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LONDON, FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1850.

The present age may indeed be regarded as the
era of legal reforms. Vast improvements have been
effected within the last twenty years in our system
of jurisprudence, and the anxiety for amelioration has
by no means flagged or abated. The parties to whom
we are chiefly indebted for these beneficial changes
, .
are proceeding with increased zsal and energy, and
they are sustained and strengthened in the
course on which they have entered by the
, . voice of public opinion, which has proclaimed that
the Augean stable must be thoroughly cleansed
and purified—that the existing anomalies in
the system of procedure in our legal and equitable
tribunalimust be removed, and the enormous delays,
expenses, and practical injustice of our Courts of
Equity and Common Law obviated with all con-
venient speed. The subject is of such magnitude
and importance, involving so many conflicting inte-
rests, that we can scarcely hope for any compre-
hensive measure embracing all the points requiring
amendment. We must ba contented to accept the
necessary remedies by instalments, to have one nui.
sauce fairly abated before another is grappled with.
After the legislation of a few years, such as
1840 was, and 1850 promises to be,.we may look for-
ward to the establishment of codes suited to the'ad-
vanced spirit of the age and to the wants and exi-
gencies of the nation, and to the adoption of a system
of practice and procedure calculated to carry our im-
provedlaws into beneficial operation.
Lord Baounneei has deservedly attained the fore•
most and most prominent position among the legal
reformers. Ilis Lordship his applied himself to the
arduous task with are energy and ability worthy of
the highest eulogiums, and the success he has
already attained affords the most favourable
augury as to his future achievements. In his great
speech in the House of Commons in 1828, he com-
plained of more than 70 serious defects in the prin-
ciples or practice of the law; and,happily for the nation,
he has lived to behold the correction of more than
60 of these glaring evil,and we trust he may still be
spared to witness the full realisation of his most san-
guine anticipations, and to carry out the various pro-
jects of useful reforms that have been originated in his
active mind.
On Monday he explained the principles of another
measure which he recently introduced, and which he
justly describes as "by far the largest practical reform
ever attempted in Chancery." It strikes at the root
of perhaps the greatest grievance still remaining, the
laws relating to the administration of deceased per-
sons' assets, which have remained wholly unaltered.
While vast improvementa have been effected in other
branches, the decree must still be pronounced for the
destriectien. of property in due form of law," for the
swallowing up by legal harpies of the funds that
would amply provide for the comforts and necessities
of bereaviid families, if judiciously and equi.
tably administered. Lord BROUGHAM clearly and
ably exposed the folly and absurdity ofl
the existing system, and depicted in glowing terms
the great headship to which all parties in any de-
gree
concerned, al.hough Claiming no beneficial in-
terest,
are subjected. lie d: scribed it as "a scene
g intolerable pressure on parties, of the most cruel
injustice to individuals, of an enormous amount of
property prevented from being enjoyed by the per-
, tons to whom it really belonged, and of an abuse of
enormous extent in the Courts of Chancery, for which
''ther the Courts, nor the Judges, nor the Masters,
nor the practitioners were responsible, but
' for which the law, and the practice founded
on the law, were alone responsible." The truth and
wutiraoi of this description will be at once acknow-
lsalerci by all who have gone within the precincts of
Oose gloomy portals, where 16 all who enter may

leave hope behind." The state of the law, with re-
spect to executors and administrators, is such that a
person who accepts of these onerous and thankless
offices must, for his own safety, apply to the court
for assistance and protection. He may otherwise be
subjected to the most vexatious and harassing
litigation on account of claims of which
he was wholly ignorant, although he adopted
every practicable mode of ascertaining the
full amount of liabilities. He may be compelled
to satisfy unrighteous and unfounded demands, or to
contest them at his own risk and peril, and being
ready to pay the costs of the plaintiff if he fail de
bonis propriis. He may be unable to accept a fair
and reasonable compromise, and to release or give
any indulgence to an insolvent debtor to the estate,
for if he do so, however judicions may be the act, and
although a considerable amount be thereby realised
which would otherwise be wholly lost, he will be held
guilty of devastavit, and liable to make good the
full amount of the claims from his own resources.
He may have to part with every shilling that
has come to his hands in order to liquidate the de..
mund of some pressing creditor, without retaining
anything to provide for the expenses to which he
will inevitably be exposed in the administration of
the estate.

