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BBn Aloil.
10DAYS LATER FROM L UROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA,
"The Steamer Europa arrived at Halifax on Fri
day last. The delay of passuge was occasioned
by boisierous weather and head wind.
ExcrLanp.—ln the political world there had been
e complete luil. All purties are glaucing pros
peclively at tne trinl of strength that must take
‘.l:co between Lord John Russell and Parliament.
e near approach of the meeting of Parlisment,
:ml givea an impetus to the demand for a reform
The Times complains that the metropolis is in
quite as absurd amr anomalous 2 state as can be
conceived in regard to the representation. Lon
don, with a population of two and a half millions,
oniy sends twenty two members to the House of
Commons, including the metropolitian boroughs
of Middlesex and the east division of Surrey
On the score of ratable property, the disproportion
i still greater.
The London journals are in a state of perturba
tion respecting the nutional defences, and are sug
‘uuu? varions resources and moles of defence in
case of invasion. The Morning Chronicle 1s sur
ri.ed that the nation should have so long been
orced to the necessity which exists of availing
iteell of their protection.
Another journal argues the propriety of recal
lin,ll'-e ships and steamers on service abroad.
'he American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence,
Miss Lawreace, and Col. 1. B. Lawrence, left
town on Sunday for Paris, to be absent a few
days. Mr. Davis remaios as charge de affairs of
the United States during the absence of the Min
ister.
The Queen will open Parliament in person on
the 3d of February. Her Majesty will come to
London for the purpose, and return in the even
ing to Windsor. where the Court will remain till
the 12th of February.
On Monday, 36 firms of Machinists and engi
neers in London and Manchester closad their es
tablishments, thus throwing about 10,000 work
men out of employment.
The Times says each successsive week the pain
fu) duty of putting on record the appaling events
which oceur in France, become more irksome.
The arbitrary decrees from tne ‘Tiuilleries sneceed
each other with such frighiful rapidity, that we
bardly kaow which is the newest gm-fv.' If mat
ters continne long in their present course, France
will becowme the scorn and by word among nations,
while Napoleon will rank as the greatest of all ty
rants, ancient or modern,
The Parish Priestof Newry, who had been shot
through the body by the insurgents who arrested
him had been decorated with the symbol of the
Legion of Honor by the President for his courage
ous conduect.
A new Austrian loan i# to be raised on the pre
tense of redeeming the Government paper. rl I 8
said to be well received on the Fraunkfort Ex
change.
M. Thiers arrived in London on Monday,
Geunerals Charngarnier and Lamoriciere also ar
rived.
Accounts from Port Phillip state that a half ewt.
gold had been found, and that fourteen men had
Just brought in parcels amounting to nearly a ewt.
I'he discoveries are said (o exceed any known in
California.
France.—A new ministry had been formed,
named Ministry of State,
By a decree, the Orleans family einnot posess
property of any sort in France, and are bound to
sell what they did possess within one year. An
other decree cance's {.ouis Philippe’s donation to
his children, and appropriates it to other purposes.
The Duchess of Orlean’s dowry of 300,000, 1s
maintained. The decrees are countersigned by
the new Minster of State, Cassa Bisuea.
The M ister of War, by a decision of the 16th,
bas scc ued, to Gen. Cavaignac’s demand to be
placed on a retired list of the army.
The representatives not comprised in the de
crees of bapishment have just been authorized to
return to their homes.
The great bodies of the State ure to wear a par
ticular dress. "I'he Council of State, the Senate
and the Legislative bodies will be rich and will re
semble what was worn under the Empire.
It is said a second, if not a third attempt on
President Napoleon's life had heen made. Thatan
officer hud snopped his pistol «t lim as his car
riage was coming out of the ervtle, The rumor
was rife in Paris with all its details. Also that
the wile of an ex-prefect had tried to poignard him.
Spaix.—There had been severul executions of
military officers at Madrid and tranquillity was re
stored.
- Stringent mensures will be enforced to destroy
the liberty of the press which the people of Spain
enjoy.
Prussia —EfTorts had been made by the court
party in Prussia to sbrogate the consiitution,
and sithough a proposal to the effect of restoring
the high wonarchial principle had failed by a vote
of 147 to 123, the result of the late debate is re
garded as rather encouraging than otherwise, and
pew projects of reversion are proposed daily.
By the New Prussia Gazetie ol the 18th Janu
ary, we learn that Prince Schwartzenhurg had
been indisposed forsome days. He wasstruck with
the apoplexy on the 14th, and serious consequen
ces were ;rprehended.
Prince Metternich has appeared in public at one
of the balls given by the Archduchess Sophia,
mother of the Emperor.
The Customs Congress is actively pursuing it
labors.
AvusTria.—A penal colony has been established
im Hungary in spite of the nunavailing remonsuran
ces and resentments of the Hungarians.
Proposals are in active preparation for new
Austrian loans, to be effected in the foreign mar
ket. The urgent neceessity of this measure to
carry on the machinery of government, is stated
to have been the real cause of the retirement of
Baron Krauss from his late post as Minister of
Finance.
The second note of the President of the French
Republic to Prince Schwartzenburg, contains the
etrongest assurances of a pacific policy, and the re
;Ppomtmem of M. De. Flahauit as Minister of
rance to the Austrian Court, is a good deal
talked of, which seems to imply the best possible
feelings between two powers.
Coal Trade of Penmsylrania .—'l'he amount of
bituminous conl mined in Pennsylvania during
the year 1851 was nearly 1 400.000 tons, and of an
thracite nearly 4 900,000, making an average of
6,300,000 tons. T'he value is probably about $22,-
000. The coal-fields of Pennsylvania cover one
third of the State, or about 15.000 square miles, ly
ing above or within the water-level. "T'hose of Eng
land, Seotland. Wales, and Ireland combined, con
tain only 11,000 square wiles of coal, in an area of
120,000 square miles of territery. This coal in
many cases lies from 960 to 1800 feet below the sur
face of the ground, and is raised by machinery. In
regard to the quantity of iron ore, nearly the snme
relative proportion exists between Great Britain
and Pennsylvania.
