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persons of every shade and variety of political
opinions skilled in legal lore. The only subject of
regret was, that they should be limited to Ireland,
and that England should not be permitted to parti-
cipate in the great benefits about to be conferred on
the sister kingdom. This will, we hope, be removed
before the several Bills have passed through Com-
mittee. Where the advantages are so palpable,
even to the most superficial observer, why should
this country be excluded ? Is the English
Court of Chancery so perfect in every respect as to
require no amelioration ? Are there no unnecessary
delays, no exorbitant expenditure here that might be
lessened or reduced ? Why should the experiment
be only tried at the other side of St. George's
Channel ? We hope and believe that it is not intended
as a slight or insult to that much injured land.
It cannot be meant as the carrying out of
the old adage, Fiat experimentum, in ccrpore vile.
The son of the great ROMILLY, the exligltened and
liberal reformer, would be incapable of conduct so
unworthy of his reputation. Let, then, the almost
unanimous wish of the House be acceded to, and the
measures be extended to both countries, so as to assi-
milate the law and practice in the United Kingdom,
and thus more firmly to cement the existing bonds
of union.

It would be impossible within the limits of a single
article to explain the important changes introduced
by these comprehensive measures. We can only say
that the first Bill is to regulate the process and prac-
tice of the superior courts of common law in Ireland.
The uniformity of process Act, which has been in
operation in this country for the last seventeen years,
will, as far as practicable, be extended to Ireland, and
the practice assimilated in both countries. This is a
step in the right direction which will, we trust, be
speedily followed by the complete amalgamation of
the legal professions, and the complete abolition of
every distinction between the bars of England and of
Ireland.

The second relates to the Irish Court of Chancery,
the object being to reduce the expenses and shorten
the proceedings of the Court. It is proposed to sub-
stitute the mode of proceeding by petition for
the present tedious process by bill, giving to
the judges in certain canes the power of taking viva
Pm evidence. Power will also be given to bring a
special case before the Court, and to institute certain
inquiries where it might be thought expedient.
There are other minor alterations, but all of the
most beneficial character, and the only subject for
regret is, as we have already stated, that this country
is not permitted to participate in the advantage•
bestowed on Ireland

The other Bills are the one for the purpose of im-
proving the system of registration of deeds, &c., and
the other for amending the law relating to judgments.
We have not space to enter into the full consideration
of these admirable measures as we should have de-
sired, but we are hilly satisfied of their justice and
expediency. They will be received as boons by the
Irish people, and constitute a precedent for the legal
reforms that must speedily be conceded in Ragland also.

It would be well that our brother Reformers should

study the practice and imitate the conduct of the
most successful agitator for reforms that the world
ever saw—the man who, by moral force alone, gained
more for the cause of liberty than has ever been
gained at any time by physical force—we mean the
illustrious DANIEL O'CONNELL. It was not alone to
his indomitable energy and perseverance that his

great success was owing, so much as to his carrying
out to its utmost limits the doctrine, as he called it, of
instalments. He sought a great reform—a small
modicum was offered to him, he accepted it as an in-
stalment, and then went for the remainder. We
hope that the present race of English Reformers will
follow his example, whenever Mr. HENRY BEIHEE-
LET'S motion on the Ballot shall come on for

discussion in the House of Commons ; and that
we shall not find persons, who call them-
selves Reformers, either voting against the motion,
or staying away because it is not conjoined with cer-
tain other reforms, the impossibility of carrying which
in the present House is admitted by even their most
ardent promoters. The principle of the Ballot has
already been once affirmed by the present House of
Commons, and the votes prove that the Ballot num-
bers in that House not less than 150 support,r. •
Tho divisions on the Ballot show that 87
Members have voted in favour of it, that 40
paired off in favour of it, and that there were 15

