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

SPORTING INI LIGEN CE.

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING—TUESDAY.
Free Handica4) Hurlie SweeTstaltes of 10 sovt, eaclf,
h ft, with 40 added; the winner to I.,ay 7 says. tow,irds
expenses, and the second to save his stake. Two
rnilei, over six hurdles. (10 Subs.)
Lir. Benson's Little Queen, 4 yrs, Oct 121b...(Frisby) 1
Mr. Peac.'s Redstrestit, agod, 9st 121 b (Frost) 2
The following also started :—Mr. Phillips's Tallyho,
aged, list llb (Darling); Alr. Mytten's L.liss Coiling-
% ood, vged, lOst 131 b (Hughes); Mr. Stafford's Fugitive,
aged, 11st 1610 (Bradley); and Mr. Birch's Queen of the
Vale, 4 yrt,, 9st 51b (Fowler).
Betting-5 to 2 agst Little Queen, 3to 1 agst Fugi-
the. Won cleverly by nearly a length.
The Seaton Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 60
added. Once round and a distance. (16 Subs., Sof

whom declared.)
Mr. Herb,it's Spot, 4 yrs, 7st alb (W. Sharpe) 1
Mr. J. Ramp's Becton, 3 yro, 64t 210 ...(Cssweil) 2
Mr. Rickaby's Ada Mary, 4 yrs, Est 1010 !Osborne) 3
The fallowing also started, but were not placed:—Mr.
Davvi:on's Cecktail, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (and 61bs extra) (Lye)
—Mr. Copeland's Candlewick, 3 yes. Est (Wells)—Mr.
Ire in's Ballinead, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (1). Wynne)—and Cap-
tain Haworth's The Baroness, 4 yri-, ist 510 (Chulton).
Betting-3 to 1 agst Candlewick, 3to 1 agst Cocktail,
4to 1 ngst Spot, 4to 1 agst 13alhnafad. Won cleverly
by a length.
The Optional SePing Stakes of 5 sovs. rack, and 30 added
for two yrs old and upwnrds; the winner to be hold for
1501, &c. One mile. (8 Stltpi.)
Mr. Smith:Dl Master Downes,bgrd lOst (500 (Fowler) 1
Mr. Mangan's Portia, 4 yrs, Bst 121b(301) (i).Wynoe) 2
Mr. 13,Aiii s Helier-Skeler, 9st 110 (300...(Denman) 3
The following. also startc6:—Mr. Fov,icr'.;
6 yrs, 974 41b (301) (J. Evans)—Mr. Psir.te•r's Circuiter,
4 yrs, 83t 1010 (301) (Wbitehouse)—Mr. Copeland's
Aldgiiie, 4 yrs, Bst sin (3(ii)(.'darlow)—und Mr. lichert's
Miss Lottery, 3 yrs, 7st 1310 (301.) (Lye).
5 to 2 agst Circutter, 3 to 1 agst Miss Lottery, 4 to 1
each agst Poriia and Aldgate, and 5 to 1 agst Master
in,s. Won by a length.
The Hokee-Pokeo Handicap of 3 sovs. etch and
20 added, the E.:.cf.nd saves his stake, three-quarters of
a mile (9 Subs.), was woa vl =il by Mr. Pilot, 3
yrs, 7st gib (W. Sbarpe),h,,:wiug Mr. Coigrc 4v, ,'s Abbot
ot jerveaux, 3 yr., 7st lib (CLarlton), Johnson's
Duxbury, 3 yrs, itit 510 (J. Evans), Mr. ;,leron ()Aud-
i-lower, 5 yea, B,t 71b (Frost), Mr. Ccdar, 4
yro, 64t 121 b (Wilberforce), Mr. Rolison', Laura, 3 yrs,
fist (Nichoi), Mr. Cho) nt,'s Bedford, 3 yrs, Fist 3,0
(Well.), and Mr. Rethwell', Loo, 3 yrs, fist 6"0 (Arnold).
BE ETING AT MANCHE6TER—TUESDAY.
LIVELPOOL iiTEEPLECHASE,-- 5 to 1 cff.,red un the
field, but nothing done.
DininY.-40 to 1 agst Lightfoot (t).
WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON NOVEMBER

MEETING.—TUESDAY, Nov. 19.
Acceptances tor tho Great Warwick Handicap. (The
highest weight acceptii,g having been under Sst, 71b,
it has been raised to Bst 71b, and the others in propor-
tion.)

Yrs st 11,1 Yrs St
Be.llinafad ... 6 8 7 Klrief

a'oy
!ockenneuth

_........_,_
Cocktail
Clothwcrker
Snowstorm
Chantrey 4 7 11 Hllonzo
Doübt „ .
Ihfaulter 5 7 8111inimem
Egret
Woodlark
Acceptances for the Leamington Welter Cup. (The
highest weight accepting being under list 10th, it has
been raised w that weight, and the others in propor-
tion.)

Yrs st lb: Yrs st lb
Clotbworker 4 11 10Cbief Justice ... 3 10 12
Cocktail
Agis 5 11 51Evi. . 4 10 5
Baronr-es .. ...... 4 11 3' ti, inricer ....... •• a 10 3
AcitainiArator ... a 11 21.1ibk
€Eiipus ... 4 11 o,:rbe re,t pay 5 says. each.

