The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-19 00:00:00

BUSINESS OF TEI WEBS IN THE WEDS. MONDAY, Aran 19. ORDERS or THE DlT.—Saoodo Itadormas —Hoene% (Fergu son's) Euate ; laws Maas; aim. Oonumuterre.—lanttay ; FSDAYeAr IM AkSW nst aLiST ; In demnity; TU 2O. ORDER OF THE DAT.— BSCOND Raver NU. Fever (Irel and) NOTICE OF MOTION.—The Mame& at Weald:neat/A to 111000 . . . . . ed a Ireland aolutnin deducing tiai the - fairs diiinitorefiniiieitUitit regal. Mimi -Mate reendon and smarndraent; and that praddiale melt n vision it is unjust to impose farther burdens and respardli. bum on land is that omintry. [Larde dentreened.) VRIDAT, Arma , l3. ORDER OP THE DAY.—Sacinio itiumum.—Cultains inning SUL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE COMMONS. MONDAY, Aran. W. ORDERS OP THE DAY. —o3stitirres on Scestr.—Lord John Rum% to move mimellancenis estimates (No. 4). COMM ritit Or WAYS ASP Marl. firrOrt. KllADlNOt—Serrice of Hain (Scotland); Crown Charters )(Sod) ; PolliementerY Electors; Quakers' and ie.. , Bills. Rsrom.—Leinatk Asylums' Bill. NOTICES OP MOTIONS ARISING ON ORDERS OP THE DAY. (Os Moron ro oo ism Dirmirres or Seems.) Mr. St Duneosibe, to more that a mint committee be appointed to Inquire and re on the =twanged echsone developed ,n the minutes of council a August and Demeter lost. Sir W. Clay, to move that in any scheme of pecuniary &onetime to education by the Mate, provision should be made for admitting the children of parent. who object to the religious doctrines truistic la the supported mbar§ to participate In the WM religious untrue ion. Mr. Ernst, to more that in a measure for graced instruction, echwilmasters and Inemeetoro ought not to be =drawn§ of religious instruction, and appointments under govern ment ought not to be reserved for uumicemsful candidates fur =hi bine= in the normal schools. INDEPENIW.N r NOTICES (at time of Private Busineee).—Mr. Greene to move that no petitions =ling railway bills be received after 3rd May, unless against proceedings in committee, and that from anal otter 3rd May, un..ppmed bills may be referred as usual. Earl of Lincoln to move that the committee in Group In of railway bills may proceed on Turoday neat, although no report have been made on of the bills by the commissioners of railways. Mr. Craven Berkeley to more that the railway petition from Cheltenham be referred to the committee op the London, Oxford, and Cheltenham Rail o ira . Mr. Ward to more discharge of the order appointing Lot d M sad Meru.. Ward and Stanley, members of the committee ou lolyhmid Harbour Bill. (At time of Public Busines).—Mr. French to move for return relating to licenses fir public.hhees in Smithfield, granted by the corporation of the City of London, since February, 1009. Mr. Grogan, to mom for returns relating to all road traverse, for prementmenta under VA 10 Vie. c. 107; the same to more for Mures relating to the =monition of Dublin. TUESDAY, Arad. SO. NOTICES OP MOTIONS.—Mr. P. Vence, to more bill ha eitaid the proehiona of the (Livia., Beaks Ammity Ant. Lord John Ku well, to more hill to amend the lesiesimtkel Commissioner* for England Acts. Mr. Walley, to Tara r kr the registration of muddled medical practitioner. Mr. lakseolitem tenors bill for the reclama tion of waste lands. Mr. Meligt, le mem Mil to snimilate the ware housing privileges on British asidesksisi spirits. Mr. T. Duncan= to move kr select committeeman listrepitittia Buildings Act. Mr. E. Denison, to n.ove foe mast somellies ea the Estilieh Eeeleinaotleal Commission. Mr. Hums, WOOS he popes misting to the case of the Rajah of Settara. Mr. C. O'letses, M more ter papers relating to the ease of Contain Wrier; the Imp to more for minutes of pro- ceedings at an mtreordlnsey mssines at Corotinen, 30th November UM. . . . ORDERS OP TUE DAT.— Rassinuis.—Punstraent of Vagrants (Ireland) ; Higtorays; Margate, sic., Railway: _ • WEDNESDAY, Aran ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Sonatin Itaanincu—lloalary Manufac ture; Life Insurances; Mlle. Couvrravori.— tricultural Tenant Nett ; Naval Prillollll ; Naval Services of Boys; Itaroar.— Rill. OP MOTIONS ARIStNO ON ORDERS OF THE DAY. —Escrows 1111.1.--((ki motion of report) Mr. Ross, to more addi tional clause; lord Lliritigton, to move additional clo me. Auto ertll7.l. Yammer 11,01.11 BILL—(Oa motion to go into committee) Kr. S. O'Briaq to move Maimed= to extend provisions of toe bill to Ireland; Mr. Jamul, to move that the house go into committee on Itte bill that day *lx months; Mr. Cluistopher, to move that the home go into committee an the Lincolnehlre petition against the hill. (la oommittec)—Mr. Palmer, to move additional clause. TifOltSDAi, Amu. 22. NOTICES OP MOTIONS.—Mr. Chrietle, to more for a commission m the mirk-mitten of Oxford and Cambridge. Sir W. Verner, to cap minutes' attention to the importation and the of Are-Irma in Ire land. Mr. Summit, Moore kr papers Telatiq; ro Wpirminster pooc h+ union. Yr. Hume, to more that motion lot woe . re . p . tius tidal harpoon be diethanted._ .- n” - 1,"• Aran i 3. rrffi. DAY.—SaCoro DlNOn—llealth of Trona '..7 .- .,cence of Lads (Scotland); HeritableSecuritica for Debt (Soot land); BuratieTenure(Scotiandk ri ttrieniturel Statistics; Bills. Coneerrmarre. Sc. (SonlaniV Marriage (Scotlend); Frimosl t =tlef &menial= (Ireland) No. 2); Bills. NOTICEBOP MOTIONS AIIISINO ON ORDEAS 0 THE DAY. —llnomniaore Brines, Sec. ((Monaco) Mu. Mr. Hume, to mon Meat the bill be referred to a select committee Rir 0. Cserk, to move that claw If be Barak oat. INTEPEtiasii NriiilCK.--(At time of private banneve) Mr. to move roaalderalicia of Ina petition relating to Trent T ile alle d =way, presented 10th MarelL LANDED PROPERTY (IRELAND) BILL. DIMION on dame to empower commr•ioners to erect oortt boildlap, and form watercoomor. Ayes, 31; Nom, 100. AYES. . . . . Allis, I. P. Clive, Viscount Hill, Lewd E. O'Connell, M. J. Arvada, Capt.M.Dowsco, HLT.V. Lawless, Hon. C. Pollington, Vise. Adtwright, 0. Dick, Q. M'Cartiy, A. Repton, aW. J. Bissnet, P. Fkomsorice, W. Manners, Lord J. Verner, Sir W. Prune. Yuri, Earl of Worcester, Main. Major Maxwell, Hn.J.P. roam Pau 64 Lard 3= 7 . Marq. ofNewdegate, C. N. Rawdoo, Col. Clialsoler, Lord L Newry, Vlsooont Crawiord, & Chrlelapire„ T. P...,..... - . ... - NOES. .iielatt, T. D. Illidous, P. H. Hattie, A. Per g, libiarley, C. . Dergiss,, Sir C.ll.liswea, B. Porhm, I. Aram.Aram. Boa. CoL d mad dor•Dearma, Ilatk rortb, etz Jay_ , Sir A. L. P p =l. Mis. Easley, J. W. c.F.A.O H y; Earl or Danis, Ai. Medley, C. am, E. 11. mane , u.;:. Damian, T. Ilkidiaase d i 3 =2, d, Barr, W. lir D. 1ka....„ 1 , ,,. H. C g. A. 17 1 . 64r 0...2. 11, ham Sir VT. C. C S Mar a J. 11111111 r 1 --••••••••• Jerrie, S. Batrotri.N. Porna, W. Vos Jams, S hpt . Soma, H . K. Ihnow• i• IL RIM". j Labenehere, H. Seymour, Lad Mail% illiLaftleir„ C. , D. ft ,. 8.. , 2108 WW_ .. . 111 ......VrAnia, C. M. I e unhurt, D. Smith, R. V. 4=4. 411 7. 