The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

'•71PI" LINCOLN, Jan. 28.-We had a good show of Wheat at our market to-day, wldeti was taken off freely at Is. advance over last week's prima; red, 455. to 531. ; white, 50s. to 675. A small show of Barley at last week's prices ; malting, 325. to 345. ; grindiag, 28.. to 30'. Beans, very dull, and very few offering ; new, 40s. to 431. ; old, 535. to 655. Oats, new, 18s. to 245. ; old, 27.. MIANCHNOTIR, Jan. 29. -During the last day or two we havelhad rather more Inquiry fir Flour, bur, on the who's, the week's business has been of a limited character. At Liver pool, yesterday, the trade was altogether flat, whilst at Wakefield somewhat snore firmness was discernible. In the agricultural districts the deliveries of grain fill off as prices decline. To-day the business done in each article is quite in retail, In the value of Wheatitherc is no decided alt, ration. We reduce our quotations for Flour Is. per sack in some instances ; but, generally, holders show more firmness. Oats as last quoted. Oatmeal slow of sale, at is per load reduc tion. 0 her articles go off slowly, at former rates. The fol. are the current prices : Wheat, per bushel of 701h5., English, whito,Ba. to Bs. 6sl. ; red, 7e. 6d to fis. Irish, white, 7s. 6d. to Bs. ; red, 7s. 3d. to 7s. 9d. Barley, per bushel of 601b5., grinding, 3..13d, to 49. Oats, per bushel of 46th.., English, Scotch, and fine Irish, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 4d.; Irish kiln-dried runs, 3s. to 3s. 2d. Beans, per qr. of tiollbs., English, small, 40s. to 425.; Tick, 395. to 41s. Peas, per 8 imperial bushels, white, boilers, 441. to lfist. Flour, per sack of 2801b5., English and Irish, fun., 395. to 40a. ; super fine, 40s. to 41, ; curs, 425. to 435. Oatmeal, per load of 240165., English and Irish, 275. to 28s. Mantnononott, Jan. 29.-The best samples of Wheat were taken at the terms of lest week ; for other qualities trade was dull. Barhy sold from 301. to 345. Beaus were rather lower. Peas so last week. Odt , , of best quality, were rather dearer ; common fend es last week, from 19s. to tin. per qr. N. on-Trier, Jan. 29.-The weather still con tinues extremely seseonable ; intense frosts have prevailed, with a fall of snow. So severe, indeed, was the frost last nightithat the river is *peered with messes of floating ice, nod, should a change not occur between this and Monday, the water communication between this and Shields will in all probability be stopped. Our arrivals of Wheat and Flout this week have been upon a moderate male, but a consider able portion of the previous week's receipts being left over unsold, the trade has ruled excessively quiet ; and the calm effected in either article since this day se'nnight have been upon rather easier terms. Malting Barley and Malt have been taken off treely at former figures ; whilst Beans, Peas, and Oats have been sold at slightly enhanced rates. At our market this morning we had • moderate show of Wheat from the growers, and, the condition being mush improved, sales were readily effected at a small improve ment. In south country or foreign few transactions occurred, holden being unwilling to sell at present pron. Fur Flour there was an improved inquiry, and the parcels which hail previously been pressing upon the market having been cleared off, the reduction of the week was fully recovered, choice households being saleable to-day at 39c, and whites up to 41s. per sack reepectively. In Rye there was rather more pas-tog. Malting Barley, notwithstanding that our supplies during the week have been large, has become scarce, and we should have no difficulty in placing the best Chevalier, weighing 5311115. to 541 b.. per bushel, at 345. to 35.. pe r qr. Malt scarcely met so much attention to-day. Beans without change, but Peas of all descriptions must be noted ls. to 2s. per qr. dearer, and in brisk demand. Oats being in more moderate supply, were taken off freely at Is. per quarter advance. The billowing are the pretest prices: Wheat, British, Northumberland, old, white, 67.. to 60e.; red, 645. to 66.. ; new, white, 535. to 590. ; red, 525. to Cies. • Norfolk and Suffolk, old , white , 60s . to 615.; red, 56.. to 58s. • n ew, white, 581. to Gin. ; red, 545. to 575.; Lincolnshire, ced, white, 56.4 to 1 1 95.; red, 545. to OS. ; new, white, .56. to 695.; red, .58. to 668. Rye, Norfolk and S u ffolk, 325. to 365. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk, • 31s. to 335. Chevalier, 33.. to 35f.; Northumberland and Scotch, 265. to 295.; Chevalier, 325. to 34e. • grinding and distilling, 255. to 28s. Malt, 525. to 56..; Chevalier, 56.. to iied. Oats, Northumberland and S cotch, potato, old, 245. to 28s. ; new, 255. to 275. ; common and Angus, old, 225. to 255.; new, 225. to 24.. Peas, white, boilers, 40s. to 465. ; grey and maple, 38s. to 40s. Beans, old, 465. to 50s. ; new, 365. to 401. Flour, per sack, fine, Stockton and Northumberland, 42e. to 43a. ; Norfolk, white, 39.. to 415.; households, 378.1 to 39c • seconds, 375. to 40s. • households, 345. ; thirds, As to 345.; households, 265. to '36s. rat,Whet, foreign, Dantzic and Konigsberg, white, 58s. to 625. • , Ms. to 64.. Silesian, white, 56.. to 625.; red, ' 64s. to 67.. Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, white, 611 s. to 625.; red, 535. to 53.. Hamburg, Marks, and Anhalt, white, 665. to 60s. ; red, 545. to 58s. Kiel and Holstein, white, 648. to 580. ; red, 625. to 565. Petersburg and Arch angel, red, 40s. to 465. Odessa, red, 465. to 48e. Polish, red, 47e. to 50s. Rye, Russian, 265. to 30s. Barley, Seal, 30s. to 321.; Pomeranian and Holstein, 265. to 30e. Oats, Pome ranian, feed, 20s. to 2'25.; Holstein and Danish 18s. to 20s. ; Archangel and Riga, 18s. to 21s. Peas, white, 425. to 455. Flour, per barrel of 193 lb., United States and Canada, duty paid, 275. to 30s. The arrivals this week are Wheat, coastwise, 1,775 qrs.; Rye, coastwise, 5; Barley, coastwise, 2,6;t0; Malt, coastwise, 210; Oats, coastwise, 213; Flour, '2,661 sacks. Naweoter, ISLE or WIGHT, Jan. 29.-Our market to day was well supplied with grain, which met with a steady sale at lot week's prices. Wheat, 121. 10.. to 131. per load. Barley, malting, 29.. to 31s. ; grinding, 265. to '2Bs. Oats, 225. to 265. Beans, 425. to 41s. Peas, 40.. to 425. NORWICH, Jan. 29.-At our market lto day the farmers offered rather less Wheat than usual; condition fair. The merchants also offering hut little, and in consequence of higher rates being demanded, a considerable quantity re mained unsold, stud those which were sold realised an ad. mince of ls. per quarter on account of the improved condi tion effected. by the late weather. Flour was in demand, f.0.b., at fully late rates, and, in same instances, 6d. per sack more money. Barley met a tree sale, at rather more money. Oats, also, were a free sale, at somewha' above late rates. Peas and Beans norairialy the same. Prices current 'Wheat, white, 521. to 56.. per gr. ; red, 49e. to 525. Barley, making, 275. to 320.; grinding, 265. to 28'. Oats, 265. to 285. Peas, 40.. Beane, 40s. to 425. Fine house hold Flour, f. o. b., 35s 6d. to 36.. per sack, withone month's discount, purchasers finding seeks; retail, 2s. per stone. Norrtwortaw, Jan. 29.-Oar market in the corn trade has been well supplied with Wheat to-day, but hold' re have been too high in their demands fur any amount of business to be done, and therefore we have but few sales. Barley about as last week. and in other articles no alteration. Wheat, fine, 56s to 59.. ; inferior, 553. Barley, best, 31e. ; grinding, 324. Beans, new, 40s. to 445. ; old, Esis. to 57.. Oats, 235. to 28s. PETERBOROUGH, Jan. 29.-There is a short supply of all grain to this day's market. Wheat is in improved condition by the treat, and is • ready sale at late rates. Barley, Is. dearer. Oats in demand, at rather over last week's Fees. No change in the value of new Beans, but old rather dearer. Currency to the growers :-Wheat, new, 425. to 461. ; fine, 621. to 53.. ; old, 50s. to 62s • fine, 54e. Barley, 29 5. to 30s. ; fine, 33e. Oats, new, 2.05. to 224. ; fine, 21.5.; old, 28s. to 3115.; fine, 325. Beans, 50s. to 52.. PETWORTH, Ju. 29.