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ready taken into consideration this subject, and had taken
steps for rendering the position of the Ani,::or,) 01 Si tvie-
cs ogre cal;ile as pwsible. As fur back as 1841 the Go-
Vvrz:in•rit of India tOoh into their St.riomi eousidet.ation
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, the matters which the Ne.:bie Lc:d who had intro.
duce(' this questi in had brought under the notice of
the house, and a resolution was come to ;hat every tp-
sistance should be e.fl,rded to these trifortnuate Priners',
until the whole of the matter in di-pute could be e.t.a; ed
up. The Noble Lord repruseuteo the Attlezerr; as model.
of vir;ue and honesty, out he had heard a very different
account of them. However ho should be sorry to pro-
nounce any op;nion upon that. point Ije did not object to
the terms of the motion, but what be did find fault with
was, that the Noble Lord should have ri-cked up a matter
of state policy which was SUPPOS'A to have been settled
as far back as 1844. There would be no objection to
proeltive the pipers, but as their production would re•
open a settled que:Aion, h
conv:ction that it would he cdii t help expressingeiludiicielstodos alas
At a Ile:, words from Colonel ESICOURT,
Mr. HERMES renewed that there would be no ob-
j,l,cl,l7''' '0 Porince tlJt• i.upers, but in the absence of the
zome Loed who mude this motion, it Was not necessary
for him Io trouble the ti.. use wi:h any lengthened ob-
sorvations to show that it would be injudicious to call for
them. The two principal pzqyrs the Noble Lord
asked for ,vould he reach!): forthcoming-
Mr. HUME said, in reicrt floc, to the Ameers or Sinde,
the itcpr,asit.n which pre-Nailed in -1843 ilat the British
Government had been made the victim of an artful
frond, had been confirmed by subsequent inquiries,
and it was, therefore, the duty of the
L-gislature to do tardy justice to these in-
jured Princ.-s. The papers now called for
would give) but an inadequate history of the whole c;e-
eurrenecs in Slade, and he hoped, on a future occasion,
the House and the country would be put in possession of
all the facts of the case. Years had rolled by since the
injustice was perpetrated, but it was never too late to
make amends for the wrong which had been done, and
he was rejoiced to bear that there was now a prospect of
the Ameers of Sinde obtaining some substantial redress
f)r their sufferings, Much deception had been practised
upon Parliament m reference to this case, and he trusted
that, for the sake of justice and humanity, the Govern-
ment would now produce all the papers in full, and thus
give the country an opportunity of considering the whole
matter.

The motion was then agreed to.
FOREIGN POSTAGE.

Mr. JACOB BELL wished to inquire of her Ma-
jesty's Government as to the further progress of the
negotiations for the reduction of the postage of letters
la.nwi en France and England; also whether it is in
contemplation to effect a general reduction of foreign
postage?
Mr. HAMILTON said negotiations were still pending
upon this important subject both with France and the
United States, and it was hoped that they would be
brought to a satisfactory termination.
The House then adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock.

!THE FRENCH .REPUBLIC.

I We have received ihe Paris pep?rs of yesterday.
Although an onitiefted clie.cioi.sitia is described to
have tAen p!ace. yesterday in the Corps Legidatif en
the budget, there is nut even an allusion to the sub-
ject in any of the morning papers. The Illoniteur
diim)ses of the thing in few lines, for until the minutes
be adopted by the House there can be no publication
of the debate, and then only in the shape authorised
by the President of the Assembly. Galignani con-
triver, however, to give the following lively sketch of
the proceedings:—
" The discussion on the Budget of Expenses was com-
menced yesterday (Tueschy) at one o'clock before the
Legislative Body, M. Billault being in the chair. The
President of the Republic was present on the occasion,
haviogeome to the Chamber in a statecarriege, fol!oweei
'uy two others containing his nuitv. lie ent“ted by the
I,r4c iron-gate in froet of the bridge, which and been
h,fore passed through only by the Emperor Napoleon.
The Prince, whO was in plain clothes, and
accompini,d by M. Duces, the Minister of Ma-
rine, took his place in a private tribune to-
' wards the right side of the House. The pro-
cet,dingi commenced by a speech from M. de
Kee drel. Ho expressed bis surprise at seeing on the
bench appropriated to the Government Commissioners,
whose. dwy it was to defend the various credits proposed,
men who had formerly beau most forward in proposing
reductions. He quoted the opinions of M. Billault, the
President of the Legislative Bedy, and of M. htourm,
one of the Government Commissioners, to that effect,
and read passages from a work written by Prince Louis
Napoleon, which insisted on the necessity of reductions
in the army. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to
argue that the vote of the House could not, as matters
were now arranged, be either an enlightened or
a free one. He - complained that the amend-
ments of the Deputies, when once rejected by
the Council of State, could not be voted, or
even explained by their authors before the House, a pro-
-ceeding which was at variance with both the dignity
and independence of that body. He quoted a passage
from the Constitutionnel, which declared that the inter-
vention of the Council of State in the labours of the
Committee on the budget rendered all discussion illu-
sory, and that the Councillors of State were in fact the
dispensers of the public fortune. At least, the Hon.
Gentleman remarked, they ought in such a case to be
appointed for life. The Honourable Gentleman con-
cluded by declaring that a change ought to be effected in
the present mode of examining and discussing the
budget.—M. Billault remarked that the Honourable

