The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TCESDAY, 314r.cn 4. Vie Lobo Csancolt.oll took his scot at 6 o'clock. STANDING OILDESS. On the motion of Lord Itrozooxxx atandinz ord , r No. 126, relating to the taxation of coats on appeals and writs of error was taken into ron4.ler..tion and amsnd PAROCHIAL ASAESSMENTS. The Earl of MALMESID.:HY mid that he should, but for the mete of public badness, have brought the subject of parochial ammeaneats before the house. lie hoped the report of the committee of last year on this subject would not be allowed to remake a dead letter. TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Lord MONTRAGLE, on promoting the petition from Van Diemen's Land, said that it was nurnernmly signed, and the petitioners said that in consequence of the statement of the government that they would alter the law of .secondary punishment. they imported in 11140 and 1841 a large number of labourers from the neighbouring behinds to the extent of 7,000 ; but, notwithstanding that anaouncement, the colony was Mill the chief place of transportation for omelets, and the condition of the colonist. was greatly deteriorated, from the number of law less and erinsinal persons sent there. in the session of 1848 the government of the colony announced that the govern ment at home had some to the final determination not to ✓esume the system of transportation after the expiration of the two years for which it had been renewed, but this promise wa. not adhered to. It appeared that the enormous amount of the convict population eat destroying the hest hopes of the moral improvement of the colony, and the effect w.ts to drive the free population and free emigrants nut of the colony. The petitioners concluded by saying they would pines no reliance on the solemn engagements of the government, as the pledges they had given to the colony had been repeatedly violated. The noble lord complainea of the uncertainty and variety of the systems which were adopted with regard to the convicts. Ile believed all the Australian colonies were determined to m end the further tramportation of convicts to that part of the world. It wee a subjeet of great importance, and he hoped it would receive the early attention of the govern- Mena Earl GREY mid the subject bad been so fully discussed boa year that it was unnecessary now to go into it at any length. He d'-nied the accuracy of the statement, that the government lead expremed an intention to clism.ntinue transportation to Van Diemen's Land. They had said that they would put an end to transportation as it hail been pre viously carried on there ; in every despatch it had been in variably Mated that it was the intention of the ItOtt rument not to continue transportation as it had previously existed. Prom the first to the last it had always lain the view of her Majesty's government that, while a greater portion of the ntence of transportation ought to he inflicted in this country, it should always form • part of the punishment that couvieta should he removed to the Australian colonies, where they were much more likely to become %awful members of society, after their term of transportation had e pired, than they could be at home. Ile stated loot year that 48,1/00 persons were at lame in the di ff erent Austra lian colonies who had Men removed from this country am convicts, and were now earning their livelihood by honest industry. Ile had long thought that empluying large gangs of awn 16 thousand miles away from the control of the government was en emit, and that such a system, however well it worked, must be liable to abuse ; and, therefore, that that part of the punishment whirls consisted of penal labour should he earned on more within the control of the government at Bermeida and Gibraltar, but ultimately that the consists should Ire removed further away to o more distant region. It heel let n thought desirable, instead of seeding out con victs as mere sib's, that they 'should have tickets of leave, which could he withdrnwa if they behaved awl which would also give the power of die peneinit them wherever their labour was neat wanted. A rerninettee MAI appointed in that house in I 1117; the sabject, moreover, had been dimuwed in the other hour, and in both a *Dome opinion bad been ex preeeed that there should he some 'acetification of the views originally entertained by the government. To this express mem of op iniuti her Majesty's government hail felt !mewl to pay respect. Ile admitted the hardship and injustiee of the measure. whim el temente Van Diemen's Land from 1810 to Intl, bur which, however, neither his precheremor nor home If were as responsible as parliament imelf. An ad dress hail hose earned in the other house of parliament to the crown. railing on the crown immediately to remove from this country n large number of coteries. Ile thought that see ...are was .deleted very rashly and inemmiderately, awl 1.. thought his two 'endive...were should have called on the 11,..”.• of Common. for a vote of money to make proper arrange see et• in Van Ihemen's Lund. (Hear, hear.) 11.. regnet..l that it was not done at the tine' hut all they could do us to past error. was to take a lessen from them and , mleavour tee cornet them for the future. Ile thought it ehsirithle that ermviets should be elieleased as widely as pomade, and he regretted the nret..ity which he had been under of sending so large .e number to Van Diemen'. Lend but he firmly believed that necessity would net much longer continue. '11n• latest accounts from Van Diemen's Lend preyed that when there was ass upelnly strong feeling amongst the inhabitants of that eolony against the reception of convicts, that colony was riseesg wooly perhaps, but surely rising, Duns that httle elepresetent into which it had fallen. The demand for labour hail inereamed, the cultivation of the land heel improvecl, commerce hail extended, and new SlWlteet .4 industry heel been opened. (Hear, hear.) Ship building, from the advantages which that colony enjoyed in , the eace Hence of its timber and places fur building, had been fealt to great importance, and was prosetit“l with great ; and in them eireutnetancee there was the in. a tr. t advantage in heing able to proeure trained la rem mer, The fruits of en improved convict discipline begot to show themselves in the diminished number of sonvictions, and one particular proof of the improvement in the moral and renal condition of the colony to be found in the eliminiehed amount of information fees received for conviet at the polite courts ova truly satisfactory. Isear.) The house• then adjourned at a quarter past sit o'clock. THE REfitrarNTATIOS Or OREENdlefl.—The Kentish Memory says We understand that during the past week two private meetings had been held at the offices of a legal gentleman in Greenwich, to secure the return of Admiral Duna., our present member, and another gentle man. The latter is an inhabitant of the borough. but we refrain from further remark until another opportunity." As a matter of coarse Mr, Barnard retires. and it is re ported that Mr. Alderman Salomon, anal Mr. Alderman Wire are to contest the borough against the gallant admiral. It is undeniable, however, that Admiral Dumbu is too great a favourite with all parties in the borough to have any fear for his own seat, and any opposition to him wall sot only be a costly but an unsuccessful one. R EtitfiseSTATlON take SOUTH WILTS.