juuigu ant -Sr atr1.—The fall of Lord Palme r ston was a

surprise to the Parisian Opinion out of -doors was "perplexed and :divided." The ,utrienthd that the fault of Lead Palmerston's foes was that they

load clowns bad for their victory. " They have de.feated him on a

median, or rather about a question, which they not only cannot repo- but on which they must themselves seek:to triumph." The Pays said that Lord Palmerston was " the most able defender of the French alliance." " IS it for this that Lord Palmerston has fallen ? Are we to interpret his fall as a check to the alliance ? We do-not 'believe this. : 'The ce lases in the noble lord a superior mind and a tried devotion, %tit this alliance rises superior to persons or -to individtial will." The Courrier de Paris exclaims—" For the honour of England;arie are happy to dwell on the regrets expressed by the London press at the vote on the mnendment of Mr. Milner Gibson." The rlfoniteur was curt. " The ,majority against the Minister does not imply the .re)erttion of the-bill." l'he effect on the Government was shown in the Institut iesne of asnm- mons to the Gannet. Count Persigny, who was in Paris, has returned to ss ,Iadon, it is said with conciliatory instructions. _ , The Public Safety Bill has been carried in the Legislative Body by a majority of 229 to 24. Fifteen deputies staid away. The debates on this measure, which began on the 18th, have a real interest, and the tone of the opposition was -far bolder than :might have been expected. The first to speak was M. Emile 011ivier, one of the members for Paris. His speech is so 'remarkable both in itself and as a synwtont of French feeling that we quote it entire. " rising to ask—I would rather say toimplore--yOu to -reject this bill, I am-tailing no party step, but acting simply as an honest man: I detain not to serve the ephemeral passions of a day; but the eternal passion f-or what is just and right. I propose to attack no mon. I wish lint to' render the homage due to the only legitimate sovereign in the world, to use an ex- pression of Bfirabean—'Right! lain not speaking to any-one out of doors; / address myself tio the members of this house; and, add, remembering an eloquent expression that was used in my bureau, I do not speak without hope. My fnet objection to this bill is, thakit is breughtforwardtmder a false pretence. The attempt of January 14th was_frustrated by Providence, and I am grateful for that, mercy. The fate of nations can no more depend upon the assastan than it can upon the executioner. In the present instance the crime, as ou have been universally told, was conceived in a foreign coun- ce 'by foreigners, and inspired by the resentment of foreigners— it 72 not a Trench crime. The second reproach which I make to the bill is 'that it -violates all the principles which 'civilized initiate are agreed to con- sider as of the essence of sound legislation. Thelfillvidates the -Fin- triple of the separation of powers. The judicial &meld always be separated -from the sotaratioe power; for otherwise, says Montesquieu, 'the judge might he strong to become an oppressor.' This bill surrenders the fortunes; and liberties of citizens to three agents of the executive power (Art. 10.) .2. 'Before this tribunal of a totally new kind, those forms which even the most us d'art of law cannot dispense with, altogether disappear. re will be , no examination, no. confrontation with witnesses, no do- nee, no discussion, lie publicity. The Minister Of the Interior will 7be at once accuser, defender, and judge. 3. Every. penal law ahead' dearly -define the offence which it punishes. A law which does not do this is nolaw. Instead of 'being asafeguard, it becomes a menace and a con- venient instrument of oppression. In every countrythe people always pre- fer a severe law which is precise to a mild late that is Uncertain. Nothing terrifies them so much .as the dread of _what is unknown.' There is not a . *ogle ,phrase in this bill which is not vague and:suseeptible of the -moat: monstrous interpretations. It. punishes :those who 'publicly excite,' in' any manner whatever,' those who practise inapcouvres or keep up intelli- gence abreact; .and it sentences to baniabment those against whore there are grave facts.' 4. It is a first princ.iple that a man cannot be prosecuted , a second-time for an offence which,lae has, expiated. Nonliain am,' say the criminal lawyers. The bill violates this principle, by subjecting to banishment and transporiation those who having been condemned in 1848,: .1849, and 1851, have already undergone their sentence. 5. Itrloes more- effeats thenovetroactively. It will be attempted- to deny this; the -men, .of: 1848, 1848, and 1851,-At willbe said, will only come within thoparview

