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trade—the evidences which be so ably col-
lected and laid before the assembled auditors of the
national advantages, thereby afforded, were of the
most unquestionable character, and must have
brought conviction every unprejudiced mind.
He turned the tables on those by whom he had
been most unjustly and unfairly attacked, and
vindicated himself from the charges of inconsis-
tency with remarkable temper and ability. There
are many subjects on which we differ from Mr.
CARDWELL ; but when we look to the present state
of affairs, and the magnitude of the interests involved
in the struggle, we cannot hazard the welfare and com-
fort of the industrious classes by insisting too stringently
on matters which might cause a division, and
let in the advocates of a corn-law as representatives
of the great emporium of trade.
Mr. JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER EWART, who had been
selected as the fitting successor of Sir THOMAS BIRCH,
had every reason to be gratified with the cordial reception
with which he was greeted. A more eligible representa-
tive for a commercial constituency could not have been
found than the gentleman who has been prevailed on
to submit his claims for the approbation of his fel-
low-citizens. Of high and unimpeachable charac-
ter, Mr. EWART has long been favourably known to
every elector. He has been born and educated
among them. His very name falls familiarly on
their ears. A EWART may be considered to have
hereditary and family claims on the Liberals of
South Lancashire, which, ceteris paribus, should not
be disregarded.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Place Carroussel, yesterday, was full of troops,
and the PRINCE PRESIDENT was there surrounded by
a brilliant staff, and attended by an imposing array of
cuirassiers, &c., with grooms in livery. This splen-
did display was made to give honour to the ceremony
of the presentation of the barrette to a newly made
French Cardinal, in the Tuileries. At two o'clock
the PRINCE PRESIDENT, in the uniform of a general
officer, returned on horseback to the Elysee, by the
Rue Rivoli. The military procession had a very
striking effect.
The Assemblie Nationale has the following on the
subject of the visit of the Prince DE CANINO to
Rome:—

" It was yesterday reported that M. de Rayneval, the
French Ambassador at Rome, has requested ficini the
Pope that the Prince do Canino, who had arrived at
Civita Vecchia with a passport from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, should be authorised to come to Rome
to settle some privet() affairs. It is stated that the Pope
did not grant the permission, and he is said to have
declared that if the ex-President of the Roman Consti-
tuent should eater his capital, he might not, perhaps,
have force to prevent it, but that he would immedi-
ately leave it himself: We have reason for baying that
M. de Rayneval did not insist on it, and he could not
have acted otherwise. M. de Rayneval has not, doubt-
less, forgotten the letter which Prince Louis Napoleon
some time since wrote to the Apostolic Nuncio, which is
as follows:

" Monseigneur—l do not wish you to attach credit
to the reports which tend to render me an accomplice
in the conduct of Prince de Canino at Rome. For a
long time peat I have had no kind of connexion with
the eldest son of Lucien Bonaparte, and I deeply deplore
that ho has not felt tbut the maintenance of the tem-
poral sovereignty of the venerable chief of the Church
was intimately connected both with the éclat of Catho-
licism and the liberty and independence of Italy. Re-
ceive, Monseigneur, the assurance of my sentiments of
high esteem.

The cordial unanimity exhibited on the occasion
must have convinced the Protectionists of the use-
lessness of a contest. We trust that there will be
no relaxation of exertion until the matter has been
brought to a triumphant conclusion. We would ven-
ture to suggest, for the consideration of Mr.
FORBES MACK INZIE, the fable of " the dog that
grasped at a shadow, and in doing so lost the sub-
stance he had previously possessed." He now enjoys
the confidence of the electors of Peebles. Let him
not lightly abandon the position in which he has been
placed, by seeking for that to which he can never
attain. If his only hope of a seat in the
House of Commons is through the instrumentality of
Liverpool, we fear that the Government will lose the
services of the able fugleman who has, in opposition
as well as in power, performed the functions of
whipper-in in so exemplary a manner. Verbum sap.
Let Mr. MACKENZIE not suffer himself to be sacrificed;
but if a contest must take place, let it be fought by
some less important personage.