These and other similar points—for we have only
alluded to a few out of many pressing grievances
—render every honest executor or administrator
anxious to obtain the protection of the Court of
Chancery, by having the estate managed under the
control and superintendence of its officers. But he is
frequently deterred by a consideration of the ruin which
he will bring upon the family of his deceased friend or
relative by the adoption of such a course, and the
great probability that he will thereby incur evils
even greater than those which he is desirous of avoid-
ing, that in flying from Scylla he may plunge into
Charybdis, or, to use a more homely illustration, may
be falling " from the frying-pan into the fire." He
is, therefore, but too often prevailed upon to submit
patiently to the annoyances and vexations which he
can only avoid by rendering himself liable to still
greater, and the result is " that nine-tenths of the
cases are kept out of the court by the delays and
enormous and intolerable expenses of its proceedings."

These are the evils which Lord BROUGHAM pro-
poses to remedy by the new Bill, which was read a
second time on Monday evening, in order that the
profession and the country may be fully enabled to
digest and understand its provisions, before its " next
stage in the progress of legislation." The chief fea-
tures of the Bill are, Ist, that " consent administra-
tions " may be at once commenced in the Master's
office without delay or expense, and when there that
they may be adjudicated on according to the system
introduced by the winding-up Acts, giving
all parties immediate notice by a judicial adver-
tisement, that the Master had undertaken
the administration, and giving a cheap and speedy
appeal to the Court by any parties who might be dis-
satisfied with any decision of the Master ; 2dly, To
' induce the solicitors to get through their work expe-
ditiously, and without unnecessary prolixity, by
paying them, as far as practicable, by the "
and thus rendering it their interest to expend the
smallest pos3ible amount in the proceedings ; and,
lily, To give the Master power, wherever a so-
licitor was guilty of any malversation, or im•
proper conduct in the management of a suit,
to mulct him, the really guilty party, of the
costs thereby occasioned, and to exonerate the
comparatively innocent clients, who were led into
error by the sinister recommendations of their pro-
fessional adviser. These are important matters, and
if Lord BROUGHAM should succeed in effecting his
object he will have earned for himself the thanks and
blessings of many a sinking heart, sickening under
" hope deferred," and the approbation and gratitude
of the community in general.

