The Express. — London, England, 1847-11-12 00:00:00

meet others, inasmsch as it has, in a great measure, been superinclace,d by metropolitan legislation, con ceived is Per:tonste ignorance. The Frlit origin of Wert Indian embarrassments is to he Sought in the determination of the mother country to effect a change in their social institutions, *which in Europe was the result of the arduous struggles of many centuries, in the brief space of a few years. The transformation of the eilkins of the 11th and 12th centuries into the free and intelligent labourers of the 18th and 19th, was the work of the emancipated classes themselves. A succession of generations by their continuous efforts made them selves freemen. One act of the British parliament made the negroes of our West India colonies no longer slaves, bat more is required to impart to them the character of the free peasantry of Europe. Nay more : even if the self-educavon our European labourers have given themselves in the coarse of cen turies had not made them the intelligent self relying men they are, the density of our population would have ensured the economical continuous labour we derive from them. In our tropical colonies the population does not press so close on the means of subsistence : there is not the same motive to continu ous regulated labour as in Europe. Yet more : the position of our free-labour tropical settlements is an exceptional one—they are surrounded by competitors still possessed of the compulsory labour of which they have been deprived. Of all these things our headlong emancipators have taken no heed. They have in dulged in the cheap virtue of emancipating the negroes at the coat of others; and they have taken no care to prepare the negro for freedom, colonial society for those circumstances in which free labour is cheapest, or our free labour colonies for gradual exposure to competition on equal terms with countries still possessed of slave labour. We shall be reminded of the twenty millions. What are they to the wealth of this nation ? or to the millions which have been squandered for less worthy purposes ? And, on the other hand, what are they to the pecuniary loss of the West Indians? Tbey barely paid for the labour of the slaves ; but deprived of that labour what is the comparative worth of the lands these slaves once tilled ? The last census in Jamaica shows that the number of free labourers is as nearly as possible one half of the number of slaves at the period of eman cipation. And these labourers cannot be relied upon to work • day of the same length as the English labourer, or to work so many days in the week. Land without labour is valueless. No com pensation has been made to the West Indians for the breadth of land which, by having available labour withdrawn from it, has for the time been deprived of all value. It would not—were there the slightest chance of its being granted—be easy to estimate the amount of such a compensation. Our calculations would require to begin with the first legislative in terference to check the supply of labourers, and restrict their hours of labour. It is not from the era of emancipation, but from the first legislative interference with slavery end the slave trade, that the diminution in the value of West Indian lands by the regulations of the imperial legislature must be dated. We have stated the case of the West Indians un compromisingly. It is our duty to disregard popular clamour in urging their claim to the considerate at tention of government, and that legislative body which is the creature of the mother country's public opinion. We should, however, be deceiving the West Indians did we encourage the slightest expectation on their part that the course of the free-trade policy which this country has adopted can be arrested out of consideration to them, or that they have any further money groats to look to. The present embar rassment is so equally diffused over all the great interests of the country, that government can afford money advances to none. If such were granted to one, they must be granted to all, and that is impossible. And as for the continuance of fiscal protection to free-labour against slave-labour tropical produce, that the complexity of our commercial and diplomatic relations equally forbids. Nay, it is im possible to look our critical position in respect of more than one important state fairly in the face, without seeing that a speedy modification of our anti-slave trade policy is probably impending. Much ought to be done to remedy the evils which zeal without know ledge has inflicted on our tropical dependencies, but we cannot afford for their sake to be at enmity, or even in uneasy relations, with the leading nations of the world. But what it is possible to do for the tropical colo nies ought to be done without delay. An adequate supply of labour is the first great want. The defi ciency of capital which some complain of must be preceded by this. Capital will flow naturally to these colonies as soon as the mesas of rendering it avail able by labour are there, bat not till then. It is in vain to speak of further improvements in machinery or modes of culture, until there are hands enough to set them in motion and carry them into effect. It is a hallucination to think of rent-paying tenants until the colonies are in a condition to attract or create capital. On these abstract principles, Earl GREY'S despatch is sound : its osly defect is an apparent unconsciousness of the real extent and urgency of the demand for labour. He writes as if the limited experiments hitherto made were commensurate to the actual necessity. The wants of the West Indies can only be supplied by throwing emigration free from all our West African settlements, made or to be made, and by declaring that in Africa, as in Canada, all are freemen who seek refuge on the soil over which the British flag waves. The vexatious and useless restrictions on the tropical immigrant transport service must be abolished. Surely the precautions which are sufficient for the safeguard of Irishmen and Englishmen are enough for Africans. This great desideratum supplied, much may be done by reductions in the expense of colonial government, and by simplifying and imparting greater certainty to the transfer of landed property and the enforcement of creditors' claims, in order to attract capital to the islands. In these matters government can take the initiative in the crown colonies, and stimulate in the chartered colonies. We would impress upon government that this is no common crisis, and that in adopting a sound policy for our West Indian colonies, timidity and procrastina tion are the chief, almost the only, dangers. On the other hand, we would impress upon the West Indians the necessity of sacrifice and exertion on their part. They have been cruelly treated, but reparation for the past is not to be hoped for. They must make the most of their actual resources. " Men do their broken weapons rather use than their bare hands." THE entire arguments of the Times on the mone tary and commercial question, amount to this—abo lish credit. If you trade, do so on ready money. If you have made an unfortunate speculation, do not seek to redeem it by another calculated with more surety and foresight, but succumb at once. If a ma nufactarer or agriculturist, a bad season or a blight, have destroyed a portion of your produce, don't at tempt to render it the less sensible by spreading it over several years, and making use of credit to do so, but recover your loss by ceasing to spend. Care not for throwing hundreds out of work; care not for diminishing your produce, and crippling your means of restoring what accident and nature have blighted. Think only of your money-box ; and take it for a maxim, that it is better to be idle and parsimonious, than to be industrious and to make use of credit. . . Had such been the prevailing maxim with the Englishman, this woald never have