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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 18 iti

render a failure nearly impossible, if only a clear stage
be afforded, and that at least is insured by the recog-
nition and adoption of the Government.
Mr. ENDERBY, in the pamphlet to which we have
already alluded, bas clearly proved that the South
Whale Fishery can no longer be profitably carried on
by large vessels sailing directly from and returning
to England. Ships of large tonnage and enormous
expense would be necessary for that purpose, and a
great waste of time and labour would thus be occa-
sioned, for these vessels would too frequently re-
turn with half or quarter the cargoes
they could easily and conveniently carry
under a better syetem. This necessity would, how-
ever, be altogether superseded by the plan suggested
by Mr. ENDERBY. He proposes to establish on the
islands to which we have already alluded, and which
are situate in latitude 51 South, and longitude 166
East (nearly due south of New Zealand), a whaling
station, from whence the vessels employed in the
fisheries might start, and to which they should return
with their produce, storing up the oil, ready for re-
shipment, to. England directly, or to adjacent colonies,
where transports could at all times readily be pro-
cured,
and where the necessary supplies of
stores, provisions, ice. (over and above the
Produce which the islar,ds themselves might
yield) could be obtained. By these means
there would he vessels especially constructed for the
purposes of the fishers, lying at a convenient station,
from whence they might reach the scene of their
operations in a brief period, and at the very season
when they would be likely to obtain the greatest
success in their undertaking. In Mr. ENDERBY'S
own language, " There would always be ships on the
whaling grounds, or returning from thence with pro-
duce to the station ; always supplies of oil awaiting
shipment to England, and alum is full cargoes
on the way thither. There would, in fact, be a
constant stream of produce flowing, so to speak, into
the station from the various fisheries, and out of it to
England ; consequently, as the supply of oil in the
home market would thus be both regular and
abundant, prices would be moderate and steady. By
these means a very considerable saving of expense
would be effected, not only in the outset, but in the
whole of the ulterior proceedings, and a system be
established beyond the risk of failure."
We are unable to set forth all the advantages de-
tailed by Mr. ENDERBY in his statement. We shall,
however, take an early opportunity of returning to
the consideration of this most important subject. In
the meantime we commend the project to the consi-
deration of capitalists, by whom we doubt not that
the small sum required, 300,0001. in 6,000 shares of
501. each, will speedily be made up.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

After the article of the Constitution excluding all
paid functionaries from the Legislative Chamber had
been agreed to on Wednesday, it was discovered
that the effect would be to exclude all military and
naval:officers ; N. SARRANS ?roposed to make at once
an exception in their favour; General CATAIGNA6;
however, suggested the propriety of making other
exceptions, and of postponing the consideration of
them until they came to the consideration of the
organic laws, which suggestion was ultimately
adopted.

The following is a report of the subsequent pro-
ceedings of the Assembly, from which it will be seen
that all the articles of the Constitution, down to 41,
which regulates the electiou of President, have been
agreed to :

" Art. 31. The National Assembly is permanent.
Nevertheless it can adjourn to any period which it
determines. During the whole course of the proro-
gation a Commission, composed of the members of the
bureau and of 25 Representatives, named by the
Assembly by ballot and by an absolute majority, has
a right to convoke it in case of urgency. The Presi-
dent of the Republic has also a right to convoke the
Assembly."
The two first paragraphs were adopted, and the
latter was kept back for the period when the attribu-
tions of the President should be determined.

DL Duplan proposed the following additional
article :—" The National Assembly shall fix the place
of its sittings : it determines the number and im-
portance of the military forces, which shall be estab-
lished for its safety and for the maintenance of the
respect which is due to it, in the town where it may
have fixed its sittings," which, after a short discussion,
was adopted.
" Art. 32. The representatives are always re-
eligible."—Adopted.
" Art. 33. The Members of the rational Assembly
are the Representatives, not of the department which
elects them, but of the whole of France."—Adopted.
" Art. 34. They cannot receive .I.'om their consti-
tuents any fixed directions as to their votes."—
Adopted.
"Art. 35. The representatives of the people are
inviolable. They cannot be molested, accused, or
judged at any time for the opinions which they have
expressed in the National Assembly."—Adopted.
"Art. 36.—They cannot be arrested in criminal
matters, except in flagrante delicto,no prosecuted, un-
less after the Assembly had autho:ised the prosecu-
tion."—Adopted.

