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London, England, 1842-06-01 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.
The French Cabinet is in a curious position. The
outcry now against it is, that it is not extravagant enough.
The journals bring the result of the debate in the Cham-
ber of Deputies on Saturday night, on M. Lacrosse's
amendment, to increase the navy estimates three millions of
francs, in order to enable the Minister of Marine to keep, en
disponibiiite, eight ships of the line and ten frigates. This in-
crease, in spite of the opposition of this Ministry, and of the
Budget Committee, was carried by a considerable majority.
The Republican and Royalist journals are in ecstacies. The
Quotidienne says:—" All pretext of ratification of the treaty
of 1841 is removed by Saturday's triumph. The Government
is armed, and it has in its hands all the means to cause the will
of the Chambers and of the country to be respected. The
ratification would now be an act of treason as well as cowardice."
The National revels in the anticipated enjoyment of the
rage of the English journals, and of the mortification of the
British Government. The Odillon Barrot mouthpiece, the
Siecle, is also in the seventh heaven. Never, it alleges, was a
Ministry so degraded as to be compelled to have larger sums of
money than it asks for to maintain the honour of France, and
the dignity and independence of her flag.
The Constitutionnel (M. Thiers's organ) observes:—« This
result is of the greatest importance, for it is the most signal
check that the ultra-pacific policy of the Cabinet can receive.
It has rarely been witnessed that a Ministry is obstinate enough
to refuse money offered by the Chambers. It is because here the
finances were not thought of, but England only, who clings
so strongly to our disarmnaent, and who will be singularly dis-
pleased by this vote. We praise the Chamber for having com-
prehended its duty to the country. Its decision is the most
significant commentary of its amendment on the Right of
Search question."
The Courrier Francais remarks " that the vote will make
a great noise, as it was the most marked defeat sustained by
the Government this session, and as the appropriate winding
up of a four months' discussion on the right of visit. The
Ministry wished to disarm our naval forces as it has disarmed
the land. forces. It had promised this to the Powers, hoping
to conciliate by that course the good graces of the coalition.
The Chamber has not ratified this disgraceful engagement, for
it has proved that it has thoroughly comprehended the tendency
of its vote on the right of visit, by requiring that France
should be prepared for all events."
" We do not regret," observes the Presse, the Mee organ," the
present that the Minister of Marine has been forced to accent.
He ought to be delighted, for Atimir.,l Dinierre has no,e ~,ore
than he asked for. Three millions more is perhaps not much,
but coming from the economical Left party, its generosity must
not be declined. We are, however, of the opinion of the Mi-
nister of Finance, that the money would be better there for the
mate; id than for the personnel, for men are to be had at the
first signal, but stores not quite so easy. Nevertheless, it is
always something gained when the Left begins to be less
parsim nious."
The Journal des Debats also approves of the increase. " The
amendment," it says, " means that the fleet is to be reduced as
little as possible. We have no objec,tion to this wish of the
Chamber to maintain our naval armaments. The Opposition
is at liberty to see in this vote a cheek of the Cabinet, and a
small success for itself, and to claim all the honours of the sit-
ting, as it. did at the time of the memorable vote on the Right
of Search amendment of M. Lefebvre. We shall not humble
.s last triumph ; we only wish it may never gain any greater

one."
TheMoniteur contains the following notice :—" Difficulties
which have arisen between the kingdom of the 'Uwe Sicilies
on
one part, and those of Belgium and Holland on the other,
having assumed a serious character, the Neapolitan Govern-
ment considers it necessary to apprise all merchants and ship-
owners that they may take such precautions as prudence shr..ll
suggest. The Minister for Foreign Affairs apprises all Am-
bassadors and Foreign Ministeis of this fact, in order that they
may have no cause of complaint through ignorance of any con-
sequences to the commercial interests of those nations which
they represent."