Gentleman had, in reality, spoken more of what
the Constitution had fixed, than on the budget
itself. did not, however, think it necessary
to stop him,' added tho Honourable Gentle-
men, although I could and ought to have done
so.' This declaration did not appear to be favourably
received by the House.—M. Devinck then spoke at some
length, entering into minute financial developments con-
nected with the budget. Ho declared that he approved
fully of the conversion of the Five per Cents., andtblamed
the Republic of 1848, and even the Government of Louis
Philippe, for having added so much to the floating debt.
The Hon. Gentleman terminated by accusing the Com-
mittee on the budget of endeavouring to foment a secret
opposition to the Government.—Count de Chasselgup-
Laubat, the reporter, replied with much warmth to that
accusation, affirming that the Committee was not in any
respect hostile to the Government, and that it had
merely endeavoured to explain with fairness and sin-
cerity the financial position of the country. These
words were received with applause.—M. Jollivet do
Castelot next read .a speech in favour of the system at
present existing in France; after which Count de Mon-
talembert rose and declared that he took the same view
of the budget, its examination, and its discussion, as M.
de Kerdrel had done. (It was remarked that the Prince
President, who had hitherto sat far back in his tribune,
now came more forward, as if to hear the Hun. Gentle-
man better.) M. de Montalembert said that he must
protest against all idea of tending towards the re-estab-
lishment of the Parliamentary regime, although he did
not hesitate to say that he admired and regretted that
regime, which had given so many years of peace steal
prosperity to France. He was contented with the
existing system, at the same time that he
must declare that in his opinion the great
difference which existed between that system
and one of absolute power was, for the Le-
gislative body to vote the taxes in all its independence.
Yet who could say that such independence existed when
the present manner of examining the budget was consi-
dered? The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded at
some length to enumerate the various impediments
which, he said, the intervention of the Council of State
had thrown in the
-way of that examination. He also
enumerated the fate of the various amendments pro-
posed by the Committee, and declared that the manner
in which they were treated amounted to ran absolute
massacre of the innocents: —M. de Parieu, one of the
Councillors of State, next spoke, and said, that
the discussion which had
just taken place ap-
peared to him to have no other object than
to attack the enactments cf the Constitution, which
did not allow any amendments when once rejected
by the Council of State to be again brought before the
Legislative body. Yet the Constitution was the conse-
quence of the decree of the 2d of December, which had
not only saved the country from anarchy, but proved
the salvation of the public fortune, which had been ever
since in a regular course of improvement.—M. Monier
de la Sizeranue adduced arguments in favour of main-
taining the army at its present strength.—M. Stourm,
Councillor of State, argued that honourable gentlemen
were too precipitate in forming an opinion on tho
Constitution. The country looked at it very differently,
for all that France asked for was simply to be al-
lowed to remain tratqail; and no one could deny
that since the Constitution had been promulgated,
the country had enjoyed complete tranquillity. The
Hon. Gentleman then, in replying to the observations
made relative to the presentation of amendments, said
that the speeches which had been that day delivered
would have been better suited to an ac joining chamber
(this allusion to the lath and plaster building of the Le-
gislative Assembly was received with murmurs). After
some observations from the reporter, the general discus-
sion was declared to be closed. The President then
rose, and said that before the House ',wised to the dis-
cussion of the articles, be wished to communicate to the
Members the contents of a communication from the
Minister of State, which had been handed to him in the
course of the sitting. The letter in question stated that
the Government considered it right to inform the Legis-
lative Body that the -amendments presented by the
Committee on the Budget, having been rejected
by tho Council of State, ought, according
to the terms of the Constitution, to be looked
on as not having been brought forward, and
that consequently, the terms of the report, which
said that there only remained one course for the Legis-
lative body to adopt-a:namely, to reject the whole chap-
ter,' appeared to it (the Government) to .be an uncou-
stitutional act. This declaration produced groat com-
motion, and Count de Chasseloup-Leubat, at once rising,
energetically declared that no man was more constitu-
tionally inclined than he- was, and that the language of
his report did not go farther than what he conceived the
nature of the case demanded. Atter a few observations
from M. Billault, the discussion of the articles was ad-
journed to this day. Teo sitting was then brought to a
close at half- past five."
At the opening of the sitting, the President read a
Bill transmitted to the legislative body by the Mi-
nister of State, approving of a convention entered into
on the 19th inst. between the Minister of Public
Works and the Lyons to Avignon Railway Company.
The Bill was referred to the bureaux.
We read in the Presse :
" The Moniteur will soon be installed at the Palais
Royal. The chief editor, M. Gran, will be under the
direction of a corniter de surveillance, composed of three
public funetionaries—viz., M. Perrot),
who will repre-
sent the Ministry of State; M. Chevreau, who will re-
present the Ministry of the Interior; and M. Latour-
Dumoulin, who at the Ministry of Police has the special
surveillance of all matters respecting the press. These
three persons will select the writers who are to assist
the chief editor."
The Government received yesterday a dispatch,
dated Cayenne, May 13, announcing the arrival there
of the Allier corvette, with the first convicts, under
the charge of M. DE SARDA.-CANIGA. This gentle-
man gives a very satisfactory account of the condnct
of the convicts, who are, he says, disposed to labour
and to lead a reformed life.

