The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Arrived at Falmouth on Friday,
after post closed, her Majesty's packet Linnet, Lieute-
nant James, rom Rio, in the short space of thirty-three
days, having left on Dec. 17. She has on freight about
44,0001., but no cabin passengers.
Her Majesty's branch packet Spider sailed Nov. 26
with the River Plate mails, and the Inconstant on the
following day for the same destination. The Juno
arrived Dec. 3 from the south-west coast of America,
and sailed on the 14th for England. The Kestrel arrived
Dec. 12 with the River Plate mails. At Rio, Dec. 17,
the Hydra, Crescent, and Kestrel.
Politically nothing stirring at Rio ; but at Pernam-
buco an insurrection had broken out and prevailed to
such an extent as to cause the authorities to charter a
steamer to take the Imperial Goverument dispatches on
its account.

News from Rio there appears to be none. Business
is reported dull; and, politically, nothing stirring.
The Rio Mercantile Journal of Dec. 9 states that more
activity prevailed than in preceding months. In pro-
duce the transactions were of considerable importance.
The amount of business done in exchange was in ad-
vance of that of any previous month since March,
and despite an extraordinary quantity of every descrip-
tion of imports, the sales were extensive of such
articles as were liable to deterioration, or which could
not afford the charge of warehousing.
Coffee had been tolerably free in supply during the
month; but, notwithstanding advices were unfavour-
able, prices were firm, and advanced during the month
about 100 reis.

On the 16th of November the duty of 80 per cent.
was levied on boots and shoes, ready-made clothing, and
furniture.

Robert

Mrs. Facile

Merchant Ships at Rio, Dec. 14.-The Amphitrite,
Za,nte packet ; John Patchett, Black River packet ;
Courier, Queen Victoria, Malcolm, Black Prince,
Minalto, Sateguard, Mary Hay, Mary Ann, Eliza Rob•
son, Bon Muiek Dhu, Camoena, Cockburn, Pet, Eliza-
beth, Avon, Tuscan, Royalist, Homely, and Tasmania.
Laws of the Customs.—A committee has been ap-
pointed to revise the laws and regulations of the customs.
This has become imperatively necessary; and, from the
combined intelligence and reputation of the gentlemen
nominated, we really hope and expect some material
improvement, and the rescinding of some absurd, ob-
noxious, and unjust regulations. More upon this sub•
ject hereafter.

SPANISH BONDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—It is the general opinion that the Spanish
nation can never be prosperous until faith shall be
kept with its public creditors. It was hoped that the
present Spanish Ministers would have made proper
arrangements respecting the Spanish Bond debt, and
that now they will speedily do so. Can you or any
of your readers kindly give, through the medium of
your widely-circulated newspaper, any iniormation
as to what arrangements are making respecting these
Bonds ?—Yours most faithfully,
A CONSTANT READER,
and Holder of Spanish Bonds.
20th January, 1849.

