The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-13 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENIING, APRIL 13, 1833.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Times.)_

PARK, WanNESDAY, APRIL 10.
The Chamher of Deputies did not long‘maintain
the tone calmness and impartiality with which
its proceedings in last Monday's sitting had pro=
mised that 'it would consider the charges brought
against the Tribune newspaper. The strong mino-
rity which voted on that day in favour of the order
of the day, had nearly made the authors of the pro-
ceeding despair:of .ultimate success, and.they saw
that nothing less. would carry them through than a
contrivance by which it might be made a party goes-
don. In yesterday's -sitting
.they tried the experi-
ment of so making it, and fully succeeded. The
members of the opposition were unable'to listen
patiently to the cataloette of accusations
.against
;hem which some of M. Vientiet's Iriends very un-
ei,remooiously introduced into the debate: Instead
of refuting their antagonists by mere reasoning, they
retorted on them by inces,antly interrupting the
speakers with offensive exclamalons, and a scene of
abuse and Vitupera'ion took place which perhaps has
surpassA any similar one witnessed within the walls
of the'Chamher. The end, however, hag been at-
tained. Parties voted as they are in the habit of
doing on all political questions, and there was
a strong majority in favour of the proposi-
tion that the responsible editor of the Tribune
:hall be called to the bar of the Chamber.
It has been remarked that none of the Mini-
sters have taken part in these proceedings, though
most of them were i n the Chamber both yesterday and
the day before; and it is said, and generally be-
lieved, that some difference of opinion exists among
them respecting the propriety of the law itself in
virtue of which this decision has been taken, and
its utility in the present instance. One of the mi-
nisterial organs of the press, the Journal des Debats
has, as you may have observed, strongly expressed
itself against a similar proceeding in regard to the
National and two other papers oo a late occasion,
and the other ministerial papers have evidently not
been commissioned to advocate the propriety of M.
Viennet's proposition. The Courtier Francais of '
to-day very justly observes, in reference to these
proceedings, that the Chamber is as likely to gain
the confidence of the people by them as that of
1826 was in the case of the .Journal du Commerce.
" Not a couple of hours," adds the courrier,
" could be spared by the Chamber for the discus.
sion of one of those organic laws which the country
so loudly calls for; but twelve days can easily be
devoted to a judicial ceremony which cannot be even
called a trial, inasmuch as all rights and laws are
trampled upon by it. The session is to be prolonged
on account of this most splendid episode, and no
prolongation of it could have been obtained for the
purpose of voting the departmental law, which the
country is indignant to find indefinitely postponed.
Financial laws and judiciary proceedings would seem
TO constitute the wily business that the Chamber has
any taste for."
We have no particulars here respecting the late
riots in F.ankfort which may be relied 'upon. The
papers•beinti subjected to the Censor, are not, of
course,. allowed to.publish what the German au-
thorities may be interested in preventing as much as
possible the knowledge of. It is pretty certain,
however, that the riots were almost immediately
quelled, and the only result they will lead to' will
be an increased vigilance on the part of the armed
delegates of the Diet, and therefare a greater power
to resist any generally combined eff,rt for the ovet-
throw of despotism in Germany. There is bur too
much reason to thank that the chances of the triumph
of liberty are extremely remote in that country. Its
different rulers are without exception decided ene-
mies to all kinds of freedom, and unanimous in their
determination to keep it down.- The means at their
command for that purpose are irresistibly powerful.
What could be done against 200,000 Prussian,
300,000 Austrian, and 100,000 Bavarian bayonets,
and 100,000 troops of the other stares ? An enemy
may be kept out of the streets of a city by barri-
cades; but the unarmed citizens of a petty kingdom
could not think of making a stand against so formi-
dable an array of forces, ever ready to act against
them.

It was expected that the proceedings in yester-
day's s,t'ing of the Chamber of Deputies would
have made rather an unfavourable impression on the
prices of the funds, but this was not the case. The
speculators at the Bourse did not perceive that there
was anything to be alarmed at in the-se proceedings,
and the funds underwent no material fluctuations;
very little business, in fact, was done in the money..
market. Z.

