The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

irm SATURDAT APTEISSOOH WILL BE PUBLISHED, THEEXHIBITION EXPRESS, Sim rif • Daily home( Double Paper, PEP B COVIVENCIL, Costabslag *wry F oal& isktmatiar relative to the I.ltE VF I.IIIIBITION OF 1031, Ito Obteenr, TAhltutore PIVO ArrUirefelltlN Appearance, ftegrem, pe.t sad future. The rearms* hunter ni perm* Latenoted Is the fort.axotee Gnat L•letabon af the Woeirs ladt.gry Mori hrherto nid no mlldtetort reisremeateUvc ta Ms preen—O' per sufacieetly bor. sod with meritinisen comproberwire enough to 'ramp and ezrespilfy the for Mania( szparitlon with fultrea w rtbe . of so grand En event—the peoprietan of De EXPRP.A.A lane determined *eve Saturday afternoon, a doable rhea of ltiat *per, to soma* the feint* mod latest information reiatim the Estilhilarm together with • oar of other cutter meeptatga In the multitude of persons Unmated either CO general .ad feral comiel:te. - evn and -*Mani*. members of pe•etneial travelling gluts, catituters, trim*, 01 exhibitor., rirals cif exhibitors, sod the still larger ant ivder circle of Door who are to be the bond** of thoneambi d eintoen to the 11Welf7rOlill during the forthe.retee Cea ra. .4 I•nln.tr f.b Natio... 111 .14 , 1.1.ta o.trelytOlne relettee loll* Pa, ,Owit.u.l %WA Mole , awe Will glee arr.( ueee, and will. moreovrr. erpecisliy atteml to all current events literattue, edema% amd M. Ih ei ery 4ay r recut uaturtap the price of the ILIPHLAS reW nreepence, in heretofore. A I ,VERTI,ESIENDS. The re It vt4 * .if of the LItIUSITIteIS LWOW/ an a medium must bearident to a inrtisrra. All aly. , rti,envlre mat be et the aloe ts Whitefrian at or bare *otitis Me Int lung 4 esti rode', to secure insertion to the somber the IrtkoristLay. Itoovris•Olste Ills‘dralte Elie erortiso. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Adoortbewlent• *Mewled for "7U Lapron,“ London Erealng paper, ikow a' the (Mee, tO, bouvorkoowoot, by Two o'clock on the dry of polnicatke. DIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T bar—itAlLmr. sh. 33a. _Antrum. lb. 4ts. To•inallow—Earaing. C 6. UM. lb. 31e. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22. IT is now certain that the Roman catholic clergy of this country are for the most part opposed to their Cardinal Archbishop on the very question to which he owes his giddy elevation. It is equally certain that the great majority of the laity side with their priesen and condemn the Cardinal. With much reason, then, may these dissidents claim of the legis lature that whatever measures lee enacted against the actuel off odors, the body at large may not suffer, nor the innocent perish with the guilty. We see no difficult in drawing the line of demar cation. The Cardieal himself has shown us the way. If we may believe the uncontradicted evidence with which our columcs have been day after day stored from Remelt catholie repositories, the end to which the sweet cban k es were directed was the tettomplish meat of something 'urethan the mere vanity of rauk, or gaudy glen r of costume; and that the Cardinal, by improving this weeknees of the Pore to the advan tage of Lis efficenow finds himself in the uncontrolled possession of a rich and fair hes itage, the long coveted object of his ambition, and which, Indtr the reerieted constitution of ecclesiastical affairs in this country, he had hitherto found it, after repeated endeavours, impesetble to usurp. To centralise all the trust eseen s of charities in him self, to monopolise them for sech purpose a only as he should approve—to debar those most cor.cerned front interference, except by supplication to his persor to make even the exercise of that poor privilege de pendent upon his own prelatienl" Statu'urn Nostrum" published, to tee his own 1-fay llnguage, "Meru yreerree bored on our authority, and, consequently, alterable by ours« Ives and our succesaore as we shall think just and profitable"—and, lastly, to secure Have apcstotical pre teesions to temporal power from centradiction on the part of his clergy, by re ducing them to a literal dependence upon episcopal pleasure or caprice for their right to serve the altar, Involving of coarse their right of maiotenaece—such are the objects at which, according to the Roman eathoies of this country, Ordinal WISEMAN, from his first Loininotion to the episcopate, has bzen aim ing— :nd which, unless checked by the legislature, he bar, after a ten ye are' trial, at length accomplished. The only question is, " Shall he be clucked and bow?" And again we have the Roman catholic, themselves, who tee' know the springs cf their own ecclesiastical polity, and the resorts and iutriguee of their own cabiret. anticipating that question and giving it a satisfactory reply. The address of the priests of the new diocese of Beverley, to which we referred in a former article, and n es we understand, has been at length preseteed t Cardinal WISEMAN, will be found in another column. That address, unanimously agreed to in their convocation at Selby on 'Tuesday week, with their 1/can in the chair, does also, we are aseurci, tepee ns the sentiments of the great ma jority of their clerical brethren throughout England and We're. Indeed, if a correspondent is strictly informed, whose letter we publ..lted yesterday, the Rerun catholic Bi -hop of the neighbouring diocese of Bexhill'. Dr. Mei Anil, has c mvened his clergy for a * rather purport.. aher manifestations of the same kind are ceoertly expected. Tines are important faCtS, and cheering ones. We e to hear honest English truths from the mouths of English priests—born and bred in England—and ext•rcising their pastoral du ie.., amongst their coun try men. The gratifientim is rot the less because, inverd of taking us by surprise, it hears us out in all our anticipations. l'etriotism and freedom are as rprollarie., and the Roman chholics have enjoyed their religious liberty too long ' too securely to fall short of their protestant fellow-subjects in dutiful attachment to the laws atd civil liberties of their country. Not only does the address distinguish the author of the movement, bat it points out the way by which to reach him. When we listen to the recital of their griever me we almost fancy that we are living in the olden time, and that laymen and priests are concert ieg m. names to re slat the provisions, and exactions, and other temporal usurpation. of the Court of Rine. If the letter of the statutes of preemunire and pro visoes is insufficient now-a-days for restraining stack intolienthle mischiefs, let the legisl tura interfere, at least in the spirit of those wise and Roman Catholic enactments. Let the Port's " lettere apostolic " and the C euet .4 et's oi,bs propriP." and all other devices of the