-The trade in Wheat continues ex tremely dull, and at our market to -day sellers wear com pelled to submit to rack- r lower terms. Barley, in improvt d demand at about former rates. Oats were more inquired after, and realised somewhat higher terms, as was the ease with Peas. But little doing in Bean". Wheat, white, ,121. 10s. to 132. 10s. per load; red, 111. 104. to 121. Barley, malting, 30s. to 32.. per qr.; grinding, 2.3., to ao s . Oats. 21s. to 23.. Pe" 41'. to 435. Bosus,42s. to 445. READING, Jan. 29.-Our Wheat market was nearly the dullest we have had for the last two months, and although we cannot quote prices lower, yet, had salenbeen' pressed, Is. to 2s. per quarter 1 .es money must hove been acceded to. Barley was in short supply, and sold at full prices, as did also Oats. Old Beans were scarce, and maintained recent value ; but Boiling and Hog Peas were a heavy trade, al though not lower. Fn little has yet been done in Seeds, that prices can loudly be quoted correctly. Dealers expect Clover Seed to advance, and that Cow Orass with sell at hiwh figures. Sainfoin is plentiful, and very cheap, 30s to 36.. per qr. Spring Tares, scarce and in r. quest, at 64. to Bs. per bushel. SAFFRON WALDEN, Jan. 29.-Out Wheat market was 2s, per qr. lower. For barley, in some instances, 315. per qr. was realised. Oats, Beans, and Pees sold on as good terms as last week. WARMINSTER, Jan. 29.-Heavy old and new Wheat made, white, 565. to 584. ; red, 54•. to 564. ; middling and inferior, 445. to 525. per qr. Barley was moderately supplied, for which the trade was brisk, at an advance, on all beet bright heavy malting, of Is. per or. ; every other kind made Lot quoted price.. Oats were sold slowly, at a trifling decline ; priest, 201. to 27.. per qr. Beane scarce, yet no alteration in mac.•. Peas, for boiling, sold at an advance of le. per qr. Grey Peas as last week; price from 42.. to 4is. Winter and spring Tares scarce, but trade very dull. WINCHESTER, Jan. 29.-For Wheat, top price given tLis day was 151. per load, larch selling at 141. 10". ; moderate making 131. 10..; common, 12/. 10s. to 131. Barley brisk, nearly all selling at an advance of la per qr., the heavy melting makitqf 345. to 355. ; good malting, 325. to 33.. ; grinding and common, 305. to 31s. Mailmen were offering best Malt at Bs. to 8.. 31, per buf het ; second quality, 7s. 63. to 7.1 91. Barley Meal, 171. to 17s. lid. per la ,g. Oa'e, fine Polands, were dearer Is. per qr. Beans, best tick and pigeon, were no 1 war. Pea., the finest white boiling, were Is. to 2.. per qr. dearer, 47a. to 4.8.. given ; grey and maple about as last quotation. WORCESTER, Jan. 29.-The attendance at our market to-day was small, and the ' , apply of Wheat from the farmers shot:, and it met a slow salt, at la. to 2.. per quarto above the currency of this day se'onight. Barb/ of all kied4 ls. per quarter dearer, and grinding qualities very scarce. O-tte dull, out not cheaper. Bear.' again ls. per qr. lower. Peas neglected. Wi=necn, Jan. 29.-The condition of Wheat is improved by the late frost, A Inch, coupled with a short supply and firmer accounts from the leading marke's, Cllll9O a goal trade today at the extrime prices of last week. Oats sad Bean , come to band only moderately, and are ready sale, at fully as much money. The fillowing are the present prices Wheat, fine new white, 621bs. to 63 b., imptrial, 60s. per or. of 36 st. • good runs, 611 b.. to 621 1 w 535.; fine, red,62lbe. to GS:ba., 62 1. ; good runs, 611h s. to 6211 w., 665. ; fine old red, 621bs. to 631 be., 6,45. Oats, fine new melding, ILL to 110. per at. ; goad new feed, 101 d. to Ild. Beans, new, 365. to 38s. Youtc, Jan. 29.-We are fairly supplied witk Wheat at this day's market, which has met a steady sale at last we( k's prices. Oats and Barley in good demand, at late rotes. Flour, 2a. per sack lower. Present prim of grain Wheat, white, 635. to 67.. per qr. imp. ; red, 504. t., 635. Barley, malting, 310. to 345. ; grinding, 28s. to 295. Benno, 40s. to 41s. Rye, 375. to 40s. Malt, 625. to 645. Oat., 101 d. to 11 id. per stone of 141 b.. Flour, 375. to 41s. per sack of 28011 s. lii6.k. Donlan, Jan. 28.-Our Corn market still continues very dull, but we have little alteration to make in OUT quotations since this day te'nnight. Wheat was a slow sale, at loot Friday's quotatioes, but Oats, and inferior Barley were 3d. to Bd. per barrel lower. Indian Corn continues very heavy, and to effect sales a reduction of prices should have been submitted to. The following was the general currency: Wheat, white, 275. to 311.; red, per 480Ibe. 23a. to 28s. Oats, per 1961 be.. 10s. to 12a. 3d. Barley, per 2241b5. 13a. to 17.. Indian Corn, per qr., 4801b5.,•285. to 331. Oatmeal per cwt , 12s. to 13s. Flour in sacks, seconds, per cwt., , 16s. to 175 . ; American, per barrel, 28s. to 295. BELFAST, Jan. 27.-Since our last report we have hail a continuance of fine fro.ty weather, which will have the effect of improving the condition of the grain in stack. The sup phies of farmers' produce this week are limited ; but, owing to the dull acciunts from the English markets, the tendency of prices is downwards, and, were supplies to increase mate• rially, present rates could not be usaiutained, buyers not being disposed to purchase more than they require for their immediate want'. In Indian Corn little passing, but prices not so firm to-doy. Rye Meal in moderate demand at former prices. Indian Corn, white, 8!. 10s. to 8 1 . 150.; yellow, 8!. to 81. Se. per ton. Indian Corn Meal, white, 9L to 91. 10s.; yellow, 81. 10s. to 81. lds. per ton. American,l6s.Gd. per barrel. Rye meal, Russian, Bs. per cwt. Wheat, red, 10s. to 105. 9d. ; white, 10s. fad. to Ils. Flour Prices at Inver Mille, superfine, 20s. ; bakers' lit, 18e.; 2nd, ICw. ; 3rd, 14s. 6d. ; 4th, 10.. ; bran, eis. 81. per cwt. ; American, 28s. to 30e. per barrel. Oatmeal, lls. tolls. 9d. per cwt. Oats, Bs. to 75. Barley, 6s. Gd. to 7s. 6d. Wheatenmeal, 13s. to 14e. Coug, Jan. 28.-Without any positive change of prices, we observe this week the same dragging trade which charac terised the transactions of last week. A few arrivals of foreign grain have taken piece, and, amongst others, one with Indian Cor and Meal, direct from Boston, U.S. ; still the importations are comparatively tame. The suppies of home produce, however, are good. Notwithstanding the dulness in the prepared market, the samples of Wheat ar riving are readily token off, at rates varying little from those of last week. Prepaied Wheat is very dull, and in the few transactions that have taken place, lower prices have had to be submitted to. Barley sells freely at last week's prices, the value of that of prime quality being well sup ported. One or two lots of store Barley, from the outports, have changed hands at the currency of last week. In the value of Oats we notice tittle variation. the difference how , ever being in favour of the buyer. Of prepared Oats some shipments have been made during the week for the Channel, the free-on-board price being about the same as last quoted, namely, Its. 6d. to its. 9d. per barrel for blacks. The trade in Flour continues dull, and the article meets a slow consumptive sale at last week's priers. Stocks of the article in the meantime accumulate, and thus have the effect of depressing the market. A foie amount of business has been done in Indian Corn at shout 81 per ton. Prime Galata even has been sold as low as 81. 7s. 6a1., but the dealers appear to prefer buying an inferior article at a lower figure, although the price of the latter is altogether dispro portionate to thet of prime corn. Indian Cornmeal, Oat meal, and in fact all other descriptions of meal, met a slow and restricted sale. • • • LIMERICK, Jan. 29.