The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1867, Page 4

en ba ff J British Reformers and Exciting Scenes in Parliament. Napoleon's Triumph Over the French ative Opposition. Defeats of the Turks in the East and the Agitation Extending. GARIPALDP’S DIPLOMACY IN ITALY, &e. &o. ke. The French Transatlaotic Company’s mail steamship Ville do Paris, Captain Surmount, which left Havre on Thursday, the 28th of February, and Brest on Saturday, the 2d of March, arrived at this port at an early hour yesterday morning, after a fine run over the Atlantic. By the arrival of the Ville de Paris we received interesting details of our cable despatches to her day of sailing, her newspaper files and mall advices from the Continent boing as late as the reports now on board tie Cunard steamsbip A‘rica from Queenstown, at Halifax, and which may reach tbis city from Bosion Friday. Her advices have been fully anticipated by the Ville de Paris, The steamship Africa, from Liverpool March 2, ar- rived at Halifax at four o’clock yesterday afternoon, with fourteen passengers for Boston, for which city »: ‘Was to sail Inst night. ‘The French bill on military reorgan'zat!- Goneral Allard has finished the report zenied to the Legislative chamber > It is stated tnat the Presi? of France rocaived a de affairs, M. Thiers n> which v bo pre- a, tue Legislative body usterpellation on foreign <ing to support it. A deapate »rence of the 1st of Mareh says: — The O"« te orders the formation of a perma- nent | nean feet, The Jlalie adda that it will be 0: by Admiral Ribotti, and will proceed to the Leva yout the 15th instant for the protection of Ital- fa. oubjecta, The Banking Gazette,fof Berlin, of March 1, states from Vienna that the intervention of Austria in the question of Northera Schleswig has boem spoken of. Prussia is Baid to be unwilling to permit a foreign Power to insist on a st:pulation of the treaty of Prague, declaring that @ third party could deduce no right from an Austro- Prussian treaty. In consequence of this, attempts have been mace to induce Austria to move directly in the affair. Telegraphic advices from Pesth, of the first of March, lent of the Hungarian Counetl, Count An- y erday presented the Ministers to the two Chambers, and laid before that of the Deputies soma bills relative to the collection of taxos, the levying of forty-eight thousand recruits, on municipalities, and the ress. 7 Advices {rom Nantes announce that the banking house of MM. Govin & Co. has stopped payment, The liabil- ities are set down at 5,197,000 francs, balanced by assets to the same amount represented by bills and the debits io curront accounts, the real value of which will have to ‘De ascertained. The French camp at Chalons will be commanded this year by Marshal Forey, The death of M. Brascasset, of the Academy of the Beaux-Arts, Paris, is announced. He excelled as a painter of landscapes and animals. Notwithstanding the contradiciion given by the Ga- etic of Northern Germany, the sem!-officlal organ of Count Bismarck, to the assertions of the Avenir Natinal Feepecting the demands of Prussia on Holland, the tatter Journal persists in mainiaining what it afflrmed. It even ‘avers that Prussia is showing Lerself more and more ex- acting, and that, after having at first only claimed the right of garrison at Macstricht and Vanloo, she will g0 on to demand a portion of the Dutch territory itself, At an election in Cologne for a deputy to the Parlla- ment of Northern Germany for that city, M. Thissen, a Catholic priest of Frankfort on-tho-Maine, has been re- turned, having obtained 8,379 votes to 6,106 polled for bis opponent, M. Ludolphe Campbausen, candidate of the old Prassian liberal party. The new Prussian Cross Gazctt, contradicting certain pumors current at Berlin, says:—The relations of Prussia towarde the South German States are every day becoming more friendly. The British navy estimates Inid before Parliament pre- pent an aggregate demand of nearly £11,000,000 for the service of the year, the amount being some £500,600 in excess of the sum requirod for 1866. La France says:— The current rumor that the United States Minister at Constantinople has proposed to the other members of the diplomatic body in that city that representations g@bould be made to the Porte on the subject of Crete, is without foundation, The commissioners charged with discussing the pre- JimInaries of the proposed Austro-Itallan treaty of com- merce and navigation held their first conference, The Governor of the Western provinces of Russia has fseued a circular, in wh ch he denies the rumor that the imperial decree ordering the sale of the property confla- cated from tho Poles had been revoked, adding that this property will be disposed of by public auction at the ox- piration of the term already fixed—the 10th of Decem- ber next, ‘A telegram from Bucharest says:— ‘The current ramors of the discovery of a conspiracy in tho Danubian Princtpalities, avd of various arresia hay- ing been effected, are ofllcially d:clared to be unfounded, REFORM IN ENSLAND. OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. Tre Derby-Disracti Bill and Tory Conces- sions in Partiament. Loxvox, Feb, 27, 1867. The reform qnestion in Parliament has assumed another new phase, Mr. Disraoli, the most accomplish- ed of political strategists, Las withdrawn the vague and abstract resolutions which have occasioned so much discussion, and has agreed to bring ia a biil somo time next week. More than this, he has succecded in en- trapping the opposition into a constructive pledgo that the second reading of the bill shall not be opposed. Thus be has not only gained another week or two of valuable time, but he has completely outflanked the opposition— who held a moeting yesterday and resolved to oppore the Tesolutions which Mr. Disraeli has just dexterously abandoned. Tho steps which have led up to this now position of affairs are very interesting. ‘THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. You have already been advised of the call for a meet- Ing of Lord Derby's supporters last Monday afternoon. ‘The assemblage was a vory large one, aud to everybody's ‘Surprice it was also very unanimous, The tories, with il their dislike to reform, felt that the crisis was im- Portant and that their only hope was to follow their Yeaders. Lord Derby mado @ speech in which be an- ‘Mounced that it was the intention of the government to Offer « reduced and extended franchise, estimated to ad- ‘Malt 400,000 more Englishmen to the poll, He added hat this was to be his iast effort to settle the reform Mestion, and that if this fuliied be would never accept Mfice again. If tho idea of 400,000 new votors startled Mhe tories, 80 did this personal coctarntion of Lord Derby, Bnd the rosult was tuat (he novlo leader of the conserve sdives received the most hearty assurances of support. With this understanding tio mooring broke up to re- ssomble upom the winisterial venchos the cue evening. THE Hoves OF Oovwoxa, ' | The excitement in and around Westminster Palace on ‘Monday was most intense. Outside several