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it .:1... them, but not from any belief in their value, as appeared when somo squabble about a church in Berkshire turned the thunder of the Times in one day upon the heads of the Pusevites, whom it had long supported with unwonted blindness to the opinions of the majority. The Trues itself, inured to change, hardly turned faster than the bishops. Those who had adopted their recommendations as to the restora tion of obsolete trifles were censured, and those who had justly disregarded their diocesan were rewarded p for their prudence by raise. We do not recollect one bishop who, at the first, boldly said what many of them must have thought, that the innovations, whether good or bad, were :rivolous and trivia: ; that surplices were not idolatrous, and yet not essential to religion ; that c ommunion-tables would not be much better for the mine of alum and much the worse if the consciences of the people were alarmed by the change. This ::onteov. esy, perhaps, more than any oth....g,sent, has shown the clergy and the laity how little guidance they can expect from their spiritual heads. The prelates wls6 least deserve our unwilling cri ticisms are generally of recent elevation. Some of them have shown a desire to escape from the prevalent weak nesses of their order. IVe hope that the new bishops will increase their namter, that they will be religious men, honest men, gentlemen, but above all that they wilt be men of sense. An English bishop has a noble position, if he would make use of it. There is no Tina to the respect which he may receive, if he does sot claim it; to the influence which he may exert, if he will use it judiciously. • The new bishops, in their respective dioceses. may, if they will, persuade us of what we are at present scarcely convinced, that their creation was wanted—perhaps almost that it was wished for. THE unanimous decision of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, reversing the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench for the plaintiff in the case of " Howard o. Gossett," will Perhaps surprise those, who have long been accustomed to see the privileges claimed by the House of Commons successfully dis pnted inWestminster-hall. In the case in question, however, we believe that the judgment delivered by Baron PARRS is consistent with the general prince, pies on which the courts have dealt with privilege; and at the same time that it by no means favours the more extravagant claims to irresponsibility which have at different times been put forward by the House of Commons. The action of " Floweret r. Gos sett" arose, as it is well known, oat of the proceed ings in " Stockdale e. Hansard," which commenced ten or eleven years ngo. HOWARD, the attorney of the . plaintiff in the former action, brought an action against the BeTieant-at-Arms for assault and false imprisonment. The Serjeant justified under the warrant of the Speaker, commanding him to appre hend HOWARD, and keep him till he should be brought to the bar of the house to answer for a certain con tempt, &c. The majority of the Court of Queen's Bench, against the opinion of the late Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, held that the warrant set out in the plea wasinauffleient on various technical grounds; amongst others, because the time during which HOWARD was to be detained was left uncertain. It was never disputtd that the house had in some way and under some circumstances a power to commit for contempt. The only dispute which arose was, as to the mode of exercising it. The pretence that the mere intimation that the defendant had acted under the authority of the house, precluded the court from entering °nem considerationof the question,was justly repudiated. The arguments and the judgment turned on the construction of the warrant, and, as a prior consideration, on the rules by which it was to be con strued. The Queen's Bench held that, in favour of liberty, the warrant must be construed as strictly as if it had been issued by a justice of the peace or other inferior authority and, applying such a test to the warrant, their decision, that it was insufficient, was probably right. There was, however, little reason for the acclamations with which some portion of the public press received this judgment. It was a dry question of law ; and, as we have shown, it did not involve the main question, whether the houses of parliament had or bad not a right to imprison individuals. It seems that if the warrant, instead of setting out the offence charged and other parti culars, had merely recited a contempt to 5 ee....1 terms, the judgment of the Queen's Bench would have been for the defendant, on the . ground that the House of Commons was the sole judge of a contempt , against itself. In popular language the warrant would have been sufficieet if it had given no reason for the imprisonment ; but, having given a reason, and a bad one, it was held to be bad. On the other hand, we cannot agree with those of cur contemporaries, who hold that the judgment of the Court oi Error turns on a technical and imma terial point. The ground adopted by the Queen's Bench we have already explained. The Ex- I chequer Chamber reverses the judgment on the ground, that the rule of construction in the court ' below was a wrong one, not that it was wrongly applied. The Queen's Bench held that the warrant was to be construed as strictly as from an inferior juris dicticn. The Court of Error construes it largely, recognising the House of Commons as a superior court. The authorities on the subject will be found collected in the reports of the varicus questions which have arisen in the actions of " Stockdale r. Hansard," and " Howard v. Gossett." The leading case, as is well known, is that of " Burdett v. Abbott," in the 14th volume of East's Reports. In that case, and in the equally celebrated case of " Ashby r. White," in which Hose made his great stand against parlia mentary aggression, it is distinctly admitted that the House of Commons, as a part of the High Court of Parliament, is, in respect of power to commit for contempt, on a level with a court of record. It is the undoubted right of any such court to commit for contempt without assigning on the face of the commitment the particular nature . of the contempt. The mason is clear. 'fee cause of commitment is set out on the face of a warrant to enable the proper tribunal to judge whether the cause of committal as set out is sufficient. It implies the existence of a superior court, which may set right any injustice of the committing jurisdiction. But in questions of contempt no court of record recognises a superior. A statement that A. B. committed a contempt by assaulting the judge in court would be useless to any other court, because it has no power to adjudicate on such an offence. The committal may be unjust, but it is final. Mr. PEMBERTON Liseir, in a pamphlet published on the privilege question in 1837, admits that either house of parka ment may commit for contempt without assigning a I cause. It is only, as he shows, the counterpart of the power possessed by other superior courts. If the serpent-at-arms, he says, were to seize a judge or counsel while engaged in court, he would un doubtedly be committed by the court for contempt The house might retaliate by committing the judge; but it could not release its officer. Both commitments would be irremediable, except by the authorities which respectively inflicted them. To deny the house the power to exercise this irresponsible authority is to overrule Ford ELLEN /IC/ROHM! en " Burdett r. Abbott," Lord Hose, as well as the other judges, in " Ashby r. White," and to reduce the House of Commons to a level with a petty sessions court- The decision, we repeat, of the Court of Error, is neither more nor less than that the House of Commons is a superior court. Mr. PEMBERTON LEIGH, in the pamphlet which we have quoted, remarks with justice, that whenever a contest has arisen between law and privilege, the people have always been on the side of law. We hope the same tendency to oppose arbitrary power will always prevail ; but in the present case law and pri vilege are quite in harmony. That a discretionary power of imprisonment is as safely entrusted to the House of Commons