The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

A RT JOURNAL and ILLUSTRATED CATA LOGUE of tbe GILEAt tug ntmlwr t.. for teeeeseee hero :VOA te 30,•414, fT. 0 Imo of ‘111.13 i. Btu/anted to contain tit , Advetun went ;est OSCe, Merl t...N. oel c m...116,re theinst.int. berousts-eltsabtre, 49. gite erprosls.. TO COILItESPONDENTS. • Steed FAWee •f " The Fa pens," cestalnieg he am* evening's tleeeete," i pubettud teary Tuesday eel Friday mei', in time be pd. lideetbeeseeetelete•d eft ler "The Express." bowies Eeenielf D.P.; roust be et the reek.,lfeetverte•aueet, by Two o'clock us the day of pubacellos. 111611 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE s 1 DAT —Stornms. 511. Afternoon, sb. 51 ob. 61, AitATOOOIII, 6b. 311 m. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 21. Nests was a period of more universal peace than the present, se that, in truth, nothing could be better timed than fixing May, IS3I, for our great Exhibi tion. And it is the better timed from the too evident symptoms that the present state of European tran quillity does nut promise to be durable. Prince Aantar announced from the first the great show and the gnat gathering of things and men beneath Ma l p a tronage tic he a great era of peace and goodwill amongst nations. And we are not prepared to gainsay the prediction. For great wars between nation and nation are not amongst the evils or the troubles which threaten. The last three years have shown boa reluetant either monarchs or people are to go to war with their neighbours, and how fully they nicaatere the danger. the expenais. and the in coveniences of such a policy. It is not in fact in ternational wars which threaten. but civil wars, and civil wars of a nature to preclude the possibility of internat • al warn. It is imptesible to he blind to the fact that not one of the great countries of the continent ha. succeeded in f o unding any thing like a durable. all equitable. a ratiafaetory giceernment. The people tried in Dila, each after their faaliion, to effect reform , . and found go vernments. ilhey failed moat miserably, and public writers have scouted them as the flutist worthless 164;um for not hoeing been able even to govern. The military, and the kittens of the military. auereetled to the absclute power which the ptacjile enjoyed, power more ulasolute titan their sovereigns or cilia's Moses wed ni 1417. But of this power, although bawd upon an irresistible army, they have been ueable to make any more Than a temporary ww. Sercereigna, and statesmen, and notables have shown themselves just as incapable as the nienst mob orator that started up in the streets of Lilian-. Look at Germany, or contemplate its sepa rate kiinnlons. 'Fake Austria. It is there admitted by the military powers that the empire can only exist as a military despotism; and that even then elevat ion is not sate at home, except it ran extend its in- - dunsee and domination abroad. In other words, dcapotiani is out safe at Vienna, unless it (aridly re vied. ever Italy and over Germany, dictates its lass at Naples and Berlin, as well as Frankfota The imperial eagle covers all the ground with its outatretcheal wings; and et we know that in its own bosom, at Vhaina itself. the state of feeling. not merely with the mob. but with the educated Chutes, is more in tutisly, mid rabidly, and fearfully nwolutionary, than Pieria was even in 179'2. Thonighout all Ger many kindred feeling.. predierninate. Never in the mutat-. of the woad acre the- feeling. of forty mil lions of null in such a fearful state of silent and of JJ I !!! NIS unuuimity. On the smciath surface and around the dormant crater of this volcano the pleni patent juries of German wove-reign% have been holding acetylene council. And of that council all who pricimised to afford the boat aatisfaction, the antallest guarantee to its German have been scouted and satiny& Aut. cracy, Ituaaiati autocracy, with Crean buy as. that is the pg.:mourn tooodoolr with Senn Zl:Sittate.. his one and only principle of government. he coaarelly IldeielllUSlll , 4 that this is wrong. Prusaia Its altrugged its shouldere and submitted. Not daring to mist .austria in the field, bentiew it feared its ono canted people. lVen nacre than Austria. the Prussian court has still found eon cel.stion in its sal 'shin. in pencieing that Aus tria Its linked its future fortunes and its hold of Ocitieemy with the perishable principle of abso lutism and military dictation. Prussia submits. and demands the old shoes cra of Pal?. the Frankfurt Diet. malt all its nullity, its caducity, ridieule. If the Frankfart !het. iv-instituted, t die good. it ca it do harm. Aa tin law eau Inas it Klee un;minnnrsly, any attempt at reformis impossible. It ineeely the old idol. Murk up as the pditical Juggernaut'', to await the hour of final and nnmiti gateel destruction. German people are delighted with the restoration of the Frankfort Diet under present eireutuatances. it is a confession of io c.lpwity tin the part of their sovereign.: it is. on their inn, an alielicafion of all right, claim. or hope tat warm, except temporarily and by titer. It is an ahantioninctit of the task of reairganiaing. uniting. or satisfying Germ:my—an nbandonnient of it to the people. wk. are a;atiii girding up their loins. and tin k nig up their sleeves. for their mode of action. The asounts from France, we• are worry to say, do not gist' us better hopes For the tirst time +inky the election of law fa X %lawns; prudent people begin to despair of a legal and ami cable aettlement the plain question. how to carry on gun ermitcut ? The 'Atm,. in an article which bore the official stamp eil the chief ministerial de intiment in Paris. stated the cans- tnely and plainly e gh in csying. that either the- constitu tion inuat Is• sin-diced to the government. or the government to the eunatitution." Government of Flatlec meals every-thing : it means the law Os well Os the mineary, and the chief of the exeeutive. Naeotaeoa, his gosertintent and ayseni. cannot, however, be runt' xl without a change. tit the constitution. 