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/af law if .‘ grave andatew facts' shall be found against them. You will, not allow yourselves to be deceived by this quibble. What is meant by .'grave facts ' ? Does it mean the commission of any .kpown offence? . No, -for'llien you would not speak of grave:fads,' but you would use the word, "Oairne -or misdemeanour. Your 'grave .fact.' is ,something or other alto- . Aither uncertain, -which you my fancy to be such according to limes arid, circumstances. You are therefore subjecting a class or citizens to an ex-, thaualvegime ; -because they were at some preceding time condemned on grounds, you plate them out of the pale of common law. To put out of the :1)4e or aommon law, to reader them liable to be condemned; ."-grave Teets,' into-enact a pentayegainst them. Did. that penalty exist , an 18.18, 1849, or 1851.) No. Yourhill is therefore retrospective, because, a retrospective law is one which attaches to an act a consequence which did to I not attach it at -the time when the act was committed. Now, I will tali you what.was thought of retrospective laws by a man who will certainly not be accused of harbouring anarchical passions, I mean Portalis. That jurist in hie '-Expose-,dse motifs' of the OlYil code wrote—' Wherever the prin- otiple of retroactivity admitted, not only can there he iao security butthere evert be the shadow of it. Man, who occupies but a merepoint'in as in space, weadhe a moet ithfortunata being- if he were deprived of • of wordy' for the adi,of pastla. Fir be.frem us the idea tlibse ulile-faced- laws Which. 'having one eye upontlie past and another .upon the future would dry up the sources of confidence and become a per- 'pettuti principle or injuAlte, contain and 'disorder? In the midst of the -pa the days of Tetror„the:Nationtd, Genventien, after having heard the "report of the Zonnattes of Palle Brifoty, &weed: that all persons who, dibmild spread false newts, :or shonld.alarm theamminess, -orin any way ex- cite citizen* to rise, or cause-movements ani-troublea,- 'should-be liable to be 'tried by a revolutionary tribunal sad, punished as counter-revolutionists. After the decree was voted, Bourdon' de l'Olse rose itad aabl—' I peopose as reeolattenary mainline, and for thiatowe only, to givearetrospective effect to thlide'cree.agamst,the conspirator recently arrestelatlifeaux.' The pro- position-tenevereived with murmurs, and Bariere declared that be would 'always 'p a re/ lee law. You are now askedle do that Which the

GenVett reflation* in-the worst days orTearor. 'There never Was 'a

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whiora,aeoupatileaed so many violations of fundamental pahriples as tha bilLadea excited ouch uneasiness, such terror in the country,' that the reporter felt it necessary to do his utmost to theism* the publie mina. He eedetivoured to soften. own the import of the bill, by telling you that

it would only affect' Bed; jeans, Socialiats, anemionef publie-order, and conspirators. Ifit wOre vronld tell hit:algid' hegives no. sufficient

