The Express. — London, England, 1852-10-09 00:00:00

Ithe evorefos. A Mori Slid= :1" no Zapnws.. eraastshas Mew evesivql then, pa pablashomi raw/ Uri., sod rridyt. La Yoe waded tap...," (ABMs Frieda. paper, smi beat the Oen. Ileevarlwareelo, Tv. WY** as ski dip of gallmisa. RION WATIK AT LONDON BRIDOI. Tone Day—Ma-Mug. IM 111M.—......3tiereass. 111. la Ta.rosaw•—liarats4.lll.Usr.....„...allenmes, ek. On. LUNDOX, SATURDAT. OCTOBER 9. Manson the Anglo-Saxans the life of every indi vidual was valued, and in case of his being killed a definite sum was paid over to his relations. This valuation also regulated the fine lucid by an offender for the commission of certain offences. The amount of this compensation was carefully noted down in the statutes, and formed a descending scale, beginning with the king. The value of a monarch's life was 30,000 thrymsas ; of an atheling, 13,000 ; of a bishop ur caldorman, 8,000, and so on at a lower and .over rate as the catalogue came to its close. It must be allowed that, whatever defects might attach to this system, it was at least consequential. If the legislators wets, wrong there was at least a met h,d in their error; and after all there is some fairness in making a man payaccording to the damage that he has done and the capability he pos sesses of payment. The modern Anglo-Saxons have changed all that. Whether on account of the more complex condition of modern society, which involves such a number of grades that there would scarcely be any possibility of affixing an accurate money mea surement to each; or of a latent persuasion that pecu niary compensation is not a proper principle as a foundation for penal legislation, there is no need to inquire. Certain enough it is, that we have introduced another system which has none of that fairness which characterises the Anglo• Saxon laws, and which seems to have a tendency to brutalise our population. We have indeed a system of fines for certain offences, but these are not paid as a compen wition to the injured party, but as a tax to the go vernment. The fines, again, are not levied with any regard to the rank or worth of the offender or the sufferer. A eostcrmonger may knock down a shop keeper, a policeman, or his own wife, for the same money—say three pounds. If he adds to his amuse ment by jumping upon his victim when down, and kicking him or her about the head, be pays two pounds more. A "gentleman" of any number of thousands a year may indulge in the same pleasures for exactly the tame sums. Here the old Saxon principle of fairness is completely lost sight of. The coatermonger, who probably never maw, or is likely to see, a five-sound note in his life, is marched off to prison to expiate the sin,—not of his brutality, but—of his empty pockets. The "gentleman" flings down a ten-pound note, looks at the change to see that there ts no bad money in it, and walks out of court with the air of one who has settled a little account. Observe, in neither cue is the principle either of compensation or punishment to be traced. The victim receives nothing as an alleviation of his sufferings. The costermonger is placed in a better lodging, receives better food than he has been accustomed to, and, in addition, has leis bard work to perform. The gentleman has paid what he will never feel the loss of, and has, in fact, suffered no more inconvenience than that inflicted by the tasty atmosphere of the magistrates court. So much for the offenders. How stands it with the injured? They are left by this state of the law utterly without protection. The brute who has finished his three weeks' exercise on the tread mill comes out with renovated health and strength, determined to wreak his vengeance on his accuser. Should this unhappy being happen to be his wife, be knows that be can set now with comparative impunity. The poor wretch discovers that her complaints, loud as they may be, can only procure her a respite of three weeks, at the end of which time she is sure to be exposed to worse evils than before, and she submits too often in silence. Women in England are actually living in juries that any adequate protection from the that any violent brute may choose to inflict upon them when his passions are excited. "I only want my life to be protected," wee the touching rep ly of - • poor creature, a few days ago, when the magistrate asked her what cook be done for ker. She had just appeared against • ruffianly nephew, who, to punish her fir asking him for repayment of a sum el money which she had lent to his father, seined her with both hands round the loins and threw her with his whole force against the edge of a counter and split her skull open. .1 only want my life to be protected!" was her cry. The magistrate was apparently struck with the Datum of the re quest, and referred the woman—sot to the law, which be knew could afford her protecitioo—but to the Milan himself, who might perhaps be induced to girl up his murderous &nivel The terrible prevalence of crimes against the perms may be illustrated any week by a reference to our police reports. Take for instant* the present meek. Oa Mondawo read that JOHN LACILLAXD backed a woman down and broke two of her ribs. As he was remanded it remains undetermined what was the Taloa of a female rib in the eyes of the law. On the 3th we read that a miscreant knocked down Fixes Mown, and Melted her while she was down. Fined U., or to have di weeks' impeisonment. On the 6th the sea of Joint Doeora, who threw his euntegaimlthessenter, es abovereleted,weereported. On the 7th men a told . that lonic WELL being an noyed Ili errt ab i lar HIM Millet' laugh, end belay lag that the kieghter was &egad against himself, dema the mid /Latium, sad kicked him shout the heed as he lay ineweible on sin ground. A hind let I. poled Ma unr, the prisoner knocked bin sad esbdng Ma his hair with both heads, would hem piled it out by the roots bed not a polkas= saws op at the swam t The magistrate sensidered that the pewees had committadJer alidingi worth el washy. As, however, Joint Irma bed wittigu i r ti ogly incurred a debt to the Time without herb, the whisawithe ssa ll u n es h or e le was committed pulse as • where he is to mei& 21 dope It wadi by this that in onagidentsfe endowed@ et • lee of something is. than Ilse ski:llw is wive/sat to • day's imprisswasmt. It wand be worth while knowing whether if the primer had banded the =a erwereign it maid have obtsieed him et tea days' inowesredise New i. may sue of times instances the domes is that the nabs le Wired hr