The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-13 00:00:00

INSOLVENCY.-(THIS DAY.)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

" A degree of perfection, that has bren for some time
past a great desideratum, has been just realized in the
system of public accounts. The duration of the exer-
cises has been by a recent decree shortened by two
months. Favourable at the same time to the Treasury
and to its creditors, this measure will accelerate the
liquidation and the payment of the debts of the State,
and will render more easy the formation and the audit
of the accounts.
" In order to enter into the views of the Assembly,
the Administration has undertaken, and nearly termi-
nated, the reorganisation of ail the arrondissements of
collection. This great labour, which will have for re-
sult the successive suppression, by means of extinction,
of 1,500 employees, will be followed by a considerable
saving.
"Three projects of Jaw, on matters worthy of your
consideration, will soon be submitted to you.
" Oar, conceived in the interest of agriculture, com-
merce, and industry, has for its object to free the Admi-
nistration of canals by means of the redemption of ac-
tions de jouissancc—shares of preference_impediments
which result from the cahiers de charge—the conditions
of the contract.

prohibitive duty now in force against foreign sugar, an
impost of a sufficiently protective characeer, it would
conciliate, in an equitable manner, the inthreets of the
people, which calls for sugar at a cheep rate, with the
interests of the producers of the home-made or colonial
article, also those of the shipping interest, with the
claims of the Treasury. The definitive solution of the
three questions belong completely at present to the As-
sembly.
" Other ameliorations are ready. The department of
Commerce, after having obtained the aid of a special
Committee, has prepared a Bill on the mode of distri-
buting the premiums destined to be given for the en-
couragement of the fisheries. The law now in force ex-
pires on December 31, 1851.
"In the Interior, by the opening of new Customs'
offices, by the creation of new bonding warehouses, by
the simplification of the formalities connected with the
transit of goods through the country, by the opportune
application of the system of temporary admission, the
Government has endeavoured to add fresh facilities to
the commercial eechanges of France with foreign
countries.
" The Department of Commerce has taken all the
measures necessary to enable the products of French in-
dustry to appear with honour at the Great Exhibition
which is to take place in London in 1851.
" In the concerns of our commercial shipping inte-
rest an inquiry, similar to that of 1824, will be shortly
instituted, and will give an opportnnity of ascertaining
all that may be wanted. The shipowners demand it, and
the Government is anxious for it. It cannot remain
barren of results.
" Amongst the provident institutions which the Go-
vernment intends developing, mutual aid societies and
pension funds, instituted by the state, occupy the first
rack. An inquiry, now pursued with activity, will show
what is the number of such societies already existing in
France, and the services which they render. It will
lead to the formation of an exact table of the chances of
illness incidental to each age. Meanwhile nothing is
neglected to lead to the creation of these institutions
on bases in conformity with the idea of the Legisla-
ture; and the Government can felicitate itself on the
co-operation which has been afforded in this matter bg
all the heads of factories and industrial establishments,
and in particular those of Lyons and Mulhausen, who
have given a most noble example.
" Quarantine measures furnish the Government with
means of guaranteeing the public health from dangers
from without. But exaggeration in such measures
trammels the liberty of international relations. The re-
strictive principles in this matter, admitted by foreign
powers, cause great damage to French commerce, with-
out any possible reciprocity on our part, our regulations
being generally dictated by a liberal spirit. An accord
amongst the great Powers which have ports in the Me•
diterrantan would lead to the cessation of the hindrances
and losses of time and money:which result from the pre-
sent system. All our efforts tend to obtain this.
"JUSTICE.
" Three drafts of essential laws have been submitted
to the National Assembly.
" On Judiciary Organizaticn.
" On Judiciary Assistance.
" On Mortgages.
" The first fulfils one of the obligations imposed by
the Constitution. The two ethers realize certain pro-
mises contained in the Message of the 6th June. 1849.
"But the law on mortgages would not be sufficient for
the establishment of landed credit. It gives solidity to
the territorial pledge, but it accelerates the liquidation
only in a small degree, and does not put an end to the
unanimous complaints which accuse the regulation of
judgments of unnecessary delay. The administration
of justice, to complete its work, has prepared
a new law on the distribution by course of
order of the price of landed property, combining
as much as possible promptitude with security.
The attention of the National Assembly will be
directed at the same time to different laws relative to the
restoration of convicts to their civil rights, likewise to
the repression of crimes and offences committed in
foreign countries by Frenchmen, and to some other im-
portant portions of our penal legislation.
" Six thousand convicts confined in the bagnes of
Teuton, Brest, and Rochfort, load our budget with an
enormous weight; whilst they become more depraved,
and menace society at every moment. It has appeared
possible to render the penalty of hard labour more effi-
cacious and more reforming, less expensive and at the
same time more humane, by utilizing the progress of
French colonization. A law will be presented to you on
that question.
"It will be proposed at the same time to render more
