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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1849.

After the disposal of some preliminary business in the
Commons last night, and the House having resolved
itseif into a Committee of Ways and Means,

The CIIANCELLOR Of the EXCIIEQUEIt rose to
king forward the Budget. He said, that although
the statement he was about to submit was not
as favourable as he should have been justified
in making at an earlier period, yet he hoped
that it would not be found altogether unsatisfactory. It
should be remembered that last year had been a year of
&Teat commercial distress in England, of famine in Ireland,
an, I of war and disturbance in Europe. The war between
Dee mark and Germany had created a large diminution in
our manufacturing exports. The export to Germany
/quail& two days' work per week in our manufacturing
districts. This proved how great was our interest
in the preservation of peace in Europe. Early in
last session the Government had felt it incumbent on
Deem to recommend increased taxation ; to this the
Ilo.use did not agree, and therefore the Government re-
dueled the expenditure which it was in their power
to reduce, and proposed a loan to meet that
expenditure, which could not be reduced. He
had at that time stated that if the measure pro-
posed had been granted he had every reason
for anticipating that there would have been a surplus of
revenue over expenditure. In that estimate he had ex
CIULled corn, and he had estimated the ordinary revenue at
52,550,0001. That estimate had fallen short, by 50,0001. of
the actual revenue. The actual expenditure amounted to
53,287,1101., but which included an item of
389,9901. for Irish distress, and a naval excess of
the preceding year, making altogether 713,707/,
which he had not included in his calculations,
The total revenue, including that from corn, was
.53,170,732/., so that there was an excess of revenue ever
expenditure during the last year of 269,379/. But it
they deducted the sum voted for Irish distress, and for
naval excess, they'would find that the actual expenditure
of the .year was 52,573,4051., showing an excess
of actual revenue of the year over the ac-
tual expenditure of the year of 444,3291.,
so that there still remained, making this deduction, a
surplus of income over expenditure of 120,0001. The
receipt of Customs was 21,170,3531., and excluding corn,
20,220,0006; and he proposed to estimate the receipt of
Customs for this year 20,200,000/.; and having now a
fixed duty of Is. on every quarter of corn, he estimated
the revenue from that source at 250,0001., making the
total estimated sum 20,450,000/. He proposed to take
the Excise at 13,710,0001.; the Stamps at 6,700,000/ ;
and taxes at 4,300,000/., an I the income-tax at 5,275,0001.,
the Post-office at 800,0001.; and the Crown lands, which
last year produced 100,000/., at 180,000/. ; and the mis-
cellaneous at 222,0001.; o'd stores at 285,0001., the sum
it produced last year; and surplus fees at 90,000/.—
making for the. whole year 52,252,000/. Tnen as
regards expenditure—the interest on the public debt
was 28,243,521/., and the total charge for Irish dis-
tress and other charges was 2.831,5611, making a
total charge on the Consolidated Fund under this head
of 51,750,082/. Then there were the Naval, Army,
Miie.allaneous, and Ordnance estimates, which had been
voted, which with the excesses of last year would make a
total expenditure of 52,157,6961., leaving a surplus on the
estimated receipt of 104,3041.; deducting the expendi-

ture for excesses, the total expenditure would be
51,515,064/. These estimates were between 500,0001.
and 600,0001. higher than they would have been had
not the House determined for the first time to include
the total expenditure of tho year within the estimates
of the year. He trusted that when they recovered from
the excesses of former years, that, even if no increase of
revenue or diminution of expenditure were to take place,
they would still fur the future have a surplus. Then,
with regard to the navy, the most expensive thing
they could do for the navy, as regarded the
year, was to diminish the force, as they
had to pay off ships at once. That matter had better
be discussed he thought when the question was imme-
diately under the attention of the House, but this would
account for an apparent increase of expenditure under