yundrod (Persons waited to see and cher the members of Paria. mont es they drove up. Inside the hall crowds of peopio ‘were gathered in the hope of being admitted to the @trangors’ gailory, Tho House of Lords was compora- ely deserted, Again, as upon the occasion of mr, WDisraoli’s opening of the reform debate, the Hours ot mmons was filled with a most distinguishe: audience, ain the Prince of Wales, the Dake of Edinburgh ana )ue Duke of Cambridge wore present, Again the floor of Yho House was #0 closely packed with members that m6 were obliged to sit upon the steps or stand against \}uo walls. The opposition benches wore eapéctaliy full. here was very littio cheering as the leaders of the two entored, As before, the curtosity of hy assem. age overcame any considerations of interes What lads La Lasiiamnens Will oot soon be fonaotien, The audionce was moet brilliant end the speakers were worthy of the audience Disractl, Lowe, Bright and Giadstone—the four leading Parliameatary crators of England—followed each other in splendid sucvession daring the reform debate. ‘THY CMANCRLLOR OP THE UXCHRQUER. Mr. Disraeli never appeared more at his ease, more cool, more collected, Unrereifully abused during the past fortnight, and facing a House that he felt was most unfriendly to his schemes, he was as self-possessod as Napoleon and as jaunty as Palmerston, When he rose to reply to a question of Mr. Newdegate, in regard to the presence of a Cardinal at the Dublin Lord Meyor's din- per, the House cheered him out of sheer sympathy. Quietly, and with all his old satirical skill, he dissected poor Nowdegate amid the laughter and ~applause of all parties, and when be sat down there was a general whis- per of admiration, Again rising, Mr. Disracli began to explain the application of the reform resolutions, His whole manner had changed. No longer inflatedly solemn, as he was daring his first reform speech; no longer keenly satirical, as ho was during his taying of Mr. Nowdogate, he simply stated tho intentions df the government, in the tone and manner of a man of bust- nesa, There were no firures of rhetoric, no appeals to party spirit, no leering for applause, In an hour he had Btated every detail of the proposed scheme of the government go frankly, so clearly and so explicitly as to ‘tally confound those critics who bad been denouncing him as oes Yet it was impossible not to see that even this frankness was strategical, He had risen to explain the resolutions, but he said little about: them. He was giving the details of a bill that was not yet drawn—that was not yet before tthe House. The members listened to him with a colduess that would have discouraged aless experienced speaker, At the close of every one of his statements he was comp< to paure for several moments, as the members t away from bim and discussed what be had »: themselves. Recaliod to attention by tt of “Order! order!” the mombers w. again, and Mr. Disrnelt would resi": which he proiis 10 inflict u were cordially cheered, ed er's cry, face about The punishments orrapt constituencies ceopt this there was not a uso from either side of the speech. Without faltering for ) this chilling recention was most veli, he concluded his task and calmly single hearty berst « Houre during 1) an instant, alt! novel to fr. resume eat. AN “UNDRPENDENT WEMPER.”? as a flash, before tho tones of Mr. Disraeli’s owe bad died away, Mr Robert Lowe sprang to his feet and dashed into a speech that electrified tho House, Mr. Lowe is a plain, elderly gentleman, with silvery white hair, the albino eyes and complexion and a clear voice that’ makes his very rapid enunc'ation perfectly distinct. Bis voice is fall of electricity, his manner ts nervously electric, and be speaks in ep grams that daz zie like forked lightning and aro almost 2s deadly. There can be no question that his speeches killed Gladstone's Dill at the last Perlinment, and you may imazine, then, the sensations with which the tories bolield this power- ful debater dush at the throat of Disraeli wit the vim and force of an oratorical bulldog. Tho whole House cheered him on, and he worried and shook Disraoli’s speeches and resolntions until they were evidently life- less, It was impossible not to pity the Chancellor of the Exchequer, roasted hke a martyr at the stake; but it was equally impossible not to admire «he skill with which Mr, Lowe turned and basted his victim. The Honse, so apathetic before, now listened eagerly for every word, and applauded every stroke of wit and sarcasm. There was aswing, a dash, an élan about Mr. Lowe's oratory that carried everything and everybody along with it, Ono felt that the entertalament.was most cruel, and yet most exciiing. It was like seeing a poor fellow knovted, or a Sepoy blown to pieces, or a battery stormed by flerce, agile Zouaves, Thera was uo ‘lot up’? to the infliction. At one moment Mr. Lowe riddled the resolutions, showing that they had no more appli- cation to the ‘practical business in hand than Squire Thornhili’s favorite preliminaries ‘that the whole is greater than a part, whatever is is, and the three angles of g triangle are greater than a rightongle.”? Tho next moment he demonstrated that the government bad no that (heir bill was like a balloon in the alr, that it existed in vacio, Then he ridiculed the declaration on. that the reform question mnst no longer decide the fate f ministry, asking why the tories should bo al- to eseape responsibility, by what right they tried to bind the House to keep the peace towards them, and who had set the brand of Cain upon them that no man should hill them. The cheering, now perfectly over- whelming, did not slacken when Mr, Lowe, with equal vigor, eatirizod the radicels and the reform demonsira- tions, and hearty applause grected his avowal that be had become converted to the principle of a moderate re- form bill, although he still feared the dancers of mob law and the tyranny of tne majority. Rumor says that Mr. Lowe is to be rewarded for thit speech by an offi when the liberals again obialn power, The rumor doubtful, but the reward is deserved. Unquestional ‘Mr, Lowe's speech killed the Disraeli resolutions. JOHN BLIGHTS BROADSIDE. To everybody's astonishment Mr, Joho Bright rose to follow Mr. Lowe, and began hy complimenting him and agreeing with him.” Bright iso portly centieman, some- what resembling John Gilbert, the well known’ come- dian, laboring under in personal appearance, He was &@ eevere cold, and spoke difficulty, but with great enerzy. The ope ing portlon, of Ins speech was merely a ropeti- tion of Mr, Lowe's ideas, and often of bis words; but when he bad swang himself ciear of this ren die agreement he rapidly developed another line of nitack. It is not easv to doscribe the sensation caused by the coincidence in views between Bright and Lowo, unless you can imagine Thad Stevens and Valiandigham rising io susiain each other. Although excellently recoived, Mr. Bright's speech was not by any means éo effective as that of Mr, Lowe, Bright is a cannon that overshoots the mark; Lowe is a necdle.gun that hits the mark