useful and more real the surveillance to which male-
factors are subjected oe whom justice has inflicted penal
and degrading punishment. The number of offences
and crimes committed every year attest how great and
indispensable is the amelioration of our repressive legis-
latton. Now the modifications which penitentiary re-
form is preparing will render justice less expensive, and
will diminish the frequency of repeated crimes. They
will contribute likewise to the course of justice and of
that reform which the magistrates pursue with such im-
partial devotedness and such vigilant firmness.
" PUBLIC ISTRUCTION AND RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
" The 9th article of the Constitution prescribed the
introduction of liberty and competition in education, un-
der certain conditions of capacity and morality, and
under the superintendence of the State. The law which
operated this radical reform was prefaced by two mea-
sures. The first is the abolition of the certificate of
education; the second the transitory law relating to the
appointment and the revocation of primary teachers.
One of those measures has put an end to old and warm
complaints. The other, according to the unanimous re-
ports of the prefects, has produced the most fartunate
results.
" The important law of the 15th March, 1850, induced
a considerable change amongst the personnel as well as
certain new regulations. Several months have been de-
voted to that double labour. The first is almost com-
pleted. Several decrees prepared with the concurrence
of the Council of State have provided for the most press-
ing regulations become necessary. Other plans are
being discussed. Everything announces that in general
the provisions of the new law will realize the hopes of
the Government and of the Assembly. The administra-
tion of religious worship has obtained from the Holy See
after tedious negotiations, a measure long since demanded
—the erection of three colonial bishoprics and the ap-
pointment of three prelates for Martinique, Guadeloupe,
and the island of La Reunion.
" The Sovereign Pontiff proclaimed, at the same con-
sistory, three new cardinals, granted to the French
Church as an eminent proof of gratitude towards our
nation, and of esteem for the French Episcopacy.
" WAR.
" The effective of the land forces, which in the month
of June, 1841, amounted to 451,000 men and 93,754
horses, is no more at present than 396,000 men and
87,400 horses, and will shortly be reduced to the limits
prescribed in the budget, to which it will be confined
it political circumstance permit us. Its organization
will not be definite until after the adoption of the laws
on the cadres submitted the 19th June last. Neverthe-
less severe' essays have been made, or are under prepa-
ration, to augment the well-beiog of the soldier, to di-
minish the charges in the oaks, and to modify the ad-
ministrative control.
" I again invite your consideration to the laws which
are presented to you, and which will aeleiterate
the position of officers, noncommissioned officers, and
soldiers'
" Algeria had guttered mach from the political events
of 1848. The notable diminution which the effective
of our troops experienced, has not prevented our
braVe army from meeting every danger. Zeatche car
tured after prodigies of valour, &mead& subdued, cons°,
lidate oar dominion, and permit us to pursue the work of
pacifieationt
"In the province of Constantine a column scoured
during the months of May and June the country con-
quered between Setif and Bougie. The Beni-Immel
have been rented by the brave and unfortunate General
de Barrel, and some days afterwards the Beni-Merad.
In the south the Aures was visited several times by
our troops: The submission of the Nememcha assures
an important supply to oar markets; and the new or-
! eanization of these countries opens to us a road into the
interior of Africa.
"The tranquillity of the province of Algiers permits
the continuation of the works which have been com-
menced; The population suffered much from scarcity,
but the iellitmry authorities came to their assistance in
every possible Eel
" Tranquillity has beee Maintained in the province of
Oren eterywhere, thanks to the intelligeuce of the offi-
cers of our Arab establishments; the natives every day
appteditite more and More the justice of our administra-
tion. The Weeth of Colonisation is being continued.
The forty-two agricul
agriculture! colonies, distributed in our
three Protinco may; in time, form
splendidinehsatbaibtlai
ns ht
s
ments. An tiirofteati potation of 115,000
hich the actual
divided in 133 towns or itilligee--11,000 conressiouary
colonists have erected constructiogd
1)f
7,,,h I trust will
value is 14,000,000, attest a progress wh e_
not slacken.
st Our roads comprise an extent of 6,350 kiletnetres;
'4' Our telegraphic lines are composed
which are pro-
jected.
" The insalubrity is every y disappearing. More
da
than 8,000 hectares of marsh have been drained. At the
same time the fertility of the soil is increased by thlesdot
ging of 250,000 metres of irritating canals, and of '15,000
drains; 116,000 metres of conduits conduct water into Our
towns—in fine, 900 buildings of every description hare
been erected to the present time.
" The important works of the port of Algiers are con-
tinued with activity.
"The Administration has 'obtained knowledg6 of a
considerable quantity of mineralogical strafe, Which will
contribute soon to the wealth of Algeria and of end
country.
" The cultivation 01104,4 df tile putlbetry, of cos
ta. ff great eteveiopMent, the trade en Ti'ol
"`"`"`, 4-
--
to 36,000,000 f., and that of others to
already amounts
24,000,000'
eln fine,
40,000 men, immense defensive works, barracks for
hospitals for 5,000 sick, guarantee the surety
of our conquest, and the well-being of our army from
the incessant fatigues incurred by the greatest part in the
I works of which we havejust spoken.
I t' The estate will not neglect anything in order to ar-
nri

