The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY_ EVENING,, _MARCH 0, 1860.
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GUILDHALL, March 5, 1860.---The Com-
mittee for Letting' the City Lands will MEET at the
GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th March inEt.,
at One o'clock precisely, to receive PROPOSALS for
LEASES, in Lots, of several HOUSES and PItEMISES,
viz.: - Nos. I and 2, Chiswell-street ; No. 27, Banner-street
Nos. 1 to 9, York-place, and Nos. 1 to 7 and 0 to 12. Princes-
court, Banner-street ; Nos. 94 and 10, hill-street ; Nos. 1,2,
3, and 4, Hill's-court, lii I-street ; and Nos. 9 to 14, Martha's-
buildings, Old-street, Finsbury.
Plans of the property may 'be seen, and forms of tender
ebtained upon application at the Architect's Office, Guild-
hall

FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller,

PAPER MONEY IN INDIA.

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(From the Morning Herald.)
A few nights ago Mr. Crawford asked Sir Chas.
Wood what course the Government were prepared
to pursue in reference to a proposed issue of paper
money in. India. The Secretary of State for India
replied that a plan had been sonic time since for-
warded by the Government of India for establish-
ing a note eirculatiOn ; that the scheme was enter-
tained by the authorities at home, and that Mr.
Wilson was about to carry it into execution. The
amount was not determined upon at present. " But,"
said Sir Charles Wood," the object of the Govern- '
meat was to establish in India a circulation issued
by Government on the same footing as the notes
sent from this country were issued by the issuing
branch of the Bank of England.. They would be al.
together independent of any bank which might be
already in operation." The intimate connection
between trade and commerce and a sound and ex-
panding system of banking is too well appreciated
to require any comment. At present the only banks
of importance in India are those of Bengal, Madras,
and Bombay, but they have not any branches, and
the aggregate capital of the three united is under
£2,000,000, or exactly, according to the estimates
of Mr. Mackenzie, £1,892,500. Their notes afford
facilities in the presidential towns, are not a legal
tender, though payable on demand, and ai com-
paratively useless in the rural districts, where the
cultivators of the soil are exposed to the most ex-
tortionate usury by the local money lenders. The
consequence is that the internal trade of the coun-
try is comparatively stagnant. This evil has long
demanded a remedy, and it ought not to be delayed,
especially as Parliament has just decided that Indian
sugar is to be subjected to undiminished taxation
in order to take off the duties on wine. The Go-
vernment plan is not yet matured, though Sir
Charles Wood has drawn its outlines, and so far the
subject is ripe for immediate discussion.
Under the Mahomedan Princes both gold and silver
coins were used as legal tender, but the East India
Company only used the latter. In obedience to an
order of the House of Commons, dated the 15th
March, 1858, the Company published copies of all
acts and proclamations of the Government in India
concerning coinage, currency, and legal tender,
from May 1, 1834, to March 17, 1856, so that the
facts are readily accessible. As Sir Charles Wood
has stated that the new system is to be based on
the same system as Bank of England notes, which
are payable in gold coins alone on demand, it is
necessary to advert to the publication of the Com-
pany to which Ave have referred. The Indian Act
of 1835 deprived gold of its legal-tender privilege.
In 1852 another act was passed, reciting that of
1835. It then recited the proclamation of 1811,
which empowered officers in charge-Of public trea-
suries to receive gold coins struck in conformity
with the provisions of the act of 1835, at the rates
indicated by the denominations of the pieces, and
then proceeded in the following terms :—" Notice
is now given, that so much of the proclamation of
Jan. 13, 1841, as authorised the receipt of gold
coins into the public treasuries of the Government
will be withdrawn and cancelled from Jan. 1,1853 ;
and that on and after that date no gold coin will
be received on account of payments due, or in any
way to be made, to the Government in any public
treasury Within the territories of the East India
Company. Gold will continue as heretofore to be
received into any of the mints within the territo-
ries of the East India Company for coinage under
the acts and rules at present enforced for the coinage
of gold ; but mint certificates for gold coins will be
discharged in gold only, and no such certificate for
gold will be accepted in any public treasury in
liquidation of public demands, or on account of any
payment to the Government whatever." This was
done on account. of the fears entertained that the
auriferous discoveries of California and Australia
would lower the mercantile value of gold as a
metal, and thus depreciate the coin minted out of
it; had that proved to be the case, the natives, and
especially the native troops, would have imagined
themselves cheated, and serious disturbances might
have followed.. The practical result is, that
all payments have to be made in silver, perfectly
safe indeed, but most inconvenient on account
of the bulk and weight of the metal in proportion
to its value. In this coin the soldiers are paid, and
some 30,000 troops are constantly employed as trea-
sure escorts, at a cost of about three per cent. on
the revenue. If, then, the principles on which Sir
Robert Peel's Bank Charter Act is founded are to
be applied to the proposed note circulation of India,
the notes must be payable in gold, in which case the
whole metallic system of India must be changed;
if the convertibility of the note is to be effected in
silver then the currencies of England and India will
not be brought into harmony. And here it may
incidentally be asked, why is Australian gold coin,
of the same weight and purity of British gold coin,
not made legal tender in England ? In a great de-
gree it is actually the same metal, dug from the
mines, and possessing the same intrinsic value. It
is in the strictest sense a case of six and half a

