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4 IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. The Norwegian at Portland and Arabia and Bremen at New York. FIVE DAYS LATER NEWS. THE AMERICAN QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT, Interesting Debate on the Cost of Mason and Slidell. Mr. Bright Condemns the Outlay and Lord Palmerston Defends It Earl Russell Approves of the “Stone Blockade.” It is Not Intended as a “ Permanent im- jury” to Charlesion Harber. Napoieon Takes the Same View of the Cperation. Another Englishman Agegrieved by Arrest. Lord Palmerston on African Cotton and the Slave Trade Suppression. Buropean Candidates for the Throne . of Mfexico. The Aztec Prince Smoking Buckler Claims the Crown. Jeff. Davis’ Great Cotton Road Through Texas to Mexico. WHAT THE REBELS ARE DOING IN PARIS. Mr. Slidell Obtains a Splendid Home and the Confederation Hopes for a Loan, News from the Rebel States to the Pope. OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE, ken Beery Kee The Canadian Screw Steamship Company’s steamor Norwogian, Captain McMasters, which left Liverpool at half-past two P. M. on the 20th, and Londonderry on the afternoon of the 21st ult., arrived below Portland a fifteen minutes past three yesterday morning, whore sho anchored until daylight. ‘ ‘The Cunard steamship Arabia, Captain Stone, arrived at this port yesterday morning, from Liverpool via Hali- x, With the European mails and journals of tho 15th of February. She left Queenstown on the 16th ultimo. Tho steamship Bremen, Captain Wossel, which teft Southampton on the 19th ultimo, arrived at this port yesterday evening. Her filos are throe days later than those by the Arabia, but her news is auticipated by the r eport of the Norwegian. ‘The London Times city article (Fed. 20), says that loang continue to be offected at nominal rates. The applica tions at the Bank yesterday were moderate. In the dis. count market the goneral minimum rate was 254. ‘Tho London Times of the 14th ultimo says in its city article-— According to a circuiar of Messrs. Aries Dufour & Co., of Lyons, the silk markets of that city, daring tho past month, notwithstanding the rettloment of the Taent in cident, were not charactorized by any improvement in the American trade. Owing, however, to purchases made and orders placed for European consumption, there bas been some recovery of activity, and prices have sligutly advanced. Any more important riso seems hardly to be hoped for so long as the struggle shali con tinue im the United States. The return from the Bank of Englandfor tne week eading February 12, gives the following results, whe? compared with the pravious week: — Rest see £3 Public deposits. 4,884,989 Dec: Other doposits..15,526,334 Increase Ou the other side of the account:— Gov .seouritics £11,101,802 Decrease..... Other securities 17,311,439 Increase Notes unompl'd, 9,344,140 Incroase . Tho amount of notes in circulation is £20, ing a decrease of £210,015, and tho stock of bullion in both departments is £16,042,949, showing an increase of £36,046, when compared with the preceding retura The French Bourse is believed to bo undergoing ao im. Pprovemont, owing to receipts of gold from London The telograph from the Red Sea to London is now open, ‘The iron-plated frigate Warrior is ordered from Gibral, tar to Portsmouth. Un the 13th ultimo the Liverpool Local Marine Board presonted Mrs. Wallis (wife of Captain Joseph Spear Wallis, of the British bark Sea Wave) with a gold modal, the gift of tho President of the United States, in acknow- Jodgemont of Captain Wallis’ services to the shipwrecked crew of the American ship David Bryant, which was Jost in January, 1361, on her voyage from San Francisco to Liverpool, Captain Green (late of the steamship Da. hiana) responded on behalf of Mra. Wallis, and stated that this was the second gold medal which Captain Wallis had received for the display of humanity. The first modal received was from the King of the Netherlands. The steamship Great Eastern bad beea safely placed oo the Gridiron at Milford, A deputation from the Galway Steamship Company bave had an interview with Lord Palmerston. ‘The steamship Europa, from Boston, arrived at Liver- pool on the 17th ult, The steamship City of Washington, from New York, @rrived at Queenstown on the morning of the 20th. The steamship Glasgow, from New York, arrived at Liverpool on the 20th. The steamship Anglo-Saxon, from Portland, arrived at Liverpool on the 20tb. Oar Paris Corresponde Pants, 12, 1962. House Hunting and Diplomacy—Mr. Slidell Enteavoring to Bffect a Loan—A Plot to Place a Bonaparte Upon the ‘Throne of the Southern Confelleracy—A Pemat: Secession fet, de. If Mr. John Stidell has as much difficulty in securing the recognition of the Southern confederacy as he bas 40 finding a domicil into which to settle his ambassato- rial body, it will begome time yet before the piraticai fing which flies from the legisiative halls at Richmond fod at the masthead of the Sumter has a standing among nations, Although there were said tobave been more than sighteen thousand unoccupied apartments in the city of Paris on the Ist of January, and alibough Mr. Slidell has had his cholee of them, be bas not yet been able to decide whore he will “sot up bis Ebenezer.” The Tact is, he is determined to make @ sensation whon he commences housokooping, and is desirous of procuring £10,212 903,452 +1346 417 elegant apartments, ia which he may impress hig visit. } ors with the grandeur of the goverament which oould afford to spare such @ representative from tts borders, His Secretary of Legation, Mr. Fustis, is not so diffeult to please, oF else considers that less responsibility do. volves upon him. He bas succeeded in obtain'ng some elegant rooms on the Rue de Rivoil, overlooking tho geraon of the’Tulleries—the apartments formerly occu. pied by the Grand Duchess of Baden. In making this jotion Mr, Rustis doubtless bad an eye to carry. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1862—TRIPLE SHEET. i ing out the iden which the whole party evi- dently has+of giving curreney to the idea that the South, if recognized, would not seriously object to changing its formof government from that of the one in which the vote of the “mud: is worth as much as that of the millionaire, and constituting in its place a monarchy. The party, upon arriving in Paris, descended at the Hotel du Rhin, one of the most aristo- cratic institutions in Paris, and abotel much affected by the small fry European monarchs. It was here, too, that the present Emperor took up his residcnce when ho first arrived in Paris, after the departure of Louis Phi- lippe, and it was from here that he removed his baggage to the Elysseo after he was elected Presidefit. Mr. Slidell! is closeted nearly every day with some one of the firm of Rothschild, at their banking house in the Rue Lafitte, I ungerstand he is endeavoring to negotiate aloan in behalf of the Confederate States, an operation in which he will probably not moet with immediate success, particularly since the reception of the nows of Zollicoffer’s defeat and the probable disrup- tion of the Confederates in Kentucky. If the worst comes to the worst, I understand that Mr Slidell is armed with the power to make an offer which will be a tempting one to the Emperor. The negotiations. now in progress with the Austrian Cabiret in relation to the establishment of a monarchy in Mexico, upon the throne of whichis to be placed tho Archduke Maxi- milian—and which negotiations it is now stated, almost officially, do not embrace tho idea that Austria shall give up Venetia—show very plainly the desire of France and England to secure foothold for a monarchy upon the soil: of republican North America. So far the ground is prepared for Mr. Slidell’s proposition to