IN RE JOSEPH inTAMMER,.

This ins,l,lvent, who was a director of the Wednesday
Evening Concerti, held at Exeter Hail, applied to the
Court during the vacation, and a hearing of the case
having been had, it was further adjourned to this
morning.
Mr. Sargood oppost d on behalf of Mr. Willy, the
violinist; and Mr. Cooke and Mr. Lucas supported.
The insolvent denied that Mr. Willy had first sug-
gested the idea of the London WedneAay Evening Con-
certs; on the contrary, he affirmed that Mr. Wiqy had
been his servant as the conductor of the concerts, having
a band of net formers under his superintendence. He
(the insolvent) had formerly been a coal merchant, in
partnership watt Mr. Morton and Mr. Batters, and he
had retired from the coal trade with a capital of 3001.
The reason of his insolvency was the last unfavourable
season with the concerts.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

At half-past 3 o'clock M. Baroche, Minister of the
Interior, ascended the tribune, and proceeded to read
the following message addressed to the National
Assembly by the President of the Republic :
"Messieurs les Repisentants,—My first message co-
incided with the first meeting of the Legislative Assem-
bly. The same electors who named me to the Supreme
Magistracy of the country called you by their suffrages
to sit here. France saw you arrive with joy, far the same
thought presided over our two elections. It imposed on
us the same mandate, and made the re-establishment of
order and the maintenance of external peace depend
on our union. A considerable amelioration has been
effected since the month of June, 1849. When you
arrived the country was still disturbed by the last mo-
ments of the Constituent Assembly. Many imprudent
votes had created great embarrassments to the Govern-
ment. The violence of the Tribune was as ever trans-
ferred to street agitation, and the 13th of June beheld
the &Duro of a new attempt at insurrection. Though
easily repressed, it still showed the imperative ne-
cessity of uniting our efforts against evil passions. To
overcome them it was at first necessary to prove to the
nation that the best intelligence reigned between the As-
sembly and the Executive Power, to imprint on the Ad-
ministration an uniform and firm direction, to combat
resolutely the causes of disorder, to reanimate the ele-
ments of prosperity.

It was not subs:antiated that the insolvent was pos•
sessed of property that was not set forth in his schedule,
or that any other party than himself was liable for debts
contracted on account of the concerts; and having
obtained leave to amend his schedule, he was discharged.

" The other regulates the general affair of pensions.
" The third demands of the Assembly, the ways and
means necessary to effect, with the view of a Letter re-
partition of the property tax, a new valuation of territo-
rial revenue. We shall propose to you a combination
which,while maintaining the,ectual produce of the impost,
will relieve succ,.?ssively the overburdened departments
without aggravation to the others.

