The Express. — London, England, 1852-05-08 00:00:00

tate evortisti. TO CORRUPONDIIITB. .5.6 1 lbe Tifiwoh" eadadibd the MIMI reeoleire r published every Thaler sod Friday 04 in a m LI t arT ePts•awkded he "To Irspressplhowou mon t us wiles, U. Uo6,llneopuesc, by Two iVelsok es the lIIGH WATHR A r LONDON BRIDGE Tr. —lll6nalsg. 46 1 116 . Afterwe. N. 3... 35 a. awns*, LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 8. WITH gallant pertinacity the liberals in the Homo I of Commons are contesting, step by step, the mo ue. l a st night thegovernment of the obnoxious and unnecessary Militia B ill : 1 could not, after : a s n uie hours debate, pass a single clause. The wish to plate every militiaman under full surtial law--which means, giving to the autho si • the power of military flogging. The ics volunteers are to serve under the shadow of the lash — am asked to join the militia with the full under lading that if they intringe the rul es of the drill , I Ld of discipline. they arc to be liable to be tied up to the trian,:le. and must submit to the gentle atten tions of the drummer and his cat-o'-nine-tails. This proposal being strongly objected to, some hours last nyht ace: nt upon the discussion which ensued. The hocks of the Ronne of Commons contain yet a hag het of proposed amendments, each of which mus t be considered : and there is room for hope that the governme lit will not be permitted to force through an expiring parliament a law in which the whole country are %Rally interested, and upon which every eo nstitaenev should have an opportunity of ex eressinit a 'deliberate opinion. Nye h a ve at present a larger army, a larger fleet, and greater and better armaments of every sort and description than we have at any time possessed since the close of the List war. At home wo are a con tented. a pnispen.us, and a loyal people. We have no internal disaffection to guard against ; no &math cyclamens for spies to foster into treason; DO axial ...re., festering into rebellion in Ireland. Oar trade in tioutishing; our agricultural Iwo daetion is extending ; our wealth is inertias. ing, our labour is well employed. Interval causes of fear. apprehension, or panic, we kayo tone. Bread is unprecedentedly cheap; eeuss suiprectalentiv high. The face of the Unite-ti: I E I X dodotsreticulated with railways, whereby a ll of troops can now do the work of regiments ; we bare spent millions in putting our chief ports in o rder ; lu fortifying the Channel Islands ; and, in ditko to a great military steam navy, we bays such a commercial steam marine as no *CUM country can approach. Yet all of a sudden oar military policy has to undergo a revolution ; we arc going to add 80,000 men to our army of (smite , : to put the bO,OllO under military law, thcrebv—as we pointed out long ago—enabling the executive government at any moment to release the Wein for whatever service it pleases. In thirty-four out of the last thirty-six years of profound peace parliament has session alter man suspended tlw calling out of the militia, until at last that tome had become a name—a mare recOlection cf a past system ;—a display to be remembered only with an effort by the mature, and to be inquiredelsr be the young. Four years ago, when a whig set talked of embodying it, the country laughed them out of the proposition, and made the cabinet redone its military expenditure. Yet now, when no publie wad any experience or authority avers that war is the logical termination of any discussion, disagree min or difficulty we now have with any European state. a tory cabinet proposes to add 80,000 men to ow military force. The thing seems incredible; but so it is--the one great fact after those thirty ix years of peace. Is the thirty-sixth year of peace oar farm ser vants. oar artisans, our manufacturers, aad.our po palation generally, have to be turned into soldiers. if a bounty fail,, the ballot and compulsion have to be resorted to, and 80,000 Englishmen are to be subjected to martial law, which the Duke of Welimovos says is no law at all. The licensed victuallers, the beer-sellers, and the livery stable keepers are especially to hare their business, and occu pawn, and profit, interfered with ; the country has to be disturbed by the march and counter-march of troops; quiet, peaceable county towns have to be filled with awkward squads; the military privileges of the tar ritorial system have all to be revived; ins to be disorganised; and a means el salmi suited to an agricultural country, and la active, robust race of men, has to be applied Is ariss► lecturing towns, with a population neither gives alt suited to violent occupations. Why this change—this revolution ? There mud be sonic great cause, some imperative motive, sow irresistible necessity. It is not the state of our for r e e t relations, for they, the SUVLItUtiN has ai luparliament, are friendly and peaceable. It tuna be any occult designs of the President, Louis NAPULEUN, for Lord l'austancros has approved of the swans by which he ravished his present power— Lord Julia HtsSELL has censured the application to him by the prep of any hostile imputations—Lord limn has declared his belief in hiagoodintentions to all mankind—Lord MAl.llLslit*RY tells as that he is his friend. If this be not snfilcient, we have been shown how a successful invasien if would give him a master, how an am world be his ruin. And General Even bas donna grated. with precision and force, that if he mat a great army to this country, Perim, Lyons, Strube, and the other great garrison towns of France, to his domination, would be in a position to rise and put an cod to his power. Nay more ; bad - as the man is, he has shown no aggressive disposition on his neighbours; he has not swept away the Belgian frontiers; he has not ad vanced to the Rhine ; he has not re-added Savoy to France ; ho has not occupied an inch of Switzerland. He has been entirely occupied in consolidating his own ill-gotten power; in knocking down all the con stitutional guarantees of Frenchmen; and in domestic experiments of a socialist tendency. He has been oe copied by fraudulent reductions of rental, speculative land banks, protective sugar duties, agricultural im provements, and premiums for fat cattle. lie has sot even been sanguinary and warlike in Algeria; he has kept his bayonets and his ehasseurs hr the hnulcvarda of Tarim. He appears to recog nise the great change that thirty-six years lave worked in the French character also; and to think more of save et salade for the proletaires, than great schemes of conquest for his army. Yet we an told he is going to invade us. This cannot be, and is not, the real MIR he die great change iu our military policy. The militiaafa4l,ooo men,moveable anywhere in the i t i rhal Kingdom, and thus seedy to release for extend and aggressive purples the regular army, is, Nosi• it, a tory policy. That scheme, at all owale. is the very opposite of Lord Jolts Ituessu:s. Now. 1r none trey rulers mesa peace—if they are not se e = Preparing for war, what can they want with regular and seasoned troops to do what they *wee it it b. in addition to fio,ooo at home But, war with Whom? Why, can we, for a moment, suppose that the English aristocracy, whoa agents are now k %ion o f power, are satisfied, or can ever be . cab the present state of things in France t GM we imagine that the existence either of a =e a r el devotism under a BoNAPAM SIMS. th• be agreeable to the aristocracy of Engisad. who tari nicely plunged no into war to restore the Doeseme ? All their sympathies are, and must be, opposed to Franc' in its present plight--still nay appose d to tnv forthcoming empire. They sash , mad sad Wish fora restoration of the NW sr tbs. yesigur • sup •.