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Some of the Paris journals again allude to the statement of
the Courrier Francais respecting the communication said to
have been made by the Emperor of fIUSSia-tiithe Government
of the United States. The ats!itutiounel expresses its be-
ief that the statement is essentially true. It says---tt The
inquiries which we have made lead us to consider as cor-
rect in every respeet, at least
,in its main features, the in-
formation of the Courrier Francais relative to the la cent
e.imrnunicatinns of Russia with America, respecting the right
of search. The following is the true history of the affair :
Previously to July 15, 1840, a close friendship, founded on
their hatred of England, united Russia and America. It' was,
to use the piquant expression of a certain statesman, a sort of
Carlo-Republican alliance against the aristocratic Govern-
ment. of Great Britain. Since 1840 Russia is so pleased with
having detached England from France, that she has crone all
she could to manifest kiriciness and geoil-will to her new
illy. It has been a sort of honeymoon of the union formed
at our expense; and the warning which Itu,sia has just given
to America is one of the pledges of the deep affection which
Russia feels for England. M. de Bruns.w has informed Mr.
Everittt, die representative of the United States in London,
that .Anterica is not to expect Any support from the Cabinet of
St. Perersburgh in her plans of offering opposition to the rialit
of search, the said C,,binet being determined to' aid as much as
possible all efforts for rep6ssing the slave.tfade.
The Presse has the following yase subject :
",` Several of the journals have alltideit-',:aii-rt note,mentioued
by the Courrier Francais, relating to a diplomatic communi-
cation, made, it is said, by the Russian 'Government to the
United States, giving. them notice oat to'count on the perse-
verance of France in her refusal to ratify the right of search.
We had received information of this nate before it was
alluded to by the Courrier, but we . did .not attach to it any
great importance. Supposing the communication to be au-
thentic, it is evident that it refers to a period, since which the
question has coasiplelely changed its character. Since then,
in fact, revelations have been - made by French vessels from
eve ry quarter—public opinion has been declared energetically,
and with unanimity—the Chamber of Peers has given its ad-
hesion to the opinion manifested by the other Chambe
Whatever, therefore, might have been the intention of the
French Cabinet, at the period when the communication was
made, it is evident that it must be very different at present.
It is also clear that there is not a Minister in France who is
not perfectly aware that, in ratifying the treaty of December 20,.
he was preparing his own impeachment. The question, then,
.s no longer. the same, and were a struggle to commence on
the part, of the United States against the pretensions of Eng-
land to search their vestels and press their sailors, we believe
that they might reckon en the support of France, or at least on
her neutrality, if neutrality be possible in such a conflict.
The annual report made to the.iharcholders of the Frankfort
and Mentz Railroad for 1841 shows the following results :
Dnring the Tar the number of passengers was 769,581, or an
ave age of 2,103 a day, being an increase of 103,549 upon the
preceding year. There were also conveyed by it 1,193 car-
riages, 1,164 head of cattle, and 2,390 dogs. The receipts
amounted to 425,693 florins, or 915,240 h-, an average of
2,511 f. a day. The net profit was 441,546 f., yielding a di-
vidend of 6 per cent. to the shareholders, and leaving 24,000
florins, or about 50,000 f., to be added to the reserved fund.
A cabinet courier arrived at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
from London, on Monday, and en Tuesday morning M. Guizot
had a longeonference with Lard Cowley, at the English Em-
bassy, after which he proceeded to wait upon the King. At
half-past twelve a Cabinet Council, at which Marshal Soult pre-
sided, was held at the Ministry of War.
We find the follow ing from Constantinoi,le, March 30, in the
Augsburgh Gazette: Sir Stratford Canning his addressed
to the Porte a note, demanding explanations respecting the 6,000
Albanians embarked at Vole, and other ports of the Archipe-
lago. The Divan hastened to reply that these Albanians were
intended for the coasts of Syria, to reinforce the towns
of that province. A few days after the Grand Viliet proposed
to Sir S. Canning to regal unconditionally Omer Paella. The
An,bassador replied that the recta of the Paella was but a se-
condary matter, and that England wished, above all, to see the
former order of things re-established in Syria, viz., the resto-
ration of the Christian Princes, and the dismis.sal of all the
Turkish authorities.
PAT:MIMI/MN TAM Y.

The Loris showed themselves energetic men of business last
night, and passed the Corn-keeping-out Bill through the Com-'
tinttee in the short space of two hours and a half. The Earl of
Stanhope and Lord Beaumont proposed some amendments, but
on diScussion they were defeated, and the Bill was reported
without amendments. It is ordered to be read a third time
this day,. In the course of the discussion the ~Marquis of
Clanricarde said, in accounting for the much higher protection
conceded to wheat than barley or oats, that it ss-as rumoured
that the highest rate of duty intended for wheat was 165., but
the landlords could not stand that, and therefore the protection
for wheat was raised to 205., and the protection for barley
and oats left as it was at first proposed. The Earl of Ripon
said that story might do in the Clubs, but the Cabinet knew
better. Their Lordships rose at Eight o'Clock.
In the Commons the Election Committee for Wakefield re-
ported that they had seated Mr. Laseelles, and unseated Mr.
nodsworth.
—Mr Mason drew the attention of the House to the case of
Mr. Lucas. but after an explanation from Mr. Pakingtou, that
unhappy victim to his own forgetfulness, er to his desire to
deceive, obtained not the prayer of his petition. 'The Ipswich
Committee would not hear him again, and he remains com-
mitted to Newgate.