reason for this bill.' %What* a French Assembly, in a' nation which ho- nours the religion of the Gospel, did any one everdare to proclaim that jos_ 'Idea might be dispensed with towards enemies.? You say tlmt they contemn the laws of morality 'and right. If to, force them to submission ; but do not imitate them. Do not, unless you would return to a state of barbarism, violate against them those laws which they attempt to violate against you. '1'hey would destroy society by transforming all liberty into anarchy ; do not you destroy it in another manner by making all authority arbitrarj . Nations never remain Thug in a state of anarchy, and the efforts which they make to ex-. tricate themselves from it only renderthem the stronger afterwards; but they noey remain a long While tinder the oppression of arbitrary' power. When right is -violated the of a single individual, there is no se- emity-for anybody. Who shall flatter himself that he will be comprised to the exception? It may be said of injustice, as it has been said of scepti- cism, it will never be satithed With a para. Grant it something and it takes Mi. When Denton Beatributed to the institution of the revolutionary tri- hunal of deplorable memory, he doubtless thought he was excepted from its uperatam ; but a short time afterwards, the judges whom he had tweeted sent hire to the :scaffold, If, as you affirat, there exist numerous ancret so- cieties widely disseminated, and which weave around you an invisible net, Against them. ainst them you have already Draconian laws. If it be true that there are throughout the country wretches who meditate the ruin of society, punish themseaerely; you are fully armed, either by thnordi- nary code, or by your special enactments. But no ;. what you really want is to have additional powers against:those who do not oonspire, but who are displeasing to you—against those whom you can reproach -with no offence, and whom nevertheless you hold to be criminals in. expectancy. It it Against the expectants' that you Wish to strike. The word is anew °lie, and advantageously stands in . the place of the old word- 'suspects. Now these expectants, many of them at-least, live by their labour, and to banish them is to sentence them-to misery and death. But further, you reserve to ',ourself the right to traneport to Lambeasa, -or to our pestilential th- dony --of Cayenne, any of the men-or '48; '49, and '51, who having been 'banished, may in a 'moment of despair set loot on their native soil with- outauthorization. And not those men alone; he who may uses false who may have said a violent word to any functionary, who my cnt gotten in some corner of his house a bullet or a musket, who rnay not have instantly quitted a group of people assembled in the street and-which he had joined from 'curiosity—the man in whose dwelling an enemy may have conceded a little fulminating powder—he who in a letter, tar perhaps in oonventation, may have manifested discontent, expressed a blame, desired a progress, said a few manly words to cheer a friend in despair 'for the fu- ture, or may 'have called too soon for that liberty which is still promised us —any one, in short, who may have voted badly—(Interruption, and trio o/"Let him go on!")—displeaaed a commissary of police incurred the hatred of a debtor or a discharged servant, or of one of those professional informers whenever fail to appear on the scene when lime of this kind are passed— any and all of these will be liable to the operation-of the proposed measure.- That I undertake to 'prove step by step when we come to discuss the articles separately. Yes, there not one of you whom I am now addressing, your -children, or yourfriends who may not one daylind themselves caught in tin meshes of this law. Trite policy—a policy really great—must ever keep it- self subordinate to morality. A petty policy only sets morals at nought. And ye_ even according to the Ades of this petty policy, your law its a bad one. What ! you have governed the eenntry for nine years—:you are at peace with all Enrope—you have a numerous and highly-disciplined army, an intelligent police, and an enormous budget—you have intersected the capital with strategetical roads, -and' at suitable distances you have erected citadels 'within the walls--mo liberty exists—the most formidable liberty Of all,- that -of the press, is now nothing snore than the right to say whatever may not displease the Minister of: the Interior—and yet you now come to ask for laws of public) safety! Do you 110. fear that the country may reply to you—'I have therifieedfor loyally liberates, my fr-anchises, traditions, 411 that I had conquered with mylalwd, ,411 that has made me glorious and illustrious among nations. I have aide 'ell these sacrifices for the slake of a little tranquillity, and now you wean:tore. But where will you stop?If the power which you have had injimir lutnds for so many years is not our-

-fie-lent, this law will nots Wil

atisfy you. Yon l be obliged to ask for others -still name severe; other' and mote terrible measures will follow until you come to the end of things. If with the peace which you have promised me I met be ever-en the watch, ever trembling; always struggling, prderthe watchings, the terrors, and the struggles of liberty, to those of exceptional

lavrs.' ,

'"Reject this law; not in order to Commence a petty opposition to a Go- vernment to width you are bound, IOC to give to that. Government and to the world an examp of that policy whichadone can gain the future. She future, be assured; will not belong toAlsOsetwho go on in the old routine path of laws of presuniption :and Violence, and iniquities of :state. belong to disintereatedinen, who,:animated by progressive ideas,butknow- ing how,to reconcile their faith with the reaped due to the past, will alike reject. tlitareactionists of order and the reectionists of liberty, the sectarians of publicadety ' of all odours; andwho, while doing justice to all, and especially the disinherite4I -of 'this- nairItt, will take vengeance on none, arid will elevatethe males Without abitkrfOntlitiduals. • In fornier'timee foreign ware were carried-ion Without -regtird to law crr Inireettitf ; the-vatic/dished wattelanglitered). or Medea slave, as itbeeteeited the conqueror. But progress created the law of nations, and now -even 'the 'vanquished has his sacred rights. Ilitheete we have in regard to intestine discords acted open:the old barbarous principles of warfare. The work ef the politician of the preaent day should beth promulgate a law of natione' for adverse parties. Certain, journaliati, Who mislead power 'by their adu- lation have spoken of William III in tonne-alien with this bill. They lmic 'cabin:lode very liaokneyed It was firrit suggested after the Him- dred :Darr, by Barare, for Napoleon 1: Chateaubriand had recourse to it for Louis X.V1rf ; it was often.repeated fig Louis Philippe,; and now it is relledtmou wain. A very utteful lesson mayindeed be learned hy stud the history of that great but dark personage. .Why did be euecce0 De- claration of Bights, and 'because he proposed the Bill of Pardons, in spite of