Cost of Telegraphing Operations —lt is stated in
e February number of Appleton's Mechanics
Magazine, a valuable journal, that the extent of
telegraphic lines in the United States and Canada
exceeds 12,000 miles, involving a capital of more
than three willions of dollars. To work these
lines costs annunlly 720 tons zine. worth $57,000 ;
more thun a willion pounds of nitric acid, worth
$117.000 ; and $27,000 worth of mercury, besides
a considerable value insulphuric acid, &e. On
the line from I'iu-buvgh to Cinciunati alone, there
were tranemitted in the y ear 1850, 364.559 paid
dugmlchu. and the revenue received was $73,-
278,
Perv.—When the President, Gen. Echenique,
entered the Congrecs, 1o ucense Gen. San Roman,
a wember, and Gen. Vicanco, of conspiracy
against 1c government, San Roman being pres
ent. ‘e House immediately authorized his arrest ;
and while the sanction of the Senate wan being
obtained, ®:n Roman left the Assembly, and em
barked for Chile on an Luglish mun-olwu. Vi
canco aleo escaped
Cuite —~Gen. Cruz has surrendered to Gen.
Bulnes, in command of the government forces,
and the revolution is #ipprossed. Bolnes had re
twrned to Santiago. This informaiion was re
ceived by fauen'en from Peru. who reached
here iuthe Olio. "T'here is no doubt of ite correct-
Ness.
Awong the singular customs of the Island of
Ceiches, women are eligible 1o the highest offices
of the State ; so that, at the present moment, four
out of six of the hereditary rnjahe are femnalcs.
Among the Buges, some men dress hike women,
sud some women like men for their whole lives,
devoiing themselves 1o he occupution of their
adopted sex.
Both the 224 of Febraary ( Washington's birth
day) and the 4th of July ocenr this year on Sun
day. The oceurrence of the two anniversaries on
the same dny of the week is nceusioned by the Bie
sextle or leap year.
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
FIRST BSESSION
' Syware —The consideration of bills in the pri
vate calendur was postponed until 1 o’clock. Sev.
eral pottionsewere presented from the Assistan-
Census Marshals, asking an extra compensationt
Mr. Hunter reported a substitute to.the resolu
tion in fuvor of keeping the workmen on the Cap
itol. that the Secretary of the Interior may con
tinue so many as can be profitably employed.
Also appropriating ten lnuuund dollars for the
payment of the same, but with the proviso that
the work should not be carried up in unsnitable
weather. After soms remarks from Mr. Hunter
and Mr. Borland of Arkansas, the snbstitute was
ordered to be engrossed.
On recommendation of Committee, 3,000 cop
ies of the report of the light house board ; 2.000
copies of the report of the commissioner of the
general land office, and 5,600 copies of Alfred
Guthries’ essay upon steam explosions, were or
dered printed.
} The Senate proceoded to the consideration of
the private ealender, and several bills were en
grossed and finally passed. Adjourned.
Houvse—Soon alter the reading of the Journal,
the House went into Committee of the Whole,
and resnmed the consideration of the Senate bill
making land warrants assignable.
Various amendments were debated, and the
Comwittee after considering the subject for two
liours, rose and reported the bill 1o the House,
which, after striking out all except the first section
as amended on the motion of Mr. Mason, yester
day, finally passed.
Several executive communications were pre
sented and referred.
Mr. Applemn, of Massachusetts, presented a
memorial from certain citizens of Boston, ealling
the attention of Congress to the situation of the
harbor of that city. The memorial was referred,
and the House adjonrned untul Monday.
Sevave.—~A remonstrance was presented by
Mr. Seward against the extension of McCor
mick’s Reaper. Referred.
The vill appropriating $72,500 for refitting und
repairing the Congressioral Library Room, was
ordered to be engrossed.
A resolution was adopted requesting the Secre
tary of State to inform the Senate whether a.l the
claims presented at the late Board of Claims against
Mexico, were finally adjnsted ; and whether the
amonnt specified in the treaty was adeguate to the
sum found to be due.
I'he lowa land bill was ordered to a third read
ing.
The resolution of sympathy for the Irish exiles
was then taken up, and Mr. Shields spoke at con
siderable length in favor of its pasge.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. Shields, Mr. Se
a:iud got the floor, when the subject was postpon
ed.
Mr. Clemens offered a resolution in reference
to the transportation of the California mailsacross
the Isthmus, and whether contracts for the same
had been violated.
The Senate then adjourned.
Moxpay, Feb. 9.
SexaTe.~Numerous petitions and reporiswere
presented.
A hill giving to the U. S. District Judges in Ar
kansas jurisdiction over permits and licenses, grant
ed to vessels propelled in whole or in part by
steam was taken up.
Mr. Underwood proposed an amendment giving
all the judges of the United Htates power to ap
point inspectors of machinery, boilers, &c., which
was adopted.
I'he «pecial order, being Mr. Clarke's resolution
on intcrvention, was then taken up.
Mr. Clarke delivered an able speech in favor of
the resolutions, when Mr, Cass took the floor for
to-morrow, until which time the farther considera
tion of the subject was postponed.
Afier a short executive session the Senate ad
jounn,d.
Hovsk.—Mr. Walsh asked consent to introduce
n resolution instructing the Committee on Ways
and Means to report a bill revising the tariff’ of
1546, and substituting specific for advalorem du
ties.— Lost—ayes (0, noes 118,
Mr. Lane offered a resolution that the President
commwunicate what steps had been taken for the
protection of emigrants bonnd for Oregon, and if
none had been taken, requesting the employment
of the companies of mounuted riflemen within Ore
gon. Adopted.
Mr. Havens moved a reconsideration. Pend
ing a debate on which the House adjourned.
Froceing.—Mr. Stockton having finished his
long speech in the U. S. Senate on flogging in the
Navy, Mr. Badger replied. Mr. Stockton thought
the Senator had not treated his argument with
hv--por respect, and said he did not expect ridicule,
e asked nothing more than that American sail
ors should be treated as citizens. Now, was an
American citizen punished with the lash ?
Mr. Budger—Certainly.
Mr. Stockton—He may be in North Carolina.
Mr. Badger—ln Virginia and Delaware.
Mr. Stockton said the laws of those States might
allow it: but wonld the Senator vote for a law in
flicting the punishment of the lash on American
cititizens generally 7
Mr. anger said he would be very sorry to vote
for any law to flog all the people of the United
States. ‘I he Senators might be included.
