The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-15 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATVIDAT, Aro. 13. The Srrataita took the chair at 12 o'clock. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PII.P.SEN'I ED. Ormitno Hn vast: PALACB oNI Scmoavc —By Lord PALM EMS lON, from the mayor, alderman, sad bur ream of Sheffield, is favour of. MIDICAL 'Umtata —By Kr. BEOTHERTON, from members of lb* menseal prefeerioa is Bonier. Mold. Webb' pool, and the North Wales branch of the Provincial Medical sad Sergicel Amielation, is favour of. _ CUMSDLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. The bill or then mid third Woe and passed. MILITIA PAY BILL. _ This bill was rii;l7 . siatrose -- ahrl - p7;;ed. yACCINATION EXTENSION BILL. This billre - a;nrMi - atinTrdtiaiir and arid. PASSENOBBS ACT (AM ENDIIENT) BILL (hi the order of the clay fee gulag into committee on this bill. Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY asked for some ezplanations se e liectinit it. Yr. PEEL said the okict of the bill was to correct sonic anomalies in the pros. nt act, and also to facilitate esaidration from China into the Writ India Islands. The bill then panted thr-oigh committee. • REDEMPTION OF LAND TAX BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the object of this bill was to supply an omi•drn in a bill which had passed the iugh both how,s of parliament, and had at this morsent received the royal assent, fur the redemption of the land tail. Mr. WODEUOI.7BE said be did not object to the bill, bat h e h o p e d that I . same later. session the whole subject would nadvego patrol revision. la some parts of the biu lt d.ias this taa operated as a double property tax. Leave was then given to ►ri in the bill, sad it was brought in and psesed through all its stages. DRAINAGE WORKS ON THE SHANNON. Colonel DUNNE moved fora copy of a memorial pre sented by the sohatitan•■ of Banagber, in Ireland, and its vicinity, to the Lord Lieutenant, comolaining of the injury they sustained from the , (feet or the drainage works on the Shannon, at Mteliek. Ha said the injury was increased every day. All the country was under water. The motion was agreed to. IIIteRWAYS IN IRELAND. Mr. Ill'MAllGNobtained leave to bring to a bill to con solidate and 'mind the laws relating to highways in Ire- land. TILE SITTING ON MONDAY. Mr. WILSON moved that the house at its Mang adjourn NEW o'clock on Monday, and continue its sittings.— Agreed to. NEW WRIT FOR DVNOARVON. Mr. F. YRANCH mewed fora new writ ter Dengarvon, in the room of Mr. Maguire, who bed scorpted the office of steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. GRENVILLE BERKELEY said he believed the sppoinment had not been made, and therefore the motion was primate... Mr. I. BUTT said he should ask on Monday whether the vacation of his seat by the lion. member was not the result of a comprinelsoof an election petition. The house then adjourned at balf•past one. ELECTION COMMITTEE. PETERBOROUGH. M li. WM•LLST la ♦ SZCWID HANLEY LLECTIII) IN HIS ATEA°. The committee Wane at 11 o'clock, as by adiournmant previously *greed upon, to hear the arguineats of counsel fur Mr. Whalley upon the novel point of proving that the decision of the previous committee could not be held to invalidate Mr. Whittler& eligibility to stand at the last election, inasmuch as that the decision of that committee, that Mr. Whalley had not been duly sleeted, though it had been ratified by the house and catered on its journals, yet that the decision of the com mittee, cotomporaneously given, to the effect that Mr. Whalley had been guilty of " treating," had not been so recognised, but was merely ordered to " lie upon the table," and that. therefore, that decision could have no effect, under the terms of the act of parliament, to disqualify a candi date, or deprive a constituency of their right to vote for him —Mr. Whalley having in the present case-gone down to Peterborough. under the advice of the Solicitor-General to the effect that he was perfectly eligi•de to stand. Mr. Cooke having been heard for Mr. Whalley, and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and Mr. Rodwell, against, the com mittee, consisting of Mr. Milnes Gaskell, Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. W. Arthur Wilkinson, Mr. Mowbray, and the Hon. A. Scott, deliberated, and after the lapse of about an hour, the chairman said the committee had unanimously determined, " That George Hammond Whalley, Esq., having been declared by a committee of the House of Commons to have been guilty of treating at the prs ceding election for the city of Peterborough, and the election for the said city having been avoided, was incapable of being elected at the last election that took place, inconsequence of such avoidance. " That the said Geo rge Hammond Whalley, Esq. was not duly elected a citizen to serve in the present parliament for the city of Peterborough." Mr. James then proceeded to delta the east for Mr. Thomson Monkey, the other candidate, on the ground that that gentleman would have been retur ned in a majority had It not been for the reception of votes which the committee would hold invalid, and which were recorded In Mr. Whal ley's favour, with a knowledge on the part of the totem of that gentleman's qualification. The committee hereupon proceeded to consider as mull and void" some five-and-twenty of these votes, which had the effect of placing Mr. Monkey on the poll by a majority. After some further proceedings, the room was cleared, and on our re-admission— . . The Chairman mid—The committee have unanimously determined that Thomsen Mackey. jun. Esq., is duly elected, and ought to have beat returned es citizen to serve in the present parliament for the city of Peter. borough. &me of the members then 'book hands with Mr. Minicoy, and the committee heel* up. Ilie fErareiso. ♦ -mad Mir ;1". itseliproth";e;tieththitthe mass ethalore (...gate," Le pobtlabed every laathoy lad Riley .IM. la tine toe poet. ‘t~;rti b i Warthog tor "Tho Ewen; Leates gthatai p.m Lt the taboo. Ilooverbwareek b y Teo Veto* am the W el pobththoa. NIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIMS. Tina DAT-11 lanai& 1116. 17 a.. __Aroma:46Mb . Ta-rearaw—nersieg. 