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M. THIERS has brought up his Report from the Commission on the Deputies on the Education Bill as fashioned by the Peers. It is a grand tractate, which occupied nearly three hours in the reading, and requires seven or eight columns of the journals. There is much of verbiage, sciolism, false social philosophy, pretension, and rhetoric in this work of a professor, anti-christian design. The alterations proposed in the bill reverse the work of the Peers, and re-establish the University monopoly and privileges. Frequent were the plaudits of the Deputies, a majority of whom belong to the school of Voltaire. During the recitation, the Monarchy betrayed their chagrin at the success of one who stands perpetually in their van or rear as a premier candidate or leader of the most formidable of their adversaries. THIERS, observes a Legitimist oracle, is Voltairean, Revolutionary, Imperialist, Monarchist, Doctrinaire, Radical—head of none. The Jansenist journal of Public Instruction will come from his incubator. GUIZOT took up a small share of the debates, space is consumed by the serial report of a criminal trial at Auch, in the extreme South, which lasted eight days, and in which the accused and distant nearly two hundred leagues from Paris. The case is of a beautiful and opulent widow accused of poisoning her husband with arsenic; it teems with romantic circumstances quite as congenial for the French temperament as those of the Suire-de-Boissy. All the reporters from the capital announced that they would have reporters at Auch, and receive the stimulating matter by special couriers; the details in the newspapers are devoured; and the avidity with which they are grasped at the reading rooms equals at least any interest connected with the Education bill. Count MOLÉ made a sage to excite any where in the Union. I enclose a summary of the accusation; the whole story is a drama of real life. Gravity, dignity, high tone, scandal, and forensics were never more remarkably mixed and exhibited. There is not a suspect proof of guilt—no conclusive presumption—but God knows, only an impressionable jury could convict. In the Court of Appeal of Paris, the bar of the Royal Court having resigned, a new election took place on the 14th instant. Their Spanish candidate, M. BRESSON, received 217 votes out of their brethren entitled to vote. The number of these was five hundred and one, and the whole body is not as pleased by that number and with six votes, greater by ninety-six than any poll on the records of the bar. Octogenary judges and councilors, aged from sixty to eighty-five years, had long ceased to practise claimed the right of suffrage; particular homage was paid to BERRYER; the Council is twenty-eight in full, contemporary and friend of the GERBIERS and TRONSON DU COUDRAY. They are directly related to professors, and the lecturers who have succeeded them in jurisprudence in the Colleges, bustled in the suite. Animosity exists in some measure between this bar and arriere-ban of the Council—this professional clanship shown in the resurrection of so many antique and decrepit bodies; the old bar was ended the batonnier (staffman) of the Council delivered an address, in which he congratulated the Elders and his colleagues on the success of their activity, their perseverance, and their pecuniary sacrifices for the dignity and independence and the moral influence of the profession. To the Count, he repeals the strife will be between the esprit de corps of the bar and that of the magistracy. Three rounds of applause followed the address. Up to this date the result of the Cabinet conference at Barcelona is the dissolution of the Cortes so long suspended, and the convocation of a new assembly, to be opened and organized, and the convocation of the Spanish electors college in their proper districts, on the 10th October. You may judge how fair and regular the elections may prove; and, nevertheless, it is quite possible that NARVAEZ & Co. may not be unable to control the new body and be quickly brought to the alternative of another suspension or a dictatorship. A letter of July 3d, from Madrid, called from London, resigned because he would have proceeded without Cortes: NARVAEZ appointed himself in his stead, and now holds the double office of Minister of War, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Commander-in-chief of the Army—a political dictator, pure and simple. The press has not reprinted the prate of the farce of constitutional freedom after the tragedy of military despotism; and for this look at the remonstrance of the British Minister, who with drugs from his bed and consigned to the stomach ... How fine and sincere the language of Lord ABERDEEN, in his reply to Lord CLANRICARDE'S question concerning the proposals of DON CARLOS to marry his son to the young Queen of Spain! His Lordship said:
"He would just observe that if the question in Spain were only one between a Carlist contender, and a Carlist princess, that proposed, if adopted by the Spanish people, might be regarded as an eligible means of terminating differences and putting an end to civil war; but if it were proposed to change the nature of the affair had completely changed; it was no longer a question of a Carlist pretender, but of a pretender to Government—a question between a constitutional Government and absolute rule."
