The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-02 00:00:00

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ON the day after the recent dinner at Tnmworth, and when, a, waa supposed, the popular indignation had pamed away, the unhappy intruders of the night before endeavoured to make the best of their way, unobseretil. nut of the town. The rumour of their being about to depart quickly aroused, however, the slumbering ill-humour of the many, end they had not proceeded fur cru they were once more the object of attention inore pressing than agreeable. A sym pathising contemporary concludes its picturesque narrative by informing us that it was only "by closing the blinds of the cnrriage and driving at full gallop that the party ward" unhurt from the in hospitable town. And is it come to this ? Are the chosen chiefs of that wid .--;we ad and . general reaction in favour of dearness and scarcity, already forced to provide for their personal safely from an ungrateful people, whom they h..ul undertaken to deliver from all the horrors of plenty ? _ . Wu. ever people in vueh humour wont ? \Ymever people in sueh humour won? l'enfound must be the faith or the philosophy which in the face of such energetic repudiation inn affect to believe that its doctrine,, are not loathed, and its apostles spurned as impeetuns? Otu• private opinion is that poor Mr. Voeso and Mr. lirooNr.R are the victims of their own sincerity. 'Their candour has been the special cause of their dis comfiture. NI any unwiriC mtn have bet ii hankerin g after pniteetion thu se last five years; hut few of them have had the rashness to say what they mean, in so many, or rather in so few words. Lord 011.1.% could never be brought to the point by any artifice of &Ante, and actually never conini;tteti him se•lf to a re-impsitien ut• taxi:. on Nod, until required to soy psitivcle what he meant, by the QCEEN, in the month of February last; and even then he took pains so to guard the proposition as to afford himself ec..ry flammable champ of making his escape from it in cane he should he phiad in a pooition of real re sponsibility. Mr. DistetEil has studiously abstained for now a long time front uttering anything more tangible than a taunt at the expense of Mr. Comm.:4, or a jest at the expense of the CHANCELLOR of the Excitrilt:Eft. And us for the future leader of the party in the Common., Mr. IVat.rotai, nub idy his ever yet heard him drop a hint upon th" abject of re-enacting a cot law. All these are in their generation wiser th n the children of bkilit. If they are as wanting in bowel,, of mere) , for the mast of their fellow-men, they at least affect to have more mercy for their bosels. They may have mule up their minds to legislate in favour of hunger, and to place all the prime neeessariis of life into the schedule of " commonly smuggled." lint they refrain from to intelligibly shout it beforehand. 'They air politieally well-hrisl if not politically humane; and they think it us well not to frighten their coveted patient by flourishing their operating knives, before he is stretched and hound on the t title of torture. Messrs. Si-mixt:a and Vol -a; disdain all reserve of this sort. they march about with their tourni quets and bunlages tagging for leave to fit them on forthwith on the plea of indispensable necessity. With inimitable word. they avow that by this ne cessity they mean that of the surgeons, who cannot live in luxury if other people are nut in a state of suffering ; and they boldly proceed, wherever t h ey can obtain u hearing, to prove that nothing betokens so much need of the knife as the perste).* of being in rude health. Frankness is often dangerous, but at Tamworth it had well nigh proved fatal. Ilad Mr. Disk %rat gone thither he would, in all probability, have made MI at tempt to persuade t he Tam wort hits that all desi nal was the U11 . 111.41111.11t 01 . 14x - 41 burdens, mid the more perfeet equalisation of the ilWillt•llee of taxation tine phi:l,4s, which have yet eaurral the breakage of a lime of glass is limn ldl or hotel, in any city or borough of the tit env'.. 111.111illiIIIM 114 d Lard Sr ts I. a. y %12.16.41 the pLICC he would have launched forth into eulogy of the great talents and unrivalled tecumplishments of the late lord of limy too, from whom he would for the hundredth time have declared that he difl red with deep regret, and only fro n t a sense of honour :tad duty. llud Mr. WALPOLV. hien oldie ' "mitering he wo u ld h ave s t uc k to the glories of the aaei. art mtimtitution of the realm. and the neiessity ut maintaining the dominant ride of lords spiritual and temporal: but not a syl lable would the wily adv.,. ate have breathed about a return to high tents and dear food; Nlr. ttaieme knows better. Hut the unaophistirated Srockyrn and the un youthful YOUNG are honest for th e a g e th e y five in ; and of Icrworai.vrt it may truly lie said that he is a Disraelite indeed in whmu there is no guile. Ile thinks what he ccays. and says what he thinks every where and when. Ilia 'tory voice is lifted upm Ile..1•6011 and lint of SejNon,--generally the latter. Ile has proved to his own satisfaction what he thinks ought bleat's', the dissatisfaction of every industrious mien in the realm, that the exonsion of our ex port market is ruinous• and that for 't people who live by trade the more we sell the worse uti we must be. Considering hew very incredulous we are UllOll this point • and that every day we are going farther and farther in the direction he so much de memos and dreads, nothing ern be more noble than 141 r. VWDE4i.eres self-devotion in crying aloud in the streets and market-places of the land that we are all staggering blindly down to ultimate smash by reason of the' extended business that free trade ry enabling us to do. Nlanufacturtes, merchants, shop keepers, artisans, labourerss men, women, and chil dren. are all sleeping uneonsciously. while the Hawk' of prosperity are rising higher and higher around them—nobody but the i t rep!d NEwurc tTE,SPOONER, and Yousi, offering, tit the risk of their own invalu able lines, to rescue them from their perilous posi tion. Seldom has anything finer been witnessed than the chivalrous efforts of these courageous men. Talk not to us of the generality or activity of other AKNUI:Mee 'fell us not of "(lobe's" and '• Pelicans —there are none of them to be compared with the old Vulture," established in lala by act of parliament. Jesting apart, what eon by any possibility come of a cause mu manifestly repugnant to the instinctive feelings of the masa of the community ? With any other cry the tory party might with compa ra ti ve prudence go to the hustings at a general election. Their rivals who Caine mitt) Office the. yearn ago with out any stoat of popularity to trade upon, have done little to render themselves formidable competitors for popular favour. And if, instead of impracticable projects of reaction, the tory chiefs were to outbid the whigs in any great essential ot' progress• whither financial, electoral, or colonial, no sincere lily ral would object, or could complain. But so long as' conservatism is synonymous with reaction and ae-reity of food, the Emotes and GREYS may con sider