be made when- ever ho is ‘satisfied the time has come for making itr A litt!e chapter of contemporaneous history must be written to fully explain the rest. As you are aware, in the early part of the present cen- tury Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the first Napoieon, and unelo of the present Emperor, married, in the city of Baltimore, Miss Elizabeth Patterson, an American lady. The marriage was afterwards annulled by tho Emperor, and Jerome married again, to Cathcrine, the daughter of the King of Wurtemburg. Tho first marriage produced son (Jerome Napoleon Ponaparte), and he, marrying, also had a gon, born in Baltimore, and educated at West Point. During the Crimean war this young man, at the suggestion of his grandmother, came to France and received at the hands of the Emperor a commission ag lieutenant in the army. He has now ristn to the rank of captain, and is exceedingly popular with the army, and is a splendid looking fellow. Up to the time of the death of King Je- rome the two branclies of his family had enjoyed amica- bie relations; but soon after this occurred Miss Patterson brought a suit against the state for her share in it. This naturally brought up the entire question of the validfty of the first marriage, and the simple object of tho plaintiff was to place all the evidence on record for the future be- nefit of her grandson. She lost hor suit, however, but gained a great deal of sympathy,and made young Bona" parte more popular than ever. By the decision of two “family councils,’ held at the instance of the Prince Na- poleon and the Princess Mathilde, the children of Jeromo by his second marriago,the American Bonapartes were devied in advance any claim which they might make to the “‘rigt of succession,” but wore allowed to retain the name of ‘Bonaparte,’ which the Prince Napoleon was desirous of taking from them. The fact is, this young man—Captain Bonaparte—is an eyesore to the Prince, Tho latter is, in case of the death of the Prince Imperial, the heir apparent to the throne of France: but he is not @ popular man with the army, as he is not a soldier, and the mere claim of legitimacy and right of succession is one which the French people would never be inclined to listen to, unless the claimant suited them. The Emperor knows, ‘too, the popularity of young Bonaparte, and knows that under certain ‘contingencies he would be a dangerous rival for his princely eou- sin. Exiling him, or retusing to -retuin him in the French arnry, persecution, in short, of any descrip- tion, would only increase his tesab ; 80 the Emperor bas kept him here, although he inly endeavore! to induce him to resign the name of Bonaparte and accept that of Patterson, with a ducal title attached to it. Mr. John Slidell and his mates have canvassed all this matter,and know that the Emperor would be glad to have young Bonaparte placed in a position satisfactory to himself outside of France, and it has already been inti- mated to his ity that the Southern confederacy might bo wiliing to acoopt the American Bonaparte as its monarch. This proposition would at once gratify the ambition and pride of the Emperor—the former, in re- moving an obstacle to the legitimate succession of his dynasty to the throne of Franc:, and the latter, in the establishment of one whom he still acknowlodges as @ Bonaparte upon the throne of an American monarchy. Here is the story which has many bolfevers in Paris. I do not, of course, vouch for its exact truth, but give it to you as I have heard it in certain circles whero accu- rate information often penetrates. What do you think of the prospect? Judge atost, having been relioved by the arrival of his successor, has gone to Spain, to it the confed- Sho is intensely “‘secesh,”” and her seances are made tho cecasion of a demonstration on the part of the Southern residents and temporary sojourners in Paris, Panis, Feb. 14, 1862, Recognition of the Scuihern Confederacy—Headquarters of Loyalists and Traitors in Paris—Mr. Stidell Housed at He Calls on M. Fould—Our Minister and Consul, de., de. Tho police authorities of Paris, at least, hagp recognized the Southern confederacy. Aithough sccessionists can get into France without passports (sneaking inas English subjects, in which way Mr. Slidell and his famiiy suc- ceeded in getting here), thoy cannot leave the frontier and enter any of the other European States without ihe exhibition of a document of some kind, showing theirna tionality and bearing the visa of the police. A fw moaths ago some curiocs scenes were enacted at the consulate, where Southerners dosiring to travel went for the pur- pose of procuring passports. The Consul, acting under instructions, has granted no decuments of this description unless the applicant would take the oath of allegiance; and formerly, after a good deal of inward swearing, of oaths “not Joud, but deep,” and the usual mental re servations with which men satisfy their consciences when they are about to commit perjury, many of them ma- naged to gulp it down, and started off on their continental tour under the protection of # government to which they were traitors, Latterly, however, they have refused to adopt this course, as their former ‘Minister,’ Judge Rost, succecded in devising a way for them to avoid it. The police authorities assume that there must ba some romedy where, from any oause which tho French go- Vornment does not reecgnize as a crime, a foreignor can. not obtain ® passport or a risa from any recognized am. bassador. In this condition they consider the Sout! rebels, so they give them, at tho Prefecture of Polic provisional passport, which enables thom to travel any. where in Europe, describing thom as citizens of thoso- styled Confederate States of America.’ This 1 unforta- nate, but Ido not see any way in which our government can legitimately object to it,as it is merely a police measure, which has been often opplied in other cases than in those of our rebellious countrymen. There are two principal headquarters of the Americans in Paris. That of the loyalinen is the bauking house of Munroe & Co., No. 5 rue do la Paix,and thatof the rebels at tho establishment, of Vandenbrouck, No. 60 Chauseea d’Antin, singularly enough, in the same building with the American Congulato; so that at last the rebels are obliged to talk their treason within the shadow of the American caglo. org f & stray rebel finds his way to the former place, and occasionally vome lively discussions ensue, which are not always conducte! in accordance with the rales of strict propriety. An occur. rence of this description took place yesterday in the ae room, when a Ren of notorious brag- art, objected to the application of the term “rebel” to is traitorous friends;and after afow hot words cards were “exchanged, and it is said ‘pistols and coffee” are about to follow. Mr. John Slide! has suecoedod in obtaining a house, , with his family and goods and “chattels,” including his mulatto wench, will move next woek into the Champs 5 nd in the course of a week or two.willgive a warming.’ He bas recovered froz tho pb ‘elcal of his incarceration and anxiety and proximity to Bunker Hill, and his subsequent sea voyage, and looks, for an old man, quite rosy and jolly. He is suffering no rass to grow under bis feet. ides having called upon I. Thow with whom he had a conversation of two hours in visitng ministers, ing and members the Assembly whom, of co Y. w with M. rout, great aim now ia to make France rich aud prosperous, he doubtless endea. vored to prove to him how much Fxance would gain by unrestricted trade with the south, He haa also bad an jn. terview with M. Nouber, the Minister of Commerce, who was convorted to secossionism lastsummor by the untiring laters of Thomas Uutler King, and who will be to Mr. 1idel ry important and valuable ai rosecu> tion of his mi i ligiariantes Siidell has mat advantages for the work he is doing. He a pl man, bas many frionds and acquaintances here, and, above ali, speaks the langu perfoctly, Half the business of diplomacy is conducted, not in formal interviews in- tended for businoes, but ‘in social conversations at evens ing parties, at diplomatic dinnore; end, in ordor to elect anything In this way, a thorough knowledge of the lane unge Is an absolute hocessity, and it is really atrang that our govorument, taking into consideration the {m. t duties to be performed, stiould baye gent to 6 a8 our Minister a gentieman who, though able, and one of the most amiable and agresabls men in the world, and who, under ordinary circumstances, would bo one of the best and most popular minisvers we ever had hore, dose not speak @ word of French, “The children of the world are wiser in their ‘than the chisdeen af Heh” pea, ene teemior bamacbese saneh Wiser than we in this r t, as all their ves here thus far have been therough Freneh Americans coming to Paris should not forget, by the way, that Mr. Dayten keeps open house ut his resi- dence, No. 17 rue Jean Goujon, on Saturday morn » for all respectable American gentlemen ond . ‘the etiquette is simply to e-il on Saturday, during the day, and pay respects to the ladies,afier which the ‘evening receptions, at which ev: dress is worn, are open to those who have called. Al aa which ure yery pleasant and informal, and which are re dered still more so by the ease and grace with which the wife and daughter of the Minister conduct them—ono meets all the travelling Americans. Mr. Bigelow, tho Consul, who now resides at No. 114 Champs Elysees, also keeps open house every Monday evening, when all Ame- ricans are welcomed right heartily by the charming and Deautiful lady of the Consul. We are hoping now that every suceeeding mail w! Dring in news more and more glorious. You cunnot gine the state of ‘iety in which we live from post to Post, and the joy with which we hear the news of the Success of our arms, Pams, Fob. 14, 1862. Napoleon's ddea of a Thione in Mexico—England’s Sulmis- sion to His Will—Subsidence of the American Agitation— The Altenyt at o Lean in London—Nepateon’s Nevewsity for a Grand Coup—A Commercial Crisis—Stideli’s Recsp- tion by M. Thourencl—The Royal Fumily and Court Gossip, de, : In my last letter I mentioned the rumors current here 2s. to the Emperor’s intention of advocating the placing of Archduke Maximilian of Austria upon the throne which Franco intends rearing upon the ruins of the Mexican re- public, I said that England would submit to this violation of ali international law, because she could not help it. ‘The correspondence which was laid before the British Parliament, the said correspondence having taken place between Lord Cowley her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador ‘at this Court, and Far! Russell, upon the subject of an in- torvention of the Allies'in Mexico and tho largo increase of the French force sent there, will prove how correct was my assertion. You will sce thercby that Englaud Ceplores the increase of troops, and that she will Keep aloof from all attempts at coercing the Mexi- cus in their choice of government; but yet sho sub- mits. Who is there who docs not understand that ere that affair of the Trent France would not have acted m this mattor asshe has done? That is, sending the troops first, and then announcing it afterwards; and that England would have attempted to Iead in tho mat- ter, instead of quietly submitting to see France so com- pletely shut hor out. ‘That little burst of virtuous indignation will cost Eng- land still more than the four millions of pounds dis- bursed. It will cost her a forced submission to the will of the sovereign she most hates and most dreads. In answer to Lord Cowley’s question as to whether France favored the idea of placing tho Archduko of Austria upon the Mexican throne, M. de Thouvenel as- sured the British Ambassador that France bad taken no step inthe matter; that several Mexicans had gone to Vienna to urge upon tho Archduke the acceptanco of the said throne, but that France had nothing to do with the matter. Now, all Paris knows this to be positively un- true; that the idea did originate with Napoleon; that ho alone has attempted to carry it out; and yet, porforce, England must accept these assurances as a settlement of the affair, while she can but seo that it i3 all tho time being carried out with the utmost vigor and determina- tion. The Patrie says:—“We hope this plain answer will put an end to the comments of foreign journals. It proves that the French it has not for one instant deviated from the course it marked out in the first place. Her participation in the Mexican expedition is caused merely by the interest she fee's in the fate of her citizens and tho solicitude she is inspired with b; the condition of the Mexican people.” This very Patrie has over and over again assured the public that Frauce was doing the very reveree of all this, ‘Tho Paris papers are less occupied now with your af- fairs. Those in the pay of tho secessionists do keep up their lies and misrepresentations; but the poople have got tired of them, and besides there is trouble cnough at home to ca'l off their gaze from other matters. ‘That queer otiewpt at bolstering up the French Bourse by borrowing four millions. sterling in London bas been renounced. The affair became known, and the French people were terrified to find that for so small. an amount ‘the raiment was forced to goto borrow monoy in Eng- land. Allgorts of rumors were staited. The Moniteur.. donjed the fact of the loan, at a time when ail kuew it, the government gave orders to the agents in London to let the affair drop. So ends that farce. Its effect, however, is deplorable here, The masses are frightened, and, as "sual with the French when they become go, they also become cruel. Now they suarl and eneer at tho en/ourage of the Emperor, speak of the millions swallowed up by those persons, and hint at a day of reckoning, I you the timo is fast approaching when the government inust strike somo grand coup if it wishes to avold the fate of its predeces- ‘sors. ‘The great idea now seems to be an intervention in favor of the South. Tcan assure you that such is the Emyporor’s hobby, and has becn all along. He has been kopt back because England would not act before him, and ubat he docs not desire a war single handed with tho North. The conversion of the four and a half and four per cent into three per cent rentes is now a@ fait accompli as iar as ordonnances and votes of the Senate and Cor] isla. tif can make it. Will the holders of the scrip change it? It is more than probable they will, at lesst the grout majority. An undefined dread of some kind of retalia- tion will force them to do so, The commercial classes in France are in dismay. Tho diminution of business is real- iy appalling. A few of the Northern fron manufacturers are steadily employed, it is tru; they are manufacturing arms and war ituplements; but tho regular commerce is quite dono. The result is astate of alarm and anxioty that is menacing. In England great distress prevails. All this goes to show how great is the influence of American commerce upon the world at large, and is a just punishment for the overt encouragement which has been extended to the rebciliour States. Mr. Slidell bas been received by M. de Thouyonel. ‘This, however, means nothing. Almost any person who asks for an audience of that minister gets it. Mr. Slidell will, Ido not doubt, mect witb great sympathy from M. Thotyenel; Dut he ‘will get no real encouragement now. It is bacinning to be apparent to beth France and England that the United States government is upon the point of noting at last with firmuces and docision; sud