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ed their offices. The Farl of Malmesbury called upon Sarl Granville in the. of afternoon.” 1 as literally embraced the first half of this ¢ Seomene and which was last night ost elude, The above, in addition to the intelligence in the | deserved an ampler and richer Tribute > Segre our@ew fourth edi: on of the Heradd, is the latest official re- | foreign Seeretary seemed able to bestow. Lord John of the uninisterial proceedings. ir FES ceeded sae Les leading agile: HA Peed. Rassell.epoke well, but he took care to leave some be - He left the words ‘free trade,’ ‘exten- Diy the reform of the law is the only department | sion of suffrage, and e,’ a8 the grounds on which Earl Grey’s government can make active progress in..| he meant to his d, in or out of office. Very ‘This reform may proceed without embarrassment to | well. It was natural to say this. It was more; it the administration in other matters. Let us give a was unnecessary. But we trast these are not tho free scope to our friends—let us trust them. We have our ephere—they have theirs. Our sphere is, the trusting—theirs, the Houses of Parliament. Let ug take care to return no unfit or doubtful person— no man who we do not know to be a firm Protestant and a firm protectionist. Let us return none but such, and we shall be ina condition to have our official friends perfectly at liberty to act as cirewm- stances and their ompguiamant shall direct.”* The Sun says :—** Nothing better, even a cursory glance at the list, can be more improbable than the stability of any ministerial group, so incongruous if character, eo hastily collected together, and 20 strangely inexperienced in come of the “ impor- tant among the variour departments of Downing street.” [From the Lon jon Herald, Feb. 24.) We have now the plessant task of announcing to our readers that Lord Derby has completed the fo - mation of the cabinet, and settled mostof the minor arrangements usually consequent upon a change of adminirtiation. We are conf of every -v mongst reflecting men, ‘2 hoble or common whether commercial, manufacturing, or agricul- tural—it will be readily admitted ¢ environed asthe countvy is at this time, both at home and in the colon’ with social evils of no ordinary kind, and with a cloud of danger impending ove our head abroad, it is desirable we should 2a inister ne helm of the State, who has sagacity and talent to weather the storm and to pilot the veescl through the breakers which surroand us ; and we fearlessly ask where can be found her j s dominions a man better fe task he hk k zB r, who has & nobleman, the descendant of o talented diplom eure the respect rmments, both in and out of nt and ability worthy Wo mean the rt n as these cann il vs of this great country Parliament of bis ille Malinesb! s8 of her Ma, become of who that dead; tectionist M ing in Downi simple impo iy id‘ that the last man to whom the Queen w management of the government 1° momont the Earl of Derby—totally modern stalermen—who is utterly incapable of saying one thing and meaning another — who will not trim sails to suit the f . the moment —Lord Derby. we is ment, with his Cabinet formed, quietly settled in Downing-strect. and prepared to carry ont those measures he conceives best for the honor and dignity ef the throne and for the public interest. Are we to be told, then, as we haye bee be told again, that to restore protection to industry is to set class egainst class—manufacturer against agriculturi Very likely such may be the game that will be attempted by some of the rabid freetraders to gull and mislead the public : but Bug lishmen like fair play, and we have uc of rexult. Lord Derby has not the sli tent of setting class against class—of er 1g & mono- poly for the landed interest and depressing the ma- facturing. On the contrary, he is thorough!y eon- vinced that all the great interests of the country, shipping, commercial, manufaccuring, and agrieultu- ral, are intimately connected eech with the other— that mannfacturers cannot prosper if farmers aro stary- ing, and that agriculture thrives most when trade and commerce are prosperous. Lord Derby is, therefore, desirous that each class should have that fair protection and assistance from the State as may be most conducive to the advantage of all, ostablisli- ing no monopoly, but taking care that British labor and British capital shall be encouraged and pro- tected in preference to that of the foreigner. Should Lord Derby carry on the government in thie spirit, as he has told us he will—and who can doubt the assertion of a man of such nice and scra- pulous honor?—we ask again, fearlessly, wil! not the British people prefer such # man, and such government, to ihe late set of wretched incapables —men who were unsettling everything, and con selidating nothing—-men who have retired from office, we may say, almost by universal consent, and hardly leaving a friend behind them ? ad may j too abeurd not to be | wife is a daughter of the late Spencer Percival, wh mere watehwords of a war to be immediately forced onthe new government, because, if they are, they may possibly, to some extent, defeat their own pur- pores. IMPORTANT MEETING OF LIBERAL MEMBERS OF TB HOUSE OF COMMON’ [From the Manchester Times, Feb, 21.) Amecting of beral members, convened by clreular igned by Mr. Hume, was held yesterday afternoon, in Committee-room No, 9, at consider the course to be taken by them in reference to the bill for amending the representation. There were dhe following ~~ Mr. Wiiliame, fr. Mr. Kershaw, Mr. Pertoot, Fox, 4 re Mr. Sadleir, My. Locke King, Mr. W. Clay, Mr. Maher, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Crawf Koobuek, Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr. Green, Mr. B. Mr. oe i ort. uch following resolutions were b gre: and Mr. Hume was re- an interviow with Lord John Russell, aad ore him the the gentlemen wito at tended the meeting. be tield after the intery understand that a consid f After agreed to ral ally in that part the the United 4 notoriously corcupt thereby preventing the by reai value bills now chi ement of iand mi nt and dependent Loroughs is mo: oxi to a free system of irable th lida cousidered as one bees TOMES OF THE MINISTERS, » Lord John Stanloy. d, and Secre & wember of th he subsequeatiy 1 prote ell.) Chiet for the 1 Chancellor, llor in Teel knowledg pated tor 1 itical view 4 le Lonsdale, President of the Council, Lansdowne.) age 63. Has held and was at one time offices, but a den when he w: t twenty years candidate for one of n borough Mr. Walpole, Secretary of State for the Department, (Vice Sir George Grey), age 46. wus Prime Mi ster in 1509, and was assassinated in the lobby of + f » House of Commons. Mr. Walp RC at the bar, but is otherwise unknown Sarl of Malmesbury, Secretary of State for cn Affairs, (vice Earl Granville), age 44 mn bury, who received his s of State for the Co- Member for Droit- oily unknown, ex- 1 Grey), age A country gentleman w! cept ag a staunch protectionist. Mr. Hi President of the Board of Control, (vice Lord Broughton), age about 70. Has hel variety of offices under former tory administrations and was Chancellor of the Exchequer for a short pe- riod in 1827, Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of the Ad- miralty, (vice Sir F. Baring) age 60. Has belonged to the navel profession, and became a rear admiral in 1860. His mother, the dowager duchess, was go- verness to the Queen. Mr. Henley, President of the Board of Trade, (vice Mr. Labouchere) age 59. Member for Oxtord- shire—never before in office. The Uarl of Hardwicke, Postmaster General, (vice the Marquis of Clanricarde) age 53. Belongs to the naval profession. true. We occasionally mect with events in rea! life of a startling and grotesque complexion, that fairly @istance all a priori reasoning, wud which find their best