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FRAWCE. —In the absence of more important news; he Paris papers have more minutely than usual chronicled the proceedings of the clubs during the late week. A notice given by M. Victor Lefranc to reconsider and revise the law of the 31st March, which restricted the suffrage esta- blished by the Constitution has been debated by the Legitimist Club of the Rue de Revell, and by Constitution, Orleanist Club of the Rue des Pyramidese

and by both those important bodies has been condemned. It is reported: too, that the Ministers intend to propose a revision in a mere conservative. sense.

The Assembly has debated * proposition by M. de Saint-Priest to ex- tend the usery-laws se as to operate against every sot of usury, instead of only, as now, -against the practice of the habitual usurer. M. Rouher, the Minister of Justice, with difficulty prevailed on the Assembly to re- ject the extension.

The ifanitenr has announced the-formation of a commission to examine. all questions connected' with the metallic currency, especially the possible- effect of Californian derangements on the gold currency.

General Schramm, the Minister of War, has demanded an extraordinary credit of 3,218,601 franca, for the expenses during the first six months of 1851 of the army of occupation in Rome. He stated, "we cannot as yet predict the precise moment when the presence of our troops may be die- permed with."

.Gruteine.=The Berlin papers of the 16th instant publish a letter' Willdi has been addressed by Baron Manteuffel to the German Govern- Merits, inviting them to the Dresden Conferences, Which will commence on the 23d instant.

The letter declares, that for many years the want of a thorough consti- tution of the Germanic Confederation has been unmistakeably manifested. The suspended Administrative Board of the Confederation [the Diet) failed to protectand foster great, geneses, and useful undertakings, to represent energetieally and decisively the full mass of the intellectual and. material forces in Germany. Adhering to the conviction that the revi- sion of the constitution and the regeneration of the Confederation must proceed from the agreement and free consent of all German Governments,, the Emperor of Austriajpins with M. hlanteuffera Sovereign, the Kg cf Ptheala, in an invitatien to' free Ministerial eontbrenees in Dresden. result of the consultations Will afterwards receive a solemn sanction by the assent Of all "g.their totali

entitled to developll$e 0444040ftR u f 1"•- published as a ftindaMeniciliaxitog be created. in the irde411.111! • Jo') :14 'to viliodbo: ‘.,fiant . M. Manteuffel hag hee4;pppeMtetacke1rlent Gabitieb9 and M. onLadenberge the,siole remaining partisan of the, labitfdluisteif Iladowitz, has beemrepinted,by.M. Von Raumerw..1 • ' iiikir++ bill; blow CHMA, kird 'Ainlitaii.r...t.—The overland' Mail Which.lefiAgAniy; ati the 1.13thlicritiiihdPb44:!, no.news of the least pociiitereAffropi India : the news ,eonal*,:or a.p,Tionr abihewar in Chins, to the edfeet

that " the ,foreAt!t_114)fl _irf4a.illeattAdainstAlic,reheis had!been defiant*

en4 one of,PSO-Ma14644s mport 5u5pjciOu11kCh repeiition Of news U.ought home,* mosithago- and' isoine,smups --off porlibnaLpolitids front .Sydneyr and Bland Tow/L..1...d,', .7r11.,,,11% /..; lomq The Sydnetjertutala ioontathrrepprtsmeeting klik-thePtfti August, ta cansitter•Gdletiier 'Fitittlytlitaapittihltd 'the Co1othâ1Offleo the meetings in June last, The meeting was -very nunierouS and a t inguentiar; smile of The sPeakers-as the:P:0,6mnd Dr. Fullerton . and Di. Aariin,-declaring that if the question had.been political they should not have been there at all: they and others mine forward on purely moral grounds. The following chief resolution was carried unanimously,- ' " That this meeting having had under its consideration a despatch from hie Excellency Sir Charles A. Fitzroy, dated 30th June 1849, transmitting to Earl Grey the great _protest of the inhabitants of Sydney, in public meet.-; ing assembled, against the renewal of transportation, hereby declares, that in that despatch his Excellency has, in a case of the utmost importance to the general welfare of this colony, grossly misrepresented a series of facts of public notoriety, traduced the character of a large majority of the colonists of all classes and in all parts of the territory, and betrayed the interests of the colony into the hands of its enemies."

The later papers are crowded hy reports of the great 'debate in the Legislative Council, which :ended. on the .21st August, on Dr. Lang' a. own motion inviting: inquiryinto the -charges ;preferred' agabist him by the Secretary of Stale for the Coltinies. • .The Council unturiniOusly resolved; that there were "foundations for the charges"; • and particularly for the one which accused -Dr.: Lang of pledging the duplicates of land-orders representing land of Which he was only the trustee—the said pledging "was a fraud Upon his cestui qui trusts, and highly discreditable."

