The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1868, Page 8

8 “EUROPE. |: ——eee The Opening of the Now British Parliament. THE FRENCH COURT AT COMPIEGNE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF GREECE Tho steamship Anstralasian, of the Cunard line Captain W, W. Runde, from Liverpool December 12, via Queenstown the 13th, arrived at this port yester- day. From our correspondents abroad we are ena- bled to present an interesting and varied collection of important and attractive European information. Lord Stanley, before resigning his oitice, awarded £5,000 to Mr. Rassam and £2,000 each te Lieutenant Prideaux and Dr. Blane ag compensation fox suifer- ings while held captives in Abyssinia. ‘The friends and admirers of Mr. Charles Dickens, at Liverpool, are going to give him a pubiic banquet when te goes to that town to read, Itis anngunced from aris that Queen Isabella has purchased for £72,000 a maguificent residence on the Boulevard du Roide Rome, and paid a forfeit of £2,400 to be off the purchase of the two houses: she had previously taxca in the Champs Elysées. The France of the lith says there ts every reason to believe that beivre the delay given to Greece hy the Porte expires a satisfactory understanding wil be arrived at. According to the New Free Press of the same evening, Herr von Becke, ths Austrian Minister of Finance, will probably be appointed Aus- trian Ambassador at Constantinople in the room of Barou Prokesch, whois about to retire frem the dip- Jomatice service. A dreaiful boiler explosion occurred at Newcastle on Tyne, December 11, by which thre® men have doen killed and three others severely injured, The boiler was that of a steam wherry, on the Tyne, which, when near Gateshead, blew up with the dis- astrous effects thus briefly narrated. ‘The Northern Ensign says that gold has been found in the county of Sutherland. The discovery has not yet so afected the peblic mind as to lead to a “rush to the diggings,” but it has raised sufffcient interest to justify such an amount of “prospecting” as will put au end very soon to all doubt on the sub- dect. ‘The Liverpoo! Post of the 12th says that the work- ingmen of London have determined to abandon the daca of giving a bauquet to Mr. Reverdy Johnson.4! mr. Stanafela. There are suifictent reasons for this, no doubt; but they might have conducted their proceedings at the meeting at whieh this resolve was come to in sucha Way that the resolve might not appear to be due to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. firmed by herself or by any cessors. Once more I offer eras \f and remind them that the duty of every member now is to proceed to take the oaths prescribed by law.” 8] er Dennison then took the oath and entered his name upon the record of the House, and the other members began tv follow his example, They aro sworn in by dozens at a time—“religious platoons” Sidney Smith called theia—but ‘he work goes on Cid siowly, espectaily in the House of Lords, Still, nothing else can be done until the swearing is over, and then the queen's speech will be the next thing im order, That will be very brief and very formal, and after it has been Leard Parliament will adjourn unw after Christmas, and the re-election of the members of the new Ministry place im ithe interval. ‘There are of disputed seats, petitions of bribery corrupdon and accusations of undue influence which will have to be tried before the reformed Par- hameut is fully complete; but according to the new law that will be the work of the new iam and willLno jonger fail within the province of P ment or oY Parliamentary committees, ‘ You have already received the names of most members of the new government, but I annex the Jail list published to-day, contrasting it with Mr, Disracli’s Minisury:— THR CABINET, First Lord of the Treasury, ‘Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Disraeli. Lord Chancellor, Lord Hatherley (late Kai Lora one * Lord President af the © i, Lord de Grey and Preiss pa ie Marlborough. Ore _ Barl of Malmesbury. Chancelloryos the Exrcheqn Mr. Lowe. , Mr. Ward Hunt, Seoretary- for the Home Department. “Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Earl of Clarendon. Lord Stante W.fPage Woad). Lord Kimberley. tee Nee Mer, Pala Mr. Bruce, «-- Mr, Hardy. Secretary for the Colonies. 5 Rarl Granville. Duke of Buckingham. Ty of War, Mr, Cardwell. Sir J. Pakington. Secretary for India, Duke of Argyll. Sir 8. Northcote, c) Segretary for Ireland. Mr. Chichester Fértescue, Colonel Wilson Patten. First Lord of the Admiraity. Mr. Chiiders. Mr. Corry, President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Bright. Duke of Richmond, Lora Hartington,” Sake of Monte 0 De ake of jontrose. Poor Law Board, Mr. Goschen. The Earl of Devon. ix Lord Stewai The Earl of Bessborouch. The Earl of Tarkerville. Lord Chamberlain, ‘Viscount Sydney. The Earl of Bradford. Master of the Horse, The Marquia of Ailesbury. Duke of Beaufort. Mistress of the Robes. Duchess of Argyll. Duchess of Wellington. Master of the Buckhounds, The Earl of Cork. The Lord Colville. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Dufferin. Colonel Taylor. Commissioner of Works and Buildings. Mr. Lord J. Manners. Joint Secretaries of the Treasury. Mr. George Glyn, Colonel Taylor, Mr. Ayrton. Mr. Sclater-Booth. Third Lord of the Treasury. Lora of the Treasury. Mr. Adam. Sir G. Me ntgomery. Board of Trade. Mr. Lefevre. Mr. Stephen Cave. Under Secretaries—Home Department. the discovery that Mr. Johnson was not so popular | MF sainurhoe diamine 7 James Fergusson. in the States ag they, the workingmen, supposed | Mr, Grant Duff. Lord Clinton. him tobe. It has beeh a clumsily managed affair all Foreign irs. through. Mr. Otway. ir. Egerton. ttorney General, The Pall Mav Gqzette of the 12th states:—An un- | sir Robert comer Gerground railway is projected from the Marble Arch, along Oxford street and Holburn, to the Gene- | Mt. Coleridge. Fal Post Ofice. According to Mr. Hawkshaw there Would be nine stations on the tine, about a third of @ milc apart. The railway would be worked by sta- onary engines, and thus the vibration would be Tediuced to a minimum. an be made without interfering with the traiic of Oxford street, It fs sai that the Railway Commissioners’ report, which recommends the governineat management of Jnish railways, was presented to the Treasury on ‘Thursday afternoon, At the first Cabinet Council it Will be among the first questions to be considered, Mr. Gladstone having expressed his desire that it should also be one of the first deait with, The proceedings in Parliament on the 11th were again of a purely formal character. The Speaker ‘appeared at the bar of the House of Lords, an- nounced his election, and preferred the usual clalin for freedom of speech and freedom from arrest for the members of the Lower House, to whom he car- ried back the royal confirmation of all she privileges | Secretary of the Navy. granted by her Majesty's predecessors. The swear- ing in of members of both houses was proceeded with, ENGLAND. FAOM QUA LONDON CORRESPONDENT. The Opening ef the Reformed Parliament. . “ Loxpon, Dee. 12, 1868, It is supposed this railway | Mr. dustice O'Hagan. Sir J. B. Karslake. General, Sir R. Baggallay. Lara Advocate for Scotland, Mr. Moncrief. Mr. Gordon. IRELAND, Lord Lieutenant, ‘The Duke of Abercorn. Lord Chancellor. Mr. Brewster. Attorney Generat. Dr. Ball. Solicitor General. Mr. Serjeant Barry. Mr. Ormsby. In this list of Mr. Gladstonoe’s government you wil! observe a preponderance of whig noblemen that has given rise to mact ill feeling here, ‘The radicals declare that they have been