known supporters of the Ballot absent. The Ballo

therefore numbers in the third session of this Parlia-
ment almost as many supporters as the question of
corn-law repeal numbered in the third session of the
last Parliament, and yet that very Parliament carried
the question. Of the importance of the Ballot there can
be no doubt ; it is in our opinion the most important
of all reforms, and the one which should precede
and will be the key to every other. If the presen
race of electors were freed from the intimidation of
those whom Mr. BERKELEY bas so aptly designated
the "bullies of politics," such a House of Commons
would be returned to the next Parliament as would,
before the end of the first session, eause all for which
either financial or suffrage reformers are now agita-
ting to become the law of the land. The possession
of the suffrage without the protection of the Ballot
is, as every tenant-farmer and every town tradesman
knows from bitter personal experience, a curse rather
than a boon,—under pretence of conferring a right it
inflicts a wrong of the most grievous nature, inasmuch
as it exposes its unfortunate possessor to the menaces and
injuries of a brutal landlord or a tyrannical customer,
and often leaves the wretched voter only the choice
between perjury and ruin ; and be it remembered that
by every additional extension of the suffrage, without
the protection of the Ballot, we expose some addi-
tional thousands of persons to the practices of the
corrupt briber and of the heartless intimidator. As a
certain remedy for an admitted actual and crying
evil, as a necessary preliminary step to render the
future extension of the suffrage a fact and a reality,
instead of, as the last extension was, for want of the
" a mockery, a delusion, and a snare," it is ab-
solutely necessary that we should have the Ballot. It is
the Reform question which of all others commands the
strongest minority in the House of Commons, and the
largest majority:in the country; we therefore call upon
all Reformers in the House of Commons to be in their
places to support the motion of Mr. Heisay BERKE-
LE r whenever it shall come on, and we call upon
all constituencies to watch well the division lists, and
to mark all backsliders and backers out upon that
occasion, and at the next election to reject all such
misrepresenters of their sentiments and violators of
their pledges. In the meantime, we call upon all
Reformers out of doors to strengthen the hands of
their brother Reformers in Parliament, by loading
the table of the House with petitions in favour of the
Ballot—let Ballot meetings be halt), and a Ballot
agitation be forthwith organized in every electoral
district, whether of town or county, in the three
kingdoms.

Mr. Lumley, the enterprising manager of her Ma-
jesty's Theatre in London, has obtained a concession
from the French Government to give a series of con-
certs costumes in Paris. The Government has
liberally placed the hall of the Conservatoire de
Musique at the disposal of Mr. Lumley for this pur-
pose. The Societe de Concerts made a strong but
ineffectual opposition to Mr. Lumley. It is Mr.
Lumley's intention to produce some of the first
singers in Europe in these concerts. Madame Son-
tag has already arrived in Paris ; Jenny Lind is ex-
pected ; and there will be a succession of other stars.
Mr. Lumley intends to produce some of the most
splendid productions of Gluck, Cherubini, Mosart,
Palestrina, Spontini, and other masters ; and also the
celebrated choruses of the Sistine Chapel. The an-
nouncement of Mr. Lumley's advent greatly delights
the Parisians. An attempt to raise public feeling
against him, on the ground of his being an English-
man, has completely failed.
SUDDEN DEATH OF THE ORIGINATOR OP THE
GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—(From a
Correspondent.)—The world has just closed over a his-
tory of wrong. The lady to whom t'le great body of
governesses are indebted for the institution which bears
their name, died suddenly on Fridsy morning last, with-
out having received either aid or acknowledgment from
the flourishing establishment which she, by the sacrifice
of her health, her means, and her energies, succeeded in
founding. Neither the institution, the governesses them-
selves, nor the public at large can plead ignorance of
Miss Tucker's claims upon their gratitude. Her friends
have warmly urged her cause before the world, and the
press bas nobly aided them. But for these efforts she
would have died not only unrequited, but in want. The
exertions of her committee have only sufficed to rescue
herher
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from positive privation, and to raise over
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following official ac-
count of the " row " of Monday evening :
" Some days ago the Prefect of Police, desiring to
satisfy a very great number of requests which were ad-
dressed to him respecting the trees planted after the re-
volution of February, the position of which was calcu-
lated to impede the traffic, or to break disagreeably the
lines of the promenades or the aspect of public monu-
ments, had desired the Commissaries of Police to point
out to him such of the trees as the public interest re-
quired to be removed. In his circular the Prefect in-
sisted that all the trees which were not in the pre-
scribed conditions should be respected. Orders were
given in consequence, and everywhere the execution of
them was effected without opposition, and without ob-
servations. The idea of the authorities appeared to
have been perfectly understood, and everything was
ended two or three days ago, when some journals, or-
gans of the advanced Opposition, resolved to make a
weapon of this measure c f administration : they endea-
voured to show that the act was the result cf a poli-
tical idea, and to excite the passions of the working
classes by making an appeal to their generous senti-
ments, and causing them to believe that liberty wai in-
sulted and placed in peril. They hoped thus to create
trouble in public opinion, and to bring back agitation in
the capital, the calm activity of which had for some
months baffled their calculations. Yesterday morning
an accidental circumstance excited irritation in one of
the most populous quarters of paris. A master paviour,
who was executing some work iu the Rue St. Martin,
had had some paving-stones placed near the tree of
liberty on the Candi St. Martin. This tree, which in no
way obstructed the street, and is full of life, was not
amongst those which were to be cut down, but the in-
cident above stated was taken hold of, and a report
raised that the tree was threatened, although no demon-
stration on the part of the authorities had been made.
Some workmen immediately assembled on the place ;
placards were stuck up, and seditious cries uttered,
and demagogical emblems were placed on the
branches of the tree itte'f ; the circulation was inter-
rupted, and the most serious apprehensions excited in
the minds of the inhabitants of the quarter. The au-
thorities were obliged to interfere. They found some
difficulty in dispersing the crowd, which had formed in
the Rae St. Martin and the adjacent streets. The re-
sistance insensibly assumed a very serious character.
There were recognised in the midst of the crowd some
known leaders of the email& A considerable number of
sergens de vile received orders to disperse the assem-
blage. They did so with resolution, and without making
use of their swords. Nevertheless, at the moment at
which their groups were dispersed a certain number of
persons, urmed with forge-hammers and clubs, rushed
on some of the agents and seriously wounded them.
One of them, assailed, beaten, and threatened with the
loss of his life, wasobliged to use his sword, and led to the
deplorable necessity of striking one of the assailants, a
man named Chastereau, a journeyman gun-smith. The
agitation continued to rather a late hour in the evening,
but the immediate calling out of troops, their attitude
full of firmness, the moderation of the authorities, and
the good sense of the population, contributed to cause
the men who had allowed themselves to be drawn on by
guilty suggestions to return to order. At ten o'clock
last evening the groups were not very numerous, and
were not animated by hostile sentiments, Tranquillity
will be maintained in the capital."
The following proclamation was posted in all the
streets of Paris on Tuesday :--
" TO THE INHABITANTS OF PARIS.

