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;the erprews. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A i 5,4.11 Delos 4. TM Isms," saistslap the sum emaires dssto," Is pAISIM say TusSay as.l 141M1olge., dime Sr put. WM morals kilseed kw "The tams" Lopes Rimini paps, - ass 1M 41 .011 e r essastpdpesOp IMP eMell mIY eay yabillatim. MOH WATER %T LONDON BRIDGE. Tea Dit—lfoudie 74 es. MMe. le. Us. Tweassir—lfissame M. Ifs, Aftersps. 10a. Is. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 12. NtT a dissentient voice is heard when the new Burmese war is declared to be an " untoward event." But neither is a dissentient voice heard when it is declared that having got into the serape we must push on and through. This ought to be a warning not to get into any more Oriental scrapes, at least till we struggle clear of the one we are entangled in. One scrape at a time is enough. This warning is given on account of intimations that have reached us of an underhand intrigue fora renewal of the mission to Siam, which, a few years ago, was within a hair-breadth A involving us In a war with that country—a war that would in evitably have paralysed one of the meet important brunches of the tride of our settlements in tho far East, entailed serious expense upon us, and led to no one useful or honourable result. Too much of diplo matic negotiation is • bad thing, even in Europe, where nations are imbued in the main with identical vices of morality and international law. In the east of Asia, where the natives cannat comprehend our notions on these subjects, it is sure to do mischief. _ . Four attempts have been made within the last thirty years to plax the commercial relations of Siam with foreigners on a more satisfactory tooting, by means of diplomacy ; one by the United States, and three he Great Britain. They have all been comparative failures; the last the least successful of any. It was made at the request of the merchants of Singapore; it terminated in mutual irritation, so gnat as to frighten the very persons at whose request the mission was despatched into memorialising government to allow matters to remain as they were. The truth is, that there never was a time when fewer pretexts could be found for sending a tnission to Siam than at present. A new ruler has recently ascended the throne, more enlightened than his pre decessors. He is free from the jealousy and irrita tion inspired into his predecessor by tho late blun dering and bungled mission. Under him the mea surement duty on ships (equivalent to our tonnage dues) has been reduced; the exportation of corn, hitherto prohibited, allowed, with a few trifling restrictions; the trade in opium (formerly contra band) legalised for foreign consumers; and, most im portant of all, English and American residents are allowed to travel through the whole country with perfect freedom, to erect chapels and inclose ceme teries, in short to act as liCellls good in their own eyes so long as they do not violate the laws of the land. Under this liberal policy the commercial relations between Siam and Singapore, the most valuable part of the British and Siamese trade, has largely and rapidly extended. It must be borne in mind that these departures from the old barbarous policy of Siam are solely and esclosively . owing to the personal character of the new sovereign. And that prince was raised to the throne, and is kept on it, bT the very men whose prejndites battled the last English mission. The faction which they head is more powerful than the Ling. His liberalism is barely tolerated. The Chi nese merchants, who hold in their hands by far the greater part of the trade and navigation of Siam, are decidedly of opiuion that the haste with which his Siamese Majesty has urged his reforms has already given umbrage to the powerful party to which h.; owes his elevation ; and that any foreign interferer.re would at this moment be certain, by adding f:esh fuel to their jealous y , to provoke a re-action that might end in hi s deposition and death. The Siamese are in respect of civilisation far be hind either the C'hincac or Ilindoos. Though un warlike they are suspicious and presumptuous. They I are quite anarc of our Indian supremacy and of the means by which it has been obtained. The demands made by the last mission—in particular that of a resi dent consul, and that of ground whereon to build a f .c -tory —were regarded by them as the first step towards t he s u bj ugat ion of Siam as India has been subdued; and incapable of estimating aright the comparative power and resources of England and Siam they were pre pared to have recourse to arms to resist them. Should those requests be renewed now—should the same envoy be sent out, even though his proposals were less extensive—the King would inevitably be sus pected of being his accomplice; would share the fate of his reforming predecessor in the time of Lofts KIY. ; and all the European residents in the country would be involved in his fate. Instead, then, of a costly mission to Siam, which might derive us of the advantages we have so re• cently gained, let a more rational and unobtrusive policy be adopted. A friendly correspondence between the Siamese authorities and the governors of Singa pore and Labuan would excite no jealousy, and would encourage the former to persevere in their more liberal dispositions. Perhaps a letter from the QUEEN, expressing friendly sentiments, and a desire for the extension of commercial relations, might have a good effect, inasmuch as the court of Siam is ambitious of direct communication with the British crown, and suspicious of the company's government. But this letter ought simply to be transmitted by a war steamer, and delivered without any attempt to institute negotiation. FRANCE. PALMS, SATURDAY ETINING. An caked warning has been given this morning by M. de Mars to the editor of the P►eeae. The OW of tide wesseing admonition, the first of the kiwi adheres" to any journal, may be interesting to year readers. It is as follows : The Minimised General Police, asasideriai ra 32ad ankle of the taper decree of Feb. 17 ea the peer, whish enact+ that a jounal may be sagraded by a ilesidea of the ministry, eves wises it hes lweired as saw two waning% desisting the mothee rased, sad period eat sweedier two maths; seselarieg ro pa taisbed hydro Preset. Agri doh& antdas the haw kw puma. :—" Tin empire weal/ he the anal perosssokla to ma atssaipt (alansamay wbtth ymilablr would ma balsas i• eeaiag ; Ibir if so AMbs were bead is the repsidire a anise wadi be toned is the !royalist ParlY• to ens royalittrrty'" the said artist Wag slimed " Emile de Girardia.' Con aidashig that it amid be permitted, without outraging at the lam Oho palish morals and the character of the naldrim, hi matabla at se inevitable fact, an attempt upon die rte of the bed 004 stale, whatever be the pretexts or Oa \Mena iirlellar111•11• qua which so culpable aa arguatialidan b 11; atatidairhq that tato JPresm swerapar boa dim Nlis that irasisa l pat dhow ara Ss left law at the parklikal pew aparese, AM 1. Mistahcle the tams of art. 33, of She doom of lobswafty 17, 11/114 a pmt warning is addreseed to the Prow 11•111eraw in *apeman of M. Rouy. es* of the Om" amot 111.Mmae 69 Oleardin Art. 2. The prefectof the Wks at Timis brushed with ' the ezecution of the pre. ant isms. Dam at Pans, April 9, 1152, The Yllaktia of General Police, Di MLUFAI. Nor is Me the only growl of power at the awakening freeds• et the press. You are already aware the So Corsair, has been seised; and yes terday M. dr Maupas summoned before him M. Millie, formerly the head of a ministerial division under M. Guieot, and at present one of the • tors and redarteurß of the Assembqe Nation . paper, which, under the auspices of MM. Malvandy, Duchatel. and Guisot, preaches fusion latterly with more than usual vigour. has given more offence to the government in proportion as the rumours of a reconciliation between the Bourbon branches gather credit, and tend to retard the adhesion of political wnvercn. The Minister of Police declared to M. Manse that, if the Assemh , ee did not change its tone, I, be should be obliged to have recourse to that provi 'ion of the decree of Feb. 17, by which the coot- ' petent minister is enabled to suspend a journal for two months, after two warnings, without any prose cution before the tribunals. I find this evening in the summary given by . the Potpie of legislative proceedings, the following mini *leant hint with regard to the coming empire. It ways that the petitions presented to the Senate amount to about 200, of which the greater part de mand the prorlawation of the empire. You are aware that the constitution does not allow any peti tions to be addressed to the Legislative Body. It is rumonred that on the occasion of the review for the distribution of the eagles, it is the intention ot a 0 1 deersu of the army to offer the Pte, the expense of whid ncriptioll of two days' many promotions a e The Pattie of t Canino will not go o 1t047 -71 kfter biting penmen some days in Italy to e‘ rifer about his interests with the adnaninistrators el his affairs, ho will return to France." I antler I some time ago to the royal style in which the Grand Duke Constantine had treated the Count do Chambord at Venice. I forget whether I men tioned the fact that the Russian Prince, on receiving the French Pretender on board his vessel, ordered a salute of 21 guns to be fired. It appears that this royal compliment to the exiled heir of the legitimate throne has deeply offended Louis Napoleon ; and certainly, considering the proud and sus ceptible nature of the French President, his immense confidence is his own power, and the natural tendency of his policy, particularly if the empire be revived, towards war, one can hardly conceive an incident more likely than this to set the eabinets of Paris and St. Petersburg by the cars. I understand that the want of spirit shown by the French consul at Venice, in not protesting with be coming energy against this affront to the head of the French republic, mid the lameness and want of detail in his despatches on the subject of the fre quent interviews which take place between the son of the Czar and the descendant of St. Louis, have occasioned much dissatisfaction, so that it seems by no means improbable that a more vigorous represen tative of the republic will be despatched to the Queen of the Adriatic. I understand from an unquestionable authority that M. Berryer dined a few days ago at the Elysee. Larochjacquelein dined with the Prince-President a day or two before M. Berryer, but the chief of La Vendee had at least the excuse that ho went on a charitable mission. lie had written to Louis Napo leon to solicit the pardon of four legitimists con demned to transportation. The President enwiested by an invitation to dinner, where they would tie over the matter. I know not what excuse M. Bet , iyer had. The extraordinary influence of ladies of the stage in procuring the pardon of people condemned to transvortation, has caused it latterly to be said that the French government of the present day is a de spotism tempered by actresses. The opera world is in great ferment at the re ported disappearance of Mdlle. Cruvelli, the prima donna of the Italian Opera, with an American, who in tends, no doubt, to offer the charming cantatriee up at the shrine of Mr. Barnum. I believe that Mdlle. Cruvelli has, by this precipitate retreat from the French capital and rupture of her engagement, for feited a sum of four thousand pounds sterling to Mr. Lem/a, who is, however, deeply concerned at the 10, ouch an attraction, and has been plying the teoroph in every direction to discover the where- Asti of the fugitives. Tb government has thought it necessary to ease So public mind as to the announced credit of seven millions for the new coinage, which in itself is a lucrative operation. The following note appears in tb• Moniteur _ _ The hill which is now before the Legislative Body opens • credit to the Minister of Finance of 7,560,000 f. for all the esynses attendant on the calling in of the old copper coinage, and the coinage of that which is to replace it. Per sons who may read the bill without the preamble may con sider this operation as onerous to the Treasury, but such is not the case ; the bill, as it was presented by the govern ment to the Council of State, contained no demand for a credit. The combination proposed withdraws from eircula lion 101 millions of kilogrammes of copper. The coins which will be •truck off instead of them will only employ 5 millions of kilogrammes of metal, sod will only east, with the expense of coining, the above-mentioned sum of 7,560,00dr, and that expense will be more than made up by the sale of the 3i millions of kilogrammes of copper which will remain at the disposal of the state. The receipts will, therefore, at least, cover the expenses. If the Council of State, while adopting the bill of the government, has modified its word ing, it is in order to conform to the rigid rules necessary in the accounts which compel the expenses and the receipts to be entered separately. It is only • measure of order. It is therefore evident that the substitution of a convenient and better struck coin for the rough and heavy ones which disgrace our monetary system will in no way affect the budget. Tho .Voniteur also says : The indirect markable degree. The produce of January, 1852, was in ferior to that of January, 1851, but the receipts of Feb• rusry, 18'12, have exceeded those of the corresponding ' month of 1831 by •bkpt two millions; those of March, 183?, are nearly five hsillions more than those of March, 1831. This rapid increase is a striking proof of the re sumption of business and the development of labour. Amongst these receipts we must particularly mention the registration duties. tip to March these receipts were very small, and in January and February they were scarcely equal to those of the corresponding months in 1851, but ' last month they exceeded by 1,800,000 fr. those of March, 1851. The committee named by the legislative body on the Copper Coinage Bill held sittings on Wednesday and Thursday. M. Peloaze, President of the Mint Commission, was examined. It is confidently said that the committee intends to propose some amend meets. These, according to the new constitution, cannot be brought before the legislative body with out the approval of the Council of State. In the present ease, it is supposed that the amendments will not meet with any objection, and that the report will be brought before the Assembly next week. 