themselves secure in nowning-street. The people have no love for the system of government by a family clique;" but they will put up with any thiug rather than go through a social revolution— and a social revolution is inevitable should any man or set of men attempt to undo the great work of PEEL. To listen to Sir J AMES ORM! tit and other ultra catholic orators of the House of Commons, one would suppose that there was not a sin2le atom of property, or title to land or rents, at all in question an the present eccledastical discussion. According to Sir JAMES GRAHAM and hoe genus oniue, all that Lord JOHN is aiming at is a coercion of Homan catholic spirituality. It is a heavy chain upon con science, and a terrible breach of the freedom of Mi.' ;ions wolship. The Rao= catholic religion, argues Sir 'Atm, is an essentiallly• episcopal one. If you shake, touch,t or question ihe authority of the bishops, you nullify and degrade their clergy. But the Roman catholic is also a papal religion; so by shaking, touching, or question:3g the Pore, coo nullify and degrade the bishops. Thus the infallibill`v of the POPE, hi right to dominate Italy and missile his subjects—his power to place hinmell and his councils at the feet of Austria one moment, of France another—all are parts of the Roman catholic system; and Sir JAMES Iht.iitim well declares that to touch the l'org with the little finger of coercion,to compel him even to rule his subjects with humanity—this would be a decided aggression upon, and high treason to, the spi rituality of Roman catholicism. Wes ever such unstatesuiieilike nonsense? At every turn, at every step, at every joint of its I interminal'te hierarchy and supremacy, the church of ltome extends its sceptre or its influence from spiritualities to temporalities. There is no'. one tem poral engagement, or tc:upercl property. or tem- ' peril authority, that might not be claimed, nulli tied, or overborne by spiritual pretensions. Even at present, what is the real squabble about but the loaves and fishes? The Popo has divided'. England territorially, attached dignities and titles to his epi , eopal nominees. What are the duties of these? That is it that forms the chief care, and occupies the chief time of Cardinal Wlst:u.►x ? The conversion of souls? No such thing but the management of property. Whilst Sir J m G grand complaint is, that by declaring all papal rescripts illegal, that "touch the QUEEN, her crown, her regality, and the realm."—no unjust and tyran nical precautions—government is coercing, and wronging the spiritual supremacy of the Roman catho lic church. _ . The fact is, however, that if parliament and Lord 1011 N did really menace the spirituAliti.s, and nothing but spiritualities, we should hive heard no noise about it. For reallyand purely spirituAl jurisdic tion how can parliament, in thcsccivihsc•d and tolerant days, affect? 'lke Itoman catholic authorities in all countrial may pmscribe protestants and pro testantisim, forbid their exis:enee, their worship, and the profession of their doctrines; but English protestants durst not retaliate. Those principles of lay and liberal independence, which sacerdotal popery must for ever war against, save it from such persecution, which, as a /ex talieds, it so richly deserves. Let us only consider how Mr. MORE OTEititnu. treated the Roman patriots, actually consigning them to death, ratle-r than let them have fresh air and repose within his jurisdiction. Yet, as an Irish patriot, this same merciless bigot demands the supn•mncy of the clergy, and declares himself wronged because some priest is not allowed to inherit property and go to court as Cardinal .Irchhishop of London. ..... A religions sect that would dare to be so purely and primitively Christian as to avoid and dispense with all property, save that contributed from Clay to dory and Iran year to year,would defy the persecuting power of such env iliwd govcn o ncnts as that of England. But when churches, us corporat ions, insist on having and onhandingdown property, then they must come to the state and to the law for that title and guarantee which the state alone can give. Here, then, is the tie that the state has upon sects and churches. In return for the Ninetina to their property and the authority connected i.ith it, the state has a full right to demand from sects, that in their simanisraiun and their working they do or decree nothing contrary to the grist prineiples on which the state rests, to its institutions, its freedom, to the power of the WEE'S, to the Oesss's exclusive right of conferring digni ties, or to the exclusive right of the legislature to sanction territorial jurisdiction. The great fault of government in its bill was not to have come fiwward with sufficient boldness, and de clare that, in return fur that sanction and protection which the state alone ran give to religious corpora tions holding property and authority, the state claims the conformance of this or that sect to the fundamental principles of our constitution. One of these is that the right to comer dignities and titles slot exist in nu foreign prince. The culling such a demand by the name of persecution, as it pleases that veteran sophist, Sir JestEs Gassiest, to do, merely proves the man who dues so to have no con science in his words, and no common sense in his arguments. The government first, indeed, boldly and rightly said that no ecclesiastical property or authority should he enjoyed or transmitted by any who used their titles without sanction of law. Fear, how ever, of injustice, arising front the retrospective action of such clauses, induced the government to consent to their being rescinded. And lavause they were from good feeling rescinded, this is made a handle against the government, and an argument that they should not interfere with aught that it pleases the Poet: under spiritual pre tunes., hut for evidently temporal purposes, to decree. What Sir lawr.s GRAHAM wants and asks is nothing less than to make over half of her M.t.sEsTv's pre- rogative to the Poet:, and that in return for his Houstsss having grosily insulted her MAJESTY. This is the rafismate of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S ecelesi- ' astical polity. There are few Englishmen, however, who think as • Sir Jesiss GRAHAM dues. There is not one man of fairness who can see an iota of severity in the bill. There is no man, or no lawyer, who in drawing out a deed of any kind respecting property, butmust look to and avoid u hundred dangers. How many lords by courtesy, are not lords in legal :lets, and must drop their titles? Is that persecut• , or is it a penal law? The Boman catholic bishops uro bishops of their flocks and clergy, and the new law will not in terfere with their styling themselves such. But they are not lords of the land, and if they do like to in dulge in the gratification of calling themselves such, it is but just that they should pay for their empty and insolent vanity. The 1011, as it stands, is too washy, and exhibits the pale features of a compromise. Mr. WALPOLE'S words improve and add to its pith and colour, without inflicting wrong or grievance, except upon those who consider all law a grievance, and all sub jection