% ; and if the great power. at Ramp= mite in the cause of one or the other, or Trance in any shape, England, with 80,000 militia troops for home purposes, and with 80,000 regular teepee disposable for foreign purposes, will Wu' j..in the crusade against France- And that is how 0 ,1 , present French government w ill translate this change i n our military policy; a change unprovoked h , ' say measure of France that can provoke echidna in the thirty-sixth year of peace. instead arm wooing a militia to protect as from French invades, I ..san only need it if wo wish to attack Franco. Hut whether this more than doubling hi pea, oar si.:iitary establishments dews aim at ultimately inter ! rang in the internal affairs of France or not, one °nit is certain—that the likeliest way to provoke a tnerla war is for one country unneesseani• y and G, }l 4 to prepare for one. If—as Sir GROWL DU tett—we had at present any serious dine& anon going on with France, then to Gall out the general militia would amount to a declaration of war. And for us it is we have none. But when armed I tot a teeth, other countries will become sensitive and jealous; our own government more exigeant and exacting ; and thus the dangers of war will become imminent. Were France to double her fleet, we should have a good cause of alarm ; and when Eng land doubles her army, the fact will not be lost on France. And, disguise it as we choose, there are men in England wicked and weak enough to desire " a good war!" Men high too in position; having voices in the legislature and influence with govern ments. And these men are first and foram* in ad vocating a militia 80,000 strong, as the first step towards war. When, then, we find no adequate reason on which any man can fairly place his hand for this revolution in our military policy—for these 80,000 soldiers to our army—we may be sure that there is an occult one ; and that it affects France and a BOURBON restoration there is too much reason to apprehend. The best friends of the country, then, are those who so stea dily oppose a militia. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVINIXO. The following official wanting has been given to the Pays: Taking into consideration Art. 42 of the constitution, which says : 't The report of the sittings of the Legislative Body by the journals must consist only of the reproduction of the minutes authorised by the president of that as sembly," and seeing that the numbers of the lays of the sth and 6th inot. , under the head of " Discussion of the Convict Rehabilitation Bill" contains appreciations alto gether in contradiction with the aforesaid Art. 42, a first wanting is hereby given to flu Pays, in the person of M. Banton, one of the propri:ton, and of M. G. Angier, se cretary of the editors. (Signed) De MAVrAti, Minister of General Polka. A similar warning has been given to the Public and the Emancipation of Brussels was stopped yes terday at the post, by order of the minister of police. The ./otirnal de Genere has been prohibited from entering France. The warning given by M. de :gaups& to the Pays is one of the gravest steps of the present govern. ment, and as such has raised universal discussion in the highest political circles as well as in the ears. It appears from the preamble to the constitution, written by Louis Napoleon himself, and deserving therefore to he regarded as the most authentic com mentary on that restricted charter, that the motive for obliging each journal to confine its report of legislative sittings to the official minutes published in the Munitesr was to avoid the distorted represen tations of party spirit. But it is nowhere said that a journal may not discuss the matter under legisla tion with reference to the official report of the sitting. If such a prohibition existed it would suffice that the legislature should occupy itself with any question for it to become a sacred ground, inaccessible to the press. Now it appears, from the circular of M. Abbattueci, the keeper of the seals, to the procureurs genereaux on the law of the press, that the clause allowing the minister of police to suspend, without any appeal to the tribunals, a journal after two warn ings, was meant for the good of the press, to correct by a first warning an angry opposition or a factious perversion of the government's intentions, without visiting the journal with the heavy penalties that would follow a legal condemnation. The case of the Pays is just this. Being a ministerial paper, it could not easily be taxed with opposition. Taking the report of the Monitsur of the sittings of the Corps Legisla tif for its base, it wrote an article on the law of reha bilitation, conceived in the mildest spirit. Hence, the only feature which weld Eh. the minister of police a right to interfere with Me warning, namely a cap tious tone, dangerous to the public tranquillity, did not 'mist. If the article onstaimed anything illegal it was evidently the busing. of the judicial authori ties whisk interpret the laws te seaduct the inquiry. M. de Neaps' is thought therefore to have over stretched his functions, and marpsd the rights of the tribunale. As the Pop an "aprons the tbsughta of X de Persigny, between when sad the minister of pass no love, as you are ewer% is lest, the question becomes in some sect the beading out et a family ealaideriel quarrel in public; and the absurd preaumpthes of M. do Maupas in this instants must be looked on as having given to his rival in the Pemilleat's favour an ad vantage for the present white my_ lead to needillea. times of the cables;. I hear that the sena& of mi shams ie divided ea this quietism, bat ant et doors them is as alienate of 'plain. The menstrons soden of threatening a jeered with itappthesha for simply result in review the argemeate et the de putise, is ~ally medal area a mak* in the owes of legislation., has pesinsed universal await Even the thweitutioami prehless its palmed as tonishment at each a strange 'reseeding, and has a remeekable article, in which it stigmausee the Mega lity of the act, and viaditates the freedom of public discord's. The West he 1863 now before the Coos Legis latif list slightly km that of 1662, which was melded about two .seethe dace by a dietatoral dame. The chief dilbrisee se mists in the diminu den of sums dew items of expeadithrie. It has here- Whoa been enthmary to vote He ressipts and the expenditure ia two sspaeate laws. They are now