swindled. They only have Mr. John Bright tn the Cabinet, and he 18 tn the very subordinate and unimportant position of President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Hansfleld has been made Third Lord of the Treasury—a new office— in order to get him into the government. Earl Gran- ville will lead the House of Lords, aithough he is only Colonial Secretary, Next to the disestablish- ment of the Irish Church, the strong new Ministry 1s to be retrenchment in all the depart iments of the government, and it is with this view that Mr. Lowe has been selected for Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Cardwell as Secretary of War and Mr. Childers as First Lord of the Admitraity, or These three men are the most economical officials in Haglan and they will not let@ penny slip through their ra without knowing where it goes to, what it goes for and who gets it. This fact explains these appointments, Which have excited some surprise here. Mr. Glad- stone made his fame as a financier, aud financiertug is to be the strong point of his administration. ictior Earl Spencer. Mr. Sullivan. The Gales on the Eastern Coast. The London Globe of the 1gth saya :—Yesterday seven men were landed in Great Yarmouth from the ‘The new reformed Parliament assembled on Thurs- | brig Esther, of Jersey, which was lost on the New- @ay at Westminster Palace, and whenI went in to see the members I found a number of very portly, comfortable, conservative looking gentlemen, in- stead of the collection of roughs and revoiutioni: whose election was predicted at the time of the paa- Sage of the Reform bill. A few gentlemen in cocked hats and flaming scarlet robes, and the new Lord Chancellor, Sir Page Wood, in his judge's dress—for he has not yet recetved his new title of Lord Hath- erley oMfcially—acted as a commission on the part of royalty and declared the Parliament open. Mr. Den- nison, a liberal, was forthwith elected speaker unan- imous!y, the new Lord Advocate proposing htm on | the part of the liberals, and Mr. Walpole, formerly Home Secretary, seconding him on the part of the conservatives. None of the members of the new Ministry were present, having lost their seals by accepting office. Mr. Disraeli headed his collengues n the opposition benches. There was a crowd of people outside and considerable cheering for Clad- stone and groans for the tories. Yesterday the proceedings were Biack Rod appeared in the mamons and @ummoned the Speaker and» the members to the bar of the House of Lords. Then came ‘the usual schoolboy race and rush on the part of the Commoners, and Black Kod, Speaker and members Durst into the House of Lords pell-meli. The speaker ‘was dressed In evening costume, but did not wear his Tobe. In front of the throne, but behind the woo! ack, were seated the Lord Chancellor—sull tn his jud,e"s dress—the Duke of Argyle, Karl Kimberley, Eari de Grey and Lord Sydney, the royal comwmis: sion—the jast four peers being again attired most gorgeously in seariet robes and cocked hata. The following strange utterances—which will remind many Americans of their experiences in the sons’ of Malta—tnen took place. Mr, Dennison, the Speaker, advanced, bowed and saide— My Loxps—I bave to acquaint your lordships that, im obedience to Ler Majesty’s commands and ac- cording to their undoubted rights and privileges, very formal. come Sand on Thursday night. The crew were picked up by a French schooner, On Thursday the pad- die steamer City of Hamburg, belonging to the Gen- eral Steam Navigation Conmpany, struck on the Norib Sand, near Great Yarmouth pier. The passengers and crew escaped. Thesteamer was warped off yester- day and brought into harbor, The schooner WH. liam, of it Yarmouth, which ieft Great Yarmouth tor the ¥ some three weéks ago, has not since been heard of, and it is feared that all hands have perished. On Thursday afternoon a fishing lugger ran into the brigantine Ion, of Shields, which was lying at anchor in Great Yarmouth ads. The crew of the lugger got on board the lon. The latter, however, unfortunately parted from her anchors and drove ashore. The lifeboat stationed at fariuouth sacceeded tn rescuing both crews. A Vessel Wrecked on the English Const—Neve eral Liv ORs {From the Liverpool Post, Dec. 12.) ‘The stip Gossamer, of Liverpool, from London for Adelaide, was wrecked on Prawle Point, South Devon, on Thursday afternoon, when the master, his wife and eleven other persons were drowned. she was under orders to call at Plymouth for paa- sengers. The only passenger on board was Mr. coe Daie, who, with Mr. William Dale, surgeon, joined t ship at Gravesend. Mr. Dale waa saved. The only passenger waiting at Plymouth to embark was Miss Jane King, but on the ship's ar- rival a telegram was to have been sent to the Kev. James Jefferies, at Bristol, who with his wife, four children and two servants intended going out in her. The wreck is in charge of Lioyd’s agent at Dartmouth, and the London charterers, ess, Houlder Brothers, have despatched one of their firm to Prawle Point. The Gossamer had an iron frame, pianked, and was tulit at Giaagow in 1864. She was a first class ship, being Al for fifteen years, and of 736 tons register. A correspondent seuss us the fol- lowing by telegraph, dated yesterday evening:— have Just returned from uke wreck of the Gossamer. The bottom of the ship is gone. The top sides of the stern and bow are high and dry at Pow Udes. The cargo has been all washed out, and is strewed over half a mile of the beach, The coastguard and og are in charge. A large quantity of goods has heen saived, consisting chiefy of bale goods, the Commons have proceeded to the choice of a | drapery and wearing apparel, malt and hops. Speaker, and th now present with all hun ‘gne LORD CHANCEI.LOR—Mr. Denison, we are com- Manded to assure you that her Majesty i# so faliy sensible of your zeal for the public service and your apie sufficiency to execnte the arduous dyties Which her fattnful Commons have selected you to discharge, that she docs most readily approve and confirm you their Speaker, The SPuakeR—I submit myeelf with all humility | ir choiee has fallen upon myself. 1 self at your bar, and submit myself, J, to her Majesty's gracious approba- and gratitude to her Majesty’s moet gracious com mands; and it is now my duty, in the name and « ‘behalf of the Commons of the United Kingdom, ¢ aim to all their ancient und undoubted rights | and privil I most humbly Pere her Majesty dor freedom of speecn in debate, freedom from arrest for ‘heir persons and servants—above for tree- dom of access to her Majesty when sion may require, and that nost favorable construction whali be put on all their proceedings And, with ‘ard to myself, I pray that if any error snould be caiminitted It may be imputed to myself, and not to her Majesty's loyal Commona. The Lord CHANCELLOR--Mr. Speaker, we have it furtier in command to inform you that her Majesty dove most readily confirm all the rights and privi+ Jegres whieh have ever been granted or confirmed by ber roval predecessors on her Commons, With re- Sard to yourself, str, though her Mayesty is sensible Miay you stand in no need of sneh aasarence, her Maesiy willever put the most favorable construc tion upon your words and actions, \ongeriny how the Qaeen, who is still at Windsor, Could bh so soon heard the h of Speaker Dennison agd prepared her new members of ‘he Commons raahed to thei . r er along with them, and there the TuNatory ceremonies were Jug widress, whieh the wath his be Of office: wig nae vac tee by the follow- delivered standing, but without his robes “1 have to report to the Howes er fouss of