The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

voy SATURDAY Aft.,... will lw ',WWI* I THE EXHIBITION EXPRESS, OM 011 A DAILY MOSPING DOM., PAPIIL, PRICE FOURPENCB, WRIT POSIBUI SILLTITZ TO /ZS 111 as ate, intiprross' ?minims, D7TNIIDID Cow TUTS. 1111bialleillaST., AfTLIPAINCIII, ?moans. rAIT AND TIMM& frflE enoretou 'timber of woes interested in the forthmenion Great Rabibium of the World's Industry having hitherto bad no lit fietofy representative la the Prim—ao Piper reek oatly large, and with meshaalim eimprehensimmossbM grasp and exemplify the forthasalmg Isposition with Islam wroth, of so `read an eviat—tho Proprietor+ of duo "EXPRESS" have determined lapin immag, every Someday afternoon, a double sheet of that Paper, to osstsin the tallest aid latest information relative W the together with a mw of other matter aeoeptahla to ribs multitude of persons lowered either is 0111•11%1 sad Ural Committeeman and Secretaries, Members of Provisos' Tractile" Clubs, Eahibitors, Prism!' of Niblhiton, Rivals of Bubblier', aid the sull larger and wider circle of throe who ma to be the hundreds of thiamin it Visitors to the bletralis daring the forthemmlag Con gress of ladmitey at all Nations. In addition to everything velative to ors Eipmition, this Double Sheet will give General News, aid will, saireover, especially attiad to all Current Remits IR Literature, Science, and Art. On *sem &ismer B.tn d.y the price of the EXPRESS Viii be Ihroopoeso, as heretofore. ADVERTISEMENTS, The trial value et the EXHIBITION EXPRESS" as a median, taut he evident to adver All adv. rtioentate moat by at the Oaks in Whitefritra at de befogs Eight in the Evening of each Friday, to secure la mellas la the aniabee of the %Sowing day. T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXXIX. will to puede. ed an THUR,DAY neat. I. linienh SoniaWWl. 'LinnLock& L The Strungle in Indy. 3. Handers - i of Mean ad Camara. 4. Pew li'a Tronala inn of the Odesaf Horse& & Lord C. mpbell'a Chief Justices at Limbo& d. Lord Unhand's liewinbeenewa T. Kier and Popo, : Sardinia and Ifsislan& S. 71sa Blesses of War in Germany. I. Used Clarendon'. Adannintrations No.. is: Pyotestan4Waternaada. Tad..: sad C. Sleek. ght erprefiL TO CORRESPONDENTS. ILaWartiarrsenta intended for " TG Ezyean,," London Lmt•g P•twr, swat re ae dui Onion lk Bourarinalrset, b; Two o'cloak oa Wu day of publication. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BATHOS. Mi—Mormogi. 7E. 36m. Aftersona, Ob. lau Ta. rouww—Moceing, Ob. 911.11 m LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11. The rumour runs that ministers intend to introduce iato the royal speech a doleful paragraph on the sub ject of agricultural distress. Of coarse such para graph, to be followed op by some fiscal clause in , favour of the landholders, is intended to take the wind out of the sails of tho-e active movers of amendments among protectionists and quasi-protec tionists, who have already mastered their forces, and who intend to break, a lance on the first opening of l'arliament. Now the simple mutt of this will be, that the financial surplus, ins'ead of being applied in some way that would benefit the great mass of the com munity, will be thrown as a sop to a single interest, and that, not in proportion to its distress, but to its power of lungs and votes, and to the formidable nature of its parliamentary and electoral discontent. There have been sessidas when there was no sur plus, and when there was small chance of any change in taxation. And yet preparatory to those sessions we have had a world of agitation. Whereas, here we are on o.e eve of a senior, when the Income-tats most be either abolished or permanently renewed, and when moreover there is a larger earplug to excite the cupi dity or activity of the economic and the interested, and we find scarcely a meeting, a pamphlet, ce an . . harangue. One would think people 'apposed that ministers were in a condition to build up for themselves a financial theory, the noblest sod justest that could be conceived, and that they would bring forward this, trusting to the disownment, disinterestedness, and patriotism of all who heard, criticised, and voted. But unfortunately, ministers can no more legislate in this way fur tax-payers than ttey can for religious die. patents. Ministers must necessarily wait upon time, bow before force, tack between the popular breeze and the aristocratic headland, and endeavour to e.cepe being driven on the rocks of the one, or blown into the full tempest of the other. Whatever interest wants ministers to put into its ports must get upastorm,anddrive them into it. That is the plain fact. And if one interest or clam be not so strongly repre sented in Parliament as another interest, the only way for the unrepri vented interest to get its share of fiend exemption. and equable treatment, is by endeavour ing to make up in popular influence what it wants in parliamentary numbers. Unfortunately, this cannot be done for small objects, or for scattered objects, without combinatioe. What claim have windows, or beer, or tea—really extensive as the interest is behind each—to obtain a hearing, sluggish as are townsmen, besotted as are the beer drinkers, and scattered into womanish and idle babblers as are the consumers of tear Yet these deserve their share of a surplus far more than your belted squire, or eves than the pus Ilanimons farmer, who would endear anathematize a free-trade ministry than face his landlord with fair reckoning and computation. Ito people take Sir CIIARLEI WOOD to be a Solon P Or, supposing him one in wisdom, do they suppose his wisdom alone will enable him to dictate to partite is the House of Commons? For great ends, and is critical times, a minister may face and triumph over a powerful interest. Even to do this, there must be excitement, and the popular voice strong behind him. But in the present dead state of fiscal discussion, when in truth no one is awake but the pro- teetiooists, there is every reason to fear that the once severed, but possibly munited faction of toryism, will get back for the landed interest, not indeed pro'eetioc, but a large equivalent. Let any one, or every one, ask themselves this omin ous month of January, 1861, what is likely to be done with regard to the income tax. It will be extended to Ireland, people generally say. Bat at a moment when it is sought to encourage farmers to take land in that country, is that schedule to be applied without miti gation to Ireland, which levies on the farmer a per ventage on half his rent? Abrogated the clause or the schedule, indeed, cannot be. But we have heard of the project of deferring or suspending it. What if lamentations over agricultural distress should serve as a