sompeised is be d en is e s ineprevemeat, for it mast always be ansatiefacte7 to vale erudite ia =l.lBof the ithensial resonress ended le meet 1 11 mt total expenditure stover, descriptha in dis budget ia 1,486 wadies of ham. The real (easy is. however, imeniderably Ina Time ere miens items, Guth as brine returned and tease not actually received, mob of sellsotion, and the depart mental and seememeal median gregrithell =WY to load popsies, which figure on this side of the baiast merely pour order. Thee items, amouating is ghee whale to 436 millions, t. both on the dater sad creditor side of the and are set oft coo against the other to satisfy rules of hook. . Ms actual estimated expealitare is thee I ,o o6o om million. This sem is again &deal& into or dinary expenses, 961 millions, and sztraorilinary ez fa79 mans. The extraordinary expencee are ' works at pads utility, principally railways, whisk me to be reproductive. Assuming this to be realised, the total expenses of the lissom reduced to 981 millions. The di minution shown, as compared with the budget of 1832, amounts to nearly 27 millions; and this, al tVthe salaries of many public huictionaries are and the extraordi nary =pewee exceed by 6 mil lions those of 1862, which were only 73 millions. The principal items of the reduction are, in the first place, the interest of the public debt, reduced by the conversion of the Five per Conte. into Four-and a-Half per Cents. The saving from this operation, which is stated at nine millions for 1852, appears as eighteen millions for 1863. There is then a reduc tion of five millions in the department of the Minister of War, and of about three millions in that of the Minister of Public) Instruction and Worship, subject, however, to the adoption of the bill on public in struction ea sent to the Corps Legislatif by the Coun cil of State. The suppression of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (now united with that of tho Interior) entails some farther reductions. The ways and means amount in the whole to 1,446 mil. lions, but, deducting the above-mentioned 436 mil lions' "pour ardne," to 1,010 millions. Thus the deficit, as wee some time since stated, is forty Wi lkes. The estimates sasume that there will be an increase of 22 millions in the product of the taxes, owing to the consolidation of order and the return of public confidence. Forty millions =period to be pant by railway companies are reckoned among the receipts, and this, it is said, is not unreasonable, seeing that seventy-nine millions are allotted by the state Tor the furtherance of public works. With re spect to the deficit, those who take a sanguine view observe that it has been found that credits, amount ing on an average to fifty millions, are very year an nulled. It must, however, be borne in mind that supplemental and extraordinary credits are efts as common as cancellations. Among the mine items in the budget the most important is a credit of ten millions for the purchase, by the state, of " credit fonder" society bonds. This credit is a maximum not nocesearily to be attained should the government find that the operations of the mortgage banks do net answer. The Neapolitan government has just decided that the entrance of the kingdom of the Two Sicilia@ should be interdicted to all persons shade of tireceni.)l / ex pelled from France, to whatever esl optnion they belong. the French minister o Police, M. de Maupas, has, in consequence, sent a circular THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, teto the whets to refire pamper% for the Neapolitan ry_to l pennere so evens& The INW n ow men by the Council of Moto kr the promentien of Fresetunent for crimes eeesithel see et the Ave& territory, or foreigners guilty chimes aneebdia Rime, which was drawn up by M. Beebor, proposes to enact that any French men guilty et a cruse according to French laws, committed ant of the territory of the republic, may be prosecuted and tried on the demand of the public prosecutor, or on the complaint of the injured parties, even though he may hare been prosecuted in a foreign country, unless indeed time may have been • judgment. A prosecution say also be commenced against a Frenchman guilty in foreign countries of the offences of using false passports, exciting to de bauchery, robberies, and swindling. These prose cutions may take pines even when the victims of the crimes or offences are foreigners. Foreigners arrested on the Freseh territory, as authors or accomplices of murder, manslaughter, poisoning, cutting and wounding, rape, anon, piracy, forgery, and robbery la foreign countries, ou the person or to the prejudice of a Frenchman, may be prosecuted, tried, and condemned in France. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell sv. closing at 100.20; the Threes fell 5c., and closed at 70.50. Bank of France shares fell 5. The railway market was tolerably firm, although some lines tell. Northern fell 5 ; Central, 2.50; Marseilles, 1.25 ; but Teste and Bordeaux rose 7.50; Bordeaux, 6.25; Strasbourg and Dieppe, 3.75 each; liavre, and Tours and Nantes, 1.23 each. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, MAT 4. The Federal Council hu commenced the publication of the report of its administration for 1851. In the political department, this report states that external relations have maintained a pacific character through out the year, a character which even the affair of the refugees did not alter. It alludes to the cordon neditaire placed by the Austro-Italian government on the frontiers of Piedmont and Switzerland, osten sibly to repress smuggling, but perhaps also to hinder dangerous political communications. This step, so close to the Swiss territory, unfortunately still litigious and complicated in dicers points, had inevitably produced conflicts. The coun cil had at first endeavoured to appease them, but they became so alarming that it became neces sary to send a commissary to the frontiers of Tessin and the Orisons. The report then alludes to Col. Bourgeois' mission, and enters into details already known of the diplomatic correspondence between Austria and Switzerland. On the events of Dec. 2 in France the report speaks as follows : A fundamental change in the constitutional system of France having taken place in December, 1851, Bwitserland naturally respected the right of freely choosing its con.titu tion, which belongs to all independent state., and which she herself has exercised. But the developments of the new governmental regimo of France, and its consequence, for Switzerland, belonging to 1862, the Federal Council must reserve for its next report what it may hove to observe upon the subject. GERMANY. (IT lILICTRIC /ILTAIRATIT.) BERLIN. Mai 7. The Second Chamber today discussed the project of law, transmitted to it by a royal memage,concern ing the future organisation of the First Chamber. The project of the government, the propositions of the committee, were rejected d l'appel nominal. AUSTRIA. ----- The Czar Nicholas and the Empress of Russia arrived at Warsaw on Sunday evening last. The