title to belief in the utter impos:ibitity thay the boldest romancer would have darcd to fathor them. The domestic careers of Henry VIII. and George IV., the return from Elba, or Louis Na leon’s coup d'etat, will be accepted, from generation to generation, by a posterity that exhausts its criti ea) ekepticiem on the common-place details of ordi- a legielation. n the same principle, a good deal of uncertainty has prevailed for the last two or three days, on the exact poste in the new admin- istration assigned to Mr. Disraeli and Lord Lynd- burst. But Lord Malmsbury’s installation at the Foreign Office, and that of Sir John Pakington at the Colo- nies, obtained universal credence, inasmuch as no- body would have taken the trouble to invent what Jooked so like a dull and pointless fiction. The au- dacity of these appointments thoroughly eclipses all antecedent ideas of a Prime Minister's responsibility. If the petitioners for office had shaken their names in a bag, it is out of the question to imagine that ously unfit for their several posts; nor indeed are we uite sure that we could have been worse off if the . F. Younge and Bookers had been allowed fuir pey, and pal pee oy cabinet been drawn by t in @ general congregation of the whole party. After one orator in the Lords, whose name, bear- ing, and eloquence distinguish him ag @ natural chief among English gentlemen, and one man of ge- ius inthe Commons—after Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli—we toil in vain for asingle element of statesmanship down the dreary catalogue ef the hacks, dandies, and justices of the peace, who occu- py & prominent half column in sheet of our «morning contemporaries. Well may we say, Cre- dimus quia impossible! There is no balking the fact that the empire is at this moment at the dispe- sal of such a set of ignotabilitics as could not be matched in all George IlI.’s Ministers, and whose eventful rise to power has been treated for the last twenty years as the wildest of dreams and the most desperate of impossibilities. | The London Times is evidently getting ready to Support the new ministry, as we inter from the fol- lowing extracts from au article announcing the ap- pointments:— “ Noone can read the list before us without anply- ing some measure of fitness and standard of ab ¥ and in the remarks we have to make we merely anti- cipate the spontuneous reflections of most of our readers. No one can doubt that Mr. Disraeli is the Lord John Manne und Forests, (vice Lord Seymour) age 34. for Colchester. Opposed Baron Rothschild for Lon- don, in 1549, and was defeated by an immense ma- jority. Author of various small pamphlets und poems. : The Earl of Eglintoun, Lord Lieutenant of Tre- land, (vice Lord Clarendon) age 40. Known in con- else. ‘The Last Speech of Lord John Russell. question that the orders of the day be read, Lord J. Russvvt rose and tomake. Ata me cumbent on us to pursue. vote of the previous night. course that we declined to recommend it to the Crown. We therefore determined humbly to lay our resignations before Her Majesty, which Iaccord- ingly did the sameafternoon. Her Majeety was gra- ciously pleased to accept our resignations, and sent for the Earl of Derby, who, I understand, has un- dertaken the task of forming the government. We therefore only hold our offices until our successors are appointed by Her Majesty. After this siatement do not wish to recur to the various events which have taken place since the commencement of this session, and which may form, perhaps, the subject of debate hereafter; but I cannot conclude what J have to say on this occa- sion, without expressing my sincere thanks to those who supported Her Majesty’s government, (hear, bear,) and who, during upwards of five years, have enabled me to support & position, to which, f must confess, J should otherwise have been totally ua- equal. Having had their confidence, and having had the advantage of their support, I have been enabled, during tuut period, so to conduct affairs that we shall ne » any great branch, either of domestic reign relations. in a situation of which we need be at all ashamed. (Cheers.) I wish further with respect to one of my col- leagues, to whom lam peculiarly indebted, that it to the temperate wisdom and respected character of the Marquis of.Lansdowne (cheers) that the go- leay man to lead the House of Commons; but he certainly has consulted rather his ambition than kis genius ip his selection of office. It is very true that he hag dived to the depths and flown to the heights of finan- cia] theory; but the Chancellorof the Exchequer has not merely to make projects or elucidate maxims of finance—he has also to learn and comprehend the numerous relations between the commerce and the revenue of the country, to.make elaborate financial expositions, and to be prepared «with replies.on any complicated question of details whiah convenience or even malice may suggest. In preparing for euch tasks Mr. Disraeli wil! at least work against the grain, and he will possibly find it diffeult to be both 2 wit and a Chancellor ¢f the Exchequer. Perhaps this is uot his own choice Mr. Thomas Baring has declined the post for the reasons we mentioned yesterday, and we must say that in so doing, he has neither done justice to his party hor to his own character. A man who claims 2 political position is bound to make sacrifices and run risks. If Mr. T. Baring thinks the Chan- cellorehip of the Exchequer a ‘let down’ for a wealthy merchant, or if he has a slight opinion fd oe 8 prospects, and will not inconveaience himself for a short of office, he ie scarcely acting wp to the British estimate of politicalor party obligation. Hie absence from the list is likely to be a serious injury to his friends, as they cannot but feel. Mr. Walpole is a man of talent and attainment, but his fit- ness for the Home Office is far too speculative a quee- vernment owe Luo facility .of being eble to earry lueusures us gical importanee through the House of Lords, where @ ministry composed from the pouty to which I belong, has not hitherto ad the support .of the majority. (Hear, lear.) Asi have before said, Ldo not wish now. to recur to events, or to dilate upon anything which might raise a difference of opinion in this House; as to the future, f shall only say.that I shall think it my duty lo oppose of office, as I have in office, uny oration. of th on corn (loud under the name of protection or of d cbheers;) and that# shall think it my duty to support the extension of the suffrage to those who are fitwd to exercise the franchise for the welfare of the country, believing that such an ex- tension will add strength and solidity to our Parlia- mentary eystem. (Cheers.) 