The Express. — London, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

Zite eppreo. MAILS. The mails for British North Americo, and the United Nem, Will be made up an the evening of the 16•11 June. The Weal Wu Malls, excluding liarmuda, Havanna, lioadorth, New Orleana, Vera Crux, Tampro, and Porto Kim, and inluiing those for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthagens, &nth Martini, Chaim's, Panama, Went Clout ot South America, and ht. Juansde , Nicaragua, will he made up on the meaning of the I; thin... The malls for Vigo, Oporus, Lisbon. Madeira, Cadia, and Gibraltar Wlll be made up the morning of the Nth June. • The overland mails lot Gibraltar, Malt{ Greece, the !organ Islands, Egypt, m o dn, India, Hong-Kong, and China, tia Southamp ton, will be up on the morning of the 20th June. The ore, land elo,d mails, rya Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aibw. Ceylon. India, 'lung-Kong, Marseille will be made up on the over..ng of the 71111 June. Tbe mails for New south Wales, Van Dienian's Land, and Zealand will be made up WI the evening of the 3tob June. Now The mails for the Mrs! :mat of Africa and blade's; will be made op on the evening of the Nth June. The mails Sir the Sewn% the Ricer Nate, Monte Video, Perba lla. taco. Bahia, Nlndeira, tad Buenos Ayres, will tie made up on the evening of the Ith July. NOTICE TO ADVE2TIBERS. The number cii STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-oiliee, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3.447.009 This, we N.H.... is within esolit per cent or the number trued to the Morning Heroics, Morning Chronicle, 601 iforntraq PO XI, &LI. FUT TUOZTIISK. to addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, ilorning Moir., there were issued tor the Ere , 41 . 4 / Edition, TDB REPRESS 778.714 Which was more, we believe. than were issued either to the 1:108" or Standard, Evening Papers. 1014 WATER la LONEWN KRIM& Tate 14,—Mer. Ag, S 3 vow I I All IvrearNi. • We. pa. • —Morewe. 14 me. 0.1 I • Tw. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 13. - - Tua aseemblages or demonstrations got up yester day in London, and in several parts of the country, and which assumed the name of chartist, were meld festly.not planned either with the view to din mai en or petitioning, or even to the dieptny of numbere. These ecaticod Dewier, intended has to command the reelect and attention of the li gislature, than to harass recd defeat the police, did not bespeak the tactics of any great or national party, confident in its strength. The movements were three° of a weak and discomfit' d faction, which makes up for pain hy of numbers, and manliness of purp tse, by forming guerilla parties to ravage and annoy, and give to the country an as pect erf disquietude and disiurbance. No good end, or rational cause could possibly he further, rl lor those means, which arc a mere mimicry of French anarchy without French courage, and of Irish fanaticism without the reality of Irish grievance. It is in fact, playing at revolution without a pretext, and pro cueing as a result, the greatest discredit to those 004. seientions and rational partisans of the extension of freedom and reform, whose greatest foe is the street rioter and the club brawler. Wet must say that the precautions of the govern ment were marked by discretion. There was no pamdeot spesial enlist ables t hrou gh crowded and peace ful awe ta, no intrusion of military, no provocation to a row given by the harsh treatment of idlers. The conservative portion of the body politic and social showed preparation, not alarm. And the would-he rioters cannot b net that they disturbol either the business or pleosore of this great population by their th cats Coupling these precautions and the protibi tions of hoorless meetings with the assurance of the IlomeMinieter in parliament, that no let or hindrance should he given to meetings c insetted for the fair and legal exp., ssicei of political opiteione, we should say that the 12 h ordure has passed with much cause of congratulation and none of complaint The beat part or it is the less en, which the rioters, wle ern we will not call chartist! , , have received, or might draw, from the events of the day. These people have mere a great mistake, and they ought now to be growing conscious of it. They arc agitat ing, hut no upon a basis of English grievance or English sentiment. Nr,sterday their avowed purpose was to emulate Irish turhelenee. But in attempting this they forgot, or were ignorant, that Irish Meath lence is not menacing, except it be agrarian. It is rot the brawling or the drilling of the Irish . artisan, or of the more ragged population of Dubin, that need alarm the au thorities of the sister island. It is the di ep dis affection of the peasant, hie ineeseurity of fod, his hatred to protestant landlords, his contrast between his own unpaid pastor, starving like himst