The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-16 00:00:00

A Scene in the Corps Lcgislatif.

During the discussion in the Corps Legislatif on
Wednesday, M. Jales Favre delivered a speech
against the interference of the Government in elec-
tions. From the report of the debate we extract
the fo'lowing passage as a specimen :
M. J. Favre—The electors of Palis have neither
wished to overthrow the Government nor to cause
a revolution. They have affirmed the policy which
we have defended. They have declared us to be
right and have condemned you. This is the truth.
(Loud interruption.)
A Voice--The whole of France has condemned

you.
M. J. Fevre—The electors and deputies who
should wish to overthrow the Government would be
factious men. But the Government which should
wish to attack the electors and destroy their work
would be also factious, for it would place itself above
the laws. What Paris wished for is the immediate
application of liberty. (Renewed interruption.)
M. Rouher—By what means ?
The President—M. J. Favre, the language you
have just made use of is not Parliamentary. The
electors of Paris have voted for you ; they have
wished for nothing, and have no right to do so.
M. E. Picard—Then the others have not wished
for anything either. It is necessary to be logical.
The President—l had already warned M. J.
Favre in particular that a theory which consists in
separating deputies, in making categories of them,
and in attributing to some a value according to the
number of their electors is a dangerous one, contrary
to the Constitution and to the truth. It is a bad
kind of discussion that has been introduced here.
It is to excite hatred one against the other; and
certainly division. (Approbation.)
M. J. Favre—l shall reply.
The President—You may reply what you ohoose,
but I maintain that your discussion is contrary to
true Parliamentary rules. (Approbation.) In the
first place, what have you had in Paris ? Simply
a majority. Do you not reckon those who have
Voted against you ?
M. J. Favre-50,000 out of 180,000.
The President—l say that it is a kind of discus-
sion that cannot be accepted, for it may be objected
to you also that you are the result of bad passions.
Certainly your election may be attacked as you
attack those of others.
M. J. Favre—l do not do it.
The President—You have said that the electors
of Paris wished for immediate liberty.
M. J. Favre—l maintain it. (Cries of " Order,
order.")
The President—To what tribunal can you have
recourse in order to judge what the electors wish
for ? Is it to your own opinion ? There is only
one tribunal created by the law; it is the Chamber
itself, which has validated the elections. You are
here in a very restricted number; you cannot change
that situation, and alter the propositions, by an
abuse of language which I shall not allow to be
introduced into this Assembly. (Approbation.)
M. Glais-Bizoin--Those are only appreciations.
The President—They are more than that. Main-
tain your right, and if you wish to do so, use it with
moderation and with proper considerations towards
your colleagues. (Renewed approbation.)
M. J. Favre—l never intended to say that the
electors of Paris wished for liberty by means con •
demned by the law. I expressed, as I had a right
to do after the attacks of M. Segris, my idea of the
election. You, like us, wish for liberty, but whilst
we pursue its immediate realisation you wish to
postpone it. We also wish to have truth in the
elections, for which the country would be grateful.
(Murmurs.)
M. Rouland—lt is not my intention, gentlemen,
to make a long speech. I rise only to make a
protest, in the name of the Government, of the
Chamber, and of the country. (Applause.) I did
not intend replying to the first speech of M. Jules
Fevre, because he has given us only a new edition
of griefs and complaints which have always been
victoriously refuted; but when I find that the
Chamber has but just emerged from the long de-
bates of a verification carried on for nearly a month,
to examine and redress all abuses, I say it was not
considerate, it was not honest, to reproduce.—
(Exclamations.)
M. J. Favre—These are insults !
M. Rouland—l repeat that it was neither consi-
derate nor honest to reproduce such accusations.
M. J. Favre—l ask to speak on a personal ques-
tion.
M. Darimon—To insult a person is not to answer
him !
M. Rouland—lt is not my habit to insult any