plumply. ‘Bright tries to bully the House, instead of trying to lead it; he abuses hie opponents when ho only wisbes to’ satirize them. Ho bas a humor that is not less telling than Mr. Lowe’s wit; bat it is mot so fatal, There were roars of laughter when he ridiculed the tories for turnin; Feformers, quoting their own speeches against them, an‘ ching at particular members for personal allusions; at still everybody folt that this line of argument bore as hardly against Mr. Bright as against tho tories, for if they have changod places 80 bas ie. It is not half so abzurd to see tories supporting reform as to see Mr. Bright opposing an extension of the suffrage. Bosides this, Mr. Bright seoms to have no real influonce in Par- Vament. Members are always glad to listen to him, for ho is 4 most accomplished orator; but they pay no prac- tical attention to his views. He occupies the same rank im Parliament that Wendo!l a does in American politics—the rank of a brililant, able, eloquent, imprac- ticable man, Outside of the House Mr. Bright finds his Feal sphere, and be seems always to bo speaking to an ontaids audionce—to bancombe, as they at Washing- ton, His speech showed that he hated the tories, and wanted Gladstone back iuto office; whereas it should have shown, in order to keep step with his principles, that ho was anxious for reform, no matter by what party Lostowed, and was ready to nccept anything that would benefit the people. RATORM AS A VITAL QUESTION And apropos to these remarks concerping Bright, it is only fair to say that the tories have logically the advan- tage of their opponents in the pending discussion. The radicals and liberals have insisted that reform is a neces- sity, and the tories now acknowledge this necessity. All Parties beinw thus , and even Mr. Lowe and the Adullamites having been converted since the opening of Parliament, Mr. Disracli asks that tho reform question shall be taken out of the mire of partisavabip and treated ‘san exceptional, a phenomenal afair. He says that, siace such a universal agroement is phenomenal, ant slaco the dangers of delay are also phenomenal, there can be no danger of establishing an evil prececont yy allow- ing the government to consult with the whole House in framing a Reform bill. It is no reply to this to ridicule Mr. Disraeli. Mr. Lowe may compare him to Cain, an Mr. Urigbt may com him toa dry goods clerk, ask- ing his customers, “‘What do you please to want?" bat, | Seriously, Mr, Disraeli bas simply acc) the radicals and liberals upon their own terms. If country be in so great danger from the reform quostion as Me. Bright asserta, then there no party question about it. get to work to savo tho sinking ahip, instead of stopping to quarrel about whose watch iti3on deck, It is tosay sharp aud cutting thingy abont the tories, and equally easy to reply to to save the country, wi fo — Disraeli has in fact, cowardly, mie ake may revolutionize Eng’ often declared? abstract resoluiions nothing ‘and, by resolutions; presenting describing the ‘dotatis of ‘bin ‘not conn ether Cor- and Gnally abandoning the resolutions al tainly that is not parlti accept. His are doned; but they have taught bim what errors avotil—such as plurality of votes, for His bill has beon debated before it is drawn up; this debate upon the ‘sions of an ac- has given hit some Hight prov: ceptable bill, Mr. Bright says that nil this caution is simply for the purpore of keeping In office; but Mr, Disraeli says that it is for the pur, of saving England from Mr. rht’s revolution; and we are bound to hear who to take en tht petit f a roe bin be a it ang 1o oa form an; such Dill be pessed thls session. sid sf GLADETONE CLOSES THE DERATR. Retarning to the House of Commons on Monday, we may imagine that di the foregoing episode Mesurs, ‘Walpole and Latog have delivered their speeches and driv 0 nals the endionce avray and now Mr. Gi rises to clove the liberal side ine debate, He isin excellent humor, pow and then hia smile 0 flaugt as some Feoollection touches. his fancy, is as ag ewect and as distinct asa silver event om to ite mol- Tread: tion of a reform bill that will satisfy the country. Mossra, Lowe apd Bright their cam Goukse, iy! orator, country at be of 9 ; inet ‘rh encore « ecman G aia tant ir tate es Bo ere hs 6 for reform, and the motives which eually rule politicians. The if “4 bimeelf Wa 0 Nef ait SPhorinnlty le fesaie office and to rey thesd Who defeated his reform bill; the to Feform bill next n 1 the om these ho deliberately, ten y Ie wi sheep party ont of power; he will allow the tories to retain Le will resiat 0 it , Iatitade to the “right of interpellation”’ as it has granted er opinion of humanity to behold one such Stateeman, and a better opinion of the world to find « Whole party awed by his cenias and the parity of cit relaxes upon bis Jeaders ct them away from the loaves Some of the papers assert that » had @ private consuliatiou copal points are said to be as follows:—Suppression of previous authorization now required for the estab- jo 0 of the present rate oney”? to be deposited, and which is fifty thonsaad franes; the stamp tobe reduced from six io four centimes for city Journals, and fi for those of the departments; cll charges against the press to be referred to the correctional tribunals, which may suspend or entirely suppress a journal after two con- condemnations within two years. Imprisonment in offences of the press is entirely suprressed, same project also accorda liberty to privters and bookseliera to establish themselves without the special license now re- qnired of them for that purpo: I have réagon to believe that these statements are trae, end that this really liberal change wil! do much to- wards couciiating to the goverument the larger portion of the press itself, The bail at the Tuileries, evening of Febraary was unusoally brilliant, about four thousand persons being present, Tie Empress was attired in white satin, trimmed with roses, the leaves spark!ing with bniliants, The Princess Ciotilde wore a robe of white muslin. Awongst the guests were Queen Christina, ce Mus- tapha Pasha, brother of the Viceroy of Egyst, the am- hassadors of Russia, Prussia, Spain, Italy and Tarkey, the miuisters of Denmark, Bavaria and Portugal, and ail the great political, financial and ariisttc notabilitics of the capital, There were also presoat several representa- tives of the press from the rural departments of France, THE FRENCH LEGISLATURE. Debate on the Sappression of the Address— The Right of Interpelintion ay Understood in the Chambers—Opinions of the Press on the Attitude of Jules Favre and the Oppost- in 1, and there may be some truth ‘At any rate you may rest assured that if regard to the reform bi in the ramor. the government will bring in a fair bill they will have no better friend to its passage tham Mr. Gladstone, the leader of the opposition, ‘THE PRUSUNT STATE OF AVPATRS, But olthough it would bea fine thing for England if all partirs in the Honse could unite to reform bill, with Derby and Russell, Disraeli and Gladstone sharing labor and the honor, there are certain