dozen.
We learn from- Sir Charles Wood's statement
that the new Indian notes are to be " altogether
in-
dependent of any bank which may be already in
operation." At present the Indian Government arc
shareholders in the Banks of Bengal, Madras, and
Bombay, and, to protect their interests, nominate
some of their own servants to represent them as un-
paid official directors, and Government accept their
notes, though not a leg it tender, in payments due to
themselves. Of course this association will be severed

ssumiug, then, the new institution to be one of issue,
having no connection with trade or discount,on what
security will the notes be based? At home, every one
knows that upwards of fourteen millions of the
Bank of England circulation, professedly metallic,
rests entirely on a debt duo to it by
.Government,
so that, in fact, that port ion is a mere credit cur-
rency ; and the proof is, that when the directors are
called upon to pay on demand during a panic the law
is suspended. If this system be good for England,
why should it not be good for India? " A prince,"
sad s Adam Smith, "who should enact that a certain
portion of the taxes should be paid in a paper cur-
rency of a certain kind, might thereby give a certain
value to this
of its final discharge and redemption should depend
paper money, even though the term
altogether on the will of the prince. if the bank
which issued this paper was careful to keep the
quantity of it always somewhat below what could
be easily employed in this manner, the demand for
it might be sues' as to make it even 'bear a premium
or sell for somewhat more in the market.than the
l not this principle be applied
quantity of gold or silVer currency for which it was
issued ? Why should ''_

Wirt
_The existing prttetiee is in its favou

since the Government 1101 V take back. its own pro-
uethat;which they were
own debts, and
...
Surely
take them
missory notes at the same value
urely such notes
issued. With them they payforcitr
equally rest the
when they become creditor
back again in discharge of taxes
arcof
England,as solid asf
othe
both. E 14 ,
wouldooo,oooe issuedl' by the Bank
security of the Government. In indeed, do
such instruments, except in form, differ
postage stamp? These last are not taken fof their
intrinsic value, as they possess none, but for the
conventional value; and on
.what does -their r
con-
ventional value rest ?On faith—on the conviction
that the " Queen's head" placed on a letter will
carry it to any portion of the United Kingdom that
the holder of the stamp may direct. and why should
not a similar faith apply to taxes ? Were such a
system established Government would save the
three per cent. now charged for the escort of trea-
sure, and also the cost constantly incurred of trans-
porting silver to India, w Continent, the trouble
of purchasing from the with the con
start export of gold.

(From the Derbyshire Courier.)
Mr. Wilson has proposed an issue of paper
is 1
money in India, and his minute has arrived in th
country accompanied by a strong recommenda-
tion by the Governor-General for the adoption of
his plan. Mr. Wilson proposes that this paper
currency should be issued by Government—a plan
which long since was advocated by the Derbyshire
Courier. This currency is to be a legal tender,
receivable for all Government dues, and con-
vertible into coin at the places at which it is issued.
Notes are to be issued of the value of 10s., £l, £2,
£5, £lO, and £5O. Silver is still to be retained as
the national stan lard, and bullion to the amount of
one-third of the issue is to be held to secure the
" Convertibility" of the notes.
s
We are glad that a move in the direction of a
Paper Moneyystem Circulation is, at last, made in British
India. The which Mr, Wilson advocates

for adoption in India is similar to that whien Peel
and Overstone reluctantly consented to retain in
1819 and 1844 in England.
Piper money for India is an advanfage, the low
denomination of the notes is a good thing, its recep-
tion for taxes is, of course, a necessity to secure its
character. But the convertibility of the notes into
bullion at a fixed rate, is an adoption of the Perni-
cious principle of Peel's bills which will go- far to
neutralize the whole benctit. This error will cause
drains of bullion from England, and entail commer-
cial panics ou India. But the adoption of paper
money at all shows how impossible the bullionist
party find it- to retain the exploded errors of what•
they call a " purely metallic currency."

