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

A Scene in the Corps Legislatif.

During the discussion in the Corps Legislatif on
Wednesday, M. Jules 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 Paris 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 he
right and have condemned you. This is the truth.
(Loud interruption.)
A Voice--The whole of France has condemned
you.

M. J. Favre—The electors and deputies wbo
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 creatad by the law; it is the Chamber
itself, which has validated the elections. You are
her: 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 moans 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. Thouland—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
Favre, 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 bat 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
one.

M. J. Favre—lf you mean to insult, we are no
longer your adversaries !
M. Thiers—What language are we speaking if
the word " honest," employed as you have done, is
not an insult P 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. Fevre, 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 le. Tarmelie re—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. Reuland—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 I,he 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 GOth 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 Resloration
it was disinterred by the Royalists, and having been hung
at Tyburn, was cast into a hole beneath the gallows.' The
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,
in 1746. Hero 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
soldiQr for several generations, till at last, not many years
ago, it was given by the last survivor of his family to Mr.
Wilkinson, a surgeon of Sandgate, near Folkestone,
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 person. With the head are preserved the
actual documents, in which are offered large rewards for
the restoration to the authorities of the head after it was
blown down, and severe threats upon those who retained it
knowingly after these notices were published,"

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 15,
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived at
Osborne yesterday, and hld the honour of ding);
with her Majesty and the royal
The Dean of Windsor and he Hon. Mrs. Welles'
ley have also arrived.
The Hon. Lucy Lyttelton has s3cceeded the 11°°'
Emily Cathcart as maid of honour itz waiting'

The Prince and Princess of Wales'
Tae bulletin yesterday exhibited at Martborovg'
House rau as follows :

" Frogrnore, Jan. 15, 11 Oil'
"Her Royal Highness the Princess of Vr'le
continues to make an uninterrupted recovery.

" The infant prince is quite well.
" The next bulletin will be issued on the 14
instant.
(Signed)
" ARTHUR FARRE, 31•1). t,
His Royal Highness the Prince of 'Wales' %t
tended by Captain Grey and Mr. Fisher, Wept %,
hunting yesterday morning, and afterwards I
turned to Frogmore to lunch.

The Duke of Montrose, with the Marquis Graham'
and Lady Imogene Graham, are prolonging tiled!
visit to Lady Emily Foley, at Stoke Edith Park, rtereOtir.
shire. The Duke is expected to return to town nest Weed
The duchess and Lord Ronald have left Paris on a c°l3

nentai tour.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll leave lt°se,l
neath, Dumbartonshire, next week for their rosidel3l',.
Campden-hill, Kensington.
their
The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived at d
residence at St. James's-square last evening from linc'W'a
park, Lancashire.
The Earl of Listowel has arrived at the
st•
George's Hotel.
The Countess of Elgin, as before announced
our columns, is expected home next month. tod
confirmation of what has already appeared, we underb-to
that the relatives of Lady Elgin have been informed
id
her ladyship and family embarked on the 28th ult.!, to
are expected 'to reach Suez on the 18th inst. en r°'‘
England.
The Earl of Cawdor and Lady Victoria C4l
bell and Hon. Misses Campbell left:town yesterdaY far
family seat, Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire. tbf
Lady Bloomfield has left town for Nt"-filer
Sussex, on a visit to Lord Leconfield and family

ladyship is expected to return on Mbnday next.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchecluer
will arrive in town on Monday next from Si' Str:irk
GlyLne's seat, Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. MO'
stone, together with the family, come to town the Ilelsvt
AN ACT OF BRAVERY.—A few dap eg°/ :gbitst
Lord Broke was strolling on the beach of the Susee'-:roo
near Worthing at ebb-tide, an infant in charge of 8 11.-tbe
wandered away to a place where it was surrounded hi the
wandered itit°
water coming in, and was carried along with the t'"-
the deeps which alternate with the shallows along this elt
Lord Broke, although unable to swim, dashed in witilLter
moment's hesitation and succeeded in saving the
being once or twice overwhelmed by the waves' 11
ij
Broke, the eldest son of the Earl of Warwick, is 6 boy