Mr. Stockton said that he saw no reason why
Senators, and all others who were paid ont of
the Treasury, shiould not be flogged as well as the
sailors.”
Too Cold for the Fishes.—~We learn from Capt.
Stubbs, the vigilant keeper of the lighthouse on
Cuttyhunk, that during the eevere cold weather
of the last few weeks, shoals of Tautog, or black
fish, were actnally driven out of their haunts
around the rocky ledges of that i<land, and came
ashore in lurge numbers. At Nominsha Bight,
Gay_Head, they were gathered up along the beach
in cart loads, and sent to the New York markets,
Such an ocenrrence has not been known since the
winter of 1816.—N. Bedford Mer.
Sir John Franklin and his Companions.—They
have been absentaboutsix years and eight months,
having started on his exhibition the 26th of May,
1845. This was more than a year beyond the
longest period] for which their provisions could
possibly hold out, according to the most favorable
estimate of his friends. Unless they found re
sources in the region they visited, they have long
since perished by want, if not by accident.
The Peach and other Fruit Crops.—The New
York Journal of Commerce says it is feared that the
peach and other fruit crops have suffered sverely
throughout the country from the late cold weather,
and that, in many instances, peach-buds in partic.
vlar appear to be deadened at the germ.
California Emigranon.—One thousand passen
ers sailed from New York in the Cherokee and
f’mmelhem for Califoruia, on Friday last. The
steamers two months ahead have their full comple
ment of passengers engaged. $5O premium is of
fered for tickets by the Ohio.
White Shad.—The first white shad brought to
our market this seasor, was taken from the Cape
Fear river last night, and brought &1 per piece l‘:n
three, and all that were caught.— Wilimington, N. C.
Jour., Feb. 2.
The Awerican Deer has been beaten by the Suf
folk stag, in a race around the cricket gronnd at
Leicester, England, (he winner doing five milee in
264 minntes, aud coming out 20 yards ahead.
The Russian Army.—The present state of the
Czar's Army is as follows :—lnfantry, 640 385 ;
Artillery, 42998 ; Cavalry, 101,000; Gens d'Ar:
merie, 25,220 ; Total, 810,705,
Captain Minor,of New Orleans, challenges any
horse in America, for $5.000 or £lO.OOO againet
his filly. The race is to come off on the Metairre
course, the first Monday in April.
Bonaparte’s house, at Longwood, St. Helena is
now a harn ; the room he died in e a stable, and
where the lmperial body lay in state, may be found
a machine for grinding corn,
_ A picce of quanz rock from Californin weigh
ing 153 ounces gross hias been assayed at the
mint and yielded $1.713 iy gold, being at the rate
of §9 20 per ounce.
Accident —Albert Martin, of Newport. R 1., a
passenger on board the Susan was instantly killed.
off the Brazos, in consequence of the main boom
stiking him.
Upwards of fonr thousand men have heen dis.
charged from the English army during the year, as
unfit for the service.
Mis«s Cushman, the female pedestrian, has un
dertaken at Mobile, to walk r.J'o haif miles in 250
consecutive hours.
Seveuty years ago, it cost five dollars to have a
pound of cotton spun into yarn ; it now costs thir
ty cents.
Ex President Van Buren is writing & history of
hie own life and times.
Charcoal is 124 cents a Lushel at Hartford, Con,
Frivay, Feb 6
Sarvrpay, Feb. 7.
A bill to abolish the punishment of death has
passed the Senate of this State, and we most #in
cerely hope will pass the House. We concede at
once that the State has a right to use all the force,
even to the taking of life, necessary to maintain its
institutions and laws. Butitis not consonant with
duty to nse any more force than is necessary to up
hold those laws; and the plea of necessity set up
in barbarous times cannot be set up and allowed
in this day of schools, churches and general intel
ligence. Itis not trua that the gallows is the roof
tree which supports the frame work of civil -ot.:ie
ty, withont which it wonld fall into ruin.” If the
fear of death be all that makes men honest and
humane, and shstains the rights of person and
property, then our society and our forms of gov
cinment are in great danger, and decay is written
upon them by the finger of death.
It is nottrne that God has ordained the perpet.
ual obligation of the Jewish law punishing wur
der, any more than that he has ordained circum
cision as a perpetual rite, or the stoning to death
refructory children as a punishment in all ages and
countries. We live under the benign Christian
system of justice tempered by merey; and in the
department of eriminal jurisprudence we are re
strained by no divine injunction from inquiring
precisely how mueh punishment is necessary to
accomplish the objects of society, withont en
croaching on the jurisdiction of the Almighty to
punish sin. Whatever punishment is sufficientin
our day to preserve the safety of society and re
form the offender, is all that we have a moral nght
to use,
~ Imprisonment substituted for death has been
found wherever it has been tricd, to operate with
safety. Why not here? Is there any peculiar
ferocity o the people of Rhode Island that re-~
quires bloody saerifices ! There is a grest mis
take on this subject growing out of the misappli
“cation of an acknowledged fact. Is notthe fear of
death it will be asked, the greatest of fears? It is
with many minds; butit does not operate to deter
from great erimes: and here is the difficulty. In
crimes of passion, committed in hot blood, or un.
der the spur of uncoutrelable appetite there is no
regard to consequences at all. The punishment,
be it death or anything elee, is not thought of
And in regard to crimes of deliberation, such as
poisoning and assassination, where consequences
are thought of, there is alinost always a calculation
of impunity, founded on the precantions which
the offender supposes himselfto have taken to elude
justice. The uniform report of the chaplains of
the English prisons is, that death has no terrors
for the common run of culprits. It is looked up
on as one of the riske which they are to avoid if
they can ; butit does not deter them from plung
ing again into crime. Least of all does the sight
of executions strike terror into wrong doers; for
itis a fact that almost every public execution has
led to the commission of the same crime. FExecu
tions wake up bloodthirety feelings. What tha
State can do, or order to be done, is not regarded
as bad for imitation. In France, during the reign
of terror, when heads rolled off daily, and the
question of the morning was—what new execu
tions today ?—the boys of Paris made ittheir com
mon sport to cut ofl the heads of the emaller ani
mals. The community snnffed blood, and was
goaded up to a hell-hound ferocity.