parties out- the House who ary not at all pleused with the pros- t before them, Mr. Gladstone is the leader of the but the radicais have not yet accepted him and it must be rememberod that the radicals are the fellows who have raised all this agitation about re- form, They look upon themselves as duped by Disracl!, and not sufficiently championed by Giadston: dd they are commencing to murmur. A moath w.ll have elapsed since the opening of Parliament before the government can bring in any bill. So far nothing has been done. Resolutions have been presented only to be withdrawn; a bill has bee amps be tint but not ai before the nd now the subject been in postponed, with Nr. Gladstone's eousent, The radleals ascribe this delay both to Disraeli’s sbrewd mancuvres and to Giad- stone’s “overstrained courtesy,” and they are deter- mined to do something to hurry matters along. At their Meetings yesterday it was arranged to call another popu- lar mass meeting for Saturday nest, and to hold another pular demonstration at Easter. such gentlemen as ir. pagar se A., and Mr. Ernest Jones, do not like to have allthe Gne speeclies made in Parliament; they want to talk, also, and to see their eloquence in the r ‘rlumph. papers, This 13 the thing that may upset all theschemes | thon—A Gover: eT jf be: Pariiamet he people will clamor (From Galignani’e Messenger, Feb, 28.) for munboed uti and ne member ot Congress has |. ‘The first day's discussion on the interpeliation relative to the suppression of the address is remarked on by the Paris journals in the most contrary manner, some—thore supporting the government—insisting that nothing could have been wiser than to renounce the practice, while tie opposition organs maintain that the country loses a vast amount of political enlightenment by the absence of tho observations which were made ench year at the com- moncement of the session. Both portions of the Paris ress arree on one point—ia referring particularly te M. ules Favre's speech a3 the great incident of the sitting. [From the Paris Conatitutionel, Fob. 28.) M. Jules Favre, in bis ingratitude and injustice to- wards the reforms of the 19th of January, had pretended that they were a retrogracta stop, and tliat the suppres- sion of the address was a proof that the discussion and control of the Chambers were feared. What! The gov- ernment dreads ingn!ry and restraint at the moment in which it is re-establishing the tribane, in which it is abolishing the preliminary authorization for the jour- nals, and ts preparing a bill on the right of meeting. It fears liberty at the moment in which it is making con- ce-sions on all sides! ‘The accusation was a strange one, M. Jules Favre wished to reply, and was at first forced to admit that the Ernperor is the real representative of the sovereignty, Te then took refuge in rome subtl ties; but he had no doubt expended on the previous day the greater part of his epirit and enorgy, and Iris reply was only a second and much weakened edition of bis first speech. [From tho Paris Debats, Feb. 23] In reading the report of this sitting one might be led to believe that the Chamber is is not yet clearly decided as to the roles which shoald be applied to the exercise of this right; for hardly had Mf Lanjuinats spoken bis first words when he fonnd himsolf interrupted and re- called to the question by the President. ‘Tho speaker, in commencing an examination of the modifications made in the decree of November 24, 1860, had thought he might call in question the Senatus-Consultam of Suly 14, 1866, which modifled in a perceptible manner the prerogatives of the legislative body, and notably those resulting from the right of ad:'ro:s. Bowing to the observations of the President, M. Lanjuinais Inia aside that preliminary discussion ‘in order to himself absolutely to the limits set down by himse! these of his colleagues who p:esented the demand of interpolation. The point which the speaker wished to divers: evidently came, wo think, within the limits of that privitoge, Bunt it seems to result from this prece- dent that the right of addressing an interpellation to the overnment on a special and well defined subject expires at the precise limits of the terms in which the question fs put, 1f this were the case the new privilege, already embarrassed by so many obstacles before it can be used at all, and so narrowly circumscribed when exercised, tortle be well nigh impracticable or denuded of all erfi- cacy. i {From tho Paris Patrie, Feb, 23. ‘Was the concession of tho address In 1890 the restitu- tion of aright? No; the address is nota right; tt is a form of the relations which the government thoaght ne- cessary to establish—or to re-esiablish, if the word is preferred—between itself and tho great bodies of the State, That form having been condemned by six years’ experience, the Emperor changes it by virtue of the power given to him by the decree of 1852; but, if he modifies the form he docs not alter the principle; thnt is to say, he in no way dimiuishes the aoticn of the legislative power controlling the acts of the executive, Quite the reverse and gives precision to that ac'ion; he gives to those who exercise it the means, not ef of controlling his acts and aasociat ing themsstves with them. bnt of doing all that at the r time aad with a fuil tnowledge of the subject. Was aasuredly the legitimats succsss obtained by M. Veitry aud the oblivion into which tha complaints of ‘M, Lanjuinais and the reasonings of M. Marie feil, one after the other, that called M. Jules Favre to the tribane. Fora moment we feared that cries for an adjournment would have deprived us of his speech, by which the tactics of the opposition were chanzed. Fortuuntely M1. ret been bold enough to advocate that on the floor of the louse. Even Mr. Bright dares not face that music except at public meetings, Now the dilemma which has been pointed out in previous letters ‘again recurs, Sup- pore Parliament does pass afair reform bill, will that satisfy the people? Notatall. ‘The men who walk in processions aud attend mass meetings and cheer and shout cannot be satistiod by lowering the property quali- fication. They want that qualification abolished alto- gether, If a£5 franchise be adopted they wall bold meetings, and walk in processions, and cheer and shout just the ‘same. Intelligent Englishmen turn up thelr hoses at these working people und say, “These are not the fellows we desire to please by a reform bill; but the fact 1s thut these fellows are the only men who demand veform for its own sake and not as a party measure, The poor mon, the laborers, are the people who havo been agitating the question, and any gettiement which does not reach them will not stop the agitation; and yet Englishwen of ail parties say that a radical settlement which will reach these agitators is an impossibility. Here, then, is the dilemma, and Heaven only knows how it will’be escaped. The classes to be atlected by lowering tho franchise do not care for the suffrage, have never made any organized effort to obtain the suffrage, ‘and many of them would only eell their