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London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Comnions

MONDAY, NAY 8.
The following Resolution was reported from the above
Committee :

That in the case of the New Ross Port and Harbour
petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed
with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with
their Bill, on inserting Notices for two successive weeks
in some newspaper published in Dublin and in tne
counties of Kilkenny. Carlow, and Wexford respectively,
and once in the Dublin Gazette, and ;on the insertion of
a Clause restraining them from executing any work of
which the Plan and Section shall not have been deposited
with the clerks of the peace for the counties of Wexford
and Kilkenny, and in the Private Bill-office, on or before
the first day of the meeting of the Committee on the
Bill, and that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in
the first place, how far such orders have been complied
with, and do report the same to the House on the report
of the Bill.—Resulution agreed to.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

(From the Yates and Proceedings of the House of Commons,

MONDAY, MAY 8.

PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Clause one:—That this Act may from time to time be
applied in manner hereafter provided, by order of her Majesty
in Council, to any part of England and Wales, except the
parts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the city of
London, the parts within the limits mentioned in certain
Commissions of Sewers, &c. :—Amendment proposed, to
leave out the words " except the parts next hereinafter
mentioned, that is to say, the city of London :"—Question
put, " That the :words proposed to be left out stand part of
the Clause." The Committee divided:—
MAJORITY—AYES, 240.
Abdy, Thomas N. Foley, J. 11. Given, Sir J.
A land, Sir T. D. Fordyce, A. D. Paget, Lord A.
Adair. Hugh E. Forster, M. Paget, Lord Clarence
Anson, Colonel Fortescue, J. W. Paget, Lord George
Armstrong, Sir A. Fox, Richard M. Palmer, 'Robert
Armstrong, It. B. Fox, W. J. Palmer, Bounden
Arundel, Earl of Glyn, George Carr Parker, John
Ashley, Lord Goddard, A. L. Patten, J. W.
Bagshaw, John Godson, R. Pattisou, James
Bailey, Joseph Granger, T. C. Pechell, Captain
Baines, M. T. Greenall, Gilbert Peel„Sir Robert
Baring, Sir F. T. Greene, John Perfect, R.
Barnard, E. G. Greene, Thomas i Peto, Samuel M.
Barrington, Viscount Grey, Sir G. Philips, Sir G. R.
Barron, Sir 11. Grey, Ralph W. Pigott, Francis
Beckett, W. Grosvenor, Lord IL Pilkington, James
Bell, John Hall, Sir B. Pinney, W.
Bellew, It. M. Hallybarton, Lord Plowden, W. H.
Benbow,f,John - Hamilton, G. A. Power, Nicholas
Berkeley, Captain Hanmer, Sir J. i'owlett, Lord W.
Berkeley, H. F. Hardcastle, J. A. Pugh, David
Blackall, S. W. Hawes, Benj. Rawdon, Colonel
Blake, M. J. Hay, Lord John Reid. Colonel
Bouvsrie, E. P. Hayes, Sir E. Rendleshaim Lord
Bowles, Admiral Hayter, W. G. ' Ricardo, Osman
Bovvring, Dr. Ileadlam, T. E. Rice, E. It.
Boyle, Colonel Heathcoat, John Rich, Henry
Brand, Thomas Ileathcote, G. J. Robartes, T. J.
Bright, John Heneage, E. Romilly, John
Brotherton, J. Henry, Alexander Russell, Lord J.
Brown, W. Ileywood, James Russell, E.
Browne, R. D. Hindley Charles Russell, F. C. 11.
Buller, Charles Hobhouse, Sir J. Rutherford, A.
Buubury, E. H. Ilobhouse, T. B. Salwey, Colonel
Burroughes, 11. Bodges, T. L. Saudars, George
Buxton, Sir E. Ilogg, Sir J. W. Scrope, G. P.
Cardwell, Edward Hollond, Robert Seyrmer, H. K.
Carew, W. P. Howard, C. W. Slim to, It. D.
Carter, J. B. Howard, E. G. Shell, It.
Caulfeild, J. M. Hume, Joseph Simeon, John
Cavendish, C. C. Hutt, William Slaney, Robert A.
Cavendish, G. H. Inglis, Sir It. Smith, It. V.
Cavendish, W. G. Jackson, William Smith, J. A.
Chaplin,,W. J. Jervis, Sir John Smith, M. Tucker
Charteris, Francis Johnstone, Sir J. Smith, J. Benjamin
Clay, James Keppel, G. T. Somerville, Sir W.
Clay, Sir W. Kershaw, James Stanley, E. J.
Clements, Charles Kildare, Marquis of Stanslield, W. R.
Clerk Sir G. King, Peter John Stanton, W. 11.
Clifford, 11. M. Labouchere, Henry Strickland, Sir G.
Cobden, Richard Langston, J. 11. Stuart, Lord D.
Cockburn, Alex. Lascelles, E. Stuart, H.
Cocks, T. S. Lascelles, W. S. Sturt, li. G.
Courtenay, Lord Lewl.,, G. C. Talbot, C. It.
Cowper, W. F. Lincoln, Earl of Talfourd, Sergeant
Craig, W. G. Lindsay, Colonel 'lhicknesse, it. A.
Crawford, W. S. Loch, James Thompson, Colonel
Currie, henry Lockhart, A. E. Thompson, Alderman
Curteis, 11. M. M.Nagliten, Sir E. Thornely, T.
Dalrymple,:Captain Macriarnara, Major Tolleinachc, F. J.
Davie, Sir II Mahon, O'Gorman Towneley, Charles
Denison, W. J. Maitland, Thomas Towneley, John
Devereux, J. T. Mangles, R. D. Trail, George
Dodd, G. Marsh,ll, J. G. Turner, E.
Douglas, Sir C. Marshall, W. Tynte, Colonel
Drummond, Henry Martin, Samuel Vane, Lord H.
Duff, George S. 3lasterman, John Verney Sir 11.
Duncan, George Matheson, Colonel Vivian, J. H.
Duncornbe, A. Manic, Fox Walrnsley, air J.
Dundas, Admiral Melgund, Viscount Ward, 11. G.
Dundas, Sir D. Mitchell, A. T. Watkins, Colonel
East, Sir:J. B. 3lorpeth, Viscount West, F. R.
Ebrington, Viscount Morris, David Wilson, James
Elliot, John E. Mostyn, E. Wilson, Matthew
Estcourt, J. B. B. Mowatt, Francis Wood, Sir Charles
Euston, Earl Mulgrave, Earl Wood, W. P.
Evans, John Newry, Viscount Wyld, James
Evans, William Norreys, Lord , Wyvill, Marmaduke
Ferguson, Sir R. Norreys, Sir D. TELLERS.
Filmer, Sir E. O'Connell, M.J. Tufnell, henry
lltawilliam, G. W Ogle, S. C. Hill, Lerd Marcus