—Me. &melt in a loiter to the Salisbury and Wiltshire , Herald, says.. "I now think it due to my constituents to inform them thus publicdy. that whenever a dissolution of the parliament shall tale place, I shall not again solicit the honour which I have enjoyed anal priced so highly during upwanls of :12 years." A full meeting of the committee of the Salis bury and South Wilts Podective Association was held on Tuesday, at which it no. resolved to circulate a requi ai a ion to It. P. Long, Esq., fur signature throughout South Wilts, without delay. LtOY RANkI.II,'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The intense interest and anxiety still felt in the safety of Sir John Franklin, and the heroic crews of the Erebus and Terror - in particular the anxious solicitude of Lady Frank lin, and probably the tart of the government reward of 20,000/. for the discovery of the missing voyounrs being still obtainable, have led to the undertaking of another expedi tion to soil front this port. It will be recollected that the Prince Albert- a manageable little craft—arrived here iu October last, after about three months' absence in the Polar New.. During the period she was in these northern regions, much, in the circumstances, was accomplished, traces of the raining expedition (the only distinct and unmistakable ones that had care been found) baring been discovered. Circum stances, however. and chiefly, perhaps, the slat. of the its, pre vented Commander Forsyth anal hiserew from fully :imam plashing what had been intending in the way of a search for Franklin and his assciates. An attempt under hopeful auspices, is, however, to be made this season to effect, if possible, a search in the same quarter and to the full extent as proposed last year. The Prince Albert will again be fitted out and manned, and will proceed to l'rince Regent's Inlet, where the ship will Ixe laid up in such safe and con venient harlsouragc as can be found. The party will then proceed in boats In for as can be reached by open water they will cross the Isthmus of Boothia, and follow out their search as far to the westward as possible. Where boats cannot be worked kyachs " will be used, which, with tho assistance of the Esquimaux, will enable the party to proceed 100 or 200 miles further than boats could carry them, OA the kyacks " can be rolled up and dragged over the ice. It is proposed that the expedition shall remain out one season, and, if the state of the weather and the ice be favourahle, it I. expected that a very extensive &comb will he e ff ected. The Prince Albert, ',huh has lain here all winter, will be got ready as soon as possible, anal it is hoped she will be able to reach Lan easter Sound by the middle of June. The expedition will be under the command of Captain W. Kennedy, who has come here from America fur that purpose. Mr. Ken nedy has a very intimate acquaintance with the Arctic regions, having served for a considerable period in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company. He wintered eight years in Labrador • and was the UM European who euplored the northernmost point of that icy coast. He proceeds to Orkney. probably on Thursday (Feb. 27), to engage landsmen for the expedition. Tbose who hare been in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company will be chosen. They will be twelve in number, and, with the six able bodied seamen and the commander, will complete the ex pedition.—Aberifern Journal. WARRINGTOIL—NEw CONGREGATIONAL. CittPßl -On Monday the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new building, to be denominated the Wycliffe l'on gregational Chapel, took place in Hewn"' street, shortly after 12 o'clock at noon. Amongst the ministers present we noticed the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Rev. Dr. Rages, the Rev. E. J. Hartland, de., and there was a numerous sossenstaage of spectators. The Her. Dr. Vaughan com meneed the proceedings by lining out a hymn. A suitable sad Appropriate address was aftemeards delivered by the doctor, who at the conclusion performed the ceremony of laying the stone. This being completed, 'a short prayer was offered up. and the slowing of the doxology terminated the processlinp. A collation was provided by Mrs. Char ley. at the Nag's Heed Hotel, at one o'clock ; and in the evening a tea meeting of the fro ads and congregation was !meld in the large room of the hotel. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1851. own hand+ , and aweep,elean their own department. Dinglanai *All not g 6 to,ying the Waarnomataxi 'and the PONSONINn? IBM than the Lord :jlttoucitkoph and the (mimes WOoDs. • IT is time that the season of suspense should end. If ministers cannot make up their minds to a decided policy, Parliament must, in self-defence, undertake' the task, whatever be the hazard and difficulty of such a proceeding. For parliaments like cabinets have but a little while to live; and while days of grace are yet unexhausted, the collective wisdom of the nation must try to redeem the remnant of its time, or prepare to be east out utterly. The present house of Commons is near four years old; and how many months longer it may be des tined to endure, nobody can pretend with confidence to tell. We own we are solicitous for its historic reputation ; still more for the esteem in which it shall be held for the remnant of its limited life. And for this reason, were there no other, we are exceedingly desirous of seeing it regain that prestige of power, which too east- a disposition and too credulous a con fidence in the lenders under whose guidance it started, have caused it in some degree, perhaps, to lose. It is undoubtedly a very serious evil when the leaders by courtesy cease to be the leaders in fact; and when neither the governing party nor their oppo nents are really represented by their respective chiefs. This is the secret of the anarchical tenden- cies in party which of late have shown themselves so frequently, and in no case more remarkably than amongst the Pevlites during the latter days of their illustrious head and founder. But the same dispo sition to mutiny is observable eve;) -where. Protec tionists are in constant cabal against the only man whose genius could have made them even in seem ing formidable; and as for the whigs, there are as many doctrines and divisions among them as there ever were in the old days of their internecine squab bles in opposition. Open hostility is indeed repressed on vital questions by the discipline of office ; but the sectarianism of clique is only hidden from vulgar gaze, and its baneful efficacy is betrayed in the paralysis of all the active powers of a party in possession of the government. Electoral progress, university amendment, law re form, and a revision and re-adjustment of taxation in a truly national sense—all wait, and wait, and no one can tell for what. Nothing efficient has been done; nothing that we are aware of is doing; and nothing that anybody can name is certain to be so much as attempted at any definite time. We don't say that our anticipations were very high when the present session commenced some five weeks ago. We certainly were not disposed to counsel a three months' doze, as some of our contemporaries were. We thought, on the contrary, that, with an unusual surplus in hand, one or two safe and clean steps might be taken in the way of financial amelioration ; and, considering the urgent need of remedial mea-1 sures in our courts of equity that we should ere this , have been enabled to congratulate the public on an efficient move in this respect in the right direction. But the lamentable fact is, nevertheless, that we _ _ are arrived at the fifth of March, and that nothing whatever deserving the name of legislation has