During the whole course of his existence the
Right Rev. Dr. HENRY PHILLPOTTS, the now Lord
Bishop of Exeter, hath never suffered an opportunity
for indulging in " pamphleteering slang" to escape
him ; it was, therefore, to be expected that his recent
defeat in the Gorham case would give occasion to
various exhibitions on the part of this Right Reverend
Letter-writer ; and, accordingly, we find that he hath
recently published two letters, the first addressed to
Dr. Spar, in the " pauvre home" vein of the
TARTUFFE of the first three acts of the comedy; the
second addressed to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
in the bullying vein of the TARTUFFE FURIRUX of
the last. At the time he was consecrated Bishop of
Exeter Dr. HENRY PHILLPOTTS, made oath upon the
Holy Evangelists that he would always pay due
reverence and obedience to his Metropolitan Primate
and his successors, and Dr. HENRY PHILLPOTTS
thinks it no violation of his oath to address to that
Metropolitan to whom he has sworn to pay due reve.:
rence and obedience language such as the following :
" Meanwhile, I have one most painful duty to perform.
I have to protest not only against the judgment pro-
nounced in the recent cause, but also against the regular
consequences of that judgment. I have to protest
against your Grace's doing what you will be speedily
called to do, either in person, or by some other ex-
ercibing your authority. I have to protest, and I do
hereby solemnly protest, before the Church of England,
before the Holy Catholic Church, before Him who is its
Divine Head, against your giving mission t ) exercise
cure of souls, within my diocese, to a clergyman who
proclaims himself to hold the heresies which Mr. Gor-
ham holds. I protest that any one who gives mission to
him, till be retract, is a favourer and supporter of those
heresies. I protest, in conclusion, that I cannot with-
out sin—and, by God's grace, I will not—hold commu-
nion with him, be he who he may, who shall so abuse
the high commission which he tears."
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, after the perusal
of the above passage, may probably be of opinion
that the Devonshire special jury, who returned the
verdict of Not Guilty in the case of the " Queen v.
Latimer," were not far wrong in the estimate
which they formed of the regard of the Right
Rev. Prelate for an oath, and he will be confirmed in
that opinion when he finds, on perusing the report of
the proceedings in the case, that according to the
statement made by Dr. ADDAMS, the counsel for the
Bishop of EXETER in the Court of Arches, the Bishop
himself bad offered to do the very thing which he
solemnly protests, " before the Church of England,
before the Holy Catholic Church, before him who is
its Divine Head," against the Archbishop of CAN..
TERBURI'S doing, viz., to give mission to exercise the
cure of souls within his diocese to Mr. GORHAM.
Dr. ADDAMS distinctly stated (and had he not been
so instructed he never could have made such a state-
, ment)—Dr. ADDAMS distinctly stated before Sir
HERBERT JENNER, FUST, that the Bishop had
offered to stop the further examination of Mr. Goa-
HAM, and to institute him to the living of Bramford
Speke, if he (Mr. GORHAM) would pledge himself
not to publish any portion of the examination he had
undergone, or anything relating to it. It is evident,
therefore, that this vehement protest, this grandis et
verbosa epistola is merely an ebullition of the ungo-
vernable and unreasoning fury of a baffled controver-
sialist. The Bishop found that in Mr. Gontiam he
had met with more than his match, and defeated
in every argument, and fearing that his opponent
would publish that defeat to the world, he turns
round and accuses him of heresy. " Whenever," said
the late WILLIAM COBBETT, " a parson finds matters
going wrong with him, the first thing he does is to
accuse somebody of blasphemy ;" and Dr. PHILLPOTTS
in this instance appears to have acted on COBBETT'S
theory. "I protest against the judgment pronounced
in the recent cause," says the Bishop; and there is
nothing very original in his making such protest.
Dr. HENRY PHILLPOTTS is, in this instance, the mere
plagiarist of the late Mrs. MARIA MANNING. She
also solemnly protested "against the judgment
pro-
nounced," which, however, was carried into execu-
tion, such protest notwithstanding, as will be,
doubt-
less, the judgment in the present case. The objec-
tions which the Parson-party have made to the
competence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council comes too late. Having taken his chance of
a judgment in his favour, it does not now lie in the
mouth of the Bishop of EXETER to object to the coin-
petence cf the tribunal. He should have mooted that
objection before the commencement of the arguments
in the case. But instead of protesting against that
decision, the Bishop of EXETER ought to rejoice
greatly at it, to cling to it as his only plank of safety,
relieving him from the most awful responsibility
which it is possible that any man entrusted with Epis-
copal supervision can incur, and alone saving him from
the pains and penalties of deprivation. Had the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decided that
the doctrines held by Mr. GonnAss are heretical,

then would it have become the duty of the Archbishop
of CANTERBURY to have at once taken steps for the
deprivation of the Bishop of EXETER as one who had
knowingly permitted heresy to be taught within his
diocese for a space of at least eight, perchance of
twenty months. It will be remembered that in June,
1847, the LORD CHANCELLOR offered to Mr. Goa-
HAM (who then was, and had been for some years
previously, vicar of St. Just's, in Cornwall, in the
diocese of Exeter) the living of Bramford Speke, in
Devonshire, also in the diocese of Exeter. On his
nomination to this living, he presented the testimo-
nials of three beneficed clergymen as to the soundness
of his doctrines and the purity of his morals to the
Bishop of EXETER, for the purpose of being backed
previous to institution. The Bishop, however, de-
clined to sign the certificate, and he endorsed it in the
following terms (we quote from PAINTER'S edition of
the full report of the proceedings before the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council) :

The clergymen who have subscribed this testimonial
aro highly respectable; but, as I consider the Bishop's
countersignature (.f such a document, if it be unaccom-
panied by any remark, as implying his own belief that
the party to whom it relates ' has not held, written, or
taught anything contrary to the doctrine or discipline of
the United Church of England and Ireland;' and as my
own experience unfortunately attests that the Rev. George
Cornelius Gorham did, in the course of the last year, in
correspondence with myself, hold, write, and maintain what
is contrary to the discipline of the said Church ; and as
what he further wrote makes me apprehend that he holds
also what is contrary to its doctrine, I cannot conscien-
tiously countersign this testimonial.
" August 29, 1847. "11. EXETER."

