The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1851 ositasA CATALOGUE offilre, :a New &stow-ones, vacs- !triad an answer in the affirmative" The soi-distrot Ms". 61 ' 114 Uh""o 0 Bufidtpr: r''rk• Bishop of Clifton, Mr. HENDREN, corroborates the NOKM -Advar'i,ru.euts iLtehded for the First statement of Mr. BERKELEY. plc, "the eeclesiasti- E." ' s d a Qeadd d a a4111.4' or St" ' Ced4re ' ' cal superior" of the convent, a ffi rms that Mies T3L -16'3 J" tt"' • 1 1• t it postulant, and that she yoissessoe...wooss •Nr eissechatelb es and tana wiry mot D os was matt o a a. skawasd end united forthwith. s ,„. I could not have been received on any other tennis I. 'c.a..= 'Enos. I. 'Avec ore ~nd the nee Arts. 6. " ' da tive. d rut" ' •• no boarders being received' there. Yet the lady a Pew tone'-tints see M. herself has written to the LORD CBANCELLoR " that . A i Maritimes and notissest , im,:ethento. S. Claw of Trades ad she never Was a postulant,' and that she never went `tot he convent with that view. L m otet — notch will., and LiAME4O , ..I.e , gr im, wirim i t .. *wt . ' . swim.. + wise c ontra ,t,.. Amid that farra bee go n fi of o co in n g t . rad N ie o t r io is ns it it , is m cle di ar ifi t c h u a l t t crow fissto scoffs, coot:" $ ths Rossi eastaisoas somebody nes to find out who that somebody is. Bishop fit:stairs ' states, that on being informed that no boarders were received at the convent, Miss 'Lessor wrote '4 an earnestly supplicating letter" to be received as a postulant. The nuns, he alleges, afraid to com ply with the request, asked his advice. He " wrote to Miss Tatum, and told her hosesey that he did not consider her at all fitted for conventual life; and at the same time he wrote to "the Lady Abbess" to re ceive Miss TALBot as a postulant, " adding, that in ouch a case the censures of the world must be disre garded." Whatever view be taken of these proceed ings, there was evasion and subterfuge on the part of the bishop. If he only meant that Miss tensor should be received as a postulant in name, but a boarder in reality, he was instructing the puns how to violate the regulations of their convent without I appearing to do so. If he intended that Miss TALBOT should really become a postulant, he counselled her admission in away that would enable him to represent that step as a mere matter of form. No faith can be placed in any st atements emanating from such a source. this master of equivocation, it must be kept in mind, is the " ecclesiastical superior." or as Cardinal NVisrs MAN would express it " governor "of the nuns. Ito instructs all in the convent what they are to say. He is the author tithe statement made to Mr. Beak Enelt that Mist' 'Bunn . is a postulant: be 6 equally the author of the statement mule to the Loan ems twain that she is not. But the truth may sometimes be gathered front the incautious admissions of persons in whose positive affirmations no confidence can he placed. In the insolence of fancied triumph Bishop HENDREN has mode such admissions. He tauntingly says of Mr. BERKELEY .‘ he will not be allowed to sec her again, that is, to vex and tease her--of that he may be sure." Ho contemplates Miss Tatoofs assumption of the veil,—" lf, indeed, she chooses to put on the black veil, then she will not be free in conscience to leave the convent ; that is, it cannot be allowed her to violate the solemn promises she will then have made to GOD." And he tells how, in this case, he, her " eselesiositical superior " will diepose of her property : " I think it probable that if Miss Tatum becomes a nun a portion of her property will be de voted to religious and charitable purposes, and why nut The catholic church in England is very poorly provided. Everywhere we want churches, and cha pels. and schools, and hospitals, and orphanages, &c., and cannot find the means for erecting them, still less fur endowing them. Now we think it is good to con tribute money to such objects." Pert qfft. has spoken. He footsies that the net has been closed upon the hint. nod that concealment is no longer necessary. Miss TALitoT was induced or allowed to call herself a postulant, as the only terms on which she could be received us a boarder: the abbess was exhorted to " disregard the censures " which the world might apply to her for complicity in such a game ; but the bislop was determined from the fi rst that ie postu lance should be real—that Miss Tostor's 140,000/. should he placed ut his disposal. lie believes that lie has already . accomplished his object, and inso lently exults in the success of his insidious ma noeuvres. Mr. l'Antan claimed on Saturday to be heard for the Earl of Sitaswsueim. Ilis lordship is certainly called upon to explain his share in these extraorth• nary transactions. Lord Term said on Satur day : " There was an order which handed the young lady over to the Earl and Countess of iinnEwsituav, with a view to her going abroad with them. Now, it appears to me that the young lady being left at a convent (without any application having been made to the court) is nut carrying out the order of the court." Mr. PARKER remarked, with reference to this statement, that "the order did not make it incumbent upon the Earl of SHREWSBURY to take Miss Taman . abroad ;" whereupon the LORD CHANCELWR replied, " That might be so ; but when the occasion arose which rendered it necessary for the earl and counteas to go abroad they went away and left this young lady in the convent. Now, this did not answer the intention of the order." The Earl of Siotswslieuir obtained leave from the Court of Chancery to take his niece abroad ; he got possession of her person on the pretext that he intended to take her abroad ; and having got possession of her person, lie handed her over to those who have inveigled her into the as sumption of the character of a postulant, knowing that the Court of Chancery had not herniated her 'to be placed in a nunnery. It certainly is incumbent on the earl to explain whether, in these questionable proceedings, he hum lsen deceiving or deceived. Our object, in dwelling at such length upon these particulars, is to appeal to the common acme and moral fielings of English catholic 's themselves. We do nut expect that they will take the same view of the ends aimed at as we do. They, of course, Would regard the talent!: of the veil by Nliss 'Faison as a virtuous and edifying saf-sacrilite, and the trans ference of her property to the church as a merito rious act of charity. 'But waiving fur the present the question of the ends aimed at, we ask what is their candid and honest opinion of the means employed to attain it? 