PUBLIC WORKS.
" The re3uction of credits has occasioned the adjourn-
ment of necessary works,'.and even delayed the execu-
tion of the most urgent: Nevertheless important sec-
tions of railroads have been for the last year opened.
" The second half-year of 1849 has seen opened the
sections of Paris to Chalons•sur-?►Marne, Paris to Ton-
nerre, Dijon to Chalons-sur-Saone, Saumur to Angers,
Versailles to Chartres, Noyon to Chauny, Saint Pierre
to Calais—total 574 kilometres. During the year 1850
have been opened the sections of Chalons-sur-Marne to
Vitry; Metz to Nancy; Nirondes to Nevers; Chauny
to St. Quentin—total 152 kilometres.
" The year 1851 will see opened the sections of Vitry
to Bar-le Duc; Metz to St. Avoid; Strasbourg to Sarre-
bourg; Tonnerro to Dijon; Tarascon to Beaucaire;
Tours to Poitiers; Angers to Nantes; and we also hope,
Chartres to la Loupe—total, 513 kilometres.

" INTERIOR.
"The important lavrs that the gravity of events
obliged you to adopt contributed powerfully to re-
establish confidence, because they proved the force of

the Assembly and the Government when they are in
perfect accord.
" The Administratior, on its side, redoubled its vi-
gour, and the functionaries, who appeared neither ca-
pable nor sufficiently devoted to the difficult mission of
conciliating without weakness, and of repressing without
party spirit, were dismissed; others, on the contrary,
were promoted or recompensed.
" The municipal authority, so salutary when its
action was traukly united to that of the Executive

Power, drew on itoelf very justly, iu many
communes, grave reproaches. 421 rol.yors and 183
adjoiut,4 had to be dismissed; and it all thoze who
have remained unequal to their funetiors have
not been similarly treated the cause is iu the imperfec-
tion of the laws.

"The iron trade is one of those which recovers more
slowly. in 1849 the foundries produced 425,000 tons
of cast metal, about 59,000,000 F., and 275,000 tons of
pig-iron, of the value of 81,000,000 f. more or leSi. At
present the activity of the iron establishments seems to
revive. _ _

"To remedy this defect the Council of State has
already commenced the exatuira;ion of a project of
law; but it is difficult to conciliate the municipal fran-
chise with the unity of action—the true force of the
central power. _

" Measures are being continued, with the view of
placing at the disposal of the agricultural interest the
means, so precious for it, of irrigation and draining.
" The freedem of transport (roulage), which by a
project of law of recent date, we proposed establishing,
will also be, for agriculture as for commerce, a real
benefit.

" The National Guard, the useful auxiliary against in-
ternal and external enemies, when it is well organised,
acted but too qften in a sense contrary to the objects
of its institution, and obliged us to dissolve it in 153
towns and commune; in fine, in all places where it
presented the charagker of an armed corps deliberating.
The tribunals have worthily seconded the Government.
The magistracy has displayed great energy in enforcing
the execution of the laws, and punishing those who
violated them.

" I beg to call in particular the attention of the As-
sembly to the concession of the Lyons 114ilroad. On
this concession depends the resumption of the most im-
portant works, as it permits the distribution amongst
the other railroads, and public works of every kind, of
the sums from which the Treasury will be relieved.

To srcure order in the more agitated provinces, ex-
tensive commands, comprising several military divisions,
have been created, and powers more enlarged have been
confided to experienced generals. On all sides the
army has given its concourse with that admirable devo-
tedness peculiar to it, and everywhere the gendarmerie
has a.ecmplished its mission with a zeal worthy of all
praise. Agitation has been calmed in the country dis-
tricts by putting a restraint on the detestable propa-
g •
and which was exercised by the primary teachers.
a
Several have been dismissed. The schoolmasters

" Our political, commercial, and industrial interests
require the completion, as soon as possible, of the lines
from Paris to Marseilles, from Paris to Strasbourg, from
Paris to Bordeaux, from the west and the centre.
Now, to complete these railroads and our great public
works in course of execution, the Treasury will have still
on the Ist January next 585,000,000 f. to expend, viz,—
For Railroads (of which 230 for the
Paris and Lyons, and for the Lyons
and Avignon) ••• ••• ••• fr. 430,000,000
" For Canals, and in particular for the
completion of the Canal of the Marne
to the Rhine, and the lateral Canal

are no longer the instruments of disorder.
Although incessantly occupied with an urgent
repression, the Goverument has adopted all that seemed
to it proper to ameliorate the situation of the
country. Thus. in spite of the difficulty of circum-
stances, the Property-tax has been reduced by
27,000,000 f. A project of organization of credit, the ap-
plication of which will be still rare facilitated by the
mortgage reform, has bekt submitted to you. The
laws relative to the caisses de retraite and mutual relief
which you have voted will exercise the most salutary
influence on the condition of the working classes. The
organization of sock ties of patronage—the most useful
auxiliary of the Administration in the double interest
of morality and public security—hospitals, charitable
establishments, have been the objects of our special
solicitude. The best dotination possible has been given
to the funds from relief. _

of the Garonne ••• •••
" For the Improvements of the Naviga-

25,000,000

tion of the Rivers ...
"For the Ports on the Coasts of the

56,000,000

Atlantic and the Mediterranean

54,000,000
20,000,000

" For Roads (5) ...