'That change is of the utmost difficulty to procure. Yet no our supposes that, if it he not procured. Leiria Naroiros tan he bawled out of olfiee. and either Cavate;a ee. or JulN vit.cy, or Boum ei - x put in, without n civil war. Whether. indeed, the conatitutiein itself could lw Avenged so as to admit the prolongation of power, without bloodahetlaseven this ia doubtful. M. levaia F teentai, however. has undertaken the task of procuring them• changes of the constitution. He is u exceirageoua. a talented. and an honest man. But se cannot, do not, augur well fur his surevaa. M. Opiates Balmier was also willing to do hia uttunat to effect the Kann purpose. But he was less sanguine of success than M. F %venue, and his cha raeter as a politician has not been one calculated to inspire contact's.. After M. lIAnnIIT . S UnteeellelltS. what penal' would trust his fortune to him? M. Rumor is unlucky. And yet M. 11%ararr proposed the. in lee liberal canna-, that of modifying the law nape' ting the franchise. and restoring to the better etas of the people those rights and intimuce which they aou in Isla. We must confess that if the chief or sovereign of the +tate is to be elected by the la ogle. the more %mice-rail the suffrage the better. There may lee some ellen*• for narrowing the suffrage which is to elect those who vote away the- public m 11l ey. ilu?if a soe ensign is to be electe'd. he ought to be popularly elected. A mere Doge of Velma , cannot hope to gave rit France. M. Beano r'S was, therefore. the mast literal view. but wan it that beet calculated to con ciliate opposition in the .Assembly? It is now idle to initiate. All that is material at present is to be I swan• that the powerful parties in the Ametubly are °planed to any change in the constitution. eau tiling the PaLatioaer to be re-elected; and that the earrving of such a law is more and more probl e mati c , M. Feta nem has appealed to the country through its 0121 lit IVA bodies. The greater the danger, if the majo li - rity of these' bodies ekeide on a course. the contrary the decision of the Assembly; fur this will Nit airage. Loots N eroaaos to an eater legal and • course. cannot, therefore. but entertain fear. for the : France. and fur the tranquil march of its aunt. For this we do not throw the blame PaEsIDLNT or his minister, so much us upon monarchic parties and their leaders, who are lug a most selfish and perverse part, that end either in their niumph or their pro ion. Never were certainly such polititid dogs manger, as Messieurs NEWIT ER. and TILLERS. cannot enable their own princes to "sign, but - .0 determined to allow no one else to do so, tlevi e! f rit tl 'o t tt ' r . .igt. We cam pra-c of F govt.runitst on the Pit tlik: mow playing mist eni saiptiau. in the MI who cann mho art i • 1 THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1851. and who consequently condemn France to commotion and civil war. We must confess, that what most grieves us in these continental prospects is their probable effects upon our English politics. With parties balanced as they are, with a general election not distant, with a new Reform Bill ins state of promise, wel can conceive nothing so untoward as a renewal of these continental disturbances which so alarmed' and flung us back in 1848 and 1849. Let us hope that we are w mug in our prognostic-. But, whatever be the results, it is quite evident, this time, that the true causes and originators of whatever dis turbances and revolutions may arise, are those generals, sovereigns, and statesmen, that upper official class, in fact, which monopolise political power throughout Europe, and who know no more how to make use of it, than the most decried of republicans. the past and present diplomatic relations of this country with the barbarous chiefs of South Africa. This morning the great bell of Notre Dame, which has been mute during the last four years, " swinging slow with sullen roar" announced to waking Parisi the dawn of Easter Sunday. For the moment, the I 'din of politics is hushed. The greater part of the - representatives have retired into the country; and the contentions of the parliamentary tribune have given place to the ceremonies of religion and the eloquence of the pulpit. Even the press loses some , what of its political tone ; and all serious newspapers seem to deem it their duty to aid the voice of the `pastor, by devoting the greater portion of their lead ing columns to pious exhortations, instead of discus sing the knotty questions of government. On the night of Good Iriday all that Paris holds of greatest distinction was assembled in the cathedral of Notre Dame to listen to the eloquence of Father ltavignan. Beside the Archbishop of Paris was seated the Pre sident, accompanied by Marshal Excelinans and his aides-de-camp. Near him was the Princess Marie of Baden. Mole, Montalembert, Lamoriciere, ear lier, the Duke de Bohan, and others of high rank and eminence attended the solemn service. M. de Lamartine has published in the Pays of to day a remarkable article, exhorting all parties to mutual toleration and postponement of their indi vidual interests and aims in presence of the law. Lamartine traces in this paper briefly the course of the revolution up to the present moment. He deems it folly to consider the triumph of the republic in February as an accidental surprise, and attributes it to the obstinacy of the last king, and the flagrant tone of the coalesced opposition. He traces the ex cesive preponderance of conservatism in the Legisla tive Assembly to the terror inspired by the insurrec tion of June, which he is convinced was only a tavern conspiracy, a storm on the dissolution of the altlicrs nattfinaux. The royalists returned to the Assembly in the interests of order, finding them selves in a majority, mistook their mission for the restoration of monarchy. Hence by rivalry the dy nastic colour taken by the executive power. Coining at last to the present crisis, when the cry of contending pretensions is becoming daily louder and more dis cordant, he examines all these pretentious in turn, and pronounces them all doomed to failure; legiti mism, because faith in the traditional monarchy is I dead; Orlennism, because it has not the right on its side ; fusion, because it wants to be countersigned by the people ; imperialism, because there is neither an empire nor u hero to usurp its sovereignty; terror ism, because demagogues are not the idols of the people ; socialism, because it iv an illusion. Revision by a simple majority, and parliamentary prorogation of the President's powers, are pronounced equally vain. The only remedy, according to M. de Lamar tine, is repeal of the law of May, and acquiescence in tire legal constitutional issue, whatever that may be. The journals of 'foulouse bring the details of riots which took place on the 10th at Aspet, and on the llth at St. (lindens. At the former town a few gendarmes having attempted to disperse the givers of a charivari to the juge-de-paix, the mayor and his deputies interfered on behalf of the mob, one of whom they rescued from the gendarmes, and obliged ;them to retire to their quarters. The prefect, on hearing of this proceeding, ordered a considerable detach ment of troops to Aspet, suspended the mayor and deputies, who were summoned before the court at Toulouse, and arrested twenty-six persons of dis orderly behaviour, who 'ere sent to Saint Gaudjos to be committed to prison. At the latter town fresh riots occurred ; the mob attacked the prefect and authorities with stones, indicting severe contusions on the captain of the gendarmes and the procureur of the department. The gendarmes, after the third summons to disperse, charged the mob twice, sabre in hand, and ultimately cleared the streets, and apprehended several of the principal! rioters. Tranquillity was perfectly restored. 