1 . Woos, T. M . Lindsay, Cot. Somervi ll e, SirW. asekburn, 3. J. to . T. 111.1krinell, J. M. Stanley, lin.W.O. =if. • OMiorne, T. Sntton,HH.M. Ho...E.ObilMona. Out. M a itland, T. Talbot, C n. . R. M. 1140 413143 , H. Ciam ; W. B. Maa*Rt. Ha. P. Thornoly, T. Brallitnirm, J. Oink Um H. Mim, J. H. Turner, E. irrS:r.. Omßera, H. How. 0. Vivian, J. 11. K. Gmore, T. Morpolk, Vire. Ward, 11. G. r SkT.Oney,Sir G. Monis, D.. Wawa, J. T. uper, on. W.Ormoimor, Lord Nook% Mir C. Wyse, T. Oa*, W. G. HA Mr B. Nisi'', RtH. Tlalill Aries,Aries, D. A. S. .liss,W.J. &Omar Don n.J Mr. TuBoeU Dudes, W. Sowirit, Or J. cr" s. C. H. lord M. Hill Diviaru i ==ria .. rro le empower obrombriosers to emet mii or biases Ayes, 30; Noes, 34. I.P. Cave, VW. Gordca, ILLAdmtiti, VII. Crawford, W. B. Oore, M. Ra wdo Col. e. .. M. Dredes, W. Granby, Mara. ofßepton, G. W. J. Awilas. OIL Df ok, Q. Babe ,T. P. Verner, Alr W. besset. P. Douglas, Sr C. EAGIL Lord R. Waftwarr, Marl. Ilanllnaly Lord Gritainaurioe, W. IPCartby, A. Drab, land Preach. F. Manners, Lord J.Baradord, Major Ciblambw.LordtPrewen, C. H. limb, Earl of Newdegate, Tar. Obrislopler,&A. ......m... AdarkT. D. Drookyrorth, WrJ.Bialay, J. W. Twbet, E. A A =l:okit iLD ß= V. Madly, C. J. Tzar k !..F.A. Mind I I med Iliw•Dmik t h strid. . El* tiN7, i Dna% Mr D. Jamde. likr W. C. liarabold, C. E. lido& H. W. &Winton V. Eireld, Mr J. Rutferibed, A. 1111=A. Dm^ W. lakmarre, Sender, IL E. A. Paretar , H. Lam J. IL Seymour. Lord Wm, E. M. Ole, T. IL L•hadt, D. 81411L11n.P..L. MeMiMey, I. C. 011. T. Ltabor,CoL Bruck.BLlin.R. Idamkry, Cll4. • isrms, T. ll•DemelL J. M. EldwArrals, SIrW. Embry. Bd. F. Odmllime. Opt. Mai* T. Btazday W. O. j. H. = l l,ll . T.C. tV k t, l te. & ar r r ej 7i , a. The. Thordely, T. Toner, E. J. Ofterzw i lall.= i l j lir j C. , I;i•lrka li t. W. =II% W. J. O'Omwdl. X. J. • Warm. Oilisorke,Mr T.Bmidn re J. Mawr Das nom Ompuralis.W.P.Bards. A. oEle, &C. H. Tam& Mr. ZL.1,0. Haws, E. Picker, J. Lard M. P. H. Hay, Mr A. L. gin eporesig. The embed wane Pr Wee. °MKS the lambus Wanda Tempt, Meta Omytes, loika. sod Mae, vie Itoolhaentese, wilt he male ea the meollegotlhe The dime milk eie Ifeelealea to the Itediterreamen, =rade4 o _ l o lo . EP Ls am, iglu be made op ea the etas *in pr& The nodehe ilea o= l lMo% Wham Cad* and Oibraltax, tea man lir et Ile It* 'The was for Row Omit SW, VMS DISIONM's Lead. sad New let seie op Iheostip of dna& Aye& Ito Wat Lai mi. mirk. Yr kr Iforor Iforbona, and Illavem► all he sob op ea Ike mersimi d r Noy. 14 Ifs Nab he WY am& date^ Itemeda. of red the Uoitod MEW, all be semi via Itte emirs of Sid Map, _ The mile for ate Illemno. Taw Plottl,tkade Wok rm . =ntt k lit e jpr i Pima hlYes ' wW to We " ee the TM AlMain OMNI et lie " DAILY NEWS" sad "EXPRESS Imo bon 23110 ten PPqq FLEET-STREET, to No. to. 100,33131113311 T, Tian Sii, toting...on to thePrhatiol awl Odsua lhainst any arm. my omnanicatlon that la seat to of Inns Maoism. to Wren to confidence wtll = Ead madr aullann ranpoold. 11111THIERCAN WE UNDERTAKF TO REEL 311 ANT NANURCRIPTE WHATEVER. KEW WA= AT LONDON-BILDOL TAN Det—akenim ift aim. post 4; Afternoon, 0 dn. PIA 3 Toiroanow—_tom. II Ma FA 8 ; Afterneco, 44 sin. port 5. LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL 19. 'fun Estimation Cleestica has at length reached its preps: sten% the Mese of the House of Commons, and mast be dimmed baits relations to imperial exigen eine, and set is it seal or supposed bearin on the of seiorknises ar this suspicions of gs faction. re ilall xparisees of Mesa years has shown that one of the snit peiaiii of social evils has been the aliens- 1 ties oldie wedging dotes from the middle climes, the jealemey that keg spssg up between the operative awl the mamelhohmer. ielween the employer and the Vfloe hes ken, however unreasonably, a AIWA emmeg the working classes that . immesdirile eqemies in the middle class are enziseste robin tip in datemidenne, to stand be twee& them ad the elska, emit to exereim in their eingsha ease smeleive et ellisenship. We fear wet Me deageeele way to mach strengthened hy the relent to the ministerial ossuary of $ tee her that the work ing d am n; may be lel to suppose that this ree ink ince orizieellei be a desire of the employing cam to keep flit prompely of the instruction of the 1 operative classes in their own hand, to keep the em ployed dependent on their employers for that, as a boon, which, as citizens of en intelligent and free state, they ought to be able to claim from their country u a right. The operatives are not likely to accept the BAINES definition of " manly independ ence," which in his view means " the dependence of the operatives for education on the capricious charity of their immediate superiors ; " neither are they likely to fail in love with voluntaryism, when it means absolute dependence on the irresponsible will of a committee elected by their employers, instead of a responsible committee appointed by the government. Such a feeling is very likely to be strengthened by the proceedings at the late Conference. The great strength of dissent is in the middle classes, and the array of an exclusive body of dissenters in oppo sition to a scheme designed for the moral ele vation of the working classes has too much the semblance of an attempt to promote class interests at the general expense of the community. Many little incidents in the conference are not unlikely to strengthen this suspicion ; the homage paid to money I power by the grave threat of withholding advertise ments from obnoxious journals, was an actual adop tion of the worst of the vulgar calumnies which the discontented operatives in the manufacturing districts are accustomed to direct against their employers ; the strange determination to blockade the lobby of the House of Commons, and increase the arduous duties of the police in that locality, will lead to doubts whether the suffrage has been restricted entirely through fear of vulgar violence; and the menace to start dissenting and middle-class candidates in all jeos sible contingencies, may infuse a suspicion that there are men in possession of the elective franchise who regard advocacy of the rights of the working classes as a disqualification for the post of their representa tives. —.7 Such a suspicion imposes an arduous drty on those members of the House of Commons who have more immediate relations with the great dissenting body. They have to guard against that alienation of the working class from the class immediately above it, which would prove the ruin of that large portion of the liberal interest which is intimately connected with the dissenting body. An eminent historian attributes the overthrow of religious reform in France to the adoption of the principles of theocratic aristocracy by the Huguenots, and their indulgence in that spiritual pride which renders men rebels to those above them, and tyrants to those below. The struggle of the Reformation is not yet concluded; the ideas which were at issue in the last days of the House of VALOIS, are dominant, though in a milder type, at the present hour. History was written for those who have a capacity to profit by its lessons and its warnings. It may be rejected by scoffers at christian ordinances, and by men who substitute platform speeches for calm and deliberate discussion ; but its teachings cannot be loft on such men es Doctors BINNET and VAUGHAN and on that large portion of the nonconformist body which has held itself aloof from contact with faction. That, indeed, such motives have not been lost sight of by such men, we have a prominent proof in the publication of Mr. DuN:l, Secretary of the 2:!*2.