No, the fearofdeathoperates very imperfectly to
deter menfromerimes. When arrested by the hand
of justice, the offender may be awakened to con
gequences and dread death; but the fear comes
too late.
We have not room to go into this subject more
atlarge as we would wish ; to speak of the deplor
abla and irreparable mistakes which are sometimes
made in executing innocent men,—of'the harrying
a man however guilty prematurely to his great ac
count, and of many other considerations of great
weight to reflecting minde. We have not the
slightest doubt, that if the punishment of death
were abolished, and the idea of its rightfulness
eliminated by disuse, that an attempt to revive it
would strike the better feelings of men with rutter
disgust. The were thought of an officer of law
being sent into the cell of a prisoner by order of
court, to butcher a defenceless man, quietly, pos
sessing health and life, as he wonld bntcher an ox—
even omitting the ancient practice of opening the
prisoner’s body and removing his viscera before
life was extinet—would send a thrill of horror
through the whole community,
The question then returns in full force—is cap
ital punishment necessary in the present state of so
ciety and in the circumstances of our own State ?
Judging by the experience of other countries, less
favored than our own, it is not. Let us try the
experiment for ourselves. The juries are gradu.
ally abolishing eapital punishment in Fngland and
in America by refusing to conviet. Let Christian-
ity do the remaining work withont indirection, and
abolish the gallows, thatemblem of a lingering bar
barism, which has survived ite uses. When it
shall appear that there is no life, no liberty, no
p:operty without the gallows it can be restored.
Vittaiwovs.—=The Emperor of Austria is at
tempting to pnt a stop to emigration from his do
mains to America by imposing on each adult emi
grant a tax of $225. He will not relax his des
potism, nor suffer any one to escape from it.
A diabolical proposition has also been started in
England to lay wuch a tax on vessels transporting
Irish emigrants to America, as shall deter the own.
ers from receiving passengers. The object seems
to be to eompel the Irish to perish at home of
starvation and fever.
Cuntovs Ancvmesr.—The New York Times
thinks, that, as insanity is ap? to grow out of long
imprisonment, it would be better perhaps to sub
stitute hanging ! In this way a man would pre
serve his sanity and only lose his life.
Republican Hevald.
PROVIDENCE,
Wednesday, February 11, 1832,
For Prestdent of the United States,
LEWIN CASS,
of Michigan.
¥For Vice President of the United States,
WILLIAM O. BUTLER,
of Kentucky. '
[ Subject to the decision of @ National Convention.]
FOR GOVERNOR,
v
PEIILIP ALLEN,
OF PROVIDENCE
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
y e
WILLIAM B. LAWRENCE,
OF NEWPORT,
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
ASA POTTER,
OF BOUTH KINGSTOWN,
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
WALTER S. BURGES,
OF CRANATON,
FOR GENERAL TREASURER,
EDWIN WILRUR,
OF NAWPOURT
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Will the House honor itself and the State by
abolisking the punishment of death ?
THE NEW FRENCH CONSTITUTION.
The last arrival brings the long expected Con
stitution, nhich the President of Frince has be
stowed upon thes citizen subjects of the nominul
republic. It will be recollected that, after over
throwing the French Assembly and the Constitu
tion, Louiy Napoleon submitied to the soldiers and
to the citizens the questions, whether he should be
retlected Presideut for ten years, and should have
power to frame and establish a new Constitation,
after the plan of that which existed during the
consulate of Napoleon the first. The response to
both of these questions was in the aflirmative by
an everwhelining vote—seven millions anda half ;
and in pursnance of the authority veeted in him
to adopt as well as to frame a new form of govern
ment, Louis Napoleon hus produced a singular
work which merely masks a dictatorship, while it
! is ripening into the empire, and deprives the Peo
;ph! of all but a shadow of their liberties. It in
Muct takea away what the consnlate left to thew,
| We have room for only a brief sketch of the new
form of government.
The President holds his office for ten years
His pay is to be fixed by the Senate ; and in case
| of his death a person for successor, secretly nom
cinated by lim is to be proposed to the votes of the
People. Should the President survive the term
of ten years, there is no provision for filling lis
place; but he reserves a right in all cases to ap
peal to the voters! He calls himself in the Con
stitution ** Prince” Napoleon. He governs not
| with, but ““ by means of”’ the ministers, the Coun
cil of State, the Senate and the Legislative corps,
I Ile commands the army and navy, makes war and
peace, exercises the pardoning power; *“alone
"has the initiative of the laws" !—and sanctions
and promulgates them. Justice 18 rendered in his
‘name. He is not responsibie for his ministers.—
T'he ministers, council, legislature, wilitary and
naval officers and all magistrates swear obedicuce
to the Constitution, and fidelity to the President.
~ "T'he Council consists of from forty to filty mem
bers appointed by the President, and removable
at his pleasure, with salaries to each of five thou
sand dollars per annnm. They are to be employ
ed in preparing projects of laws and plans of ad.
ministration. The councilors discuss the projects
of laws before the Legislature.
The Senate is composed of not more than one
hundred avd fifty members, and of eighty only for
the first year. It consists of the Cardinals, Mar
shals and Admirals, and of such others as are ap
pointed by the President. Their term is for life,
but witheut pay, unless he may see fit to allow it
to those who may need it! It is not to exceed six
thousand dollarsa year to a Senator.
The President convokes and prorogues the
Senate, and fixes the length of the sessions. T'he
eessions are to be private. 'The Senate takes care
of the constitntion and of the ** public liberties" !
The President and Senate may amend the Con
stitution, subject to the approval of a popularvote!
The Senate does not act directly upon bills which
have passcd the Legislative body ; but they are re
turned to the President, who sends them to the
Senate; and the Senate way vote against their
publication for certain reasons.
I've Legislative Corps corsists of one deputy for
every thirty five thousand electors ; which w.l!
make the number of deputies about one thousand.
They are to be chosen by universal suffrage for
six years, but without pay. They are to discuss
projects of law sent to them by the President. If
the Committee to whom any proposed law is re
forred, offer any amendmeunt, it is to be first sent
to the Council, without being debated in the
Corps. And if disapproved by the Council, it
cannot be presented to the Corps. Shonld an
amended law pass the Corps. the President may
veto it. ‘l'he session of the Corps is for threo
months. [ts sittings, at the request of five mem
bers are to be private.