'the equivocating and contradictory statements issuing from the bishop and the (solvent leave no doubt that falsehood has ken resorted to, and this betrays a consciousness that 'something has been done wineh cannot bear the light of day. Miss TALitor has been withdrawn from the protection of the Court of Chancery either wider false pretenees from the beginning, or by a sUbSISIUIDT contravention of the order of court under which possession of her pesos had been obtained. Filially, se have the lady denying that she ever asked or wished to become a postulant, at the very moment that the bishop is triumphuutly proclaiming how lie intends to dispose of her property, after he has completed her self-inamolotion by lit:coming a nun. "By their fruits ye skill know Nem," said the blessed founder of our religion : do thew fruits indi cate characters to whom men may sati Is ur warrant ably surrender up their judgments Our Roman catholic eountrymen arc peculiarly circumstanced. In catholic countries, conduct such as we arc commenting upon would be' indignantly denounced and condemned by the Whole of the well. educated classes. Where all are, or arc assumed to be Roman catholic's, the sense of what is due to ss city has fair play. But in this country, where the tutholies are a minority, a partisan reluctance to give aim advantage to t h e 01111m•ily party induces the educated classes to defend in public, proceedings which in their hearts they condemn and despise. Such conduct is a natural consequence of human weakness. and nut confined to catholic+. But it is nevertheless a dangerous weakness., and pregnant with mischievous consequences. It is not by affecting disbelief of ceeksciastical delinquencies. but by checking them, that Roman cathulies must vin dicate their religion from the charge of having a ten delay to promote such delinquencte , .. It h, our wish to obtain the co-operation of the virtuous and intelligent MUM: our Roman catholic countrymen to repudiate and check such abuses as have ken perpetrated in the case of Miss Tatnor, of the Weybndge and the CAME death-bed settle ments. and of a third testamentary ease a. late Mrs. Tuessoes) about to be submided to t ree Court of Chancery. Regard to their own per s onal characters, atmd to the reputation of their church re quires such co-operation at their hands. But if, in a blind and perverse spirit of isirtioanship, they will extenuate and support such misconduct on the pun of individual priests-if they refuse their aid to pro mote such legislation as is calculated to prevent the recurrence of such abuses—the duty of the protestant majority is obvious. The Roman catholies are en titled to the full privileges of citizens. They are en titled to hold what opinions they please; to avow , openly and attempt to make converts if they please; to perform what acts of worship they pleasc.l They are also entitled to the right of suffrage, and to exert themselves to return as many members of their own way of thinking to the legislature as they can.' And when they have dune this, it is their duty to !submit to such acts of the le-is ature as its majority shall deem accessary to prevent a miesthood laving claim to supernatural powers, organised and 'dis ciplined within itself to an unparalleled extent, and isolated from the influence of family ties, from se- the earortisls. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mivortvis. istmled ha• •• The Eti roes," LOl,l ,9 o'clock va .llEMIal piper the IR a. the) ).ttee, lv, BOYMIO•elrtel. by 1 bay of pubbatius. -------- 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan Wt—liersinet, . Afternoon. at. Am. Tterossow—Yorauar. fio. Co. -Afternoon. N. 4s. LONDON, MONDA Y, MARCH 21. Tits spirit of the Roman catholic church, the idea which pro sided at its formation, and directs it ouvereignty, a spiritual sovereignty, intended to rival the feudal soortignties of the age in which it sprung up. We all know how powerful were forms and ,sy 'aloft, in that age, and how greatly the' were assumption of authority by the priesthood ton tributed to their attaining and keeping it. The mode in which they wiehkd this uutliority and in culeated the tenets on which it was bused, was ant by mason or the mere exposition of truth, it was by intimidation and persecution, means still faxen isad largely in Roman catholic countries. But it was a lso by tilling and getting possession of mo's imagination. It daxxled them by its splendour, its wealth, it. power. It iwnetruted to thew haunts in 11. e shape of a confessor, tilled their streets and Wolk ways with ;protassians. It proscribed the senao• and the municipal azoterubly. ',Hiring itself as the watt ror counsel. With equal jealousy it forbade the drot..i. and insisted on itself furnishing the only wenie and operatic amusetnent. Amongst the rustic populdian it planted monks of the peasant ordeal and in cities monks of the civic order, with their moan ism, On it mysteries, their common wealth, their individual poverty. Nunneries on the same principle, for fascinating and dissocialising the imagi native mind of women, formed part of the same sy.tent. "Own, there was not a day in the week that had not its stint and ceremony, varied from month to month with ;mat festivals to 'maw, uecupy, and dazzle a mind bewildered in this reli gion of itiltme. All them things—their convents, their processions, their pomp. their dignity and authority that stoups not even ta t h e throne —their army of father eon fewors, possessed of the moots rind commanding the wills of every family, and lords over the actions and decisions of Judea, and of statesmen, as well as of thr Irad. rs of the mob—all Ih. m• are means of propa gating the Roman catholic religion. Now we libe rals have a dread of this.tßonam catholic religion prevailing, illiberal as it is in all its tendencies, in compatible with freedom of action or of thought, and even with the dignity of men. We cannot, however, deny it full exersise of the wer of mama, of argunn nt, of persuasion. When epochs of political reaction, like the assent, occur, and when classe s of property and intelligence come to dread the advance and prevalowe of the people, and take refuge against such pre-sale:we in the namcation of a religion which best knows how t o b r idle a nd to curb a people, we cannot allies any etfirt romiotainse to this tide. But them is one thing we may do, and are bound to do. We may deny to the priesthood or this me nacing religion its non-spiritual means of propagan dism. We may diarlann its authority, deny its dignity, forbid its lONHIeSiiiOIIS we may declare its monasteries, its ttttt merles, its begging friars, and its Jesuit fraternity illegal. We may put cheeks upon its grist to swallow up the patrimony of the orphan and to cheat the dying sinner. It another TKrAFI. should have a mile of indulgences iii the 'musket, we may make a law to prohibit it. II 'tome should fiend a eardinal here to claint nsverence by his garb and title, it is u question whether hi., power should krloidden or allowed. The thing is. where to la-gin, and where to draw the line. without falling into either catmine of per foration or self-abandonment. 