been the England of our times. Adventure has been the soul of English trade, as of English empire and conquest—adventure disproportioned to our means, but never to our spirit or its results. What the Times recommends is simply that the nation and the government should cease to be English, should forget English habits and maxims, and should take in their stead those slow and super annuated virtues which still exist in foreign nations, and which have kept them poor, and weak, and igno rant, without being a jot more moral. There cannot be found a better example than in Spain and the Spaniards—a people as ignorant of the use of credit, except in the government misuse of it, as the Indians they conquered. The Spaniard was once industrious, inlaid, wealthy, free, manufacturing, and trading. Nis colonial empire came unfortunately to give him gold in lieu of all these things. With gold, which the government dispensed, be supplied all his foreign wants, and he consequently ceased producing any home commodity to exchange. lie wanted, no credit, focnd industry useless, frugality became his sole com mercial virtue. No man lives so rigidly within his income as the S pa niard : no man has such a horror of credit. He trades with dollars, and believes in no' other wealth. In troublous times, he buries his hoard, and in the most tranquil and prosperous ones he has as mach des rust of paper as a Scotcbman has dislike of gold. The nines would simply remedy the im providence of Joins BOLL by converting him into a Spaniard. The Spaniard, or the commercial man of any na tion in the same grade of civilisation, knows but two uses of money. He either beards it, or lends it at heavy i usury to those from whom he can command a y return. This is the capitalist that suits the predilections of the school we are describing. He never invests, never fixes his capital, or embarks it in any speculation, except, perhaps, in mining ; the gambling and hazardous nature of which investment has charms for the solemn but enthusiastic Spaniard. The English commercial man is precisely the reverse of this. lie has a dislike of coin, as the moat unproductive shape of capital. To get rid of it, to invest it, to fix it, has been his constant effort for cen turies. And the result of that continued effort we see in the wealth of the land,in the fertility of its soil, the extent, number, and utility of its buildings, the majesty of its public works, its modes of communication, its fleets, its factories, its forges—all the result of sinking capital, of casting it away like manure over the lend. The worst times for the Englishman, the most irksome and miserable state for him, is when he knows not what to do with his coin, when he is rich inthe estimation of the Times school—when he has no use for his money, but to run begging any and every one to give him even a fraction of interest for the use of it. In times such as these the Englishman is apt to lose his patience and his wits, and to fling his money into any foreign lap. The country has never lost really by over-investment. SELF-GOVERNMENT, we have often said, is Ter . ) , apt to grow into sel fi sh government . Parochial ulcer. ruptibles clamour against the assertion. Doubt less they are very self-denying, self-sacrificing bodies—whether they call themselves guardians, or select vestry, or commissioners. They have an abso lute mania for sustaining the toils of parish govern ment gratis. They form a legion of unpaid Her culeses, who are never happy but when up to their knees in the Augean stable They delight to do everybody's business, and to be abused into the bar gain. And all without fee or reward! Who can grudge such parochial patriots an odd bit of patronage or an occasional dinner? It is well that the favoured public, which benefits by these self-imposed duties and unrewarded labours, should now and then learn the extent of their obligations. Such heroes should not want a chronicler. We have discharged the histo rian's duty, from time to time, for want of a worthier. We are anxious that, in these days of ingratitude and unbelief, the machinery of self government should not be dismantled without every possible publicity being given to its ways and work ings. In this spirit we would invite our readers to devote a few minutes' attention to the Tower Hamlets Sewerage Commission, as it appears in the discharge of its odorous and onerous functions. Such commis sions claim to be parts of the great system of self-government, because they are appointed, sot by the rate-payers, but by the LORD CHAN CELLOR. So that the name self-government, in this instance, must be understood to refer not to the rate-payers who contribute the money, but to the commissioners who distribute it. The sewerage commission is self-governing, inasmuch as the members of it have every possible facility for taking care of number one. We choose the Tower Hamlets commission as an example of the class, for more reasons than one. In the first place, it has under its control the sewerage of some of the most miserable and unhealthy parts of London. In the second place, the first number of the new Journal of Public Health gives us a minuter de tail of its working than we can generally obtain of the operations of similar bodies. Sewerage commis -1 sioners are modest, and love to do their good works l in secret. The population whose sewerage is super intended by the Tower Hamlets Commission exceeds, 300,000. The district it extends over is bounded on the west by a line running from the Tower along Shoreditch to Stoke Newington, oa the north and east by the river Lea, on the south by the Thames. These boundaries include within them the muddy tracts of Stepney, Limehonse, and the purlieu of the London Docks, the squalor of Spitalfields, the frowsiness of the Minories, the beggary of Beth nal-green, and the multifarious stinks, sinks, cesspools, and slaughter-houses of Whitechapel. Their domain is traversed by alleys, of which I Rosemary-lane is a fair type, homes of fever, and a sort of depot from which the disease is supplied to the adjacent districts at various strengths. Any pas senger by the Blackwell or Eastern Counties Hallway may catch a bird's-eye view of the realm of the Tower Hamlets Commission, and the manners of its inhabitants. Within this highly-favoured locality are to be found scores of such places as Lamb's-fields, with its 300 square feet of putrefying matter, the car buretted-hydrogen gas bubbling on the surface, and pestilence exhaling into the open windows of a row of new houses, within ten feet of this ornamental sheet of water. Nor are there wanting many squares like the appropriately-named Pleasant-place, its centre made up of swine-pens and dung-hills, and its skirts garnished with overflowing ordure. For a sample of its courts take Newton's-rents, in Stepney, with its six one-roomed houses on either side, each with its two feet of backyard, its open privy and dust-bin, the grating in the centre of the court leading to a drain always stopped up, and overflowing into a little lake of putrid mud ; where the scavenger never enters, the court being private property, and eminently blessed by self-government; where no water is laid on (the nearest pump being half a mile off ), and the tenants when asked how they get a supply of that useful article reply, " God knows—we beg, borrow, or steal it." Such is Newton's-rents, built two years ago, its upper works self-governed by the proprietor, its under-ground arrangements superintended by the Tower Hamlets Commission of Sewers. There are also within the range of the same commission many profitable yards for the confection of patent manure from night-soil, blood, and nitric acid, not to speak of countless glue, gut, and tripe manufactories, bone boilers' and.knackers establishments, and similar pub lic conveniences, in which animal matter is stored or used in various stages of putrescence. Such is the domain of the Tower Hamlets com mission. We must now exhibit the constitution and work ing of the commission. It consists of about 240 individuals, of whom not more than 30 attend to the business of the board, and over these the committee, consisting of 18, are omni potent. So self-government dwindles from govern ment; of the parish by the parishioners, first to go vernment by the 240, and then to government by the 30, and then to government by the 18. It is be coming obviously more and more sell-ish in character at each remove. If we could trace it further we should probably come upon the DALAI LAMA himself —the Lotus XIV. of the commission, with his " L'etat i l c'eet moi!"