The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-19

| This year, an enormous, and unexampled
advance has been made towards the destruction
of national antipathiss and prejudces | ask
pardon, Messeurs, for having 80 long trespas-
sed upon your patience Cries Of +" No no, =
and I" Bravo.") thank you from the bottom OF
my heart for the obliging attention with which
you have listened to me- and ask permission
TO drink, in bumper of this wine (raising a
glass Of champagne one Of the most delicious
products of your soil-to " The political, social
and commercial prosperity of the city Of Paris y
| Immense cheering)
| This speech was delivered in elegant French,
and was received throughout with the utmost
enthusiasm.
When the applause had ST bsded, NJ. Lanque
tin, the president of the municipal council, Of
fered as toast " The city and municipality Of
London" preceding it by few happy remarks,
which were responded to in the same spirit by
the Lord Mayor, who proposed the Health Of
the project OF the Seine and the prosperity of the
city of Paris" This toast was drunk enthu
siastically by the English guests, who gave nine
hearty cheers.
The banquet closed at half-past nine, and the
guests withdrew to other apartments, where
number of ladies' were assembled. One of the
gorgeous saloons Of the hotel was fitted up as a
theatre where LIE Medcin Magre Lu' was
performed by the best actors; and the banquet
ing hall, cleared of table. and with an orchestra
suddenly erected as if by magic at one end of
it, was the scene of Il concert given by the Con-
servatoire.
To the entertainments which followed the
banquet, about two thousand persons were in
vited, being composed of the elite of the society
at present in Paris.
On Sunday afternoon the Lord Mayor went
to Versailles; on Monday. the guests were to
be with the President of the republic at st.
Cloud Tuesday morning, with Lord and Lady
Normally; Tuesday evening, Hotel de Vile
again; and on Wednesday sham fight and re-
view, on a scale of great magnifcence, were to
take place in their honor.
The municipal council voted sum of IL ,00Of
to be divided among the IL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, in
order that the poor should not be forgotten in
the fetes of the ensuing week.
From the Manchester (Engish) Times, Aug. 6.
The RELEASE OF KossUrH.-It will be OBJ
served, we are quite sure, with pleasure, by all
parties and classes of Englishmen, that Lord
Palnersion has announced 10 The House of Com
mons he intention of the Turkish Porte 10 release
Kossuth and the feao remaining Hungarians
from, their confinement in ASH Minor. We have
never doubted the sincerity of our foreign min
isters frequent profea lions of concern for the
harsh treatment of the refugees, any more than
the disapproval he expressed, during the conflict,
of the conduct of Austria in violating the Hun
garian constitution. Indeed, the published cor
respondence of our diplomacy during the few
months that followed the end of the war, is
enough to prove that valid efforts were made by
Lord Ponsonby at Vienna, and by Sir c. Canning
at Constantinople, to protect-the fugitives from
being delivered up to the Gar and to Haynau
which mus, have been the case had not the Sui
tan of Turkey been backed in his refusal by the
effectual support of Great Britain, and secondly
of France. Notwithstanding menacng ntima
ton, which is put forth in one of ne Vienna
journals, we do not apprehend that the peace of
the continent will risk any fresh disturbance by
the liberation of these objects of tyranncaI sus-
picon. The Austrian government, which, be-
sides, is financially incapacitated from warlikc
undertaking, would surely not venture, on
grounds so trivial, to attempt to punish Turkey
for an act done at the urgent request of this
country. We should rather anticipate that Aus
tria might seek to dictate some conditions, such
as to pledge on the part of Kossuth to abstain
from any future action in the affairs of Hungary ;
and so endeavor to find a pretext for tardy
and ungracous assent to his freedom.
THE FRENCH REPuBLIc.
On Thursday, the 3lst ult, the following
twenty-five members of the les islative assembly
were elected to form the commission of per-
manence during the vacation:
Didier, General Changarnier, Dufougerais,
Souvaire, Barthelemy, De Moatigny, Berger,
Vitet, Poujouat, De Melun, Pas Y, Druet- Des-
vaux, D'Olivier, Gouin, Bernard, De Montebelo,
Bocher De la Tourette, Admiral Cece, Rul
lere, Hubert De Lisle, Boinvilliers, De Kermarec,
De Bar, Grouchy, and De Mortemart.
This is the list which was prepared, in spirit
of Cancellation by the three conservative clubs
in the hope that, by avoiding the nomination of
men belonging to the extreme factions, better
spirit might prevail between the commission and
the executive.
The court of assze Of Donai have Just con-
demned the publisher of the Voir'da Poscrit to
three months imprisonment, and 500f fine, for
two seditious articles NJ Cremieux pleaded
for the defendant
Charles Hugo, editor of the Epenem emf, is
lodged in the Conciergerie, to undergo the i'm
prisonment to which he had been sentenced for
an attack on the respect due to the law.
Another candestine printing press has been
seized.
In the legislative assembly, on Saturday, the
bill to enable the city of Paris to borrow fifty
millions of francs, for the purpose of carrying on
the improvements in the city, was carried by an
immense majority.
Nj. Delthel ministerialist, has been returned
for the department of the Lot. Several of the
late elections have terminated in similar results !;
30 that the present government may be said to
be rapidly increasing in strength.
The declining trade of the capital and the
provinces has wonderfully increased during the
past few days, owing to the great influx of for
eigners, particularly English.
The accounts of the wheat crops this week are
much more favorable than those previously re-
ceived. The ensuing vintage, too, it is thought
will be equal to fair average crop.
The Journal de la Niepre says We were
far from having been aware Of the full extent of
the disasters caused by the late hurricane, when
we spoke of il two days back. The project
who at once visited the communes which were
devastated is described as having been much
shocked at what he saw, and he Immediately