that head. There had been an increase since the com-
mencement of the year in stamps, taxes, and
income-tax, which he considered to be a proof
of the increasing prosperity of the country.
In comparing the present state of the national income
with that of years back they would have a subject for
congratulation. Ia 1843 it was forty-five million
and a half, and in 1844-45 it was 48,110,0001.,
exclusive of income-tax ; in 1846 it was
46,000,0001., in 1847 it was 48,000,0001.—that he took
as a fair ordinary year, and this year he
took it at 46,000,000/. He believed ' that the
state of the country was such as to warrant his
estimating the state of the revenue at that amount, and
he should have gone into the subject of the state of the
country had it not been for the fear of spoiling
the speech which he knew the Hon. Member for
Buckingham had prepared on this subject.—(A
laugh.) There was an increase of prosperity in
the manufacturing districts, the amount of bullion

in the Bank of England had increased, and he
thought, therefore, he was justified in declaring
that he considered the country was in a prosperous state.
He hoped to be still further enabled to
diminish the public expenditure, although he
did not propose to go back to the expenditure of 1835.
He would only go back to 1845, when the Right Hon.
Baronet, in proposing the renewal of the income-tax,
declared it was necessary to increase the expenditure,
to which the House agreed, and he believed that the
vote for increasing our naval estimates, proposed
at that time, was most popular with the House
and the country. and those gentlemen who now
joined financial associations—among them the Hon. and
Gallant Member for Middlesex—complained of the ne-
glected state of our national defences. Those works
having been commenced, it would be now most

impolitic and most wasteful to abandon them. He though

they were perfectly justified last year in refusing—to
reduce the forces of the army and the
navy. They had heard a talk of a mock
insurrection in Ireland. Certainly nothing was more
difficult to prove than the existence of an insur-
rection, which had been prevented from breaking
out by the presence of a large force, although nothing
would have caused a greater expenditure both
of blood and of money than to have, by
diminishing the force, encouraged an insurrection
to break out. There had been a reduction this year
in all the estimates, and the Government at all times
exercised a watchful conduct over the expenditure
of the country. In the civil service estimates there
was a decrease in every class, except those for
the administration of justice. The whole reduction in
the estimates of this year was 1,511,4551., which added
to the reduction of last year, showed a total re-
duction in the estimates during the two years of
2,340,135/., which he hoped would meet the approval
of his Hon. Friend behind him.

Mr. ROME objected not to the reduction, but to the
increase.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought they

should have credit fur the reduction. 'll;ey had
consolidated the Boards of Excise, Stamps, and
Taxes—by that measure they had reduced the number
of persons employed by upwards of two thousand,
and the expenditure by a sum of 247,0001
All the persons reduced above sixty years of age were
superannuated, and 188 bad been re-appointed in the
public service ; and as the whole patronage of the
Government would be given up for this purpose,
he thought that in fifteen months all those per-
sons would be re-appointed in the public service.
A similar inquiry was going on with regard to the
Customs, and he hoped that reductions to a great
extent would be made in that department.
He had not reduced the salaries of the
officers, because he thought they were not overpaid, but
he had reduced the number and increased the work
of those retained, because he believed the public
work would be better done by a small staff
of well-paid officers than by a large staff of under-
paid persons.—(llear. hear.) He hoped that next
year they would have a surplus of income suffi -
eient to place them in a more comfortable
position in that respect than they occupied at present.
1 He did not think that the present circumstances
i would justify them in going on with so small a sur-
plus, at the same time be did not feel called upon to
pri pose any increase of taxation. He must protest
against any attempt to get rid of any small surplus they
might bare by reducing some small item of taxation,
as such a course of conduct would preclude them for
ever dealing with taxation on a large scale. lie would
rather recommend that such surplus should be permitted
to accumulate, in order that we might be in a position
to take full advantage of that prosperity with which it
might please Providence to bless us.—(Cheers.) The
Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving a formal
vote for an ad►ance of 3,000,0001. out of the Consolidated
Fund.

The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. HUME,
Sir J. TYEELL, Mr. L. HODGES, Lord ROBERT GROS-
VENOR, Mr. MACGREGOR, and several other Hon. Gen-
tlemen; after which the vote was agreed to, and the
Huse resumed.