Empress was to meet her royal brother on the Prue sian frontier, and accompany him to Potsdam, while the Czar would proceed to Prague, the residence of the ex-Emperor Ferdinand, where the Emperor Francis Joseph would meet him. The New Prtsesian Gazette states that Marshal Kempen, the Governor of Vienna and Commander of the Gendarmerie, is named Minister of the Aus trian police. All unions, guilds, and associations, u well as tho entire press, will be subjected to his au thority. Up to the present time three various authorities have assumed to exercise a control over the daily newspapers, viz., the Minister of the In terior, the City Marshal, and the Military Governor, so that it has often happened that for a single petty offence an editor has been summoned to three bureaux in one morning. The Cologne Gazette states that the betrothment of the Emperor of Austria and the Princess Sidonia of Saxony will shortly take place, and be closely suc ceeded by their marriage. HUNGARY. Martial law was re-proclaimed in Freeburg on the 26th ult. Incendiary fires are of weekly occurrence in the city and environs, HANOVER. _ _ _ Berlin letters mention rumours that the reigning Duke of Brunswick is on the point of marnage,—a fact not without importance in the politics of North Germany. The present duke has no issue, and the reversion of the ducal crown belongs to Hanover, the Duke Charles, now living in England, having been not only ousted from his states in 1830, but declared by the Germanic Diet incapable of reigning. The psespective aggrandisement of a large protestant stale in North Germany is regarded by Austria with dislevour, and any tendency to preserve the duchy of Innswick in its present separate state, is certain to end encouragement from the wort of Vienna. DENMARK. The Vienna Prune says that the differences be tween the Duke of Augnetemburg and the Danish go moment, in which the cabinet of Berlin acted as medial" have been settled, the Prince accepting the ease of the Danish government of an indemnity of 1,1110,000 thalers for his property situate in the =in order to avoid the necawity of proceeding against him. The Duke, It is added, has consequently no further connexion with Schleswig or Holstein. THE The Peninsular and Oriental Company'. screw ak-ehip, Madras, Capt. Evans, arrived at Southampton last night, with dates from Constantinople, April 20; Smyrna, 22 ; Malta, 26 ; and Gibraltar, May I. This steamer on the homeward voyage has experi enced fine weather, and, generally, with the °seep. Lion of strong galas ahead across the Bay, both out ward and homeward, there has seareelyleen an op portunity of starting the canvas, and the steam- power has been almost entirely used. The Madras brings 61 passengers. Tag Loin or TES martial la rederente to the loss of the Birkenhead, stem hoop-ship, was held ea board Om Victory, at Portsmouth, yesterday (Friday), to try the remaiaing atom and .hip's company of that vessel for her loss. There were pat on trial—Mr. William Calhane, awstaat•wrgcon ; Mr. C. B. Renwick, amistant•engimeer of the int ohm; Mr. Ben- mood court- jamin Berber, aseistant;Ongimeeled the thud clen ; Mr. G. W. B. Hire, clerk ; Mr. John Archbold, rinser ; and the whole of the surviving portion of the crew, comprising 44 men, 4 boys, and 8 privates of marine. 8. viral vitamins ►aving bees examined for the defines, the Judge Advocate read the following !iding That the smut is of opinion that no blame is attributable to Mr. Jahn Archbold or the other surviving oficen and crew of the Birkenhead, tried foe the wreck of the said ship, or for their eondnet subsequently thereto; bat, on the ocm tiny, the court sees neon to &drain and applaud the eteedisem shown by all in tae meet trying eirminstaanse, and the conduct of those who were ant in the beam, and who, to the best of their judgment, made every inertias for the resew of the portion of the crew and panniers who remained upon the wreck. In this expression of praise they dein to inn& them who have been asweitted on the memo and previous warts martial, and the court cloth tally acquit the said Jelin Archbold and the other surviving oaken end crow of the end ship Birkenhead, sail they an hereby acquitted neordiegly." This wal let*, the ingniry into the circumstances attending the lees of the Birkenhead steamer. ANOTHER NEW PLANET.—A gentleman bearing the honourable name of Luther, director of the observatory at Elite, near Dusseldorf, has discovered a new planet in that California of astronomers, the space between Mars and Jupiter. The new orb appears like a star of the eleventh sminitude ; it wee dhcovered April 17, at 38 minuted past 10 p.m., Bille mean time, in 180 degs. of right ascension, sad 8 digs. of north declination. NAY 8, 1852. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. (BT ILICTRIC TURORAPII.) (PROW OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT SOUTRAbIPTON SATURDAY, 8.30 P.M. The Medway has just arrived, with the West India and Mexican mails. Her data. are; Vera Cruz, April 7; Jamaica and Demerara, 14 ; Trinidad, 15. She has brought 168 passengers, amongst whom are Messrs. Thompson and Elrod, delegates from Jamaica; also a largo number of persons from the interior of Mexico. Amongst the cargo is specie and gold dust, of the value of 1,484,235 dollars, on merchants' account, and 40,7.12 dollars on account of Mexican dividends. From Mexico we learn that the government of Arista was unpopular, and that another revolution was imminent. fhe government was without money, and the Congress would supply none. The amount required fur the January dividend had been scraped together with difficulty. A rupture also would pro bably take place between Mexico and the United States, in consequence of the refusal of Mexico to ' carry out the Tehuhantepec railway treaty. From Jamaica we learn that trade was dull. The sugar crop would fall short of that of last year. The small-pox was making rapid through out the island. The Windward ds were healthy. The fever was abating in Demerara. From Carr:teas we learn that the coffee mop was closed, and that it was a short one. The cocoa crop was also expected to be a short one. From Chili and Peru we learn that tho Ex-Presideut, General llellivian , was on his way to Buenos Ayres. From Ilydacoro we learn that General Flores was cruising off Guayaquil on the 28th of March. An attack was daily expected, and much anxiety pre vailed in tho Equador. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From LM(urdercee Mercantile late Mower.) KINGSTON, JAMAICA, Airan. 