(Signed) " • LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
We subjoin the particulars respecting the question
of the dotation of the Prince President, on the occa-
sion of the consideration of that question by the
Senate, in its sitting on the Ist inst. :
M. Mesnard presided.
The Senate decided the question of the dotation. The
:
following is the proposition made by the Commission:—.
Ist. An annual dotation of 12,000,000 f. 2d. The use of all
the Royal Palaces, the maintenance of which shall be at
the expense of the State. 3d. 1 he President not to enjoy,
the revenues of the forests of the Crown, but to enjoy ex-
clusively the right of sporting in the forests of Manly,
St. Germain, Compiegne, Versailles, and Fontainebleau.
The above was unanimously taken into consideration,..
and the senators retired to the committee rooms to ap-
point a commission of five to report on the proposi-
tion. M. Fould was named reporter. The report re-
commended the adoption of the Bill, and a project of a
Senates Consultant was presented, which modified
the original proposition, only so far as to specify
that the royal palaces devoted to useful purposes should
not be comprised in the number Of those allotted to the
President. M. Fould proposed that an inventory should
be made of the articles of furniture in these palaces. M.
de Lawmstein opposed the proposition of the inventory,
on the ground of its having the appearance of want of
confidence. The question of the use of the jewels for-
merly belonging to the Crown is reserved. The Senate
will decide hereafter on that question, in the event of the
inm his
arriapgoesiotfiotn.he President of the Republic, or of a change
The palaces which are to be kept up at the expense
of the state for the enjoyment of LOUIS NAPOLEON
are—the Tuileries, the Louvre, Fontainebleau, Com-
peigne, Versailles, Trianon, St. Cloud, Meudon, the
Ely see, and Pau.
In the sitting of the Corps Legislatif on Friday, M.
Billault communicated to the House a project of law, for-
warded to him by the Minister of State, authorising the
withdrawal from circulation and melting down of the
old copper coin—namely, the hard, two fiords, sous, and
double sou pieces, which are to be replaced by bronze
coins of the value of ono centime, two, five, and ten
centimes, inferior in size and weight to the former.
The quantity to be issued is not to exceed that of the
money thus called in, and a credit of 1,000,0001. is to
be placed at the disposal of the Minister of Finance
for the operation. _ The new coin is to bear on one