The Transportation for Treason (Ireland) Bill then
passed through Committee, several amendments proposed
by Mr. ANSTEY having been negatived by large majori-
ties, and the House adjourned.

The financial statement for the current year is at
length before Parliament and the country. The
Budget has been brought forward on the 22d of June,
rather more than four months later than the similar
duty was performed last year, that most important
task having been postponed from the first to the last
month of the session. It might be very convenient
to Sir CHARLES WOOD to adjourn the period
when the nation should receive some species
of authentic information as to its financial
prospects—it might render unnecessary the
production of some four or five distinct budgets, dif-
fering from each other in many important particulars
—it might avert the humiliating necessity of con-
fessing glaring errors and palpable mistakes, but,
above all, it would undoubtedly delay pressing de-
mands for great and comprehensive measures of
fiscal and financial reform. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer can easily estimate the value of
these circumstances, and, if permitted, will
gladly avail himself of the precedent in
future years. But is it fair to the House
or to the country ? Is it consistent with
the imperative duties of hie responsible office
to keep all parties in the dark until by far the greater
portion of the expenditure for the year has been sanc-
tioned? What would be thought of a private indi-
vidual who should decide as to the extent of his esta-
blishments, the indulgences he would allow himself,
and the amount of his expenditure, without in
any degree taking
into his consideration his
probable income or the means of meeting
the outlay ? If such 9, person escaped utter ruin it
would be ascribable rather to
good fortune than to
any care or prudence in the management of his affairs.
Every right-minded man would justly condemn such
conduct, which, if brought under the cognizance of ,
Commissioner of Bankruptcy, would probably subject
' the offender to severe punishment for a flagrant viola-
tion of one of the first principles of commercial
law. But this is exactly what the British
nation is doing under the stewardship of Sir CHARLES
Woon. Its establishments are voted, its charities
disbursed, before any estimate is given of its proba-
bable revenue. Under such a system every ame-
lioration is rendered impracticable. The represen-
tatives of the people, whose first and most important
duty it is to see that no unnecessary taxation is im-
posed on the country, are kept ignorant of their true
position. They know not whether they can afford to
be generous, or whether a most rigid economy must
be practised—whether there will be a satisfactory
balance in the Exchequer at the close of the year, or
whether a new loan may be essential. In everything
they must repose a blind and unlimited confidence in
Sir CHARLES WOOD, and accept with gratitude and
unanimity the boons which he may feel disposed to
bestow. Will independent legislators again submit
to such treatment? We trust not; we know they
would not if the people were fully and fairly repre-
sented in the Commons' House of Parliament. The
first act of every session should be the
production of the national budget for the