been done. What with idle talk about agricultural dis- tress, angry talk about papal aggres"sion, and un meaning talk about impossible cabinets, we are as we were on the first day of the session, nor is there any assignable period at which the business of the country for the year is likely to begin. The second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has been fixed for Friday next ; but as upon that occasion Sir GEORGE GREY in to make an explanatory state ment of the changes and modifications government contemplate making in certain parts of tlw mea sure, we mast not be surprised if a new set of objec tions are started thereupon, and the whole discussion be re-opened on the general principles and objects of the scheme. _ _ Them as to the budget. We own we have failed to gather from the brief and enigmatic replies of Lord Jolla to the interpelktions addressed to him co the subject on Monday last, whether the CHAN =boa of the Es - Aliment has undertaken to form an entirely novel project, or only to amend that which fell still-born a fortnight ago. Certain it is, however, that after such an unpopular preface, the forthcoming volume of figures is sure to undergo no very sparing criticism. The sooner, therefore, the investigation and set tlement of preliminary details shall commence the better. The main points must after all be the income and the window tax. Why not proceed forthwith to discuss and decide upon thew •? The country is getting impatient. It wants to know what it has to expect fur the next year at least. Parliament ought to beware how it seems to trifle with feelings so [natural, and questionings so ,just. If ministers hesi tate. parliament mustredeem itself from the obloquy of unpardonable indecision, by showing unmistakeably that thefault liesnot with them. Or if in the preparation of a re-modelled budget, a claim for further delay be deemed not unreasonable, let the public at all events see the Commons in this present parliament assembled applying themselves, without loss of mote time, to the elaboration of other useful measures of acme kind or other. But whatever is taken first in hand, we must re iterate our conviction that the business of the ~e•aion ought without further delay to be begun, not for the sake of the business only, but for the sake of the character of parliament itself, and the influence we desire to sec it maintain. tion proposed by the bill, but recommended stkne modifications. The other proceedings of the Chamber up to the hour of post were of no gene ral interest. In answer to a question put to him, the president of the council said that the ecclesiasti cal authorities had requested that the ball of Mid- Lent and a burlesque ceremony which usually takes place on that occasion should he suppressed, but that I the government had refused. The ERINMO says that it is intended to suppress the ambassadorship's at different courts, and have only ministers plenirten j tiary. M. A. A. Galion° has been apinted minister at Lisbon, and the Marquis de Benalun at Berlin. s VERY sAI PKUAT AFTERNOON WILTX BEJUBLIBEED, THE EXHIBITION Expltgll, vine of a telly doming Dodge Nag* voUK VAC!, °evolving r', , vide info:m*o MIIIINWIIhe thlb.l .1 ..1:‘ FRIIIIIITION OF INN, Its Nests, Est ibitors' Promwetv,Alleeded Opettelde, arreml.lollllll, Appranume, Proret paat At The earovves somber of pommel iatroveed In the Greet &bite's's of the Weld's ladoetry hams hy hitherto bad se ertirheary romemetatire in the pram —ao pager surbetratly dlry ad •rit• dm comprehenithe enough mu grp and elm the fortbeisatng vvpwitius, with fulness rt of se gray event —the promisees of the Expßeis ham determined Jrni i5011:54, well, tifttrDoo , l, • datlbilt Mutt el that paper, te annum the Iliad and latest tiaturnuitien Wades to the Eatehltiot, •egettitr with a sums nf other matter merptable to the multitude el ponces Interested either in ners: and heal eemovittermee and ••ecrrterfvv,terinters of mreinrtravelling Mut s, esnibitent, :Mends of ritheritom, ovals of exhibitor., aid the Mill larger amt wider mete of those who are to be the hundreds of Imams& of visitors to the mrtr volta during the forthcoming OMIS 411110 of ladurtry of ail !Valenti. In ahlitton to revertible relative ite the Ezpomitioe tlev double sheet will give general eves, sad will, moreover, aspecially sited to all eurrentmenta In literatuta, mks" Wart On every day tempt ` , atorday die riot of the EXPRESS will he Tisorers, . heretofore. • •••--vvv•svvvs-vs The mat value of the EX IIIbITION Ell'ltTM la a mediate arlet teeetdeat to ad., Moen. All advertisements lewd be at the caw ht Whiteners at or before right to the treeless et each Imlay, to secure mentos In tht number it the Worm( day. °See. IA Serawiwtreet. Fieet-etreet. Eke erprtoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. rheetietwerste intended for "The Erprreft," Loodon E•eeleg repel, awe be at the Othee, 19, Boorerse•eteeet, by Two o'clock on the ilay of pubtication. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Toss DAT—Moroior, M. 4I es Afternoon, SC 5.15. To•rouow—Loreing, 4h. lOca. Afternoon, Um. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, 31ARCH 5. HAD Lord ADERDEEN, or Lord CLARENDON, or Sir STK tTFORD C tNNINO obtained the portfolio of the Foreign Secretaryship in the struggle of the minis terial crisis, we have no doubt thew first attention would have been directed to the liberation of Kossynt and his companions; for most certainly a minister could not accomplish an act more grateful to the English people, or one snore calculated to win him large popularity. That this could be achieved by a British minister who zealously bent his energies to it cannot well be doubted. The Porte engaged tokeep these captives in security merely for a year, or until such time as Austria and Germany should have assumed a settled state. The year has elapsed. If Austria ever will he settled, it is now in that con dition ; not a murmur heard throughout the vast empire, nut a vestige or a hope of constitutional go vernment left, and the army, at length feeling a pride in their colours, in consequence of their having triumphed over the King of Puessia, and achieved what CIIARLE4 V. uud Plume 11. failed to do— trodden down the protestant freedom of the north western states—and thus bestowed all the solidity upon the Austrian government that it can ever hope to acquire. In this state of things the Turkish lirovernment cannot have a shadow of reason for keeping the un fortunate Hungarian captives immured at Kutayiah. And not only does the Turkish government thus idly and cowardly - prolong the term of their impri sonment, but it daily restricts the few indulgent:les which they at first enjoyed, and subjects them to greater and greater seventies. That the object and the aim of the Austrian government is to kill Kos- SUTII and his companions by the assassin or by poison, seems to admit of little doubt. The mere fact of their having tongs:Bill the Turkish govenunent to take into its pay, and appoint toot vial functions, the very ruffian who was known to have engaged in a conspiracy to assassinate Ku:4,4mi, proves that there is no crime at which the Austrian agents in Turkey will stop, and nu baseness to which the Turkish government will not lend itself. Our last accounts from Kutayiah represented the illustrious prisoners as struggling against the determination of their jailers ' to take their servants from them, so that they (the jailers) might have exclusively the care of providing r and preparing food fur the captives. As the only object of such u change can be fur