as to the Court of Chancery for indents*, we certainly do not believe ; but we rem it cannot be denied that the house is as much entitled to the power as theeseurt. If it may . commit for con tempt, it may do so without assigning reasons, or it may ass i gn reasons without technical precision. It has, we believe, recently been held by the Court of Exchequer, that a verbal commitment for contempt by that court would be good. If so, the house may commit without any warrant at all. After all, the law is not finally settled. The opi nions, indeed, of the majority of the judges (mejor et aeviur pars), are expressed by the present judgment ; but on error before tee House of Lords, it may happen Nut the law lords may, as they have in some cases overrule the oeinicme of the judges. Lord done, •.4 and Loid DENMAN are both deeply lveßd in- ROUGIIin , i• OD lcifitMl to Privilege. Lord Cure- o o n the see of the house. If the Beer should Idli;cL t. lE decide the question, judgment of the Noltequer Chamber may be reversea The debate on the address in the Chamber of 1)e -puties was continued on Tuesday. The interest of the discussion on Monday was unexpectedly increased by a speech from M. Billault, in which he touched upon the question of the marriage+, and shadowed out, though somewhat obscurely, the course which will be taken by the party in the Chamber, u hose sentiments this deputy is understood to express. He approved of the marriages, and argued that the rupture of the English alliance was no irreparable evil ; that if France wanted an alliance. Europe could supply one without the sacrifice of in terests and honour, which the English alliance snug cost. This subject, however, was only touched on, and will be reproduced with more details, and in a more explicit manner, when the para graph of the speech directly referring to it is brought before the Chamber, which it was expected might be the case. on Wednesday or Thursday. The journals of Paris and the provinces continue to supply the same deplanable accounts of the obstruc tion offered by the populace to the circulation of grain. An alarming report was circulated at the Bourse on Monday, that assemblages of workmen had taken place in the Faubourg St Antoine, in consequence of the high price of bread. These statements, however, were contradicted by the Journal des Watts on Tuesday. Indeed, it is not easy to imagine disturbances from this cause to arise so long as the people of l'aris are supplied as at present with bread of the first quality at some thing less than 2d. per lb. The surplus of the mar ket price being paid by the municipality or the state. Considering the exciteablc character of the populace of the faubourgs, this is probably a necessary mea sure to maintain the tranquillity of the capital. MM. Gustave de Beaumont, llethmont, and Leon de Malleville have proposed an amendment in the last paragraph of the address, conceived in the following terms : " Sire—One common feeling animates us all. Like your Majesty, we are desirous of establishing in the country an indissearble alliance between the monarchy and liberty. You have devoted your life and those et your children to giving a forcible example of the benefitsof which this alliance Is the pledge. Let a liberal and moderate policy ensure to the government that moral authority whicl is so necessary to the administration, the respect which probity ever cum me, de, to our institutions their pac fit and regular develop ment, and your Majesty may rely upon our independent and disinterested concurrence." It is stated that orders have been sent to the com manders of the several military divisions to call in all the soldiers who are absent on the usual six months furloughs. According to the official return published in the /I/on/tear, the commissioners of the sinking fund during the last quarter of 1846, purchased 297,007 fr. Three per Cent. Rentes, which cost 8,117,512 fr. 90c., the average price being 81fr. 99e. .461.., F.. 2.—. Three M Cr. •.. 7t: )7.• pre Cent... 1l6: Relrian Else psr Cr..., 101 , Few and 6.11311 per Cent., Twor../... N.lt yet 84 14.4454 ltretr., 100 75 : R 0•139 be... 1001 T5....7 4 ; 11.60 tt 00,.3,7.3. Macrae... 0. Lordon,lo 47• , 21171, 20 day., 3510+. rt 1.14, F. roll. lind 1,1:2 75: Pada .11.1 Ittura, 23.. Reuse and 847., 667 50 , lkats• Viesaoe, 147 30i BordeB63, 157 50, North. •06 7s. The Madrid mail of the 27th ult. arrived at Paris late on Tuesday afternoon. The ministerial crisis still prevailed ; and the most vague and contradictory reports were circulated as to the definite formation of the ministry. El Tiempo pretends that the Queen had manifested a preference for M. Bravo Murillo to M. Pacheco ; and that the ministry would consist of the Duke de Rivas, MM. Bravo Murillo, Seijas Le zano, Santillon, Donozo Corttls, and Roca de Togor,:.s. El Espanol pretends that M. Castro y Orozco has presented a compltte list to the Queen of the persons who are to form his ministry. _ _ . La Elperanza states that M. Juan de la Pezuela has sent in his resignation as Captain-General of Madrid and Inspector-General of cavalry. Letters from Pampeluna of the 22nd speak of out breaks is different points : reinforcements of troops have been demanded by the local authorities. News from Lisbon had been received at Madrid to [ the 20th. The Duke of Saldanha had established tranquillity in all the Upper Beira. JA, 27 —Thrre.pr-Cents..3ll. Your.rwr.co , ... 201: , 20 11 !4, rasasv..B,l. Coupons, 161. husk of St. Yerdleand. V 2 Eactuage Lomb" Ill. r. CONSTAN, INOPLE, Jas. 13. Resehid Pasha, the Grand Vizier, has been seriously unwell for some days past, and the doctors I have not hesitated to declare that they believed his illness to have been caused by anxiety of mind. Seldom has the leader of a government found himself in a position so unenviable as that of Reschid Pasha. Surrounded, with the exception, of Ali Effendi, the I Minister of Foreign Affairs, by jealous rivals, who are constantly . plotting his downfal, unsupported: by a single foreign representative, he is bullied by Russia and France, thwarted by Austria, and treated with passive indifference by England; unsympathised with by the people, and at the head of a party so small that its existence is almost problematical. The Sultan is too nerveless, too vacillating, to give any efficient support. Such is Reschid Pasha's precept position—a position which it would be as fatal to him to abandon, as it is onerous for him to hold. If the Grand Vizier were to retire from office, the opposite party would immediatelysucceedtopower; liiza Pasha would be placed at the head of the government, and his first official act would most certainly be to remove so dangerous a rival as Reschid, and his want of suc cess in past attempts of the kind would teach him to adopt measures by which his object would be more surely effected. All the world knows what the result would be, should Riza succeed in placing himself at the head of the government. Avarice is his ruling passion. His only rules of conduct are the two primary ones of arithmetic—addition and subtrac tion. By these he testa every measure, which he adopts or rejects as it leans to the former or the latter. His morality is like the mercury, which, thrown upon the ore, amalgamates only with the gold, which it at once discovers, and to which it alone adheres. Russia knows well the character of Riza Pasha, and in adopting the means by which alone his adhesion can be secured, she has placed herself far beyond the mach of all other competitors. What a contrast to this picture is Reechid Pasha; how nobly he has stood by the opinion which be at first expressed on the incorporation of Cracow, and this in spite of the united attacks of Rus sia and Austria. As if to take advantage of the dilemma in which Resehid Pasha is placed, France has struck a fatal blow at the principles of which the Grand Vizier is the great representative and support in the Ottoman empire. M. Guizot has just sent, through his ambassador, M. de Bourqueney, a note to the Reis Effendi, in answer to the remon strancea made by Soleyman Pasha on the reception given to the Bey of Tunis at Paris. Nothing more insolent than the style of this note can be conceived. M. Guizot scoffs at the idea of the Sultan calling the Bey of Tunis his vassal. He says that France had always treated the Bey as an independent prince, and that she was determined to treat him as such, and concludes by advising the Porte to reflect before it adopts any measure which might be productive to itself of most disagreeable conse quences. Is this the chivalrous friendship that France so loudly professes for Turkey? Is it by this cowardly bullying of a fallen state that M. Guiaot wishes to givo a proof of the vaunted generosity of the country of whose government he is the chief ? Has the monarchy of the barricades thrown off the mask—and is this blow at the integrity of Turkey the sequel of the Spanish marriages, and of the mean truckling in the affair of Cracow? Things seem well en train for an alliance between France and the despotic powers. "A fellow-feeling" in this part of the world at least, cannot fail to make them • wondrous kind " towards each other. MR. COBDEN AT GENOA.