" According to the terms of a circular of the Prefect
of Police, a certain number of trees of liberty have
been cut down, for the benefit of public circulation.
The other trees of liberty have been respected, and
are to remain standing; if, however, they become an
object of disturbance, they will be immediately removed.
The Government has confidence in the good sense and
patriotism of the Parisian people.
" The Minister of the Interior,
" FERDINAND BARROT."
The Moniteur of Wednesday contains the following
announcement:—
"The tree of liberty in the Carre St. Martin- has been
all the day the occasion of rassemblements. It was sur-
mounted by the emblem of equality, and the noise of
singing never ceased to be heard. Collections were
made under pretext of contributing to an illumination.
The passengers were forced to uncover before the em-
blem of entente. Thereupon the authorities required
the destruction of the tree, and at a quarter before
eight the tirailleurs of Vincennes proceeded to that
operation."
The Constitutionnel publishes the following account
of the adventure of cieneral LAMORICIERE at the
Porte St. Martin, on Monday night :
" The following is an episode in the events which
took place yesterday, which we write from the dictation
of a representative, who had it from General Lamori-
ciere himself: The General was proceeding to the Reu
Richelieu on some business; while going there he heard
that there was some agitation at the Porte St. Martin;
and he proceeded along the Boulevards. On arriving
near the Porte St. Denis he observed that there was a
considerable assemblage of people, and he ordered his
coachman to turn back, but it was too late. His carriage
continued at a foot pace, and it was then that the Gene.
ral was recognised. One of the rioters approached the
carriage, and called on him to cry 4Vive la Republique,'
which the General complied with ; a second repeated
the injunction, with the same result ; a third ap-
proached, and in a most brutal manner called out' Sa-
lute the Republic,' at the same time giving General
Lamoriciere a blow on the head with his fist. He then
got out of his carriage, when he was surrounded by a
crowd, and had great difficulty in disengaging himself
from them. The General then went into one of the
streets running off the Boulevards, and walked on at a
rapid pace, but was again surrounded by a furious band,
who kept crying oat, It is he; it is he. He returned
again to the Boulevards, still pursued, and more and
more threatened, bat meeting an old sub-officer of his
regiment, the latter took him into his house. At this
moment General Lamoriciere received a blow which
knocked off his bat, which he had not time to pick up.
The crowd remained round the door. There was no
possibility of his leaving the house by the front or the
back, and was consequently taken to the third fl ;or,
where a partition was knocked down, and by that means
the General gained the roof and entered a neighbouring
house by the skylight of a granary. He thence de-
scended into the street. A gentleman who was raising
at the moment on horseback recognising the General.
alighted and offered him his horse, which was accepted,
and, putting spurs to the animal, he gained the quartier
de Saint Vincent de Paul, and returned home covered
with mud."
The Debats of Wednesday says:—
" In the afternoon of yesterday General Changarnier,
followed by a small escort, went to the Celli St. Martin
and the neighbourhood. In the evening a certain num-
ber of children and young workmen commenced singing
round the two trees, which were illuminated, In the
Carrii St. Martin a boy climbed up the tree which had
before been surmounted by a statue of the Republic,
with a red band, and attached to it the triangle and the
level, the emblems of equality. Some houses in the
Carr. St. Martin were illuminated. The rest of Paris
was perfectly tranquil. The proclamation of the Minis-
ter of the Interior was well received by all classes of the
people."
M. PROUDHOR'S journal, the nix du Peuple, was
seized on Wednesday, at the post, on account of the
comments which it contained on the events of
Monday.
The trees of liberty in the Cirrii and the Porte St.
Martin were cut down on Tuesday night, and al-
though there were cries of indignation uttered by the
people who were assembled, there was no attempt
made to break the public peace.
The Presse says that there were 564 trees of
liberty in Paris, and that they have all been cut down
with the exception of 37. Among those cut down
was one which was planted in 1793.
The Gazette de Tribunaux says that 300 arrests
were made among the crowd assembled in the Cure
St. Martin on Monday night. About 100 were set
at liberty after being interrogated, and 200 were
transferred to the Conciergerie.
The Patrie announces that M. EDGARD NEY, the
Bonapartist candidate, had been elected for the de-
partment of Charente by a considerable majority.
The Journal des Debats says that the Government
has received, by telegraphic dispatch, intelligence
from Athens to the 27th ult. The same journal
states that the semi-official explanations of the Mar-
quis of NORMANBY greatly diminished the gravity of
the affair between England and France.
The Constitutionnel contains the following, with the
word " communicated" attached to it :