Such a division in favor of the Narvaez party and Moderado system rivals the declaration from the same source of French favorite-ship and French concurrence in the insurrection against the ESPARTERO Regency. A Barcelona decree of the 4th instant, countermanded the tax-abatement and privileges for the Basque provinces according to the ancient fueros. This measure precludes national concord, but tends to strengthen the cause of the Pretender's Government against the Carlists, who have relied chiefly on those provinces.
In Switzerland the split is temporizing, and seems willing to see realized in the federal concerns the French notion: "In general the most vexed questions decide themselves natively." The No. 234 Athens was disturbed and alarmed by a mob crying, "Down with the Ministers and Constitution!" the Emeute was quelled by the troops, not without much effusion of blood: the elections in the interior of Greece have been generally and very contentious for the present Cabinet: lately, in our own Chamber of Deputies, Mr. GUIZOT related that the French Plenipotentiary at Athens had, conformably to his instructions, exerted himself to maintain the original coalition in the National Councils of the Metaxist party and Coletti party—the English and French; but the rupture came, and no control could be attempted. Greece is too crude as a nation, and foreign influence too strong for a regular, familiar, to allow firm and steady management of the representative system. The Paris Commerce of yesterday has an article on the French Navy in the Pacific, occasioned by the news by the Burgundy from New York. That anti-Ministerial sheet is charged by the Commerce with instigating Mexico to her warlike "armor and attitude," and French Admirals to usurp authority and act at discretion either on the Mexican or American side. The Commerce is said to have passed into the hands of the Press party—the Conservative anti-Guizot party—led by Messrs. DE TOCQUEVILLE, DE BEAUMONT, and LANGUINAIS. The recall of Admiral DE MOGES, who is replaced by Admiral LAPLACE on the Antilles station, forms a ground of Opposition complaint. DE MOGES mediated between the Dominican Republic and Negro Hayti, and favored or welcomed the overture of the Spanish party for French protectorate. A Conservative journal supposes the French Cabinet to apprehend that Great Britain would claim the protectorate of the North of the island—far the most valuable, and the true French portion. Admirals, continues the journal, must not be allowed to anticipate, with regard to Saint Domingo or Tahiti, the proper work of Cabinets. Those of London and Paris are blamed for employing themselves in the detection and frustration of the conspiracies and enterprises against the Governments of Italy. A natural fellow-feeling prompts them. Their success has not been great, for it seems that some forty political zealots and adventurers was more preposterous and not more lucky than M. MAZZINI'S band of 1833. The two Cabinets have reached arrangements for terminating the quarrel of Mexico with Texas, and guaranteeing Texas independence, on condition that Texas will not annex to any other party. French affairs at Montevideo afford plentiful ammunition to the Paris Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Revue des Deux Mondes, issued to-day, contains an article of fifty pages, entitled Texas and the United States, and signed A. CAUCHY. It refers mainly to the question of annexation. The editor gave read, in manuscript, to M. DE TOCQUEVILLE, Colonel BUTLER, General HOUSTON, Mr. VAN BUREN, Mr. CLAY, Mr. ADAMS, with MEXICO, &c. TEXAS, in regard to English policy and designs. He condemns them all as Machiavelian; he relates the proceedings of Mr. TYLER, and the formation, management, and ultimate defeat of the Annexation treaty. He gives the purport, with quotations, of each principal document; he exhibits, as he understands them, the agents, their spirit and aims, as well as the political chiefs; he dwells on the respective interests and views of the South and the North, and the British Government, the latter and the United States; of Great Britain with respect to Texas; he exposes the late treaty as the offspring of President TYLER'S treaty and the approaching Presidential election; the whole abolition strife is explained and analyzed. Touching the policy of France in the matter, Monsieur CAUCHY thinks that she should insist, as far as possible, against the revival of the Mexican claim, or that, at least, the independence of Mexico should be permanently secured from the encroachments and institutions of the slaveholders who possess Texas, provided Texas remain an independent State with England in obtaining from the U. States a certain absolute guaranty of Mexican independence. The author of the essay had, from his personal acquaintance of the writer with events, persons, publications, documents, and publications of every description, representing all the views. In the body of this essay has an extract from an American paper of last December—the correspondence between Captain ELLIOT and the Texan Government—which has engaged my attention on account of the identity of some of its statements and inferences with our impressions here.