—On the 16th ult., a grand banquet was given at Genoa, to Mr. Cobden, at the Hotel Feder. The Marquis d'Azeglio presided, and moot of the foreign consuls, principal merchants, and nobility were present. The Marquis d'Areglio, alter the health of the King of Sardinia, proposed the health of the Queen of England and free trade. M. Alla; the French consul , fp nerul, propcseed the health of Mr. Richard Cobden; peace tween tritium,. M. Alletz made a long speech in honour of the illustrious guest, to which Mr. Cobden made an appropriate reply. We read in a Leghorn letter of the 20th :—" The Grand Duke, who left on the Ilth with his daughter (the wife of Princs Luitpold, of Bavaria), has returned. lie did not go to Naples, as it was said he intended to do, but merely conducted the princes as far as San Stefano, near Orbitello. Thera is some excitement in Tuscany, and the minister Bal d's...afoul has issued a circular to the authorities, calling upon them to repress with vigour every attempt at disturbance. Ceoeval Tr:els has been appo:nted to the command in chief place of iricoceal F o rtnd, of ull the fre^ , of Ttsran, deceased." LOUD THE ANNEXATION OF CRACOW_ The official correspondence on the occupation of I Cracow, laid before the house last night, furnishes some important additions to the information already , published on that subject. In a report made by Col. Duplat, our consul at Warsaw, the importance of Cracow as a trading ' station is significantly pointed out, with reference to the net of railroads with which the eastern states of Europe are covering their territories. Cracow has long been the best customer for English goods at the Leipzic fair, and possesses, in its steady mercantile houses and the credit of its bankers, the means of being a useful ally. The first information received at Berlin was of dis turbances in the neiyh&ourhood of Cracow. 'the Aus trians had already occupied the city, according to their account, in consequence of an invitation from the senate. We may remark that this is one of the points of which the Austrian version differs from that of the Poles, who have publicly denied that such an invitation was ever addressed to the Austrian general. On the 22d the Austrian troops evacuated the city, and, although in strong force, allowed themselves to be attacked by a small body on their own territory, retreating and leaving in the hands of this small in surgent force the important salt mines of Wielizka. On the 3rd March the Russian troops summoned the I city which surrendered without defence and without making terms. The Austrians entered the mine livening ; and, on the sth, the Prussians joined the met. 'Chia distinction of dates is important, because the pretence cannot be set up that the present occu pation is the consequence of a deed of arms, and that the Austrians merely keep what they won in open fight. Both France and England have all along insisted on the observance of the stipulations of the treaty of Vienna. Lord Palmerston's clear and decided protest will be read with interest- On perusing the lengthened statements of Prince Metternich, which have, in 4rest part, been already before the public, it is impossible not to agree with Lord Palmerston that the Austrians possessed ample means of paralysing any attack that might be medi tated from so small a city without raising a distur bance of questionable origin into a justification of military operations on a large scale. There is a link wanting in the history of the state of the town be tween the first week in March, when General Collin reinstated the senate in the government of the city, and the 30th March, when Lord Westmoreland writes that the senate is dispersed, and that many of its members had resigned. it would be interesting to know why those gentlemen were disgusted with their offices, and who had ill-treated them. The last document shows that Austria proposes to allow of the establishment of an entrep - 4, or bonded warehouse, at Cracow, if she is permitted to remain in undis turbed possession. GENERAL COLLIN'S PRO,' ITION. Whereas the rebels have abandoned Cracow, and the burghers of thst city, in which all government is in reality at an end, have demanded the protection of the three high powers, Is r the safety of their property and persons, I hereby grant the city in request, but only as a provisional measure, until the three high protecting powers come to a further determination, and under the following conditions:-- let. That the city of Cracow delivers all the known leaders of the rebels who may still be th re, into my hands, or that It makes known to me their place of refuge. 2nd. That a general surrender of arms shall take place in the following manner, vie., that by twelve o'clock on the sth of this month, all weapons of every description shall be deposited in the citadel, where a committee aepointsd for the pur pose will take charge of them. 3rd. That it during our stay an the toss n any one shall be found with arms in his hands, or if arms shag be found in any person's hou,, that person hall be tried by martial law within twenty-four hours. 4th. That the existing senate, consisting of the senators pre sent, and tenter the presidency of Senator Kepf, shall be appointed to undertake the direction of the internal govern ment of the city and its territory, until further dispositions are made by the three high powers. COLONEL DU FLAT TO THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. (lteeeived March 24. )—(EXTReeT.) WARSAW, MARCH 10, 1840.—Cracow, since its elevation to an independent state, has always been the depot of very considerable quantities of English merchandne sent thither hy . the Wreck St a, Moldavia, and Galicia, and even rei 'I rteste; and which afterwards find their way to the sur rounding countries. Before the current year elapses, Cracow will be in a direct railway communication with the great lines of Prussian Silesia, and of 13ohcmia and Austria ; and probably in the next year it will constitute the central point of the important tine of railway communication between the Adriatic anti the Danis. Larly in the ensuing youl, d.o, it will be in direct communication of the same description with Warsaw; and the project of connecting this capital by rail way with Moscow has long been entertained, and is now said to be considerably advanced in the preliminaries. From Moscow to St. Petersburg a railway is already in rapid propeller and so soon as it may be tinishrd the line from thence to Odessa is to be commenced. From the same point, eastwards, a line to the river Oka—one of the princi pal affluents of the Volga, has already been sanctioned, and is to be commenced immediately, with permission to extend the same hereafter to Saratof, on the Louver Volga itself, and at no great distance from the Caspian Sea. Looking, therefore, to the almost certainty of a vary great part of the trade of the Levant, and even of India arid China, finding its way up the Adriatic, it cannot be denied that it must be of the greatest commercial importance, even to England, to have such a station as Cracow, in the centre of the great net of railways connecting the western and eastern continent. MR. MAGENNIS TO THE EARL OF ABERDEEN.—(Received March 2t.)—(Extract.] VIENNA, March 16, 1816.