-The weather has been exceedingly variable for the past week, fatty, frosty, and heavy snow and rain. The supplies of grain have been, however, good, but prices rather dintining. At our Wheat market to-day the quantity offered was small; owina to the roughness of the night, few buyers appeared, and the price receded about Id. per stone. Oats yet come in treaty, but, from the dull accounts of the markets at the other side, the price has de vaneed id. per et. Barley, if offered, would find ready buyers at 4d. told. ptrstone advance. The demand for Indian Corn has been good, but some parties press sales, and the price is rather down. In Indian Meal little doing in town ; the country millers appear to have the best demand. All coarse breadstuff. in good consumption. Wheat, red, per stone, I3d. to 15 ; white, 15d. to 16d. Oats. 9d. to 91d. Barley, 11,1. to 12d. Indian Corn, per ton, 81. to 81. 15s. ; Meal, 91. to 91. 103. ; 17s. per barrel. Flour, Irish, per bag, 325. Burio, Jan. 29.-A small supply. Owing to the great fall of snow, the roads are impassable. Oats, 9.. Gd. to 103. per bushel. Oatmeal, 1 Is. to Ils. 6d. per cwt. Indian Meal, 94. to 9.. 6d. Wheat, per barrel, 181. to 225. American Flour, 325. WATERFORD, Jan. 29.-We have had another week of great dulness in our o,ra market, and all kinds of grails have suffered a further decline since this day week. Sup plies, however, do not materially increase, and as our stocks of Maize are at length reduced to a moderate compass, home produce, at present prices, will probably attract the attention of merchants. Wheat has declined Is. per barrel, Oats 91, and Barley 3d. during the week. Indian Corn is the turn cheater, as is ales Flour, Oats, and Indian Corn Meal. The following are the present quotat;ons :-Wheat, undried, millers', per 20 stone, 263. 6d. to 27e.; shipping, 2.3*. to 2.51.64.; Barley, malting. per 16 stone, 15.. to 3d.; grioding, 12s. 9J. to 13.. 3d. Oats, white, per 14 let., 10.. 3d. to 11..6.1. ; black, 10s. &I. to Ile. Prepared : millers', per 20 st., 284. to 285.6 d. ; shipping, 265. to 275. Barley, malting, per 16 stone, 16s. to 16s. 3 d.; grinding , 133. Gd. to 14e. 6d. OAD , , white, per 14 atone, 11.. 6d. to 12e. ; black, 11s. to Ils. 6d. Flour, super., per sack, 395. to 391.6 d. ; seconds, 355. to Ms. ; thirds, 325. to 33e. ; fourths 24.. to 2 , 55. Indian Corn, Danube, per 20 stone, 203. to 21.. 3d. American, yellow and red, 20a. to 20s. 6,1. ; Spanish and Portuguese, 18s. to 195.; white, 18s. &I. to 195.; damaged, for cattle, 16.. to 17s. Indian Corn Meal, per cwt., Bs. to 95.; Oatmeal, per cwt., Ils. &I. to 1'1..; Rye Meal, per cwt., 7s. to 73. 61. Bran, per G stone, 3s. Gd. Ito 31. Bd. Imported this week: Indian Corn, 3,880 qrs. KIRKCALDY, Jan. 29.-The weather continues frosty, and yesterday we had quite a storm of wind and snow. At our country markets, this week, we have still to report small supplies of Barley and Oats, for which there wen a good de - mand, at fully last week's prices. Wheat was in increased supply, wad prices mar be quoted ls. per qr. lower, but we heard of few sales. Here, to-day, as had a large supply of Wheat, which sold slowly at • reduction of a full shilling per qr. ; of Barley and Oan the supply was small, in fact, below the wants of consumers ; soles were quick, at fully last week's rates. Wheat, 475. to 581. per qr. Barley, I 26e. 6,1. to hls. Oats , 21s. to 265. 81. Oatmeal, per bag I of 2801b5., 151. for Satur lay's Markets sea last page. SHIPPING. MAILS Annivan.—Dublin. 7 ; Waterford, 6 ; Donaghadee, 2; Guernsey and Jersey, 1; Flanders, 2 ; Holland, 1. LONDON, Jan. 31.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.E., fresh breeze and cloudy, with rain and snow. DEAL, Jan. 29 —9. S E to S.R.W. 30th, S.S.W., strong and squally.—Arrived: H.M.S. Nautilus, westward. 30th, Coronet, Valpararso. Arrived from the river: Chilian, Lima; Ranavolo Manjaka, Cape Coast Castle. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 29.—E.5.E. to S.S.W. 30th, S. to S.W., hard and squally.—Arrived: 30th, Goede, Verivaek tine, Batavia. Pmatouvrt. Jan. 30.—N.E. to S.S.W.—Arrived : 28th, Ocean. Newfoundland. SCILLY, Jan. 28.—S.E.—Arrived: 27th, West India, Su rinam. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 30.—S.—Arrived: Susquehana, Phi ladelphia ; Columbia, New York ; Copia, Demerara. Sailed : 29th. Mary Hannah, and Thomas Hunter, Africa ; Seagull, and Zalesk.a, Howe Video; Harriet Augusta, New York; Malibran, Honduras. 30th, Hibernia (at.), Halifax. Off port 30th, Sir Robert Peel, New York. CORR, Jan. 26.—E N.E.—Arrived : Neptune, Calcutta, for Bristol. 27th, Bolton Abbey, Callao. Cowes, Jan. 30.—S.S.W.—Arrived: Talcahuana, Mata• dor ; and Malehin, Valp man*, both for Hamburg. KINSALE, Jan. 26.—E.S.E.—Arrived: Meliterranean, Calabar, for Liverpool. SNEER:sus, Jan. 29.—The Diligence, Sunderland to Lon don, was to:ally lost on the Maplin Sand, near the Black Teil Beacon, yesterday. LEITH, :an. 28.—The Sunderland Packet sprung a-leak 26th inst., off Flamborough Head, and went down at her anchor off Jack Heath this morning ; crew saved. BLYTH, Jan. 28.—Five loge of mahogany, and part of a ship's round house have come on shore here. It is blowing a strong Gale at E S.E. WHITBY, Jan. 30.—The sloop A'hbury, of and for Stock ton from Hull, got on Whitby Rocks this morning, but was assisted off and proceeded, makimt a little water. GRAVESEND, .1 in. 28.—T. e Pearl and the Elizabeth are on shore on the Cualbouse Point, but will be got off next tide. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 30.—The Susquehana, arrived here from Philadelphia, was in collision on the 23rd inst., forty milts below Tucker, with the Aram (at.), easterly, hence to Constantinople ; six men missing ; the remainder saved by the Suegueba..a. BELPAST, Jan. 29.—The smack Dee, from Liverpool to Glenarm, drove ashore from her anchors in Glenarm Day yesterday. WAUKWORTH, Jan. 29.—The Honour, of Blyth (coal ladtn), broke from her anchor ia Cogu, t Ronda ; and, in at tempting to enter this part, struck on the rocks, bilged, and filled. SOUTFINVOLD, Jan. 29.—A buoy with " GOEDE REEDE," painted on the head, has been picked up off this place. KINSALE, Jan. 23.—The M'D innell, from Alexandria, last from Cork and bound for London, has put in here leaky, and otherwise damaged, and r.ith c .ego shifted. DROGHEDA. Jan. 29.—The wind is still blowing a gale, but has veined from E. to E. by S. , with ra i n. The - Dart, from Glasgow, which sank in this hay, 10,h inst., is breaking ; part of her materiala are washing ashore. SHEERNESS, Jan. 28.—The M re, is on shore on Jerkin Sand, and fills every tide ; assistance has been sent. The It indeer, of Ilartstaiool, is on the main, near Southend, and fills every tide. ISLE or AILRAN, Jan. 27.—The Alceste, of and from Greenock to Trinidad, • ruck on Holy Island, last night, hilged, and sunk in ten feet of water, and is fest sinking deeper. CORK. Jan. 27.—The Bolton Abbey, arrived here today, from Callao, reports having passed the upper w .rks of a vessel, of about 300 .ors, apparently not British built, and net long in the water, on the 13th Nov. in lat. 13 S., long. 23 W. DUNDALK, Jan. 28.—The Lord. Nelson, of and from Liverpool to Africa, came on shore west side of the Bay to day; and unless the weather moderates she may become a wreck. REDCAR, Jan. 30.—The Standly, of Whitby, and the Elizabeth, of Newcastle, got on the rocks this morning and came off with the tide : damage not known. Batnuntercrte, Jan. 30.—Scone mere pieces of mahogany have been picked up here, marked L 58,212, D.H. 58, D.H., D. 11. 19 N 16 15. r THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1848. T ; he terpregg. The it foe New 'loath Wales, Yen Dlesben's Land, and SIN Zealand will be made up on the 'rennin of the 31st hammy. The mails for the West Coast of Arne... and Medeirs will be insibe up on the evening of the 31st January. The West Wm Mails, 'minding Bermuda, Nassau, Hayman. 1/0 ,, d0e ,, Now Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, sag exeluding thaw for Madeira, Jar Sou Carthagena, Santa Martha, Panama, West Coast of South Arnerbm, and tit. Juan.cte. Nicaragua, will be made up oti the morning of the 2nd February. 