ewe.
M. J. Favre—lf you mean to insult, we are no
longer your adversaries !
M. Thiers—What language are we speaking it
the word " honest," employed as you have done, is
not an insult? We should surely respect each
other ? (Noise.)
M. Rouland—ln order to be able to tell the
Chamber that it emanates from a vitiated source, M.
J. Favre cites facts without dates—facts that have
already been discussed during the verification.
Such being the language, I think it my duty to pro-
test. (Applause.) When M. J. Favre, yielding to
the bitterness of his feelings, comes and tells us that
it was Paris that sent him and his party to the
Chamber, and that Paris is France—
M. J, Favre—You distort my words.
M. Picard—Paris is not France; it is only the
brain of France.
M. Thoinnet de la, Turmeliere—A very mad brain !
M. Latour du Moulin—We cannot submit to be
told that Paris is the brain of France. M. le Pre.
sident, call M. Picard to order ! (Agitation.)
M. Rouland—M. Jules Favre said, speaking of
himself and his friends, that Paris, in naming them
deputies, had ratified their doctrines and pronounced
condemnation on you. Such was the exact phrase.
What does it mean ? Paris is the glorious capital
of a great empire, and I respect its elections.
But what are they compared with the elections
of the whole of France ? (Applause.) What is
this right, arrogated by certain deputies, of con-
demning the elections of France by those that have
been profitable to themselves ? And who has
the right to speak in the name of France ? Who,
gentlemen ? Why The Chamber in its majority. I
protest against things which attack the honour of
the Chamber. (Lund applause.)
M. J. Favre—lt has often been said that we are
to respect one another, and such moderation ought
to be equally observed by Government orators. But
the President of the Council of State has not only
criticised my words, but even my intentions.
M. Rouland—l have said nothing personally
offensive, and have only found fault with a political
and oratorical proceeding of which I disapprove.
The debate was then adjourned.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S HEAD.—The Lord Pro-
tector, it will be remembered, was buried in West-
minster Abbey. " I well recollect my father the Dean,',
says Mr. Frank Buckland, "pointing out the place to his
friends. The grave was situated in the very centre of the
centre chapel, at the east end of King Henry Vll.'s Chapel,
but there is no stone to mark the place. We read On
the 3d September, 1658 (the anniversary of his victories at
Dunbar and Worcester, and several other important events
of his life), Oliver Cromwell died of fever and tertian ague,
in the 60th year of his age. His burial was conducted with
unusual pomp and magnificence at Westminster; but his
corpse was not suffered to rest in peace. At the Restoration
it was disinterred by the Royalists, and having been hung
at Tyburn, was cast into a hole beneath the gallows.' fhe
head was subsequently separated from the body and placed
on an iron spike over the gate at Temple Bar. The last heads
placed there were those of Townley and Fletcher, the rebels,
iu 1746. Here it remained till it was blown down by the
wind. It was at that moment picked up by a soldier, who
immediately secreted it. It remained in the family of this
soldier for several generations, till at last, not many years
ago, it was given by the last survivor of his family to l'slr.
Wilkinson, a surgeon of Sandgate, near Folkcstono,
and is at this moment in the possession of this
gentleman's son. The skin, covering the skull, is quite
hard and dry, but in excellent preservation. I regret to
say I have not seen it myself. The hair of the moustache
still remains, and the wart also, which we see represented
in portraits of the face of Oliver, is plainly to be seen. The
hole made by the iron spike when the head was placed on
Temple Bar is still there ; and the flesh has been embalmed,
which would not have been the case with the remains of
any ordinary pdrson. With the head are preserved the
actual documents, in which are offered largo rewarda for
tho restoration to the authorities of the head after it was
blown down, and severe threats upon those who retainefl it
knowingly after these notices were published,"

11 Tint A_ •
giro Tat
Letismir'CSAft

HER MAJESTY.

15.
OSBORYE, Jan.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived. at
Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of din"
with her Majesty and the royal family.
The Dean of Windsor end the Hon. Mrs. Welles'
ley have also arrived.
The Hon. Lucy Lytteiton has succeeded the g°°'
Emily Cathcart as maid of honour in waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
Tne bulletin yesterday exhibited at Marlborough
Rouse ran as follows :
" Frogmoro, Jan. 15, 11 tom
"Her Royal Highness the Princess of 11/61e5
continues to make an uninterrupted recovery.
" The infant prince is quite well.
" The next bulletin will be issued on the 17111
instant.

(Signed) " ARTHUR FARRE, 31.1il
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at•
tended by Captain Grey and Mr, Fisher, wept t/11
hunting yesterday morning, and afterwards 03'
turned to Frogmorp to lunch.