ensuing year. Just allowances would be made for
any unavoidable mistakes, and some alight modifica-
tions might fairly be tolerated; but the general
financial policy should be placed before Parliament
within the first, or at the latest the second, week after
its assembling.
The actual statement is probably as favourable as
we could reasonably expect under existing circum-
stances. Notwithstanding the stringent monetary,
code, under which the value of money has been mate-
rially " appreciated" and the burden of tax-
ation greatly aggravated, the wonderful resources
of the empire still enable us to keep our heads above
water, and to provide, without any formidable defi-
ciencies, for actual demands. The first "great fact"
demanding attention is, that last year there was
.an ex-
cess of expenditure above income of 269,3781. The
country is, therefore, still adding to its embarrassments
and increasing its liabilities. Sir CHARLES WOOD
explains that this deficiency is owing to certain
causes not within his control, and for which he cannot
reasonably be censured or considered responsible—
that were it not for Irish distress, Canadian
emigration, and naval excess of the former year, the
balance would have been on the right side. He had
estimated the ordinary revenue of the country (ex-
clusive of duties on corn) at 51,550,000/, the actual
produce was 51,498,6891., or 51,311/. less than the
estimate. This error was occasioned by what the
Right Hon. Baronet was pleased to term " a most
unexpected falling off in the stamp duties, which
had evidently been elevated beyond their na-
tural point by the unusual number of bill
transactions which took place in a time of
fictitious prosperity." We cannot understand
the period referred to by Sir CHARLES WOOD,
it certainly was not 1847-8, or indeed any time since
his accession to office as financial Minister. There
was, unhappily, no apparent prosperity, whether
fictitious or otherwise, to mislead the calculators ;
but there was an incessant pressure of "the screw."
During the entire year there has been a continued
reduction of the private securities held by
the Bank of England, and a restriction of
the accommodation afforded to the commercial and
manufacturing interests. On the 30th of October,
1847, the Bank held no less than 20,409,8971. worth
of private securities ; on the 16th of June, 1849,
the amount was 9,731,825/. only. As the Bank of
England returns afford a fair indication of the busi-
ness conducted by other banks, which, to a certain
extent, take their tone from the proceedings of the
Leviathan, there was every reason to suppose that
there would be " a great falling off in the stamp
duties," which should, therefore, not have been
so very " unexpected," if ordinary foresight
had been exhibited. The extraordinary revenues
had been estimated at 580,000/.; the actual produce
was 569,0421., the entire mistake being only
62,2691., which, unfortunately, was on the wrong
side of the books.

If, however, the income fell short of the estimate,
the expenditure, we regret to say, very considerably
exceeded the amount anticipated. The actual outlay
for the year amounts to no less than 53,287,1101.
Of this sum, 323,7871. is an arrear from a former
year—a debt for which the country was liable
for what is termed " naval excess," or, in
other words, the difference between the sums
voted by Parliament for the support of our
naval establishments, and the total amount expended
thereon. Another item is clearly an exceptional
case—lrish distress and Canadian emigration,
389,9201. If these sums, amounting in the whole to
713,7071., for which there is some excuse, be deducted
from the total expenditure, the estimate would be
exceeded by about 150,0001. ; or, in other words, Sir
CHARLES WOOD would have only considered the
nation in a better position than it really was
by about 212,0001. sterling. Sir CHARLES labours
hard to show that if these unexpected demands had
not taken place, there would have been a surplus of
444,3291. We fear, however, that some such casu-
alties must be encountered in each and every year for
some time at least, and that we cannot anticipate
with any degree of confidence the period when the
Exchequer will be free from demands on account of
" Naval Excess," " Irish Distress," or " Canadian
Emigration." A wise and sagacious statesman should
make ample provisions fur such very probable con-
tingencies.

As to the revenues for the current year, Sir
CHARLES WOOD estimates that they will amount alto-
r4ether to 52,252,0001., while he considers that the ex-
penditure will reach 52,157,6961., leaving an esti-
mated surplus of 94,30 g—rather a slight provision
to meet the various casualties and unexpected claims
that may infringe upon the national purse.
Of course, under such circumstances, Sir CHARLES
WooD will pay no attention to the urgent demands
for the remission of some of the most onerous imposts
which press most heavily upon the industry of the
country. The state of the Exchequer presents an
insuperable obstacle to any indulgence where he is
not prepared to substitute new burdens for the
obnoxious taxes. Taxes can only be abolished when
there is either a great reduction of expenditure or a
considerable addition to the public income from new
sources of revenue. Sir CHARLES WooD will not
practise the necessary economy, neither will he try
any experiment in the way of substitution of direct
for indirect taxation. He is the advocate of finality
in fiscal, financial, and mor.etary affairs, and it is vain
to look for any ameliorations or reforms in any of
these particulars so long as he retains his present
position as controller and manager of the National
Exchequer.