311 e overland mail. In for lamina, Mahn, (dream, the Lonna tinitoris. Ifgy ce T ion, a* Hong- K ong, and China, 'onSouthampton. „TA 'b e merle up on the morning of the 3rd February. The mails for the Brazils, the Kern Plate, Monte Wee, Fanims. suco, Bahia. Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be Naha n• al Ow emning of ths 4th February. T he m ans tar Vigo, Oporto, Liahon, ifellebra, Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of re 7th February. flu overland elosoil mall% Via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean g g y l ,4, Aden, Ceylon, India, lien Kong, &a, will be made Up On the evening of the 7th tannery. TO COROZSPONDUITS. • Adrertiormeots iotooded foe The Ram... Loam Imanlag paper. so• ' olke.lo.lltoworbootewet. be Two eeloolg Go tea day of ►olelleauoo. FllOll WiTRIII AT•IArII/03 Raiont. T DAY— 000r0 , 03. Past 9 ; *Rm.. 21 ra15.340110. T•4I —Yams& 3 sir past 11 Altarsoso, mts. past I. LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 31. We apprehend;' there can be little doubt that the Court of Queen's Bench will give judgment t morrow, in accordance with the wishes of all persons who dislike ecclesiastical disturbance. We noticed during the course of the discussion at the bar, almost all the principal points which were urged on either side; and we have seen nothing to change our original opinion, that the act of confirmation is essentially ministerial, and that the writ of mandamus must go, if at all, on the ground. that some essential parts of the ministerial duty were omitted by the commis sioners. As, however, the applicants for the rule naturally repudiate this construction of the matter, and claim to impose upon the Archbishop a substantial judicial duty, the court remembering that the writ of mandamus is a writ of discretion and not of right, will probably not grant it for the mere purpose of correcting an informal proceeding. If, contrary to our expectation, the rule should be made absolute, the question will be by no means settled. The Archbishop and his officials will in that case have to make a re turn to the writ, in which the constitution and powers of the Vicar-General's court will be formally set out. This return the opposite party can either traverse in point of fact, in which case the issue must be tried by a jury, or demur to it as insufficient in law. Ii may be assumed that no matter of fact will come into ques tion in the case. The effect of a demurrer would be to raise for the consideration of the court all the ques tions which have already been presented to their con sideration, as well as any additional points which might arise on the return. The matters already dis cussed would, of coulee, not be re-argued at length : but the court would again decide as before, subject to the revision of a court of error, which cannot be called upon to consider the judgment on the motion for a mandamus. In such a case the ques tion would, no doubt, however the Exchequer Cham ber might decide, be carried to the 'louse of Lords; and if the supreme tribunal decided that the return was bad, the archbishop and his officials would at last be compelled to hear the objections of the oe posers. Some of our readers may recollect a juvenile work in which a child who wants a piece of bread is obliged to go through all the preliminary processes necessary to the production of it. First he is sent to the blacksmith to get a ploughshare—then to the farmer, who is to plough and sow—the miller and baker perform their duties in turn—and now, it is said at the conclusion, you may have the piece of bread and butter. The processes of law are longer than , those of art and nature ; and more than one revolu- , tion of the seasons would take place before Dr. HAMPDEN'S opponents would get their bread and butter ; or compel the reluctant archbishop to read the Bampton Lectures. In the expectation that the judicious kindness of the Queen's Bench will save them from such lingering anxiety, we should be glad to satisfy them that some, at least, of the grounds on which they rely are alto- ! gether untenable. Mr. PEACOCK, who, certainly nut from any want of learning or ingenuity, made the only short speech on eitht r side, contented himself mainly with two clever fallacies, in the form of a reductio ad absurdum. Would a bishop, he asked, be compelled to confirm blindly, if the bishop elect was to his knowledge under the lawful age of thirty years? If not he must have a discretion; and if he has a discretion in that case, he must have it in the case of Dr. HAM P DEN. We answer that the arch• bishop must in all ca-es confirm a person lawfully no minated and elected. A person under the age of thirty years labours ander a statutable disqualification, which cannot be alleged to exist in Dr. llsmenee's case. , A nomination of such a person by the crown would be simply unlawful and void ; nor would it be neces sary for the archbishop to establish the fact of the disqualification by any judicial inquiry. Once satisfied of the fact, he might simply treat the royal mandate as a nullity, and dec.ine to take any steps to carry it out. On a return to a 'mandamus to proceed to con firmation, or in defending an indictment either at common law or under the statutes of prmmunire, it would be sufficient to show that the nomination was illegal, and therefore not entitled to obedience. Dr. HAMPDEN'S disqualification, if any, is only prospective and contingent on a possible judicial decision, which, as we contend, no tribunal has power to deliver. In refusing, therefore, to confirm him the archbishop would disobey the law. In refusing to confirm a minor, he would only disobey an illegal and void com mand. The disqualification by age was no doubt selected by Mr. PEACOCK as the most certain bar to a legal appointment. We are not aware that any other statutable disqualificat on for the episcopal office exists, though we presume that the appointment of a woman would be void at common law. Mr. BADDELEY doubts whether the crown could not nominate a lay man ; and we are not prepared to solve his doubt. If so, the archbishop would be bound to confirm his election ; and the resistance to the appointment must be reserved for the consecration. The same remark will apply to a great part of the arguments in favour of the mandamus ; awd especially to the difficulty suggested by Mr. PEACOCK, and repeated by Sir F. KELLY, as to the proper course to be adopted by an archbishop if the bishop elect should refuse to answer in the proper from the questions prescribed by the consecration service. !Without anticipating legal difficulties which have not yet arisen, we will under take to guarantee any archbishop against the curse quences, who shall refuse to complete the consecration of any bishop who may be so perverse as to unswer the question " Do you believe the Scriptures, &e -" No, I don't." And to the inquiry, whether he will perform the duties of his office—" No, I won't." But, however this may be, we cannot see what it has to do with the confirmation. It is as easy to imagine such eccentricity where an archbishop has confirmed of his own choice, as where he hue been compelled to per form the ceremony by law. In ether case the diffi culty does not arise till consecration, and the conse cration, with its contingencies, are at present in no sense before the Cum tof Queen's Bench. It is to the freedom of consecration also, and not of confirmation, that the long string of prect dents ad duced from ecclesiastical history by Mr. BADDELEY apply, if they apply at all, lie showed that the metropolitan had irequentiy exercised the right or power of inquiring . into the character of bisho r s pro posed for consecration; but it did not appear that the investigation formed a part of the ceremony of con firming. An archbishop might satisfy himself that the candidate pessessed the requisite qualificatiocs by personal examination, by private inquiry, by com mon rumour, at least as effectually as in the court of his vicar-general. But Mr. BADDELEY must have meant to contend, if his argument had any bearing on the rule under discussion, that