MINORITY-NOES, 71.
Adderley, C. 13. Goring, Charles Packe, C. W.
Arkwright, Geor,go Granby, Marquis •f Renton, J. C.
Ilaldock, E. li. Gwyn, Howe' Repton, G. W. J.
Darkly, lleiuy Ifarris, Hon. Capt. Rushout, Captain
Bennet, Philip Henley, J. W. Scholefleld, William
Bentinck, Lord G. Hildyard, It. C. Sibthorp, Colonel
Dentinck, Lord 11. Hill, Lord E. Sidney, Alderman
Beresford, William Hodgson, IN. N. Smyth, John G.
Boldero, 11. G. Hood, Sir Alexander Somerset, Captain
Drisco, MA Hotham, Lord Spooner, Richard
Brooke, Lord Hudson, G. Staff,ord, Augustus
Duck, L. W. Ingestre, Visct. Stuart, J.
Coles, 11. It. Jocelyn, Viscount Tollemache, John
Colvile, C. It. Jolliffe, Sir W. 11. Townshend. Captain
Deedes, W. Knox, Colonel Tyrrell,- Sir J. T.
Dick, Quintin Locke, Joseph Urquhart, David
Divett, Edward Mackenzie, W. I'. Waddington, H. S.
Duncan, Viscount Manners, Lord C. Walpole, Spencer
Egerton, W./T. Manners, Lord G. Walter, John
Farrer, James Meux, Sir Henry Welby, G. E.
Fitzroy, Henry Miles, P. W. S. Wynn, Sir W.
Floycr, John Miles, William
Forbes, W. Morgan, 0. TELLERS.
Fuller, A. E.' Munta, G. F. Bankes, G.
Galway, Viscount Napier, Joseph Newdegate, N.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council yesterday
afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court, Baron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King
of Bavaria, had an audience of her Majesty, and presented
his new credentials. His Excellency was introduced by
Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's
Master of the Ceremonies.
The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Messrs. Cubitt
and Hill, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, had
an audience of the Queen, to learn her Majesty's plea-
sure relative to the reception of an address from the
Court of Aldermen and Common Council. The Queen
was graciously pleased to appoint Friday next, at half-
past three, for the reception of the address.
A deputation from the Court of Lieutenancy, consisting
of Mr. Bentley and Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, attended by Mr.
Henley Smith, had an audience of the Queen, to know
her Majesty's commands respecting the presentation of
an address from the Court of Lieutenancy of the city of
London.
The Privy Council was attended 'by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Lord Steward,
the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse.
The Queen, in Council, was pleased to declare the
Right lion. the Earl Granville Vice-President of the
Committee of Council appointed for consideration of all
matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. The
Noble Earl had the honour to kiss hands on his appoint-
ment.

Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
waiting.

Her— Majesty gave an audience to the Marquis of
Lansdowne and Lord John Russell.,

The Court was attended by Lord Byron, Lord is
Waiting, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-
Chamberlain, and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in
Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went yesterday
morning to the rehearsal of the Concert of Ancient
Music.

Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester-
day evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse, his
Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Lady Augusta Bruce,
Baroness de Speth, Earl Fortescue, Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess
llardinge, Viscount Chiden, and Morish Colona (in
waiting on his Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse).
The issue of orders for the admission of the public to
view the state apartments in Windsor Castle is resumed.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and the Duke
Bernhard and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar took a
drive in the parks yesterday in an open carriage and
four.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent went yes-
terday to her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor, re-
turning to town in the afternoon.
Prince Frederick of Hesse left the residence of the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Kew yesterday, for
the continent.

Prince Edward and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar,
attended by the Hon. Sophia Wheatley, Sir Andrea,
Barnard, and Captain Taylor, rode on horseback in the
Parks yesterday.
The Mayor of Manchester and Mr. Brotherton had
an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the
Home-office.
the
broiswh.boyp,otfhCe aßntiesrhboupryf, aoexcofomrdp,anainedd
mbyr.
w.
had an interview with the Lord President
PE
aa Theogr le w
rfAol lro cdal
of the Council yesterday.
Sir Edward Buxton had an interview with the Right
Hon. 11. Labouchere yesterday at the office of the Board
of Trade.
Lord Monteegle and a deputation had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official re-
sidence in Downing-street! Lord Ashley and a depu-
L tation had also an interview yesterday with the Noble
ord.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
Committee meeting yesterday.
A deputation from the Buckinghamshire Railway i Company had an nterviewwith the Commissioners of
Railways yesterday, at their office in the Board of
Trade.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Yarborough
had interviews yesterday with Sir George Grey.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the colonial_
office, from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the
Mauritius, and New Zealand.

Madame Celeste, we perceive by the advertisement
takes her annual benefit at the Adelphi Theatre to:
morrow, on which occasion Mr. Webster is to lend his
aid. An admirable bill of fare is provided, so that there
will be large supplies of excellent amusement; and such
being the case, we doubt not that the talented directress
will have, what she well merits, a house " filled to the