The Duke of Montrose, with the Marquis Grabill:l3'
and Lady Imogene Graham, are prolonging the!
visit to Lady Emily Foley, at Stoke Edith Park, Herefol"
shire. The Duke is expected to return to town next Wee'
The duchess and Lord Ronald have left Paris on a COW
nental tour.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll leave R°ele;
neath, Dumbartonshire, next week for their residence
Campden-hill, Kensington.
The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at their
residence at St. James's-square last evening from linoWeler
park, Lancashire.
The Earl of Listowel has arrived at the 6t.
George's, Hotel.
A 'a
The Countess of Elgin, as before announced /10
our columns, is expected home next month. a
confirmation of what has already appeared, we underett
that the relatives of Lady Elgin have been informed L'fi
her ladyship and family embarked on the 28th ult., i/rito
are expected to reach Suez on the 18th inst. en Wl'
England.
The Earl of Cawdor and Lady Victoria Cal;
bell and Hon. Misses Campbell left:town yesterday f°r
family seat, Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire. tbr
Lady Bloomfield has left town for PatOr
11°
Sussex, on a visit to Lord Leconfield and family

ladyship is expected to return on Monday next.
mot
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Esche'she
will arrive in town on Monday next from Sir Step
Glynne's seat, Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. Mrs. ‘l,l'
stone, together with the family, come to town the neltt uht9;
AN ACT OF BRAVERY.—A few days ago,
Lord Broke was strolling on the beach of the Susses c:;:se
near Worthing at ebb-tide, an infant in charge of 311 the
wandered away to a place where it was surrounded b 1 to
water coming in, and was carried along with the tide P-ot.
the deeps which alternate with the shallows along this e°t'c
Lord Broke, although unable to swim, dashed in witrlftet
moment's hesitation and succeeded in saving the cbil'6ord
being once or twice overwhelmed by the waves. jl
Broke, the eldest son of the Earl of Warwick, is a boy
years of ago. f th.
The Imperial party go on one or other c)"
if
pr
ponds every day, the Empress being gell—,!itie"
taken in hand by some experienced skating lady or ge-ter,
man, and being still a very timid and diffident toit
Mme. de Morny was yesterday to be seen With 'rfee
scarlet stockings, Polish boots with red heels, short Te
ar
pelisse trimmed with fur and black cap to match, 03p0,1.iffiait
ing her Majesty by hand and example to a bolder da3'l,-,
ordinary. The Empress wore not a Polonaise, but a :1134
velvet dress raised up all round, and leaving the boot: -
ankles exposed.—Paris Correspondent of the" Quee°'