No accounts of the proceedings of the Corps
are to be published by the newspapers, except
such minutes as may be furnished under the diree
tion of the presiding officer.
No petition can be addressed to the Corps. It
must be sent to the Senate
The President convokes, adjourns, prorogues
and dissolves the Legislative Corps. But apon a
dissolution he must convene another within six
months. In the meantime he governs with the
aid of the Senate.
The Senate are to organize a tigh Court for
trying all persons accused of crimesor plots ngainst
the President or the State. 'T'he Court cannot
be convened without his permission. Existing
laws are preserved as before, unless interfering
with the Constitution. All the acts of the Presi
dent are ratified and approved.
Such is the Constitution proclaimed for the
Democratic People of France, who are to be
amused with forms without substance, while in re
ality they are converted into the very humble ser
vants of a thorough going despotism. The Pres
ident has all the power. All laws begin and end
in him; he proposes and vetos. Neither of the
branches of the Legislature can propuse a law.—
The lower House cannot amend a bill without the
President’s permission ; and ifit refuse to paes a bill
he can dissolve it, and govern with the Senate;
which he can always command by controling ita
pay and increasing ite number. There is no fixed
time for any session ofeither body ; and the want of
a provision to re-elect a President after Napole
on's term of ten years, shows that he does notcon
template the election of any one but himeelf; and
in all probability, before his time expires. he will
take the necessary stepsto be declared Emperor,
provided he should live so long. The government
of the Grand Turk or of the Emperor of Russia is
highly respectable in comparison with the shabby
imposture of a * Republic” which Bonaparte is
now playing off upon the People of France. L
“Nine-tenths of the Democrats who voted
against the law, could be made to vote forit to-day
if Gov. Allen and Gov. Lawrence should direct
them to, and won'ld vote aginst it the next day, if
orders to that effect should come from head quar
ters." = Prov. Journal.
The Journal has reference to the ““Maine Law”".
‘The Whigs are not quite so accommedating ; for,
according to the Journal last sping, they require
about $4O apiece to fix their votes. We do not
make any such statement; but the Journal has
made it and ought to know. While Allen and
Lawrence are charged with regulating the Maine
law question, those Whige who make the charge,
in order to keep the Maine law in the arena as a
football—are now urging the Whig members of
the House who voted for it, to vote against
its reference to the People; for the purpose as
they regard it of getting Whig capital for the
spring election. The Demcecrats have not made
the law a party question; but the Whige who
complain that they have, are pushing it ve.
hewmenily into politics, covering their operation by
an outery against democratic influence! T'he
Whig leaders feel themselves in desperate circam
stances. and as they are in the habit of deing, lay
hold of the first expedient that comes in their way.
The Whigs of the sixth ward, in a recent meeting,
have discovered the value of temperance in poli
tica; a good discovery; but why is it made just at
this time 1
Gevenar Scory asp Tue Precivency.—~The
Washingion eorrespondent of the New York Er.
gren says the remark made by Mr. Cabell, of
lorida, u few days since. that the Southern Whig
party would not, and conld not go for Gen Scon,
withont some assnrance that he wounld consider
the compromise Bille as a final settlement of the
slavery matters involved in them, has ereated
something of a sensation, His opinion seems 1o
be the general position of the Southern wing of
the Whig party.
1 Convexrion, & c.—The Providence Post adwits
(that “It is very probable that a majority of the
members [of the recent Democratic Caonvention, |
were the friends of Cass and Butler.” 1f so what
- was the impropriety in expressing preference ol
the demoeracy for these gentlemen as their first
choice fur President and Vice President? No
:cnndidulmfl can be named who will please every
‘body. How mnny opponents of Case and But
! ler were there in the convention? Would not an
' omnibus have eontained them, witth room enough
left for the regular fare ?
~ The Post’s explunation of the reason for laying
! on the table a resolution supporting the comprom
ise of 1850 i far from satlsfactory. *The com
promise measures of the last Congress”, says the
Post, “ure generully assented to by the Democrats
“of this State”, What harm then in affirming them
in Convention 1 Suppose delegates sent to Bal
timore should vote against the Compromise, al
leging that they had no instructions : —would they
be violating the “general assent” of the Democ.
racy T The Post virtnally admite that they would
But. it adds, “the party as a party, does not claim
the right to revive the question of their werits [the
merits of the acts of the comproiise] or to read
any one out of the organization, who may not
agree with the majority on points of this charac
ter”. OF this churacter? Is not the comprom
ise one of the most vital questions that has ever
agitated the Republic 7 Did not the contest, which
preceded the compromise, convulse the conutry,
and bring the union to the vergs of dissolution ?
Is not the compromise claimed by the democracy
every where as a finality 7 Does any man doubt,
does the Post doubt, that the compromise will be
affirmed by the Baltimore Convention? If so i
what are those to gain here, who do not agree to ‘
“points of this character” 1 Are they to be con
sidered good Democrats whether they support the
Baltimore Platforin or not. |
Will our conservative neighbor, the Post, allow
us to ask two questions addressed to itself 7 Does
the Post support the Compromise of 185017 Does
it rezard the principles of 1842 contended for by
the Democrats of this State,—~as obsolete, or so
ancient that they cannotbe alluded to even in con
nection with more recent efforts for freedom in
Europe 1
In the true view of things. democratic principle,
as well as all other valnable principles, never grow
old. We should as soes expect to hear a man,
who has become tired of the New T'estament, and
asks for something more new and interesting—
call himself a Christian, as to hear of Democrats
who consider any of their first principles too well
settled to be mentioned, or thought of,
Mg. Simons :—lt is my wish that you publish
the following series of /iesolutions which I pre
sented at the Democratic State Convention, on
the 20th Jan , for adoption. That they contain
the sentiments and principles which are held by
the great body of the Democrats in this State, 1
humbly believe ; and I regretted to perceive that
the delegates had not stamina sufficient to pass
them, in order to show to our friends in other
States that we stand with them on the broad
platform of the national democracy.
Avexanper Eppy,
a Delegate from Glocester.
Providence, Jan. 30th, 1852,
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That, prenervingun unabated attach
ment to the principles of' Liberty and Democracy
embodied in the Rhode Island cause of 1842, we
rejoice in their practical adoption in the States
of New York, Texas, Maryland, and Califirnia,
and in their ratification by the last National
Democratic Convention, and by our great na
tional fraternity of Democrats; and that our
warmest aspirations are united to those of our
brethren throughout the land for the progress
and success of freedom under constitutional
forms, against the armed despotisms of Europe.