HORRIBLE DEATH Or A MISER.—On Saturday
afternooon T. Wakley, Esq., held an inquest at
the Hope, Park-street, Dorset-square, on Jane Cunning-
ham, aged 62. The body, which was a complete ske-
leton, lay in a wretched room at No. 9, Park-street,
which was completely denuded of every species of fur-
niture, with the exception of an old chair or table, and
rugs scattered about. Mrs. Kelly stated that on Tuesday
deceased, who had lived some years in that house, and
during that period never allowed any one to enter her
room, tapped the wall which separated witness's room
from deceased's, and in a faint voice asked her for a
drink. She brought her a glass of water, and gave it
to deceased at the door. Witness then welt for the
doctor. She returned with M. Robinson, and found
deceased speechless and dying. She expired next day.
There was nothing in the room but a crust of bread.
The apartment was horrible to behold. On stripping
her 211. was found secured round her waist. She
a pension of Bs. 6d. a week, but weald not allow herself
the common necessaries of lite. She had no relations,
and always boasted that she had enough to bury her.
Witness did not know what countrywoman she was, or
where she had lived before she came to Park-street.
Verdict—" Deceased died from destitution, caused by
refusing herself the common necessaries of life."
THE FIRE IN NEW-SQUARE LINCOLN'S INN.—
During Saturday the work of clearing the ruins was con-
tinued, and towards the evening the firemen, under the
direction of head-engineer Loder, succeeded in turning
up a parchment package, net in the least degree injured,
which upon examination proven to be the title deeds ?f
an estate, left in Messrs. Jones, Bennett, and Bateman'..
care, amounting to 27,000/. A mortgage dedeednu,;
10,0001. has also been recovered quite uninjur
together
another of 12,0001. has been found in the rTubines,wtehgnele
of
with a vast number of smaller amounts:,
firm, have
the original wills, also left wish the suabmbisb,
and like-
wise been recovered from thed r
ouads worth of
securi-
ties involving some 141sousathn
floors, where they had fallen From
property have been taken from
plate, and other articles of
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or of
the
parties whileisnse.artotruacrhtiinaatyge
house. A great deal of
theb:rnd four o'clock, n
the neigh-
bourhood ruins.value, have been found
ANOTLIER DESTRU
thrown r oON n
of great alarmsudden - the outoroak. of a very d-
commenced -
structive fire. The flames in the second floor
mornin
g ofbe the"ve a m threei)s tceTaldv- Er
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of the premises occupied by Mr. Livermore, No. 17,
Adam-row, Hampstead-road, and very soon that part of
the premises in the tenure of Mr. Billiard was also blaz-
ing away most furiously, and, in spite of the most stre-
Lnuivoeursmeoxreeratinodnsmoft..thßeilhliraermdel‘n,,etrheotofutarliliyitidirees,tBcrocy.e,
do!
aMurd.
the stock in trade of Mr. John Clarke, grocer and tea-
dealer, seriously damaged by fire and water. Mr. 11. K.
Herrings, an ironmonger, has likewise sustained a deal
of damage to his stock in trade by fire, Scc. The furni-
ture, &c., of Mr. Charles Evans, potato-dealer, and Mr.
A. E. Carver, baker, have also been damaged by water
and hasty removal. The origin of the disaster cannot be
accounted for.
Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Co-
lonial Office, from the Governors of Ceylon and the
CAP ofQood Hope.

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COURT CIRCULAR.
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WINDSOR, SUNDAY. a ait; This morning the Queen and Prince Albert took k--
their usual walk.
The Royal Family took airings in the grounds ad-
jacent to the Castle.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household,
nob
attended Divine service this forenoon in the private
chapel in the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L.
Courtenay officiated.
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Dr.
Cookson,Cambridge, left the Castle.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the
ad \
Home-park yesterday.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Louisa,
took their accustomed airings yesterday.
The Royal dinner party yesterday evening in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her
Serene Highness the Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe
Schillingsfurst, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady
Constance Leveson Gower, Lady Fanny Howard,
Baroness de Speth and Sir George Couper.
The Queen's private band was in attendance in the
evening.
Her Majesty's private band performed the follow-
ing pieces on Friday evening in the Castle :
Overture—(Op. 85)
Selection—" Fra Diavolo" ...
Coro—"Nel Silenzio"..
Die Adepten Walzer ....
Finale, Sinfonia—(No. 4) ............... Mo;art.
The fourth dramatic performance at Windsor
Castle took place on Thursday evening. A play, in
five acts, by B. Thompson (taken from the German
of Kotzebue), entitled The Stranger, was performed,
and the parts were filled according to the following
programme :
Stranger ...
Baron Steinfort
Count Wintersen
Solomon ...
Peter
Francis ...
Tobias .
Count's Child ..
Stranger's Son ...
Stranger's Daughter
Attendant ...
Mrs. Haller ...
Countess Wintersen

Mr. Charles Jim.
Mr. Creswick. -
... Mr. Howe.
• Mr. Compton.
... Mr. Keeley.
... Mr. Webster.
... Mr. Lambert.
... Miss Clark.
... Master Meadows.
... Miss Kean.
... Miss Chapman.
... Mrs. Charles Kean.
... Mrs. Gill (late Miss
Fanny Vining.)
.., Mrs. Keeley.
• MraeGhwman Reed (late
Miss. P. Horton.)
With the original ballad of" I have a silent sorrow here."
Second Savoyard ... ... Mrs. Cauldfield.
After which a farce in one act, by John Oxenford,
was performed, entitled Twice Killed.
Mr. Euclid Facile ... Mr. Keeley.
Mr. Ralph Reckless ... Mr. Howe. •
Tom (his Servant) ... ... Mr. Braid.

Charlotte ...
First Savoyard

Mr. lioldfast ... - ...
Mr. Fergus Fable ...