13. The business transacted in this market aims our issue of the 27th ult. has been of the ordinary character. With little inducements offering for speculative purchases, either as regards reduction of prices, or anticipations of a permanent revival of trade, dealers have simply confined their opera tions to the supply of their immediate wants. Stocks gene rally have been sufficiently ample to meet the ordinary de mond, mid prices have scarcely fluctuated from our last quotations. We notice an increased dulness in the articles of sugar and rum, supplies of which are increasing in Kingston,' whilst the inducements to speculate become daily less appa rent. Of pimento there is very little at market. Co ff ee is being brought in ra.her freely by the small 'mien. M e found it necessary some numbers back to allude to the circumstances of large deficiencies having been dis covered in the weights of several parcels of pork imported into this market. More recently those deficiencies were found to extend to other articles, and the consignees of several parcels of herrings anal mackerel were obliged to make allowances off the prices at which the articles were originally sold, proportionate to the extent of deficiency. It has again been brought under our notice that a recent receipt of mackerel has been round to contain some 201 b. len in each barrel than the correct weight. We believe we may state with confidence that an effort is about being made by the deans of Kingston to arrest the nefarious and deliberately dishonest system disclosed in the foregoing remarks, by obtaining some legislative enactment which will authorise the seizure and confiscationof all descriptions of goods which shall have been put up, like the articles above alluded to, with the view to defraud the honest trader. The duties on tobecco were (reduced on the 31st ult. as follows, in accordance with the provisions of the first Im• port Duty Dill of the last session. The tariff with this ex ception remains uualtered. Tobacco, manufactured, per 1001. value £32 0 0 and further per lb. weight 0 0 3 Tobacco, Cavendish, and unmanufactured, per 100 lb. value and further per lb. weight 0 0 3 Cigars, per 1001. valuo and further per lb. weight 0 0 6 Tonacco is in very limited frequiry. The sleek of Cavendish is exceedingly heavy, and beyond the ordinary demand. Fuzintire.—Tennage is abuidant, but employment offers very slowly. EXCHANOI6.—On Landon: Colonial Bank-90 days, per cent. prem.; CO days, 1 per cent. ; 30days, per cent. Jamaica Bank-90 dam par ;60 dsys, i per cent. prem. ; 30 days, 1 per cant. TIIE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE HBRMANN. Yesterday, at 1 o'clock, the United States mail packet Hermann, Capt. E. Higgins, U.S.N., arrived at Cowes, from New York, which place she left on Saturday, April 24, and brings throe days' later in telligence. The Hermann brought 79 passengers, of whom 32 were for Southampton. Amongst her cargo were 3,000 dollars for Bremen, in gold and sil ver (German coins), 300 bales of tobacco, and 100 cases of hides for Bremen. The news is unimportant, being comprised in the following items from the New York weekly papers, published on the day of the Hermann's departure: Accounts of the serious effects of the storm are beginning to pour in Trent all quarters. The overflow of the Alleg heny and Monongahela riven, was truly disastrous. In addition to the less of many valuable lives, it is estimated that 400,000 dol. worth of property was destroyed in the vicinity of Pittsburg. The water was within three feet of the high flood mark of 1832. Upwards of five hundred families were driven from their homes in the little city of Allegheny. Many of the bridges on the Potomac have been swept, and a large amount of valuable property along the river and canal, has been either carried off or wholly ruined. Several villages were entirely destroyed in Vir ginia. In the New England states a great deal of damage has also been done. A des patc h from Barton furnishes melancholy evidence of the nonons effect, of the storm. The British brig Joseph, was wrecked on Truro beach last Toledo, night, and all but two of those on board were doubtless drowned. A large number of vessels are ashore in the vicinity of sad be7ond Barton. fen persons lost their lives by the burning of the steamer Pocahontas, on the Missiulppl, a few days ago. The cargo consisted of nearly 2,400 bales of cotton, which, with the boat, was entirely consumed. The United States senate, on Thursday, decided to make the whole number of Congres ional representatives two hundred and thirty-four—thereby allowing California to send two members, as at present, and giving South Carolina an extra member for her fraction. The Cincinnati Commercial says that on Wednesday, of last week, Mr. Wm. C. Marshall (recently a candidate for Congress) had a dispute in Brockville, Bracken county, i with a Mr. Wilson, a keeper of a hotel in that town. During the trouble, Marshall drew a pistol and fired at Wilson, the ball passing through his left arm. In an instant Wilson returned the fire, shooting Marshall In the forehead ; who fell, and in four or five minutes expired. The same afternoon, Mr. James Marshall (a cousin of William) bad • difficulty at Maysville with a Mr. Ball, who keeps the Franklin House in that town, the result of which was, Marshall shot Ball, and he fell dead. Kossuth had been well seoeived in Newark. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Naw You, Aram 23. There has been a fair demand for stooks throughout the week, and prices have been well sustained. Goverment stooks and other leading securities are in &naiad for for vestment for hors r well as European scommt, sad as the supply is limited capitalism are misapellad to have re runs to our Railroad and County ponds, which her the nature piths securities give sea dent guarantee of their value. Foreign exchange is firm, although the demand is moderate. We quote London 1014 to 1091 ; Paris, 6.211 to 6.20 ; Amsterdam, 404 to 401 ; Ilembargh, 36 to 361; Bremen, 771. The general tone of the market is un changed, and money remains as plenty, and cheaper, if anything, than but week. COTTON.—Trannetions for the past two dap have been large, and es the quantity offering upon the market has been moderate, we note en advance, on the better grades, of Id. to ad. The sales for last tine days were 11,300 balm. Water Atlantis. Mart& Pik tie to to ordinary, low to good 7 to 71 7 to iddling, teer to pod 1 W 4 'Oddities, tut ir rally ddit tar to good Mt Good asd FLOus.—For a day or two pest there has been some activity lap home use and the market clown with more firinness,the demand being meetly for the better grades of State and Ohio on.tTr;.Zilte transactions in wheat are unimportant and prices are almost nominal. The stock in store has beea quite diminished of late by shipments from first hands. The eupplies are now from the south ; sales of 6,000 bushels rod white Southern, 100 c.; red is held at 92e. to 9.5 c. Rye for immediate delivery is nut plentiful—the last sales being at 26e. Of burley, sales to a small extent, at 70c. to 720. Oats are more plentiful. at 38c. t o 40 c . f or Jersey, and 40c. to 42c. for State. For corn the home demand is good, and the market bat poorly supplied ; yellow is wanted and brings 661 e. tank. • sales of white Southern at 661 c. to 66 c., end mined Western, Sac. ; round yellow, Northern, c. 'am ars.—To Liverpool . flattest is takes at 3-16 d. to 7.32 d.; flour, is. IN. to Is. 3d.; naval stone; Is &IA ee l grain, :3}.1.; heavy goods, 12s. 6d. to 16s. To London: 160 tons saltpetre were taken at 20e.; tobacco, 25e.; naval I stores, 2e. ; oilcake, Is. 9,1. MARIA ANTONIA RAILVIAT. Tralo for the week ending April 22, 11362, 1601. 