2111? Y V.

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The Hero, Ctipt. SeyMour, C. 8., sailed- from St.
;Helen's Roads, yesterday morning at daylight, to'
join the Channel Fleet; wind,. northerly, fresh.
The Euryalus, 51, screw, Cg pt. Tarleton, C. 8.,
in Portimouth harbour, has unbent Sails and sent
down topgallant masts. -
Some irregularities have-occurred at Plymouth
among the crew of the steam- frigate Diadem, 32,
Captain James 11. Cockburn, pow under repair in
consequence of having been in contact with her.
Majesty's ship Queen. It appears that on the 31st
of January last, when the frigate was at Ports-
mouth, the port watch was paid six months' wages
(out of eight months due), and granted five days'
leave of absence; which expired an the sth of
February. The sth occurred on a Sunday, and only
14 or 15 out of, say 250, returned ;_nearly all the
rest came back on Monday; the filth, when the star-
board watch was paid, and left for five days.
Twenty-three among those who thus obtained leave
are yet absent from the ship. The Diadem went
from Portsmouth to Portland, where she remained
a few days, and on Thursday, February 23, sailed
with the squadron for Lisbon, but having lost her
bowsprit just outside by getting-in contact with the
Queen, sho put into Plymouth Sound on the 24th

(Friday), and on Monday, the 27th, was placed
alongside the hulk Endymion, in Hamoaze. It
seems, that in consequence of so many having
broken leave at Portsn.outh, a certain amount of
restriction Was put on the liberty of the ship's com-
pany, which was xranted only to petty officers hav-
ing vlatives at Plymouth, to those who returned
regularly on the previous occasion, and to those
who have what is termed " privileged" leave. The
men say that by Admiralty order 30 of the crew of
a line-of-battle ship are always allowed liberty every
Saturday night in harbour, and 20 from a frigate. In
practice on board the Diadem ten have seldom left
on a Saturday; more frequently only two or three,
and these petty officers. To obtain this limited
liberty, it is said to be always necessary, on board
the frigate to produce a letter from some or supposed
sick mother or sister, or to adopt some fictitious
means repulsive to the feelings of any true-hearted
and conscientious British seaman. This being the
condition of Wars, when the crew of the Diadem
observed that the crews of other ships under repair
at Plymouth obtained their liberty, they delegated
allowance)t r pet a officersn d
leave tobymankigehfto, watch
hes and watch. (monthly e
Accordingly on Tuesday morning, between 10 and
11 o'clocic, application was made, and the men
alleged that they could obtain no distinct reply.
At 12 they went down to dinner, and at a quarter
past one the boatswain and his mates piped up as
usual " Hands fall io," but not a man stirred. Those
on the main deck went quietly below, where it was
all darkness, the scuttle holes having been simul-
taneously filled with old bagS, clothes, dm., and
the:lights extinguished. When the boatswain,
his mates, the, master-at-arms, or any other petty
officer sung out to the crew to come along, the only
response was a powerfully combined cheer, fol-
lowed by grumbling demands for " Money and
leave." The men were completely organised ; no
shots %ere rolled, and only one basin was broken—
by a youngster. This unfortunate condition of
affairs having been reported ,to Capt. Cockburn,
the Marines—about 70—were ordered under arms,
and sentries were stationed over the hatchways.
The boatswain then piped, "Hands fall .in
on quarterdeck"--a call which was promptly
obeyed. The crew came up in an orderly
manner and went aft, the officers in front.
Captain Cockburn is reported to have re-
buked them for their improper conduct, and to have.]
asked why titi did nut come to him if they
any complaints. They replied they had already
complained, without effect, to the first lieutenant
(Mr. Barston), and SQIIIO in the rear said, "Money
and leave." "We want to be treated like men, and
not like slaves." The commander, on hearing these
strong expressions, got in a more elevated position,
and ordered those who uttered them to come in front,
but no one appeared. It was hailing very severely
at the time. Captain Cockburn then told the men
that inquiry should be made as to the amount of
wages due, on which they with some reluctance
returned to their duty. The next day (Wednesday)
two months' wages out of the three months duo
were paid to the well-conducted of one watch, and-
one mouth to the remainder, and they obtained
leave for the night. On Thursday the other watch
was paid and had their liberty. It is stated that
Captain Cockburn was so well pleased-with the
conduct of the Marines that be requested Captain
Jolliffe to remit all punishments then in progress.
Several seamen and five or six Marines, who obtained
night leave on Wednesday and Thursday, had not
returned to the Diadem on Sunday.
The following nn
a' - o-ntments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty ; Liept. F. C. B. Robinson,
additional for disposal, to the Chesapeake; W. E.
Fitzgerald and W. Brimington, midshipmen,
to the
Mersey ; Donald G. Pendrith, surgeon, to the Cor-
delia; Dr. A. L. Archer, surgeon, additional to the
Chesapeake ; Dr. J. C. Messer, assistant surgeon, to
the Edinburgh ; P. Cowrie, assistant surgeon, t,) the
Chesapeake; W. C. Fairbairn, assistant surgeonn, to
Greenwichetig assistant
i
Dr. James Fergnson, acting
assistantthe Hawke ;Neal O'D. Patks,
additional, to the Impreg-
an
ssurgeon,afr oi
t sp
to
surgeon, ; l
intble ; J. Lowrie, second class assistant engineer,
to the Nile; Lewis Brewer, acting third class assist-
ant engineer, to the Nile ; Daniel Anderson, acting
third class assistant 'engineer, to the Trafalgar; and
Sloper F. Sugden, third class assistant engineer, to
he Cumberland, for service in the Phaeton.