Ink, kind, by which the benefices and fresh. Ids of Roman Catholic Englishmen, and the truss of their public charities are im pudently evaded, be prohibited and annulled by act of parliament, with per shies against all who shall attewpt, by spiritual censures or otherwise, to dere give from the prohibition. For temporary purposes, such a measure would appear to be amply sufficient, whilst the spirit of it would, of course, influence our permanent legislation. All ecclesiastics, secular and monastic, and whether of episcopal or second degree, should be placed upon an equal footing, and receive the same measure of protection before the law. The question of titles presents no difficulty. Why should the Bishop be ashamed to style himself from his cathedral—his true see, accord ing to Cardinal Wtseu ea—or to exchange a worldly dignity like that of Westminster or South wark for an ecclesiastical, unpretending, and undis puted addition derived from the name by which the church where he has placed his episcopal chair was tkilitived ? However that may be, it is certain that ! the Court of Rome has not always pretended that to make a bishop in ordinary a territorial title is neces sary. The " &meta Propoeita" of 1837, which we' lately published, emanated front Propeganda, and were approved by GREGORY XVI., the reigning Pon-1 tiff, as the basis of a hierarchy which the Roman esthetics of England and Wales were at that time about to establish for themselves. In that document it is expressly said, that " however much it may be the wish of the veered coneregation to prescribe in the ' English missions that f arm of government which, se eording tee the deemes of the sacred canoes, is ob served in episcopal or titular churches, yet, in the present state of things, it is most agreeable to the in. tout of religion that they should continue under the Mid title car porernni , rif of arnifulie share." We may add, that whilst in this remarkable per sage the cortrary preencts of the cardinal's "ripped" era so roundly disposed of, it also shows most clearly that the court of Rome, left to itself, and sot misled by the flattering representations of " the present state of things" rev ived from sanguine or designing agents in this country, would never have ventured upon its late untoward outrage. In common justice, :hereto'', we say agaie, wheever may be the retribution ex seed, every are 011111 be taken to make it fall cot upon the innocent victims of the outrage, bat upon those who planned and executed it. TflorGn folly convinced of the abenrdity of the window tax, we are very far from aiming in with the general approbation that people seem inclined to tootow upon the home tax. We dopy altogether 1 II THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1851. that the rent of a mei house is a fair measure of his income, and still lee. of his means and property. A I tai on windows at least is levied on residecces in the country, and in provincial towns, at the name propor tion sa in Loudon itself. But a house tax, as a tax proportioned to rent, fells with a fee greater weight 'upon town than upon country. The high rents of towns proceed from a variety of causes. Narrowness of spacepcemsioas a bigh ground rent. Fashion and conveour.es for business swell the sum demanded by the landlord. There enter thus into the rent many other elements than the amount cf capital spent in building or purchase. Them are already disadvantageous enough to the inhabitants of the great town. But the house tax comes at once to aggravate it, and to aggravate it in a much greeter proportion than the window tax. The clamour which was raised in 1833 against the I house and window taxes, which rose to all the gravity of an insurrection, and frightened the CHANCELLOR of the Exatecient into flinging to the people that tax which was beet calculated to appease them, was in reality occasioned not so much ty the taxes them selves es by the great unfairness of their apportion ment. When it was universally known that the City at London Tavern paid a greater amount of duty than all the palaces of the rustic g ntry of Bedfordshire, the scandal was so great as to produce national revolt. Ail there was reason for it. Lord ALTHOLP gave sip the house tax to pacify it, aware perhaps that he could not modify it, so as to make it weigh with equal burden upon town end country. In tact he could not. Even in the event of ratingcountry mansions pertly at an appreciation of their cost, portly at the rent they might be supposed to let for, there can be no proportion between house property in town end country. It is infinitely greater in towns, infinitely larger in proportion to the iccomee of the tenant.. Now, from what we can gather or conjecture of the government scheme at present, the intention seems to be not in all ways to reform the unfairness of the old tome tax. That tax was raised at the rate of Is. 6d. on houses between 101. and 201. rent, of 2s. 31. on those between 201. and 401., and 2s. 10d. on all above 401. This produced nearly a million and a half on 413,000 houses. There are at least half a million of inhabited houses at present above 101. rent. These at the old rate of charge would produce much more than the window tax, and would weigh far more heavily upon towns. If the old rule was pre nerved and a fairer mode of valuation with respect to the country adopted, the revenue would be much greater. The intentions of the government are, how ever, merely to raise 600,0001. upon 500,000 houses. This is a merely nominal tax; and when we consider that the awned taxes cost 240,000/. to levy, the house or window tax being the all-importiel one of the:e taxes, we leave the reader to imagine west is the we of re-establishing the house tax, and keeping up the costly machinery for raising eoinsignificant a revenue. It can only be, we repeat, to afford facilities for raising the house tax on the first failure of the indirect resources of revenue, to a rate that will at once not only sweep away all the relief obtained by a repeal of the window tax, but eatabli,h in its place a tax far more onerous upon towns, and far more oppressive to industry and trade. It would be simpler , fairer, and more econo mical to abolish the assessed taxes altogether, except the land tax, which ought to be dealt with separately, and change them and the income tax into an equitable property and income tax, with the one machinery of assessment and eiXection. It would be more advantageous to the men of landed property to be told, the state requires eo much from you, and then you may inhabit the house, and keep any number of dogs, servants, and carriages yes please. Undoubtedly there should be a graduated scale of taxation, to compensate for those taxes on luxuries, without