The adjourned debate on the second reading of the
Marriage Bill was on Wednesday resumed, and we
are happy to say concluded, in the House of Com-
mons. A division has at length taken place, and the
principle of the measure has been affirmed by a ma-
jority of 34, the numbers being for the second reading
177, against it 143. The entire strength of the op-
position was put forward on the occasion, and the
Members for the Universities of ,Oxford and
Dublin most ably produced every argument in any
degree bearing on the subject, whether of a religious
or of a political character. Nothing was, however,
shown that could at all affect the substantial merits
of the case, or the broad grounds on which
the repeal of the Act of 1835 was demanded.
If marriage with a deceased wife's sister
were clearly and expressly forbidden by the law of
GOD, if there were any distinct and unequivocal
Scriptural prohibition, the matter should be at once
and for ever set at rest. But if, on the other hand, it
is a merely human ordinance, resting upon no better
foundation than a comparatively modern statute, the
justice and propriety of which has been strongly con-
troverted ab initio—if the crude and hasty decision
of a single Parliament was to coerce the deliberate
and conscientious judgment of those who have been
justly described as " persons of chaste and moral
habits, and of deep religious opinions," without any
adequate reason, the sooner. the impolitic restriction
be abrogated, and the most perfect civil and religious
freedom be allowed to all, the better.
The case has been argued as if the repeal of the
existing law would be tantamount to a legislative re-
commendation and encouragement of such marriages ;
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tertain any doubt whatsoever on the subject : all that
is required is, that those who feel no such scruples,
who believe that there is nothing objectionable in
such unions, should be emancipated from ex-
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The extraordinary differences of opinion that pra-

vail on the subject, not only among the community
in general, but within the pale of the Church of Eng-
land itself—aye, even among the very Bishops and
ministers of that Church—clearly and unequivocally
prove that there is no Divine enactment by which
such marriages are either expressly or impliedly
forbidden. The 18th verse of the 18th chapter of
Leviticus manifestly does not apply; on the contrary,
the very limitation to the period of the wife's life-
time :—" Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister
to vex her . . . besides the other in her life-
time ;" and the reason, assigned " to vex her" (the
wife), plainly shows that there could be no valid
objection to such a marriage after the death of the
first wife, the only obstacle being thereby re-
moved. It must not be forgotten that poly-
gamy was sanctioned under the Mosaic law.
Many just and godly men are shown to have had a
plurality of wives. The very Patriarch himself, even
ISRAEL, had not only two wives, but those wives were
sisters—and it was against the inconvenience and
domestic bickerings that might naturally arise from
placing sisters in such relation to each other that the
mandate was framed. There was, to use the language
of some of the many petitions to Parliament on the
subject, " no consanguinity or kindred between the
parties to make such marriages undesirable in a phy-
sical point of view," the social comfort and conve-
nience of the parties were alone consulted.
The Hon. Member for the University of Dublin,
argued that the prohibition did not rest on the 18th
verse merely, but that it turned on the 6th verse,
which forbade intercourse with near of kin—and
the same line of argument was followed by the Right
Hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of
Oxford. Both insisted that the relationship by mar-
riage was as close and binding, and as much within
the scope of that law, as that by birth. Mr. GLAD-
STONE more especially declared that " it was demon-
strable from the letter of the chapter, that the wife's
sister was near of kin to her sister's husband," and
consequently that " the prohibition in the 6th verse
was an absolute and positive prohibition of the mar-
riages which it is now proposed to sanction." Now
we are quite prepared to join issue with
the Right Honourable and Learned Gentle-
man on this point. He will not, we suppose,
venture to assert that there is any nearer relationship
between a man and his wife's sister than there is
between a woman and her husband's brother. In-
deed, according to the commonly received notions of
mankind, any connexion between the latter has been
regarded with greater repugnance, and as more ob-
jectionable than if it occurred between the former.
If a man be kin to his wife's sister within the mean-
ing of the 6th verse, is not a woman also kin to her
husband's brother in like manner ? But we find, under
the Jewish law, that a man was expressly ordered to
marry his brother's widow, " to raise up seed to his
brother," and this merely " that the inheritance might
not pass to a stranger." Can it, then, for a mo-
ment be supposed, that the DEITY would com-
mand that which was wrong per se, and
absolutely forbidden by the Divine law, for any
peculiarly worldly purpose ? Certainly not. No
instance can be adduced where that which was con-
trary to nature was directed. There can, therefore,
be no such relationship in the sight of GOD between
persons so connected to forbid their marriage. We
concur most fully in the observation that the House
of Commons is not the place to discuss the meaning
of texts; neither is it a fitting topic for the columns
of a public journal. But by whom has the discussion
been rendered necessary ? By these who claim to
control the consciences of their fellow-men, and to
compel all to take the same views of religious matters
which they themselves entertain. If the majority
could bind the minority in such a matter, fare-
well to all toleration. No diversity of opinion
could be sanctioned. The entire community
should be contented to kneel before the same
altar, to receive the same doctrines, and to fol-
low the same forms—Dissent would be annihilated.
All should bow to the will of Parliament, and be-
come members of the State Church. Englishmen
will not, however, readily surrender the civil and
religious freedom for which their fathers bled, nor
will they suffer a vestige of intolerance to remain a
stain and a disgrace to the statute-book, to gratify
the prejudices of any man or body of men.
The existing law imposes an unwise and impolitic
restriction, and it. must be speedily and for ever
abolished.

rHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
A meeting of the Council of State was held on
Thursday, at which a formal protest against the state
of siege was read and deposited.
The Courrier Francais, the organ of M. LEON
FAUCIIER, is exceedingly wrath with Generals LA-
MORICIENE and BEDEAU, and with M. DE BEAUMONT,
for re-organizing the Dufaure Parliamentary Club.
It is probable that M. DUFAURE and his friends will
quit the Ministry, in which case they would be
enabled, with the assistance of General CAVAIGNAC
and his followers, to organize a powerful Parliamen-
tary Opposition, powerful not only for its talents (it
would possess almost the monopoly of talent in the
Assembly), but for its numbers also.
The funeral of Madame CAVAIGNAC, the mother of
the General, took place yesterday morning, at eight
o'clock, at the Church of St. Roch.
Madame MAR&AST the wife of M. ARMAND MAR-
RAST, the late President of the Assembly, died of the
cholera on Thursday. .

The Moniteur publishes the following despatches,
which have been received by the Government from
General OUDINOT

" Villa Santucci, June 11.
" Monsieur le Ministre,—lt is proper that I should tender
you a special account of an event to which the enemy at-
tached great importance, but the result of which, on the con-
trary, is favourable to us. You know that, in the early part
of May, a bridge was established on the Tiber, at the an-
chorage of San Palo. This operation took plus nearly at
the same time as the occupation of the church of San Palo.
We almost simultaneously became masters of the Porte
Slone, and our moveable columns being thus able to commu-
nicate with each other by the left bank made the investment
of Rome complete. The Romans imagined that sending a
few fire-boats during the night would suffice to burn the
bridge. Towards midnight one was sent off by some men,
who brought it to the heights of San Palo, and there aban-
doned it to the current. To the principal boat were lashed
three others filled with powder, and other incendiary sub-
stances. The approach of this mass in combustion was soon
signalised. Two guns fired by us changed the direction, and
thanks to the floating-cable, which traverses the river longi-
tudinally, the burning bo it was driven as a wreck to the
right bank. In a few instants the others were sunk. No
accident resulted from this attempt. The want of success
will, I hope, serve to prevent the Romans from making
another. I cannot speak too highly of the tr ops and seamen
of the flotilla. Their vigilance and energetic courage, and
the simultaneous action of their efforts, powerfully contri-
buted to preserve the bridge.
(Signed)

" OUDINOT DE REGGIO."

Then follow a dispatch announcing that he had
again endeavoured to negotiate, and then his letter to
the President of the Roman National Assembly, which
we published two days since, and then comes the
following dispatch :

" Villa Pamfili, June 13.
" Monsieur le Ministre,—You will see by my dispatch of
last evening that I made a last appeal to conciliation. It
has not been listened to. I send herewith the journal of
the besieging operations on the 11th, 12th, and 13th. As
soon as we shall obtain results, I will hasten to communicate
them to you as rapidly as communications by sea shall per-
mit. " I am, Asc.,
(Signed)

" OUDINOT DE REGGIO."

JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE.

" From the 10th to the 11th June.—During the night we
debouched from the left side of San Pancrazio to make a
second parallel. This trench was prolonged towards the
bottom of the valley to the extent of 140 metres. The open-
ing which existed yesterday in the communication on the
left of the road that passes in front of the church of San Van-
crazio was closed during the night. The wall by the side of
the road was pierced, and thus the lower part of the commu-
nication was joined to the upper part, which unites the
Villa Corsini to the summit of the wall. All the new
trenches were made to their full width in the course o the
day.
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we are 120 metres from the wall. On the right we have
carried the double sap towards the escarpments which com-
mand the Talley of the Tiber, above the Borta Portese ; and
to-night we shall return towards the front of the attack to
go beyond a covert way which will start from the ruined
houses above mentioned. The battery No. 5, which is to
serve also as a breaching battery against the bastion No. 7,
has been begun by the engineers. At daylight it was
covered, and the platforms and powder magazines were
completed in the course of the day. The works at battery
No. 4 have been carried on without any interruption from
the enemy. Batteries 1 and 2 have received and answered a
fire from the fortress without experiencing any loss.
" From the 11th to the 12th.-00 the left of the attacks
the second parallel has been prolonged several metres. At
the centre has been formed 192 metres of the parallel on the
right of the battery No. 5, and in advance of that of No. 4,
which is to oppose tho bastion of No. 6. This work has
been well done, notwithstanding the fire of the fortress went
over the men employed at it, and three of them were
wounded. During the night, contrary to the practice
hitherto, the fire was kept up; and at half-past six this
morning the enemy made a sortie upon battery No. 5. He
came to the border of the trench, and placed himself in
ambush, on the right of the battery, in some ruined houses
and behind a broken wall. After haan-hour's struggle
the enemy abandoned his enterprise. On retiring he had
to sustain a brisk fire of musketry from the Grenadier com-
pany of the 36th and a company of Voltigeurs, led by

Colonel Niel of the Engineers, and left a number of killed
behind him. A battery on the plateau of the Villa Corsini
was commenced on the night of the 9th; but its distance
from the grand park delayed its progress. Nevertheless the
work was continued in the day, when the parapets were
strengthened and the platforms gone on with. The rest of
the gabions and saucissons are arrived, and will be used in
the night. The battery No. 4 was completely mounted in
the night. During the day the battery No. 1 returned the
fire of the fortress, and No. 2 that of the Artillery on the left
bank of the Tiber. Our less during these two days is not
exactly known, but amounts to about 26 non-commissioned
officers and soldiers, of whom 6 are killed.
"From the 12th to the 13th.—On the left attacks we had
only to form the gradins for firing from and for the fran-
chissement. At the centre we have joined the two extremi-
ties of the second parallel ; we have widened and strengthened
this important work. During the 12th, the batteries 3 and
4, annoyed by the fire from the fortress, were authorised to
return it, although they had been ordered to wait the result
of the summons sent in to the Roman Government. At half-
past eight in the morning of the 13th all the batteries
opened their fire, and in the course of the day each piece was
discharged thirty times upon the average. The crests of the
faces of the bastions 6 and 7 were completely beaten down,
and the shots directed against the walls and parapets soon
cleared the ramparts of their defenders. All the guns of the
fortress, except one, ceased firing. The battery No. 5 has had
its merlons and embrasures damaged by the enemy's fire, but
the other batteries have not suffered. Our loss on this day is
about 20 non-commissioned officers and men killed and
wounded. Daily, since the opening of the works for the
siege, I have sent out reconnoitering parties to the left bank
of the Tiber to intercept communications and provisions, to
alarm and disturb the enemy, and draw the investment still
closer. On the 10th the moveable column which left Monte
Mario moved towards te Teverino, a tributary of the left
of the Upper Tiber. The troops exchanged some shots with
a Roman post, and took three prisoners from it. They re-
turned in the evening, bringing in the colonel of the 7th
regiment of the Roman infantry and another officer of the
same corps, whom it had taken prisoners. In the region of
the Lower Tiber, a column composed of a battalion and 400
cavalry, under the command of Brigadier General Morris, left
San Palo and marched in the direction of Frascati. The situ-
tions on the road side and the positions they might offer were
carefully marked. The cavalry pushed on as far as Frascati
itself, into which the authorities suffered them to enter with.
out opposition." _ _ _