—Official accounts from Cracow to the 12th inst. have brought the intelligence that by the common consent of the generals-in-chief and residents of the three protecting powers, a provisional militate government has been established under the presidency of Count Wrbna, the Austrian commanding officer. The Russian and l'rue- Min contingents bad rsacuated the town and taken up can tonment, in the territory of the republic adjoining their respective frontiers, and the Austrian troops alone remained to garrison the town and castle. Measures were agreed upon for the support of the troops, and for the re-establishment of civil authority under the direction of the military govern ment; for handing over the subjects of the three powers who might be among the prisoners, to the authorities of their respective countries ; and fur the future trial of those prisoners who were either inhabitants of Cracow or strangers. Tranquillity appears to be completely re-esta blished at Cracow. It may not be uninteresting to your lordship to know, that although the Missile resident and his family left Cracow on the 23rd ult. with precipitation, he found upon his return his house exactly as he had left it and as his house would have probably been the first to be pillaged, a fair inference may be drawn that little disorder of that nature prevailed. An embarrassment uhieh presses heavily on the government is the number of prisoners, and the difficulty of disposing of those whose sentence may be various periods of confinement. This difficulty is further increased by the number of priests who have been made prisoners. At Podgorze alone, seven were killed anti twenty nine made prisoners while leading or inciting the insurgents from Cracow. THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND TO THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. (Received April 6.) BERLIN March 30, 1846.—My Lord,—Lieut.-General de Berg, aide -de-camp to the Emperor of Russia sad chief of the staff of the Russian army in Poland, arrived here yester day, and veal remain for some data. To-morrow, Count Ficquelmont is expected here from N terina. General Canitz has informed me that these persons, high in the confidence of their respective sovereigns, are sent here for the purpose of taking into consideration, with the Prussian govern. ment, the present state of affairs in Poland, and of coming to same common resolution as to the measures to be adopted in each respective state with regard to them, and also to come to a decision as to the conduct it will be necessary to panne with regard to the establishment of a government in the free state of Cracow. The government of that state is now dissolved. The senate has no longer an exietence; the members who composed it are dispersed, some of them compromised in the late events, and others refusing any longer to belong to it. Under these circumstances, it is necessary that some determination as to the form of go vernment to he established should be come to ; and General Can:tx expects that he shall receive from Count Ficquelmout some propositions upon this subject. I have, dc. (Signed) WYSTMOREL \ ND -mt.') TO VISCOUNT PALMEILEITON.—(Received Dcc. 7.)—(Extract.) ST. I'ISTERSBURCH, Nov. 19, 1846.—At an interview which I had a few days ago with Count Neeselrode. I asked hits excellency if he had any thing to communicate to me concerning the negotiations which have been carried on at Vienna upon the subject of Cracow. He replied that they woe closed, and that at the moment we were speaking, the decision of the three powers was known to your lordship; which was, that Cracow was to return to its former condi tion, the same in which it was before 1809, and be incorporated with the Austrian empire. I expressed my astonishment at this intelligence, observing that I was of course aware that a question had be: n entertained by the three protecting powers, of introducing some changes into the constitution of Cracow, for the purpose of preventing that country becoming a source of trouble to its neighbours; but I said I was quite un prepared to hear of a sweeping measure of this kind—the blotting out the free stole of Cracow from the map of Europe--because I considered that the prnceeding was not reconeileable with the final act of the Congress of Vine to which England is as a party. Count Nesselrode then said that communications had been eent from Vienna to the repre sentative. of the Three Powers in London, detailing the reasons which led to this decision, and that the incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian empire was by this time a " fait accompli." 1 once more expressed my re,ret at thin news, and feared that it would cause much surprise end dissatisfac tion in England. Count Nesselrode has just sent for my perusal copies of the above-mentioned papers, which have been forwarded from Vienna for communication to your lordehip. I have returned them to his excellence. MIL U.tNSUL-GRVERILSTARD TO VitCOUNT 14LMERSFON THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1847. (lieeilved . fch,p 7 (Extra9t.) JA . N. 2';, 1817.--The negotiations which bare been going on for wino wtek at Vienna, relativo to the trade of Cracow, hating terminated, the result has been no- tified by the Austrian commissioner in a proclamation dated the 18th fist., which has been published in the Cracow Gazette, and also in the Berlin Official Gazette. I have the honour to transmit a translation of the Bth stride of this pro clamation, being that which red ,tea to the transit and ware housing of foringu goods. According to this proclamation, the district of Cracow becomes included in the jurisdiction of the Austrian cu-turns, from and after tole 29th of January, 1847, on which day all the duties, laws, and regulations now in force iu the kingdom of Galatia, ore to be appiitable to Craton also. Foreign goods in transit are, by article 8, to pass through the Cracow district duty free, under the su nervision of the customs, and tuay el-e be warehoused, duty free, in the official stores of the rust ens. EXTRACT route ritOCLASIATION or COUNT DETN, THE INTERIALCOMIIISALONEIt, ii.t, EU UItACUW, JAN. 18, 1847. (Translation.) Art. 8. Is consideration of the hitherto existing commer cial relat:one in the territory of Cracow, the trathe of goods there shall, even atter the introducion of the customs duties, be favoured in the following mantra., viz.: --A. An go ele coming tram fereigu countries over the customs lino of the Cracow district by legal ways shall, if treat—el by the customs as goods in transit. and again exported by the way of a custom-house lying in the Cr .cow territory under the strict watch of the eastoins authorities, be free of all duties, provided thi it pusage, from tee ir entrance to their exit, be limited to the Cracow territory. B. This exemption from duties will also I.e edmltted in Caere oleic the above-men tioned goielsin transit are cleaned to be earehouesd in the official stor.s of the customs in Cracow, whereby the transit may be interrupted ur delayed. VISCOUNT CALM/MI(1X TO VISCOUNT I.ONSONIIY.V FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 23, 1840.—My Lord—Count Dietrichateie, the Chevalier Bunsen, and Baron Brunnow have commuuicated to me identic despatches from their re spective governments. w.th a memorandum enclesed in each, aunouneing to her Majesty's government the intention of the governments of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, to put an end to the indepeodent ceistenee of the free state of Cracow, and to incorporate the city and its territory in the dominions of the Emperor of Austria. The grounds upon which this intention is tested are, the allegation that the free state of Cracow was created and constituted in May, 1815, by the triple treaty between Austria, Russia, and Prussia; that trots(' three powers alone, having been its creators, they arc competent, by their own authority, to put an end to its existence; that they now feel themselves justified in doing so, because the free state has fora long course of years failed in its duty to wards the protecting powers; that during the l'olish insur rection in 11430, Cracow gave ail to the insurrectionary forces in the kingdom of Poland, and harboured (')treat num ber of refugees from thence when the iosurrechou woe put down that from that time to the present it has been the centre of petit:eel iatrigues,tencliog to disturb the