1 will say further, that I shall always use the little influence I may possese for the maintenance of the blessings of peace. (Hear, bear.) J have now only to add, that since I came into the House I have had a communication from the Earl Ligh ag that it was bis wish, fr the couvenicuce of the official arrangements which he is charged to make by her Majesty, that the House should adjourn to Friday next; and, in compliance with that wish, and considering such a course most consistent with puslic convenience, } move that this bay at its rising, adjourn to Friday next. (Hear, ear. & The Refagecs in England, tion to be disenssed in this place. PRINCE ACHWARTZENBERG'S DESPATCH, The Earl of ry descends from a diplo- | | The following is the text of the despatch adilressed matist, and is said to be a sensible and clear-headed | by Prince Schwartzenberg to Count Buol-Schauen- man ; he is certainly not deficient in good temper; | Stein, Austrian Minister Plenipotentiary in England, but he hae undertaken an office which did not pase | to which reference wae made in the House of* Com from Palmerston even to Granville without ae mons last evening :~ wel Vienna, F. 4, 1862. misgivings. and which some recent incidents, as whe whole state of things in Europe, seem to prove the most responsible in the British cabinet, if not in cate to your Excellen Lord Granville has had the goodness fo communi- the despatch which he ad- the House of Commons, to | present a large number of metabers, among whom were | Mr. Wome, Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. B. Hall, Mr. Bright, Chief Commissioner of Woods Member sequence of the Eglintoun tournament, and oothing In the House of Commons, on the 23d ult., on the \— After the occur- rence which took place last Friday night, the House ‘wil be prepared for the announcement I have now ing of Her Majesty's servants on Saturday, we considered what course it was in- It appeared to us that it was impossible for us satisfactorily to carry on the business of the government in this House, after the We ¢ousidered the alternative of advising Her Majesty to use her_pro- rogative to dissolve Parliament; but we considered the euccessful candidates could have been more curi-¢@ that there were such grave objections to such a a controverry on the its employed in shis of the ma h of Lord Granville, sinee aelanter ver denied to England the exercise of the right of asylum in iteelf, Ai than we have pretended to dictate to the British government, which itself ie the most competent judge, the means which it should ewploy to obviate the flagrant abuse of this right. ii that we have demanded of the British m- ment (and we shall not cease to demand it) is, that it shall so manage (faire en sorte) that the political | refugees to whom it accords am asyluin shall not bo | allowed to pureue, uncer the shadow of the hospital- ity which they enjoy, machinations openly hostile | | to the States of the Continent, and especially to Austria. 3 } Lord Granville has been so good (a bien pe | ' to offer us on this subject an assurance that tho Bri- | tish government would not only regret, bat would | loudly condemn all attempts on the part of the | refugees (o excite insurrection in their original country—that it would continue te watch (surverller | the conduct of suspected refugees, and would see! by all legal means to hinder iene from abusing—to the detriment of governments in friendly alliance with Great Britain—the hospitality which the Eng- lish laws so generously accord to them. The Emperor in noting down (en prenant acte) these assurances, has pleasure in thence deriving a hope (aime a y puiser Vespoir) that the British go- vermmnent will henceforth know how to make move ample and rigorous use than it has hitherto done of the legal means at its disposal, and which it appears to judge sufficient to enable it to fulfil its interna- | tional duties with regard to the proceedings of the refugees. Atany rate (toutefots.) whilst waiting till these dispositions of the British government are followed by deeds (sovent suivies effet), the almost unlimi- | ted lib of action which the refugees have hither- | to enjoyed in Kngland, with regard to the revolu- | tionory plote, that a great number of them does not cease hing against the repose of the States of the C nent—imposes upon us, on our side, the duty of taking some measures of precaution, tend- ing to guard us against the annoyances (:nconve- ntens) and dangers of which that Uberty is the source. ThE imperial anthorities will henceforth ree order to redouble their v nee with regard to tra- vellers corning from England, and to execute strictly in relation to their pa the existing rules to which formerly, wv F other eiveum- it had becom frequent es in fav I Tie imperial nt, moreover, f the faculty of stane cepti ty reserees ny ut! g tuto consideration Mappily U Your Excellen copy of this d he need of them still t is charged -to read’ and give a hto Lord Grenville —Receive, Franee, ach governinent hi strated against ation duties on the without ‘ting France. The Prussian s replied that it was free to France to in the negotiations, but that there was no that gave her the right to interfere in the cial arrangements of Germany. arn. from a source which is entitled to respect, Lin the last two days M. Hubner, the Aus- nister in I ha da te interview with the President of the republic, at which Louis woleon spoke at considerable length on his future entions and poliey. We understand that he ex- Linself on the subject nearly in the follow- ns:—He, in the first place, declared that he was fuvorable to the maintenance of the present order of things i He etated emphatically that he was im fi peace, and that the thrones had no reason to feel any alarm with respect to his i i His princtpal wish was to extinguish nary spirit in France, and he was. wil- ling to assist foreign governments in accomplishing the same cbject in their dominions. But he at the same time was determined that France should have the amount of weight and influen Europe to which her advanced ci geographical yosition gave her a logitimate right. He therefore declared that if any oppressed nation should apply to him for assistance he should consi- Ger it his duty by all the pacific means in his power to obtain for it redress for its grievances. The Jews of Paris, headed by M. M. de Roths- child, and other distinguished persons of the sect, Tave just established a society at Paris for the study and propagation of the sacred sciences. Rooms bave been taken, in which religious instruction is given gratuitously to young men destined for the pacphsat) and in which Jews of all classes assem- int le to pray and hear religious books read. A rabbi is attached to the estublishment, and every Sunday M. Albert Cohn, a distinguished oriental scholar, makers of chairs is 4f. = stat ports em 8 special divist ioe trea and nament a5) ston of the ti reckon 64 masters and 369 workmen, who make on an average Sf, 0c. a day. ‘This speciality produced goods to the amount of 800.000f. a year. The branch of bu- siness, consisting of the carving and ernamenting artielos of furniture, employs an ense ef C22 masters and 1.125 workmen, who do business to the amount of 2200 000f. ‘The sawing establishments, by which the furniture ma- nufactories are supplied, ove! 847 persona, masters and workmen, and the amount of iness done is 2,202,000f. ‘The average rate of wages of the workmen is 4f. 25c.; hat ‘and the articles imthe | "Phe Seeret History of the Coup a’Etat of | Emperor course ofthe yest. The manufacturers of cbairs and fauten- Louis Nay francs, ils produce for an amount of about 7,000,000f. This applies [Prom the London 0, Peb. 16.) to the woodwork only, and the number of perwoas od On the other hand, informa: beariog every mark Of | cons: in it are about 3,459. The rate of ‘the suthentieity, has reached us, soeins to lead to the ie. and for, tarners of ghales make legs of (able in the year, The manufacture of bronze is another of the most important ‘ones of Paris; it produces for about 23,000.000f. annually. The average rate of wages is 4f. 18e, for men, and but very few women are enployed. October, Neyember, and December are the most busy mouths; the dead eeason Is from June to August,and from January to March, The upholstery trade is also a very important branch, It does business to the amount of 21,000,000f, annually, and occupies about 3.020 pervons, A number of these are women. The average rate of for men is 4f 32c., and for women if. dle, The wag! paperhanging trade is also a very important one in Paris SSndeed. it unay be called essentially a Parisian one, ‘There are engaged in it 141 masters, who employ 3,295 workmen, and do business to the amount of 10.000,000f. ‘The average rate of wages is 4f. 10c. a day, but the: dead season of about four months, The looking: trade in Paris occupies 722 amounte to about 5,000,000f. is 3f, 64e, a day. The uumber of workanen, employed in wood gilding amount of busines’ done 4,600.000f.; the workmen earn on an average Sf, 86¢, aday. The Tmaanufucturers of gas fittinge and of lamps do’ business to the amount of 12.000,000f, annually, and about 3.000 persons are em- glass eons, and the busines done ‘The average rate of wages raona, masters aud 1,310 men, and the ¢has the following on the approach- ing eleetions :— Scarecly seven days separate us from the solemn hour of the elections, as M, Berger, by a recent proclamation, nde us, France is in full peace, as one of the last unicated notes” of the Moniteur clearly proves. are in their normal state at Paris. Money is cir- yeople labor in the workshops, laugh’ in the and promenade in the grand toilette on the bou- ‘The press has only soft phrases like the sighs of the AMolian harp, At the Bourse, the Five per Cents have reached 103f, Ge. Everything announces a prosperous rituation; we » the return of the goldenage. And yet—how rtrange!