The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-16 00:00:00

T HE DAIL a% Y NEWS : LONDONVrO liOII2fINO lAwftr r=r ud irftei Zoom ma st alma Mar la tbs Mast sol Mos a Ns smal Or ram, d Ns /a• met la tha rd s la It lam s mad momiNs tosa lamellas M ilig. tad maw roperb yr I.OM 100211ei Sive IS SWAMI AND lIIPASTIAI. Li...a.h.ty ...47 inxls et da5ib1_....... 1 . 161 I alhe aus N mail 1. ..... " "InTtalLT3l triMo WOW. — IS ;Ma ALL OTOIIIIII AIYVINITISONIENTS It *May Mosaata sA Ilastr Slam lIIM da, sai — d Ns mmatalsa bas. by milam ia .11r.r..rient kr MN • MIMI= sa V: •*........ of gm loselmile sr mama la la MIMI II IS VII be usyselamt la tbe PM by mass pall a • paw Ss t pillar ell. at mitasisa Milt as mita r i s a s =sZ . l• mar MS Ila IL pa stawar. sails aims b 7 DAILY NEWS FORWARDED to tie COUR TIT ILTZS POOT. se VI, ess = ed . =AIOIII ews MADDOX. Ilk Opeor Arrrwl sod N Aariti. Y NEWS LENT TO READ, bon 8 a.a., Ln e .r . t i s two Ism AVal. :13, expreoo. TO CORRESPONDINTS. 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The fate of those who contrive both to lose and pay le what the humane mind does not love to dwell upon. Let m confine ourselves to the successful candidate. Brought in a fortnight ago at the bead of the poll, he has by this time acquired some rough notion of the 'probable extent of his agent's bill. That well intentioned statute, the Corrupt Practices Preven tion Act, has, no doubt, done something towards diminishing the costliness of a seat in Par liament. Something, bat, after all, not so very much. Bribery and treating in their grosser forma are luxuries too dangevo lo be any longer promiscuously indulged in. /tune are no more cockades, ribanda, or bands of music; but still the electioneering agent maws, some how or other, to make out a plausible iittis bill. Take the metropolitan elections, for instexas. Think of those flying, or rather creeping, squedrens of heck abs--" Cox for Finsbury," "Motu for Southwark," or " ROI:WELL for Lambeth ;" think of all the Red Lions, Black Bulls, and White Harts, each with its committee-room; think of each men- mittee-room, populous with a host of busy, important, and übiquitous gentlemen, who; at the all of their country, are ready to un dergo a week or two of sandwiches, sherry, owl scramble, for the modest consideration of so sway shillings or guineas a-day. In many mem we doubt if the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act has deem much more than change the direction in which each flows from the pockets of the expectant senator. The great electioneering agency interest is ae strung, or stronger, than ever. We doubt whether the powers of this mysterious order of functionaries me ever rightly apprehended by the uninitiated portion of the public Strange tales are gill told of the seem-' oily of conciliating, the danger of provoking, them. Wehave not the slightest intentional insinuating that MT. *o=o U 0 11, the late ineenber for 13ridpert,didnot power every requisite accomplishment for shining os a British senator ; but anima we as ins* mis informed, he owed his seat lees to a spontaneous recognition of his ability on the part of the " free and independent" who returned him to Parliament, than to apiece of management on the part of the electioneering agents of a former representative, who obstinately declined to settle the little outstand ing bills of his last election. In the same way we have no more reason to doubt, than we have to be lieve, that Mr. H. B. Bimunsts, the new member for Dudley, will become a conspicuous ensmanat of the new House of Commons. But, union =arm is mare than usually mendacious, his return is hardly so much due to the confidence of the dankest body in their new candidate as to the dismatishation d the electioneering agents with their old member. He is, in a word, quite as much a monument of wrath ass vessel of honour. Bo 'gain at Greenwich, we are told that if Mr. MONTAGU Cusionxas had been willing to satisfy to the utmost all the demands made upon his purse in respect of liabilities incurred In his two prior contests, he might have been sue ceedul in a third. As be persevered in his resistance, a local gentleman was found to undertake at sheet notice the task of decently performing the final cere mony of consigning the contumacious candidate to Parliamentary extinction. Now, all this, no doubt, is very bad, and exceed i•ily immoral. It utterly shocks all the constitu tional proprieties, and moves all those who have unlimited faith in Acts of Parliament to clamour •ahemently for still move stringent laws in order to a pat it down." But the question is, can it be put down by any severity of penal legislation P We mach ' dela* it. Consider the thing a moment. On one ode thank the prize —a six-hundred and fiftplintrth gm in the privilege depending four days and nights oat of every seven (not including morning sittings) in making laws for the greatest and most powerful aspire the world has ever seen. On the other side an men possessed by ambition, sal pimedig money or talent, oe both. Does any am loarerfai what human nature has been in all ages, ar e at all events, in all ages of wealth and civilization, believe fog a moment that the money power will not arks iteelf felt in this straggle for social position, in. (incur, and command ? All that can be attempted— and this undoubtedly ought to be attempted— is to reduce the direct influence of the money power in such a contest u this to the smallest possible proportions. But is direct penal legislation the beet way of accomplishing this? We think not. A far better way would be to diminish the value of money in elections, by diminishing the certainty of what money would buy ; in other words, by shrouding the vote—which, put it how you will, is, directly or indirectly, the thing ultimately bought—under the protection of eunney. A few proofs that the result of elections conducted by ballot could not