THE ARAM
A general order has been issued by eOrnmand of
the Duke of Cambridge directing that, with the
view to a correct descriptive return of every-soldier
in the army being rendered whenever required, any
increase in height of a soldier, any alteration in his
appearance, caused by accident or disease, by his
being marked with the letter u 1)," by cross•cup-
ping, or corporal punishment, is to be fully notified
from time to time on the back of his record of ser-

v:ce.
The East India troopship Clarence, 1,20() tons,
Commander Vales, arrived at Gravesend, from Cal-
cutta, on Sunday night, with a large party of
sick said wounded troops on board belonging to
most of the infantry regiments now serving in In-
dia, the detachments being landed yesterday morn-
ing and forwarded to Chatham garrison. The
Clarence sailed fro a Calcutta on Nov. 23. Many
of the troops -were severely wounded at Lucknow
and Delhi, and nearly the whole are suffering from
general debility, which will necessitate their dis-'
charge froni the service.
The Caduceus, chartered fre;ght ship, Capt. Cass,
arrived at Spithead at a late hour on Sunday even-
ing from Hong Kong, with military end naval in-
valids, in mi itlry charge of Capt. M. Legge, second
battalion Ist Royals, and in medical charge of
Surgeon Becker.

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Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, of 30
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partial deafness.—Cure No. 58,816. Mrs. Mize, aged' 107
years, of dyspepsia (indigestion), debility, irritability, and
nervousness which had tormented her for 70 years.—Cure
No. 46,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years'
diarrhoea.—Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of
Castle Stuart of many years' nervous 'irritability, bile, and
indigestion.—Cure No. 51,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers,
cured of consumption, after her medical adviser had aban.•
doned all hopes of recovery.—Cure No. 180. "Twenty-fire
years' nervousness, Constipation, indigestion, and debility,
from which I have suffered great misery, and
which no medicine could remove or rslieve, have
been effectually cured by Du Barry's food in a very
short time.—W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London."
[n. tins, at ls. Gd. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., SS. 9d.; 51b., 128.; 121 b.,
265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post-
office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London
Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, 60,
Graccchurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford-
street; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate•
street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin.
Bewley ..and Draper ; at Edinburgh,Rinmes and Co.;
at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew ; at Mtua'zhester, Sharp and
Scott; at York. ibairnes, Blanchard, and Co.; at South-
ampton; ItAndaß and Son.