'rho order of tho day for Tuesday states that a communi cation from the government is to be presented. It is said that this communication will be a message from the Prince President, giving a general exposec of the affairs of the country since his last message in No vember last. The Senate is to meet in its bureaux on Wednesday, to appoint committees on its accounts and on petitions. By the senatus-consultum which allows the Prince President twelve millions a-year, and the national palaces, with their dependencies, the right of hunting and shooting in various forests is reserved to him. The forest administration has ordered about two hundred workmen to clear the rides in the forest of Compiegne. It is said that Levis Napoleon is to pay • visit to Compiegne in the month of May. and al though the season will be rather late for such sport, that a few stags, and perhaps a boar or two, will be run down with much pomp and circumstance. The President is making extensive purchases of hounds of different breeds to compose his kenneL The Public says: Art. 24 of the new constitution declares that the sittings of the Senate are not to be public. A journal states that the Senate intends publishing the minutes of its sittings in the meaner adopted by the Legislative Body. We can affirm Not the assertion of the journal in question is quite er- Sim* the 2nd of December eight journals of Paris, and forty-nine in the departments have expired. Of the latter sixteen were legitimist, twenty-nine rept& one Orleanist, and one Bonapartist. The following is a list of the railways already ter• minated in France, and the length of each : Lo Nord and all its branches, MO kilom.; Paris, Rouen, Ha. vre, and Dieppe, 287 ; Paris to Orleans, 122 ; Tema to Nantes, 196 ; St. Etienne to Lyons, 56 ; Stran bourg to Bile, 138 ; Avignon to Marseilles, 120; Montereau to Troyes, 102 ; Montpellier to Nimes, 52; Amiens to Boulogne, 124 ; Paris to St. Germain.' 20.60; Versailles (R. 8.), 18; Do. (LB.), 17; Paris to Besanx, 11; Bordeaux to La Tette, 52; Montpel ism% Cette, 27; Chemin du Oard, 92; St. Etienne to the Loire, 21 ; Andrezieux to Roanne, 70; Mul house to Thann, 21; total, 2,126 k. 50. The rail ways conceded and partially worked are 1,345 kilo metres in length; those conceded since Dec. 2, and destined to ho terminated in a period varying from two to nine years, but the greater part within four years, are 1,245 kilom. (not including the railway round Paris); and, finally the Lyons to Avignon, previously conceded , is 230 , ki10m; Thus, within four years, it IS probable that France will have 4,946 Idiom., or about 3,090 English miles of railway. At the Bourse, the Four slid-a-Half per Cents. fell 10c., and closed at 101 f.; the Three per Cents. rose 10e., closing at 71.60; Bank of France shares, after falling 10f., recovered, and closed at yester day's price; Northern Railway shares were quoted to-day at 100 f, less than heretofore, their nominal capital having been fixed at 400 E, they closed at 006.25, being • rise of 11.23 from yesterday; BMe rose 16.23; Rouen, Havre, and Strasbourg, sf. each; Central and Borde aux, 3.73 each; Orleans and Tours and Nantes, 1.25 each. PARIS, &mese ETZNINO. This fine Easter day all Paris divides between religious duties and recreation, shelving politics and business. Early in the morning four or five thousand persons of till ages and conditions crowded Notre Dame to communicate. Among these were observed enisinusual number of soldiers. The Archbishop of Faris and his assistants were occupied during more thin two hours in administering the sacrament to this immense crowd. EXPRESS, MONDAY , Admintt Bain, who is abbot to replace 11thitiral lethedour in the command el the Fred* squadron at: Plata, will take his departure is a few days foißrest, when he will embark for hill destination. de-St.Gemges, the Preach envoy satrtordinary -to La Plata, is also upon the point of sailing. You are aware that M. de St. Georges was latterly the French minister at the court or BraziL The appointment of Count Boot Schottenstein to be president, ad interim, and minister of foreign allure of the Vienna cabinet, is well received by the government here, which sees in the desire expressed by Prince Schwarzeuberg before his death, that Count Buol should be his successor, a pledge for the continuation of the same friendly policy towards France. _ . _ _ - It appears that in the destruction of Lagos the establishments of some French merchants, who pro fess to trade in gum. were involved. These mer chants, belonging chiefly to Marseilles, have ad dressed a memorial of their leases to the French government, and applications are now being made through the French embassy in London, to the Bri tish government, for indemnity. It is attempted in some quarters to blow a coal of irritation between the two countries out of this matter, which can only offer some difficulty in the arrangement, in case of the questionable nature of the establishments des troyed, and of the determination of the French go vernment to undertake their protection without sifting their pretensions. I have already sent you yesterday a short para graph from the Petrie, confirming the intended re turn of the Prince de Canino without proceeding to Rome. The clearest account given of this inaus picious voyage has reached me to-day. The declared object of the prince's voyage to Civita Vecchia was two-fold ; he wanted to sell his fine palace in the Piazza di Venezia at Rome, and to put in a plea of opposition to his wife's demand for a separation de corps. You are aware that the princess is the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, and that oho has already obtained a separation de biens from her husband. The President of the French Republis gave his cousin the Prince de Canino leave to go to Civita Vecchi to send for his men of business from Rome, to make all necessary arrangements with them at the port of the Roman States, but not to proceed to the Eternal City without an express permission of the Pope. Yon are already aware of the violent mode in which the lauding of M. Charles Bonaparte was effected in spite of the papal authorities. It is incontestable that tho French military commander at Civita Vecchia thus broke by force through the interdiction of the Pope's delegate by virtue of instructions which he received from Paris. But the same officer pledged his word at the same time that the prince should net leave Civita Vecchia; and he is, in fact, garde a rue by French policemen. One of the principal cares of the government at the present moment is the selection of the fittest instruments to exercise its delegated awry in the departments. The recent extension of the powers of the prefects makes it essential that these satraps of a modern Gaul should be not only initiated into Napolconian ideas, bnt imbued with that fanatic spirit of devotion to the Prince President which is to make of the official hierarchy a corps organised