'lnure are some, in deed, who say, that the efforts of catholicism ought not to he interkred with—that cantina's and bishops, and monks and mina, should le allowed to cow in WOWS and armies, and each set up their dignities and establishments in every town, rxereising at liberty all that old system of propa gandism which was established in the middle ages. Wo. doubt the feasihilitv of this. Nay, we doubt its being tompatible with the maintenance of the public pram. There is not a Roman catholic goveniment in Europe that has nut taken precautions and required guarantees against sacerdotal aggression. There is nut u protestant state that sutkot it. Can we be an coalition? We have the bishops of the established chard'. and we may say that we have by their side, if the resent law pass not.thebishopts of the ItonaiA church. And we shall have the bishop , in a fro. episcopal church. The end of this would probably be, that the ltomish bishops, being thane which alone could assume irrefragable autho rity, and which alone would be zealously sup ported by the powers above and the powers below, would Lawry the day ; and, instead of IA body tor pre lates, whom existence is compatible with our civil and nligious freedom, England would have a priest hood &tern • 1 to be musters in people's con fteitstoms and heal chambers, and countiag houses, and ornate Imams. The questian is, we repent. where to draw the line. and whore to commence resistance. We say, at our, by denying to 'banish emissaries their means of authority and propagandism, which they newly rasume, and with which they startle us. 'The pre tour that they require a cardinal a ith territorial powers, and a legion of bishops to govern the catholic ttttttt unity in England. is too glaring a I bug. What they require is the means of prtqogandism. ac tive, powerful IlleUll4.llllllllS which no dimenting loly either require or would make use of. For Mr. Fox's argument, that Boman citholicism is but dis mal, is really too flimsy a sophism to impose even upon a child. Our anover should therefore be the same as that made by the *snail& statesmen of l'nus alt. Wiwi' 'tome demanded to establish bishops ut Berlin and at Nlagdeburg. they replied. no. You may have bishops or any other paraphernalia that your religion requires for its use. but what you ask merely tor pnqragandiam and exultation and rivalry. that we deny you. And thw I Iwa- nt Commonsohould at in the %Limy fair spirit. A cardinal anshbishop of Woominster is nut wanting to administer a 'litho lir population. Ile omits to dispute and to rivaL And he and his master ought to be shown. that how ever frr and tolerant England may be. its govern ment has still the power to defend the moan front insult. the law from 'wing mane a football of, and the mligiotes pour of the country from firebrands and disturbers. LORD TRURO said, with good sense and good taste. when the ease of the Hon. Mho Auta - sr % Tatum . was before him on Saturday—" It is most desirable on all hands. that this young lady should be involved as little as possible in a public contest for the gratifi cation of other persons, for it is far from pleasant to have a lady's name made the subject of public dis cussion." This is true i but the fault lies with those who have conducted themselves towards the lath in a way that renders the public discussion of the treat ment she has experienced inevitable. To other in juries iallicted upon her by these 'arsons. tiny have added the minor, but still very annoying one to a right-minded woman, of making her a theme for gossip and an object of curiosity. *l'lwre is a great public principle at issue in the ease of Miss TALik.r. sod unluckily the case cannot be stored without umusional mention of her name. but that mention orill over be made with all rispivt and sympathy for Isar. The more the came is probed the worse it looks for thew intriguers into whose hands the lady has tulles. There is a discrepancy and self-contradietton in their tem nts betraying falsehood and a consciousness their Isn't that they have something. to conceal. .. I then," says Mr. eit-ivi.x lliltimxt.i. it hit letter to Sir Router 1NG1,14, "in the presence of Mist Jsiimixomast (superior of the convent at Taunton). irked Mile TeLscrf if she were a postulant, and re glaring such an amount of property, by intimidation or by falsehood and insidious (killings, as may endanger the civil and religions liberties of the FRANCE. o wt in c ania d y wi of th ol t e h l e a rlt o h f a 3 rt i i s e t le i if . I% th ia e y eo . constitution, !, which makes a majority of three-fourths of the house necessary to carry a motion for the revision. The day before yesterday it was confidently stated in the lobbies of the Assembly that M. Barna had con sented to take office with MM. Fould and Baroche, taking as the main features of the new ministerial programme, the repeal of the I I 1 th article in the con stitution, as incompatible with the sovereignty of the nothing could be more opposed than such a pro gramme to the scrupulous regard for legality always professed by M. Barret, this news was swallowed eagerly, and believed even by p ers ons usually well ] informed. In the meantime the Municipal Bill I Committee, formed at a period when the • I coalition reigned between the extremes of the Assembly - , presided over 5,v Lattiorciere,alle• i.. 01- I I' sisting chiefly of legitimists and Montagimrds, had i passed a resolution, of great apparent importance, that independent electoral lists should be formed for , the municipal elections, according to a new law to bo embodied in the organic municipal statute. Now here was a cause of double alarm for the men of the Rue des Perumides, who regard the law of May as the palladium of France, to find their sheet-anchor drugged at the same moment from two didtbrent quarters. Therefore, when their delegates to Odilon Barret learned from hint the arriere-plesee of the Elysee, on the same day on which the resolution of the Municipal Bill Committee was announced, they held, on Friday night, a meeting In the rooms , of the Conseil d'Etat, and passed a resolution in fa-1 vour of applying the law of May to all elec tions, I whether political or municipal. Another cause was perhaps at the bottom of the tailor' of the negotiations with Odilon Barret. I have already alluded to the small favour enjoyed by M. Fould with the committee of the budget. That committee is presided over by M. Pussy, whose sys tem is quite opposed to Fould's, and who is no doubt the finance minister whom Odilon Barrot would have recommended to the confidence of the President. Now, the footing of M. You'd at the Elysee is such ns to make his restoration to the head of the finance department an indispensable condition of the new cabinet. The attempt to form a definitive cabinet having, through the above-mentioned reasons, failed, the question remains whether that failure be defini tive, or the projected combination only adjourned. If the latter, enough has been said to show what Istretch of compromise is necessary on either side. If the failure be definitive, the poshiou of the Presi dent seems destined to enter into a new phase, and sone approach to the Left, perhaps the '.am anioc litilault combination may be brought forward again, which is indeed much better fitted to proclaim the two principles of the programme already cited than the conjectural cabinet to which this ha's been attri buted. FAIUS, SATURDAY EVENING. Rumours are echoea through the press concerning the imminent formation of a definitive ministry by the junction of Odillon Barrot with the trio of Manche, Fould, and ltouher; the programme to be the abolition of the 111th article of the constitution, which requires that the revision should be voted by three-fourths of the Assembly, and the abolition of the electoral law of May. Although' this is repeated with confidence by the Go: Me ele Fronee,Erenemelit, and other journals, and copied from them into the morning papers, I need handle- say that it deserves no credit whatever, Odillon . 