as tong seo this symptom they will keep quict. . Rost, the Southerner who made Paris his stopping e belore the advent of Slitell, has gone to Madrid, at was, Iain assured, quite busily occupied with the Paris press during his stay he He no coubt is aware what the extraordinery sympathy displ: the J’atrie and the Poys for the South was really worth, and what it cost. rted in my last letter, fou} play was shown by horitics of Southampton in the case of the Tusca- rora. Th Emporor, Fmpross and Prince Imperial seem all in good health. The former has recovered, but has ac- quited, if posible, & still deeper look of preoccupation than is natural to him. He has ordere4 his ministers to give bails and masquerades, aud they aoso. These re- unjous are gay aut splendid; but here, as elsewhere, the politicians group together, looking oininously at each other, and speculate anxiously upon the hoped for change of affairs. Tho .music rings through the vast halls, young and gey dance on as usual, but tho older shake their beads and talk of Rome, po, Garibaldi, Austria, Mexico, the United States, |, sudjects of grave preoccupation for French states. mon. They feel that the doubt and uncertamty cannot Jast much longer; eomething must be done, aud one and all ask “What will be done?” None know, save tho biue domino , slowly stalking through the rooms with tho Countess Walewski ever on rm, and that samo blue domino is and hes ever been inscrutable. While these brilliant fetes are constan y occurring, the working classes at Ly¢ ‘St. Etienne, and other places of great importance, have their reunions; but they do not dance: they mutter and threaten and grasp each other by the hands significantly. These wen aby minis- t Persigny has just ordered the prefects all over Be says there is danger. Panis, Fob. 14, 1862. Count Cavour's Correspondence from Paris to Turin—His Position in the Convention of 1856—Will a True British « Blue Book’’ on American Affairs Come Forth ?—Had British Gold Anything lo do with the Rebellion ?—The Slidetl Family a: Wome~ Southern Tenants and French ce to watch, Landlorts—Sir F Head to Batighten Napoleon on the Canadian Question 4 Miracle tna Vision—Ameri, can Readings of Mr). Blunt, de Tho publication of M. Cay our's correspondence directed from this capital in 1856, during the conferenco out of which the Treaty of Paris emanated, is a subject of great’ jutorest here. In this goy city the vory porters seom to identify themselves with matters of a diplomatic nature; and the names recorded in this correspondence are ag familiar to all men as household words. Wo ourselves, who at that eventful period were in the constant habit of communicating, in some feahion or other, with the chief personages of the drama, can corroborate from our own observation much of what is now published on authority to the worlll for the first time, bat which is not new to the readers of the Herany. In my correspondence dur. ing the year 1956, I stated distinctly that a pledge had been given by Lord Clarendon to render Piedmont indi- rect assistavce in the event of a collision with Austria, ‘These things wore, in fact, not done in a corner, Houses hayo eyes and ears, especially in Paris, and the sayings and doings of Clarendon, Count Buol, Walowski and Prince Napoleon were tho talk of boudoirs. Night after might we met theso diplomats at dinnors, at ball, or at soiree, and some little word, however habitu- ally cautious diplomacy may be, is sure to escape, which 40 the initiated sufficiently shows the way of the wind, I eee Count Orloff now—that man of gigantic frame—with his blue coat and velvet collar (alittle seedy), and his breast blazing with diamonds, whispering encouraging words to Cavour, whose massive head and spectactod oyos, with bis short stature, give him something of the aspect of the little bulldog playing the agreeable to the mMastil’, represented by that colossus Oriol. One thing, however, is tolerably apparent in this cor- respondence, and not a little interesting to America in its present disturded state, and that i the thoroughly understood poliey of the English government. While to ‘he world Garibaldi was tho Quixote who attacked—but with far greater success than his prototy wind- mills, it was England not less than France who was aid- ing and abetting; and yet who that read the well turned periods which were written about France’s raid upon Austria, her wondrous facility in suddenly launching 200,000 men into Lombardy, and the fears such conduct naturally gave rise to in every State of Europe, could have suspected that the whole thing was prepared, calculated on, and consented to, in Lord Palmerston’s own study? Well indeed might Lord Palmerston shirk an interview with Cayour under pretence of domestic grief. ‘The hour will come, and probably is not far distant, when some such correspondence as Cayour’s will see the light, connected with the foul rebellion now rife in the Southern States, when it will be shown that, despite all this fair seeming on the part of Earl Russell, the English government and English gold have had far more todo with the pregent state of affairs than is generally sup- posed. It is a rule of law that when a culprit ¢mnot bo Ciscovered it is good to observe the party benefted by his crime or misdemeanor, and the wrongdoer will not be found far distant, Apply this to England, whose jea- lousy of the inereasing grandeur and magnitude and mari- time supremacy of America was apparent in evory thing she did, And you will not be far from discovering the true fomenter of the present schism. Mr. Slidel! is living in magnificent apartments in the Champs Elysees, No. 50. Ho pays 1,800 francs a month: and assumes all the importance of a regular envoy from the United States. He is not, however, made a lion of, though itis said his taste would render such a position agreeable to him. He is doing all in his power to en- courage Southerners to take up their quarters in Paris during the season. “The more important our numbors and expenditure, the better for us justnow,” he has beep heard to ‘say; ‘France is inan impressionable mood, and we must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is hot. It is pretty ciear that General McClellan will be urged on to another Bull run, and then it will be all plain sailing for the South in the Court of the Tuileries.” ‘This is morely an on dit, I myself do not know Mr. Slide!l, even by sight; by the statement I haye given is a current report. It may be all very well to recommend the ropresenta- tion and oxponditure of Southerners, and thore is no doubt that regently several parties from the South who have hitherto been hiding their diminished heads have suddenly turned up and taken oxpensive apartments; but the truth is they are so awfully short of cash that agents have the greatest diMculty in exacting from them compliance with the rule which makes it imperative that such’apartments should always be paid for one month in advance. The rule is sv de rigueur that possession is not given till the money is touched; but the consequence is, the unfortimate tenants, who are intended to take such an imposing attitude and duzzle the eyes of the denizens of this expensive capital, are so thoroughly cleaned out by the exaction that they haye nothing left to keop up the game withal. Wages are here exorbitantly high, and tail flunkeys with silk hosoand powdered hea’s know their value, Provisions are mighty dear; pate de frois gras will not hop on to tho board of a sturdy rebel without the oxhibition of something more substantial than is suflicient for General Beauregard, ond carriages and horses are twenty-five per cent dearer to hire this season than last. Br. Slidell may issue his recommendations; but unless under the capacions crinoline of Mrs. Slidell, which became of such