If, and the well fed, but little to do, clergy of the establishment, and in fine the simpathetic chord of a depressed nd dethroned religion, a hich runs through and unites the entire Irish people. Yet the attempts to enact a re- I peal riot or revolution, in either Dublin or Cork, h eve I proved a face. Then to get np even a riot, much lege attempt a rev ilution, with the mere populace of London is an absurdity. The Londoners, even the very rabble, have no soul or cure for it. A seditious orator nits tell them the y want spirit. And the truth is, they do want spirit for that, although abounding in courage and durirg for whatever object strik a them as desirable or commendable. The attempt to get the English to imitate the French, is jest as hopeless as to work them up to Irish freeze. The uneasy spirit of the French is in their recollection of the last three quarters of a century, in the popular tradi tions of '92, of the war, of the times when the lower classes duminated the upper ones, and when rational glory strangely came of it. But all this was achieved by war, a war which overran and conquered Europe. Let the Frenchman try that again if he pl mice. The Englishman has no fancy fur such a crusade. To seize power by the strong hand and place the multitude of wanters and of earners com pletely master over those who have and pos sess, the result of which would be to anni hilate at once three-fourths of that property sa tielicately and fa2ilely built up, which forties the source of the I hourer's employ—this is an act %hie!' the Englishman is not fool enough to attempt. And even chartism,f4r;CC it has been hoi-tad as a banner by the physical fierce men, has so affrighted and disgusted the operatives, that ne-t ore in twenty enter tains the idea, even in those districts where the inte rest of the operative's seems to point to some combina tion and understanding as a protection against these above them. fie the Globe truly observe., the real and original chartist leaders remain completely strangers to the present abortive attempts and noisy menaces. They alach themselves more and more to the middle class movement for reform, which is best calculeited to open to them, and to all enlightened and perm able representatives of popular interest., a political pulpit from which to divulge their doctrines and proclaim their rights. These abortive riots attrihutel to chartism are, in fact, the grew , st of F:oons to the tories: fur thew enemiesto all freedom told progress use in them the permanent disunion of the two classes whose com mon understanding would amen shake all *that wits overweening arid unfair in the influence of the aris tocracy, and WOllll establish a cheap, popular, and honest government. The great obstacles to suc h a consuniniation ore certainly those popular ear saes, rrix trated abroad at.d tiktotteni d at home, retie tiate ly in vain, hot unfortunately not without ffiat, even as threats, in eelartning and disquieting the peaceful and industrious classes, and se noway inter rupting the commercial prosperity of the country. The Report of the Commons Committee on the late commetei,l distress, is now in the prioterte hat de. In substance, the committee have, it is untie rstoud, cap eased, by a majority of 13 eg daist 11, an opi ion that the distrt es would have la en mole oVI re than it was, had it n t b. en for the operation of Sr• Robert Peel's Currency Acts. There are curious rumours as to how this majarity of two—thirteen to eh yen—was procured. The pot lie will be more mtonisoed to learn that the vote which decided that In3jot ity —and which, had it remained firm, would have left the opinion of the committee equally divided --WdS no other than that of Mr. THOMAS BAKING. Now, it will he remembered that the honour .ble member for Huntingdon made one of the most cutting speeches uttered in parliament against Sir Remain . itte.t's Bauk Bill ; and th 0. he even sur passed the inveteracy of his uncle, Lord Asnitu tyros. Ilow then can Mr. 'pmas BARING'S name be lound on the list of the majority of the. committe , • apps icing of that bill? Has the koa member for Iluntitigdott I:s.rtert d to give up his upptesition to PEEL'S bill, as the portion of a sacrifice new asary to conciltare and procure the adhesion of the supporters of that bill to the greater cause or Wesc It ilia prat ction? A REMARKABLE document wee circulated at a' recent sitting of the Frankfort diet, the purport of which appears deserving of serious attention. At the present moment, when all races are up in arms, and when political strife seems on the point of merging in a conflict of nationalitice, it is pleasant to bear a powerful voice raised on the side of reason and cm. humanity ; and such, it is to . be hoped, the voice of the writer of the programme in question will prove. Ile holds up to view, iu a forcible manner, the absurdity of sacrificing the liberty of the in dividual