... Mr. Rogers.
... Mr. Clark.

Mr. Coe.

... Mrs. L. S. Buckingham.

Miss Julia Flighty ... ... Miss E. Messent.
Fanny Pepper ... Mrs. Keeley.
Director ... ... Mr. Chas. Kean.
Assistant Director ... Mr. George Ellis.
Prompter and Stage-manager ... Mr. F. Webster.
The theatre arranged and the scenery painted by
Mr. Thomas Grieve.
The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Ruben's•
room at eight o'clock, accompanied by the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent, Prince George,
the Princesses Amelie and Elise of Hohenlobe Schil-
lingsfurst, and also by the Duchess of Sutherland,
Lady Constance Leveson Gower, the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Abercorn, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Spen-
cer, the Rev. Dr. Cookson, Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge, and the Ladies and Gen•
tlemen in attendance.

When the performances had concluded her Alajesty
was pleased to direct that her approbation of the
manner in which the play had been performed should
be signified to the director, Mr. C. Keen.
Refreshments were served in the Throne-room.
The following, had the honour of receiving invita-
tions :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
his Royal Highness Prince George, their Serene
Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Elise of Hohen-
lohe Schillingsfurst, the Duchess of Sutherland and
Lady Constance Leveson Gower, the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Spencer,
the Dowager Countess of Sefton and the Ladies
Maria and Louisa Molyneux, Lady Fanny Howard,
Baroness de Speth, Lord and Lady Ruthven, Dowa-
ger Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Miss Lyttelton, Miss
Carew, the Rev. Dr. Cookson, Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge; lion. Mr. and Mrs. H.
Ashley, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E Anson, Hon.
Mrs. C. B. Phipps, and Miss Bathurst, Sir J. and
Lady E. Cathcart, Sir James Clark, Lord James
Murray, Sir George and Lady Couper, Miss
and Mr. Couper, General and Lady Isabella
Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, General and Mrs. Scott,
Mr. and Miss Grenfell„ Mr. • and Mrs. H.
Se) mour, Mrs. Crutchlty, Mr. and Mrs. Grote, Rev.
W. and Mrs. Canning, the Commanding Officer of
the 2d Life Guards (Colonel M'Douall) and two
officers of the regiment, the Commanding Officer of
the Coldstream Guards (Lieutenant-Colonel Paget)
and two officers of the regiment, and Mr. Glover.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Glou-
cester House.
Mr. John Wood had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Friday, at his official
residence in Downing. street.
Lord John Russell returned to town on Saturday,
from a visit to the Speaker of the House of Commons,
at his seat, Heckfield-place, Hampshire.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday from the
Colonial Office, to the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope.

Tuts DAY —Morning, 34 min. after 12 Evening, 57 min. after 12
To-31ortnow— after 1 I Event!,, 35 min. after 1

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Vortilta
LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1849,

Efforts are at length being made by the supreme
Parliament of United Germany to consolidate the
nationality of Fatherland. It has been resolved, after
mature deliberation, to replace the present fugitive
Government by a permanent system of administra-
tion. , And to accomplish this the more effectually the
Confederate Representatives are resolved to repose
the responsibility of the conservation of Germany in
the hands of an Imperial chieftain. The supplemental
problems remaining to be solved are two, and those
two are the following :—First, whether this para-
mount dignity shall be elective, or descend through a
single dynasty according to the principles of hereditary
succession ? And, secondly, who is to be chosen as the
new German Emperor ? A thousand rumours are of
course already afloat as to the ultimate decision upon
these two questions—questions involving the fortunes
not of one but of forty states, not of one but of in-
numerable generations.