The Hobart Town papers describe what some of them declare to have been an attempt at escape to California by Mr. Smith O'Brien;- but the professed details of the amounts differ. so as to destroy credit in them -So far as they agree, :they:1state that a rawing-boat approached a ;sareir -cove; that Mr. O'Brien:tan up to his waist' to get -to it; • that:a• soldier

rushed and knocked hole•in the bottom of the boat with gun; and so took possession of Mr. O'Brien and the men. But the Colonial Times says that the arrest was made under quite different circumstances, in- :relying no criminal intention; and it seethe agreed by all that the Go-, 'eminent hasinade no difference in the treatment of Mr; O'Brien. • • .IINITED STATPS.--The steam-ships bring the intelligence from New York down to the '4th instant. The event of leading interest was the meeting of Congress on the 2d instant, and the delivery of President Ffll- more's inessage,—the earlieet-general statement of his policy which eir- cumstancei had called for Since his accession to office through the death of President Taylor. The message is a creditable state paper ; . the feature of the style being its Strict prapiety. , The points which possess the most of European in- terest are those referring to the Slave and Tariff: questions, and to the project for uniting. the-Atlantic and Pacific-by a canal or railroad: points of most interest in America, were the advancing • financial prosperity of the departments, especially that Of the Post-office, 'and the recommenda- .tion, among others; for the creation of a bureau. of A.griculture. The Slave and Tariff questions supply President Fillmore with an oppor- tunity for disquisition as.well.ns a declaration of policy. On the first; he says—"The: constitittion Will be. my guide." Every power granted by It is to be exercised for the general good ; but no pretence of utility, no honest conviction of expediency, can justify the assumption of powers not granted. Overthe objects and subjects expressly intrusted to Congress, the h•gislative power of Congress is supreme' but here its authority ceases, and every citizen who truly loves the constitution and desires the continuance of its existence and its blessings, will resolutely and firmly resist any interference in those domestie affelis which the constitution has clearly and unequivo- cally left to the exclusife authority of the States:" " The constitution has made it the duty of the President to take care that the law s be faithfully executed. In a government like ours, in which all laws are passed by a inajority of the representatives of the people, and these representatives arc chosen for such short periods that any inpumms or obnoxious law can very soon be repealed, it would appear Unlikely that any great numbers should be found ready to re- -slat the -execution.Cf the 'laws. But it must be borne in mind, that the country is extensile; that there may be lccal interests or prejudices render- ing a law odious in one part which is not so in another ; and that the thcnightless and inconsiderate, misled by their passions or their imaginations, May beinditeed madly to resist such laws as they disapprove. Such persons should reed ect, that Without law there can be no real . practical 4berty ; that when the law is trampled under foot tyranny rules, whether it appears in the .form of a military despotism or of popular violence.. The law is the only sure protection of the weak; and the only efficient restrPint upon the strong. -When impartially and faithfully, administered, none is beneath its protection , and none above its control, , You, gentlemen,- and thefl country, may 'be assured, that to the utmost of my ability, and to the extent of power vested in me, I shall at all times and in all places take cart that the laws be faithfully executed. In the discharge of this duty, solemnly imposed upon me by the constitution andly toi oath of Office, I shall shrink from no responsibility, and shall endeavour to meet events as they May arise with firmness as well as with, prudence and discretion." - In reference to the Tariff, the President 'appears as the advocate of the old- fashioned principle thatotection : but he confines' himself to an' express ap- proval of the"incidental protection" .which home Manufactures will gain on the adapt ion of wit* he Lents the Sound financial policy, that a large por- tion' of the public revenue should be derived from duties on goods imported The ex•traordinaryfrauds .against its l'reruiury which the American' Govern- ment has latelydiscovered,..bave Otin'inead-Hri head' that the ad valerem principle (4'10114 'duties is icidieally bad ; 'Under it freed cannot be checked.' He respectfully asks the attention of Congress to the subject, and advocates specific duties as the most perfect rein-64 for the evil ; but if Con...Tess shmild not adoptcthis view, be sgeits legOod partialremedy, that tliedtitiee esurnated‘on_the minuet the American -port, • rather than on theivialtie; in- mieed,attlit • fereigmpart: . • ,;1 lie refers with pleasure to the ratification_ of atraatt.with.:Grreat 1)ritnhx for facilitating and protecting the construction of a ship-canal between the iti nal filtBigg • 111147-41J1

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