the sake of ad : nunistering poison, we feel certain that, if the ' British government dues not exert itself, the sun has seen the last of poor Kossuzu and his friends. The aim in liberating these men is certainly not to , enable them to form fresh plots against Austria. The benevolent men in this country, who have welcomed and taken care of the Hunguriuns, have sufficiently ' shown their object in the fart that almost all the exiles have been sent to America. If the Turks plead, for the civet and lengthened imprisonment which they inflict, the fear of inclining the displea sure of Russia, this should be met by informing them that their persistence in such cowardly cruelty will for ever alienate from them the respect and sym pathy of Englishmen. The Turkish empire will, we have no doubt, he in straits some of these days, and be menaced by that power which it does so much to conciliate. If, when threatened, the Turks should think of recurring to the aid or syinpathies of Englishmen, we in this country will remember the treatment of Kosstrn, and will only say the Turks &set-% e the fate of vic tims to Russia, incalable as they were of a generous sentiment or an independent policy. REseuinl'Asmt at least ought to understand the nature of public feeling in this country. And be should lie told frankly that he is fast alienating and outraging it by his base treatment of the noble Hungarians, whom he allows to be caged for destruction at Kutayiah. A Blue Book has just appeared, which contains the official documents relating to the great struggle in Hungary.' It affords ample proof that the govern ment, whilst preserving all the deference of an ally for Austria, was still ready and anxious to mediate or interpose with advice, in order to bring about an accord between Austrians and Hungarians on fair and constitutional conditions. In these views the Secretary for Foreign Affairs was but ill seconded by hiscuvoy. From first to last of the despatches, Lord , Possoxisv saw nothing save through the eyes of METTERNICH first and Seim itigEsitcaG afterwards. • At the commencement, indeed, Mr. BLACKWELL kept him well informed. But, from the moment the war commenced, it is evident that Lord PONSONBY knew as much about its fortunes or its movements, as he did about the stones in the Ilimmalava moun tains. It is quite ludicrous to look through the blue book for account or explanation of the total defeat of WINDISCUGRATZ, and the loss of the campaign by him. And if Lord Pvt.ttEitsrox had no other I I means of information at this epoch than Lord PON SONBY and the Vienna embassy afforded him, he must have been left utterly in the dark, and mis informed us to events which it was most impor hint fur the British minister to know. Lord Pos- BONDI' was within a few leagues of the scat of war, yet he represented the Austtians as completely vic torious when they had been defeated and beaten in every direction. There was an outcry in the official salaries' committee against the large embassies, against the money they swallowed up, and the little return they made fur it. Truly, if Lord POICKINIIT'S des patches had been then published, showing the value he gave for his thousands a year, that value being nothing more than to convert himself into the mere clerk or valet of Prince ....-SoIIWABZENBERG, the committee must have voted the total suppression of so infamous a sinecure as Lord PON6ONIIV'S ambas- sadorship. Lord l'oxsoNny has been succeeded at Vienna by a nobleman who has all his servility without his talent. There is, however, tome excuse now for such an appointment ; since it may be au object to have an empty and reactionist lord to represent England at the absolutist court of Vienna. In the days of consti tutionalism and insurrection there was, however, no such necessity. Sir Sra.erronD CANNING, in the Vienna embassy, would at least have kept the go vernment well informed, and that is what neither Lord PONsONBT nor Lord WESTMORELAND would condescend to do. The late ministerial crisis gave hopes, which are still alive, that the drones of the administration would be got rid of. That the spirit of inquiry and reform will be directed to every office of the state may now fairly be hoped. hitherto attention has been 'directed to economy ; hut there is something that is still more important, and that is efficiency ; for efficiency is, after all, the true economy. Some parliamentary mode of insisting upon this will lowly be found, unless minister, take the bcsom into their • The correspondence respecting the ranger.; in Turkey up to last .print h. u. •lso bun raci%ed, but there has been ao boas to go through it. FRANCE. PARIS, TrssnsY Evzrrxo. The sky has been anything but propitious to the dismal mummeries of Mardi Gras. The Boulevards have been thronged all day with an immense crowd, whose features, pinched and soured by the raw and gloomy weather, can hardly relax into a smile at the funniest mask. Every year the public part of the carnival becomes shabbier and duller. The only portion of the multitude who mask are the veriest rabble, and their squalid accoutrements would dis grace the meanest village of the Appenines. Hun dreds of ;laming appear every where, deafening the crowd with the infernal concert of their earthenware horns. The President has just passed through this molly throng, driving a phaeton. A solitary cheer of " Vivc Ic President " here and there greeted him. An aide-de-camp, seated beside Lim, received the numerous petitions presented. The elections of the presidents and secretaries of the bureaux indicate a relaxation of the coalition be tween the extreme parties of the house. Not a single member of the Mountain has this time been chosen. This result is attributed to the debate of Saturday. in which the Jacobinical doctrines of th . at apologist of regicide, M. Marc Oufraisse, drew such a torrent of invectives from M. Berrver and his fellow legitimists. The adroit manccuvre by which Berryer turned the flank of the Orleanists and pro cured the adjournment of M. Creton's motion for six months, has won him hitter abuse from the Regency party and their organs in the press. M. Thiers does not hide his vexation, and overtly proclaims such dodges as unworthy of a great parliamentary leader. In the meantime, SI. Thiers has despatehect . l under stand, an agent to England, in order to countermine and battle the negotiations of the fusionist party, with which Count Montalivet is entrusted. The Municipal Committee has decided on holding three sittings a week. Yesterday an animated de bate took place on the nomination of councillors of prefeetwe. M Chasseloup-T.aubat proposed to leave the states-quo. Michel de Borges was of opi nion that the nomination ought to emanate front tutivensal suffrage. M. Vatimesnil declared in fa vour of the nomination by the government from a list presented by the councils-general. M. Odillon Barrot approved of the last mode, Af►irs at the Bourse were in a state of stagnation. There was, however, a slight rise is the funds. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the hill for the regulation of the debt had again as..em bled, and M. Lleeente, one of its members, moved that the discussion should not take place until after all the documents required should have been pro dueed by the government; but the majority of the members did not concur in this proposition. The report of the cotumittee on the bill for the regula tion of the Treasury Debt was presented to the Chamber ou the 27th ult. • it expressed appro bation of the principal Lags of the regula- GERMANY. The Cologne Ca:ctfe repeats that Ilanover, as well as Wurtemburg, has declared itself decidedly opposed to the Austrian scheme of aggrandising Bavana. The Breslau %titan!, says that it has been arranged between Count Spenneck and Prince Schwarzenlxrg that in ease of extinction of the male line of the royal house of Denmark, the Grand Duke of Olden burg is to succeed to the Danish Crown, and that Prussia gives up her claims to the succession ; thus making way for those of the Duke of Glucksburg. Austria, it is asserted by the sante paper, has secured the entrance of all the Danish States into the Mid-European Commercial League she contemplates establishing. The Denlsrhe Zeitang of Bohemia says that the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs has prepared a note to all the great powers concerned in the treaty of Vienna of 1815, in which the German policy of Austria is fully explained. The February account of the flank of Vienna gives for the first time some show of improvement. The stock of silver has increased nearly a million, and paper circulation has diminished two millions and a half. BERLIN, :Miami 1. The departure of Count Arnim, the new ambas sador to Austria, has been delayed for some days. Most of the papers are occupied with the sup posed demand of Schwarzenberg that the imperial crown of Germany shall be re-conferred on the monarchs of Austria. According to some it was made in a very categorical manner at Dresden; ac cording to others, it has never been made at all. The truth hes between the two. It is a part of Schwar zeulwrg's plan, but it has as yet only been hinted at by himself and his agents; the press having been made the medium of sounding public opinion on the point. . . . Some days ago I mentioned a letter which the King of Wirtemberg was declared to have written to the Austrian premier, reproaching him fur refusing to carry out the convegtion signed at Bregenz. The lei l M11:11 Allyemeine %clime!, publishes what purports to be a copy of this letter, of which the following is a translation : . . Your Highness—From the reports of my minister at Dresden, I learn that you decidedly reject the plan for esta blishing a collective representation of the nation by , the side of the executive power of the confederation, which IN to be newly appointed by us. That I honestly regret this information, your highness will, I hope, think na tural, even in this open declaration of opinion, which accords with my well known freedom of ex pression. With regard to myself, I have always before as well as after the deplorable events of 1848, consi dered a reform of the Bundesakte, especially a revision of the 13th article, to be indispensable. The last I still con tinue to regard us the true palladium, and the only true test of all that we may in common negotiate and resolve upon in Dresden. But if that article is to be revised in a manner suitable to the spirit of the age and the moral ne cessities of the people, we must apply the hitherto existing repre-entation of the people to the federal body as a whole, and unite the divided, barren, and confused power of the several chambers into one compact national parliament. It is only with a parliament thus united that, according to my firm conviction, it will be possible to create a generally re spectisl and durable central power, whose activity, power, and influence will be sought in vain in its external form and numerical composition. In the present day mere physical force alone will not suffice to maintain a general form of government, coercive laws and police measures alone have formerly neither preserved political institutions nor averted political convulsimia. If lam not very much mistaken the old confederation has proved this to us very clearly, indeed so clearly that I may call it a fearful example. A federa tion of states is much more difficult to control and keep to gether than a single state. The former requires much more than the latter, one common moral bond of union, which may protect it from internal dissolution and external de struction. Such a moral bond of union is alone to be found in one general parliament for all Germany, and we shall in vain endeavour to find a substitute for it in a general com mercial league. Material interests promote social convulsions more than they prevent them; these intemitsdonot do battle, they fly at theliour of danger and submit readily and with out conditions. They are changeable as the capital itself on which they depend ; their exclusive demands in France impeded neither the fall of the restored monarchy nor the revolution of 1818. In my opinion, a federal govern ' mcnt, supported by a general representation of the people, is the only means of overcoming the destructive elements and of effectually preventing dissensions between the in dividual states of the confederation. If we deprive the nation of its proper share in the chief political government we must not hope to reconcile it with the constitution of the confederation ; still less can we hope to conquer the spirit of revolution in Germane ; in the course of time th, old conflict will he renewed with all the demons of anarchy, within and without the several chambers arrayed against the central government, and I fear that I do nut err, when I assume that in the end this conflict must termi nate to the disadvantage of our new political creation. The above, your highness, is a faithful confession of my political faith respecting the question of the new formation of Germany. Either we can or we cannot govern in the individual states without chambers and representation of the people. If we cannot, neither can we dispense with a simi lar institution in the central federal government, if we do not wish, sooner or later, to create a conflict be- , tweet' the newly organised central power and the , disorganised elements of the several state parlia ments, which must create internal dissensions and external weakness. To dispute the possibility of maintain ing one general parliamentary convention is, in my opinion, equivalent to admitting that the confederation itself can neither he adapted to the times nor maintained for any length of time. Your highness knows that lam no friend of improvised charters or of modern political experiments ; hut in political affairs I approve us little the introduction of or the return to a system which comes too late or which has outlived it, age. As a prince of the confederation I shall conscientiously fulfil my duties both to the old and the new Blind, but as a German, and the regent of my country, I can not acknowledge that to be satisfactory or definitive revision of the confederation adapted to the age, which does not fully admit the just demands of the nation to a share in its own great political destinies. Happily, I am old enough not to be compelled to see the unavoidable cocisequences of all that which we are doing and neglecting in Dresden at this mo meut.—Accept, d:c. (Signed) WILHELM. Stuttgart, January 18, 1861. A STE tMER SUNIC.—On Sunday evening, as the steamer Atalanta was coming from Harwich, when opposite the cliff, she ran foul of the Admiral Codrington's anchor, which bad been imprudently left without a buoy. Thorn were about 18 or 20 passengers on board the steamer, who were taken on shore in boats; all the valuable property, carpets, looking glames, &c., being taken out of the cabins as sp-salily as possibtt; ahirttappily without sustaining in ' jury. The boat quickly filled with wat..r, ant sank. For tunately, the damage dune is very trilling, and another boat being in reserve, the public sustained no inconvenience, nor as the slightest blame attributable to Captain Cook, of the steam boat, or any of his crew.