—notwithstanding these indications of prosperity, Paris docs dot appear to think more of the ckcctions than of the diseovery of the squaring of the circle, V her placards of electoral committeds, nor cand circulars, nor voting papers. In the oldest times of the monarehy, the electors called on com ‘ors to explain themselves before them. Who uow thiuke of these old usages? No one. The most that people know is, that there are two or three journalists (MM. Amedee de Cesena and Louis Veron, for example) who think of the honor of sitting in the Palais Bourbon. Whence comes this inexplicable indifference? Philoso- phers and moralists—seck! A al has been said about the indifference of the Neepolitan people—has it pasred the Alps? : The receipts of the theatres which recieve subven- tion froin the government amounted, in December last, to 275,4G1f. 9-4¢e.; those of the secondary houses, to 372,957¢. 3 of the concerts, to 65,790f. 5c.; and of the curiosities, to 8,598f. 9%c.—making a total of 722,£03f. 16¢.; being 156,6971. 76c. less than in the preceding month. F The sums deposited in the Paris Savings Bank, during the past week, amounted to 780,455f., from 6,130 depositors; and the sums drawn out, to 851,814f. The famous picture gallery of the late Marshal Soult will be sold by auction at Paris, in May. In ad- dition to works of several of the great masters, it con- tains many of the best of Murillo, and of others of the Spavish school. When the old Marshal was com- manding in Spain, he helped himeelf, sans cérémonie, to every painting of real value which he could find in chateau, palace, convent, and church. mint commenced a coinage of 5f. pieces, bearing the effigy of the President of the republic. The likeness not etx considered a good one, only 3,000 coins were struck off. At present the dies have been re- touched, and the coinage will be immediately pro- ceeded with. A Paris correspondert of the Standard, writing under Gate of the 23d ult., says :—* The Parisian journals find something to write about on the subject of Lord Johu Russell's fall, Palmerston’s revenge, the English militia, and, as liberty of comment without fear of punishment is now a wonderful luxury and very comfortable indulgence, the papers preeent leading articles of a length not wit- nesred rince the coup delat,” ‘The change in the British ministry had no effoct on the Bourse. ‘The police have seized from 15.000 to 20,000 copies of an add to the electors of the Seine by M. Croce Spinel- li, on the ground that, having been sentenced to expul- rion, he is not a qualified candidate. M. Bocher will be reads and expluins passages from the Fathers of the Synagogue. At the time when the official seals were attached to the property of the mother of M. Thiers, who re- cently died at the Batignolles, and the inventory war taken, some articles were, it appears, purposely omitted to he entered in that document by the re- gistrar’s clerk. When the eeal were removed, this Person Was present, and contrived to slip some of these articles into his pocket, as he imagined, un- seen hy any of the parties present except a female, to secure whose silence he slipped some money into her hane. The woman, however, was not to be thus corrupted; she informed the commissary of police of the fact, and the clerk was charged with the theft. He at first positively denied the fact; but, on being searched, bis guilt was clearly proved. A sam of 1,500f. in gold, rolled up in bits of stuff, which were proved to have belonged to Mme. Thiers, was found on hii; further denial was useless, and he was sent to the Prefecture. The Paris papers announce the death, in that city, at the age of fifty-two, of Mr. Dezeimmeris, librarian of the Faculty of Medicine, and the writer of some well known works on the science of his pro- mn and on agriculture. The same journals state that Count Demidoff has announced to the Academy of Sciences in Paris, his intention to make a sojourn of three years in Sibe- ria—accompanied by artists, mon of letters and_sa- vans, to the number of twenty-five or twenty-six— and har asked for a Committee of the Academy to furnish him with a programme of the experiments and researches which he should institute in the in- terest of science. The Academy has acceded to his request. . Guizot, director, M. de Pongerville, chancel- lor, and M. Villemain, perpetual secretary of the French Academy, yesterday presented, as is the usage, their new colleague, M. de Montalembert, to. the President of the republic. The Patrie says:— sleveral journals have spoken of the creation of a new corps which, by its orgsnization and object, would re- remble the old Consular Guard. We think we can affism that this news is incorrect. he Paris correspondent of the London Times, writing under date of the 24th ult., says:— Notwithstanding the efforts made within the last few days, by the Ministerial journals, to show, from official returns, that the commerce not only of Paris, but of all France, is in a {ae rete state, it is certain that the Paris wholesale merchants are doing little or nothing. A slight movement has occurred amongst the retail dealers within the last week, owing to the Carnival bails, which generally occasion # considerable outlay of money even amongst those classes the least able to support such an expenditure. Accounts from the agricultural districts state that there is little speculation going forward in the price of wheat, but the tendency of the vaarkets is rather downwards, except in the north and in Picardy, where the stock in hand is greatly re- duced, an Lees are consequently less depressed. Rye isin good demand for exportation to Germany and Belgium. Flour is dull of sale, at from 50f. to 56f. the sack of 157 kilo; es. The cattle fairs continue to be well supplied, and both beef and mutton bring fair . At the last fair of Niort all the cattle of- fered for sale found purchasers. At the market of Sccaux, on Monday last, fat oxen were eagerl: sought for, and there wae a manifest improvement in price. There waxa eh decline in the price of veal. The improvement which was remarked in the iron trade has been. weintained, but it has not made any fur- ther progres. At the fuir of Besangon, which was held Jast week, there wae a considerable number of purehasers. “Not many sales were effected, the iron- masters asking 180f. the 1,000 kilogrammes for cast metal, for whic only 175f. were offered. The last letter® received from the departments of the Drome ard the Ardeche are more satisfactory than before. The gales effected by the manufacturers at Lyons, and Gaint-Etienne during the last eight daye, have induced the mill-owners to make further purchases of the raw material. Prices are well maintained at the wine market of a Me ie aa but a! consi, t from Buegundy. Letters from Nantes state that the market there‘has been more quiet, owing to the extensive sales proviously made. The follow- ing are the quotations of the prices of wines of the last vintage rae ved wine, of superior lity, 460f. to G00f. the hogshead; Bas Medoc, 260. 