FRANCE.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.—SITTING OF STAY 6.
The following are the reports presented to the
Assembly during the sitting of the 6th of May by
Citizens CREMIEUX and Louts BLANC :
M. Cremieux, Minister of Justice —Citizens, on the
day of the great Revolution, when the people had re-
duced the throne to dust, and made royalty a souvenir,
it felt, in the midst of its immortal victory, the necessity
ao fNat
iorder,ona l theAs
Assembly
guaranteewould of securityone'day y
fo for
giveall;
it,it how it desired
to be governed. Its wonderful nature divined all that
would regulate its force, how it would provide for its
moral interests, how it would fulfil the first duties of the
country towards its children, that is to say, how it
would assure to each family the means of living, by
assuring to each citizen the instruments of labour—
labour, the sole legitimate source of an honourable for-
tune, whether it be obtained by the sweat of your brow,
or by the splendour of our intelli once.—(Hear,
hear.)
But while awaiting the momentg when an Assembly-,
the
itself by praralittiaol n
which should comprehend its whole mission, should
bosom of• thocelm ca
come intoa fulfilProvisionary its
duty, the
people gave
Go-
vernment. Citizens, it was necessary to provide for the
administration of this country. We immediately as-
signed the ministries among us; we immediately re-
united in our council the executive and the administra-
tion; we concentrated in our hands all powers. The
ministry of justice was confided to me. In ordinary
times that ministry is the most peaceful and the most
calm. With the law for your guide, knowledge for your
support, virtue for your bases, modesty for your com-
pany, duty for your rule; what have human passions,
what have egotistical and servile sentiments to do in the
_
midst of these grandeurs of justice ? Justice, which
rejoins earth to heaven—justice, which strikes and gua•
rantees—justice, which represses and protects—justice,
which pronounces on property, on right, on life, on
honour, how take away from it its essence of purity!—
(Applause.) Citizens, the impiety of the fallen Govern-
mentrh had violated that sanctuary. How many high
places in the magistracy had become the recompense of
the most servile devotion, the most revolting apostasy!
Yes, the footstool for arriving at the highest honours,
even of the magistracy. was the tribune of the Chamber;
not a free, generous, indignant Chamber—but an obe.
dient, adulatory tribune, subject to a King. The speech
which one day supported an unpopular measure re-
ceived its reward the next; the more a man dis-
graced himself by the energy of his servility, the more
worthy he showed himself of the corrupting favours.
Thus it was that policy had invaded justice; thus it was
that an adulterous alliance had been formed between
justice and policy. Under the ancient monarchy, often
was the Parliament seen to hold, in the face of abso-
lute power, a firm and energetic language, to oppose
a strong and honurable resistance to unjust measures;
even under the restoration, the, magistracy had its days of
popular opposition. On the one hand, history had
greatly extolled the ccurageous acts of the Parliament;
while on the other, by the means of the decrees
which the press had sometimes obtained, its im-
movability had rapidly glided into the Charter
of 1830. This great question, to which your
patriotic attention will soon be directed, had, so to say,
vanished in that singular revision made in the midst of
the barricades of July, of the pact granted in 1814.
But, during the ten last years of that reign of corrup-
tion, the laws of September dominated over that press
which they could not succeed in subduing. Invested,
contrary to the Charter itself, with the right of judging
a considerable portion of the crimes of the press, the
correctional tribunals punished the press without pity ;
the laws were draconian ; the repression corresponded
with the character of the laws. It the jnry, whose forma-
tion was a mystery to no one, declared a journal guilty,
the punishment was measured, not by the evil produced by
the writing itself, but by the (character) colour of the
journal. I say it with a painful regret ; notwithstanding
the eloquent efforts of the Proeureur-General, who
had sustained the rights of the press—and which the an-
cient advocate of the press, become for a few days Minis-
ter of Justice, remembered well—the regulating court
had crushed, by a fatal jurisprudence, the last guarantees
of the citizen who proceeded against, at his own risk and
peril, the culpable acts of a functionary. The law on
judicial announcements presented, in its execution, the
most deplorable scandals. There was not a journal in
the departments whose devotion to public interests, or
the sacred cause of liberty, was pardoned ; the spoils
of them went to enrich the servility of the paid
journals ; its' ruin and speedy downfal announced to
all that the liberty of the press was but a by-word.
Such, citizens, were the sad results of the invasion of
policy into the precincts of justice ; for, excepting in
political matters, justice was wanting in none
of its devoirs! Careful of the private interests of citi-
zens arguing before her their respective pretensions—
careful of the liberty of citizens pursued for acts which
enter into the common law—justice fulfilled with zeal
and impartiality that so important a portion of her
attributions. Notwithstanding some imperfections which
our National Assemblies will endeavour to do away with,
no people has simpler laws, laws more clear than our
civil and criminal laws are. The judges make a wise
application of them; and the magistracy, in the fulfilment
of that duty, has certainly no reproach to undergo. The
conduct of the Minister of the Resolution was thence-
forward easily traceable. On the bench of magistrates
I displaced the men whose political lives were known to
us. I have especially done so in regard to those
in the higher positions. Except that, in the presence of
the customs of such long standing which gave to the
judges a character of inviolability, I have not revoked a