P.S.—ln two former letters of mine two typo-
graphic errors occured, which require correction. I
spoke of M. Ravrz as the " impartial President of
the Chamber of Deputies under the restoration."
The word " impartial" was underlined, for the
purpose of being printed in italics; but it was
printed in common type, and thus made it appear
that the writer ready meant to repiesent M. Ravrz
HS art impartial President, which was far from being
the case, and as far from being the writer's meaning.
In another letter, the budget which it is the wish
of Ministers to get voted at the ensuing session
is spoken of as the Budget of 1833; it ought
to have been 1831. The budget of 1833 is
;tow under discussion, and will be voted this session.
AMSTERDAM, TUESDAY EVENING.

It has, I think, been ob,erv.ed that unwelcome
rumours are propagated in the inverse ratio of the
propagation of sound, increasing in intensity,
directly, as the distance from the sound is increased.
It is probably for this reason, among others, that
the King's illness is treated as a much more serious
matter at Amsterdam than in the neighbourhood of
the Royal residence at the Hague. The demise of
the Crown is not likely to be produced by a slight
fit of the ague ; but the Dutch are a thinking
people, and have begun on the first alarm to reflect
on the consequences of such an event. They are
persuaded that, at the King's time of life, he would
not think of resisting the unanimous voice of the
nation by any attempt to recover his lost dominion
over Belgium ; but they are far from being con-
vinced that the Prince of Orange, if now raised to
the throne, would be prepared to sacrifice the am-
bition of his family, and his undisguised preference
for the attractions of Brussels, to such a sentiment
as that which is ascribed, perhaps not very correctly,
to the King his father. The Pi ince is admired for his
military virtues, and especially for a degree of animal
courage which tempts him to expose his person in
battle more frequently than the duties of a comman-
der-in-chief would justify or enjoin. His Royal High-
nes,'s deference for the wishes of the people is not,
however, held in the same estimation; arid on the
supposition that the idea of re-union was abandoned,
it is even doubted whether he would not have pre-
ferred the separate throne of Belgium to Holland.
As these feelings are strong and general at Amster-
dam, it is not to be wondered at that the King's
indisposition should have excited a considerable
sensation; and when the Court arrives here to-
morrow, the natural consequence will be that his
Majesty's reception will be more cordial in its cha-
racter t ban if such rdections had not been suggested
by his temporary illness.
I was not Prepared to witness such a degree of
activity in the port of Amsterdam as I have seen since
my arrival. During the holyilays the ships in the
harbour have all been decorated with their national
or quasi-national flags. But although the three-
coloured banner of the Netherlands, with its red,
white, and blue stripes,
perpendicular to the flag-
staff, in place of being parallel, as in France, is no