10.2008; Saint Exilion, first quality, from 230f. to 260f.; Saint Macaire, 165¢. to 1 6f.; white Haut- Saaterne, 850f. to ,; Bainte Croix du Mont, 125f. to 130f.; Petits Gravos, 180f. to 190f. At the fairof Condom and in the markets of Ey be gory pe ed were Iwasa paighanar porg second ity. Haut Asmagnac are quo! at 38f. 50.,and the Bas at 40f. New brandy was readily rold at Surgeres at from 52f. to 56f. the ic} ry the world. But the two most dressed'to the Earl of Westmoreland, under date | Déctolitre, without the cask. terme in this list are Bir John Pakington sat the of the 13th of January last, in answer to the ean ee ic continues its series of articles on the dif- Colonial Office. It isagreatdemand on our fuith to | teste (reclamations) which ‘you, M. le Comte, were | ferent branches of trade and ures in Paris. eu the active Worcestershire rate equal | charged to present to the government of her Britan- The rae a of Saturday wo find the following :-— to the tark of governing our fifty colotier, all tore | nic Majesty’ against the tolerance accorded in Eng- | ogzieZanuiacture c ry yt or less in a state of fection. However, we | land to the re! jutionary proceedings (menées revolu- | workmen. Their whites savomne th Yale seeteuis to are ready to believe, if we can. tionaires) of the political refugees who have found | 28,000,000f. This calculation is independent of the number We must to our regret, there has not been | an asylum in that country. of men who work at their own homes, and (hen hawk about much di , Still leas sentiment, in the public sur- The first part of this document (Lord Granville’s | for rale the articles they make either themaclves or by render from the old to the new. | despatch) turns on the high value which the English es and children in the street, the hotels, and There was very little of a scene in either House People attaches to the right of asylum, and on the It in remarkable that there is no bramteh of yesterday. Lord Derby was not in the Lords to | mot ‘explain,’ and the taek of acknowledging Lord Lansdowne’s leave ¢ office was scarcely adequate! Giecharged by vie substpiyte. 4 publig lify whic! ives which hin thinking oF Gouger as pheno’ Sere ae from presenting on Alien Bill to Parliament. We ¢9 ko} {9¢] oureelvce galled wpom to enter apon tobecome right, by | furniture. in which the passion is so strong among Ana ners in hed theirown masters, as in the cabin stnak ta and ‘The moment the men are able to colleer efile money to purchase the materials, they turn thay Toomer into worksbopspnd commence on theix own acoount, tried by the ordinary tribunal on.a charge of distributing seditious papers. these papers consisting of the letter of the testamentary exccutors of Louis Philippe to the Prince Prerident, with the letters of members of the ex-Royal family, relative to the confiscation decrees, The three perschs arrested with M. Bocher are charged with abet- ting the circulation of these so-called soditious writings, Scycral additional candidates have been named by the Prevident for seats in the “ Corps Legislature.”? ‘The Literte, of Lille. states that the decision relative to the jast of the prironers eonfined in the eitadel has just been carried into execution M. Quillanx has been re- stored unconditionally to liberty. M. Delwarles and M. Gramain, editors of the Echo du Nord. have reovived orders to name the department in which they will fix their re- sidence. those of the Seine and the Nord being, howover, interdicted to them, Orders have been already sent to Rochefort for clearing port of the convicts; 350 of them will be removed to Brest ina few days, of whom 120 will be embarked. at their own request. on board the Allier cor- The remainder will be An avoeut of Condorn, who is compromised in the Gers, was arrested a few days since at Bayonne, at the moment the bagne at that vette. to be taken to Cayenne, placed in the bagne at Brext. when he was preparing to cross the frontier into Spain. ‘M. Souesme. a landed proprictor at Montanzis, was sen- tenced to transportation by court martial in targis. on the 6th of December. when a Ne darmerie was killed. Chery-was sentenced to priscnment for five years. A decree from the President of the republic has just peared. making some further regulations relative to the uniforms appropriated to the members of the Senate -and of the Council of State. aris Correspondence of the London News. Feb. 24.] State, which bids fair to bring down an avalanche of Bo- napartist claims upon the treasury. Count Montholon has just sent in a little bill for his arrears of pay as a general since 1815. You may remember that Jerome Bo- naparte applied to tho Legisl ‘Assembly for a similar indemnity, and was obliged to withdraw his petition. The claim of Count Montholon has been referred toa com- tne which has appointed M. Villemain to report \ereon. Not the least important feature in the list of govern- ment candidates for the Corps food tao the absence of Dupin’s name, which was expected to Publishes the following definitive list of oppo- gent electors of ‘Paris, who read the independent press with the more avidity, now that it is. prevented. by brate force from speaking out. La France Napoleonienne has the following, which may be regarded as a somi-official announcement :—It is aaid to be certain that the state of in Paris willl be raised immediately after the of the Senate and the Corps Legislatif, The date of this convocation is not yet fixed. ‘The 20th of March and the Sth of May are spoken of. However, it uppears to be the intention of. (ET eens not to convoke the deliberative politi- jes IMPROVEMENTS OF PARIS. It would seem that inthe midst of coups d'etat, the Spann of M7 ml map mes and imperialism, the “Prince President’’ not forgotton for sasaity of ent one moment the employment to of able- they calculate on being out of work for about three months | In the course of the month of January, the Paris aris, on Sa- turday, for having taken past in a manifestation at Mou- ier of gen- o similar punishment; Zanote to imprisonment for ten years. and Chaineau, by @ majority of four voices to three, to im- P eecoeetan has just been presented to the Couneil of wtartling couclusion thet the whole of Louis Napoleon's ‘Presidential existence was one coutinuons and sustained for the overthrow of the republic, I! re- cent revelations may be eredited, he did not suffer a single week to elapse, after he becaine the elect of six mil- lions, before he -ed to a distinguished general to s- sist him in striking for empire, On the very day when he was formally proclaimed, and took the oath of office, he renewed the proposal. Not many weeks later (in Jan., 1849), considerable alarm was excited by rumors of a medi- tated rising of the republicans, backed by some battalions of the Garde Mobile. ‘The incipient insurrection was sup- pressed by the vigilance of Changarnicr. who repaired to the Hlysee, and reported that he could answer for the | safety of Paris, Upon hearing this, the President sug- gested that the movement was favorable for settling au- thority on a firmer basis, and he produced a proclama- tion, ready drawn, which Was supposed to differ little in essential points from the first with which the walls of | Paris were placarded on the morning of the 2d of Decom- | ber, Changarnier refused to look at it, and referred the Prince to his ministers, whom, it is said, he then sounded | as to bis scheme, but found them equally unwilling to | listen to it, At a subsequent period. when Changarnier was at the culminating point of his influence, this General received overture after overture of the same description from the Prince. He was offered to be made Constable of France, with 500,000 francs a year, aud the palace of the Elysee for his residence, Another offer, al- leged