13arrot being totally opposed to any but n legal revision of the constitu tion, and regarding the law of May as the Palladium of France. In consequence of the resolution taken ky the comnuttec on the municipal bill to embody a new law for municipal elections in the bill, the club of the Rue des I'yramides carried last night a resolu- • tion to stand by the law of Mar. The modifications of the law of May proposed ivy the committee are not likely to be of an important character. It was expected that the proposition of MM. de' Rance and Laborde for the completion of the Paris and Avignon Railway would have bee:n discussed to- • day by the Assembly. It does not, however, appear on the order of the day. Great interest being at pre sent concentrated on this subject it may be as well to describe here the nature of the plan in question.' and the parliamentary course proposed to be adopted. An English company undertakes to construct, on pain of tbrfeiture, the gap in the line between Chalon land Lyons, and the branches of Aix and Auxerre, and to furnish the materials for working the line. 'The works and material, estimated at two millions of francs. to be paid for in renter; at par, or in bonds bearing five per cent interest. Another company of French capitalists would form the work ing of the line front Paris to Chalon, and of the branches of Aix and Auxerre, during a lease of 40 years, within which period it would reimburse the 290 millions of francs paid to the first company. So that the state would, at the end of 40 years, step into possession of the railway and material, without hav ing disbursed a franc. The company would furnish besides between 35 and 40 millions of francs for con structing the line front Moulins to ltouanne. The committee has pronounced in favour of this plan ; but at the same time it proposes to refer it to the old committee of the budget of 1849, which previously burked, after a delay of 15 months, the original bill for the concession of the railway presented by M. Lacrosse, the Minister of Public Works. This is considered as a step of bad augury, and people do not see why the present motion sh . ould not be re ferred to a special committee. In the Assembly to-day the report on a petition of a sergeant, who laid been broken, raised a debate between tha reporter, General de liar, Cavaignac, Bandon, Minister of War, and Colonel Charms. The decision of the question was adjourned by referring it afresh to the commission. M. Bertholon was culled to order for interruption, and for leaving answered 4. ea m'est t gal," he was called to order a second tune, with inscription on the procia-r , rlwil. Jules Fayre, and several other members, wished to interpellate the Minister of NV:lr on the decree of Gen. Castellon, forbidding more than 3400 jiersons to at tend a funeral. The interpellations were adjourned to that day six months by 331 votes against 253. The increased figure of the minority of the opposition was hailed with cheers on the Left. Then the report on petitions was resumed. The sitting terminated with interpellations to the Minister of War on the expe dition against the Kabyles, with regard to which a long article appears in the Omstitstioand of to-day. The Minister, General Rand" replied that it was only directed against Little Kabylia, and had not the importance attributed to it. It was to secure the set tlers and the communications of the province. The discussion on this subject having been adjourned to Monday, the Assembly rose at RUG 11 SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH lA. I Article 2of the hill for the regulation of the debt I has been voted in the committee. The paragraphs relative to the 3,5, and 4 per cents. have been unani mously voted. That which concerns the coupons was opposed by MM. de ViMica and l.corente, the other members having voted for the government measure. In this sitting M. Borrego again made an attempt in favour of the current debt and the rats or debt for the service of the interior. M. Bravo Murillo very naturally replied that the vote on the second article was still open, and that the committee might pronounce its decision on this subject. The government measure was adopted as to these debts. The consideration of article 3 was then entered on, which is to this effect : "The debt susceptible of being redeemed shall be divided into two classes : the first shall com prise: Ist, the current debt of 5 per cent. paper; 2nd. the rules not consolidated; and, 3rd, the debts called deferred and provisional. The second-class shall comprise the debts without interest and passives." M. Leorente gave a long history of these different debts, and considered that the current debt and the roles not consolidated should not be contained in the same class as the passive debts and those without interest as proceeding from a different origin. He observed that the project of the bill did not specify whether it was the deferred debt of IM3I or that of 1 , 441, which was comprised in the first class of the redeemable debt. The Mi nister of the Finance admitted the inaccuracy in this respect of the project, but could not agree in opinion with M. Leorente. The discussion on this article was adjourned. The president of the council declared in this committee that the government, for reasons of delicacy, could not modify its project, but that it was open to modification by the tortes on all points not essential. lie added, Ault when once the regulation of the debt had been approved, if the national resources should be insufficient to cover all the demands on the treasury, the government would not hesitate to give priority over all other obligations to that which in its eyes was the supreme obligation —that of the debt. flexnly Evr.sasc. A fresh juncture has occurred in the political situa. Lion of the country. It is known to you that ever since the installation of the ministry of transition it has been constantly rumoured that Fould and Barcshe were on the point of returning to