Mr. Sharman Crawford brought forward his motion for ex-
tending the suffrage. Several of the Liberal Members spoke
energetically in support of the motion. Sir James Graham
opposed it, becau:e to admit numbers into the Crlnstitution would
destroy the Peerage. That would be an excellent argument if
the Peers could destroy the influence and power'of numbers ;
but as they cannot do this, to withhold their rightOrom numbers,
will only compel numbers to take their rights. The power
of numbers cannot be resisted, anti including or excludiug
them from the Constitution is simply a question whether they
shall be admitted quietly, or be admitted by force.
The Peers and the Tories cannot keep them out. -Sir
Robert Peel and Lord Stanley took the same view as Su-
James Graham, showing thst, however the Whigs may have
sought to beguile the people, the Tories are determined to
oppress them. The I-louse was occupied with this subject
during t'se whole evening. On a division the numbers were,
226 and 67, Mr. Crawford losing his motion by;lso.
The 1-louse Adjourned at a Quarter past Twelve.
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The Post says :—" The Income-tax Bill has been published;
and, though we do not mean to join the class of grumblers, yet
we may, perhaps, be permitted to say that it is by no means a
soothing or delcifying document. Comparing it with the
speeches which have been made regarding the proposed tax, it
reminds us of the bitter physic which frequently comes after an
interview, rather cheering than otherwise, with the doctor.
To say the truth, however, we cannot pretend to have any very
distinct understanding of what the Bill means. We wish that
when such interesting Parliamentary Bills as these are pub.
lished, there were sent round with them a breviate, contain-
ing a translation of the barbarisms of legislative language into
plain, popular, intelligible English. lisw long must we wait
until the public shall not only perceive, but act upon the per-
ception, that the technical language of lawyer-craft is a nui-
sance, and that the aim of Acts of Parliament ought to be,
in respect to language, strict accuracy, combined with pepu.
lar intelligibleness? We are very far from wishing that
every man shall be able to be his own lawyer, but when
laws are made which the people generally are bound to
obey, and especially when laws are made to take money
out of our pockets, it were but fair that the language
of them should be as intelligible as possible. In the new Bill
there is an immense deal about the occupation of lands, tene-
menta,andhereditaments, and there is a clause taxing all pro-
perty in England with threepence-halfpenny in the pound in
respect of the occupation of the same. Is it really intended, then,
that we shall have to pay threepence-halfpenny in the pound
upon the tents of the houses we occupy? If this he so, it is a
tax not upon income, but upon out-going ! We at first thought
that perhaps the clause applied only to,armers, who are not to
pay upon their profits, but in proportion to the rent paid for oe-
euprlion. But afterwards we found the word house, and dwel-
ling-house, repeatedly used ; and one clause provides that when
houses are divided into different properties, each occupier shall
be charged separately. There are abundance of other clauses
somewhat startling; as well as this, in relation to the occupying
of tenements, but we would fain hope that, apart from lawyer-
eraft technicalities, no greater tax is intended than what has
been described in the Ministerial speeches. We think we know
enough of Sir Robert Peel to be tolerably confident that he
will not support any unreasonable severity. We wish he could
have put his proposition into a legislative shape that would have
been more intelligible and less alarming." • •
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ing, constitutional reform is impossible, while without reform
we can have little chance of seen; an end to that class legis-
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than that in which we sre at present. It ought to be constantly
borne in mind, that to extend the franchise is much easier than
when it is or.ce extended, again to narrow it. It sounds harsh
to say that any portion of the adult male population of the realm
should be excluded from the suffrage ; but if, by communicat-
ing the suffrage to all the adult male population, the power of
the really independent and intelligent part of the community
should be diminished, the interest of the whole would demand
a partial exclus:on. Were ,England pat celle4 out Into electoral
district!, we are not sure that this would not be giving to the
squires and the parsons a much greater power than that which
they now possess."
The Herold thus refers to the Income-tax :—" The ma-
chinery by which the duty is to he .levied Will give to every
person pas•essing an incoMe exceeding 110/. a year, a new
subject of thouslit, an additional matter of business, a new
point of vexation, and a feeling of permanent uneasiness. It
is impossible to collect a tax on ineome without inquisitorial,
oppressive, and vexatious powers, and nothing but the appar nt
impossibility of righting the public finances in any other way,
strut one to which the country has repeatedly refused to resort,
and of contemporaneously stimulating trade, and reducing the
cost of livirg and producing, could inAtuce the nation to tolerate
so great a nuisance as that which will be erected by the Income-
tax Bill. We distrusted from the first the ability of Ministers
to extract the more monstrous provisions from the machinery
of assessing and codecting a tax on income ; and our distrust is
now confirmed. The provisions of the present Bill are liable
to most of the objections which were urged against former
Acts, though certainly some stipulations have been introduced
to mitigate the mischiefs which occurred under the old law
when ha force. But these stipulations appear to be more likely
to he useful to the rich and well-informed than to the poorer
and less active-minded, to whom exposure of private affairs is
matter of greater importance."
We take the following from the Advertiser Mr. Shar-
man Crawford's motion in the House of Commons last night,
though pre-doomed to insulting rejection, must do essential
service to the State, by enabling the people to distingui ,h be-