—lpswiels Express. ITALY. TURIN, FT.R. 2s, In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 27th, the Nlinister of Commerce, in answer to inter pellations from M. Balbo, declared that the govern ment had never believed in the reports of conspira cies against the liberties of Piedmont, and that the announecnient in the Gazette was intended to con tradict such rumours. ROME, Frs. 24, To cut the Gordian knot of papal pretensions, by assassinating the Pope himself, is an idea which, fOr the honour of England be it said, could never passi ble enter the head of an Englishman ; what, then, will your readers in general, and the lovers of the marvellous in particular, think when they hear that the English residents in this city have not only been suspected of such an iniquitous plot, but that the at tention of the police has been so far turned to the absurd and calumnious suggestion as to cause secret investigations to be made on the subject, the docu cuments belonging to which have already reached a most voluminous bulk, and arc not yet complete? The story, however, is too good to be abridged of its details, which are as follows: The cler gyman officiating at the English protestant chapel last winter was the 11ev. Mr. Bassett. who took up his residence at No. 33, Via della Mercede, and engaged a woman servant, named Euphrasia Moses, and aged about sixty years. During the winter. the members of the church committee met several times, as has always been customary, at the house of the clergyman, in order to discuss questions relative to the expenses of the chapel, the sums collected front visitors and residents, allotments of burial-grounds. distributions of charities, and other I details of the administration, which meetings were regularly attended also by the committee's agent, Signor 'Paolo Sertori, a native of Ancona, but a naturalised British subject, a most respectable per , son, who, for many years, acted as cabinet courier for the British government, and has for the last ten or twelve years transacted all the minutiae connected with the English protestant chapel at Itome. The woman servant Euphrasia, seeing Signor Ser tori come frequently to her master's house, took an opportunity one day of informing him that she was not originally in the humble condition in which she then appear:A, but that before being reduced, by the death of her husband and other misfortunes, to her present distress, she had figured in her native city of Pesaro as the Marchioness Mosea, and had especially enjoyed the acquaintance of l'io Nono himself, as well as the friendship of the whole Mastai Ferretti family. Signor Sertori condoled with the ex-Mar chesa upon her misfortunes, and expressed a wish that her quondam friends would soon be able to do something for her. In fact, when the Pope returned from Portici in the spring, the Marehema prepared a petition, and requested Signor Sertori to find out some means of getting it conveyed to the palace. which Signor Sertori, who was acquainted with the Pope's valet-dc-ehambre, Zungolino, good-natur edly enough promised to do through his in terposition. Zangolino, however, declined pre senting the memorial to his holiness, on the plea of having been expressly prohibited from under taking any such commission. and Signor Sertori re-, ported his ill success to Euphrasia, who seemed much mortified and irritated at it. Things went on as usual for sonic weeks, until Sertori perceived that he was always dogged by two or three spies, who never left him from the moment he went out of his house to the moment he returned hone ; but, having nothing to fear from the police. he felt no tmensiness at the circumstance. Meanwhile, in the month of May, Mr. Bassett left Rome, and in the month of June following Sertori was honoured with a noctur nal domiciliary visit from the sbirri (an event which you will remember as being mentioned in my corre spondence of that month), who examined all his papers, and took away some books, which, however, were subsequently restored to him. In the beginning of the present year Signor Sertori was summoned to present himself be fore tho police authorities, who questioned him very closely touching his acquaintance with the Pope's valet, Zangolino, and accused him of l holding mysterious and secret conferences with the said Zangolinn, and introducing him to the gentle men of the English chapel committee in Mr. Bas sett's house; which circumstances Sertori positively denied, although he admitted knowing Zangolino, from having seen him freauently at Sinigaglia. After a minute examination Sexton was allowed to depart, but was again summoned a few days subse quently, by a servant in the palace livery, who in formed him that the l'ope's nephew, (punt Luigi Mastai, requested to see him on the following morning. I should not omit to state that on leaving the Police office Signor Sertori immediately repaired to the palace and informed Zangolino of what had occurred, expressing a fear that some suspicions, although lie could not imagine of what nature, weighed upon both of them, to which the valet replied that those suspicions explained the sort of disgrace into which he had fallen at court, having . been denied a passport for Sini gaglia, and deprived of the privilege of shaving his holiness, which he had enjoyed for many years, and regularly continued at Gaeta and Portici, during the Pope's residence there, and having, moreover, been gradually dispensed from all personal attendance on his holiness, and attached more especially to the service of his nephew, Count Luigi. In his interview with the count, Signor Sertori finally learned the amount of the imputations cast upon him, as Count Luigi frankly avowed to him that the sui-fliaant marehesa, who had represented herself as a respectable lodging-house keeper, bad accused him of plotting, together with several English gentlemen who met at Mr. Bassett's rooms, against the life of the Pope, and had positively sworn that, by listening at the key-hole, she heard Sertori assure the committee that the Pope's valet, Zangolino, was entirely at their orders, and would cut his masters throat, whilst shaving him, any morning that would suit their convenience. Sertori replied that the marchesa was no other than the housemaid in Mr. Bassett's 1 family, that Zangolino had never been to the house, and that all the conversation between himself and the gentlemen of the church committee had taken place in English, which language the marehesa had no pretension to understand, and therefore could 'scarcely overhear with any profit. The count ap peared satisfied with the explanation, but stated that another man-servant in the same house had been mentioned by the woman as having seen Zangolino backwards and forwards; he, however, when con fronted with Zangolino, in the count's presence, swore that be had never set eyes on him before. Signor Sertori then despatched a letter to Pesaro, to make inquiries, through a friend of his, respecting the family of the marchesa, and received an answer, dated the Ist February, assuring him that the hus band of the pretended widowed marchioness was still alive and hearty, that he continued to keep his shop of old clothes, and other Jewish sorts of merchandise• that he still exercised the calling of a pawnbroker, that he kept two females in his house, and was still honoured by the tow:nspc:oe with the nickname of " Mambo* ThisMown.' important document, explaining the origin of the woman's . pretensions to a