after full inquiry and investigation, possessing . perhaps an intimate personal knowledge of the faith and morals of the bishop elect, the Archbishop might still be compelled against his will to hold a formal trial, on the motion of any voluntary actor in a suit, of the competency of the candidate of whom he had already fully approved. The Archbishop or CANTERBURY appears before the court as approving or not disapproving of Dr. HAMPDEN. If he has a right to form a judgment in the matter, why should not the court assume that he had formed it before the day of confirmation? No authority was brought to show that he was bound to form it on that day - through his VICAR-GEN EILSL. But we arc, in fact, here arguing on a false assump tion. Mr. BADDELEY deduced the supposed power of the archbishop from his character of metropolitan, whereas he only confirms by a commission from the crown. Sir F. KELLY (on the authority of the case of " DICAB v. Lord BROUGHAM) argued that wherever a duty is cast on an archbishop be brings to the per haseanceof itallthe privileges and powers of the archi episcopal character. But he forgot, and Mr. B&DDait forgot, to state that the confirmation of bishops's not exclusively assigned to the archbishop of the pro vince. Any other prelates may be lacted by the crown for the office—e. camahistve proof that, where the archbishop is in font minded with the duty, his power is derived treat, an mit es lied by, the royal coin mini.= The choice given y to the crown as to the to whom the commission may issue, en • supersedes all arguments in favour of the metropolitan rights of the archbishop, derived either from canon law or from the practice of ecclesiastical antiquity. In the case of " Dime v. Lord Brougham," if the jurisdiction in bankruptcy had been given in the alternative to the Lord Chancellor or the chief magistrate at Bow-street, it could never have been contended that it was meant to enforce it by the peculiar powers inherent by law in the great seal. By keeping the questions of confirmation and con secration separate, our renders will also be assisted in forming a judgment of the long and eloquent spinals which were made by counsel to the common sense and religious feeling of the judges. It was urged that it was dangerous to religion that the church should be compelled to receive unworthy bishops. But argu ments from expediency and policy can only be ad mitted in courts of law when the legislature has been silent on the point under consideration. The fact that five or six English bishoprics, and all the Irish bishoprics, are at present given by letters patent, without election, and therefore without confirmation, may be considered as a legal decision that the judicial functions claimed for the archbi.hop are not indis pensable in the appointmen of bishops. Even in the present case, if the De t an of HEREFORD had kept his promise of refusing to elect, the Crown would have appointed Dr. HAMPDEN, and the scene at Bow Church would never have taken place. If free confirmation is essential, it must be essential in all cases. In a large number of cases the law has decided that it is unne cessary. If it is binding in the remaining instances, it must be so by virtue of some positive law, and not from any legal rccoeuition of its general expediency. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL well showed in hie reply that the possible absurdities which had been deduced by Sir F. KELLY and others as the consequence of treating the forms of confirmation as fictions, were by no means confined to that stage of the proceedings. Sir F. KELLY admitted that the election is a mere ceremony and shadow, notwithstanding the religious formalities with which it is celebrated. The confir mation is properly the completion of the election, and there is no presumption that it is intended to bear a more substantial character. We believe that the Auchtemrder case, to which the Arrottnee-GENERAL referred for the first time in his reply, will be found to bear more nearly on the real question between the advocates of the respective claims of the church and the crown than any other which has been cited. The point where a real diffi culty may hereafter arise is the same which occa sioned the disruption of the Scottish Kirk, the inter ference of the civil power with the conferring of orders. In the present case, no such difficulty is likely to occur; nor can it ever affect the question of confirmation. A bishop translated to a new see re quires confirmation, but not consecration—a test which proves that the power sought to be thrust on the archbishop is not that which, in all cases, has been considered exclusively spiritual, of conferring degrees in the ministry. It is in the utmost degree inexpedient to stir without necessity cluestione, involving difficulties in their solution, which have hitherto been latent. In the present case, the oppo nents of the bishop elect have opened the whole ques tion of ecelesiasti( al claims, when they were not in substance disputed. They might at least have waited till the crown had nominated a bishop, and afterwards failed to find four existing bishops willing to conse crate him. TIIERE can no longer be say doubt that the friends of free tradewill be called upon, when parliament meets, to struggle against the adoption of a retrograde policy —to oppose a strong effort to compel ministers to fall back into the old wheel-tracks and ruts of protection. The report of the acting committee of the West India body contains the declaration of war. This attempt to unsettle, the deliberate judgment of the legislature is sought to be justified on the plea that "the exist ing sugar law cannot be regarded as a deliberate act of the parliament—much less of the country. It was proposed at the close of the session, when all parties wero exhausted by the virulent debates on the cora laws, and when five hundred members of the House of Commons and a great ma jority of the House of Lords were absent." This is empty cavilling about forms. The subject had been investigated in repeated committees, had been debated over and over again in both houses during several sessions. The five hundred members of the House of Commons and the majority of the house of Lords knew what the ministerial bill pro posed, and could have been there to oppose 1. had they deemed it mischievous. Their absence was equiva lent to a vote that protracted inquiry and discussion had convinced them it was a safe measure. We do not, however, object on this account to the policy which the anti-free-traders have resolved to pursue. We do not hold that any vote of parliament, either deliberate or rash, ought to put an end to discussion. We hold that the attempt to repeal a measure unjust or hurtful in itself may warrantably commence the very moment it lies become law. But the agitators against the new law must be prepared to take the risks of such a mode of proceeding along with the contingent advantages. The patties now in the field to obtain a repeal of the existing Sugar Ditties Act cannot, therefore, complain of any un certainty in the sugar markets consequent upon the Imeasures they arc taking, however injurious to their pockets. And they must make up their minds to see the whole question re-opened. Ministers, in so far as Lord Joins RUSSELL'S and Earl GREY'S replies to certain deputations and Mr. GIBSON'S declarations at Manchester enable us to judge, willtake up the ground of keeping the act unaltered. Bat it is open to any independent member to move, that if the act is to be altered the alteration shall consist of substituting immediate equalisation of the sugar duties for a gra dual process of equalisation spread over five years. A good deal might be said in support of such a proposal. The present agitation shows that the pro tected sugar interests are employing the term of grace allowed them, not in honest strenuous efforts to pre pare themselves to meet the unlimited competition of I free trade, but in intrigues to avoid it When 1851 I comes they will not at this rate have taken