Parliament her Majes b — pend by her comalssioners, to approve the choles which the House mode of mraelt to be their Speaker. I then, in their pame and on their wenalf, lad claim to the recognition by her Majesty of ail their ancient rights and privileres—treedom of epesch in debate, {re fromm arrest of their pereons and porvanta, wccess to | the Pp. sence Of her Majesty whenever occasion | should require, and that the most favorable eon. | airtiction Was te be put on all their proceedings all whieh her Majesty, by the said ‘Commissoners @ ee to allow am confirm in as ample and com! Wieie & wouner as had ever beeD aliywed oF com Lioyd’s agent had not arrived at three o'clock this afiernoon. ‘The men saved say the pilot was drank; the wreck otherwise is unaccountable. All hands would have been saved if they had astern of the vessel, A good deal of cargo Is sav in condition. A representative of the unde writers would render valuabie assistance and prova- bly save property of great vaine. The wreck lies in the bay four miles west of the Start." FRANCE. KRumora Regarding the Emperor—The Plen- sures of Complegne—Pross Regulations and Prosecutions=Napole: and the Newre paptrs—Kiorts in Behalf of the Working Classen Pants, Dec. 9, 1868, ‘Not long since a report was started in the French press that indifference had become the leading trait in the Emperor's character; that In his sixty-first year all things had become unimportant in his eyes, and that he was solely bent upon passing his time away from the cares of state, amid the frolicking amusements of his court at Biarritz, Compiigne, &c. Such @ report appears all the remarkably silly a6 \tis confronted with the True, the plea- sures and pastimes of the imperial court were rome- what varied and prolonged at Comptégno this sea- ton. Three different series of invited guests, among wom were ambassadors, senators, writers, grandes dames, in short, all ghe most illustrious and fashion- able of Paris, enjoyed, during the November just passed, the most luxurious hospitality at Compitgne, But during all that time— and the statements here made have been ascertained from the most reliable authority— the Emperor, far from being fmmersed in gay plea sures, passed most of the days closeted with the sa- tans and ,in posting himself with regard to the ideas and wants of the people as reported by practi- cal observers and free talkers, The greatest latitude in discourse was encouraged: | Savans of the frees thinking pereuasion in religious matters were the oiler of the day in court circles, were fled aud | capatie of and Fierteal of the | lionized and drawn out to the extreme length of their tether. ‘They were invited to bring their books along with them, as an ¢n-cas, and to make them- selves at home. Etiquette of course compelled them to dress up in the court sult, of braided coat, knee breeches and coeked hat; but at the same time it seems they were not compelled to act the graces; on ihe contrary, they were allowed to give full swing to their natural oddities and enditles—to become courtiers if they chose by bowing before majesty at the risk of tripping it up or walking on its queues— and free speech was leftthem, What moro could a savant want? And in reality they were highly pleased and tickled with their visits, On their arrival at the palace of Compitgne they were put through, to them, the unusual course of bedazzling themselves in uniform preparatory to presentation to their Majesties and to dinner. After such ceremony it was the wont of the Emperor to address a few words to the newcomers expressive ofhis hope ‘that they might not be over auwoyed” durive their visit, while on the part of the Empress *"yeral inquiries were made ag to whether they were pleased wilh Compiégne and the country, and inviting them to make a promenade with her to the nelghboring Chateau de Pierrefonds, The ‘three series’? all visited that curiosity—the chateau. Dur- Ing the evening entertainments of tableaux, cha- rades or dances it WAs the constant custoin of the Emperor to corner some of the very ungraceful otrtiers mentioned, sit Gown on the sofa by thelr side and talk to them of weightier matters than the ‘light fantastic” or the intricate riddtes in process of solution by the assemblage. For the resi, savens could scarcely be expected to be du Sait on the sub. ject of riddles, and, in fact, were exempted from such service. Mmdeed, obliging courtesy towards them wag 89 far extended that even when invited to “tné de Uimperatrice” they were allowed to branch off upon the most heretical doc- trines and to Jevel the highest pinnaci not only so, but her Majesty herself, in pres the astonished circies aud especially or the as- tonisued savans, announced her belie! that evel body should not be held to think and believe alike, itis very evident, therefore, that the savans of Paris have had a delightful fall campaign at Complegne, and at the game time jt is more than probable tha Napoleon HI. received from them a good deal of use- ful information and valuable hints wiich he is not the ruler to despise and which be will very likely put in practice. Up to January 19, 1867, the press was un ler the com- plete control of the Ministry of tue Interior, which operated the system of warnings or cveytissernens, Whenever a newepener rendered itself obnoxious to the government the ministry sent it a tirst warning to desist from its course; if the same course was still pursued, @ second warning was sent from the ministry to state that if @ third warning should be deemed necessary the offendt paper would be ipso facto suspended. The deuxieme avertissement was something akin to the old proclamation before firing, ‘disperse and get ye’ to your homes, all good peopie.” Under such @ system it was easy for the government to deal with the press a3 wb pleased. On January 19, 1867, the Emperor changed this procedure by decreeing the new laws for the press that are no\ use. According to these, the press no longer depends upon the minis- try, but 18 subjectea only to the decisions of the courts of justice upon prosecution by the procureu imperial. In this way it is no longer the executive power which directly controls the press, but a sepa- rate branch of the government—namely, the admin- iatration of justice. Moreover, the new laws allow the establishment of new journals at will and with- out the previous authorization of the government, which was indispensable under the old system. No soongr did these Jaws go pire operation than the new Nberties were Wy by and a host of new journals opposed to the empire sprung up like mush- rooms, among the most notorious of which appear the names of the Lanierne, Reveil and Tribune, started at Paris, A good many young, ambitious and liberal writers avaticd themselves of the new liberties in order to make a name and carve out their fortunes; butit is none the less intimately true that nine-tenths of the people, long accustomed to the traditions and enjoyments of a strong government, cried out aloud against the new measures decreed, asserting even that the imperial government was directly sanc- tioning anarchy and chaos, By those who have been in position to know the facts lt is stated that the Emperor was at first very averse to reading any of the new papers, on the ground that he might possibly be provoked to recall his grants, while it was his sincere desire to keep on towards the goal of liberalism. Finally, however, the new papers got so obstreperous and bold that the impertal Ministers, not content with banishing the Lanterne, which had descended into such depths of unscrupulous accusations against the empire, undertook the press crusade recently ended by the condemnation of the journalists and the retirement from the Cabinet of M. Pinard, the anti-liberal and rather severe Minister of the Interior. This dismissai is but another token of the fact that the Emperor is infinitely more liberal than his counsellors. 