years of age. f tbo
The Imperial party go on one or other it
ponds every day, the Empress being ge—r
taken in hand by some experienced skating lady a gfter•
man, and being still a very timid and diffident
me. de Morny was yesterday to be seen ivitiVrlgl gt
Mme.
e‘
scarlet stockings, Polish boots with red heels, short or
pelisse trimmed with fur and black cap to match, enc°,:ithil
ing her Majesty by hand and example- to a bolder d°:DificiC
ordinary. The Empress'wore not a Polonaise, but „
velvet dress raised up all round, and leaving the I)°°7,
ankles
exposed.—Paris Correspondent of the" Queen'

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR 5-",
,) A eilt
ENSUING WEEK.--Monday—Asiatic, at 0; - irfro'
tects, at 8. Tuesday—Statistical, at 8, " Comtnerci'` jot;
gress of Central British North America," Professor ""lee,
Anthropological, at 8, " Extinction of Races,' rdr,rs
and "Extinction of Races," Mr, Rendyshe ; Engi,°ee
8, Discussion on Mr. Heppel's "Closing of ReaLt,„ '"10a;
Banks," and " East Coast between Thames and the vl
Mr. Redman; Royal Institution, at 3, "Expertlajor
Optics, Professor Tyndall. Wednesday—Society 01 "
of Arts,t 8;
•
rature, at 41; Meteorological, at 7; Society 00'
Geological, at 8, "Supposed Glacial Drift, Labrador re_e_ot
sula, f.
H W.C., and Valley of the Saskatchewan,,, pro!
nd, airhclu "Drift Deposite, Valley of the Severn,''
pis:
Maw. rs-aY—Zoological, at 4; Roy al Academy
°t
5;
" Architecture," Professor Smirke ; Antiquaries,
Linnean, at 8, "New Annelid from I. of Ascension,
ter
,:
Baird, "New Speciesof Xylotria inhabiting Fresh W 6
Dr. Wright, and "Dicelluraa, a new genus of ThYsautitr 3;
Mr. llaliday ; Royal, at 8i ; Royal Institution, (3", git
"Experimental Optics," Professor Tyndall; Chenli°slol
8, " Absorption of Mixed Gases in Water, Mr. Wafttitir
" Urochrome," Dr. Dhudichuni. Friday—Royal I'd- ei
tion, at 8, " Boiling Water," Mr. Grove. s3,tilr 001
Royal Institution, at 3, "Antiquity of Man," air. Pit)
—AYtehseticixrdunaiy. a treaty of amity, commerce. and
ontltaisls;
ctiPO
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plenipotentiaries
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insa,iirgLitnehiseFedoEcfb:
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wri.g Doeoncru .eobrinaoNtli thefe(
rtian
tmgh
Liberia,inarei
gs tareour there
ef :rue
blic"
eloge 000
a biography) so far as it is biography does er is
more than read the Polish composer's life and char° aicla
his music. It sees in his tormented melodies tied of
irritable mind of the man who, while yet young' dioecsesif:
hopeless disease, and discusses at length °I2 arid
chapters first the Polonaise as it was before Chnlio, fede
Chopin's hands, and then his Mazurkas showing 00 of 11!
vidual soul in his music, so passing to rec.,llecric'd varP"
life and character full of musicianly sympathy ""
friendship,Un;,NblulCttOhmßinoNrke.—,ted
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itsh
extinct;
nEccat bpeTrohibiaat
(which it must always be rememberfleydinagre
whom white men have never visited,
probable
ee suchdthoautb:7
it a nisitepflo'ssierbel..?-
f:ellid..iblicittiliif;
be has cone---heieb
self in those vast forest wastes of Central Africa symea,
uninhabited and unexplored,—.Reade's Savage )(Trip, hill
AN AMERICAN "HELP" is iao raellt od
spoken of, not satirically, but in simple e'house
as "the young lady" who "picks up" to er'tertbe
family she
htheeerdosinns.eexranataibnlees.
hßeremforisetrselisse ogre" bother -
as to 700.0 rale;
house is provided with Hecker's flour, and 13 d cold w,° (030,