with Jesuitical subordination for carrying out the new system of crutchetty despotism in its minutest de tails. One of the first appointments has been, I understand, that of M. Berard as prefect of the Somme, whither you may remark he was sent as extraordinary commissioner during the days of December. _ . The .I)%bots contains an apology for its Into inert silence. It answers, on one hand, the reproaches of those who desire a spirited opposition; and, on the other, the dissatisfaction of such as interpret its si lence in a sense hostile to the government. It re minds the moderate opposition of the new position made for the press by the decree of February 17; of the danger of shaking violently the present order of things. It sees no harm in the substitution of the empire for the present form of government; but it dreads the agitation of parties by, reason of the dis asters, public and private, which may be caused thereby. The country has, without much regret, given up politics. The newspapers must follow the public, or play to empty houses. After all, the old Chambers were too much occupied with personal questions. Meanwhile, political questions have lost nothing of the ir iwportatice. The struggle between free trade and protection in England, the tallofltosas, the American expedition to Japan, the Russian operations in t beCaueasas,t he dispute between Turkey and Egypt, are questions to which France cannot be indifferent, and which the Dalats will attempt to treat. On the whole, this mild bleat of M. Armand Bertin must be interpreted as a prudent refusal to imperil the in terests committed to his charge by risking a serious opposition. The hopes of an amnesty that were faintly entertained in some quarters seem to be at an end. It appears that the delay in sending the trans ' port ships out arose from the unprepared state of the authorities in Algeria to receive so many prisoners. Fresh orders have now been sent to the Isly to set sail, and the Bordeaux papers state that, her accom modation being insufficient, two more ships are to sill with her. General Canrobert requires all the prisoners that he pardons to sign a watten adhesion to the President of the Republic. and a promise to abstain in future from political agitation. The Mimiteur publishes a decree of the President of the Republic, conntersigned by the minister of public instruction, approving of the new course of study proposed by the superior council of public in struction, pursuant to the reference made to them by the decree of the 9th of March last, and directing that the new system shall take effect from and after the let of October next. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 5. The Gazette of to-day contains the long expected decree relative to the press. All publications are to bear the name of an authorised printer, the name of the printing-office, and the place and year where the printing took place, and the name of the =Me editor, when the publication is a The Gazette Gazette of Madrid is not required to have a responsible editor. A copy of every publica tion shall be sent to the Governor of the province and anther to the Attorney-General, and in pro vinces to the alcslde or mayor. If the publications are periodicals, the two numbers sent must be signed by the responsible editor. Immediately after the ful filment of these orders, the publication may be circu lated. The government, however, has the right of stopping the circulation whenever it chooses, if it believes that there is some breach of the law com mitted. All publications containing calumnies or abuse of any private persons can be stopped by order of the competent authorities, if the party interested should justly demand it. In these cases the copies of the pub lication shall be seized. All publications seized are to be denounced before the competent tribunal with in 48 hours. The governors of the provinces can prohibit the advertisement of any kind of publication where such prohibition is n for the preserva tion of order, or the correc e t e i e o s n sa o r iany grave abuse. Nowavenders must have licenses, and must not, in the act of crying newspapers, make any comment, or my anything more than the name of the newspaper. The signer of a publication, whether author or trans lator, is responsible for it ; and where there is none, the editor; and if these be absent or insolvent, the printer. In political or religious publications the frit person responsible is the editor, except in awn d abase or calumny in signed articles, but the other persons already mentioned are responsible in case the signersare absent orinsolvent. In clandestine publies dons the printer is considered an accomplice. Tot* editor of a periodical it is necessary to be 35 years of age, to have lived a year as parishioner in the placed g lirid, ention, to pay 2,000 reals direct contributions in and from 500 to 1,000 in the provinces, and to have paid them during three years, and to present Fedi of their qualifications when required. The =Moo money to bo from 160,000 to 40,000 reale wording to the size of the paper and the place of publication. It is to be in money or in consols. No man can be responsible editor of more than one aewspaper. Amongst the punishable crimes are offences against foreign sovereigns, attacks upon the established form of government, excitement to foreign governments to declare war against Spain, or the revealing of aecrctdata that might be advantageost‘ly employed by an enemy ; excitement to re'olt, maxims that may disturb public tranquil lity, excitement of dangerous rivalities amongst the powers of the state, false alarms ; in short, there is scarcely a means of writing onany fG, APRIL 12, sect whatever that may not be a mesas of emu salon. The editors of the periodicals held a meeting, to take itthe consideration what owns to pursue. The embed= of the usual clause, that the government will submit the measure to the Cortes is a clear in dication of an intention to sweep away that body, and to establish a despotism. Arius. a. The Pablieo, the Noah Clbooslikeiessei, Las l flamer hs, and the ARM& boa bum NIA These isomeala have bum to pablia sew oaitieeaszt. The pasecutce hoe put in his the A m i n, on account o f the artil r elhas —" lime thalPsialist of the French ItepublicArwillilithstmsrmossoinsdsomedaysago. He desires to Naar gitli months, and to fine him 39, reek Tbe ems will be tried and M. Sagasti, the manager of the Nacion will conduct the defence. None of the journals comment upon the new decree concerning t he Fem. They received a warning from the government that comments would not be permitted. A new paper, to be called the .Espanol, is advertised to appear on the 13th, which will be specially devoted to the affairs of Havannah. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the sth April, states that Prince Canino was still at Civita Vecchia. The price of silver had risen in conse quence of alarm amongst the priests, but the ex pected departure of tho prince had restored calm. LOMBARDONE/sETIAN PROVINCES. A telegraphic despatch, from General Gorzkowski, dated Venice, April 2, says that great part of the wreck of the Marianna has been found in 45 deg. 2 min. north latitude, and 10 deg. cut lon gitude, according to the meridian of Paris. The mast was still standing. It was hoped that the guns and engines might be recovered. The Trieste ()melte announces from Vienna that the Central Congregations (provincial councils) are to be re-established in Lom ba rdy and the Venetian provinces, as they existed before the events of 1848. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. The Berlin journals state that the dispute between Austria and Prussia concerning the partisan colour ing of the protocols of the } rankfort Diet, which have hitherto been drawn up and published under Austrian influence, has been settled by the admis sion of the Prussian plenipotentiary to a voice in the preparation of those documents. It will be recol lected that Prussia had proposed the publication of the proceedings in cxtenso, as a remedy for the evil complained of. AUSTRIA. A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, April 7th, states that Count Buol-Schauenstein, who was last week summoned from his embassy, in London, to Vienna, is definitely appointed imperial minister of foreign affairs. It was believed in Vienna that Count Buol would at the same time be the president of the council. The Gazette contains an ordinance placing the Orand Duchy . of Cracow under the general civil law of the empire. Tho correspondent of the Augsburg Gautte ob serves from N ienna that the death of Prince Schwar zenbers will not lead to any change in the domestic or foreign policy of the Austrian government. HANOVER. The Weser Zeituny states that the Hanoverian Diet will meet on the let of May to hold a short ses sion and settle the budget. BAI>EN. A letter from Carleruho of the 7th, states that the illness of tho Grand Duke of Baden had made such rapid progress that his dissolution was hourly ex pected. It was announced that the hereditary Prince Louis would be proclaimed grand duke, but that Prince Frederick would take the reins of govern ment. HUNGARY. Several young menWCreSritited, a few days ago, at Pesth, for having worn tricolour ribbons, and cried "Long live Kossuth!" Two toy dealers were also arrested for having exposed for sale dolls and toys ornamented with the natianal colours. TURKEY. News from Constantinople of the 29th of March, which has reached us through °errantly, states that the Porto has agreed to the proposition of Sir Stratford Canning, to allow Abbas Pasha to exereis • during three years longer the power without appeal over life and death. MALTA, APRIL 5. Yesterday, H.lll. steam .sloop Growler matched port from Constantinople, with despatches, as it is re ported, of very great importance. Little has transpired as to their nature beyond the simple fact that they refer to the tonrimat, and it seems now tolerably certain that Abbas Pasha, refusing to make known in Egypt the conditions of the tonzinsat, has brought matters to a crisis, and the Porte is making ready to meet it. I give the above from gleanings, for nothing really posi tive is known as to the nature of the Growler's butiness, and her being in quarantine increases the difficulty. She leaves at nine o'clock this morning for Marseilles, taking a mail. Two vessels have left port since my last, the Bellero phon and Fury steam-sloop. Tunis is the destination of the first, and Palermo of the eeeond, when she too will pro ceed to Tunis. The cause is said to be that some timesgo a Maltese family was murdered, and more recently a British subject, for which acts the British consul could obtain no satisfaction. %2. ALGIERS. The town of Dar-ben-Abdallah is to become the principal city of the subdivision of Mostaganem, and is in future to be called Bugeaudville, in memory of Marshal the Duke of Isly. The Chamber of Commerce of Oran, in Algeria, has written to the Chamber of Commerce of Toulon, to state that the coral fishery along the coast of than Is becoming more and more important every year. In 1850, there were only three vessels occupied with the trade; at the end of 1851 there were 31 ; and at present there are 35. In 1851, in six months, five vessels, with five men each on board, brought up about 1,500 kilogs. of coral, worth about 45,000 f. All the vessels engaged in the trade are Genoese or Spanish, and it might be worth the while of French shipowners to take part in the trade. THE KAFFIIt WAR. The following are extracts from a letter just re oeived from the Cape : Jan. 30 . _ . The steamer will take home some despatcl;es of Sir Harry's, announcing " decisive blows and heavy tones " inflicted on the Kaffir., which, unfortunately, are pleasing fictions. We send you the latest issue of the Cape Mail, one of the best written and most temperate journals, to show how little they are dejected or subdued, and how boldly they are continuing their marauding. It ought not to be called " war," for they hardly ever do any wanton mischief, or attack our parties gratuitously: all they went is the cattle, and it is only when opposed in this oh ' ject that they have recourse to arms and violence. Some 20 or 30 years ago such proceedings were common in the up per provinces of India by the Cloojure end Ksughurs, the being the two wont tribes. But what would have been said if the officers had sent for 10,000 men, and made war upon these clans, driving them out of their own lands, and taking away their cattle; cutting down the crops they had sown, and thus depriving them of every means of honest maintenance? Would it not have been said, and most justly said, that we were driving them to crime by abutting the door of amendment ant improve ment ? Yet this is what has been going on by Sir Harry Smith in this colony, and at intervals fur nearly 20 years past ; and is most energetically practised just now. Only look at this lest expedition across the leis Why was It undertaken ? What were its objects ? Sundry individuals of sundry tribes had st various times within the year committed depredations at various points of the frontier ; and it was suspected (not known) that a chief named Kreli allowed the stolen cattle to bo pastured in his lands. Moreover, it was known that some indivi duals of the offending tribes had free acres. to his country, and that he was on friendly terms with other chieftains who were hostile to us ; but, be it remarked, neither he nor his people had appeared in arms against us, nor were any of the robberies ever attributed to them. How have we treated this neutral party ? General Somerset, with from 2,000 to 3,000 men, entered his country and swept it from end to end, carrying off all the flocks and herds they could And to the number of 60,000 of the former, and 30,000 of the latter. But let it not be forgotten that no one has yet ventured to assert, or insinuate that among them was found one single beast belogging to the colony, al though from brands and other marks every individual is immediately rreaKni•able. I leave it to any looker-on to say what encouragement this conduct will be for other tribes to abstain from hostilities against us. I leave it to ' Englishmen in general to ea y whether such cattle forays are worthy employment fur British soldiers and officers in the nineteenth century. Of course Eyre* ft.