4 has been through the obstinate narrow-mindedness of the members of his entourage that the government has been committed in matters cf detail to a petty line of policy that has occasionally produced serious embarrassments and imbroglios for tne empire. The casual leaving of minor affairs to the injndicious management of subordinates has been the cause of a marked difference perceptible between the Enrper- ov's ideas as announced—which have always been hiberal—and certain acts of the government smack- ing of harshness, ‘ine substitution in the place of M. Pinard, quite unpopular on account of his treatment of the press, by the appointment of M. De Forgade La Roquetie, a young man of liberal views, a great worker, who, only a few years since, from the inierior position of chief of a division in the Finance Department, jumped into the high ofices of Minister of Finance ‘and of Public Works—is unmistakable evidence that: the Emperor has displayed sagacity in gome back on those of his servants who do nou ad. vance with the times. At the present day Ministers must, and @ right they ought, to be equai to the hour; that is to say, they should know how best to act on the spar of the mo- ment, and it is clear that M. Pinard did not know how best to act when the Baudin subscription was opened, In this connection it is ted Chat during the recent press imbrogilo the 8) ror invited to Compligne some of the most lea and liberal functionaries residing in the capital for the special purpose of consuiiiag them in regard to the press gue, They repre sity of according the droit de reunion, or right of assembly, and of the freedom of the press, arguing that a4 errors necessarily exist in society, or in certain classes of society, in order to com- bat them i 18 indispensable that they be | not kept conecesied, but, on the contrary, | that be leit free to exhibit themselves, so that the proper steps may be taken to eradi- cate them; tm other words, the old Jeffersonian maxim waa brought forward on the tapis. The advice was duly agreed tu by the Emperor, who ex- pressed the opimion that the adoptton of sach a system requires a@ great deal of good sense, and hence, subsequently, acting with his own usual good sense, it is not astonishing that he should have cust M. Pinard to the Whales. In these consuliations the Emperor expreased the highest admiration for com- mon sense, repeatediy remarked that he was giad to observe that quality prominent in hus son, the Prince Imperial. After a duration of sixteen years tt is interesting pondition of tie empire aud e results obtained under the tmperial Looking at the interior of the country ble that the erforts of the Empe e working classes especially, have ve of greater cnlizitenment and of a lugher degree of comfort aud of privileges, — tt the aa boast of the imperialists that these efforts ave been largely successful, The’ only objec- tion that conid reasonably be opposed is that, in- stead of eradicating tie disposition of the people to rely upon government, those efurta have had a ten- dancy to render them less and less self-reliant. ‘The ebtef alin of the Imperial regivne has been to encour. age industry among the lower ciasses, to furnish them with the means Wherewitl to work and to bet- ter their condition, Public works of all. kinds, the erection of edifices everywhere, the embellishinent of Paris, the improvement of harbors, the butiding of roads and rontes in the communes have been in- augarated both on account of their intrinsic value and in order to afford employment. All these un- dertakings have been consummated at a very incon- | siderable outlay of money, for it has been chiefly the | foreign expeditions and Wars that have ran up the | public debt to its present high fignre. Agricultural | and other Implements of indusiry nave been fur- nished to the people at government cost and under the easiest conditions of credit. To obiain these implements, for instance, the,rural population have only been required to sign promises of reimburse- ment to the government agents at the expira- tion of two, three, four or five years: and if at the end of such lengthy indulgences the parties found themseives destitute of the means of repayment a sull further extension of time was accorded in case the ageuta found, on ane investigatiou, that they nad worked and beaved well GERMANY. Lower Chomber Still at Fever Heat—Bie murck’s ReceptionThe Ministerial Party and the Liberale=No Money for Educational or Scientific PurposesAlurming Condition of East Prussia, Bentix, Dec, 7, 1868 The report of a stormy debate in the Lower Cham- ber between the Minister of Justice, Dr. Leonhardt, and the liberals, as given you in our last, is now not only confirmed by the official stenographic record, but appears even to have fallen short of the violent and deflant Janguage which on that occasion was hurled from the ministerial bench. Previous to the speech of the Minister the debate was moderate and to the point, and the governinent Commissary of the Judicial Departitent, Herr Falk, in opposing the motions against supplement dndges of the Su- preme Bench, did so with propriety avd with refer. | ence to history and iaw. ien Dr. Leonhardt nd began ch as ef ented to himn ihe urgent neces- | esired;? “I do not ke to ogle with po- lilical parties;” “If the gentlemen will only apply tw the courts they mi there learn tue law of the land ;” “told you gefore that you would get vexed,” aud the like, wich Were greeted with cheers by the conservatives, {t justly stirred the bile of the Libérais and lashed tem in.o fury, They felt vexed, too, ab the Mimster’s kinputation that owing to Supreme Judges Occupying seats in the Lower Chamber he was under the necessity of calling in supplementary judges While it is well Kaown that only bwo judges, Livan» Waldeek and Reichens- perger, sit in the Lower Chamber, and no less than seven from the supTeime beach have been appointed by royal decree members oi the Upper Chamber. ‘The attacks of the Liberals which, previous to this challenge of the Minister of Justice, were directed against Count Uuleuburg, of the Interior, and Herr Von Maller, of Public Lustwuction, will heaceforth embrade also the positon of Dr. Leonhardt ; and it 18 already rumored that Count Bismarek has made the removal of tuese turee ouileagues a conditio sine ua non of his premiership, ‘the long-looked tor fermit of Varzin made his first appearance in the Chamber on ‘Thursday jast, and was greeted on all sides, though the conservative members only rose to their feet, as cuslowary When the King or a Prince of the blood enters the house, The Count talked pleasantly w.th miny members, especially with President Von Forkeabeck and Herr Lasker. tis stutely form and heali:ly looks do not betray @ ves- tuge of his previous iiness, He drives round to make visita for several hours each day, and galled Saturday on the Hoa, Mr, Bancroft, 4 Whom be had a ong and very irien eae P between the ministerial jatty gud (0 bers having ones nei so thofoughly aroused, ft ia but natural mab the subsequent proceedings relative yo.rme Glatof the Intertor, should partake of a cer- ‘ain bitterness of expression, ‘This was most appa. | reut the day before yesterday, wien the question be- fore the Louse was as to the "salaries to be allowed to the district presidents. The tiberal