any necessity of that geometrical proportion which the political eco nomists wl,o think and argue for the rich so prag matically and ferociously denounce. One might net so much object to a mere expenditure tax, like the house tax, if another fair proportion of the public revenue was levied upon property. But to rates all upon income, as is done in this country, to levy thirty millions of indirect taxation on the wages of the poor, to raise some ten or fifteen more on the earnings of the intelligent and commercial slam, whilst burdening actual property with merely the remaining portion— this is a dangerous system, and one that may yet give rise Loan agitation tar more serious than that which alarmed Lord ALTHORP, and swamped the house tax in 1834. _ As long, however, as each interest clamours for the removal of the tax that immediately galls it, without taking a general and comprehensive view of all, so long will Chace:Hors of the Exchequer humour and cheat each class, and deem themselves wonder fully successful to shuffle on from session to session on the princ;ple that " enough for the day is the evil thereof." Nothing can be more evident than that the people, the citizens, and their leaders in 1838 did not know what they were aiming at. And that the Chancellor of the Exchequer of that day, talented man as he wee, knew n. 4 what he was giving cr what with holding. A more cimplete scramble of selfishness and ignorance history could not represent. And really when we read the speeches of the several anti window tax and pro•houso tax meetings, we are by no means aseared that the sagacity of 1841 anywise exceeds that of 1831. A r stiscrt tett is going the round of the papers which every friend of the forthc3ming Exhibition of All Nations must wish may be wholly unfounded. Vet the announcement it contains is made unhesitatingly and positively; and there are not wanting passing occurrences tending to confirm its itemracy. The paragraph states that, during the Exhibition, this metropolis has to be surrounded by an army of no less than 34),000 men! Such is the statement • and what goes in corroboration of it is, that already many of the suburban public-houses have had soldiers billeted upon them ; and their . proprietors are under the apprehension that that infliction has to continue and to be greatly increased in extent and amount. . _ It is, we repeat, very much to bo desired that this announcement may turn out to be a mere figment of some ingenious penny-a-liner in want of more sub stantial materials for a paragraph ; for anything more calculated to injure the Exhibition itself and to bring down indignation and contempt on all connected with that well-intended triumph of peace, orAer, and in dustry, than surrounding London with 30,000 armed men, it is scarcely possible to imagine. in the opinion of the QuEts's government, the ' dangers to public tranquillity, circled yconduct, and to the usual enji ment of public security from the Exhi bition be soimminent and serious as to require such a military concentration in the environs of London, the conclusion is inevitable, that the Exhibition cught never to have been started, encouraged, and patro nised. But what evidence is there of the least danger to be apprehended ? Confusion and pressure and an noyance we may in various degrees ress3nably anti cipate. These are only the natural results of bringing together large masses of people; which it is the duty of the civil power to mitigate so far as possible. Bat they will arise from numbers, from impatience, ; from selfishnees, from eagerness, from curiosity, from ; defective arrangements—from any and every motive except a desire to violate laws, to overthrow a govern- ; ment, or to bring about a revolution. The remedies for them will be chiefly in ourselves and in our; visitors—in the maintenance of undeviating good humour, in the interchange of courtesy and good offices amongst all classes ; in self-restraint, and in never forgetting the necessity of always—continually , —being on our best behaviour. To assist us all, a ; considerable augmentation of the police force was to be expected, as indeed it was last session promised. But to call in 30,000 soldiers, as if to threaten Lmidon with that state of siege which every other great European capital has been disgraced by, is either to libel this metropolis, or to insult its visitors,—if not to do both. Thirty thousand troops around London! The very thought is an outrage. The Exhibition is intended to invite and to attract the elite of the intelligence, the skill, the wealth, and the society of all Europe to oar metropolis; and when we get them here, we are, it seems, to surround them with a great army, such as has not been in England since the threatened invasion of our shores by NAPOLEON, lest our visitors should turn out tobe in reality of the raw head and bloody bones picture, drawn by Sir FRANCIS Hr en. But it may not be our foreign visitors that require this hostile investment of London; it may be the crowds of provincial artisans that arrange- ments are being made to receiva and entertain. Worse and worse! If they be dangerous, what right has any one to invite them to como where a match may ignite their mischievous tendencies, and endanger the safety of London ? And if they be, as we are sure they are, peaceable, well disposed, orderly p'ople, to treat them as CP:UNGAR:IIEn has for menthe been treating the Fauboures of Paris, and point fields of artillery against them, is of all projects the moat monstrous ; so monstrous as to be incredible. We want no army . in or about London. We are unaecustomed to the sight of masses of soldiers, to the thoughts of railitary prot etion or interference, to the display of military force ; and we don't want to bo wels accustomed to anything of the sort. We have hitherto kept the (areas's peace under all the emer gencies of HER M %JESTS'S ha?py reign without any suea aid ; and, by GOD'S help, we will keep it by the civil power, on this memorable occasion, as our fathers hive always done before We regard the troops ordinarily stationed in London as appendages to illustrate and adorn royalty, not as a garrison to en force or to protect the public safety; they belong to the Court, those 5,000 or 6,000 men; the people have no interest or concern in them. We are quite content with Scotland-yard and Mr. NI tTNE ; we pre fer it to the florae Guards and Lord FITZROY SOMERSET. Proper things in their proper places, if Sir GEORGE GREY pleases. Regiments of the line may be needed in Ireland ; they are wanted or re quired in London ; though if on *sudden Ireland can spare 20,000 for L"ndon, they can't be very much needed even there. We have all a profound admira tion foe the great victories