The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-12 00:00:00

Zile Cron' %ls• MAILS The melte for WWI North Ames**, Bernina, and the United Rates, will be made 1111 nu the evening of the 14th January. The West India Malls, excluding Bermuda, Neamo, Remise, Rondonia, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Woo, and belittling them for Madeira, Jame', Gathers'. Meta Martha, Charm, Penman, West Coast of South America, and SL Juan-dia- Nimrague, will be made up on the morning of the 17th January. The mail. for Vigo, °pore, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and illbrallar will be made up on the morning of the 17th January. Tim overland mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Greece, the lonian Island& Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and Chinn oia Southampton, will be ma& up on the morning of the 20th January. The overland closed mails, ria Marseilles, to the Mediterranean YRTIn. Aden. Cevlnn, lmlia, ilea* Kong, Sm., will he made up on the evenly,' of the 24th January. The mails fur New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, sad New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Slat January. The mails for the Brasile, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeira, anal Buenas Ayres will be made ap on a e evening of the 4th February. TO CORItaSPONDEPI/11. • e • Advertteammate loteetled fer " The Ewer." eell.l3lSf payee. meat be at the dim BoaverleTareet.by Tiro k wo'cloc ut day or publleetirea 111011 WATTS AT LONDON 119.1U01. T9t9 D.9-111ersing, yd. 999 , Andrea" 19 mi. past G. Trllloansm —Yon*" 4.1 .1.. gut G. 9.19999999. 9 9.*6. PM 7. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN.I2. THERE was once a bold courtier, who dared to ob serve to a monarch that expressed his disgust at the emptiness of forms, " What is your majesty but a form ?" A similar reply might be made to those who complain of the ceremonies of bishop-making. One of the ornaments of the ceremony of bishop' making, as of that of king-malting, is the pretence, or the mimicry, of a certain freedom of choice, or at least of the right of protest, on the part of the public. At the coronation, the sovereign's champion, mounted on his war-horse, flings down his challenge in the shape of a glove, defying all and every to impugn the Sovereign's right. If at the coronation of GEORGE IV., when Mr. DYMoKE, who was the champion of the day, flung down his . gauge, TOM CRIBB, the other champion of England, interpreting the words of the ceremony 4 la 'dere, had stepped forward, picked it up, and flung himself into a posture of defence, he could have done nothing more absurd than what the learned doctors did yesterday at Bishop HAMPDEN'S cousecrentun• We should go back to the days of GUELPH and GIIIBELLINE—nay, centuries further, to find an epoch when the people or the public bad more to do with the election or consecration of either sovereign or prelate than to lend their sweet voices to the efection after it had taken place. Their doing so was a matter of politeness, their refusal a question of no importance The public had no right to attend or interfere in the election of the clergy, or even in the confirmation of that election. But to the olden times the right of patronage or presentation to benefices and to dig nities was much disputed, and the point in dispute was never the fitness of the person chosen, but simply the right to nominate. Hence the form of challenge calling any who had objections of this kind to come forward and state them. Even this, however, was of course abolished by HENRY VIII., who not only commanded deans and chapters to " elect and choose" the persons whom the King should name, but who commanded the archbi shop to " confirm, invest, and consecrate with all dee circumstance" the prelate thus " elected and chosen." Part of the "due circumstance" is no doubt the " oyez, oyez?' the old challenge to those who disputed the title to nominate, carefully preserved. For HENRY, though determined to add the Pope's authority to his kingly power, wished to do an with as little change er abro gation of form as possible. We can well conceive the exclaiming against forms so empty and so devoid of truth, as we can also conceive how men of such opinions object altogether to ecclesiastical authority emanating from those already possessed of political power. But for the high churchman to call in question the great principles of authority, antiquity and tradition—for the tractarians to criticise and censure that reverence with which HENRY VIIL preserved the form when he repudiated the supre macy of Rome, does appear an instance of strange inconsistency. That they should moreover take advantage of these forms, and by literally constru ing and acting upon them throw a light of the comic and the absurd upon the grave and venerable, though somewhat obsolete, customs of a great church ceremony,—this could only be the conduct of men moved by personal pique. and absolutely incapable of comprehending, much less feeling, a great and truly religious principle. WE proved yesterday that the West India colonies, so far from being benefited by the measures our government has adopted for the forcible suppression of the slave-trade, are likely to find these measures a serious impediment to the immigration of free labourers from Africa. We now proceed to inquire what advantage the sugar colonies are likely to derive from the subjection of slave-grown sugar to differential duties. It is sufficient, so far as a permanent system of pro tective duties for our West India colonies is concerned, to observe that differential duties on slave-grown sugar would only alter the class of competitors which they have to dread, not remove the competition. Mauritius can obtain any amount of labour at a moderate expense from India; in the wide regions of British India best adapted to the cultivation of the sugar-cane, free labour is as cheap, if not cheaper, than the slave labour of Cuba and Brazil ; the low cost of production of sugar in Java is notorious, and the Chinese, into whose hands the sugar cultivation of that island has principally fallen, will, ere long, do as much for it in the Philippines and in their own country as there. The total expor tation of sugar from Mauritius in 1813 was 441,216 cwt. ; in the first eleven months of last year 4 ;71,8 89 cwt. were imported into Great Britain from that island. In 1821 we imported 14,000 tons of sugar from British India, and 13,500 in 1822 ; during the first eleven months of 1847 the importation amounted to 1,101,848. As yet the sugar of Java can scarcely be said to have taken its place in the British markets ; but this is owing solely to the dilatoriness of the Dutch in taking advantage of our new sugar duties. 'fhe rapid and steady increase of I sugar production in Java will ere long compel the I Dutch to take measures for availing themselves of Great Britain as a vent for their surplus produce, even though the obviously embarrassed condition of their monopoly-nursed, sugar-refining, interest should not compel them to do this immediately. Against such rivals differential duties on slave-grown sugar afford no protection. If labour is to continue as scarce in our West India colonies as at present, they must be ruined in spite of such an illusory protection; if a supply of labour is obtained for them adequate to enable them to keep their ground against the compe tition of Mauritius, British India, and Java, it will also make them independent of fiscal protection from the rivalry of Cuba and Brazil. We argue this question exclusively as relating to trade, and that noony because the fresh-grown zeal for the supp of slavery professed by the most clamorous advocates of differential duties on slave-grown sugar is so redolent of cant and hy pocrisy. Differential duties on slave-grown sugar are quite as inefficacious for the suppression of the slave trade or slavery as our coast blockade of Western Africa. They cannot exclude slave-grown sugar from the other markets of Europe and America; they cannot prevent the importation of slave-grown sugars into this country to be refined in bond, or to await here the choice of markets. In despite of them, British capital will continue to be invested to a large amount in these anathematised sugars, to the great encouragement of slavery and the slave trade. The only means for restoring to their former prospe rity our sugar colonies in the West Indies, is a large immigration of free labourers. And as soon as this immigration has been carried to an extent sufficient for the purpose, the British market will be inadequate to absorb the sugar of the British colonies. The greediness with which this country, during the last half of the preceding century and the early years of the present, kept