The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-10
FOREIGN.
Arrival OF the Steamship Union.



line Of Ocean Mail Steamers. arrived yesterday from
Cherbourg France. after fine passage of sixteen days
She left that port on the 22d ut
She came up the bay in the afternoon between anG
o'clock in beautiful style. and fired the national salute
when the city She cheeed by the passenger,
and crews of the various vessels which she passed
The Union has black hull, and three masts and ap.
pears very much like the Great Western. She moves
handsomely and up the bay with good speed and
took her place at the Great Westerns dock in the Eas
river
The impression made by the new conner as she entered
the harbor, decidedly favorable and the officers and
passengers seemed greatly pleased with all that they saw
and heard Thus the In commercial relations
with La Belle France may be said to have fairly arrived
and hereafter to look for the French steamers
regularly as for the English mail packets
This line OF steamers composed of the following
ships. each of four hundred and ffty-horse power
Union. Philadelphia, New York, and Missouri
The second steamer Of this lne the Philadelphia was
ut Cherboug.
The intelligence brought by the Union is of very little
importance.
The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on the 18th
ut, with the bill destined proong the law passed last
February for the free entry under all flags of foreign
grain This law, as it originally stood, would have ex-
pred on the 3st October reservng to the ministry the
power OF prolonging it by an ordinance if this term
should seem insufficient.
ceved advice from Mayence that the proposition of the
French commissary to transport grain, -four and dry
vegetables free OF the Rhine river duty, has been
cepted by all the river governments, Professionally until
the LIST of September next
The price of bread in Paris was fixed as follows from
the nth June: Bread of the first quality, SIS centimes
the klegramme; I'd do, so centimes the killogramme
1t is diminuon of centmes for the first quality and
of centimes for the second
The Greco Turkish difficulty is terminated by the sub
mission Of Greece to the conditions imposed by Turkey
The French Chamber of Peers, at the commencement
of its session, the 18th of June received commun
cation, by message from the Chamber of Deputies
which authorized the proceedings against M Emile de
Girardin, and it has ordered that M Girardn shall ap.
pear at its bar in four dayshat is say on the odd of
June.
The Belgian journals announce that King Leopold will
leave for London the 2st 22d of june his state
will permit him.
The harvests in France promise an abundant yield
1t is with pleasure that the receipt of the
first series OF correspondence from the continent OF
Europe. As the day of the departure of the French
steamer will in future be regular, dispatches will
hereafter be written upt the latest moment.
Paris, June Is, 1s47.
We are now drawing close to the termination OF the
parliamentary session, and the public asks, and asks in
vain, what has been done! There is no government in
the world-not even in Austria itscfso conservative as
that Of the present cabinet Of France 1t verfes strictly
the motto, ascnbed to it by its opponents, Rien,
rien--"Nothing, nothing, nothing" 1t literally does
nothing 1t belongs to what is here called the
vative party, but what in America would be called a
stationary party
The administrative part Of the United States govern
men has been often spoken OF as being liable TO cor
rupon pecuaton, malversation. and abuse of patron
age; but the worst charges against sink into nsgn
canoe compared with those recently brought before the
public and the Chambers against the governments here
past and present An inquiry progress before the
Chamber Of PEERS in which former minister is charged
with granting CERTAIN rights ana privileges lS to inning
company gratis, to the amount in vaise Of about $780,
900 This is what is spoken Of as the Caberes affair
person through whose fundamentally the negotiation
conducted This inquiry had not proceeded far when
to the establishment Of the public, and the CONSERVATION
Chamber OF Deputies, and principal editor and proprietor
OF the journal called La Pressepublished in that paper
direct charge against the present cabinet the substance of
which was, in fact that they had opened shop for the
sale OF every description of ministerial patronage and ia
and at which there regular tariff of prices
The circumstances which led to this extraordinary dis
closure are curious, and exhibit in striking point of
view the vast Influence ascribcd 10 journalism in France
Last year newspaper on unusually large scale mag
s nnde and s adya%ops the %Gs
soon known ministerial journal, and understood
to be more particularly the personal organ OF NJ Guzot
After being continued for several months, the crcuIa
ton, though considerable, falling far short of the ex
penses and the shareholders becoming impatient under
the calls coming rapidly upon them, and hearing Of
IL "a
was finally resolved TO sell the enterprise by ancon
This was accordingly done, and Nj. Emile de Girardin /
became the purchaser OF the good WILL the subscription
list and all the goods and chattes Of the unfortunate
EPoque. He incorporated it with the Presse, and so |
ended the Epoque A few months later NJ de Girardin,
who is one OF the leaders of that party in the Chambers
called the "young conservatives" by soe and the spro
gressve conservatives" by others, and who had with
that party generally supported M Guizots ministry being
ded against it on several questions the Chambers and
finally became the most bitter political opponents of their
former friend, M Guzo both in the Chambers and in
the Presse La Prose- which lately had advocated the
measures OF NJ GuZot now opposed him; and, like all
Tenegades from party became the most bitter and pitt
less of all his opponents Matters being brought to this
state, there appeared within the last few weeks the a
in express terms, with permitting the ministerial patron
age to be publicly sold, and declaring that the editors of
that journal were in condition snbsanate the charge
by documents In word, appears that purchasing
the Epogue, NJ de Giarn found in the books and docu
mens of that concern evidence that every sort of patron
age was publicly sold at its bureauprveges of patents
OF theatres, concessions for public companies audiences
Of the minister's of the legion of honor and in
fine, blank promises of the peeage! THE tariff OF these
to open new opera house. sold for twenty thousand
dollars The price of the promise of peerage was only
sixteen thousand dOllars II is not pretended that the
money, exacted in this manner found its way in all
cases, or altogether, to the pockets of the funcSonares
who really exercise the patronage. II was a sort of
doncer, paid to the journal for its interest in attaining
the objects of the payer of the fee Just as peope ho
confer avos, sometimes wink at their servants receivnS
qualification from those on whom the favor il con-
ferred.
When this announcement appeared in La Presse il |
publicly noticed in the Chamber of Peers: and that