±. and Fore* School I Society, giving a frank and manly adhesion tt the government scheme, and to the minutes of council. In another of our columim will be found a notice, with extracts, from this important pamphlet. We suppose the opponents of the scheme will get up another story, and indulge in more fantastic con jectures as to the mode in which this adhesion has been brought about : as if a strong conviction of the expediency and necessity of education, and of the present plan as the only one feasible, were not the almost infallible result of a calm and dispassionate consideration of it. It is passing strange, and singularly unfair, that the very persons who have thrown most difficulties in the way of government are the loudest to accuse them for stooping to some of these difficulties, and labouring to remove others. The Chronicle, which has raised the standard of dissent against the measure, twits govern ment for not carrying a full measure, with a provision in it for Roman Catholic schools, against its own opposition. This is rather hard—to raise and head an army of objection and foes, and then taunt oppo nents with not rioting over them. The Chronicle has raised a strange phantasmagoria on another subject. It supposes minutes of council winch never existed. There are no other relative to the subj ect than those of Dec. 3, 1839. And it gives to Lord JOHN ItUsSELL'S words in the House of Commons a meaning which they were never intended to convey. The minute of the 3rd of December, 1839, requires that the daily reading of a portion of the scriptures shall form part of the instruction in the school. It indicates its meaning in this particular by a preceding inquiry whether the Bible or Testament is used in I the school, and by that part of the concluding resolu tion which states that a preference will be given to those schools in which the religious instruction resem bles in character that given in the two known descrip tions of schools. The whole tenor of the minutes chews that it refers solely to protestant schools, and those, if exceptional, were to be specially Considered. Not more than two or three schools, all of them protestant, were admitted under such special consideration. As the committee of education removed the strin gency of the preamble of the minute requiring the statement of special circumstances, it became import ant that the interpretation of the whole minute should not be liable to doubt. Such a doubt having been expressed, the committee removed it by declaring that the authorised version of the scriptures would be required to be used in all schools aided by public grants. The Chronicle imagines and asserts that an education bill could be carried, which regarded protestant and catholic schools in precisely the same light, and subject to the same conditions. We not only doubt this, but deny it. We are u anxious as the Chronicle for the education of the Raman Catholic poor; but we doubt the possibility of framing any one set of minutes as conditions to regulate the grant of public money at once to catholic and protestant schools in this country. TUE account given by the Express on Saturday of British intervention in the affairs of Portugal, was the reverse of that published by the Times aid the other London journals. The Times announced That the British admiral and envoy had placed the squadron at the Queen's orders, and promised that the men should land immediately she desired it, to protect herself and throne. This interference will decide the question. Our correspondent on the contrary said, that the only succour held out by the admiral, was, protection to her Majesty's person, and her reception on board his own vessel in case of peril. It is not for the mere sake of being more correct in information than our brethren, that we sincerely desire to find the latter account the true one. Were it otherwise, we should find much to animadvert upon in the conduct of the British government. For many months two parties have been contending in Portugal. The Queen having set up a dictatorial power, and avowed it, was opposed by a party who appealed to the constitution, and in tins appeal was supported by all the middle classes, a large portion of the army, by the chief notabilities, and by the second city of the kingdom. Many months back, the insurgent party advanced towards Lisbon, threatening it from both sides of the Tagus. At this critical moment arrived a British commissioner, who sincerely endeavoured to effect a compromise between the contending parties ; but, as he could not but admit that the defence of the Queen's person and the throne was incumbent on the British commander and force in the Tagus, it' was evident that the Queen's party might risk anything, and be sure of succour in the last extremity. Such a state of things of course emboldened the Queen and her general, dis heartened and disarmed the liberals, and led finally to their defeat and retreat. In this discomfiture, several chiefs of the liberals were made prisoners, and were inhumanly treated. The British representative, feel ing how much their defeat and capture were owing to English support of the Queen, besought her Majesty that her prisoners might at least be humanely treated. Her Majesty, for all reply, thrust those chiefs into the narrow hold of a vessel of war, and despatched them, thus fettered, to the most pes tilential climate and prison on the coast of Africa. Her Majesty was then triumphant, in a great mea sure owing to British intervention ; and, as usual wizen triumphant, she showed herself most despotic and cruel to her subjects, and most insultanttober Eng liah ally. Victory is, however, short-lived in Por tugal. The insurgent liberals, beaten in the hills north of Lisbon, and driven from the Tagus, took refuge behind the Dare, and there recruited coati- I THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1847. dence and strength sufficient to defy the efforts and wear out the resources of the Queen's marshal, SAL DANHA. In order to compel him to retreat back upon Lisbon, the Junta of Oporto have despatched an ex pedition to the south of Portugal, that old and oft repeated move, by which each party which has obtained the g o od wishes of the population at large can always reduce the capital. For the second. time within a few months, the Queen is reduced to an extremity, and, as usual when so reduced, she beseeches English succour. This time, however, there was no use in her Majesty's demand ing our diplomatic interference. The insurgents bad had quite enough of that before, and would probably not listen to another attempt to amuse or delay them. Her Majesty has, therefore, been compelled to ask of those British naval officers, whom she would scarcely notice a week back, their armed intervention and protection. A promise of this, to a certain extent, has been made: we trust not to the hnlath which our Contemporaries =Dunce : for this would be a full sanction to the Queen's assumption of dictatorial power, and of her resolve, avowed by proclamation, to reign without Cortes or constitution. Such a move on our part would, of course, have the effect of striking their arms from the hands of the l'ortuguese constitutionalists. Their courage and constancy would forsake them. The achievement of their liberation is impossible, if opposed by the troops of England. And there would be nothing left for them but to surrender to the tender mercies of a Queen whe would infallibly transport them to Angola, or some African desert— more cruel than FERDINAND VII., who, if he sent the liberals to African presidia, selec ted at least the more healthy stations of the Mediterranean. Should these accounts turn out to be true, we do think that the liberals of Portugal, nay, that the' , Queen herself, will have much reason to complain of the vacillating and mysterious conduct of the British government. If we were all along determined that no resistance to the despotic power of the Queen, — no insurrection in favour of constitutional rights, should succeed against her Majesty's 1 ' divine right to govern wrong,"—we should have said so at