even to the most legitimate authority a badge of servitude. There is not one of the arguments of the opponents of the bill, from Sir JAMES GRAHAM down to Mr. Itsysofios, that would not completely serve for recommending and showing to be necessary, the establishment of a full papal supremacy over the land and population of this empire. L FRANCE. PARIS, SATCRDAT Eva:ft:so. The result of the important sitting of to-day has been that the project of the committee on the propo sitions of Moulin and Morin has been adopted with one modification. The clause fixing the appointment of the committee at eight days from the presentation of the firs: motion has been dropped, and the delay left undetermined. But as the appointment of the committee was not placed, at the close of the sitting. on the order of the day for Monday, it cannot take place in the bureaux until Tuesday. which will be probably the day fixed. tho most remarkable feature of the sitting was the universal reluctance to resort to a division, the names and numbers of which would have appeared in the 211.ni tear. All the votes, therefore, took place by assis et lerie. The minority, therefore, cannot be stated with accuracy, but was estimated at very little more than one-fourth of the house, as several members of the Moderate Led voted with the majority. Dufaure in particular was noticed as rising with the majo rity, whilst Cavaignac voted on the other side. Two motions for revision were presented after the vote on the committce's project : that of the Club of the Rue des Pyramides, such as I have already sent it, and that of M. Payer, which I sent peter*. The President will start from Pans to-night upon his journey to Dijon, and will pass the night at Sens. He will he accompanied by MM. Leon Faucher, minister of the interior, aud * General Random, minis ter of war. The President and ministers will be re ceived at the Archbishop's palace. To-morrow, at half-past 5, another train will start, conveying M. Dupre, president of the Assembly, Fould, minis ter of finance, and M. Magne, minister of public works. The morning train will pick up the rresi- I dent at Sens. The Club of the Pyramides decided last night upon maintaining the form given in their last sitting to their motion for revision, and as such it was laid on the table of the Assembly to-day by M. de Broglie. They agreed to refer all other questions touching the revision to the committee on 3loulin's propoeition. To-day the Assembly entered upon the discussion of the motions of MM. %loulin and Morin, relative to the procedure to be adopted with regard to THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1851. propositions for the revision of the constitution. have already given an outline of the course proposed by the committee. M. Morin declared that as this course was equivalent to a rejection of his motion, he I withdrew it, iu order to avoid raising any division in the majority. Art. I, providing that all motions for revision shall be submitted to a committee, which shall prepare its report within a month, was then adopted. The clause fixing the appointment of the committee in the bureaux at eight days after the presentation of the first motion was withdrawn. M. Santayra proposed two days. This, and other amendments of the same class, having been rejected, the article was adopted without indication of the deltic. Ail. 2 iiros;d?, that the rejected proposition cannot be renewed until the expiration of three months from the rejection. M. Jules Fevre Imoved an amendment declaring that after re jection motions for the incision cannot be brought thrward again. In develop:ig this amendment, which he considered in conformity with the spirit of the I I Ith article of the constitution, he entered into a short discourse upon the general question, and re presented the majonty being really as divided as passible for all practical constructive purposes, and united only to ruiso agitation with a view of extin guishing the republic. M. 3loulin answered Jules Fevre, and shoved that his amendment was contrary to the constitution. The amendment was put to tlie vote; rtjected by a large majority . . M. Dufour° voted with the majority, General Ca% ignac on the opposite side. It was insinuated by the majority that the Lett did not venture to demlind a ballot, lest the number of the minority should be found below the number of ISS, necessary to prevent the revision. _ _ and bind themselves to continue the deliberations without delay in the Federal Assembly on the basis of the materials obtained in the present conferences. The whole of the go vernments mere especially ackaowl,shee that they consider those propositions of the first cananitssion which refer to I the acceleration of the mole in which the bu-ir.ess of the Federal Assembly is comlueted, and to the k: eying in rot- l dinar a body - of troops at the disposal of the Diet, to be imperatively railed for at the present moment, and I until the revision of the setamling orders' of the Diet and of the military constitution !shall have been completed. 'they bind themselves, therefore, is direct their represents lives in the Diet to give an unqualified assent to these pro positions the moment they are brought before that Assem bly in the only legal manner iu which its decision can be appealed to." I have translated this extract from the official protocol, to show how many words tie German diplomatists use, nut to I hide, but to show that they have done nothing. The only result of the Dresden conferences is the general sanction to an acceleration of the busier , ' forms, and to the main teaance on a war footing of a body of troops, the nu:nbc:s of wh'.ch are not specially defined. General ltochow brings iron WR:saw the assurance that the utmost cordiality, nay, affection, has characterised the meeting and conferences of the Emperor of Idusda and the King of Prussia. The Litter has been pardoned for his erratic movements of 1848 and 1811, and in the joyfal prospect of this pardon he appears to have rushed to War saw, forgetting altogefaer the indignant refusal of the Czar to meet him in the course of the past year. Very little, attention is understood to have been paid to the internal, affairs of Germany at Warsaw. The Emperor of Massie ! knows well the apathy of the German people and the enormous military force which the governments I possess. He fears France and the consequences of a rove lutionary movement in that country upon Germany. To prevent any evil conserptences, the monarchs have discussed what measures they ought to take. Of this there can be ao doubt; but I an informed that they have deter mined (very wi.zly J neat to atsume the rigrres biVO. The ruateurs whi,:a are frightening 11 rho are partly founded in fact, but there is uo cause for i erne- Mate fear. The Dict here must decide everything, and from the proposals of the Austrian and Prussian plenipo tentiaries enough must transpire to give a clue to their aim. Lord Cowley has no yet presented his credentials to the Diet, fur the very good reason that they have not yet ar rived. Lord Palmerston has waited for the official iatima mation that the work .if restoration was complete before accrediting an ambassador to it. The