—“ self-government" in person, as embodied in some one master spirit of the committee, who rules the 18, who rule the 30, who rule the 240, who rule the 300,000. To see the committee at work, we most look to their accounts. Of late years it has been difficult to persuade the modesty of the 18 to open these records of their self-denying labours to the grateful rate payers. But they are accessible from 1831 to 1837. During that period, out of every 100/. of sewer rate paid by the public, 5:11. went in works, while 47/. was expended in management. Some of the items exhibit very strikingly the marvellous industry of the commission. In Upper Limehouse the expense of works for cleansing is 2/. 15s. 6d.; expenses of work ing the commission, 64/. 17s. 9d. In Hackney Brook Level, expense of works, 268/. 15s. Bd. ; of working the commission, 3941. 2s. 4d. In the Tower-la Level, 171. 19s. Ad. goes for works; 3111. 19e. 2d. for the expenses of the commission. Nothing can more clearly prove the extraordinary nature of the com mission's services to the rate-payers. They expend 3111. worth of care and trouble to 17/. worth of sewerage work. Common men would have reversed the proportion. It is as if Messrs. STLLTZ were to send in an account of 71. for a coat, made up of 11. materials and 6/. work. All depends on the artist. The Tower Hamlets Com missioners are first-rate artists. The price proves it. The commission Is active in constructing new sewers. The jury who survey the ground when a new sewer is to be made, or an old one altered, is called "a dining jury." This jury walk over the dis• trice for a day or two, accompanied by the surveyor and his clerk. They listen and respond to the former gentleman's remarks on the weather, and their devo tion to this onerous duty is rewarded by a dinner at the London Tavern, or some equally well-reputed hoetelrie. We are happily enabled to furnish a bill for a commission dinner given on some such occasion at the West India Dock Tavern. It deserves a niche among THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1847. the venerable relics of self-government, should self-go- , versa:sent over take its place with the " has bens." £ s. d. Twenty dinners, deserts, tees, &a., at 10a. Two haunter of venison Wiese : sherry, five bottles, at 64. ; port, six bot tles, at 65.; hock, seven bottles, at 10s. 6d.; champagne, four bottles, at 10s. 6d. ; punch, four bowls, at 4.1. I Ice for wine, 12s. ; brandy, Os. ; rose water, 11.6..1 OlB 6 Cigars, 24.; sods, 41. 6d . ; claret, lira bottles, at 10s. lid. Tea and coffee, 304. ; wax-lights, 3s. ; two ser i vents, at 10s. each ; broken glass, 3s. House porter and waiters 1 16 0 £3BlB Can anything be more delightful to the truly British mind than the picture conjured up by this document, of self-government at feeding time? Meanwhile, under the mild encouragement of such innocent convivialities, we must suppose the work of sewerage going on in such a way, that out of 33,9061. 17s. ld. spent from 1831 to 1837, 14,2881. 17s. 9d. was spent in cleansing alone. This, of course, indicates a gentleness of fall, and a conse quent power of retaining filth in the sewers con structed, which incapacitates them for what are com monly considered their only purposes. Poor streets are very generally unsewered, within the domain of the Tower Hamlets commission, as the owners of small houses will not go to the expense of opening drains into sewers when they do exist ; and self-government is clearly opposed to any attempt at compelling them to do so. However, if these streets go without sewers, it is grati fying to think that they pay sewer-rates. "It is understood that there is property in Spitalfields and Bethnal-green," says Mr. linstr, an owner of small tenements in these districts, in his evidence before the Health of Tewns Commission, " which has paid sewer-rate for the last two centuries, and is still unprovided with sewerage." With this appro priate extract we may now sum up the blessings of "self-government," as far as the sewerage of the Tower Hamlets district exhibits them. An irresponsible body is appointed, of which less than one-thirteenth really acts. This thirteenth spends more than one-half of the rates in expenses, constructs sewers, which cost as much to cleanse as to build, leaves those districts unsewered where sewerage is most wanted, and compels owners of property to pay rates for sewers which are not and never have been in existence. Surely a system which produces such results is a thing to struggle for. WE believe we may state with some confidence that the official returns of the condition of the Bank which will appear in this evening's Oa:elle, will exhibit not only no further decrease in either the banking reserve or in the aggregate amount of bullion, but, on the contrary, an augmentation of both, of the most im por'ant kind. Until we see the precise statistics under the usual authentic form we reserve our comments. In the mean time we will not lose the opportunity of observing, that the speedy oc currence of such a state of things is the best illus tration possible of the strong objections raised by ourselves and others against the perfectly gra tuitous alarm and extortion, which did all in its power to neutralise the efficacy of the government interference, by clogging it with an extravagant and unjustifiable rate of interest. The fact has farther bearings upon the question, at this time so vitally in teresting, of the alleged poverty and paralysis of the country; and we shall not omit to give a due promi nence to this additional feature of the evidence. The Paris journals and our correspondence of Wed nesday have reached us. The adjudication of the loan of 250 millions, as authorised by the bill of August 8, 1817, took place on Wednesday, at 12 o'clock, at the Hotel of the Minister of Finance, Rue de Rivoli. The room in which the proceedings took place was crowded to excess long before the hour ap pointed to commence. When the hon. minister had taken his seat, he briefly intimated for what purpose the day's meeting was ordered, and then called on M. Calmon, the secretary of the department of finance, to read the conditions of the adjudication, which state: that the payment of the 250 millions should be effected in twenty-five months from Nov. 22, 184 7 ; that a first instalment of 12,500,000 f. should be delivered on that day ' • a second of 12,500,000 f. on Dec. 22, 1847; a third of 5,000,000 f. on Jan. 7, 1848 ; and all the rest, each amounting to 10,000,000 f. on the 7th of each month, down to Nov. 7, 1849, on which day the lsst instalment was to b. p.id, &c.—The hon. minister then laid on the table a sealed packet, containing the minimum price below which no tender could be accepted, and called on the persons wishing to contract to hand in their tenders.—Baron J. de Rothschild then placed a sealed packet on the table, no other person following his example. When the clock struck half-past twelve, the hon. minister pro ceeded to open the scaled packet of M. de Rothschild. He first read the receipt from the Caisse des Depots et Consignations for a sum of 10,000,000 f., caution money paid in according to the conditions.