power. In fact the Elys;'e still held by them; but it was ne cessary that the stain which they had incurred by falling under a vote of censure should be removed by their re-appearance on the ministerial bench in com pany with sonic statesman whose character could he accepted by the Assembly as a guarantee that the cabinet as re-constituted was ilrepured to be strictly parliamentarv, and not to submit with too flexible a devotion to the dictates of Louis Napoleon. The statesman selected for this Atli Was Odilon Barrot. If M. Barrot could be persuaded to give the stamp of his name to the new ministry, the first chapter of his task would be the re-construction of the old majority, and its reconciliation with the executive power. Hence might flow dotation, revision, prolonga tion of powers. Lung were the negotiations, and pressing the overtures. At last the club of the Rue des Pyramides, consisting of those who had voted for the dotation and rejected the vote of censure on the Baroche ministry, wishing to put an end to provisional arrangement calculated to de grade the government equally at home and abroad, delegated some of their leading members to urge Odilun Barrot to waive his scruples in obedience to the neeessities of the country, and indorse with his authority the Fuuld-Baroche combination. At one moment it appears that such confident hopes were entertained of the success of this mediation, that it was generally rumoured in the Assembly that the new ministry was funned, and the same evening organs of the most opposite political tendencies an nounced the fact as certain. In the meantime the i active spirit of Moutalemlx;rt had been employed in gaining over the legitimists to the cause of the F-lysee. The fruits of this agency were manifested in the cessation of that sneering abuse of the President which veins the legitimist organs, in the maintenance of legitimist prefiets at a moment when the execu tive scythe mowed down several at a stroke, in the warm advocacy of the Elysie by the ultra montane Univers, and in sops of divers kinds thrown to the Jesuits as an encouragement of their good will. But Louis Napoleon had other irons in the tire as well. The chief of these was his reserve ou the subject of the electoral law of May. Not long ago it was observed, by a elear-eyeeNlontagnarti, Mathieu de In DrUme, that in replying to the inter pellations of Howyn TranchCre on the President's message which announced the formation of a ministry of transition. M. Waists., the new Minister of the Interior, had passed entirely without notice that portion of the interpellator's spcs.eh which alluded to the President's rumoured intention of dispensing with the application of the electoral law of May to his own election. In consequence of this reticence %L Waisse was summoned before the committee ap pointed to consider the amendments presented to that law, and there distinctlydeelared that the government, President included. would stick by the law of May, and disavowed all arrb`re-pensre of applying the previous law of unlimited suffrage to the presidential election in 1554.1. M. Waisse repeated the same declaration in the Chamber; and as the Potation Bill was then upon the eve of discussion, many beheld in this concession a repetition of the disgraceful bargain of the preceding May, where three millions of electors had been disfranchised for three millions of francs. But no sooner was the dotation bill of M. de C.erminy thrown out than rumours began to be current that Waisse had gone beyond the warrant of his commission, and that Louis Napoleon considered himself unfettered by that engagement made by the minister un the subs'et of the amoral law. Now in the negotiations of the Elsie with M. Odilon Barrot, it was of course a capital point for the latter to know distinctly the sentiments and intentions of the President on this subject; but, while the latter still maintained an impenetrable reserve with M. Barrot, it was well known to M. de Persigny that Louis Napoleon I ADULTERATION OF MUSTARD.—The Lancet con tinues itsexposures of the adulterations practised in procured from variousurtiklLi was in the habit of declaring that he he ; of food. l a rS2 r :a t mpi d es e Lf mustard r i d ui s k u r fi , t- , boured, for his part, no distrust of unmutilated red to examination, the Wh rs olrwerc e ; universal suffrage, and reserved to himself the right of appealing to it to decide on his own I and in every case the adulteration was the same in kind, cenuiw mustard with immen-c quantitie- of wheaten flour, election. Tide was notorious at the ElysCe, and varying only in &Free, and consisted in the admixture of coloure with could not escape the knowledge of M. liarrot. At' the same time the Cusastitutonnel, which, after a ,arecly ever to be obtained, turmeric. The conclusion to which the wliatvver g bo n uin th e e price laid sulky silence of some weeks, again sounded the I : yr , it " in teed Le anis " is ' that trumpet of Bonapartism, camo out with a plan for I fur it. GERMANY. Prussia, says the Cotype Cazelte,has yielded the point of die sole presidency, to Austria. 'That paper maintains that this concession is not one of mere precedency of honour, but one that entirely nullifies the parity, even though the subordinate demand of Prussia with respect to the joint administration of the affairs of the Diet should be acceded to. The same journal says that it is no longer a secret that Prince Schwarzenberg has made promises to Bavaria which the prince declares he must, under all circum stances, make good. Austria, therefore, claims fur Bavaria a higher position in the Diet titan she has yet held. Prussia rejects the demand; but the in terchange of a few notes, says the 01,1,me b'itzeite, will probably settle this matter too to the satisfac tion of Austria. A meeting between M. Manteuffel and Prime Sthwarzenberg is shortly expected to take place. The Cobs/tic Gazdte, with regard to an article on German affairs which appeared in the Joiirmit des Dames on the 17th, says that of the retreat of the present ministry, and the return of M. Radowita to ismer, there is not the slightest prospect. A Prus sion note to Vienna, it is said, crossed on the road the Austrian note which arrived on the 19th inst. in Berlin. The Augsburg .INemeine Zitotny has an article on the subject of an Austrian intervention in the affairs of Bosnia. The troubled state of that province, it says, would justify Austria in taking possession of it ; and that an Austrian dominion or ascendancy in Bosnia and Servia would serve to counterpoise that of Russia in the two other Turkish provinces. A considerable Austrian funs: is already assembled on the Bosnian frontier. The King of llavaria is said to be seriously indis posed. Our correspondent writes as follows : BERLIN, 31cui it 21. Notwithstanding that three days ago the negotiations with Austria had reached a point at which every reason able person supposed that an understanding