shoeing• horn for the same modifications of the same schedule in this country? Every ose must be aware that under the pretence of serving the farmer, this would really be putting money into the landlord;' pockets. Whether this scheme, or any other of the kind, be entertained, we do not think that the present is a time when any one class should look for exemption at the expense of another. The industrial chimes have more right than even the propertied class to look for alleviation, especially in the matter of lames tax, which weighs so much heavier and more unjustly upon them than upon property. But as in all previous arrangements of the income tax, the industrious and professional trader and earner, the maker of wealth, has been treated so much more than the possessor and inheritor, and even then the squanderer of wealth, it behoves the former to look around them at the present epoch, and, ere it be too late, exert themselves, not to have another Park-age put on the back of the willing camel, while the war-horse and the hunter is lightened of Lis load. Taxan mew to be so Wore any question that within a few weeks the Crystal Palace will be in fit condition for the reception of articles for the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Notions. The first and greatest difficulty of the undertaking may therefore be considered to be ear mounted. That the eight miles of exhibiting space thus pro7ided will not be sufficient for the demands of niulStors is another most sstisfactory proof that the exhibition will tally ratio the expectations of its promoters. To have bad mon epee thus was required would indeed have been tort disheartening, and ungne ous as the Ace st rejecting must be, it cannot fail to be a nab jest of gratulation that there is each a serf. &bandanas est of which to make selection, sine ill' affords isavincing proof of the importance attadied is all pads of the world to the opportunity aftleisi fzerteelei to the gave of assembled nations the geedesta of industry in all its breeches. • 16th dleeeilatertioa must almost necessarily arise hem the falsettos of articles offered for exhibition, sad is mall provincial towns this f eliug will be exasperated by the suspicion that the judgment of the committees has been warped by prejudice or by favour, as the candidates for space will be personally known. We have no d inbt , however, that in the great majority of instincts the selections of the local com mittees will be made with discretion and impartiality, and the power of appeal to the commissioners, and to the public through the press, will, we feel per seeded, be sufficient correctives of any undue influence or prejudice, or of occasional want of judgment in the selecting juries. We presume of course that all the jaries of selection will have impressed on their minds that the main object of the Exhibition is the encou ragement of manufacturing skill and inventive in dustry, and not for the purpose of making a show. As the allocations of space were made in tee first instance arbitrarily, without further guidance than the amount of populvtion and the concerned industrial activity of the locality, it must necessarily happen that in many places the spec* allotted is disproportioned to the number and importance of the articles pressiog for exhibition, and that in others there is a comparative paucity of demand for the room that has been granted. Frcm this state of th'ngs, against which it was almcst impossible to provide, articles way be admitted for exhibition in one district of far inferior merit to those which may be excluded in others where the claimants for space are more nu merous. Toe only means by which this in consistency in the selections can be remedied seems to be by appeal to the commissioners, who have, no doubt, reserved some space, and by a general supervision of the selections of the local com mittees. Instances have been presented to our twice of the rejection of novel kinds of mechanism, and of elaborately constructed models, which would seem to emit places in the great repertory of mechanic it arts. It is probable that in these instances the rejections were caused by the pressure of other and more important claims, and that the select ing jury made the best appropriation of the limited space at their command; but it will certainly be a jus cause for discontent if it be found that mere articles of fancy-work and display, by whomsoever contributed,' which constitute no part of the manufactures of the nation, should have had the preference of inventions and works of art that present novelty in their con struction and utility in their design. We are not aware what amount of space the commissioners have' reserved for special purposes ; but the foresight they have hitherto shown in their arrangements leads us to expect that they have provided sufficient to meet such contingencies, and thereby to correct in a great measure the disproportion that must necessarily arise in different districts between the space allotted and the articles claiming the privilege of admission into the Crystal Palace. The two most important undertakings—that of , providing qui for the articles to be exhibited and of obtaining a sufficiency of interesting objects to fill it —having been successfully accomplished, the difficulty of arrangement within the building will soon cool 'pence. The varied classes into which the articles, for exhibition have been arranged by the commis sioners will form a fundamental guidance for placing the numerous works from which we trust the execu tive committee will not be induced to depart either by the solicitations of individual'', who wish to display all their contributions together, or by na tional distinctions. It would be at variance with the cosmopolitan principle on which the Exhibition has been based to class the products of different nations by themselves, instead of mingling them together on a fair field fur generous rivalry. It is only by placing similar products of manufacturing industry u much as possible in juxtaposition, that the public in general can compare the merits of each, and the dread which we have heard expressed of unsuccess ful competition with foreign manufacturers in articles of taste and decorative design ought to give way entirely to the consideration of placing sect. article in such a position se to afford the beet opportunity of comparing it with competing objects, whether of manufacture, inven tion, or art, without distinction of country. The Exhibition is not intended to be an ethnological museum for viewing the products of different coun tries separately io reference to their national peculiari- ties and their proven; in the arts of civilisation; ' its special object is the encouragement of in dustrial improvement and the attainment of pea.