The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-22 00:00:00

STAMPS 17PON CONIISTANCIS.

Punkas, lira 47 iSsiTsisCiUty. Fropeesod Duty.
£ 0. d E. s. d.
Uadei £2O .. 010 .. 0 2
• £5O .. 1 0 .. 0 .5
„ £3OO .. 2 0 .. 1 10
„ £4500 .. 3 0 .. 2 10
„ £l,OOO .. 9 0 .. 710
„ £5.000 .. 45 0 .. 60 0
• £lO,OOO . 95 0 .. 100 0
„ £l5 000 .. 130 0 .. 150 0
„ £40,000 .. 350 0 .. 400 0

How is the 300,0001. to be given no under thia re-
adjustment? Where are the multiplicity of estates
of the value of from 201. to 501., the purchasers of
which are to receive their share of the money which
Sir CIIARLEB WOOD so liberally apportions for their
benefit ? But we will go to the leans. The govern-
ment are quite sure that their dear friends, the latd-
owners, desire to encourage their tenants to take
leases. They propose, therefore, the following enor-
mous reductions peculiarly foe their advantage.
LIAIIIB.

Yeuly Rent. Prase at Duty. Proposed Duty.
E s. d. 1.: a. .
£2O .. 1 0 0 .. 0 2
£lOO .. 1 10 0 .. 0 10
£4OO .. 3 0 0 .. 2 0
£6OO .. 4 0 0 .. 3 0
£4OO .. 6 0 0 .. 4 0
£l,OOO .. 6 0 0 .. 6 0

The tenants who will rush to their landlords urging
them to giro them leases in consequence of this one
pound reduction in the stamp duty, will, Sir CHARLES
WOOD thinks, be enormous. He has distant visions
of a general exhaustion of the supply of stamps in
consequence, and of • paucity of boxes in lawyers'
offices to hold the valuable parchments.
But there arc some landlords who desire rather to
mortgage their estates than to grant leases on them.
Sir CLIARLEB WOOD accommodates them. Hero is
the schedule for

MORT° AOlll.
Amount. Present duty. Prorrored duty.
£ s. d. £ r. 11.
E5O .. 1 0 0 .. 0 6 0

£lOO .. i 1 :: ole 6
L 500 .. 4 .. 2 10 0
£l,OOO .. 6 .. 6 0 0
Li 000 .. 8 .. 20 0 0
£15,000 .. 16 .. 76 0 0
£ 40,000 .. 26 .. 200 0 0

We really de sot think this will suit the liusdlords.
teats. Will they favour us with an early expression
of their opinioef It is not often that a mortgagee
talks about 501., or else we might expect him to
thank the CHANCELLOR for a saving of 16r. But
this class of gentry usually " speak in round num-
bers," i.e., in thoawods, What do they say to paying
201. when they have heretofore paid 81., or 761.
where they have been used to pay 161. P And, above
all, how do they expect to get the 300,0001. oat of
this arrangement P
We don't know whether Sir CithithEs WOOD has
got any daughters ; or, if he has, what he may in-
tend to settle on them. But were we among " those
about to marry," we should scarcely thank the CHAN-
CELLOR for his amended scale for stamps on marriage
settlements. Here it is :
13sTrthiesiirs.
Young Ladies' Portion. Present Rate. Proposed Duty.
£lOO .... 116 0 .... 0 6 0
£l,OOO .... 116 0 .... 210 0
£4OOO .... 4 0 0 .... 10 0 0
£12,000 .... 12 0 0 .... 30 0 0
£20,000 .... 20 0 0 .... 60 0 0

Estimating ourselves u quite marketable at the
latter price, we have no idea of being mulcted of 30L
in this cool way, and all in order that some possible
Miss JENKINS, whose papa giver her 1001, may have
255. extra to spend upon her b3nnet. As we never
heard, however, of a settlement of less than 1,0001.,
we can only look upon the readjustment of this duty
as an increase of taxation ; and, in that point of view,
we stigmatise it as a gross deceit.
For, be it remembered, this readjustment was to
save the purchasers of stamps 300,0001. out of the
million and a half the CHANCELLOR had at his dis-
posal. It was for this that he turned a deaf ear to
every appeal that was made for a remission of
taxation. It was fur this that he insulted
those who called for a remission of the window-tax,
and scouted all who asked fur a repeal of the taxes
upon know'. dge. It was for this that he maintained
the excise duty or soap, and prevented the poor man
from obtaining occupation by p,rpetuatirg the tax
upon advertisements. It was fur this that he threw
over the greatest opportunity ever offered to a minis-
ter, and has sacrificed, as we believe, his little reputa-
tion
as a statesman.