of our Great Captain ; but we have not the least wish to see his Grace in h•s senectude playing at soldiers on Hampstead Heath ar Camberwell Green. The libel this investment of London would be on its inhabitants, the insult it would offer to our visi tors; the inconsistency of celebrating the triumphs of trade, commerce, invention, and skill, and the meeting of all nations in this our Temple of Peace, by a great military encampment to deetroy them all if neensary; the dit c mifort such a concer,tration would inflict on the troops; the expense it would be to the state; and the inconvenience it would impose on the smaller homes of public entertainment, ad eager to reap the harvest of 1851—will, it is to be hoped, save London from being so surrounded during the Exhibition. If, however, these considerations do not teach the Horne Guards the absurdity of this, ito stated project, the House of Commons well, it is clear, have to inter fere and restrain its ardour against imaginary domestic rebels and foreign revolutionists. States the ministers do not sit in the assemblies be cause they hive no right to do so. The government dots not lay bills before Congress, although tho P re sidett recommends ouch and such a measure in a special menage. If the measure recommended be rejected no one sees in the rejection a necessity for the ministry to retire, because the ministers are so many secretaries who are occupied with the business of their departments, st 4 whom the president con sults separately or collectively when he chooses. Here, on the other hand, the ministers sit in the C :amber by right, without being elected representa tives. 'lnstead of being so many administrative ewrits of the President and covered by his respoesi bility, the ministers here are essentially political, have a conteitutional responsibility, and an authority ' without which the President can do nothing since all his acts have to be countersigned. Hence, there is little probability of each a theory ever being reduced to practice ; and there is small chance of a ministry surviving a vote of censure pronounced by the Assembly. A fact has been alleged publicly with regard to a paesage in the career of General Baraguay d'Hilliere, which is generally recognised as authentic, and is calculated to damage hie Mama over the troops, which he has been recently appointed to command. In June, 1848, he was called upon to take the com mand of a corps deprived successively of its leaders by the mortal wound of General Duvivier, the death of General Regnault, and the wound of General Bedeau. He refused this dang roue poet, which was then accepted by General Negrier, his superior in rank, who tell three hours after at the entrance of the Fau bour4 St. Antoine. . . . . . Notwithstanding the turmoil in the upper political regions, commercial of are so steady as to move eurprike. The Fives rose to-day 15c. on the closing price of Saturday, and eloped at 941 r. 950. The Threes closed at 561r..90c , with a rice of 100. The President has been , making some steps in an economical direction. This morning he catvoi several of his sizty-three horses to be sold, and dismissed many of his servants. G..neral Narvaez arrived in Paris this morning. It has been rumoured that he is to succeed, as ambes.ador, the Duke of Sotomayer, who is said to have been recalled to Madrid. TUESDAY EVANDSO. Up to the present hour no progress has been made in the formation of the new cabinet. The same rumours circulate with regard to Milan Barret and Leon Faucher forming the base of ti.e new ministry. Dora is also added. The latest event of importance seems the organisa tion of a now club, formed one of the minority of 28G members who voted on Saturday, and constitute the club of the Rue dee Pyramider ' with the exception of a small fraction adhering to 31. 'flier. This new party met on Soeday night, in the rooms of the Conseil d'Etat, and appointed Leon Faucher presi dent. M. Darn trac?d the policy which they proposed to follow of supporting the government under condition of adherence tsi the message of the 12th Nov., and interposieg . their good offices to con ciliate the rest of the major:ty to the same cause. The meeting appointed three commissioners, Lron Faucher, Darn, and Lacrosse, to manage their affairs and sittings. To-day the Assembly continued to discuss ilia pro positions relative to the arrest of representatives for debt. The debate prevented no feature of interest. The clause of the ball of the committee, makiag the previous authorisation of the Assembly nectuary, was adopted. Yesterday, at the reception at the Elysiie, which usually takes place on Monday, the greater part of the minority of 286 met in the salons of the Pretid, nt. M. Baroche experienced the warmest and most cordial reception. Ono very remarkable flit ure of the present situa: tion is the total absence of all influence of the mi nisterial crisis on the state of the Bourse. The fund', in fact, have slightly risen since the vote of Saturday. Although this circumstarce is mainly attributable to the confidence of the public in the maintenance of order, and to indifference to the factious intrigues of the Assembly, no doubt M. Fould is entitled to claim coma& rable credit for the dexterity with which ho lilts the means at his disposal for keeping the biro meter of credit from telling. The fact is that M. 'Wad Fould has had a great advantage over re ceding ministers of finance, in regard to the resources at his command for influencing the public funds. The deposits of the savings-bank are confided to his care far investment. The ltente being below par, and the Treasury Bonds bringing a reduced rite of interest, tt.e minister of finance can adopt no more judicious investment than in govern' meat stock. The low dividends of the monarchy prevented the finance ministers of that time from having recourse to the same application of the foods at their disposal. Since the revolution of February, the fall of the funds was, until lately, accompanied by a commensu rate sinking in the dep.sits of the savings banks, so that these deposits termed but a lean resource for the minister. At present, however, that is no longer the case. Workmen once mare flock with their earnings to those reservoirs of economy, and M. Fould has at his disposal 20 millions of francs, which he koows how to apply in timely investments in the Fiver., to , reanimate the market. When the last cabinet was appointed the finida rose, and when it was dissolve 3 the funds still rose. They were remarkably firm to-day. The Fives gained 30 c ntimee, and closed at 05 30. The s cretsocietit 8 seem to have taken advantage of the crisis to begin stirring; but M. Culler is a weasel, not to be caught steeping. Last night, at nine, as the " Union of Commutes" was assembled aiththe Association of Cooks, at the Barri,;re I'igale, vcral brigades, headed by a commissary of police, I invested the house of meeting, and netted 36 indivi duals. This morning 20 more were added to the arrested. Several papers of a socialist character were seized. We find the following( in the Muniteur A decree of the President of the Republic, dated the 18th, puts an end to the interim of thedepartment of Marine and and Colonies, confided to M. Drouyn de Lliuys, Mi nister of Foreign Affaii a. By order of the President of the Repuhl.e, M. Dueos will transact the affairs of the department of Marine and Colonies until the nomination of his successors." BOURSE. Prat Account. PARIS, lAN. 11. For 11-- Opaline . 