the first. Such a declaration would have saved months of civil war, and bloodshed, and proscription. If the Queen of PORTUGAL be a female hnspodar, whom England, imitating Russia on the Danube, is to support in every encroachment upon her sub jects' liberties, or whom we are to guarantee from , the consequences, then it were better to inform the Portuguese constitutionalists at once that we not only no longer countenance them, but that we throw them off, proecribe, and shall lend our marines to defeat them. Such a declaration from so great a power as Eng land would rrobably reconcile the Portuguese to any degree of slavery. It might, to be sure, set them wondering for what cause Don MIGUEL had been ex pelled at all. For if despotism is to be the rule, and the throne is to be macro sanct, surely Don MIGUEL is as good an occupant as Donna MARIA. Moreover, they might inquire why, if this policy was to be pur sued by England, it was not pursued at first, instead of, by affecting impartiality between the Queen and the liberals, deceiving the latter into the belief in our neutrality. As it our temporary countenance of the Portuguese liberals has proved to them a " delusion and a snare," which will unite the English name with curses in the mouth of every one in Portugal devoted to the constitutional came. If such conduct as this on the part of our foreign of m has been produced by a wish to allay the fears and captivate the confidence of the new Pacheco ministry in Madrid, the motive is the more dishonourable. It is better that an abandonment of friends and principle should be owing to caprice, than that we should sell and sacrifice them to politi cal combinations with Spain, or with any set of Spaniards. We have often made a very foolish figure in the Peninsula, but this is preferable to making a disgraceful one. We will not however believe that the instructions of .the British admiral, or of the British envoy, can have permitted them to effer more than our own cor respondent announces. It is very probable that the court, getting this promise, has exaggerated and falsified, and made the most of it, in order to deceive and intimidate their enemies by much the same kind of trick which SALDANIIA played in similar circum stances some months since, when he published an in correct version of one of Colonel WYLDE's conversa tions. The accounts published by the Times in all probability emanate from these sources, and will be found, we trust, devoid of truth. WREN are the Americans of the United States to get into Mexico ? A line drawn from Mazatlan, on the Pacific, passing to the north and east of Durango and Zacatecas, cutting off the southern half of Nueva Leon, and terminating at Tampico, will indicate the northern boundary of old settlement, city . life, and comparatively dense population in Mexico. The towns of Monterey, Saltillo, Cohuahila, and Chihuahua —a line pawing through which will be nearly parallel to the corresponding part of the former—are outposts of civilisation, thrust forward into a territory in the progress of colonisation. Brazos, Matamoras, Soto la-Marina, Tampico itself, are new creations—corn mercial entreporsof later origin than the independence of Mexico—stations at which the merchants trading with the interior meet over-sea customers half-way. North, east, and west of Monterey, Cohuahila and Chihuahua are the lands of the Indians, where widely-dispereed eillages have been formed by the efforts of the mis sionaries; encouraged by the neighbourhood of which, isolated families of colonists (rawheres) have settled upon farms, or a few traders have collected in small towns like Santa Fe. Fully a year has elapsed since the Americans forced the stockades erected on the boundary line of what themselves admit to be Mexican territory ; till the late affair near Saltillo, they have not fought another battle that deserves the name; and still we do not hear of their having entered the settled country of Mexico. On the 26th of April, 1846, General TAYLOR ad vised the war department that hostilities had com menced ; on the Bth and 9th of May he gained the vic tories of Palos Altos and Resaca de la Palma ; on the 20th of May he had his head-quarters in Matamoros. The government at Washington left to his discretion the operation' on the Rio Grande, presuming that he would occupy both banks of the river, from Matamoros upwards as far as Loredo, as a basis for future opera tions. At the same time General KEARNEY was sent at the head of an expedition against Santa Fe, with instructions, if he found it practicable, to push on to California. General WOOL was ordered to concen trate a force at San Antonio de Behar, in Texas, to be moved upon Chihuahua. General KEARNEY'S command was independent of General TAYLOR; General WooL's was nominally under him, but the direct correspondence with the war department gave it also a quasi independence. Not long after this, Tampico was taken by the American naval force in the Gulf, and General PATERSON was ordered to concentrate a force there with a view to contingent operations inland ; he also was nominally under General TAYLOR, but, as in the case of General WooL, his direct correspondence with the war department conferred upon him a quasi independence. It was believed that there are four practicable roads for an army withartillery and waggonstoadvance upon the capital of Mexico : from Santa Fe by Chihuahua and Durango ' • from the lower Rio Grande by Monte rey and San Luis Potosi ; from Tampico ; and from Vera Cruz. Of the last-named we shall immediately have occasion to speak ; the Tampico route, it is now believed, is not practicable for artillery or wheeled carriages. But, independently of this consideration, General TAYLOR'S indignant remonstrances on account of his being weakened by the quasi-independence conferred upon Generale WOOL and PATERSON, were so far regarded by the War Department at Washing ton, that he was enabled to absorb their forces into his columns. The only attempt to advance into the interior, of which we have yet any account, is that made by General TAYLOR On the line of Monterey and Saltillo. General TAYLOR'S plan was to avail himself of the Rio Grande during the season when it was at its height, to move his men, stores, and artillery, up to Camargo, and to march thence, accompanied by his guns and by proper means of land carriage, by the valley of San Joan upon Monterey. Having established himself at Monterey, his next object appears to have been to occupy Victoria, on the S.E., which com mands a pass by which the Mexicans could have poured down cavalry to take him in the front and rear as he advanced; and then to march onwards by Saltillo upon San Luis, or, if it should seem ad visable, even the capital. In executing this plan, General TAYLOR complains that he has been thwarted and obstructed from the beginning. lie was not supplied with river steamers early enough, or in suf. ficient numbers. The duties of the quartermaster's department were entirely and ecandr.lously neglected. He was encumbered with new volunteer forces, of whom he had to make soldiers ; and a sufficient num ber of regular troops to form them upon was with held. And finally, the greater put of his force, in cluding, with the exception of a small number of Dragoons, and four field batteries, all his regulars, were withdrawn from him, alter he had advanced upon Monterey, to be employed in a new plan for oc cupying Vera Cruz as a basis of operations against Mexico, the execution of which was entrusted to General Scorr. . What fortune may attend