For now that this scandalous attempt to defraud
parliament and the public under a deceitful pretext
of remitting taxes is exposed, who will believe that
this budget can be carrikd ? Who will consent to
vote: in favour cf a plan which gives us increased
stamp duties, whilst professing to give us the brnefit
of 300,000/. reduction ? As the attempt is too gross
to deceive anybsely, so we may be sure the country
will resent it.

If the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had said,
it I will make a great alteration in all the stamp
laws, I will modify the duties on bonds,
mortgages, &c., and I will remit those which
press upon honest industry and enterprise, *63
would have refused him leave ti hold 300,0001. by
way of caution-money, to be applied wherever there
was found to be a deficiency occasioned by the work-
ing of his plan ? But Sir CHARLES WOOD has not
attempted this. He leaves the stamp duties on ad-
vertisements, on bankers' licenses, on pawnbrokers'
licenses, on postmasters licensee, on lace dealers,
licenses, on attorneys certificate; on fire and lite
insurance policies, on sea policies, die., exactly where
they were. He make. no one single elf irt in any
way to benefit trade by his arrangement; and yet he
calls on us to assent to a plan which turns out to be
a plea for imposing additional duties under false
pretences.

Me= depends upon the passing of a good
measure for the government of the Australian '
colonies this session. The need for it is urgent.
New South Wales edam of these colonies en-
joys at this moment anything like representative
government. The people of Australia Felix (or Vic-
toria as it is to be called in future) are impatient to
be emancipated from a double dependence. Their '
dirance from Sydney has rendered it impossible for '
them to be represented in the legislature of New
South Wales by members elected from among them-
selves, and the consequence has been that they have
been governed in part by a New South Wales in-
terest, tied in port by the Colonial-office, but in to
part by any voice or will of their own. So keenly
have the disadvantages of being subjected to two
' sets of masters been felt, that on a recent occasion
the electors refused to go through the mockery of an
election to a legislature in which they were utterly
swamped. Fur:her, Western Australia is at this mo-
ment administered by a government, of the legality of
which great ar.d well-founded doubts are entertained.
The colonists of Van Diemen's Land have lately wit-
nessed the decision of their supreme court of law on a
question of taxation set at nought by the home go-
vernment, at the request of their governor and his no-
minees :n council. The sturdy and intelligent men
of South Australia have arrived at the conclusion
that their chance for good goverrrnent depends at pre-
sent entirely upon the personal character of their gover-
nor for the time being. All these circumstances are
evolving and confirming a spirit in Australia most
prejudicial to the influence of the mother country.
If parliament separate without passing a constitu-
tional law which shall give satisfaction to the cold_
nies, they who have long lost all confidence in the
Colonial-office, will lose all confidence in parliament
also. This country's tenure of the loyalty and affec-
tion of the Australians will in that case not be worth
20 years' purchase.
Nor will it be sufficient to pus a government bill
for Australia of any kind, merely to save appearances.
It must be a bill giving to the Australian colonies the
reality of representative local legislatures— a real
power of framing their local institutions and regulat-
ing their local expenditure according to the wants,
wishes, and convictions, of the inhabitants. This is
in our estimation the one essential point—the sine
qua non of any constitutions which may be conferred
by parliament upon Australia. The question whether
there is to be in each colony one single le;islative body,
or two such bodies, linked together like Siamese
twins, is u dust in the balance, compared with '
the question whether the representatives of the
colonists, freely chosen by them, are to have the
power of local legislation and tarries.
For expressing this opinion strongly we have been
somewhat unceremoniously taken to tusk by believers
in the infallibility of a Siamese legislature. Mr.
ADDERLEY politely hinted that we had ben caughtin a trap of the Colonial-office. The Spectator can-
didly accused us of "suggesting a mancouvre to go-
vernment." The imputation is not very flattering to
our honesty, but it is still lees so to our tact and intel-
ligence. We beg to assure the candid writer in the
Spectator that load we intended to suggest a ma-
nceuvre to government we would have made the com-
munication privately. When we pointed out pub-
licly the possibility of a trick being played, the fair
and natural interpretation would have been that our
intention was to put those at whose expense it might
be played upon their guard.
Since the imputation in the Spectator was pub-
lished, we have had fresh reasons afforded us to fear
that the manmuvre which we showed might be had
recourse to may be tried. The Morning Chronicle of
Tuesday last strongly recommended that the House
of Commons be first divided on the simple question
whether there are to be one or two legislative cham-
bers. It will then, according to the Chronicle, be
time enough to raise the question whether one of
these chambers is or is not to be composed of nomi-
nees of the crown. The Chronicle then proceeded,
on the assumption that the vote might be for a
nominee council, complacently to ask, Well, even
if this should happen, who does not see that a
double legislature, so constituted, would be an im-
mense improvement on any single-chamber constitu-
tion, such as that contemplated by ministers?" This
is showing the cloven foot ; this is letting out the
secret that the nominee council is the favourite
scheme of that section of professing colonial re-
formers
olpliineyienatreo
already by
to
eireotheneethierorpiraebtel
the idea. We answer to their insidious question, that
one chamber mainly elective, with a minority of
endeavouringreprented
nominee members in it, would be an intinitely less
powerful engine to neutralise the popular will, than
a separate nominee council. On important ques-
tions, the nominee ;minority in the one chamber
could be outvoted by the elected members ; but the
nominee council would have a voice equally strong
with that of the House of Representatives. And that
is the reason why its advocates urge its adoption.
They wish to give the colonists the appearance of
Legislating for themselves in local matters, without the
reality.
The notices of amendments to be moved in committee
on the Australian bill amount to about a clouts, and