appropriating to itself the colonies of Holland, France, and Spain —Guiana, many of the Caribbean islands, Trinidad and Mauritius—had the same effect at the time upon the planters of the old colonies, as the investment of capital in the sugar production of India was expected to have upon them at a more recent period. It glutted the English sugar market, and set the planters of former days to bombard government and the legislature with complaints as vehement and sincere as now. Let Guiana and 'friuidad receive an adequate and con tinuous stream of free labouring emigrants, and our colonies will soon need other markets for their pro duce in addition to ours. In that case the protective systems of other countries, promoted or encouraged' by our own, will tell to their disadvantage. But it is alleged that our West Indian saw growers do not ask for permanent protection ; that they only complain of the measure passed in 1846 for the gisidual equalisation of the duties on British d and f oreign slave-grown sugars asp remature, antoo rapid in its operation. By the statute in question there was imposed upon all tbreign sugars : to the sth of July, 1847, a dif ferential duty of 7s. per cwt. ; to the sth of July, 1848, a differential duty of C 4. ; to the sth of July, 1849, a differential duty of 4e. 6d. ; to the sth of July, 1850, a differential duty of 3a ; to the sth of July, 1851, a differential duty of ls. 6d. After the last-mentioned date the duties on foreign and British sugars are to be equal. It is said that the difference from which this evanishing table of duties takes its departure has been too low, and that the progress of diminution is too rapid. The experience of last year, certainly, does not warrant the assertion that the protection afforded by the rates of duty in force during the first eleven months of the year (for which alone the official returns have been published) was inadequate. The quantity of sugar imported during the first eleven monthsof 1847 was, it is true, 7,414,351 cwt., whereas, only 5,028,446 cwt. had been imported during the corre sponding period of 1846. And of this large increase no less than 2,234,176 cwts. were foreign produce. But of this extensive importation of foreign sugar only 936,331 cwta. were entered for home consumption; while the quantity of British sugars entered for home consumption during the eleven months amounted to 4,450,999—0n1y 435,544 evrts. less than the entire quantity entered for home consumption in the first eleven months of 1846, and only 186,449 less than the entire quantity entered for home consumption in the corresponding period of 1845. The augmented supply of sugar has occasioned an augmented consumption which has fallen principally on British sugars. The Bri tish sugars have fully kept their . ground in the market against the competition of foreign sugars ; and that during a most trying period, for the first eleven months of 1847 include the quarter during which the falling off in the customs and excise returns reached its maxi mum, and two months of the quarter during which the natural amount of consumption wan only being slowly re-established. Experience has proved the correctness of the estimates on which the point of departure was taken for the gradually diminishing table of differential duties; and this affords a fair presumption in favour of the adequacy of the rates by which they are made to diminish. The plea for suspending the operation of the Sugar Duties Act of 1846, founded on the embarrassment prevailing among the mercantile housesconnected with the West India trade, is untenable. The extra em barrassment adverted to in this argument neither is confined to these houses, nor has its origin in the pe culiar circumstances of the West India colonies. By some it is attributed to the derangement introduced into all branches of trade by the great efforts lately required to obtain adequate supplies of corn; by others to that cause in combination with over-specu lation in railways; by others to the operation of the currency. Surely there in no just ground for afford ing exclusive protection to West India traders in em barrassments which have affected all branches of commerce alike—for adding to the pressure of the general community in order that one favoured class may escape it. Besides, it is notorious that the most marked failures among the class of merchants referred to have been occa sioned by their extending their transactions without at the same time adding to their capital, with a view gradually to exchange their connexions with the West Indies for connexions with Mauritius or the East Indies. It is not easy to see how the West India colonies are to be benefited by measures asked for the relief of traders who, with a rat-like instinct, were running from them, in the belief they were falling houses, to share in the prosperity ef their rising rivals in the east. VIENNA, JAN. 3. You have heard that the Jesuits expelled from Fri burg, in Switzerland, have been installed in the va cant monastery on the Leopoldeberg, near this city. Unfortunately for their chances of repose, this spot, which terminates one of the chief onsets of the Styrian Alpe towards the Danube, commanding a most beau tiful view of that noble river with the capital on one side, and the rich and magnificent monastery of Closter Neuburg on the other, is a favourite place of resort for the Viennese. In summer they stream out in crowds into the lovely mountain scenery that forms the charm of the country round this luxurious capital, and on particular days make a kind of pilgrimage to favourite spots that have been frequented haunts from time immemorial. Nothing, however, can subdue the hatred of the populace of Vienna to the sacerdotal habit paraded in the street. It is as if they regarded it as a mark of their degradation and the peculiar dress of the Lignorians, the pre cursors of the Jesuits, joined to the circumstance of their being constantly in the street, gave rise to so many unpleasant scenes that the reverend fathers, although specially protected by the empresses past and present, received a hint to be more sparing of their visits to the city, and to confine their rambles as much as possible to the suburbs where they were domiciled. Now if there is any word which more than another stirs the gall of the Austrian mobocracy, it is the term " Jesuit," and it is not without appre hension that their stay may lead to unpleasant colli . sione, that wary men have seen them located on their present eminence. A street row at Pesth has given rise to a grave question of parliamentary privilege. A young Man, secretary to a member of the Diet , passed a sentinel smoking. To do so is as great an insult to the cloth as quondam refusing to strike topsails to 'an English man-of-war. The sentinel ordered the smoker to desist ; who, according to one version of the story, did so at once ; according to another, gave his monitor a box on the ear. The guard, at all events, turned out, and he was carried off ; but meeting on the way the member to whom he was at tached, this gentleman joined him, to give him more protection, and as they marched with the guard, a crowd soon collected. In an altercation that took place, a soldier levelled his bayonet at the member. The commanding officer, as soon as he was informed of the matter, ordered the detachment on guard to be relieved, and inquired into the matter ; but the of fended Hungarian insisted upon a formal protocol, to be submitted to his chamber, for a violation of his privilege. The whole probably originated in the clever Austrian trick of having iseldiers that do not speak the language of the province in which they are quartered. Three battalions of Croats are ordered to Italy. It will be amusing if they learn there to cry " Evriva Nono NAPLES, ei IN. 1 The political aspect of the Neapolitan capital be comes more and more interesting every day. The people's cause is decidedly advancing, despite the most determined opposition on the part of the King, and his hated Minister of Police. The popular movement, too, is progressing, with the', steady and peaceful determination which must end in a happy result. I shall narrate a few events which lir occurred within the last few days, and if they appear trig a ng it should be remembered how limited are the mere as by which any demonstration can be made. The Toledo was again the scene of confusion a few nights since. The revolu tionists, as they are termed by the police, collected in large numbers. A strong military force was marched tlrcough the streets, who by their overbearing conducrends avoured to excite the people to open revolt. This *it evidently the policy of the government. Considering the excitable nature of the people much credit is due to Vicm for resist ing, in a great measure, the temptation. A. few only were slightly hurt, and the mob dispersed. It is now certain that nearly all the nobility have joined the popular move ment. Several young nobles are in prison at this moment, amongst whom is Santa Teadona, a member of the richest and most important family in the city. It appears the nobles have organised themselves into bands of ten. On any one or more being taken the first interrogation is, " Have you shouted in the streets ?" The reply is, " Yes." " Base you any accomplices?" " Yes," and he immedi ately denounces the rest of his band. This is reading the government a very important lesson, since nearly every im portant family ere long must be on the " list." The people publicly ask for three things . 