title, has been shown to Count Luim, who kept it some days, and probably sent it to the Pope himself; but the marchesa will not yield her claim to nobility, and continues to frequent the palace, dressed in 'black, with interminable stories of English plots and con spiracies. The object of this infamous woman's in ptntnotifngresh•etargeon v Sc en rt t o io ri ns a a n p d Pe rango to liit ve for bee no n t peti tion to the Pope, and a pecuniary recompense from the government for the :importance of her pretended revelations, which seem to have been made, in the first instance, to her confessor, the parish curate, and, , subsequently. in a memorial addressed to his holi ness, whicli she succeeded in getting delivered to him. The pecuniary recompense she has hitherto enjoyed, in the shape of a monthly pension paid her ever since the communication of her evidente ; but her vengeance has only been partially wreaked on Sertori and Zangolino, the former of whom was only tormented by spies abroad and 4birri at home, and the latter merely degraded from the honour of handling the holy father's chin ; whereas they might both have been in the galleys long ago had the police authorities been, as is too I often the ease, more rapid in their conclusions, or the Count Luigi Nlastai less candid and straight-forward in his mode of treating the ease. As it is, the pro- • r, so', or legal investigations are going on, although it is to be hoped they will conclude in the unmask- , ing and severe punishment of the ani-disant marchion ess, especially as Signor Sertori is to be confronted ere long with her and Zangolino, in the presence of Count Luigi and Monsignor Rutini, the director of the police. I shall not fail to communicate the re sult of the proceedings as soon as any thing decided takes place: meanwhile, one cannot sufficiently praise the moderation with which the government has acted, when one considers its weakness and timidity, and the alarming nature of the intelligence commu nicated by the woman. Archbishop Hughes preached on the Eucharistical doctrine, yesterday afternoon. In order to collect together as large an audience as possible, he had caused the following significant notice to be printed and abundantly pasted up all about Rome : " Church of St. Andrea dells Fratte. On Sexagesima Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2 o'clock, in the above church, after the English sermon, which will he preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Hughes, Archbishop of New York, there will be a collection in aid of defraying the ex pense of erecting a large catholic church and schools in the centre of London, fur all English subjects, and particularly for Italians and other foreigners, who arc very numerous in that city. Some ladies of the aristocracy will stand at the doors to receive the . offerings." Whether the archbishop thought that the aristocratic ladies standing at the doors would have the same effect in bringing people into the church that 0/ nut and Harlequin have outside a players' booth in inducing a countryman to spend his two-pence to behold the wonders inside, or not, I really cannot say; but, jesting apart, the word aristocracy appeared to me unadapted to the house of God, and unbecoming a clergyman from the land of liberty and equality. The aristocratic ladies, after all, were too aristocratic to stand at the doors, but they condescended to sit inside the church, with large ;aver trays before them, to receive the funds for erecting the great catholic church in the centre of London. HUNGARY. From the blue book just published, containing "Correspondence relative to the affairs of Ilungnry, 1847-p," we select a few churaeteristie passages of the denouement of the bloody drama: VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO VISCOUNT PONSONBT Forti¢o-oMRce, Aug. 23, 1819. My Lord,—l have to instruct your Execlleucy to expects to the Austrian government the satisfaction which her Ma jesty's government have felt at hearing that the calamitous war which for the last two months has ileaolated Huneary has been brought to a close by a pacification which her Ma jesty's government hope will prove in its results beneficial to all parties concerned. The eyes of all Europe will of course now be directed to the proceedings of the Austrian government in a matter which has excited so deep and gene ral an interest ; and her Majesty 'a government would fail in the performance of their duty if they were not to instruct you to express the anxious hope,which they feel in common with the people of this country, that the Austrian govern ment will make a generous use of the successes which it has obtained, and that in the arrangements which may be made between the Emperor of Austria and the Hungariannation , nation, due regard will be had to the ancient constitutional rights of Hungary. A settlement founded on such a basis, with such improvements as the altered circumstances of the present times may require, will be the best security, nut only for the weltere and contentment of Hungary, but also for the future strength and prosperity of the Austrian em pire. Your Excellency will read this despatch to Priuce Schwarzenberg, and will give him a copy of it. 1 am, &c., (Signed) l'autensrox. R. KOSSUTH TO GENERAL BEY. Terezuva, August 14, 18111. lam indifferent as to my personal sd'ety. lam tired of life; for 1 sec how the splendid edifice of my country, and with it the sanctity of European freedom, is overthrow not by our enemies, but by our brothers. It is not the dastard love of life which has induced mo to go away, but it is the conviction that my presence has be come injurious to my country. General Guyon write. that the united army at Temeswar is iu complete dissolution. Yuu, general, are unfit to tight. Geurgey, nt the head of the only army which, according to this report, still exists, has declared that he will no longer obey, but that he will rule. I have conjured him, patriot, to be true to his country, and have made way for him. For the present lan a simple citizen, and nothing more. I went to Lugos to look at the aspect of affairs there, and to find out on what mean,. we can reckon in order to continue the struggle. I found the corps of General Vecsey in good order, and well affected ; all the others in complete dissolu tion. Dessewlfy, limety, declared to me that this army would fight nu more, but would run at the first cannon shot. I found an utter want of proviaions, Wilt that we were obliged to take them, a Lamentable means which made the whole population our enemies; the bank at Arad, and therefore in Georgey's power. I came then to the conviction, that if Georgey submitted, the army at Logos would not hold out twenty-four hours, as it would have no provisions. An army can subsist by forced contributions of money awl food in an enemy's country ; but iu one's own laud I will never lend a hand to meaaures of oppression and hostility against my own people ; I would gave it by tiring my life; but oppress it, never. You Pee, therefore, general, it is a matter of conscience. I cannot abdicate yesterday, and to-day again assume the reins of govern ment. If the nation and the army decide otherwise, the thing will assume another form; but the army of Georiwy, the bravest of them all, must Lila° agree to it ; if not, I am but a simple citizen, and as such I will never give even the passive countenance of my presence to measures of terror ism, plunder, contributions, and oppression of the pestple. If even George'''. army desired I should again take up the government ; if they should succi ell in some operations for the purpose of revictualling their army without being obliged to have recourse to measures of oppression and ter rorism against the people ; if there le a poxsibility of the bank again working, and it be placed at my disposal; under thesc three conditions L would, at the call of the people, again take the government; if not, not. As for me, the war is not the object, but the means only of saving the country; and if I see no probability of arriving at that goal, 1 will not aid in carrying on the war for war's sake. I therefore advise you, es a good citizen and an honourable man, to call a committee of the representatives of the peo ple, as the sovereign power only can dispose of the govern ment. fiend courier, to Comoro and Peterwardein to hold out ; be certain of the cooperation of the commander of Arid. This is above all necessary—not my presence; for as you are obliged to have recourae to measures of violence against the people to maintain your army, I will never by my presence countenance them.