single one. Till now suspensions only have been pro-
nounced. A magistracy of more modest standing, but
whose importance has been revealed since its creation,
and which in the legislation which our National Assem-
blies will be called on to establish for the organization of
justice, may be developed on a larger basis—l mean the
justices of the peace—have specially attracted my atten-
tion. The recals have been numerous ; the late
Minister of Justice, and his predecessor in a still
greater degree, had placed in the offices of justices of
the peace men the most devoted and the most ardent in
their cause. It would be difficult to combine in a better
degree the continual necessities of a policy with the
entirely natural influences of
that family magistracy.
Let us quit the question of person,, and permit me to
of Justice. enter the domain itself
The duties of Minis-
ter of Justice have been very great
during these last
nine weeks, in which each of
us, in the
sphere of his
ea
attributions, has been a rival in l and devotion. To
his direction were left a number of decrees, the con-
sideration of which would other •
h?
av, otherwiseappertained
to the whole Government, r
ri criminal matters,
the abolition of the pain of
death for political
offences, the abolition of the laws of
the abolition of public ex
in the pillory,
decrees which change the majority°sal
of the jury, which
restore to that jurisdiction the • d"
pnblic functionaries, Which
rJo gment of libels ainst
Bourdcan, which authorise temporary
the jurisprudencewithout
giving bail in money, and which porary release
restora-
tions of one's rights. In
civilal facilitate the
atters—abolitio of poli-
tical oaths, abrogation of the law on judicial annonces,
suspension of writs of personal arrest, diminution of legal
expenses, naturalization of fo
the most pleasing and resin goers. A delegation of
portion of the right of yard us sovereignty—that of a
nister of Justice by the Prov• "—was given to the Mi-
diately after the revolution. visionary Government imme-
vernment abolished the p While the Provisional Go-
while it commuted that teai rn of
death in political matters,
to itself the right, the Minister punishment, reserving
informations to be taken, caused hem ost useful
exa •
all the documents, and mined all the demands and
elements of a measure oPfr,eii:ared with minute care all the
attach to the inauguration umanity, which he wished to
Citizens, the late Governtri of the National Assembly.
pardons annually; it was eent granted, on an average, 800
these favours were dietributs
especially on the Ist May that
you were proclaiming before the the 4th May, while
one and indivisible, the doors the
people the Republic
opened to the repentant, pr rs of the bagnios and prisons
fault; and the pure air of
ltbto the sufficiently expiated
stifled existences, called do erty, in reanimating almost
gratitude and benedictions. n on the National Assembly
plauseo I would have
wish (General movement—ap•
place before you a reduction • ed, citizens, to be able to
of justice • for
, the moment th
lo the expenses of the budget
In the ministry, the j oy cannot be important.
Ploys hardly numbersic
arsohundred persons. I have treeteurde er
sup-
chefs de bureau, one P sonnet, one sous-direclenr, two
salaries are lower th sous-chef. In this ministry the
would be difficult. As to in any other; reduction in them
that it does not enrich to the magistracy, you all know
the administration f those who devote themselves to
0 Justice. But lam surrounded by
men of capabilit
many of whom hay' o and of eminence
enlightenment, . ,
the People,
under ve since been elected representatives of
league, the Citi the precedence of my friend, of our col-
sembled in committeelaw on
and are in
us justice. g
Tuhpeia
discussionst are
animnatthed organization)
and devotion
o the Republic, their knowledge their patriotismeof
law, and their
experience in i. eir knowledg. .
the' affairs, are to the Minister a warrant that
ir work will b
e worthy of being submitted to the
A.ssornbly there will
diminis •Y. ere will be found the real economy, by
diminishing the number of magistrates,and
mun •
erating those
who remain. Such is, without doubt,
the double •
object which must be attained. The Council
of State, en service ordinaire, was composed of thirty
members i it has been reduced to twenty-five. I have
suppressed the Council of State, en service exordinair ;
ministers will delegate to it their general secretaries,
or chefs de division, every time that the interest of the
service shall require it. Such is, gentlemen, a statement
of the short administration of justice, in the modest
ministry which I have directed since the 25th of Fe-
bruary, with the love of duty, and the desire of giving to
public interests, as well as to private ones, the most solid
guarantees. The Republic desires honest and pure
magistrates, for the magistracy should give the best ex-
ample.—(,Applause.) In concluding, permit me to say
how I have to felicitate myself on the newly chosen,
who have entered, since our revolution, into the
tribunals and into the courts. Yes, the choice
was good, and the proof is that they have been
consecrated by pubic opinion, by the people, who
have given you for colleagues a great many of the new
magistrates. Their zeal and devotion have not been for
a moment a cause of disappointment, and I feel pleasure
in rendering a tribute to their knowledge and their
patriotism .—(Applause.) A last observation, though a
very grave and important one, I have the pleasure of
submitting to you in this place, whence our words go
forth so widely. When the decree which remitted the
declaration of guilt to nine jurymen out of twelve ap-
peared, the fear of some impunity arose in some timid
minds : vain fear ! Never did the jury show so much
firmness united to so much wisdom. I say it with pride
in their regard, that the most important criminal cases
have been tried by them with independence and an ad-
mirable rectitude. The jury have comprehended the
whole extent of their mission ; they feel that in their
hands reposes public security ; they elevate themselves
to the level of their sublime functions.—(Applause.)