be reduced to any thing like a certainty by the utmost exertions of the THE EXPRESS, money power, would do more to chock the undue influence of this power than any severity of repressive legislation. The ballot, then, in large constituencies is ono defence aginet the money influence; another must le sought ht *Af ferent method of conducting the toting process. Any change in this respect would be for the bettir which modified the absurd Costliness and the bar barous clamorousness of the pressed mode of pro .. . . cedure. There is no reason why the British voter should be driven to the poll in a British cab ; nor would any privilege words preserving be invaded if silence; sad order were substituted for the uproar and Pinsk whieh now surround the polling booth. But to effect these objects no agency promisee to be so eilleacious se secret voting. It is plain that whatever improvements may have been effected by the Corrupt Practices Prevention Art, much more remains to be done before a general election in this country can cease to be a fair subject for the unfavourable corp ulent' of those who are dexterous and eager to find all possible flaws in the working of free institutions. CAN DRAINAGE. The time has arrived for the application of the rrgo: public opinion to the authorities in present of the great London drainage matter, with ward to which the press has maintained the meet deferential reserve since the appointment of referees to consider the schemes of the Metropolitan Board of Works and others. The gentlemen named by Sir B. Hell were Captain Oalton, of the scientific corps, and Messrs. Simpson and Blackwell, both eminent civil engineers. The duties and responsibilities of their undertaking are by no means light, involving as they do the sanction of one costly and oomprehensive proposition and the satisfaction of its anchors or sponsors, and per mufti the grave diermitentment of a legion of drainage doctors. But • fair field and large powers have been allowed them by the government, and the waves of pablio . excitement on the subject—stilled as it were by magic, when it once got wind that the Board of Works and nothing but the Beard was the sine pal now with the Chief Commimioner—have slept with unusual politeness pending their delibera tions, se if to avoid giving cause for complaint of menu" or interruption. It is probable that am far as regards the office work the inquiry has by this time made some progress. The public have no manner of reason or right to suppose the contrary. The majority of the plans may be fairly presumed to have found their last long home in the pigeon-hole or the ultimate paper-basket. Continental systems have et mores bee examined. The Chadwiekian amiss end the Meeibus practice of irrigation have while the metropolis itself is se de. at hA mps its requirements and its m opelllthe Imes been ascertained. But mere yet le nasessary, in justice to the competitors whose smile are likely to have saved them from the pwelimlemp massacre of innocents which must eullmily_ always attend upon public compe dllaC Ile fair estimation of the compara tive Immileacies of their various schemes can be Deed* arrived at until the outran plans, on ea - semi mown depend, have bees th sews& Thsesesddb chance le be Tel =as =it tie id= lit tie eassay Of thew* I; nig well se ds either am* Who heal or Its mots. The orotesteil ardeross mope. t s t time !i t by miens semetterre. riff sole data with rellneee w or th= al lON hos. doss ; bat mein *art ejadmilli of the oreatry week the sel lie: re =festo dm teary oast et the the Otelys to , b p i effects& piles at maw wearas and the yr= each would be held, will enable the rehouse to slhse u...a „ .. oweanj ose, cot•PTtdlstti 1 = duo ses=l "-- ty out distri em buting the livid mett his e in rg i ssavilatise, the number, power, sod one ehtisa required, and the acreage at min remand 'A each proposed whom re apeatkeek flue clap were all better inquired kW bails • wadi* theca otter it. It does set ap pointing the mambas hoe made any sign or say drew open the lase at lower Foes, which have Men moss& apes by all plumes as the seeps et the ight r is zsmdess. ad are likely to be somewhat or aricaltural point of view; whatever Iselin lassos to. It is swish to be hoped that no " penny.wiss, poled bah "emaidemtions of economy are tying tie heal of the First Commissioner and his olikers. Theposest parsimony of one thousand poli iu ds i zah le the moat of the future waste of many spa experimental bungling ; its judicious expendi ture new that pew bends have accepted the trust, meg aid the preps:alias of such a report as shall go tar be mettle delkettively the long vexed problem of Loam ems. utilisation. The consideration war psis& seen Ise shrisas to have soaped the alkial wink oil the she= are tee reepsetable and too asemeglibei be ipso& far a ratoseut the sodas at isoamplemo aellest. ME Chit/ Jostles Cockburn and the atereture for doutherspica, mho hive beta lacked to a bouquet by the lusthemptca Chamber al COMIIIIIIVIN on the 26th haat., Lord Palmairekin addition *to lAlt EVENING, APRIL 16, 1857. sad the imiatirs for tie musty him nosirad tavitadom Or TIM BRITISH Idoszvx. e widereleell dem 'geed bawdy that to evil weds breeswe et the aide Wow act be rod kr the =ot seedy sear the 11a haw& Thebe the lbw Key, orbs as Mese= will lie defied es reek the lassey et re fire A be embed hew is peens beak to *ewe wedbresew ; sad la seder iewsea smesewery Leonean lade ale ameba is baby embed 1114 se siwepte will be stibilled ee laserheiw ,baser. 0. the litit at Mayas saw posibeiemi= deers epee is the pads reasmily, was wilThe lama to belt It body ra de the Ida, ear milady it lin be de viled eideshely le these et as swab This sersego. web oil limbs the hie is fhwv der a. ideinda but it I. seilelyerel Gat it ellearl weasselleblea le wallealles sae weal eldembe have Was able 4 wig arlars fehla i repeleal Jelin by, Se maw web lbw* meleme lbe raw =el Lt t tea be ..eery mile &said bag that able dribbles with amt ma bay hew benne llama te be deerbesper.