31. Sebire is appointed member of the Council of Prefecture of the Seine, in the place of M. Blanche, who has been named Secretary-General of the Home office. The collections in the churches of Paris, on Good Friday, amounted to 1-1,0001., half of which is to be distributed in alms to the poor of the metroixalis. The number of passports delivered throuthtout France for persons going to the London Exhibition amounts already to 240,000. The greater part are small proprietors, whose fortune does not exceed 1:10/. a year. Paris is expected to furnish 100,000 excursionists. The railway from Dijon to Tonnerre is to be opened on the Ist of June for passengers. • . . IT is Withthe greatest eatisfactOn we have learned , and are able to announce, that her MAJIZTY has sit aitied royal pleasure for thq making of such ar iangemeets connected with the opening of the Cheat Exhibition, as will permit as large a portion of the public as possible to be present at the ceremony. The commissioners are accordingly about to hold a meeting to re-consider the programme of the opening, and the iegulations an der whichthe holders of season tickets may be admitted. It is certainly no easy matter to inaugurate in very large crowds an exhibition, which can only be inspected by moving about. But if her MAJEsrY and suite be enabled to I move freely, whilst the part of the public present coa sent to occupy places assigned to them, confusion and crowd may be avoided. As to the exhibitors, in behalf of whom an evening contemporary raised its voice, their place is surely marked out within the limits occupied by their wares, and marked out in their compartments. Her :11.uEirs will thus inaugurate what the Americans call the " World's Fair in the presence of the most fitting delegates from the world's nations, us well aa of a gratified number of her own subjects. e believe that the idea of greatly limiting the number present at the opening; and thus giving it the character of a private visit of Royalty, by no means originated at Court, but arose from the ill-judged kers of those on whom the responsibility rests, of preventing, confusion and inconvenience. Eng lish police authorities are unaccustomed to marshal or manage large crowds, and large crowds of English men arc habituated to act as their own police, which, however efficient, is at times of the roughest. Fears of the kind were, however, quite inapplicable to those fur whom free entrance was demanded by the press the first of May. THE aspect of affairs in British Kaffraria becomes I more grave and threatening than it was at first. The attitude of the hostile tribes is as inimical as formerly ; the fear of commotions on the frontiers of Natal has prevented the arrival of re-inforce- I ments summoned from that quarter; and it is now but too certain that a section, at least, of the Hottentot settlers on the Hat River have made com mon cause with the Kaffirs. The enemy has not been weakened in the original theatre of war, and that theatre is extending on both sides. Last, and worst of all, there arc no symptoms that the English leader has concerted any plan of action adequate to the subjection of the enemy and the restoration of Milo, was firlowedby the dissolution of the Cortes, wrttes to El Ordre to explain that by hie vote he prevented the departure of SO deputies from the flail of Congress. Print is appointed Captain- General of Puerto-ltieo. PORTUGAL. Our Paris correspondent, in his letter of Saturday evening, writes that a telegraphic despatch, received at the Spanish embassy on that day from Madrid, I dated pith, states that the Portuguese insurrection I did not increase. Saldanha had not entered Santa ' rem, where the King and the Duke of Terceira were. A French ship-of-war has been ordered to Lisbon. A telegraphic despatch announcing the arrest of, Costa Cabral is quite unfounded. This despatch is thus noticed by the Constitta l amine' of yesterday (Sunday): " Nothing in tfie letters of the 14th from Ma drid has confirmed the news given yesterday by the telegraphic agency of the arrest of the President of the Council, alleged to have been effected at Lisbon ; but the first news had been received of the move ment attempted by Saldanha, who is said to be se conded by the Generals Billaboa and Perez Vento, names hitherto little known. " We learn this evening that a telegraphic despatch received by our government announces that the King of Portugal was able to anticipate Saldanha at Santarem. and to throw himself, with the Duke of Terceira, at the head of 13,0141 troops, into that - important place. Writing last (Sunday) evening, our correspondent sac s: The Bands makes the following remarks on the telegraphic despatch of the 14th from Lisbon, iv ecived yesterday, by way of Madrid. by the French government, the substance of which I communicated in my letter of yesterday : A telegraphic despatch, dated from Madrid, April 17, at .1 in the afternoon—that is later l.y three days at leant than the one which we published this morning—brings us news from Portugal very different front the reports in cir culation yesterday and this morning. Far from confirming the arrest of Count Thontar, this despatch announces three important farts: First, that Lisbon is tranquil; next that the insurrection floes not spread :mil gain head in the coun try; and lastly that King Ferdinand, accompanied by the Duke of Terceira, has anticipated Marshal Saldanha, thrown into Santarem, at the head of 12,0 M/ troops faithful to the Queen. This last intelligence is the most important, and gives reasons to believe that the insurrection is not destined to axsitme such a menacing development an might at first have been expecteil. In fact, San tarem is the mast important fortress in Portugal, the real heal-quarters of the army, and the most considerable depot of anus and munitions of war in the kingdom. Thus it was naturally the most important point to occupy either fur the government or Mr the insurgents. Huth Forties accordingly wished to secure it at the outset; but the king, conveyed doubtless with the troops under his command Mk board steamers, Seem, to have got the start and succeeded. The despatch gives no news of Marshal Saldanha ; but, according to its tenour, he ems neither he