where to. be seen, yet !he structure of the ship,
and the habits of their crews, in spite of all that
flags or pacers may say to the contrary, in a great
tnjoriiy of instances,. betray the one and the other
to be of native origin. •In calling your attention to
this point, I am far from suggesting it as a subject'
of blame; under similar circumstances, such evasions
would be resorted to by people of all nations. The
inference I would draw from it is, that if France and
England rely on their embargo as sufficient of itself
to enforce the execution of the 24 articles, they may
find the operation much more d fficult and tedious
than anything that has yet been contemplated.
On Easter Monday I made a little tour through
the province of North Holland, to visit the town of
:4aardam and the crack village of Brock, to see the
scene of the tremendous inundation of 1825, and to
travel on that canal, one of the magnificent concep-
tions of Napoleon, although'not begun until after his
death, by which a ship 'of the line may pass from
Amsterdam to the Texel, without being exposed to
the dangers and delays of a navigation on the Zuydet
Zee. . The day was fortunately one of the finest of
the season, so that it appeared as if the whole po-
pulation of Amsterdam was in motion. The indus-
try displayed in providing the Int-ails of locomotion
Zs not a little remarkable. Among the different con-
veyances I had of casion to make use of within a few
hours were boats moved by steam arid horse power,
by oar:, and by sails, and what makes it more extra-
ordinary, it was on a canal that sails were used, and
in crossing an arm of the sea that we were moved
by horses, five of which working in a gin turn pad-
dle: like those of a steam-boat. On terra firma the
vehicles are in equal variety, although, from the
greater expense attending them, they are not, of
course, so generally resorted to.
The chief attraction at Saardam is the wooden
house, consisting of two small rooms, which was
occupied by Peter the Great, during the years he
spent in this country when serving his apprentice-
ship to the business of a ship-carpenter. The Louse
is constructed of rough deal:, clinker built, and
covered with tiles. Si frail a fabric could not, of
course, have withstood the action of the elements
for nearly a century and a half but for an outer
building of more durable materials, in which it is
enveloped as in a case. Until within these two
years the interior was just as it had been left by its
illustrious occupant, with the exception of a modest
tablet inserted in the brickwork of the chimney,
bearing the inscription, Petro Magno Alexander,
and actually placed there in 1815 by the late Em-
peror's own hands, the trowel and other implements
employed being preserved among the other relics of
the place. There is another inscription, in Russian
and in Dutch, coeval with the building, the one
version, perhaps, being intended as a theme of me-
ditation for the illustrious apprentice, the other for
the admiration of those admitted to visit him. As
I cannot come Russ, I shall content myself with the
Dutch edition, which is to this effect :—" Niets
den grower' man to klein,"—for the great man no-
thing is too small. Soon after the ten days' cam.
paign of 1831, it was thought necessary that the
Royal Family should make a pilgrimage to Saardam
to celebrate the victories of Hasselt and Louvain by
a breakfast a lafourchette in the Vorstenbourg, as the
house of Peter ti,e Great is called. That the " Kon-
iug" and the " lioningen der Nederlanden" might
eat their meal with more comfort, the floors were
Lid with carpets and the walls hung with flags,
which have ever since been suffered to remain, with
the addition of a splendid scroll in let ters of goltion
a white marble slab, to commemorate this royal
breakfast, and the victories it was intended to cele.
brace. Thus both Emperor and King have been
but real;z ng the rit,tich of Pope—

" So let my little bark attendant sail,
Pursue the triumph and partake the gale."
It was on the 22d of September, 1831, that the
profanation took place; and it was doubtless duly
notified, as well as the victory of Louvain, to the
Court of St. Petersburgh, for the purpose of stimu-
lating those sentiments of family attachment from
which so much has been expected and so little hi-
therto ob ained. _ _

If you wsh to be in the pride, if not the perfec-
tion, of Dutch cleanliness, you must go to the village
of Brock. In their large towns, such as Amsterdam
and Rotterdam, and even at the Hague, the average
appears to me to be below that of England; but at
Brock the inhabitants are all, without exception, in
easy circumstances; and they appear to have come
to the resolution—be it always understood for a rea-
sonable consideration—to make their place a show.
At each extremity of the village a watchman is
placed to interdict the contamination of the streets
by the entrance of carriages or horses; and, to the
great annoyance of stranger Dutchmen, even smoking
is forbidden, but whether from the fear of fire or of
tobacco ashes I did not inquire. There is, in fact, a
great deal of good taste in the style in which the
gardens are laid out, in the structure of the houses,
and even in the manner in which the well-swept
streets are daily ornamented, like the chalked floor
of a ball-room, with figures i❑ white sand. It is
true that the garden ornaments are often grotesque,
and the bright green, and red and yellow of the
houses a little too gaudy; but still the general im-
pression is striking and agreeable, and the extreme
civility of the inhabitants would be still more worthy
of praise, if it were not for the expected consideration
to which I have already alluded. Every house, in
fact, is open to you, on condition of your pulling off
your boots us you enter, and leaving a piece of
money behind you as you withdraw. The Emperor
Alexander was here also in 1815, and complied, as
I am assured, with both of the conditions prescribed.
Under one pretence or another, if you are to remain
ail night, you can scarcely escape from Brock with-
out putting your hand in your pocket at least twenty
or thirty times, and, even at the moderate rate of a
halt or a quarter of a florin, which is the minimum,
the tax becomes considerable.