embrace some of its most important features. We aro
glad of this inasmuch as it indicates an interest in the
subject, and guarantees a fell and exhaustive dis-
cussion of its principles and provisions. The more
minute and complete such discussion can be made, the
more likely is the result to be satisfactory. Only in
their 'rum' for debate honourable members will do
well to remember that immediate action is necessary.
It is no curious abstract question that they have on
nand : it is one of urgency, upon which will, in all
human probability, depend whether we are or are
not to keep the Australian colonies. This warning is
tot superfluous, tr ministers have shown a strange
reluctance to proceed with the discussion of the bill,
ethich they introduced in such hot haste and with
such creeutatious professions: and, on the other
hand, some who are hostile to its provisions do not
hesitate to bout that, at all events, they will be able
to prevent the bill from passing this session. Both
parties may rest a'sured that in the case of the
Australian colonies delay is dangerous.
Of the numerous amendments to which we have
adverted, the series of which Sir WILLIAM MOLES-
WORTH has given notice, has the first chime on our
attention. This is owing principally to the complete
and systematic character of these amendments. They
bear testimony to the deep, patient, and intelligent
study which Sir WILLIAM has devoted to the subject
But there is another reason for turning our attention
to them before the others. They are put in such a
shape as to meet the objections which we urged
against the confused and obscure manner in which
the ministerial bill has been drawn up.
From a paper which was presented a day or two ago
to the House of Commons, we see that our remarks on
this subject have not escaped the notice of ministers. It
le wish rtgret we add, that their only effect Penn to
have been to set ministers to trepare an 'liberate
special pleading in defence of the de ects we pointed out.
The paper in question is signed WALTER COULSON,"
who pleads guilty to being fr.mer of the bid, and
assigns a variety of reasons for not rep'aling in Into
the earlier statuses giving a cons' atution to New
South Wales, and reenacting such of their provi.
sions as are intended to be declared applicable to
all the colonies. The main reason for adopt.
ing such a mode of procedure is pas xt
over in silence by Mr. Cour.sole,—viz., that an act
conferring ccnstitotions upon five col..nies—upon
four of them fur the first time—ought to he complete
and in'elhgible in itself. The first duty of a legisla-
ture is to make itself intelligible to those for whom it
legislates; but this is an idea which appears never to
have obtrudtd itself upon Mr. COrLSON. It would
almost appear from the tenor of his rema ks that he
imagines the separation of the province of Victoria
from New South Wales to be the most important
feature of the measure, and the a stablishmt-nt of t lec-
tire legislatures in ad the colonies a matter of very
secondary moment.