Resolved, That it is the duty of this great and
rising Republic, through its constituted repre
sentatives, to declare that the American People
recognize it as the naturaland justright of ever
nation to establish the form of government whicfl
it prefers ; that they protest against the inter
ference of one nation for the suppression of lib
eral institutions in another ; and, in the spirit of
the patriotic Monroe, that they regard the pre
sent combination among despotic powers, to de
pose free governments by military force, as evi
dence of an unfriendly disposition toward the
forms of government established in the United
States
Resvlved, That the prospect of the restored as
cendency of the Democratic Party in every
branch of the national government is a subject
for gener.] congratulation ; and that we are grat
ified to perceive the decline of sectionalism, and
a return of the Democracy to the union and har
mony, which have been heretofore productive of
such beneficial results.
Resolced, That we approve and will give our
united support to the acts of compromise passed
by Congress in 1850, as measures of justice, pat
riotism and peace ; and that our delegates to the
Baltimore Convention are instructed to carry
into effect this resolution by their votes in said
Convention.
Resolved, 'That the conduct of the Democratic ‘
administration of this State during the present
political year merits and receives the approba
tion of their constituents ; that the Reforms re
lating to the Ballot and other electoral rights are
highly acceptable to the People; and that we
trust the time is approaching when a ConstiTu-
TioN suited to their just claims shall, by general
consent, supersede the present imperfect and un
satisfactory substitute for the Charter of Charles
the Second.
Resoleed, That we will use our best exertions
to promote the reelection by increased majorities
of the candidates for State Officers who have
been nominated by the Convention.
As before stated, another resolution was also
presented by Mr. Eddy, espressing the preference
of the Democracy of the State for Generals Cass
and Butler as candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presideney; which resolution, with the
preceding, was laid on the table. But there was
no division ; they were not voted down, as has
been said ; and it Mr. éddy, (who is an able and
determined Democrat, but too diffident by half
in public meetings,) had pressed his resolutions,
they would have passed almost unanimously.
Not a half a dozen persons in the Convention
can be named who would have voted against
them, or any one of them.
Tur Pustic Lasps-—The best way of dispos
ing of the public lands seems to be a prominent
matter of censideratiou by the members of Con
gress at the present time. A Wn-hin*ton corres:
pondent of the New York Express thinks there
18 a probability that the motion introduced into
the lfom-e on the 4th inst., to fix some day in
March for giving away the lands to actual set
tlers, may pass. Upon this subject the writer
says :
“The public lands are evidently no longer con
sidered by Congress a source of revenue, The
cost of nme{ing and keeping up land officers
is large—but the majority show itsell bent npon
receiving revenue froin them no longer, but for
getting rid of them the best way possible.
Oregon, California, New Mexico and Utah, all
the territorial aequisitions from Mexico, are yeot
to be surveyed, with Nebraska, and all that vast
territory between Missonri and the Rocky Moun
tains=nand the cost of this is yet to be upon the
Federal Government.
It is hardly to be calenlated, however, that here
after the Federal Treasury will receive money
enough from the landsto &.y the cost of survey
ing, registration, the land officers, &c.. &ec. Un
der these circumstances, tormented as even ju.
dicious public men are, by the constant dema.
goguing upon the :nblic lands. there is a dispo
sition to get rid of them, either by giving them 1o
actual settlers, or surrendering them to the States.”
Bowararte's proressep Onikcre.~A letter
from Rome says that an cminem‘rouonu'o wait
ed npon Lounis Napoleon, and had a long conver.
sation with him, in which the Prince smid: “Un
derstand me well, Lam of the religion of the Pope
| know [ am only here provisionally, but [ shall
remain here long rnough to stifle the tieo monsters of
socialism and revolution.”
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
JANUARY BESSION,
Frioay, Febh. 6
Sevare —The Senate met ut 94 o'elock.
Mr. Ballou, from the Judiciary Commitiee, re
commended a conenrrence with the House in the
passuge of the act appoinung weighers of cotton,
and the aet pussed,
Resolntion relating to eommittee on Indian af
fairs, from the House, was concurred in.
Petition of Martin 8 Salsbury, for leave to sell
real estate, passed in concurrence,
An aet in amendment of an act providing for the
registration of hirths marriages and deaths. Pas
sed in concarrence.
Resolution of enquiry in relation to a preamble
and resolution (passed by the Senate) in regard
to the United Siates deposit fund. Laid on the
tuble.
An act to prevent the manufactnre of intoxieat.
ing liquore und the sale of the same as a beverage,
being the order of the day, was taken np
T'he bill is the same as the ono rejected by the
’ House with a clanse added, providing for submit
ting to the people.
\ The House resolution to adjourn on Friday
next, was laid on the tahle.
~ Adjourned to meet at 3 o'clock.
Afternoon —The Senate met at 3 o'clock.
The consideration of the bill to prohibit the
manufacture and «ale of intoxicating liquors was
postponed until Tuesday,
The petition of Ellen O'Brien for the liberation
of John O'Brien, was grunted in concurrence.
The Senate then adjourned to meet on Mon
day at 3o'clock p. m
Houvse.—~The House met at 10 o'clock.
Senate’s amendment to resolution restoring Da
vid A. Brown was concurred in.
House non-concurred with the Senate in the
passage of a bill anhorizing town councils to
erect sidewalks,
Actin relation to courts of Commoun Pleas, was
read and passed.
Petition of Amos D. Moon for restoration, was
granted.
“An act in relation to certain acts and resolu
fions heretofore passed by this General Assembly.”
defining what laws of the Digest of 1822 are now
in force, as private acts, and uot repealed by the
Digest of 1844, was passed.
Act in relation to theatrical exhibitions and
places of amusement,—enabling town coumncils to
iicense owners of halls, for exhibitions in their halls
for one year or less. said license to be revoked at
pleasure—was passed
Senate's amendment to resolutions in relation to
James Howe West. now a prisoner in Cuba, was
concurred in.
Peution ¢f Pitman B. Clarke, for discharge of
recognizahce. was granted.