__ fire•sras to such a force little opposition was made ; and Col. eqrsu naive admission that of the enemy many had root even Ere-arses ; but they advanced boldly to throw stone. at the troops" contests oddly with Sir Harry Smith's loud praises of the soldiers' valour and the officers' skill. How glorious (1) for such a force of disciplined and well armed Europeans to have killed a few and driven away many naked savages, some( whom had not even fire-arms! How sadly must ktrithh military glory have been tarnished., in this corner of the world when such "successes" can be deemed matter of congratulation ! And to what do such successes lead ? These people hitherto, at wont, unfriendly, not inimical, are almost en, tirely dependent fur support on their flocks and herds. These we are said to have entirely carried off', and we will assume it to be the fact, as nothing is known to the con trary. How do. s any one suppose that Kreli's tribe are now to exist ? If they commence making depredations on the frontier colonists, will it be just to punish them ? )lave we rot driven them to it ? And precisely what in has been done to Kreli's tribe has in put years been done on • smaller scale against every tribe new in arms against us. The skeleton history of all put Kaffir wars is simple. They were the strongest of the native African races, and consequently had possession when the Europeans arrived of some of the best lands, whether as aborigines or as con querors we cannot positively say. The colonists soon en croached on their lands—first by friendly agreement, then by force. The pastoral habits of the Kaffirs re quired a large extent of land, part to be occupied one year and part another, and so on in rotation. Tho farmers arriving took possession of some of the portions thus left fallow, u it were; and when the Kaffir. reclaimed them, some conciliated, others resisted : in the long run, all came to hold with the high hand. The vague notions of mewls and (stuns entertained by savages were still fur they confused by these proceedings, and they began helping themselves to the fine cattle pastures on lands they consi dered their own. The farmers retaliated, sometimes by forays (called commandos . ) to seize in return cattle of the offending tribe, sometimes by shooting Kaffin in general wherever they could find them ; then /Cathrs began stab bing and latterly shooting farmers and their servants; finally, the army was called in. Omitting minor incidents, and treeing events to their root, this is the course of every Kaffir war; and to say that it is doubtful which party is most to blame is • very mild judgment, as it may fairly be maintained that such proceedings are much Ins excusable in the more enlightened and civilised nation. INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. Our telegraphic adviees from Trieste, dated the 11th inst., inform us of the arrival of the steamer from Alexandria. Dates from Bombay arc to the 19th March ; Cal cutta, March 0; China, Feb. 27. The Burmese expedition consists of 6,000 troops, 2 vessels of war, and 13 steamboats. Additional forces from China were expected. The departure of the expedition NV a I to take place from Calcutta and Madras on the 19th of March. The forces were to rendezvous at the mouth of the Case, or the eastern branch of the Irawaddy. The expedition would probably proceed up the latter branch to avoid the resistance prepared on the route by ltangoon, where 20,000 Burmese troops were assembled. The British form were intended to advance to Promo. _ Parties of the Burmese had ravaged the frontier villages. The money market wai firm. Company's Five per Cents.; 1031 ; ditto Four per Cents., 811. Exchango on London, at 6 months, per rupee, Is. 11;d. Import market firm. Cotton for export, 72 to 09 rupees per candy, and declining. Opium, 1,045 rupees per chest. Freights to Lon, 2/. 13s. to 21. 18a., and rising. ne e 0 U rt. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal attended Divine Service in the private chapel of the castle this morn ing. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting and the domestic household were also present. The Duchess of Kent received the Holy Sacrament, which was administered by the lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley, who likewise performed the Service. The Queen and Prince, with the royal children, walked in the Rome-park this morning. QATrani!. There was no addition to the royal dinner partiieste;day. l'rince Leopold of Saxe Coburg returned from town last evening. The Queen, with the Prince of Wales, drove out in an open carriage and four this morning. Lord Colville attended on horseback. . _ Prince Albert went out on horseback into the Great Park, accompanied by Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Princess Royal and younger members of the royal family took their usual morning exercise. The following had the honour of dining with her Majesty this evening :—The Duchess of Kent, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Baroness do Speth, Colonel the Hon. C. Grey, and Sir G. Cooper. The Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yester day in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the communion service by the Bishop of London, who also administered the sacra ment. The sermon was preached toy the Bishop of Word. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yester day. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated. A deputation from the Royal College of Physician., con sisting of Dr. Paris (President), Dr. Wilson (Senior Censor), Dr. Hawkins (Registrar), Dr. Burrows, and Dr. Nairne, had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, on &mud's , at the Home-office. Mr. IV. Gore Ouseley had an interview with the Earl of Derby on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing street. Colonel Wylde had also an interview with the noble earl. _ _ _ A deputation from the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company, consisting of Mr. W. T. Voules (Chairman), Captain Gardiner (Director), Mr. Richard Churchill (Secretary), and Mr. 11. It. Abraham (Architect), had an interview with Lord John Manners on Saturday, at the 01Sco of Works and Public Buildings, in Whitehall place. Mr. Trevor had an interview on Saturday with Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the llome-ofSce. APPOINTMENT.—Mr. Samuel Wall Jones is ap pointed colonial surgeon at the Gold Coast. EXECCTION OP SARAH ANN FRENCII.—LENVES, SATUILDAT Arrearroott.