tranquillity o' the three adjoining states; that recently its population actually invaded the province of Galicia and plundered the (reentry of the salt mines of Wieliczka, and that its government, having been dieselved by iuternsl dissensions, the qtestion now for the three protecting powers to decide, has become, whether they should reconstruct a non existinf government, or entirely alter the condition of existence of Cracow sod its territory ; and they say that they have preferred the latter course, aud have determined that Cracow shall revert to Austria, to which power it belonged before 1809, and that it shall henceforward form a part of the Austrian dominions. Her Majesty's government have received this communication with deep regret and with much surprise. Toe communications which of late have been had with the representatives of the three powers at this court bad led her Majesty's goverument to expect that some proposal would be made by the three powers fur some medificittion of the political condition in which the treaty of Vienna has placed the free, state of Cracow, with a view the better to secure the territories of the three poweis from risk of disturbance by plots which might he formed in Cracow ; but her Majesty's government were not prepared for such a communication as that which they have now received; and her Majesty's government feel themselves bound to protest against the exe cution of the intention which has thus been announced. Her Majesty's government will first consider the grounds upon which the proposed measure is nought to be justified, and secondly, the right which the three powers claim to them selves to carry it into execution of their own authority. Alter the eveuts of 1830 and 1838, it is to be remarked that the threepowers had recourse tomeresures which they thought sufficient for the security of their respective dominions, and those events can scarcely be quoted now as affording grounds far froh measures of seventy against Cracow ; and with -sectti the inroad made by the p .ople of Cracow into the Galician territory about a twelvemonth ago, and the alleged dissolution of the government of Cracow by its own act, her Majesty's government would observe that if General Collin, who was invited into Cracow by the government of that state for the maintenance of order, had not suddenly withdrawn his troops, it is probable that no inroad would have been mule by the people of Cracow into Galicia; and as that general carried away with him all the constituted authorities of the city, mid left the city and state in a condition of administrative anarchy, it can hardly be said that the dissolution of the government was the act of the people of Cracow themselves. But it is alleged that Cracow has long been, and if it remains in 1, pendent will tent con tinue to be, the centre of intrigues, having for their object the disturbance of the tranquillity of wljoining territones ; and the question is, in what degree the preseet political con dition of Cracow affords facilities for the carrying on of such practices 1 Now, such intrigues and plots must be carried on either by strangers coming to Cracow, or by the native inhabitants themselves. But no stranger can reach Cracow except by traversing a vast event of territory belonging to one or other of the three powers ; and it is difficult to imagine that any Polish exile, or any conspirator from any foreign country, could so far elude the vigilance of the police of the power whose territory he would base to pass through, as to be able to penetrate to Cracow. The p opulation of Cra cow is not large in number, and not only would the arrival of a suspicious stranger among them he quickly known to the police, but it would be scarcely possible for such stranger, er for any resident inhabitant of the state, long to carry on a correspondence with the people of neighbouring di,tricts, for the purro , se of exciting disturbances therein, without such correspondence coming to the knowledge of the govern ment, and throweh them to that of the three residents ; and such practices being once knows!, the laws of Cracow would surely afford means to put • atop to them effectually. But if the police regulations of Cracow arc not efficient enough to secure the obtaining of such information; and lithe laws of Cracow do not give the government power to prevent such an libelee of the shelter of the free state, those police regula tions might be improved, and those laws might he altered ; and full security mieht in these respects be obtained for the three powers, without do stroying the existence of the state. It is no doubt the duty of Cracow to give the three powers such security ; for freedom and independence were given to Cracow for the well-being and happiness of its own people; and not in order to :enable that people to create disturbances and confusion in adjoining countries. It appears, then, to her Majesty's government that no such proof has yet boon given to show that full secu rity might not be afforded to the internal tranquillity of the territories of the three powers, without destroying the sepa rate and independent existence of the state of Cracow. But her Majesty's government must at all events deny the competency of the three powers to deride upon and to execute such a measure, of their own separate authority, and without the concurrence of the other powers wit-, were parties to the Treaty of Vienna of June, 1815. There is no doubt that the erection of Cracow and its terri tory into a free and independent state, together with many r of the details of its organization, are matters which were first recorded by the treaty of the 3rd of May, 1815. But that treaty merely recorded one part of the various arrangements made by the General Congress of Vienna; and it wu by Article CXVIII. of the General Treaty declared to be an integral part of the arrangements of the Congress of the European Powers, and to have everywhere the same force and value as if it bad been inserted word for word in the General Treaty. But besides this the leading stipulations about Cracow which are con tained in the separate treaty of the 3d of May, concluded between the three powers, are insetted word for word in the general treaty to which all the powers are parties, and those stipulations constitute the Articles VI., VII., VIII., IX., X., of that general treaty. It is demonstrable, therefore, that with whomsoever may base inlginated the plan of erecting Cracow and its territory into a free and independ ent state, that plan was carried into eff.ct by stipulations to which ell the powers were equally parties ; and, conse quently, it is not competent for three of those powers by their owe separate authority to undo that which was esta blished by the common engagements of the whole ; and it is manifest that the specisl duty which the three powers un dertook, of protecting the Independence of the state, cannot invest them with any right to overthrow that independence and to destroy it. For these reasons her Majesty's government are of opinion, that the execution of the intentions which the three powers have announced, would be a messore juatifted by no adequate necessity, and would involve a violation of positive stipula dons contained in the general treaty of Vienna ; and her Majesty's government deeply impressed with the conviction that it is above all things important that the engagements of treaties should at all times be faithfully observed, most earnestly hope that means may be devised for guarding the territories of the three powers against the dangers adverted ' to in their identic communicstions, without any breach of the treaty of 1815. Your Excellency will read this despatch to Prince Metternich, and you will send him officially • copy of it —I am, &c. (Simnl) PALMEUSTON. • notnictlnits of the same tow were addressed by Viscount Pal merston on the same day Sober Malasars ministers at Berlin and St. Petersburg. FRANCE.—LIBERTT or rue Psess.