—He next read the tender itself, which offered to take the loan of 2.50 millions at the rate of 75f. 23c. This an- nouncement was received with hisses by a number of persons, who considered the price too low, whilst others cried out, " C'est un tres-beau prix."—The hon. minister then stated that as the rate just named was above the minimum price contained in his sealed packet, the I sin was adjudged to MM. de Rothschild. Except the immediate friends of MM. de Rothschild, there were none of the bankers or capitalists of Paris present. The schism among the reform party which was manifested at the recent banquet at Lille, and which we have already reported, supplied a subject of lively discussion in the journals and society in Paris on Wednesday and the preceding days. A declaration has been published bearing the signatures of M. Odi lon Barret, and several other deputies, explaining the ground on which they withdrew from the banquet. The policy aimed at by the Guizot cabinet in re ference to Switzerland is a subject of unsparing attack, and more especially the unbecoming and fu rious invective directed against the legitimate and recognised government of that country by the organs of the ministry. The Di'bate declares that there is no longer a Diet—that, in fact, the confederation as such is without a government. Yet M. Bois le Comte is still the ambassador accredited to this Diet, which M. Guizot says is no Diet at all. By the St. George steamer, arrived at Marseilles from Naples, the news of the death of Count Bresson is confirmed. There appears to have been no other than presumptive evidence that the act was com mitted by himself. The Noueelliste of Marseilles says that it may prove to have been an assassination. The Courrier de Lyons quotes a letter received from Naples, in which the death of the ambassador is spoken of as an assassination. It is said that on the evening before he was at the Opera, and was in very ani mated conversation with the persons around him. A mass was celebrated on Tuesday (says the Univers) at the high altar of the Church of Notre Dame, invoking the divine blessing upon th e heroic standards of the Sonderbund. M. Casamayor, president of the finance committee charged by the Spanish government to conclude an arrangement for the regulation of the Spanish debt in Holland, and to pay there the last h3.lf-year's in terest, has arrived in Paris with the members of the committee. He is on his way to the Hague. The Bourse WWI very crowded on Wednesday, from the anxiety to hear the terms of the loan. Three per cents. opened at 76fr. 90c., and at two o'clock were at 77fr. sc. The loan opened at 761 r. 25c., and rose to 77, demanded. Letters and journals from the chief places in Swit zerland have arrived, to Sunday and Monday. General Dufour having applied to the Vorort to be informed when hostilities were to commence, received for answer that they most begin without further de lay. Upon this, the general-in-chief issued an ad dress to the army. The manifesto was dated on Friday last, and it was expected that hostilities would commence on Monday. The ministers of France and England had applied to the president to allow the French and Irish stu dents of the seminary of Friburg to be withdrawn from the scene of the conflict. A safe conduct for this purp•se was granted by General Dufour, and two attachés of the respective legations had been sent to Friburg to conduct the students to the hotels of the embassies at Berne. Advicea from Genoa, which come down to the 3th instant, bring reports of one of the moat magnificent popular ovations of which that city has been the theatre for a long aeries of years. The reform' re cently made in the administration of the Mate by King Charles Albert have filled the entire population of Piedmont with enthusiasm, and their gratitude almost amounts to delirium. The journey of the King from Turin to Genoa was one continued triumph. Every village sent forth hundreds of his subjects, eliatint ing songs in his praise and raising triumphal arches on his route. Banners inscribed with patriotic words abounded. But it was for Genoa that the manifestation was reserved. A report of this day's proceedings will be found in the letter of our owe correspondent, which we give below. Among the innumerable banners which floated around the King, as he made his promenade in the evening through the city, one was especially noticed. It was the famous standard captured from th• Austrians by the Genoese in 1746, and was on this occasion borne by the Marquis George Doria. It was remarkable that when the King, surrounded by fifty thousand subjects, making the air ring with their acclamations, arrived in front of the Jesuits' college, there was a sudden and profound silence, which after several minutes was broken by a shout of " Viva Gioberti!" The printers then presented to the King a banner inscribed with the words, " Liberty of the Press," which his Majesty accepted. The populace then withdrew, observing the most perfect order. The Piedniantese Gazelle mentions a rumour that Pontremoli has been again ceded to Tuscany for four millions of francs. Public rejoicings on the occasion of the recent reforms were celebrated at Alessandria, Villa Nova, Monferrato, Foment), Saluzzo, Sussa, and other places. Lord Minto passed the night at Arezzo on the 30th ult. The inhabitants assembled before the hotel, and cheered him loudly ; the cries of " Long live the friends of Italian independence, the Customs-League, and England," were incessant. Lord Nlinto, says the Alba, stepped out on the balcony, and responded with, " Long live Leopold 11. and Italian mde pendenoe !" A letter from Bologna of the Ist inst., has the following We witnessed here to-day a grand manifestation and cere mony in honour of Pius IX. His excellency the Cardinal Legate officiated pontifically at the Basilic of St. Petrone; he afterwards reviewed the National Guard, and this even ing will be present at the representation of " Ernani," at the theatre. Is order to celebrate in the church, by a song of triumph, the worthy acts of Pius IX., the incrediole idea of executing the " &abet Mater Dolorosa" of Rossini was adopted. The maestro himself, who was present, loudly blamed this want of tact and propriety. By the Levant mail we have the journals of Athens and our correspondence to the 30th ult. The senate, in the independent exercise of its functions, voted, after a long debate, the address in answer to the royal speech, which we reported formerly, containing severe animadversions on the conduct of the ministry in the late elections, and the abuse of their official in fluence in determining the votes of the electors, and alleging that the rights of the people had not been respected, and also commenting on the wretched state of the finances, notwithstanding the improved commerce, agriculture, and naviga tion. This address was laid before the King by the President of the Chamber. On the 28th the senate was again convoked, when the president of the council informed them that his Majesty refused to receive the address, and had nominated nine new senators. A majority will thus have been created, and an address (which is the joint production of King Otho and the French ambassador) will be voted as a matter of course. A curious scene was presented at a late meeting of the council of ministers, which indicates rather a serious schism in the cabinet. The Minister of the Interior (Riggs Palamides) have ing used scurrilous and abusive language to the prime minister, the latter raised his fist and delivered • punch in the face to his excellency the Minister of the Interior, whereupon the latter functionary seized the footstool on which he rested, and flung it at the head of the premier; being, however, ill-aimed, this mis sile struck his excellency the Minister of Foreign Af fairs. The meeting then dispersed in confusion, the colleagues of the combatants leaving them to fight it out.. Further details will be found in the letter of our correspondent. . The board of health