historic interest on board tho ‘rent, thero are conccaed a considerable quantity of bills payable at sight, the gentiemen of the so-stylod Confederate Siates are likely to reckon without their hosts. Sir Edmund Head has just arrived in Paris. It is un- derstood that the Emperor is particularly desirous of utting ome questions to him respecting the habitans of Eanads. Of course, as anofficial of the English govern- ment, the late Governor General of Canada will be very circumspect in his communications; but Sir Edmund is. connected by his family with France. His sister married ‘a French count of the Corps du Garde, in Charles the ‘Tenth’s time, and, though the marriage turned out as un- happily as was generally anticipated, his long residence in France, and the society his family mingied in, have beon understood to give him a considerable French bias. ‘The Emperor is known to retain a longing, lingering eye on that anciont posse-sion of France, and if, directly or iudi- rectly, he could receive of encouragoment'in rela- tion to the habitans, it would, [doubt not, greatly influence his future policy regarding the cotton question. At all events, Sir Kdmund is here, and his arrival, whatever be the cause, has caused quite a flutter among the diplo- matic circles. "Phe chief gossip is the new miracle. A peasant gir) has bad a vision of the “miraculoys conceptior The virgin hag bodily appeared to her, aud tho op of Tarbes pronounces it a divine manifestation. France must be in a state of profound repose when somo of her principal journals think it worth while to discuss tho probability of sucha fact. To say the truth, France, in common with England, is undergoiag a stato of transi- tion on the a of miracle. ‘the ic Church ac- knowledges almost as many miraculous interpositions as the Utramontane, the only difference being that she does not believe a tithe part of them. There ig spirit afloat, whether for good or ill, that repudiates idea of any departure from natural law as contrary to divine wisdom. In England It is spreading over the length and breadth of the land, entering both palace und cot- tage, and threatening the very existence of the Anglican Church, The famous ‘‘Fssays and Reviews” are doing much to clench the nail s0 long driven home. But in France, where the ‘‘fssays and Re- views’ would have been suppressed ab initio, one would hardly suppose a similar heresy capable of taling root, and it is only when the mitre puts its seal on some such vision as the one above mentioned that we see the whole extent of the fact. When an ignorant peasant girl, who in 1838—herself agod fourtcen—saw the Virgin Mary in a white dress and a blue sash, with a white veil and a yellow rose on each foot, can induce a bishop, after two or three years’ con- sideration, to erect a chapel commemorative of the appa- rition, it is no wonder that desh and blood will have its Fy is it not known,” says the Cunstitutionnel, ‘that Ber- nadol’e Soutiraouz—ihe name of the girl—is of the dark- cst ignorance, and that she has never known, or has for- gotien, hor catechism? She has seen the immaculate conception—she does not say she saw the Virgin, but ows she looks upon the dogma of the immaculate con- ption as a lady—a living woman—blue girdles, whito and yellow roses.’” Instead of the Bishop of Tarbes, why not an examin- ing magistrate into this affair” says another journal. To which another adds, ‘If an examining magistrate bad in- vestigated some other miracles which have long received the sanction of the ‘Church, wo should probably have heard that there was no miracle at all.” «In this age of raticnalism,” eays the Siecle of to-day, “tho verification of supernatural facts is within the com- potence of every one, and we think it our duty to apply ourselves to it with the more zeal that superstition: openly declares war on science. Galileo, Kopler, Descartes and Newton aro not to be set aside by turning tables, the inyocation of spirits, magic and a number trines and practices which were thought to We live at a strange epoch. While America, the mis- tress of liberty, is verging towards tho military rule of France, France herself is every day borrowing inore and more from the original teachings of America. Mrs. Blont, from Baltimore, is Bini readings from po- pular authors—American and Englisi—and reaping a rich harvest in Paris. Noblemen and gentlemen sécure her for their soirees, where—to the great interruption of social converse—she intones or reads after a revitative fashion. Last night she performed at @ reception of Tord Gray's. AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN PARLIAMENT, Cost of the Mason and Slidell Display— “My. Bright Condemns the Outlay=Lord Palmerston’s Defence=The English Ar- rests in America—The Proposed March of British Troops Through Maine, &c. SPEFCH OF SIR H. WILLOUGHBY. In the House of Commons on tho 17th ult. Sir H. Wine LovGannY expressed his anxijoty to obtain information with regard to the sums which the House that evening was to be asked to vote—supplomentary estimates for the navy and army. Last year £12,299,000 had been voted for the navy, and £14,607,000 for the army, making a total of rather more than twenty-six and three-fourth millions; bat the House did not know whother these enormous votes would prove suflicient, or whether, as of late years, it would be necessary to havea vote to cover exces of expenditure. Tho process of voting tho estimates had become almost a farce, for there was no assuranco what- ever that the money would be applied to the purpose for which it was voted. In the year 1857-58 no less a sum than £490,000 granted for pecifie purpose was ap- fed to another. In the last = of which the House Bad any cognizance they knew that onthe more dictum of Mr. Laing, then Secretary to the Treasury, £40,000 yoted for wages were 4 ‘jated tothe purchase of stores, showing that authority of the House was in danger of being utterly upset. at on earth was the use of their spending time in cel ig the estimates if suoh practices were sanctioned? (Hear.) SPEECH OF MR. BRIGHT. Mr. Buiont said:—Sir, before you leave the chair I should like to make two or three observations on this vote, [aim not going to object to the vote, of course. I have had too much experience of such matters to attempt any auch thing—(a laugh)—but after the prodigious sums ‘yoted last year and the yoar before, think we are now driven to consider whether the expenditure of an addi- tional million js necessary or wise. Now, I am about to find favit with her Majesty’s government as is the regent transaction with the government of the United States, #0 far os 1 see anything or expect to seo anything in the Bive books containing the ip tay amen between the Foreign Oftice in Kngland and that department of the State at Washington. So far as the despatches signed b; Tord Russel! go, 1 makeno complaint about them. It does not appear to me that the request made to the American government was one which. they rea tonably hare objected to, or tho language in which it was couched euch as they were entitled to complain of, Therefore, so far as that goes, 1 have no charge to bring against her Majesty's govorninent; but it does appear w me clear that there was groat inconsistency between the conduct of tho Foroign Office, as exhibited in those doeuments, and the conduct of cattain otuer departments of the government, Itis fot ourt#mary in ordinary life for a person te aend a polile messenger with a polite message to a friend or weielione oe sosuaielanee, nize the gee fentious stren th, p m: every kind CMe it » and still profes that all thisis ‘in the most friendly and courteous ‘manner. ‘Tiat is what hasbeen done by her 90 SSRs ie tise.eney: and 1 am about to explain lor @ mo- why I think this million has been worse than thrown away. es being