Yes, citizens, the Republic will have good magistrates,
good juries ; honest citizens will be protected in their
rights; bad citizens will find justice ready to repress
them. Nothing will then be wanting to the duties which
a Republican Government imposes on us ; we will all,
citizens, we will all fulfil them with pleasure.—(Long
applause.)
M. Louis Blanc—Citizens, representatives of the
people—On the 29th of February those whom the course
of events had called into power (a power by no means
an enviable one, certainly, for it was the government of
tempests),
those, I say, found themselves assembled,
when, all of a sudden, they saw the Place de Motel de
Vine invaded by an ardent multitude. A flag floated
in the air, and on that flag this was what was written—
" Organization of Labour ; Creation of a Ministry of
Progress." Admirable result! It was thus, it was in
this capital, which still felt the quiverings of the combat,
violence by
on these pavements, on which the people had just
marked their route with their blood, it was thus that
they came to demand that which proved that their great
which it at once preoccupation was that of order.—(Applause.) For
question for a special what did they come to demand? They came to demand
pe peace, made
progress,
whose
ey
business labour;
b e o
tof a
prevent minis-
try,uxembourg should ablemthineisster: were chosen for that Labour—the
(Imo possible. What could the Provisional Government
granted a nd toly
was
nad 0
commission
revolutions
of forth e ever
citizen ouvrier Albert, the other l ? What had it done? It had preserved the important
our attention to the present position what did we see? On the onpvv:ootoas.hn:
Go-
vernment for the labourers, and that the Palace of the
rich
eiElitst
n)dn'
created;s3etlabours.olnhfto'e
b 1
ruinl
inevitable. affairs,
IrP efrbi
Twoeuont
fd
directedmt
and
Oth thehe
that
1 t
mission?the
vvt heewe
n distressinto
and more aggravated every day,irritated,
people becoming
of their desires violently irr;
othfatddlif,fficult situation withoutmore
to
—if
agitation
t.
and the impatience
aw
ere budget,not
teoed
by chance, our words
il
ionAiWidhiwchliathand-
ewed—we should
it was appeased, might we not
suppressed for the moment were was our
If,
haveo n
btlei ee
been
con.roe
of
been rendered responsible for it.
re-
proached with being dangerous innovators?—(Cries
es.") Did we not also run the
P:raloo'raelyco:hvng prolonged a cry of distress?
not necessary; we cannot wait, for we s'u'llffSikpreoetc.ahhnedasviawnrgee
cthiteiztdmayifsolaloswoilndfer ; and
are hungry." These were the dangers we suffer, and
to run.
naost
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a when every every citizen is a soldier, how should one
shrink before peril I We have, then, been witnesses
of
a sublime spectacle, which must remain in history as an
Yluetito'in'esducidh
immortal proof of enlightenment and reason. We have
seen citizens running to us and exclaiming, " I have a
wife ; I have children ; give me bread." And when we
replied to them, ," Wait ;" and when we, besides, told
them of our want of power to assist them, these men
have retired, their hearts moved, and crying, " Vive la
libublique." We have seen passing one after the other
all the industries ; we have seen them passing bearing
signs of distress, claiming loudly the intervention of
the state ; so that the very force of affairs imposed 11
upon us a mission • • which had not been given to us—the 1
mission of interfering between the master and the
workmen, in order that they might go hand-in-hand
together. Well, we have obtained that result. It is in
our archives, which we preserve with pride, for they are
the archives of concord and fraternity. But we had not
only conciliation to effect; we had associations to realise.
When workmen came to us to demand the means of as-
sociating together, you know what we did. At Clichy,
which in former times was only inhabited by prisoners,
what do you now see ? You only see labourers giving
each other their hand. Formerly you read over the gate
" Debtors' Prison." To-day every one will substitute
in his heart for these words, "'There is a debt which
every one owes to all—the social debt of bread and
labour."—(Hear, hear.) We have gathered on the ques-
tion of labour a great deal of information, which will be
communicated to you, and you will examine it in all its
details. Suffice it for me to say, that the two funda-
mental ideas of our work—whether it concerns com-
merce or agriculture, or the banks or the establishments
of customs—the two fundamental ideas are, association
and disinterested intervention, the pacific and tutelary
intervention of the state. We do not pretend that the
state should become the only industriel of the kingdom;
but we wish it to be understood, that the state has a
great duty to fulfil in what regards those who suffer.
What we wish is, that the state should be the tutor
of credit, giving credit not only to the rich,
but to the poor. What we have demanded
is, that the state should be the protector
of! the poor, and their tutor. Ido not know, from the
bottom of my heart, if many of those who now hear me
would be disposed to contradict me. The cry has been
put forward of " Take care of the war of those who
possess nothing against those who possess." This is a
cry which has not issued from the hearts or mouths of
any one. Association is a noble and beautiful thing;
not because it will displace riches, but because it will
make them universal, by making them fruitful ; and
because it will raise the level of the people and of
humanity.—(Cheers.)