P.RUSSIA AND ITALI

DEBATE IN THE PRUSSIAN .CHAMBERS.
The 'Prussian Chamber Was engaged for . some
time on. Thursday last in discussing the affairs of
It
aly. The inhabitantaof Breslaw had sent a peti.•
Lion to the house, urging it to assist in the forma-
tion of a strong and independent- kingdom of
Northern Italy. The commission 'by whom the
,petition was considered recommended the adoption
of the " order of the day," but, for reasons which
gave efenee to the Roman Catholic and Conservas
tire party.
The speakers in, the debate may be divided into
three classes--M NI. de Prittwitz and de Bonin,
Protestant Conservatives, svho defended legitimacy
and deplored the attacks upon the temporal power
of the Pope; MM. Reichenspetger, de Mallinkrodt,
and de Berg; Catholics, who broke a lance for
Austria ; and MM. Dohrn, Behrend, do Bsntkow-
ski (Pole), and Baron Vincke, who spoke elo-
quently .on behalf of the rights and liberties of the
Italians:
M. DE SCIILEINITZ, Minister of Foreign. Affairs,
thought, it. would be unprecedented to. raise a dis-
cussiOn on so grave a question in an incidental man-
ner, and a propos of 'ft. petition. ,If the Chamber
wished to enter into that debate it would be in ac-
cordance with its dignity -to take the initiative in
the matter, or wait till an opportunity was offered
it by, the Government.
M. RetcHENsl't3sGEtt declared himself opposed,
to a detailed discussion. He very much doubted
whether the petitioners faithfully represented pub--:
lie opinion. Last year the Chamber treated the ques-
tion in connection with a loan. The Deputy Simon,
now their president, stated on that occasion that the
ietervention of France had destroyed his sympathy
for Sardinia. " I do not think," continued M.
Reichensperger, "that there have been any events
calculated to modify that opinion. In Lombardy,
it is true, the double-headed eagle of Germany has
been replaced by another which we know; it for-
merly extended its flight as far as Dantzic, I
doubt if the cause of Italy and constitutional liberty
have gained much' thereby. The alliance of revo-
lution and absolutism has there been manifested
very clearly." The speaker then dwelt on the fact
that liberty was suppressed in Italy, recalling the
murder of Colonel' Anviti, and remarking that the
present Government of the Romagna has been estab-
lished by 1,800 electors. "The commission pro-
nounces for non-intervention. Does it not know
that there are 50,000 French in Lombardy ? Does
it wish the French to have a monopoly of interven-
tion, and that Germany and Prussia should abstain
from interference if the French cross the Alps ?
The intrigues and guineas of England have always
played a great part in Italy. The letters of Maz-
zint to Sir John Adams, at Glasgow, prove it. The
patriots who favour an united- kingdom in. Italy
forget that in order to obtain that result it is neces-
sary to overturn the kingdom of Naples, and other
things besides. The mission of Prussia is to sus-
tain the principles of truth, justice, and legitimacy
—(mars of dissent)—and not to aid the revolution.
I am confident the Government will not be want-
ing. Principles are higher than the rights of
princes and thrones. if you overthrow the prin-
ciples, the thrones will be shaken. It will be said
that lam not impartial on this question. (" Hear,
hear," from the Liberal benches.) Ido not disguise
the fact, that my political friends and I have at heart
the lot of the Popc,persecuted by revolution. But that
interest coincides with the principles I have j ust been
speaking of. As far as we are concerned; we are not
afraid. The rock of St. Peter is standing. We will
not tremble, although destiny should conduct St
Peter into exile, or humble him beneath a despot ;
and we are convinced that if that edifice should fall
it is not only on Catholic heads that it will be
pulled down.
J. DE. BENTEOWSKY had as much sympathy _
for the head of the Church as M. Reichensperger,
but it did not include sympathy for the unfortunate
state of Italy. The presence of the French in Italy,
has been compared with their appearance on the
Rhine ; but the difference is great, since on the
Rhine the French did not present themselves as
liberators, but conquerors.
M. DE VINCKE. said, in the course of a remarkable
speech. you call the Italians revolutionists. -What
were they to di when the legitimate authorities had
'7ltrithar-47119 courage nor the force toxemaiu at their
posts ? They had no choice but to take another go-
vernment. The same thing was „tone in England in
1688. The English call t hat their " gloriovs revolu •
tion." 1)o not tireyourselves by declamations against
insurgents. (Applause.) The Italians .pro to he
admired for having, after the flight of their sove-
reigns, elected the King of Sardinia, instead of