suifrago if they votes, The working classes are anxious for the nffrage, have been demanding it for years, and are moro determined now than ever before, Disrueli and Glad- stone may arrange matters in the House among the Politicians; but who will arrange matters outside the House among the earnest masses of the poople? FRANCE. OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. The Discussions in the Corps Legislatif— Claims of Jul Favre and the Republi- cans—Washington’s Birthdny Celebration-- The Last Ball at the Taileries—The Grand Exhibition—The Revised Constitutional Press Law, &c. Pants, March 1, 1867, If the government is always inclinod to give-such full during the diseursion which has just closed in tho Corps Legislatif upon the suppression of the address, it might as well have permitted the discussion of the address itself. Nover in the palmiest days of that institution has the government and its policy been so terribly rated and such freedom of discussion employed as has been during this stormy debate by some of the oppagition members. Jules Favre in particular (whom the govetment would like to “suppress” along with the address, 3¥ it coneid- ered it good policy), was especizily, t, denuncia- tory, and as some of the govern’ it membors asserted, almost “reasonable.” He claimed the discu:sion of the address, not as a favor granted from the throne, but as an inalienable right of Frenchmen, and intimated that as in some other cases in the history of France when the soveroign had attempted to remove any of the people's prerogatives they had “known how to guard them.” As to the recent promised reforms, he stated very plainly his opinion that they wore dictated from a “‘sonso of necessity.” The fact is that the opposition, led by this powerful orator, 1s becoming exceedingly deflant. They know very woll that the Emperor will carefully limit the ox- : 8 Jules Favre was enabled to speak and give utieranco tont of his reforms to a point which cannot | 7o1S Faye wa ies eat ~ ae ae in his judgment endanger the safety of his} not complain of the roticences which the right throne. Now, this is just what Jules Favre, Pelletan and some others of the most able and powerful leaders of the opposition desire, They are republicans, and they hope to conduct the gentiment of Franco to @ point, where taking advantage of some fortuitous circumstance, ft will restore France to the Political condition she was in before the coup d'etat. ‘This may be wise and it may not, but it isthe fact. All the real ‘reforms’? that the Emporor makes, instead of rendering this class of politicians more contented, makes them less #0, for these areso many more sops to the great popular Cerberus to keep him quiet, and they de- sire that he shall be kept constantly “ stirred up,” This may be factious, but it is true, These men demand all for France, which is enjoyed by the people of Eng'and or'the Uuitsd States, and Will be sattanen with neahing Tesa, and hope at the general elections of 1869 to make such a display of strength that the govornment will be frightened into granting such privileges as wiil, excepting by an almost miraculous intervention in its behaif, insure its downfall), On the evening of the 224 of February, a grand ball in celebration of Washington’s birth day was given at the Grand Hotel, and was the means of uniting in the dining room of that establishment between four and five hundred ns. The room was brilliantly lighted and hung with American flags. The honors of the evening were performed by General Dix and his family, to whom the guesie paid their respects upon enteriag. The General was dr-ssod in his military uniform, and Miss Dix, simply, but in great taste in pink tulle, ‘The tollettes of many of the ladies wero magnificent and in point of beauty, a finer display, could scarcely have beon gathered in Paris than that made by our fair of interpolation sirictly interpreted, may impose, He gave full carcer to that incisive dojumn-e which charms even those whorn it wounds, and at least gives uz, in contrast to the sallies of M. Picard, the saits- faction of hearing ideas expressed with originality, What, for example, can ba more so than the little appeat to ingurrection by means of ths tribune which terminates M. Jules Favre's speech? We in France were already ved with all the forms of insurrection. which consists in cccuy s rebut et ia, absolutely as if the address were under discussion. “Let us rpeak,”” says the honorable member, frst as one might say “Let us revolt.” “Let us speak without coasing, and the gentlemen hostile to the address will be nicely taken in. They wanted to avoid useless harangues; we will give pleuty of then. They wanted to have clear, procise and conclusive discussions; wo will bring on others, idle, v ae purposeless”” Is not all that sufficiently [From La France of Paris, Feb. 28.J ‘Tho sitting of the Chamber was a'bal one. The oppo- sition has taken np dangerous gromnd, where it can be useful neither to the country nor to Wberty. It was un- Juat to the Sovercign, in misrepresenting bis. most evi- dent intentions; and it was impolitic, in seeking to systo- matically depreciate the new reforms. Nothing shows better how false was this attitude than the conclusion arrived at by M. Jules Favre, when he declared that the address bolonzed to the Chamber, and must be nraiin- tained. How maintain it? Does M. Jules Favre wish to provoke a now oath of the Jen de Paume? Does he intend to substitute a revolutionary situation tho constitutional exercise of the legislative power? Such has been the regrettable consequence of an ee oe, which, employed os it hag been by the le speakers of the opposition, could have no practical issne. In fact the Emperor and the constitu- tion wore necessarily the subjects of this debate, Not M. Suies ing t ali country women. It was remarked that on this occasion | only was the decree of the 19th of ey, diccusesd, quite a number of pergons were rresont, who, from their | but the authority and power of the sovercign himself” pee sympathies have, during the past five years, | M. Jules Favre, in an impassioned improvisation, gave failed to participate in the celebration of any of our | its most radical conclusion to the interpellation. His national anniversarics. ‘was only a bitter indictment against the present 18 foreign legations were represented either | and the of the empire, It was he who uttered the ‘ers im person or their First Secretaries, The | last of the opposition, and that was a menace, le Ministers of Russia, Prussia, Persia, Bavaria, Switzer- land, Portugal and nearly all the south American re- } political munas ix by apis. that this discussion, already Publics were present in person, whilo England; Italy: 4 regrettable from the course which it has taken, should ee a nee First - dyer ted PP who 3 i ily words Ove notable fact in this celebration was and im the Chamber. asia patwaned the presence of General Dubois, the Minister from Haytt, « geatioman of most indubitable ‘‘color,” and one whose complex: the Paris Temps, Feb. 28 / In tho midst of those conflicts and