While the members of the Arch-Diet are de-
bating upon the Supremacy Problem in the Ca-
thedral Church at Frankfort-on-the-Maine' the
Prussian orders
Knights of the Red Eagle
and of the Black Eagle, of the Iron Cross, of the
Order of Merit,
and of the Order of St.John—
have been feasting in the White Hall at Ber-
lin, below the Dais of their SOVEREIGN. On
the 18th instant, EISENSTUCIL of Saxony
BARTH of Kaufbeuern, and LASSAULX of
were pleading from the tribune of the Imperial Par-
liament, the one in favour of an hereditary Emperor, the
other in favour of an elective Emperor, and the third
in favour of the project for investing FRANCIS Jo.
Sara of Austria with the Imperial dignity rather
than of elevating to that illustrious office FREDERICK
WILLIAM of Prussia. On the 18th instant, simulta-
neously with the utterance of these sentiments, the
latter SOVEREIGN was being greeted with the acolaina
tions of the knights of the Prussian monarchy—that
day being the one hundred and fifty-eighth anniver-
sary of the occasion when the head of the house
of nohenzollern was first crowned with
the regal diadem.
To participate in the
annual celebration instituted by the Great FRE-
DEAIoc, the Court, which had hitherto been slinking
in the seclusion of Sans Souci, hastened from Char-
lottenburg to the capital, where the MONARCH pre-
sented himself before the assembled magnates and
celebrities of his dominion. Notwithstanding the
opposition which has already raised its head at Frank-
fort• against the scheme of the creatures of King
FarntuicK WILLIAM to place within his grasp the
imperi4l sceptre, the latter are sanguine as to the
ulterior success of their machinations. They anti-
ciplte *lie arrival of the moment when the Austrian
ArcEduhe JOHN shall resign his perishable
authority into the clutches of the Prussian
King FREDERICK WILLIAM ; and when not
only the living representative of the house
of Hohenzollern, but the Entire ; dynasty
shall be proclaimed the recipients of the allegiance of
United Germany. Bearing in bitter recollection the
treacheries of their MONARCH, we doubt not but that
the true Prussians, the Prussians who love the
common fatherland beyond the particular section of
it in which they may happen to have been born, will
yearn for the rijection of the suit of their KING and

for the preference of the claims of the Austrian
Eat',Enon by the Constitutional Parliament.
Viewing this must difficult question dispassionately
we are satisfied that the safest course that could pos-
sibly be adopted, under existing circumstances, by the
national representatives would be the choice ofFEANCIS
JOSEPH instead of FREDERICK WILLIAM, and by the
nomination of the former as the elective instead of the
hereditary Emperor of Germany. The Sovereign of
Prussia has so repeatedly, and so very recently, re-
vealed his insincerity to the democratic cause—he has
disclosed his secret prejudice in favour of absolute
government—and has done this with such a flagrant
disregard to the aspirations of his people, as well as
to the general hopes of the forty independent princi-
palities—that we should profoundly regret to see the
destinies of Germany entrusted to his keeping.
With the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH it is diffe-
rent. His youth and his intelligence are in a
great measure guarantees for his faithfulness, fur
as yet he has not been hardened into a despot by the
reiterations of crime against the multitude. With
the inexperience of youth he must be presumed to
possess much of its ingenuousness ; and we cannot
but think that a sentiment of gratitude to the move-
ment which would invest him with imperial authority
over such vast and magnificent territories as the
whole of United Germany would dispose him to look
with complacency and even with encouragement
upon the glorious cause of Democracy. Unhappily,
there appears as yet to be no alternative
beyond the rulers of Prussia and Austria, and
to secure the lesser peril we should certainly
prefer witnessing the election of the ;youthful
descendant of RODOLPH.

It would be erroneous to imagine that the Supre-
macy Question now mooted in the Central Diet at
Frankfort is the abrupt expression of a new and
hitherto unheard-of ambition on the part of the
German populace. It is directly otherwise. The
wish now articulated by the principal orators of the
Parliament has long been germinating in the hearts
of the million. In a German Emperor the multitude
recognise the best security for the maintenance of a
common nationality. To appoint a mere Vicegerent
or Vicar as Lord Paramount over Emperor,
Kings, and Princes, would be an anomaly so
strangely conspicuous as to render its ulti-
mate abandonment inevitable. To inaugu-
rate, on the other hand, a species of Republican
or Democratic Government as the power presiding
over these heterogeneous potentates would be a sheer
absurdity leading to perpetual embarrassment. No
Republican administration could be installed in the
once Imperial city of Frankfort until after the depo-
sition of the different chiefs of the respective German
principalities. An Emperor is consequently recog-
nised as the only resource of all the aspirants for the
consolidation of the nationality of Fatherland. And
to the judgment of an enormous mass of the popula-
tion an elective Emperor appears preferable to an
hereditary Emperor. The former, it must be
acknowledged, would be more in accordance
with the character of the age, and would for all
practical purposes appear to combine the respective
advantages of the Monarchical and the Republican
institution. As Emperor, the newly-appointed chief
of Germany would be enabled to preside with a cer-
tain grace and consistency over the heads of his
brother princes, while as the spontaneously elected
representative of the German population he would be
raised to power on as democratic a buckler as that
which elevated President BONAPARTE at Paris, or as
that which elevated President TAYLOR at Washing-
ton. With the fate of the posterity of forty princi-
palities dependent on their decision, the national re-
presentatives in the Central Parliament at Frankfort
cannot act with a caution too deliberate.

