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regard to this important undertaking was made."
And why 1 Was any principle involved in the
acquiescence of the Government in such a re-
quest, so important to the general management
and prosperity of public works in this country,
that to have acceded to the wishes of the depu-
tation would have been to compromise the still
more important object of upholding that princi-
ple ? No. This pretence does not appear to have
been thought of. Even the hacknied plea of all
Administrations in this country, for their want of
spirit or sagacity to appreciate propositions calcu-
lated to effect objects of the highest public utility,
—namely, that all undertakings entered upon with
a view to public accommodation cor. pleasure, are
best left, in England, to private speculation,—
does not appear, on this isolated occasion, to have
been thought of in Downing-street. The no-
tions under which the First Lord of the Treasury
and the Secretary for the Home Department re-
fused the assistance required, were, if our Con-
temporary's statement be correct, just what we
would have ventured beforehand to predict would
be set up. They are eminently characteristic of
that small, pedling, crafty, bargain-driving
cunning which Sir JAMES GRAHAM has through-
out his public career mistaken for statesmanship;
and that habitual prudery, wincing under the
contemplation of any departure from official pre-
cedent, and always looking forward with a
nervous horror to being questioned in Parlia-
ment for any acts which may damage, however
distantly, his political plausibility, that is the
most hopeless and, at the same time, the most
pitiable among the moral weaknesses of Sir Ro-
BERT PEnes-publiCdeportment :
It was considered on the part of the Government that any
such arrangement would at present be premature, as there had
been scarcely time for drawing the public attention to the Re-
ports of the naval officers employed by the Admiralty, and that
of Mr. Walker, the civil engineer, and for giving to parties
generally who might be induced to undertake the construction
of a railway communication from Chester to Holyhead, the
opportunity of submitting to the Government any proposals
they might have to offer.
Premature, forsooth, to contribute the prompt-
est and most efficient means for quickening com-
munications between Saint James's and the Vice-
Regal Lodge at a time like this I With such an
enormous portion of the Irish public asyou know
to be in avowed discontent with your Govern-
ment, your policy, and their connection with
the one and the other, will you await " the
drawing of public attention to the reports
of Mr. WALKER"—which object may take
as much time to accomplish as Mr.
WALKER'S repairs to Westminster-bridge have
already occupied ? With State trials pend-
ing in Dublin, the event of which, in certain
results, no:man can undertake to foretel—with
hourly sources of political and popular irritation
opening and welling afresh, all around your
establishments, civil, judicial, and military
in Ireland, will you talk of awaiting the
determination of parties " who may be in-
duced" to; undertake, or submit to Go-
vernment their proposals for undertaking, the
construction of a work which you, the Govern-
ment, in a more provident and far-seeing dis-
charge of your duty, would long ago have ac-
complished yourselves, or caused to be effected
by others? Profound administrators of a "Con-
servative" policy, truly—thus to have hitherto
neglected, thus now to huckster and tam-
per with, a measure of paramount, inde-
scribable exigency, for the interests of that
public whom you affect to serve ! But per-
haps it may be attempted to justify this

ardy and reluctant, this cold, sneering, discou

raging entertainment of the proposition made—
on the score of the expense to be incurred by
giving effect to it being excessive and inordinate,
as compared with the admitted value of the
work when accomplished. Let us see how the
facts stand.

So far from this being the case, be it remem-
bered that the whole question was as to the Go-
vernment's allowing a certain surplus allowance
for the conveyance of the mails along the pro-
jected line. We dismiss this proposition at once,
not caring whether the,over-allowance was to
have been 20, or 2,000 per cent. beyond the or-
dinary charge for such service on ordinary
roads. We contend, for the reasons we

have already assigned, that if any diffi-
culty is experienced in the immediate con-
struction of the work by private capital, the Go-
-1 vernment should advance, say upon an issue of
Exchequer bills, in the usual form "for Public
Works" the whole of the expense. The length
of the line would be but sixty miles. The saving
of time, as Mr. WALKER has shown, on the
whole communication between the extreme
points of Dublin and London, would be nearly
twenty-four hours! The total estimated expense
would be 800,0001. or thereabouts. Let it be
assumed at 1,000,0001. Will any Minister ven-

tire to get up in his place in the House of Corn,

mons, if challenged on this subject, and attempl

to justify- the denial of such advances for an ob-
ject of this prodigious importance, on a plea of
the danger of the precedent to be established ?
Look at the advances already made for railway
lines on the Irish side of the Channel. Why should
similar assistance be withheld on this ? Again,
the National Gallery, :the, Park improve-
ments, the extension of other works
which, though called public," are so ob-

scure as to be known to but very few indi-
viduals, have cost within the last three or four
years, in various parts of the kingdom, double
the amouurt required for this wise and necessary
undertaking;--to say nothing of Royal stables,
and other objects merely appertaining to the ex-