ond Sncertitude jon wonld a few years sinco have insured his ejection ween. hich from any raitway-car, omnibus or theatre in the United os cokes 4 ping the O14, Sahih ae Sch rat (om bg pn a ae the discussion was fuishing; Viscount a mt terry! i Tepublic, bimeclf a iark mulatto, mingling in tho gay | ranjulnas had been interrupted; M. Marie had lost his the vory créme dela h which promreed creme of American socicty, which « few years since wide . ‘would only have permitted him in thelr preseece in the Fe eee eo teie can anoating wiih it. Ohessaloce Mies Yurperat Cons the of a feeble liberalism, and tho dobai he Imperia! Court was represenses by cho Deke 60 ati! colorless, when M. Jules Bassano, Grand Chamberlain of the Em} . Favro addressed the Chamber. His sn; and ee ee ee Tulleries took uent reply goes it to the fact, and calls things by Place night before last, on which occasion the following ir right names, Jules Favre is a great artist, but Americans wero Boon tee 8. Sites Bind, to be superior to bin It he only requires to be natiara, jon 6 loy, Mr. Sounket in oa to the governmont an in- Eater tan aa YY ‘on he dectee of the 104 of aut: Of Maryland; Mr, and Mrs. F. 8. Lnzard, of Buffalo: De. | POLCArOCecestion of Tegality an te the vor D, 8, Smith, Miss Smith, of TMlinois; Edgar ry ‘the decree of the 19th of Janu: of, Colrorains Joe an, Mien Boy am, of IM | 9 j Point of view, In presence, of article f doh L. Bit, Mim Bit and Mf. F. B Hoffman, of New Tia tee cuntabationsl Sberecter et we Gorwes or iat wary, 1867, like that of the decrees of the The Em) conversed with Mr. and also ad }~- $$, can hardly be contested, but dressed a few wort to ME Norton, inguttiog. of bam | 2 cestion fe ais terlecetatoe Whether tho American. yachts were coming over for the oT ana hs a, Wace teat Gi Ea ao scat wm | cucianicne ou ero is no u The Day’s Debate—An Imperial plas tala inp a Cg irwunde aed bul mph and Heavy Damage to the Oppo- material, tne plecos of machtaery und’ Doses of. good (From Galignani’s Messenger, March 1.) Koes oot appear pomible That cnigriot ho srvagne oat | body on the interpolations relative. to the suppression ons veo PE AE og PO QP I rm meat will certainly bo 08 th AS aaenighiedd Foo oa aE Tain inclined to believe that the diapoattion | Riven to Me Hustle OMivier® who could with a1 of Parisian hotel and shopkeepers, and all others hore | obtaim shearing, the majority treating him with who have been expecting to realize large fortunes out of | ference as s now recruit aud the opposition showing him the Exhibition tourists, has received a check = houtility for #0 oearne unmistakably leaving their rope and” the “Uniied” State tea “ine aerents on pig's position. that many believed he ied come lay whieh had been sent from here, were havii declaration t© make. But in place of that result to fi 4 it Re righten people out of the idea of at all. only uttored some insignificant sentences to express ie very cortain that the hotel keepers Intended | his happiness ia voting with ee eS ee, Pye ok rinetpo de Mer int Aa if Sod ta Tay in conformity with wishes of the 80 even now said that the advanoe will be very a ey io all {From La France, March 1.) other matt BY and 7 ‘er 18 much more than an ora- amienae number of ‘viston coms hay expeated, hes tae bine sitors which ‘are been greatly over eamated. Some three amet since jl the coplousness and power of Eh canta ingtance, a very intelligent mam down promature the probable infiux from the United Btates at two y men pro- millions. Should the world be represonted, (peer. like this proportion, it would mdeed be 0 it 680, suffic.ovt space cortd be found in and withi@ any reason- the con- ablo distance aro: nd Paris to lodge the army. Rouhor was It is shis morning positively averred a meoting of however the Oouneit of Biate, veld ad the Tullorien, the pre deen bie Of the law relative t9 ihe press, wiiol the ding intends main nk tie Logiolatif, was decided ! WE a bee pee, it certainly is, if rey Ce yong douing fou, Which was much moze ait ir vance upon the preseat ve prin | passment vanged into the open Held, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. his colors floating in the brecza, and proudly ptanted his flag im presence of the enemy. Consequentiy, as his movements were much more fres and uucouined, he had only to raise himself to the height of political elo- quence to jepiet juatly and nobly the situation, Year, as « faithfal soldier, bound by a great duty, he in- Clined towards resistance; at present, the resolute organ of the conservative and iiberal empire, he has placed bim- self in tho centre of the movement in order the better to direct it. Shall wo declare, witn that frankness from which we can never depart, and which constitutes the Value of these observations, between M. Rouher, reject- ing reforms which the Emperor thought inopportune, in order to give to them the authority of the soveroign ini- tiative by depriving them of their compulsory character, wi ing @ and the who is developing a programma Ta. his speceh of Tuesday the government advocate defl- nitively disappears behind the political miuster. The period of transition is euded; fictions vanish and respon- sibility appears, is why we call the speech a politi- Paris Patrie, March 1. form a grand ma history— bly ~ midst of the aaemenene: ot ay assem ap eloquence whi" - has ponctrabd Gul the renl @f'a ated cpa such in in a few words the susmaary of Tacsdzy's slung in the legislative body. The impression will be gent sod unauimous. The opposition now knows all it wanted kpow, and what its doubts and afirma- tions? All of them ibe breath check which the Sopeege Ghee will vain protesta, lost in e xperienced on itself, Vanquished by reasoning it was conquered the ‘second by the dignity of the defence and the honesty of the decia- rations made, The Minister of assuredly does not expect from public opinion a fresh expression of tho admiration 6o many times caused by bis great oratorical talent, What he sought for in the Chamber was the real accent of that public opinioa which for a month past had been TEBOSring OGHN the disfiguring of his ideas and aspirations. @ found what he sought? Yes—and thersin lies the eulogium which is to-day everywhere heard. M. Rouber spoke just as the country speaks; ho protested as the country protests; ho defended the convictions which the country defends; and in placing the legislator of 1852—the sovereign whoso every effort i an extension of our liberties anda suro guaranteo of our prosperity —above the attze's of @ minorily now for ever tsola'ed, he made himself the faithful echo of the national sentiment, [From the Paris Presse, March 1.) The twenty-five votes ara no doubt those of the oppo- sition, properly speaking; the éfers-parti did not se} Yate on this occasion from the majority; it lsten the soonest tor concord made by M. Rouher in a speech which we have pleasure in declaring was ss remarkable for its moderation as for its eloquence. M. Jule: who on his sida was not less happily inspired, w in declaring the impossibility of overlooking the po- tical (mportance