one step' to place themselves in a condition to compete with foreign sugar-growers on equal terms. What is the use of granting them time to prepare, when they will not use it ? They have acted in this way from the beginning. They never admitted the possibility of free labour being enabled to compete with slave labour under any circumstances until their slaves were emancipated. Then, indeed, they declared that by means of a large continuous immigration of free la bourers of tropical race they might at some indefinite period be able to produce sugar at less cast by free labour than by slave labour. But the apathy and in difference with which they have pros:-ed this point, compared with their desperate efforts to uphold ex elusive duties, show how little in earnest they were. IThey have moved heaven and earth—they have made overtures to every industrial and to every poli tical interest in succession, to obtain allies in their s t r uggles ag ainst free trade ; but their efforts to obtain free immigration have been desultory and variable. In the report of the standing committee of the West India treaty, already alluded to, some suggestions upon emigration from Africa to the West Inoia colo nies are printed, and said to have been submitted "on several occasions" to Earl GREY. They contain in substance the views advocated with great zeal and ability by Mr. NIACGREGOR LAIRD as long ago as 1810 (if not indeed earlier), and which were pressed upon ministers and members of parliament by that gentleman, in concert with several leading West Indians, at least as long ago as 1811. Mr. LAIRD was in earnest ; he bad even the moral courage to debate the question at an anti-slavery meeting in Exeter Hall. He stuck to his point. But he was not backed by his West Indian allies, who would only urge the matter in a dainty diplomatic fa-hion in the colonial office ; who shrunk from public and parliamentary discussion ; and who, instead of earnestly and continu ously labouring to promote their plan, turned away in assembly to run after every new phantasy—to ' seek labourers from Malta, from India, or anywhere. If they have not had a steady, ample immigration of free labourers from Africa for years back, it is the ~\ fault of flair own infirmity of purpose. They have it not, sad they never will have it, till they are com pelled by the pressure of free-trade competition to wet about it in earnest. Fully aware of tho severe hardships to which im mediate free trade competition will expose the sugar interest—anxious that every innovation of general benefit should be brought about with the least pos sible amount of individual suffering—we have reluct antly arrived at the conclusion, that immediate equal isation of the sugar dillies would in the end be the best service that can be done to the agitators against the sugar duties act. They will never believe in the approach of free trade till it is upon them. And so long as a glimpse of hope that protective duties can be up held remains, they will neither alter their ways of transacting business, nor their general mode of living, to accommodate themselves to the altered circum stance in which they are placed. It is not very easy to ascertain what the protectionists ask with regard to sugar. Sometimes their language is so framed that one would infer that they only ask for terminable protective duties, to be abolished when' their supply of labour is adequate; sometimes that permanent protective duties are their object. Some times they would appear to ask only a differential duty of 10s. per cwt. on foreign sugar; but at others, their language will bear the interpretation that the exclusion of slave-grown sugars, with the differential I duty of 101. per cwt. on foreign free-labour sugar of 1844, is what they aim at. The truth is, that they are determined not to commit themselves by mention ing any definite amount or duration of protection, in order that it may:remain open to them, to ask as much as they can get. Taking their lowest apparent demands, they wanted 10e. per cwt. of differential duty on foreign sugars,;in stead of the actual rates and for a longer period than they are to last under the existing law, or, more de finitely, until our British sugar-growers can compete with foreign sugar-growers. This phrase, as we have already shown, is equivalent to a permanent pro tective duty, for the past conduct of oar West Indian sugar-growers shows that they never will exert themselves so as to be able to compete on equal terms with foreigners until compelled by necessity. Well, the effect of a permanent differential duty of 10s. per cwt., or 101. per ton., will be this, that out of the total sum received for every ton of sugar by the British grower, 101. will be not price, but a tribute, a tux paid in addition to the price by the British con sumer. And this tax will be paid, not for the support of government, but to enable certain individuals to live in comparative idleness. We concede to the planter aid merchant that the whole of this tax of 101. on every ton of sugar will not go into their pockets. A part of it—a large part of it—w ill go to the negro labourers in the West Indies. The tax will enable our West India proprietors and mortgagees to continue the sys tem profitably under which the negro labourer in the West Indies, by working seven hours a day for five days in the week, and frequently for less, can earn enough to indulge habitually is his bottled porter and madeira, and eat and dress in a corresponding style. We put the question to every man and woman in the country, from the duke and duchess, to the overtasked artisan and the tambouring girl or bone-lace knitter, will they be contented to pay such a tax for such a LORD TORRINGTON, who recently went out governor of Ceylon, has procured the dismissal of Captain WARNER, commanding one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers, in a very cruel and unwarrantable way. His lordship, on embarking, evidently deemed that his rank and office placed him far above the rules, regulations, and decencies that pre vail in a vessel destined to carry passengers. Every one who has been on board a ship knows the extreme jea lousy and distinction observed between first and second class passengers, servants being always, and of necessity, included amongst the latter. Amongst these rule is the reservation of the quarter-deck to first-class passengers. Lord TORRINGTON, of course, entered his domestics as second-class passengers, but he afterwards insisted that they should be free of the quarter-deck and have first-class rights. Captain WARNER objected, and, as in duty bound, informed Lord TORRINGTON'S servants, that although they might walk the quarter-deck at most hours, yet at the particular hour of the lady-passengers' promenade, viz., from six to ten in the evening, ho expected they would retrain. The ledy-domestics of Lord TORRINGTON, however, insisted on walking arm-in-arm at this time. When forbidden to do so by Captain WARNER., his lordship in dudgeon withdrew his family, and made a com plaint to the Peninsular and Oriental Company,which has been so over-obsequious as to dismiss the captain. We think the conduct of the governor of Ceylon I very overbearing. With such very high and dignified airs, Lord TORRINGTON should have gone out in a king's ship, but then, by the bye, his servants would not have been allowed to walk the quarter-deck. Or he should have hired one of the Peninsular boats to himself, by which his lordship would have avoided that rode arrogance towards the captain and towards his fellow-passengers, which he has followed up by obtaining the dismissal of the former, Our Paris correspondence of Saturday has arrived. The chamber continues the debate on the address, which, as is usual in the French parliament, is the occasion on which the opposition assails the ministry on all the vulnerable points of its con duct and policy. The debate of Friday was marked by bitter personalities, and flee reproduction of the often-repeated charges of official corruption com mitted in the affair