.ernal pomp and dignity of the Crown. We

protest that we cannot find a single ground of jus-
tification fol. the course adopted in this matter by
Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM.

tHow to restrain under-graduates from running
into debt Mai been recently broached as a question
of Univ rally reform. A very interesting
question iit is, as not a few unhappy parents
throughout the country already know to their
cost; and. many a poor curate, atoning by a long
life of pe mince for the thoughtless expenditure
of his you lit, will be ready enough to assert that,
of all the- many items of complaint which are
alleged a, pxinst the conduct of his Alma Mater,
this one, relating to the financial affairs of
her offspring, is by far the most important.
Primiut n pe cunia querenda est.
Well, 1)u t how are matters to be improved?
There has; been no lack of suggestion, and if

only a tit- tif .! of what has been said to have been

attempted' has been carried into practice, we can
only wor id er at the lamentable deficiency of
good resu ilting, and attribute to the very atmos-
phere of an university town a tendency to en-
courage this highly aristocratic epidemic. But,
rely upot t it, the evil is curable, and it only re-

quires pr oper treatment to eradicate this shame-
ful vice f torn the constitutions of our university-
educated youth. One recommends the adoption
of public : registries, in which the tradesmen
might es ay ascertain the rank, residence, and
resources • tof the aluminus he is asked to trust.
Another swggests a vigilant system of surveillance
on the par .t o f college tutors. A third would have an
Act of Pa rli ament constituting a new Statute of
Limitations , for the benefit of all, in statu pu-
pillari. 17V. e don't really know how many recom-
mendati on have even been made beside. We
believe has Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON,
when he first assumed the Academic toga, and
became it .!st.ed with the office of Chancellor of
Oxford, threatened the most severe measures
against al lit t any way concerned in the propaga-
tion of di obi t amongst the junior branches of the
Universit y.. Nevertheless, we have never heard
that eve n his Grace's denunciation had much
effect, ar. Kt we are even inclined to believe
that just . .at the present time there is
more cre( lit given to Oxford under-graduates
than ther e was even when his Grace began his
Chancello rst kip. At Cambridge we know very
well matters are
.by no means mending; and,
judging frau i several circumstances that have
recently can le to our ears, we should fancy the
tablets of the se engaged in supplying the extra-
vagancies of the youthful Cantabs are more co-
piously filled than ever.

But thew it is the fashion to fasten all the
blame upor,, tj he tradesmen of Oxford and Cam-

bridge. Judging from the invectives which have
been so unsparingly heaped on this devoted
order of men, one would infer that they really
were a race of veritable human harpies. Now
we happen to know, from some four years' expe-
rience, something of the character of these gentry,
and we confidently assert that they are not the
monsters they are represented to be. Oar ex-
perience is of course confined to the tradesfolk
of one university, but we are also able to speak
with something of cosmopolite facility of the
idiosyncrasies of the race located at the other of
the " eyes of England." Indeed we found them
all of the very same genus, and, strange to say,
that genus is precisely the same as one finds in
other parts of the country. Seriously, they have
only one pair of eyes; their legs are neither diffe-
rently constructed, nor more numerous than
those of London tradesmen; they have nails,:and
not talons, as some have alleged, and they do
not run about, and inveigle fresh men into sub-
terranean emporiums for contracting debt.
Fathers and mothers, the cure for the evil of
which you are all so ready to complain, is in
your own power, and rely upon it it resides no-
where else. Set a wholesome example to your
offspring under your own roofs—inculcate the
moral turpitude of getting into debt, which
is now by so many deemed a venial
and highly fashionable vice —limit your
own expenses to the resources which
you have it in your own power to command, and
commit the education of your sons to the care of
those who at school will enforce your instructions.
By doing this you will supply your sons with a
healthy bias, which even the noxious influence
of bad example will with the greatest difficulty
overpower. And if, in addition, you watch over
the moral characters of these young men, when
they from time to time revisit the parental abode,
you will have done the most, and that will be
effectual for repressing the tendency to contract
debt during their university career.