—This day, at noon, the wretched woman, Sarah Ana French, who was left for execution at the late Assize* for poisoning her husband, underwent the extreme penalty of the law on the drop in front of the County Gaol of this town. Of the many unhappy creatures who of late years have suffered for poisoning their hus bands, perhaps none ever exhibited so revolting a want of feeling in carrying out her diabolical plan of murder u this wretched criminal. After being condemned, she had al most to be carried away from the dock, and in this prostrate condition she continued for several days. A difference of diet, and the elm attention of the medical and other authorities of the gaol, somewhat restored her. The chap lain of the gaol also succeeded in bringing her mind to a more befitting bearing, and during the last few days of her life she exhibited much composure and resignation of mind. She expressed a desire to see some of her relatives before she left the world, and in the early part of the week she was visited by two or three of them. Appeals to the new Secretary of State on behalf of condemned criminals having been peculiarly successful this anise, it was anticipated by the anti-capital punishment people of this district that the town would be spared the scenes attending a public execution. The character of the criminal's crime, however, prevented any mercy being shown her, and on Wednesday afternoon the High Sheriff received the warrant directing the law to Ile carried into effect. The erection of the scaffold was commenced on Thursday afternoon. This morning it was completed at an early hour, and, as the Jay advanced, numbers of country folks kept pouring into the town. Superintendent Flanagan, of the constabulary force, was in attendance near the drop, with a large Inidy of his men. The strict regulations enforced by the gnul authorities on such occa sions prevents us giving an account of what occurred within the walls [of the prison. The chaplain was in early at tendance upon the unhappy culprit, and we are authorised to state, that she fully acknowledged her guilt to him, and the justice of her sentence." Some few minutes before 12, the under•sheriff made the usual demand for her boi.y. The wretched creature nes then informed that the time had arrived for her sentence being earned into effect. She appeared greatly agitated and excessively weak, and it was • matter of doubt whether she would be able to proceed to the drop on foot. Calcraft, the Old Bailey hangman, hav ing pinioned her, a procession was flamed, and the miser able woman was led to the scaffold, supported by two turn keys. Judging from her appearance, it would almost ap pear that, at the last few moments, she was unconscious of what was passing. The executioner, with his usual alac rity, adjusted the rope and cap, and the bolt, in the course of a minute or so, was then withdrawn. It was some minutes ere she appeared to have ceased to exist, her, struggles being rather long and severe. After the body had hung ono hour, it was cut down, and will be buried this afternoon within the precincts of the gaol. There were between 3,0110 and 4,000 persons present. HOLIDAY AT Tilt LAW OFFICREI.—On Saturday, notice was issued that the Easter ho idays would be kept at judges' chambers, &c., until the 14th inst., when they will open for business ; Bar.m Platt will sit at chambers in Ex , chequer, Justice Tatfourd in the Common Plea.), and Judge Crompton in the Queen's Bench. THE ELECMONS. HARWICH. RETURN OF SIR F. KELLY. On Saturday Sir Fitzroy Kelly, the SoErik". General, was elected without opposition to the seat fur fiah borough, successive) y filled and vacated (ba ne ~.„h is causes), during the short space of 13 monthn, h Sir J o t,. Robbouse, Mr. Thoby Prinsep, and Mr. Wipe= Craw ford. Nor is the present learned member's cam-lE6ll.kt; the borough likely to be of a more enduring character. At best he would only have held on till the end of the wane, but while in the act of procuring his ret urn fur Ilia: wich the fatal termination of Lord Itendle,hnin's illness has created a vacancy for the eastern division of Suffolk ; nod although in the negotiations which were pending wit a view to the next parliament, Sir Fitxruy'a overtures foe that seat were not very graciously received, the leade te the conservative party have in this sudden enuergeney found him the only man to their band, and the form of a mow. lion, and his consent to offer himself as a candidate fer East Suffolk, had all been gone through before even the hon. gentleman appeared on the Harwich hustings; so that thrt borough will probably see another— a fifth—election even during the remainder of the present parliament. Of the proceedings of the day, in which there wia very little demonstration of feeling, a brief record will suffice. Mr. noire's lIALI.R, auctioneer, and Nif. W. hilso. riztn, surgeon, respectively proposed and secouele4 Fitzroy Kelly as n fit and proper person to represent the borough in parliament' and the Mayor (after coking if there was any other candidate to be proposed) declared the learned gentfeman to be duly elected. Sir FITZROY KLLI.Y, amidst the cheering of his peli. tieal partisans, then stood leeward and the asa tu. bly, chiefly expatiating upon the capacity of llamas Harbour fur becoming the great emporium of merce in this greatest of commercial countrles Law mending the local efforts (in the steps taken for car eying out the new her Bill) to contribute to that result, and promising all the aid which, a. public man or as an individual, he could albird to it. Fia. sing from lord to political subjects, the bon no Inner 54,4 he would glance for a very few moments at one or two of those great question, which were at this moment agitat,„ i the public mind. The country was no longer divided into the two great parties of wbig and tory, hut into two attar parties, viz., the advocates of free trade, and Mae who opposed the further pregress of that nygeta He should probably be told that It was pm, mature at the present moment to enter epos that question, and that it was fur the next parliano of to determine whether that system which had already advanc e d so far dealt he not only continued, but extended, or it he. ther some attempt should not be made, so to improve, re:e late, and modify the financial system of this country, as it affected both commerce and agriculture, so as tee du soo thing like equal justice to all classes of her Majesty's soh jects. (blur, hear.) But as the time must coney and that before they were many mouths older, whip they would have again to select members to n present them in parliament, it behoved them to give this question, in all its relative bearings, the it best (maiden- Lon. Ile wished not to be understood as setting himself against the general principles of the system whfcb a de ceased statesman introduced into this cetintry. (liar, hear.) Ile believed that that system was right :Ineljust is principle : it woo that of equalising, in a fair ra'io, nut only the import duties but Vocation generally, a. el tr....d among all classes of the population, whether inalicaltural, mans. factoring, or commercial. (Hear, hear.) But when that which ought to be equal mid well pro. portioned VMS carried too far, they ought to Oa* Bider whether its effects, so fur from lxii g hendeial, will not become destructive to the very interests it was in tended to support. He knew he Omelet be to:.; te, consider its effects in other respects, ao regarded eeee.rrom ;Lo d navigation they were favourable. This Mt, a matter of which those he was addressing were qualified to jud.fe, and be asked them if those measures—the mess of they he meant—not the original measure; conducted through parliament in 1812, 1813, and 1811; rut others which had followed, such as the navigation laws, had tended to advance the trade and trove,* of