1. Freedom of the press. 2. A persons.] freedom, such as is enjoyed by an Englishman (this idea came from Sicily). 3. An independent munici pality. The Prince of Salerno has again urged the King to mete some advances, but with no effect. One remarkable change is visible. I remember when men spoke in whispers on any political subject ; it is now no uncommon thing to hear politics publicl discussed ; and yet it is known that 1,500 ducats are spent daily on spies. Unless the whole of Naples was turned into a prison, it would be vain to b , ..ed those ex pressions of liberty. The government can only persecute a class, the nobility, who are, of course, limited in number. Several instances have occurred, ele:sly demonstrating the sympathy of the rich. A barber who Lad his windows broken during the late dist , lthatece received, anonymously, THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY. EVENING, JANUARY 12, 184 R.: . the neat monaing a sum of money. Other sufferers have been supported in a like manner. The Civic guard have been ordered to go their rounds with the pollee, who constantly walk the streets in all directions, grouped in small companies. The former, however, have intimated to the King that in case of any revolt they will not act against the people, unless they resort to plunder. It is perfectly impossible that the government can hold out much longer, with a great po rtion of the nobles, the Prince of Salerno a t ! their um au cue people nemanaing re , I forms. Coupled with this, Sicily waits anxiously the result of the Neapolitan movement. The King is threatened on all aides, and has rainy personal enemies—the friends and relatives of the unfortunate sufferers who have been esedited. Ilia Majesty seldom makes his appearance; in fact, he has not been seen in the rite for weeks. Couriers are continually arriving and departing froin all parts of Europe. Two days since the King got a letter, sealed with his confessor's seal, in which the people expreased their wants, couched in very determined language. It is reported that the confessor was compelled to send this document, as, it appears, his Majesty will not open any letter unless it bears that worthy's signature. We have very few English this year, and the result is much suffering on the part of trades people. Such is the position of Naples at this moment. All have perfect confidence in the popular movement, and all are equally determined that the triumph shall be bloodless. FRANCE. -- PARIS, JAN. 10. FREE-TRADE BirgitNo.—A numerous meeting of the Free-trade Asaocia , tion was held on Friday in the Salle Montesquieu, under the presidency of M. Antsaon-I)uperrnn, Peer of France. ' The president related all the events which had occurred relative to free trade both in France and abroad, and drew from them the conclusion that a general disposition exist, to lower the tariffs. Joseph Gamier, M. Coquelin, and M. Bastiat then addressed the meeting. BALL FOR BENEFIT OF THE bRITISH CHARITABLE Ftncu.—We have authority to state that a ball will be given, under the patronage of their excellencies Lord and Lady Normanhy, early in February, for the benefit of the Bri t Charitalde Fund. The names of the lady patronesses and stewards, and the day, will shortly be published. The Jardin d'lliver is the locale decided upon.—Uoliynoni. ATTEMPT TO EXTORT NIONEY PROM MARSHAL Sot:tr.—Marshal Soult received on Wednesday a letter without signature, in which the writer stated that, being in great distress, he demanded the sum of 10,0001., and that if the Marshal General did not give it he would have to repent of his refusal, whilst it he did give it, it should be metered in a year. The writer requested that the money should be sent the next evening by a soldier to the fountain nearest the bridge is the Place de la Concorde, and that the man should be in•tructed to hand it to the person who, after some in significant conversation with bun, should utter the word " deposes !" The letter wound up with the threat that if any attempt to betray the writer should he made he would blow out his brains on the spot, sod the Marshal would have to repent of his conduct. Immediately on the receipt of this strange epistle the Marshal General went to the Prefect of l'odce, who took measures to capture the writer. At seven o'clock every part of the Place de la Concorde was closely watched. Presently a man of gentlemanlike appearance, clothed in black, pale and agitated, entered the place from the rue de Rivet', and proceeded to the foot of the Obelisk, from whence he examined the . place with greet attention; he walked to the bridge, but immediately returned to the foun tain, where a soldier was standing as if examining the sculp lure. After addressing some insignificant ipestions to the man, he exclaimed in an authoritative voice " deposes !" In obedience to this the soldier placed a sealed packet at the foot of the fountain, and as the man eagerly stooped to pick it up, he was seised by four polite agents who had approached him unobserved. He at first refused to state his name, but on arriving at the l'refecture of Police he said his name was Daleni, that he was twenty-one years of age, a native of l'iedmont, a dealer in cotton, and lately resident at Zurich. He added that he only arrived at l'aris un the 20th ult., and that he had taken up his residence in one of the best hotels. Ile then went on to ...ate that on leaving Switzerland he had a sum of 12,0001. in bank notes which he carried in his pocket-book, that he had visited Coblentz, Bonn, and Brute eels, and that on arriving at Paris by the Northern Railway he perceived that his pocket-book had been lost or stolen. Thus finding himself without resources, he had determined to address himself to the ambassador of his country, but the Idea came to hint of extorting from tho marshal general, of whose large fortune he had often heard speak, a sum which would enable him to recommence his business, and which he hoped eventually to be able to repay. The young man manifested great repentance at his wicked act, and wept bitterly. On being searched, it was found that he had only a sum of 30 centimes in his possession. The panyorts, papers, and letters which were seized at his lodgings proved that he had told the truth as to his name and profession and the route he had followed to arrive at Paris. l'RUSSlA.—litmus, JAN. IL—According to the Cologne Gazelle of the 9th inst., it soems now certain that the debates in the committee of the states will be made public. All the documents respecting the propoved new criminal code which were drawn up by the council of state have, it is said, been laid before the committee. Count Von Schwerin continues to preside over the committee, vice Count Von Arnim, being still indisposed. THE OVERLAND MAIL I'IA TRIESTE AND OSTEND. The following is an account of the convention between Austrian Lloyds' and various railway companies, respecting the Anglo-Indian mail: The forwarding of passengers and their luggage. Tra velling books shall be introduced and issued by Lloyds', and shall be, during two months (as the longest term) available for the conveyance of passengers—one book fur each—in the direction from London towards any transmarine point, rid Trieste, and from Trieste in the direction of London. The books to hell good for only one determined journey. They shall contain as many separate coupons as them are lines of railway under distinct administrations to be try/rued, so that the respectively available coupon may be ex tracted from the book and retained by the party concerned. The payment of the charge for convey ance, in proportion to the coupons employed, shall be punc tually made by Lloyds' to the respective directors of the railways, at certain fixed periods to be armed upon here. after. The directors of the railways in questioc agree to give Lloyds' a commission of five per cent. on the amount of the charge for passengers as fixed in their respective tariffs, such commission being allowed in order to indemnify Lloyds' for the expenses incurred by employing agents, &c. The