We have received Madrid papeis of the 3d
inst., and are not a little surprised to learn that
the New Municipal Bill hardly excites a murmur
of discontent. The Political Chief of Madrid is
actively employed in organising the mode of exe-
cution of the new laws. The majority of the
members of the municipality submit, but seve-
ral have given in their resignations. It is not
thought that that body has an idea of making
any opposition to the new law ; the meeting was
rather for some regulation of the affair. It is
also stated that the new laws have been well re-
ceived in the provinces. On the 2d, the Liberal
electors of Madrid met for the purpose of select-
ing candidates on theirside at the elections which
are to take place, in consequence of the vacan-
cies caused by the late appointments. The fol-
lowing names were unanimously agreed to :
MM. ARGUELLES, OLOZAGA, SAN MIGUEL, CAN-
TERO, LLTJAN, MIRAMLES, SAGASTI, and ANGULO j
and the candidates :for the Senate, CALATRAVA,
Z UM A LACARREGUI, and VALLEJO .
The Impartial of Barcelona of the 2d inst.
states that the commander of the castle of
Figueras had capitulated on the following terms :
__cc 1. The soldiers of the army and of the free
corps are to serve eight years in the army; and
the National Guards:„ after being disarmed, are
to remain under thee surveillance of the authori-
ties. 2. The chiefs :are to re-enter the class of
citizens. 3. The reTolters possessed of property
are to indemnify the individuals who have
suffered material damage by the insurrection."

On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents.
were done at 231 24- 2.3 i for cash, and 241 at 60
days, and the Five per Cents. at 20k at 60 days,
with premium.

The Paris papers alre. almost entirely filled with
the debates in the Cb amber of Peers on the ad-
dress, and comments on the various topics on
which it touches, and. chiefly on the visit of the
Duke of BORDEAUX tI ) England. The Legitimist
papers, of course, are -furious against M. GUIZOT
for describing the at to ntions paid to the Princo
by Frenchmen as " revolting scandals." "M.
GutzoT," says the Qinc#tidienne, " yesterday esta-
blished the sterling N Title of the Royalist party
by contending with it as he did, and by revealing
his system of conduct throughout Europe with

relation to the Duke »> E BORDEAUX. Vainly did
M. GUIZOT attempt to attenuate the importance
of this great party IP; r cutting it into halves,
making one-half wise men, and the other half
fools. The fools, it app ,e ars, are henceforth to play
a prominent part in tl r e Ministerial controversy.
But let us leave M. GUIZOT, the philosopher,
to amuse himself with 1 tis own inventions. France
knows very well what the Royalist party in the
mass expresses. The. Chamber of Peers would
have been taught this :yesterday if two men, ac-
customed to explain N r ith the greatest authority
.
to it the true Royalist ideas, had not been absent;
one of them painfully kept away by illness, and
the other cruelly pre .0 ccupied by apprehensions
which GOD, we hope t., will dissipate. No, no l
there are no fools bi Vc in parties that will not

around them, and will look at anything pas: ii ing
not be taught by the I : rises with which they are
menaced. The fools fto re the Ministers, who dare

to murmur threats of exceptional measures.
Therefore let us rend it !r thanks to M. GUIZOT,
for he has placed us in: the most favourable posi-
tion for our defence,. and for defending the
country against the foil] .ies of the Ministry. This
is a fine opening of the! session. Having offered
❑p our thanks to M. Cp UIZOT, let us do homage to
Messrs. DE RICIIELIE 1:1 and DE VERAC."