- tics; results. As an exposition of the industry of all nations it will of course inzlude name- I roue articles more curious than generally uretul,l made for special purposes, under special circum stances, and adapted for special climates and pecu liar people. Such curiosities cannot indeed be re garded as manufavures in the general acceptance of the term, and would be appropriately classified dis tinctively as national products; but these special in atances, we conceive, will not be very numerous, and they should form exceptions to the general rule of arranging walks with works, and mingling nation with nation. To enable the public to form a fair estimate of the relative merits of competing artitdes it seems almost essential that the prices at which they can be pro &lced or sold should be annexed; otherwise those productions which in general estimation sight bear away the palm may have been manufactured at such a cost of time and money as to be really of no practical value. The committees of some districts have indeed made it an essential con dition that the prices of the goods should be stated, to guide the jun. a in selecting the objects most deserv ing to be exhibited; aid it seems advisable, that the same principle should be generally adopted. If the regulation tor the exclusion of prices were intended to prevent a shop-like appearance being given to the exposition, and its misuse by making it a place of sale, those objects might have been otherwise effected by proper arrangements; and the regulation re cent!y issued, which allows persons attending , on behalf of exhibitors to distribute bills of price*, seems to have a far greater ten dency to convert the Crystal Palace into a bazaar than a ticket of price attached to each article exhi bited. The case permitted seems almost to encourage the solicitation to purchase, whilst the indication pro hibited will be essential in most instances as a guide to the real merit of the articles as useful products of manufacturing industry. We trait that the commis sioners will see the propriety of altering their regula ' Eons in these respects; and that they will not only permit, bat if poweible informs, the announcement either of the eilling pries or the oast of manufacture. TIIE OPENING OF PAILLUNENT.—The Premier his addressed copies of the following letter to hit supptirters la the Lower Home :—" Doraingatreet, Dec. 28, I&so.—Sir, —I take the liberty of Mforating you that the meeting of parliament huvisg bees fixed foe Tuesday, the 4:k of Febraary, huskies' of importance will be brought forward without del►y I therefore request your attendance on Mat day. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient lomat, I. firsestr.." THE CONJOINT STATION AT LONDON-BRIDGB, Ot rather the resembles* of stations, for we have here the Brighten, the &nth Eastern (Melodic( the North Kent), and the Greenwich—le fast spproachiag centpletion. Its eppeasosce, ae a whole. is anything but an improvement so that of the old Brighton station. The central badinage below( I. the 8 euth-Eastern ; the Brighton le on the moth side; sad the Greenwich is put somewhat oat of the way, sect Tookymtreet. There is a covered way, on iron alsainN mooed the Boa h Eastern, which Is gl.ard to the retest sf the pathway, so as not to darken the room. on the groand II err. A parties of the eoveriog projects beyond the line of the columns, so as to further screen the pathway hum rain: this is solid, with a high smite and fascia, sad the* mousing to be nothing to balance it (the rest of the covering being of Nista, as already mentioned), it hu not a pleseleg ' aut. We must find fault, too, with the caught deceratloas! of the central clock, which Boosts to us coups and heavy. The architect (Mr. Besigley) would probably show that the haulm were the eseoutant9. The departure end arrival platforms have a wooden roof of large spec (nearly 100 tut we should say), mentioned KHOO tins since. A considerable portion of the covering is of " rough plain slam,' In sheets, sight rut keg, and three Met is inches wide. Seth spaces between the principals ea ate not glued ars plaster/ end panelled. Bough plate ems offers groat facilities los roofing. —TM Bstildor. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1851. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVIVIIIIO. The Monireur of this morning contains a series of decrees, dated Jan. 9 (yesterday), and signed by the President of the Republic , appointiog the new members of the ministry. M. Drouyn de riluys is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the place of Gielaral Lahitte, whose resignation is accepted. M. Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, general of divi ders, member of the National A-sembly, is appointed Minister of War, in the place of Gen. Schramm. M. Discos, member of the National Assembly, is appointed Minister of Marine and of the Colonies, in the place of Admiral Romain-Desfoeses. M. Mare, Under- Secretary of State of the Finances, is appointed Minister of Public Works, in the place of M. Binean. M. Sonja's, formerly member of the Constituent, and member of the Municipal and Departmental Com mittee of the Seine, Is appointed Minister of agri culture and Commerce, in the place of M. Dumas. The four ministers, Baroche, Rouher, Fould, and Parien preserve their places. The d. tree breaking up the command of General Changarnier!a as follows " A w n. 1. Hereby are repealed the decrees of the 20th December, 1848, and 11th Jane, 1849, which unite under one same superior command-1. The national guards of the Seine. 2. The troops of all arms stationed in the extent of the first military divi sion, and which appoint General Changarnier to this command. " Art. 2. Tae General of Division Perrot is ap pointed superior commander of the national guards of the Seine. "Arr. 3. The General of Division, representative of the people, Beragnay d'Hillier, is appointed com mander-in.ehief of the troops of all arms of the first military division. . . "Art. 4. The General Carrelet, commander of the Ist military division, will keep the attributions which devolve upon him by the legislation in vigour. " Art. 3. The Ministers of the Interior and War are charged, each in what concerns bim, with the execution of the present decree. Signrd by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, and countersigned by F. Be roche, Minister of the Interior, and General Regnand de St. Jean d'Angely." General Baragnay d'Hilliers appointed commander of the army of I'm., in the place of General Chan garnier, has bevel to the troops the following order of the lay : . . _ . " Soldiers,—Called by the confidence of the Pre sident aid the Republic to the command of the army of Paris, it is my duty to make known to you loyally how I understand my mission. To maintain in the army placed under my orders the strict discipline established by my predecessor. To preserve to each rank the kfluence and authority which devolves to it by the regulations. To respect and make respected, on all occasions, the rights of the powers established by the constitution. To support energetically the authority in the execution of the laws. Such are our common duties. We shall not fail in them I feel assured. Your poet and mine are the same guarantees of it.