Total ... ... fr. 585,000,000
"If all these works remained to the charge of the
State the Treasury would still have 585,000,000 to ex-
pend; they could not for a long time be terminated, and
with an average dotation of 70,000,000 francs a year, as
in 1850 and 1851, their completion would require still
nearly nine years.
" If the Lyons Railway be conceded, there will result
for the Treasury a relief of at least 260,000,000 francs,
(6) which will reduce those charges to 325,000,000 f..
and to less than six years the period necessary to ter-
minate these great works.
"To reduce the charges of the Treasury by
260,000,000 f., to advance by four years the completion
of our roads, our canals, our rivers, our railroads, will
be, gentlemen, a great and useful measure.
The Assembly, I hope, will be struck, as I am, by
the immense advantage of a prompt concession of the
Paris and Lyons railroad, for the ensemble of all our
works.

A project has been in course of formation for many
years past with the view of procuring for the communes
all the benefit that can be procured for waste lands.
" The roads, the source of prosperity for the ruraldis-
tricts, receive constant ameliorations, which tend to com-
plete the ensemble of rural communications.
" The last message expressed the desire of seeing the
suppression of payment in kind. The National Assem-
bly has already had before it propositions relative to this
object. The Council-General when consulted decide in
great measure for the maintenance of the prestation en
nature rather than for its suppression, But to maintain
the proportionality of the impost without diminishing
the r ecessary resources is a problem difficult to resolve.

" The financial condition of the consmunes is in a
state cf improvement, but the Government moderates
their excessive desire to vote local expenses.
" The new telegraphic lines voted by the law of the
10th February last are in the course of execution. They
are acting from Paris to Tours, to Rouen, to Valen-
ciennes; but it is recetsary to extend them still more. The
law on private telegraphs, submitted at this moment to
the Assembly, requires a prompt solution.
" The Government has exercised indulgence when-
ever it could do so without danger. Tbus, since the
month of June, 1849, 2,400 convicts have been
set at liberty without danger to public tran-
quillity. There remains only 458, who have been
sent to Algeria. There still remain, unhappily,
without counting the June convicts, 348 persons
condemned for political offences in the prisons of France.
The interdiction of labour in the prisons had aggravated
the condition of the prisoners. The decree of the 9th
January, 1849, has not remedied the evil. A project of
law which preserves the interests of society, and those of
the prisoners, has been submitted to the Council of State.
When it is adopted the Government will utilize as much
as possible this numerous class in agricultural works.
The well-being and the morals of the adult prisoners,
the cellular penitentiary system, the improvements of
the regime of the central prisons continue to be studied
in a serious manner, and soon the Government will de-
mand from the Assembly the means of creating model
agricultural colonies for these adults, in virtue of the law
of the sth of August.
" A project of law will be presented to you for the re-
lief of the remains of our armies of the Republic and the
Empire. who are now without resources, political events
having frustrated them from their rights, and because it
is unworthy of a groat nation to leave such men any
longer in a state of misery.
" FINANCES.