thrown away, it leaves behind it conseyuences of much more value or much more harm than the tmillion itself. ‘The House will lect that at the very time when the Cabinet | Was said to bo mocting to discuss the form of dés- patch to be sent by the Saturday’s boat to America, there appeared in the newspapers which are the ‘pee! Horgan of ‘tho government language of the most violont and offensive character; and that instantaneous- ly-—probably the very day the despatch was written— Steps were taken, Doth as regarded the army and the navy, exartly as if the despatch itself had uot been a courteous demand for compliance with a just request, but rather a declaration of war. Now, the eifect of that in this country must be very obvious. It created an almost universal impression that there was something which the government Knew and which the couniry did not Inow. "Though nobody bnt the government could imagine that a causo of war gould arise out of that question, it was sup} that the government knew to be inevitable, or that they intended war if war could by any possibility be made out of it. Looking to what occurred at the time, I suppose that the answor to bo given to me will be based on either of two theories, which I venture to say are about as false and about as ignorant as aby ever offered to Parliament -in justification of any proceedings. Certain organs which affect to Sapeonenty the govern- ment—and which are somtimes the slave of the grvcrnnunt and sometimes ils master—stated that the government at Washington, and Mr. Sewardespecially, were anxious to got intoa war or difficulty with this conntry if they could do so, in order to enable them to get out of the war with tho South, ana under cover of war with England to make a peace or terms of some kind—I suppose by ac- knowledging the indepondcnee of the Sonthern States. ‘That is one of the thoories. Nothing could be offered to rational men more absurd or more impossible. Mr. Seward cannot make war. The President himselfcannot make wr. Mr. Seward and the President together cannot make war; but tho President and Congress can make war. ‘lhoro- fore we may be perfectly cortain that it did not rest in the brain of any one man, however eminent or however ingenious, to consent to the dismemberment of the Unit- ed States under cover of a war with us, Thon it was stated again that the government of Amori- ca were so entirely under the influence and direc- tion of the mcb that they could not listen to the courteous demand of tho English government; that, infact, what we wanted was not to overawe the go- vernment, but to overawe that mob whitch, iu tho United States, may be supposed to overrule and overawe the government. (Hear, hear.) see tha’ I have hit the point eraciy which honorable geitiemen have imagined to them- seives; but honorable gi en who have watched the history of the United States from the beginning to this hour must know ‘nat there 4 been 0 prea! nation in which what is familiarly termed ‘mob law’? is bess Imown or has less inflrience. (Oh, oh!) Wherever men hav: votes, clublow and mob law necesscrily disaypear. (Oh, ob !) Iconfine my observations entirely to the free States of the North; but if any honorable gentleman thinks that I am not fairly describing the facts of tho case, Task him to look at the circumstances that have occurred. He must Know that the government at Washington, whether in the removal of a distinguished and popmlar general, or in the removal of a minister, or in tho recognition of the fairness of the do- mand of our government for the surrender of two men, perhaps more hateful to them than any other two individuals in the world, have not hesitated to do what i they considered to be right. I say that, bee 3 at those things, the man mast be prejudiced beyond all power of conviction who thinks that the government, of North Amorica have been influenced by the action of the mob toany oxtent beyond that which is found to prevail in this country,” and in almost yin 6 other country in En- rope, Now, thenobio lord at the head of the goyernmont Wit have this advantage over me of course, and so will any of his friends who may tako a different view of this affair—they will say, and cannot prevent them from saying, that whether they wero wrong or not in their policy, that policy has beon crowned with a cortain suecoss. (Hear, hear.) But that is not always conclusive of a policy being right. I have not the smallest doubt that what le it a question whether those mon would be surrendered and war avoided wus, not tho tenor of the despatch, but the articles in the press: known to represent a section of the governmont, and the movement and operations of troops and ships, which were understood a a menace to Washington. Every ian who has access to tho shelves of the Foreign OMce knows that when the question os to the right to take those men came to be considered, whatever use might be made of English precedents, nothing whatever could be said if you adhered to American practices and principles. And it is clear to any man who read the speech of Mr. Sum- ner in the American Senate—in which speech he collected the authorities on both sides, ule of which must be known at ovr Foreign Office—that the American government would have been titterly unable to resist the demand of the English gore nmnt, in accordance with American practices and princivles, however courtecusly that demand might lave been made. It was, iidee!, vory well known to those who were at Washington at the time, that the iptivesce of those military preparations was not felt upon the government and peop'o of the United States, but on the Ministers who represented tho European Powers; for Ihave roason to know that thoro were not fower than two of the Ministors of the European. Powers at Washington who oxpreesed their decided opi- nion that there was an intention on the part of some section of the government, or of some powerful! classes in this country, if the opportunity offered, to inwar with the United States—(a cry of ‘No! no!’”’)—and the effect of that statement and opinion was this, that every man who felt himself aggrieved or humiliated by the course taken by her Ma‘esty’s government asked himself, “Shall I gain anything by this surrender, or shali I wait for some other opportunity for the action of hostility so apparent?” I do not bring this charge against tho go- vernment of this country, or say that they intended war; but thore were many persons in this country who were led to that conclusion. I think it likely that the noble lord at the head of the government, tringing down his traditions from atime of pas war, when rig and 5 were litte regarded by the most civilized naione Gs urope, thought that the only mede of securing what wished was ly this great demonstration of force. Now, 1 belive that cn this question, as on some others, and on th's more than others, there is no other powerful govern- ment in the world that is so brine disposed to abido as far as possible by known and defined law os the go- vervment of the United States; and when J heard that this demand had been made, with my knowledge of their previous course in respect to those questions, [ had no doubt whatever that tho matter would be amicably arranged, except that the monaces from this side might make it difficult for them to concede the demand of her Majesty's government. As to the effect of these demon- strations on English interests I wish to say one word. T witl not ccuntup how much the fail in stocks, railway shares and other securities amounted to; but in ome market alone, that of Liverpool, the effect of what was done, nol on board’ the Trent, not by ihe despaiches of the Foreign Office, parations of tive govermn-nt, was to reduce the value of one article alone to the extent £3,000,000 steriing. I have not seon it