Already the attention of Parliament has been called
to the necessity of some immediate interference in
the existing system of the Indian Government. On
Friday night the Earl of DERBY, es Prime Minister
of England, formally moved the appointment of a
Select Committee to inquire into the operation of
the Act 3d and 4th William IV., chap. 85, with a
view to organize a better scheme of administration
for her MAJESTY'S dominions in Hindostan.
Speaking yet more plainly, as cannot but be
advisable upon a matter of such extraor-
dinary importance the motion suggested the
appointment of a Committee to examine into what is
commonly, but erroneously, called the renewal of the
East India Company's Charter, but what in reality
would be the renewal of conditions under which !that
charter must continue to remain in abeyance. Upon
the imperative demand of some more than ordinary
sagacity being displayed by our legislators in
reference to the subject thus brought directly under
their consideration, the Noble Earl spoke with even
more than
_his accustomed eloquence, though at the
same time it must be acknowledged with less than his
accustomed information. A remarkable contrast
was presented, indeed, in this respect by the evidence
of his familiarity with the matter upon which the
PREMIER had only spoken in generalities, revealed
by the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH.
Scarcely any more instructive spectacle can be
detected anywhere in the records of either ancient or
modern history than that unfolded by the annals of
the rise and development of our vast oriental do-
minions. Before 1497 the ocean route to India had
not been discovered by the Portuguese. Before
1682, when the Cape of Good Hope was doubled by
STEruaws,that line of voyage had never been traversed
by an Englishman. &fore 1599 no association was
dreamt of in Loudon for the purpose of more effec-
tually carrying on our trade with Hindostan. Sub-
sequently, in 1611, our first establishments were
effected at Cambay, Gozo, Surat, and Ahmedabad,
extended in 1652 to Bengal, in 1654 to Madre., and
in 1664 to Bombay. By an unprecedented series of
successes both in the field and in the cabinet, the
possessions of the Company have since then multiplied
with such astounding rapidity that they stretch
northwards from the extremity of Cape Como-
rin to the mountains of Affghanistan. They
embrace, as Lord DERBY observed on Friday, no less
than " twenty-eight degrees of latitude ;" they com-
prise 328,000 square miles in the Bengal Presidency,
154,000 square miles in the Madras Presidency, and
11,000 square miles in the Bombay Presidency, con-
taining a population such as numbered altogether
amounts at the lowest calculation to about
135,000,000. In the course of these very wonderful
advances, the arms of a few mercantile ad-
venturers conquered more of those once fabulous re-
gions than constituted at one time the territorial day-
dream of DARIUS HYSTASPES or the gigantic acqui-
sition of ALEXANDER. During the progress of these
events, moreover, the majesty of Asiatic despotism
has gradually dwindled away under the all-subduing
influence of a group of Directors in Leadenhall-street,
the mightiest monarchies crumbling away one by one
until the authority of the Mahrattas has altogether
disappeared, until such dynasties as those of Hynea
ALL and of Tieroo SAID have been swept from the
face of the earth as effectually as the royal race of
Timoug and the splendid puissance of the Mongol
empire terminated in 1707, in the death of the Em-
peror AIIRUNGZEDE. How these scarcely credible
triumphs were effected ; hoi the victory of
Plessey gave the signal for other victories
which have illuminated our eastern annals in bril-
liant succession, until the days of Goojerat, and of
Hyderabad ; how the interests of the Company were
fostered by the military genius of CLIVE, and the
administrative genius of WARREN HASTINGS; how
subsequently, their forces advanced into Mysore under
the government of the Marquis of CORNWALLIS, into
the Deccan
under Sir JOHN SHORE, into Hyderabad
under the Marquis of WELLESLEY, into the territory
of the Pm._darees
into the island ofLnodwer,
into the dominions Sir
GNEeOpRaGuEI e s eBARII
the Burmese under
tb. Marquis of Re. the
Java under Lord MINTO,
into those of
power of the Seikha • mils
with the authority brought
the Lion of Lahore, AMI
to bear by Lord W
- BENTINCK,
al.l ;rig"; se.,l confronting the
against
*raidating Caubul
under Lord AttcHLAND at'
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quel-
ling it under Lord Eandandthe whollyenercy
ofou
aeLLeENEOROUGII : how
all these marvels were
the courage of our soldiers ompliahed through
of rthC.HARLES
statesmen, until the Sutlej was subd
HENRY HARDIRGE and Scinde
Nermit, leaving the aggregate by
saied by Sir
quest to be consolidated under the their
tion of the Marquis of DALHOUSI —will
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MILL,
mostor be
pages of
minous historians. The hand of
the annalist
has failed, however, to strip away the clouds
of uncertainty concealing the operation
obscure, and at one time powerful, system of govern-
ment, through a Court of Directors, which ha,, ne-
vertheless, of late dwindled down to comparative
insignificance—insomuch that the twenty-four
elected representatives of the shareholders
of the East India Company,
nominally pre-
siding over the uffairs of Hindostan, can scarcely
he said to exercise more actual authority than that
devolving upon a council to the Board ofdpo t 1 Upon
the ro .
the still further diminution of this authority the Par-
liament of England within a very narrow interval
'tom the prestmt moment, have to be consulted. The
Legislature roust, therefore, at once take into consi-
deration the advisability of modifying the influence
still exercised by the Court of Directors, or of for-
mally transferring the whole of their patronage, as
well as the whole of their power, to the Board of
Control, or to some other group of administrators im
mediately connected with the Imperial Government:

side the effigy of the President of the Republic, with
these words, " Louis Napoleon Bonaparte," and on
the other the value of the coin. The Chamber decided
that it would meet on Monday in its committee-rooms
to examine the Bill and appoint a special committee to
report upon it, and to adjourn afterwards, on account
of the Holy Week, to Easter Tuesday, when it was
expected the Committee would be able to submit the
result of its labours to the deliberation of the Assembly.
The Chamber afterwards adjourned to Monday.
M. 411ENTIN BAIICHART, Councillor of State, ac-
companied by M. EMILE BERNIER, private secretary
of the Minister of Justice, arrived at Lyons on the
28th. The number of prisoners on whom be would
have to decide in virtue of the extraordinary powers
conferred on him, amounts to about 130, of whom
ninety were immediately set at liberty. All those
men made the most complete avowal of their incon-
sidorate participation in the late insurrectionary
movements, and their affiliation with secret societies,
and appeared much affected at the clemency shown to
them. They spontaneously engaged themselves
in writing to remain faithful to the Government
chosen by the country, and they begged M. QUENTIN
BAUCUAET to testify their deep and respectful gra-
titude to the Prince. On leaving Lyons, MM. BAU-
CHART and BERNIER proceeded to Valence. They
proceeded to examine into the proceedings against
164 prisoners, of whom 88 were immediately re-
leased, but they will remain under the surveillance of
the general police. M. 13Aucumer was to have left
Valence on the 2d inst., for Crest and Montelimart,
the extreme points of the Drorne.
General CANROBERT, extraordinary commissioner
for the centre of France, arrived at Ti every on the
31st ult., and immediately entered on his functions.
Several political offenders have already felt the happy
effects of his arrival.
The delay of twenty days given to the holders of
Five per Cent. Rentes to choose between reimburse-
ment and conversion, finished at midnight on Friday.
The demands for reimbursement at the office of the
Minister of Finance, and iu the departments, amount
to 1,553,014 f. of Rente, or 31,060,186 f. of capital.
The reimbursement will take place immediately after
the verification of the titles. In Paris it to coin•
mence to-day and finish on the 10th inst.
The Constitutionnel says :—" IVe have said that at
Bordeaux and Marseilles orders have been given to
suspend the departure of the prisoners for Algeria.
The measure is not peculiar to these two ports.
We learn that a telegraphic dispatch of March 25
orders the generals commanding the military divi-
sions and sub-divisions to suspend all movement of
transportation to Algeria, and to stop the march of
the prisoners already on their way there. This order
does not apply to the prisoners who are being sent to
Cayenne.'
The following communicated note appears in the
Petrie :—" Reports of a change of Ministry have been
again put in circulation. They are void of the
slightest foundation." The Petrie also publishes the
following communication :

" A great number of petitions for pardon have been
addressed by the relations and friends of political pri-
soners. Their families are hereby informed that the
committee on pardons admit no petitions or requests,
but such as aro signed by the condemned prisoners
themselves."

We read in the Patrie :—"The organization of a
univeral exhibition at Paris has been wished for since
the 2d December by all the foreign powers. Sixty.
two Chambers of Commerce, belonging to the most
important manufacturing towns in Europe, have ex-
pressed a desire that France, on account of her geo-
graphical position, and the stability presented by her
Government, should open an exhibition of the kind.
This tact is worthy or remark, and shows the confi-
dence with which Louis NAPOLEON inspires other
nations

A grand dinner took place on Thursday at the Elystle,
at which were present the cardinals, archbishops, and
bishops now in Paris, and several of the principal
resident clergy.

A number of Belgian beggars have of late been or-
dered to quit the northern departments of France, and
are daily expected at Quiverain, the Belgiananthorities
consenting to receive them.
It is stated, says the Patrie, that a company has
been formed for the establishment of a railway from
Lyons to the Sardinian frontier. A demand for a
concession of this line, which will stop at the Pont
de Beauvoisin, has, it is said, been just made to the
government. It is positively stated that this rail-
way will be continued across Savoy by an Italian
comany.
Inptelligence has been'received that ROSAS, ex-
Dictator of Buenos Ayres, and his daughter, MA-.
LlTiltrra, had taken refuge in Jamaica.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
B LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 3.
"I°gne and Amiens, 13%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzou), 22 r b 4 —Namur and Liege,
6A —Nonhern
f% m ourg,
—pane and °
Strambourg 2 France, 2•2l4—Orle3ns and
47
Bordeaux, 14%
Lyons, 10—Paris and Orleans, and
Nante3. icy', 141—Sambre and Meuse, 4%—Tours and
74--West 'Flanders, 2A—Western of France, 7%.

Ad SPAIN.
viees from Madrid are of the 30th ult.. Their
contonts are very unimportant.
A friend of General PAVIA had published a reply ‘
to the attacks of ALVJANDRO DE CASTRO. It WES
feared that General l'Avi,t would on his return from
his attendance on the QUEEN,
a hostile meeting with hie d
The Three per Cents. were d eronesary. on the 30th ult.
at 40 cash ; the Thr Per WI
Coupons, 91.
ee
r Cents. Deferred ;
at Aranjuee, insist upon

PORT OF LOWESTOFT.--The Lords of the Treasury
have constituted Lowestoft, at present a creek within the
supernumerary clasi, and the ar,
port of Yarmouth, a seperate and
independent port of thenenient to take effect
from and after the WI instant.