KELLY'S POST OFFICE LONDON
DIRECTORY for 1851.
Among the many products of British industry,
none, perhaps, will better deserva a place in the Ex-
hibition of 1851, than this mammoth volume, in
itself a specimen of industry, research, accuracy,
and typography, which has rarely, if ever been
,equalled, and which can never be surpassed, whilst,
at the same time, it is the guide to, and the record of,
ail those great and magnificent industrial establish-
ments, to the existence of which in London she owes
the proud position which she holds as the metropolis
of the civilized world, which occupy building's covering
a space of ground larger than the territories of many a
German or Italian independent Frince, and which
give employment to individuals whose numbers ax-
ceed those of the armies of many of the first-rate
powers of the world. As a not unworthy specimen •
of British industry itself, and as a copious, and ac-
curate, and complete index to every other species of
metropolitan industry, " Kelly's Post-office London
Directory" is certainly entitled to a place in the Ex-
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Industry in the year 1851.
This publication of the "Post-office London Dirm-
tory" commenced in the year 1790, and the present is,
consequently, the sixty-second annual publication ;
and it is a matter of curious research to compare the
present with the early editions of the work, and to
mark the vast improvement which has been effected ;
in fact the present resembles the earlier editions in
name merely. The work, in order to facilitate
reference, is now divided into no less than ten Di-
rectorks :—viz., tan Official Directory, a Street
Directory, a Commercial Directory, a Trades
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a Parliamentary Directory, a Postal Directory, a
City Directory, a Conveyance Directory, and a
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census of 1841. This is, we believe, a novelty pe-
culiar to the Directory for 1851, end cannot fail to
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proof of the anxiety of the proprietor to make his
work as complete, as useful, and as perfect as possible.
As he himself well observes in his preface :
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tained gradually, and not completely until, as in this
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While rivals existed patronage was divided between
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each other; the public, therefore, had to pay more than
they need have done for such works as were brought
out, and, besides, to submit to inferior productions, the
total receipts not being sufficient to sustain two direc-
tories of London, each as comprehensive as the present.
And that the case was precisely as here stated is proved
by the fact that this volume—to say nothing of its supe-
rior accuracy, classification, and general arrangement—
contains about double the quantity of mere letter-press
contained in the closing volume of its latest annual com-
petitor, and is published to its subscribers at a lower
price. So that the public, as well as thetiprt byop the fietoro
the "post-office London Directory, bone
"
cir-
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past been—without a competitor.
te safely predicted that this favourable
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that an equal summit of diligence to that which has led
to so gratifying a result still be continued, in order to
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on the exertions of the proprietors of the " Post-office
London Directory," and have invariably found their
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has become more copious, more accurate, and better
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' •

PRIVY COUNCIL AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—Ibis morn
ing, at eleven o'clock, Lord John Russell, the Mar-
is/in of Lansdowne, Viscount P4linerstone, Sir
GGeorge Grey, and other Cabinet Minister,, left town
by special train on the Great Western Railway for
Windsor Castle, where her Majesty heid a Privy
Council, at which his Royal Highness Prince Albert
attended at two o'clock ; •and the principal business
transacted at the Council was fixing a day for the
further prorogation of Parliament pro
.firmii. the
Queen's Commission was ordered to be issued, and
Parliament will be further prorogued with the usual
formalities to-morrow at two o'clock.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

THE PRESIDENT'S 31ESSAGE.

At half-pst 3 o'clock M. Laroche, 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 lea ReptLentants,—lr.y 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, for the same
thought presided over our two elections. It imposed on
us the same mandate, and made the re-establishment of
order and tlJe mtintenance 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-
meats of the Constituent Assembly. Llany 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 failure of a new attempt at inrurrectiou. Though
easily repressed, it stilt showed the imperative ne-
cet.isity of uniting our effirts 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.

" INTERIOR.
" Tho important laws that the gravity of events
obliged you to adlopc contributed pt:werfully to re-
establish confideecii, because they proved the force of
the Assembly and the Government when they are in
perfect accord.
The Administration, 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 frankly united to that of the Executive
Power, drew on itself very justly, in many
communes, grave reproaches. 421 mayors and 183

adjeints had-to be dismissed; and if all those who
have remained uncqual to their functions have
not been similarly treated the cause is in the imperfec-
tion of the laws.
"To I.( medy this defect the Council of State has
already commenced the examination 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.
" The National Guard, the useful auxiliary against in-
ternal and external cormies, when it is well organised,
acted but too often in a sense contrary to the objects
of its institution, and obliged us to dissolve it in 153
towns and corninune,; in fine, in all places where it
presented the character of an armed corps deliberating.
The tribunals have worthily seconded the Government.
The magistracy has displayed great energy in enforcing
the excenAon of the law:, and punishing those who
violated them.