Act 1o equalize the rates of charges for the trans
portation of freight on the New York, Boston and
Providence riilroad, was tuken up and indefinite
ly postponed.
Resolution from the Senate, granting the use of
the Court House in Bristol to the Advent Society
i that town, was concurred in with an amend
ment.
Resolve to adjourn sine die, on Friday of next
week, was offered by Mr. Sheffield and passed.
The ;House then adjourned 10 meet on Mon
day at 3 o'clock, P. M.,
Senate —The Senate met at 3 o’clock.
Mr. Bradford offered a resolation that no Sen
ator be allowed to speak more than fifieen minutes
on any.one subject. Passed.
Mr. Porter, from the Judiciary Committee re
ported an act to revise and amend an act in rela
tion to the election of eivil officers. Read, and
passed to a second reading.
Mr. Ballou, from the Committee on Education,
reported on the proposition of H. F. Walling to
furnish a map olPthe State, on condition that the
State purchase 600 copies at $3 each, recommend
ing a concurrence with the House in accepting the
proposition. Laid on the table for the present.
nfr. Bradford, from the Finance Committee,
ported an act to restore, enlarge and preserve a
permanent school fund. Read, and passed to a
second reading.
Mr. Porter presented an act permitting the
Town Council of Cranston to establish sidewalks,
Pas«ed.
The act to regulate the assessing and collecting
of taxes was taken up.
After rome debate, and before the question was
taken, the Senate adjourned.
House.~—~The House met at 3 o’clock.
An aet to abolish Capital Punishment, and to
rovide for a more effectual punishment of crime
Euving been received from the Senate, and refer
red to a special ccommittee, was reported te the
House with a recommendation that the House
concur in its passage. It was laid on the table for
the present.
Petition of Elisha R. Potter, trustee, and others,
for leave to sell real estate was granted.
Petition of Stanton Hazard to authorize the At
torney General to nol. pros. indiciments against
him, was granted.
Mr. Brown, of Cumberland, ealled up the bill
from the Senate to abolish imprisonment for debt,
After some remarks, Thursday next was as
signed for its fnrther consideration.
Act to incorporate Protection Fire Engine Com
pany, 5, of Newport, was passed.
The House then adjourned.
FOR THE HERALD,
- MRg. Epitor :—Can vou tell me whether the
office of Major General will expire during the
coming political year? The reason for my in
quiry is, I see that some of the “Algerines’’ are
sorcly troubled about that “Paixhan Gun,” which
‘they purchased in 1842 to murder citizens of this
State with, for endeavoring to supplant the Char
ter of Charles 2d with a Republican Constitution.
Has the Editor of the Journal been reading the
Jute of one Hamon of old—or what has come over
the spirit of his dreams? Does he fear that the
“Paixhan Gun'’ may fall into the custody of those
'who would not understand its use, and point it
the wrong way ;or what is the trouble? Are
‘the “Banks and beauty,” or the State’s Treasury
in danger ? Don’t be alarmed, friend Anthony,
“you shall have justice dome you.” | think from
the tone of the Journal, and the barking of its
!puppy in Newport, that the “Algerines’ are a
little frightened about something. * The wicked
Jlee when no man pursueth.”” There will be no use
for “Paixhan Guns' under a Democratic admin
(istration. Democracy accomplishes its reforms
| through the ballot box in obedience to the will of
itho people. Unless oppesed by an “Algerine’’
' minority, the laws will be enforced without a re
| wort to “that Paishan Gun.” Isayagain,don’t
!be alarmed. It may be that the Democrats wil)
treat you with greater leniency than you really
' deserve, if you will pursue the same course that
' you did at the last election,and write a few more
' Demoerats into notoriety. Cheer up, then—let
'us hear another chapter on the storming of
“Acote's Hill"" by the /rave troops of Rhode Isl
and under the “ertra territorial’’ Major General
McNeal, Banks and Beauty, &e. We can ex
| cuse some people boasting of their bravery, and
i eharging every body else with cowardice. The
' cry of “‘stop thiel’’ has enabled the guilty to es
| cape a great many times. Ex-Lt.C.U.LV,
Taweo Men.—The story mentioned by a trav.
ellerin Egypt, that he had seen at Cairo a man
with a tail,=and that there is a race of this kind
of People in the interior of Africa,~is again af
firmed by a French savant. who gained his infor
mation from negroes in Brazil. They intormed
him that they had visited the country, lying Southy
East of Lake Tchad, where the tailed men reside.
They are a very low grade of savages. Their on
ly furniture is n wooden bench pierced with holes
to admit the tail, in sitting down! Lord Monbod
do wonld have died of joy, could he have lived
long enongh to witness what he would have re
garded us proof of his favorite theory of the deri
vation of the human from the monkey race. He
supposed, that by sitting ronnd on rocks and
stamps, the monkey man gradually wore hie tail
off. But that a portion of that race were still liv
ing, with the tail on, did not enter loto his dreame.
The tail is only about four inches in length, and
ean be of no use in fly time, beside the inconven
ience of running it throngh the hole in the bench,
Should this great discovery be fally verified, a
society will no doubt be formed to ameliorate the
condition of the monkey races and facilitate their
transition to human, civilized life !
The City Treasurer submitted his monthly
statement, showing the amount of appropriations
and expenditures to this date ; which was read,
and reterred to the Committee on Finance.
The Surveyor of Highways presented his
monthly statement, showing the number of imen
and teams employed by the eity during the n.onth
of January, and the places on which work has
been done ; which was read, and referred to the
Committee on Highways.
Additional appropriations were made for the
following purposee, viz : For the fire department,
‘3.000; lor contingencies. §1,000; for highways,
1,000 ; for salaries, $2OO ; for the High street
pumps, §lOO,
The City Clerk was directed 1o forward ene
hundred and fifty printed copies of the annual
report of the Providence Reform School to the
Secretary of Siate, for the use of the General
Ancmbl*y.
The City Marshal was directed to have the va
rious church bells rung one hour at noon on the
23d instant, in commemoration of the birth of
Washington. &
Mr. lfopkim presented an ordinance in amend
ment of the ordinance in relation to the police,
which was referred 10 a special committee cus
sisting of Messrs. Taylor, Grinnell, Earle, Blod
get, J. Manchester and Lester,
The Committee on Finance were authorized to
make on arrangement with one or more of the
banks in this city, for the deposit of the city funds
for the ensuing finaucial year.