The Moniteur contains a notification to certain
journals that they must not continue to evade the
signature law or they will be fined. The Mrniteur
also contains the Bill for making a fiision of the
southern railway companies.
The continued fall of rain is beginning to create
uneasiness, lest there should follow inundations of a
destructive character such as occurred in 1846.
Last night a telegraphic dispatch was received from
Lyons, stating that the Saone had swelled to such an
extent as to be no longer navigable for the Lyons
steamers. The Journal de Lot et Garonne states that the
Lot and the Garonne had risen considerably, and
overflowed their banks in many places. All the hay
crops have been destroyed. On the day before the
inundation all the hay on different islands was sold by
tender, and the loss to the purchasers will be very
great. Inundations have also taken place in the Ain,
the Saone-et-Loire, and the Jura. The Loire had
overflowed some places, so had the Allier, but ac-
cording to the last accounts these rivers were becoming
lower. A good deal of damage has been done.
M. CADON TAILEFBU, manufacturer at Laigle
(Orne), writes to the Siecle that he is ready, in con-
cert with other capitalists, to make the whole of the
Paris and Cherbourg line on condition of receiving a
subvention of 30,000,000 f.
" It is stated," says the Patric, " that the Roman
Government has just conceded to a French com-
pany the railway from Rome to Bologna, and to
Ancona. The works will, it is said, be very soon
commenced."

Paris, it is calculated, annually consumes straw-
berries to the amount of 5,000,000 f. Epinay, near
St. Denis, sends every day, during the season. 500 f.
of asparagus to England. Meudon, last year, sent a
similar amount of plums every day; and Honfleur and
its neighbourhood 1,000,000 r. worth of melons in the
course of the season. _

The Bonnie was dull, with not so much business
doing al for some days pest. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 101 f. 400., and closed at 101 f. 50c. for
the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at
70f. 80c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,237 f. 50c.; Rouen,
860 f.; lime, 330 E; Great Northern, 620 f.; Avignon,