atrocious

it because oat a barbarous age and just after the termination of aia idgime, he maintained the laws of the Stuarts against the prose, and two or three tames suspended the Habeas Corpus 'Act—which, remeinber,. is always suspended here, for walleye never at any time had guarantees for individual liberty? Charles I had done worse than William, and he fell. The Re- publia.and. Cromwell imitated . him, and. they fell. James If outdid them all, and befell. William 111 imeoesided, because he sanctioned- the De- hie councillors, his Parliament, and the party which bad called him to the throne--aparty which, after the unheard-of persecutions which it had suf- fered for years, had indeed grounds to be vindictiia. This,' says the fllustrimis-MatadlaY,, ''‘vas his best title to fame.' illiam.141 stunmedvu,

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because, at the end of his thirteen years' 'feign, lielfird deserved from the proud and powerful English people -the appellation of 'The Restorer of Public Liberties.'"

The speakers in favour of the bill were M. Grimier de Cassagnao, the Marquis d'Andelarre, M. Riche, and M. Baroche. M. Plichon boldly followed up the line of argument taken by M. 011ivier. On the 19th the Deputies discussed the articles of the hill seriatim. M. Legrand objected to article 1, because it takes away guarantees which are the right of accused persons. M. Debelleyme defended the article, as being necessary at the present conjuncture. Count de Pierre was as- , tonished that a Government est strong as theEmperor's should be power- less to maintain order without a measure of so rtitrary a character, and yet oae that could not touch secret societies. M. Langlois defended the

ill; and the article was adepted. In like manner the other articles underwent discussion. M. 011ivier again spoke, and strongly reprobated. the article which applied to_ "menceuvres and understandings!' He eminteined, in spite of .all official denials, that a presage in article 2 could only be meant to apply to conversation in private society—to salons, to use the French word. He defied M. Baroche to speoify a single ease to which the dame in question did apply, if not to salons. M. Itaroohe said that the article is not more vague than the Perial Code. When he sat down, M. 011ivier exclaimed, 'You have not answered me." M. Bareche who had in fact left the question in its original uncertainty, said nothing more. M. Gemini said, that because he was more anxious than any other to behold the firm maintenance of the Empire, he felt unable to vote for a- bill designated unfortunate by its upporters and disastroua by it opponents. The trial of Orsini, Radio, Pierri' Gomez, and Bernard, (now in custody in London,) for the attemptof the llth January, began on Thursday before the Assize Court of the Seine. The "act of accusa- tion" is a document of enormous length. It opens with a description of the accused ; noting. minutely that they all ".usually resiied " in Eng- ' land, It gives a minute narration of the attempfen the Emperor's life ;, goes back into the antecedents of each of the accused; traces them about; tells of their doings in England and France; and gives a very, confused account of the contradictory statements they are said to have made upon examiaation. The manufacture of the shells, the mode of' their transport to Paris, the loading of them, the purchase of 'the pis- tols, are all described, 'The main tissue of thie official document is gossip about the attempted assassination and the assassins; 'the follow- ingextract from the opening is a specimen of iteraore elevated style— "A new attempt has been made upon the life of the Emperor. His Majesty was not injured, but many victims were etr.uck down round ' him. No consideration restrains the fury of demagogic passions. The pistol and the poniard no longer suffice for them ; these instruments of murder have been succeeded by machines devised and prepared with infernal skill. A band of foreign aesas,siTIS, coming in the last instance from England, whose generous hospitality is used in furtherance of the most execrable designs, undertook the task of throwing at the Emperor these new instruments of destruction. To attack his sacred person, the assassins did not shrink from devoting to death an august Prineems known to us by the good she does, nor from scattering death at random amid a crowd of -.spectators. But .Provi- clenoe watched over the country. Providence hoe ,preserved the precious life of the Emperor, as also that of the noble companion 'associated with his dangers; and -has permitted that the direct authors f the attempt should be• immediately. arrested and brought to justice, to aneWer for a crime directed not less against the greatness and prosperity of Erance,then the life of the Sovereign whom France has chosen."