this fourth movement of toe Americans upon the Mexican frontier it is impos sible to conjecture : as yet we only know that it has sailed—some 12,000 or 15,000 men strong —from Llobos. General KEARNEY occupied Santa Fe and leaving the main body of his command there, pushed forward to Monterey in California. ..t,g;o-Amerleitti governor nta were organised in that capital and in Santa Fe. Accord ing to the latest accounts the Ames icans at Monterey were surrounded by Spaniards and Indians in arms, whose natural dislike of the invaders was heightened by the exhortations of the priests. A Mormon battalion of some three hundred men, on its route from Santa Fe to their assistance, was last heard of not far from Arispe, little more than half-way. In New Mexico, the American gov. rnor is reported to have been cut off by an insurrectionary movement of the natives • the fortifications of Santa Fe had not been completed, and the half of the American troops appear to have been lured onwards to Chihuahua in the vain expectation of finding General AVoot there. In that part of Mexico which corresponds to the backwoods of the United States, the few straggling invaders will have enough to do to keep their ground against the assaults of the guerilla foes who surround them. General TAYLOR'S position on the line of the ad yenned townships is little better. his outposts have been driven in, and himself compelled to fall back before a superior force of Mexicans. Though our information respecting the affairs between Aguas Nuevas and Monterey are derived ex- 1 elusively from American sources, we believe they will ultimately be found correct on the whole. The disproportionate loss of the Mexicans is not surprising. General TAYLOR'S men have been many of them a year in active service, while SANTA ANNA'S were raw recruits; the Americans were posted in a district where food and water were abundant, the Mexicans had just crossed a long dry desert; besides the Anglo-Americans are morally and physically a more robust race than the Mexi cans. In addition to all these advantages, the Americans were strongly posted and had four field batteries, while the Mexicans had not a single gun. We sincerely believe that the battle was gallantly fought by the Americans, but it was after all on their part merely a desperate stand in an advantageous posi tion, in the midst of a retreat to beat back a too closely pursuing enemy and gain time. But SANTA ANNA'S rear-guard had still to come up, and with his forces thus augmented and refreshed at Aguas Nueva', he was prepared to resume the pursuit. It i 8 wmrtte4 ;le Americans that the Mexican infantry charged again and again up to the moatha their cannon. Meanwhile, TAYLOR, having been obliged some time ago to call in the detachment which had occupied Victoria on the S.E., and General Wool's brigade, which occupied Parma on the N.W., two passes from the high table-land, practicable for cavalry, were thus left unguarded oa either flank; and through these passes Mexican guerillas have poured in and cut off his communications with the Rio Grande. On even- side of him, too, the Ran cheros were joining the Mexican cavalry under MINON and URREA, or forming themselves into independent troops. And, what is still more strikingly indicative of the national feeling, American letters state that even before SANTA ANNA'S appearance the inhabitants of Saltillo kad betaken themselves en twine to the Ranchos in the interior. When will the Americans reach Mexico? For, supposing General SCOTT in possession of Vera Cruz, CANALIZO can bring down upon him from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Jalisco, as numerous an army as SANTA ANNA has collected in San Luis, Zacatecas, and Durango to oppose TAYLOR ; and the inhabitants of Vera Cruz and Mexico are more numerous and quite as brave and intensely national as those of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. The French journals of Friday and Saturday were so extensively occupied with the reports of and corn ments on the opening of the Prus•ian states as almost to exclude domestic or other foreign topics. The chamber has definitively adopted the project of law on the Bank, having rejected all the amendments which proposed a further reduction of the notes to 100 f. From the tenor of the debate, however, and the feebleness with which the opposition to these amendments was made, it is probable that ere long the paper circulation of France will be put upon the same footing with that of England by the issue of loot notes. The project of law for granting the government steam-ships to the company proposing to ply between Havre and New York has finally passed. A royal ordonnance has just been issued, appointing a general committee on railways, being a sort of rail way. board of control. It is divided into four sections, having respectively the direction of, first, the selection of lines; secondly, the mode of working them in the engineering department; thirdly, the mode of work ing them in the commercial department ; fourthly, thebye-laws or regulation& Each section is to be con sulted on those questions whick peculiarly belong to its functions. The Duke de Broglie is nominated to succeed Count St. Aulaire in the embassy at London. Lord Cowley is announced to be considerably better. Union Mon4rchique has the following in refer ence to the ball given at the British Embassy on Wednesday last All the salons of Paris are at this moment in a Sate of in expressible excitement, in consequence of a singular circum stance, which involves the double question of politics and conversance. We give the fact as it has been communicated to us by one who we have reason to know is well informed on the matter. Since the famous soirée, exclusively Eng given by Lord and Lady Normanby, immediately after another Pe, not lees celebrated, from which the French society thought proper to absent themselves, no great assem bly had taken place at the English embassy. As time, how ever, rolled on, old enmities seemed to be forgotten, and none of the high French society acquainted at the English em. busy hesitated to accept the invitation addressed to them by Lord and Lady Normanby for Wednesday last. The COM pany was, therefore, very numerous, and no unpleasant recollections nor marks of national susceptibility interrupted the pleesnres of the party during the commencement of the evening. At midnight, however, • splendid supper was sewed is the grand gallery, and a ll the ladies present were invited to the table, but scarcely had they been seated 'when a curtain, at the upper . extremity of the gallery, was with drawn, and disclosed, In a species of recess elegantly deco rated with flowers, a table of from fifteen to twenty covers. At the sure time the British ambassador, in a loud voice, requested certain ladies, foreigners of high rank, to place themselves at this small table, at which Lord and Lady Normanby themselves did the honours. Among the ladies who became objects of this amiable attention were the Princes de Lichtenstein, the Countess de Dietrichstein, the Princess de Ligne, Lady Holland, Lady Grenville, Lady Aylesbury, &c. Not a single French lady was invited to the table. The first effect produced by this species of coop de theatre, was a general movement of stupefaction, mingled with anger, among ell the persons seated at the large table in thegallery. For a moment there was • disposition to quit the room in a body, but, on reflection, it was thought that the fittest course to take was to laugh at the adventure, and to observe with