of the act sought by the post me...ters for a consideration of 1,200,0001., the c. m plicity of the ministry in the traffic of a theatrical license for 100,0001., also 400,0001. promised to cer tain persons for bringing in a bill, and the dis4raceful traffic in the affair of Petit, implicating M. Guizot as a principal. M. Emile de Girardin, chief editor and proprietor of La Presse, made a sharp attack on M. Hebert, the Minister of Justice, calling him a " Tar tufe de Justice." Being called to order by the pre sident, first he refused to accept the call, and then accepted it in words, but rejected it with the most contemptuous and disdainful gestures. During this debate great agitation prevailed in the chamber, the majority desiring to put an end to the discussion and come to a division on the paragraph, which at length was adopted. The debate on Italy was adjourned till Saturday, on the motion of M. de Lamartine, who is inscribed to speak upon it,. IMPORTANT POLITICAL REFORM GRANTED BY THE KING OF NAPLES. We have received most important and gratifying intelligence from Naples, which will be regarded as the harbinger of peace in the communes of the Two Sicilies, and as setting the seal upon the political re generation of the entire Italian peninsula. It appears that on the evening of the 18th, the day of the depar ture of the last Naples mails, King Ferdinand resolved on yielding to the general will of the people and adopting a course of policy and administrative and political reform similar to those already effected by the sovereigns of Sardinia, Rome, and Tuscany. In accordance with this resolution four royal or donnances were published in the official Gazette of Naples on the evening of the 18th. These deer, es involve toe two great principles of representation and freedom of discussion through the agency of the press. Their spirit,in short,is identifiedwith that of the new institutions of the other liberalised states of Italy. By the first decree two councils of state are esta blished—one in Naples and the other in Sicily, which arc invested with the following functions :-1. To ex press their opinion on all projects of law and general regulations. 2. To examine and express an opinion on financial questions—such as budgets, public debt, loans, &c. l. To give their opinion on all treaties of commerce, on taxes, excise, and tariff,' in general. 4. To examine and judge of the petitions of the pro vincial councils. The communes or townships of Na:lcs and Sicily are declored to be invested with administrative right over their own revenues under the superint , u 4 .ence of the King's government, and the Council of State is directed to present this subject, the basis of which shall be the free election of the members of the municipal councils of the townships or communes re spectively. Such is an outline of the first of these four royal decrees. The second ordonnance declares Sicily to be inde pendent of Naples, and Naples of Sicily, in their administrative and judicial organisation. All offices in Sicily are to be filled by Sicilians, and in Naples by Neapolitans. This °rein:mance is declared to be applicable not only prospectively but retrospectively to all appointments made within the last four months, which must be so modified as to be brought into ac cordance with it. The third ordonnance appoints extraordinary Celia,cillors of State, consisting of the heads of dep ic t, ments at Naples or in Sicily, according as the king sojourns at the one or the other place. The fourth ordonnance declares Count D'Acquile, I • rince of the blood royal, Lieutenant-General of bicily, with a cabinet under him composed as follows : Prime Minister, the Prince of Campo-Franco; Minister of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, the Duke de !Sou. talbo; Finance and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Guiseppe Buongiardino ; Grace and Justice, Giovanni Cassis'. On the following day (the 19th) another royal ordonnance was published establishing the liberty of the press, on the same conditions as have been in. stituted in the other reforming states of Italy. An these ordonnances are countersigned by the Marqui s Pietra-Catella, the well-known representative of enlightened reform. Letters from Milan of the 22nd say that an order had arrived in that city front Vienna to arrest about fifty persons, most of whom belong to the higher classes of society. The following were arrested:— The Marquis Rosales, president of the Union Club; Count Cresar Battaglia; the young Marquis Ciesar Soncino Stampo ; and some others. Rosales was placed in the dungeons of Santa Margarita; Batie. glia and Sonde() were sent away from Milan under escort. Tneir destination was a mystery. In the number of arrests effected were those of the Marqui s Filippo Villani, who was formerly well known in Pans ; Count Pertusalli ; and Count Ercule formerly an officer in the Austrian army. Creo r Cantu, a literary man well known in France, and Bellardi, a physician, were also to have been arrested, but they eluded the vigilance of the police, and pained I the frontier. Thu wife of Villini went to the viceroy, and alicited the liberation of her husband. It wee granted, but when she went to the director of police, Torsani, he refused to release the marquie, observing . I that the viceroy should mind his own business. The Madrid mails of the 22nd and 23rd have arrived. The bill relative to notaries again occupied the whole of the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the pie, vious day. Several congratulatory addresses to Fis. partero from different towns are published iii the Be* del amerce,. The Faro says that the general had determined to go to Logrono. The Queen, it is said, intended to give several masked and other balls during the carnival time. FRANCE,—LOII3 or AN ENOLTRTI Surr.—Ao. counts from La Rochelle state that au English vessel of three masts was loid on the night of Jim. 17-8, on the Csabre Point, between Mathes and La Tremblaie, Of the crew, 17 in number, only three were able to gain the shore. The vessel wn the Idalion of 440 tons, hound from L.mdom for Bordeaux with a cargo of coals, which, with the veuel, RIM completely 104. Toe captain, John Kieth, is one of the three who escaped. PORTUGAL. [The following appeaied in a second edition of the Expre sa on Saturday.] The Oriental Company's steam-packet Madrid, Captain John Weeks, arrived at Southampton, on Saturday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. \V. P. Newenham, Admiralty agent. Her dates are--Gibraltar, Jan. 15; Cadiz, 16; Lisbon, 19 ; Vigo, 22. For full intelligence we refer to the letter of our correspondent : LISBON, Jae. 19. My lest letter will have informed you of the formal installation of the Portuguese Cortes, and of the opening of the parliamentary session, and at the same time of the impel. eibility of at once proceecing to public business from the non-arrival in the capital of the requisite number of deputies to legally constitute a house. Siuce then affairs have but little improved. The detained steamers from the north were anxiously looked for, and on the 10th instant the earnestly wished for cargoes of court nominees invoiced and consigned to COlLlCabral, ex Porto and Mindello, came into the Tagus, and, to follow up the figure, "said cargoes" may he repre sented to have arrived in good and sound condition. The two steamers together, however, brought but some fourteen or fifteen members, end have again been despatshed to Oporto to fetch more, and up to this moment the number of deputies in Lisbon has not reached the number required to proceed to serious business. Notwithstanding this, parliament meets daily, and upon a motion of the president (the notorious Padre Marcos, the Queen's confessor), the members have proceeded to form theme, lees into committees to try the validity of their own elections. As there happens to be no opposition the comfortable way in which their decisions are arrived at, and the agreeable unanimity prevailing, is quits charming to witness ; the novel way by which