The whole of the accused' are charged with an attack upon the Em- peror and "one of the members of the Imperial fennly." Qrsipi, ROM, and Gomez are charged with the murder of eight persons, and. Pierri and Bernard are charged asaccomplices.

[M. Mazzini has addressed a letter to the journals showing that in three particulars regarding the pad life of Orsini the act of accusation, is false. Thus, Orsini suppressed—he did not commit " excesses " and "robbery with violence " at Ancona, as charged by the, act. He was not arrested " at Vienna" in 1865, but at Hermansta4 in Hungary.. He was not "suspected of having plotted the death of the Austrian Em- peror," "Not a single question in the trial he underwent at Mantua beam the slightest reference to is."]

Three Republican lawyers were arrested in Paris on Tuesday ; Mail- lard, Vinkin, and Hubbard.

Siata.—The report that Count Cavour had forwarded a despatch to the Sardinian Minister at Naples, clamming thefiseiteretion of the (Jag-' hart and the liberation of the persons on board 41.1sn,tirne of her sei- zure, is confirmed by the publication af the despatch. The grourd of' his claim is, that the Cagliari was captured on. the high seas, . and act in Neapolitan waters. The: capture being illegal, all -consequences that flow from it must also be illegal. The demand has not been made be- fore, because the prohibition of intercourse with the captain and crew excluded the Sardinian Government from clearing up the fads. The Penal Bill presented to the PiedraonteseP4tr,114%t, eAt by Count Cavour fixes ten. years' imprisonment with hard TabeaSsk4 6 maxima-el Penalty in cases where there has been a conspiracy to eurder foreign sovereigns or the chiefs of foreign governments. .Apologists of maimed.- . nation are liable to imprisonment of from three to twelve months andas fine not exceeding 1000 francs. The law also provides for the 0$:install.- teen of juries. .A.11 political electors are eligible'frir the. offioe of jurymen. ; Every half-year, a Commission, composed of the Mayer and two Ccitti-1

mon Cotmeilmen, one elected and.one nominated, draw up a list of 100 jurymen: the jury will'be obtained friar" :thee& a9t4 the aecused and the publdillreeecutor both having the right f enge:

In his report on a bill relating to the conscription of 1858, Baron Reille proposes that the levy shall be .100,000 men, in order that "in the event of a aver " the army may be easily raised to i strength of 000,000.

The Duke de Montebello, appointed Ambassador from France to Aussie, did not set out immediately—he had ark to be "purified" from old political sins by taking his seat in the Bonaparte Senate.

Sflailltit.—The Belgian Chamber has under densiderationshill re- listing to attempts against the lives of foreign siovereigns. M. Teisch, Minster of J ustiee, epdeavoured to eatelflish that the bill proposed was ' not a special bill, but simply a modification of the, penal law of the' land. He emphatically stated, "that he had not received from any foreign power, either verbally or in writing, any request to change the ! law of the land."

Signeefidericeasted wh'erher a note had been sett Irani iliall'renah to the Piedniontese Gomernment after the 14th January ; ..and whether Count Cavour would produce it. Count Cavour said the question was inopportune; he might state, however, that France had sent notes to England, Switzerland, Belgium, and Piedmont. On a future occasion he would produce-the note before a Select Committee, and discuss with them the propriety of making it public.

?ritsoia.—The festivities at Berlin :have been somewhat shortened by the 'illness of the Princess Frederick William. For 'a time she was not able to appear in publics The Prince of Prussia met with an acei- dent on the 20th. Returning from the theatre, he alied, fell, and sprained his ankle. • The Prince and Princess Frederick William have published in the Prussian' Moniteue an address of thanlm " to the whole ciountry " for the manifestations of sincere interest in their happiness shown everywhere.

.Z11/ kt 11.—Th e Turkiiih. soldiery and the, Christians in, the Herzego- vina appear to be mimed in constant conflicts. A similar state of things exists on the Xentenegrin frontier, where bloody battles ensue between the Turkish soldiers and the Montenegrins.