at Lisbon nor at Santarem. If these two Wares consinue to hold out for the government of the Queen, it is probable that Marshal Sal danha sill attempt to gain Oporto or Almeida, the only places where he has a chance of meeting troops that he gin hope to gain over to his cause, while, on the other hand, they furnish him with the means of escaping the govern ment, which is pursuing " peace. As for the non-arrival of the Zulu allies that, in itself, would afford little cause for regret, The pre hence of some thousands of rude and undisci plined barbarians would only have added to the embarrassments of Sir HENRY SMITH. War with them is hut marauding on a large scale; they would have added to the confusion and horror of the strife, and rendered the adoption of measures for the re- FRANCE. establishment of order more difficult. They have never been accustomed to obey a general like civi- PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. limed troupe, and the results of Sir Ilteate's attempts It bec omes daily more apparent that the word to make the Katfire amenable to his c ommands, o fusion " is a mask for the conversion of MM. Guizot, augur ill of his success with the Zulus. But the Duchatel, and consorts, to legitimism. There is no caus• of the non-appearance of these his savage allies member of the House of Orleans who recognises or is sufficiently alarming. The chief from whose au- approves the task professed by the fusionists, which is thority they have withdrawn themselves, to seek to make the Orleunist interest subservient to the protection within a British territory, contemplates restoration of the elder branch. The ..,Iseentleby availing himself of the troubles in British Kaffraria, Nationak continues to emit a daily article setting to bring them again under subjection to him, and forth its desire and belief that France will with one 'they dare not leave their families and herds expmed acclaim in 1552 call for the restoration of the to his aggressions. There is, in short, reason to ale monarchic principle and of the throne of the I.lonr prehend a war with the natives in Natal similar to bons of the elder branch professing constitutional that which has broken out in British Kuffraria. doctrines, and supported by the reconciliation and The Hottentot insurrection in the Kat River Settle- allegiance of the princes of the house of Orleans. ment is immure mellowing stilL The sere of this MONT- The men of the Atc.endelie Solionale indicate to ment is within the colony, and implies a wide spread still more clearly that the amount of their sup disuffirtion among a rave upon the loyalty of which port to the prolongation of the President's poweis the British authorities have hitherto fead good reason will be zero. " If, say they, "by the maintenance to rely. The fact is. that the tribes commonly known of the I'ncident's powers, is meant the maintenance by the: name of Kaffir, tire, in the regions immedi- until 1e52, we shall be happy to do all in our power ately ;adjoining the Great Fish River, quite us much to render the task of government easy to hini, as f Ign interlopers as the Europeans. In the district long as he observes the constitution, until the legal called Albany, and in great part of British Kaffraria, termination of his mission." The President really the m e al names are all of Hottentot origin, and ought to be thankful to these gentlemen for their the narratives of the few voyagers who visited generous offers, which sound very like mockery. this region vu late ax an ailvanced period of The flag of the Assam/We Nittamile is Own the the eighteenth century, convey the impression white Hug, but as the party are ashamed to proclaim that they were then inhabited by Ilottentots. The their tergivelaation, and their abjuration of the Katlits arc refugees from the north, flvieg from wars language and principles which they held for and persecutions which had their origin in the ambi- twenty years under Louis Philippe, they do not tion of powerful chief s , who, possessing a more dare opoile to hoist it, but keep it like energetic physical and moral constitution, drove time a handkerchief in their pockets. Fusion is a cant feebler Hottentots before them. These invaders term, which they have invented to cover their dcser were encountered in the district of Albany by the tion to the cainp of the Count of Chambord. In fact European immit.,mmuts who were pushing their settle- to undertake the fusion of two principles, one of meets thrward from the west. Long and desultory which denies the other so completely, us the wars were waged between these interlopers with bourgeois monarchy and the monarchy of divine little reglad for the rights and interests of the right, is no more feasible than to operate the innolga i aborigines. lint since the Cape became a British motion of Roman catholicism and protestantism ;am colony, more care has in general been taken of. more M. Guizot and his friends are so many political humane attentions paid to, the ilottentots, who have Puseyites, for whom there is no resting place short repaid the kindness with a loyal attachment. of entire conversion. Unfortunately the present change of sentiment The directing committee of the Asseinhke Nalionak arwmg a numerous hotly of the Hottentots is but too consists of MM. Mole and Guizot; time administra easily explained. The 'lien River settlements were a tive, of MM. Duchalet and de Valmy; MM. de Mar benevolent project, of men whose humanity is greater temart, de Noailles, Damon, de Pastoret, and others, than their knowledge lit' human nature. They were assist at the. deliberations. Thus the chiefs of the fumed on the assumptive that it is possible to pies concern are six Orleanista and six legitimists. Al vent a mingling of the European and African races ready dissensions are spoken of in this amalgamation, in the same territory. and that such prevention is not rocrors of the prolongution of M. Adrien de Lara mie compatible with, hut likely to contribute to, lette a powers. us nabearne-en-chae. the happiness and mural improvement of the Afri- The old rivalry between Guizot and 'fliers seems cans. The attempt has had two mischievous results, to break out with more bitterness than ever in the In the first place, it established on the Kat River a polemics between the Messoyer and the -Isseethke. MADRID, Arati. 13. community markedly different from the communities A tof M. 