" To stcure order in the more agitated provinces, ex-
tensive commands, ccmprising several military divisions,
have bun created, and powers mote enlarged have been
confided to experiereed generale. On all aides the
army has given its concourse with thgt, admirable devo-
tedness peculiar to it, and everywhere the gendarmerie
has ace..mplished is mission with a zeal worthy of all
praise. Agitation has been calmed in the country dis-
tricts b; putting a restraint on the detestable propa-
ganda, which was exercised by the primary teachers.
Several have been dismissed. The schoolmasters
are no longer the instrumes is of disorder.
Although incessantly occupied with an urgent
repression, the Government 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-
piication of Is hich will be still more, facilitated by the
mor'gage reform, has been 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 cf the working classes. The
organization of societies of patronage--the most useful
auxiliary of the Administration in the double interest
objects cur special
publichave
beenne the cu ry —ob h'sPitalit charitable
eosftablisl na morality
e nat
solicitude. The best destination possible has been given
to the funds from relief.
" 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 prccured f or 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 paymsnt in kind. The National Assem-
bly has already had before it proposisions relative to this
object. The Council-General when consulted decide in
great measure for the maintenance . of the prestatien en
nature rather than for its suppression.. But to maintain
the proportionality of the impost without diminishing
the t ecessary resources is a pry bletn difficult to resolve.
" The financial condition of the communes is in a
state of improvement, but the Government moderates
their excessive desire to vote local c zpenscs.
"The new telegraphic lines voted. by the law cf the
10th February last sre in the course of execution. They
are acting from Paris to Tours, t o Rouen, to Valen-
ciennes; hut it is necessary to extend ithem 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 daogen. Thus, since the
month of June, 1849, 2,400 Onvicts have been
sot at liberty without danger to public tran-
quillity. There remains only 45i', who have been
sent to Algeria. There still s emain, unhappily,
without counting the June convicts, 318 persons
con& nsned for political offences in the prisons of France.
The interdiction of labour in the prisons had aggravated
the condition of the prisoners. T;he decree of the 9th
January, 1849, has not remedied th evil. A project of
law which preserves the interests of society, and those of
the prisoners, has been submitted to The Council of State.
Wicen it is adopted the Government. will utilize as much
as possible this numerous class in agricultural works.
The well-being and the morals of elle adult prisoners,
the cellular penitentiary system, ths! improvements of
the regime of the central prisons continue to be studied
in s serious manner, end 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 there-
lief of the remains of our armies of the liepuVc and the
Empire. who are now without resources, political events
having frustrated them from their rights, and because it
is unworthy of a great 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 acconnts for 1848 have been submitted to you,
and you base been made acquainted with the definitive
conoition 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 en the Treasury
a charge of about 300,000;000f. '1 banks 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 100,000,006 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
mouths of last year, give an advantage of more than
28,000,0001. The indirect contributions, the tariffs of
which have not been modified, and which stand for more
than 16,000,000 f. in this increase, attest the resumption
of affairs end the amelioration in the condition of the
working classes.
" Peace and internal order have produced other fruits.
The funds deposited iu the savings-banks from the Ist
of January, 1849, exceed the withdrawals, by 69,000,000 f.
(Note 1.)
" The amount of the portfolio of the Bank, which had
successively fallen beneath 100,000,0001. is raised, and
on the 7th of the present month it passed the sum of
135,000,000 f. By suppressing the forced circulation of
hank-notes, you have had reason to count on the re-
establishment of confidence, and facts have fully justi-
fied this grave measure. The return to the primitive
statutes has reduced neither the 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 iu 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 t x
cuted with remarkable punctuality. On the 31 of
September last a third of the twelfth only was in
arrear ; this is much less than in periods of greater
prosperity (4).
" These happy changes in the totality of financial
facts will have permitted from 1849 to 1851—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
to agriculture, to pay punctually all the expenses of the
budgets in deficit ; anti to arrive at length, as is our
earnest desire and our firm hope, to estab:ish a balance
between the annual charges and resources of the State.
These results will have been obtained without requiring
an extraordinary aid from credit, and without imposing
on the Treasury exaggerated advances.
" The country, gentlemen, has undoubtedly the sen-
timent of this
improved situation. Each has been
enabled to recognise that the finances of the State,
which last year figured in the first rank iu the pre-occu-
pations cf public opinion, are at this day very far from
inspiring the came apprehensions. 1 announce wit:
satisfaction this nregress. It is the recompense of the
good spirit of thj population and of the common efforts
of the Government end the Assembly. It will be an
encouragement for all of us.
" After issuing from the unpleasant system of the pro-
visional twelfths, the Government hiss thought its honour
interested in re-entering completely into a more regular
course.
" The budget of 1851 has keen voted at a useful
period, and that of 1852 will be presented to you at the
commencement Of nezt year.

" drgrec of por:ection, that ben for some time
past a r,4rta. desideratum, has been just realiz,d in the
system of public eceouws. The duration of the txer-
c'.ses 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 mere 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-
Eated, the re-organisation of all the arrendisements of
collection. This great labeur, 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 prjects of law, on matters worthy of your
consideration, will soon be submitted to you.
Ose, 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 •
lions de jouissance—sharPs of preference—impediments
which result from the cakiers de charge—the conditions
of the contract. _ .

" The other regulates the general affair of pensions.
" The third ehmands 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
whicb,whils maintaining the;actual produce of the impost,
will relieve successively the overburdened departments
without aggravation to the others.