gives unqualified
andj eb
to t 31V1 GUIZOT'S speech,
praise
ee
tJoottlirenttad/drdeesss,
We shall not
which it thus chara a terises :—cc
attempt to analyse th a speech of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, for w a should be afraid of weak-
ening the profound i npression and irresistible
ascendancy he gained over the Chamber. All
that eloquence which the highest power of rea-
soning, inspired by eth 3 most noble and legiti-
mate passion, could b e brought forth from a
statesman defending t' he rights of his country,
her greatest and best iu nterests, both present and
future, M. GUIZOT 1.111 c ised into his answer to the
audacious manifesto woclaimed from the tri-
bune. We have b een the first to say,
and we repeat wit h the illustrious orator,
that an importance 'beyond their deserts as-
suredly ought not to 15 a attached to vain demon-
strations. Some allot v antes should be made for
the well-known irrefh :tion and incurable folly of
the Carlist party. "Alere has been as much
frivolity as culpable a Ittention in the small assem-
blage of gentlemen sv. Iso have amused themselves
by playing at royalty in a private house in Lon-
don. Thanks be to G O.D, the scenes in Belgrave-
square have not plac, 5l the Revolution of July
or its dynasty in any di anger, but they have pro-
duced, repeating the yvt .rds used by M. GUIZOT,
an immense scandal."

No doubt remained ti utt the flotation Bill had
been given up, and it • We is currently reported also
that there would be n o discussion on the Right
of Search question, a 9 it would interfere with
pending negotiatious. On Tuesday the editor of
the Gazette de Franc was tried at the Court of
Assizes, for what was I termed a " seditious libel,"
published some ten day 51 since, and was condemned
to pay a fine of 6,000 :francs, and be imprisoned
for two years.
BOURSE—PAR] . TUESDAY, JAN. 9.
Fir st Highest Lowest Last
Pri, ,e . Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 124 Hi— 124 30... 124 25... 124 30
Threes. B2 P.— 82 55... 82 45.. 82 55
Bank of France.. 3215 ...3220 ...3215 ...3220
Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5075 ,„5075 ...5075
Belgian Bank 697 . K 1... 697 50 697 50... 697 50
1841 —lOBO —lOBO
Belgian Fives, 1840.... 1081- thsi 108 i ... 108 i
1842 109 ... 009 ... 109 ... 109
Spanish Active 29+ i 291 29i ... 29*
Passive s*,: 51 5* ... si,
Neapolitan ... 106 Hi_ 106 50... 106 50... 106 50
Roman .................. 104 I ... 1041 .. 104* ... 104 i

RAILW. SHARES.
St. Germain ..... 790 ... E'oo ... 790 ... 800
Versailles, R.B 3lO ... 312 50.. 310 ... 312 50
L. 8...
Rouen to Havre ti.l6 25 ... 655 646 ... 655
Orleani
Mulhamen to Thann 3BO ... 080 380 ... 380
Montpellier to Cette 375 ... 375 ... 375 ... 375
Strasburg to Bale 21- 75 ... 213 75... 212 50... 213 75
Avignon to Marseilles 672 50 ... 672 50... G 67 50... 667 50

RAILWAY SHARI LS, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, L.B l76'; 2g ... 176 50... 172 50... 172 50
Rotten to Havre.....,., 650 r 658 75,.. 650 ~. 658 75

Orleans . 830 ... 840 ... 830 ... 840
Strasburg to Bale 215 ... 215 ... 215 ... 215
Avignon to Alarseil:es 672 50... 672 50... 667 50 .. 667 50

A Cabinet Council is appointed to be held this af•
ternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which
is expected to be attended by the whole of the mem-
bers of the Cabinet, all the Ministers being in town,
with the exception of the Duke of Buccleuch, and his
Grace is expected to arrive in town this afternoon.

AMERICAN NEWS

(EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The packet-ship Liverpool, Captain Eldridge,
arrived in the river at a late hour last night, having
left New York on the 21st ult., making the passage in
about twenty days. The dates by this arrival are
five days later, the dates being by the last steamer to
the 15th.
The news seems to be of little importance. In
Canada no new Ministry had been formed, but a Pro-
visional Committee had been appointed, composed of
Mr. Daly (the Member who did not resign), Draper,
Viger, and a few others, unknown in the political
world, until a more permanent arrangement can be
made.