111. Sea —Ai—rier. Oa. Oa LONDON. MONDAY, .AUGUST 15. Tag continued, though slow, ries in the rate ot interest for money—no bills being now discounted r' a low rats than the Bank of England minimum, Si per cant—with a probability of a further ries, Td r e ad er w h o reel" the foreign intern s" 3 psi east b e i ng gins for 15„,y on call, geooe from . China in our impression of t o- day, creates apprehension that capital will be deficient, will not fa il to remark, that the rebel army credit become disorganised, tod prosperity be checked is =latently spoken of as the " Christian force." and delayed. Thies ere serious consequences, but Although some of the intelligence is unfavourable to not to be dreaded by t h ose w h o mope auto varnish the character of the insurrection, there can be of words and theories, and look at the facts as they no doubt that the rebellion is most formidable arise. We ere in some meow, called on to allay, and has been almost uniformly successful. The if ,g known and stated that the rate of interest we can, unfounded apprehensions, for we have chance of success for the present dynasty is ex lon pressed rather m the shape of hope than expectation. would become higher, and we are neither surprised The defences at Canton, we are told, are not alto nor alarmed at the occurrence. gather neglected; but should the "Christian form a There oro two leading mesa o f a h i gh rote of in. attack the place, the capture would be au easy one. The Chinese themselves believe that if Peking tweet which prevail at all times, and influence more or less every transaction. The one is the profit to falls, the people of Canton—the executive be made in business: the other, the nature of the included—will declare in favour of the new dynasty. The insurgents at Amoy, consisting of security offered for loans. The former is the more important element for determining the general rate ; the members of the so called " Small Knife " the latter is the one we more frequently bear of. A Soc iety appear of revolutionists, who, says the Oyer- Implying that bills which are not the best must pay appear to have moved independently of the certain rate of interest is spoken of for the best bills, lar g er land /Wend of China, must in future be called the a higher rate. The first question asked is Christian army, and " still," says the sane paper, "their conduct and promises are of seal ammo& who is tho acceptor, and who are the en able character, that we should feel great regret at doreers of a bill ? and as they are men of seeing them displaced by the Tartars." At the Noe honour, character, and substance, the bill is con sidered one of the best or second best, or bad, and time it is noticeable that although the movement at Amoy is independent, its leaders appear to wish is rejected. Every one knows that in proportion u the security is considered perfect, the interest will be to connect themselves with the general cause by their declaration that they are fighting in favour a the lowest possible in accordance with the market th e old Ming dynasty. The chief of the insurgents rate. We an however state on excellent authority that there was a time when the balk of all the in . possession of Amoy issues manifestoes es gene mercantile bills offered for discount were more minium° in the army of the restored dynasty of genuine, mare completely the offspring of legitimate /hag. and well-founded business, or more secure than As far, then, as we are able to judge from the now. It is not therefore from any doubt of the seta- statements at present before us, there is great Mies that the rate of interest has risen, and we reason to expect, and we may say hope, that the must look for the explanation to the other cause. issue of the contest now going on will be the opening When a farmer has a fertile and fresh soil, near of China to the European world. It is impossible to a large market—such, in fact, as has been brought overrate the wonderful significance of these words, by rails and other improvements in carriage close to the opening of China. The greatest, the most oono much of our imperfe c tly till e d l an d—th e price at pact, the most intelligent, the most enterprising, the which he can sell his crops leaves him so large a most industrious, and the most populous nation of k profit that he can afford to pay a high rate of inte. the East, almost isolated from the mo rest for loans to extend and improve his cultivation. dery world of civilisation by physical and Putting aside taxes and all established charges spiritual barriers, surmounted only at open on land which am not augmented, the present ings infinitesimally small, will now make a Pnallaof agricultural Produce attain" give su part of the vast union of civilisation which hie me THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1853. skilful fameses large profits, and are sti mulating them to come into the market as borrowers. So when a manufacturer actually makes a large profit on his productions, or has • reasonable expectation of making it, he is willing to pledge his name and his property to obtain advances by which he may extend his baldness. This is the case in nearly all our manufactures in every part of the empire; and the large and in creasiug demands for our goods In America, in Aus tralia, and other countries, induce the manufacturers to become borrowers in order to extend their business, and make them willing to give high terms for the loan of money. Nor is the case different with the shipping. The demand for their services is great, freights are enormously high, more ships than usual are building at every port, and shipbuilders and ship owners are candidates for loans to enable them to build more and send more ships to sea. 