M. Flandin proposed the following additional
paragraph:—
" The case in which the representative is taken
in flograxte delicto shall be immediately brought be-
fore the Assembly, who will maintain or annul the
arrest." _

Several Voices—That is the law—that is the rule.
M. Flandin observed that the object of his amend-
ment was to say that no longer delay should take
place between the arrest and the demand for authori-
sation to the National Assembly than was strictly
and absolutely necessary.
M. Dupin said that although the arrest might take
place in flagrante delicto, it was necessary to obtain
the authorisation of the Assembly before any pro-
ceedings could follow in consequence of it. lhe As-
sembly would, therefore, always be the judge of the
validity of the arrest.
M. Flandin said that a long delay might notwith-
standing take place between the arrest and the de-
mand for authorisation to proceed.
M. Deslongrais demanded what would be done in
the event of the prorogation of the Assembly taking
place in the meantime.—(lnterruption.)
The additional paragraph was then put to the vote,
and after one doubtful trial adopted.
M. Trousseau proposed to add to the clause the
words, "Or to the Committee charged with its
powers during its prorogation."
M. Vivien said the Hon. Gentleman appeared to
consider it as admitted that the permanent Committee
of the Assembly would be vested with its powers. It
was not thus that the matter bad been understood.
The Committee on the Constitution meant only to
give a single power to that Committee—that of con-
voking the Assembly. It could not therefore agree
to the amendment of the Hon. Gentleman.
The amendment was put to the vote, and rejected.
M. Raynal proposed the following additional
article;--.. The residence of a representative cannot
be subjected to the visits of the agents of the autho-
rities."—(Exclamations, and laughter.)
Numerous voices—The previous question.
The President announced that M. Raynal had con-
sented to postpone his amendment until the proposi-
tion of M. Laurent (de l'Ardache) on the inviola-
bility of representatives was discussed.
4, Art. 37. Each representative of the people is to
receive an indemnity, which he cannot renounce."
The President called on M. Albis du Salze to de-
velop his amendment.
M. F. de Lasteyrie said that the proposition of the
Hon. Gentleman was not an amendment, as it con-
fined itself to demanding the rejection of the article.
M. Abbal proposed the following
.amendment
"Each representative of the people is to receive an
indemnity, which he cannot renounce, and which
cannot exceed 450 f. a month."
The amendment was put to the vote and rejected.
The President called on the Assembly to proceed
with the discussion of Art. 37 of the Committee.
M. Charm opposed the article, which, in his opi•
nion, ought not to be inserted in the Constitution. If
the indemnity granted to the representatives was an
affair of circumstance, a democratic expedient—
(Murmurs)--it might be accepted ; but it was ne-
cessary to send it to the organic law. What would
be truly democratic would be a general declaration
that all functions should be paid. He would repeat,
that it would be better to suppress the article.
M. Dalbis du Seize said that he had thought that
after the budget and the Constitution had been voted,
their mandate would have been fulfilled and their
powers expired ; he thought that the indemnity de-
creed by the Provisional Government would only have
been temporary.—(Violent murmurs, and cries of
" Divide, divide.") In every point of view the prin-
ciple of indemnity would be better placed in the
organic electoral law than in the Constitution.
M. Dufaure—Hon. Gentlemen might be certain
that the principle of an indemnity paid for represen-
tatives was not a mere expedient, but a constitutional
act. Without the indemnity, to accord to all citizens
the power of being elected would be an odious decep-
tion.—(Hear, hear.) Without the indemnity an im-
mense number of citizens from want of fortune would
not be able to sit in the chawber,

Art 37 was then put to the vote and adopted, not
a single member rising against it.
"Art. 38. The sittings of the Assembly are public.
Nevertheless the Assembly can form itself into a
secret committee on the demand of a number of re-
presentatives fixed by the regulations."—Adopted.
" Art. 39. The presence of one• half of the members
of the Assembly, plus one, is necessary for the vali-
dity of the rote of a law."—Adopted.
" Art. 40. No Bill, save in cases of urgency, shall
be definitively voted, except after three deliberations,
at no less than ten days' distance from each other."
M. de Saint Priest proposed to adjourn the discus-
sion on that article to the next day.—(Loud cries of
"No, no.") As this was objected to, he should pro-
pose to reduce the delay to five days.
This was agreed to by the Committee, and the ar-
ticle thus amended was adopted.
The Red Republicans have determined to vote for
the election of President by universal suffrage, as
have the Club of the Institute, of which MM. ARAQo,
PAGNERRE, and MARIE are members.
There are ♦arious and conflicting rumours in cir-
culation as to divers Ministerial changes said to be
in contemplation. According to one of these, General
CAVAIGNAC is, in the event of the election by universal
suffrage of the President being carried, to go out of
office, when he will be succeeded by General LA-
YORICIERE; as President of a Thiers' Cabinet ;
another rumour is, that MM. SENARD and VAULA•
BELLE will retire from the Cabinet, and be succeeded
by MM. DUFAURE and LEON DE AIALLEVILLE.