This endorsement is dated August 29, 1847; and
we beg the particular attention of our readers to the
date, because the date here is all important. From
December 31, 1846, to August 29, 1847, is just eight
months, from January 1, 1846, to August 29, 1847, is
just twenty months—now the:Bishop of EXETER says,
"my own experience unfortunately attests that the
Rev. GEORGE CORNELIUS Goituard did, in the course
of the last year," (i. e., in the course of the year
1846,) ," in correspondence with myself, hold, write,
and maintain what is contrary to the discipline of the
said Church," and adds the BishoF, " what he further
wrote made me apprehend that he holds also what is
contrary to its doctrine," and therefore the Bishop
refuses to institute him to the living of Bramford
Speke. Now it is clear from his own statement
that the Bishop has committed grievous error in this
matter. He has either gone too far, or he has not gone
far enough. He exhibits a most pious care for the
safety of the souls of the parishioners of Bramford
Speke, but what care does he show for the souls
of the parishioners of Just, who were
equally committed to his charge ? Here we
have it upon his own showing, under his own hand,
that he for a period, certainly of not less than eight
months, perchance for a period of twenty months,
knowingly permitted those things to be taught in his
diocese which his own experience attested were
contrary to the discipline of the Church of England,
and which he apprehended were contrary to its doc-
trines. We, therefore, have the Bishop of EXETER
in this dilemma :—lf Mr. Goamiss is a heretic, the
Bishop of EXETER was for a period of certainly not
less than eight, and possibly of twenty months, an
accomplice in the propagation of heretical opinions in
his own diocese ; if Mr. Gosnass is not a heretic, the
Bishop of EXETER is guilty of contumacy, and of a
violation of the vows which he took when he was con-
secrated Bishop in refusing to institute him to the
living of Bramford Speke, and in addressing the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY in the language he has
done. There is no escape from this dilemma;
and we put it to the Archbishop of CAN-
TERBURY whether in either case the conduct
of Dr. HENRY PHILLPOTTS has not been such as to
rAder it incumbent upon his Grace to take im-
mediate measures for his removal from the Episcopal
Bench. If Mr. Gonnesi be in reality the arch-
heretic which the Bishop of EXETER would now fain
have us believe he is, then it is impossible to conceive
anything more awful, anything more tremendous,
than the fearful responsibility which the Bishop of
EXETER has, on his own showing, incurred. Ima-
gine for a moment the possibility that certain persons
may have died, during 1846-7, in the parish of St.
Just, holding heretical opinions, consequent upon the
teaching of Mr. Goamem ; who is responsible "be-
fore the Church of England, before the Holy
Catholic Church, before Him who is its Divine
Head," for the perils in which the souls of these per-
SOBS may stand ? Who but the Bishop, who
knowing what these doctrines were, and be-
lieving them to be heretical, yet suffered them
to be taught in his diocese ? And let it
not be said that the Bishop had no precedent for in-
stituting proceedings to deprive Mr. GORHAM of the
living of St. Just. His refusal to institute a properly
certified and beneficed clergyman to the living of
Bramford Speke is so absolutely without precedent,
that a form of process had actually to be settled by
the Arches' Court; but there are numerous precedents
every year of suits instituted against clergymen for
heresy, and no one has had a larger experience in the
institution of such suits than the Bishop of EXETER.
What is the conclusion, then, to be drawn from these
premises ? Why, that the Bishop of EXETER was
by no means certain as to the heretical nature of the
doctrines taught by Mr. GORHAM ; that ho thought
the occasion of Mr. GORWIM'S presentation to the
living of Bramford Speke an excellent opportunity,
for indulging his personal dislike of the man by forc-
ing him, a man upwards of sixty years of age, to
submit to what, to a man of that age, cannot but be
considered the insult of an examination ; and that he
instituted a fishing inquiry, purposely putting his
questions in ambiguous terms, in order to take his
chance of what might turn up. Under these
circumstances, the solemn sermonising of the organs
of the Parson-party on the Bishop's " earnestness"
(such is the slang phrase for the Episcopal bluster) is
as ludicrously absurd as is their attempt to make this
question of the institution of Mr. Goanast a matter
of creed and of conscience. It is a matter of law, and
a matter of law only, as we shall show on some
future occasion, and in endeavouring to ride off on
the question of religion and conscience, the Parson-
party are merely adopting their usual red-herring
trailing tactics to lead the public off the right scent.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The observance of Good Friday as a strict holiday in
the City precludes the necessity of lengthened comment
under this head, and the ship arrivals afford nothing of
in.erest in the rhape of news.
The dealings in bills of exchange upon the conti-
nental chit s were entered into yesterday afternoon, and
the rates were fully supported. The Antwerp quota-
tions were 25 80 to 85 for 90 days' paper, the rates
on Amsterdam were 12 34 to 4, on Hamburgh
13 131 to 14, on Paris 25 75 to 80, and ou Trieste
11 55 to 58.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
This being Good Fridry, no transactions took place
at Mark-lane, in the Borough, or Coal Exchange.