No persons can be found with sufficient hardihood
to defend directly the present extravagant expendi-
ture of the nation, or to contend that our rulers are
justified in contracting new debts, and increasing the
public burdens, during a time of profound peace and
tranquillity. The advantages of economy and re-
trenchment are admitted on every side. The good
old times, when corruption and jobbery could be
practised without concealment, when the voice of
public opinion could be slighted and despised, have
long since passed away. The demand for practical
and efficient reforms is apparently universal. A
closer examination will, however, show that in too
many instances the cry is adopted rather as a
specious pretext than a sober reality. It is well
known that dii cot opposition would only provoke the
indignation of the people, and excite the nation to
more determined efforts to abolish acknowledged
abuses. A more devious and subtle course becomes
expedient. Although reforms generally are advocated,
every practical effort to obtain them is encoun-
tered with the most determined resistance. The
weapons of obloquy and ridicule are unsparingly re-
sorted to. In place of fairly replying to the argu-
ments advanced by real practical reformers, some
collateral issue is selected, not going to the merits
of the case. The simple and straightforward assertion
that the expenditure on our naval, military, and
ordnance establishments is far beyond that required
for the national honour and the national safety, is
met with a denial that these establishments are so
kept up because their higher ranks afford places and
emoluments for men who have family connexions and
family interest. A similar course is pursued on
every other point. It is admitted that matters can-
not remain in their present condition, that great and
comprehensive reforms are essential ; but the mo-
ment any definite plan is submitted, any practical
suggestions offered, the propositions are sneered
at, and the parties by whom these pro-
positions are brought forward are held
up to public odium and contempt. Such was the
line of conduct adopted towards the Anti-Corn law
League, when it first sprung into existence, and be-
tore the great majority of the people had arrayed
themselves under the free-trade banners, and pro-
claimed their hostility to every species of monopoly,
Such is the treatment which the Liverpool Financial
Reform Association is now receiving at the hands of

quasi Reformers.
The extraordinary success that has hitherto at-
tended the labours of the association, the popular feel-
ing evoked by the strange revelations that have been
made, have struck terror into the hearts of the supporters
of the present system. Something must be done, and
that speedily, to change the current, to divert the
public attention into another channel. The matters
brought forward cannot be disregarded. The pro-
ceedings of the association cannot be passed sub si•
lentio, without notice or comment. Accordingly, the
assertions of its members are distorted, and their mo-
tives misrepresented ; their statements are received
with doubt and mistrust. If a total silence had been
maintained on the subject of the National Debt we
could readily conceive how freely and unsparingly
the charge of intending to break faith with the public
creditor would be applied. Then, indeed, these gentle-
men would have been assailed with the most oppro-
brious epithets—swindlers and repudiators would,
perhaps, be the mildest terms. Unfortunately, how-
ever, they protest against its being supposed, even for a
single moment, that they harbour any such intention.
Although fully sensible of the enormous burdens im-
posed upon the nation by the folly, perhaps, something
worse, of those by whom the obligations were origi-
nally contracted, they still declare theirwillingnes
to provide for the payments. Strange and incompre-
hensible as it may appear, exceptions are taken even
to these statements. Their assertions are supposed to
ecnocat
afford reasonable grounds of suspicion that something
totallyltd thsse,eraerveert
p a e soel do fthwath`a‘tsuhpaserbfleueonusstavteehdemis net e
nnd-
redundant copiousness of asseveration do not
necessarily carry conviction," and it is asked
"might it not be in better taste for our Financial
Reformers to drop this subject altogether, and let
people judge of their intentions towards the public
creditor by the general tenor of their language, and
the obvious tendency of their act ?"
What do these critics expect or desire ? Is it that
the associstiou should declare that Eight Hundred
Millions sterling is a mere bagatelle, which
should not be even casually alluded to, that
the burden which paralyses the industry cf
the nation, and presses with fearful weight
on the labouring classes, is a matter to be
rejoiced at? Must it not even be hinted that our
predecessors were not exactly justified in transferring
the charges from their own shoulders to those of
their unfortunate descendants. Must it be kept
totally concealed from the people that the debt was