— Paris, Jan. 9, 1851." The ministry of Public Instruction was offered yes terday to M. Quentin Bauchart, who, in fact, accepted it, and afterwards declined it, from scruples as to the' dismissal of General Changarnier. Rear-Admiral Romain-llesfusees has been appointed to the command of the Levant squadron. M. Mon tagnies de la R que, who had left Brest to take that command, but was driven back by stress of weather, will now proceed to take the command in the Gulf of Mexico. M. Drouyn de !Ways, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is charged nd i,terim with the ministry of marine. At the opening of the sitting great agitation was visible in the Assembly. An the ministers were present with the exception of M. Dame, who is at Bordeaux. M. de Remusat occupied the tribune, to interpellate the ministry ou i , s policy ; and demanded that alter having heard the explanations of the government, the Assembly should retire to the bureaux to take the mealtime ctmrnanded by circumstances. (Cheers.) M. &troche expressed astonishment at this de mind, and declared that the cabh.et came to defend the policy to which it had long been devoted in con cert with the majority of the Assembly. M. Berryer declared that he could not be satisfied with explanations which explained nothing at all; and that he would insist upon knowing the motives of the dismissal and of the restoration of the cabinet, and upon being iuformed of the cause of General Chargarnior's dismissal. Inierpelisted by several members, with regard to Wiesbaden, he declared that he should be ready, when the time came for doing so, to reader an account of his conduct and of his moat secret thoughts. (Cheers.) M. Barocbe replied afresh, with statements, which were drowned in the clamours of the majority, and gave no explanations with regard to the dismissal of General Chaogarnier. M. Dufaure pressed him anew, dwelt upon the attacks made upon the parliamentary power by the Bonapariist press and the E• glish press; adding that the latter symptom wu all the more signi ficant, from the appearance of the English am bassador and several English officers at the reviews of Bstory. He demanded formal explanations with regard to the dismissal of General Changarnier, which appeared to have been motived by the vote of last Fraley. M. Rouher now ascended the tribune, and at tempted to justify the dismissal of Geo. Changarnier. ti.) powerful a command ought, he said, to cease as soon se order was re-established. A V.)ice : Then why have given a new superior command ? M. Rouher felt that the position of General Ha raguay d'Hilliers was not the same as that of Gene ral Chengarnier. He asserted that in the thought of no member of the cabinet had the dis missal of the General Cbangarnim the cha racter of hostility attributed to it by pertain par_ ties. He declared that the sentiments of the execu tive power towards the legislature were anything but those of hostility, and that the government was in spired by the sincerest desire to preserve the good accord which had been so useful to the country. He spoke also of the profound respect which the go verom.lit entertained for the constitution, and sup plicated the Assembly to limit itself to the busir.ets of the country until the month of May, when it might decide if it thought the revision of the constitution necessary. As to the language held by certain organs of the press, all the powers had their organs in the press, and the government could not be con sidered responsible fur more than its official organs; still hes could it be considered answerable for the language of the foreign press, which was complained of u adverse to the Assembly. M. Ronher sat down without having obtained from the Aseembly more favourable hearing than M. Baroche. General Redeaa declared that be could not rest satisfied with the explanations furnished by the ministers. He recapitulated the different facts which had occupied public attention during the recess, par ticularly the incident of Gen. Neumayer's dismissal, end added that if the Committee of Permanence had thought proper to give proofs of its abnegation for the profit of the executive power, at present its mem bers were ready to enter into explanations upon all that could enlighten the country with regard to the events of the recess. The Mit:inters remained silent. M. de Remosat declared that in his opinion the present matter could not be terminated by a pure and simple order of the day, and demanded that the sense of the house should be taken with regard to his pro position for the immediate withdrawal of the Assem bly to the bureaux, in order to name a committee to propose the measures dictated by circumstances. The Assembly, consulted on the urgency of the question, decided in the affirmative. Half the Moun tain abstained from voting. General Cavaignac voted for the urgency. Then the house proceeded to ballot on M. de Hummed motion. Daring this operation great agitation prevailed in the Assembly. The result was that the proposition was adopted by 330 votes against 273. In courquence the Assembly retired immediately to the bureaux, to appoint a committee. The measures which this committee will recommend can only be at present matter Of conjecture. In the meanwhile the general opinion was that the vote given would be fatal to the government. If the other half of the Mountain had nct abstained, the result might hats I bssn favourable to niaieture. The committee chosen is expected to propose a vote of want of confidence in the government. Before the sitting of the Amicably the principal satubers of the majority met at M. Dupie's. M. Theodore Duos, one of the representatives of des department of the Seine, is a native of Bordeaux, sad represented during fifteen years in the Chamber of Deputies the department of the Gironde. Under the monarchy he displayed considerable ability in matters of economy, and threw much light upon questions connected with the budget. He took the usitiative in several nseful measures, and proposed the admission of capacities on the electoral hats. Daring the existence of the Constituent Assembly he was charged to report upon the accounts of the Provisional Government, and exposed with unflinching severity the riotous profusion which bad wasted the public treuare. In the elections cf the Bth July, 1849, he was thrown out for the Gironde; but this repulse was repaired by his being chosen representa tive of the Seine. The firm, conscientious, and liberal Character of Nl.Ducos, united with considerable talent sad experience of affairs, make his appointment un exceptionable. General Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely is chiefly known as an intimate and confidential friend of Louis Napoleon, and is what is termed thoroughly Elysean. The name of his family figures much in the first Revolution. His father was a member of the Constituent, of the Convention, of the Senate, and of the Conseil d'Etar. As colonel al the 2nd regiment of lancers, M. Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely distinguished himself as a good officer. In 1849 he commanded a brigade of cavalry in the army of the Alps. General Buaguay d'Hilliers, who replaces General Changarnier in the command of the first division, has been, ever since hie return from Rime, where he had the chief command of the French expeditionary army, pointed out as the rival of the late commander-in• chief of the army of Paris, and was mentioned as a likely successor to Gen. d'Hautpotil as Minister of War. He is of quite as deep an Elysean dye as the new Minister of War. He is one of the African ge nerale, and dis:ingnished himself in the wars of Algeria more by his personal courage than by his stra tegic ability. When the revolution of February broke out, he commanded at Besancon, where he commenced against the commissaries of the Fermi- Urinal Government the opposition which he has con tinued to show to the republic as understood by the democratic party. As president of the club and of the electoral committee of the Rue des Poitiers, he ex erted himself energetically for the conservative cause. In the Constituent Assembly his votes were constantly hostile to democratio measure.. Since his return from Rome he has been one of the most marked ad herents of the President. In the Assembly he repre sents the department of Daubs. Two members of the new cabinet are not members of the Assembly, M. Magee, and M. Bonjean. M. Magee sat in the Chamber of Deputies under the monarchy, and was under-secretary of the ministry of war when the revolution of February broke oat. M. Bonjean was a member of the Constituent Assembly, and distinguished himself as a debater upon several important occasions. But his constituents of the department of the aroma net approving of the conservative tenor which his politics took, did not re-elect him. He became a candidate for the Seine, on the occasion of the celebrated elections of the 10th of March, when MM. de Flotte, Vidal, and Carnet were returned. His activity as a municipal councillor of the city of Paris has been a good preparation for the post assigned to him as Minister of Commerce. The grand blow has been struck at last ; the dis missal of General Changarnier, and the breaking up of that union between the superior command of the national guards of the Seine and of the army of the first division, which made his power so overgrown and formidable, appear in the Mon law, the decree effecting this mighty change being cJuntersigned by M. Baroche, Ministerof the Interior, and Gen. Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely. Howmany times has it not been asserted in the orgaiis of the majority that such a mea sure would be the signal for civil war between the President and the Assembly, and hinted that the effect would only be to lodge the present inmate of the Elsie at Vincennes. But to-day there is not the leas( appearance that the bold course adopted by the Pre sident will terminate in such a result. The utmost measure of retaliation seems factious obstruction to measures required by the country and Mitiated by the new ministry. One cannot conceive any possible ex cuse for the Assembly declaring that its safety de mands the collection of an immense corps of troops. the command of which it will con fide to the dismissed commander hi-chief of the army of Paris, as everybody knows that its safety is no more in jeopardy than that of the British Home of Commons. How, then, comes it that a measure, which two months ago was regarded as impracticable, is effected to-day, certainly without any immediate disturbance of the peace or abrupt convulsion, and possibly with complete succors; in other words, with the adhesion of the national will ; for it the present act of the President meet with the' approbation of the country at large, the opposition of the parliamentary majority must have a speedy turn. I This revolution seems to have wrought principally by the following causes : First, by the message of the President, which repudiated, in language which won the confidence of Europe, all unconstitutional attempts ; secondly, by the factious hostility to the President shown by the majority in all its recent acts, which has arrayed public opinion against it ; thirdly, by the decided support and encouragement given by the Left of the Assembly to the government's design of break ing up the military domination of General Changsr nier; and, lastly, by the tote of the foreign prese, and particularly that of England, which has prop. lanced itself unanimously in layout. of the President. The funds to-day had a slight fall of Sc. only. BOURSE. raz vacuum. PARI9, JA.V. 19. I For lOpsalegilllghest.l Loweat.l Cody *per tkots. ....... i36 80 36 85 56 93 t 3 70 36 73 3 per Cons- 3 do. New Lam 194 73 94 70 94 80 94 70 fi 73 4.4 per Cents.. ..„ I „ w „ • • 4 per Ceuta f per eenW. New loan, 51113. • te Estimate on L0o.o.o.: at eight, .5 21; w. dap, 24 SS Belgian, 5, 1610 lOO/ dove). Names itentee Do. 3, 1841 Do. 44 Do. 24 lB5O 0 Treasury foods 44 n Piedmont 3 per Cente. 83 „ Bank Stereo 2210 1 Botritan.—St. Germain ' • 411 25 ; Versailles (right bank). 