member, Her Van Saucken, though ft to complain of the \rth@l te ty of the government in appoiuting the said oilcers. He observed that thew eleciton, which ougiit proper- ly ta be by the inhabitants of the several disivicts, | subject to approval of g verment, had eventually Of the three candidaies which | town at the silghéest notice to see or hear anything. offence fagainst the King what in a free country would never be noticed at all. By such measure the anti against Pruasia is artificially kept wu here and Prussian officials are excluded from alt seciefty ana wherever they show their tace people take to their heels and leave them alone. SPAIN. Preparations for the Elections=false Teach. §pas of Dewngogues—Good Sense of the PeopicDislike of the Provisional Govern« ment. e MaLaaa, Nov. 28, 1888, ‘The political parties are busily engaged now all over the province in preparing for the coming elections of the municipalities and for that of the Constituent Cortes, which occurs later, Campaign tactics are a good deal like those that are so common in the United States, only the Spanish have not learned yet all the nice and startling games in vogue with you. AS the political leaders and managers are shrewd men and apt scholars, besides possessing the faculty of invention, it cannot reasonably be doubted that they will be able to get the whole peninsula im a ferment before the day of electttn comes, ‘The mosy dery orators o¢ the republican party are on the wing, endiessiny the masses in the principal cttles ant towns #t te country, and they succeed 18 fathering ther more people than thelr Spporenta, Just now the demonstrations are OvgvFring in very many place: and the republicang “re using every effort to mu thei as imposing ‘ys posstbie, m order to destroy the prestige geypd by the democrate-monarciical pay, by to oF tree monster moetings in the ca laiand elsewhere. There seems to be little trouble in collecting quite @ respectable body of men m any Just now there are so mauy idlers aud so mar y on become a mere Taree. 3 vople who \( e dle each district bad to present through tye Auoister of | a slightest Te nae oat faa no the Interior ior the King’s approbation it frequent. difteulty 4n getting ~ up a tremendous mect- ly happened that neither was chosen, ihe fog with the usual «quantity of enthusi: decree of the Jaw ‘which provides that | for gither party. The feliow who has a chai & district prendens sual own land has | seq himself in company aud make his cigarette been evaded by a system of mock Put | Ades not hesitate to ery “Vira el Key! one day chases, and even lately perfect, strangers have been | ang «pine ja repydiica!” the next. ft1s ali amuse- folsted upon the distric® without actually owuing | mens to him, and he does not stop to inquire what any land at all. In the matter of protégés of the government scarcely any examination as to qualn- cation was made, but in other cases tt Was most strict. Count Buleaburg in reply remarked that the previous speaker coniounded the act of nomination With that ol confirmation, He ought to know that his Majesty fad the right of nomination, ané how far that right was properly exercised was no part whatever of the discussion. Herr Von Sancken then advanced that the Minister Was wrong and that the King had limited his right of nomination to one candidate out of the tnree, tobe recommended by the sinister, who is to be held responsible. What good ig it Lo present candidates if they are to be ig- nored? A constitutional minister should shield the King, and not drag the King’s name into the debate tosileld ere o he Coarse promised to Lee an angry one, but Count Eulenburg, rising again, in- sisted upon the absolute royal prerogative, which was no subject of criticism for the House. After this bandying of words tie demands of the government were conceded, The debate which followed was respecting the in- ternal administration of the province of Hanover, which the government proposed to cent: reducing its six divisions of territory into three, ‘This 13 opposed by the committee, who would grant funds only for one government in the city of Han- over, and let the former organization remain as heretofore. Count Eulenburg conjures the members to accept the government proposal of three distinct sections as the oniy method of definitely penne the province; but as there are some twenty od speakers to take part in the debate, President Fork- enbeck appoints an evening sitting, which we un- derstand lasted till past midnight. No daily papers appearing here on the Monday, we are unable to tell you the result of this discussion. The Department of War now asks the Diet for a supplemeutary indemnity, although for the year 1367 no less @ quin than nearly forty-iwe million thalers had been allowed. Article sixty of the North Ger- inan Bund constitation provides that until December 31, 1871, one per cent of the population shail con- stitute the strength of the ariny, to which the several States have to contribute pro ratt, By article sixty-two the chief commander of the Bund army shall have at his” dtsposal the annual sum of 225 tnalers per head, aud Prussia last year, Laving & population of 23,958,883 souis, had to pay into the Bund Treasury the sum of nearly 27,000,000 thalers, while only 20,760,000 thalers had been included in the budget estimates. It was there- fore unavoldable to exceed the etat, thongh the amount was considerably leasened by Prussia hav- ing to be credited with the expense of organizing three additional army corps. un the whole, there- fore, \tie excess amounts to 1,500,009 thalers, for Whic® indemnity 1s now sought, [t 1a curious to ob- serve that when so much outcry is made over sums asked for educational or statistical purposes how lille the goverameat hesitates in boidly demanding an indemnity like the foregoing. Lord Loftus and M. benedettt are both here and have resumed oiilcial duties. To the latter the strongest assurances are said to have been wade as to the friendly feelings existing between this court and the one he represeuts. ‘The accounts from Kast Prussia are still of a very distressiug character and the want of provisions and the necessaries of life is universally prevalent. We hear, indeed, of schools having to be closed for the wantof firewood. How far tie landed gentry have suffered may be gathered from the fact that at a recent advertissment of a restaurant at a small ratl- way station to be let, there were no less than sixty- four applications from former well to do proprietors of estates. The charming songatress, Fraulein Liteca (or rather at present Baroness von RKhaden), is now at St. Petersburg, where she has managed to catch a severe cold, which will prevent her appearing in public for a fortnight at least. With the muniiicent salary of 7,000 thalers a year from the Royal Opera, she muat need go to polar regioas and lose her vote, The Bourse and the Eastern Qaestion—New Louns--Prussia and the Sonth—Political Prosecutions, FRANKPORT, Dec. 9, 1868. The good huinor of our Bourse was interrupted last Saturday by the differences between Turkey and Greece having come to a crisis, which, according to frightened speculatorg, might lead to a misunder- standing betwoeu Russla and the other Powers, Nothing is more unlikely than ¢] Russia would put in jeopardy the execution of erro rallway works for the pur} of entering into a quarrel with Eng- laud and FP e abuut the right of Greece to send frechooters to Crete; on the contrary, it must be supposed that this dificulty would alreaty be brought to a close af the action of England Were not pampered by the interim im the Ministry, As tue inst