myself, but I have heard of a ietter from Bombay or Calcutta, which states that on a certain day, when the news arrived that war between England avd the United States was imminent, a complete paralysis took place in the trade of Bombay and Caieutta; and from that’ time up to (he period of the latest advices that paralysis con- tinued, to the great loss and inconvenience of persons on- gaged in the commerce of that country. And when news arrives from Australia we shall doubtless hear that from the moment when war appeared to be likely or possible not an ounce of gold was shipped to this country. Noman could know that an Australian ship would not ut by the warlike moet with an American man-of-war or privateer, and doubtiess the panic that prevailed in India would also be felt in Australia. ‘This is a view of the question worth looking at. Your people are omployed by tho operation of this commerce and the security of the capital embarked in it; and when there arises between two friendly countries any transact nlike (his unhappy accidéut of the Tren'—(a laugh)—J do not know whether any one on the Treasury bench Taughs I call it so. (A pause, durin rch te, amaranle,7 GemGuBen, dicoiogs To gaze upon the front ministerial bench. i euy {t was an unhappy accident. As regards tho United States government and our own government, it was nothing but an accident: and bo one knows this better than the noble lord at the head of the government. And when accidents of this or any other kind arise that can possibly cause jarring between tho.two countries, It is the policy and the duty of the government, in the first place pear to try all those moderate and courteous means which it would like to have tried itself beforo it has recourse to measures which send a paralysis thi all the ramifications of the greatest commerce of the bens and paeate imagers loss =} ae, all classes of the people. Now, 1 mi wi 0 utmost satisfac- tion and truth, that the mobi rd at head of the go- vernment was not ore peaked wis af the favora- bio tormination of that untoward event. If the noble lord believed that there was no course by which war could be teoean but that which he tgok, it would be very arsh and unfair to blame him. But, knowing how much the United States it id up and connected with the humane pri of international ‘inci maritime law, he might have casted avis more to their desire to act in accordance with international law than to the force that had been b: against thom. We shall do well to remember that the wich is for a mo- iment partially disabled and crippled, yet which gives its porte tne Went 1 nay ont it, com: the ‘moment of 322, 20 pple hes orth‘ and ee r Meas er nelp ooo ye as th ive aver done Lefcre in population as Poe's are our countrymen toa itextent. Wo have fow one- mies there, except those these shores with fecings of discontent against Unis govrrnment because their grievances were not removed, And it is worth our while, on all moral grounds, and on grounds of self-interest, that wo should in all our transactions acknow’ our alliance and kin- ship with such a nation,and not beh: cable and undying sting, which it would tal perl tion or two, to remove. independence eighty years loft such @ of 1812 inflicted similar mi «The cour: y the government, is notin the demand made, not in the despatch by which that demand was accompanied, not ia the courteous manner in which Lord Lyons manoged the negoliations—(cheers)—but in the insantancous and alarming Poor rity “4 5 a Ciepaed charges made je) 1¢ government, tended to leave on the iin of ery America i Jeeting hat Bngtand had not treated the United States in that magnani- mous an in manner which they had a right to from us. T am glad to see that a romarkable chango has operated day by day, both in this House and out of it. It is obvious that since the course taken by the American government has been known a groat bey has taken place in the opinion of this country. It bas become more friendly to the Washing- ton government, for Er now see that it isa real Pape not raled by a mob or dis: ling the law, ut struggling to maintain the integrity of a great coun- try. They sve in that country the homie of very man who that that greatest ou a Ht os mareover, ~ believe pn i ail crimes an le in the history world Can han conmanen eihthe crtas oF in shavery. 4,000,000 of people, ix, under the ‘a Power ry much Wigher than that of a “ of Bng- {i7% neh PyOtent of the UNtad Slaten, SArGNRG On, hiliowepto tts entire abolition LORD PALMERSTON’S 4 Lord Paracnston said:—1 am not guing to bel x latter part of the specch of my ho just down: tha 1 atopic hich wi be tare proveiy by my right honorable friend near me: ; Lewis) when vores to make his src abot ie estimates. But I am unwilling to lot a my large masses of the community. I go fu " and Ladmit that it is sometimes useful that this Was 4 should hear tho views and opinions of individuals, and to-night we have had an example of the singular” opinions ‘of one instead of the general opinion of many. (Laughter.) Bunt I think {t must be admit- tod that the opinions which my honoraple friend has expressed are as nearly as possille confine! {0 him- (Laughter) Sir, my honorable friend doos jus- to tho cou/se which the govornmont pussicd im making thoir demand for redress from the Ame: iean go- vernment, Upon that point there is no difference of opinion. (Hear, oar.) He bas done full justice to the consiterations which influenced bi noble friend at the head of the Forvign offlco when he instructed Lord Lyons. to make the communication, ond to the icacy , judgment and good tasle with which Lord Lyons contplied with his in- structions. (Hear, hoar.) itis well, therefore, to know | that the ground is'cleared of any objections upon those p-elimicary points, But my honorable friend thinks that we wore wrong in those military and naval preparations, which have been made; that we wero wrong in sending Out treops who went with whatT think ho called “fero- ciovs gesticulations.” (Laughter.) I do not know to what partic cirermstance he alludes, but the weather “was culd whon they were going, and ¥. they did make “ferocious ges'iculations,"” it must ave heen for the plerpose of warming their hands. (Langhter.) Tut the point of my honorablo friond’s argument is this, that the United States were bound by various obligations of in:ernational law to give ap those persons who were taken from on board the Trent, ard that in the course which they took they were not swayed by mob violonce. My honorable friend says where every- body isa voter ‘here can te no mod. I do Ne Th ere in that theory. (Hear, heir.) But ho contends that: the United States govornmont were bound by their own. inciples to do that which wo asked them, and that they were quite free, nor was any contro! oxer ‘clsod over them by any class of’ the community. But, now, I would just ask him if the United States government held all along that they wore bound by their own principles to disavow any act contrary to thoss principles, and, therefore, to. afford rodresg, why did they Keen those four genilemenin pei-on?. (Criss of Hear, Hear) Was it besauso. nv he pened to be tho objects of great. government, for that i; not the reason why an act of injustice should be committed? (Cheers.) Why sho:ld 1 gentlemen bo kept im prison, Who, according to the acknowledged principles of the government were entit!ed to their freedom from the first moment? (Hear.) It is to my mind true that tho United States government had not come, in tho earliest stages of the matter, to the decision that this was an act. which they must disayow, and that they wore boundto restore thoso persons. (Hoar, hear.) But my honorable, friend says that nocompulsion was exercised upon the United States government; that as to war, Mr. Seward and Mr. Lincoli could not make