There was a reportin Paris on Sunday, that three emissaries
of Secret Societies had been discovered and arrested in the
neichbourhood of the Chateau de Bizy, where the King was
residing. Several arrests in Paris were also said to have been
made. It is to be premised, however, that divers alarming
reports, all false, were lately circulated, such as that the King
had been shot at Neuilly, &c.
The King and Queen returned to Neuilly, from their jour-
ney to the Chateau of Bizy, on Saturday . evening. " Their
Majesties," says the Moniteur, were received everywhere on
the road with spontaneous demonstrations of loyalty and lively
acclamations,"

PARTAAATENTARY.
The Lords met in great numbers to agree to an address
to her Majesty, which was proposed by the Duke of Wel-
lington, and unanimously adopted.
Lord' Howden brought under the notice of the Peers the
exclusion of a tablet from the church by the Bishop of
Quebec, which some officers had prepared in memory of a

brother officer.
The Bishop of London defended the conduct of the Bishop
of Quebec, and said the Bishop might make what regulations
he liked for the churches of his diocese. He thought many
of the churches of England were profaned by monumental
inscriptions, and he expressed regret that public opinion did
not allow him to exercise the same power as his spiritual
brother had exercised in Quebec. Lord Brougham condemned
the one Bishop's opinion, and the proceedings of the other.
The manner in which religion and the administration of the
law have of late been perverted and profaned, AS in the case of
Good, to gratify a morbid sympathy, was brought under the
notice of the House by the Marquis of Clanricarde, and was re-
probated by Noble Lords on both sides of the House.
Sunday travelling by railways was brought under notice, by a
petition, and we heard, with great satisfaction, Lord Wharn-
cliffs declare in its favour, and stigmatize, in common with Lord
Campbell, the absurd desire prevalent in Scotland, to put estop
to it. Their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter past Seven.
A great crowd collected also in the House of Commons to
concur in the Address to her Majesty. We have eleswhe re
adverted to that, and also an important conversation concerning
the trade with France.
In answer to an Hon. Member, Sir R. Peel stated that the
Government was indebted to the East India Company 340,0001.
Mr. D'lsraeli adverted to the posthumous publication of a
letter from Sir Alexander Burnes, in which he characterised
the publication of parts of his despatch as a trick and a fraud,
and the Hon. Member asked Sir John Hobliouse to explain
the matter.
Sir John, in many words, asserted it never was customary
to publish the whole of any despatches, and he had only with-
held such parts of Sir Alexander Burnes's letters as he thought
ought not to be made public.
The conduct of the civic authorities, in relation to the con •
demned sermon, was censured in the House of Commons by
Mr. Vernon Smith and Sir J. Graham, as well as in the
House of Lords.
The remainder of the evening was occupied with the ad-
journed debate on the third reading of the Income-tax. Mr.
Hume opposed it, and condemned the extravagant policy of
the Government. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave an
explanation of the machinery he is to employ, and its proba-
ble cost. After a prolonged debate the Bill was read a third
time, after a division, by 255 to 149, showing a majority of
106 for inflicting an Income-tax on us. Several amendments
were suggested by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which
were agreed to—one proposed by Mr. G. Ward was lost.
The Bill was then passed, and, being a money Bill, it is now
certain that it will become a law. The House adjourned a
Half-past Twelve.