"In consequence of the insertion in the Napoleon of
an extract from the report handed to the Minister of
• Foreign Affairs on the 14th of July last by M. de
Mareuil, formerly Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres,
M. Lelong, Consul-General at Monte Video, has pub-
lished in several journals very violent attacks against
that functionary, who justly enjoys the fullest confidence
of the Government, and whose services have always
given the highest satisfaction to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. M. Lelong has signed bis name to these attacks
as deogate of the French re3idents at La Plata, a title
which cannot belong to him. Supposing, what however
is not the case, that these parties, the greater number of
whom wisely keep themselves aloof from any political
discussion, had, with common accord, delegated M.
Lelong, the Government of the Republic could not have
consented that, already holding the functions of Consul-
General of Monte Video, he could be at the same time
a delegate from the French subjects. It would be abso-
lutely incompatible. M. Lelong has, besides, departed
from that r:.tterve which was required by his position by
publicly attacking a French diplomatic agent. on facts
connected with bis public functions."
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whole line from Paris to Avignon to one or two com-
panies, as the Government may think fit. The Com-
mittee also approves of the treaty concluded by the
Government with the St. Etienne company for the
formation of ale portion of the line between Lyons
and Gisors. The report was apprcved of by a majo-
rity of sixteen members of the Committee to six. The
report will be presented in the Assembly to-morrow.
The Government and the Committee fully agree in
their views with respect to the Bill.
According to the Courrier Francais an army of ob-
servation is to be collected on the frontier of Swit-
zerland the command of which is to be conferred on
Genera SCHRAMM.

The Assembly was occupied on Tuesday in the
discussion of the first article of the Bill for regulating
public instruction. General LAMORICIERE, who en-
tered before the commencement of the sitting, wes
surrounded by his colleagues, and congratulated on
his escape of the preceding evening.
M.LEVERRIER presented to the Legislative Assem-
bly on Monday the rEport of the Committee to which
the demand of the Minister of the Interior was re-
ferred for a grant of money to establish electric telc-
graphs on the railroads from Paris to Havre, from
Paris to Tonnerre, and from Paris to Angers. The
Committee have approved the grant, and propose to
add the electric telegraph to the lines of Chalone-sur-
Marne, Nevers, Chateauroux, and Dunkirk. The
Committee have inquired of the Minister of the Inte-
rior whether it was his intention to allow the use of
the electric telegraph to the public, as his predecessor
M. DureußE had proposed ; the Minister replied that
it was a serious question, an which he could not de-
cida until he had received further information.

Paris continued perfectly tranquil whed the last
accounts left.

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