of M. Rouher’s language, It ia, indeed, no small matter to hear an official speaker of such weight as the Minister of State affirm the liberal intentions bw which the last reforms were suggested. A declaration 80 precise and coming from such a source gives a sort of assurance that the new law on the press will not be so rigorous as the first information received by the journals caused to be feared. Would there not be reason to say, if the case was ditferent, that the intentions of the Chief of the State have been perverted? ‘There aro also grounds for hoping that the majority will not be of too obduraie a nature with regard to the demand for inter- peilations which may be addressed to it; that is at least the promise made by M. Rouher in the name of the right, so far as he was able to engazo it, and which be aiso made on behalf of the government. THE EASTERN QUESTION. Severe Butiles in Crete and Defent of the Tarks—The Discontent and Lnsurrectionary Movement Extending, &c. % The following Cretan despatches reached Paris, by way of Alexandria:— ALEXANDRIA, February 18, 1867, Av Egyptian vessel brings us direct news from Can- dia, Mustapha Pacha, afier having suffered a great defeat at Sphakia and Anoja, has been forced to retire into the fortresses, All the island is in the possession of the insurgents, ™ dows received at Paris from Uorfa, February 24, con- firm that important engagements have taken place bo- tween the Cretan insurgents and the Turkish troops in the western provinces of Crete. Eight thonsand Turks had bern defeated near the village of Gerakari. They abandoned to the insurgents several officers and soldiers, two guts, five colors and one hundred mules, Tue Minister of the Viceroy of Egypt, Nubar Pacha, is soon to go to Constantinople as the bearer of an au- tograph letter from the Viceroy to the Sultan. A reformer of the Mohammedan religion, Jusauf Efendi, has arisen in Jerusalem. He bas already gained many adherents, and the movement is increasing. German Interests. The Krews Zeitung of Berlin of February 28 has the following:—With the intimate relations which unite Prince Charles of Roumania with Prussia the develop- ‘ment of the crisis of the Principulities Las already boen ‘the object of much attention. Tho Prince had under. taken a dangerous and dificult work. The almost destroyed finances, the disorganization of the arm; the vexatious situation of social relations, all that would have frightened the Princo of Hohenzollern if ho had not a consclentiousness of bis mission. Conspiracies tending to prepare tho same fate for him as for his pre- decessor were to be expected; but these will fnil so much more miserable, as the Roumaln people will sco thai if it loses this chance of order it will have to face a fata! and obscure future, and that the Prince forms the limit between prosperous progress and anarchy, wh'ch would entail foreign domination ag a certain conse- quence. The Prince has striven from the first to pro- core the advantages of legality for his country. The Principalities, it seems, were only ernable in Hespotars, ‘who, supporied by the Boyarts, and sharing cr r8, Who, Bu) sharin, with tho large landowners the produce of a governms: without ral to elevate the popular masses to enable them to organis» their interests and to give a support to these tendencios in creating a good militia, first Mmothod was interdicted to the Prince, not only by good licy but by the fact that the landed was, ivided among ftself. The second las to struggle again-t great difficulties, because the sontiment of being directed by a kindly hand only penetrates the masses slowly. We are nevertheless convinced that the actual deveiopmont and what there is of danger iu the situa- tion will bave the salutary consequence of convincing the reasonabie subjects of the Prince of the necessity Of rapidly creating a capable militia. ‘The Latest. Trieste, March 1, 1867. The Levant eteamer has arrived with accounts from Constantinople of the 234 and Patras of the 24h ultimo, rd was spreading among the insurgents, The roor- ganization of the Greck atmy was being actively con. tinved. Largo quantities of arms hat beon ordered of French manufacturers. Yho Greek volunteers made risoners in Candia had been set at liberty by the Turk- ih government. Camo, March 1, 1867, The rumor of an increase in the Exyptian army is con- tradicted. The Vicoroy haa, on the contrary, ordered the reduction of one-half of his forces, Bucnangst, March 1, 1867. Colonel Saloman, formerly Minister of War to Prince Couza, has again taken service in the army. THE ROMAN QUESTION. of the Hely See to Itnly—The P. Army aad its Duties. ‘ Relat: {Rome (Feb. 23) correspondence ) Victor Emannel’s envoy does not seem in a hurry to uit Rome. Some suppose he will prolong bis stay tiil er; others that he will merely go to Florence and return at once with the title of official asent of the Italian government to the Holy See. The religious ques. tion once regulated, M. Tonelio, without going into litical affairs, hastened to commence negotiations with Cardinal Antonolli on the custom house, post office, tele- graphs, the bank, extradition, &o. ; in a werd, on all the. questions of which the solution could facilitate an under.» standing betwoen the two States and contribute to the well ny of both. The ground was long since prepared he basay, and M. Tonello will only havo to and, besides, the dis- creet bot always 1 mediation of Count de Sartiges will never fail him. There will be no written conven- tion; a verbal understanding will suffice for the direc. tors of the similar administ at Rome and Florence, to come to an it afterwards on the de- taille, The attitade of M. Tonello is highly§ appre. cl the Pontifical ment, The Italian Envoy, core. by the French em! rather what was 4 i i i ii 2 F = 5 H & | | zi jad risen on the 16th of Feb- ‘our corps have increased considera. n, the fy the foreign Chas. LF zs i H Ag i au} @ legion has received 538 and at present numbers 1,522 men, one-half being at Rome and tho other at Civita Vecchia. The Zouaves have risen from 1,759 to 1,917, of whom 1,702 are in Rome and 215 at Viterbo, ‘A third battalion is said to be going to be formed. The foreign Chasseurs ‘wore only 1,' they are now 1,822; 0 only are fo a rest are moet age, 3 the f inces pres Je, tho auxiliar! a sort of Nallecal dane ally eae ry) lished for the re- Of brigandage, have been raised from 600 to ‘are divided into squadrons, Bi man sent ceases Sct Src 1 @ im iT A ‘fe fromits know << an To sum Place principally ye ly comnouety A foreigners, tho native element, with the the corps of auxiliaries, has reaielaed near! ee tl had Non oo yar ae ohosen Dresept momen! for fullline bis promise Venice tn reality with a view to the elections day ® journal, which is destined to become the organ the epposition, published ita rst number, and the page contains in type and in the form of an adver the appeal :— Feb. x Sirs ene gt ned al {ts accomplicns. The efforts of all free Ley ‘ougt rected to ob. Int wards this supreme object, aa new cShombes neither the partisans of liberticide