was cmi.c to, notwithstanding that the very best authorities in matters .f foreign affairs declared that no further impediment existed to a settlement of the German question, at least, to far as the powers of Austria and Prussia were concerned; still some fresh differences have occurred, and every thing is again as uncertain as it was a week ago. The cause is said to be the resistance of l'rincc Schwarzen berg to the demand of l'russia, that, in order effectually to carry out the idea of the parity between the two countries, all the officers of the confederation shall be jointly ap pointed by Austria and Prussia. On all other points both powers are agreed, and there is not the slightest truth in the assertion that the policy of Herr von Manteuffel, as it is called, is on the decline, and that of Herr von Radowitz in the ascendant. The policy of Herr von Gerlach, of which Herr von Manteuffel is the exponent, maintains its ground, and will continue to do so, until a total change takes place in those influences which are at present in operation at court. The Zullverein Congress ut Wiesbaden has resolved on sending a joint commission of 11 persons to represent the interests of the Zollverein at the Exhibition .if Industry. The Itincial Gazette of Wirtemberg announces that the letter published in several papers, said to be the answer of Prince Schwarzenberg to the retently published letter of the king of Wirteruberg, is a forgery. ITALY, NAPLES, MARCH 11. "On the evening of the 10th inst., at a quarter to seven," says the Omnibus, '• died the magnani mous Prince of Salerno." Son, brother, and uncle of kings, he has passed through 11l eventful years with out, however, leaving the slightest impress of his character on the times in which he lived. Ile was born on the 2nd July, 1790, of Ferdinand and Maria of Austria. Lover of his ease, he has never taken so n d w et tf i s d ra ed tht t t o iea fo l lil'aoser•t'oult'ulh‘erhiieldreolchnet and gentle disrsition of his mind. Thirty-six years have passed away since, the first of his family, he returned to a country which for a time the hour bons 4 D b uring t*ltri the tur Vio ." lc .i n lii t !tit:on e w 9 - I h i rice:flpeace . loilLie'voaf the late revolution, he is said to have exerted him self to control the violence of party feeling and to incline the victors to greater justice and humanity, and he is said to have done so in many cases with suc cess. So much for his public life. In his own family he is said to have been the pacifier whenever occasion offered, and on the mind of his nephew, the king. he exercised a not inconsiderable, and often beneficial. influence—" Ile umrtnis nil nisi &mum," and judging by the universal voice, nothing but go od could be said of the prince. The palace has been continually surrounded by rich and poor, at • first making anxious inquiries for his health, and latterly exclaiming, " Our father is dead." Ile cer tainly possessed many of those qualities which impose upon the multitude, and which now cause them to lament his death as a public calamity. Mere than 200 families who depended on his bounty will now be thrown into comparative want, but the public voice does not add how many families have been pining in hopeless expectation, and will now be re duced to misery, through a lavish expenditure. Pro fuse,without charity or justice. the late prince merely obeyed the dictates of an indolent good-nature when he threw about him immense sums. Once have his debts been paid by the present king, and a decree was issued to the effevt that those who became his creditors would do so at their own risk. The neces sities of the prince, however, and the craving of the flattering and false multitude by whom he was always surrounded, were to be satisfied. Money must be had at any price, and the interest which was paid for it in many cases would SOWIII enormous even to a Jew. He Aka in debt to the amount of 120,04)0!., it is said,—an immense sum for this country, and possibly the greater portion of this will never lie paid. Whilst those, therefore', who feel on his thoughtless and indiscriminate bounty lament the prince's death, there are many who arc reduced by it to unmerited and irremediable misery. Ibis majesty allowed the prince a liberal sum for his maintenance, which it is said will not be lifted from the shoulders of the people, but will be transferred to the purse of the hereditary prince. For several days the body has been lying in state, and thousands have lien Hocking to the palace to gratify their curiosity ; though, after all, it is stated that it was not his body which was exhibited, but merely an effigy in the dress of the prince, the body having been for many hours enclosed in a lead coffin, such was the urgent neces sity for it. The immediate cause of the prime's death was an ulcer in his side; but it seems that in 1838 he wished to insure his life in England; the medical certificates were of such a character as to lead to a positive refusal. Such is the on-tit. The funeral is to take place to-day at 2 o'clock on a scale of great splendour; all the troops in garrison will be on duty, and the church of Santa (Ulm will be full of the great authorities, ambassadors, and nobility. The Grand Duchess of Tuscany and the Duke of Parma arrived here last Sunday by the Stromboli, the former to be present ut the approaching aceouch ment of her daughter the Princess of Trapani. In addition to other military news which I have sent you lately, I may say that 14 companies of from two to three hundred men are now turning—a company in each capital of a province. They arc to be formed principally of veterans, so that the regular army will thus be more at liberty fir action out of theling dom, should such be the destination of it. as is the general report amongst all classes. As the news of the resignation of the Ituss•ll ministry excited a great sensation, and great hope and joy here, so its resumption of power has very much damped the rul ing party. The liberals are overjoyed. Five per Cents., 901. Exchange on London, 362. TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the Gth says : "General Dembinski arrived here lust week from Kutayah, where he left his fellow-prisoners, expect ing the arrival of the commissary of the Porte and the agent of the intcrnuncio, who were to bring the Emperor of Austria's amnesty. General Dembinski was perfectly well received at the French embassy. Ile does not, as was reported, intend to stay at Con stantinople, but will embark in the next mail steamer for Paris. lie has been visited by all the refugees of distinction here, both Poles and Italians. On the evening of his arrival a company of refugee musi cians, called Guribuldi's band, gave him a serenade, and at the intervals between the airs shouted The Republic for ever! Down with the Austrians! ! in winch they were joined by the crowd of refugees. General Dembinski did not scent over-flattered by this demonstration, and is even said to have severely blamed it. Curiously enough, Garibaldi's band, aftti: serenading General Dembinski, went to the Russian palace, where there was a ball, and, for the usual fee, played all night while the Russians and Austrians danced." The news from Constantinople, through Vienna, is, that a fresh body of Russian troops have marched into Bessarabia, consisting of two divisions, each division numb ring 1$ battalions, 12 squadrons, 2 Comek regiments, and the necessary artillery. The Orsstrn Corrempmillent, which publishes the news, says there is now in Bessarabia u Russian force of from seventy to eighty thousand strong. THE POLISH AND HUNGARIAN REFCGREs IS( LI VIMPOOL.