It mu accord-
iugly resolved unaoireously that the further con-
sideration of the subject should be adjourned.
The meeting also determined onsoimously to oppose
the proposition of M. Victor Lefraico, relative to the
new electoral law. All the members who addressed
the meeting on the subject expressed their opinion
that the new electoral law applied equally to the elm-
Lion of the President of the Republic and that of the
representatives of the people. Out of the 47 members
of which the club is composed 37 were present.
The Union, in alluding to the new Legitimist
Committee, says, " We repeat on this subject that our
political friends do not constitute either a directing
committee, nor a ministry, and that the bonds of
mutual esteem and of a great cooformity of principles
aloes form these meetings in which their line of con-
duct is deliberated upon, but ism rvieg to all a perfect
independence of judgment sad action.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of Franco has in-
creased both in Paris sad in the branch-banks, the
augmentation in the former being 21 millions, and in
the latter 11 millions. The dimouut accommodation
has increased in Paris 1 of a million, and in the latter
f of a million, the Amount of the former being
63,068,6121 r. and of the latter 87,6134,5841 r. The
protested bills have declined to 167,000 tr. On the side
of the liabilities. the notesin circulation hive declined
I in Paris 31 millions, and increased in the departments
of a million. TIN amount-current of the treasury
has increased 101 sullies', the present amount being
83,588,048 fr. Private aceommentrrent in Paris have
fallen off 48 millions, aid increased in the provisoes
about 1 million, the amount of the former being
74,403,370(r., and of the latter 27,288,0713 fr. The
whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 468;
millions to 4873 millions of notes is circulation.

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Ileigm.l, IND
Roman Una 11140 744
Do. 44 5O . 1650
Do. •11 Memor deeds
Piedmont Sp.CL 1640 64 40 . Neat Mey _ru Oll7 40
Borman.-Bt. Oennain, 495; Vanilla (right bank). 166;
Ditto (lett bank). 168 75 ; Park sad Orleans, 860; Paris
sad &mien, 662 60; Rouen and Harr., 267 60; Id 'lles
and Brims, 193; Strasbourg and Bale, 137 60• Centre,
410 ; Orkin' and Bordeaux, 400; North. 478 76; Paris and
Strasbourg, 367 60 ; Tears aad Ramos. 247 60 ; liontines
and Troves, 05; Dieppe and feesap, 184; Bordeaux and
Torte, 36.

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wised nearly limy household ; "Dowsioretreet" heaspeksi thaw Row has "New riaittntVala hoshwom by the *ow lotlviottoo. the
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thew in detail, antillnerely sad wail : t the fitevezlisa go watlio7-Zio
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lig appeared In the &Immo at of 'i to terhil- to Ss wets prods 7as hare lived entirely by the air or
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Woks of this measure an that the productions of
Port Royal, obtained little wnt wan time ago • Illeihroar, sad of roster a
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authorities. Port Royal, though "GUT.' We, who beset of sue hater is the Legislative mom* yesterday dist your
ties en important place, beam, nity-who let etely4bitetwww of ow eitarby 'smarter-left, the debate on the bill for the regulation
frequently in the wooents of -we are sever ire is ow heoevolenee"-eao• by of the oommeroiel ultimo was continued. Toe /mis-
treat the island, is in reality a "Downing-street alone I It is, indeed, soother eon-
ty. waterside town, bailt on a villein Proof, if proof were weotiog, that We Worn Algeria are to be adsaitted free of duty in every part
rasa from the wain a cowed- either give ap Downing-street-or give .i. .of Ek. French territory ; that French articles Sr. in
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