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
A piece i❑ two acts, called A Day at Dover, was pro.
duced at this theatre last night, chiefly for the purposes
of Madame Thillon, who was provided with a character
belonging to a class in which her peculiar fascinations
have plentiful scope for display. The plot is founded,
hypothetically, upon the return of Charles the Second
to this country after the death of the great hero of the
Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell. Madame Anna
Thillon performs the part of a Parisian milliner,
Henriette, who is induced by Count Carvalho, a Portu-
guese nobleman (Mr. Fisher), to impersonate the Queen
of the exiled Monarch; the object being to with-
draw the attention of the people and the
functionaries of Dover from the real royalties, who
arrive, as is presumed, incog. Madame Anna Thillon
played the part of the " Queen for an hour" (the piece,
we believe, is founded upon a French drama, entitled La
Reine d'un Jour), with a great deal of spirit and as-
surance, and sang several songs, the composition of Mr.
Loder, with considerable applause. In the end, how-
ever, she acknowledges her plebeian origin, and resigns
herself happily into the arms of her devoted lover,
Richard, a French sailor (Mr. Conway). Mr. Compton
had a tolerably good part, that of a tavern keeper at
Dover, where the soi•disant queen alights, and who
vacillated admirably between his republican principles
and his loyal inducements. The piece, however, having
little in it, hung very heavily till the final fall of the
curtain, which, on the announcement of the happy
" Restoration," gave occasion for the performance of the
National Anthem by the orchestra, which was received
with enthusiasm.