'l'hiers on this subject is pithy enough Th e newspapers of every shade are eagerly attack by by which it was surrounded, and therefore in an- to deserve quotation : " Guizot aun journal, e hien, h ug or defending the present• or late ministries, the tagoniem to them. In the second place, it left the ever- taut mieux ! it sera Ming:: de mettre Ic nez a la fe. different purtisans of which are about, like the frac cis• of authority in that district ni the hands of a few netre, et on time deems!" tions of the Progresiata party previous to the full of European functionaries, who pots:wawa uncontrolled The proprietors of the Sier'c have held a meeting, Espoicru, to enter the lists against each other in the power over the Africans. That power has lwen un- nt whieli they hove resolved on su importing the can raethee • g elections. In time meantime, the wisely and harshly exercised; these functionaries didature of General Cavaignac for the presidency in Minister has not forgotten the lessons he learned have im p osed taxes on the Hottentots, a kind of 1e.52. Notwithstanding the continued alienation of when he belonged to the former administration. servitude they abhor; and hence the revolt of the ultra-socialists from this candidature, the acs's- There is not a province in which he has not super the Hottentot settlers. Could the insurrection be sits of union lIIIIV eausc it to Ite ultimately accepted seded every employ', however humble his runic and confined to them the evil would be comparatively by the reel republicans, and by the party of Gwardin. category, who may have presumed to cull in ques trittin.,; hut the sympathies of the whole race are In the meantime the Si.. de and the Porete can/ tion the new governmental measures. In acting thus, naturally with them, and their alliance with the on a sparring engagement of polemic's; an he plugs a double game; first, he gets rid of enemies Katfirs imparter to the present conflict the character in fiet division reigns equ all y in mill ""1"' anti frightens lukewarm friends into activity ; and, of a war of colours. It is black men ngainst white, conservative and republican. The Ortice assails the 2ndly, as he does not plan: other men in the situations lfessooce contending which rice are to remain undisturbed issemake, the .Igennetekr kits out at time . •.,, he renders vacant, he will be able to diminish to a lords of the soil. the Messayer pitches into time Octliledionierl, win •h very considerable degree, as he has pronased, the While' the war of races is then spreading both to in its turn fal a foul of the Union and Opinion Pielr- • ‘ ~ : 1.. lost ; 1111111.1er of Corneal. s lug rather than ht•lp polo the west and to the east of British Katfraria, no steps liver. Nor are the journals of order more in accord tic busino .. The general subjesa of conversation have yet been taken to put an cud to it there. Sir in foreign politic', than at home. The organs of the to-day is time refusal of the government to give Gen. II MIT SMITH, when the last advices were de- Elysee are distinguished by the virulency with whi c h Narvaez perniiasion to return to Spain to see his sick epatched. remained stationary in King William's they assail time liberal conservative' gum-eminent of mother. It appears that the general made applieu- Town. Ile was at the head of a form strong Bravo Murillo in Spain, and the zeal with which t i on i n t h e first place to the Marquis of Valdegunias The Cuiagne Gazefic intimates that the contents of ~ugh to repel any attack of the natives, but they t•lamour for the restoration of sword rule and Minister Plenipotentiary fu the republic of 1-•rance, not strung enough to aubjeet them. His columns were waateful expenditure under Nurvacz, to whose the last Austrian note are as follows :—The note re for a passpirt, not dreaming that there would be any jects totally me partition of powers, but consents to go able to scour the country iu all directions, but not to absence from the Min at Madrid they at- d i ff i culty in i ts b e i ng grunted. The Marquis refused 1 k•ommand a foot breadth of territory beyond what tribute the insurrection in Portugal. The same to take upon hinisell the responsibility, and advised mock to the old Diet, under the condition that essen tial reforms are to be brought about in Frankfort. they occupied for the moment. Clouds of guerilla payers accuse England of being at the bottom of the the general to address an application to the Pressi iluifils threatened them in front, gulled their flanks, rising against the govermnent of Count Thomas., and dent of the Council, Bravo Murillo, upon receiving These reforms are, aiming others: Anew mode of ' and hung on their rear wherever they moved. The proclaim the fall of that Minister as an event topave voting in the plenum as well us in the na wercoun the application which was etu d e him in the name of naked, undisciplined, eomp ra ativelv ill-armed enemy w the ay for the ruin of the Prt ougu rnie ese monarchy, the i r for colleague by Pid walled a ul, cil ; the establishment of a general Aust Germanic Zoll Canon ; a fide 1 - - -t o f • t • - ' rei /AI. elIl public ma iuc gave 1a way -fore every charge' of bee British troops, and time establishment of the republic. council of ministers, in which it was re but cloaed a ft er them as soon as the regiments had The Noteeture states that on the question of the tion, or the establishmeneof pieltools and universities wired that the general should not be permitted to loomed as the water closet behind the keel of a ship. Revision, the Mountain will vote the previous plea- in Germany; and, finally, the institution, not of a return to Spam till the elections are over, HARRY Smolt was able to wend reinforcements tion, as long as the law of May 31 exists ; and in all prilitical, but of a militury power, to maintain order Sir as his presents:ln Spain would netessarily give re- at home and peace abroad. l ot men and fond to his beleaguered forts ; his cases will vote against the revision. Hewed courage to his friends. It is, however , confi- . troops were able to destroy and burn the M. Leon de . Malleville is mentioned rem likely to beMe German papers apprehend that Prussia will ... -., ... .. dent!y stated that Nurvaez,whose love for his mother huts and crops of the moires. and drive off put in nomination tier the office of v seri resident of be under an obligution to acknowledge, cam her re is one of the softening feetureo in his can admission into the Diet, all its acts since her Romeo . their cattle, but the unsubtlutd Ksffirs swarmed the Assembly in the plat' of Leon Faueher. . character, will come, even without permission. The in every wood and ravine. The belligerent The rumour; of a reconciliation between the PIM- tion from it, whertby she will condemn her Whole anti-Narvaez journals a ff irm to disbelieve, in time old tribes gave no indicatians of being wearied of the dent of the Republic and General Clan gamier havepolicy of the last three years as illegal mud unjustifi lady's illness, and