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On Saturday the sitting of the French Lewisla-
tire body was of a most animated character, 'he
climax being marked by a masterly speech by M.
Jules Favre in support of the amendments pro-
posed by the fire members of the left. M. Favre
defended individual liberty and the liberty of the
press, and denounced in the strongest terms the in-
terference of the Government with electoral and
municipal proceedings. He examined the report
of M. Fould, the letter of the Emperor, and the
consequences which had resulted to the institutions
of the couptry, and asked if it was wise, or even
safe, to keep the public mind under Government
tutelage. He said that at present there is in France
but one journalist—the Emperor; all others are
but vassals, obliged to bow their heads before a
warning or a communique—things which com,titute
a usurpation of the judicial power, and a penalty
arbitrarily applied, amounting to confiscation of
property. Elections, as now conducted, he ob-
served, were a negation and a mockery, for all the
mayors are compelled, under penalty of losing their
posts, to make the officials vote in the sense deter-
mined by authority. He concluded by bitterly at-
tacking the law of general safety, so called, Jae said,
doubtless " because it alarms everybody."
The speech caused great sensation. , We subjoin
extracts from it

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" In France there is a superior director of thought,
in so far as it can express itself through the
periodical press. The press is placed under a
regime which has not yet been applied to books
and pamphlets, doubtless because the press is
the surest and most potent means of scrutinising
the acts of the administration. Its efficiency is the
very thing for which it is garotted by our laws.
Books and pamphlets are but secondary means, so
they are allowed more liberty. Be assured that if
they were of the same importance as the journals
they would be subjected to the same regime. If
this rigorous measure is good for the press, why is
it not good for books and pamphlets ; and if it is
bad for books and pamphlets, why is it good for
the press ? (Murmurs.) The Government arro-
gates to itself such extraordinary prerogatives, that
the question naturally suggests itself why it does
not apply them to every kind of manifestation.
From the chair whence it issues avertissemens, it
can give lesgons on religion, morals, history, as
already it does on politics—and on manure;
(Laughter.) If it acts thus, it is because it
deems itself more learned, more moral, more
religious than anybody; but then why does it
not prescribe the limits of what one may say
upon each and every subject ? That system is
not new, it reigned before 1789. It might in those
days be said that the brain of France was in the
monarch's hands. Fortunately it escaped at times
from his grasp, but we all know how ; it was by
the benefit of the Reformation, which had opened
asylums for freedom of thought in several parts of
Europe. It makes one shudder to think that the
Esprit des Lois would have been unpublished for
France if there had not been presses in those days
in Holland and London. (Movement.) At the
present day there is but one sole journalist in
France, namely the Emperor. (Exclamations and
murmurs.)
M. Baroche, the President of the Council, made
a reply to M. Favre, in which he contended that
the Government only interfered in elections when
it was necessary, and that the press had rather too
much liberty in France than otherwise.

TILE STORM OP SUNDAY.-111E LOSS

OF EIGHT LIVES OFF TLYIIIOI7TIT.

During a part of Saturday night and the whole
of Sunday morning the weather was very boister-
ous on the coast of Devon and Cornwall. The
wind from the S.S.W., which was blowing irregu-
larly, sometimes attained the force of a gale. The
weather had been foul on Thursday and Friday,
had lulled on Saturday, and this, in spite of the
warning signal at the storm signal station on Ply-
mouth Hoe, tempted many vessels out of harbour,
and amongst them a fleet of fishing vessels belong-
ing to Hastings, Worthing, and Shoreham: They
found in the course of the night it had been better
for them had they remained in harbour,
for the wind freshened into a gale, and
was accompanied with drifts of rain and
considerable sea. It was found necessary to get in
the nets and run for port. This was safely accom-
plished by a good many of the vessels, but others
sustained more or less loss. The Christiana fishing
smack of Worthing came in on Sunday with loss of
mast and bulwarks, and the Mary and Ellen of
Worthing had swept from her deok by a sea a boat
and 20 nets—some 8 or 9 of which only were saved.
The fishing smack Crystal Palace, of Hastings,
while running for the Sound about 11 o'clock on
Sunday forenoon, and when near the Knop buoy off
the west end of the breakwater, was struck with a
very heavy sea that capsized her, and she sunk, and
all her crew were unfortunately drowned. Their
names are George Page, the master; G. Sergent, J.
Cramp,W.Down,— Chatfield, Swain, Peters,
and Bales, a boy. Several of these unfortunate men
were married and had families. The accident was
seen from some ships near, and from the Isabella
Croll steamer. Boats were at once lowered and sent
to the spot, and the boat of the harbour master went
out with all possible despatch, but nothing could be
seen of the men. In the course of the afternoon the
boat's stern was picked up, and yesterday the wreck,
which had drifted towards Beding Point, was
taken in tow. It was supposed, from appearances,
that the bottom of the smack had been knocked out,
Th© Isabella Croll, steamer, from Southampton for
Cardiff, in ballast, was at the time of the accident
to the Crystal Palace near the Breakwater. She
was coming in in consequence of having lost her
sails in the gale. The Aurora. steamer, for London,
was obliged to put back. In the course of Sunday
night the schooner Hama), corvette, of Jersey,
bound from St, Malo to Llanelly, put into Ply-
mouth, with loss of mainmast. Yesterday morning
a report reached Plymouth that an Austrian brig,
laden with brick and coal, had gone on shore at
Mothecombe, just east of the entrance to Plymouth
Sound, and become a total wreck. All on board
had been saved.

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USPICIOUSDEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.—About
a fortnight ago the body of a young woman was picked up
by some boatmen, at two in the morning, by the Park-road
bridge of the canal, Regent's-park, and conveyed to the
Marylolone Workhouse. The affair is at present enveloped
in much mystery. On the scalp are two wounds, one of
which was in all probability inflicted before, and the ether
after death. There is also a collar hone broken and a frac-
ture of the jaw, as well as one arm broken. Numerous
parties have, from day to day, been to the workhouse, in
order to view the body to see if it is that of a missing relative,
being
many young women having been mineissd. In one day no
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fewer than eight mothers attended. Saturday deceased
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was identified, her name b
the niece of a respectible
being twenty years. It appears on the eveynieint
and they
finding of the body she was at the Mar
at the atirtni
with another young woman, Le at half-past
eleven,there being nothing unusual time in deceased's
appearance. The inquest has not yet been held.

" The President of the Covnell of State has in-
veighed against the pretension of a small number
of deputies who arrogate to themselves the right of
speaking in the name of the country. What are we
in fact? An imperceptible dust escaped from the
skilfully-arranged mechanism that works in the
elections. What do we represent ? Some millions
of electors ! Never was such language held in a
free assembly. And unless it be maintained that a
majority is always in the right, it must surely be
admitted that the minority is entitled to express its
opinions upon all sorts of things, on condition that
does not TiolAte either the rules of decorum or
laws, Ent the character of the deputy must
not be degraded undor the pretext of making the
laws respected. Pi'3cisely because an sembly is
invested with the right of voting the laws, it is
superior to them, and the right of criticising exist-
ing laws cannot be denied to thb minority."
After some happy quotations fr,'m a speech in
favour of the freedom of the press, node " at an-
other epoch" by M. Baroche, now a minfOer and a
denouncer of that principle, M. Jules Favce eon-
tinned :