" PUBLIC WORKS.
" The reduction 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 keen for the last year opened.
" The second half-year of 1849 has seen opened the
fections of Paris to Chalons-sur-Marne, Paria 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; Nerondes to Nevers; Chauny
to St. Quentin—total 152 kilometres.
" The year 1851 will see opened the sections of Vitry
to Bar-le Due; Metz to St. Avoid; Strasbourg to Sarre-
bourg; Tonnerre to Dijon; Tarascon to Beaucaire;
Tours to Poitiers; Angers to Nantes; and we also hope,
Chartres to la Loupe—total, 513 kilometres.
"The iron trade is one of those which recovers more
slowly. In 1849 the foundries produced 425,C00 tons
of cast metal, about 59,000,600 E, and 275,000 tons of
pig-iron, of the value of 81,000,000 f. more or less. At
present the activity of the iron establishments seems to
revive. . _ .

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

"I big to call in particular the attention of the As-
sembly to the concession of the Lyons Railroad. On
this concession depends the resumption of too 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.
" Our political, commercial, and industrial interests
rt quire the ecrupletion, as soon as possible, of the hues
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 tho
Paris and Lyons, and for the Lyons
and Avignon) „. •430,000,000
"For Canals, and in particular for the •
completion of the Canal of the Marne
to the Rhine, and the lateral Canal
of the Garonne ••• ••• •••
" For the Improvements of the Naviga-

tion of the Rivers ••• •••
For the Ports on the Coats of the
Atlantic and the Mediterranean ...

25,000,000

56,000,000

" wor Roads (5)..

Total

54,000,000
20,000,000

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 lomg time be terminated, and
with au 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 Trea,ury a relief of at least 260,000 000 francs,
(6) which will reduce those charges to 325,000,000 r..
.nd to less than six years the period necessary to ter-
minate these great works.
"To reduce the charges of the Treasury by
260,000,0001., to advance by four years the completion
of our roads, our canals, our rivers, our railroads, will
be, gentlemen, a great and useful measure.
•"Che Assembly, I hope, will be struck, as I am, by
the immense advantage 0f a prompt concession of the
Paris and Lyons railroad, for the ensemble of all our
works.

" AGRICULTURE AND CommErtu....
" To extend improvements, to remedy public suffering,
is the duty of the Administration of Agriculture and

Commerce. The crisis which weighs down our agricul-
ture invites all our solicitude; the extent of the evil would

have rendered ‘he resources tit the disposal of the Go-
vernment insufficient if it meant to make general appli-

cation of ihem, it has appeared more useful to loe-alise
their employment. Purchasers of grain for the military
and naval service in those markets where the depreciation
was most felt have relieved local distress by imparting.
firmness to them. Although the harvest of 1850 did

not come up to the hopes entertained of it, it, however,
leaves no fear for the supply of the country.
" The reduction in the price of grain would not fail to
produce a corresponding depression in the cattle markets.
" The Administration of Agriculture will neglect
none of the means which can favour the breeding of

cattle. Tile cattle shows have alio received this year

considerable development. Besides local shows otters

have been opened at Nismes, Auriilae, Saint Lo, and
Bordeaux, and a general show at Versailles, more espe-

cially reeervtd for the improvements of the breed. Nu-
merous cultivators who have come from all parts of
France to Versailles proved some few days back the
utility of this institution.

" The breed of horses is much improving, and pre-
sents t•atisfactory results. The administration of studs,
which proceeds with an order and a regularity worthy of
ad praise, has well merited of agriculture and of the
army. The number of horses has increased in the coun-
try, and their value has augmented.
" The institution of races has acquired considerable
extent this year. In the whole of the country a sum of
800,000 f. has f een applied to them. As the portion of
Sate only amounts to 300,000 f. in this sum, it is evident
that the local authorities have afforded them a powerful
co-operation.
"'The practice of agricultural proceedings has made
such progress as by its importance to rise to the height
of a real revolution in politico-economical matters. In
the course of the present session the Government wiii
bring before the Assembly measures tending to give
develoEment to the practice of irrigation. It will
call your attention to the modes of drainage which
are in England the object of such extensive encourage-
ment, A bill will also be submitted to you relative
to the use of artificial manures. The remarkable
methods for cultivating, cleaning, and preparing flax,
which have just been introduced into England, Ireland,
an I Belgium, could not but attract the attention of the
Government. It has had the subject thoroughly in-
quired into, and the results of this examination wall be
submitted to you in the Expose des Motifs of a Bill
which will be submitted to you for the purpose of
.reeing from all entrance duty flax seed coming from
Rip.
The positive information acquired in agricultural
matters is disseminated amongst the youngest classes of
the population by means of regional schools and model
farms; and amongst the agriculturists themselves by the
publication of reports emanating from men best capable
of giving them.
The industrial situation of the country bas in general
improved in 1850, even when compared with 1849. Al-
most everywhere the activity manifested in the course of
last year Was been is aintained, and in many cases it Las
been increased. The recent reports of the Chambers of
Commerce and Manufactures testify to this prosperous
state of things. The manufacture of woollen cloths and
tissues, of cotton cloths, leather, earthenware, glass, and
objects of luxury, have found ready and advantageous
markets; alto the produce of the silk manufacture hes,
up to the present time, evinced the same activity. Ii the
iron trade has notes yet been able to find its former level
in what concerns the fabrication of matters connected
with railways, the construction of machinery has assumed
an extension in conformity with the general movement
of business.
" Some facts will show what has been the exact pro-
gress which has been effected. In the first half-year of
1847 the Government authorized the creation of 92 indus-
trial establishments; in 1849 that number fell to 68, and
last year to no less than 45; whilst for the first half-year
of 1850 the number has again risen toB7. The situations
of brokers and agens de change have risen to their former
value, and sales are this year as numerous as in 1847.
"The Council of State is about to examine the
regulations proposed by the Government for marking
the exceptions to be made in the execution
of the law which limits to twelve hours the
day's work. The proposed plan conciliates the well-
established necessities of the manufacturing classes
with the respect due to the law; and, being the fruit of
the experience of the most eminent manufacturers, it
will remove all the difficulties, not very numerous besides,
which it has given birth to. Two bills tending to pro-
mote fair dealing in business—one concerning manufac-
turers' marks, and the other on metrical measurement—
will be brought before you in the course of the session.
" The law passed in 1844, relative to patents, calls for
some modification, in order to insure to inventors a
better guarantee ci their rights; it is intended to bring
a Bill before you for the purpose.
" Three bills are already before the National Assem-
bly : one presented on March 15, 1850, proposes to re-
form the commerci4l code of the Island of Reunion in a
more liberal sense, and one more appropriate to the new
elements of commerce, which it is important to develop
between our colony and the countries of Eastern
Asia. The second Bill prepared by the departments of
Commerce and War, introduced into the Assembly on
May 1, has for object to regulate on more liberal bases
the commercial and manufacturing system exiting in
Algeria. The measure is calculated, the Government
conceives, to impart to the progress of colonisation a
very decided impulse. Finally, the third Bill, brought
before you on July 12, concerns the sugar duties.
The Government, without shutting its eyes to the
difficulties of a definitive solution, is of opinion that
by reducing in a large proportion the duty which
weighs on the consumer, and of substituting for the