1664 1161. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE THE KAFFIR WAR. ARRIVAL OF THE HARBINGER. Yesterday the General Screw Steam-shipping Company's vessel, Harbinger, Captain J. W. Lane, arrived at Plymouth, at 1 t o'clock in the forenoon, from the Cape of Good Hope, with mails and a cargo of sundries and some specie. The Harbinger left Plymouth, on her outward voyage, February 15, and made the voyage out in 37 days, calling at St. Vincent's, February 26; Sierra Leone, March 2. She left Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, April 1, arrived at Sierra Leone, April 16, and left the same day; arrived at St. Vincent's, April 21, and left April 23. On nearing the en trance of the English Channel she experience(' the prevailing easterly winds ; this rendered her progress slower than it otherwise would have been, and in duced Captain Lane to call at Scilly on the 6th, and replenish his stock of coals. The following passengers arrived in the Harbin ger from the Cope: Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, three children, and servant; Mr. and Mrs. M'Donald, two children, and one servant • Mr. and Mrs. Stem, and child; Monsieur and Madame Peon I Mr. and Mrs. Grof, and child ; Mrs. Metford, Madame Chattin, Captain Hope, Mr. Oswald and servant, Mr. Cellam, Mons. Semler, Dr. Vonderbys, Mr. Ross, Monsieur Elias, Madame Elias. Front brig Jessica, burnt at sea: Captain Mourant, Frederick Vincent (appren tice), A. Monquad, John Babel Dolbet, Charles Atticr, Mr. Gibant (passenger). The mails, brought by the Harbinger, in charge of Commandcrltobertson, R.N.,werelanded immediately the vessel came alongside the pier in the Plymouth Great Western Dock, received by Mr. Maria; the postmaster of Plymouth, and forwarded to London by the train leaving Plymouth at 12 at noon, arriving in London at 10.30 p.m. the same day. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Hydra, arrived in Table Bay, tape -town, on March 30, having on board his Excellency Lieut• General the lion. George Cathcart, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape 'Colony, accompaniod by Lieut.-Colonel14:- mour, his military secretary, and the lion. Captain Curzon, his aide-de-camp. His Excellency landed at ten o'clock, and was received with duo honours. The Merano, Master-Commander Barlow,arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, March 24, with troops (Rifle Brigade), under the command of Lieut.-Col. Buller, C.B. She left Plymouth the 7th, Madeira the 27th, of January. On the 27th March she left for East London. On the 27th March there were in Simon's Bay the following vessels of the royal navy:-The Castor, 36, Commodore Wyvill : Gladiator, 6, Captain Adams, bound for England ; the Megtera, Com mander Barlow, bound for Algoa Bay ; the Pickle, Lieut. Campbell, tender to the Castor; and the Seringapatam, the coal depot. In Table Bay : —the Styx, 6 guns,Commander Hall; Hydra steam vessel, Capt. T. Belgmve; and the Ithadamanthus. The Penelope and the Archer were at Sierra Leone, on the Harbinger calling there on her way home. The news from the frontier by this arrival is pretty much the same in character as that received by previous mails. As there have been some arrivals of vessels leaving the Cape subeequent to the last pre vious mail, the general news does not extend over the whole month. The news brought by the merchant ship, Maid stone, from the Cape of Good Hope was to the 17th of March ;by the Harbinger, therefore, we have intelligence fifteen days later—viz., to the Ist of April. By the former arrival the news from the frontier was to the sth of March. B)• this it extends to the 26th of March, or 21 days later. By that arrival it was stated that a portion of the troops of Mujor General Somerset's division were detached by order of that officer, and thrown into a position of much peril in the Waterkloof, where, after destroy ing some huts and killing a number of Kaffirs, they were attacked at a disadvantage on their re turn, and during a conflict of several hours before the arrival of support, they sustained considerable loss. By this arrival we learn the troops engaged on this occasion were 300 of the 91st regiment, under CoL Yarborough, 150 of the 74th Regiment, and 70 of the Cape Corps. Col. Yarborough himself, we now learn, was severely wounded, and of his gallant corps one sergeant and three men were killed; and ensign Hibbert, three sergeants, and eleven men wounded—that the 74th liighlanders W am billed and four wounded; and Captain Bawsley, et the Cape Mounted Rifles, was alio wounded. Mach blame has been attached to MO.- °mutual Somerset, for exposing so small a body .t men in a locality known to be so dangerous. Os their return to the camp the Kaffirs, of course, ro• owuried the ground from which it had been ion& hobially tried to remove them. The following is the summary of the Cape Town Mail, of April Ist, of the events which have taken place in the colony since the sth March. The abo minable cruelties practised by the Kaffir on those who unhappily fall into their hands alive constitute a most melancholy feature in the news by this arrival. On the following day, the bth instant, Sir Harry Smith advanced from King 'William's Town with about 2,500 men, in three columns, under Col. Pole, Col. Michel, and Col. Byre, and entered the Waterkloof. Here a number of desultory operations appear to have taken place, the re sult, of which have not been made public In any connected form. It would appear that the enemy generally avoided meeting the troops; and although oonaiderable numbers must have fallen by the shells throws amoaget them wher ever they were men in numbers, it is believed that the main body have succeeded in leaving that locality and joie iog Sandilli and his followers in the Amatolas, a stronghold which they have held throughout the war, and whither Sir Harry, by the latest accounts, was engaged in following them up. Os* of Macoato's principal retreats, in the Waterkloof, previously deemed impracticable for European troops, was successfully penetrated by the column under Eyre, ba t the enemy disappeared, leaving in our hands • large quan tity of agorae and about 130 women, one of them the prin cipal wife of /Immo, with three of his children. In a later lON+, in the Waterkloof, the Hon. H. Wrot- Plat teal ey,were Ord Itegent, lost his life, end ten privates of the woundedim. The operations of the column under Colonel Michel are spoken of as highly successful; but at no pont!, it appears, did the Kaffir' make any decided stand. With incredible labour the two guns attached to his column were dragged through the dense bush, and placed on the most commanding heights, but the space within range wu speedily found to be deserted. Thu part of the force does not seem to have met with any opposition ; and al though it was known that the ravines and kloofs were swarming with KaBlrs, ready to cut off stragglers or