insinuate that it i s a mere pretext war: and the others obeerved what can at least be been muds exaggerated At the time when the re- able. An imperiul statute has summoned a Reiclueretth of the general to get his foot on Spanish ground called only a dubious neutrality. Nothing had been voention of the General was resolved upon, themein Vienna. This council is to pulite with the again. As si te is upwards of 95 years of age, there ministry f„ done to bring thc war to a terminaton. nor NT.IS there was a meeting of the members of the majority at th l e gislative matters, but in other matters is nothing iprobable in her indisposition. The any appearance that a plan had been formed from house of the Duke de Broglie, to diecusa the mime merely to offer sugaestions. It appears from an ex coming of Isturitz to Madrid has given rise to much width such results could be anticipated, or that the to be ursued. M. Lion Faucher, who was present,tract taom the Octil Reiche %rifting, that the insur eB illation as it is whis pe red that he uee mucous of earning such a plan into effect existed. spoke against the revoeation, and advised a paha- yea •is Q n I maim in Bosnia is by no means completely quelled. Christina's President of the Council in pello. The The British possessions ut South Africa are wide ; mentary manifestation, but without any appearance The Prcassische 7 ..ritlo4 , l(bellbiChe IktbrIll) says that committee of the Moderado party is organised, end and straggling. the colonv properly so called, ;of hostility towards the Pretdent of the Re•public. the Pope is about to aPply to Austria for tary is working actively aguinst the minister. The two British Katfturia,thc Orange 'River Sovereignty, and ; It ia natural to suppose that .1. Lam Faucher, afterhelp; that it is probable ihut on the be 'nein , . Or or t h ree dieappoieted genera l s that belonged to it, Natal, thinly inhabited by Europeans, have I having expressed his regret at the dismissal of Gene-next month an Austrian 1 i. de will gl enter * the such as Pavia, &c., having received hints that the the disaffected b oera an d th e in d e p en d en t , cal Chun garnier, should be desirous of effecting on Papal States; and that, in w une case, the: f • • Wur Minister thought of sending them to the Canary L a i . - • natives on their noeffurn and eastern Iron- '; proper grounds a reconciliation with the hoodent, Lo mbardy will bt greatly augmented. Isles, have prudently withdrawn from it. tier. and independent Kalfrana in a central ; but I have mason to believe that nothing beyond the Count Alvenaleben, who has returned to Dresden, APRIL li. position among them. No less them four s'- i expreseion of this desire has taken platy. Yesterday, in the circus theatre the Progresista , has definitively refused to accept time post of Prussian pal a nd distinct settlements have to he defendeill rhe funds continue subject to brisk fluctuations , electors, to the number of upwards of 4,000, h e ld a • cc. ' like • t • ' t Frankfort. ' l rt e l' t l la s ry alrainetn a rived at Berlin from C a hostile spirit, which appears to be spr e ad. , The Fives fell 13 centimes and closed at 9130. meeting to take into consideration the conduct to be ; ha a ' ;se has ar :. °Pen tug wall the African tribes. fhe melodramatic i while the Threes rose 10e. and closed at 57.1,5. gen to assume the functions of Damsh ambassador pursued in the forthcoming ehytions. The Kisumu .TI ' ' 1 locus-poeus trickery by which Sir INUIT SMITH SUNDAY EVENING. chiefs of this party addresnd the electors in long and ' the war ministry in Wurtemberg I pt 1 * vainly 'unskilled he could impose upon the Kaffir* The government is actively employed in obtaining ;much applauded speeches, urging them to lay aside all . the reintroduction of the cane a n d ' 't MS ' . ° G foie' 1 ri . use int o . has only irritated them, and made him their laugh- ; information with regard to :he state of nolitical ! those divisions which have lam so deplorable in ...my' At present the matter remume undecided, ing stock. He stands irresolute in King William's : parties throughout France. This task absorbs all : but the privy council of the King has declared ! their results, and unite for the elections. .k commit- •st the l. Town. apparently quailing before the storm he has the time of the Minister of the Interior. Great pre- ; tee was appointed, whose mission is not only to aga l l i n w ' rmi rid t Gillie . conjured up. ! parations are being made by the military authori- ' watch the elections, but to organise the liberal party. "g all " a ' •lan cattle are now carried What is wanted in South Africa at this moment is ' ties to meet the first show of ,sneente with vigorous The committee is composed of liberals of every shade; by railway to Hamburg for exportation. The other a man who. to the qualities of a eonsummate general, repression. Some alarm is entertained that the an- , the honorary president is General Espartero, the d a y o ' ' ' 1 - 0 p i g s were delive • red in Hamburg, being part adds the common *MAC of a practical statesman. ' niversary of the ath of May may not go off so quietly ,chairman Gomez Bieerra. Among the members are f a contract. That Sir Mimic Snuff can tight well; that he' can as last tearA letter from F rankfort, of kpril la .— ' 4 Oluzaga, the editors of the Clamor readico, the SaCilin„ . T . . . , „ , - • says . • ruanuurre a division of any army in the field skil- : I believe , from what I can gather. that the grand' Mudoz Olozaga, &c. As every kind of manifesto- ins morning, Count Hum, the Austrian Plenipo fully and energeneallv. is beyond question : but that 111.0guil of the men of fusion is the reconciliation of , non of public opinion has Veen forbidden these tentimy at the Diet, returned here from I, Irma. he can form the plan of a campaign adequate to Changarnier with the Elysee. There is an expres- many years the joy seemed unbounded. Almost VIENNA, Arum 13. conga r a peace, does not appear. And tin- the task sion dropped by Dr. N'eron in the Oeustitotioneel ; every speaker was greeted, on presenting himself on The great news of the day is the approaching re of re.