life. Take the sage of Mariam (Luau being hisitsd about the head es he ley issinsibis,—it 6 nom sly possible that he will not hel the east of these majors@ to his dug day. Is addition to this remember that hlirrnsw lives is biddy bar, that Joan Watts may ratans the instemt kW titres weeks' imprison ment is over, and have forty shillings' worth of mammon ones more. In this wee we would not give mach for Merry aw's chases of life. If, however, Josue Wzats, instead of indulging in the unprofit able eassemsat of ball resmiseing his victim, had abet:seed some min hem 'dopiest, MArruaw aught have he. the plearare wring his pianism eddy lodged ea the ether side of the waist, de prived of all chum of witedshe his peillatery or as tastes In ether wogs protect property by the most rigid laws, we leave the person almost without any preludes at all. These are surely most disgraceful amawalim aid lentil they era corrected we shall deservaily imlhr under the reproach of treating life and limb with thorough carelessness, whilst nervously *axiom for the protection of pounds, shillings, and pence. Two of oar seatimpearies are at gram! In a mg riffs sad pleamat controversy en . = podia, Whig M aiailerial affairs. Eaeh is maw. stood la speak the eentimeate of cos of than small bit anmsetis mediae of the Opposition white b ths pert vtobeitodes ham hew splintere d off lbs sail atm* of party. Mr. Oissorora Is malmisdly the !west of the little Mad who still rally mead the isinorrhat laded and sadly deserted of Notion ; while Lord Painnartnila auwsstis by a primal Ma. rather than at the head of atrytbiag that can be tensed a detachment or division of an army. D o w me guerilla warfare of ket esioisa. whoa daisies denametratism or merits wan ea all bands felt to be impeadide, the pasted relf these partisan chief' was °flea signally And ever sines the lune of their ex- WO naturally formed a emspieres topic is lirrdevoted to their respective interests, hl ii k the return of the political mama bids dirges. for a rencw4 of the wordy War, and that users fill the air of sh earlier opening of the cam miaa tbsa was nos weeks ago anticipated, the sessisstlasi PAILININToN and Mr. GLADISTONR eta lady esespild is &weaning what part these eftdearien unatiashed should take, and they seem =Pesomewhat to differ on that interesting t t . l Ihe if to rainy Post starts with the sisimption that two things are palpably inpassible—first, that the DERBY Cabinet can last for soy time or for any legislative purpose withossel same infusion of additional strength ; and thstia the event of its tall, no Adininistratim aft = be formed by Lord lona RUISCLL. Hence it infers the probability, if not the inevitability, of a return to power of its favourite champion, either in combi nation with Lord Drama and theirs. damaged mem bers of the existing government, or in cesinne tion with the more pliant and pleashis por tion of the late ministry. In other words. um political friendship of the noble viscount is with ineffable nonchalance advertised as being . now up at auction,—there being apparently no consciousness whatsoever that there would be any thing more surprising or questionable in his lord ship's entering next week a Tory cabinet than a Whig one. We are, we own, reluctant to believe that such an announcement can have been tacitly sanctioned by the veteran politician to whom it refers. The Morning l'ust indeed takes care to go through the formality of disclaiming all direct authorisation, and we should fain hope that Lord l'Auniirrox will, in fitting time and place, repudiate the fatal imputation on his sagacity and honour u a public I man. No idea of the necessity of any such disclaimer seems to hare occurred however to the Morning Chronicle, when commenting in terms of anxious deprecation on the ambiguous menace of its contemporary. The sole thought indicated in its columns with reference to so delicate a subject appears to be a fear lest Lord PALMERSTON should determine prematurely, or with out consultation, which side he will espouse. Not a hint is dropped respecting any essential di ff erence between Tor) ism and Liberalism, between church ascendancy and religious equality, between electoral reform and the maintenance of the existing system of bribery and intimidation. From anything that the criticism of the Chronicle contains on the i'ost's sugges tions of new min isterial combinat ions,t here wouldhe as little hesitation on the pert of Mr. GLADSTONE'S friends to enter a reactionary Cabinet as a proper sista one; and had the proper opportunity and the terms been settled, it would be as honourable propernb becoming in these gentlemen to enlist under the banner whereon is ostentatiously emblazoned " Down with the democracy," as under that which bears the motto "Political progress." If the Peclites were to be in terpreted solely by their daily organ, they would in point of fact stand precisely in the same position with respect to the two great parties into which Parliament and the nation at large is divided, as Lord PALMERSTON would be were his sentiments and intentions to be scanned through no other me dium than the columns of the Morning Post. For the sake of the character of our public men in general we hope that the various rumours on this subject with which political coteries just now abound, may prove destitute of any foundation. With the contingencies or ambitious aspiratioas that may seem to have rendered the formation of a tiers park, founded on mere o ffi cial aptitudes, possible to those might wish to be its chiefs, we deal not here. A Peelite-Palmerstonian administration might probably look very well on paper in the eyes of those who wish it. If personal ability were all that is wanted in a constitutional ministry, it would, per haps, be warranted in attempting (when it gets the chance) to do the business of the different departments as indifferently as any other set of lords and gentle men we have had for rulers for some time. How the fundamental difficulty of the want of a definite prin ciple, and of ostensible following could be obviated, we atop not here to inquire. At present we are con cerned with the alternative hypothesis,—that, namely, which supposes absorption of the doubtful quantity that occasionally is flung into either scale, and its permanent incorporation into one or other of the op posing masses. It is the assertion and apparent ad mission of this dubiety that we are convinced the public generenv will regard as discreditable and damaging. With men who are open to an offer