111,hat , Lowest. custog. - - per Cents. 37 3 i 37 0 37 10 57 0 57 10 5 per Ow& 193 15 03 0 95 30 95 0 93 25 3 do. New Lou do. do.-- 91 ' 33 . 93 ' 10 93 'i3 j 95 10 95 " 12 1 per Cents. O. I. SO O. Enlarge on Laotian: at BelMaa, 3, 184; Do. 3, 1842 Ito. 44 Do. Ili Piedmont 3 p.Ct. 1949 .2 33 .. •t. 24 . 95; - 99 8.99, - 24 7; - - Naples Routes.— Mon Roam Law 1130 IN. Ibsn Treuvry Mods— 4 0 " Bank Mans 22 0 BOt'lllll.—Versailles (right bank), 170; ditto (left bank), 163 75; Paris and Orleans, 84.5 ; Patio end Rouen, 670 ; Rouen and Havre, 268 7 . 5; Mu , nes and Avignon, 116 Strasbourg and Dale, 14124; Centre, 585; Orleans end Bordeaux. 397 60; North, 470; Par:. and Stra.blure, 352 60; lours and Nantes, 247 50; Monism's; and Troyes, 95; Dieppe and Facarep, 195. ITALY. Oar Roman correspondent, writing on the 14th inst., states that the Italian journals were much occu pied with the Wiseman question in England, and Rivet the substance of a very v:o:ent article in the Eco of Florence, in which Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell are ret down as " very bilious religious sectarians." At the Propaganda College, violent speeches were made against English protestantism, on the 13th. Great dismay had been produced among the ecclesiastics by the news of a change in the French ministry, and several prelates had waited on M. de ktayneval on the stihject. Prince Paskie witch had arrived. Count Rossi's effects were on sale. The Minister of Finance had announced his intention of paying the last halt-yearly dividend for 1850. It was rumoured that Cardinal Antonelli is likely to be replaced by Cardinal Fernarl. Our Naples correspondent writes, on the 14th inst., that latterly several ladies have been arrested. The Limits persevered in their attempts to stop all mixed edu •ation of cstholica and protestants in the same scho,ls, and are expected to succeed. Poerio had finished his defence, and the sentence of the court was awaited. No Neapolitan was allowed to visit a foreign vessel without an order from the police. The king and royal family had arrived from Caserta, and entered the city under the protection of a strong guard of cavalry, without which his Majesty never moves. Five per Cents., 991. Exchange, 562. FRANCE. [A portion of the following appeared Is part of oar im pression last evening) : PARIS, biONDAT EVENING. _ . . . To-day, at the commencement of the Assembly's sitting, the house was observed, contrary to expecta tion, to be unusually thin and calm. There were no groups on any i.ide. Of course there was no lack of ministerial lists in circulation. That which obtained most cr. dit was as follows : President of the Council and Minister of Justice, Odillon Burro! ; Interior, Lon Faucher; Public Works, Darn; Foreign Affairs, Lthitte ; Public Instruction, Dumu; Finances, Funld; Marine, Dupwit Thouarrr; Commerce, Bon jour ; War, Get eral Nlagnan. MM. Buoche and Bonner sate alone on the bench of ministers. MM. Daru, Leon Faucher, and Dumas were in their usual places. M. Barrot was ou the beuch of the committee charged with the examination of the bill to bo discus-ed on parliamentary privikge in i regard to arrest and imprisonment for debt. The bill proposed by the committee is es follows: Art. 1. In conformity with the 3Gth amt 37th articles of the eonetitation, rev representative of the people can be arrested for a civil or cooant rebel cause without the previous &intim is Won of the Assembly. Art. 2. lhe authorisation prescribed by the preceding article ought to ha demanded by ri guts: addressed to th., President of the Are tob:y. Art. 3. Beery representative sbal b . : deemed and declare! to have forfeited his .rat against whom the execution of a warrant of MPSt mall have been authorised by the Ans. m hip, it within the term of three months from this authorisa tion he do not prove that h. has been giszharg,d tfOillanest. A. long as this proof has not brio furnished, he minnot be reelected. M. Midier do Monjau opposed the bill of the com mittee amid the total inattention of the house. Another ministerial list now circa:maul, in which 0. Barrot reaining the presidency of the comet, the portfolio of Justice was given to Nl.Casabianco, of War ' to Gen. Oudinot, end of Commerce to Thournine•De.- masares. M. Faultier then occupied the tribune, but i was not listened to with more attention than his pre demean MM.Perien end Fould took their seats on the bench of ministers. The latter conversed for some moments with M. Dupio. General Regnault de St. Jean d'A. , gely appeared at the sitting. After talking a considerable time with General Oudinot, he went to take his former seat as representative. The general debate having closed, the house entered upon tie discussion of the articles. Emile Leroux and others presented an amendment proposing that a representative may be arrested for debt without the authorisation of the Assembly. This was opposed by the reporter, M. Moulin, and rejected by the Assembly. M. Bac moved-an amendment, proposing that no representative should be liable to arrest dude.; the duration of his parliamentary mission. This amend tit having been developed by its authors, amid the noise of conversation, was finally rejected by 469 against 201. The vote of Saturday confirms an important fact, to which I drew your attention a lonr time ago, namely that the Orleanists were passing over to the In the present crisis a question arises u to the par liamentary value of an artificial majority against the government, produced by the coalition of parties, who condemn the nunnery for reasons totally opposed. No ore can read the speeches of General Cavaignac, MM. niers, and Berryer, without seeing that the former blamed the ministers for a series of acts, which the latter not only approved but had the main part in concocting. On the other hand MM. Thiers and Berryer rested their chief blame of the micieters on an act which General Cavaignac approved. It is as plain as day that the censure meant in the 200 votes on one side of the home was neutralized by the appr '- bation of the 200 voters on the other side of the haus?, who cut tickets of the same colour into the urn. The abstract value of such censure was, therefore, worth nothing at all. In fact, the generality of the blame expressed in M. S.. Reeve's amendment destroyed all its meaning. Jules Fevre declared that the meaning of both the coalescing pasties was blame of tho imperialist in trigues of the government. In that case the motion of censure ought clearly to have specified that cause. It was not specified, that as large a sum of hostility against the government might be gathered within the ample span of an undefined blame. A more on principled proceeding it would be impossible to pick out of the annals of any parliament. Still it is well to state the cue of both Miles. The republicans claim a triumph because they brought the parties of MM. 