publicly notified that a ease of cholera occurred in Constantinople on the 24th ult. The victim was a servant, who sunk under the epi demic on the 25th. We have received the journals and correspondence of Constantinople to the 27th ult. Bederhan Bey, and Khan Mahmoud, after being detained some time alder strict surveillance, were ern tenced to be exiled; the former to Candle, and the latter to ltoutchouk. They embarked for these places on the 19th. The news from Albania continued to be satisfactory. According to letters from Salonica of the 20th, the general of the Ottoman army was at Beret. The army was about to take its winter quarters in Janina, Monastir, and Larissa. MADRID, N0v..5. The ministerial and other official changes announced in the Gazette of yesterday were settled only a few hours before they became known to the public. Most of the persons displaced knew not of their misfortune till they read it in the official paper. Among these were Cordova and Jose Concha. It was in the fore-dawn of the 4th of October that Roe de Olano, with modest serenity, presented himself be fore his colleagues with the decrees which he had counter signed for their dismissal, introducing General Nareaez as the new President of the Council appointed by the Queen. In the fore-dawn of the 4th of November General Nereus expresses his gratitude by countersigning the royal decree which seals the fate of his serviceable friend, Roe de Olen°. It is not without much concern that one hears traits of character attributed to Isabel, upon better grounds than mere popular hearsay, which remind one of her Bourbon blood. • She dismissals which made their appearance in the Gazette of yesterday, and of others which I shall presently have to state, are said to have originated in the following circum stances Notwithstanding the exertions of the moderados to hedge the Queen exclusively with their own creatures, it seems that they have not succeeded so completely but that the progresistas, not quite a week ago, entertained consider able hopes of a division in their favour, brought about by persons in the confidence of the Queen, or, at least, who contrived to procure access to her. Among these was one of the late mininers.whose name it is not necessary to mention. Suffice it to say, that the ministerial combination proposed by him, and to all appearances acceptable to the crown, would have included some progresistas. Cordova was the only minister that was to remain in ; and the post assigned to him was pretty much the same that wee played by Rol de Olano on the night of the 3rd of October. He would have countersigned the decrees dismiss ing the Duke of Valencia and the rest of his colleagues and appointing new ministers. General Don Isidro Alan was the man pitched upon to figure as the new president of the council. " And what sort of man is Alan?" said the Queen. " As I hear," the ex-minister replied, "Alan is a man who would make no more of shooting Narrate than of drinking a glass of water." When the interview terminated report says that the daughter of Ferdinand VII. sent for Nervaez and for her mother, and repeated to them the whole of the preceding conversation. Let us trust sincerely that in this instance, as in so many others at Madrid, report is a liar. At all events the action of Isabel, which at first appearance looks so much at variance with the known amiability of her character, may have proceeded from motives not unpraiseworthy. She may have been startled and shocked by the rash supposition which was brought forward to illus trate the iron firmness of Alan, and Lave imagined that what was only a phrase, an emphatic figure of speech, covered a sanguinary design against the life of the prime minister. She may have thought, under this misconception that it was her duty to loge no time in thwarting socriminal an intention, and that the beet way of doing so was to put Nemec upon his guard. Such is the story which I hear, and which, of course, I should not have noticed, if it were based upon no better authority than the million of absurd, idle rumours afloat on the same subject. The moderadne profess to have discovered a terrible plot; and cafe, oracles give out that its grand performance was to be the murder of Nantes. The mind of the Duke of Valencia would seem to have been influenced by the apprehension that some such attempt was really contemplated, by the violence of the measures which he has taken, and from the character of the men whom he has named to high appointments. Balboa, whose murders of children, as second in command under l'erarraez in La Mancha during the Carlist war, has made his name execrable throughout Europe, had been named Captain-General of Burgos, and set out yesterday morning at six o'clock to replace Cm:miner°. Path has been restored to the command in Catalonia, which he disgraced by cruelties fresh in the memory of your readers. Alai: re ceived yesterday afternoon an order from the Minister of War to repair instantly to quarter, in l'aleocia. To-day it is said that Salamanca has been sent away front the capital far having had a finger in the conspiracy. The chief feature in all these changes is perhaps the rupture between Nareaez end the Conchae Don Manuel Concha is at the head of .50,000 men in Catalonia. lithe** troops were disposed to second hint in resisting the govern ment, here would be an opportunity for rebellion, highly flattering to an ambitious temperament. If Concha were to march upon Madrid with his 50,000 arm what troops are there here to oppose him ? There is on the other hand one regiment upon the good services of which, according to re port, he might in ail probability reckon. The possibility of such a contingency leads an exciting interest to the moment. The Popular of last night attributes to the joint attempts of Mr. Bulwer and Salamanca the abortive deluge of forming a progresista cabinet, in which Sig. Cabello would enter with Salamanca, Iles, and Cordova, retaining their places. Arming the militia, deluging the streets with the blood of pneeful citizens, and, above all, murdering the Duke o f Valencia, are the Innocent doings which were to wait upon the inauguration of the new ministry. The Queen, con tinues the Popular, gave notice of the horrible crimes con templated, and showed a list of the candidates for office which had been put in her hands. The Gazette publishes the decrees dismissing Pacheeo from the embassy at Route, and appointing Martinez de la Rosa in his place. GENOA, Nov. 4. This magnificent city has this day been the scene of a most extraordinary demonstration. I must premise that his Majesty Charles Albert, after many misgivings and much hesitation, has recently granted some concessions to the popular desires; sad for these concessions it was deter mined in Genoa to make a grand public manifestation of gra. titude to the King, on his arrival here from Turin. At noon the citizens began to assemble in the gardens of the Acqua Sole, where they were formed into divisions, and immediately filed off to take up positions on the Turin read. Each division was headed by several banners, on which the following inscriptions were observable Viva King Charles Albert, the Reformer;" " Viva the reforming King;" "Viva Italy;" "Viva the People;" " To the reforming King, the grateful Commerce of Genoa;" " Gioberti and Union ;" &e. And here I may observe that two of these fl ags were horse by priests. At 20 minutes past three o'clock his Majesty reached the city, and entered it at a smart trot, and soon after the citizens formed into procession to return and pass before the royal resi dence. The scene had now become extremely ani mated, from the vast numbers assembled, and the enthusiasm that prevailed. Probably not less than four fifths of the respectable male population of the city were marshalled in perfect order, among whom might be seen many members of the nobility and great numbers of the clergy. There were places where