The S,peaker's seventh and hist Parliamentary
41449 r to Os plus 0A 5AtlinIPY.

GERMANY.

Great preparations are being made in Berlin for
the reception of the Empress of RUSSIA, who is ex-
pected there about the sth of May. The EMPRESS
will afterwards proceed to the waters of Ems. The
Grand Duke and Duchess CONSTANTINE and the
Grand Dukes MICHAEL and NICHOLAS wilt visit his
MAJESTY at the same time as the EMPRESS.
Letters from Neuchatel state that the KING'S party
has got the decided majority in the Upper Council,
but that in the Lower is only 6 to 8.
On the 30th the case of M. DE HASSENPFLUG was
again pleaded before the tribunal of Greifswalde.
The tribunal affirmed the previous judgment, by
which M. DE HASSENPFLUG was sentenced to four
weeks' imprisonment.
The bulletin of the Grand Duke of BADEN'S health
issued on the 2d is as follows :—" Though there has
been no augmentation of fever since last bulletin, yet
nervous cramps, more violent than before, have oc-
curred at intervals. The state of his Royal Highness
is not otherwise changed."
It is said, in Vienna, that the Minister of War has
proposed an amnesty for a large number of Cz4iler
officers who have I),:i.n sentenced to various terms of
imprisonment for having taken part in the Hunga-
rian insurrection. The number of officers is no less
than 200.

The Lloyd steamer, which brought the last over-
land dispatch, made the transit between Alexandria
and Trieste in 154 hours.

The general election has just taken place in the
duchy of Gotha, and the result is that only two de-
mocratic candidates have been returned; all the others
being favourable to the new constitution which unites
the two duchies of Gotba and Coburg. It was for
rejecting this constitution that the late Chambers were
dissolved.

The Grand Dukes MICHAEL and NICHOLLS ar
rived at Munich on the 29th ult.

HOLLAND.
The project of law on the alteration of the duty
on sugar was passed on the 2d instant, in the sitting
of the Second Chamber,
by 44 against 12. It is
said that by this project the Treasury will gain a
revenue of 75,000 florins.
The First Chamber has been convoked for the
14th of April.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

DENMARK.
The King of Dasisteax has granted a general am-
nesty at Holstein, except to the officers who served
in the Royal army in March, 1848, when the insur-
rection broke out. They, as well as the Ducal
family, are banished from Augustenburgh.

BRITISH ILLLIX.V73.IrB.

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The Swiss journals
SWITZERLAD.
publish the following letter
from the King of PRUSSIA to M. DE CHAPS/MEE, one
of his most devoted subjects at Neufchatel :
"My dear Baron,—l have received your letter of the
10th inst., and, in thanking you for that communication,
I inform you of my
state of things I desire my faithful subjects to direct all
tiler efforts towards the defence and maintenance of the
ancient institutions of their country, in order to save, as
far . as depends on them, what m
unfortunate situation may yet be saved.
Royal intentions. In the present
Animated with an ardent desire to put a term to the
the. moment to vindicate my rights with arms,
without troubling the peace of Europe, I am
tria in bringing
at present occupied in accord with Russia and. Awe-
of your country ; but unable for
the grand powers, without the participation of Prussia,
.
for the purpose of re-e3tablishing my authority at
Neufchatel. I certainly have not renounced the hope of
about a pacific intervention of
attaining in that manner the object which 1 have pro-
posed to myself; and in that expectation I can only ex-
hort my faithful subjects to patience, calling on men of
ardent minds to be calm, and animating with confidence
those who doubt and despair. I confidently expect that
my faithful inhabitants of Neufchatel, without allowing
questions of secondary importance to disturb the good
harmony that should always prevail amongst them, will,
on the contrary, more closely unite together to support
the evils which are common to them all, and to resist with
the more energy the disastrous and injuriousinfluence of
revolutionary ideas.
Be, therefore, my dear Baron, the
organ of my sentiments to my faithfulsubjects. They
ought to feel persuaded that their Prince incessantlywatches over their interests and their happiness with
the most lively solicitude.
(Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM.
" Charlottenberg, March 18."

MONDAY 4 EVENING, APRIL 5, 1852.