despatches containing the credentials are expected to-day, when the usual cou rier from London arrives. After the I.6m:ion of amendments moved by Sautavra and Bouhier l'Eeluse, 31. Vesin moved an amendment in favour of making a speedy report on the petitions in favour of revision. Ile remiaded the house of the frauds which had been detected on the occasion of the petitions against electoral reform, and wished that the house should be enlightened as to the nature of the present pioitions. His amend ment having been rejected, the ensemble of the protect was put to the vote, and carried by a large majority. The resolutions of the committee on the majority. Bill, with regard to the qualification of a muni cipal elector, present the must definite shape of those [Worms which appear to a great portion of the As- 1 setnbly desirable mitigations of the law of May 31. Yon will have seen Irma a previous letter, that the base of the franchise proposed in regard to muni cipal elections, is the fact of having drawn for the conscription combined with continued residency in the same commune. It scents to be generally ad mitted that, setting aside party feeling, a majority of opinions in the chamber ts in favour of extending the same conditions of suffrage to political elections. Supposing this to be true, it seems singular not only that the present cabinet should, through the organ of 31. Haroche, have taken such an emphatic pledge to maintain the law of May; but also that the cabinet council at which this resolution was taken, should have been presided over by Louis Napoleon. To clear up this mystery it is necessary to explain that the law of May affords, at present, the chief tie between the government and its most powerful ad herents, as the Duke de Broglie and his friends, in the parliament; and to rally the support of this party on the subject of rev ision, a guarantee must be given to them that an enactment, which they regird as a bulwark of their influence, will not be meddled with. Another circumstance of great importance The Duke of Augustenburg is preparing a protest against any stein in the Dsiii,h sticciun question which may prejulice his rights. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIPS EUROPA AM) CM OF GLASGOW. The City of Glasgow steam-ship (Captain Leitch) arrived at 'Liverpool on Saturday morning (as an nounced in part of that day's impression of the Express), after a run of 'al days. She left the Dela ware on the 13th ult., with above 130 passengers, and 110,000 dole. on freight. Yesterday forenoon the British and North Ameri can Royal Mail steam-ship Fannin, Captain Lott, arrived at the same port from New York direct, with dates trout the United States to the 2lst ult., 113 passengem, and 116,090 , . in specie. Intelligence from Queenstown (Ireland) mentions that the United States steam-ship Lafayette, which has been anxiously looked for here for some days I past, has put into that port. The Hermann arrived at Southampton yesterday. She left New York on the 17th May, and brought one !Altered passengers, and thirteen thousand dol ' has in specie for Havre and Bremen. She brought alsotwelve eases of wine for Prince Albert. must not be lost sight of. The -7th article of the constitution provides, that if none of the candidates for the presidency obtain the absolute majority of expressed suffrages, and at least two millions of votes, the election of the President devolves upon' the National Assembly, who will proceed to de- ride by an absolute majority of votes amueg the five candidates standing at the head of the pelL Now as the number of inscribed electors has beets re duced by three millions, it seems highly probable that the most favoured candidate will nut obtain two millions; it is still more probable that he will not obtain the absolute majority. The definitive election is therefore likely to devolve on the Assembly. Hence the necessity which exists for Louis Napoleon of cultivating the good-will of his must powerful in tercessors with the parliament ; and of sacrificing his own personal objections to the law of May to the interests of the party led by the Duke de Broglie. Another eventuality against which the ElysCe has to provide is the success of Nl.Creton's motion, which may be renewed in six mouths from the Ist March last, that is, in the beginning of September. So that the President has every reason to keep well with his Orleanist fiiends. Meanwhile it is tnonght that the adoption of the electoral reform proposed by the committee on the Municipal Hill would restore the franchise to a mil lion and a half of citizens excluded by the law of May. The United States steam-ship Franklin arrived from Southampton ut New York on the 19th ult., at 9 o'clock, morning. The British and North American Royal Mail Ateam-ship Africa arrived on the 21st, at 9 a.m., from I.i%erpoul, which port she left ou the 10th ult. for Now York. It would appear front the advices now received that tho expedition to Cuba has not been abandoned, one of the United States revenue cutters having lately captured thirty of the desperadoes off the coast of Georgia ; Florida, however, seems to be the locality where the invaders have their rendezvous. And above 6,000 of them are said to be enlisted. The proclamation, or manifesto, of the American Presi dent had contributed greatly to lessen the apprehen sion of a descent at Havannah. And the chief ports and cities of the island had forwarded to the Governor- General addresses of loyalty and confidence. His excellency was, however, continuing his measures of precaution, and had issued a proclamation to the army, instructing them to show no mercy to the " pirates" who were led on by a " traitor to his own country," and one " without a flag" to support him. An English war-steamer, the Inflexible, has arrived at llavanwth, and was to remain there for some time. The Spanish war-steamer liazan had also arrived with additional troops. The President's tour to the Erie Railroad, and the opening of that line of traffic, form prominent fea tures in the week's advices. The Ih•esident, who was accomanied by the Hon. D. Webster and many of the lea ding men of the United States, had been received everywhere with demonstrations of enthu siasm and regard. filminess throughout the States was in general in a fair condition, but in the article cotton a further decline was reported, which must have a tendency to depreciate prices on this side, especially as the re ported arrivals to the sea-board were more extensive than had been expected. Jenny Lind intends making Brooklyn her resi dence fur the ensuing three months. It is understood that Benedict, Salvi. Belletti, and her cousin will reside with her. I'ARIS, SUNDAY EvZNINO. Intelligence from Tonnerre up to a quarter before 12 oclock to-day states the following: "We have just a.ssistcd at one of the most magni ficent receptions yet g,iven to the President. lie was received by the whole of the authorities and the clergy, and was saluted with the most lively acclamations of Vive Napoleon' by the populace, who had assembled in a radius of twenty leagues. The President was accompanied by MM. Dupin, Boulby de In Meurthe. the Ministers of the Interior, of Public