In 1825, the village was in the centre of the
inundation; but as several of the houses are erected
on artificial mounds, the inhabitants all crowded
into these, and did not seek for shelter at Amster-
dam, as 10,000 inhabitants of the neighbouring
polders were compelled to do. A large and liberal
subscription was raised in this city for the sufferers.
Of the extent of the calamity you will judge, when
I tell you that the inundation covered a space nine
leagues by two, and in many places to a depth of
thirty feet. Only one human lite was lost, and
that by the man's obstinate refusal to leave his own
house; but in horses, cattle, and other property,
the destruction was, of course, great. In addition
to the innumerable windmills by which the polders
are drained, it required the constant application of
sixteen powerful steam-engines, for two years arid
a half, to draw off the immense body of water by
which the land had been covered. For several
years afterwards, the soil which had thus been sub-
►nerged did not fully recover its productive qualities;
but now that it is completely dry, I understand that
it has become more valuable than ever. It is a
characteristic trait of the inhabitants of Brock, that
although all of them are in easy, and most of them
in affluent circumstances, they made a formalapplica-
tion in a body fur a participation in the Amsterdam
subscription; but its managers very properly
att-
saseted, that the subscription was intended, not for
all those who had suffered by the calamity, but for
those who needed the aid of charity, and their appli-
cation was uccordiVy 'ejected.
The North Holland canal is 32 feet deep, 120 feet
wide, and extends from the point of the Y nearest
Amsterdam as far as the Helder, a distance of 16
leagues. No steam-boats are allowed -to ply upon
it ; but when a ship of war or other large vessel has
occatlon to pass it, it is towed by horses, to the

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number perhaps of 20 on either side, and lest it
should not be obedient to the helm, ropes are also
attached to the .ship's quarters, which are held by
men on the towing-paths, to keep the vessel steadily
in the centre, where the water is deepest. The
locks are 50 feet wide and 220 feet in length ;
they are four in number—two ascending and two
descending.
In the arsenal of Amsterdam the same activity
prevails as in those of Rotterdam and Dort. No
less than 15,000 men are constantly employed here;
and a line-of-battle ship, to be called the Jupiter, of
84 guns, is, I am assured, within a few weeks of
being ready to take the water. I cannot, of
course, speak from personal observation, as foreigners
in general, and especially Englishmen and French-
men, are carefully excluded from the works; bu•
the facts I have stated there is 110 reason to doub'.
The Exchange has been more than usually
crowded this afternoon, in consequence of the late
holydays. The recent di,turbatices at Frankfort, n
which, and of their prompt suppression, you have
the deta is in the newspapers, formed one of the
topics of conversation. Such of the Dutch
merchants as I spoke to on the subject, affected to
treat the matter lightly; but 1 had also an oppor
trinity of conversing with several Frankfort gentle-
men, in whose opinion, judging from their know-
ledge of the country and their letters received thi-
morning from home, the ashes are still smouldering,
and ari. 'n danger by every breath of being blown
into a flame.