-0a inquiry on Wednesday afternoon, we learn that sixty of the refugees embarked in the Charles Crocker, for New York, un Tuesday. Sixty-three alto gether had signed the agreement fur their trwunnksion, but, when the muster-roll was called, three (and those Poles) were missing. Of the sixty, thirty-two were Pules and twenty-eight Hungarians. besides the refugees, there were also ou hoard thirty Holsteiners, whose passage-money had been paid by Messrs. Sehunk, Souchay, and Co., merchants, of Manehetser, and about twenty-nine German emigrants, who paid their own fare. Three of the refugees, who have expressed their willingness to pr teed to America, arc sick at the home, and one is in the hospital. The rest are at the in Oriel-street, in the most wretched plight. Their allowance of money does nut exceed lid. per slay, and above twenty of them hare been attacked by bronchial alfeetiuus. —Licerpool Timm A WOMAN SHOT AT IN LEEDS.—A little bet= noon, on Friday, a woman named Widdop, was shot at in Ithsekman-lane, Leeds. Police-ufficer hales, repaired to the place, a sort of ledge-house, where he found on a table a brace of new pistols, and on the floor a man, who ap peared to be wounded in the side, and in such a state that he deemed it necessary to have him forthwith conveyed to the Infirmary. The Wilco learned that, u little before, the man had fired a pistol hauled with ball at Mrs. Widdop, the wife of a gardener, who resides in the lodge-house alluded to. The man's name is William Scott, a whitesmith, re siding in Reuben-terrace, Little London. Scott, who has been fur some time well acquainted with Mrs. Widdop and her husband, walked into the house of the latter a little after eleven o'clock; awl almost instantly drew from his pocket a loaded pistol, which he fired off at Mrs. Widdop. Fortunately the ball did not penetrate the body, but after passing through Mrs. Widdup's clothes, came in contact either with her stays bone or her own ribs, and dropped from the inside of leer apparel upon the fluor. The first person who came to the place was Mr. Kay, a cowkeeper, of Pleasant Dairy, and on getting to the door of Widelop's house he observed Scott with a pistol in his hand ; supposing that he intended some further mischief, Mr. Kay did not go in, but en he closed the dour he heard the report of a pistol, and on looking through the window he saw Scott fall upon the floor. Mr. John Rhodes, a neighbour, arrived at the place shortly after wards, and found Scutt upon the floor in a sitting posture; he asked him what he had been doing, but re ceived no answer. On Scutt being taken to the infirmary, he was stripped, when a ball dropped from the inside of his clothes ; blood was oozing from a wound on the left side just under the heart, the ball having passed through his clothing, and penetrated the flesh to the ribs. In his pockets were found a quantity of gunpowder, some gun-raps, a mould for making leaden balls, and a screw for taking the pistols to pieces, all of which are quite new, and have pro bably been purchased for the occasion. A surgeon was called to Mrs. Wuldop, “nd from the examination made, it is thought that one or more. of her ribs has been broken, but she is nut otherwise seriously injured. It is said that Scott has for some time been in a desponding state of mind, and that ho had committed this rash act from &onto Mums im pulse. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF TIIF. EUROPA. The Itoyal Mail steamer Europa, Captain Lott, arrived at Liverpool last evening, at five o clock, with the mails from the United States, Canada, &e., and 66 passengers. She has also about 64t,000 dollars specie on freight. The Europa left Boston on the lath, and Halifax the 11th inst. On the lath she saw a large steamer off Halifax, supposed to Is the Asia. There had been no later advice; out since tho Pacific. Since the adjournment of Congress the Senate had been in special session for executive business. No- thing important has transpired. There had been another arrival from California, wnwu, though u. a. than ormedine. gives some interesting particulars not noticed bell re. The following letter, describing a bottle with In dians and the massacre of Americans, is from the Alla Cohfornia : San Juan, Sunday, Jan. IS. An express rider from Mariposa county arrived in this city this evening. Ile hat brought intelligence of a battle between four hundred Indians and a party of fifty or sixty Americans, under the command of Captain JAM. Bar ney. 'the despatches containing this intelligence arc dated at •• Aguu Frio," and they state that the Indians were strongly entrenched in are of their portion was attacked at the dawn of day, on or taut the morning of the 9th instant, by the Americans, led nn by Captain Burney. The battle was n hard-thuglit .ate, and lasted three hours. The result was that the Indian', ta,Te driven from the village, with a 1.. , Of sixty killed and fr.,m tea to twenty wounded. Eight Americans were wounded, two of them mortally. One of the latter was Lieut. S. Keane, and the other a Mr. Little. After the the Americans burned the village and retreated. They were pursued, and eon-tautly fired upon by the Indians, * during a retryat of ten miles. But the most horrible contained in the despatehes pl, that of the ma-saere of seventy-two men by the noblest 1,2%,12V%. The mass arre took place near Rattlesnake.ereek. The men were work ing in a gulch or chasm, and bad stacked their arms, nut apprehending any danger. The Indians came 1111,01 them by stealth, and hat lug seeuretl their arms, massacred them one by one in detail. A . petititm liar aid, signed by fi lly or sixty citizens of Mariposa county. has been precasted to the executive. Tho Indians a pp,ac to h a s; emumenced a war of extermination. A letter, publi,lted in the Stieramenlo Tot imeript, gives the following amnia of an encounter with the intlians: Johnson's-ranch, Jan. '!pi. On the morning of the 23rd inst. a party of thirty-ibur men marched from Pleasant-valley and South Welter, over to the Itangtown road, three miles above thin place, where we were joined by twenty-nine men from JohnsM.