SMITHFIELD.

This being what is termed the Great Lamb Market,
the attendance of buyers was large ; nevertheless, the
general demand was by no means active. Prime Down
Lambs moved off steadily, at from 6s to Cs 2d per 81bs,
but the inquiry for all other kinds was heavy at Mon-
day's prices. The- number on offer was about 2,900.
From the Isle of Wight 300 reached us per railway.
Although the supply of Beasts was small, the demand for
that description of stock ruled dull at barely last week's
currencies. In Sheep, the supply of which was limited,
next to nothing doing. Calves sold to a fair extent, at
late figures. The value of Pigs was nominal. Milch
Cows were offering at !from 141 to 181 each, including
their small calf.

Per Sibs. to sink the OM.
a. d. to 8. d, a. d. to a. d.
Inferior 80a5t5..... 2 6 2 8 Inferior Sheep 210 3 0
Second quality .... 210 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 6
Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4 Coarse-woolleddltto3 8 4 0
Prime Scots ••.. .. 3 4 3 6 Southdown Welber 4 2 4 4
Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Ditto eutof the wool 0 0 0 0
Prime amallditto .. 3 6 310 Large Hogs • ... 3 2 8
Suckling Calves ..18 0 2b 0 Small Porkers .... 3 8 4 0
Lambs .• •• .. • • 0 6 2 Quartar old Pigs ..16 0 21 0

TOTAL SUPPLY
Beasts.
I Sheep.
7t, 3 3,610
FOREIGN
I Sheep.
110
SCOTC 11.
I Sheo ep. I Calves.
8

AT MARKET.
I Calves. I
Pigs.
180 100
SUPPLY.
I Calves. I rigs.
G 4
1 PIP

Beaste.
IGO

Beasts.
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NEWGATEI AND IMADENIZALL.

Increased supplies of Meat were on sale to-day. The
general demand ruled heavy, on the following terms:—
At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. I. d. to s. d.
Beef,lnterior.... •. 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 2 8 210
--- middling .... 2 4 2 6 .----- middling.. 3 0 a 2
--- primelarge .. 2 8 210 prime .... 3 4 3 6
--- prime small .. 3 0 3 2 Pork, 1arge.....• ••2 10 3 4
Veal.••• •••• •• •• .• 3 0 310 - 5ma11........ 3 6 4 0
Lamb. 4s 10d t• Ga Od. •

IMPORTATION OF HORSERADISH.—A, vessel, which
has arrived in the river from Hamburgb, has brought 311
packag a of horseradish, the growth of the Hanseatic States,
as a portion of her cargo.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Assembly, at its rising on Wednesday, ad-
journed to Monday, having, on the motion of M.
JULES FAVRE, agreed to discuss the Paris and Avig-
non Railway Bill on Thursday next.
The Ministerial Patric contains the following
ominous paragraph :
" There are but three issues by which to escape from
the state in which we are placed :
A foreign invasion;
A coup d'etat;
An appeal to the people."
The appeal to the people has been unanimously re-
jected by the Assembly, and there, therefore, only re-
main a foreign invasion or a coup d'etat for those who
are discontented with the Constitution. In the present
state ofaffaira to attempt a coup d'etat would be madness.
The foreign invasion alone remain•. Can it be pos-
sible that the " great party of order,". as the reac-
tionary coalition delights to call itself, are intriguing
with foreigners for the invasion of the soil of France ?
Is it for this invasion that the Cz kn is concentrating
his forces on the Polish frontier, and can it be that
this paragraph is the preliminary announcement of
:he approach of the Cossacks ? That the reactiona-
ries feel that if they were to cease their intrigues the
Republic would consolidate itself; that they know
that the elections of 1852 will return to the Assembly
an overwhelmning majority of real Republicans ;
that they feel certain the army would resist any
attempt on their part to violate the Con-
stituticn, .we verily believe; but we cannot
believe that any true son of France, whether
Legitimatist or Orleanist, can so far forget that he is
a Frenchman as to call in the foreigner to invade his
native land.