As to the affairs of the east of Europe, opinion—
that is, mercantile opinion—seems very much
divided. Those who wish for peace, and here, as
elsewhere, they are decidedly the majority, are sloes
to believe that a general war is to arise out of the
differences between the Sultan and his rebellion,
Viceroy ; but I must not disguise the fact, this,
there is here a party, daily diminishing in numbers,
it is true, the leaders of which have risked ever
thing on the chances of a war, and who now con.
tend that a rupture is at hand, either between France
and Russia, or between France and England, leaving
you to adopt the alternative you may prefer of
Admiral Roussin's proceedings at Constantinopl,
~inctioned or disclaimed by the French
Government.

l'o sience these warlike prognostications the
peace party have been zealously encouraging the
belief that arrangements are on the tapis for a
marriage, at some future day, between the eldest
son of the Prince of Orange and the Princess Vic-
toria. In this, I need not tell you that I believe
just as much as in the other.
THE HAGUE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10.
. -

After closing my letter of yesterday's date from
Amsterdam I ascertained that there was no likel,-
hood of the King's leaving the Hague during the
present week, and I therefore thought it my duty to
return forthwith to the seat of government. I have
formerly hinted that the hand of power is upon me,
but as a native Dutchman when charged, howeve,
innocently, with any offence, is not entitled to the
benefit of trial by jury, it is not to be expected that
a foreigner who ventures to tell his own eJuntrymeti
the truth should be treated with much considera-
tion. During my absence at Amstetd.m it ap-
pears that the Dutch authorities have been doing
me the honour to make me the subject of remark
ro several members of the diplomatic body, but,
strange to say, not to the only member of the corps
It whom I can officially have any tel ition. On
me such hints are thrown away. If the truth he
displeasing to them, they must in my case exercise
the power which they no doubt possess of giving
any foreigner his cove without assigning any red-
-on fur it. I shall not fail, however, to ask their
reason, but I shall probably be told, as several
French gentlemen have lately been under similar
circumstances, that lam a suspicious character !"
Mr. Wellesley, the English Minister at the Court
of the King of Wirtemberg, took the Hague on his
way from Stutgard to London. The impression he
has left behind him here is that the King is resolved
to exercise his despotic sway; but at Stutgard, as in
Frankfort and elsewhere in Germany, we may soon
expect such a burst of freedom as will lay tyranny
for ever in the dust. Mr. Wellesley proceeds to
England by the Attwood to-morrow.
I cannot hear that anything has transpired at the
Hague on the subject of the recommencement of M.
Dedel's negotiation. The rejection of his original
proposal seems to have thrown the matter further
back than ever; and it is remarked, as impolitic at
least, if not extraordinary, that the French and
English Governments should withhold the detail-
of a negotiation which has thus fallen to the ground,
since their publication would evidently hasten a so•
lution of the question, by enabling the Dutch people
to see their own interest, and distinguish it from the
separate interest of the house of Nassau. The Dutch
are n,t, in fact, great readers of newspapers, but
am assured that the Handelsblad has increased its
circulation 4,000 since its late conversion to the sane
doctrines of peace and separation. It has always
been remarkable since it has been in the hands ot
its present conductor, M. Vanderstnissen, for the
earliness and accuracy of its intelligence. Having
been treated with gross indignity soon after the
Belgian revolution, in consequence of his announce-
ment of the fact of the occupation of the town ot
Antwerp by the revolutionary party many hours be-
fore the public mind at Amsterdam was ripe for
receiving the intelligence, he was induced to abandon
the paper to its fate, and leave the country, for se-
veral months, in disgust. The proprietors, how-
ever, soon discovered the loss they had sustained by
the next balance of their ledger, and M. Vanders-
missed, with a carte blanche, was invited to resume
the
nmaa,ruielagie.smbieaidit
hoans
hhis
:enowgnradteuraTlys. ass uSmi nicnegththerei
high rank it now occupies. Ere long it will suc-
ceed in moving the inert body on which it acts
so powerfully—so incessantly ; and, once in motion,
no power on earth can stop its progress.
The Royal visit to Amsterdam stands at present
fixed for Tuesday next, the 16th instant, should the
King by that time be able to undertake the journey.

FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF PEERS.—SITTING or Aram 9.