The omissions of clauses in the ministerial bil',
which Sir NVILLIAIt Nfotaswoavit in•ends to move,
end the clauses which he proposes to substitute,
would, in more than one point of view, materially
improve it. They would eliminate the ur.eustitu-
tient restrictions on tl-e power of the colonists to deal
with their local taxation, and they would get rid of
the whole rubbish of district councils, and the general
Australian Congress. Above all, they would make
the bill complete and intellig ble in itself. Mi-
nisters would therefore act wisely ir, in a candid and
liberal spirit, they availed themselves of his sugges-
tions.

There are, howeree, some of the deaths of Sir
Wleetem's additional clauses from which we must
express our unqualified and uncompromising dissent.
Of these the most important ere :
let. It is proposed in the second of the addi-
tional clans s that the governor " shall melee hie
salary from the Treasury of the United Kingdom."
We are told that Sir Wleteeet MOLESWORTiI hes
been " hie traditions," in framing b;s
additional clauses. We kiew of no " tradition" that
would reconcile us to quartering the officers of local
colonial government upon the tax-payers of this
country; but, waiving this consideration, we know
of no " tradition" to bear oet such an extravagant pro-
posal. We have in all some 45 c donial reuvernors,
with salaries rarging from 1,000/. to 7,0001. per an-
num. Tike the average at 3,15)01., and Sir Wlte
meet's proposal would be found to entail upon us an
additional taxation of 133,000/. per annum. The
colonists have never asked this country to pay their
, governors; th have only asked, a hat thee are fully
I entitled to, foreleg ve to exercise a consti utional check
upon the extravagant salaries of these officers.
2nd. In the 13:h additional eau.e it is proposed
that the members of the Legie'stive Council shall be
elected for a term of nine years. In the practice of
this country a seven yeare' tenure of a seat in parlia-
ment has been fount pretty nearly equivalent to an
emancipation of our legislators from all sense of
responsibility to their censtituents. A nice years.'
tenure would be still worse. For a:1 purpcs2s of
responsibility to the electors, the memters of clone
might as well be nominated by the crown at once as
elected fur nine years. If the council is to be ap-
pointed on the representative principle, let it be S 3 in
reality, not in appearance merely.
3rd. The 16th and 17th additional clauses require
a property qualification to enable a man to le- elected
either to the Legislative Couteil or the House of
Assembly. Scotland contrives to get a cry ruspeet •
able set of members cf peel merit without any pro-
perty qualification; and in En4ind the property
qualification is found in practice to be either iiluooiy
or a mere source of vexation and annoyance. Why
entaq this antirpitted absurdity on the colonies?
4th. The 26th additional clause proposes to define
or enumerate the prerog tt:ee sof the crown. It may
be desirable that the prerogative should be more
strictly defined and limited by legal enactment than
it ever has been. But if ministers of the crow.),
and parliaments have hitherto shrunk from under-
taking this task with le ference to the whole empire,
they are not likely to wink at its being done by a
side wind in a mere local act. This clause realty
looks as if it had beea inserted merely to have it
rejected, which would be tritEng with an important
diseuasion.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TRCRSD4T, 5.30 P.Y.

The government has Xgain:l;sT.iiittii severe
check, from which they will with difficulty recover.
In the Legislative Assembly yesterday Art :11 of the
Stamp Duty Bill, declaring that a fixed duty of de.
was to be imposed on the transfer of every 100 f. of
nominal capital of rente, was adopted by a majority of
168, the numbers being 400 to 232. This result was ar-
rived at, notwilistanding the united opposition of M.
Berryer, M. Pa•sy, and M. Fould, the Minister ef
Finance, all of whom spoke against the article. It is
stated confidently this morning that M. Acbilii
Fould has tendered his resignation. Whether this
be the case or not, he cannot possibly retain his port-
folio after having failed a, signally in every measure
that he has patronised.
The long expected law on the press was presented
this day in the Legislative Assembly, by M. It when
the minister of finance. M. &oilier seconded the
tribune, and said that he had the honour to present
a bill relative to the demand for caution-money and
stamps of newspapers and periodical prints. 'the
minister then read two projects of law, the first im-
posing an amount of caution-money of 50,000 francs
on the daily papers in Paris, and one somewhat
smaller for the journals of the departments. The
second imposing a stamp duty on all journals and
periodical prints within a fortnight after the passing
of the law. The minister concluded by moving the
urgency of his projects of law.
M. Pascal Duprat rose to oppese the urgency of
the motion. He said, that the ministers affected to
believe these laws necessary for the defence of the
constitution. If that only was the object of the mi-
nister, why did he not priesecute those journals who
daily dragged the constitution through the dirt'
There laws were only presented in revenge for tko
elections of March 10, and the Chamber, he was
sure, would reject thc.e.
The Minister of Jnatice said, that if he had only t 3
take into considerat-ion the question of urgency. tee
would have but one word to say. An act was known
to be neceesnry—it must be carried out; but
Pascal Duvet bad ascribed motives to the govern-
ment which it could not recognise. There was Lo
idea of revenge in the presentation of these
ls.ers. Hs would be attaching far too much
importance to the elections to suppose tbsit
they would give tiro to a mensure of any kind.
No doubt theze elections lisil eh, d a light on the
situation. If the opinion which prevailed had been
everywhere awe- Wel, if tt,e assemblage of opinions
Which had obtained that triumph were to sucted,