'f he increased rate of profit on all business increases the competition for loans, and makes the borrower both willing and able to pay a high rate of interest. It is, therefore, the increasing rate of profit, and not any insecurity in transactions, which increases the competition for loans and enhances the rate of interest. It is, of coarse, possible, now as on former occa sions, fur shipowners, merchants, manufacturers, and farmers, to miscalculate, to obtaio a far less rate of profit than they expect, or no profit at all, and be unable to pay their acceptances. Should that be the case, the national prosperity will receive a serious check, and those be amply justified who now formes and predict this kind of disaster. But some circum stances in the present condition of the productive classes are so different from the circumstances of adlly former period, that conclusions drawn from previous disasters are likely to be erroneous. ltecent experience will not bo wholly disregarded . New men have, indeed, come into business, but enough of those who suff,:red in 1847 remain to im press on all the lessons of that period. There is not now, as there was then, • recent and a great change in legislation to mislead and battle those who should look only to business reasons to guide their conduct. Protection being discarded, all classes rely on them selves, and look more exclusively to the facts of trade. Nor can the gold discoveries be considered a disturbing cause, like an alteration in the laws; be cause this latter could not add to the commo dities to be exchanged and the business to be done, while the gold discoveries add largely to the wealth of the world, and will help to realise the profits on which all classes of pro ducers calculate. Now, too, the period within which commercial adventures are concluded is very much shortened, limiting the chances of failure, and im peding improvident and improper advances. Before commercial adventures, too, though the time over which they extend be shortened, can be brought to a close, the telegraph warns every dealer of the state of the markets, and cuts short all operations likely to be unsuccessful. Business generally is now car ried on very much in the open day of publicity. There are few or no secrets in trade. Success depends on care, assiduity, and the command of capital, and neither lenders nor borrowers can be so easily or long deceived or misled as formerly. All these cir cumstances encourage us to believe that miscalcula tions in trade cannot now be made to any great ex tent, nor continued for a great length of time, to end at last in a great convulsion. Another, and for us the most important, change is the general improvement in the industrious classes. They all share more fully than ever before in the national prosperity. That will have two important effects. High wages keep down the expectations of extravagant profits and tend to keep enterprising undertakers sober minded. All kinds of labour must now be well paid as a means of obtaining any profit. That sin gle, but extensively operating, circumstance will be a great impediment to beginning unsuccessful works, and will hurry them to a close. At the same time the well-being of the balk of the labourers ensures a very large consumption, and their consumption is ' the means of rewarding other persons, and imme diately replaces with a considerable profit all the capital employed in the minute distribution of wealth by retail traders and those who supply them. Thus high wages, which some persons have been inclined to complain of, are one of the most effectual checks to improper speculations, while they are a means of continually supplying as they are expended capital for proper and suceseefiel undertakings. We see the effects of this in tbs large increase which has taken place in the deposits of the joint stock banks of London in the last half year,l4 per cent., they now amounting t 021,016,4381., and it is understood that the business of the pri vate banks has been equally successful. A continual reproduction of capital is going on, and it is rapid in peportion as the bulk of the labourers are well em. playod and well paid. These are some of the cir mmisimsees which induce us to believe that the pre sent prosperity is not like former spurts of prosperity, MA that it will speedily be attended with such an elearoulatioa of capital, though with a somewhat Idiber rate of interest, as to *apply on reasonable .1 Wins all well devised enterprises. ail tamorphosed the West, and mast produce still greater revolutions in the East. A new religion, opening for the mental vision new vistas of specula sad for the religious instinct far higher objects of aspistion, will enlarge and ennoble the character. Thp complete concentration of the empire, the gait facilities of communistic* between its various portions by means of roads and canals, its homogeneity of language and cus toms, will render easy the spread of a triumphant faith. Identity of religion will bring together the natives of the far East and the extreme West. The Christianising of China, in short, will be the greatest step toward the civilisation of the world which has been made since the first promulgation of Christianity by the Apostles. LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. The Swiss Federal Council has rejected the pro position tending to ask the Sardinian government to receive into the Piedmontese convents the Ca puchins expelled from Ticino. Austria has addressed to all the governments in Europe a long memorandum, showing the occur rences at Smyrna in the light of a first step towards the realisation of the Munroe doctrine on the part of the United States. The French consul in the Danubian Principalities has communicated to his colleagues a note, through which his government protests against the injanc- Hone made by Husain to the Hospodars. LATEST CONTINENTAL BOURSES. PARIS, BrNDAY. There was a good deal of activity on the bourse yesterday, and a further improvement in govern ment securities took place. The Three per Cents. for cash advanced 50e., and for the account 70c.; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash remained un changed, but for the account, rose 50e. Bank Stock has at length made a movement, and in an upward direction, to the extent of sf. They closed at the following prices :—For cash : Three per Cents., 80f. 80c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 f. 50c. For the account: Three per Cents., 81f. 20c.; Four and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 10c. Bank Stock, 2,840 f. Credit Foncier shares closed, as on Friday, at UK; while Credit Mobilier advanced 12f. 50c., and left off at 885 f. The railway share market was also buoyant, and the value of all the leading lines improved. Northerns rose 51. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 21. 50c. Paris and Lyons, 61. 23c.; Paris and Rouen, 10f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 10f. ; Western of FranLe' 51.; Rouen and Havre 5f.; and Bordeaux and Cette'l 2f. 50c. There was no change in Paris and Orleans and Caen and Cherbourg. At the close of business prices were thus quoted:—Northerna, 9001. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,235 f. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 982 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 961 f. 25c.; Paris and Rouen, 1,1101 ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 8031.; Western of France, 76.5 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 5201. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 6501.: Caen and Cherbourg, 6:71. 50c. Brussels—Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 98; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., .56 1-16. Austrian Five per Cents., 851. Spanish One per Cents., 221. Exchange on London, 25.071. Antwerp and Ohent Railway Dividend Shares, 292; Tournay and Jur bise, 318; Charleroi and Louvain, 502; Dendre and Wash 540. Vienna.—Five per Cents., 947 ; Loan of 1851, 1081; Bank Shares, 1,406. Exchange on London. 10.41 ; Silver, 1091. Berlin.—Four per Cents., 99i; Four-and•a-Half per Cents , 102 f. Bauk shares, Int. Amsterdam.—Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 631; Four per Cents., 93). Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 63. Spanish One per Cents., 231 ; Three per Cents., 43:. Russian Four per Cents. (Hope), 93g. Exchange on London, 2 months, 11.72; short, 11.80. Frankfort.—Austrian Five per Cents., 981 ; Mc talliques, sq. Russian Four-and-s-Half per Cents., 1001. Spanish Three per Cents. Interior, 431. Dutch Four per Cents., 931. Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58. United States Six per Cents., 1171. Ex change on London, short, 1181 p. 118; m. Hamburg.—Danish Five per Cents., 99 ; ditto Three per Cents., 80. United States Six per Cents., loq. Russian Four-and-a-Balf per Cents., 102. Hanoverian Five per Cents., 1021. Swedish Four per Cents., 98. Russian-English Five per Cents., 110; ; ditto Hamburg, 104. Spanish One per Cents., 22/ ; ditto Three per Cents. Interior, 401. Mexican Three per Cents., 201. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Under the head of France will be found the latest Parisian venial* of the state of the Eastern question. The German pa con tinue to discuss the question, but add nothing to the facts. The Vienna journals are con fident that all is satisfactorily arranged; those of Berlin are more or less sceptical on this had ; and a majority of the journals of the other states appear to incline more to the Prussian than the Austrian view of the subject. The subjoined paragraphs are samples of the gossip afloat, and there Is httle else to be met with that deserves a more dignified name. FRANCE. BATOIDAY EYININO. The Debate has received accounts from St. Peters burg confirming the intelligence that the Czar has adhered to the proposed note, " communicated to him by the Imperial Cabinet of Vienna "—so the Debate anodes to what is commonly called the note ,ot the four powers, and giving details of some interest, not, as I believe, hitherto published, relative to the pre- sent state of the %nation. According to the Debate, , the English Cabinet, after deliberating upon the sote of lteschid Pacha, dated May 28, in which a sort of appeal for protection was made to Europe, founded upon the treaties of 1841, decided that what ever support England might think it exp edient to give to Turkey in the present crisis would be founded upon considerations of general policy, and not upon any obligation growing out of those treaties. After quoting the passage in Reschid Pacha's note, the Debate says : The allusion to the treaty of 1841 gives a new aspect to the question, for the Ports doubtless meant to say that this treaty did for Turkey what the acts of the Congress of Vienna did for the European states that took part in it, that it constituted in favour of Turkey a new public right by placing that empire under the patronage of Europe, so that all Turkish questions should thereafter become European questions. But this interpretation of the treaty of 1841 was contested by Russia, who repudiated any inter ference in the discussion raised between her and Turkey, and who especially declined to admit that her disputes with Turkey would have always and of right the im portance and the privileges of a European affair. Russia made the most express reserves upon this head. She con tends that she is entitled to treat of her interests face to face with Turkey alone whenever they are directly in ques tion with that power, cud we have to say that upon thi' point the British cabinet agreed in opinion with the cahini t of St. Petersburg. We believe we may state with certainty that the English cabinet being consulted upon the interpreta tion of the treaty of 1841, answered after m inure del i oerotion , "that this treaty did not impose upon the powers parties to it the obligation to furnish any positive assistance to the Porte, and that the government of her Britannic Majesty would hold itself free to act, or not to act, as its own interests might dictate." We believe that this resolution was com municated to the cabinets of St. Petersburg and Constan tinople in the course of the month of June. After giving this important piece of information, the Debate goes on to say that the "good offices," not the " mediation " of Austria were accepted by Russia, and the cabinets of London, Paris, and Ber lin were informed by Austria of the fact, and invited to lend their aid to an arrangement. The first at tempt of the cabinet of Vienna did not succeed. It proposed a note which was rejected by Turkey. Afterwards a draft of a note was drawn up in Pans, founded upon the last Russian note and Reachid Paella's reply. Great pains were taken to soften down asperities -and disputable points, and a newly worded note was agreed upon, which wee immediately forwarded to Vienna, where it was in some respects remodelled. This according to the Debuts is the note which has been accepted by the Emperor Ni cholas. If this statement be correct, the