" The ensemble of this policy has considerably im-
proved our financial situation.
The accounts for 1848 have been submitted to you,
and you have been made acquainted with the definitive
condition of that budget.
" It was for a moment thought that the budget of
1849, by reason of certain circumstances, unforeseen at
the moment it was voted, would impose on the Treasury
a charge cf about 300,000,000 f. Thanks to the progress
of the revenue and to the economy introduced in the
different services, this deficit, it may be now affirmed,
will be reduced to nearly 100,000,000 f.
" Everything leads us to hope that the presumed de-
ficit of the budget of 1850 will be sensibly diminished,
and that the equilibrium announced for 1851 will
be realised ; the ascending progress of the
indirect revenue is Sustained ; the first nine
months of 1850, compared with the corresponding
months of last year, give an advantage of more than.
28,000,000 f. The indirect contributions, the '.riffs of
which have not been modified, and which sttnd fo: mire
resumption
working classes. n
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affla6i
r,OsOtton,odoOtf
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int heilsioirnactrieoanseina tttel.s-; the
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0 condition of the
" Peace and internal order '
0. . ilave produced other fruits.
ge savings-banks from the Ist
d the withdrawals, by 69,000,00 a
of
Thej a
n funds deposited dleBp4o9si, tel:
jee in
(Note 1.)
" The ar"...ount of the portfolio 1:It the Bank, which had
BUMF
_rely fallen beneath 1'00,000,000f. is raised, 'and
on +'
• ..oe 7tb of - the resent month it passed the sum of
t35,000,000f. y suppressing the forced circulation of
bank-note, you have had reason to count on the re-
establiWatens of confidence, and facts have fully justi.
fica. this grave measure. The return to the primitive
statutes has reduced neither th© extent nor the import-
ance of the circulation. (2.) .
"if the produce of the Customs has experienced
some diminution, the difference arises from accidental
causes, which you all know, and which are referable to
salt and colonial sugars; but considered in the whole,
our international commerce., after a serious depression
in 1848, was raised in 1849 by a rapid and sustained
movement. Abstention made of the extraordinary in-
troduction of grain in 1847, we are in advance on this
very year, both as to the value of the imports and ex-
ports, and the number and tonnage of ships (3).
" The collection of direct contributions is being exe-
cuted with remarkable punctuality. On the 3d of
September last a third of the twelfth only was in
arrear ; this is much less than in periods of gresteir
prosperity (4).
" These happy changes in the totality o' financial
facts will have permitted from 1849 to I'ssl—that is to
say, for the space of three years, in spite of the reduc-
tion of many important taxes, to endow the country
with nearly 260 millions worth of public works, to re-
lieve the lower classes of traders, to remit 27,000,000
carnet
to
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diagriculture,tnehseidreeafi and tAi
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aid from credit, and without imposing
exaggeratedeirtnen,adhva:
nueneds.oubtedly the sen-
timent of this improved situation. Each has been
enabled to recogaise that the finances of the State,
which last year 'figured in the first rank in the pre-occu-
pations of
public opinion, are at this day very far from
inspiring
th® same apprehensions. I announce wits
goodosatisfaction this
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on Itanids tot!,
the common of the
f
spirit
of the Government and the Assembly, It will be an
allen,eioAurfategremisesunitnfgorfrom h
of us.
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npleasant system of the pro-
visional twelfths, the Government has thought its honour
interested in re-entering completely into a more regular
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" MARINE.
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" The Marine has been maintained _I:, 0
footing, notwithstanding the re3.`:-.F.
' the budget.
raW Pans coaamanaea ny
•'Fore.igners have.paid oftiage tn The Zno organizsiion,
However, o
of our fleet azseed atlCherbobig.
m ,,,
" u,r maritime force is drily, composed of
125 ships, instead of 235, which we had in activity in
1848. It emlys 22,561 men, instead of '9,:i31, borne ~`
,on the lists opte, same year: , ,„,. Ct.:. , '
" The wi!li4l, etfectire.onlyStifs,linPerfecuy tor the
protection of Present interests engaged in all parts of
the globe
" The spirit of our sailors is excellent, and their de-
rateduos uninuuded,

THE SON, LONDOM WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1850.