—Theas. T RIB ROSILIUC AND MI SACRED WRITINGS Coarcame.—The Greet Wad, Amish thw bomb be et the web beheres at the drilled Hie et Cheisheirs, arab be by empelissded without the shay, i Hr, sat it eserheis se solopistely sr so lamely inhibited se is Ms web. lb bat I world et lie owe, 4.. Y& epee ble Wag w is tanks ea Thew we aid ._ d er ud.t a wawa ef Nees, hies% awl asthma Mead due saw ate to be bed byelaw else, sad leredai wow sad shedsed i bewsmity. _ . Its week list this 11111111i0 world we see as last at As at I/Mk bat ter, se lbw he work ma is ripsaws; 6 steads Wawa and the vises et Leer beatbeeiow, ik how both—hese as hair es well es bow hewer ; sad it, meet edi seed* baseded" Ole kno the wledge ot twa be thee villa's ahead dishy were, sad, it be be =oh awed be heeded eyea aryerhass, bow is b werallee die repeetwiernisa ot the hews nee la a mid% distiala ny d s , Bra wab as, ebb Wive wesseen, huh fed It B lleirrl ldi gile abbe lik• the lbw et Yoe lima the heed et the Cwww, yet lastare, tali eadleisheil, is he ems sere, it is ewe laws, Kb wee seester-plese et dr welpsee's art t The your et Hower err sea is is campaign with the sewed snares et the Old be beshabie rob al bath sad beye thet wee Wei is tbs. Bat while the Jewish raw& ealla le es the Oak between nee Ng the ether world la the welled limey the puns el Newer row r the babe of ,is Gel we pined te be thes *be hes, imeeparbe lis alba warm w The = petrierebel sad Jessieswati Ned ablebed Ebbe a laic et emeadly li ed ; bee we s at esldol set to wart or sr Wes, war tbr ilshis 'dab wan= We sad seppled, the deb pain st belby. Nosh my.wars edam swlndwabiyhmesa that that is to be heed dim W esellwadetwaywd come. , Therm/ter Mesa) beebased ea* balmiest boob et the . Old lbelmwe, we in hiewbd le pont, awl do wit pesset, ayishweees seday, et et eameareia et kap. Their is is to thew sada la is mar Nadia, sell to de We via east they de It le • peer wawa scar Nisei,. The Hem el. sweedia he wilibiles ad soled= ere diarist bided se well as la dowse; WI, es Vi g eby, sad plat to the wry kb the vail. beds Wear MI dr emirs ado et hams media sialse. et a meth mese wetly sadegass to as lbw to say lort ere, the paws et Eillt be *bad. la dr lifilo eopby itliewea wave, as the seist die abler poe tics at the amid Bassi."—The Hee. W. B. Oh& state la the Dew rise 4 " Orford ye." f Court. The &Goering bulletin of the health of her Maintly was Meng this morning: is " Buckingham Paget, April 16, 9 a.m. " The Queen has slept well. " Majesty oa the inAat Prisms are going on quite favourably. " JAMES CLAW, M.D. CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. " ROHM FILKOUSON, M.D." WIDIUTIDAT. Prince Albert rode on horseback with the Prince at were ht the wonting, abeam* by Copia DI PLR The Duchess of Ken Vented et iheariegbens Pekes yes today afternoon, socempsheit by the ?dorm of Hokekhe Langeaberg, the Primers Perks% NA the nines of PrhiceArthru, with the Prfic Sam owl Locke, took a eniege drive. ._ . ... . .. _ The TlM7eirtirwamia of Ceara Drm mad), Ihe legs Mkiear aad Madmaia 6 Weyer, th. Side M Smrd M. Dais, Musa aad Mr. P. Erik Sa Maamia Mkkir, 60 ifaii 1111ilar id Ihrame Omsk Iwo, art Medma TN evigh, MUG. atal Mr. C. Tramp, the IPM6 Insistar, Mr. awl Maim Om" th. Haydn Magi Wain" die Drab Mogi Whim red CIMINO Itrrettlest CA MS, the Min PRAWN and Maim Aims, the Preagme Cimpl d'AII6e, 16 liairs Width. mi Madam X rad aim maim d the mrlM coop caned Ming tar day la iara r able d har Majesty's heath. Keay at the arifity sad gentry calid M pg thrir verged& Viso:eat red Vbewiatas Pshainkit left tows retsTday for Broalbaa, ffiats. Mr. Welker; goversteiat esentary, Britimhlese, and ea laterview with Mr. Secretary Liberatore yeitardill. Lawry sad the Be.. H. VIM hid eke latorviews with the right hoe. seathowat at the Coketal-officto. The Duke de Nemours limited her Royal Highness the Dothan et Heat yesterday. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Vaa de Weyer will return to town to-day from visiting Ms. Thome Baring, at Nevem Court, Hants._ The Marq - aia and Marehionen of Drogheda are expected is town shortly from the Cattineat. Lady When digs I expected he town to-day. 'The doenters of Jenny - and Lady Cleniontina Villiers are at prima staying on • vielt, with the Kul Bathurst, at his 'sat agar tltiossetsr, Lit et jersey will lean lowa to-Dwalow ILiddle Pa* Oskedithee. . . . . . . fie Earl Fort/woo is staying at his mat, Castle 1114 Thrroosialas, sad wilt mot coos to tows until Hs latter oaf d the peoooat moth. The Ciautteee Frances Waldegrave will give a ball to-oterrew mein, at hie ledyablp's villa, Strawberry Twiebahes. The Counter of Cork and her infant daughter gob' co favosisbly.. - The Etaronemlle Clifford and family have arrived at her lairaltip's raider% an Carlton Honsa-lanser. The 'laciest; (Dowager) of Beaufort and the La dka' Ponsumt have smiled at Bath for the IMOD from vYgag the Doke sad Amber of flisakei at Badeilstoo, sad doe Bali sad Costar d Wilke at Egerton Lodge, Melba Illembray. Lady Mole;worth his arrived at her moat, Pill ow:ow, Cornwall, from London, BENEVOLENCE or LORD DaIrTSOITIE.—The Earl at Dartmouth has given hie speciosa reidsar• at Saida*ll, cam Wart Dmassieh, for the masa of histiate ea imam- Um ea a bow for the widows of chromes, romasmeseuttad _ _ larded sarweits, Ea asylum andmaiiateditistketinfeatale mhos, dell ages, end a traialag bettuatios yaw gbh sad mien boys. AU then awns et pwecos win be n aked, Wird, and boarded, wallet ea, sad educated and ladaoirjously noised where noremary, for cartels ore quer tarty payments. We (Times) have that faith in the etnettzy, and specially in e ailep ae which hare 1011esared the dia. tits, that we the 170 w useihars el the lipase of Commons • retractable mesa of character, geed sews, awl good seireate. la each a lottery there suet be mare Wake than pine, but they will eet be sa Menke. They will etardb start with mote orange they the crowd which has submitted kw years to the claims et leader sad man forwsrd speakers. st;d who are so kept able to break the spell of awe. One will emostrep rather, sad tine los( w• doll hate to osegratelete the oesstry as the feet that Ur political soil is sat wholly donated. Is the general realms to asety the sew how we twassies kilt me UM& the usikem disparapmet of • sowresealioo by the old. Wirt boy having • school ever thlabs tbst ' • rs - ew comes tea Ti to the Asian of ten.