The Journal du Havre tells us that Edward CONROY, Esq., specialized as British Consul, has embarked for the United States at that port. Our morning papers say that the telegraph reports the acquittal of M. DE BRUGEQ, at Paris, charged with breach of the criminal calendar. Curiosity is still alive in Paris about the results of the inquiry by the secret committee of the British House of Lords touching the Government prerogative and practice of opening letters. Let us leave, observes the Constitutionnel, Lord RADNOR, BANNERMAN, and DUNCOMBE to search the internal system of Cabinet noirs. We may smile at such pharisaism. The houses of the Duke of MORNY and M. ROUL, and M. DE LAGRANGE have just been thoroughly searched—all papers found (letters, wills) were duly opened; and, if you enter any coffee-house with a political turn of mind, domiciliary visits and arrests are performed, you may learn a little, and of the legal formalities too, of the system. M. DUNCOMBE got the proceedings of the Peers yesterday afternoon.
"VISCOUNT DEROUCHAGE referred to the certain prevention of small-pox by the vaccine matter, and stated that M. Charbonnier de la Guesnerie, who had been brought from the prison of Saint Lazare to the Civil Tribunal of Paris, and afflicted with acute rheumatism, was kept for ninety-six hours in a damp cell...
"THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION begged leave to say that the noble peer was greatly mistaken in supposing that the police of Paris acted...
"M. J. DEL ESSERT bore testimony to the truth of these facts...
"M. DE BRUGEQ was acquitted on the 30th ultimo; arrears, however, frequent. The official report of the proceeds of the French indirect taxes and contributions for the first six months of this year shows an increase of nearly eight millions of francs over those of the corresponding period of 1843. Washington and Paris appear to be equal, at present, in mended health. The Narvaez Government is selling Church property as fast as possible, notwithstanding the remonstrances and solemn protests of the Holy See. We have lost by death two eminent literati—one FAURIEL, aged 69, of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, who wrote the famous Bipolante, PANCKOUCKE, to whom we owe a good translation and an excellent edition of Tacitus, aged 64. A small French force of fifteen hundred vics from the frontiers of Morocco. The Spaniards promise to occupy Tangiers with six thousand infantry. Abdul-Rhaman's force in Morocco is exceedingly doubtful, and even abstruse for the quiddance.
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on the Antilles station, forms a ground of Opposi
tion complaint. De Mooes mediated between the
Dominican Republic and Negro Hayti, and favored
or welcomed the overture of the Spanish party
for French protectorate. A Conservative journal
supposes the French Cabinet to apprehend that
Great Britain would claim the protectorate of the
North of the island—far the most valuable, and the
true French portion.
Admirals, continues the journal, must not be al
lowed to anticipate, whether at Saint Domingo or
Tahiti, the proper work of Cabinets. Those of
London and Paris are blamed for employing them
selves in the detection and frustration of the con
spiracies and enterprises against the Governments
of Italy. A natural fellow-feeling prompts them.
The recent descent from Corfu on Calabria by
some forty political zealots and adventurers was
more preposterous and not more lucky than Mu
rat’s quixotism.
You will hear of British and
French arrangements for terminatiug the quarrel of
Mexico with Texas, and guarantying Texas inde
pendence on condition of certain pledges from the
other party. French affairs at Montevideo afford
plentiful ammunition to the Paris Opposition in the
press and Chambers.
La Revue des Deux Mondes, issued to-day,
contains an article of fifty pages, entitled Texas
and the United States, and signed A. CUOHEVAL.
It refers mainly to the question of annexation. The
writer goes back to the transactions of Mr. Poin
sett, Colonel Butler, General Houston, Mr.
Van Buren, Mr. Clay, Mr. Adams, with Mexi
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