'fhiers, Berryer, and Dufanre over to their ground, by making them drop the clause commending Gee. Changarnier. The conservatives hostile to the go v,rr ment repudiate the phrase of coalition, and taunt min s en with having cegotiated with the Mountain to produce a coalition in the contrary sense. They add that among the 286 who rejected the amend ment of St. Benve, there were a hundred who, like the Duke de Broglie, would have voted the resolu tion of the commit'ee, blaming ministers and prais ing General Changarnier and two hundred who would have voted, like MM. Daru and Buffet, an amendment expressing regret for the dismissal of General Changarnier. A theory is at present in vogue, and is said to be viewed favourably at the Elysee, with regard to the part which the ministry ought to play under the pre emit constitution, which requires notice from the im portance of the principle which it involves. It is asked why the ministers should be obliged to resign here any more than in America in the face of a hos tile majority. The conditions which made such a resignation indispensable under the constitutional monarchy no longer ex , st. The dissolntion of the Assembly is not in the power of the executive govern ment. The President is responsible and may be im peached before the high court. Instead of the minis ters, commissioners may be appointed to present bills on the part of the government before the Chamber. Such is the new theory of government propounded by the Bonspertists. Bat the analogy between the French republic and the republic of the United Statrs,on which this notion ie breed, will saute hold. In the United SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 16. Th 9 members of the Bravo Nlurillo ministry have taken their oaths of office. The political chief of Madrid, Ziragasas, has resigned. Important eco nomics are projected in the budget of the interior and war. The coinage of gold is suspended, in conse quence of the abundance of gold coin in tha market. _ _ MADRID, JAN. lb.—Three par Cents., 331; Ann Bolas 33 946 to 1 cash, 331 paper. Four per Cants., 121 Five per Cents., 12 9 16; after Bo 14,121 paper, 121 ash• Coupons 61 ; after Balsa, 61 cash. Pamirs., 31 paper after Bola, 31 nab. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 9, cash &change on London, 60.66. SWITZERLAND. The government of Berne (says a letter from that city, df the 14th) having lately determined to take ' measures respecting the political refugees, called a few days ago on a Prussian Jew named Basswits, who had been established at St. Imier since 1837, to produce a certificate of his origin and other papers; but he was not able to do so, and orders were given to him to leave the canton. During many years he had made himself very popular among the poor, by giving them medical advice and assistance gratuitously, he being a physician. In political opinion he is a great radi cal, and has not only already laboured to spread his opinions in Switz.rland, but has been in constant commulieatisn with the chiefs of the party in different cc,untries. On receiving the order to leave, he attempted to induce the authorities of Neufchatel or Soleure to grant him the rights of citizenship, but they refused. Ttce inhabitants peti tioned the grand council against his removal; the council, however, declined to interfere. Tae inhabi tants thereupon made seditious movements, and threatened resistance. They planted two trees of liberty, but they were taken down by the authorities, and they began casting bullets. It is said ako that some corps francs have ben called to their aseistauce. In consequence of all this the authorities of Berne have collected some detachments of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, and are prepared to march them at once to St. Imier, in care of need. A commissioner of the government has already been sent to that place. Tte French ambassador has signed a passport to enable Basswitz to proceed to Havre. If he should not leave before the 16th the government will send troops to occupy St. Imier." BELGIUM. The Rogier ministry, desirous of reducing the pre sent army expenditure of Belgium to 25,(00,000tr., lately entrusted the ministry of war to General lirial mont, on the understanding that he was to act up to the view of the rest of the cabinet in the plane for re duction. General Brialmont accepted the appoint ment, but instead of carrying out the views cf his colleagues, announced in the chamber, on Monday, that he could not realise any of the reductions pro posed. Hereupon a scandal took place in toe cham ber, and ths ministry is on the eve of diesolution. GERMANY. The Austrian proposition for an alliance with the Zsllvercin was on the 17th discussed at Berlin by the free trade union, and found no favour. Luxem bourg and Holstein, that is, the Netherland+ sad Denmark, have protested against the new &demi constitution. They—important places—have by this constitution only a fraction of a vote at the Diet, whilst Wurtemburg, an insignificant place com pared with tilts:4 has an entire vote. FlOlll Baden and the " free cities," a similar protest is expected; and all the small states are Hedy to follow these examples. The second committee of the cotferences have not been able to come to any agreement with respect to the boundaries between the c enpeteney of the Plenum and that of the States Coiled's. Austria wishes to refer all the Salmi Councils, but l'russia feels herself safer in the Plenum, and the middle states are, on this point, with Prussia. Dissensioe, it is thought, may possibly spring up be twixt Austria and Prussia out of this question. JAN. 19. The first Schleswig-Holstein infantry regiment reached Altona to-day by the evening train. The habitants have been invited to illuminate their hou.ta on the occasion, but we doubt, under present circum stances, whether many of them will, though the soldiers will be very cordially received. OBEI VIESENrHAL, 7 AN. J . 