—The Colonne and the Gazette de France have been condemned, the former for publishing and the latter for copying, an article affecting the validity of oaths, which contained the following sen'ence " None is bound, save to his country ; none owes obedience, save to his own conscience as a citizen." The occasion of the article arose from M. de Genouile, editor of La Gazette de France, being elected at deputy for Toulouse, when a dispute took place es to tte extent of the official oath ho had taken. In defence, it was pleaded that the interpretation of the article by the prosecution was overstrained. The court con demned M. Carpentier, responsible editor of the Colonne, to imprisonment for three mouths, and a fine of 1,000 f., and M. Autry-Foucault, responsible editor of the Gazette, to six months' imprisonment, and a file of I,ooofr. BELGIUM.—BRUSSELS, FEB. 2.—The discussion of the budget of war was resumed this afternoon in the Chamber of Representatives. The debate hoe now continued during more than a week. It is urged by several members that the army should be reduced, but minister, are opposed to any diminution of the number. Their Majesties arc expected to arrive in Brussels this evcni. gon their return from Paris. A grand bill at the palace is announced for to-morrow oh :t, About right hundred invitations have been issued. SANDWICH ISLANDS.—WHALE FISHERIES. I —Of the 588 whalers which visited the Sandwich Islands in 1815. 515 were American vessels, 32 French, 6 from Bremen, 11 English, 3 from New Brunswick, 2 Danish, 1 Hanoverien, 1 Norwegian, 1 Prussian, 1 from Hamburg, and 5 whose country is not indicated. Among the traders that landed at Honolulu during the same year, there were 18 American, 11 English, 2 French, 5 Swede., 2 from Hamburg, 1 Bel gian, and 2 from Bremen. The amount of importation was 546,910 dollars. Lahaina received goodo to the amount of 31,;00 dollen. Exportation was confined to goods to the amount of 33,588 dollars, whilst the value of provisions pro vided to the whalers and vessels of war was 552,700 dollars. the munificent donation of 10001. from Government towards the fund in course of collection for the relief of the poor people who had suffered from the gales of October and November. The total amount eubwribed for this purpose amounts to nearly 2,500 f., but a considera ble sum above this was required to meet the nen:mines of the ease. In our last we mentioned that three of the vessels obliged to lease the roadstead on the approach of the hurricane were still missing. Two of these have re turned to port, the third, the Augusta, sit Bombay, was wrecked, on the coast of Point Pedro, her crew being proea dentially rescued from death by theJaneCatherete, one of the three missing chaps. The Augusta was the only equarcaireeo von 1 wrecked, but several native craft bad been destreyed. Mr. L. Cooper has been appointed Deputy Sheriff of Madras,in room of Mr. 'sunny, resigned -- Dr. Wylie and sir. W. U. Areuthnot have been eh tied &etcetera of the Batik in room of Mr. W. MeTaggart and Col. Tullock, resigned.—A eorrcopeadent ofthc A thenamm, writing from Cutteele, ea the Bth Dee., gives the following account of further dieterbances amongst the Khoods in the dialect of 000211Mor :—" An express arrived here ou the night of the Zeth ultimo for the officer commanding the 50:11 Regiment, brinnting a re quisition for two companies of the corps to to orsiered out as soon as pracecab'e .0 Bend, in the Goomeoor coon_ (From the Daily Netts.) try, to meet Captain )dcPherson, *gent in the II:11 Owing to the energetic perseverance of Lieut. Tracts of Orissa, from whence they . i eseuet him to Ram- Wagborn, and his excellent arrangements w 1! ,c. smith the bu o r The detachment left the to lowing even.ng e t 4 lock, under the command of Lis Intorno J. Grant, Austrian Lloyd's Company, we are enabled—despite and in medical charge of the 211,1 dreaer of the corps, bad weather and a very slow steam-passage between and all marched out of cantonment in high epiri:s, coma Alexandria and Trieste—to anticipate once more the daring the very short notice that was; given them. In of the agent is not pee., iney known but it is as toted that he re determined to tiring the Mena Marseilles Mail from India. This rapid express puts this step the object .. . ~ ~ us in possession of dates from Madras, Dec. - 0 4 ; business" to a cri-is, and punalt the offenders with severity. Calcutta, Dec. 23; Bombay, Jun. 2 ; China, Nov. 28. Bummer/ and It is Ms, stated that this detechment ail out return to The following IS the summary of the quarters until April nest, and that a second detach. Times: meat will sery probably be ordered out elm; how fee there We are once more relieved of the listlessness which for • is truth in this statement depon. nt saith uot. Pei season has overwhelmed us and our columns once vete intelligence laws also been mein d from Rowel again freed of the want of interest which has for seven condah, that three companion of the 2241 regiment from months attached to them, by the events which have just that place have left fir the name interlude purpose, and occurred in the Punjaub and Scinde. The Vuzeer that the Khonde are determined to resist the efforts of the Lail Singh haring been suspected of a treason- agent in the abolition of human sacrifice, and that they able connexion with the Cashmecr insurgent., had the ale manifesting a warlike spirit. A email number of charge brought home to him by the Sikh Emasim- men left behind it appears are quite inadequate to furnish ood-Decn, on the evidence of letters written by the Vuzeer the whole of the guards at that place. A party of to Lien while in argue. The inquiries were conducted in " Pikes," under the command of Captain Dunlap, also presence of a commission consisting of Sikh chiefs and accompanied A. M. Mills, Esq., Commissioner of tat:tele, British officen—Mr. Currie and Colonels Lawrence and who proceeded to Boad—to put a stop to the depredations (iodic being amongst the latter. It was intimated to the perpetrated by the Khonds, and to endeavour to bring thou Dunbar, that should a cons icted treitor remain in power, we lawless tribes into subjection, as well as I believe to co-ops should be under the necessity of ceasing to hold intercourse rate with Capt. M'Pherson. with the governmt nt. and Lall Singh was accordingly depeeed, BENCSAL.—The Legislative Council has been in full se. and removed, under our protection, to Hindomem. 1134 tivity during the month, and every Gazette a nounces the he remained in his own country, his life would quickly pawing of ono or two sets which have lain by tor the last have been sacrificed to the indignation of the ',staple. The year.—The Metropolitan of India has returned to Calcutta government was now entrusted to a commitoon of chiefs, in safety, and the Bishop of Madras, who had lean acting and the question pressed as to the arrangements content. for hi,u during his absence, returned to his diocese.—The plated by them on our retirement. After much equine:- Ilurkaru, se nting of the Asiatic Society, says—" We I ton and delay, it was determined to ask of us to permit have learnt from one of the members of the eiatic Society, an army of ten thousand men to remain at Lahore during that at the last meeting of the society, agreeably to the the minority of the Maharajah—our commisarener virtually iiistructions of the lion, the Court of Directors, two com er exercise the functions of Vuzeer . To this we assented, mutters have been formed, the one for the purpose of in -1 the Seikhs defraying all the charges of our troops • amount- sestieating the antiquities of India, and the other for ate to a quarter of a million sterling annually. The furnishing government with a statistical report on the rub- Maharajah is now a child of term years old ; and for the jb cis mentioned in the letter of the government of India." next ten years at least the Punjaub is in the hands . f lie Reverend Messrs. Anderson and Smith, of the General 'of the Brinell Government, and controlled by a Brit eh Assembly's Institution, have reached Calcutta, and swum,' Army. It is idle to speculate on th e events which rele7 their duties in that seminary, the number of pupils in which occur before the year 1857. H. M's 10th foot, with eight is said to be daily increming. The portrait el the late Sir regiments of native infantry, and • suitable proportion of W. Nott, exezuted by Mr. Brigatoek, has reached Calcutta, artillery, haJ been ordered to relieve the troops who for and is to he hung up iu the town-hall—as has also the ten months had so admirably dew...barged their duties. statue of the late Mr. 1). flare, and is to be The Sikh Government have thus voluutarily undertaken placed in the quadrangle of the Government Sancrit to defray the extra charges of an army at Lahore, aide!' College adjoining the Ili duo College. Mr. Crichton, for our own protection we muse have maintained at any deputy pat:Baiter, has been removed tram his sent rate on the frontier! Such has been the success of the 'eon, and been succeeded by Mr. B. Bennett. much-censured policy of Lord Hardinge, refusing to Flights of locusts have visited Kedgeree, and dune conai conquer or spoil the country . which has row been volunta- derable damage to the surrounding vegetation.