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stamps on journals. We also believe that there I
will be a considerable alteration in Schedule
D., that the income-tax will be materially
modified. Mr. DISRAELI has not as yet been suffi-
ciently exposed to what, judging from the conduct of
some of his predecessors, we can only term the " de-
moralising" influences of his office, to dis-
regard every feeling of justice and honour.
He will not lend the sanction of his name
to gross and palpable " confiscation," for inequitable
imposts deserve no other title, merely because they
produce so many thousands or even so many mil-
lions per annum. The entire state of the finances
will be ably reviewed, and although be
may not be able to go to the full
extent of his wishes, or of what the exi-
gencies of the case demand, we shall at least
then have some indications to enable us to judge of
the general fiscal and commercial policy of the
party, now that they have unequivocally abandoned
every idea of a bread tax. We await that state-
ment anxiously, prepared to make every allowance for
the difficulties of the position in which the Right
Honourable Gentleman is placed. But it must in-
clude a repeal of the advertisement duties and a mo-
dification of Schedule D. With those, and no effort to
impose additional Customs duties, and the indications
of a sound policy, the nation may be well contented.
The people will then see that they did not sustain
any great loss in the expulsion of the Whigs,
and that those who deprecated a factious opposi-
tion to the existing Government were not betray-
ing the popular interest. One thing, at least,
is certain. The Whigs will be greatly improved by
their temporary secession, and the community will
receive benefits which they could never have obtained
but for the change.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic left Paris on
Wednesday evening, for Orleans, by a special train.
The intention of the PRINCE is to visit the Sologne,
where it is proposed to construct a canal. He was
accompanied by the Ministers of the Interior, Justice,
and Public Works.
The Minister of State on Wednesday transmitted -
to the Senate the new Copper Coinage Bill, which has
just been adopted by the Legislative Body.
All the directors of the theatres of Paris were on
Wednesday morning summoned to the hotel of the
Minister of the Interior. The Minister called them.
together in order to make known to them the inten-
tions of the Government with regard to the tenden-
cies of the dramatic literature of the present day,
which are much to be regretted. In a few concise
words, the Minister explained his views of the object
of the stage, and its influence on public morals ; and
he announced to-the directors his firm resolution not
to allow the representation of any piece of a nature
to excite the passions and pervert the public mind.
The Patrie publishes the following communicated
note :
"A great number of persons imagine and report that
the Empire is to be proclaimed on the occasion of a
fite. To attribute to the Government the desire of a
pretext for changing the established order of things, is
to form a very false idea of the manner in which it un-
derstands its duties. IF necessity should ever lead to
such a resolution, it would only be accomplished on the
initiative of the constituted powers, and wan the consent
of the whole people. As to the acclamations cf the
army, they are, it is tine, for the chief of the state a
valuable proof of the sentiments with which it, is ani•
mated, but they cannot produce any political result.
Thus, at the ceremony on the 10th May next, the
60,000 men assembled in the Champ de Mars would in
vain salute the President by the name of Emperor, as
that act would not advance the re-establishment of the
Empire one hour."
And the Moniteur has the following (Acid contra-
diction of the report, conceived in nearly the same
terms :
" Many imagine the empire is to be proclaimed at afite.
Such are strangely mistaken in attributing to the Go-
vernment the desire of a pretext to change the established
order of things. Such aphange, if rendered necessary,
could only be accompli.hed on the initiative of the con-
stituted powers with the assent of the whole people. The
sixty thousand soldiers to be assembled in the enamps
de Mars, on May 10, would vainly salute the President
as Emperor, the empire would not be brought one hour
nearer"

This appears to be conclusive as far as the 10th of
May is in question, but what the 15th of August,
the day appointed for the ceremony of the distri-
bution of the eagles, will bring forth, offers a field for
conjecture. That day, as the anniversary of the birth
of the EMPEROR, hss already been declared, with the
Ist of January, to be the two great file days of the
year, upon which the decorations of the Legion of
Honour are henceforth alone to be bestowed. The
Senate and Corps Legislalif are well disposed to
take the initiative indicated rather than repelled in
the note communicated to the Petrie. May we
venture to brlieve that by the 15th of August, the
birthday of the EMPEROR, the army and National
Guards will, in receiving the eagles, be prepared to
ratify and confirm the proclamation of the Empire ?
The Moniteur publishes a decree settling the rank
of the great bodies of the State. The Senate is first,
the Legislative Corps second, and the Council of State
third.

The Public has been instructed to offer the follow-
lowing explanation of the curious circumstance con-
nected with the Russian Imperial Almanack, which
we lately mentioned :
" For some days past rumours have prevailed at Paris
that explanations have been asked from a diplomatic
personage relative to an almanack published in a foreign
country (Russia), and which continued to include
atnongt the number of reignicg families the houso of
Bourbon. These rumours have no serious foundation.
The almanack in question is published with the autho-
risa►tion of the Government mentioned, but not by order
of that Government. It app-ars that the editors of that
book merely e- pied the elmanack of Gotha, which
gives annually an histAcal account of the house of
Bin' bon. This publication, consequently, has no official
character."

Vice. Admiral HALGAN has just died in Paris in
his 84th year. He commenced his naval career in
1784.

The Bourse was dull excopt fcr Railway Shares, which
Were more' km. The Four-and-a-Hali per Cents.
openrd at 100 f. 90c., and closed at the same price for
the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed
at 70f. 90c.•' Orleans Railway Shares. 1,217 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 8131. 75-.; Havre, 300 f.; Great Northern, 625 f.;
Avignon, 2731 75e.; Vierzon, 5951.; Basle, 256.25 c.;
Bordeaux, 620€._; Paris and Strasburg, 5801.; Tours al.('Nantes.
Nantes, 370 f.; Paris and Lyons, 6181.75 c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 22.

Charleroi and Erquelines, 13 4 —East Indian, 21N—Grand
Junction of France, 45A—Northern of France, 241/x —Orleans
and Bordeaux, 154—Paris and Rouen, 311/2—Rouen and
Havre, 1234 ex div.—Tours and Nantes, 11 y4—Western of
France, 7%.

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 17th inst.

Another seizure of the Herald() bad been made
that day.

It has been stated that M. FOULD and M. PISCAL
TORT had arrived in Madrid, and that the supposed
obj,ct of their visit was to take part in the great en-
terprise of the canalisation of the Ebro. It is not M.
AciaiLLE FOULD, the ex-Minister, who has arrived at
Madrid, but his brother, one of the partners in the
bank. There is an error in the statement of M. PIS..
CATORY'S having accompanied M. FoULD. It is M.
PESCATORE, not PPCATORY. The Epoca of Madrid
mentions a report that these gentletnt.n are about to
make some arrangement with the Spanish Govern-
ment relative to the floating debt.
The Military Gazette says the Director General of
Cavalry had proposed an augmentation of that force
from 8,691 horses to 15 000, which in time of war it
should amount to ; it was stated in other quarters,
however, that he only required it to be 11,006.
MADRID Boon-E, APRIL 17.—The Tnree per
Cents., 44 15-16. Exchange on London, 50 70.