Padre Marco proposed getting over the difficulty of an insufficiency of members present well deserves to be recorded. The Macedo nian's feat in the destruction of the ei ordian knot must after this be for ever cast into the shade. Padre Marcos suggested, that although seventy two members were not present as required by law, yet as very many of those present had been elected fur more than one place, nhy then, by counting heads upon the prin ciple of one deputy representing half-a-dozen constituencies, • very respectable house was presented ; thus, Mr. A. for in stance, elected for Braga and for Guirnaraes, counted for two, and Mr. Somebody else, returned for four or five dis tricts (Costa Cabral's brother for example), should be con sidered as a personation of four or five individuals. This mode of mastering &difficulty, doubtless,hadita conveniencies, and the illustrious and independeut assembly met the pro position by its frank and formal adoption, there being only three dimenticnts. For the preeent this must suffice of parliamentary doings. It had been supposed that be fore this there would have been some modification of the ministry, the more so as it is known teat the Duke of Saldanha, the nominal head of the Cabinet, is to have the Madrid Embassy, but with the exception of an insignificant appointment of • Brigadier SEa, the commander of the household troops, to be minister of war, held ad interim up to his time by the Duke of Saldanha, there has been no change. In fact, the solitary feature of importance, upon which some few words may be said, is a project of financial reform, attributed to the new finance minister, Falcao, who proposes by certain economies to re duce the expeuditure of the country to a par with its in come ; the plan is everywhere being discussed, and causes no slight sensation. M. Faleao's project 11, • simple one, and is stated to be as follows: A fair and equal reduction in the salaries of every public employs , , and of every public personage, commencing from her a jesty the queen, the royal houeshold, the deputies of , the cones, down to the ensign in the army and the humblest guard on the Customs-house Quay. This is stated to be the views of the finance minister, and he is moreover represented as being thoroughly iu earnest. Shoud such a plan be pm posed to the tortes, it will be seen how the proposal will be met, and whether the protocol deputies will consent to vote away any portion of their own daily . six crowns. Both libenl and royalist journals will give their staunchest support to such • measure, but the muliater will be • bold mau to pro pose kis remedy to • cortes composed of the hungry ad herents of the Cabrals. I much tear me M. Falcao will find but few supporters in his plan of financial reform. The arrival on the 15th iost , of R.M. Steamer, Temble, having on board Mr. Norton, recently appointed unpaid attache, at this court, has given rise to much speculation,; she is reported to have brought important despatch , s for Sir IL Seymour. The Terrible went out the following day. The Asia came into the Tagus al-o a few days bock, with the flag of Rear Admiral llornby, Cll., on board. She had sustained some damage, and had sprung her main yard ; she has since been refitted, and proceee.led on her voyage to Rio de Janeiro. In the squadron there is small novelty. Sir iglu Napier, however, has done the nav y here good eervice gene- I rani ; at the close of the old y ear the Admiral caused to be inserted in the public journals an advertiement, submitting the contract for the supple log the Tagus fleet with (fedi beef to public competition ; the consumption on board such a squad-on as the English have here is immense. and its supply has ever been in Lisbon a sort of monopoly, where private interest, and not the public service, had prioress By making the supply an open contract, the Admiral has e ffectually knocked the old system on the head. With some of the shore folks this motto is fax from popular, for parties who have grown rich bul mg her Majesty's ships considered themselv s es having acquired a sort of prescriptive right to dip their bends into ' John Bull's pocket, in fact, deemed it an Invasion of vested rights. The admiral, by this judicious step, not wily secures supplies of the very primest quality o et o large saving to the English g overnment. An Esg will, should the fleet o.ak t any stay, lishman, • blr. Price, was the successful competitor fo r the contract. Sir Charles has his establishment o n shore, sad may be co nstantly seen driving about the town. f be be th el ni r , h e is ns cre a ws . , , b eu ut There is little business of any kind doin g; in feet, con fidence has received a shock it will be loug ere it recovers; and the present aspect of affairs is anything but escooreging. The exchange on London is at thirty days, 531 i; dp, 531 t 3 54. Sovereigns are 4,500 dollars, 920 ; and th e dis count upon the articles, by • polite fiction called rookhonotes, may be nominally quoted something over 40 pe The Naeao, publishing the official returnee rom Opato, states the exportation of port wines, during year en the 31st of December, 1847, to be as follows: To Eng 23,3,54 pipes ; other pare of Europe, 1,264 ; ports of Port . . and Colonies, 163; United States, 2,118 • Brazil, 2,, 62, other countries, 961.—Total, 30,622. And of brandyl6ld sa geropiga :To England , 393 pipes; other countries, ; ports of Portugal and colonies, 11; United State, 201; Braz 1 , I.—Total, 833. From the Oporto journals we learn that the law suit, 10 long pending in the Portuguese courts, between the Count of Farrabo and Manoel Joaquin' Pimentel, has been finally adjudicated by the supreme tribunal of that city. The Ma in the contract of tobacco, many years farmed by either it artanmoncepotf thee csauwit,efsrocmdetblareesi.mmiehr qauranotioonntathizuieu,colassesiio gant. The Count has been defeated ; and the interest rotted in the decision equals in amount 1,200 centoe ins rein, or about 280,6001. British. UNITE] On Saturda: received by th Liverpcol, wi. Boston 15th, r tc The eongre•+i which has elai .3 contain much , In the serial , , by Mr. Calho a to the effect To conquer Mel porateit to the on • • or which the war n policy of the go, I . and in the cod C ' America ; and 11. the war, +hound b• • dinntroun. Mr. Calhou . i more than at original oppo.i from the outset, necessity inf less the deferei adopted, thee.• would then be l the recommend the war to its t subjugation of the annexation the States of • it would nil standing arre tranquillity t n the Union, t and mixed-I' associatioa Pit was, in Mr. t ' America to di in, except to into its own 1,. back upon a I n would withdi . of Mexico. il on in this caree death warrant become but a would be in, vi the administr base debt, M. appealed to la —for he ci• ,si their steps. highest hones r. other side, w .0 measure —no h voting monei t tend to accep to a defensie , • li that side the . t the country and it was ir'le pose anything; ported, lie wuu to consider wh who would iv tunately pet sea now in this motion of Mr assent of Mr. ' the considerati On the sth Ten Itegimoi Mr. Crittenden amendment w to be engros!.. Regiments' lii third time.- -0 his resoluti, ns, be made with , motion of Mr. mitted by Mr. Moon made a s annexing the Mexico, in ord , ropean mount. Yulee offer d lows : - RePolved, TI quire) by Ott Uni and the •-ovetown _ BCiert Malt, ! feieg - 4:4 rent right, t o ot TOM tics, by winch the to acquire and impaired or cot Mr. Hale stitute the ro Reeolyni, I . i.tt ditioad of Oh conquest, or itt encTielzauthilit CANA] A. exalting auinee matter. eor (the latest tte parliament, it doubtful. lt'r. and Mr. Tu , co wards of 00 having beer. by a row. Dumoultn, .74 forcibly erne of Mr. Pole te' record th. it Co the poll Ow. tl, ing to law. N was rumour d return to I la have been e.. NEW are to the b h from Earl t re The c inquire in the caus. cultivati.nt which b Emenci .e That •,D1 Aet, of I ,e 140 bed he, pundhear • la the ,T MM. r•At abirdow Imai, am: h 28,00 lo ens .4 peashoo. ahowi 211.1 spa