contracted in a depreciated currency, that only sixty
or seventy pounds sterling was actually advanced for
every one hundred pounds inscribed in the national
ledger, and that even these sums were paid in incon-
vertible notes, at a period when every golden
guinea commanded a premium of Is. or Bs., it
not more. All those ugly facts must be suppressed,
or if alluded to, it is manifest that there must be
a desire to apply the sponge and wipe away the
liability.
There is something of a conscious feeling in all
this, as if the subject would not bear the light.
Why should it be supposed that the tendency of such
observations is to lead to the expunging of the debt
unless the debt ought to be expunged ? The Finan-
cial Reformers are sensible of the iniquities that have
been perpetrated; but they still, through a feeling of
chivalrous honour, are satisfied to liquidate the liabili-
ties, however oppressive—and that is all that can be
alleged against them.
The leaders of the association will not, however,
be deterred from persevering in the course on which
they have entered by such proceedings. A glorious path

lies before them from which they will not be diverted.
The masses are with them; they are sustained in
their efforts by the voice of public opinion, and they
will never slacken their exertions until their just de-
mands have been fully recognised and conceded by the
Legislature.

Tim FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
M. BOULAY DE LA MEURTHB has been elected
Vice-President of the Republic. He was supported
by the club of the Beaux Arts, composed of the
friends of General CAVAIGNAC, by the club of the
Rue de Poitiers, and by that of the Palais National.
It was thought that M. "VIVIEN would have been
elected; indeed, it is said, that the Ministers, in order
to force M. YIVIBN on the Assembly, had nominated
as his co-candidates, M. BOULAY DE LA MEURTHE and
General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS, because they were
considered the men the least likely to be agreeable to
the Assembly. General BARAGUIY D'HILLIERS is a
Legitimatist, and therefore he was from the
first clearly out of the question. M. VITIEN
was, it is true, one of the Ministers of
General CAVAIGNAC, but M. VIVIEN is known to
be a rabid Orleanist, and is the friend of MM.
TISIERS, MOLE, and the reactionary members of the
Rue de Poitiers' Club, who are intriguing to betray
the PRESIDENT and escamoter the Republic. M.
BOULAY DE LA MEURTHE although no Republican, is
a sincere Bonapartist, and is therefore the most un-
likely man in the world to intrigue for either an
Orleanist or a Legitimatist restoration. The As-
sembly has, therefore, done right in choosing the
most honest of the three men presented to it, and in
paying the PRESIDENT tne compliment of electing the
first of the candidates on his list, who is moreover his
intimate personal friend. The election took place on
Saturday.

The numbers were—
M. Boulay de la Meurthe
M. Vivien.

General Baraguayd'Hilliers

The Journal des Debats is extremely severe on the
Government and on the PRESIDENT for having pre-
sented such a ridiculous list of candidates. "We
do not like," says the Journal des Debats, " to trifle
with the institutions of our country, not even with
those of which we ourselves may not approve." In
speaking of the election itself, the Debats says that all
the candidates ere so bad, that the selection of any
of them could not give it pleasure, and that the
choice of M. BOULAT DE LA MEURTHE does not give
it pain.
The Siecle of Saturday gives vent to its indignation
against the Ministry for having proposed such an
absurd list of candidates ; and the Siecle of Sunday is
equally indignant with the Assembly for having
chosen M. BOULAT DE LA MEURTHE, and accounts for
his election after the following manner

•6 some," says the Slick, " were influenced by party
calculations, and others by motives of spite or anger.
The Assembly only forgot one thing—that, for the sta-
bility of Republican institutions, as well as for its own
honour, the Assembly was bound to make the choice
which it considered the best. But, after the explosion
of murmurs and hilarity which, perhaps, unjustly marked
the sitting of Thursday, France will have some difficulty
in understanding the now irrevocable decision of the As-
sembly. The votes of spite, the little acts of chicanery
against the Government, the inadmissible conclusions
which M. Grevy has been employed to present, the im-
potence into which the majority has fallen, and which
prevents it from giving an imposing character to its acts
or real utility to its labours, all show that there is only
one thing to be done, and that is to hasten the period of
the dissolution."