- he out ie. mates f Who, ea swishing his old ealsool, doss sot think it bresatehly false off Who does not deplore diorama" of W Irma, the liallsca II at asigbbouthood, sad the p sera etwaiwacy of soehty 1' Of me., the old ..umbers I think mall of the sow cass. W. to. raserater those old oar thought quits ...call by the "odd fogies" of their ranger days. So it always has been, sad always will be. W. however, tog to tibia fresher views mad hopes, sad to limbers that the sew members will tars oat es least as good es do old rasa The Imperial yacht, the Reim Hortates, is now esgergoiag repairs et Cherbourg, it beim the lathatiat of the &spew mad Eames at the Preach to seeks etharelcas is her is to. muse at the wasmer. The Einpreee Dowager of Russia gave a ftte last week et the Tills cl Oreeth at Niai, to all the threats who have UM ideated to visit her dulls( the wither. It the a threwell ethatelarthat, es her Warty is preparing ke barilspertare. The Medea frigate Ole( is et Villa tarok laving Mama troth Cloth Vieth* to take on lard, la awe of ass weather, her liejesty, an her way to Raw The Madrid journals relate that the ceremonies of Passion Wen had bees odebreted with the sand pomp is all the cloven% bat that the Queen, u bad bees announced, took no peat fa tier: the King, however, en Good Friday west an loot to the okerch it Caletrava, wearing the decree timed the order attire inns. Os Holy Mornay eadOood Friday no vehicles of any kind wen allowed to appear, and ea the letter day, a noseiaoan► market of the clergy pa raded the principal streets a von crowd asereablng to wit . nen ft. The Emperor of the French, ecoompeoied by the Minister of State sad Count Edgar Nen visited two days ego the new rue cowls in the Bole de Boulogne. Obee'reiag that then were no *we ot the pries of 21r. er Ur. Ns. suitable for Wally polies, the Emperor ardent' that ,tt sam bas of plans at that price 410 , 1k1 be presided, that amassed Mods should be added to the suledag canstawitions i that the windmill should be cansidsred s depandestoy of the same, end that unoseered stands at the same price should be added to it. The Rower oho intimated that the seta. btishment of cuffs, restaurants, and booths near the course would be clearable. At the half-yearly meeting of the Agra and Haled Swam Bak, bold at Celesta ea the 14th of Fekuery, the peek of the ea maths wen mad at MAIL, whack Oar mord of a alias" the rata of 18 pa NEL per asairsa, haws 11,8801., to he maid to the mane fed, saki( the Mel of that tend 148,2601. The Imam neatly preheat he the gam at Claim have has Meat by the Clams, Mt the bookend decamak wen mad, sal the astersory asps have lees aim Mc Mama time a Mkt ea Y isansliti. This bah to Memilliath to be a Loathe seaddlimmt, sod the drakes ass to be the Lad Meyer, C. 0. Had, Liseasmibeskad 1 . N. Mae deeekl, 0. 0. Haelkereem HejereCkausi lbs. Colossi Jams Holland, W. Hamer* A. lienkmai, J. C. Meow, J. 8. fitopfeed, sad Lionleembdined Deatca. The following is contained in a Wk. is Coburg to the Kress Zama :—"Aceording to es haimmatal kw, Prises Alfred al England is drama tiasmosi to the tatted emerelanty of the docides of Ceheeg eelha. loyal highaer is am to BMtaiehed, had I somas Mil rake it Gotha on the Mk May, and dim a Mat agenra thaw erM cone le tide place, sad ramie a the chat sonntry masks ef Pkwass. He MI eahemeattly nerve le Boca, when his ham, Pam Albeit, ompleted his saMla." Aoooante hen Berlin state that the Bing of Preis* ado always Ws indlinesad on du Marx of spring, AWs yew lake Leg ozaaralon tx donde of air, and A padre; ma vin New" THE PRINCIPALITIES. Accousti from Bucharest of the 6th state that, two days before, a deputation of landed proprietors, advocates, and :several young boyar& of hiiiher sta tion, paid visits to the commuisioners of the European Powers. On the occasion the following address was presented to Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer : Eseellency,—The Reumsins welcome with delight in you the worthy representative of free England—the envoy of her most gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. They indulge in the firm hope that your presence among them will powerfully contribute to deliver them from all restraint, and thereby secure to them an upahachied manifestation of the wishes of the country, with entire independence in the dee- Liam We have the greater right to aspect an attentive surveillance on the part of the commissioners, in the spplication of the electoral law, that we have not taken any part in drawing it up. We have too long lived without liberty for abuses not to be rife, particularly at a distance from the capital. We solicit the attention of your Excel lency to %hie point. We take great pleasure in reminding you that at the Congress of Peris the representative of her Britannic Majesty was the first to strongly insist on the ne 6:entity of taking into account the free wishes of the country ; and from what Power can we expect this electoral inde pendence, which is so neameary for us, if not from one which has had the happy privilege of enjoying for ages the benefits of free institution Yore Excellency, who has shown yourself everywhere sad at all times the warmest de fender of Idbeety of conecienee, as also one of the most con sftnt supporters of repeseentative government, cannot