Works, and of War. lle re ceived at the railway all the deputies and the autho rities. and afterwards reviewed the National Guard, amidst enthusiastic cries of ' Vive Napoleon," Vive Ic President.' After the review he assisted at a splendid collation." " DIJON, Fora o'Cimer. " The President has just entered the town, amidst the acclamations of the whole population." SPAIN. The whole number of emigrants arrived at New York from the ibt to the 19th of May, inclusive, was 19,729. The Marquis of \llama has been named President of the Semite, and the Duke of Veraguas, MM. Privas, Median, and Espeleta, Vice-Presidents. The English ambassador, Sir henry Bulwcr, de livered an animated address at a recent meeting of the Maryland Historical Association in Baltimore, in which lit• lauded the " Baltimore clippers" and the " Baltimore beauties," who now wear "three of the proudest tszonets in the British peerage." Sir Henry is becoming a great favourite with the American citizens, the lower classes of the Irish excepted. The following is an extract from a popular American journal in reference to the speech : Sir Henry presents in the speeches he makes a very novel and a very remarkable spectacle for a British minister, but it is one whir', we must say, in the main meets our approba tion It is so odd a thing to hear a Briton in authority speaking well of us and ours, that the flattery is sweet, and we appreciate it if for no other reason than this, that it shows we are now deemed worth flattering and worth court ing as one of the great nations of the earth. Speaking of the "glorious mission" with which ho was trusted to the United States, and his feelings on landing from the ship on the banks of the Potomac, he says:—" I adjured the spirit of the great American republican (General Washington, at Mount Vernon), whom one of his biographers has described as pre-eminoitly the English gentleman—(cheer) —to bleu the humble endeavour of one of England's sons, who came to that spot with the earnest desire to reconcile the children of those who fought at Trenton or Yorktown to that old country in which are still to be found the tombs and tro phies of their early fathers." (Cheers.) Again he says : " It did seem to me that the United States of America did not present a theatre for diplomacy of red tape (cheers and laughter), fur the diploma of that sch oo l w hi c h never writes but in cypher (laughte r; which, as 2.1. de Talky rand ha. said, always speaks in th e l anguage b est adapted to the thoug h ts. (Cheers.) I thought that you Americans were a people who would understand and appreciate the man who stepped out front the dark covert of official re serve, and stood side by side with you on the plain broad platform of social intercounic." (Cheers.) The editor remarks further— The diplomacy of the British minister is certainly in a new school, but it is a school as certainly that suits the cha racter of our people better than any other in which Euro pean diplomatists have studied. The El Dorado had arrived at New York, with fifteen days' later news from the gold regions, and reported nearly two millions of gold dust en route from California. The intelligence from San Francisco by this arrival is to the 15th of April. During the past week additional arrivals of gold dust had been _ reported, and fully two and a half millions of dollars had either arrived at, or were on their way to North Ameri can ports. The commercial accounts from California are highly encouraging. Rain, which had long been desired, had fallen, and proved advantageous to mining operations ; and the steamer Panama is re ported to have brought down from San Francisco gold dust to the amount of a million of dollars. The social, political, and financial condition of California appears to be in about the same state as by previous advices. Now mines have been diaoovered in various parts of the country. The legislature was to bo is making great efforts to prevent the secularisation adjourned on the 30th. The prospects for miners of the clergy reserves. A convention of delegates, and agriculturists were considered fluttering. Tho lay and eleawal, from all parts of Upper Canada has health of the country was excellent. Both political lx-en held at Toronto in opposition to the int-riare, parties were preparing for a thorough organisation The announcement of the intended withdrawal of throughout the state. The miners, who have here-' the troops from Canada has been received aliimst tofore remained indifferent spectators, will be drilled ' without any manifestations of regret ; nor, on the into the ranks, and made to take their place at the other hand, has any exultation at the prospect of poll. A public meeting has been held at Organ their departure been elicited. 'fho 3/mitred cp , rier city, at which a committee was appointed, to request predicts serious consequences from the withdrawal the keepers of gambling and illegal drinking houses of the troupe front that city : to close their establishments. A lake, called " Tho f If the government desire to bring the long-elvrialiet Mountain Lake," in tie.: vicinity of San Francisco, tional prejudices and party hatred of the populatioa promises to supply the greatest want of the city— Montreal to a I olouoo Ir t i t ir h b n i n tr u a , m w ei: t Uh ra e , y , IP) r pure water. The Alta Cakbrit;a thus describes it: elicianutirl accomp lish lie body that ham the strength and w the rfirt7mitY. It is a hotly of clear, pure water, of perhaps a mile in cir- twin order. cumfcreace, one bemired and fifty-three feet above the level Take away the troops, and both parties will inon e dNo t h, of the ocean, and perhaps one thousand below the torn begin to arm and organise themselves, for what 1b..) , will of the surrounding mountains. A is supplied by call mutual protection tizainst the other, and then, on 1,4 e springs situated baieoth the surface of the lake, the gra- very first occasion that prescuts itself, they will tight out site afuta of the neighbouring bills forming a r..servoir their ancient quarrel. here where their contributions are gathered. It deleriches We trust Lord Elgin will have the discretion not to re into the Pacific, from which it is separated only by a narrow c o mmend the withdrawal of troops from Montreal at a n y neck of land, through a passage alino,t subterranean, in a rate, whatever he may do in the rest of the province. beautiful stream of clear frolicsome water, which tumbles in NOVA SCOTIA cascades and sportive jets over the rocks and clean gravel, until, spouting out upon the beach, itis drunk up by the ever The legislature of Nova Scotia is still in session. thirsty sand and absorbing ocean. It is a Lake of toino in Aa ineffectual attempt has been made in the house miniature, wasting its twenty-five millions of gallon; of the to repeal the fax on salt, hooks, nets, grad stints Must pure water doily. The lake seems to have been placed The sm . l fisheries have not met with their usual slice . there specially to supply this city with water of a cess. Ile: influenza is prevailing with great seventy superior in purity and throne to the Croton or the tuotc. A line was dropped seventy-five feet into the centre. at St. John's. A