prohibitive duty now its force ngainst foreign sugar, an
! impost of a sufficiently protective character, it would
conciliate, in an equitable manner, the interests of the
peop'e, which calls tor sugar at a cheap rate, with the
lint:rests 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 exchanges 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 plsco 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 opportunity 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
rank. 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
cu-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 intereational relations. The re-
strictive principles iu this matter, admitted by foreign
f:ovvt.rs, cause great damage to French commerce, with-
out any possible reciprocity on cur part, our regulations
being generally dictated by a liberal spirit. An accord
amengst the great Powers which have ports in the Me•
diterraut an would lead to the cessation of the hindrances
anti losses of time and monotawhich result from the pre-
sent system. All our efforts tend to obtain this.
"JUSTICE.
" Three dracts of essential laws have been submitted
to the National Assembly.
" On Judiciary Orgisniz ttion.
" On Judiciary Assistance.
" On Mortgages.
"The first fulfils one of the obligations imposed by
the Constitution. The two others realize certain pro-
mises contained hi the Message of the 6th June. 1849.
"But the law on mortgages would not be sufficient for
the estahiishment of landed credit. It gives solidity to
the territorial pledge, but it accelerates the liquidation
onl:, in a small degree, and does not put an elide to the
unanimous complaints which accuse the regulation of
judgments of unnecessary delay. The ttdmiuistrution
of justice, to complete its work, has prepared
a new law on the distribution by course of
order of the price of lauded property, combining
as much as possible promptitude with security.
The attention of the Natienel Assembly will be
directed at the same time to different laws relttive to the
restoration uf 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 lee,i•lation.
" Six thousand convicts confined in the bagnes of
Toulon, Brest, and Rachfort, 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 peuelty of hard labour more effi-
cacious and more reforming, less expensive and at the
same time more humane, by utilizing the progress of
French colonisation. 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.
" Tee 9th article of the Constitution prescribed the
introduction of liberty and competition in education, un-
der certain conditions of capacity and morality, and
uneer the superintendence of trio 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
appointeueut and the revocation of primary teachers.
One of those measures has put an end to old and %arm
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, 1550, induced
a considerable change amongst the personnel as well as
certain new regulations. Several mouths 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 negociatious, 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 ot gratitude towards our
nation, and of esteem for the French Episcopacy.
" WAR.
" The effective of the land forces, which in the month
of June, 1849, 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 bo confined
if 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 several essays have been made, or are under prepa-
ration, to augment the well-being of the soldier, to di-
minish the charges in the corps, and to modify the ad-
ministrative control.
" I again invite your consideration to the laws which
are presented to you, and which will ameliorate
the position of officers, non-commissioned officers, and
soldiers.
" Algeria had suffered much 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. Zaatcha cap-
tured after prodigies of valour, Boucada subdued, conso-
lidate tier dominion, and permit us to pursue the work of
pacification,
"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 routed by the brave and unfortunate General
do Barral, 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 our markets; and the new or-
ganization 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 woi ks which have been com-
menced. The population suffered much from scarcity,
but the military authorities came to their assistance in
every possible form.
" Tranquillity has bees maintained in the province of
Oran everywhere, thanks to the intelligence of the offi-
cers of our Arab establishments; the natives every day
appreciate more and more the justice of our administra-
tion. The work of colonization is being continued.
The forty-two agricultural colonies, distributed in our
three provinces may, in time, form splendid establish-
ments. An European population of 115,000 inhabitants
divided in 1:33 towns or villages-11,000 conressionary
colonists have erected constructions of which the actual
value is 14,000,000, attest a progress which I trust will
not slacken.
" Our roads comprise an extent of 5,350 kilometres.
"Our telegraphic lines are composed of 64 posts, and
will be completed by 30 other posts, which are pro-
jected.
" The insalubrity is every day disappearing. More
than 8,000 hectares of marsh have been drained. At the
same time the fertility of the soil is increased by the dig-
ging of 250,000 metres of irritating canals, and of 75,() 0o
drains; 116,000 metres of conduits conduct water into our
towns—in fine, 900 buildings of every description have
been erected to the present time.
" The important works of the port of Algiers are con-
tinued with activity.
" The Administration has obtained knowledge of a
considerable quantity of mineralogical strata, which will
contribute soon to the wealth ot Algeria and of the
country.
" The cultivation of tobacco, of the mulberry, of co-
chineal, is taking great development, the trade in wool
already amounts to 36,000,000 E, and that of others to
24,000,000.
"In fine, immense defensive works, barracks for
40,000 men, 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
works of which we have just spoken.
" The estate will not neglect anything in order to ar-
rive at the
prosperit of tbe colony.
" MARINE.
" The Marine has been maintained on a respectable
footing, notwithstanding the reductions commanded by
the budget.
o Foreigners have paid homage to the fine organization
of our fleet assembled at Cherbourg.
" However, our maritime force is only composed of
125 ships, instead of 235, which we had in activity in
1848. It employs 22,561 men, instead of 29,331, borne
on the lists of tle same year.
rhe actual effective only suffices imperfectly for the
protection of present interests engaged in all parts of
the globe.
" The spirit of our sailors is excellent, and their de-
votedness unbounded,