from Lord DERRY, we can have nothing to do. If in their eyes the insolent exclusive and retrogressive policy of the present government are matters of secon dary importance, then there can be no confidence on the part of_ the people in them. Far from endea vouring to diem& them from joining the Logs- DAL= and SALISBURY' and BERESPORDS, we confess we should be mach better pleased at their doing so if they ca;i la do an so sincerel s,ain y or an a d t liz i nzry, than tr y ey should rendering all plain Listing between parties i n i g nprac Part : tieable, and lowering the standard daily of political morals. We do not undertake to make any such allegation of any of the distinguished personages alluded to. On the contrary, we shall not lightly abandon the hope of seeing both Mr.GLADIRONS and Lord PALMIRSTOX take a decisive)) liberal course in the coming stain. We wish it, beanies we believe in our principles, and desire that all men of genius and ecoomplishment should espouse them also. S THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY FRANCE. • • PAW% Puma, lITINI*II. The Monsieur metains a decree of the Prises Pre sident, dated Ounemonne, Oct. 4, opaajo t a n imps ordinary credit of 600,000 fr. to the ministry of Public Works he the repair of the damages caused by the inundation of the Rhine. • In reading the daily official meant, of the Presi dent's one is forcibly reminded of the saying of *pole= at St. Helena, that the most ycent T e te in rhetoric was repetition. It is clear that Noniteur despatches are prepared in conformity with that doctrine. True, no thing is such wearisome reading, but they produce the desired impression by fairly tiring out the resist ance of the most sceptical mind, and compelling it by continued iteration to receive as a truth that which it has no stomach to question . The foll ow i ng i s from the batch contained in to-day's Monitessr: Toulouse, Oct.., a in the afternoon. Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, the Prince went to the capitol, and. having appeared lathe balcony, was re ceived by upwards of MAIO spectators with cries of " Vin l'Empereur !" Viva Napoleon Ill." At the theatre, which presents a fairy-like cosiperail, the enthusiasm was don indescribable energy. The !edit* waved their hand kerchiefs to the cry of " Vise l'Empenue." On his return,l the crowd encumbered the streets to see the Prince and greeted him with the same acclamations. This morning at seven o'clock his Highness quitted Toulouse. Ages, half-past in the evening. The Prince is now catering the town, and is received with the greatest enthusiasm by the populatioa of the gar rison. The acclamations are unanimous, and the cry of " Yin l'Empereur " universal. Half-past 6 in the Evening.—ln spite of the rain his Highness was received by an immense crowd, who cried " Vire PEmpereur." The clergy, with the Bishop at their head, received the Prince at the cathedral. His arrival at the Prefecture was the occasion of a new expkeion of cries of " Vise l'Emperestr," and of an avalanche of bouquets and wreaths of flowers. Oct. 7, Seven in the Morning.—The Prince gave a dinner of forty covert last evening at the Prefecture. The presen tation of the authorities took place afterwards, and the ladies wars received. Everywhere the presence of his Highness produced the most lively enthusiasm. The Fete dee °ravine was magnificent, and at night the town was brilliantly illuminated. Bordeaux, Oct. 7, baltpast 4 evening. Tbe Prime has just arrived at Bordeaux. Every, here the people on the two banks of the river saluted him with enthusiastic manifestations and with cries of " Viva pewter." The entry into Bardeen: exceeded anything that could have been imagined. 7 in the evening.—Burileaux has supassed all that we have hitherto seen, and I shall renounce the idea of describing the pomp and enthusiasm of the reception given to the Prince. The vessel which bore him landed him at the Quinoonee ; his Highness then mounted cm horseback, and went to the Place, where the filing off im mediately commenced, amidst repeated cries of " Via. Plimpereur !" °Viva Napoleon Ill.!" The deputations of the communes were unanimous in their enthusiasm. The Prince afterwards traversed the city to go to the cathedral. Ho arrived at Bordeaux at half-past four, but did not reach hie pekoe until hall-pest six. The imposing reeeptioa was favoured by the meet delightful weather. A despatch from Bordeaux states that the Prince we. present to-day at the launch of the Napoleon. It is said that letters of a most compromising cha racter have been discovered among the papers found in the possession of some of the parties arrested in the Haute Loire. One of these letters written from Breonde some few days bef ore t the discovery of the infernal machine states that in a very . shat time, "On allait en flair avec la hour poste,* and it recommended the person to whom it was addressed to take courage, and be patient for a few days. At the Bourse tho Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose 10c., closing at 105.40; the Three per Cents, rose 15c., and closed at 78.90. Strasbourg and Lyons Railways rose 0.25 each; St. Germain, 5;, Havre, Northern, and Caen and Cherbourg, 3.73 each; Orleans and Rouen, 2.60 each. THE UNITED STATES AND PERU. TM Peruvian Minister has been received odleially by Pembiest Fillmore. The Nehimsel hMeiliteneer of Sept. 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STAMPS IN THI 001:71T OP CHANCEAL--Ths Lord Cbeamilise is empowered by 16 sad 16 Vie., 4. IV, to order km to be resolved all la saw, bet b mamas of Ibrommielseers of Os Imbed soeseee ere to obi efier miler mode, se daemon b be reesived= I. the Coen 'Whom'', eds. simaped. Man.. MR TSB Cars AND AWirraeLlisi—Tbo yeebellso eetheetties mmemeed apes yeetembp OM the Australis meilpethol, Melbewrey elowdbi to the bat NAN% led set seerbed Illiorelh, mob Om A... M Ned Om Cape et Geed Hero wbla was to be des petibed by Mr wield be ierwardol (iMissii Peet- Mb, ftmimeli bet alibi. BELGIUM. The Isdepersdanee Beige of yesterday, after ob serving that various rumours are afloat as to the elements comprising the new cabinet, and stating that matters are far advanced towards a settlement, announces, as an arrangement "almost definitively" come to, the list of ministers already given in our columns from those of the Emancipation of Brussels. The Emancipation of Bruseels of yesterday says: The ministerial list which we published yesternay is partly correct as a serious project. W. have, however, to rectify one point. M. Lids will only enter the cabinet as • minister without portfolio, but with a vote. We do not know whether the negotiations with M. Piero* will pro. duce a satisfactory result, but they are much &demand. M. Planet is now at Brussels. The prevailing idea in the upper circles is the formation of an extra-parliamentary cabinet. llse ministry, we repeat, will have for mission to reconcile Frame and Belgisni, and M. Drouya de hays will without doubt costribute all his efforts. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette, of the 3rd, contains a royal d whieh enacts that Ile Is of the New Deferred Debt, who may selicit it, sisal be allowed to maven their voucher, at the rate lasi by the presement, into other vouchers of the Coo ssYMsi per Cost stock ; that sem six months the Omni el llinhens shall In the price at which, daring six eseeshs, the coeveseim may be effected, and the sum to wise& It may amount; that every month the tiemenele of the holden shall be submitted to the Junta en the debt, and that the Junta shall pint eat to the government those which present most ad motage, shall declare if tits amount lied by the govern meet be emeakd by the total demands or not, ttc.; and that In leiraigs plows the propositions for the conversion tea be meet in sealed letters eddreseed to the Financial Osmededom at London or at Parte, or to the Vim-OmM at Amsterdam. The deem dee regulates sundry formalities re,- ruder the etiid cooversion. The 3rd being Sunday, the block &thug, we, not open. GERMANY. THE ZOLLVEREIN. M. Kleine the Hanoverian minister for the Zoll- Tugela aminesee has left Berl* so that the meet ly,r reatrieled as dig proviso* were to the sup posed sillesesiset Mods, ow now entirely sus. pa Wiest asses Banner will take is at =thermmetain, bee meet see mp eßt e y e ismerssmsts ars tart: serempeedesee betimes M. 1 _ Bavarian with*" at the oonforemees, and M. Amieer Roche, the Friesian pregdome al the body, in order to show Bost Prussia has Um the real separatist. A letter dated Deesima, Oct. 6, annonneee tat the /Ling)ted acespiled the resignation of M. de Friesen, the Maeda of the hitmeior, and appointed Baron was Boat u his sueeseser. ITALY. TUSCANY. In the second sitting of the 29th alt. of the Royal Court at Florence, the examination of Gamma was rammed. As the first sitting of that day had been entirely taken up with matters relating to the image of institutions in Tuscany, us the second re lated ehiedy to the ohmages betredased in the admi- Abelian and among the teselienewies of the state. Gummi stated that be bed reamed IL Rowel mini hum the pedeetwe et Piste& fa ceder to save hint has the hatred of the esteem peaty, and that the vintages in the diplasestispormanel wire eirsetsd 12 .at lestanalli. As to som aentinetione made by Cluerraszi explained thou by saying that, belnesirees to conciliate the repalffleeas u much en possible sad bring thew over to his views, lu dis tributed 110•11 plans them, by which means he oho generally transferred from the plums where they were very iniliontial to others when they were but /We known. Being seined whether he MB at that tine any knowledge of the prolede herd by the (load Duke at Prete Swett lltelhae. Onsrassi mild that no weber et the digienatle mg. ever ownwenitated the. to him Alter sr other wise, and that he only read thee any later in the Genoa Omits. The said SIR sodzs e retions to him reepigg i t a s nsalibele ad to Europe by the government, and showed him some oorrostleme whim on the margin of the rough oopyof the laid deement, which corrections Gummi readily acknowledged as being in his own handwriting. The court then ad journed to the Ist. The following anecdote ma elicited in the mune of the exanunation :-81r 0. Hamilton, then British minister to the court of Tus cany, before his departure for Outs, whither he was ing in order to o btai n an i n t erv i ew w i th the b"reM d Duke, called upon Onerrazzi, and told him that from his own personal inquiries he had learnt that the constitutionalists desired a restoration, bat colipled with the abdication of the Grand Doke in is•our of his eon ; and that he (Sir G. H.) would break the matter to the Grand Duke. Cluerrasei replied that be would do all in his power to forward such a plant but Sir 0. Hamilton, oa his ret told him there were no hopes of its aueress. and twill he had been obliged to give up the idea's( grin ludas, to an abdication, having found it was out hi! Of the question (avando trovato if terms° dors). CORFU, Syr:. 30. A circumstance has 000tirred here lately which has produced an extraordinary impression in all chimes of society. To make myself understood in England, I must tell you that each of the islands has a . patron saint: Saint Bpiridion for Corfu, Saint (fermium° for Cephalonia, Saint Demetrius for Zante, and so on. The skeletons or mummies of these saints are pre served in churches, in coffins highly ornamented and carved, by the offerings of the devout. It is believed that an oath taken upon the body of ono of these paints is • most solemn form of swearing, and that the most terrible punishments fall upon any one who swears falsely, not only in the next world but in this. Accordingly it is not uncommon when two persona swear directly contrary to each other in the usual form in • court of justice, for the judge to order one of the parties to take his oath upon the body of the saint of the island. When this is done, the parties adjourn to the church, accompanied by officers of the court, a religious service is performed by the priests in full canonicals, amid burning tapers and all that can influence the imagination ; and at the close the coffin is opened, and the party, laying his bands upon the bony remains of the saint, make' an earnest asseveration of the truth of his statement, and calls down upon himself some dreadful punish- 1 meat if he swear falsely. Some six weeks since an advocate called upon one of his clients to par him 100 dollars, due for plead ing &cause. The client replied that he had paid the money nine months before, acknowledging that he had taken no receipt, as he did not think it neces sary in dealing with a gentleman. Upon this the advocate nee the client in court, and both having sworn, the ono that he had paid the money, and the other that he had not, the advocate was ordered to swear that he had not been paid upon the body of Saint Spiridion. He did so, and recovered the money. However, in a day or two afterwards a sore appeared upon his finger, it gradually extended, and after a time his whole hand mortified. The mortification then extended up the arm, and yester day the surgeons amputated his arm as a last chance of saving his life, which is still in extreme danger. To say the least of it, this is a remarkable coinci dence, and, as you may suppose, the effect upon a superstitions people has been immense, every one be lieving that the poor man took a false oath, and as they say, "God is making him an example to liars." f(), OCTOBER 9, 1842. Ebe Court. BALMORAL, OCT. 7. Her Majesty sod Prime Albert left Balmoral yes terday, for •JIII Skid of Allt as Oiutheseh. The Viscometer Canning ia in attendance upon her Majesty. Mr. Mattawan, M.P., and the City Remeiribrancer bad as Interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Each.,. goer, at his °Metal residence, in Downing street. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governor-General of Canada from t h e Colonial.onlee. Despatches were also Pent to the Governor of Malts, the Lord High Commis sioner of the lonian 'timid', and to the Governor of the Falkland Islands. (Frame last alebt's Oasette.) DOWNINO-ATREET, OCTOBER N —The Queen till& been pleased to appoint her litillie Ilemiltor„ Esq., for some time Lieutenant-Goveroor of the Island of Grenada, to be Governor and Commander-in Chief is and over the Island of Newfoundland and its dependencies. FonsioN-oreice, OCTOBER 5. - The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William lioutcher as Con sul.Oeneral in Lnndon for the Argentine Confederation. WHITEHALL, OCTOBER 6.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Alexander Anthony Archibald, Duke of Hamilton, to be Lieutenant and Sheritf Princ i pal of the shire of L anark, is the room of Alexander, Duke of Hamilton, deceased. NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS. STAFIPOID._ lion. Augustus Henry Vernon, Charles Holland (Doctor of Physic), Herbert 'I sylor (Dower of Physic), James Begnell, Esq. Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., John Bolt, Esq., Morton Esq., Buller, Esq.. Richard Croft Chew- Der Esq., William Davenport, Esq., Charles F ors t er , Req., Lsrcnao Kirkpatrick Hall, Esq , Thoniss Parties' Heywood, Esq., Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram, Esq., Edward Kinnersly, Esq. Rowland Moinwaring,Req., Tolman Mosley, Esq , Robert John Peel, Esq., Robert Philips, Esq., John William Philips, Esq., Thomas Thor neycroft, Esq., Thomas Fletcher Twendow, Esq., John Ashford Wise, Req., Thomas Edward Whitby, E sq ., Philip Williams, Eq.._ _Francis Wnitgreavc, Es q . MON TOON ray. Thomas Browne Browns, Esq., John Davies Corrie, Esq., John James Tenser, R eq., John Olney Crewe Heade, Esq., Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, Esq., Robert Davies Jones, Esq. LANCABTIII. John Fletcher, Esq. thouczarsa. _ . George Sehonswez the youog4,l3eq. • Youx. Barnard Hague, Esq., Thomas Price, Esq., George Wil liam 'Fireman, Esq., Edward Tew, Esq. THE MILITIA. The following commissions have been signed : William Pryce Browne, gent., to be lieutenant in Royal Montgomeryshire Militia. James War.llaw, Esq., late captain. 24th Regiment Ben gal Native Infantry, to be major in 2nd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia. Peter 81ingrlay Fitsgereld Bag., to be captain in ditto. Thomas fir'adi'haw, 'gent. ' 'to lie - lieutenant in ditto. Joseph Peel. gent., to be lieutenant in oitto. Ilenry Claris, gent., to be lieutenant in ditto. Hugh Neill, gent., to be surgeon in ditto. John Bentham, Egg., late b •major, 47th Foot, to be lieutenant-colonel, rice Sir John Gerard. Bart., re signed, in 3rd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own .... Lieutenant James German, to be captain, vice Green !nigh, resigned, in ditto. Henry Newsham Pedder, Eq., to be captain, vice Hes ketb, in ditto. John Rayly, gent., to be lieutenant in ditto. John Henderson, gent., to be lieutenant in ditto. James Sidgreaves, gent., to be lieutenant in ditto. Ensign William Ayrton, to be lieutenant in ditto. Edward Monk, gent., to be lieutenant in ditto. Thomas Woldeock, gent., to be ensign in ditto. Thomas Richard Crcne, ksq ,to be captain, vice Helton, resigned, in ditto. Richard French Slegg, gent., to be lieutenant, vice Wil lett, promoted, in Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. Charles Castle, Esq. to be captain, vice Haythorne, re signed, in Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia. - David William Nash, gent., to he lieutenant in ditto. Charles Muscroft, Eq., to be surgeon in Ist Regiment of I West York Militia. John Lister, Esq., to be surgeon in 3rd Regiment of West York Militia. [This article is substituted for the one which sppeared in the Gazelle of Friday last.] Herbert Houneell, gent., to be ensign, vice Gould, pro misted, in Dorset Regiment of Militia. • George Eiger, gent., to be surgeon, vice Sankey, re signed, in West Kent Regiment of Militia. Tee Hon. Henry Lewis Noel, to be captain commandant, vice the Hon. William Middleton Noel, resigned, in Rut land Militia. Alexander Dorid, Foq., to be first lieutenant in ditto. Edward Costal!. Esq.; in las maid lieutenant in ditto. John Griffiths B , gent., to ho lieutenant in Royal Radnor Militia. William Thomu Rowland Powell, Esq., to be captain, vice Pritchard, who retires, in Royal Cardigan Militia. James Boynon Lloyd Philippe, Esq., to be captain, vice Wagner, who retires, in ditto. ' Arthur Vaughan Donitborne Harris, Esq., to be cap tain, doe David Watkins Lloyd, resigned, in Brecknock shire Militia. Lieutenant William Stuart, to be captain is Bedfordshire Reaiment of Militia. Francis Lnhe Pym, Esq., to be captain in ditto. Edward Thornton, gent., to be lieutenant, vice Rix, re tired, in ditto. Tbomu Barnard the younger, gent., to be lieutenant, Tke Stuart, promoted, in ditto. Charlea Livius arimah►w, gent., to be lieutenant in ditto. Thomas Henry Clatton Brock, gent., to be lieutenant, vice Samuel Galindo, who retires on an allowance, in Worcestershire Regiment of Militia. Ensign James Queenborough Palmer, to be lieutenant, vice Percy Galindo, who retires on an 'Borgne. in ditto. Edward Winnington, Esq„ to be captain, vice Dent, re signed, in ditto. Robert Walters, gent., to be lieutenant, vice Jefferies, who retires on an allowance, in ditto. THE DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS TROUBRIDOE, BART. Rear-Admiral of the Red Bir Edward Thomas Troubridge, Bart., died on Thursday night at his residence, Eaton.place. Sir Edward *as only sou of the late