the harbour, or the success of its ship-hub ? hear," "No, an," and a voice—. It In'ot done it La hurt.") As to the perhaps more important que _tan of the corn-lawn, they were told that because 3,000,00 quarters more wheat hail been imported in 18. - r0 than in 1316, that the people of this country had of necessity coon that quantity more bread than in the first named rear, —but egotistical returns showed on the other Land that the decrease in the growth of corn in this country had been more than to the extent of 3,00,enal qrs., no that instead of that quantity being prtelueed and Sold by the farmers of this country, it had led to be pur chased with British gold, and foreign growers had r ea p e d the benefit. (Rear, hear.) This was a matter apoa which they would do well to bear in mind at the general election, together with a due regard se to what men were most likely to be able to advance their local int.re ts; sad for himself, brief as his connexion with the borough would probably be, as long as he should be able, or in a polities to serve it, in a national point of view, he should feel him self bound, by every tie of gratitude, to do so. (Cheers) The proceedings closed with the usual rounds of chews for the new member, the mayor, end other popular fa vourites; and about an hour afterwards the hem. member started far the Manuingtree station, on his return to town. BODMIN. —ln addition to the four candidates already in the field (Mr. We , lit Mr. Lacy, the Ilan. Cap tain ivian, and Mr. Henderson), two t,tocr gentlemee have "come out"—Mr. Capel % hitcher-4 and Mr. J. Sidney Smith, the latter twinge protectiuni it. CHATHAM.—On Thursday evening a meeting, of the electors of Chatham was held at the Ct, •t Arms Tr vern, to receive a communication from the It'alat Mr. Romaine, relative to his intention of retiring from the mob st. Dr. Ely was called to the chair, :ad the larm room was densely crowded on the occasion. Mr. Romaine, after thanking his friends for their Kindness, and the sup port which had been offered him, Raid, from the experience he hail had in the course of his canvas., be felt it to be to their interest that he should make way for a gentleman of more weight than himself; and after explaining the reasons which had led him to this conclusion, he introduced to the meeting, as his successor, Admiral Sir James Stirling, who hail filled the office of First Lord of the Admiralty under the late administration.—Admiral Stirling, in addressing the electors, avowed himself an advocate of free trade. Ilaving thanked his friend Mr. Romaine for intro- ducing him to the electors, Sir James announced to then his intention of commencing his canna; foithwith.—Lord Mulgrave, who had been instrumental in introducing Mr. Romaine to the electors, expressed his regret at that gentle man's retirement, but said he felt convinced that in Sir James Stirling an efficient representative would be found. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and after giving three hearty cheers severally for Admiral Shr:ing. Mr. Romaine, and Lord Mulgrave, the meeting separated. CARDIGAN DISTRICT OF BOROUGHS.—Mr. Paste Loveden has completed his canvass of these lenotighs,which consist of Cardigan, Abcrystwith, Adper, and Lampeter, with every probability of success, although a contest is not unlikely, as John Inglis Jones, F:sq., of Derry Ormond, has, in compliance with a requisition from some of the I electors, come forward as a candidate on the conservative interest, and has commenced a canvass, but from the pre ponderating influence of the families of Prysc and Powell in this district, which they have always exerted in favour of the literal side, there is but a very small chance of Mr. Jones's ultimate success, even if he should go to the pod, which is doubtful. EAST CUMBERLAND.—The Carlisle Joarnalstatrs, that an atti mpt is to be made by the torics to get up. it the suggestion of Lord Lonadale, a requisition to Mr. S. H. Head, soliciting him to come forward for Ent Cum7sr lead. The present members, Messrs. Howard and Mar shall, it is generally supposed, however, are secure of re election. Evesnast.—The electors here are determined that there shall be a contest, considering an uncontested election, for reasons well known to themselves, a breach of their nue stitutional privileges. A rumour is current that Mr. Ra ts house, M.P. for Lincoln, is to be a candidate on free trade and liberal principles. Sir Ilenry Willoughby is expected to visit Evesham in a few days. EXETRIL—It is understood that Sir Fitiroy kelly it pledged to stand for Runt., in opposition to Mr. Diver, notwithstanding he is gone to Harwich. OREeNWlelt—The requisition to Mr. Chunk - is, to allow himself to be again nominated as a canilidste to the representation of the borough of Greenwich, has hem signed by nearly 1,300 ekctors ' who pledge themselve s to use every endeavour to secure his election. Of this num ' ber, we understand, above 500 persons voted on the last occasion for Admiral Stewart, when Mr. Chambers eb rained 1,244 votes; and although the whole of the electors who voted for Mr. Chambers at the late election hove not signed the requisition, there is not one instance where any otlection has been made to again vote for Mr. Chamber. His cause is gaining strength daily, and his supporters are working in his favour with real, activity, w and ettiotenev The leading reformers of the borough, ho stood aloof from taking any active part in the last election, an ere after another giving their adhesion to his party.—fiel:o s Mercury. GREENOCK.—At a meeting of the electors of Greenock on Thursday, resolutime were pawed declaring confidence in Lord Melgunil. His lordship was prrent and a committee was appointed for conducting his canvass. LAMBETH.—The following address has been exten sively circulated:—" We, the undersigned electors of the borough of Lambeth, feeling convineed that any Wort to re-impose a tax on the food of the people will meet weh . the firm and uncompromising opposition a air tireer;t. members, the Right lion. Charles Tennyson D'Er neou , and W. Williams, Esq., and assured also that their con tinued efforts will be used to amend our representati ve t l e ste a m a, , a p n ro ce r e t n e t ti o n f a c ncial i vil invite the co-operation of the electors and non-eirrion at people, sinking all minor differences, hew detennitied n : .. lar n g t e ftti t v o c a , ec i u . re; h h o e r e e n tu su rn in e g f t r h a or lo g ii e t i e l i t , l t enLeh r a h s e ou L r ain n i;: n_ a re nd forni religi a i n iu d s laidhlrt ,rnd'olguearnest4 return their present member.; :eel to the above add there are already the signatures or upwanls of a thousanl of the moat influentiat men in the borough. NORTHNOTTINGIIAMSIIIIO:.—The Notitsit'Adri Wa j an u va s s w r wa " i with so tha m t u L° ch rd sue l t t Hobert Clinton morn i s prosciaitlolh as is almost certain. NoITINGHAM.—Therc arc now three eallailtt.'l for this borough, Mr. Walter, Mr. Streit, and Mr. ,06,7-. borne. From their addresses, says the Nollot9luit _ c MO. it might be difficult to im. amongst them, tor dl aro treetraders, and all aro reformers, the difference In t" & 'NZ •