The political principles of the new Government will
probably coincide with those entertained by the late
members.
By the arrival, at New Orleans, of the brig Del-
find, intelligence had been received that the Congress
at Merida, adjourned on the 17th November, and
that on the 19th Governor Mendez assumed the
reins of government. The acting Governor, D. Miguel
Barbachano, issued a valedictory address, in which he
urged the people to accept the proposals made by the
Mexican Government, for a re •establishment of peace.
The French brig of war Griffon was detained at the
port of Campeachy, and it was thought the Yucatan
Commissioners would probably go in her on her way
to Vera Cruz. It was believed that a treaty would
soon be ratified on terms similar to those offered last
August, by Tornel, the Mexican Minister of War.
Captain Coleman, of the schooner Manson, at
Holmes' Hole, from Savanilla, informs the corres-
pondent of the Merchants' Exchange, Boston, that
five days before he sailed the Governor was assassi-
nated at Santa Martha, by a gang of ruffians, supposed
to have landed from some vessel from South America,
In Congress, at Washington, on the 18th inst., a
movement was made simultaneously in the Senate
and the House of Representatives on the present
Tariff Act. A resolution was introduced, calling on
the Committee of Ways and Means to report as to
the expediency of bringing in a Bill to repeal the
existing tariff, and to bring in a Bill establishing a
twenty per cent. ad valorem duty, with discrimina-
tions only for the purpose of revenue. It was nega-
tived, the votes.being 77 to 111.
The New York papers announce the death of Smith
Thompson, Judge of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.—STATE OF TRADE.
NEW YORK, DEC. 20, P.M.—There is very little doing in
any article of trade. Cotton is more active than anything else.
ASHES.—We quote Pots at $4 56*, and Pearls at $5 06* a
$5 121. Both kinds very dull.
HAY.—Sales of North River bale at 43 a 45 cents. The re-
ceipts are small, and a fair demand exists. Country sells as
wanted at 65 a 75 cents.
Paovtstotts.—Our quotations and remarks of yesterday will
still apply to the present state of the market—not the slightest
change perceptible.
WHISKEY.—Drudge is still held at 23 cents. Barrels are
very dull at 2.4 i cents.
FLOUR AND GRAlN.—Articles in this line are without any
actual change, although prices hare an inclination down-
ward. Genesee cannot be quoted at .over 4 dols. 62i cents. a
4 dols. 681 cents.
COTTON.—The transactions to-dcy amount to about 1,500
bales. In some cases a small advance has been paid on the
rates of yesterday. Holders are quite: stiff, and the amount on
sale is small. Both buyers and sellers are anxiously awaiting
the arival of the steamer Hibernia.
SALES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK: EXCHANGE, DEC. 20.
t 05,000 U. S. s's, 1862... ......... ...104
5,000 N. Y. City s's, '7O
14,000 Ohio 6's, '6O ..•
20,000 Kentucky 6'5....
5,000 Penn's s's
69*
5,000 Illinois spel bds
5,000 Indiana Bonds « 45/
1,000 Alabama s's
5,000 Tenn. s's
30 Atlantic Bank, Brook'n
50 Me and Tra's Bank, N 0 .
25 Illinois Bank
7 Kentucky Bank . .„
25 N Am Trust Company
............
25 Vicksbui g Bank
25 Manhattan Gas Company 95
100 Farmers' Trust Company . . ... 331