'Su/fig.—The usual weekly news from India arrived yesterday. Sir 'Colin Campbell had moved dosim to a camp near lianoge, a town on the Ganges between Cawnpore and Futteyghur. There Brigadier Walpole, having thrown. a .bridge over the river, crossed it on the 14th January, on his way to chastise the rebels at Bareilly in Rohileurid. It was sup- posed that Sir Colin would move next either from Kanoge or Futteyghur upon Lucknow. Sir James Outrun still easily held hi a ground at Alum- high. The news of use victory of the Ghoorka chief at Gorruckpore is confirmed. Nana Sahib is said to be at Calpee, 'with a number of rebels. The rebel force at Lucknew is estimated at 70,000 men' "with at least eighty guns and plenty of ammunition. The walls'arebeing repaired, the !streets intrencheds and the houses freshlyloopholecl. . Everything in- dicates that the insurgents, driven to bay, intend to die. fighting ; and with the mesas at theiraposal they may hold Lucknow as they once held BlturtPores" The Oirde rebels have blown four prisoners 'from guns —Sir Mramtstuart Jackson, 'Captain Patrick On', Lieuteriant Barnes, Sergeant-Major Morton. Miss Madeleine Jackson and Mrs. Patrick Orr are in prison. • The Governor-General has 'offered lacof repees for each. The Coles, a hill tribe, have risen in revolt. A party. of Europeans sent to arrest a chief were repulsed. • - tna .—Intelligence from Canton has been received down to the 14th January. 'The Thnes correspondent has supplied a long and lively account of the doings at Canton. It-appears that after the Allied forces mastered the forts tincl. Cantors city lay at their redress they paused for iiire days, thinking 'fa would submit. As he did not, it was resolved 'to send a force into thercity, on. 'the 5th January. .Three columns of Eng- lish and one of French entered. One column,' under Colonel Hollo- way, with some difficulty fciund its way to the ya:mun of the Governor of the city, Teh-liwee and captured him at breakfast. A second column, under Captain Parke, Made for the Treasury. They took possession of the place, and found therein fifty-two boxes of sycee silver, each heavier than-a-man could lift, and sixty-eight packets of ingots. These were carried by Coolies into the British lines. The French column caught the Tartar General, in a desolate yamun where be had stowed himself away in a eloset. The hunt after Yeh was more exciting. Mr, Parkes and Commodore Elliot were 'ma his track. At the holm' where Yak was Baia to be, they -found a " student," but not Yoh. Taking Vie " student " before Peh-kivei, they' obtained from 'both an in- 4Mcation of Yell's place of refuge; and compelling. -these two to act as guides, they proceeded through the city, and found the house. -*Within were signs of an intended departure. 'One man gave himself up as Yeh, "hut he-was-not-fat enough." Pushing on, they saws a 'fat 134111 attempting to scale a wall. Captain Key took the fat gentlenian rourid 'the waist, and Commodore coxswain seized his king tail—Yak wan 's prisoner! He behaved with iiirogaisea; eat in his chins and de- dared he would wait there the men Elgin and Gros. 'However he was carried before them a captive: Before Elgin arrived, they had xeceiseed Peh-Issoi and the 'Tartar General. The latter is described as amen of immense bulk--six feet fear .fircb.es high, and "not unlike our own 'English Harry as Ilolbein shows him." After rauah discussion, it was .reselVed to reinstate the Governor and give him the aid Of sn'European Axilumel in restedng.order, and to send the Tartar to disband and disarm his own troops. TheChiCamen laughed at the idea; but by and ,by they thought better of it. -Yeh was next brought 'in.' • ' He' has oeri huge, sensual flat-face; the etofileie nearly straight from the eyebrow to the Alin. He wears his Mandarin' cap, his Ted button, and his peacock's-tail, but iziother respects 'has the ordinary quilted blue tunic and loosebneerbeir, the universal winter wear of this. part of China. Re.seats himself in an,arm.;thair, and some -inferior Mandarins who have .ressed in after hies. stand, 'round and make him a little -court. The 02 r,s who 'fill the roord arepassing to and fro upon their own duties, and, of commie, refrain from ataring at shim. Yet no one can look upon that face without 'feeling that he isin the presence of an extraordinary man. There is a ferocity aboutthatrestless,rovitgaye; which almost makes'yon shrinl from it. -It is the expression of a tete° and angry -but not courageous animal. While the long-nails of his dirty fingers are Arenibling against the table, and. his eyes are ranging intnevery part oftheroom in search of every face, his pose of dignityas toopalnably-simulated to 'itrepire respect, eeenif you. eonldforget his,deide. Blithe one can beak upon him with contempt."