" The workmen in our arsenals, enlightened by ex-
perience, have resumed tbeir works with activity, and we
can cite important examples :
" At Cherbourg, the breakwater, the new arsenal, the
Fort des Flamand, the formatiora of the inner dock;
" At Toulon, the clearing of the roadstead, of which
the filth part is terminated.
" At Oleron, the elevation of the fort Bayard, to pro-
tect the roadstead of the Isle d'Aix.
" At Port Vendre, all that is necessary to give a sure
refuge to the fleet.
" At Marseilles, the new dock.
" While waiting the results of the inquiry, the Admi-
nistratisn has thought right to postpone all radical re-
form in the different branches of the complex adminis-
tration of the Marine dedartment.
" However, by decree of the 16th January, 1850, the
Council of the Admiralty has been constituted in a man-
ner to idsure to the marine corps the advantages given to
the officers of the fleet.
" The penal system of the Marine has been submitted
to a well studied revision; this important work, so long
required by marines and jurisconsults will be submitted
to yon at no distant time.
" The ordinance regarding the sea service is about to
receive modifications which will combine the advantages
of progress already accomplished to the immutable, pria-
ciples of discipline.
" In the colonies of the Antilles, after disasters, which
have not, however, turned out to be so bad as might
have been found, considering the gravity of the sudden
trial of social transformation which they have endured,
tranquillity is re-established, and the Government is
firmly resolved to maintain it by an energetic adminis-
tration, which it will, however, know how to reconcile
with an appeasing of the division of castes.
" The sensible decline of production is an incontesta-
ble fact, but which may be in part explained by the em-
barrassed situation of proprietors, without having to
draw from it a conclusion unfavourable to the probable
results of free labour. Nothing has been left undone to
ameliorate the moral and material state of our colonial
possessions. Organization, policy, justice, administra-
tion, banks, colonization—all have been submitted to the
examination of eminent men, and will become the object
of several projects of successive laws.:
" Our colony of the Re-union, exempt from troubles,
would not have seen a decrease of its remarkable pro-
sperity had not two successive storms so recently spread
devastation in that quarter.
" Upon the western coast of Africa our commerce is
becoming signalised by progress in which we are taking
a share that must interest us in our establishments of
Senegal and of Geree, and our factories at different
points as far as the Equator.
" At Tahiti the maintenance of our protectorate pre-
serves in the Pacific a point d'appui for our missions, as
well as for our military and merchant marine.
i" FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
" Since my last Message our foreign policy has ob-
pined in Italy a great success. Our arms have over-
thrown at Rome that turbulent demagogy which, through-
out the Italian Peninsula had compromised the cause of
true liberty, and our brave soldiers have had the signal
honour of replacing Pope Pius the Ninth on the throne
of St. Peter. The spirit of party will tail in obscur-
ing this memorable deed, which will form a glo-
rious page for France. The constant:aim of our efforts
has been to encourage the liberal and philan-
thropical intentions of the Holy Father, the Pontifical
poweripursues the realization of the formulas contained
in the motn proprio of the 2d of September. 1849.
Some of the organic laws have alceady been published,
and those which are to complete ensemble of the admi-
nistrative and military organisation in the states of the
Church will not be long delayed. It is needless to say,
that our army, yet necessary for the maintenance of
order at Rome.:is ,exally so for our political influence,
and which having rendered itself illustrious by its cou-
rage, is no less admired fer its discipline and its admi-
nistration.

" On the different points where our diplomacy has
had to interfere it has nobly maintained the dignity of
France; and our allies have never bad to demand our
support in vain.
"It is thus that, in concert with England, we have
sent several forces into the Levant, to show our loyal
sympathy for tde independence of the Porte which sup-
posed that Russia and Austria meant to infringe by de-
manding in virtue of ancient treaties the extradition of
Hungarian and Polish subjects refugees on the Turkish
territory. Thanks to the wisdom which these powers
have brought info negotiations on the question, the in-
tegrity of the rights of the Ottoman empire have been
secured.

" In Greece, as soon as we learned the acts by which
England supported her reclamations we intervened by
our good offices, France could not remain indifferent to
the lot of a nation whose independence she had so much
contributed to; she did not hesitate to offer her media-
tion, despite the difficulties raised during the course of
the negotiations, nor succeeded in scf,ening the condi-
tions imposed on the 6 overnment of Athens, and our ne-
gotiations with Great Brii:ain resumed immediately their
accustomed character. _ .