PUBLIC OPINION. _

The leading articles of the Morning Journals are all on the
subject of the infamous attack made on Monday on the life of her
Majesty, on which public opinion is of course unanimous. The
Times says:—" Among the various reports that are given upon
the subject, it was not for some time decided whefner the pis-
tol actually went off, as we now find it did. The one great
point, however, about which all Englishmen must feel the
warmest anxiety, is happily clear—that the Queen herself
is uninjured. We are truly glad to find—what, indeed,
we should never have doubted—the zeal and anxiety with
which an assurance to this effect was everywhere sought
for. In the Houses of Lords and Commons, as on the spot
where this wretched man made his attempt, the earnest
and lively feeling which was elicited was such as to satisfy
the wishes of the most enthusiastically loyal of her
Majesty's subjects. We cannot for an instant suppose that
this miserable attempt is anything else than the wild
and causeless act of another lunatic. It is impossible_
or, at least, almost incredibly monstrous—that any one who is
mcraimstee.r of mind can
nimotiveshathve found motive o
ereisnoroom ;far such
nda as to
political ones, we are certainly far wrong in our estimate of
human, much more of English, character, if men are to be
found among us so transported by the little animosities of poli-
ties as to harbour murderous designs against such a Sovereign
as our present Queen—a Sovereign interesting, independent of
her own personal character, from her sex, her age, her circum-
stances—one, too, who has hitherto shown herself certainly not
more unfavourable than prudence warrants to those persons and
classes among whom alone any such political feelings exist as
could suggest such a crime. It is, however, the duty of those
who have her Majesty's safety under their charge to investigate
the matter as closely as if there existed no such prima facie
incredibility as we suppose."
The following is from the Post :—" The attack upon the
life of her Majesty, which excited last evening, throughout the
metropolis, one universal sentiment of horror and indignation,
will arouse a similar feeling in every part of the country. We
have collected, in another part of our paper, all the intelligence
to which we could obtain access as to the nature and circum-
stances of this atrocity. That our information is yet imperfect
will occasion no surprise, when it is recollected that one of the
first objects of a prudent Government on so deplorable an oc-
casion would naturally be to acquire information rather than to
impart it, and to take care that the yet undiscovered accom-
plices in this atrocious crime—supposing that there be any
should be detected and brought to condign punishment—even
at the expense of withholding for a brief season from the public
that knowledge of the details of tne odious occurrence which
it might be in the power of Government to communicate, and
which the country are panting to possess. Let us, for the
honour, we do not say merely of British loyalty, but of human
nature, cherish the hope that the perpetrator of this odious and
revolting crime may turn out to be a maniac, one who can be
shown, by the clearest svidence, to have been previously in a
state of mind which must, absolve him from responsibility. To
contemplate the possibility of such an act as was attempted last
night having been conceived by any rational being must be in-
tolerably painful. It is an idea from which the mind shrinks
with instinctive horror."
We take the following from the Chronicle:—" We feel
ashamed to have to record another attempt on the life of our
beloved Queen. We had thought that. if ever a human being
stood clear of all that couldpregoke the hand of violence, it was
her Majesty. Nothing has trans fired respecting the assassin
or his comexions. In another part' the paper we have laid
before our readers all that we have been able to collect re-
specting this most diabolical attempt, which must excite in
every breast feelings of strong indignation and abhorrence.
The Advertiser thus alludes to the same subject:—" Her
Majesty has had another escape from the hand of an assassin.
The particulars of the diabolical attempt, as well as of the
sensation created in both Houses of Parliament on its an-
nounccment, are detailed in their appropriate places. '1 he
horror instinctively excited by the act, however, must gradu-
ally change its character on the reflection that there can
scarcely exist any cause for its commission, save aberration of
intellect. Never did a Sovereign reign in this country upon
whom the affection and respect of the people concentred with
more true devotion and loyalty than these sen'iments now most
deservedly rest upon our present Queen. We do not believe
that throughout her 3lajesty's extensive dominions one indi-
vidual could be found to assail her life, unless under the influ-
ence g obapfsopmil some monstrous alienation of mind. The succession
being happily provided for, nothing could be gained in this re-
gard, unless—but the supposition is too extravagant and odious
to he for a moment entertained. A morbid desire of notoriety
has been most probably the motive of the attempt, in which
case some means should be devised to make the demented mis-
creant feel the full volume of the public execration. Instead
of having him, like Oxford, ' lionised' as an extraordinary
assassin, he should be made to feel that he is not so much an
object of curiosity as of disgust and abhorrence too strong to
afford a place even for pitp"
The Herald says e---" London was startled last evening with