take advantage of any unguarded movement, the whole of the Waterkfoof was traversed for days, the troops destroying the enemy's huts and crops, without a single casualty. At the date of the last report, from the front, these were still being carried on. Great numbers of = l are constantly reported to have been killed, chiefly by the shells and other projectiles with which their haunts are assailed ; and many of their women and children have ale* been unfortunately destroyed by those means. Still, a* indication is given of a wish on th eir pert to submit, and the prospect of a satiafactory peace seems ea remote sever. Noe as their mode of carrying on the war in any degree relieved of its inhuman character. To give or accept quar ter Is unknown in Kaffir tactic". Our men, whether colonists Of soldiers, who fell alive into their hands, arc put to a death of torture, mere or leas protracted according to their oppor tunity of wreaking their horrid vengeance undisturbed. It has been ascertained that Sergeant Laing, of the 91st, who was taken by them in the affair of the 4th, was roasted alive, and the bandmaster of the 74th, who also fell into their ruthless hands, was for three days subjected to every conceivable method of torture before death put an end to his sufferings. Almost tho only satisfactory feature in the aspect of fron tier affairs, is the almost entire absence, during the month, of depe.dationo within the border; the marauding bands, who formerly infested the eastern districts, having been apparently, recalled, to assist their chiefs. The survivors from the wreck of the ill-fitted Birken head have been forwarded to join their respective corps in Kaff eland; and the 80th Rifles, which arrived here in the Megan on the 24th ult., have elm proceeded to the front. The number of burghers who responded to the Gover nor's call on the Bth amounted in all to about 800 men, most of them belonging to the else* of " boers," and but few, we regret to state, from the comparatively English die tricts of Albany, Fort Beaufort, and l'itenharge. The legislative council, after repeated delays and post ponements, has at last proceeded with the "Constitutional Ordinance'," for tarrying into effect her Majesty's Letters Patent of 18.50, creating a parliament in this colony. During the early part of the month various demonstra tions of gratitude to the crown tor the draft ordinanoe, and of condemnation of those who impeded their immediate enactment, hare been made in various parts of the colony. Mr. IJsrling the newly•uppointed lieut.-governor, ar rived on the '. 4th inst., and gave great satisfaction to the public by declaring, in reply to an address presented by the Municipal Commissioners, has determination to devote him self to the promotion of the interests of the people of all awes in this colony, without any distinction. Lieut-Oen. Cathcart, who arrived yesterday in the Hydra, will proceed immediately to the frontier, to relieve Bir Harry Smith. Upon Lieut.-Oovernor Darling will then devolve the administration of the civil government of the colony; and it will be for him to decide whether he will give his fiat to the "Bill" as passed, and thereby constitute it an " ordinanc e "—i n w hi c h f orm on l y i t w ill be received from the colony by the Secretary of State—or whether he will quash all previous proceedings, and introduce the bill de novo, making the 261. franchise a government measure. ' Nothing, we believe, would give more general contentment throughout the colony than his adopting the letter course The following memorandum, which contains in structions for carrying out dispositions of the troops on a most comprehensive scale, and with the vi e w o f harassing the enemy through out: the entire seat of war, appears in the Graham's Tou n jou rna l of March 27 : Mead quarters, Seven Kluuf Point, Arnett:Ass, Comp, March 24, 18.52. The columns under Colonels Michel, Eyre, mid Pereeval, will have this day completed the movements previously ordered in the Inner Amatolas for the expulsion of the Rebel °adios, and will thus continue to prosecute this service : I. Colonel Michel will establish the b.ise of his operations at Fort Co:. 2. Colonel Eyre will march via Fort White, for the pur pose of taking with him 16 &ye provisions ; acid establish himself near his old camp in the Keiskwnwai Hoek, as ths base of his operations. 3. Colonel Pcmval will march vie Fort White, taking with him 15 days' provisions; awl, as the Game of his oper ations, establish himself so the Quilli Quilli ltauge, taking his gun with him. 4 Colonel Pole will march via Fort White end King William's Town ; and with a coy* of cavalry, levies. and lingoes, which will be given to him, establishing himself un the Ksbutisie Neck, with 16 days kroviiiiutts and forage. 5. These corps will daily despatch strong patroles in every direction friiii their respective base, so oa to render the Amatula too hut fur the rebels to remain in them. 6. The garrison of Fort Peildie will frequently penile the Fish River bush; the garrison of Fort Brown the Brea bush ; and the garrisons of Fort Hare, Blinkwater Post, Post Rena, Eland's l'ust, and Whittleseo, will patrolo their respective neighliourhoods with v igcur and activity. 7. Meanwhile Major-General Somerset, with lb% field force of regular soldiers, levies, and burghers, will act aeon tho north side of the Amanda', penetrating these mountains daily, and communicating with the Cradock burghers under Commandant Gillian', and with the cavalry under Colonel Pole on the Kabousie Neck. Head-quarters %ill beZ.Fort Cot on the 25th inst., at King William's Town on the 26:11, where all reports win be forwarded. (Signed) H. G. 8111TH, Commander-in-Chia. (True copy) H. L. MAYDWELL, Military Secreto ry. The following extracts contrin the latest news from the scat of war : KINU WILLIAM'S TOWN, MARCH 21.—1 t is reported there has been a clear sweep made in the Kromme range, and that Sir Harry intended to move on the Gliumie Hoek on the 18th. 1 perceive you have heard of the rebels making away with all the Fort White eutt:e. It app. irs the cattle guard were out on the fiats around the poet with 117 head of cattle, 16 troop horses, and 8 horses belonging to the officers on the post, when the enemy came down, principally Hottentots, and swept them all off; killed one man of the 2nd, wounded another, and stole • Hottentot corporal of the Cape Mount: d Rifles ; or, what is more likely, he deserted, and aided in the capture. Cap tain James, of the 2nd, is in command, and had • force of about 200 men; his case is nut a very promising one. An express arrived here this teeming from head-quarters with letters, hut they contained nothing of importance. Eyre, in one engagement (not stated where), had four men killed, and eleven wounded. Colonel rerecral and his force have gone to join the other divisions in the Amanda. The principal force is working down towards Fort Cox, hut it appears they are meeting with very little resistance. Tola, Stock, and that clan have moved all thcir stock of cattle from the Fish River bush into the Aniatula, and are principally congregated near the junction of the lanais and Thomas Rivers behind the Kahousie range, where they are waiting to get a passage across the Kei, which us loaded. _ Case. El LAND'S Rives., Maatit 23.