great railroad meeting has been of the lake without finding bottom. teld at Halifax, and Earl Grey's proposition in The Maryland Reform Convention had adjourned regard to the Halifax and Quebec Railway was after publishing the new constitution, among tho unanimously accepted. The old pledge of 3,00/. prominent features of which are : sterling in aid of the enterprise was renewcs.L S'r That p-rsons engaged in ditch, as principles or seconds, John Harvey is about to embark for Eirl.aid. Col. shall he disqualified from holding office. Clergymen aro Bazxlegette is about to assume the reins of govern ineligible for seats in the legislature; bribery disqualifies meat. fur holding office ; persoas convicted of larceny or infamous crimes are disfranchised; a certain amount of property is exempted from seizure fir debt; the judiciary system is remodelled. The governor's term is to he four years, at a salary of 3,600 dots. per aunum. Judges are to be chosen by popular election ; lotteries and imprisonment fur debt are abolished, and the homestead to the value of 500 dials. exempted front legal process. The steam propeller Franklin, trading between Newfoundland and Halifax, bus been lost, the crew, passengers, and mails only being saved. Two boiler explosions had occurred at New York and Brooklyn, occasioning the death of three persons. Galveston (Texas) letters contradict the reported death of Wild Cat, the Seminole Chief. The election for governor and members of the legislature is exciting great interest in Texas. A large number of candidates are iu the field. Un usual importance is attached to the election. as the disposition of the sum of 1000,000 dots. received from the general government will be in the hands of the successful candidates. A colony on the Fourier system has been established in the vicinity of Vic toria, by Gcn. John 1). Wilkins, a philanthropic and wealthy planter of Louisiana. The establishment is under the superintendence of a German, who is said to be a man of education and intelligence. Every member contributes 100 dots. on his admission to the colony, and participates in the avails of the general industry in proportion to his labour and services. A • spirit of agricultural improvement and enterprise is prevalent on the Brazos River. Many large planta tions have been opened, lands are in demand, :ond important internal improvements are in contempla tion. The uceounts from every part of the State are favourable as regards the state of the crops, both of cotton and corn. Some damage, however, has been experienced by the overflow of the Brazos, but no serious consequences are anticipated. The episcopal convention fur the diocese of Texas commenced its session in Galveston on the Ist inst. A large num ber of delegates from the interior were present. The census returns from all but ten counties in tho state have been completed. The total white popu lation amounts to about 1 6 5,000, with 620100 slaves., The population thus entitled to representation in Congress secures two menixors to the House of Representatives. WEST INDIES. The New York journals contain dates froni Ja maica to the 13th of May. They contain no news, except of the continued prevalence of the cholera in some portions of the island. AM ERICA:ST MARK ETS. 11i tr You:, MAT 20. It is seldom that we witness so dull a stuck market during the .1, ins a. was been m mitt-teed of taut • even guirninaterit eccun_ the s htre been in Ir.'s request than tsar 11, and -eke h.re bees made bet, last week's qu tattoo.. This, h way te .eassinted ter he tart that the new law now is opernton ne tering the re. detuption of the colour truth notes in Albany at of 1 4 lair et at. di.. count, has caused such a rapid return of S..na notes In the counters of the issuers, that tatter I of the small bank. have e'osed their dtstra, sett thrown their 'tort:rumen' securille. upon tan ?tiara. t. The due. tuition of the :e .dins Biota. ha. no. been la a grest czt.tat, stall the tt mime, bas keen t!ci .a.w4t: J. . . . . Ilse gramma for hit. ie...,ehanirs 1 44 tint 'wen p.:.'sularly act e. for this stramer. The r!osing rates 1100., 04 Lo ill. 44 110 j ; !'anti ar 3.10 to Amstar... :r, alf to al; Ithuthorg, as: to ; tremen, 11 to 795. Segura nantinties to be esno•lr.l freely. Tit, ..bipmenta during the dlasoits.f in silver e a „ i g nz e, n i t . t h r, i .:tr .... j i.s i ti n g.i a it V to ISW, Lull lbe preel.4, amount of gold .00,1 Liter the tlen.ar tore of the scowl, as a Lrge portion is t Otreet!froin ii.e bonne. The :Sew Yuri Erie gsilrosri is now c. , nipl.re •o i•s terminus at Dunlirk, on Lahr Erie. This road's Ina mire, nni 1... enc. Ins ending roe., theoln 21,011,h0r . •tsra shit Wads altrs cowpony are 001.1 in rair demand, or lb. re I. MI (0 litA that the lase.lntent rill be fess& tier railroads rs.le are Jan ••• a goad hu. in /4, erJ eapitalis a are turning :lair a.t ailsn ti nue rises of :neuritis& _ Taleoft an 4 Brothel/1 elrcufer per Europa.) N,w Tone, Tueertly Evening, May .o.—tior Lin rt. view of :he ~rail was eriaten for the Nrigare, on the 12th inst. On the 13th nsi bil.s were •ild at raster re's,; CM the 11th we rereired by telerrenli 11.1ifas, Licrepool dater of 33 in t., per C,o:br.a , i.iae 41. 1-r her decline. Tame n3tirer nnerte.l nut ni irks. , ;AA 34 .013 01 th.t day, end on the :c ei I I the 18th the sales wire O. Oa :lie I:th, 3, —O, ..n4 .ta the on rte Ipr of the Ire...W.liree siltices from I. : •,I, ~,et y irtsedler market, 2.2b0 bait. were old et act. to le. hle.dic •. f .r, too sales reported on 'Ch thee ware 1,12, b ,lee, tho itarLet ecsail vilely. We quote as follow*: ITULT lATUUI3O4 CiAMIPICATI )Y. Other Atlantlo Mew °rime.. (WV Port.. Inferior Ordinary to good ordinary ej to 91 Ili to 91 bi to 91 Mid. to rood ,ni& 9j to to k WI to 4-1 10 to Mid. fair ea fair Fully fair to goal fair Vreight to Liverpool„3-10d.coinpneoll. and 3- IA wive naltrteeed. To Reeve, notbirg ont rit.c. noniutal at In When Vie prevent dvpreoed a ate of lei:line driving from the din. appointment in regard to the rceviiite of the .rop wean on', and cakulatione are bawd on the oufavoturablc c n of the grow. inn crop (now we believe, universally adniitte :ii^ ie. to which it ,o ex to.eal during the greeting and ricking tewon, w t look for a reaction in price,. Emirs. -lie present excess in the receipts o. the ;sort., rode up from the Wed mail dine, to 2640:7 &ix.. and by :e.egr 'pt, hot* see orteas s e it i mated L ,10.,U1/•. In stew or t O.! etas., :he ma. petty of the trade ere pliantly ..at see" in 3.1 r Opinion. and are prepared to be.ieve in any, even the largest ete mates. Not so with us, we lath forward conddently to the tompareon in receipts to be in. sutured detween too-. aubeepscat to June Ist, this mouton and last year, when It 1,100 bales were received at the ports sgamat 1 la,eoo bales the preceding ecoein, beiertug that tat Core. in receipts now appareilt indicates rather the Killed deter...Mahon no the part of plan eta to mane., sclueit we beliere has -skirl from the opening of the erasion, than the probable extent of the crop. We ore not pre. penal, an orinsoguenc, of the comparative elms.