maliviant curiosity what passed at the table de maitre,. Soon after, the ladies seated at the unfortunate privileged table hastened ens after another to quit the place, not wishing to be the butt of the general sneer. We will not accompany this recital with any irritating comments. We may, however, be permitted to observe that we have arrived at sa epoch of International manners very different from that in which France and England saluted each other before they exchanged their fire on the field of Fontenoy. We give this specimen of malice on the part of the French journalist, placing no reliance upon its correctness. - - - In the chamber, on Saturday afternoon, a peti tion was presented demanding the recall of the surviving members of the family of Napoleon to France, and to place the image of the emperor on the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Also to change the name of the town of Bourbon-Vendee to Napoleon- Vendee. A violent debate ensued. The first part of the petition, for the recall of the imperial family, was lost only by a email majority. The other parts of the petition were referr to the President of the Council. These motions were strongly opposed by the ministers, who have sustained thus another check. The mails from Madrid, with the journals and cor respondence of the 11th, were received in Paris on Friday. In the senate, the Marquis do Miraftores interrogated M. Pacheco with regard to General. Ser rano : he observed that it was with great reluctance that the late government had instituted the proceed ings against General Serrano, and he was glad to see that the affair was at an end by the exercise of the royal will ; but as the senate had, by an almost unanimous vote, given authority for the prosecu tion, on the ground that the general, although one of its members, was bound as a military officer to obey the instructions of his go vernment, he wished to know whether it was to be now understood that a person who should be at the same time a member of the senate and a military officer could, in the event of hie receiving orders from the government, disobey with impunity by declaring that he could not be called upon to abandon his legislative duties. M. Pacheco replied that the ques- I Lion put by the Marquis de Miraflsres had never formed the subject of discussion in the council of ministers, and therefore, if he gave an answer it must not be taken as that of the government. As far as he was personally coneerq:t., 1 ”27:21 - zr, he would say that he thought a senator had the right to choose between his senatorial duties and those which he might be ordered to perform as a military officer, so long as the senate should not have expressed ita ac quiescence with the orders given by the government. Consequently it appeared to him that General Serrano was justified in declining to obey the orders of the government at the time when he refused to do so. The conversation then dropped. Reports continued to be received at Madrid of the departure of Queen Christina from Paris for that capital. There is no doubt that such a step was con templated, but was fortunately delayed by prudent advice received from the Tuileries. The arrival of General de la Concha at Paris has, it must be pre sumed, completely put an end to the project. ROME, APRIL 5. Yesterday, while the pontiff was in the act of blessing " urbem et orbem from the porch of St. Peter's, before a concourse of over 200,000 Christians of every creed, a slight disturbance arose, which might have had bad results. The civic guard (of which he is colonel) had petitioned to be allowed to put their hats up on the points of their bayonets, and to cheer, which had been allowed, but the troops of the line made a similar application, which had not been successful, and in consequence Zamboni, the commandant, had countermanded the order of the day as regarded the national troops. The people did not know of this, and when the Pope arose amid a deep I silence, and his silvery voice was distinctly heard over', the crowd, a sudden burst from the wuole multitude greeted him, and all eyes were turned on the national guard for their expected manifestation ; their attitude of simple " attention" did not please the Romans, and a row would have ensued but for the timely explana tion of some officers, who were on the qui vire. The Pope . was escorted amid wild enthusiasm back to the Quirinal. Clubs are getting quite into vogue here. The nobles have not any longer the monopoly of casinos. The merchants have got up a club—the artists have got one. The Germans had taken the lead in club bing, and were soon imitated by the French. The English have a well.appointed one in the Piazza di Spagaa—a kind of semi-political club, called Il eireolo Romano. It members already 300 members, and all the papers of Europe are taken. A funeral took place last week of some importance, as showing how the middle classes are emerging from nonentity into importance and self-respect. A coffee house keeper, called Ricci, who had been distinguished as the first Roman who brewed gas for the lighting of his splendid saloons in the Palazzo ltuspoli (the putting out of which gas-pipe I enumerated last year on the 4th of April, among the doings of the late Governor Marini), having died, was convoyed to his last resting-place by several thousands of his fellow-citizens ; the corso was resplendent with torches, and the National Guard, of which he was a soldier, turned out in force to honour their worthy comrade ; he was the great support of the poor exiles, and a stout reformer. You will find the speech pronounced over his grave in the pages of the Gotemporaneo. None but a noble or a " saint " ever had honours of this sort in Rome. The mezzo cete, have begun to understand their own worth. Rocca, the president of the Equator (Quito and Guyaquil), has sent as ambassador to our court the Marquis Lorenzana. The first merchant vessel (built at Ancona) called Pio Nono, entered Civita Vecchia last week, and received a royal salute from the batteries. You would do well to hint this matter to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, when they next destine a steamer for our Italian and Southampton line, and are puzzled at the christening. May they have more luck than with the Tiber! Last night the dome and colonnade of St. Peter's blazed out with a million lamps, and the spectacle from the Pineian hill was, on account of the dusk of the sky, brilliant beyond custom. 'Twas as if a fragment of the "New Jerusalem" had been let down from the empyreum by a golden chain. Among the odd regulations which from time im memorial have obtained in Rome is the law by which goats are not allowed to enter the city until after Easter Sunday. In consequence the town was thronged at an early hour this morning with herds of horned visitors from the Sabine hills, their udders full of milk and their odour recognisable through every thoroughfare. Carriages could hardly go at any pace for the obstruction. Why they are ex cluded during the Lent's holy fast, I do not pretend to discover; possibly it may have some mysterious connexion with a passage in the beautiful old dithy ramb "Dies km," sung on mournful occasions of the church service : _ Inter oyes locum preen! Et ab /lades me aequesCra Statue= in parte demo! APRIL B.