it upon their own au- thority—awe know that very well; it requires the sanction of the Senale—and that therefire it was quile foolish and minal in us to take measures calew Cy sugs) @war swith the United Siale:. But had we no grount for thinking that it was very dowsful whether our demand woul be complied with? (Hear, bean eg will s!alos, those gontlemes hi hatred to'the United State 2 eee ling Ui na tlet ie coun feyind, ee Tearult cine otkagd SMCh had tom oa x that refusal camo we should be bound to extort by the usual means tbat compliance which had ‘been refused. amore courteousapplication. (Hear, hear.) Woll, what reason had we to think that @ refusal would not be given? My honorable friend cannot have ‘forgotten transactions £0 recent and events sofresh in the memory of overy one. Why, what war the tono and tomper of the North- ern States? We know that Captain Wilkes had done this act upon his own authority, and that tho United States ‘were quite at team to disavow it if they chose. Mr. Adams told my noble friend that ina despatch which he” received from Mr. Seward it was’ stated that the Uni States were free to act as they pleased, and that its conduct mizhtdep-nl upon that which the British government might think a to follow. ‘The despatch went no further. Mr. ie—It Gl further. 3 Lord Patwerstox—I don’t know that. Well, Captain Wiikes declared that be had done the act without anthor- {iy and instructions.” But did the people, did the public of the United States hesitate as to whether what been done was right or wroug? (Hear, hear.) It is wellknown thot Captain Wilkes was made a hero of; and for what? Why, the reason was distinctly avowed and put forward— viz. becatise he had had the courage to insult the British flag. (Hear, hear.) Thero was a great ovation at Boston, whore, I beliove, persons holding judicial situations, among whom was @ person re office, tie Governor tho State, joined inthe gen chorus of approbation. (Hear, hear.) Bus youmay #0 that that took piace at a public’ meeting, and that we have heard many foolish Speeches made'at public meetings, and a groat many opinions thero exprossed which were not backed or rey echoed by the rest of the country. (‘Hear, hear,” and |aaghter.) But stop. there? When Captain Wilkes went to the theatre in New York the whole audience rose, as they might have done at the entranco of tho great Liberator of his country; they rose in honor of Captain Wilkes; and cheors 1. believe. (Hear.) Well, were the Amorican entirely froe from participation in such demoustrations ? With respect to some govoriments, it is safd that one department does not know what another department doos, ani it is Gre yeoney fase i reproach here ipa {ments conduct their affairs at cross purposes; bu rerion teks muedl a at, the Secretary of the ‘Admiralty, actually approved Captain Wilkes” condvct, and thanked him, and only ventured to hint that Captain Wilkes had shown too great forbcarance, and hoped that the example would not, in that rexpect, be brought into a precodent in future. (Hear, hear.) Then, the House of tatives, if mistake not, voted thanks to Captain Wilkes, and approved bis conduct. (ge hear.) Here, thon, were the Ameri- can public, the government, a. branch of the legislature, all approving tho act committed. Well, with all these facts. before our cyes, should we have been justified in supposing that merecourte- ous application, asking the American government to have the goodness to coliver the four captured persons into our hands, would haye induced them to say,“The whole American people sce that we have insuited your flag and are glad of it; but as you ask for tho delivery of the prisoners as a favor, as a favor we assent to the do- livery?” I really think that we should have been de- serving of condemnation and consare as short-sighted men, not actively alive to the interosts of the country, if wo had simply rested our case on the demand, Cheers.) Moreover, it is well known that it was gone- Tally said by persons in Amorica, and also I believe by somo Americans in this country, that the four prisoners ‘were not to be delivored—‘that they won’t and shan"t be given up.” What was considered by tho Americana tobe our week point, and what was the circumstance which made the United States always more difficult to deal with by England than by France? It was the thought that Canada and the Britisn North American colonies were defenceless. (Cheors.) What, thon, was it our duty to do? It was to s’renghn them, and make the Americans see that we are able to defend ourcetves om thar int which thought to be the mot vulnerable and moit ay to them. (Lear, hear.) That was not “Feroc ieulation.”” (Hear, hear”? and ) Te wos Sboty a defensive measure—(hear)—it was simply strengih:ning that part which liad beon woak and might be attached, and the knowledge of the weakness of which might induco the Americans to main- tain that position which they had up to that moment occupied—to retain these mon in prison and refuse to comply with cur demand for their restoration, (Hear, hear.) ‘Therofore, so far from her Hae government ‘being obnoxions to blame, I think that the government are = desarving ition for what they did; and, though they performed no more than their duty, they periormed it prone and effi. ciently, and have met with, I bolievo, tho ae eae tion of the country at large.’ (Choors.)’ I think, them, that the censure of my honorable friend the member for Birmingham is not desorved, aud that what wo did was not at allcalculated to provoke tho government of the United States. It was simply & measure which it was our bounden duty to take, the uncertainty of the result of the communications carried out from thie country. So far from any feeling of ineradicable irrite- tion between the two countries being ¢1 by the course pursued, I believe that # contrary course would Rave prodaced pe a result. If hor Majeaty’s mont had submitted to a declared ingult, no doubt a vote of censure would have beon passed on thom, Still tho act would have been done, and a sense of humiliation and degredation would have been perpetually in the of atleast the it generation,on account of thé gross and cpatoned for ft committod against the country. Iagree with my honorable friend who has just sat down, that tho course actually pursued is ono much more likely to luce peace between the two nations. ‘There start time to time between countries anta- gonistic panels and oeger of conflicting iutorests, which if not proper! it with would terminate in the explosion of war. Now, if ono country is lod to think that another country, with which such questions might arise, is from fear disposed on evory occasion tamoly to submit to any amount of indignity, that is an ment to hostile conduct and to extreme procesd: which lead to conflict. It may te depended on that there is no better security for peace botwoen nations than the conviction that each must respect the other, each is capable of defending itself,and that no insult or yjury cominitted by the one against the other would unre- sonted. (Hear, hear.) Between nations, as betwen tnatvidua H Eaton respect eda best security for mu- tual good will and mutual courtesy; 5 apiton, the cowrse perease, by tha government is fos Sone more likely than suggested by my honorable friend ths member for Birmingham to secure the continuance of poace. (Loud cheers.) THE CONDITION OF CANADA. Danger to the Colony from the Trent ‘Affair=Necessity of British Reinforces ments, and What They Were Sent For, BIR. @. C. LEWIS’ SPRECH. In the Commons on the 17th ult., Sir G. C. Lawis said in the early part of this evening, before the Speaker leit tho chair; the right honorable gentleman the momber asked mo @ vory pertinent question—whether the supplementary imates covored by in the estimate I have now tho honor to