M. IIAsrAIL has addressed a letter to the Assem-
bly, praying that he may be daily conducted from
Vincennes to the Assembly and back under escort, in
order that he may attend to his duties as a represen-
tative of the people.

The Presse gives the following., but without vouch-
ing for its authority :--
"It was rumoured last evening in certain diplo-
matic &atoms, that the Austrian Cabinet had formally
rejected the mediation of France i❑ Italy. If this
news be correct, it can only be explained in one man-
ner, viz., that M. Bastide and Lord Palmerston had
not accepted the bases put forth by Austria, and that
the Imperial Cabinet had then broken off the nego-
tiations.

Lyons was the seat of a disturbance on Tuesday)
which at one time wore a very serious aspect, and
might have been followed by alarming consequences.
Some of the recently dissolved Gardes Mobiles of
that town took possession of the Prefecture, and kept
the Prefect a prisoner for some time. He was, how-
ever, released by a regiment of dragoons, who ex-
pelled the mobiles, and took military possession of
the Prefecture. The mobiles then attacked a guard-
house, but were repulsed. They then paraded the
streets with a red figg, but were charged by the
soldiers, and dispersed immediately.
The Courrier de Licriaa says :—" It is hoped that
this ichaziffouree will not have any other consequences.
Still we think the authorities would do well to be on
their guard."
The question of the election of President will not,
it is said, be made a Cabinet question. The debate
on the subject was opened yesterday by M. FELfx
PIAT, who was followed by M. DE TOCQUEVILLE.
It will probably last some days. Should it be de-
cided that the President is to be elected by universal
suffrage the election will probably take place in
January.
General LEIZRETON, who is charged with the mili-
tary defence of the National Assembly, has written
a letter to the President, in which he says that as the
Minister of War, for motives which he cannot under-
stand, has changed all the arrangements he had
adopted for defence, and which required the employ•
ment of three battalions, he declines to accept the
responsibility of events, though ready to receive the
orders of the President. With the three battalions
he would, he says, pledge his honour that the As-
sembly should be inviolate. In consequence of the
proceedings of the Minister of War, the General
twice tendered his resignation to the President of the
Assembly, but was refused on both occasions.
Orders have been given for the immediate establish-
ment of a Custom-house at Havre, independent of
the Custom-house at Rouen.

Encouraged by the hospitable reception given to
the National Guards of Paris on their recent visit to
London, the National Guards of Havre, it appears,
contemplate a visit to the banks of the Thames.

Bank Shares, 223 dolls. to 226 dolls. for bank-notes;
Spanish doubloons, 14,570 to 14,600; sovereigns,
4,490 to 4,500; Spanish, Brazilian, and Mexican
dollars, 920 to 923.

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, of the 28th, says—
"ln a few days an Imperial manifesto will be
issued to the Austrian Italian provinces, in which the
system of the future government of Italy will be fun-
damentally developed, and the guarantee laid down
for the new order of things. This is so generally
called for by the necessity of the case, that it is diffi-
cult to conceive why it was delayed so long ; its
appearance, even at this late hour, may be attributed
to the intervention of a Court which is very friendly
to Austria. IVe are able to state that an invitation
has been sent from this capital to all the participators
in the treaties of Vienna, to co-operate in the Italian
mediation."

The French Government has, it is said, protested
against the invasion of Hungary by JELLACHICU.

HUNGARY.

The Breslau Gazette of the 17th of October, under
the head Pesth, September 27, says—
" Count Mensdorf has arrived in all haste from
Vienna. He is bearer of the order for the troops to
retire, but he probably comes too late. Among
some intercepted letters of Jellachich, some have
been discovered compromising the Archdukes Francis
Charles Louis and John. Jellachich complains that
the Court have not sent him men and money, of
which he had need. He desires that the Emperor
should i.sue a manifesto calling on the Hungarian
troops to come over to his side on pain of high trea-
son. The Minister of War, Mossaros, has put him-
self at the head of 6,000 men to march to the assist-
ance of General Jellachich. Redoubts were being
erected at Buda and Pesth. By the last accounts the
Croation army was within three leagues of Buda.
The Bann has established his headquarters at
Scheilweissenbourg. The Magyar General offered
no opposition."
Intelligence from Pesth, of the 29th, states that
the Bohemian Cuirassiers, who formed JELLACHICII'S
advanced guard, had been defeated by the Hunga-
rians, who had retaken Comora.

It was rumoured in Vienna, on. the 30th, that Count
LAMBERG, who had been dispatched from Vienna to
take the command of both the Hungarian and the
Croatian trocvs, had been assassinated on the previous
day on the Bridge of Pesth.