—Menrs. rily and trauquihly placed in our hands without obloquy. A. F. Smith and R. T. Allan have assumed the duties of trouble, or charge. Just as the army on the Indus was sheriff and deputy respectively, vice Messrs. J .I'. 1.1. K ulligian about to he reduced from 22,030 to 14,000 men, a foray of and It. .M. Thomas. Another case came off in the supreme the lkinghtie tribe from the mountains has driven in our court enterday, resembling in some of its features the one outposts and compelled • whole cavalry regiment to retire. we lately had occasion to refer to of " A Lindsay r. the The enemy were computed at 2,000 on their first alm Beek of Bengal." The court decided in the scone way, pearance is the field. They euceceded in ravaging numer- and against the bank, admitting however that it was • dia. sass villages, carrying oft the sheep and cattle, in the face of cult case, and well lit for a higher tribunal. Tao bank, our troops. A wing of the 4th Rifles, Jacob's Scinde we understand, will immediately appeal ; but, in order to Home, aed Fitzgerald's Camel Corps, were on their way to truant itself against the extreeremary constructron% pat reinforce Shahpore at the date of het despatches. The upon powers of attorney, intend., we hear, to refuse ell robbers are doubtless long ere thls time safe within their accommodation on Company's Paper in which reference mountain holds, where we cannot fallow them, waiting till is made to any power of attorney whatever. This will be our outposts are again weakened by sickness or military a serious interruption to business in Ca'cutte, and create indiscretion. Had the preeeet attack been made during the greatest iaconvenienee to the commercial en I trading such a season an 1843, wan nine-tenths of our those , ' interests, as well as injuriously affect the value of Com. were in hospital, our camonments might have been pany's Paper hitherto prising from hand to hand by fired, and their occupants roasted in their cots, before delivery with a blank-endorsement ; but it would be human aid could have reached them. The ravages of pas- unreasonable to expect the Bank should incur risk, when thence in Upper Scinde are quinquennial. If eighteen hundred and forty-eight Sees us on the banks of the decisions arc made in the teeth of the practice that ha prevailed iu regard to the efficacy of • blank-endorsement Indus, the Cabool catastrophe may not be witheut a partly -1 since the residence of Englithmen in India. —the Belochees, like the Ghintes, abide their time. Sir The Pt:NJ/slit ouce more furnishes matter of abundant in matel Napier continues at Kurrachee, where the di tercet for the general reader. 'the Vuzeer Lull Singh is healthy He is expected at Itomnay in February haviug been detected in a treasonable correspondents with ou his way to England : the Government of &ludo to be the Cashmere Chiefs, bas been deposed and sent in perpetual entrusted to • civil commission—preparatory, it is to banishment to India. Unable to select a Vuzeer from among be hoped, to its final abandonment.—Matters at Cabool would seem to be in a better condition than fur- their own number or to discover how the country was inerly. The Ghilzie Chief who had so long been annoying to be governed or maintained in peace, the Sikh the government bad intimated his desire tor • cessation of Chiefs unanimously resolved to request that an army hostilities, and in token of the sincerity of hie intent one of tea thousand men should be allowed to remain at Lahore during the minority of the Maharajah, now a Ihad sent his son as a pledge of his future peaceable bete -Ito our. A vekeel from the British Government was said child seven years old—the S.kh Government contributing l to be on his way to the Carmel chief, theagh the nature of a quarter of a million sterling to their mainteuenee,—the mission was unknown. A present 01 horses and create British ltesident being virtual Vuzeer. Such are the re hiss Its of the proceedings of the last fortnight: we must for the governor-general left Cahoot on the Ist October. —The governor-general was at latest dates still on the late now u revert to the denels of the occurrences themselves. kt the d tic of last despatch the loyalty of L ill Singh hank of the linos, where it was supposed he would remain till rejoined by Mr. Currie from Lahore. —The had been brought so strongly into suspicion that them seemed every reason to believe he would quickly be s o t was of India wee en route fur Loodleana, and was expected te reach Deihi by the 20th of January. deprived of his authority. On intimating that the time fixed for the withdarwal of our troops by the treity of nth March The districts around Gwalior are said to be in a sad sea c; murels, rs end robleries being of frequent occurrence—the would be adhered to, sad congratulating the Maliarajeh on the fortunate termination of the Cashmere iesurrection, Mr. commi Rion of any atrocities being overlooked by the na tive authorities fur a consideration. The state of the pro- Currie called attention to the fact that the Shaikh Emaum ood-Deen had and surrendered himself on condition that einem of Indere and Bhopal proents a pleasing contrast to the comes of the insurrection should be inquired into, and that just mentioned, for which we are indebted in a great its real authors exposed. A commission of inquiry, over memure to our reeident, Mr. Hamilton, and his assistants. —Th which Mr. Currie, secretary to the Govemor-Otheral, pre new minister at Hyderabad would seem to be no sided, and in which Sir J. Littler, Colonels lAA renee and great favourite with his master, who a said to be acting in Goldie, and Mr. J. Lawrence were the British comaituenta many ways with a view of neutralising some of the Vu -The Sword having been appointed to investigate the mutter, the court zeer's most promising measures of reform. assembled on the morning of the 3 rd of December in cent out by the Court of Directors for presentation to the Rajah of Sanglee in token of their approbation of his eon- ell.. Currie's duebar tent—the ministers and principal chiefs duet during the Kolapere disturbances, was presented an were recited to bepresent. The accuser, Shaikh Emanm-ond that chief on the lOth ultimo, at Bel and in presence of mien, and the accused, fall Singh, were summoned before the whole of the troops of the station, and an immense con- them. The former produced three letters received by him course of people.—The chip Augusta, of Bombay, one of from the latter, one of which was ackuowlidged, inciting the vessels which left the Madras roads at the commence. him to hold nut against Goolaub Singh, and to prevent m meat of the hurricane of the 25th Nov., was wrecked near long as possible the annexation of Cashmere to Jamoo. The court was an open one, the attendance numerous, sad the Point Pedro, off Ceylon—crew all saved. Upwards of 2,4001. have been subscribed Nov ., the relief of the sufferers proof complete. The verdict against the Vuzeer was unaii by the gales of Oct. and Nov., 1,0:101. of which Wad mu- moue. The other members of the leurbar were fully acquitted of nll participation in the guilt. The chiefs were and that mficently bestowed by the Government—Captain Du they were at liberty to proceed as they thought fit, bat rand, Comtniasi met of the Tenasserim provinces, has Dean removed from his office by the Government of that the British government could no longer recognise Id Singh as Vuzeer, or communicate with the government*. Bengal, and been succeeded by Mr. Colvin, resident at Nepaul, who has left Calcutta to teke up rata which he presided. The ministers and chiefs haviug deb appointment—the private as eretary of Lord Auckland su- berated oil the subject, determined immediately to dep. the Vuzeer, and to entrust the government to a commie. pets: din the private secretary of Loot Ellenborough. Mr. Cohen is a man of ability and diecretion, and very tin - consisting of Tej Singh, Sheen Singh, Demur Deenanathe and Kalecle Noor-owl-deen, until some permanent likely to fall into the errors which occasioued the recall meat could be made. On the afternoon of the 4arr of his predecemor. Captain Durand has closely followed Currie, Colonel Lawrence, and the Sikh ministers, pro the footsteps of his patron: rash, capricious, headstroog, wayward, and impatient of criticism — like Lord Ellen borough he erred, and like him, he fell.