as many as fifteen priests might be counted all together. It was interesting to witness the extraordinary spirit of Italian nationality that evinced itself as the procession, more than a mile in length, swept along the magnificent Strada Balbi, Strada Nuova, &c., beneath those palaces which have secured for Genoa the title of Superb, and every window of which was occupied by anxious spectators, the majority ladies, who aided the excitement by their approving smiles and waving kerchiefs. As the van reached the royal palace, his Majesty took up his station at the entrance, in advance of a brilliaut staff, and received with repeated bows the acclamations of his subjects. The city echoed for two hours with repeated cries of " Viva Charles Albert," " Viva the Reforming King," " Viva the People," "Viva Italian Independence," " Viva Pius the Ninth," " Viva the Liberty of the Pres.," " Viva Reform," &c. &c. Not the slightest interference occurred on the part of the authorities, and the multitude quietly separated at dusk, without accident or disorder of any kind. In the evening the city was bril liantly illuminated, and the weather being exceedingly fine, the whole population was abroad. The Xing, apparently gratified et his reception, lett the palace on horseback a little before eight o'clock, with no other escort than half-a-dozen officers. He rode slowly through all the principal streets, preceded by numbers of gentlemen bearing torches, and was everywhere again welcomed with the same enthusiastic cries as on his arrival. As a most powerful demonstration of the popular desires, aceemplished in the most peaceable manner, it cannot but produce its effect on the royal ntind. I cannot conclude without noticing an incident, trifling in itself, but as indicative of the feeling of the times. Iu a port of the city in the Piazza Colombo, a flat square . stone is let into the pavement in the centre of the street; on this stone is chiselled the outline 01 a mortar, and it marks the spot where the firsteannon was fired when, in the olden time, the Germans were driven from the city. Here the porters of the vicinity had established an illumination of their own, and the patriotic souvenir was brought to public recollection by a score of candles, around which were assembled nume rous spectators. MALTA, Nov. 3. On the 27th Mr. Wright, the proprietor and editor' of the Malta Times, was tried in the criminal curt for a libel upon Messrs. Robinson and Corlett, in some remarks made in a communicated article. After atr al of two hours' duration, he was condemned to three months' impri sonment, or to pay ten pounds fine to her Majesty the Queen. The amount was immel lately paid by the writer of the article in question, me were also the expenses, amount ing to about as much more. The funeral of the deeply lamented Capt. Willes, late of H.M.S Vanguard, took place on Friday, at 4 p.m. The barge of the Vanguard, containing the body, was towed to the landing place on the Marina, convoyed by the boats of the rquadron. Lord Rely, Mr. Sim, acting chief secretary to government, the Hon. Mr. Thornton, with several of the respectable inhabitants, joined the procession, which was nearly half a mile in length. The funeral service was read by his lordship the Bishop of Gibraltar, assisted by the chap lain of the Vanguard. A few days ago an English schooner, named the Europe, arrived here from Messina, having on board three persons compromised by the recent events at that place, and whom the captain had managed to get away and save from being executed. Immediately they arrived here, it is said that the Neapolitan consul applied to the government to prevent them landing, and insisted that the vessel should take them on to England, whither it was bound. The government was willing enough to listen to the consul's suggestion; but the captain, as an Englishman, and a man fully cognisant of the laws of England wherever the British flag flies, insisted upon landing them, and they were landed, but not at liberty : for they were kept in close confinement fur three days, having intercourse with no one, until some English gentlemen came forward as their vow..dere. Wo have had assassin., thieves, villains of all descriptions , seeking a refuge in Malta, and never objected to by the consuls, but immediately admitted; but no sooner does a poor political offender venture to ap pear, than he is hunted to death. Accounts have been received of the death of Limat. Moly neux, of her Majesty's ship Spartan, off Beyrout. ATHENS, Ocr. 30. The debate in the senate, on the projected address to his majesty, sent to you in my letter of the 201 b, was brought to a close, after a stormy discussion, late on the 22d. It passed by a majority of 7 votes, 23 being for and 16 against it. The principal points of discussion were, the paragraph re lative to the manner in which the minieters had acted in re gard to the elections, which stated that the rights of the people had not been respected, and that the country had thereby suffered many and serious evils—this passed by a majority of 21 to IS ; and another paragraph, which speaks of the wretched state of the finances of the country, notwith standing the advances made in agriculture, conimenie, and nasigation. Immediately after the voting of the address it was signed by the commission, given to the president, and by him, the following day, laid before the King. On the 28th, the senate was summoned by the President of the Council, accomp►nied by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs. of the Interior, and of the Marine, to bear his Ma jesty's reply. After some preliminary discussion, the Presi dent of the Council spoke to them as follows Mr. Presi dent His Majesty having been informed, with regret, that the address voted by the senate, in reply to the royal speech, infringes upon the rights exclusively conferred by the charter upon the other legislative body, has charged me to announce to you, that protecting the constitution, and jea lous to rigorously maintain the rights of the nation, and the good understanding so necessary between the two legis- lative bodies, he does not think it right to receive such an address." The President of the Council of Ministers, K. Travellas. The astonishment of the senate on hearing this rind sore rejection of their labours, was not a little increased on hear ing another announcement of the president, that his Majesty had created nine new senators; men who will no doubt serve hint fusthfully, and obey his instructions to the letter. The new senators are : Generals Tzanetaki, Plaponta, Staiko, Antonio, Mavromiehali, and Nikita Stamatelo ; Rear- Admiral A. Kriezy ; Colonel Yoldansi ; and the Deputies°. Notaraa and Kattris. It is said that the project for the new address will be the one I mentioned in my previous letters, no being the joint production of his Majesty and the French ambassador. This occurrence is something new in the an nals of parliamentary legislation, and it furnishes another and a convincing proof that Greece is yet doomed to be ruled by the tyrannical and unconstitutional measures of the de funct Coletti, now kept in force by and with the counsel and advice el Messrs. Metternich and Ouizot. Letters from Missolonghi mention that the torture is still in use in various parts, and that the Minch Tzinos has cruelly illtreated whole families, paying no deference to age or sex. I will ascertain the whole particulars, and give them to you in my next. Her Majesty's steamer Recta arrived here a few days ewo, with despatches for Sir Edmund Lyons, who had an inter view with the president, and also with the Russian ambas sador. On the 24th the Heels sailed with despatches for Lord Cowley. at Constantinople. It is supposed that they relate to the Grecian-Turkish Mumma dispute, which here appears to have been entirely forgotten, or only recollected when some patriotic Break ventures to express an opinion upon the