Rear- Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, But., and brother-in-law of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Bo lkelcy Egerton, G.C.M.0., K.C.H. He entered the navy Jan. 21, 1797, as a volunteer, on board the Cambridge, 74, Captain Boger, guard-ship at Plymouth. By the decease of Sir Thomas Troubridge, the following promotions and removals take place : Rear-Admiral of the White /Hanley Hall Dixon to be rear-admiral of the red. Rear• Admiral of the Blue Fairfax Moresby, C.D. (Com maader-iu-Chief in the Pacific), to be r sar • a datiral of the white. Captains Thomas Ladd Peak, (March 1, 1822) and Wil liam Hendry (July, 1822) to be rear-admiral on the retired Hat, in accordance with the terms of the order in council of 180. __ Captains Norwich Duff (April 23, 1822), aide de camp to the Queen ; Sir Charles Christopher Parker, Dart. (April 23, 1822) ; John Edward Walcott, M.P. (May 6, 1822); and the Right Hon. Frederick E ar l S pencer, K.0.C.8. (August 26, 1222), to be rear-admirals on the re served halt pay list. Captain James Hanway Plumridge (Oct. 9, 1822), to be rear-admiral of the blue. Captain Sir George Tyler, KM., M.P., A.D.C. (Oct. 10, 1822), heroines the senior on the active list. Captains N. A. Eliot, James Wigston, O. F. Byres, C. 8., Sir Thomas Hastings, C. 8., and the Hon. Thomas Best (1830) seemed to the senior ball pay list ; and Captains G. Hansel, J. Shepherd, W. Shepheard, William Luckraft, and Thomas Henderson are placed in the second senior half pa y list. Two captains' good-wervie• pensions and the appointment of A.D.C. to the Queen are relinquished by the above promotions, and fall to the nomination of the Duke of Northumberland. STABBING BY FOREIGN SAILORS AT BRISTOL. On Thursday a very ferocious moult with large knives was committed by some Danish sailors in the neisg boyhood of Broad-street, Bristol. The men, who formed part of the crew alma American vessel, lying on the quay, were in the habit. as is not uncommon with foreign sailors, of wearing large knives appended in leather cues to their aides. On the evening in question the Danes came ashore in • party, for the purpose of amusing themselves in the oily, and in the course of their peregrinations they picked up with three or four girls, with whom they went drinking. Daring the time they went to a tavern in the neighbour hood of the centre of the city, at which there was singing leoing en. After amusing themselves for wine time they ft, and when in • public passage communicating with the house they commenced a quarrel with the females, and between each other. In the course of the disturb ance they drew their knives out of their cases, and nourished them in • way which created consid, cable alarm among the bystanders. One of the persons looking on war a working man named Robert Jones who had been through the pas sage to the house of a fellow workman, and who on his road stopped for a few minutes to ascertain what was the cause of the tumult. Ile had not interfered in any way, and he was standing quietly with his cap in his hand when one of the sailor., tamed Hans Kreeehnar ' made • rush at him with his knife and inflicted a wound on the back part of his head. Upon finding himself wounded and bleeding Jones cried out that he had been stabbed, and • female named Ann Rogers, who resided close by, and.who had come from her house to see what was the cause of the disturb ance, kind kresahner by the arm, in the hope of averting further mischief. The fellow, d i sregarding her, aimed • se cond blow at Jones with the knife, which, in consequence of her pulling, glanced off, and the point of it entered the woman's neck. lie theu at once broke away from her and teamed into one of the houses, but he will watched, fol lowed, and ultimately apprehended by the police. lie had contrived to rid himself of the knife, but the case in which be carried it was still strapped round his waist. TURKEY. We read in the Arai de to Religion : We shall coon know whether the intervention of France has triumphed over the obstacles raised by rival pinions to the recognition of our rights is the affair of the holy places. Alit Boy, the commissiouer of the Porte, has arrived at Jeru seism. The Greek schismatic patriarch has also arrived there from Constantinople, and it is said that he .is dia -1 posed to spread money in all directions, and the Consul- General of Russia at Beyrout has received orders from his government to leave immediately for the Holy City. Oar adversaries are therefore prepared to support their usurping pretensions. They will not, however, tied the field open to them. M. Botta embarked at Beyrout on the 19th in company with the Abbe' Deguewnviller, chancel lor of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. He is the bearer of in structions from the French ambassador, and it is said, charged to act as the honour and Interest of the Latins may require. We have no doubt that his presence and his firm language will suffice to defeat all intrigues. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. A letter, dated Aberdeen, Thursday evening, says : " The Prince Albert has just arrived from the Arctic Regions, but brings no accounts of Sir John Franklin. The following are the facts of this expedition: " The Priam Albert left Aberdeen on the 22nd of May last year, the search being under the direction of William Kennedy, Req., who had long been connected with the Hod 11011's Bay Company. The main object of the expedition was to get, if possible, on the track of Sir John Franklin, assuming that he had followed out his instructioas to seek a passage going south-west by Cape Walker. The Prince Albert made the ice on the 22nd of June, and crossed to the west side in 72.30 north latitude; got to Pondrbsy on the 24th of August, and there saw four natives, but found that they had heard nothing of Sir John Franklin. They then proceeded up Lancaster Sound, where they encountered heavy gales of east wind,and by the time they reached Barrow Straits, on September 4, the ice had barred the mirage. They then made for Port Leo pold for abater, and here Mr. Kennedy landed in a boat, with six men, and was promising to make inquiries, when a barrier of ice got between the ship and the land, and the weather being still bad, with • strong current, the vessel was carried up Prince Regent's lalet as far as Batty Bay, leaving Mr. Kennedy and his boat's crew on shore. Unable to return to Port Leopold, Captain Leask tried to reach Fay Point, but did not succeed, and getting into Batty Bay came to anchor