advices show that the ambassadors of England, France and Kuasta area m concert, geeater confidence prevails, and those Who are anxiously waiting for an imbroglo to make good the heavy lorses they in- eurred by thelr having be i continually in war are again disappointed. The relapse, though mo- nientary, has been # good lesson for bose gluttonous subscribers of new loans, who hitherto hooked up everything and who Were frightened out of their wits as soon as What appeared a cold wind blew from the Nast, The Prussian loan of 20,000,000 thalers waa not fully subscribed for, and, gor the first time, an Austrian issue of preference shares, those for th Alfoid Railway, found very iittie sympathy, and th subscription Wat a fulure. This is highly grat ing. as more tian @ handred new loans for railway shares or debenture issues were started on oar = since January. Pegple are now really sick of them. Americans remain firm and fluctuate only to the | extent of U um ou gold reported from New ) | j | York; basil is somewitiat injured by the irrega. lar arrival grams; sull the large Investments have ceased the market is flooded with foreta stock, but at the same tune ¢ ing American stock in the parlor tue public are tnvestingte cans, new purchase orders Will be sent to New Yor: if political affairs continue smooth on both sides ¢ the Atiantic. Austrian funds are fut, while shares maintain theit high prices. Of the recent toans the | Italian tobacco loan remal fa favor, and the | Branswick lottery joan ts in request; all othera aro | quoted at a discount, Mousey continues abundant wid bills on London and Parts in good demand. Everywhere in the south of Germany political life becomes more manifest. (he parties in tayor or in opposition te joining the Northern Confederation are jusi now very active. in Baden, where the govern- ment ace totally biased for ?rossia, pudite opinion is decided; suli two leading politiciaus, Biuntsehly and Lamey, having been disappointed of getting a seat in the Ministry, have now joined the opposition. In Wartemberg both the court aud people are not Prussian sympathizers, and the democratic party musters strong in the Ww elected chamber, In Ba- varia the anti-l'rassian feeling predominat the exertions of Volk, Cramer and ot | of the National Verein ure totally unsuccessful. As | there i no apprehension of a French war the liberal | party do not see any necessity for submitting to the stern Prussian rule, In the Duchy of Darmstadt the reactionary Minis- try keeps ita ground, aod haa recentiy succeeded in an action before the court to obtain a sentence of long linprisonmen’ against Bamberger and otuers, for having liveiied the Minister Daiwigh and the Bishop of Ments. The differences between our town and Prussia remain unsettled, as the latter shows no disposition to disburse those moneys they laid their hands on at the tine of the conquest, There is nothing which Mi the Prussian gov- ernment more ti disrepute in their new dominions than the futile actions they bring for trifing objects before the courts—“ The King against @ Milliner,"’ at Hanover, for a seditious song; an action against the celebrated Professor liwaid for some expres- sions in a recent | as med “The King against the x ot | Fditor of the Franktort Zeitung,” for having | recently animadverted ngainst the Prussian | generals Who tortured this town in 1856, are not fit to gain respect for a monarchical | | government in this old republican community. The | | worst featare therein, is that the oMctls ave afratd | to be snubbed at Berlin, If they do not in are jor 1 anything ppears disr otfal to the King, and | this man praOns hithert¢ custometto speak out their minds rought before the , , eliona, the oft in sare, W th h Halon it de for old awe or « ' and sHCCeRsOrs re thorough | i deuscdas yu the old provincks, Who regard as au | | of almost the entire nation, | | kiud of song he 13 to offer {gr the show. In Malaga there have been severai posing demonsirations on the part of the people; but it must be confessed that the general appearance of the leaders auc tieir followers was not very assuring to the men of property in the city, who are beginning to calculate on the probabilities of the future in case of a repub- lic, But these men are reactionists and con- servatives, and naturally do not take the most cheerful or fairest view of things. For Myself, 1 thing the sone are a good deal more honest and reilabie their leaders, of whatefer party. History has showa us, and con- temporary experience has confirmed if, that the leading statesmen of Spain for the past twenty-five eara have been the greatest rascals in the country. The rising generation may supply better apenIBLEDS, but at present they are very scarce. If the ple are not misled and falsely instructed by designing and reckless de! es they will go ahead all right. ‘They are not natural born thieves or fools, and if they commit outrages and excesses when they come into power it will be done under mistaken ideas, in- culcated by men who know better, but choose to em- ploy, such means to. secure their own advancement. ns ane 1n the honor Reon ipaoe: and pg erent panish masses, and lam sure, if no! pails will carry the nation safely and happily. the same time it must be confessed that the waclntle prion! a one an. this oda sod am 80) say pretty generally over Spain, musi be got rid of some how or other if it is to be well for the people to rule, This is the only serious di m- culty in the way of a republic, and it must be ad- mitted it 18 a very serious one and one that is weak- ening the republl party by the withdrawal from it of a great many men of property who sympathize with the principles of the party, but cannot look forward with any degrees of satisfaction to its auc- cess if it is to involve the division of their property among the masses. Nobody, I take it, would care to sacrifice his all even for democratic principles. In case the republic is declared by the votes of the people the government is likely to be constituted of Men of little property, education or position, which may or may not be a good thing for people who eujoy all these advantages. The best men of the republican party, of course, combat these socialistic ideas of the masses; but the petty leaders, who, a haps, know no better, support them because they think they can see prefermeut and fortune in a geue- ral division of property and a new deal in onices, If the republic is estabiished I think that the masses wi! rive up their absurd ideas when they perceive that tberty does not mean license, esp if their taxes are lowered by the new government and certain privileges extended them that they do not now enjoy. ane provisional government has made itself very generaily disuked 1n this and other provinces by its delays and vaciliations in calling the elections for the Uortes, The people do not like to see the reins of power 80 ey in the bands of self-appointed Oflicials, nor do they look with complacency on the many signs already shown, proving that the govern- ment wants to Keep its seat much longer. The d—Why is not the election Why the delay? What plot ts on foot to keep the wer in the hands of the self-constituted body called the provisional government’ No one can find 4 satisfactory reply to esther of these questions, ‘and the peopie begin to grow uneasy and restive under the lo! suspense. IL presume the feeble govern- ment at Madrid knows what it is about; but it has already given so many signs of its weakness and want of capacity for the great work it has undertaken that if naturally raises @.doubt in the minds of many whether it really comprehen(?s