—You may look out for a speedy adjust ment of the question of Rome and England inter change of diplomatic relations. Her Majesty's am bassador at Naples has just arrived here ; and, if his visit to Rome had merely a recreative object, he would scarcely have chosen to come after the Easter attractions had ceased to render oar city interesting, and just when the season of Neapohtan festivity opens. The Hen. Mr. Temple and our late English minister at Vienna, Sir Robert Gordon, do not appear idle ; and though this business belongs properly to the department of our Florentine envoy, Mr. Hamilton's continued illness has rendered the services of another official personage indispensable. To lay the founda tion of an embassy at Rome (tanta molls era , !) would seem a work of sarpassing gravity ; and the brother of the late as well as the brother of the present occu pant of the Foreign-office are not too many for the task. May the mother of the graces smile on the undertaking Sic te diva pours Cypri Ede (mute Relate, Weida Altera'. for, in a case like this, one may be allowed to draw upon both Horace and Virgil for illustrations. Lady Susan Percy, while at her toilet yesterday, dropped dead on the carpet ; ossification of the heart is supposed to have brought on this sudden calamity. Yon will convey the first news of this additional be reavement to the wide circle already placed in mourn ing by the demise of the chief of the house of North umberland. She was kind and charitable. Letters from Paris to the Irish College here prepare the members of the clergy and other admirers of Mr. O'Connell for his immediate arrival by sea at Civita Vecchia, from which he will have, owing to the horrid state of that road, a most tedious drive to Rome. The town is fast getting empty, as usual about this time of the year, and next month the heat will begin to be intolerable, so that the baths of Lucca, or some other cheerful retreat, would be a more sensible move. He will find here, in a state of bodily and mental debility equal to his own, in an advanced age, the only living daughter of Curran, the sister of her of whom it is written, in pages that will never die: me li, far from the lea where her roans hero sl, ke. If he is enabled to climb the Janiculum bill, he will trace on the marble floor of the church of :Nlontorio the newly repaired and refreshened epitaphs of two Irish chieftains who did not confine their aspirations against the Saxon to mere talk, but wasted both life and fortune in the hopeless endeavour to create an independent Ireland, to Right her wrongs in !Wile line. Helc Jacent O'Neallua, nano de Dungannon, =gni Magoon Mina ; et O'Don nell. Comes de Tyrconnel, qui contra baereticco In lityliernil mhos annce certlruat, 1609,_ - - - - All the disponible part of the Roman population is, while I write, flocking out towards the Ponte Mole, there being held a grand steeple-chase along the old Flaminian Way, and the jocky mania being as preva lent here as it has become within a few years at Paris. Prince Odercalchi is in the van of these manly pur snits, and they are something better than effeminate fiddling buffoonery and debauchery which were the only previous resources of patrician life in these dominions. I may as well mention, fur the enlightenment of such dull dogs as imagine field sports to be an abomination in the eyes of the church, that at one of the lat meetings of the fox-hounds, Cardinal Piecolomini rode out to witness the throwing oft' of the pack, aod the common sense of the Romans saw nothing to wan. der at in the presence of an additional red uniform where all wore the obligato scarlet. It is but fair to add that Piccolomini's mother was an English lady of the old Yorkshire family Scrape, and thus akin do the fiery archbishop " of that ilk " in Shakspeare. There is not in the whole colt, ge of cardinals a more 801114 and sensible divine, and he has the best collection of ehibouks, and the most delicate Turkish tobacco in the Eternal City. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's 'tamer Tyber, which brings Gibson's Queen, is cramful of pictures and sculpture. The Royal Academy will be great prigs indeed if they object t!teir "pay regulations" to the reception of the statue. MONTREAL, MARCH 27. The governor has spoken ; taken his fit ,t step e n d retraced it; made an advance and been repulsed. 1 wi let the facts precede the comment. It seem. that Lord Elgin, desiring to attach to hit government the French 1 Canadians, and after basing treated them with m uc h per . ' sonal consideration and kint:iiess in the social intarceune he has generally maintaiei d with Montreal society since hie arrival, thought the time for corning to close flaunts with the party had arrived ; and he accordingly mi le a written statementpioood in of t h h is o se hon tili d m r e o n f one tstowardsthem, ort discr e et and criur and rol sedthi r seg be ii nt o :i v T u . 7h o C io p i i e r t ra s L o r t u ae sa l t ec id i .:.-t o l s f i to o C ri t o nell l o lordship'soth.oroouthrou g h h h i e t brother. h irr e diß th rl i p s ce"e disc , of the most amiable and enlightened of his race, and who* a short time filled the chair of the House of As mbly. lye views themselves are understood to have comprised all that could be desired by the French Canadians, so such, and the information sought from Mr. Morin was, whether any oh. stacle stood between his friends nod the preten• administra tion to prevent a junction. It ie understood th it his excel. lencv made no offer or promise, hut limited the paper he dm liveied to an expression of his wish that the public men ef the French Canadian party poseesaiug the confidence of their countrymen, should be seated in the eeccutive ceurteil upon terms of equal justice as between them and miter parties and races, provided always this could be done without the tar render of any public principle. His excellency intimated that the true interests of the country would entitle him to expect some sacrifice of difficulties upon inertly pers on a grounds. The answer to this addreess was, that Mr. Morin was not entitled to speak in the name of the party to which he belonged that that party counted other member, than persons of French Canadian origin among in numbers • sad that, speaking only for himself, it was his belief th at hie political friends would not feel disposed to unite with the members of the present administration. This answer would seem to close the door again s t .2 further efforts either on the part of Lord Elgin in person, or of any of his council, to negociute the introduction of the French Canadians into the government. The two documents referred to have not yet been given to the public, and their literal contents will not probably be made fully known before the meeting of the legislature, when ministerial or opposition "explanation" will bring them out, or Lord Elgin may himself lay them formally before the chamber,. A knowledge of their contents has been guinea chiefly through the newspapers, which have raised a controversy on the subject. It is contended by the opposition press, that Mr. Lafon taine, as the acknowledged parliamentary leader of the French Canadians, should have been addressed either we bally or in writing by the Governor-General—that thigh the pretieeter th; .;s, ; o n at house, and consistent with the priaciples of responsible government here. On the other aide, it is contended that this is a matter of etiquette that ought not to have precluded the parties addressed, or any one of them, from meeting a new governor tendering the hand of friendship to a race, whose chief grievance has ha► tofore been their alleged exclusion from office on account ef their origin, from meeting him in the same spirit, and Weed ing him every information and assistance in their power. It