" In Spain we have seen with pleasure the ties which
made the two countries become closer by the mutual
sympathy of the two Covernmenve. Thus, as soon as
the French Government learnen the criminal attack
directed by some adventurers against the Lie of Cuba,
we sent new forces to the commander of tiie Antilles,
with an injunction to unite his efforts to those of the
Spanish authorities to prevent the recurrence of similar
attempts.
" Denmark excites still our most lively solicitude.
This ancient ally, which had so much to endure on ac-
count of her fidelity to France at the period of our dis-
asters, has not yet, notwithstanding the bravery of her
army, subdued the insurrection which has broken out in
the Duchy of Holstein. The armistice of the 18th
July, 1849, has been recognised by the interim of
Frankfort, which had charged Prussia to treat in
the name of Germany. After laborious negotiations
a treaty was signed the 2d July, through the media-
tion of England, between Denmark and Prussia. This
treaty, ratified at first by the Cabinet of Berlin,
and her allies, has just been equally so by Austria and
the Powers represented at the Assembly of Frankfort.
While these negotiations were proceeding in Germany,
the Powers friendly to Denmark opened conferences at
London, for the sake of maintaining the integrity of the
states of the King of Denmark, such as has been
gxaranteed by treaties. If the steps taken by the Allied
Powers have not yet succeeded in putting an end to the
struggle engaged in in the North of Germany, they have
at least obtained the happy result of curtailing the pro-
portions of the war, which only exists now between the
King of Denmark and the unsubdaed provinces.
" We eel insist upon the King of Denmark assuring,
by institution!, the rights of the Duchies. On the other
hand, we will give him all the support which he has a
right to require from us by virtue of treaties and of our
ancient treaties.
" In the midst of the political conflictions which divide
Germany we have observed the most strict neutrality.
So long es French interests, and the equilibrium of
Europe shall not be comprised, we will continue a policy
marked by our respect for the independence of our
neighbours.
" Immediately after the vote of the National As-
sembly on the subsidy for Montevideo, the Government
resumed the negotiations pending at Buenos Ayres.
The object was to make the modifications in the treaties
ooncluded in 1849, which were deemed indispensable in
Order to guarantee efficaciously the independence of the
riental Republic, to protect the interests of France over
UreguY, and to preserve the nrtional honour. We hope
to terunnete usefully and honourably the regretable com-
plications seeseh for a long time past have interrupted
the good relations between France and the Republic of
La Plata.
" Our commercial relations with foreign countries are
becoming consolidated and develaped.
" The English Government has, in fact, extended,
since the Ist of January, 1850, to the French flag the
dispositions of the New Navigation Act of the 26th of
June, 1849. It has also very recently abolished the dif-
ferontial duties on the exportation of coals.
" We hope that the negotiatiofis pending at the pre-
sent moment, for the new trealy of navigation and com-
merce with Great Britain, will soon resolve themselves
into an arrangement in conformity with the interests of
the two countries.
" The treaty concluded with Belgium on the 7th of
November, 1849. is in force for scarcely a yeaf, and
already the two countries have experienced the most
advantageous remelts from it,
" Some difficulties of detail, relative to the edditional
articles of the treaty with Chili, sanctioned by the law
of the 15th of March, 1850, by retarding the execution
of it, shall soon be levied.
"A new convention has been signed at Paris, on the
3a of August last, between France and Bolivia. It will
be submitted to the sanction of the Legislature, after
the approbation of the Bolivian Government.
e The negotiatisn, followed with activity by the Cabinet
of Turin for the renewal of the convention of the 28th
of August, 1843, has just been terminated by a treaty
of commerce and navigation.
The abuse, too long tolerated, of literary and artis-
ticol ping'/ is the subject sf numerous negotiations. The
greatZ7 part of the Cabinet to whom international ar-
rangement..have been proposed for the purpose of putting
an end to that ...."buse, have received them at least in
principle. Already ee .-en Sardinia has signed a conven-
tion with France for the IN:iprocal guarantee of literary
will give more effect to
and artictical property, whiCh
the treaties of 1843 and 1846. on, t p
Call therefore say, without presnt...
' honourable.
Ipti he osi-
tion of Franco in Europe is dignified ants
protects
Wherever her voice is heard she advises peace;
order and right: she is listened to everywhere.
''BrArnuz.
" gucbi 9dlffic lty of the eircum-
Ctit affairs: gotwithstanding the
ha% recovered their
Gentlemen, is a rap exposition of the state of
stanCeS, tug 191 V and the autthboarti
Ysto one believes hence-
en%pire to such a
esent disappear, the more
more thY.t tire feats for pt
forth in the success ofPe
ith assiduity to the con-
ivathite'elence. But besides this, the
re Oevertheless, France desires re-
templatioe of the fute the dangers which
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agitated by
the public mitifi de.iotes itself w
pose above all things.
nsi nificant in the pre-
ties or of men, which a. re so g
par
society has run, she remains a stranger to the quarrels of
the opportunity is of-
" I have often declared, when
feelings,that I consi-
Bence of great interests which are at stake.
fered of expressing publicly
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tr•Pritr4.flaby the Constitution. ibis isno---y-Wofound
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,rnister.Rsenl the most simple stew= which arise from my
position. '.' ''. • . . . ' " '.0,-.
' "i.A,a firstpaagistram Ir ' the Republic I was obliged
i 43) Nam me-_u. :a communication with the clerg,
t.e magistracy', the agricultural interests, the in-
dustrial interests, the administrations, and the
army, and I gladly availed myself of every oppertu- '
124 of testifying to them my sympaty and gratitu''
for the assistance which they had given rue ;