- o .tahlislting order, he labours under the in- to-clay. which is understood to allude to the. imminent', the platform, with three tremendous cheers. Negrete, turn of Prince Metternich to Vienna. For mouths it superable defect that neither European nor African realisation of this project. He says: "A report cir- the ex-minister of commerce, whose vote was the has been rumoured that he was about to visit his has the slightest confidence in his judgment. eulates that thoughts of order, of conciliation, germ principal cause of the scene that led to the diasolu- estates in Bohemia, hut now his villa in the suburb It is me:unite:on upon the imperial government to in the high regions of power." It is thought that tion of the Chambers, is about to publish a manifesto Rennweg is anew fitted up for the reception of its interfere without &hey, and with decision. It is tar the command-in-chief of the army of Paris will be of the reasons of his eonduet on that oceusion. It illustrious proprietor. We cannot preciewly hay that .it to determine at once whither Sir II %MIT SIIITII given to some general in the confidence of Changer- : appears that a number of members, private friends, public opinion has changed in regard to the delete ,is the man to put a speedy end to the war. But the H i e r so thac, in ease of an outbreak, the latter mar . though political enemies of his, had gone home to roux influence of his political principles ; newt-the- Impel ill v.:rums:lit seems incapable of acting with In at once re-invested with the supreme control of, dinner during the debate, on his assurance that there less, it is nut without some satisfaction that people the requisite firmness and promptitude. The Duke the troops ; but this arrangement will only be wo uld be no voting, and that he' had refused to be a i look on his return, as they hope that his influence will 'of Wk.LIANGTON, when cousulteeL said thut two ad- adopted m case of an emergency. ; party to the kind of thimble-rig proceedings by , upset the minister,Dr.Bach, the very man who inNlarch I ditionul regiments would be awaited in South lime •• fueionists" manure to be assailed more which Bravo Murillo thought to pass the bill with a ' ISIB, had most efficiently contributed to turn out Arne% and only one was sent. And now, instead fiercely than ever by the: re a aentists, who, in league ° view of extens:ee stuck jobbing. i the celebrated statesman of the Holy Alliance— Of evading out proper inatructioua, or it mat- be a new , with the ultra-legitunista, challenge M. Guizot and A PRIL 15, though but to pursue the sane policy, replacing , commander-in-chief, gortrinneut has got 'the House ' his allies to mill off the mask mind declare themeelves M. Fernandez Ncgrete, whose separation from his Prince Metternich's cunning by cruelty, and his lot Commons to appoint a committee to investigate . legitimist at once without reserve. I colleagues on the vote on the motion of M. Milian aristocratical manners by overbearing insolence. The SWITZERLAND. CANTON OF TESSIN,Apitu. SPAIN. You are aware of the persecutions suffered by the refugees at Geneva, the expulsions that have taken place at Lausanne, the extraordinary complaisanees of t h e Confederation's executive towards Austria, the deliberations at Berne in presence of the French ambassador, and at his dictation ; the federal decrees published in Paris before they were made known in Berne. You may als) have known that a federal commissioner, M. Planta, front Reichenatt, had been sent into the canton of Tessin, where endless vexations were the result of his mis sion. In addition to all this, the unfortunate Tessin has been invaded by a cloud of spies from Austria, France, and Herne. Old and infirm men have been torn away from their homes, and even peaceful mer chants, with their families, sent away; and all this is called the right of asylum. These vexatious were not sufficient, however, for M. Planta, who on Saturday caused two disguised abirri to arrest in his bed Cul. Francois Sigel, for merly general-in-chief of the republican troops in Baden. The colonel was thrown hound into the bot tom of a cart, in which he was taken to Itellinrona, and there brought up before the federal commis sioner. Then, utter a short examinalion, he was placed in another cart, the intention being to bring him into the Grisons. All this had been done by a deceit practised on the chief of the Tessin police, and without the know- • ledge of the cantonal authorities. 'flu , citizens of Bellinzona, however, were informed in time of what was going on, and they succeeded in rescuing the general from the hands of the agents who held him. The government of the canton was then hastily assembled and the general placed at its disposal. The general is now on his way to England, he having been ordered by a decision of the authorities to be accompanied to the frontiers of France. I What will Englishmen think, when they learn that it is possible in Switzerland, in 1>;:s1, secretly to take a man out of his bed and carry him off, without the slightest legal authority ? All here are indignant at so bold an attempt, and the cantonal goveinment has threatened to resign en masse. GEItMANY. great abettors of the Prince in his strife against the ministry—which in 1818 styled itself the dune/era tient one, and insulted the Batthyanyis and Szeche nyis as aristocrats—are of course the Hungarian old conservatives, Baron Josika, the Mailaths, Count Ismsen, M. Soinsieli, and their friends, men of talent, trained in the routine of business. During the Hungarian war, this party remained neutral ; hut now they use the greatest encnics of the centralising, scheme-; of Vienna. Baron Kubeck, before March Minister of Finance, is now entrusted iby the Emperor with the exuminati (((( of the finan cial state of the realm; this seems the first step to his return to office; we may see, in a short time, all the men of 1817 reinstated in the ministry. Sad as this is, it is, after all, the best course for Austria; for all the plans of 1/r. Bach proved complete failures—the stubbornness of the Italians and the passive resistance of the Hungarians prevent the possibility of their success, as we see it every day. One of the great financial nostrums of the present ministry was to he the introduction of the tobacco monopoly in Hungary—they expected several mil lions from this measure. The result was very dif ferent, the tobacco planters abandoned this culture as soon as they were to be subjected to the inspec tion and the restrictions of the police, and they rear now oil plants on their fields, which yield the same income to the grower. without exposing hint to the vexations of the government. At Debrecuin, one of the chief places of the tobacco district, the planterr assembled on the mar ket-place, where they kindled a bonfire and burned the whole stock of their tobacelesced. The demonstration took place on the very Kline spot, where, a twelvemonth past, the Kossuth notes were burned by the Austrian military authorities. This, then, had been a heavy blow on the finances of the inhabitants of Debreesin ; they now retaliated it. Though the country is still under martial the spirit of the people manit'ests itself everywhere. TURKEY. A letter, dated Vienna, April 15, states that several entlxirrussing questions