the situation and the duties growing out of it, The truth is, there is not a man in he provisional government that can be called great. ‘They are ail men of ordinary tatent and brid strong enough to pull down, but too weak and ineifi- cient to bulid tp again, And these are the men who have undertaken the work of reconstructing, a gov- ernment-and regenerating a nation! Can it be won- | dered at ifthe great national expertment proves a fatiure and the people are again set back into their old places to grovel in ignorance and be counted as cattle by their rulers? Sometimes one’s faith in the final success of the Spanish revolution is greatly shaken, The only hope lett seems to rest in the peo- pie, and not in the leaders. Will they rematn true to themseives’ Toat is the question, SWITZERLAND. The Political SituntionThe Late Innndas Uous—Commerciul Treaties=The Budget. BERNE, Dee. 7, 1863. ‘The Federal Council assembied here this morning atteno’clock. The Council was opened byHerr Aeph, the President, in a lengthy speech, fn the coarse of which he reviewed the political situation as fol- lows :— ‘The widespread desire entertatned at the present time by all the nations of Burope for the mainte- nance of peace has, thanks te the wise moderation ot the Powers, been gratified. Nevertheless, the endeavors to increase and perfect the art of war have not ceased, and the heavy burdens thereby entatied still press upon the nations, The unfnished condl- tion of the internal aifairs of some States, and the uncertainty as lo thelr ultimate formation and their possible tniinence upon the interests and position of other Powers. serve to a ceriata extent to weaken the full confidence tn the maintenance of peace and to give rise to a feeling of doubt. Although we can- not completely isolate ourselves fram the general opinion, yet We may be consoled by the excellence of our relations with all the other States, from whom we receive on every occasion proofs both of friend- ship and slacere syinpatiy, Ww received with sur- prise the announcement of the dynastic changes In Spain, which, commencing but two montis ago, have developed themselves in so short time, althougit not to a definitive point, yet to one pregnant with important evenis. “To the carefully | prepared alliance of opposite political sections, to the desertions of the Meet aud army and the consent ese changes are due, thus overthrowing with but’ litte difficulty not only the hated government, bit also the sovereigns themselyes, and in all probability banishing forever thewhole dynasty, With this eventful occurrence the abolition of @ hated system of government op- posed to the spiritaal and material development of the country Was associated the recognition of the principle of religious liberty so long coutended for, which, however ofteu it may be inisunderatood, will Procure those liberties desired by all men. ker afterwards procee to criticise the purely democratic movements w! a have of late appeared in the various cantons and the reaction, which will not fail to make ttself felt im the Insti. tuttons of the Bund. The speaker also mentioned the friendly mpathy whi Switzerland had lately experienced on the occasion of the recent inundation from foreign countries, and for which he tendered his thanks in tue name of the Swiss population. In conclusion Herr Aepil referred to the Various documents to be laid before the Assem- bly, which he requested the Councillors to take into theif serious cousideration. Besides the elec tion of the President and Vice President of the Bund the President awd Vice President of the Pede- ral Court have also to be chosen. Among the most important business ta the con- sideration of the commercial treaties with Italy and Austria, the postal treaty with England, and t Budget for 1 Which latter unfortunately closes with a dofictency of 463,830 francs. This rather large disturbance of the financtal equilibrium ‘vf the federal administration # so critical a matter, that the Councillors must seriously consult how to ang its reurrence in future. To eifect this, the nad Commission of the National Council’ has mouitied several items of expenditure, among others the increase of the salaries of the Ministera at Vienoa ead Berlin amounting to 11,000 franus, as originally proposed, TURKEY AND GREECE. The Greek Government and the Cretan Tue suraents<Eiect of Lord Stanley's Speech at King’s Lyna=Conjectures Regerding the Position of the Greek Nation. uct of the Greek guyeruuaeas ee ey the Cretan insurrection becomes ‘a ly.more clearly and precisely defined, To the ev 0 of 100,000 drach- mas already advanced to tir \ateers an equal mount has now been added. * «reover, the gener- als at Nauplia have been orderot > ‘furnish the in- surgents with munitions of wr | some cannons, Also several chiefs of the volnu/ccrs, who have been carrying on war in Crete and yo were on the point of returning to Greece, have ested to re- main on the tsiand, and permitted im the capital f ago one of the oMicers, band of volunteers, deiile:! \ the very windows of the otto: the steamer which has peo and assistance tothe insary voyages, : ‘Tints conduct, so opposed to tha: cannot fail to attract the att Constantinople, and the diplomatic relations pep » colors flying under sogation, L’Unton, reytng inunitions , las PeSUMe,” free “therm pursued, “14” of the Porte at 4Me.on of the rupture of ‘dda dans Weea the two countries 1s jah Miniet-. nor {8 it tmprobaiiec that the Turk- ints at Athens will in three or four days pre- ker ‘ #6 A uitimatum, . Various conjectures are raiscd a3 to the probable motives of this change In the reek polley. Some even go so faras to assert (ut (ie last speech of Lord Stanley to the elec ws Lynn implied Ww complicity on the part of Itappears, ever, that nothing is leas tr ‘wo opinions pre- Vail at the preseat thne—ouc ie governinent submits tointernal pressure ve her Greek, fear- ing jest the Candiote iasu Uous agitation in Greece. ‘the other opinion is that v0 ould foment a face seeing that the biden Powers do not wisi ty iotorfere in the Can- lote affair, desires to force tein so to do by urging on w rupture with Turkey, wiich would increase the embarrassment of that Pe the susceptibilities of those ¢ ‘ted in the preservation of ‘he siatm quo in the t. At the same titme the Greek government by ut alinost bellicose course of conduct hopes te face the dauger by which it is \reatened. Neither of these two opinions are yii) citer improbable unless the Greek governinen’ is uo longer guided by Russian inspiration, wich can neither be aillrmed nor contradicted at tac present time. ver 28 well as arouse ios Who are inter- ASIA. A French View of [eritiou India. {From the Pall Mall Gazeite, Dec, 12.) The Moniteur of November .4 contained a doen ment of sume” little interest to those who like to see the general views taken by weli instructed and im- partial foreigners of important chapters in the affairs of our empire. It is a ‘Report on British India, presented to the Mi ister of Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works by M. Jacques Siey- fried, of Mulhouse.” ‘The writer dates from Co- lombo, in Ceylon; but from a passage in the report. we presume him to be connecte:t witn the highly re- spectable house of Jules Siegfried & Co. at Bombwy, the only French establishment of any. note in that city. a Siegfried is almost enthusiastic in his eral views of the present position and prospects of India, in a material point of view; and his appreciation of the part which the British government, and stilt more the British nation and public opinion, have taken in the creation of that prosperity is certainly complimentary. ‘The English,” he says, “have ap- piled to the government of their colonies (and that lally for the last few years) a practical spirié which 15 very remarkable, ‘ireating as secondary those ideas which were once all powerful of absolute domination, exclusivism, an even to some extent that of religious propagandism also, they now ap- pear especially preoccupied with the material inter- ests of their Their leading object seems to be that of increasing the wellbeing of pula tions and introducing them Co civilization through the method, a little circuitous perhaps, but which appears to me the surest, of coinimerce and exchange products.”