they might soon be seen tearing each other to plows.
How was it, he would ask, that the victors and the
neorbret Of Jane found themselves in the BMW
Woat had become of their hatred, their
scd their combat? One esetimeat sew
seated all their opinions in momentary accord. Tory
bad joined hands in order to chewy; on the day of
thump, if it were the misfortune of France to witness
each a one, they w. uld lead to civil war. The law,
roneuded, was the remelt of mutate deliberation
and etection to the state of the counter.
de Larechejaque lin followed. He said that he
errs not e•
pp to the law. He granted that the
bad committed excisemen. (Murmur..) He
;;1-0 had lately been attached aid calumniated.
Ile Oerr fore d:d not oose the oentim.nt which had
induced the goceromepntp to present this law, but it
ow one in character of tte utmost importance, and
a, thought !hit fur those reasons it should not be dia-
mmt ,foryroor• lie demanded mature reflection,
mid there:ore 'meld rote against the urgency of the
motion being put, the project of law was &-
tiara by a great majcrity to be taken into cotsidera-
Con Isrocce.
The )boie•rr of the Interior, 111, Basoebe, cen no.
teLikl the tribune, and preseated a project of law for
moteugieg the existerce of the old law against clubs
fur sooth,r year; that is wail the 19th ot June, 1851.
Birocfe founded the cczessity of this law upon
the tecent expenence obtained from the electoral
metiegs which had been permitted. He denounced
these mic jag, übeing elute, in reality, whine the
great. et mews were committed. (Vass on the left,
It is false:" noise and clamour.) He, the minister,
ws. cornered that the Chamber would adopt this law,
which was to remove anxiety by preventing for a
time meetings in which property, morals, and reli-
es Lad ban audaciously attae'red. AL Earache
alas demand: d urgency f r his motion.
M. eremite: s.id that often during the entree of
revolutions exceptional laws had been presented, but
al: lei ew seder what circumstances this had been done.
It wu not lightly or cape ciouely that the liberties of
citizens and the tights of the press were invaded. !
Thee France hrd had the laws of September ; but
MS these were nothing to the present law. The
mum ssegred for presenting them was this, that ex!
seize had been committed in certain the-
toil meetings. H., maintained that no exceees had
here cou.mltted, and that to document in support of
etch a statement had been shown, N. Bee then de-
te...bed NI. Earache's e induct in similar caws in past
t!turu, and drew a parallel between that and his pre-
fect psi•ion.
M. Ittro:he, in reply, said that M. Crazies: had
when est. h more of the law on the press than of
itat ou the clubs; but he did not understand his ar-
szainst the ministerial dinned. If the hon.
!nimbi. Lid b:eo refused communication of the
go,:seects iel.tive to the electors meetings, then he
'&01' n. derstand his suseeptibt.ity ; but nothieg of
the Ltd bed occurred. The government only required
the Arseablr to decide upon the question of urgency ;
thee: beat Lae. all the necessary information would
be giver. and NI. erc mien: w,ull learn all that he
those. it not a little more than be liked.
A Tow : Why not glee these documents at once P
N. It CChe Tee proofs furnished already were in
thrum:cr. scdicieut, be 'Delight, and eery one knew
that i. shoee pretecdel electoral meetiuhs noise of the
repreweatives of moder,te opinions had been able
obtain a rest wi•bout mining serious risks. (Ea-
r:miens on the Left. Cries of " Order." Great
tzmu::.l
M. Pupil hire called a member of the Left to
order. s,yll4f. Th se interruptions are indecent, and
k Deasy to me. from your conduct here, what liberty
you et, N spice' in your clubs. (Loud ioterrup-
t Cries cf " Yoe in.sult us.")
M. Bar c'_e entice d. Ile acid he persisted in
vitt h.. ilad mid Not only at Chatillon, but in
(eta c et ego. the ciltzen friends of order had not
bee a'...oee,: to give their opinions, so that these
etre relay cub., in which exaggerated
citio7r, a:ou could be • xpreseed. These fees were
buff.. ke•IZ1); and, tiltrelOrf, there was no reason
wty the Cuseaber ehou:d nut at once declare the
catty beta+. .t urgent.
_