The Committee on the Bill on the Press has not yet
entered on the question of the stamps, and has merely
examined that on the caution-money. On this head
it is considered probable that the Bill will undergo
considerable modifications,
The National states that the Democratic candidates
for the office of Municipal Councillors at Sens have
all obtained the majority.
The votes of the Army in the recent elections for
the department of the Vosges are now known. Ge-
neral RAOUL, the reactionary candidate, obtained but
53 votes, whilst his Democratic opponent polled ;s3O.
While such continues to be the disposition of the
army, neither a coup d'etat nor a foreign invasion can
succeed.

The election to fill the vacancy in the French
Academy, occasioned by the death of M. FELETZ,
was to have taken place on Wednesday. The candi-
dates were M. NISARD, M. DE MONTALEMBEET, and M.
ALFRED DE MUSSET ; but as neither of them obtained
an absolute majority of votes, the election was post-
poned to November. 4. GUIZOT supported M.
NISARD, and AL TRIERS supported M. DE 3,101
TALEMBERT.
Lord BROUGHAM has arrived in Paris.

At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday M. DE
LAROCHEJACQUELIN thus explained the cause of his
absence on the occasion of his extraordinary proposi-
tion being put from the chair on -Wednesday :
M. Larochejacquelin said that ho felt bound to give
the Assembly some clear and categorical explanation
relative to his absence on the preceding day, when M.
Dupin read his proposition. It was impossible after pre-
senting such a proposition, that he could have absented
himself at that moment. At a quarter past two o'clock
he submitted it to the President, who, after casting his
eyes over it, said, " C'est groe—(Laughter.) M.
Dupin then handed it to the secretary, M. Valette, tell-
ing him to send it to the printer. M. Larochejacquelin,
however, had thought. proper to preface his proposition
by some explanatory observations; and at a quarter-past
five he kit the hall to correct the proof sheets. Nothing
occurred to make him suppose that the President would
read his proposition, or he should have been present to
derend it. He declared, that his intention had not been
to bring forward an unconstitutional measure. If he
was mistaken, the Assembly would decide--(" Itdccided
the question yesterday," said a member on the right)—
and he would adhere to its decision. People should tat e
into account what they heard and read daily. The
question he submitiei to the Assembly was every day
discussed by the people and the press. For his part,
he had accepted the Republic, not because he was a
Republican (tor he declared at the Hotel de Ville that
his political opinions were unchanged), but because he
wished the Republican form to be t iirly tried. That trial
had taken place—be would not say with what success.
He would only observe that the necessity of revising the
Constitution was everywhere loudly advocated and ac-
knowledged. His proposition offered a legal means of
proceeding. Every day he heard people exclaim,
" What will become of us ? How is all this to end ?
We are lost ! We are threatened with civil war, with
coups (taut," &c. Now. did the country desire a re-
public or a monarchy ? It was impossible it could con-
tinue in a state of indecision so detrimental to agricul-
ture, industry, and trade, from the uncertainty prevailing
respecting the future. In order to put a period to that
deplorable anxiety, an appeal to France was indispensa-
ble. It remained to be known if the proclamation of the
Republic had been an "escarnotage." If her answer was
negative, his proposition became useless. In all cases
it was necessary to consult the country. In conclu,ion,
M. Larochejacquelin declared that he had fulfilled his
duty, and recommended the Assembly to follow his ex-
ample.

M. DE NEUYILLE has presented the following
amendment on the Budget of Expenses of 1850:
" From the let of July, 1850, a retention shall be
made of one-tenth on all salaries and allowances paid
by the public treasury exceeding the sum of 1,500 f.
When retention shall have for effect to reduce the
said salaries and allowances to a sum less than
1,500 f, the retention shall be reduced in such a
manner as to leave the functionaries in the enjoyment
of that sum. This retention shall also be applicable
to the indemnity granted to the members of the
National Assembly."
PARIS BOURSE, Mauch 28.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 90f. 50c.; Three per Cents., 55f. 90c.; Bank
of France, 2,200 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. IlLutcti 28.
Namrr and Liege, 614—Orleans and. Bordeaux, 234—
Tours and Nantes, 2%.