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-4THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 11.—Wind, light Westerly breeze, and
cloudy.
DEAL, JAN. 10.—Arrd. Her Majesty's ahipNautilus, West-
ward. During the night the wind shifted to the Southward,
and at six A. M. this day, was S.S.W. ; a strong breeze, with
thick weather, with rain until noon, when it moderated and
shifted to S.W. ; six r. M. N. W., light and clear.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10. —The New Holland, Thomas,
which arrived here 31st ult. from Rotterdam in ballast, has
been surveyed, and must be caulked and :re-coppered. She is
lying on Gosport Beach. Sid. Mary, Baamatyne, China.
MUMBLES, JAN. 8.--Sid. Mary Brack and Agnes Blaike,
St. Jago de Cuba.
WAINFLEET, JAN. 9.—The Old Year's Gift, of Boston,
coal laden, is ashore on Wainfleet Sand, and expected to be-
come a wreck, the greater part of cargo washed out; crew saved.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 10.—The Albion. from Newcastle to
Liverpool, which struck the East Pier in coming in on the 4th
inst., has been surveyed, and must discharge part of her
cargo. The Dolores, from Havannah to Hamburgh has
been towed in here today, with loss of bow-sprit, &c.,
having been entangled between the :and in the Queen's
Channel, and afterwards in contact. The Pomona, Colby,
from Amsterdam to New York, has been towed in here
to-day, having been ashore on the shingles, and lost
anchors, &c.
WHITSTABLE, JAN. W.—The Mack Breeds, Cox from
Tralee to London, got en the Middle Sand last night, but
afterwards came off, an lis coming into the bay. She has dis-
charged part of her cargo, which is damaged, having had six
feet water in her hold.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 10.—The Elizabeth, which arrived here
yesterday from Havannah with damage, has been surveyed,
and must discharge part of her cargo. Sld. Black Nymph,
Ascension ; Forester and Duke Norfolk, Tobago ; Lydford,
Granada ; Dueondic, Guadaloupe ; Renata, Havannah ;
Chieftain and Intrinsic. New Orleans.
Livaapo(m., JAN. 10.—Wind N. N. W., moderate. —Arrd.
John Campbell, Africa; Mary, Demerara. Off Liverpool—
New York, New York ; Caledonia, Brander, —. Sld.
Jane Lowden and Swiftsure, Afrioa.
WEXFORD, JAN. 7.—The hull of the Minerva, wrecked on
Blackwate!r Bank, has gone to pieces. No more cargo ex-
pected to be saved.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 10.—The Lawson, Cliffe, of Goole,
sunk near the Scroby Sand yesterday morning ; crew saved.

S H PA F) fkl!
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C;ptittott.

" Who runs may read."

71011EIGN.
On Monday, at twelve, the King of the French pre-
sided at a. Council of Ministers. On the preceding
evening the following personages had the honour of
dining with his Majesty :—The Neapolitan Ambassador,
the Minister of Wurtemburg, the Count de Sercey, the
Prince de San Severino, the Marquis de Brancaccio, the
Marquis de itiario, the Duchess and Mdlles. de Serra
Capriola, the Count and Countess de Bondy, and Ge-
neral Schneider.

The Address Committee of the Chamber of Deputies,
on Monday, entered on the discussion of the paragraphs.
It is said that one in favour of the Poles is to be intro-
duced, and a short one blaming such Deputies as have
made the journey to London. M. de Bignon was chosen
to be the reporter.
The annual ball for the benefit of the Briti- h Chari-
table Fund will take place at the commencement of
February, under the patronage of his Excellency the
British Ambassador and Lady Cowley.
A lottery has been got up at Toulouse by the Vis-
countess Duchatel, with the object of raising a fund for
putting an end to mendicity in that town. This has
afforded the Royal Family a fresh opportunity for dis-
playing its benevolence. The King has remitted 500 f.,
and the Queen, the Duchesses of Orleans and Nemours,
and her Royal Highness Madame Adelaide have sent
several prizes. The Minister of the Interior has also
contributed I,ooof. to this, good work.
The Journal du Havre gives the following account of
an English collier, lately arrived in the docks of
Havre :—" This vessel, whose registered measurement is
318 tons, can carry upwards of 400 tons of coals ; she
draws only 11 feet, English, and therefore can pass
through all the channels of the Seine. She is built of
iron, on such a plan as combines great capaciousness
with delicacy of form, and a very low draught of water.
She is called the Vulcan, and is gone to Rouen towed
by the Hercule steamer."
The Committee for the erection of the monument to
the memory of Moliere assembled at the Hotel de Ville
on Sunday, and decided that the inauguration shall take
place on Monday next, the 15th inst., at twelve o'clock.
Count Rambuteau, the Prefect of the Seine, will preside
at the ceremony, and will deliver the first oration. He
will be followed in succession by M. Etienne, Director of
the Academie Fran raise, in the name of the Institute ;
M. Samson, for the actors of the Theatre Francais ; and,
last, by M. F. Arago, in behalf of the Committee. The
Institute is a body, the Municipal Council, and deputa-
tions from the Societies of Dramatic Authors and of
Men of Letters will be present. This homage to the
author of Tartuffe must give great umbrage to the
clergy.
The Ambassadors of the Great Powers having com-
plained to the Porte on the subject of the execution at
Broussa, of a Christian who had abjured the Mahometan
faith, after having embraced it, the Porte has replied that
the execution had taken place by mistake. The Bey-
lekd:chi who ordered it has been dismissed.