Tile Anti-Socialist Electoral Committee have pub-
lished a list of twenty names, out of which they
recommend the electors of Paris to choose eleven, to
whom they will give their support at the approaching
election. The first eleven names in the list are—
Lucien Bonaparte, M. de Lamartine, M. Thouret
(Minister under General Cavaignac), M. de Malle-
vine, General Rulhieres (Minister of War), M. Lan-
guinais (Minister of Commerce), General Gimeau
(who commanded at Lyons against the insurgents),
M. Fould, General de Bar, Benjamin Delessert, and
Duvergier de Hauranne.

La Liberte states that a letter has been received in
Paris from the ex-King Louis Philippe, dated 18th
June, in which that monarch congratulates the
French nation on the bloodless victory gained by
the army of Paris. He declares that the triumph of
the friends of order over the Republican party must
necessarily and inevitably produce the restoration
of the monarchy. Louis Philippe (adds the Liberte)
announces, moreover, to his friends that in a letter
addressed by the Emperor Nicholas to the Duchess
of Orleans, and communicated by her to the ex-Royal
Family, he tells her that she must waive the claims
of her children, and unite with the elder branch.
The Czar, it is added, persists in consolidating
the monarchichal principle on a legitimate basis. The
King who was overthrown in February consequently
recommends all his friends to transmit this resolution
to their adherents, in order that henceforth there may
be but two camps in Europe—Royalty and Legiti-
macy on the one hand, and revolutionary movement
on the other. La Liberte completes the communi-
cation by declaring that the friend to whom the letter
was addressed, is one of the persons enjoying the
greatest favour at the Palace of the President of the
Republic.
The following are the' official returns for the cholera
on the 18th:—Deaths in private practice, 107; in
the civil hospitals, 69, and in the military hos-
pitals, 10. The Moniteur, which publishes these
returns, adds—" The number of deaths in private
practice on the 19th, as far as the accounts which are
not complete go, was only fifty. The total number of
deaths in the hospitals on that day was fifty-three, being
a diminution of twenty-six on the number of the pre •
ceding day."

PARIS BOURSE, FRIDAY, HALF-PAST THREE.
The market has been heavy to-day, and prices are
again somewhat lower, Threes for the account closing
at 53f. 30c., and Fives at 861. 55c. The market clo-ed
as follows :—Threes, for cash, 53f. 45e.; for account,
531. 30e. ; Fives, for cash, 86f. 60c.; for account, 861.
55c.; Bank of France Shares, 2,350%; Spanish Threes,
34i f.; Do. Fives and Neapolitan not quoted.
RAmwevs.—The Share Market has been also dull.
Shares have been freely offered, and aril generally,
though not very materially, lower. Orleans closed at
8001.; Rouen, 5511.; Havre, 255 f.; Vierzon, 317 f. 50e.;
Avignon, 195 f.; Strasburg and Bale, 102 f. 50c.; Bur-
deaux, 405 f.; Northern, 427 f. 50e.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 3611. 25c.; Nantes, 3101.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JUNE 22.
Central of France (Orleans and Wierzon), 1214—Dutch
Rhenish, 74—Orleans and Bordeaux, 31A—Rouen and
Havre, 10V2—Sambre and Meuse, 3,4.