15. _ .... Last night a fire broke out here, and at four o'clock this morning forty houses—one-third of our little town—were - laid in ashes. VIENNA, JAN. 16. We hear from a goad source that the re-se...blish ment of a free-trace harb)ur at Venice may shortly be expected. Our correspondent writes as follows : DRESDEN, Jam 17. The two comm'slions on the central federal autho rity, the extent of the federal territories, the powers of the former, and the relations of the contederation and the incividual states to each other, have sat down to their busini as with an industry and activity from which a speedy result might be angered. Did the questions to be discussed concern any other matters than the political organisation of Germany, this cer tainly might be expected; but on this subject the I experience of several generations has, unhappily, Proved to us, that whenever this question is discussed the variety of interests is so great and the difference of opinion BJ general that the negotiations are prolonged until all are tired of them, and they are then wound up by the general consent to measures or plans which are contradictory in themselves, and therefore useless. I he Bundesakte and the Vienna final convention are examples of this, though the former was concluded more hastily than is usually the case with German I paitical measure 4, through the startling news of the flight of Napoleon from Elba. The se cond, however, did not make good the defects of the first; bat, on the contrary, it, on some points increased the number of contradictions which already existed. These contradictiocs are the expres sions of the contrary interests which were then repre sented at Vienna, which still exist and are equally re presented here, and which therefore render it impos sible that any decision can be come to, or any altera tion in the constitution resolved upon, which can be of general advantage to Germany. Those whose in terests are represented here are not the people, but the princes and the aristocracy, who will only agree to anch alterations as shall not lessen or damage them in any way. Sovereign rights must be respected, existing interests, inch as that of Prussia in the Zell. verein, of Hanover on the Nord Deutsche Steuer Verein, will be carefully guarded ; ergo, anything but the old Bundestag is an impossibility, though per haps several of tho minor states may at first object. The plenipotentiaries are, generally speaking, of opi nion that such will be the result, with the altera tions in the constitmion of the central federal power, which have been proposed by Austria and Prussia, and such increase in the police authority of this body as shall enable it better to curb every sign or attempt to promote revolutionary or libe ral doctrines. No other alterations will be made. Even the question as to the presidency in the Bundesversamlung, on which Prussia has laid so much stress, and which we were falsely told had been settled to its satisfaction between Manteuffel and Schwarzenb_rg, appears likely to be over in silence. In the proposals which have rer d made by the two powers, and which of course are in the form of alterations of the articles of the constitution to which they refer, this question is not mentioned, and, in the opinion of those who are worthy of credit, it will not be touched upon. Austria retains the presi dent's seat in Frankfort in the acme manner as her representative here, Count Buol Schanenstein, takes the chair in the general assemblies of the conferences, as a matter of course. The defeat of Prussia on the German question could not be more perfect. Not only does Baron Manteuffel consent to the r - e.torat ion of the confederation in its absurd, futile, and helpless form, and against which the government of which Manteuffel has been a leading member for more than two years, has protested in the strongest possible manner—nay, which the minister himself has, upon more than one occasion, condemned in equally s•rong language ; but, what is still more humiliating, that question, which has over and over again been declared by the minister in person and his organs in the press to be vital to the existence of Prussia, is passed over in silence in eie proposals which are made to the free conferences, and the plenipotentaries and the public are compelled to believe that it is given up. Such are the primary re salts which have been obtained by the new policy of the prime minister. saCcurious fact has just tranigrei with reference to the gilden civio crown which certain name, ~9 Citi. sena of Leipsic presented to Manteuffel a fortnight agar. This splendid present turns out to bare ht en a stock piece in the window of one of the Leipsic gold smiths, at:d to have been originally made fur Robert Blum, the Leipsie democrat, whose untimely end at Vienna prevented it from being presented to him. The rernirisoenees which thus attach to the article must highly gratifyinz to its present possessor. BIRLIN, JAN 20.—Volnetary Loan, 1051; New Loot, Foar•aed a-llalf per Cent•., 991; Natinnel Den•, 811; Cots. inertia M,rine Society's Presnlan, 1211 ; Bank shares, 981, VIINNA, JAN. 18.—Fire per Cent Meta.nquee, 941; Four-And-a-Half per Conte.. ditto, 821. Bank thane. 1137 Exchange on London. 11 39. DENMARK AND THE DUCI I lES. The appointment of a new government is expected every day. It is reported that the two c ,mosiesioners, General Thiimen and Coact Mennsdort, are to be memb,•ra of the new government. They h, Id a con sultation on the 17th with Count Ittoventiow. The Austrian troops are meantime assembling in the Lanenburg country. On the nights of the 16th and 17Th the first Austrian columns were marching on Schwartzenbeek, and one regiment arrived there on the 17 , h. The troops were to cross the river in b4ate at Bnitzenbutg, Artlenbnrg, and Lanenhorg. Abed 3,600 men crossed on the 17th. At tier b.irg is the spot where a bridge is to be thrown over the Elbe, for the passage of the cavalry and artillery. WEST INDIA MAIL. [ay Lectne Telegraph.] SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNZADAT MORNING., The Trani hen arrived, ;with data horn Jamaica c. 29 (anticipated by the American mail); Demo. rata, 27; Trinidad, 27 ; Harannah, 25 ; Thome', Jan. 4. She bring, eight handro . and nineteen thousand eight hundred and tort7•three dt.llan from the Pacific, Santa Martha, Jamaica, and other Waft India island.. JAMAICA MARKET.—Brandy still rules high. Sow fetches from 18s. to 255. Rum: No tr.inssetions of come (lattice. Pimento: Prices ranged ienui 41d. to sde Freights.