Baron Pasquier took the chair at two o'clock.
After the procs-verbal had been read and adopted,
The Minister of Finance brought in the budget of
expenses for the year 1833, as adopted by the Cham•
ber of Deputies. A Committee was immediately
appointed to examine it.
M. Devaisnes brought up a report recommending
the adoption of several bills of private and local in-
terest, and M. d'Haubersaert brought up another
recommending the adoption of the bill re'ative to
military pensions. They were both ordered to be
printed.
The various articles of the bill for authorizing the
levy of 80,000 men of the class of 1832 were suc-
cessively adopted, without any discussion of import-
ance, and the ensemble of the Bill was passed by a
majority of 119 against 1.
On the bill for granting a supplementary credit
for secret expenses being taken into discussion, the
Count de Montlosier took occasion to animadvert
on the internal police, and, after expressing his ap-
prehensions that the nation was fast travelling
owards another revolution of 1798, urged that Go-
vernment ought to adopt measures of repression
against the republicans, iii.itf.ad of bringing in bills
to recompense those who were called the conquerors
of the Bast]le.
After a few words from M. de Pontecoulant and
the Minister of the Interior, in reply to these tali-

CHAMBER OF DEPUTlES.—Srrrxwa'
(Continued froin 'The Sun of Thuraday.if
M. Gaetan de- ilk' Rochefoucauld and the titr
hon. deputies who had proposed other orders of the
day motives, withdrew their amendments, and the
first paragraph of the proposition of the committee,
declaring that M. Lionne, the responsible editor of
'he Tribune, shall be summoned to the bar of the
Chamber to answer for the articles incriminated, was
taken into consideration.

Some discussion arose as to whether only thostl
:V:fli:tsh:eng:ts articlesoi rllltmh aeokfiTn gwribhtuiheneeh application,thwehy cfhorn ora
rpetalridte, should
te.l
be referred to in the summons; the Chamber in
,eeordance with the suggestion of M. Baude, op-
posed by M. Persil, decided on the former course;
it, however, negatived another proposition of M.
Bantle to exclude all the passages relating merely
ro M. Vienner, and net attacking the Chamber
generally.

M. Cnaramaule proposed as an amendment, Id
indict the Tribune before the ordinary tribunals.
M. Laurence seconded the motion, citing the au-
thority of NI. Casimir Perier in defence of the
principle, that offences of the press should only be
tried by the ordinary tribunals.
The amendment of M. Cnaramaule was rejected
by a large majority.
When the paragraph of the committee was about
'o be put to the vote, M. Larabit said, "Being con-
vinced that the Chamber has no constitutional rglit
to try. an offence of the press, I decline taking any
part in the vote."
M. Dupont de l'Eure, M. Salverte, and several.
other deputies, said that they agreed with NI Lara-
b►t; on which the Presid,nt raid, that the proper
course would be, to declare that they considered
thern,elves incompetent to vote when their names
were called for the ballot.

The balloting urns were then placed on the tri-
bune, and M. Martin, one of the secretaries, made
appel nominal.

S.lverte's name being called, he said, "
am not competent to take part in the proceediug.."
The President—The judge who declaies himself
incompetent, loses his right to sit on the trial.--a.
(Interruption from the extremities.) The Chamber,
however, will decide that point.
M. Odillon Barrot said, that as the forms of the
proceedings were still to be waled, he considered
him-elf bound to do his duty to the end, and not
to withdraw from the contest.

General Subervie, MM Larabit, Aud.y de Puy-
raveau, Viennet, Thiars, de Tracy, Coulmaritt, De-
inarcly, Lafayette, George Lafayette, Bastide
d'izard, Bavoux, Berard, Bertrand, Bauder, Bric-
queville, Dulong, Dupont de l'Eure, Denis Du-
fresne, Gamier Pages, Havin, Leprovart, July, La-
boissiere, de Ludre, Luminais, Delaguette Mornay,
Bousquet, Renouvier, Send, Girardin, Chaigneau,
awl Voyer d'Argensou, successively declined taking
any part in the proceedings.
M. Tardieu, in also declining, said that the Presi•
dent had tacitly adopted the same course by not
voting in the preceding ballot.
The President explained that simply abstaining
from voting was not a declaration of incompetence.
M. de Corcelles, on his name being called, said,
"I declare myself incompetent, but I
_shall take my
seat nevertheless, unless I am prevented by force."
Several of the above-mentioned hon. deputies
having grounded their refusal to take part in the
proceedings on the illegal;ty of the measure, the
President read the laws of 1822 and 1830, which
give the Chamber the power of judging offences
committed against it by the press, and added,
" Thus, the right is not only consecrwed by the old
law of 1822,, but by that of 1830, n ltich was passed
subsequently to the revolution."
M. Dupont de l'Eure—But which is contrary to
the charter.