addressing themselves to Mazzini. The petition of
the Catholic bishops has been mentioned. Those
geatlemen haVe nothing to do with foreign politics.
The papacy has existed without temporal posses-
sions ; the Romagna has failed it only a little late
in the day; last year even Austria possessor' upon
the Po a territory which had once belonged to
the Holy See The French are in Lombardy with
the consent of the Kin°. of Sardinia. I have not
heard that they have interfered either in Tuscany
or in the Romagna. M. Reichensperger has spoken
of English guineas. I advise him as a friend not
to deliver himself at the tribune of flying suspicions,
and words that are injurious to allied powers, and
no`t to swear by the Gazette d'Alrysburg, part of
whose correspondents belong notoriously to a Radi-
cal society in London called "The Sulphur Band."
(Laughter.) It has been said thet the petition is
hostile to Austria ; and they have appealed to the
double-headed German Eagle. If I consult history
I can discover nothing German in this bird; not a
feather. The Austrians Eagle is but a black and
yellow bird ; it has nothing C'serman, and it has
done all it can to divide Germany. I can cite
proofs by dozens. One will suffice : remember the
peace of Villafranca. The official despatches prove
that Prussia had advanced, a great deal too much
in my opinion, in favour of Austria, to whom she
wished then to guarantee Lombardy. Neverthe-
less the Emperor of Austiia has dared publicly to
accuse Prussia of having abandoned him, and that,
too, at a moment when the Emperor Napoleon de-
clared that he had been stopped in his victorious
march by the attitude of Prussia ! Under these
circumstances we have uo motive for showing too
much friendship or complaisance far Austria.
(Applause.) In the interest of Austria herself, I
trust that Sardinia will become strong enough to
serve as a boulevard. against France. Austria will
do well also to give up Venetia. (Laughter from
the Conservatives.) Do you prefer, then, tlrat she
should become insolvent ? (No, no.) Yes, I repeat
it—insolvent. Do you prefer seeing her add new
millions to her debt, or contracting again a secret
loan of one hundred and eleven millions ? I regard
as au advantage for Germany and Prussia all that
strengthens the power of Sardinia, not only because
of the similarity of our institutions, but because
Sardinia ought to be a protection against France.
For this reason Sardinia ought to preserve the
passage of the Alps. As to the principle of legiti-
macy—l ask if the crown of England, despite the
usurpation of 1689, is not legitimate ? And what
say you of Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Belgium?
What is the prescriptive delay you admit? Is it
thirty years I r fifty ? Until the European law
contains some rule as to this matter, you will do
- ' Well. to leave us alone with your principles of legi-
timacy. (Laughter.) I have a firm confidence that
the policy of the present Minister of Foreign Affairs
Will be in accordance with these views. (Much
applause.)
M. DE SCULEINITZ (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
--I still hold the opinion that it would have been
more convenient and constitutional not to have
entered now upon a political discussion. Since
the Chamber has thought otherwise, I wish to com-
municate the little that it is in my power to tell
you of our proceedings. The proposition for a
congress, if -it has not been formally abandoned,
has certainly fallen into the background on account
of 'differences . which foreboded anything but a
favourable issue to such deliberations. The Cabi-
. nets, however, are endeavouring to remove these
differences, and t0....f1nd the ground fora common
deliberation. These
_efforts, which recently found
expression in the steps taken simultaneously by the
Cabinets of Berlin and St. Petersburg, have not
been crowned with the desired success. It is of
great interest to Europe thatltaly, Fhich is an im-
portant member of the confederation of Earopsaa
states, should obtain, not only a legal pat iticattop,
but a legal and regular situation. Prussia will
never refuse her aid in obtaining so great an end.
Our most important'stask must be to prevent new
complications' feom : arising between great
Europe.
. lsurope.
and another great war from bursting Upon
The Chamber then adopted the order of the day
as proposed by the commission.
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[ADVEIITISEMENT.]-31r. Benson, Ludgate:Aill, has just
published anew illustrated pamphlet on watches•(f ree by post
for tWo stamps). It should be read by all
,Who are about
buying a watch, as it contains prices and important informa-
tion as to - -What watch to buy ! where to buy it ! and how to
uie it t