—Tonnage abandint. No clunce of em. pia) meat. Exchange on London, lemma, and ado- Mal beak., 90 days, 1 per cent. prim. Zbe Court. WINDSOR, TUESDAY, JAN. 21. The Qnecn walked this atoning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The royal family took thc.t rxrustomed airings. I'rtnc• Albert, attended by Cul..n:d tl , e lion. Charles Grey and Lienteaaot•Caloael F. 11. S.yetiour, went to London die morning at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of prcebling a: a meeting of the It yt C. mods-'on for the E e mhitinn of 18.51, held at the huildin4 in 113de Perk. Hit uysl b'ebn•sa and smite travelled by a train on t , te Gr. at Western Railway, and returned to V'ic Castle at 2 o'clock. Prince Alh , r: presided yesttrlay rooming at a meting of the It lel CJma.inion for the pron.,tiou al the Exhihntoo of the iiir.irke of Industry ‘.l Ali \.:•tons in 1851. Rua Royal Highness arrived at the buildit's Ilyle-park at 'keen o'ciock, attended by Colonel the 11-n Cr erles Grey and Lieutenant Calomel F. H. Seymcor. Tor c rumiesioners precut were E Granville, Level Overr• n.., the Hight Hon. Henry Libouchere, Sir Rich-Ara Wt.tmactitt, Sir Charlie Lprll , Mr. Cubit, and Mr. T. F. Gliton. Mr. Sera ltuexll litti need as Secretary of the It ral COVIMiIF IWO, Mr. Ironing was &ISO ',tenet Ceerk., I Re i, Chair man of the Enrollee Committee, end Dr. Lyon Playfair (vre(al rommluioner), were in attend.one. , on the !Loyal C .tr Mitllit,nin. The meeting broke ti;t at It rtu..rltr gist one o'clock, when Prince Alber: left the Beni 'er the Pad.- dinston tr-minus of the Great Weitern ltti,euy, on his return to Windsor Mr. J. A. 'sauna bad an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Coioai►l-ogee. Mr. Wilkins had an interview whit Viscount Palmeriton yeste.day evening, at the Pori ie. 'rice. Sir Edward Disbrow° had an interview with the Right II m. fitnry Libeithers yeeerday, le the Offiall of the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Lansdowne was better yf s'erday. Despatches were receive] yesterday at i he Colonial ir m the Governors of Bou'h Austral'. alai Malt% and slso from the Lord High Commissioner st the Imams islands. ALLEGED INTENDED PROSECUTION OP C.% RDINAL WIMEXAN.—Toe U lobe of last night iays : •• With :Mercian to a statetozut in one of the morning paper-, net Cardinal Wiseman has hod notice of an intendi d teculon for a m aloe, we aro at liberty to state that no such notice has been given 03 the part of the governmeni. We believe that a document has been sent to his Etainenci at the instance of a gentleman kgally connected with the City, containing some admissions which the Cardinal is requested to ir.ske, is order to ni►e the question of the legality, or otherwise, of his archittescopal assumptions. Tte rep has bi en taken is the exercise of the tight which belongs to over; subject., to institute a prosecution in any can in which he any consider the c-iminal low of the country violated, cod without that cognissr.ce of her Xsiesty 'a law officers. 'WTI( OF FIELD MARSHAL GROSVENOIL-012 the al-err:eon of Howley last this venerable officer, who was ins of the six field marshals of England, and colonel of the 65th regiment, died at his residence at Richmond, Sur►ey, at a vary ativenced age. So far back as 177 J he entered the army as ensign in the 3rd Foot Guards, in wi.ich regiment he con firmed for many years. In 1793 he ace:tapented the 3rd Foot Guards to Holland, sad served with them in llolland and Flarders ; he west with the expedition to the Helder in 1799, and was moist in the affair at the lines of Zuype (where he WU wounded), at the battle of Alkmaer, and in the actions of the 17th of September, 6th and 9th of October. At the siege of Copenhagen, in 1807, he commanded the pickets and outposts when the Danes were repu:ead, and after s bombardment of three days, the city capitulated to the British naval end military forces. Litutenant.Genetel Oro•venor served in the Walcherea expedition in 1809, sad at the strip, of Flushing was next in command to Sir Byre Coot*. Sane 1614 he held the coloneicy of the 66th regi ment, wticb Is thus vaimat. Is 1846 he was m►de a field marshal, together with the Margate of Anglesey and the labs Sir George Nugent. The body of the Marquis of 'Hastings was brought over to Liverp .01 . yesPrday scorning, from DvLlia The proceedings were totally devoid of esteatation, according toll* wish of his deesawd lordship's friends. Tile body has blew despatched to the legally east for burial. (Fran last West's Gf! ?el k.) FOREIGN -MICE, JAN.I7.-The Qwen has been ple sad to approve of Mr. John HeIIICIT as CAtaul at New port for his llsjeetp the King of Hanover. . • . - CuMBISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or Wouccavnaantas —Robert Charles Courtonar Throe*. winos, gentleman, to be cornet in the Queen's Own Wor ccsterthire Rudman of Yeomanry Cavalry. MILAN.—The electric telegraph for correspond ence between Vienna, Verona, Trieste, Ooritz, and Venice, was opened on the 3rd of January. ADvices PROhl Pzammuuco, to the 22nd Dec., report no news of importanca. Exchange cabal at 29k. Loss or 7,000 DOLLAII9.—The Ripon, which left Southampton with the Indian mail on the 20. h December, took out amoaget her cargo some specie, a portion of which, consisting of a box of gold, nearly 7,000 dollars value, was lost. The Rive retaroed with the li dian mail on Monday, as recorded in the Empress of yrs erday. She made a rapid voyage from Mal t a, and arrived in tiouthamptin Water with the homeward, just u the Indus was preparing to start with the outward, Indian mail—a rather unusual donee. As soon as the Ripon c; me el, se to the Indus the yards of each slip were manned, and the crowds on board bath ships cheered each other immensely. The Rpon thus proceeded to the docks; in the centre of the duke she laid to, according to secret orders, until Capt. Engledue, the Oriental Company's S.,u thump*** euperinteadenr, returned from the Indus. The superintendent, assisted by all the cflicers of Peninsular vessels in the docks rapidly enclosed a Apse.) on the dock quay with barricades, and from which ell hut the Postoffice and Admiralty authorities were rigidly tr ended. The superintendent of police, and some assistants, were secreted in me of the dock buildings. The Ripon was them allowed fee come alongside. No communication was allowed to take p'ace between the crew and the shore. The crew were mustered on deck, and their clothes minutely examined, and when this was done each man was sent ashore. Every cabin and part of tl.e ship was thoroughly inspected, but not the aliehtest trace of the missing gal was found. was in consequence of tte less of this gold, that such care was token in shipping the vast amount of specie exported in the luaus, the particulars of which appeared in yesterday's Empress. _