- After some examination,' Ye,h was told that 'he would be sent on -ship: He said he 'could do everything that reqeired to.be done just an well there. But seeing that his captors were unmoved, he said he tic- cepted the invitatien; he should be glad to .see .a British ship, Andso he was carried 'off.

On the 9th January, Pebekwei and the Tartar General were installed in office. They kept Lord Elgin and Baron Gros Waiting 'for-two hours. .V711= shire came and, found seats :set apart- ler 'them below the dais where sat thesPlenipotentiaties, they refused, tos sit until Lord Elgin made way for them beside him. The Chinamen- grinned mith •

the victory they had won, Lord Elgin made a set-speech to Teh wee. Me said that the Allies intended to hold Canton until the questions; in

• dispute were settled. Any treachery would meet with signal .punish- ment ; but when all questions are settled, then Canton will be given rip. Baron Grea.einflitmed. this statement. Pelsekwei said, " That =RI Yoh baa-been *4* 'of . 41 9urs t./9.41,6§,": Thw 4istkr94Jsa Chinamen sea- stalled. ,#tatta.—The Canada arrived at Liverpool on Monday, with advioes from Boston to the 10th Felguary. The. President's Message and the Lecompton Constitution came before the House of Representatives on the 5th instant. , A.party contest en- sued; and -the Administra.tion were :defeated.. The queation before the House was a motion to refer the documents to the Conimitteeen Teeria tones: . That is the usual course. But the Itepablicana, aided by the Dertmerais who followed Mr. Douglas into oppositiona wore bent upon tai alibi into the Origin of the constitution. Mr. Harrah a Douglas Democrat, moved thlit the Message and Censfitution should be referred

a SPecial Committee" ' with power to inquire into the proceedings that

led to the existence of Couvention which framed the constitution, and trite the subsequeut pi:readings of that body. The object was to in- vestigate the election frauds alleged to have been committed by the. Sla- very party. The Democrats seem at once to have felt that they would he beaten. The House sat and divided repeatedly upon all kinds of nio- tiorusa from 'three (*lock on the .5th to six.o'clock the next morning. :Then they agreed to adjourn. They met again on Monday. There ayes -mote skirmishing. But at •length -the decisive \ divisions wore taken. The motion to refer the documents to the Committee- on Territories was namitived by 114 to 113. The amendment referring theim to a Special Ammittec was carried by 114 to '111. The efibet of this vote is to sus- pend the admission of Kansas as a State pending inquiry. During the long *Alin, on the 5th and 6th, a " difficulty " occurred. Mr. Grow, the leader of theRepublicans, crossed over to the Democratic side to speak to a Douglas Democrat. Mr. lieitt, of South Carolina, _rudely aakedlim what :business)* had there. : Mr. Grow said, it was a free hall. Keitt seized him by the throat, but friends interfered and Mak him.aivay. a Again he rushed Samara and seized Grow ; but the Penn- sylianian, coal and. collected; knocked him. down. Then followed. a freeffight." Members zushed in front both sides and feught.with mad klutelied each ether; many of them intent only on stopping the muffler., brat misinterpreted in their action. A ludicrous incident put an entlito the fray. A zealous Republican seized the hair of a Southern Demo- 'crat ; it came off in his hand 'a the Hee:Ise resounded with-larighter, which increased when the Democrat recovered his' Wig and put it on wrong-side foremost. This ended the row. Kitt disappeared when 'he was knocked

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I HIS h flit fl.—Sir Denis Lea Miwchent opened the session of the Legislative Council of Nova Soothing the 4th February ffir the last time. 'Restated to them that he only aw.aited the arrival of his successor Load Malgrave ; arid he took his farewell. Both Houses; seiaed the ocoasion tia present. addresses sincerely reciprocating the generous emotioassex- peesaed by Sir Der& at parting. They also included Lady Le Merchant .in their eulogies, and good wishes. The Mayor and Corporation of Halifax presented a similar tid4rcsa-