railway directors agree to notify to Lloyds' without delay any alteration which may take place in tf ,eir present tariff of charges, which they will also communi rate without delay, both with regard to the cost for the anti' w line, and any part of it. They engage, moreover, to have a f , sed tariff for the extra charges for conveying passengers from one railway station to another, and to add those charges to those for railway car riage, so that Lloyds' passengers wi 11 not be subjected to additional payments for themr.el res or their luggage. The directors pledge therneelve,, tri forward luggage and geode belonging to passengers a oil. duly marked as ouch, as quickly as the passenger theme , tv es, and with the next pas sengers' or goods' train, provid .et' a the customhouse regula tions raise no impediment. The Austrian Lloyds' shall always have the right of send V lEr their own special guards to take care of the luggage or goods—such guards to be con veyed gratis, in a second-elr , aa carriage. Travelling luggage to the weight of 3001 be. r drei Zoll-Centner) fur each pas. senger shall be conveyed at the rate of seven silver P.len niges per German mile —the same rate to be maintained whether the luggage • iminp . oy the passengers or not. Lloyds . , at the end of • respective reilwars every three months, shall pay to the e additional charges for all luggage which shall exceed t' ao average weight of 30011 u. for each person—those' chug' es to be fixed, according to the usual tariff for surplus we ht . Respecting the , conveyance of couriers and their de spatcheslna par . acts All the directors of the respective lines of railways unite to the utmost of their power, with Austrian Lloyd s' in the endeavour to obtain the English (Anglo-India' .) mails for the German route, and, for that purpose, they will forward, with the greatest possible speed, the couriers oetween London and Trieste, and pledge them selves durir the calendar year 1848 to fulfil the following conditions;During 48 lours (beginning from the period which istrian Lloyds' each time shall have clearly pointed out) alr comotive will be kept ready, by night and by day, in orde r that the couriers of that company may, twice every month ,he forwarded on their journey. between Trivsta and O.ts , id two hours, at the latest, after the arrival of the tele grafhic or written notice to that effect. Two passenger eal riagee and a goods one will be attached to the locomo. re. The telegraphic or written notices will be I .orwarded in the most expeditious manner by the respective companies. Herr Helmer, as the repre sentative of Austrian Lloyds', stated that the maximum price to which he could consent for those courier con veyance,' would be 300/. sterling. The respective railway companies, on the other hand, fix the sum at six Prussian thalers per German mile. The directors also pledge them selves to provide special trains for couriers between London and Trieste, on the foregoing terms, with the difference, however, that the ordinary prices for special trains be en forced. Austrian Lloyds' will be allowed not only to send by those courier trains despatches and packets to the weight of 1,0001b5., but also to forward passengers by them, on the condition that each be provided with the usual " travelling book," and that the respective railway companies shall have the privilege of placing their own passengers in the carriages when not filled, or of attaching other carriages to the train, without, however, diminishing the speed agreed to. The companies do not bind themselves to forward the luggage of parties travelling in those courier trains, with the passen gers themselves. The speed of the courier trains shall be at the rate of one German mile per ten minutes, including stoppages, the respective companies promising, moreover, to endeavour to effect a greater speed. NATIONAL DEPENCES.—Sir —I have read in the public journals with surprise, letters of the most eminent men of the kingdom as warriors and diplomatists on our national defences against an enemy—surprise, I repeat, that Er gland is in so deplorable • state of defence, and that men :mowing it should think proper publicly to declare it. I cannot think that this is wise policy. The letters may possi bly have a good effect, but I doubt much that showing the nakedness of the land will ensure it. They seem to me • sort of indirect invitation to visit us. We are rich and have ' plenty of money, but we have no strong coffers that you may not easily break. Let us have no more talk of our defence less state ; let us work and not talk ; let us put ourselves in a position todefy and not encourage an enemy. lam one of Mr. Urquhart's constituents ; he promised much if elected, but I should like to see him some out a little better than attacking Lord Palmerston. I don't like cure barking at mastiffs. Let all difference in polities sink in the great ques tion et national defence.—onszavan, Stafford, Jan. IQ. Zig Court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, and attended by the Viscountess Canning, the Marquis of °monde, Mr. G. E. Anson, Major-General Wemyss, Maor-General Bowles, and Lieut. Col. Seymour, arrived at Claremont soon after four o'clock on Monday afternoon from Windsor Castle. Yesterday morning the royal children took their usual airings in Claremont Park. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. The Duchess of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from her residence at Kew. The Right Hon. Dr. Lushiagton had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Hume-office. Mr. Palliser had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet. Mr. J. S. Brickwood, Public Works, South Sea House, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday from his seat, Howick Hall, Northumberland. (From last night's Gazette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 11.—It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received tram Lord Cowley, her Majesty's Minister Plenipteutiary at the Sublime Porte, a despatch, dated the let of December last, inclosing an official communication Irma Aali Effendi, the Turkish ! Minister for Foreign Affairs, stating that the Porte has raised the blockade of the coast of Albania. The tenour of the official note from the Turkish minister is as follows : It was notified to you, M. le Ministre, by an official note, dated 21 Shushan last (3rd August), that the coasts of that part of Albania called Toscalij were blockaded, &oaths; eh a blockade would continue until the acts of rebellion milted by certain seditious persons were repressed ; ea se according to the official intelligence which the Sublime pat: just received from his Excellency Rechid paeba , maser of the army of Roumelia, the rebels, being unable t ma t the imperial troops, have been completely disper se d , 00 , thanks be to God, trouble and disorder have given pica — r o eafety and tranquillity ; and I have, in consequence, th e 00 , tisfaction to announce to you, without delay, that tjo . blockade in question is raised from the 18th of Ziletncli I sot (Oct. 28). Dated Nov. 23, 1847. WHITEHALL, JAN. 10.—The Queen has b ee , pleased to appoint Archibald iiavidson, Esn., Adv.cat e , Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Ab - er,:c e ,: in th e room of John Thomson Gordon, Esq., resigned Tb i Queen has also been pleased to appoint John Cowan. E a, Advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Kinc se ,. dine, in the roam of Archibald Davidson, Esq., resigned, CONFIRMATION OF THB ELECTION op DR. HAMPDEN TO THE SEE OF HEREFORD, A summary of the following appeared in the E. press of last evening. The confirmation of the election of Dr. }impac t being appointed to take place yesterday, and the active oe. position to the proceedings on the part of many atheis t e l, have opposed the nomination being anticipated, the lino, quiet parish-church of St. Mary-le-Bow, in Cheseside, p seated from an early hour a scene of very considerable er c itement. As that important functionary, the church - Neal e assured us, " a bustling day was expected of it," and sly parish authorities had made preparations accordi r o y Midway down each of the three aisles strong barrie r had been erected, making the sacred edifice assum e e much of the character of a polling-place, as of a cliere e Nor was the comparison vitiated by the appearance of the parties who assembled. The parishioners entitle/ to pews were instructed that if they desired to tetai s them they must assemble before 10 o'clock ; but with the, there came, even at that early hour, many who bore on tee s countenances marks of as strongly heated party feelings as an election contest was absolutely on the tapia. A e c ,d, of policemen were brought in before the doors open e d, „ a stationed at various parts of the church, es if to keep the peace in the assembly. When the doors were opened, half.past ten, there was a most indeeerous rush Meshy body of the church and a general scramble for plame l e ae s were lifted over the high-backed pews in the body of t e. building ; and in the galleries every back seat was t a k en pos . session ofes a standing place. The parties who there forced themselves in seemed a very miscellaneous company. 