% at re rapt. at the parts, to tau:ecru* to tee estimate, or 2,300100 hale. and upward', now carreatly adopt( d. On the subject of the planting arson and gas of the growing crop, we have +mu and rata iced, ammo', others, the following Wttcre t - •' Darlington, N. C.. May 13th, 1011. - The pram ut spring i. deetileilly a warm ens with us than 1819, when cotton mtvaacol 21 cents upon the lawsit crop ever eau. torwasd. The proont mop 1. deeded ly worst-. Ulm that of Oaf% sa tar. 1 have had to plough up clearly half of my own, which I 1 have user done before-mud plot/toting up has data very plum' this spriug."-" Labe Providence, La., May ate, teal-The weather ha. ne• sl and set; dry, et much so that •he cotton ha. not come up well. The .4 mil i" bad; the cansi.'.y u rUlkriLka tor the want of rain. Ihe indicotlepu4..o :sr, are, that the erg, mu tb. u bad one." Trion a highly.respeetahle gent:eutan, miss planter. BILIL.W.TL Ort-(liou Iklt'a Circular, pet LorOpa.)-NEW Teal; May :0.-At the date of my circular of the GUI ut.t., the Flour trade wee in a tieprermal and turetted with, .0r...n ',canna mil a limited demand. Tu. tiding bas co4tlautl during the interval, attended with a still downward tendency, and prices nave ranged Intro Of to 1/.e. per bit. lower on nil bat the be.ter grade.; Holden have lately snmewbat streugtheued the in irked by storms; lolly, mad in prospect of still turtle, ilanintshed receipt., and with a speulauve in.,uiry at the low rate., the market closes with More Oruro es, wad has nearly regai lad Ili- rates torrent this day tocnight. Toe receipts (at Ude water) to the Erie Canal Ir , pl the eaainsencement ot markt:don in rani lent for the year* 131 4 , lain, and 1011, hate been as foil. se to the llth of May: -ii dada in 1019, 161,44 ti teats. dour, 2'i,167 blastula wheat, 2 .3,4211 bushels curt. 21 stays in 1050, 09,6141 bids. flour, 60,137 ntniuls wheat, 11.,,330 bu-bels e wn. .9 days 3.1,;i3 bbl. ttoar, 114,9.0 barbels wae..t, 0193 - 1 buitel. corn. 'lke extorts to fu Una pie. hr tht• tso week* endine on the 17th Mot., to rai.tl :net and Leland, embraca :- do L.,erpoul: 4,214 bags. dour, 2,4f0; pusbol, m e dn. To Loudon: O.J bbl.. il.mr. To filia-Juw 3,10.1 Wan hater, 2,217 baskets lu lean cool. - Ita Ira awl: 57,14 Ita.heLs IWun corn. resoners.—The asking rate, to Liverpool are le. 4d. per bbl. on Sour, and 44d. to 14.1 per bushel on corn. Tu London, la ed.; Ulariguw, Is. 111. to Is. 9d. per bbl. on Sour. Froitia.—Ths ari ie.!. fur a day or two Vl.l have ben lee heavy anti the tune of the niarlet Is evittnt.y tri favour of the ieller. otiti s at the adrahred rates the operations Cr. somewhat cheated. The clo rag price. ratty be quoted at 4 d.ds. 12'z. fur Caoadlae in b o nd ; 4 Join. 14. c. for c ommon s t ate and dud Western; 4 dole. 14,c. to 4 dub, 15e. fur good Michigan and tido; 4 &Me Ci2ic. to 4 dole. 13r fur pure Gennevace. Souther kinds have declined a arts,, and are now belling at 4 dole. 624 e. to 4 soda. 13e. tor ltaltunore Aleaandria and Georgetown. Ryeduur sells at $ dots. 37 tic. to J doll 44e. (Sara meal, AMA.. to .1 dom. 23e. fur Jersey sod Brandywine. (;eats.—Fur hank, use the wheat transaction. are ow quite a li mited scale, the prices asked ruling abort, the relative value of tint. d hue Oconee.: miy be quoted at i 12e. to 114 c. • Michigan and ohiti, !Plc. to lints.; Canadian, in bond ; logic. Rye to in slight cop. ell. at IW. oata are quiet, at 4:c. to 41c. 1f irley. !Wk. to 1 loc. LaMar corn hat been send at a dictum of a few minty., but wi it me iterate i.uoply climes Mut at b.c. for Weigel n mixed, Wt,, to Ole. for Northern and Southern yellow; line. to avc. kr whits. dausis.—puts, 1 dins. 7 . ,e. to 4 dole. b.c.; pearls. 3 dole. 50c.; moderate aid... NAVAL um-in.—Rough turpentine hat been ao:d to tar extent at 3 dola.; spilica of turpentine, 3:e.; coMMlla rosin, I dol. 32e. to 1 dui. 4u0.; fine, 4 dole. Puoviviova —ma market it dull, and prima feebly supported. New 1110118 purl may On quoted at 13 dui,. 34e.; now prime, 13 dale. Vic.; old mow, 14 dolt. 23e. to 14 male. 3cir.• ' pcime, 12 Mils. 2 le. Wei remains witho n altorate it. Lard hag been aid at barrels, nut in the best or d er ; the market la firmer. WCIU.S OIL .0111 bona.—The large receipts hare nneettled the market, and quotations are nominal. Wilaia On. Is firm, and the trade byre bought largely at 43e. to 4 lie. •; tot export the same of the week are 2ai thtt., at 42c., and 33u reJettail, at 40;e. Woes...usu.—The market le firm, at lie. for A. H. and 31 le. for Pular; no N. W. C..n market. ):apart. ry have bought largely the part timely a; current talcs; 40,b0.1 Wee cold in N. U. yucterday, at ult. for N.Y. euttt!a. _ roauttent.—lo Liverpool : Cuttoe,s-16 to 7-32; flour. le. to lc 4t1.; gr.un, 44. to 4t.. To Lucdoc: hour, b. Gd. Tv Wore: Cuttpu, Id.; Wier Articles, 5 duls. to n th, CALIFORNIA MARK WI'S. SAN Fitafliclecu, Arkti. 1.. Since our last there has been little change in any depart ment. thooneatortop-eta nave not iropro,ri. h i de. or 'pub have been ineonsidersble—trom the Nernst. depressed priors there hen been a further det - and the importations of all maple articles have been large. than he any sinilar period of time •ilbiin oar obscred. tam. Trade coastwise has been small; Utterer end upriver business returns do not afford a petit to shippers, while be local trade, both In amount of sales and rates utddined, shows s tt rher filUng off from Wt advice!, Mining aterprlees continue to afford a good return, indiviAnally and collectively. horn the increased aim iuut of labour and mach itery now eppttd to this branch, vast learns must br JICWed. Gold (twit comes in freely; the otivanee to price has induced its being brought forward by miners, and die wattles coutimuir to aid its prod.-hoc materially. The anticipations in our last. relative to an early and abundant h went, are strengthened by the co:tow:ince of favourable weather. To Judge from the mew nt condition of the general crone, the products of the soil wail soon equal in value our milers! wealth. SIR JOBS FRANKLIN.—Thc C'alcutitt copies the fo ll owing from a Sydney paper of F‘hruary 8 : " rhe Brothers has made& very quick run from Honolulu of 29 days, which is oue of the quickest p• es on record. Captain Stayers states, that the day prior to his departure, the British consul had received intelligence of two vessels wrecked in St. George's Sound, supposed to be Sir John Franklin's, and that two of her Majesty's brigs were des patched to ascertain the truth of the assertion." FOREST OP HAISALLT, ESSEX.—The bill for disaf forerting the Forest of Hainanit, provides for the appalls:- meat of three commissioners for that purpose, who are to be empowered to remove or destroy the deer, to compensate the Earl of Mornington and Viscount Wellesley, the war dens, and those poor widows iu Barking and Dagenham, who do not receive parochial relief, and, whose husbands having been dead a year, have been usually allowed to have one load of wood yearly, on Easter Monday, out of the King's forest, or in lieu of it 84., to those who cannot pro cure a team to carry it. The act is not to extend to Epping Forest. PORTUGAL. The Queen has dissolved the Chamber of Deput:es, and convoked the Cortes for the 15th of September, for the purpose of the revision of the Constitution. GERMANY. The news from Berlin is to the effect that the King of Prussia entered his capital on the 29th, from Warsaw. By a circular of M. Manteuffcl, the old provincial Diets which existed before 1818 are revived provi sional I v. Our correspondent writes as follows : FRANKFORT-ON-TILE-MAINE, MAT 30. Formally opened on the lath of the month, the German Diet holds to-day its first sitting fur business, and with this act closes the circle in which the affairs of Ger many have b...