trouble the Porte just now. Supported by the public Opinion of France and Englund, the Sultan wishes to st 4 the I lungarian refugees at liberty, in Asia Minor, whilst the Austrian government sees in this un act of hostility. Prince Schwairtzenbergintiinates that if this measure should be put in execution the vacant post of the Austrian ambassador at the Porte will nut be tilled up ; whereupon the Divan has instructed its ambassador at the court of Vienna, if circumstances should re quire it, to demand his passports. A letter, dated Constantinople, April saYs '— Nit:hi:met Ali Rey, the son of the old viceroy of Egypt, and his sister, the with of Kiamil Paella, have just arrived front Alextmdria. They effected their escape by the agency of a Frenchman, sent for the purpose by the gmul vizier. It is generally known that the present go vernor, Abbas Paha, has strangely tyrannised over these two persons, and IT foul means forced the divorce of Kiamil Paella with the sister (of the young prince, and detained the latter in ('aim at great peril of life. The tauzinutt question is to be definitively settled by Muhtar Rey, who has received instructions front the Porte. In company with Kiang Paella they quit this day for Alexandria. The government has Just ordered the construction of a fine macadamized road between Genitek and Ihussa. It is to be commeneed immediately, and will be finished by the month of November. AMERICA NEW YORK, Aram 5. The Franklin leaves to-day . for Havre, rii South ampton, with a very good freight and passenger list, and a large amount of specie. Exchange on France is so much against us that specie must go forward. Francs payable ut sight on Paris, or tett days' sight. cost here 20 cents per franc. On the contrary, sight drafts on New York at Paris will not, at our last at- counts, produce more than 4 francs 90 mtitime ,, . Each way, therefore, exclumgF is against us; and it is likely to be so, till we can import into France one own products at lower rates than we do at present. We long to see some tendency in that country ta reciprocity, if not free trade. We notice V. , efforts recently made in the French Asseml to introduce some modifications into the tali . : but, while French statesmen theorise admit •• ably upon general topics, they are practica the most impracticable of legislators. The ann. ances of the French ports. such an the useless tech . . • ratifies, the constant presence of the police, the ;•. ful exactions on every side, are so great as to disgna all Ametican merchants engaged in 'business with France. But the growing taste Mr luxury in this country induces the shippers to overlook all such difficulties. NVe must have French patent leather boots (even the waiters at the hotels import them), we must have French packet latudarrehiefs, with our initials in the comer, embroidered in Paris ; we must have silks, velvets, jewellery, bronzes, hats and bon nets, opera ties, music boxes, m.gor cases, snuff-boxes, and bijouterie. We cannot live without them, and so we must continue to trade with France on its own terms, and there is no use of saying a word about it. You may find in this city immense establishments devoted to the sale of French articles, and all pros perous. The French isiotmaker, hatter, barber, mil liner, or mantua-maker, having the least taste, may be sure of finding profitable employment in this city. Another slave has Ikea arrested in Boston. Ile was found in a dance-house, enjoying the largest liberty. His capture was effecteel without much noise, though not without much difficulty. 1k suc ceeded in stubbing one of the officers who arrested h" , but was overpowered and ltx•ked up. The next day Boston was in a ferment. The abolitionists were aroused, inflammatory hand-bills were issued, and the blacks assembled in large numbers, as if to rescue him. Ile was, however, securely lodged and efficiently guarded. The news from Boston this morning is, that a public meeting was held on the common yesterday, at which the most inflammatory app.•als were made by unitarian clergymen to the ',tropic. They were cilled on to resist to the death. `lath• suppose there will be a fight before the affair is over. All the uniform companies are ordered to be under arms. I have all along told you that the union was in no danger from this question of slavery. Mr. Webster, our secretary, has recently made three speeches at Annapolis and Staiiimburgh, til which he asserts the same thing. I now confess I begin to change my views. South Carolina, that is to say her leading politicians and editors, are determined on secession. There is no longer any doubt of this. Clubs are forming inp•very part of that state for the purpose of resistance ; the timid portion of the wealthy arc removing into neighbouring states. I think I never saw such a disturbance in the Ame rican mind as at the present moment. I have not for sonic time alluded to the Itappists and the Media, by which we now have constant communication with the spirits of the other world. The privilege of holding converse with the departed is no longer con fined to the Fox fmnily. They have made so much money that others are entering into the business, and now there are actually thousands engaged in com municating with the dead. As the circle of commu nication widens, the menus are multiplied ; WC have now besides rappings, the ringing of bells under a table, involuntary movements ut• the arms, mute alphabets, and writings on paper thrown under tables on the floors. Such journals as the Tribune actually uphold these follies, and lend all their influence to their propagation. There is a newspaper published at Auburn, in this state, which is boldly represented by its proprietors to be edited by the apostles themselves; and nothing, say they, is inserted contrary to their wishes. While the imposture has, as yet, not been satishictorily ex posed, certain it is that the revelations of the opinions of Fenelon, Luther, Dr. Franklin. and Washington have not been of any value, or very characteristic. Nor have the new epistles o r , the apostles in the Auburn piper been marked by their former pith, or logic, or leaning. All these things would have been laughed out of existence here long ago, but political views and ea;culations have prevailed over • honesty. We have late intelligence from Tehuantepec by the way of Ntr,v Orleans, assuring us, on the autho rity of the American engineers now surveying the route, that they have positively discovered a gorge in the mountains between the two rivers, through which a railway may be made without difficulty. Our government has made an arrangement with that of Canada, by which letters may now pass the frontiers either way without prepayment. I will