'eh, majority appeared young men of the clerk class, whose ban. nee in the church appeared somewhat to require ere', tion. There was the usual proportion of mere idlers, sad sprinkled with these we observed several clergymen, soa k we regret to say, not unknown as occupants of uetr o p o je, pulpits'. The reserved pews were occupied by a more select congregation. In those nearest to the pulpit we 'Amtrak several well-known City faces, and one of those opposite toss occupied by Mr. Alderman Salomon and the common ones cif of the ward. The first large pew from the communes table was reserved for the bishop elect and other officers. Thee were also present the Dean of Hereford, the Rev. W. 8. X Bennett, Rev. D. Wright, and Itev. E. Hawking. Drs. Addams, Harding, and It. Phillimore, appeared advocates for the objectors. Mr. Townsend, of the firm el Townsend and Robartes, as their proctors. The objectors, whe were afterwards named, were, the Rev. It. Webster Stanley, M.A., of All Souls College, Oxon, vicar of Albee bury, in the diocese of Hereford; the Key. John Jehb, MA., of Trinity College, Dublin, rector of Peterstow, in the diocese of Hereford; and Rev. W. F. Powell, M.A., of the Cniver eity of Cambridge, vicar of Cirencester, in the diocese of Gloucester. Precisely at 11 o'clock, the Venerable Archdeacon Hanel. ton, rector of St. Mary-le-Bow entered the reading-desk from the vestry, and was followed into the church by the vicar-general and other officers, and last of all by the bishop elect, Dr. Hampden, who, after some trilling delay . occa sioned by the arrangement of places, took his sea: en the pew reserved for him. To those who do not know Dr. flamed, n, it may be interesting to state that he is a small, slight-made man, of not less, to all appearance, than sixty. five or seventy years of age. The right rev. prelate's fer tures are rather large ; his forehead high; nose promitent ; and cheeks somewhat sunk. He has quick eyes—very little dark grey hair, combed straight upon the head, and a slight whisker. Upon the whole, there is nothing in his appearance distinguished or striking. On entering his pew, tee right rev. divine immediately knelt, sied until the con elusion of the service appeared absorbed in prayer. Oa rising after the Litany, he slightly glanced around Lira, and then immediately walked from his place and took hid seat at the table facing the vicar-general, and with his back to the public. Dr. Hampden appeared in no degree nervous or excited by the proceedings . The Venerable Archdeacon HAMILTON read the Litany. At the conclusion of the service, the vicar-general and other officers took their seats at the table in the centre aisle, where chairs hod been placed for their accoMmedation. The registrar then read the citatory letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, constituting the court for confirmation. The proctor, who appeared for the Dian and Chapter of Hereford, then presented Dr. Hampden to the court, and exhibiting his mandate, prayed that all opposers might be publicly called. The Appariter-General made the usual proclamation, whereupon Mr. TOWNSEND came forward and said :—Right worship. ful Sirs, I appear here for the Rey. Robert Webster Hunt ley, M.A., the Rev. J. .1. Jebh, M.A., and the Rev. F. W. Powell, and exhibit their proxies for the purpose of opposing the confirmation of Dr. Hampden. The VICAIt-GINERAL—We are here under the mandate from the clown, issued pursuant to the statute 25th Henry VIII., as cominimiouna on the put of his Grace the Arch. bishop of Canterbury, to conerm the election. The provi sions of the statute are imperative, and we cannot, without incurring the pains and penalties of the statutes of provision and pramunire, refuse to confirm, or permit any act in oppo sition to such proceeding. Dr. ADDAMS—I bi ing before the right worshipful court a libel on the part of the objectors who have been named against the confirmation of the Rev. Dr. Rein Dickson Ha:npden, as Bishop of Hereford. The VICAIEGENERAL—Youcannot be permitted to appear to support any objection to this proceeding, and you must know very well, as an ecclesiastical advocate, that you can. not be permitted to Ding in a libel for such a purpose. Dr. HATTORI:I —I must oppose my learned friend's being heard at all. Dr. ADDAMS—I must, nevertheless, claim to be heard. The VICAR-twin to--What do you wish to be heard upon ? Dr. ADDAMS—In the first place—only as to the cone:mo tion of the statute to the right of the objector to be heard at all. The Vteen-filesteiteL—Yost will confine yourself strictly to that. Dr. Annexe—Certainly ; I do not propose to address a word u_pon any other point to the court. Dr. LESHINOTON : You distinctly understand that you are now to addressy ourself solely to the question as to year right to be heard ? Dr. ADDAMS : Perfectly ; and after what I shall bate to say es to the construction of the statute, and the pr. ceders I ! shall have to submit, I shall be surprised if the diei.ian of the court should be, that it is inoompcteet to entertain ob jections to the present confirmation, under the impression that by doing so it will fall within the penalties of pratnein4re. Dr. HAYFORD: I must object to my learned friend being beard at all. The court has already decided that it will not i bear the objectors ; my learned friend, therefore, is not ap. peering here for anybody. Dr. LtSHINGTON : Dr. Addams will address himself to the question, whether he has • right to be heard or not. Sir J. HODSON : And Dr. Addams must pledge himself that his observations shall be confined to that question. Dr. Annexe: Certainly I do. The learned advocate pro- I eroded with his argument, first by a reference to the origin I of the statute, and the practice of appointing bishops in the ' early days of papal supremacy. The bishops in . those 'days . having been nominated by the chapter, it was required that they should be confirmed by the Pope, but the Pope not being satisfied with the power which the right of confirmation gave him in sisted on that of collating or nominating, and this it wee that produced the first enactment on the au';ject, via., the 25 Edw. 111., cap. 16, which expressly gave the crown the right to col late and nominate. This was the first act dip puting the right of the Pope, end so the matter stood until the 23rd year of the reign of Henry_ VIII., when there was a statute on attar which was alluded to by Burnet, but wnot nted in the p redecess or which statute was the foundation s and immediate of the act of 25 Henry VIII., that now under consideration. The preamble of that act stated that," whereas large sums of money were conveyed out of this realm to the impoverishment of the same, eme. cially money taken out to the Pope from English bishoprics, under the title of annals or first fruits, under the Popes bulls for confirmation, and other things necessary on the appointment of new bishops, which sums the bishops ment of annets or first fruits was grounded o n no le g al rig h t ewmereolumcoemnPets ll o e f d th to eir pa b y ish be op f r o i r o e , th au e re d y wh m ere ivd u e th ey e n .i o he d f p t ay. or custom, and was opposed both to equ it y and justice. And the enactment prohibited such pa ens for the future, and provided that if any person elected to any bishopric was delayed in entering upon his office by being refused con firmation by the Pope's bull, he should be confirmed by de archbishop of the pros ince, or by two bishops named b y' king, after which he should be duly invested. This act the immediate predecessor of the one in question, and i passed to prevent the encroachments of the papal see. this period, which Burnet described as an intermediate sti between papal supremacy and the reformation, the juriedic. tion of the Pope was not altogether denied. He was styled his holiness, and in a letter written the year after the passing of this statute, Henry in writing to him commences— " After many commendation, and most devoutly kissing your blessed feet." Bulls were still obtained from Rome or the consecration of bishops when Cranmer was appointed' the archbishopric of Canterbury. Henry, not being desirous at that moment to break with the Pope, sent to him for the bulls for Cranmer's promotion; and accordingly bulls' addressed to the King, the dean and chapter, and the laity of the province, were forwarded, appointing Cranmer to t/ vacant archbishopric, together with one addressed to'- Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London, directing them to consecrate. This was in 1.533, and was the last tee hulls from the Pepe were admitted during that reign ; almost immediately after, the final breach beeweeo lie and Home took place, and all persons were forbid& under the penalties of prmnunire, to appeal to Rome. The act now under consideration was the 25th Henry VIII., by which it was enacted that no person should hereafter be nominated by, or presented to, the Pepe on being elected to any bishopric in this country. In ever other respect except that which permitted the l'ope interfere by bull, or otherwise, in the appointees' bishops, the former act stood. Another clause empo' UNITED STATES.