? He proceeds to justify this statement, 80 far as it regards India, by a statistical summary bare has been = of = + bo pe Abeiracihpcd roliti economy and ex, lene 18 8A} us that the moot ditfeult task for mun consists in the creation of his firat resources for action—of that which, in scientitic lan- guage, is termed nis capital. ‘This first lever once at hie dis; posal bis powers increase in so rapid a ratio thht his capital may almost be said to reproduce iteeif by iis own force. Now Britiah India, m theso last few years, has gone through what may bi its period of inctibasion; and I do not think deceive myself when I predict for it the most magnificent future that can be expected for any coloay. He | apebiecn to point out, neverthel: what he calls the shadows in the great picture, and the dittl- culties which it ig the task of “English wisdom” to subdue Lf possible. The tirst which he mentions is that of a climate unsuited—as all experience up to this ume has shown—to European colonization, The second is that “it is the fault of the English not to mix enough with the native population, and the danger which resuits from tils defect can only in- crease more and more in measure as the develop- ment of education increases amvung the native oe aN the desire for a share ia public employ- ment M. Siegfried then proceeds to contrast and com- pare, in a few able paragraphs, the commercial po- sition and character of Bouay and Calcutta, the two great outiets and inlets of ladian foreign trade, His estimates of they respective commerce we will reduce from his French into Engiish money. They are framed, not by merely taking official figures, but by a process of caiculation wilch he explaiua, He sets down Bombay for £24,000,000 of exports, of which £16,000,000 cotton, £5,0.0,000 opium, Im. ports, £12,000,000 of manufactured goods, £10,000,000 precious metals. The future of Bombay, he adds, appears more brilliant even than its recent advance, (We own that we quote these words with some re- gret, considering the manner tn which the Bomba; mercantile community has recentiy misused its alt but fabulous commercial successes.) The basis of its eveatual prosperity is to be found in the fact that it must profit more than auy other piace by the development of the Indian railway sys tem, of which it will be the natural terminas in the direction of Europe. In the commerce of I he remarks, native captialiats have a ver, share by the side of the Englisi. Among foreigners, Germans, Swiss and Greeks partictpate in it fo some extent, while France, he 48 to say, is repre- sented only by a single commercial house, ‘The trade of Calcutta he summarizes as follows, with details which we omit:—Exports, £22,000,0,7" of which £7,000,000 opium, less than £38,000,000 ¢5¢. ton. Imports, £16,000,000 of manufactures, ‘gue of which cottons reach what he justly calls Use enor- mous figure of £10,000,000; prectous “metals, £7,000,000. ‘The imported manufactured pticles are almost wholly British. France sonds yfly the vaiue of £200,000, The distinction between the sources of the commercial prosperity of Bou, and. Calcutta lies in this:—Bombay mainly re) |, Of Will repre- sent, the transactions of Maid in erica with the a Supplies the wants and ie by Western World; Caleu' exports the produce o} valley of the Ganse: far the weaithies! id most populous regio pe org in regard to opium—whic! ood by le hands of native and Arment ercha the trade of Caicutta is exclusively British hands, with a few Germans and Swiss Here again France, he thinks, lags far benind in the race of enterprise. “i need not say that we re- quire at Calcutta not one Freaci house of business, but many.”” M. Seigfried proceeds to draw a similar picture of the tnferior but still important commerce of the neg | of Madras, witch, unlike those of Oal- cutta and Bombay, transacted not at one port, but at several; &nd gives also a concise summary of the present condition and ros] 3 of cotton cultivation in India. The moral of his tale— and that which no doubt has secured it publicity im the of the Moni‘eur—is an earnest exhort: tion to his countrymen to take a more active sia in the commerce of India, which, as he truly says, “is open to all nations; insomuch vhat every wader, whatever his nationality, may establish himself side by side with ene Engliso and enjoy the same advan- tages before the law.” The French, he says, are uo- —— 80 far from having arrived at this point hat— They do noteven transact in India half the business of thelr own country. We not only go and by second hand in the markews of London and Liverpool. patt of the raw pre duco of which our industry stands tn need, but we also ad drone ourselves to Germans, Swiss or English for part of our direct tmportations from India. We have (our or five excellent French firms, but what are they in proportion to the fifty or 4 {nilions’ worthgo! produce which Tndia annually ex We have noticed this publication in the Montter, partly as a proof of the interest taken in our colo- nial affairs by a government so active in collecting and utilizing information as that of the Emperor. partly, as we have said, on account of the apirit of oak ae lization and analysis which it pre. genta, hese qualities, unbappily, in which the French are much more apt to distinguish themselves than in commerctai enterprise on the great scale. A Rallrond in Persia, The English papers acknowledge that a combina tion of Knglish capitalists has received froin the Shah a concession giving them, for twenty years, the exclusive right to construct country, and an agent of the concessional rO- ceeded to Teheran to break ground at once with a Short 4ix mile line from the capttal to the suburban village of Rey (Shah Abd-ul Azmi), @ famous weekly resort of pious Teheranices, The ground has already been surveyed, and the report ofthe engineer em- Ployed estimates that the line may be constructed and stocked for @ sam considerably under £100,000 on wit @ pustenger trate of some 40,000 devo tees a week will, he reckons, yield a remunerative dividend—exciusive of an eit per cent guarantee. “CHINA. er British Relations With China. {rom the London Morning Post, Dec. 11.) Ttis with extreme ba that we learn that St Rutherford Aicock, our Minister at Pekin, las ir- formed the Regent of China, Prince Kung, that tb has placed the ‘angehow miles ceati dimculty in the hands of Sir Henry Keppel, the admiral on the Chim station; and the tel h now informs us that dr Henry has proceeded to Nankin with her Majestye ships Rodney, Rinaldo and Sleney, to enforce fron ‘Tseng: pre the Viceroy of tie province, tit redress which our Minister las Leou uuable to obian at Pekin. We aiso leatn that @ genera! reuewal of that he- tility to foreigners, Which we had hoped was a mit- ter of past, bas shown in several of ae ope a, and that t Ingness, tie inability of the « verti ent its will ou r neial ¢ obliged Sul Kubiciovd vo tase exWweMe Measures, ¢ has even been * ) ’ .