debasement of his country and the ruin to her trade. The French steamer Chacal arrived in the Pirteus on the 28th, with despatches from the French ambassador at Constantinople to the French minister here. On the 28th, the English steamer Meteor also arrived from Constantinople with despatches from Lord Cowley for Sir Edmund Lyons. There is something brewing which will explode before long, especially as the split in the cabinet has so far in creased, that Messrs. Rigel and Tnavellu came to blows about it the other day in the senate house. It appear, that, during the sitting of the council, and whilst discussing the affairs of the nation, M. Rigaa Palamides, the Minister of the Interior, proposed the immediate settlement of the Turkish-Hellenic question, by according the satisfaction do mended by the Porte. No sooner was this proposed than up jumped the president, with his face as impassioned as a turkey cock, who exclaimed, " What do you say ! Give oaths faction to the Porte ? Never, sir, never, whilst Taavellas sits as president of this cabinet !" This rude speech raised the dander of Riga', who abused Trarellas in such " good set terms" a+ would have been no disgrace to the classic purlieus of the St. Oiler's of Athens. Trevino", with true Spartan valour, then struck Riga a blow on the head ; this Riggs returned by throwing a stool at the president's head; it fell, however, into the arms of the Minister fur Foreign Affoire. Some of the ministers, who are no admirers of the manly art," rushed out of the scene of tumult, leaving the parties to fight it out. A ministerial change has been spoken of ; in fact, this morning it was re ported as certain that Metaxa will be Minister of the Inte rior and President of the Chamber; that M. Cristeeopoulos will have the Finances; Capfuls, the Marine ; these, with Tzavellas as Minister at War, will constitute a cabinet com posed of what is celled the Napist faction. The report which was abroad some time ago, that Otho had written an autograph letter to the Emperor of Russia, re questing his intercession in the Museums affair, is ascertained to have been true, and also that the Emperor Nicholas refused to act individually, and recommended an appeal to the five great powers of Europe, as the meet likely way to sett, an T d hil a dis "vi p:: ', cla se"envttojust h e ard , t he Porte to that effect. CONSTANT' NOP LE, OCY. 27. Six deaths have been reported since yeste r d ay morning, but though the symptom s i n eac h e ie were these of cholera, the doctors are undecided whether it be the mar. adic or malignant form of the epidemic. At this seams of the year, especially in • country where fruit is a pond, : aliment, cases of cholera, and those fatal, are not unfrequat; nor are seven deaths within twenty-four hours, in a city I containing a million of inhabitants, • thing to excite wand., or fear. The cholera has disappeared from Trebixond and Erzeroum and from all that part of Turkey in Asia, and th e general impression until now was that Constantinople would escape this terrible scourge, at least during the present win. ter. The consternation which prevails here at present ern still believe to be premature. We have convened with Englishmen who inhabited Mown! and Bagdad during th e whole time that the cholera raged in these cities, and tn q told sae that it had never given them the lest disquiet. No one of those who lived well, and avoided tutu, was at. tacked; upon the profligate and the poor alone the hand./ death fell. At first sight it appears dreadful that the wi c k e d and the wretched should be united in • common fate, but that which was a terrible visitation to the first was ouly mercy and a blessing to the others. One of the finest barracks in Europe was th at a Scutari. It was a quadrangular building of stone, en, gable of accommodating 15,000 men. It was saw e d on a point between the Mermora and the Bosphon n; and was the first monumental edifice which struck th e stranger on nearing the Golden Horn. Here the Imperial Guard, composed of the picked men of the Turkish army, was quartered, and close at hand was the residence of the grand seraskier, or commander-in-chief. Last night the whole of this splendid building was burnt to the Kro ne & Thousands of the Sultan's soldiers were present; fi re . engines, and every requisite for extinguishing a fire won there, and yet no effort was made to check the prim. of the flames. The soldier, waited for the orders of their sups. riors, and the superiors looked on, if not with the stihs. Lion, at least with the indifference, of • Nero, till the whole of the vast edifice was laid in ruins. It is not yet knows how the fire originated, and dark suspicions exist as to the cause. HOLLAND.—Tres HAGUE, Not•. 10.—At the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States General, on th e 9th, the project of law relative to the withdrawal of paper money, came under consideration. The total amount of the paper money to be withdrawn amounted to 3 millions of florins ; that of bills of exchange to about 8 millions , an d the sum total of what remains in circulation, on the Ist of Jan., 1848, is 21 millions, the calling in of which the govern ment purposes to prolong till the 31st of December. 1818,the term first fixed by the law of the 18th December, 181-5. This project of law did not give rise to any serious debates in the course of its examination by the sections • The members requested information on these two points; first, the amount of money which had been coined since the lit of April, 1845, to the close of last October, and that of the sum of old coins which has been withdrawn from circula tion, deposited in the Bank of the Netherlands, to the end of the month of October last. The government accordingly communicated two documents to the Chambers. It appeal from the fin•, that from the lst April, 184.5, 31st October last, there has been coined in the mint at t'trecht, in pieces of new money, the sum of 51,095,262 florins, i, e.: Piece of 21 Os. Pk.= of I IL ISIS 1846 180 31,493,300 16.101,762 31,093,263 With regard to old coin withdrawn from circulation and placed in the bank, it amounts to L 1.66,275,399,681, i. e. Duvall, coins of 3 (ranee... j and their subdivision 1 ~.1 , 8 , 5 : 6 8j i Madinat:id demi.liorins. 41 , !,59 889,0 , 88!,000 Coins of f. 1 50 . Wins of f. 2 fin (nine off. 230 1,001,607,30 Coln. of 23 sous ....... . 5,7 S 1,45420 Coins of 3, 2 mid 1 sous 2,271,634,41 A. 66,273,399,104 From this must be deducted thetas. on current coin, which is estimated at about The calm of what is actually deposited a. 61,223.0.11,224 On the observation made in several of the sections,—whether it would not be desirable ti put into circulation, towards the termination ot the time flx,:4 for the withdrawal of the paper money, a aura of ten mll.ions of paper money, to be guaran teed by giving the value in effecta of the national debt brought by the state, which would, on the one hand, offer great commercial facilities ; and, on the other, economise 400,000 florins of the revenue—the government replied, that it would take this subject into its ulterior consideration, and bring it forward it it deemed the measure useful. In the sitting this day, Messrs. Gouvernem and N iep demaniLd some expla nation on the depot—the Netherlands bank —of some ancient coin withdrawn from circulation, and upon a point in the project of law. Ili' excellency the Minister of Finance re plied briefly te both these points, and the project of low was ultimately adopted. TURRET. SALON TC.4, Oct. 22. The Turkish army in Albania will shortly go into winter quarters. A part of it at Janina, another at llitolia, and another at Larissa. fhe Turkish squadron left this place for Orlac on Friday. The English schooner, the Research, commanded by Lieut. Sprott, has made a survey of the whole gulf. The Research has sailed for Smyrna. THE RIVER PLATE. The following representation, signed by the lend ing