to have reached him through Persigny, raised the proffered appointments to a million of francs per aunt, A celebrated ex-minister was offered the rituation of ‘Arehtresorier under the future Emperor. Tt seems hardly credible, but_ we have also heard that the leading members of the Odilon Barrot Ministry. in- cluding its chief, were succeseively tempted and tampered with, Sometimes the coup was to be struck in concert with the party of order against the reds—sometimes in concert with the republicans against the Orleanists and legitimiste—sometimes in concert with Orleanists against legitimists, and then again for the ultimate protit of the legitimists against their adversaries of all shades or colors. To do the President justice, however, he never appears to have disguised his intention of cencentrating all the of Rusia tas ordered the fifty millions o which he invested in French Rentes in 1847, to be transferred to the Dutch funds, as he does not de? his money safe im France after the Orleans confiscation. the lettors from Paris, received to-day, tend to confirm the foregoing; they state that the warlike language of the Elyseans has, within the last few days, very mach changed, which is attributed to a despatch said to have been communicated to the French government from the government of Great Britain, to the effect that, in the cocnt ofa single French soldier entering the Belgian te rita, ie city of Antwerp and the forts on the Scheldt would be in- mediately cecupied by an army of 10,000 mea, with the concurrence of all the great powers of Europe, in cluding Russia. It appears from the united testimony of well-in- formed Paris and Belgian papers that the Prince de Baseano, French Ambassador extraordinary at our court, has been charged with the commission to de- iand from our Government the destruction of the Water- loo monuments, Ho is raid to have already discharged his commigsion, but not to have received au answer, It is scarcely necessary to call attention to the impor- tance and wide signiticance of this apparently secondary demand. It is not known whether it is this demand alone or whether other indications moy have had their influ- ence; but it is certain that the government begins to en- tertain serious thoughts of inimical feelings on the part of France, and is preparing for them. The Paris Presse says:— ‘The Belgian government has just adopted a measure by wiich all the Polish officers in the Belgian army will be dismissed, The execution of this mea » has alrealy commenced with a congé to General Kruzewski, More in- timate relations are expected between Belgium and Rus- sia, The Emperor Nicholas will, it is said, send a Minister Plenipotentiary to Brussels, and consent to a treaty of commerce with Belgium, i The Belgian Chamber, at the request of the min- isters, has forbidden the stenographie writers who rt the debates, and are paid by the State, to take part in the conduct or publication of any politi- cal periodical. The occasion of this injunction is the discovery made in the seizure of the Budletin powers of the State in his own person, or to have held any other language than what he holds now, as to the unfitness of the French people for parliamentary insti- tutions, and the superior beuefits—hourly growing more and more apocryphal—which they would derive. i When Gen sain Was first applied 0 take the ibility of putting his troops in motion against the A came through the regular channel so long as General Randon remained Mini this was impracticable. The difticulty was ¢ moved by the substitution of General St. Arn whose known antecedents left little doubt of his willing le co-operation. Why does not M. Granier de Cas- favor the world with biographical sketches al aidere and abettors in the coup—Persigny, St. Arnaud, de Morny, de Maupsas. V &e., &e.? It would not be the fault of the subject if the annalist did not turn out a Tacitus, “This government,’’ accord- ing to the Bulletin Francais, “whose high morality is daily maintained in the Monitew’, bas been hitherto mainly recruited from two categories, ordinarily not par- ticularly moral; to belong to it, one ought to be without, un acte de naissance en regle, or to have a tew protested bills in one’s pocket. These two categorier of persons not un- frequently form but one. General Leroy, commonly call- ed ¥t Arnaud. belongs at least to the latter.” His mili- tary career was, it is stated, twice on the point of being cut short by transactions of a compromising sort. It was to one of these that allusion was made in the printed let- ter of General Rulliere :—* In 1833, General Rulliere re- | fused to break the sword of Captain Leroy St. Arnaud, from unwillingness to dishonor him; in 1851, the Minister of War, Leroy St. Arnaud, not being able to dishonor General Rulliere, has broken his sword.’’ Colonel Fleury, when in Algiers discerned General St. Arnaud’s peculiar claims to eminence, and recommended him to the Pre- sident. M. de Maupas (according to the Bulletin Francais) earned the President's confidence by what may be termed a civil or administrative razzia of the most adventurous kind. In his capacity of Prefect of Toulouse, to which he was nominated by Louis Napoleon, he one day called on the magistrate who had the conduct of a process against ver- tain persons accused of an illicit assemblage, and proposed. to him to convert it into an affair of political importance, by characterizing it a» a conspiracy, and by joining in the accusation ie aa respectable inhabitants of the de- partment, including three members of the Conseil General. On being informed that there was not the semblance of a proof against either of them. he coolly proposed to supply the deficiency with the aid of a police agent from Paria, who would undertake to place papers, powder, and grenades: in their respective domiciles. The magistrate indignantly refused. and communicated what had passed to the chief judge of Toulouse, who at first disbelieved this story, and sent the Procureur General to M. de Maupas, who, with- out the smallest hesitation, repeated his suggestion, and accused the magistrate of undue squeamishness for objecting to it. ‘The chiefjudge made a note of the cire cumstances, and sent it to the Minister of Justice. The Minister of Justice waited with it on the President, who agreed that M. de Maupas must be instantly dismissed. Now comes the cream of the story, as told by the Bulletin. The Minister of Justice left the Elysee glowing with ad- miration for the noble sentiments of the head of the Ex- ecutive. and loudly censured the folly and injustice of fuspecting him ofa plot against the State; when his en- thuriaem was suddenly damped by the intelligence that M. de Maupas had been promoted from his provincial em- ployment to the direction of the police of Paris, in which & more extended and appropriate field has been opened for his abilities and accomplishments. It isnot too much. to tay that this man has now the honor, fortunes, lives, and liberties of millions at his disposal. The required number of inferior instruments—particu- larly the generals of brigade and colonele—are said to have been gradually won over by bribes or promises, The officers and regiments suspected of disaffection to the Elysee were sent away and replaced by others more ame- unable to rcaron; and oon after the Assembly commenced ite laet session. its loading members became aware that they were entirely at the mercy of the President. ‘Their conduct in this crisis of their fate was certainly not re- markable CA hres] firmness, or sagacity. They neither resisted with calm courage, nor fell with dignity. The question which naturally occurs to every one on hearing their story is. why did they not unmask the pro- jected coup d'etat. and state, one after another, in the tri- bune. the distinct proofs of the President's treasonable intentions, which had