The -N ational Assembly on Saturday, having elected
the Vice President of the Republic, proceeded to dis-
cuss the project of law which convokes the High
Court of the Nation at Bourges, for the trial of the
persons implicated in the affair of the 15th of May.
The debate was commenced by M. EUGIEINE RASPAIL
(the nephew of the prisoner at Vincennes), who
denied that the Assembly had the right to send the
affair of the 15th of May before the High Court of
the Nation. The accused, he contended, could only
be sent before a jury, and that jury a Parisian one.
He thought that convoking the Court at Bourges
showed, at the same time, stupidity on the part of
the Government, enmity to the accused, and suspi-
cion of the population of Paris. M. RASPAIL con-
cluded by saying that he would be guarantee for the
tranquillity of Paris on the occasion of the trials ;
and he advanced, as the clearest proof that could be
given of the moderation of the Parisians, the patience
with which they bore the presence of the. present
Ministers in power. _

M. BO JEAN reminded the House that, at the time
of the debate on the Constitution, one of the Montag-
nards had presented an amendment to the effect that
the High Court of Justice should not be called on to
judge in any cases in which the facts had not oc-
curred after the promulgation of the Constitution,
and that he had supported that amendment, on the
ground that the persons accused of the affair of the
15th of May should not be taken out of the jurisdic-
tion of the ordinary tribunals; but the Assembly re-
jected the amendment, and thereby prejudged the
question now before it.
M. LEDRU RoLLIN contended that the jurisdiction
of a court, like crime itself, did not fall within the
principle of retro activity, although he admitted that
the form of procedure in the court did.
M. DUPIN contended that when a tribunal took a
new form, or when one tribunal succeeded another,
the new tribunal took in every respect the place of its
predecessor.
After M. Durnes speech, the debate was adjourned,
on the motion of M. JULES PAYEE.

The election of Colonel of the Ist legion of the
National Guards of Paris was to have taken place on
Saturday, but as no candidate obtained the actua
majority, the ballot has to be renewed. The follow.
ing is the result of Saturday's ballot:—
Number of voters ... ... 6,425
Absolute majority 3,213
MM. Lucien Murat ... 1,922
le General Gourgaud ... 1,637
le General de Fesensac ... 1,180
Vieyra ... 609
Clary ... 471
Ruvignier ... 350
le General Castellanne ... 162
Lost votes

... 394

M. VIETRA, the Orleanist candidate, has retired in
favour of General DE FEZENSAC, the candidate of the
Legitimatists, and Colonel CLARY in favour of M.
LUCIEN MURAT.

It is rumoured that the reactionaries have con-
cocted the following notable scheme for upsetting the
Republic, by uniting against it the Monarchists of all
shades. The plan laid down, or said to be laid down,
is to place the Crown on the head of the Duc DE
BORDEAUX, declaring the Comte DI PARIS to be his
heir, and in case the latter should not have children
the Crown to descend in the family of Louis PHI-
LIPPE, and from that family, in case of an extinction
of heirs in the male line, to the house of BONAPARTE.
In the meantime, the Princes of the NAPOLEON
house to be raised to the dignity of the Princes of the
blood royal, with suitable appanages, thus securing
them lofty rank, and the means of supporting it. This
is evidently an Orleanist proposal, proceeding from
that excessively cunning old gentleman, Mr. SMITH,
of Claremont. The word "appanage" alone is suffi-
cient to mark it as an emanation from the brain of
the ' Harpagon des Rois." But as neither Hemel
V. nor Louis IsTaroLeors are quite idiots, we cannot
bring ourselves to believe that they have or that they
ever will consent to such an arrangement. Louis
NAPOLEON, who is now in the full possession of power,
will surely never sell his future career for an appa •
nage, to be wrung from the hard earnings
of the people who have elected him to protect their
liberties and their property. HENRI V., who would
poll 6 to 1 against any member of the Orleans
family, if their respective claims were submitted to
the choice of the French people—Huem V. will
surely never betray the principles of Legitimacy, of
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tont a vea'l legalize disinheriting his
e the succession of
the lineage of an usurper (for such do all the Legiti-
matists consider Louis PHILIPPE). That the Orleans
family would willingly consent to some such plan we
have no doubt ; they give up nothing, but gain every-
thing by it. If a Bourbon restoration is to brought about
in France, it is by the Legitimatists, and by the Legi-
timatists alone, that it can be accomplished, and they
have a right to the full enjoymept of the fruits