fell to WWII that liberty in cur country. We pray you, therefore, to accept the sentheents of hope and of gratitude which we offer you la themes/ of our countrymen of ell classes. The following reply was made by the English -mmissioner : Gentlemen,-1 have listened attentively to the words which you have just addressed to me, end toy first duty is to thank you for all the obliging sentiments you have ex premed towards my country, my government, and myself. With regard to the question to which you particularly call my attention, namely, the elections which are shortly to take place, the Ottoman government has declared its in tentions in t h e most solemn and precise manner, and, arriving direct from Constantinople, I ant able to mum you that the Sublime Porte de sires with sincerity what it hes declared without hesitation. I Mat also believe that the government of this Principality, at the head of which is plseod • prince whose family is one of the illustrations of your annals, and who, from his reputation of frankness and straightforward con duct, was pointed out to the confidence of the Sultan, will, in such a critical moment, execute the instructions it has received with scrupulous fidelity. Such is certainly its duty. On the other hind, it is for the Wallachian people, and espe cially for you, gentlemen, whom position in the centre of society should maintain • proper equilibrium in it, to render, by the prudent ability of your =- duct, the task imposed on the authorities easier. No one double your intelligence; that gift of heaven is visible en all the faces which surround me; but experience alone enables what is difilcult to be distinguished from what Is impossible, theory from practice, and so it is permitted to doubt if, in circumstances as novel as they are difficult, you will have all the prudence, all the moderation, and all the tact, which (believe on the point en Englishman. Frond of the epithet which you have accorded to his country) every nation which i/1 desirous of enjoying the advantages of a Liberal government and • npreseatative system, should poems. Employ, then, 1 beg of you, all your tents to make yourselves remarkable by there virtues and them civic talents, which perhaps are what is the least expected from you, but which will conk: on you the pietist amount of honour, and which will unite the esteem sad confidence of Europe to the sympathy with , ' which you have already known how to inspire her. All the ' members of the commission of which I form part will, lam persuaded, regard with attentive impartiality all that may pass either far from or war to the capital; and will act in common sword, and In conformity with their instructions, in all circumstances which may attract their attention, and which may appear contrary to the spirit which her dictated their mission. For my own put, gentlemen, you may be ' certain that I will always add good intentions to the sal and enlightened experience of my colleagues. PLYMOUTH, WEDNISDAY. The Tagus, Captain Christian, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, arrived here to-day with the mails, in charge of Lieutenant Cartwright, and with 62 'mileage's, amongst whom are Lady Leith Buchanan and Major Atrherlcy from Gibraltar, and Sir Morton Peto from Lisbon. Her dates are—Gibraltar, April 6 ; Cadiz, April 7 ; Lisbon, April 9; and Vigo, April 11. She has specie to the value of 4,1321., and • general cargo. Her Majesty's ships Curlew, Cressy, and Sphinx were at Gibraltar. At Lisbon were the Princess Royal, Exmouth, and Colossus. Yesterday, when about seventeen miles off Ushant, the Tagus fell in with the Martin Luther, Captain Gordon, of Liverpool, bound with 498 passengers to Quebec, in a helpless condition, having lost all her spars but the foremast. The Martin Luther left Liverpool on ThursdaT, and proceeded to about lon. 8 NV., let. 60 N., where she became disabled. On Monday morning, while attempting to secure the foresail, seven men fell with the mast; and the boatswain, John Westwood, of Dunfermline, and four other men, were drowned. After losing her masts she drifted to the leeward, and, had she not been picked up by the Tagus, would in all proba bility have gone on shore on the French coast. It is stated that the loss of her spars is due in some measure to the slackness of her rigging. OBT ammo (MOW 001 OWN c BOUT r, THURSDAY. The Tagus has arrived from the Peninsula. She landed her mails at Plymouth. She left Lisbon on the 9th. Sir Morton Peto's proposals to construct railways from lAsissa to Oporto and the Spanish frontier have been ac cepted by the Partagnses governmmt. It is believed that the toms of the railway contract are, that the Portuguese government pays for the line in stock at fired price. The crops is Portugal are looking well, and promise • boontihl ►arvest. lbw lbjegre steam corvette Plumper entered Lisbon in • leaky Rate, owing to the valve of the feed-pipe being da mage& _ . bongo on London, thirty days, 63; ninety dam 63k. The railirsy contract has dithmed joy throughout Por tugal. Sir Morton Path has been honoured in the most dis tinguidhed manner. THE WESTWARD EXODUS:A Cleveland (Ohio), paper, hasty folkowing .—" The man wh o at hem this man will be the m the osplia, for am leen emotively mad. Westward I is the ay, soak Ms alreedy esammod ; not from this eider Mae ; whoa the morphs population sae treading apes ea& ether's bee* but fan the "aim border of the met whin MEd acres as at Moab* imd whin sewed ttirtbeaa as half-a- LZl ie mile et the mend ef yesprellas la bard, and sein el* lave all that beset almaid with, are 'raft ' te weetward. Sam will balm timir cosallha may us eawlip seed witiela soca will sprigepin the Maps alma masa thstasydid not 'let wellessialtahne.' naThe St. Lath le* state that *very boat, althie:Mes Uor Lower fa ciartkd a admit* hs rthi - of wham ore be fir Lassa. Ail Mr days dress • boat strived at St. Leas from above, loaded to bar stile caparia with migrents teat Kinacate, lowa, and Wiecasin MOO( Lananeward." A NEW Srmantr-On Monday there arrived at oar quay a ahead new senor oloamor aimed Omit& She is the repay a the IMAM and Imadingeery Kam Kip C e - tind Maki to Mae Mama Kis pert sad Leadoa Her istial• Math le 220 Mt ; breadth et bum, 17 Mt; KS tea = KO tem bertha. Her ranter le landed for twadrtwo amens rlre Pr aha sad thkty in the Waage. bet she is campileat, with extra atrammosaM to carry, In be& dr rz-* is much larger numbe r. She is bark by Misers. 