note is of French, and not as was said by Lord John Russell, of Austrian origin. The Debuts gives the following as the substantial contents of the note: In substance it does not essentially differ from that which was sent by Prince Menchikoff to Reechid Pacha, and an nexed to M. de Nesselrode's circular of June 11. Its sti- pulatloss are almost the same, but they are worded more simply and much more briefly. The preamble is suppressed, and no reference whatever is made to Prince Menchikoff 's mission. It is stated that the two sovereigns animated by a common sentiment of justice and goodwill towards the Greek population had come to an un derstanding. The Emperor Nicholas expressed his wishes in favour of the Greeks to the Sultan, who had readily ac ceded to them, and in consequence his minister, Reschid Pasha, had proposed in the name of his sovereign the stipu lation contained in the note. The language used with re• gard to the two sovereigns is equally dignified and proper. The treaties of Kainardji and Adrianople, the lut finnan con fi rming the immunities and privileges of the Greeks, and those which recently regulated the question of the Holy Plates are alluded to. The government of the Sultan guarantees for ever these privileges and immunities. No change can be made in them unless by an understanding between the Sultan and the Emperor ; and with regard to the Holy Places no alter ation whatever can be made in the existing tirmans, except by consent of the Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of the French. The note is an act of Turkey alone. No mention is made of the intervention even " officieuse" of the other powers, and there is nothing to show that it will be followed by • supplemental treaty to the treaty of 1841. The Monittur contains a decree dated several days back, directing that the bread served out to the army shall be of a finer quality than heretofore. I have heard it said that the regulation bread is already made of finer flour than that used by the generality of well-to-do farmers and tradesmen, but that th e root of the evil which has given rise to complaints fs, that the army contractors, who are paid by weight, do not bake the bread enough. Unless this mischief be corrected the bread will be unwholesome, however fine the flour may be. The French Channel squadron is now completely constituted. It is composed of the screw line-of-battle ship Montebello, 120, on board of which Vice-Admiral Bruit, who commands the squadron, will hoist his flag ; the Duguesclin, 80, with the flag of Rear- Admiral Charner ; the Hercule, sa d the screw line . of-battle ships Austerlitz and Jean Bart. The Napo leon will, it is said, afterwards join the squadron, as well as the steam frigate Pomona, of 40 guns, and the Caffarelli steam frigate, and the steam corvettes Roland and Infernal. It is said that the vessels of the Channel and the Mediterranean squadrons will occasionally change stations, so as to accustom the officers and seamen to the navigation of both seas. The following was the situation of the Bank of France on Thunday, August 11: ABUTS. fr. e. Cash and ingots 374,248,771 66 Cubit the branch-banks 106,290,766 Overdue Bills 1,837,473 7 Bills becoming due in Pans, of which 66,864,363 fr. 160., are from the branch-banks Bills in the branch-banks Advances on coin and ingot. 1,429,600 ' Do. in the branch-banks 946,543 Do. on public semtritios of France 36,118,336 10 Ditto by the branch banks 12,478,100 Date on railway shares and bonds Ditto in the branch-banks 21,682,764 Ditto to the state by treaty of Jane 30, 1848 Restos of the reserve-fund Rentes of disposable funds 55,451,614 37 Hotel and furniture of the bank 4,000,000 Real property of branch-banks Interest in National Discount-bank Expenses of administration 334,9.58 6 Sundries 1,061,854,813 Capital - - 91.260,000 Reserve-fund Reserve-imintobiliere Notes to bbitstr, in circulation Ditto of branch-banks Ditto to order (Post-bills) Bills payable at sigbt Account current of Treasury Creditor Various accounts currant Ditto branch-banks Dividends to be paid Discount, interest, and expenses Duty charged for keeping securities Re discounts of the last half year Sums received over and above the value of the protested bills Sundries 26,71.2,828 - 1,085,720 25 1,766,624 86 13,441 95 557,492 -- 209,109 56 3,341,051 16 1,061,854,813 -- SUNDAY MORNING. The Moniteur contains a report from General Count D'Ornan, Governor of the Invalides ; Count Las Cues, Senator; M. De Royer, Procureur- General of the Court of Caseation; M. Boulay (De La Meurthe), Councillor of State; and Count Eu gene Dubois, Maitre des Requete, commissioners ap pointed by the Emperor to examine the questions relative to the execution of the will of Napoleon 1. The Commissioners recommend that the state should pay legacies to the amount of eight millions. The Monitenr contains a decree allowing to 1,494 commanders, officers, and Knights of the Legion of Honour, created by Napoleon during the 100 days, the same pay which they were then entitled to. This will add 500,000 f. to the budget of the Legion of Honour. A full and complete amnesty is granted to all the National Guard in France, for all offences against discipline, or in respect of any sentence of the cor rectional police. Five hundred and four soldiers undersentence in Africa to the " boulet" or hard labour have the whole or part of their punishment remitted, 15 individuals having belonged to the army, and now in central prisons, and 327 others in penitentia ries or military prisons in France or Algeria, are also pardoned wholly or in part. The Moniteur an nounces that other propositions for pardons to indi viduals of the above class, as well as to persons sen tenced by courts-martial for insurrectionary eats, will shortly be submitted to his Majesty. By a decree of the Emperor, the bread to be .erved to the navy is to be of the seine improved quality as that yesterday decreed to the army. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 7th publishes a royal decree ordering the immediate establishment of an infant asylum in the capital town of each province of Spain. The other Madrid journals of the 7th are destitute of news, foreign or domestic. The Press of Vienna, under date Conatantinop 28 tilt., mays : It has been assemeed that the Ottoman Porte bad die. missed the two limpedeire of the Danubian Principalities. We will remark an thie nableot that, according to the treaty of Akjerneens. the Peels has rely the right of ton. Arming the elastics eider iimpindan ; it cannot reject the choice made, but with tbs most of Ramis. The treaty of Adrianople states thin the Illesity of llodare is for life, and they consequently emest he removed. The mea sure adopted by the Ottoman reels mast not, therefore, be considered as a dismissal of the goopodloto ; it has only re called them se suzerain, as the ounopolios of their country by a Russian army deprives them of the necessary liberty and independence of action. This wireare was directed against Russia, which had injoisoll on the Hospodara to no longer pay the tribute whisk they seed to the Sultan. It is not known whether the Daegerlars will obey, and quit the Principalities in primes ef the army of occupation. Up to this time they have not interrupted their relations with the Ottoman Porte ; they have, on the contrary, communicated to it the order which had been given them by Russia. A Vienna journal quotes from the New Oozette of the Oder a paragraph, stating that the Emperor of Russia demands from the Porte a pecuniary indem nity of 50 millions of franca, but adds that it does not consider the statement entitled to credit. The Lloyd of Vienna states that the Emperor of Russia has conferred the order of Saint-Anne upon one sf the Boyards of Moldavia, and that it is in tended to decorate several of the Greek clergy of that principality as a reward for the devotedness that they have shown to the interests of Russia. Accord ing to the Breslau Gazette, the heads of the Greek clergy of Wallachia have waited on Prince Gortscha koff to express their gratitude to the Emperor of Russia for the zeal that he has manifested for the Greek Church. ITALY . NAPLES, AUGUST 8. The King has given orders for the commencement of the railway from Naples to Brindisi. The mili rtfzieintgoiree;iseaare Neapolitan. th i e lo wg n k g , li a i r m al an l fl a i t e o iT: a tt v e- e any connexion, racily or indirectly, with the line. Neapolitan Fives, 108 j. Sicilian Fives, 1031. Ex change on London, 663. STATES OF THE CHURCH. COLLISION BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND PAPAL FLAGS. ROME, Auover 4. The British and Papal flags have been at logger heads, not on the high seas, but in the port of Civita Vecchia, on the occasion of transferring to the Papal authorities in that town the two steamers Mediterraneo and Tevere, built in England for the government of his Holiness, and arrived at the end of last week at the above-named port, with a crew of 22 British sailor', under the command of Captain B. J. Butcher. This unfortunate officer had no sooner reached his destination than he was taken extremely unwell, and died on the 31st ult., after only six hours' illness, great alarm being produced in the town by a report that he died of cholera. The fact, however, was soon established that he fell a victim to congestion of tt.e brain. Whilst he was almost insensible, a Papal naval officer repaired on board, and requested that, as the vessels had arrived in port, the British flag under which they had been navigated from England, might be hauled down and the Papal flag hoisted instead, to which the crew, without waiting for the proper authorisation or the legal formalities requisite on such an occasion, at once consented, and the Bri tish vice-consul, Mr. J. T. Lowe, was not a little sur prised, on receiving intelligence that the union jack had so unceremoniously made room for the keys and tiara. On repa;ring on board to demand by what authority the sailors had acted they referred him to their captain, who, poor man, was then struggling with death, and unable to give any explanations, so' that Mr. Lowe, in order to vindicate the national flag from the slight, not to say insult, offered to it, wrote a strong note to Monsignor Gramiccia, delegate of Civita Vecchia, complaining of the want of formality in the act of changing flags, and demanding that the Papal flag should be hauled down, the British flag hoisted once more, and the change then effected in his (the consul's) presence with the observance of all due ceremonies and the legal drawing up of the proses-verbal. However un palatable this proposition might prove to the prelate he did not consider it right to refuse it, and the instructions he received from Home determined him not to withhold the aet of reparation, which was accordingly performed with great solemnity, to the vast admiration of the inhabitants of Civita Vecchia, who highly applauded the respect enforced towards the flag of Old England. The remains of poor Captain Butcher arrived in Rome this morning, accompanied by Signor Sperandio, and will be interred without delay at the protestant cemetery near the Pyramid of Caius Cestius. ROME, MOUST 6. I hasten to give you the details and arrangement of :he misunderstanding between the British Consul and the delegate of Civita Vecchia respecting the change of flags upon the steamers Mediterraoeo and 'revere, recently arrived from England for the l'apal government. _ _ My last letter informed you of the sudden death of Captain Butcher, on the 31st ult., and the uncere monious hoisting of the Papal flag instead of the British one. On that same afternoon the British Con sul, Mr. Lowe, remonstrated with the delegate, Mon signor Oramiccia, upon the irregularity of the pro ceeding, the vessels, although constructed for the Papal government, being up to that period still the property of Mr. Theodore Thomasset, a British sub ject, with British crews on board, for whose protec tion their national flag was necessary, end, finally, that the legal transfer of the property had not taken place, nor could take place, with out the official interference of the consul him self. Mr. Lowe received no written answer to his despatch, but was waited on by two naval officers or his Holiness, on the Ist inst., from Monsignor Uramiccia, requesting to know what was proper to be done. They were informed by Mr. Lowe that according to the registers deposited at his consulate the vessels were the property of a British