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS V-A-
ng %
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Asiatic, at 3; pro'
tects, at 8. Tuesday—Statistical, at 8, " Commerci4,l-4or
gress of Central British North America," Professor J-1-tee:
Anthropological, at 8, " Extinction of Races,'' at
iotz
Bri
a:natdpun
rk"Extinctionic7a,titas 4niodo "East of Races,"
Mr.Rc Coast
Hac es
est
p,
b'
p' a
etl:i
sre e
nR Tenh "Closingdaym s
Thames
and
nf Edihegoei
inswer 38
a,"
shst
Mr. Redman; Royal Institution, at 3, " ExPerlf,elLits'
Optics, Professor Tyndall. Wednesday—Society
at 3'
Hind, andl";
Geological, at 8, "Supposed Glacial Drift, Labrador retti'
Dlilieftteoproalpoogsiictael,, at 7; Society of Arts,
sula, W.C., and Valley of the Saskatchewan," pro,
f 00.1;
Maw. Thursday—Zoological,Vetati4le;YßofoytalheASceavdeermny,',
"Architecture," Professor Smirke ; Antiquaries, tit
// 11';
Linnean, at 8, "New Annelid from I. of Ascension, rf•
Baird, " New Species of Xylotria inhabiting Fresh Wn'te,s,r,
Mr.
Wright, and " Dicelluroo, a new genus of Thystullif 3;
" E.xpHerailmideanyta; Royal,l
optics,,
,atrrSolfe;ssßororraylndlanlslt;iteuthioeurati 40::
8, " Absorption of Mixed Gases in Water, es', -.1
" Urochrome," Dr. Dhudichum. Friday—Royal In tjt,'
tion, at 8, " Boiling Water," Mr. Grove. Satlll.-,-,,c"
Royal Institution, at 3 " Antiquityl,,upw"
, of Man," AIX.
—.Atheneum. A
Yesterday a treaty of amity, commerce, 011" • 01
vf
gation was signed by Mr. Dubois, the minister a x'a_s,,,.lo/
Mr. Ralston, the consul general of Liberia, the reel',-0:
plenipotentiaries of the two contracting negro rePnbiletbo
LISZT'S "LIFE:OF.CIIOPIN” (rather as
a biography) so far as it is biography d°es,ter is
more than read the Polish composer's life and charil"
his music. It sees in his tormented melodies the; of
Mr. VirattS,
.tte
irritable mind of the man who, while yet young, di soil°
hopeless disease, and discusses at length in BLic-:od
chapters first the Polonaise as it was before CLOPiniofact
Chopin's hands, and then his Mazurkas showing t /JO
vidual soul in his music, so passing to reccillectiooo oral
life and character full of musicianly sympathy 313 d
THE UNICORN.—That such an anillaal e
friendship. b te:
eliB
itaheexr
extinct;
can,oet ;
blat think,
more be
probablelitt e dtboautb, t; it i atsPo
rea7;l:;:triirab 0::
(which it must always be rememberfleydinagre
whom white men have never visited, he has conoea sty
self in those vast forest wastes of Central Africa "rbsele,
uaspsuoiAn,k,hNetahnbAeiotmeyfd,oEuußanonlgtde unexplored.—Reade's 54.4196 -4111 Pe hi°
AlaNdwEsatirically,hlol)
"fixes" the dinner table. Before she agreeswbother toil°
family she cross-examines her mistress as 1° dos r6u3Pc;
and ,13e i 3 cold mater
house house is provided with Hecker's flour,
brass pails, oil cloth on the stairs, and hot 4,^ord °
no'
' butis
"picksinu oSuipl;l3llleetigtit°ll4dite9Artvd:
laid on. Then she states the domestic afe4 "
izhich she is prepared to act. "Monday I homesto
tot eict,
rriaBe sY•
body sp‘'aks to me. Tuesday I washes
,;
Wednesday I irons ; you'd best let moue --,boat day
dbeaayulcpoimckess.upitl.l:::
shuounsdeay: I'm awful uglY saturdato,"
, is a young lady.
httos:antlivr :112"3:111-fe:
per, but affectionate. Friday I bakes 9gB;rh,, The "bille
ell
oer
mmde
Ledger.
is be cenesaracu:nlisee: Smsahhbl elee and the pa
esrs:10711)//:
quire her assistance do not choßosieg
driven raving mad by her perversity and her at.„ tes 13 0
that so many married couples in the
venture on housekeeping for themselves, but _ 1200'
-United.
ePir,,,,,ye.,„
end to year's end:in uproarious and cornfortle •
ca 100:
G. A. Sala, writing from New York.
aboutraotftaean attends
oso love and
atalunnalr:se Shes:lnas
alcitjare;iv thest
eho
souls
ddi:l6 Lira icierte::;
EMILE DE GIRARDIN'S LAST
charade at Compiegne has caused, b. 9 0 woo Por
some little excitement. Bold was the inall"-lidenartll°..otS
sonage than Fleury, the very night before 11f0
s.; 4011;4
Copenhagen—who proposed the name of Pellatel'oa'segaelvot
the sorest which could have been suggested, by tho
the
of the melancholy thrown over the Court cirlol.idual 044
of the election of that extremely obnoxious inci f
Who
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representation of Paris. But Fleury, rr of-r
insouciant nature, beholding the gloom throw.
had veo°_,Og
guests by the event, declared that as the subject t :60
one of intense ennui, the individual himself il,eastati
be made to serve for a little amusement, s tue oolwitja
offered for exercise to the wit and ingenuity at
scod
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assembly. Needless to describe ray first and , ~,0
whole was given up with admirable good ta:tnios a(
ePci
humour by one of the
Court, and who moreover by a lucky chane°,„,ards, se
with one of the most beautiful and luxuliant of vu cora;
professed wits and is
peculiarities of the individual represented Wer.e,_ °cops to
produced to the life, amid the laughter of tr,_dieo d;tor
" Well, Monsieur de Girardin," said one of th t; the eti•tm
Court, surprised at witnessing the merriment uu03,0 040
of the fresse, who was amongst the batch of g,, Not o'4
occasion, "do you not defend your friends ?"
sa" fr''",4
' s
they are victorious," returned Ensile with grest
Lurfloor '4 aicli
The met was eminently successful. Thu %/-
to have alluded to it in the compliment d'aaiet;
owrier,oeo4
he honoured Girardin on his departure from ti is 11,4
AN ATHENIAN LADY, Mrs. AVratni°tif'ul 0000
exhibiting at the Crystal Palace. a bcaectural g`.030
of Athena in papier nuicild, showing the aroinc 000.
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deur of the ancient citadel, on a scale of 1 00`;:a
following edifices are marked in the model
rival reference :—Grotto of Pan; Pellit-,gic AV; Ateelit:to
Wall, Tomb of Talus, Theatre of Ba tiosi
Eumenus, Theatre of Herod (Odeon), Ire/3°loll
ATogwrieprp,a',sremCpolleumont,
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Tomb of the French General't,hFcPc:va'rilli;rlllV7llll)::°l:7llcilttfilc; til
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