been supplied to them by his open and unabashed manner of adv: them? Why was General Changarnier silent on this point? Why did he not long before denounce the attempt to tamper with his honor and fidelity? ‘The only auewer is, that they had at length made up their minds to adopt this course, and that the occasion selected was the expected debate esponsibility bill, which, unfortunately was anti- cipated by the coup. To have accused the President at any preceding period, they urge, might have precipitated a civil war, and there Was no knowing whether the republicans might not have taken a fatal advantage of the opportunity. We must also be excused for it ing that the standard of ‘political morality or public virtue is far from elevated amongst the French ; that one necos- rary consequence of their frequent revolutions is indif- ference touching law or legality j and that of those who were sounded by Louis Napoleon probably did not expose his designs, because they thought the time might come when it might suit them to join with him. More- over, it may be doubted whether his overtures were of so marked and defined a nature as to admit of being speci- fically brought forward as the foundation for a formal impeachment. the prevalent notion as to the strict caution observed in keeping the President’s secret is a mistake. There was nothing to keep secret but the exact time, which was probably not known even to the jet ‘until ~ moment for action had arrived. It is quite clear that pies Dried a ee ee eee confis- and hour for the decisive blow hid been re- Sree, te. have prodnced: an itreparable ly cl . It was no idle and groundless fear breach between Louis Napcleon and the ex-President of | that drove M. Theires and his friends to pase the greater the National Assembly. Hence the contest in the Nievre | part of a preceding night in the Assembly; for the war. is expected to be of the sharpest, the votes of the oppo- | rants for their arrest had beenactually imusd at the tine, sition being canvassod by the executor of Louis Philippe. | They were at length talen ty ner eey, Pee oe ee, The administration is making immense efforts to throw | manly alse alums, hay Cut eth eens: after 80 da out ; but at present he seems to have every chance | and well-timed wai wnings which they reaitven. be races. in supposed jpthat M. Baze’s proposition was the sition candidates for Parls:—Dupont de 1Eure, Gen- | hat’ the ‘repulienn? jonny eaten bape gral Lamoriciere, General. Cavalgnac, Carmot, Goud- | (de Bussac). to join with the Orieanists and legittmiats i oe ee A ugene pial ar tate be Pa carrying it, provided they would agree that the forces to eeeg pens, of, thas ele TDON the inte | Me demanded for the defence of the Assembly should be placed under the orders of a general not pledged to either of the extreme parties, It any fairly be bate reddy how. ever, whether, if carried. it would havo materially varied the current of events; for the parliam nerals had sire wegint her ean erent in Pan oul it. knowing what effect a fem and oonael - went have worked on the oat of the yeonte cad tae, diery, who evidently did not like the work they had todo, until they warmed to it. The bugbear of socialism was used with singular adroitness; and it is amusing to mark the coolness with which Louis Ni = “ee before at hope all a decrees which it | of having “saved society.” ithe plata sor tee “4 cctyamitehhesie ion of @ vigorous au- | that the dangerous classes in France are always ready for an outbreak. There naturally rose whe the remgn illegality was formally ‘announced by the fvech osnton of the law ; and they were joined by many who were led hy their political inclinations, or by a sense of duty, to Kiger) the usurpation. The constitution of 1848 was 4 ced under the Leyry 2 of the for it. I the peop! were bodied idlers who infest the capital. The Boulevardease und to t t and ah et being gradually fringed with new stone houses, which are | tionally coutended that, Louis Nesoleie ts Seite’ aeeeas ne up in all q bining splendor with piontre order a6 @ usurper than as a lawful Mf architectural beauties whlel tht have adorned the | In our opinion, he simultaneously multiplied the assal- fatuoes tw Prowdnnt te omae These ‘embellishenonts, Suliarany seeiont Aime i ote Setion and th rane 1e the fact remains indisputable that Paris is being regene, ‘ r coming evil which’ prevailed, fe sce rated. The Place de Carroussel is being cleared “the santa my i} Pepe Cesoay ftee old wooden huts wherein the venders of curiorities and | his own machinations : rater modern antiques enticed the sons and daughters of “per- a the mud tothe Lure Teer wesc ease aera rR? ce mau vre. wooden shops were sold | ALLIANCE WIT RUSSIA—PREPARATION ee an Wednesday, a he the work of de. DEFENCE OF BELGIUM. saath phe oie a om idea of aap B The pone is i ad of @ letter dated mense een roposed, President russels, February 19, 1852:— meio Bt voted wie? ong oe Public | A convention has been concluded between our completion of the Tomb of the Emperot, at the Invalides; | Yermment (the Belgian) and Russia, whereby fe of the Hospital du Nord, at the Clos St Lazare; and of the | latter engages to 100,000 men for the defence new ry of F Affairs on the Quaid ; inter. | Of Our terri in case it should be invaded, or se- nal of the Hotel deVilte; repair of the Church of Piste Bane by France. Should the Baltic bo Notre Dame; conti the Rue di Rivoli to the | open these troops (including the Imperial Guards) Rue St. Antoine; of the Pont Neuf; of the are to be transported by a Hussian flest to Antw . river <pposite the Mint; completion of the Qual itiand | _ Prussia promises no assistance to a like extent. part eens a juis; terminus of the Western Rail- | Tho object of the Present mission of the Prince do the Garden of the Luxembourg, 0 . the fue Seat. Liga Sn et to + flot; embellishment of the Conservatoire dos Arts et Me- Rabe: ray ny AE ala tlere and of the Cham; sees; enlargement of the rail- way terminus on the Ties I'Burope; enlargement and Saaree! of iis Palals de Justice; cor ofa ineemaent, barracks in the Rue Notre Dame des Wictotres, om the nie would take the field, and the remainder occupy our Tesses. Holland, interested in the protection of Li - bourg, agrees to furnish a contingent 0f80,000.. Hopes are entertained that England, ag ono of the of the old convent of the Petite Peris; works of the Cen- wers guaranteeing the independ f Hah on ae" pea | ncaa ae leg : Bees ' , He. json for the lel of it} 5 the Her dor Gyene, nthe oatiacecalditoesion ae | 4, utzou, tee that, indeRendent of England and Just been constructed for that. purpose; completion and | Austria, who might weaken our onemy by adiversion ‘decoration of the Church of Ste, Clotilde, Belle- | 00 the Mediterranean, our northern coalition mus- chase; completion of the modern Louvre, and continua- tion of the work for restoring tho old Louvre; works of the e Junction Kallway, round Paris; of several rewers; improvement and prisons, ke, Wor this immense ensemble fundé are ready, and a nypber of contracts haye already been entered into, tere 300,000 men; a force quite sufficient to repel the threatened invasi i peacest Wate” ifnot chastise ite authors at a This country stil i police agents.” Se ee Frengh spies and Jom aseured, in a trustworthy quarter, that the Francaise, that one of the government reporters had co-operated in the preparation of that work. Switzerland, 'The Revue de Geneve has the following on the re- lations of the confederation with France:— According to non-official but well-founded information, it appears certain that the Federal Council has repiied in a firm and fitting manner to the French note in which it was attempted to obtain from Switzerland a promise to expel in future from its territory any foreigner who might be designated to this government, ” The Federal Council, while