there, where M. Ballot, the French gentleman who accompanied Mr. Ken nedy, left the ship with four men for Port Leopold on the 17th of October. Here Mr. Kennedy and his men bad remained in • state of great anxiety for six weeks, but, getting at the provisions which were left by Sir John Ross, they enjoyed excellent health. Returning with M. Ballot to Batty-bey, the ship was housed for the winter, and pre parations made tor searching during the time she would be fast. They started with sledges on the 24th of February, with a party of 14 son, stopped a short time at Fury Poiat, then aimed Melville-bay, got as far west as Breatford-bay, and here discovered • channel, about two miles broad, leading westward, aid opening op • bay by the northern coast of North Somerset. A fatigue party of six ma pushed up this new damsel, walking and sledging it, in 72 deg. aseth latitude, sad 100 deg. west longitude, while eight men returned to the ship from Branford Bay. Mr. Keasedy and M. Bellat were of the advanced party, traversing the north coast of Somerset, round by Port Leopold, cad arriving at the ship ea the 30th of May. ,Tha wee a mast dallied' and trying jourseiy, the weather being thick sad stormy. The direct distance from the ship to this channel would be: 000 miles; the distance traversed was fully 1,200 miles. But in all this search, which included also • search of Cape Walker, no new traces were found of Sir John Franklin. Daring the time that Mr. Kennedy was oat, Dr. Cowie, with a party of four men, creased Croswell Bay to the water on the west aide of North So menet, but was alike unsucessetal. • " Seamy now unfortunately appeared smog the men, and they had a sickly tinge of it from May to July, but a party getting down then to Port Leopold, Mr. Kennedy was able to procure anti-scorbutic medicines and toed, and the crew this gradually got better. " Oa the ether August last summer they got out of Batty Bay, and proceeded northward, intending to go to Griffith's Island. They reached B.echy bland en the 19th of August, and, falling in with the North Star, stationed with prod aims for the use of the Fraaklia expedition, and learning that the other vends had paned up Wellington Channel, Mr. Kennedy deemed It useless to proceed further north, and concluded to raters home. At the time he left Beechy Island, Wellington Chaanal was open and hes from ice as far as the telescope meld command a view, and it is the opinion of Mr. Kennedy, as well as of the oMoers of the North Star, that, from the remarkable openness of the IMMO, the searching squadron would occupy • more advanced position than any of the previous expeditions maid reach. Describing the state of this chan nel to Captain Penny, who is at present in Aberdeen, that gentleman expressed his firm swerietion that If the steamers are pushed forward with energy they might get through at &Arias's Straits. The crew of the Primo Albert Sr. all in good health and spirits. Mr. Kennedy has brought despatches for the Admiralty from the North Star, and proem& with them to-morrow morning by first train for London. The expedi tion, it will be remembered, woo fitted out mainly at the wpm, of Lady Franklin, and, slihough it has not been ineesseful to the main object of its search, the discovery of AM new channel and the search of Prince liegent's Inset and North Somerset will mod to concentrate efforts now entirely on Wellington Channel, as the only hope of disco vering Sir John Franklin. .. Tits &comets brought by the Primes Albert from the Dsvis's Straits Fishery, are of a very discourse:as le obstac'. The Des .l l . , of Kirkialtly, sad the Amorist= ship WU- Lad, were wrecked ; mews saved. The Tree Lore, of 8011, had three ash; the Asa, of Da, two. The ship s did not pt to the westward, add were liking is Cumber land Straits. • heavy thew Mora has fallen is the north of Bcotleod. Oa Monday the eseekataiae ea Dee-side were severed with mew, and slake appeared to hare set is thal early. THE REPUBLIC OF LIliEltIA. (From the haiiy New..) AT the conclusion of " Uncle Tom's Cabin "_t romantic tale now attracting so much attenti the authoress alludes to Liberia, and expres s s hope that the Free Black Republic on the coast of Africa may yet prove a source of redemption to th e negro race. All Mrs. Srowe's readers wi I feel a new interest in the African community thus referred to.. Liberia the flee state, specially founded in the origi. sal country and native climate of the segroes, sad designed as the means of civilising the dusky race is Afnea, and affording a home to black (*hoists from the States of America. Upon the success or failure of Liberia a variety of opinions prevail amongst per. sons who have studied its history and condition. As on most other social subjects, suggvets ing largo prospects, the enthusiasts take re 7 sanguine, and the sceptics ve r y d espon d ing, views. And, as generally prevails at the coinmenexinent of social experiments of novel kinds, the feet, upon which judgment is to be founded are either doubtful or denied. In the present state of Liberia we have no desire to act as moderators between those who take very opposite courses concerning this Free Black Itepublic. We rather desire to fix the wee. Lion of our readers upon the interesting tact that the exp riment, upon a large /Wale, of a Free Black cues. try is about being tried under circumstances whi c h will make it a very decisive one upon the vexed question of the capabilities of the negroes for tn s higher functions of social civilisation. Liberia is a tract of country, extending about 140 miles on the coast of Western Africa, lying to the north of the equator, between 4 deg. 20 min. and 7 deg. north latitude. It extends along th e coast from Clallinas (that notorious spot in th e history of the stare trade) down to What is caw called " Maryland in Liberia,"—situate near Cep s Palmas. The first company of emigrants sent bout America to Liberia, under the auspices of the " rican Colonisation Society," embarked at New Ynek in February, 1820, so that a growth of upwardc o f e quarter of a century can be claimed for this Illack Republic. The colony progressed amidst 'areal trials until 1839, when the " commonwealth"aaa founded. The Colonisation Society of America wattled over and tended its progress, and at lust, in the month of Jule, 1847, a convention of delegates met at Moravia, the capital of this new Mate, issued a declaration of independence, and founded the Re pc,hlie and government of Liberia, which has been duly recognised and acknowledged by Great It: ituin and France. The civil constitution of Liberia it. a model in miniature of the United States, with one remark able and sufficiently significant exception, viz.