-MEXICO, The packet ship Liverpool arrived yesterday in the Mersey, with dates from New York to the 23rd ult. The Liverpool brings 10,0001. in specie. The news from Mexico is of great interest. Santa Anna having. as was before stated, issued a pro nunciamento—against the provisional government at Queretaro, calling upon them to organise a force of 1 50,000 men, for the purpose of renewing the war, a pronunciamento in his favour had been made by the military , at Queretaro. He had left Tehuacan on the 22nd of November, and had assumed the command of the army at Oajaca. He says that he was de , priced of the command by Pena f Pena, in order that the latter might find no obstacle in making peace with the Americans. Ile avows hie determination to oppose any negotiation for peace with the American forces oo copying any portion of the Mexican territory. He was said to be at the head of a force of 16,000 men of all arms, and was threatening Congress in session, at Queretaro, most of whose members were inclined to peace. So great were the fears enter tained at Mexico by the Americans of Santa Anna's succeeding in breaking , up Congress d la Cromwell, that General Scott had ordered thither a strong force I to protect their deliberations. Gen. Filizola was at Queretaro, with a force of 2,000 men. The general in-chief, Bwitamente, had yet his head-quarters at Guanajuato with an army of 9,000. The new President, Anaya, is in favour of peace,but his election was not popular. Many members of the Congress, displeased with it, had given up their seats, and retired in disgust from the city of Queretaro. However, there remained yet more than the fixed number which is required to form a quorum. There was et ery chance, however, of the Congress breaking up very shortly, without taking any decided reso lutions. The British ChargC , d'Affaires had arrived at Queretaro and taken up hie temporary residence In that city. The dates from the Mexican capital are not positively stated, bat they are a few days later than those brought by the West Indian mail. The most im portant news from the capital is a e arrest of Gene rals Worth and Pillow, and Colonel Duncan, by order of General Scott. They are charged with reflecting in an improper manner upon the general-in-chief of the American army. The charge is founded upon their correspondence, which has fallen into his hands. The train under command of Gen. Patterson left Jalapa on the 23th of Nov. Six hundred men were left by him to garrison that place. The ayontainiento were made to recognise the commander of these forces got erner, civil and military. The large train, under the command of Gen. Butler, had ',early all left Vera Cruz. The number of men accomplinpug it is estimated at 8,000. Gen. Scott would soon have from 2.1,000 to :MMUS men. Gen. Urrea was said to have been captured by the Comanche Indians. The road was entirely opened between Vera Crux and the city of Mexico, and small parties could travel without danger. The commissioners sent by Congress from Queretaro to treat with Mr. Trig, had returned there, as we have already stated, unsuccessful. A train of thirty-six waggons belonging to mer chants in Mexico and Puebla, left the latter place on Nov. 8, with a lot of tobacco, dry goods, and brandy, destined for Mexico. On reaching San Martin, Gens. Rea and Torrejon, in command of the guerilla forces there, mado a descent upon the waggons, captured th..:m, and 'darted off for Queretaro via Tlascala. In formation was conveyed to Gen. Lane, at Puebla, who started after them with a force of infantry, and the cavalry command of Capt. Roberts. When they reached Tlascala, they found the enemy there, and Capt. It., who had been sent to the rear of the town, seeing a movement to run off the train, charged upon the guerillas, completely routing them, killing seven teen, and taking thirteen officers prisoners. In the meantime a portion of the waggons which had been taken a mile from the town by a party of the enemy, were set on tire and six destroyed before the infantry came up, a ho rescued the remainder. la the Hone. of Representatives, at Washington, on , the 20th, Mr. Calhoun moved that a day be fixe d for considering his resolutions, which are, as has been stated, to the effect that the conquest and annexation of Mexico would be hazardous to and subversive of the republiuist institution of the states ' and declaring against the adoption of any policy which would lead to consecucnces so disastrous. It was understood after ' • discussion that the first Tuesday in January was agreed upon as the day for the opening of the debate upon these resolutions. Mr. Dickinson also moved to make his resolutions the special order for that day two weeks, and in the course of the debate, i after some discussion between Mr. Calhoun and Mr. (, Dickinson, on the question of precedence, the latter member contended for the priority of his resolutions, and his right to discuss them before they were super- , seded or embarrassed by other propoeitione. Mr. Cass said that with all respect to the opinions of Mr. Dick inson lie (Mr. Cass)did not see the practical importance of his resolutions. No man in the United States was in favour of the extinguishment of the Mexican repub lie ; and it would be one of the strangest proceedings in the world for the senate to give a negative vote upon the subject of the intentions of America to wards Mexico.—Mr. Calhoun was glad to think that the extinction of Mexico was not contemplated by any man. But a paper could scarcely be taken up in which the proposition was not spoken of. What he contemplated was to arrest by these resolutions a contingency that might occur. It was said there was not the slightest danger of war when the American troops were marched down to the Rio Grande. What next? The object of the war was to conquer a peace. Now that was dropped. Now the object was a vigo rous prosecution of the war, and the question was, not what was intended, but what was to come ? This made it a practical question. The senate was now sound upon this question, and that was the time to I test it. Mr. Dickinson ultimately withdrew his motion. On the 21st a petition from Ohio setting forth that the slave trade was carried on to a considerable extent in the district of Columbia, and praying that the laws of Congress may be examined, was presented. On the question of support to the army, Mr. Vinton, from the committee of ways and means, reported a bill making appropriations to supply, in part, a defi ciency for subsistence in kind, for the army and volunteers, for the year ending the 30th of June, 1848. The bill appropriates a million of dollars. Besides doings in Congress, there are other items of interest. The following is a copy of a letter addressed by Gen. Taylor to a distinguished member of Con gress, from Pennsylvania. This letter purports to be a reply to one received from a committee of that state, acting for a public meeting, which nominated hint for the presidency : HEAD OCARTERA, ARMY OF OCCUPATION, BRAZOS ISLAND, Texas, Nov. 2.5, 1847.-1 have read the resolu tions adopted by the meeting with great pride and pleasure, and I beg you to convey to the members of the meeting, on a suitable occasion, my thanks for the distinguished honour they have PO flatteringly bestowed upon me, and my as surance that 1 have no wish nr intention of changing the I position in which I stand toward the people of the country in relation to the presidency, or the course which 1 have felt it my duty to pursue.