0. Thompson, Clyde, and is really a ahead ecat. men of naval architecture. Her mechanical apparatus for loathe( and discharging is well calculated to scaliest' her Imams in port.—limitter of Ulster. Ma CLYDE SUNDAY STEAMER—The Sunday draw Ammar muds her lint trip for the man down the rime on Sunday a far se Duncan and Kamen. The day was chilly - ad unfavourable, and the pereagers, who were respectable, yip limited in number. A number leaded, and about Meaty aed he, at Oreenock.—Sotintsme. THE TWO SICILIES. (PION Oct OWN CORIZIYONDINT.) NAPLES, Arun 9, I alluded in a recent letter to the condition of the army, and stated that there was a considerable de gree of discontent in its ranks. There was, I be. here, no exaggeration in the statement, and that mysterious abstraction, the government, may thank itself for the fact. A variety of causes have led to this result : first and foremost, there is the pro sence of the Swiss, who have been entrusted with all offices and posts of any importance, and who are better paid and fed than any of the Nes politan troops ; then there is the slight which has been imposed upon it by putting it under the inspection of the police ; tad lastly there ie that miserable system of espionage which has been introduced into the army, and which has pitted officers and men the one against the other. The military commission appointed soon after the attempt on the King's life, and the occleei. astical examination which has taken place during Lent, are parts of the same system, founded in sus picion andgiving . grounds for it—breaking down all discipline, and inspiring a disgust and diseenteet which are but too marked. It 121 thus that a general °dicer is related to have said that an officer scarcely dared to correct his soldiers, not knowing bat that he might be denounced by them. By the soldiers ' similar signs of apptehension of their officers might be narrated, bat too well grounded, when, as it is asserted, the names of suspected men were given recently to the regimental confessors, and an attempt made to give their confessions a political bias. I have been in. formed that a circular has been sent, at the suggee. don of the military commission, to the Intendenti of provinces, instituting an inquiry into the antecedents of the soldiers, as also into those of their families. Be that, for some time past, many have been driven heat each corps, consigned to the power of the po lice, sad by them sent off to the islands. A case of this kind I have heard cited is that of a man named Hat , gusi, who, on being called before his colonel of the grenadiers of the - Royal Guard, was informed that he was dismissed the service. The conduct of the man whilst in the army had been unexceptionable, and he remonstrated. Still he was informed such was the decision. Margusi was accordingly stripped of his uniform, and consigned to the police, by whoa he was sent to Pons& in exile. His family, not hearing anything of him, came up to Naples and inquired of his colonel about hint. By hem they were informed that he knew nothing of him, as he was now in the hands of the police. In short, it bad been discovered that he was the son of a liberal, and therefore the sins of the father were visited upon the son. Similar facts might be recorded of a man called Seponaro—but why dwell on two, when there are so many incidents of the kind? Vajoe Grenet, of the 3rd Battalion of Rifles, I told you in a former letter, had been put under arrest for tea days. At the time I did not know the reason. I believe it to have been the following:—An order of the day had been issued that all the officers should confess once in ten days ; the major added to this order, "to the chaplain of the regiment." The officers appealed against this order, viewing the chaplain as the spy of the major, and saying that they would not have their consciences forced in the choice of their con. fessor ; the major was accordingly pat under arrest for ten days. It is by such a wretched system as this that the discipline of the Neapolitan army has been broken down ; that, in. stead of being what it ought to be—a school of soldiers, it resembles rather a school of little boys, " telling tales" of one another to the master, who confesses them, whips, imprisons, or exiles them, as the " young gentlemen" seem to require. The Neapolitan army has, however, shown itself of better things, and feels its degradation I at and it is therefore my opinion that it is not at improbable but that it may originate some groat movement. At all events there are in it all the elements of such a movement. Four of the cow miasioners appointed to examine into the state of the provinces have left us, I have already informed yes, They are Piscicelli, Afan di Rivera, Turino, Yocca. Two still remain in Naples, Rocco and GB. lotti. The whole affair is, however, regarded by the commissioners themselves as a blind—a great dealt which can produce no possible good. "We go to report," said one of them, " what is already known! and the report will remain inactive, as many others have. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MIMI OUR OWN COAIIIPONDIDIT3 PARIS, WIDNIIDAT ETINIXO. I am informed on, I think, credible authority (although I do not venture to give the fact as quite certain) that the four powers parties to the Neuf chatel Conference (other than Prtuseia and Switzer- land) met yeaterda s y to draw up propositions to be submitted to both those powers for their acceptance. A report in a Bentanjournal that the Emperor was going to Arenenberg has no other foundation than that his physician, Dr. Conneau, and his wife, have been there lately. They have just returned, and the Emperor never had any idea of going there for the present. The difference between Spain and Mexico is pro tracted. Spanish subjects of Mexico have been placed under the protection of France. The Neniteur of to-day publishes a tabular statement of the revenue from direct and indirect taxation, from which it appears that the revenue of the first queer of the year 1837 exceeds by 14,202,000 franca the revenue of the corresponding quarter of last year; and it is estimated that the Masao would have amounted to 16,886,000 francs but for the accident of the year 1836 having been ley year ; the increase for the month of April crab to 7,170,000 franca, as compared with the arms penis el April last year. The bimonthly tariff just out shows a consi- Alsemble imam in the already enormous price of "mast lissf has risen 10c. ; veal, 6e. ; and mut ton, Ba. The Demme in the early part of the day was do pers' by the news d a fall of in Console, but there was a rapid rorowery within the last half hour, which brought prier up to somewhat higher quota tions than yesterday. The Rent. left off with a rime of 13c. for cash aid ie. for account, closing at 70fr. and 70fr. 20c. The Bank of France shares, in consequence of the approaching changes in the esta blishment, rose 300 fr., and this extraordinary rise influenced all other securities. The railways did not ultimately change greatly from yesterday, but they closed firm. This morning at eleven o'clock a court-martial assembled, under the presidenos of Colonel Gault, of the 46th regiment of the line, for the trial of Lieu tenant A. A. Leandri, paymaster of the 96th regi ment of the line, P. J. Leandri, lieutenant in the same regiment, and P. J. &magnet. a ser geant also in the same regiment, on the serious charge of having violated a butcher's wife in their barracks. The Chef d'Escadron llelattre appeared as judge advocate to support the prosecution. M. Chain d'Est Ange, assisted by his son, M. Chair d'Est Ange, jun., appeared for the prisoners, and it is understood that his fee, 700 fr., was subscribed by the officers of the 95th Regiment. The court was extremely crowded, and among the audience were remarked many superior officers in plain clothes, and several members of the bar. M. Pail lard, the husband of the victim (who died in eonsequenoe of the alleged violence of the officers and sergeant), and Madame Renault, her mother, were represented as parties civil(' by M. Alfred Vellaud. The three prisoners appeared in undress uniform. The two officers wore Crimean medals, and two clasps an the ribbon of Lieutenant A. A. Leandri indicated that this officer had been engaged in two battles in the war against Russia. The Commandant Delattre, in open- ing the proceedings, said that, under ordi nary circumstances, he should have thought it peeper to auk that the case might be heard in pri vate, bat considering the great sensation which the affair bad produced in the public mind, he would ask the president to give it all pomible publicity. He would, however, make some reserma. He hoped that the audience would keep silence, and abstain from any marks of approbation or disapprobation, and that the press would reconcile • due regard to public decency with v true report of the case. The president ordered that the trial should be public. The registrar then read the order of Marshal Mag ma for the holding of the court martiaL He then read the complaint •ddressed to the Procureur- Geueral by M. Paillard, the husband of the victim. This was to the following effect : The undersigned he. the honour to inform you that fur two months pad be bee warted meat to the Kith Regiment in the Nouvelle name Barrack; that every five day. either be or hle wile west to the paymaster of the regiment le roolvo the Salina ot his bill; that Ws wile what nag ekes received proweitkes from thet . ethrer whkh she sr heed; that on we wombs when die west wilt am eitildrea the psysteeter attempted to events them from ben mar the pretence of giving Ihasweetaeste ; that a flea ylsh ot bemuse WI, the politburos Wag demi Mee hi May kis sift was obliged top abate Is the beassels. ask that she notrimed ill sad shoed sat d her wind in ream genre d a triabetel emey the potiseisrs et whisk she se• Wle aevenl lama awl amempt caws Is her sashes. is bar Elsa bed. Oa She Mk Decanter, letwoes II sod MI Is the seams, the big at the pyrometer's gnerties, ha misted by as briburand angssat Oreseset, seised her by Soros nal Mani Mr. TM ammiparce wee that she hat test anam mil wee wee mite to get mu et • nib veasat antstenra Mae that day she wag always 111, and on TWA fdr dlelL TM best physicians wen called Mare, se as Mgt Ames es to the crime, they 0111111111 1 1 NW, whet mss bar Gadd seas. As you lee, air, a goat Mae hes been assmiNed. The soars et three Maas a the idelie, ad yew hasraelica I bathed gala the gd page Am as vitas= cape e that aiming perilous wale wady ad elm ithe ea ay ad he salhanasee Medea eadiand he Mr • "H. Irsif, Mee as." Da WINO be Lai dos MI the wads mak la as pima el bar maw aed ear viaseas. It we. net Ile lase limos at as tuber, Soh it 1 e muds shit he saimpal Aram era a ald mead Manvia, Om de Thiel,, Ne. S. la the hap thee yea relO has tag paean kb senstandlea, sad stall r alarm it deserve., I mn, with respect, yew shellat soma, Peuxess. La Chapelle, Feb. 16, 1667. It appeared that at the time of the commission of the alleged offence, M. Paillard, the butcher, was undergoing a sentence of six days' imprisonment for a trifling infringement of the regulations of the butchery trade. The reading of the documentary evidence is not yet over, and the ease is expected to last