" The workmen in our arsenalg, enlightened by ex-
perience, have resumed their works with activity,:-.Ld we
can cile important examples :
" At Cherbourg, breakwater, the new arsenal, the
Fort des Flamanl, the formation of the inner dock;
" At Toulor, the elesr;ng of the roadstead, of which
the fifth part is terminated.
" At Oleron, the elevation of tl:o fort flayerd, to pro-
tect the roadstead of the Isle d'Aix.

" At Port Vendrc, 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 bas 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, 1550, the
Council of the Admiralty has been constituten in a man-
ner to idsuro 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 prin-
ciples of discipline.
" In the colonies,of the Antilles, after disasters, which
have not, however, turn, d 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, ard 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 caster.
" The sensible decline of production is an incontesti-
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, administrt-
:ion, banks, colonization—all have been submitted to the
examination of eminent men, and will become the ohjt et
of several projects of successive laws..
" Our colony of the Re-union, exempt from troubles,
would not have sea n 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 prcgress in which we are taking
a share that must interest us in our establishments of
Senegal and of Gore+, 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, na
well us for cur military and merchant marine.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
" Since my last Message our forsign policy has ob-
lained in Italy a great success. Our arms have over-
thrown at Rome that turbulent demagogy which, through-
out the Italian Peninsula bad compromised the cause of
true liberty, and our brave soldiers have had the signal
honour of replacino. 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-
rioui page for France. The constant:aim of our efforts
has been to encourage the liberal and philau
thropical intentions of toe Holy Father, the Pontifical
power pursues the realization of the fo,mulas contained
in the inotu proprio the 2d of September. 1549.
Some 01.r..te organic lzws have already ben published,
and thus which are to complete ensemble of the admi-
nistrative and military organisation in the states of the
Church wili net be long delayed. It is needless to say,
that our army, yet roaNssary for the maintenance of
order at Rome, is equally no :or our political influence,
and which having rendered itself illustrious by its cou-
rage, is no less admired for its discipline and its admi-
nitraticn.
"On the different points where our diplomacy has
had to interfere it has nobly maintained the dignity of
France; and our allies have never had to demand our
support in vain. _ _ _

.‘; It is thus that, in concert with Ragland, we have
sent several forces into the Levant, to 'how our loyal
sympathy for tde independence of the Porto which sap-
posed that Russia and Austria meant to infringe by de-
manding in virtu:, of ancient treaties the extradition of
Hungarian and Polish subjects refugees on the Turkish
territory. Thanks to the wisdom which these powers
have brought inlo negotiations on the question, the in-
tegrity Gf the rights of the Ottoman empire have been
secured.
"In Greece, as soon as we learned the acts by which
England supported her reel...mations 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 aciening the condi-
tions imposed on the Government of Athens, end our ne-
gotiations with Great Britain resumed immediately their
accustom ei character.

" In Spain we have seen with pleasure the ties which
made the two countries become closer by the mutual
sympathy of the two Covernmeuts. Thus, as soon as
the French Government learnen the criminal attack
directed by some adventurers against the Lle of Cuoa,
we seat new forces to the commander of the Antilles,
with an injunction to unite his efforts to those cf the
Spanish authorities to prevent the recurrence of similar
attempts.