M. t iwitght to e.mrane his (M. Bs-
nee'. pk• a-(1 pres.at eJadoot. He was always
a ikon ripponer of tie right of m• sting, bat he
kid Isc d. by rectory to do a. otbera had
chters and erica of " Lk. M.

added M. Bankhe). as 31. Dufaure

.ch of M. Baroche M. Bac followed,
ly, by a great majority, voted the
mien.

' the law on .tamps was then re-
a short time the house adjourned.

,ts statement of goveromeni plane, the
t.kea op with the veridcation of
Vases and M. Poi'', Deagranges
.eved for :he department of the Cher.
also admitted member the Loire.
tiernm are " moeeratee." M. Maigne,
admitted fur the Hant-Loire. The
Paris elections then came before

ad that numerous irregularities had
have taken place. Unconstitutional
senbbkd on more than 5,000 of the
,rtral of these were almost illegible.
timidation were also to be noticed.

(Id thank, however, that these
tre ouffizie .t to lead to the annulling
►nd therefore it proposed to admit as
Cana, Vidal, and de Flotte.
than rose and said that M. de Flotte,
sly-elected member., was in a peculiar
had been transported in Jane for poli-
i that, until the c3ntrary was proved,
.ust ettl be considered an insurgent.
thetefore, whether the c:mmittee had

de Flotte was still an insurgent.
the replied to by the Minister of Ins-
Lde Flotte had indeed been trans-
be had not been tried, and as he
led he retained all hie civic rights.
I, MM. Comm, Vidal, and de Flotte
umbers of the Legislative Assembly.
au formed to take into consideration
be ►d' p:ed in the interest of French
;th reward to the Exhibition ti take

in Ih3l, held Its Bret sitting two
t• a Minicer of Commerce mob
,paratwy measures adopted by the
ma of England. He stated that the
wentiary of France, Prussia, Belgium,
SWell, had been called on to form
11111110i111, and French intrresta would

re a vigilant and enlightened organ in
Iporwa measures as to the indinstions
the f -ambers of Comrneroe and to the
`imnbtrs of Arts and Manufactates,
I be the minister, and imam-
d atil decided on. The topogra-
the c-mditions of the competition for
tined fur the exhibition, which was
chi.tcts of all countries, is to be sent
of Canmerce of Paris, where any
Is vto may wish to compete may
a gentral committee was allerwar&
six special committee' aa follows:

Jmiaisizative affairs sad owereepoad-
totateted with agriculture; es ratieha-
philosophical instruments; es eheedeal
%el arts; on wove goods, sad ea the

rueurday, in favour of a stamp duty,
favourtthle effect on the Boars, to-day,
tiAle decline took place in the pries of

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t'ehl l.ka. Lerma )ealarday.