An appropriation of %1000 was made to con
tinue the improvements now in progress on the
Hospital Park, to be expended by the Surveyor
of Highways, under the direction ot the Bourd of
Aldermen; the money to be taken from the first
receipts into the treasury friom the sale of Hospi
tal lands.
The Commiitee on Finance were instructed to
report at the next reoular meeting of the Coun
cil, an ordinance providing for the assessment
and collection of a tax for the ensuing finunc‘i%
year; and also an ordinance making appropria
tions for the same period.
IN COMMON COUNCIL—The Committee
on Finance reported a resolution appropriating
the sum of 25 to Jobn Irvin, as a gratuity for
his services in arresting lsaac Mathews while
attempting to fire a wooden building, in the night
time, on l'iluth street, in the month of December
last. It having been suggested that Mathews
has not yet been convicled, the resolution was
laid upon the table.
A petition wasreceived from William H. Sher
man, asking an allowance from the esty treasury, -
he having assisted in extinguishing the late fire
on Westminster street, and .vas afterwards taken
sick in cousequence of exposure on that occa
sion ; which was referred to the Committee on
the Fire Department.
A like petition was received fromn William L.
Briggs, asking an indemnity for injuries sustain
ed at the same fire; which was referred to the
same committee, "
A petition was received from Gardner T.
Swarts, asking liberty to inter certain bodies in
the north burying ground, without paying the
customary fee to the Superintendent ; wf‘;ich was
referred to the Committee on the North Burying
Ground.
Moaonpay, Feb. 9.
A petition was presented from sundry citizens
in the fifth ward, asking for an extension of the
fire limits ; which was referred to the Comm#ttee
on the Fire Departument.
An ordinance was passed postponing the elec
tion of police constables until tfle next meeting
of the Council.
The Common Council concurred in the amend
ments of the Bonrd of Aldermen respecting the
resolutions relative to the filling in of the waters
of the Cove for railroad purposes.
A resolution passed appointing a committee
to confer with the Providence, Hartford & Fish
kill Railroad Company, respecting any altera
tions or deviations which may be found neces
sary in relation to the improveinents around the
Cove.
The Surveyor General of Lumber made his
annual report, which was read, and ordered to
be rinul
'Phe Common Council adjourned to meet again
on Wednesday evening, the 25th instant, at sev
en o'clock.
TrstiMony.—Judge Oukley of New York city,
in his charge to the jury in the case of Mrs. For.
rest against her husband Edwin Forrest, for di
vorce, commented upon the question of the pro
priety of publishing the details of a trial before its
completion. The remarks of the press, (as well
as the demonstration of feeling among the specta
tors,) he thought might sometimes have an im
pression on the minds of Jurors. All improper
exhibitions of feeling can be repressed by the
Court; but the Judge's recommendation to have
the publication of the testimony before the snu of
the case placed by law in the discretion of the
court, is decidedly objectionable. Courts of law
should be open to all orderly spectators, and they
cannot be prevented from carrying away and mak
ing known the proceedings and testimony. To
prevent garbled and imperfect statements, it is
much better to furnish accommodations to respon
sible reporters for the press, whose statements of the
testimony can be from day 1o day depended upon.
Ifthe jury are in danger of being biased by the
newspapers, they may require stricter caution
from the court; or in civil cases involving grea,
interest to the public, it may be provided that the
jury ehall be placed under the care of keepers.—
So far as the public morality is concerned, it can
not be less in danger (rom publishing the whole
testimony at the end of the case than in pnblish
ing it in parts from day to day. By publishing the
proceedings daily the canse of justice has been
sometimes promoted, in bringing (o the minds of
readers facis which they had forgetten connected
with the case on trial; and in thus eliciting in
portant testimony. Daily publicity of the pro
ceedinge of cuses in courts uppears to be the tiue
rule. In Forrest va. Forrest the fanlt was not in
the reporters but in the obscenity of the case itself,
A large portion of the papers have very properly
excluded it from their ecolomns. Forrest was
proved guilty of adultery, and his wife not guilty
because the testimony of vome of the witnesses
wans shaken. “Wheni the public shall manifest their
marked dissatisfaction with the reports of the foul
details of snch cares as these, respectable papers
will cease to load their columns with them. A
prurient curiosity is the main cause of the ev i
complained of.
Germavia Concenrs.—.On Friday evening
next, February 13th, the Germania Society will
give the fifth concert of the course. It will tuke
place at Howard Hall ; and they will be assisted
by Miss Adelaide Phillips, a vocalist who posses
ses superior inusical abilities and is alvo a very
pleasing singer. Mr. Alired Jaell, the favorite pian
in*, whose performances are always received with
universal approbation, (an unasual thing for pi
ano forte solos,) will aleo take part in the concert.
The performances of the Germania Socivty will
of coarse be in their usual elegant style, wlich is
unsurpassed by any orchestra in this conntry,
On Saturday afternoon the Germanians will
give a concert at the übove named hall, commenec
ing at 2 o’clock. This wiil be a fine opportunity
for the children to hear these celebrated musicians ;
and parents should avail themselves of it.
Dixren Asyrom —The Mayor and Alderm: 1
made their quarterly examination of this instity
tion on Saturday lust. ‘L he whole number of in
mutes at the present time is 160, of whom G 2 are
men, 33 boys, and 14 girls. Their rlucn ol pa.
tivity are as lollows : Providence, 21 ; other parte
of the United Slates, 42; England. 13; France, 3;
Portugal, 1; Brazil, 1 ; lreland, 79. The num.
ber of inmates at the corresponding period last
year, was precisely the same, 160.—Journal,
The pair of celebrated ““blue horses,” belonging
10 the estute of the late Wm Hidden. of Attlebo
rough, were sold at auction on Wednesday last tor
$OB5. T'hey are probably as fine » pair of horses
ne a':o‘ nwnred 'ink New England, being well
matched, perfectly kind and gentle, and ver .
—Pnfllrru Chronicle. ’ yo-
The Rockingham (Va. Register, of last week,
contained both the -um%o and death of an in
dividual—Mr. Riehard G:bson.
FROM THE JOURNAL.
CITY COUNCIL.
Moxpay Evevina, Feb. 9,