— a re white person is allowed to become a citizen of Liberal; consequently white residents cannot hold any offioS in the Itepublic. The main object of those who have founded Li beria has been to endeavour to civilise the negroes by means of colonising in Africa with tree and edit cated negroes from America. For this purpose they purchased at various times from the Aborigines the various tracts of country now incorporate d a. LilAry and with a view to the wants and habits of the saes they chose the locality and climate most adapt d tit the experiment. The population of the "tb putia" is not very exactly ascertained. We bind a him: of a lecture delivered by the Rev. Mr. tit RLEY. as American clergyman, who visited the settlement in 1850, and he states the population at "about six thousand settlers, and between two hundred and two hundred and fifty thousand of the Abori gines." On the other hand, the author of " Sketches of Liberia" (Washington, 1830), says that no census has been taken for some yearn, but adds, " I think, however, that the whole number of the inhabitants of the Republic, exclusive of the Aborigines, may be set down at about four thousand." It will naturally be asked by our readers upon what sources of profit and reproduction do the found ers of Liberia look for its maintenance and prop is? It appears by their statements that they rely on the production of coffee, and cotton, and palm oil. as sources of wealth to Liberia. The coffee plant is in digenous there, and bears well, and most observers;of the country appear to concur in the fact that it is well suited for raising coffee. They arc rather less confident about cotton, but it would seem that the soil and situation are well adapted for the growth of the cotton plant, excellent specinica: of which have been raised there. In general, it is anti cipated that the productions of high tropical latitudes may be looked for from Liberia, and that a large trade in palm oil, ginger, sugar cane, ground nuts, and indigo, may be calculated upon, iu case the set tlement should thrive. Instead of pronouncing any premature opinionoti the likelihood of Liberia being successful or not as an ex periment, we prefer to notice the fact, that as vet there is only , a comparatively small supply of educated or semi-civilised negro colonists to maintain what wo may call ita stamina of civilisation. While the abo rigines are counted as a quarter of a million, the imported colonists are not ten thousand in num ber. Thus the American negro is to the African at Liberia in the ratio cf one to fifty,—a very small proportion to infuse the element of civilisation. Re collecting that the imported colonists are not them selves of a superior race,—that they have limited powers and cducation,—wc may be excused from en tering into the very bright anticipations formed about Liberia, though we watch the experiment with deep interest, and should be heartily glad fur it to sue- Med. There is one point connected with the history of Liberia, that has struck some persona with u prise. They ask why none of the free American negroes have not settled there in preference to remain ing in the United States, where they are obnoxious to all the prejudices against people of colour ? It will be recollected that the free negro population of the States are not very far from half a million ; and in a hasty view it certainly might appear strange that Liberia does not tempt more of them to settle there. But the simple facts speak for themselves, and ex plain the paucity of free negro colonists at Liberia. The free negro has been born, bred, and reared is America. It is his home and his country, and contains his kindred. Moat of his associations are connected with it, and despite of the prejudice of co lour, it presents him a vastly better field for his energy, and more sources of interest and pleasure than an infant colony on the western coast of Africa. Between the nature of the free American negro and the aborigines in Liberia there is probably as much real ditiOrenoe as between the best part of the Anglo-Saxon race and the free negroes themselves. If the free negro cannot stand on a level in the social scale with the white man in the States, he does not, on the other hand, feel an; community of feeling with the aborigines of Liberia; he is of their race by descent, but not of their coun try, either by birth or adoption. Hence is derived the cause that the negro colonists in Liberia arc re few in number. On the other hand, however, we must remember that it is only very lately that public attentior. is America, as well as England, is becoming fixed upon Liberia. The ultra party in the Abolitionists in the States for some time looked very coldly upon the Liberia plantation. They treated it as a diversion from the real question that they sought to agitate and raise, and they considered that the whole scheme was too much in accordance with the mod rate and guarded views of the CLAY party, who desired to act with caution in the whole question of emancipation. The fact that Mrs. BEECHER STOWE has turned attention ta strongly towards Liberia is regarded by the fol lowers of the late HENRY CLAY as a divided Im provement in the mode of arguing the abolition question. We are aware that sonic of those who have taken the strongest interest in Liberia (nee hopefully recommended by Mrs. IILECIIEtt Sit , " have not joined in the admiration felt in so macY quarters for " Uncle Tom's Cabin." They say that its exaggeration has even already roused very bitter feelings, and that its production will probably do dis service to the cause of speedy abolition. But tliat is a matter of speculation, outside the praetiod question as to whether Liberia will grow and prowl as a free state ; and whatever may become of the abolition question in the United States, the experl ment of Liberia, or the attempt to civilise the native African population by means of an African race . , need not, therefore, be considered hopeless. if Li beria fail, the fact will only prove that some thou sands of partially civilised negroes cannot maintains free and progressive political state with the dead weight of a vast aboriginal population of savages hand,if hanging iberia upon shn them. uldiargol Oa the suentvd other and prosper, it will be one of the most !'}leer nog facts that the historian can mord in the