—Our obituary . fWO thousand of the principal retainers se L oll Sin g h ball c . ceded to the palace and announced the result to the quint ituary this mail, contains the names of two eminent individuals— .1 Major General Vans Kennedy, oriental translator to the n, and their places bong taken he a correspond* use before been removed from the fort, wh. re they acted an Bombay government, favourably known for the accuracy and worth of his works on military law; and Captain arrears of pay ', and were disbanded w iMeut exposit* number of the Lahore troops, they nest slay received their T. Pestans, author of one of our best works on Scinde. a murmur or complaint. Than deposed minister Ma. Lard Ilardinge is understood to have resolved on the w city by Licutenaut Edwardcs, aseistantagent to the reduction of the postage throughout India, and the in- a hile was conducted to his private retidence in the troduction of a system similar to that of Rowland Hill. ___ crass the tea ua bhod or attempt to communicate Mdt The oppressiveness of the present charges may be guessed not Governor-General, under an injunction that he Mama n one. It was a singular thustration of the rerfect geed at when it is mentioned that for a daily paper restricted in weight to about one-fourth of a London journal, the postage delay having occurred in the a rrival of the regalar guard. amounts in some parts of India to 101. annually.— country generally is tranquil and healthy, and annually .-The u a n y eerstanding and tranquillity that prevailed, that some of the Vuzeer to conduct their master a prisoner to the plus climate cool and agreeable.—The non-arrival of the over land mail has onn more caused the delay of the steamer. of his confinement, and that the duty was performed with as Litut.Edwardesavailed himself of the services of the retainers The change of arrangement was intimated on Thursday of ceremon wherein they were engaged in doing him afternoon—on this 0041140 n in su ffi cient time to be of service, honour , l i e was a f ew d a y s a ft,,,rd s c, ha way to paw —as early, indeed, as the notice could have been out. much alacrity and cheerfulness as if it hail been an occsaion re under an escort of native infantry. His bfe, hulls BOMnAY.—The arrival of our new governor, Mr. Clerk, repo re, is t h e c apital, would in all likelihood s reached the City of Palaces on the 16th Noy., by the steamer from Calcutta, is looked for about the end of February. He ! hereafter live under our protection somewhere in Besgsli Hintioslan. Our present acting governor continues to enjoy without requiring to endanger his life, the character of Daps' the greatest popularity. Our respected commander-in-chief, have Dora sacrificed to the anger of his countrj men. f1:13 steamer of the let Feb. His *linemen: has not yet been named. Sir T. :McMahon, takes his departure for England by the .l. ,or peace of his country, by rcturzengto the Punjub. immense concourse of people , without the aid of a single His constitution has received a severe saock by his late ee 1' r e mini...ten took poestsmon of office iu the midst of as of our troops. fhe retainers of the insurgeet Wawa, but we doubt not that the change to his native c ?' - cnief, ae those of his confederate. were paid up and aii may long live to enjoy the teensy of his friends at home. land will prove beneficial to his health, and trust that he momentous transactions, which little mote than a twelves the good wishes of nearly all its members, for the kind. Ile retiree from the command of the Bombay army with banded in quietness and peen. During the whole of thole m Me and murder, the most profound tretiquillity reigned ness of heart he has invariably shown—in some instances r r almost amounting to a fault. The rumour of Sir onth since would have been attended by weeks of violence, turbance marked the change of a dynasty . I'm . some months Charles Napier being nominated his successor bas again died away. The Bombay Courier—the oldest paper in throughout Lahore, where not one tangle act of not or din er as to the arrangements iu c ntempletion on our retire our entreaties that the chiefs would give us some definite an. the presidency, and generally one of the moat resPee.s" ' Lit, had beim met by the roost contradietery.replies : now bye—has been purchased by the editor and propnetor of the Telegraph, and merged . in the daily jour- Dein to obtain delay and trust to the chapter of accidents; nal. The Telegraph and l'ourter, as the paper after the each they hesitated, now equivocated—the grand object obviously g faction hoping, the witherawal cf our troops, to union will be called, has always been conducted in a gentle manly spirit, with industry and ability, and is likely ta take 1 1 obtainus to press the point with more earnestness than ever on • prominent place, if it do not indeed soon share with ono I the consideration of the Chiefs. Hitherto the promptitude the ascendancy. The events just detailed induced other journal only the patronage of the presidency. We mentioned in our last that a writ of habeas corpus had due to the circumstance that we could compel, had we to been moved for in the Supreme Court by Mr. Crawford, chosen it, what we condescended to ask ; sod to the mad e." produce one Cole, • o n in the Indian navy, whowith wbich our demands had been complied with Wag Hess and equity with which, under our auspices, the do. had been ins confinement on board the Hastings con- mestie affairs of the state had been administered. It now siderably more than a twelvemonth, accused of the became apparent that no provision had barn, or could be murder of an Arab at Bagdad, and that a return to the writ was to be made on the 14th, it not being expected uillity of the frontier, on our retirement; and the Sddel that the Company's law officer would make any objection. ( 4 emitted that to their own hand , the concerns of the nation Accordingly, the cue was again brouget forwaid, when the Chief Justice declared himself to the effect, that he did not made, to ensure the good government of the state, or team wish to interfere with government in the matter, as doubt- . . vantage. They were, on this avowal. assured of the less they must have good and sufficient reasons for acting as . . determination of the Governor-General to carry out the they had done. ofthe Treaty of the 9th of March, and to with could by no chance be committed with any hope of sta provisions MAURAS,—The Martinis of Tweeddale has been on a visit to the coast llis lordship was last heard of from Tellicheery, month of December, unless some new arrar.gements _ . to, and e otheragreement than that which existed from which place he intended returaing te the Neaghernes, draw tke whole army from Laho r e in the course of the % In n e r on , the terms of which must he entireiy in sees& where he would make but a short stay his return to the scat of his government being expected to take place immediately. a f n he fi rst request made of us on the 13th was that _ e get Ilia lordship had been most Resident wish a small body of troops, shoula be lathes! , e ce with oar wishes before we could accept ef it. particular in inspecting the troop. and departments , 7 at every station he visited, so that his trip has not to remain, barn altogether melees, as such tours generully are. c Th in safety and in their own fashion. This seas prosy Marquis bad gained greatly in popularity at Madras by a° ' •3' ' 'a' a decidedly deer cd, as introducing the system ft. to enahle . .thame to conduct the goveras._ INDIA. ANTICIPATION OF TIIE OVERLAND MAIL. I