is thought that the answer was rather more curt than was either politic or becoming—not in its terms, for a more bland or courteous gentleman, or a more benevolent spirit then Mr. Morin there is not in this country ; but in its &abstains, and in the position that the party assumed by that answer. Mr. Lafontaine and his friends in Lower Canada him formed an alliance, as is well known, with Mr. Baldwin sad his reform party in Upper Canada, and a negotiation to tale office without concert or participation with his allies might strike Mr. Lafontaine as not within the strict limits of politi cal principle. This, however, is a new position of the patty, or of the Lower Canada section of the opposition twelve months ago, Mr. Lafontaine was not in • le treat with Mr. Draper for admission to office oil the •ei what was called the " double majority"—that is, that the parliamentary majority of Upper Canada, which is cornetts tier, should be represented in the council by its political leaders, and the parliamentary majority of Lower Canada, which is French Canadian, and professes the liberal reform principles of Mr. Baldwin, by its political leaden. This negotiations( last year did not go on, and Mr. Lafontaine complained el its being dropped - , and he disclosed all the details in the House of Assembly. The effect of the proposed union ea this principle would have been to throw Mr. Baldwin and his minority in Upper Canada into the shade of a double nrajerity, amounting almost to the political cities tion of the party. Mr. Baldwin was probably able to env wince his ally of his mistake in separating his forces fan him ; and hence the new ground upon which he now stands. The prints in Mr. Lafontaine's interest give out that his party will not treat with the governor so long as he has a constituted ministry • that when caked upon, after the re signation or dismis sal of a ministry, to advise upon the formation of a new one, they will feel themselves at liberty to obey the call, but not otherwise. The peti tion of the parties is thus pretty accurately defined. The Lafontaine-Baldwin alliance stands compact, ready for the field. The united party will come into office only ae victors, after defeating their adversaries by a parliamentary majority. In answer to this menace, the conservatives at Upper and Lower Canada, who were split up into several knots of parties, seeking different ends, and entertaining and sowing distrust of each other, have dropped their differences, and allege that they are now firmly united, resolved to keep out the common enemy; and for that purpose counting a clear parliamentary majority of 12, which, in a house con sisting of 84 members only, is equivalent to a majority of 80 in the House of Commons, which, I presume, in your eons. try would be called a "good: working majority." Lord Elgin is, of coune, blamed by both parties—by the • French, because he did not take the right course to place • them in office—by their opponents, because he even thought of doing Bush a thing. It is said that as a politician who knew the value of prestige, he should not have subjected himself to the possibility of a refusal from any party. A denial is never pleasing, and least so, perhaps, when given to a proffer of friendship. Thus you have his lordship's exact position so regards ministerial matters and party politics within the sphere of his government. These sentiments of the responsible government party am wide-spread throughout both divisions of the province. A conservative ministry, which seems now all but inevitable, will have much to do to bring tranquillity into the country; and I see no power that looks promising to still the angry pamions of political sects. I allude to a conservative minim, o se bor tio r g roc up o o o n hoo th o e o o ro ld reroooe tort' fanci ly 7 to men acting upon enlightened views, however they may call themselves conservatives. co mp n a g t g p a ri ti n on cip o le f gearts y The winter for the last fortnight has been temporarily broken up by a thaw, but it is not gone. It has bees snow ing heavily for twenty-four hours. During the night, the wind blew in hurricane gusts, and it has continued with violence during the day. The anew-dribs must be three feet deep in some parts, rendering the roads impassable. The Oovernor-Oeneral is completely snowed up at Mole land', unable to come in but on snow shoes. The mail iar England is appointed to start this evening ; but I see titb prospect edits being able even to cross the river. I'.S. Since writing the above, I find that Lord Elgin . ha/ actually come in upon snow shoes, to transact business Ira his council before the departure of the mail for England. 1. BERLIN, Arson 14. The forcible, unwritten, and somewhat menafair expressions which were not " put into," but wheels velem tidily issued from, the mouth of his Majesty on Slidell". 1. at the opening of ' the united diet, have caused moans* stir, even in Prussia. The speech was eagerly Fervisibr the public; many a head was shaken, many a shoulder win shrugged, and many a monosyllabic expression of retails- ment escaped the readers and the auditors in the cediamy places of resort. Few, however, ventured in Fab** ri ex ty press of m an ok y i o nir pin th io o n do , far— roo tt o n t d — l ir regre is to g be ero u o nd si e o r the ßetti eatent• it speak on political matters even in moderate language. have good grounds for stating that 1 members of mu • diet were (te say the least) greatly afflicted by the relator course ; that not a few amongst them would prefer theme turning to their homes to remaining in this capital; that many entertain the doubt whether it was etrellyvar to limit in a united diet the privileges possessed bye ones, without previously consulting the latter. IM ray stringent limitation of the right of petition is the mere ear prising, inasmuch as that restriction forms, in fact, anedno Wvier between the king and his subjects, and it wr chely in order to keep up the old confidence, and the &lir relations existing between prince and people, that his Mr jetty (as be himself stated) would net consent to sale* le any so-called representatives of the latter. This day the section of the diet resumed its 'shown is drawing up an address in reply to the King's spood'•__. is thought that it will not be presented before Friday_l7; and that it will be drawn up in language respectful, firm. England, are two ladies, who are peeresses in their own Herren-stand, w orr ort ori hy o o f r u re p m pr ar r h H th o a o t or a:n u onp wo t th oo e m m e e ti m or tnid y t he t _ right, t viz., th e e Princessae Din o, of th S e ag° ll T , all l el la n e n lie d v ' e be , former derma her title of princess from her estates es Silesia, and the latter from some property in Seats were reserved for both at the opening of t woos oo Their sex, however, compels them to vote by polio! , oftteenwa better as the th e M Prince Talleyrand, and the Countess of Kielmarwegg n 0.! they have already chosen with the consent of the king. P.S. The Allgemeine Preusskhe Zeitswo t t the .. ot lß t r a publishes in full the debates of the United D ie 0 1, T, d h Lower House, on the 12th inst. The grand m an diet, the Prince of Solms Lich, urged the members to themselves worthy of the royal confidence reposed _ end then proceeded to nominate eight secretaries. 100 propositions already referred to in a former err Lo ' were next laid before the chamber by the mond: t ee= as interior. A committee was nominated in order to . the propositions. The Count of Schwerin prop os ed