re votes nor the satellites of the fallen 7 nag A whom make common cause with the and The gene our country either an aren of” reaction or a (opus of prot ry an arena or a foous of prow — The are subjects and soldiers of a ower, an authority unmixed and universal, ual and which commands and does not cliow itself to be ed, which sows discord and co erorythiog. Fad From those obstinats enrmies of our cou we mi take away the panne of he pe zed in suspense, our vindication of liberty of conscience and the trium judice. To the poll, then, oltizens; will tell the world of what gore ‘we deserve to be a great You will yourself judge of the of thie proctaanae tion, That is the only name to be given to a mani festo, The moderate is have not yet ex themselvea, some confine th ie less com} The intervention of Garibaldi, up to time not 1m with have the effect of giving more energy to the oppositiom and accelerating its action; but, on the other band, the substance of the manifesto renders any understanding ween the clericals and the Left im, ible. But in the uthorn provinces most of the opposition deputies only owed their election to the co-operation, more or leas avowed, of the clergy. That took place there which eenpeeeam: many departments of France from 1830 te are leagues. The hyperbole is rather strong, of Paris will be not a little surprised. A which ite career with this stroke, le destined to the which has decidedly @m tered minister waters, Notwithstanding this proclm mation, many think that Greece is the real Jectof Garibaldi’s journey. But this is a simple conjem ‘ture, founded only on the well known sympathy of General for the Hellenic cause, FIRE INSURANCE. The Better Regulation of the Insaran Business—Protection to the Interests o' Both Companies and the Iusured—-The Reme edy Against the Injudicious System Whick Lea to the Disasters of 1865 and 1866, &e. The annual exhibits of tho various insurance compas nies of the State are now collecting in the office of Superintendent Barnes, in Albany, who is busily em» gaged collating the facts therefrom for the proparatiom, of his report to the Legislature, The vast and compli. cated extent of this work will preclude its completion for soveral weeks perhaps, especially as the circumstatte 93 connected with the insurance interest of the past ycaw render unusual care and consideration requisite to the pres paration of this document, involving as it will practical suggestions for tho} remedy of the cvils which plunged the insurance corporations into so many disasters, ‘These reports are uot all as_yot received or in a condi> tion to permit the comparison of facts on which Supery intendent Barnes can proceed to his analysis. Enoug is known, however, to indicate the more salient causes ‘of the hapless condition in which many of these compa nies found themselves when making their annual statee menis, The Herat bas already referred to aud cone demned these chief causes, viz, the agency 5} tem, with itsfimpradent and wholesale. gathering risks—a system inspired by an unhealthy kind of come petition, into which the companies were jed by a desire to amass immense surpluses, instead of carefully come serving the interests of the iusured by a judicious buste ay rts reveal the financial unsoundness of many 1080 Fe] Te old competi: toadjust whose difficulties, both in the interests of the public and of the stockholders, has and will be the policy of Mr. Barnes. Where the capil of any comeeny has beon impaired, ho bas already is personal endeavors, and in many cases with aut to induce the stockhol to make good the deficit by acash subscription. The law allows him very trary powers of in the casesof companica whose stock has ten ores ~ the Fears = Kd tain percentage, but he has not chosen course. On the contrary, his aim has been cong Tins holders at siook 0 the wistoa of keeping the fustitution in existence increasing its fends to the amount of the original tal. His policy is of a conservative Tr, OD ground that the amount of capitai invested in the inure ‘ance business is entirely inadequate to the intorests an heeded paid of its ientaine acompany where it 13 fe, $0: . Whore the stockholders are unwilling to make good the {mpairment of their capital ho favors the measure now fore the Legislature to permit the resumption of busf- negs on tho basis of the balance. It is bis desire, as @ great public necessity, not to force out of employment auy amount whatever of insurance capital. entire sum now invested in this class of oe in New York State does not exceed $50,000, = Es? a perfoct triflo in comparison with the value and po! property. The inadequacy of this to moet the wants of the community was iit lately in the case of a large firm on Broadway whose lishment waa destroyed by fire. The insurance they desired could not be ef in all our State com- panics combined. In consequence a large (ty thoes ao: their risks was located in companies of other States in some hai! dozen English companies. ‘The disasters of the past year on land and at soa created such a feeling of inaccurity in the public as to drive a large share of pancones i, ‘the companies which have established in New Y« and other cities, atid business without fulfilling the requirements of the as to tho deposit of a guarantee fund. There is no reas son why this patronage should be thus diverted to jury peg meiigen ae and the benefit of for ‘ith all the losses exp: ‘by our all their disasters and mismanageme! tremely few cases of loss to the insured, cars just now—tbat of the Columbian Marine Insurance Company—in which had as much Tonpageeneat to-do with sappeng se vitals, ‘Tho community are therefore in withdrawing their sup own 6 retirement of home and thereby assisting in from the business, One curious feature of the causes of loss to the Lape will es in hi rates during the war, and qT course of qu itt g ' the prices of everything were rising, the rates. surance went down. The companice made cauae le. were more vigilant for the roperty, which was constantly enhancing in as, if a man bad an insurance of $10,000 under ol@ prices, his policy would not allow him more than thas ‘sum if his was de:troyed, Lorie hare pe boat upon the amount But after war prices of things ioe to fall, and singularly enough insurance disasters i i E com Low became less vigilant, in haps even careless as to the security their ase ti were inswred for a certain amoant, and be a gain. The remedies Lod the Hater hep peters pd among Ly a Tatty ital Suns cto fifth of the amount—and the adjustment to make the receipts of premiams owner E if il i A F i ; | 1 He 5 branches of the He “companies should be cgantrod, Wik are the more loss of time ;” and corporation “ should be 80 premiums and the skilful a coriais ua ta E a iE ide : ii one negotiated in 1864 by General Cazneau, and which the French and British governments of that day viewe@ paraded a naval force Totoro’ che ety ot Bh Domingo 0, coorce the feeble casa’ Sager ume te i Hi we i Z gan eienettl fa i ie zeagi, fail j dl jated, it Pas isappoll that we sball #oon obtain ii in the Antilles on t : ia it [