183 75; ditto (left bank), 18126; Paris and Orleans, 848 7i ; Paris and Rouen, 680; B nen and Havre, 27260; idsneilles and Avignon, 187 50; Strasbourg and Bale, 137 60; Centre, 388 75; Boulogne and Amiens, 215; North, 488 75 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 352 60; Toon and Nantes, 248 25; Dieppe and Feeamp, 195 ; Bordeaux and Teats, 40. MADRID, JAN. 4 —Throe per Cents., 33 13.16; after Boar, 331 1 mob, 331 paper. Four per Coats., 121. Fire per Cents., 12 7-16 ; after Bola, 121 paper, 12 cash. Cou Pose, 61; after Holm, 61 cub. Pemayee, 31 pub ; after Bole., 31 nen. Bank of tit. Ferdinand, 96. Ezehange on Loadoe, 60.66 paper. To-morrow and Monday Mere will be no Bo's*. GERMANY. (TISLIORAPHIC DISPATCH.) HAMBURG, THURSDAY, JAN. 9. The commissioners have prolonged the term for decision allowed to the Stadthotderate till next Saturday. Our correspondent at Dresden writes as follows: DRESDEN, Jam 7. The silence of the P russ i an Prime Minister on and since the re-opening of the chambers is of sad augury for the truth of the statement that be has not gained a single point in his conferences with the Austrian Prime Minister, and that his policy has dragged Prussia into a position from which all the energy and hardiness of its people can hardly succeed to raise it. Manteoffel's silence is the triumph of Austria. The Prussian chambers—l speak more particularly of the constitutional and liberal fractions—would have accepted at Manteuffel's hands any result which placed a barrier, however, slight to the growth of Austrian influence in Germany. The MICA among them foresaw plainly that their resist arum to the Mauteuffel policy involved the existence of the Prussian constitution, and if persevered in would be visited on the people by the withdrawal of those small libertise which the sham oonstitution of Prunes still affords. With the plans for a general commercial alliance with the other countries in Germany, the Austrian government unite" a read wham for its ooloawa• Lion and cultivation of Hungary, in the agricultural wealth of which they perceive a mice which may be made available for the restoration of their financial credit and the payment of their national debt. Prince Schwarsenberg is still here, and will remain for the present. Dresden is (allot Austrian diploma tists of all ranks, from the premier down to the lowest class of intriguants, of whom the Aestrian go- vernment employs many. 'fhe heads which con cocted the commercial plans are said to be here also —in the persons of a Herr Pltisterschmidt and a commercial Councillor Hock. The Saxon Court is very hospitable to the great men assembled here. Bills, dinners, soiries, fol low one another with great rapidity. The great men of the little states are quite unaccustomed to such royal hospitality; the treatment they met with in Berlin was not to be boasted of. But I fear that they may prove to the royal finanoes of the King of Saxony • plague as destructive as the locusts of Egypt. A great ball is announced for to-morrow evening. The speech of M. Manteeffel, on the 7th, in the Second Chamber, is very remarkable. He cries a peceari most insolently over all that Prussia hu done since 1848. The noble stand that the Hessians have made for their constitution is called a dangerous revolution of officials a revolution made in dressing gowns and slippers; it is contrasted contemptuously with barracade revolutions, which suppose, M. Manteuffel intimates, at least courage in the revolutionists. He says that Prussian policy has reached its turning point ; that he hopes it will never again be involved in a fog ; and that it must break decidedly with all revolutionary principles. BERLIN, Jairr. 7. The following is the prioe'pal part of the answer to the andres., proposed by M. Vineke and his party. Alluding to the affairs in Hesse and Holstein, it is I thus worded : We conceive your Majesty's wise and magnanimous efforts to procure for Germany a constitution worthy of her dignity and position in Iturope, will be for a lons time if not for ever frustrated, the honour of Prussia violated, her power ques tioned, aid a fetus prepared for her in which her freedom and her national inspntance with all states must be meet imminently endangered by the preparations which have been made, and partly carried into effect, to suppress the rights of two noble German races in Hesse Castel and in Holstein, by the most oppressive and arbitrary proceedings, in the primes of the Prussian petiole standing by in inns, aa witnesses of these deeds. The adjournment of the Chambers has made it impossible for us till now to give utterance to these sentiments. In the meantime this expression has become still more emphatically our duty by the 'compulsive measures which have been adopted in Heme, and carried into execution by Austrian and Bavarian troops, under the eyes of a Prussian commissioner, and by the astounding intelligence that the Schleswig Holstein army is to be disarmed by Prussian troops, who have so lately fought in the same cause by their side. Considering all these circumstances, we deem it our bounden duty, in devotion and loyalty to your Majesty's royal house, to lay before your Majesty. abstaining from any further address, our united humble petition. That your Majesty will be pleased to make an end to this system, by which the country is brought into this jeopardous position. As representatives of the Prussian people we can boldly, at this solemn moment, assure your htsyety that your faith ful people will stand by your Majesty with their p-operty and their Hess, and will meet every danger, and every earn. Ce which such a change of policy may occasion with joy. With deep devotion we remain. Here follows the fifty signatures of the party. - -- • - _ BERLIN, J Aw. 9.—Voluntary Loan, 1061 ; New Lou,, Four-and-a-Ralf per Cents., 991 ; National Debt, 841; Commercial Marine Society's Premium, 120; Beak Share., 964. VIENNA, lAN. 8. Piro per Cent. Metalliques, 941 Four-and-s-Half per Cram., 821. Mink Shares, 1,13 J. Exchange ea London, 12.44. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, FRIDAY, JAN. 10. The unfavourable state of the weather prevented her Majesty and Prince Albert taking their usual morning walk. The same cause prevented the royal family taking their usual airings. Lord and Lady John Hugel' left the Castle to dey. 'Die royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening wilt include the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Lereson Gower, the II in. Chutes A. and Mrs Murray, and Mr. Rita. The Queen. private band will be iu atteadance in the Castle alter dinner. Tne Hoo. MU Stanley and the Hon. Miss S. ymour have relieved the Hon. Miu Cavendish and the Hon. Mist Dawson in their duties as Maids of Ho mu: in Waitine to the Queen. The Rev. William Capel attended at the Home °film yesterday to deliver, tarough Sir George, Orty, cre t ry of Sate for the Horne ll,partment, an address for presentation to the Questa, trans the inhabitants of Watford, is the county of liens, on the 'abject of the aggression of the Pope. Mr. White and Mr. Thomas had an interview with tke Commissioner, of itailways yesterday, at their office in of Trade. Lord and Lady John Russell returned to Pem broke Lodge, ILcosnood Park, yesterday, from a visit to bar Majesty at Windsor Castle. (From last night's Gazette.) FOREIGN -OFFICE, JAN. 2.—The Queen bee been pleased tl appoint Luna-Colonel Hugh Henry ftw, C.B , now her Ilsjesty's Conant General in Syria, to be Secrebary to her Majesty's Sugary at Coastaatinople. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. BOW•STRBET. TIM CHAIM' OPEiTaBitNCTI:POLTCE CONaTALLE C. JJw den, a beer-ehop keeper, of Joha street. Tottenham. court-road, who stands charged with stabbing Police.cuiets bit Davis, of toe F division, with a clasp knife, while in a state of intoxication, surrendered to his bail, and was again remanded for a week, in consequence of the wounded man being unable to leave the station without the assistance of a crutch, and also because the howl -surgeon of l'og's College Hospital was unable to attend to-day to give his evidence. MARYLEBONE. ALLEGRO FRAUD ON THE AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.— W. Brown and W. Williams were charged with having conspired with another man not is custody, to defraud the above company. The facts of the cue have a'ready been given in the Emerese. The depeitione hiving been read over, the priaoners were fully committed for trial. SOUTHWARK. LYNCH LAW IN THNiflNTTLEiifiTeiSqualib and William Evans and their wives were charged with committing a violent tumult on John Ryan. Tne complainant, who exhibited !evert' bruises on his face, stated,that he has lodged for come time at the Ring'. Arms public home, in the Minr, and that he was • porter at • wharf in Toole, street. Oa Boxing-day he drank rather too freely with come friends, and, while in a state of intoxication he entered • lodging house kept by Mrs.. Evans, for the purpose of !melee a suocza " until be got sober. He accordingly paid four-pence, and was ,hown to a bed, where he remained some time, un•il he was awoke by the cold. He then descended to the kitchen, and placed himself before the fire, where he had nit beta many minutes before the male prisoner cams into the room and desired him to leave the home, or they would pitch him into the street. He remonstrated with them, telling them that he had paid for his lodging, and that he had a right to the use of the fire. The female prisoners then cants into the room, when they attacked him and knocked him about in a dreadful manner, breaking the forms and tables over his head. After a great struggle he was thrust into the street, when he informed a unstable what had occurred, and de sired him to take the parties into custoly, but he recom mended him to summons them in the usual way. The defen dants were relatives to the keeper of the lodging-house, and resided • few doors off. _ . . • A yonag fellow,known by the flash name of " Westminster" among the denizens of the " Mint," said that be wes in the house when the assault wu committed. He saw it all, but he was afraid to interfere in use he should be *met in a similar manner. Lynch law was fro gaudy administered in the Mint by the lodging.honse keep and *them and lodgers were afraid to say anything or intererir. Mr. Bina,, for the defendant', contended that the com- plainant had brought it all upon himself, by entering the house in question. He was well aware that his company was not wanted at Mrs. Evan's, and when the defendants found that he was there, they told him to go to his own lodging hones, to prevent a disturbance taking place. lie refused to do ao, when the defendants considered thi =selves justified in executing Lynch law on him to eject him from the home. The magistrate said that Lynch law could not be justified la England, and he considered the compl.inant had been very badly treated. He should therefore fine the male pri soners 40s. each, and the females 20s. each, or one month's Imprisonment. The fines were Immediately paid, and the primnen FOREIGN CATTLE.—The steam-ship Giraffe, just arrived at Blackmail, from Rotterdam, has ►rougat an entire cargo of live cattle, comprising 278 head of oxen and row, 67 calms, and 600 sheep, the produce of Holland. The is an extraordinarily large importation of horned dock from Holland, sad, pomibly, the largest individual supply of the Wad skit has taken plus from that country. LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Biro's Us. COMXII.IO.ItIt GOULimaig. IN YE 1SUTTl111.1). This woe the lasexamiaation --- maeit Oa in the cue of J. Bettfie'd, grow, of Newbury, in Buldeghernshiee. His balancosheet, prepared by Mr. Maynard, of Bread•street, extended over Soar years and a quarter prior to November last, and showed a sum due to creditors of 6741., with assets, in good debts and property, estimated to proclaim 4001. His profits had been 8241. , louse, 1831.; trade expenses, 4941.; household ditto, 671. The bankrupt paned without opposition. lid YE HOLLOWAY. This bankrupt hisice.r;ielinTiThe hOOkselling business at Ride, in the Isle of Wight. Towards the class of last year, finding himself in difficulties, he had proposed an arrange ment; bat, one of the creditor, standing out, the result was a bankruptcy. He now came up for his last ersmieatioo, on a Waco, sheet, prepared by Messrs. ltsyson, of Guildhail chambers, which showed rather a favourable result. He owed to unsecured crrditore, 8771, and bad glean up in Flood debts and property 7351. His profits, during two years and • half, had been 8501.; trade expense•, 5511 ; personal ditto. 3271. It was stated teat a dividend of Ios, would be imme diately declared. The bankrupt parsed. MONEY MARKET. THIS DAY. Two O'CLOCK The accounts received from Paris of the continuance of the agitation in political circles, combined with the news of a decline on the Frer ch Botiree, have exercised a depresaing influence on the m irket for the English securities to-day, and priers, which opened at yesterday's range, have receded 1 per cent. Con sols for the account were first called 961 toe ex div., as they closed yesterday, and they have since fallen to 961 to a, which is the present quotation. The market is unsupported by the purchases on public ac count which have been going on for the last few days, these operations being at present suspended. The Reduced Three per Cents. are marked 97:„ 1 ; the New Three-and-a-guider per Cents., 981, 1, 09, 981 ; Bank Stock, 214!. Exchequer Bills remain without change, a fair amount of business being reported in all descriptions, at 585., 615., and 585., prem. India Bonds, 1,0001., mark 745. prem. Business continues slack in the foreign stock mar ket, and the tone generally is flat. The prices realised are, in most instances, a trifle below the rate. last noted. Mexican B ,ride continue depressed. The following are the prices of actual business to-day : Brazilian Old Five per Cents., 89:. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents., 581. French Five per Cent. Rentcs, 94f. ' • exchange, 25f. '2oc. Grenada One-and a-Half per Cents., 171. Mexican Bonds, for the account, 34a, t. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1849, 791 for the account. Russian Four and-a-Half per Cents., 961. Spanish Active Five per Cents., 17! ; do. Three per Cents., 38. Venezuela Deferred Bonds, 111 _ _ _ iNoilisa FUND2.—Tnts Day. Rank Rent. 213 14 3 per CI.. Con Ace.. '.‘43 1 3 ger OS. Rid. Anon.. 94 / 3* per et, : , s1 1 3 for Ct. Con. Anna, shut notcbcquor Min. 535, to bh. FOILEION I per Ot. Andean Yon& I per Ct. Or made 11.1... 17 13 44 per (It. Belt. Bowl.. 9) 2 Oreeede Deferred HAS.. 34 4 34 per Oast.. 5 per Ct Mos. 11'.., 344 6 per CL Ontllllde 11.14., 88 9) d per °LPG 111114 Wk. 7:0 84 bite* Noe, 85 d Peettertme C:ee., 544_ It__ I tru c o L egilt"iht".. V.. 41" Onto Colwell). Pet. 11d... par Ct. /vanish 644.. 191 I OoltuatAin Equa tor Ude, 3I; Po. Doferrol 3 pet Olen losuleh It 75 8 Mite Pa .eve ILI,. 31 I 24 per Cl. Dutch 574 7 4 Pee Ct. Venezuela Harr— 91 4 per Ct. Carts.. 3.461 %mewed,. Ireful ,ed Poude. 11 11: THIS DAY. Two o'CLom The share market is decidedly fiat to-dav, espe cially since the retrograde movement in the Eel;high feuds, and prices generally are now quoted at a fur ther decline, though the fell is not very material. , The official announcement that the Brighton Board of Directors have dttermined upon recommending the payment of a dividerd at the rate of 52.5. per cent. ' for the half yesr, after placing a sum of 10,0001. to the credit of the reserve fund, and carrying forward a balance of 4,000/. to the current half-year, has not caused any material alteration in the market for this stock, which marks 83;. The decrease in the Great Northern traffic continu a to raiser the price, which has to-day been done as low as 171. The following are the prices this day: Aberdeen, 10; ditto Preference, ; Bristol and Exeter, 77 ; Caledonian, 102; Chester and Holyhead, 161; East Anglian, 231., L. and E. and L. and D., 31 ; Eastern Counties, 6; ch. Extension, No. 2, di.. ; East Lancashire, 12i; Great Northern, 172 , j , 1; do. Halves, A, Deferred, 62, 1 ; do. ii per Cent. Prefer ence, 12/, 2; Great Western, 781, 81; do. New 17/, 131, 1 ; Hull and Selby, 101 • Lan cashire and Yorish ire, 561 ; ditto Flap, 41; Leeds and Think, 131 ; London and Blackwell, 61; Landon and North-Wester. ' 1241 41; do. New Quar ters., 201 ; ditto Fifths, 161 ; London and SJuth- Western, 781 8; Matchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, 26 ; ditto New 101. Pref., 10/ 2 ; Midland, 484 8; ditto 50/. Pref.,l6 ; ditto Birmingham and Derby, 25; ditto Consolidated Bristol and Birmingham, 129; Newmarket, 31 1; N. British, 82 ; N. Staffo.dshire, n 1; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver., 161, 161; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Class A, 51, dis.; South Eastern, 231, 2Z ; S doh Wales, 22t 1 ; " York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 181, 4 • ditto Ex . enaion, 131; York and North Midland, 2 24; Dutch Rhenish, 31; Northern of France, 141, 15; Orleans and Bourdeanx, 4 ex int.; Paris and Strasburg, 9. WEEKLY SUMMARY OP THE PRODUCE MARKETS. MINCING-L&NR, SATURDAY MORNING. The colonial markets have bun freely supplied with most descriptions of produce this we k, but as the trade generally hest not shown much desire to purchase, prices have in some instances declined. The sales of Sug.,r were large on Tues. day, and the rates obtained were oceasionally:ratber in favour of the Bayer. The C die market opened very heavily, and upon plantation Ceylon a decline of 3e. wes established, the native sorts ware sold at 52.. 64., while Mocha went at a reduction of 12s. to 15.. per cwt., there has subwquently, however, been rather more inquiry; several parces of plan • tattoo have changed hands at slightly increased rates, Mucha hes advanced about 2.. D, 39., and native Ceylon has also been more in request. WOOL MARKET.—THIS DAY. The demand for English Wool continun on the increase. The quantity on offer in the private contract market is small, sod a lair business is doing in mist kir.de, at very full pricer. ITo colonial and foreign Woo!s there no partici, Ise alteration. In the absence of public salvo, the 1 market remains quire, hw sales making byl private contract, u there is little choice in the small stocks 'on band. The importation, too, is going on but slowly. Priers continue firm, man are likely to remain so. This week's imports have amounted to 1,783 bales from Sydney, 735 from Algoa Bay, 81 from the Cape, 385 from Hamburg, and 248 bags from Seville. TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY. Thera is not the lust alteration to notice in this market, prices continuing quoted so before, v‘s : Petersburg Y. C. 'on the spot, 375. 6d. to 37. 3d. ; Jan., Feb., and March, 375.; last three months of 1851, 395. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY. Mewl. Cooper end Davis report the supply short, but quit* ,t goal to the demand : Prime Meadow Kay, 79.. to ; toferior ditto, 65e. to 70e. ; Rowen, 60.. to 6.55. ; Clover, 701. to 80e. ; second cut, 6sl. to 709. ; Straw, 221. to Ws. COMMERCIAL DOCK COMPANY. Yesterday the half yearly ascetic( of the proprieton of this company wag held at the aloes in Fenchurch-street,City.—Robert Hien *on, Beg , having taken the chair, Mr. Smithies, the were tary, read the report, which exhibited some diminution in the number of vessels that 11.41 entered the docks in the past year cumpared with the preoeding one. The usual dividend of 21. per Gent. for the half year (free from incomatax) was declared.—The court was then made special, at which the, proceedings and regulations of a former special court (autho rising the dincon to purchase tee East Country Dock., and to apply to parliament (or powers to enlarge sad improve the decks) was read and confirmed.—After the usual vote of 'hens" to the chairmen and din ctors the court adj ittrosil.— [The atm worns to be undertukea hy the comply will be under the management ot Messrs Walker and Burge!, the eminent civil engineers. It also appeared that the company intend to endeavour to obtain all the privileges at pr. sent esseeded to the docks on the north side of the Thames. These docks, which are situated in klotheehithe, seem hut little known, although the oldest mimes, having formerly been liewlsnd's Great West Duck," and afterwards the Gresioleed Dick," of course then on a limited scale in comparison with the present decks, which already extend evernearly 120 ann.] .. E SICO in t h e upper part M p g: , P o N , C t t t y h . o . 0 a a of n: y charged s C . l d ep w g i a very serious offence, both in regard to law and morality, a sentence of three years' resticatiun pas sed upon ham by the bishop of she diocese has been submitted to, and farther proessdiags of a criminal arum have bean In censeqamse abandemsd.—limex Standard