" lienmark excites still our most lively solicitude.
This ancient ally, which had so much to endure on EC.
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 hes 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. Aftr laborious negotiations
a treaty was signed the 2,1 July, through the media-
tion of England, between Denmark and Prusß,a. Tbis

treaty, ratified at first by the Cabinet of Berlin,
and her allies, bas 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 i❑ putting an end to the
struggle engaged in in the North of Germany, they have
at least obta►ned the happy result of curtailing the pro-
portions of the war, which only exists now between the
King of Denmark and the unsubdued provinces.
" We still insist upon the King of Denmark assuring,
by institutions, the rights of the Duchies. Oa the other
hand, we will give him all the support which he has a
right to require from as by virtue of treaties and of our
ancient friendship.
" In the midst of the political conflictions which divide
Germany we havo observed the most strict neutrality.
So long as French interests, and the equilibrium of
Europe shall not be comprised, we will continue a policy
marked by our re,peet 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
rieutal Republic, to protect the interests of Preece over
Uruguy, and to preserve the nrtional honour. We hope
to terminate usefully and honourably the regretable com-
plications which fur a long time I iLit 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 negotiations pending at the pre-
sent moment, for the new treaty of navigation and com-
merce with Great Britain, will soon resolve themselves
into an arrangement in conformity with the interests of
the two countries.

estt cm.

" The treaty concluded with Belgium cn the 7th of
November, 1849. is in force for scarcely a leaf, and
already the two countries have experienced the most
advantageous results from it,
" Some difficulties of detail, relative to the additional
articles of the treaty with Chili, sanctioned by the law
of the 15th cf March, 1850, by retarding the execution
of it, shall soon be levied.
" A new c mvention has been signed at Paris, on the
3d of August last, between France and Bolivia. It will
be submitted to the sacetion of the Legislature, after
the approbation of the Bolivian Government.
" The negotiatisu, 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 piracy is the subject sf numerous negoWations. The
greater part of the Cabinet to whom international ar-
rangements have been proposed for the purpose of putting
an end to that abuse, have receivod them at least in
principle. Already even Sardinia has signed a conven-
tion with France for the reciprocal guarautse of literary
and artictical property, which will give more effect to
the treaties of 1843 and 1816.
" I can therefore say, without presumption, the posi-
tion of France in Europe is dignified and honourable.
Wherever her voice is heard she advises peace, protects
order and right; she is listened to everywhere.

RESUME.
" Such, Gentlemen, is a rapid exposition of the state of
our affairs. Notwithstanding the dtfficulty of the circum-
stances, the law and the authority have recovered their
empire to such a point, that an one believes hence-
forth in the success of violence. But besides this, the
more that the tears for the present disappear, the more
the public mind devotes itself with assiouity to the con-
templatioc of the future. Nevertheless, France desires re-
pose above all things. Still agitated by the dangers which
society has run, she remains a stranger to the quarrels of
parties or of men, which are so insignificant in the pre.
sence of great interests which are at stake.
" I have often declared, when the opportunity is o'

fered of expressing publicly my feelings, that I consi-
dered as great criminals those who by personal ambition
would compromise the small amount of stability guaran-
teed to us by the Constitution. This is my profound
conviction, and it has never been shaken. It is only the
enemies of public tranquility who have been able to
misrepresent the most simple steps which arise from my
position.
" As first magistrate of the Republic I was obliged
to place myself in communication with the clergy,
the magistracy, the agricultural interests, the in-
dustrial interests, the administrations, and the
army, and I gladly availed myself of every opportu-
nity of testifying to them my sympaty and gratitude
for the assistance which they had given toe; end

above all, if my name as well as my cfrorts have ast isted
in strengthening tho good feeling of the army, of which
I alone have the disposal, according to the terms of the
Constitution, it is a service, I venture to declare, which I
consider I have rendered to the country, tor I have al-
ways turned my personal influence to the profit of the
cause of order.

" The invariable rule of my political life will be, in
every circumstance, to do my duty and nothing but my
duty.
"At the present day it is permitted to everyone, to
the whole world, excepting to me, to endeavour to acce-
lerate the revision of our fundamental law. it the con-
stitution contain vices and dangers, you are all at bboxty
to point them out to the country. I alone, bound by
my oath, I confine myrelf within the strict limits which
that constitution has laid down for me.

" The Councils-General have, in a great number of
instances, expressed a wish in favour of the revision of
the Constitution. That wish is only addressed to the
legislative power. As far as regards me, the elect of
the people, and deriving my powers from the people
alone, I shall ale ays conform to their wishes when ex-
pressed in a legal manner.
" The uncertitude as to the future creates, I sea
aware, many apprehensions by reviving many hopes.
Let us all learn to make the sacrifice to the country of
these hopes, and only to occupy ourselves wit' its inte-
rests. If in the present session you vote the revision
of the constitution, a Constituent Assembly will assemble
for the purpose of reconstructing our fundamental laws,
and regulating the fate of the ex,cutive power. If you
do not vote it, the people will, in 1852, tolemnly mani-
fest the expression of its new pieasure. But whatever may
be the solution of the future, let us undersrend each other
in order that it may never be passion, surprise, or violence
that will decide the fate of this great nation. Let us inspire
the people with that repose, by being calm in our de-
liberations. Let us inspire them with a profound feel-
ing ofjustice by layiog aside on our own sides all ap-
pearance of selfishness; end then, believe, the progress
of our political manners will compensate for the danger
derived fsom institutions which were created in days of
distrust and uacertainty.
" That which pre-occupies me above all things, you
may be persuaded, is, not to know who will govern
Frunce in 1842, but to employ the time of which I dis-
pose in such a manner that the transition, whatever it
may be, may be made without trouble.
"The most noble and the most dignified object of au
elevated mind is not to sack, when one is in pessession
of power, by what expedients it may be perpetuated, but
to watch without ceaiug over the means of consolidating,
for the advantae of ail, the principles of authority and
of morality which defy the passions of men and the in-
stability of the laws.
" I have honestly opened my heart to you. You will
respond to my f an'sness by your confidence, to my good
intentions by your co-optratioe, and God will do the
rest.