-raneh and Mut:town. At about nine o'clork, a.m., we moved up the road, and after a forced march of twenty-tit e (two miles on the north side of the south writ of the American) we came upon an Indian ranclicria. The nit met '• vacated it probably an hour before our arrival. The moment we set tire to their hedges we hearth them (the Indices) hitaling like wolves nn the ridges above te.. The come; nd W:l4 imtantly divided into three parties, to enable us to outthink the enemy, and, if p.n.-Wilk, drier titian into • the conme of the river. ' The nu•n wcr• .0 p•rectih worn Out with the march, and also front carrying their blankets and two days ration•, that it was utterly inrpo••ible for them to obey the order, that is, mirth with any degree of rapidity. An it was, however, we managed to kill it of them, and wound, doubtless, a great many. We had hut one man wounded in the action. The enemy numberd, I would judge, (rota the report of the two flanking parties, and from what I taw, upward of ninety warriors. • The accounts from the Gold Bluff's confirm the reports of the auriferous character of the sands in that locality. The Bluff's are some thirty miles to the northward of Trinidad, presenting to the ocean a perpendicular front of front one to tour hundred feet et height, and extending a distance of alsatt six miles. Au abundance of take slate mixed with quartz, and small quantities of quartz gold, are found at the base. The beach is a mixture of grey and black sand, combined with fine scales of gold. Tho Pacific Mining Company are preparing to wash the lilufis on an extensive !wale, but from present appear ances, there is little encouragement fur individual enterprise. A new steamer has been placed on the Chaves river, to run between Chogres and Corgona. Ano ther steamer is building at Navy-bay, intended tube placed on the river as part of a daily line. About three hundred and fifty persons, principally French men, are engaged in working the Buena Ventura mines, of which the average yield is front two to three ounces per day. Another fugitive * slave ease has been brought be fore the United States Commissioners at Philadel phia. The alleged fugitives are a coloured woman, about forty years of age, and her son, a boy of ten or twelve. they were arrested at Columbia, I'u.. and placed in the charge of the U. S. marshal in Phila delphia. No attempt has been made to resist the execution of tlte law. The woman is far advanced in pregnancy, and the question arises whether this cir cumstance can lie pleaded in her favour, the issue, if born in a slave state, being a slave. Robert Morris, a young coloured lawyer, of ability and respectable standing in Reston, has been bound over for aiding in the late rescue of the alleged fu gitive slave Shadnwh. Ills bud was the lute mayor of the city,. Josiah Quincy, Jun. A requisition has peen sent by the governor of Pennsylvania to the goveniment of Maryland fur the delivery of a man charged with kidnapping a free negro. The person alleged to have been kidnapped was a child five years old, who was bort of a fugi tive slave woman in Pennsylvania, and reclaimed with his mother by her owner. The governor of Maryland refilses to surrender the accused on the re quisition. The New York papers say that an English mer cantile house there has received orders from Eng land to procure the building of a clipper ship of 1,101.1 tons. _ _ - A Swims, namill Carnal, ham been found guilty of the murder of Charles Woman, and scale:KA to suffer execution on the 2nd of May. We leant from Central America that a battle, be tween the armies of Guatemala and of Salvador and llonduras,took place on the 21st of January, at a vil lage called Sun Jose, about three leagues from Chi quimala. It continued from 9 o'elmk in the morn ing until 3 in the afternoon, when the forces of Sal vador and Honduras were vompletely defeated. The vanquished, who fled in all directions, were pursued by General Carrera, who, it was thought, would march upon San Salvador. By this arrival we have advices from Valparaiso to Jan. 21. A vessel, intended ns a sloop-of-war for the (,'Lilian nuvv, and construeted of materials en tirely of domestic manufacture, was launthed on the 19th. A house belonging to the American consul at Talcahuano was destroyed by tire on the 12th ; ono or two other buildings shared the same fate; the total loss being about 70009 doll. A large fleet of vessels of war was m the harbour of Valparaiso at the date of our adviees, including the British ships Asia, Da lulus, Daphne, and steamer Druid. The British frigate Portland was expected about the Ist of Feb., to relieve the Asia. A new law has been adopted for the regulation of the coinage. The bri tish ship Alfred, with a cargo of coal, was burned about two miles from the Island of Quiriquana, at the entrance of the harbour. The crew escaped, and arrived at Talealluana in the ship's launch, on the 11th of Jan. The election of president of Peru has terminated in favour of Eeheuique. Congress is to meet un the 2oth of March. One or two partial insurrections have occurred at Bolivia. Belau was at La I'ar. A decree has been issued for the banishment of all Buenos Ayrcans who were not married to Bolivian females, or who were federalists. A steam ferry-boat at St. Louis burst her boiler on the 23rd of February, completely shattering the floor part of her cabin and deck, and killing and drowning at least twenty persons. Several women were on deck, only one of whom is known to have escaped. COMMERCIAL. iiiw --. i:)7ia,KiiitcH tO, ETENING. There has been amotlerate bus int,. dole in stocks since last steamer, with a moderate .mprovement in •,,mc dcreriptlon% The money market is active, but the Ripply', Lime. Lonny MI nem. timed at 5 to 6 per mat. Shoti first-clam paper gees at 6 to 7 per cent. The French paeket today took 150,0e0 dolt., 100.1 1 7 in Miser. Foreign Exchange has been In Rood request, and rites are firm. The supily of bills is moderate; the recent decline I. Cotton has ing somewhat reduced the supply .11 that el...se of paper, we quote bills on London, 110 to 1104 ; Bari., 5 10 to 5.7 1 ; Amsterdam, 414 to ill; ilatabutg, 36j to 37 ; Bremen, 7111 to 79. Freights me less firm, with cniragentents of cotton at 3-1e4.; four Is 1644.; load weight, 20a. Within • few d iya we notice eilliniCr mons to Liverpool of 100 tierces beet at 30.; 100 barrels lord, 265. 2,000 bees resin, I3d. To London, we bear of flour m Is. 3d. to Is. 4 44. ; 600 Mile turiv.intioeund 250 ditto redo, 25.; is 0 to 700 tletees beef, 4.. to 4s. rd.; 790 pkgs. bacon and lard, 45,.: cher.% 305.: and 500 rah. oil cake, 2s. 64. To Cleaver, heavy goads, 451. t i 17, isL • To llo'land, ric.., T a.; and to Ilemburgh, cotton, 9.16 of a cent.; 4:ol rlee, Ms. • Carron.— Talcotes eirestlor says:—" Our last weekly eirett. lar %Me [ written for the Baltic, 4th Litt. On the sth idea were 3,010 bale. , at 1 c c. to he. advance ; on the 6th, 2,000 bales at further advance ie. to • .; on the 7th, 2,000 Weis at 4e. to te. further advance; on the ZO:4 100 bates at vary cationic rata, and today 0,000 bilis at a