—(Sigucd) Z. TAYLOR, Major. Gen. U. S. A. This, says the New York Herald, is distinct and positive. General Taylor has been placed. involunta rily us to him, in the position of a candidate for the presidency. The politicians in favour of the candi dates of the whigs or democrats, have been trying to induce him to decline, for several months past, and have even been threatening him, as Santa Anna did, by pointing to the multiplicity of their forces, the number and power of their candidates, when there were such numerous troops of candidates on all sides —Mr. Clay, Mr. Van Buren, Mr. Polk, and the Lord knows how many others, in the field. General Taylor, however, declines to surrender, with the same promptness and bravery which he exhibited towards Santa Anna. There is no help for them, therefore, now ; but they must go on and fight the battle of Buena Vista for the next Presidency. General Tay lor, with his five thousand friends and supporters, independent of all parties, is now in the field against the many thousands and thousands of opposing fao dons. A correspondence has taken place between the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Ameri can Minister at that court, relative to the repeal of the navigation laws of Great Britain. Mr. Bancroft applied to Viscount Palmerston, early in November, to learn whether ministers would consent to establish with the United States a perfect system of reciprocity, in making all vessels of either country, fitting out from any port in the world, free to trade to any port of the ot:.er nation, whether home or colonial. Vis count Palmerston , the lapse of some weeks, re plied that, altheugh her Majesty's ministers did not feel at liberty to advise her Majesty at once to make such a change in the commercial system as was asked by Mr. Bancroft, without the sanction of parliament, yet as soon as that body would meet a measure would be introduced which would embrace all the views put forth by Mr. Bancroft in his note. It is not doubted that parliament will at once act favourably on the bill. The New York Herald on ::;!, subject says :—" The importance to the United States o f suc j i ,;, measure cannot be exaggerated. The British colonial system n,:..• been a most grievous re ' striction upon our commerce, and its anui.:=O:mn, as promised by Viscount l'almerston, will open to our enterprising merchants the lucrative trade of the East and West Indies, and of the other British settlements, from which they have been hitherto debarred. This will be the greatest stride yet taken b 7 free trade, and it is not to be doubted that all Europe will follow the example of Great Britain. The liberal commercial treaty made by Hanover with the United States has been, in no small measure, in strumental in disposing the British government to this wise measure. The Rhine provinces have re cently imitated the example of Hanover towards the United States ; and everywhere, silently, but steadily, our commercial relations are being put upon the most advantageous footing. The repeal by Great Britain of the laws restricting the trade of the United States with her colonies will be far more beneficial to this country than any commercial treaty ever made by cur government." The American journals announce the loss of the U. S. cutter Crawford, Capt. Gay Moore, which had been on New London station, and which went ashore on the east side of Gardner's Point. Boats were low ered immediately, after taking in sail, and kedge and hawser run out and hauled taut, with a heavy sea running. But the crew finding there was no chance of relieving the vessel from her situation were obliged, on account of the sea breaking over her so heavily, to leave her. No lives were lost, though two men were drawn through the surf by ropes, it being their only chance of escaping death. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. New Ironic, Dee. 23.—The Hibernia is now in herl 1 lh day, and, unlem some disanter has happened, must be near at hand. Until she arrive', there will not be much activity in any of the market, an no one in disposed to operate In FLOCita or anything else until something definite in known relative to financial affaire on the other nide. The anxiety for news is increased by the impression generally entertained that the next account will be much more favourable than the Lint. etocko. heavy.. Prices fell off a fraction all round; therearanmoredis peeitton to tell at ruling rates. At the first board Reading fell off 4 per cent., Reading howls: 4, Long Inland 4, Canton 4, Farmer's Loan ; Treasury notes, 'l 4 ) Wool ; Harlem, 41 to 411 ; Norwich aid Wor cester, 374. At the second board there were very few is dm, without any *iteration in prima. The Hibernia is now is her nineteenth day, and unless some digaster has happened, mast be near at hand. Until sbe an iven there will not he much activity in any of the markets, :a no sine is dinprxed to operate in ntockg or anything clue, until some thing definite a, known relative ta financial affairs on the other side. The anxiety for news ;. increased by the immersion generally enter tained that the next amount. will be much more (avowable than the last. The thipments of domestic product, Rom New Or leans to foreign ports, in each of the pant two months, and the aggregate to domestic port, in the name period, were to annexed ; canon:ace OF TUE FORT or on OILLEANII—VALUE OF EXPORTS. (let. 1817. Nov. 1847. Total. In foreign vessels to American vesicle 1,232,133 1,816,905 3,069,038 1,323,733 2,077,336 3,401,061 fillipawntx In coa6tirim 2,620,990 vessel for rant :nths Total for two months 6,077,071 dole. Thia lea very fair amount for this femme of the year, in the face of the great reduction in prices, and the little disposition generally exhi bited to forward any of the palocipil staples of that section of the country. The exporting semaso of the south usually is at its height about the month. of December and Jailenry ; but tic derangement of trade has teen so great from the recent revulsion in Europe, that it he impossible to tell whit course shipment& will take this year. We have given so many instances lately of the measures remained to on the other lade to annul unprofitable !shipments on ac. count of foreign hones form this side, and have shown that s /lisp°. sitlon exists in Great Britain to take advantage of every quibble to avoid receiving shipments ordered, to such an extent, that the utmost caution is exe in forwarding fresh lump,. There is hardly a shipping house at the south bat that has heretofore repeatedly been compelled to have their shipments sold on the other side on their own account, and suffer the lows, whatever It has been. In the tvent of cotton arriving in Liverpool, having been shipped upon direct orders, and the market price rules below that current at the time the order was sent out, or below cost, the most dithonourable quibbles about Maple and grade are resorted to for the purpose of avoiding taking the cargo. In this way the cage is thrown upon the hands of the shipping party on this aids, and sold for his account-the party by whom it was ordered, and to whom it was met, refusing to receive it at any price. FLotit -The features of the Hour market remained un changed. Holden manifested very little disposition to sell in large lots, unless at some advance from purchasers, who seemed .alro bulbs posed to eater the market, ropeciarly for capon, until later foreign advice, could be received. The sales of all kimb were moderate, and on terms which did not differ materially from quotation, current yes terday. With the exception of mull sales of Southern, there were no transactims reportod Once was finn, and further sales male at Pal prices. There was no change In rye. Oats were firm at yesterday's prices. Sales of provisions were made on terms stated below. there we. no change of moment in groceries. Astitgei.-The sales of both aorta amounted to about 100 Mile., at :idols. 50e. for loch and at 7 dole. for pear's. 11READSTI:Pre.-1 . lour The sales footed up about 600 to 100 bids., including good pure straight brands Demme, at 6 dole. to 6 ,LAs. and conimun in oak bbls. at t dole 121 c.; pure Michigan at 6 dots. ; 31st extra Ohio at 7 digs. ; 200 do., a little better than commie, at 6 dole. 311 e.: 600 ishin. Brooklyn at 6 dols. Ole.; llou Ohio fancy at 6 don. 75c. to 6 dots. 874 c.; 3,000 do., this State, deliveraolc In March next, 2,000 of which oommanded 8 dots. 311 c, and I,tato do. at 6 dub- 371. What-We have only to notice a entail sale of AM bushels anathema at 1 dot, tile. Cora.-The sales reached about 10 to 12,00 D bushels. including northeni round yellow and white, at 83 to Ste. delivered, and high mixed at 78c., and round northern mixed 80c. Meat reiaaineol about the same. Rye wail steady at 85c. Oats.-A cargo was cold at 51e. COFFEE.-Sales of 400 hags Rio damaged were made by auction at D. to 41c. cash. Corron.-The market continued inactive, but firm never theless ; holders bring indisposed to bring out 51606 except at full prices. The sales to-day did not amount to more than 400 bales. We quote as before. 1.1V66.00L CLwAtirleArum New ()Mesa., Uplands. Florida. Mob. 10 Tex. 6 77 1 to toto 6 77 1 Inferior none. pone. none. Ordinary Middling .... Good Middling.-- 71 to 7 to 7 Middling Fair ..