several days. A pupil of the Conservatoire, Madlle. de la Pommeraye, is about to make her deb& at the Opera in the part of Catarina in the Beim de Chppre. The Univers affirms that the rumour of an attempt at reconciliation between Piedmont and the Pope mentioned by the Nord of Brussels is devoid of foundation. It is stated (Nays the Perla) that the government batman *pie le tele late cemeiewatke a bill Ist imposing a tax ea wadeges ad beep A. Pmts. It wer la summemell that the soweamet piegemel te the Wien leaf la UK Kt selebllshweet it Kis liat, whisk wee adliatel slat a bag awl wrier The ikaelege== le the fret tine tie tight et ea* l e etas law. Tiers ere ha Pte Is= at adept e atT l A S'r the a."7.2"eetdi ese rial al"Pluagin—ai M i tis• lim pat Attie piamst dos it is way ty. a weans elle ta mf tsz. lash embus pep &Ks delering. T edseai> he KOK ewe ii i thase a tea am el elm tewities. It is Wt this tea, tit alebilehal will Feiss surly s e = Mseppsdrig le le lad at OK. tar a wesisipl with eeta, - mil ME milk 4WD PIM% WWl* the r « al the Mem llemeeta — The OchnlieWiteemaerheisegli tithe Earep awa P•el o4 Caging. woo yoke& as dis 1411 k of , Mewls 30 dog. II Ws. 11, amd Mgt tads . oda. B. 41 4 ,41 ,. a Good Rope), thirty-duos don out from las 4, thin. kg% goads rad mom se le erg NAVAL AND MILITARY.. PORTSMOUTH, Aram 16. The headquarters of the 90th Regiment embarked to-day on board the screw troop-ship Himalaya; after which that rowel went out of harbour, and anchored, at Spithoti They number about 36 officers and 790 men. She leaves to-mortow morning for China. The Transit, screw troop ship, with detachment■ of the 90th and 69th regiments, and of other corps, oiled this morning for China. The Charity, No. 1 screw transport, also sailed to-day ke the Cape of Good Hope and China stations. DEVONPORT, Agan. 13. The Turkish line-of-battle ship, Peat Zefer, Vrie taken oat tithe basin at Kerma on Saturday. She wee Whig alongside the sheer hulk yesterday (Tuesday), when her fire end minim mete were taken out and brought to the dockyard and condemned. Her new mainmast is complete, and is will be supplied with the fore end anima masts lately take out of the Qoeso, 116. Surprise, dispatch gun reseal, Commander Cresswell, was paid wages in demos on Saturday, and is waiting he sailing orders for China. James Watt, 91 (sore.), Captain T. V. Anson, .01 Is paid of at this port on the 18th instant ; Nile l 90 ((weal Captain G. R. Mundy, on the 21st ; and b.urraan ft (savor), Captain George Ramsey, on the 23rd. SMITS IN COMMISSION AT rues PORT.—In the Small Devastation, Implacable, %sprigs, and Nautilus. In Harbour Impregnable, Royal William, James Watts Nilo, Hurrahs, Cambridge, Ajax, Cordelis, Clow; Kestrel flatterer, Sylph, Avon, Confiance, Zephyr, Dib. genre, Tortoise, Doron and Aid, lighters. A number of invalid troops, who were sent kit Chatham garrison to Bath, for the pur of testing the efficacy of the waters, have returned to Ctham, and etre* pasty of invalids will be forwarded, it having been foga that the troop. experienced grad Lenstitfrolu their treatment at the General Hospital. THE COMMAND-IN-CHIEF OF PLTMOtiTtI.—NO. thing, we believe, is yet deftnitively known as to who is W sticceed Admiral Sir ' William Parker as Naval Commander. in-Chief at this port. The statement. in our London caw temporarke are mere speculations, end though perchance they may turn out correct, at present there is no positiS foundation for their sonnives.—Plymouth Mail. THE UNEMPLOYED AT WOOLWICH. A numerous body of the unemployed assembled vestezday evening in the paper-fectory of the Arsenal at 'Woolwich, in order to devise the means (if porsible, by soll• citing contributions from their comrades, who are ea tie receipt of wages) to reduce the long list which has tem prevented to Lord Pannone, containing the names of those who have petitioned Government for the grant of a flee pow sage to Canada. A reply was received on Tuesday, in white his lordship stated, with much eolinniseration for the *0 Len of the men, that his department has not the memo of complying with thee mead. A deputation itooredistalJ went to the rearm * London of General Codringten, de of the members flortheborough, but unfortunately the Creed was absent from )leer. ith a little hesitation they thee proceeded Ie lay thir petition before Sir Benjamin Have who tecelved them moat cordially, sympathising with *it &Yam* position, and advising them to return to Woolwidi sad sr Weems to reduce their number. This was the* jest et the meting last evening in the Royal Arsenal. TM however. which their fellow labourers wee e=e nth" them was very trifling. An ail* thud 100 en ender orders of ditcroissel from the cirri* depertment el the Royal Arsenal, who it is probable Yet be retained through the humane interference of C guyarintaident of that branch of the establii 170en ' T;;* ham eariderately represented to government* fusibility at =the services of the entire nests and it s ow el Ishoterthe ensuieg . Colonel alsiders tlile 1 it s seas d ritt ag vht i o d a : t y er ve Pue celed a :o u'r) ttc y mi " a gre a hr tP i t i lso ll of them rho ere industriously inclined mechanics, wa be Meted to tern the day to the advantage of their lets boa. Ohm the termination of the Russian war ornedstf 7,000 men gad boys employed in various asperities have la discharged frees the Arsenal alone. Many of their fatio are conempently in a state of utter starvation, and thereat' are rodeos& to ea inconceivable state of distress. Toone. row a puh& tosetinl(aa announced by placards LlOOOO l l streets et Woolwich of the rate yens and the disc* fem workmen the and dockyard will be kin at the inesterem, RaZ l to consider end adopt such noir time el be deemed expedient to relieve the painfal he pen erred by tie late dialarge of artisans frau theme establiiments la the tom. dr. J. Townsend, the . eleded mere der he Ortmorich, will occupy the chair