Tue President (energetically)—But which is cour
tersigned "Dupont de l'Eure."
M. Dupont de l'Eure—Read the charter.
The President—The charter confers on the ma-
jority the power of passing laws, and I will not
llow the isolated members of this Chamber to at-
tack the decision of the majority; were I to do so,
rhete would soon be no Chambers, no laws, no Go-
vernment.—(Loud applause from the centres, tur-
bulent murmurs from the extremities, particularly
the gauche.)
M. de Tracy—Read the 69th article of thecharter.
The President—lt is not your turn to speak ; I
will not allow anarchy to be introduced into the
Chamber at least.—(Renewed murmurs.)
The conversation then dropped, and the paragraph
of the committee was adopted by a majority of 205
against 92.
The President announced that he had received a
letter from M. Lionne, stating that he had fixed on
Mes•rs. Marrast and Cavaignac as his cuunsel.
A noisy but unimportant conversation took place
between Messrs. Dubois, Parant, Odillon Barrot,
Pataille, and Mauguin (the latter of whom ex-
pressed his opinion that the course adopted by the
Chamber was constitutional), which terminated in
the Chamber allowing Messrs. Marrast and
Cavaignac to be heard as counsel for M. Lionne,
and fixing Tuesday next for that purpose. It is
impossible to give any idea of the agitation which
prevailed during all the latter part of the sitting;
scarcely a word could be distinctly heard. It was
nearly seven o'clock when the sitting was adjourned,
amidst the greatest agitation.

SITTING Or APRIL 10.
The opening of the sitting was again announced
for half-past 12, but again M. Down did not take
the chair until a quarter past 1. Tire proces verbal
was read, and adopted without opposition. While
this was going on, M. Duvergier d'Hauratine, M.
de Remusat, and M. Madier do Montjau, succes-
sively ascended to the President's chair and con-
versed earnestly with him. The deputies arriving
very slowly, the sitting was suspended until 25
minutes to 2, when M. Dintrans brought up a re-
port recommending the adoption of the bill for
„ranting 2,995,348 francs to the Minister of War,
as a supplementary credit. It was ordered to be
taken. into consideration after the bill for granting
additional funds for the foreign refugees.
The sitting was again suspended for ten minutes,
after which the discussion of the affairs of the
journal (the Tribune) was resumed.
The President, in explaining the situation of the
discussion, read a second letter which he had re-
ceived from M. Lionne, the responsible editor of
the Tribune, for the purpose of claiming, from the
impartiality of the President and the Chamber, the
full liberty of defence; and added, that it was in
order to consecrate, on its widest basis, the right to
freedom of defence, that he (the President) had
submitted to the Chamber the question as to whe-
ther Messrs. Marrast and Cavaignac should be al-
lowed to defend the Tribune : and the Chamber, by
deciding that question in the affirmative, had fully
recognised that principle.
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11. Lionne might choose them or any other persons
to defend him.
Tne President repeated that the object of the
question put to the Chamber was to consecrate, in
its fullest sense, the freedom of defence. The dis-
cussion then continued on the mode of proceeding.
The Committee proposed that when the defenders
of the journal had been heard, the questioo,
" is the at weed guilty or not ?" should be taken
into cons deration, and that when the discussion was
bsed the Chamber should vote in the usual form
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by ballot; if the majority declared him foot ui guilty,
that he should be immediately discharged,
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