Receive, Gentlemen, the assurance of my high

" LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
" Elysee National, Nov. 12.
The Assembly was extremely numerous, and lis-
tened with the most profound silence to the reading of
that document. The praise bestowed in it on the gen-
darmerie fbr the zeal that military force had Evinced in
maintaining order all over ;he country, having ex-
cited merriment on the Left, the Right responded by
cries of " fres Lien" (very well). The transporta-
tion of galley-slzves to the cole-mies was favourably re-
c,ived by the m"jority, and the appointment of
three new French Cardinals by the Pope, which cc-
ea.,ioned some, murmurs on the Lsf', was hailed
with cries of ti .2.s bier on the ROA. The pas-
sage relative to the restoration of the Pope,
applauded by the majority, excited murmurs on
the benches of the Mountain, several members of
whom cried, " And the inquisition!" Fhe expose of the
foreign policy of the Government, as well as the Presi-
dent's declaration relative to the revision of the Consti-
tution, elicited the loudest applause, which redoubled
and continued for some time after the Alinister had de-
scended from the tribune.

M. Henri Didier having given notice of his intention
to address interpolations to the Minister of War, rela-
tive to the appointment of General cl'Hautpoul to the
goaernment of Algeria, Mtinhers on the right cried
in six months," and this last motion having been put
to the vote, was adopted by a large majority.
The Assembly aft.Tweirds ttclj,earned at Fire o'clock.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 12.
The Queen walked this morning in the slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds adjacent to th,l Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out
shooting this morning, attended by Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. A. Gordon, and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. A. Liddell, Comptroller of the Household of her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester.
The Royal dinner party et the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
the Lord Chancellor and Lady Truro, the Lady in
Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in W ait-
ing of the Duchess of Gloucester, Baroness de Spetb,
Sir George Couper, and Lieutenant-Colonel the lion.
A. Liddell, in attendance on her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
inspected yesterday morning a finished proof of an
engraving of their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred
and the Princess Helena, after the picture by Winter;-
halter, the engraving by Mr. Ryall. The above was
tubmitted by Mr. Moon.

Bishop Collier had nn interview with Earl Grey
yesterday, at the Colonial• office.
Mr. Mann, Mr. Holt, and Mr. Holland, had an
intenicw with Sir Gorge Grey yesterday, Et the
Home-office.

The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord Prteldent) was
prevented by indisposition from being present at the
nomination of sheriff:, yesterday, i❑ the Exchequer
Chamber.

Lord Ashley bad an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday„ at his cfficial residence,
in Downing-street.
A deputation from the Commercial Dock Com-
pany had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere. The deputation consisted of
Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. Harrison, and Mr.
Dawson.
Mr. H. G. Gordon, Chairman of the Oriental Bank,
had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey.
A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council met yesterday (the morrow
of St. Martin), at two o'clock iu the afternoon, lathe
Exchequer Chamber, for the purpose of nominating
the sheriffs for the counties of England and Wales for
the ensuing year.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer attended in his
gold rube of office. Sir George Grey, Secretary of
State for the Home Department; the Right Hon.
Fox Maule, Secretary at War ; the Lord Chief Jus-
tice of the Court of Queen'e Bench, the Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Lord Chief
Barcn of the Exchequer, Judges Parke, Alderson,
Wightrnan, Williams, Talfourd, &c., were present.
Mr. C. Greville and the Hon. Wm. Bathurst, Clerks
of the Privy Council, were in attendance.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. The Lord Chancellor arrived
from 'Windsor Castle to attend the Council. Lord
John Russell, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palrners-
ton, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
John Hobhouse, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon. Fox Mettle, and
other Ministers were present.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
The Lord Chancellor returned to 'Windsor Castle
after the Cabinet Council.
His Excellency the American Miniater, Mrs.
Lawrence, and Colonel T. B. Lawrence, lett town
on Monday, on a visit to his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury, at Addington-park.
A deputation from the Submarine Telegraph Com-
pany between France and England, consisting of Mr.
F. Ricketts, Mr. G. Emery, Mr. Francis Edwards,
and Mr. J. Griffin, had an interview with the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere, yesterday, at the Office of the
Board of Trade.

COURSE OF
Amsterdam ...... •• .. 11 17N
Ditto, three months.. 11 19
Rotterdam .........• 11 19 iA
25 475,
Brussels .• 41%1
Ilamburgh ......M.B. 13
Paris. 3 days'sight • 25 30
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 50
Marseilles .......... •• 25 50
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Vran.kforton Maine.... 119%
Berlin • • • • • • •• • • •• • • "
Vienna, effec. tio ••• • •• 12 40
Trieste, ditto.... 12 40
Petersburgh,Sil. Bble.. 37
Madrid •••••••• ...... 49U
Cadiz • . • • 49%
Barcelona •• .• .•
SeTille.• •• •• •• •• •• ••