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The first paragraph was then adopted, and M. de
Beaumont havingwithdrawn the other part of his amend-
ment referring to the second, it also was agreed to.
The Chamber adjourned at half-past five.
SATURDAY, JAN. 25.
At two o'clock M. Sauze';, the President, took the
chair. The Chamber having adopted on Friday the two
first paragraphs of the Address, the discussion opened on
the third paragraph, which was as follows :
" Incidents, which at first seemed of a nature to trouble
the friendly relations between France and England, had
deeply agitated the two countries, and called for all the
attention of our Government: We are well pleased to
learn that a reciprocal sentiment of goad feeling and
equity has maintained between the two States that happy
accord which is so important both to their prosperity
and to the repose of the world."
To this paragraph, M. Leon de Malleville moved the
following amendment :
" We are happy to learn that the accord so necessary
to the repose of the world has been maintained between
the two States, but we regret that, in granting a repara-
tion which was not due, the rules of justice and recipro-
city, which France shall always respect, were not suffi-
ciently taken into account."
M. Leon de Malleville, having been called to the tri-
bune to develop his amendment, said that the Chamber
having granted a Bill of indemnity to the Ministry on
the ensemble of its policy, the amendment he pro-
posed was not directed against its existence ; his in-
tention was merely to examine the question, in itself
a question which had wounded to such a degree the
national susceptibility—he meant the indemnity
awarded to M. Pritchard, which he did not hesitate
to declare the country was unanimous in reproving.—
(" No, no," on the Ministerial benches.) He then en-
tered into considerations to prove that no cordial alliance
should prevail between Great Britain and France with-
out a perfect reciprocity, and on that condition alone
was he a partisan of that alliance. M. de Malleville
protested his high respect for the work of the English
missionaries who had initiated the savages of Oceania
in a knowledge of the doctrine of Christ, and in the arts
of civilization ; but M. Pritchard, in his eyes, was no
missionary ; he was a mere trader, an intriguer, the
mayor of the Palace of Queen Pomare, the King of Ota-
heite. All the French authorities in the Pacific spoke
in high terms of the English missionaries, M. Pritchard
alone excepted. M. Malleville had blamed the establish-
ment of the French at Otaheite, because he had foreseen
all the obstacles and complications that occupation would
produce ; but once the French flag hoisted on that
island, he had felt it imperative to defend its honour
and dignity. He then described all the circumstances
that had preceded and followed the arrestof M. Pritchard.
M. Pritchard, he said, was no longer an English Con-
sul ; he had remained at Otaheite as a spy on the
French ; he had had many opportunities to proceed to
his new residence, but he had no doubt received in-
structions from his Government to remain at a post
where he had rendered, and could yet render, such im-
portant services. M. Malleville next proceeded to con-
demn the manner iu which the negotiations relative to
Otaheite had been conducted in London and Paris, and
entreated the Members of the house, who two days
before wished to save the existence of the Ministry, to
vote for his amendment, and thereby save the dignity of
the conntry.
M. Peyramont rose to reply. He combated the amend-
m• nt, because it implied that nothing was due to England,
and that England had be.-n wanting in good feeling and
equity towards France. This meant, in his opinion, that
the indemnity agreed to be paid to Mr. Pritchard should
not be paid by the Ministry which would succeed the
present Administration. The majority of the Committee
on the Address, of which he had been a member, ren-
dered entire- justice to the equity and good feeling of
England throughout that affair, and it had determined to
insert that conviction in the Address. M. Peyramont
then proceeded to justify the conduct of the Ministry,
amidst the murmurs of the Opposition.
M. Odillon Barrot, who followed, referred to what
had occurred at the close of the last session, when a
Minister of Great Britain had declared in Parliament
that an insult, a gross outrage. had been offered to the
honour of England. Had the French Cabinet, he asked,
responded to that expression, which, to say the least of
it' was imprudent, either by recriminations or other-
wise ? No ! Atter examining the events of which
Otaheite had been the theatre, he protested on his soul
and conscience, in presence of the facts, of the docu-
ments submitted to the assembly, and the declarations
of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the disavowal
of M. d'Aubigny and the indemnity granted to M. Prit-
chard, were not, as asserted in the Address ;conformable
to equity. Ile then painted M. Pritchard as the author
of fill the calamities that had fallen on the French
at Otaheite. He had remained there without any
official character, to prevent Queen Pomare from
returning among her subjects and restoring peace ;
—he remained there to give time to his agents to
kindle the fire of revolt ; and when this object had
been attained, he was preparing to quit the island
in the darkness of night, when M. d'Aubigny found
it his duty, under the apprehension of approaching
danger, to arrest the fugitive ; and although the guilt of
the latter was so evident that the Ministry itself was
obliged to admit it, it was the unfortunate officer who
bad adopted that indispensable measure for the security
of his command who had been visited with a disavowal,
and the wretch, the promoter of the revolt, at whose in-
stigation murder and incendiarism pervaded the island,
was to receive compensation, because he had been de-
tained during a few days a prisoner ; and so degrading
a concession had been demanded and exacted in the face
of Europe from noble France t M. Odillon Barrot said,
that he would willingly choose the English people for hi;
judge in the affair ; and he had so high an opinion of
their good sense that he was sure they would not view
the affair in the light it had been viewed by a French
Ministry. In concluding, he declared that there was no
equity, no reciprocity, in granting an indemnity to the
instigator of a war of savages against civilisation, par-
ticularly under the threats which had been preferred
from the British tribune.