-en moving since the days of March ISIS. The old Diet exists again, in the same shape, and in several instances in the persons, of the same worn-out, toothless, pigtail-wearing diplomatists of the old school. The figure's of several are in truth so ridiculous and uncouth, their garments smack so completely of a byegone age, that the spectator is compelled to laugh at the ides of their being capable of founding, still less of maintaining, a vigorous rule in Germany. Such as they are, the thirty-four repre sentatives of the government• of Germany are at this instant sitting in soletuu conclave for the lint time since they committed suicide iu 1818. The commencement of their second career is an apt illustration of their nature. They will to-day re ceive the Dresden resolutions, which are a perfect nullity, and the plenipotentiaries to the Diet 'rid, without hesitation or consideration plunge, boldly into the discussion of the papers which accompany the following resolution, the last of the Dresden conferences: •• As the governments of Germany have all sent repre sentatives to the Federal Assembly, and, as thereby a uni ver.ally acknowledged organ of the allied states of Germany has resumed its powers, and as the labours of the commis sions of the conferences are concluded by the presen tation of their reports, and as, moreover, the pro tocol of the present sitting (of the I.sth) establishes that fact that all the states of the confederation are aired as to the points of departure and object. of their effort., but that the immediate sanction of the whole to all the details of the propositions made b 7 the commissions eoul.l not be given, it is considered advisable to close the sittings of the conferences. In doing so all the federal go vernments declare that they generally agree with the views which have guided the commiasioae is their propositions, MEXICO. A party of Mexican soldiers tired upon a company of Americans while crossing the Rio Grande to at tend a ball at Roma. Two of the Americans were severely wounded, and the Mexicans apologize for the deed, on the ground of its being a mistake. Several men have been killed by the Comanche In dians near San Patricia. CENTRAL AMERICA. The late rumour in regard to the evacuation of San Juan de Nicaragua, was founded on the permis sion given to the people to elect a council fur the government of the city. The election was first to ho approved by the British consul. Five members of the council, including two Americans, had been elected for the term of one year. The tact was re garded by the inhabitants with great satisfaction, as the first bitp towards the relinquishment by the British of the guardianship of the place. The subject of a new constitution is engaging the public attention in 1 londuras. Several propositions have been adopted as a basis. complaints are made of the present system of steamer communication. SOUTH ANI ERICA. The latest advice.,, from Buenos Ayres confirm tho news already published. In the Brazilian province of Rio Grande, on the eastern frontier, 12.,000 troops of the line are collected, and 8,000 national guards are under arms. Paraguay is also arming, and 18,000 men are ready to march against Buenos Ayres. The hatred for Rosa,, which existed in all these countries has no doubt exaggerated the charac ter of the preparations. Brazil, Paraguay, Entre- Rios, and the Oriental States are all combined against him, and it is with a v i ew o f extricating hmself front the difficulty that he has off e red hi s resignation to the legislature of Buenos Ayres. The yellow fever was very prevalent among the shipping at ltio Janeiro, at our last dates front that port, reaching to March 31. SANDWICH ISLANDS. ..... Advices from the Sandwich Islands report aggres sions on the part of the French authorities, who con tinue to demand the repeal of the duty on wines and brandies—the original cause of the misunderstanding. In connexion with this, they now claim a scat in the cabinet of King Kainahanialia--a sharing of the funds devoted by the government to the support of religion between the French and American mission aries, and the use of the French language in all the official correspondence between the two governments. In case of non-compliance with these demands by the " 4 0th of March, the French th rea t ene d to se i ze t h e fortress, and blockade the port. The government protested against the imposition, and declared that, if attacked, they would appeal to the protection o the American flag. The hew Yurk /feral[! says: We cannot view this subject with indifference. The Sandwich Islands are important to the United States, and would form that ground in the great Pacific which it will be necessary fur the United States to occupy at an early day, as a kind of half-way house between California and India and China. We trust our government will not ne glect this momentous subject. We give a very full account of all that pertains to the history of the French disposition to blockade the principal port, and we commend the whole to the careful perusal of our intelligent readers, who cannot but be interested in a subject which may lead to very se rious consequences, and possibly to a war with France. CAN.kI)A. The Canadian parliament met at Toronto on May 20. The governor, in his speech, stated that the revenue from customs and canals is increasing; that the change in the imperial navigation laws has in creased foreign shipping in the Canadian ports, and that the Emigration Act has been complained of as being unfavourable to our import trade. The new postage law has considerably increased correspon dence. The arbitrators appointed to ben le the boundary dispute with New Brunswick have re ported; a measure will be introduced for reducing the civil list, and an increase in parliamentary repre sentation as recommended; also amendments in the school and municipal laws of Lower Canada. W. L. Mackenzie took the oaths and his scat. Notice was given of bills for fixing the time for meeting of par liament and for establishing courts of conciliation. The government are in favour of proposing that Canada shall extend her aid to the railway. The announcement of the intended withdrawal of the troops has been received with few expressions of regret, except by the Montreal guards. Since the Fugitive Slave Law went into operation, the number of annexationists has materially decreased. The idea of an independent northern empire, consisting of the British provinces, and the t err it ory now h e ld b y the ' Hudson's Bay Company, in a federal union, is flout ing in many minds, and, according to the New York papers, it would not be surprising if it should pre vail to a considerable extent. The episcopal church I I