—From information and appearance, it is almost certain that the enemy will continue hostilitica during the whole of the winter till September, when their ploughing season commences. They continuo moving into the Waterkloof, and are always on the alert for mischief. It has just been reported that they got off with 140 head of cattle and twelve horse* from Fort White, in the open day on the flat, killing one and wounding two of the Queen's. I fear they will again overrun the colony before they finally move acmes the Kei. We are proceeding towards the Kea. Wo move up by Gaika's Kop, the back of the Aniatola, on to the Windvogelberg. Yesterday the burghers wore out nn patrol, and shot two fine fat Kaffir; in Van Buclen's Hoek. These fellows had not felt the miseries of war to any great extent. Llowker's party met with a number in the bush, but only wounded a few. The roads are so bad, that the waggon train is suffering daily. Yesterday one of Windell's broke down ; to-day, G. Gilbert's shared a simi lar five. The weather is dreadfully cold, quite cold enough for snow; the oxen arc Rllltatilig greatly. Teeday, Dr. Allison, assistant-surgeon, R.A., met with a dreadful acci dent, while walking under the walk of the unfinished building (intended for a chapel) at Philipten. The wiud at the time was blowing almost a gale, and blew down on the doctor's head one of the scaffold planks that had been suspended for that purpose for the last two year.. It was at first thought the injury would have proved fatal, as he was struck severely behind the head, on the back, and also fractured his leg. The internal injuries, however, are net found to be so had as was at first feared the were. UItAH•M'S Tows, MARCH 20, l as2.—SinCe our last CORI 1211itliCalti0O, we have received more definite intelligence than before from at least one of the scenes of the late con flict with the enemy. The Mounted Rangers have returned to town from the Fish River Bush, bringing an account of the operations of that portion of the forces with which they were associated. The burghers, it appears, with ono or two exceptions, have gone on with Col. Percival to Fort Hare, whither he has proceeded tor supplies, and from whence he will march to join in the general attack upon the Antatolas, where the Kaffirs have for the present taken refuge. The Roams report that the enemy's stronghold in the Fish River Bush has been completely cleared out; they had more or less fighting every day they were out; but, after the first day, the Kars made but little resistance. Many of the enemy have been killed, and a goodly number of cattle, horses, &c., and some arms and ammunition, captured. The Kaffirs, it seems, are be ginning to feel themselves beaten. To show the estimation in which they hold the kind of force now brought to bear upon them, we have been told that when they saw any of the burghers approaching, they called out to one another to run:— ' Run, run, these are not the redcoats ; these men will trample us down." The Rangers have returned without • casualty ; and up to the period of their leaving nothing had befallen the Burghers. It appears from the instructions for the new Governor of the Cape, as conveyed in a despatch from Earl Grey to Governor Cathcart, that the lieutenant governor will reside at Cape Town, with authority Ito carry on the civil government under the general directions of the governor, while the governor him self is on the frontier, or otherwise engaged in the adjacent territories. Should the governor, after the termination of the war, take up his own residence at Cape Town, the services of the lieutenant-governor will then be required in the eastern divisi o n. Th e office is intended to be permanent. The lieutenant governor will also be a member of the present legis lative council, until the present legislature shall be superseded bT the new parliament, " which will, I trust," says Lori Grey, "shortly be called together." Till then " it will be one of the most important parts of Mr. Darling's duty to attend to the legislative business of the colony. Wasen or vent lIIIMEMNIIIAD. Under date King William's Town, March 21, .e find the following:—Lieut. Girard, 13rd, arrived at King William's Town to-day with the remainder of the ill-fated Birkenhead's troops. There are several incidents of a most heart-rending character. Several of the poor fellows were torn off the yards and planks by the 'harks, which selected all the men without clothe.. It is said that Major Seaton had a life preserver en, and foolishly 'nand 300 sovereigns round his neck, and, strange to say, his pistols. It is thought the weight of them kept his head under water. The °Meer of the Lancers who was saved from the wreck, had the good fortune of maim 160 sovereigns, and mi reachin/ the shore found both his hones. A subscription had been commenced at Cape Town for the relief of the ,•ufl'erers by the week of her Majesty's steam-vessel Birkenh, ad, and by the advertise ment of receipts dated March 27. we perceive that tho total amount sulacribed was 7201. 16.. Old., of which 6001. was granted by a resolution of the lesi.lative council. Aaatvats IN SIMON'S Bar, MARCH 27.—March 23. John William Dare (barque), 327 ton., J. Walters, trona Kingstown, 211th December, to Hobart Town. I'assengers: one matron and family, eight free settler', and 170 ftmale convict' and 20 children. l'ut in for refreshment. VERSBLS tsl ALOOA BAY.—Ariadne, 0. Salter, Thom son, W. and Co., London; Alice Maud, J. Winn, J. 11. Clark, London; Rival, J. Conliner, J. 0. Smith; Victory, 3. Fowler, H. J. Dunell, Table Bay; Ada, W. Christie, Maynard., K and Co. ' London ; Robert Cli ve , W. Wee thenll, H. J. Dunell ; Unity, N. Groton, J. C 11400.1. Boa. too, United States ; Plumstead, J. S. Furber, Thompson. B. and Co., Table Bay ; Charles Molloy, C. Lidtlle, 11. J. Dunell ; Regina, M. Cowart, Deere end Delta, London ; Empress, It. Newman Merrds, K. and Co. ; Thom as Worthington, J. Wallace, ni Tat , .. Bay; Killermont, R. Shaw, If. J. Dunell, London; Light of the harem, W. Tydeman, Maynard', Kuhr, end Co., London; Mercury, D. Reid; Elisabeth Jane, 3. J. Muni!, Table Bay. TIIE MURDER AT OlLEORD.—Yesterday, the exa mination of Elijah Noon, charged with the wilful murder of his wife by stabbing her in the site with a ►word, took place before the city magistrate., in a room at the City Gaol. All the witnetwes who were examined at the coro ner's inquest repeated their evidence, hut no additional facts of any importance was slicitesl. The prisoner, who appeared to suffer great distress cf mind, declined to say anything, rind was fully cam itted to take his trial fur the wilful murder of his wife at the next aaaeses. Thu unfor tunate deceased was buried on Thursday evening at tie Jericho Cemetery. and the funeral wee attended by alarm, concourse of persons.