refusing to take an engagement of a nature to com- promise the independence of the confederation, has, at the same time; announced its readiness to take ai! proper and necessary precautions against the sojourn of political refugees amonget us becoming a source of inquietude to neighboring States. There has been written no othor note than that to which the Federal Council thus res- ponds, and this note makes no mention of any other sub- ject than that which now elicits a refusal. ‘The note does not even complain of the conduct of refugees actually in Switzerland ; with respect to them, all its allusions are most general, nor is anything said of the prose, its license, or wished-for restrictions. When the French note wat handed into the proper minister, the Austrian Charge Affaires made some general verbal observations of the nature of an indirect menace. We believe this is the whole truth concerning the notes of which #0 mach bes been affirmed. The Journal des Débats says:— According to letters from Berne. of the 20th Feb.. the notes exchanged between the minister of France and the Federal Council do not cease to cccupy the Swiss press. ‘The Bund, a journal published at Berne, assuros ua that the note of France relative to the refugees and to the abuses of the prees was supported by England, But this statement appears to be without foundation. The Charge @ Affaires of England, in a conversation with the Presi- dent of the Confederation, simply testified the desire of hit government that, in the affair of the refagocs. Swit- zeriand, whilst serupulously respecting international law, should maintain the right ‘of asylum recognized in every country enjoying liberal instiiutions. There was no question of the liberty of the press. The Bund, a Swiss paper, contains a portion of the reper on the refugees sent by the Federab Council to the Charge d’ Affaires of Switzerland at Paris. It states that ever since the departure of the refugees for England and America, the question has taken quite a different turn. In June, 1851, there were but 235 refugees in the 17 cantons, com- prising 93 subjects of Baden, 10 Ravarians, 11 Aus- trians, 30 Prussians, 9 Wurtemburgers, 24 Saxons, 5 Hessians, 12 Poles, 17 Frenchmen, and 24 Ital- ians. Theso are nearly all in Switserland at this present moment; they are under the stm nce of the police, and in case of bad conduct they are ex- pelea. Tho report adds, that the complaints made yy several governments have provi Frennd lees so that some complaints of Austria and Carlsruhe have not been attended to. The French govern- ment having sent a list of 60 refugees, it has been found that many of these were not at Geneva, and those that were had regular passports, and were consequently not refugees. A second list sent from Paris was equally incorrect. The French govern- ment had desired that the refu, might be sent to the interior of the country; 17 refugeos having re- fused to submit to this measure, were e: ied. After the events of December 2, seven French re- fugees had assembled at Lausanne, and there pub- lished an appeal to the French people. As soon as the federal authority heard of this act, it did not wait for complaints from Paris, but immodiately ex- pelled five of the pa who signed the appeal 3 the ‘ugecs had ral other two have absconded. Meetings of aleo been prevented at Geneva, and the fe vernment was even at present doing everything in its power to prevent any acts that might cause uncasi- ness to France. The pees of the Canton of Vaud state that France addressed three demands to Switzerland, viz., one concerning the Jows of Basle Campagne, another on the refugees, and a third on the Sy besides some observations on the state of Horne, The federal commissioners at Geneva have desired the cantons on the French frontier to send in lists of all ey refugees residing there, and to report all new arrivals. THE DESIGNS OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. Letters from Berne, ef the 20th, deny that the English charge d’affaires ae the French note concerning the press, President of the Confederation in a private conversation, i eae asylum, w! o sit wounecic enjoying free institutions. It will be seen by following extracts from the Inde- Suisse, of the 14th ult., that the English journals St ae ae ores ee eee ee oe rene] — The uneary feeling increases on account of the obsti silence key the federal council with No te aaa re which Switzerland runs, dan; apt to exaggerate. Are we diy of the expedition to Rome? 5 Thigstate of encoreeinta, sae aees and if it bg ood augury, and ls one to thi it is in point of fact ver; threatening. Now, tt is Soe ae country shoul know how it stands, for it had the melancholy that the federal council is not very lucky ie negotiations. We will assume that these ne- ti re fon on at this moment; but at least council ought to 6: ely, Fri requires such exhorbitant mi ‘8 vigilant eye upon rests of Swit- raping noting. ac Toderal’ council appea the versions that are in circulation, ho ted they ma; id_above, poople go fear an eupedition to Rome. Tt is, theretore, civic duty for the foderal council to break silence, in order to.ro-asure the country, which is justly alarmed. ‘The federal government of Switzerland has addressed a letter to the governments of the cantons on the frontiers of Piedmont, recommen: that no political French re- Piedmont shall be permitted to enter, unless wil Tarsports by the Swiss minister at Turin, and be able, besides, toshow that they are in possession of sufficient money to their expenses to England. The Minister Presidents Princo. el 0 Minister lent, Prince Schwarzenberg, is understood to be preparing a general Hatement of his views respecting the present position of affairs im Europe, as well as the line of policy he intends to ursue. The Sardinian government are about to senda special mission to the court of Vienna, to renew tl friendly relations which have been too long broken off; “and,” adds the announcement, ‘‘ some importe ant changes in the polities of the cabinet of , be looked for.” Austria has promised her mediation in the eettlemont of the differences be- tween Sardinia and the Pope. The new salt treaty, exeotiaing over @ peried of ten Fhe has just been concluded between Austria and Russia, Austria is bound, during this period, to deliver forty million contners of salt to Russia, te be paid for in specie. Our H atidabae seen ur Hamburg correspondence contair.« ihe text proclamation, in which Count Rev, of sonoenoke that the government 0% sate crimaialt German ta tg the ae commissioners of the im t document;— 1 is the text of this to the annexed protocol of the G BR em = AL mamely, the Lieutenant ‘Coane zuamen, ene, by Prussia, and the Major General oe - f- , acting for Austria, the said com. ongr n . ve this surrendered the government of ¢ duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg into hands, Hi deere of the ta ees Pleated to naar by the government of the said duchies “the ph hg saan lave also pe ga the dissolution of the civil and mili boards which, by virtue of their office, they 2d of Fi , 1861. ‘Thur his Maj the King of Denmark's is again paramou the Duchy Holstein, and government ‘nveitated | fr fi his Majeety will for the futon r ture, provide for the of the auld Duchy on the principles contained in his Ma- Hd ion of the 28th ult. But, until the vari- ous dispositions and administrative measures «hall come to be fully regulated, I, acting by virtue of the de. cree of the 10th inst., have instructed the Chamberlatn von Plessen to carry on, for the time bel the adminis- tration in the ame manner in which the business Of the departments has hitherto been conducted, I] memorials and remonstrances ‘ubjecta connected with the civil administration are nore to be aditreas: ed tothe veriour departme: quently be attended to by Chant eit Piomso, oe rack. a