„ 8 to 01 toe 0 to 8 FAX e 1 S to Fully Fair Si to al none. 8 to 9 Good Fair bi to 9 none. 9 to 94 Fine PISOVIRIONS.-Old pork continued dull, and was quoted at 12 dubs. for mass, and at 8 dolt for mime. 1,000 bbla. old mess was reported sold at 11 dole ltd bblis. emir prime sold at 7 dots. 50c., and 66 ditto at 8 dohs. 75c. 700 tinted Winchester new shoulders and hams to arrive were sold at 7 dolt to 51 dole.-Lard: The sales of "Lellands" new city, noticed yesterday, mold at 101, and not at 104. Sales of some iota country new sold at Bc. to-day; and 300 kegs prime sold at Sc., and 150 bbl,, sold at 61e. to die-Cheese Sales of 100 boxes fresh Herkimer were made at 7c., sal 150 ditto Oh to good sold at 6/c. Inferior qualities were dull -gutter: Good was in steady de mand, while common and inferior we. in a measure unsaleable. RTES.-Sales of 60 to 70 tierces were made at 3 dots. 124 c. to 3 dolt 374 e. The market remained about the same. 500.514.-Sales 130 Mids. New Orleans prime were made at 5 to 51c., and 20 damaged sold by auction at 4 to 44e. cask. Woon.-Saks of 2GO logs Cuba mahogany were made by auction at 64 to 45c., 22 logs cedar do. and 97 logs mahogany at 84 to 10c., on the usual time. FItEIOIITB.-To Liverpool the rates continued at about Id. for grain in bulk, and Is. 9d. for flour and meal, and 3.16 to Icl. for round and square bales cotton; 355. was paid for tobacco to the continent To Havre 1.3. per lb. seamed to be the rate. There was nothing new to London. ENCIIINCIE.-Little doing ; steady at 110 to 1101. CINCINNATI, Dee. 22.-Flour was firmer, and we report ales of 300 or 400 barrel's, part city mills, and some a little fancy I country, 5 dolt 500. There was not much grain offering, and trans actions were very light Hon,. Sales of 3,000 hwul were made at 2 dots. 75c. Wheat : Salsa of 200 to SOO bushels good Ohio mold at 1 dol. lc. Provialens.-Lard Oaks of 500 packages were made on private terms. The late freshet proved very destructive. The river was again falling. BALTIMOUE, Dec. 22.-Flour : The market was rather quiet, and dealers appeared to be waiting for atearner's news. We note sales of 500 barrels Howard-street at il dots, 25c. to 6 dolt 37c. What: Sales of 3,000 beeline were made, including Maryland. red, at 1 goL 30c., and family white at 1 661. 40c. Corn : Sales of 5,00 0 bushels were made, Including Maryland mixed and yellow, at floe. to 64.:. BOSTON, DEC. 22.-Flour The market was steady, and sale. of 000 brit were made, including Genacinee, and good brands Michigan and Oswego at 6 dole. 374 e. Corn : Sales of 6,000 bushels were made, including western mixed, at Vic., and yellow ditto at 83e. Oats bales of 5,000 bushela were made at 30c. to 51e. Seed : Sales of 500 tags were modest 1 dol. 450. per bushel. There was no change of moment in proviaions. Freights remained about the same. 11616- neas rather dull, on account 01 the absence of the steamer, and holi days being et hand. " li rli ;• the King, in the esti of A.I g the dean and chapter, , aac eestery in the cue of missive, containing the p ga ited to choose ; and en • . prior an d convent, shoule lira in case of default for t Certainly not that of pr • nelty still ; the only e .• would then nominate 1 i Then as to the constr.,. • to nothing about the p ie, " Whenever and• ' the King's letters p t • archbishop or bishop and consecrate." Th. : this cue. This had .•3 election; "and shall pt rf• withoul. p ro curing or et . ar y:4e." That was, i Hame, but at once peme ~ c h a pter, or prior and missive elected the part. - • • enactment, the electio all penal ty and purposes n o , but the Kin , party nominated ahem , : Bishop elect, and, on King (formerly it was t King signifying the o:e. ar chbishop and the m . Wisest the party so nom , went by nomination, co ~ 1 the case of an electio , came now to the 7th me • at it appeared to him. i would incur the penult firm. This section was, ' prior and convent of cr y I of any cathedral church. I ' is within the King's dr , . I e to them, neglect t o proi. , f same according to the t , n next after receipt of sue•i 1 ties of premun ire. ” i which was manifest tar . P ter proceeded to the Ole. *. it ▪ • choose the party name,' • . election at all, or c. . a penalty, the only come . 11 is use would nominate . . days they did not pro( • . - d the penalties of preen ti is what was the meaning .1 L setting up of the papal x unless the court should be d tion in the present caw • a rity of the pope : a ties of premunire w et more tbeedn o e with the IL never passed. is bishop. cc any of er ships), in reference 'o . * maintain, or execute any es diction, inhibitions, or u A name, or quality Was • r, act "—that was to say t se in all respects without re d ' they would incur the - e It them what premunir, w it were many other acts if ' e. • which its penalties wi re 1., granting ecclesiastical he If non, at it was called. - ver /' - the life of the intim , of against this practice, . 111. down to Richard 1 A. reign was passed the eta lk that if any person sl.oul he or elsewhere, any b eP tion or otherwise, a; *- questioning the legelit • he should be put out of the )r. goods be forfeited ; tha. Ms vaunt him, and he h' . t 7. , answer to the charge. ea. from the first word: of it; the offence of pre/Motif ups paps] authority against I a circumstance under whi his be incurred under the ar, thing whereby the 1• 3 1 on- of that of the crown. S Oa of the act since its pawl. tad . but few precedents as tat During the reign o E the that reign .at act pasted I or donative by letters rate. was the hat in that my. cadents showing .ha. and cognised by the Pipe. ale, . showing that there The as to this statute of lien hop Pole ' who came to En: The elected, was not cent' . ord, was burnt in 14.56. U. • his ever, the investment d. This was all that w a • ion, the reign of Queen hi• the consecration of his. hip. previous to the 2btli of ant- authority of bulls On • W. had some knowlect7e o sing the tint archbishop. ap having after much eat date cone d'elire was is,•nt miry the chapter being aunt rch. not an unusual cm .pr. :•avi. named Parker accerili tout chapter confinnine th- in= tember the greir. .. efh- log certain big, .ps ter was delayec, art a for what cause he em med named in the mu= Icon objected to the etc .tio were cited to tops tr. pear bishops would have ci oust hear them, or that . care penalties of premmi could not he an e , .• King opposed to such a vi, No one coming to .. I. confirmed. Titer Lewd wished to draw U. i a. perhaps even more tree stating the mann, r • surd were any obje to due form of ew rictly tague an ohjec or, support his object en en a of nut having bee .• with the objectioi a you other day ; and 3 o your had not Leen give i i proctor ; and the .1) . we to nation proceeded , its I as to the conduct .1 on of eminent civilian 3 .• a ob- " have stood had it • mire posed he would h r- etire. bad he permitted i being think so It was II not submitted that 3r. ot ap• statute, or the 1.. whether taken on :h elf to obvious that by a,. lii t posing it to be m. de weir not what he was t le. ea they appeared o _ c pro- *ire and, admit . . in. or i g i n forM• they were 1 cc in the cadent to receive .t. those Dr. }LAUDING 0 t was it was a mockery w the a court of law .- i the refuse to hear U. .• m in- eity_ in the tour it was " Hear, hear," '-•h' is., the cd the court.) 1•e en the this point, but s . we dir legal view of th, q I until were now ac at: .re was to be constre :d et, but to see that th was the elected. The cea Henry ther the electim of that proper man. It. . flveyed opposers' object o• e, nee- ha was a persca topria, heretic, convict , d - Pope's to him in such a . on the Objection fulgh. . bishops to give evidenc , ; ‘, _ ~ jull t i c peering k = 1 : 11 " : 4 e w c: lleyr l i e s :ft t o i llo a ,r . , i s d h :t e .c i b t i t Yr s. a ' . w .. i .e.l : . of the kid pay- solemn declaim. ; ,al nght th em look o:. oda. : future, aeon law of E • pric was eed coc- aby the i Cr. R. Pim id dby the . • quitted the ca. , o act welt -, fugue as a pre • . and we We. At 4 r. DAVE() .. cute state jurisdie. !ft The Viext e as styled e steal of the ~ e passing - Court, was eh ar menus — •• Armation coal,. • -, be directly to •p Remy , He was also 0- • stinted to ...' the penalties :.1 !desirous dkence to the i oy m for the • • He might oh* , ly Wit. . Addams that '.. the laity .. seeding in the aer to the ... been acted on o ed to the ' witnesses were . directing be admitted, '.. . last time . they were to be rip; tor where laid do• en Henry authority on i. forbidden, Whet. er any • • to }Wine. Net able to so , . h e 2.5 th , ttt *court was person left them no se no the Pope of the lord bas. In every the eur p,,• Cathedral Ch k 1 tope to conceit d Dr. Lreiti . i wiuther the ispowered