subject, Captain Butcher, in whose charge they were, not having transfer red; them formally to the Papal government, nor having as yet been paid his ac counts. Considering them thus as British property, the Consul requested that the British flag should be re-hoisted, by doing which the Papal authorities would place hint in a position to proceed to the formal transfer of the vessels in question. On the god inst., no flags having been hoisted, Mr. Lowe waited upon the delegate, and manifested his intention of hoisting the English flag, but Mon signor informed him that he had referred the ques tion to Rome, protesting against any forcible deten tion of the bolts, which he explicitly stated to be the property of the Papal government. The unfortunate decease of Captain Butcher, however, having com pelled the Consul to recognise only the British pro prietor, Monsignor Oramiccia at length proposed that the vessels should be delivered a second time (the first delivery, if made at all, having taken place without cognisance of the consul, and when Captain Butcher was very dangerously ill, if not unconscious), and that the British flags should be hoisted during this formality, after the accomplishment of which the Papal flag should take its place once more at the mast-head. This proposal being accepted by the Con sul, it was put into execution on the same day, plaudenie ;papule. On the following day poor Cap. tun Butchers corpse was sent up to Rome, and arrangements made for sending back the British crew to England, and finally the vessels themselves, the came of so much discussion, having been handed over to the Roman naval authorities, were manned and navigated up the Tiber to Ronie, where they arrived at the port of Ripe Grande on the evening of the 4th inst. The Roman authorities have shown every wish in this matter to arrange the difficulty courteously and immediately, nor is there any reason to suppose that disrespect to the British flag was intended, as they state that the hoisting of their own ensign was authorised by Captain Butcher, and this we are bound to believe on their assertion, as "dead men tell no take." ALARMING ACCIDENT TO THE BISHOP OP ()LOU CREITIR AND BRISTOL. —An accident, which narrowly escaped being attended with serious if not fatal conse quences, occurred on Thursday afternoon last to the Right Rev. Dr. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The right reverend prelate had been staying at his episcopal palace at Stapleton near the last named city, and having occasion to pay a visit on business connected with the see to the Forest of Dean, which lies at a remote point of his dio cese, he entered a carriage for the purpose of proceeding to the railway. His lordship had not proceeded far when, in descending a bill, one of the horses commenced kicking and plunging at a furious rate, causing great alarm to the in mates of the vehicle, who were placed for a time in a liga tion of considerable danger. After a time the animal got his leg over an iron bar, by which means he was thrown down, and was happily disabled from doing further serious mischief. A servant was thrown from the carriage, but the venerable and respected prelate escaped any further incon venience than the terror which so dangerous an occurrence was calculated to create. THE LATE COLONEL HANAliEll.—The death of this gallant officer and sportsman took place on the 7th instant, at his residence in Dorsot.place Dorset-square, after a pro. traded illness. Colonel Hawker served in the Peninsular war with distinction, and on his return to this country he produced his well-known work, " Instructions to Young Sportsmen, in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. " This book had a prodigiously successful run, the tenth edition being nearly ready for the press at the time of his decease. To the Colonel also the public is much indebted for many valuable inventions and improvements in guns, several samples of which he sent into the Great Exhibition of 1811, and which he entertained the most sanguine hopes would have been adopted by government, they being equally suited to military purposes as to the enhancement of the pleasures of the field. At the time of his death he was lieutenant-colonel of the North Hants Militia, and had long since received the Peninsular medal for Yin meritorious services. _ _ _ R - POSTHUMOUS WORKS OP GIOBERTI.—The Par lament() of Turin of the 4th announced that two manuscripts of great importance have been found among Gioberta's papers, one being a complete work on Ontology, and the other a work oa Catholic Reform, a subject which had en grossed Gioberti's attention during the latter days of his life, and which he used to discuss with his intimate friends, the Archbishop of Paris, Montanelli, and Lamennais. The publication of these posthumous works is to be entrusted to the firm of Masud. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON. SUNDAY EVFNING. The Iberia has just arrived with the Peninsular mails. Her dates are—Gibraltar, August, 1; e.ttliz, 5; Lisbon, 9; Oporto and Vigo, 10. She brings no news. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ECItOPA. LIVERPOOL. SUNDAY. This afternoon the Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Captain Lang, arrived at this port from Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails from the United States and British North America, in charge of Lieutenant Reed, R.N., Admiralty agent. The Europa left Boston on the 3rd inst., and Hali., fax on the sth, and has brought, besides the mails, 105 passengers (among whom is Lady Ellesmere), and about 230,000 dols. iu specie on freight. The Royal Mail steamer Niagara, from hence on the 23rd ult., arrived at Halifax on the 3rd inst. On the 7th instant the Europa passed the Royal Mail steamer Africa, hence for New York, on the 30th ult. Since the sailing of the Franklin, on the 30th ult., little news of interest bad tran-pired up to the de parture of the Europa, beyond the receipt of intelli gence from New Orleans, which represented the yellow fever as raging with great violence in that city. The mortality was very great : the victims to the fatal scourge were upwards of a hundred per day. The Earl of Ellesmere, the lfritish Commissioner to the New York Industrial Exhibition, would shortly return home in the frigate Leander. Business generally thri ughout the States con tinued to support the activity prevailing on the de parture of the Franklin. Money continued plentiful in Wall-street; stocks, however, were unsettled, and tending downwards. The market for breadstuff' was active, and prices very firm at the following quotations :—Western Canal flour, 3 dols. 12 !,e. to 5 dots. 2,5 e., steady; Ue nessee prime wheat, 1 dol. 32e. to 1 dol. 34e. per 601bs. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 74c. to 71e., steady ; Indian meal, 3 dots. to 3 dols. 121 e. per brl. The cotton market at New York was quiet, and business to a moderate extent only had been done; prices, however, were quite steady. the following were the quotations :—New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, Iltc. to 12 t,c. ; Uplands, mid. fair to fair, 111 e. to 12c. The intelligence from the cot ton-growing districts with regard to the state of the crop is of a conflicting character. In the provision market there was a good demand for pork at steady prices. Beef had met with a fair inquiry at well-sustained rates. Shipowners and brokers were asking increased rates of freight. The following were the rates paid: —Flour, to Liverpool, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 781. per barrel. grain, "i!cl. to Bd. per bushel ; cotton, 3-16 d. to id; per lb. A good business had been done in exchanges at the following rates :—On London, 109 to 109 L firm ; Paris, 3.12! to 3.13 ; Hamburg, 36! to 36; ; Bremen, SO to NO;. THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. We have received our letters and despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail. Our Bombay correspondent writes as follows : BOMBAY, Jutv 2. The Governor at Dapoorie, and the Commander in-Chief at Poona, have been heard of but little of late. The Chief of Dhar was formally received at a grand durbar at Government-house on the 14th , and Lord Falkland returned the visit on the 18th. On both occasions a great deal of gunpowder was ex ploded and ceremony gone through betwixt the two rulers, and guards of honour were as a matter of course in attendance both at Dapoorie and at the Rajah's camp. The Governor is said to have treated Mr. Le Geyt, the agent for Sirdars in the Deccan, rather cavalierly, but this many disbelieve, for his lordship would, I fancy, be the last man in the world to do anything tending to lower any servant of government in the eyes of those beneath him by slighting him in their presence, however ready he may be to do them a far greater injury by removing them from their appointments without rhyme or reason. His lordship and family continue in good health : whether he is now as often so full of spirits as he was • once represented to be I have not heard. The Commander-in-Chief continues to improve daily, and but for the wetness of the weather would I dare say have often been present on the drill-ground. Great complaints are being made of the unceasing round of drill now being carried on, and the recent order for the men to mount guard in their knapsacks. The drill parties are hard at it, and it is expected that by the end of the mon soon every man of them will be fit to fill the post of drill-sergeant. The military college and normal school are well attended, and probably the results of Mr. Scrivener's labours will prove infinitely moread vantegeous to the state than those of Captain Gilley —to the morale of the European soldiery there can be no question but they will. Hundreds and hun dreds of men may now be seen slate or book in hand, where before their numbers might almost be repre sented by a cypher. As a matter of course the can teens and guard-houses are in a great measure deserted, at any rate during the day time. Major Foley, the Governor's Military Secretary, has been appointed private secretary, in room of the Hon. Captain Carey, who is, it seems, going home by this evening's steamer and Captain Henry, A.D.C., has succeeded him, the gallant captain's brother taking his place on the staff. These Henrys must have been born with silver spoons in their mouths surely, and must be endowed with an immense amount of shrewdness and natural talent—their proficiency in the art of pleasing seems to be universally admitted and admired! The Rajah of Dhar comes down to Bombay to see what is to be seen in the land of Ducks, especially the railway and the steam factory in the dockyard. He is said to be a shrewd, well informed man, anxious to gain knowledge wherever he can ; let him but come to Bombay and he will find many as anxious to impart as he is to imbibe infor mation. The Hon. Mr. Bell has been again very un well, and is about, it is affirmed, to proceed to the Cape and Australia for change. Mr. W. Simeon, the mint master, is also very unwell : he has denied the truth of the charges made against him by a couple of writers in the Telegraph, and demanded the names of his maligners in order to be enabled to prosecute them before the Supreme Court for libel. A strange report of the death of M. Le Geyt some how or other got into circulation some fortnight since, there being not the shadow of a shade of foundation for the allegation. Mr. H. W. Reeves has been appointed acting sub-treasurer and general paymaster at the presidency. The death of Mr. Rivett has given promotion to Mr. Thornton, now away at the Cape on sick leave. Mr. Oliver has been confirmed as third magistrate, and is to act as junior magistrate till Mr. l'hornton's return. Mr. Leeke has been appointed actin third magis trate, and been succeeded in the shrievalty by Mr. Leggett, who for such a number of years was deputy sheriff, and in reality performed the whole of the duties of sheriff, while others received the emoluments of the office. The advancement of Mr. Leggett to the shrievalty has given universal satisfaction, while Mr. Leeke's elevation to the magisterial bench has been anything but applauded, ex cept by his personal friends and acquain tances, although ho is represented and be lieved by most people to be a very intelligent and industrious young gentleman. But somehow we Bombayites do not relish the idea of a good berth being conferred on a griffin, while there are dozens of I