houses in the trade of the River Plate, has been ad dressed to Lord Palmerston, whose reply is subjoined : London, Oct. I t, deeply Interested in the trade of the River I'ute, we renpeetfully big leave to offer to your lordship a few remarks upon the blockade in that river, which, though discontinued by the Brateh naval forces, is continued by those of France. Concerning this blockade, Mr. W. A. liana, United states Munger at Buenos Ayres, writes In a deepatch to Lord [Lowden, dated July 1, 1817, as follows " The blockade has sot answered, in any one respect whatever, the end for which it was ostensibly laid on. Its principal tendency boo been to molest sad irritate them whom it was intended to reduce by coercion. Anther praidical effect of it hoe been, that, whdat it de.troyol all legal and open commerce, it made necessary a sort of spurious traffic through the medium of the port of Monte Video, obliging piyment of • double import and export duty, which bas been levied for the Ruppert of the anomalous government in that city. Nevertheleve, the principal benefit of this system has not fallen to the governments of England and France, nor even to the Rakorta in general of these government., but openly and notoriously to the ad. vantage of a few perm , ns in that city, and a ntill smaller number in this." Further on, in the saver despatch, Mr. Harris otal.e., that, from the "23n1 February, 1840, to the end of May, 1847, the number at resell which entered and left the port of Buena Ayres, was 4,012. I obtain this result (he say.) from an examination of the monthly returns which have been presented to this legatioe. It In true that Minuet all these were small vessels, many of which arrived and sailed at night; but it in also true that • great number of them, perhaps half, did so at mid-day, and in night of the blockading firms without any serious attempt at detaining them. AU there smelt, however, paid tribute at the port of Monte Video, for the pi educe or mer ehandise of which their carve, were cempased, as I have mid above." Lord Bowden, also, in a devoted to Comm:dire Sir Thomas Herbert, dated 15th July, 1547, writes the blockade ea follows: "As consider dot, utt the Oriental. Monte Video are not at this moment free agent., but entirely em. trolled by • foreign garrison; and secondly, that the blockade having entirely hot its original character of a coercive measure amino Gen Room has become exclusively a mode of supplying with merry, partly the government of Monte Video, and partly certain foreign it dividuaLs there, to the continued detriment of the ertensive and ode able commies of England in them water( 1 hereby mimeo you, sir e to raise the blockade of both sides of the Ricer Plate, and to take the measures necessary for ceasing all further intervention in these enters." To further elucidate the character of thi. (so called) Week. ade, we remark . - . . -1. liet - of t 1 4,012 easels menticeied by Mr. Hone% out one to British.-2. That all of there had one end the same port of destination or departure, viz, Monte Video, and all paid tribute there. If there be any exceptions they are too few to merit notice.-3. That the effect of the (so milled) blockade him thus not bees to deprive Buenos Ayres of its trade, but merely to t♦ strict it from trading with any other place but Monte Video.-4. That the British flag has been deprived of any portion of even this trade.-5. That 4,012 vessels could not have left or entered Maga Video without the authorities of that port knowing well whither they had gone, or whence they came ; and yet —6. That it eat the in tige tion of those same authorities (owing to their refusal of the armistice) that the French have cootinued the blockade.-7. That the emit:Es howe of Monte Video is farmed by individuals, and that its receipts in lit 46 mounted to about 330,000 f. sterling, according to the se count* published in the Monte Video journals. In stating these facto, we have aimed at brevity of expression, Oct from dieremect, but to mare your lordship's valuable time. They will suffice, we apprehend, to show that the no-cal:eel Woe is in reality OS blockade, but a mere ahem, with a two-fold object, via., to enriM the persons who have farmed the Custom house, and to supply the government of Monte Video (dc...ceded by Lord Howl., in the despatch above quoted, as " without money, without credit, and without native troops") with means for main taining the foreign garrhon. Nor la it at all likely to be made effective for the future, for an effective blockade, by depriving Monti. Video of Ma present illicit traffic, would destroy its revenue, and would be no better to them than no blockade. Out of the foregoing, reflections neutrally acne no to the views and attitude of France in this ques tion. No one doubts that if there had been on by part the fame dm sire as on the put of this country to have it settled, it would hare been settled. Of the " loreign garrimm," which (moo Ming to Lord Mowden), "controls" thel native population, the bulk are French. Though the French government may have spoken harshly of these men, yet the French agents do not diseoursge them. For proof of both amertions we refer to M. Guizoes despatch to Count St. Aulaire, and Count WalemtkOs mover to an address from the French Le gion, of which we mines copies. The altos/on In the Litter docu ment to the flag deserves a thee of explanation. Some years ago. the French government ordered the French legionsries to desist from taking • part in the war, and lay down their arms. After making all aorta of difficulties they bit upon the following expedient: They laid down their arms as French subjects, were made on the blatant Orientil CitißWl, and took them up again. The French government mowers to have been natielled with this mode of complying with their order It mans that the legionaries now wish to have their flog and nationality restored to them, and it would be rash to my that their petition, though by Count Walewaki, will not be granted. We have stated Mcut to your lordahlp, but it la not for us to draw conclusions, nor to expatiate upon the importance of the port of Monte Video, both as the key of the River Plate and from its position In re latioo to other Mama At prevent s undery be mid to be in tbe bands of • French garrison, though not the French nag. It remains foe us shortly to advert to the hardship of thla state of things upon the merchants connected—some of them for nearly 40 years -with the River Plate. The blockade is now of more than two years' eluding. For so longs period has the trade between this country and the Ar gentine tepublic been merificed. A customer has been turned away, who would have taken off • million and a-half poundsnteNing worth of our manufactures. All that time produce of a perialuible adore, the returns for exports of former years, has been lying there dete riorating. The cost of evading the blockede, despite its Immo., was too great for bulky produce to bear. There was the heavy freight to Monte Video, the heavy charge. for landing there and reahippiug, and the bossy tnbute enacted by the Monte Video Custom-house, which have been known to amount together, In some instances, to 40 per cent on drat met. Again, there was the risk of era damage, in craft not intended for such a voyage, and the uncertainty ea to the views of the blockader., as the laxness of today might, from caprice or spite, be turned into !severity tomorrow. Moreover merchants who all t•.ele lives have been accustomed to an open t rade mid. the Braid, east, do not at once become reconciled to, or handy al, a Mocked* running, halfaniuggling traffic. From those muses, therefore. it arises that there to still • large amount of produce belongthf to liritiah subjects remaining at Buenas Ayres, the lam upon which to Its owners must be runicsm, if the port be not awn opened. We M. , • proof of your lordatup's anxiety to remedy the evil in the raising of Pm" -