brass pails, oil cloth on the stairs, and betaniliatforuLt,, no'
laid en. Then she states the domestic rico; eau
which she is prepared to act. "Monday IDa bejetal°o..
body speaks tome, Tuesday I washes; l'a° td ay
The
Wednesday I irons; you'd best let me be that datia'y
day I picks up the house : rrn awful ugly rllatsoterch'l,"
per, but affectionate. Friday I bakes agairh " D'e
Iberaeupecaor7es. And Sunday I has to inYaelC:th aviditXt's4
romances,murder, in the etcor
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ledger. She attends lectures, and rail'
come a member of a Woman's
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is because she is a young lady, and the Per of be
all about
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and Sh e dev ours wi
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States (30'0
driven raving mad by her perversity and runner
quire her assistance do not choßosieghttos'rue°unthvseeT:rtn'::s,l2:t;inl:lll;viitee:
that so many married couples in the Unite. fool 510
venture on housekeeping for themselves, but botelo'
end to year's end in uproarious and COnifortlea"
G. A. Sala, writing from New York.
ts MOT'
the oft,
',The
EMILE DE GIRARDIN'S LAST
charade at Compiegne has caused, by IILL,OO fe
some little excitement, Bold was the man--4,ionsrtne°,,oo
sonage than Fleury, the very night before ells an dust
Copenhagen—who proposed the name of Pei! t u
Ol::'0ecroa'';1
the sorest which could have been suggested, !,,0
of the melancholy thrown over the Court eirct.v.yual to
of the election of that extremely obnoxious intllrouf jo4lio
representation of Paris. But Fleury,
thro over ,0
insouciant nature, beholding the gloom ad boo aDi
guests by the event, declared that as the subject ;
,Alt to °I,
one of intense ennui, the individual himself Lail6
of
r
be made to serve for a little amusement, so cot,," hp
of ale te
offered for exercise to the wit and ingenuitY second'
001
assembly. Needless to describe my first aud_ste sod
whole was given up with admirable gond t'iniics "
humour by one of the professed wife and la
is own
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Court, and who moreover by a lucky chane:board:s•,,roe,
with one of the most beautiful and luxuriant °L , of CO' v,
peculiarities of the individual represented were compacPtlie
produced to the life, amid the laughter of 01tor
gt well, Monsieur de Girardin," said one of di
07 the ea 'O3O
Court, surprised at witnessing the merriment
uois 0n..0.
of the Tresse, who was amongst the batch of g plot vP.4.
occasion, "do you not defend your friends r t
sa4,p;o
they are victorious," returned Emile with Emperor i°toca•
The mot was eminently successful. The
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to have alluded to it in the comp/in/0a d'adz°„;_opiega',,,,/
he honoured Girardin on his departure from
juouti, is ocivel
AN ATHENIAN LADY, Mrs- Avrball:a.,t_ieteitfuorlinlgOi.sl3;
exhibiting at the Crystal Palace Et
of Athena in papier mdchd, showrg the arell'o 1,000,
iloc'
dour of the ancient citadel, on aid cale of lit
witu a
jots
following edifices are marked in the nindewaii, Cita°o :of
Heal reference :—Grotto of Pan, rela,gic Ar°,late'
Wall, Tomb of Talus, Theatre of .au' "-ciortt 'too
Eumenus, Theatre of Herod (Odeon), thew Vello,o,
Agrippa's Column, Pinaeotheca, Prot:l3,2ollW_ axe
Tower, Temple of Victory, Parthenon,::llo:l4
Tomb of the French General Favicr, who Iv
independence of Greece.

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