M. Guizot was in possession of the tribune at the hour
of post.

RAILWAYS.
The report of the Board of Trade published in the
Gazette of Friday night, relative to railways, caused
some little fluctuation in the value of the shares of the
several lines alluded to. Newcastle and Berwick im-
proved to and left off at 114 to 12i premium, being a
considerable rise on previous prices. Few of the Irish
lines are yet quoted, and hence uo great alteration was
perceptible in them, but still the decision of the Board is
regarded as favourable to those securities. The Eastern
Counties did not suffer much, for although they opened
rather flat on Saturday morning, their final quotation
was much the same as on Friday. The shareholders
in this company, notwithstanding the rejection of the
Colchester and Bury branch, do not seem to be the least
fearful of their success in the Cambridge and Lincoln
and the York struggle, which accounts for the firmness
with which the stock is supported. They stand on
the opinion that the policy of the Government is Con-
servative, and that every support will be given by
the Beard of Trade to existing lines which can show a
fair claim to increased traffic, in preference to deluging
the public with competitive undertakings—a system
likely, in the long run, to be productive of mischief, not
only in share specula.tiot,s, but also in the ultimate ad-
vantages to be derived from railway communication.
Eastern Counties, in consequence. still retrain 18 to 184;
and Cambridge tied Lincoln, 2 to 2+ premium. The
market in other respects was fairly steady, and a large
amount of business was tran:•acted. There was hardly
so much done in the French securities on Saturday as
hitherto, but considering the present state of excitement
connected with our own projects, and the near approach
of the Parliamentary session, when all will be bustle and
confusion in the matter, this is not very extraordinary.
Another circumstance against an extended business in '
these securities is the very high value they already bear
for newly recognised schemes in our market.
The monthly returns of the French railways show an
amount of nearly 50,000/. for December on 289 miles of
railway. At the corresponding period of the previous
year the amount was only 37,0001. The increase is
stated partly to arise from additional lines opened, but
exclusive of these sources the advance per month over
last year amounts to 7,0001., or 18 per cent. The follow
log are the French lines not yet opened, but now under
course of construction :—Amiens and Boulogne, 79 miles,
by Laffitte and Co.; Avignon and Marseilles, 72 miles,
by Talahot and Co.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 300 miles,
by Mackenzie and Co.; Orleans and Centre, 51 miles,
by the Orleans Company; I'aris and Sceaux, 6+ miles,
by Arnoux and Co.; R.Juen and Havre, 57 miles, by
Laffitte and Co.— Times.

A to nmeacial c ise has been submitted to us with
a request for an answer. The writer, it appears, has had
some produce consigned to him by a correspondent in
India. This correspondent has drawn bills against the
consignment, and has handed to the party purchasing
the bills the shipping documents as a security, such
documents to be delivered to the consignee on payment
of the bills, either under discount or at maturity. The
bills are presented and accepted, " payable if accom-
panied by such shipping documents." On the arrival of
the ship, which takes place before the bills become due,
the owner of the bills applies to the consignee to retire
his acceptances. The consignee replies that he will do
so, when he requires the property against which the
goods are drawn, the property being held as security
against the acceptances. The holder of the bills re-
joins that the acceptances must be retired at once
(under discount at the bank rate), or he will pass entry
for the goods, and charge two per cent. commission for so
doing.
• The question is, whether he has a right to take
this step. This case we have referred to experienced
parties in the City, and the opinion seems to be that the
holder of the bills has clearly no right to proceed in the
manner described above until the bills have arrived at
maturity. Even if the bills were already due, and had
been dishonoured, it seems very doubtful that the holder,
after effecting a sale to reimburse himself, could make
any charge in the shape of commission. The question is,
however, more fitted for a professioeal adviser than fur
a public journal.—Time,.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENlNG.—Arrangements have
just been made for the departure of the Court from the
Castle for Buckingham Palace, on Monday, the 3d of
February, the day before the assembling of Parliament,
which will be opened by her Majesty in person. On the
following Saturday, according to present arrangements,
her Majesty and the Prince Consort will leave town for
the Pavilion at Brighton, where the Court is expected
to remain for about a fortnight or three weeks. Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess.
oyal, and the Princess Alice, will proceed to Brighton
etE StitUrctri4t, under the care of the Dowager Lady
./77 Zytt/eton,--,thepreceptress to the Princess Royal. It is
at present uncertain whether the infant Prince Alfred
- will leave the Castle for the, Pavilion at the same time,
or accompany his royal and Illustrious parents to Buck-
(' Ingham Palace, and proceed thence to Brighton, on the
Sthßtgetlipr._
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