ITALY.
NAPLES.
A letter from our correspeedetit, dated Naples,
March 14, says : —Neap°liteir soldiers are constantly
leaving for the frontier, and there are not a few who
mak of the intention of the Great King to drive out
the French from the 14•111147 States. Cara, it is said,
is to he put in the strongest poeeible state. The
military here are preparing, I suppose, to be St oom-
peados' or deteaders of the View of Christ, for as
can mend the regularity with widish they are
marched to church every day during Lent; one would
imagine they were the elect of God, models of all that
was innocent saw gentle and courageous and upright,
instead of being what they have shown thrmselvei to
bete Sicily, Calabria, Naples, and VeUetri.
Besides the American frigates St. Lawrence and
Independence, and the steamer Cumberland, and
French steamer Vauban, there are now in port a.
Norwegian and Swedish corvette. There is a report
in circulation amongst the merchants that there is a
fair chance of our claims for compensation on the
Neapolitan government being acknowledged.
Triers is a feelirg daily gaining ground that the
Pope will now leave for Rome shortly after Easter,
at least some of the diplomatic body, I know, are to
leave about the 20. b list., for the purpose of making
prepara.ions fir his receptioo. " Seeing, however, is
believing.
Exchange on London, 570; Five per Cents., 933.
SARDINIA.
In the sitting of the 16:h inst of the Chamber of
Deputies of Turin, a petition, it forming the Chamber
that a Genoese bank-bill bad been refused by the
banker of the administration of salt and tobacco, on
its being offered in payment by a dealer in those ar-
ticles, and praying that such abuses might be pot a
stop to, created some sensation. The committee on
petitions proposed the ord r of the day, on the ground
that it was only a private dispute; but M. Bronco
and others opposed the molou of its committee, de-
claring that the refusal complained of was • violation
of a law recently voted by parliament. The Chamber
rejected the order of the day, and the petition was
referred to the Minister of F.nance. After disposing
of several other petition'', the Chamber heard a cont-
emplation of M. Mgr', Minister of Finance, who
presented a bill for the fusion of the two banks of
Genoa and Turin. A petition from 874 Sardinian
citizens living et Geneva, praying that the tax they
had to pay annually for the renewal of their purports
should to abolished, or at least considerably dimio-
jibed, was, after some discussion, referred to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Vas. de 1'14;14 of Turin, of the 17th, announces
that the five archbishops and bishops of Savoy have
formally protested against the law which abolishes
ecclesiastical pri whole es.

vie ire,. iet.,wc ; awl, therefore, there
rte the Cutcaber ehou:d not at cm
tr•te7 brt,rr .t urgent.
M. : -.Dietz has @ought to o•lor
=tr.. pre ell precut c redact. 1
sincere ripporter of the right of I
tad ho: twc-el by recessry to do
due. ,lr n cal cheers and cries I
Gat'' Yee 'added M. Baro..he), i
La drs, in 1•15.
t!' •speech of M. Baroche N .—:er XS
rd tie Assembly, by a great =qt.
rare si :te motion.
It.t.o.ebs•e of the law on stamp
rasa. cd eftir a short time the how
Pttr. 'A ..o this statement of govern
i....tz tad bean t.kea op with the
1.,,t,t.t., M. de Vogue and M. Poi
vet dt.sred e'mteed for :he departmi
M. .1•;.to was also admitted meta
Lot tt.rte gentlemen are " moderate
'textual, was admi:tad for the He
:-ce.in. of the Paris elections thn
•.:i Ate-mbly.
M...imoz. said that numerous in
he: !,::d to tate taken place. 1
ere' arts were scribbled on mere th
.:.....:te, out Kemal of these were i
•nears of intimidation were also
Ilt cm-r.i..!re did n•.t think, bowel
.-:,•;.....,...•ie, were eufLie .t to lead t
Itte '.scam's, and therefore it propo
cmtxte MM, Carrot, Vidal, and de .
Xlt•i q then rose and said that
:e2 t.e reely•clec•ed members, w
*. 7. fir he had been transported i
•Y '=t -,-• so that, until the contra
Kra i..• t must sti.l be considere
Ha 1rv...! aek, therefore, wtether the
to: Li-d !het M. de Flotte was still 1
X len',oy wee replied to by the .'k
tar. le . end M. de Flotte had :nde
Pare:, tr. licit he had not been tr
hid beet pstdcned he retained all hie
ft a drcioc, MM. Carnot, Vidal,
ero ttn...tted members of the Legish
Ice cmmireion formed to take inti
'A Olt wit II to be ad•-p:ed in the Mu
tett!e...ol, with regent to the Ext
?tom .t. 1....:.:14 in 11'131, held Its I
,Y, tip, wten t• e Minicer of C
4017. !*.t preparatory measures a,
11'1.. t•t•manioa of England. He :
xt....m.y.stinotentiary of France, Pi
a:I:S.! ( tittel States, had been call
~r 't!: a! tOlMßilloilll, and French i
tot. At t r haves vigilant and enlig'
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