—lkeeive, &c., (Signed) LOU'S KOSSUTH. P.S. Messrs. Zamoyski and Iliazoranorski tell me that it is a duty of honour fior us Iluugariuns so Io place tho Polish and Italian legion, that it may be able to ren der good aeratee to the country ; but that in case of the wont, they should have the possibility of not being sent to Siberia. 1 feel this duty, and at my request, send it to Generul Guyon, in order to cover, rio Orsova, the communication with Turkey ; but L hear that the lieu tenant-general has ordered the garrison of Orsova (only two eompaniea, which will be annihilated by the Serbs in three days) to Transylvania. It is to-day in Koruya ; having marched nearly six mile. (German), and hail nothing to eat. In this manner will these two battalions also be des troyed, at Orsovu, and in a few days be in the hands of the enemy. CONSUL-GENERAL FONGLANQUE TO SIR STRATFORD CANNING. Se ...... mlia, September 10, 1349. In a poatscript to thedespatch which covered a copy of my despatch to your Excellency, I mentioned to the Secretary of State the surrender at liwnetion of Peterwardcin, which has been since occupied by two Herman battalions and some artillery of the same nationality. The Croatian troops are on their return home, where it is expected a large pro portion of them wilt be disbanded. Hungary is already divided into thirteen military districts. I regret having to confirm the course of severity pursued by °metal Hayti:Au. Them may have been technical palliation for the execution of forty or fifty officers; but 1 can conceive no excuse for such facts as the arbitrary sentence that Madame • • • should sweep the streets at Temeswar, or the far more re volting outrage of having caused Madame • • • to be stripped, and in that state Hugged by soldiers just after her husband had committed suicide. There are woo reports of secret oxecutious, and of the sudden disappearance Of persona. The llussian agents have, I under/Mold, com plained energetically against this cruel system. The Hun garians dread the departure of the Cuisacks from their country. A Colonel Cabalini is appointed to succee.l General lklayerhofer as Austrian Consul at Belgrade. YLLIYCE SCIIMAILZT.NBERO TO COVNT CoLEREDO. Vienna, Sept. 19, ISO. M. lc Comte,—Lord Ponsonby, in acquitting himself of the orders of his government, - has successively communi cated to me two despatches, copies of which I herewith inclose to your Exrelleney, the one and the other having reference to the affairs of Hungary. Events have taken upon themselves to reply to these communications of the Principal Secretary of State of her Britannic Majesty better than I could have done. There is 110 rause for surprise if the results to which the Hun garian insurrivtion has led are different from those which Lord Palmerston haul anticipated, inasmuch as, destitute of the necessary elements on which he could form a competent opinion on this matter, he was reduced to information such as that promulgated in England by the agents of the Hun garian insurrection, whose interest it was to represent the events of which their country was the theatre in the falsest light, and to give the colouring of a generous and heroic impulse to an attempt which the English law quail ties as high treason, and which it punishes without fail with death or transportation. I might here terminate my de spatch, did i not wish to consign to it one further observa tion to which I attach a certain value in the interest of the amicable relations which happily subsist between the two governments, and for which we fur our part shall always be anxious to preserve a character conformable to the feelings of ancient and loyal friendship, which Austria glories in professing fur the powerful and noble country of Cheat Delude. The world is agitated by a spirit of general subversion. England herself is not exempt from the influence of this spirit; witness Canada, the island of Cefslonis , and finally, unhappy Ireland. But wherever revolt breaks out withia the vast limits of the British empire, the English govern ment always knows how to maintain the authority of the ' law, were it even at the price of torrents of blood. It is nut for us to blame her. Whatever may, moreover, he the opinion which we form as to the causes of thew in surrectionary movements, as well as of the measures of re pression employed by the British government in order to stifle them, we consider it our duty to abstain from express ing that opinion, persuaded as we are that persons are apt to fall into gross errors, in making themselves judges of the often so complicated position of foreign countries. By this conduct we consider we have acquired the right to expect that Lord Palmerston will practise with rens. , t to us a perfect re( iprocity. You will read this despatch to his lordship and you will give him a copy of the same. Receive, &c., (Signed) SCHWARZENBERO. TUE TROOPS FOR FOREIGN SERVICE.—The follow ing statement shows the order in which regiments have lately embarked for the Mediterranean and for Gibraltar 30th regiment embarked on the 24th and 30th January for Corfu; 47th regiment embarked on the Bth February for Corfu; 41st regiment embarked on the Ilth Februarj for Corfu ; 40th regiment embarked on the 15th and 26th Fe bruary for Corfu; 65th regiment embarked on the 25th February for Gibraltar; 08th regiment embarked on the 27th February for Malta ; 02nd reriment embarked on the 3rd March for Corfu. The 3rd and 74th regiment+, also under orders for Malta and Gibraltar, will embark at Cork immediately the ships to convey them shall have arrived there. The service companies of the 3rd arrive to-day at Cork from Templemore ; the 74th service companies are already at Cork. C.tt 6111 IN AN ENGINE FIRE-130X.--Ott Wetbiestlay evening last, as the mail train was passing that portion of the Eastern Union line near Ipswich, which divides Lady Harland's grounds, known as the " Wherstead Cutting, the driver became aware, by the evidence of his olfactory organs, that something much more savoury than coke was being consumed by the tire of his engine ; and knowing that hares are frequently cooked in a smiler manner, he yielded to the fund anticipation of a game supper at the end of his journey. On arriving at the terminus, however, he discovered that the victim was not a hare, but a large dog of the bull terrier breed, which having strayed on the line, and doubtless attracted by the glare of the Me in the ash-pan of the engine, had heedlessly rushed to its de struction, the poor animal being completely roasted. — Ipswich Express.