to particular theories of state organi sation. But the folly of inviting millions of Slave 'llene to remain contented with a state of subjection to Germans, and of suppoeing that this subjection will be more palatable with republican than with moilee chical forme, is still more glaring. There are at least twenty millions of Slavoniuns seared between the Upper Elbe and the Aariatic. The Germans do not outnumber them, although they may be richer and intellectually more advanced than the Sluvoniane. Yet the Slavonians are reaching them by rapid strides, and their progress, al.housh silent, has of late years been very considerable. After the thirty years' war, in which the power o. the llohernans was totally betoken by FERDINAND 11., the Slavonic inhabitants of that country were said to have been reduced to 200,000. The waste lands were divided amongst the adherents of the court, especially thosewhudclivered it from the dreaded Ws LLENeTli.loi, and anionget the church, especially the Jesuits. Similar opportunities of aggrandising great families and the church WI re offered in Hungary by the rebellions of TELEKY and Itaeterev. The houses thus enriched acknowledged their dependence on the Austrian court, and not only spent a portion of their princely revenues in the capital, but I laboured fervently at home to support a do Anion to which they owed so much. In process of time their homage come to be regarded as an act of duty ; and as they had sanctioned the transfer of a part of their estates to evade the land tax) to the peasantry, they gave the court a hold upon their vassals w Ideh they never cculd recuver. Gradually, though slowly, a middle class sprang up, over which the nobles willingly did p dice service when they showed a disposition to be turbu lent, but which, as tax-payers, rendered too good service to the crown to be left by the monarch without protection. Manufactures first sprang up in Bohemia, of all the Austrian provinces. and its manufacturing districts are chit fly p. opled by Germans. In the capital, on the other hued, and, strange to say, in the heart of that university which was delivered up, bound hand and foot, to the )t suits in 16211, the Slavonic character asserted its superiority, arid the sparks of into fleet which JOHN Iles, tunny. of Prague, and the other reformers, Levue.ia's predecessors, had thrown eir, kindled a flame that the Austrians vainly en deavoured to sino•hee. The permission to study and use (in 'private) their native tongue, which Joserit 11. canceled, roused, as by enchantment, the slumbering spirit of netionulity : and the long reign of Feescis, and mat of the energies of his minister were devoted to concealing the struggle which they maintained in thisvaluable province againsttlie teopu lar feeling. It was the case of England and Indeed reversed. In Bob. mita, an industrious plodding people. guided and a heated by the secret care of a great many enlightened catholic p iests, was rising rapidly, not to rival, but to outstrip, the favoured metropolitan province. The school of divi nity which eat at Prague, communicated even tually to G, un any that view of eatholictem, which ens te ably advocated by Rosn and the new German reformers For the second time Germany took its views of religion from the Bohemians, and teeic• fore the Germans cannot deny mental power to belong to their rmeate-t Slavonic neighbours. RONGE and Czeitskt are both from Breslau, a Germanised capital of a Slavonic province of Pi useia ; and iu Silesia, as in all other Slavonic c runtries, the example or the good shepherds of the flack at Prague (they w. le not amongst the dignitar.es), had awakened emulation and imitation. In Poland, in Ilungary, in Silesia, iu lilyria, a proe:l Iteltng of nationality was kindled with the crnecioustieso that the movement commenced in Prague, se no one cutr.ucive no less to the glory of the than to pence and goof will amongst men. And now the claims of a natio , alit}, revived under such auspices, root MIRA (luridly founded upon all that strengthens enthusiasm and suetains courage, are preferred before the representatives of the laeople of central Europe. They contain an appeal to the Ge,maios to give up tha thoughts ot asserting their supremacy by tot ce of Irmo, which they ca ,not hope to bubitautia e. The Sleavoniens call upon them to Germ a confederation, it which the two theionalitics shall subsist upon equal terms, and upon a footing of friendship. Dish ad of art internecine win., which would reduce both parties to a state of weakness, and which would make the m an easy prey to any enemy, the Slavoniane propose a league of broinet hod, which must prove invincible against any seta .k. That they ore sincere, cannot lac doubted ; for their hoed is, that the only alternative 11.'1 them, if the Germans refuse to take the high standing which suits a civilised peopl-., and thus civil war heroines iue vitahle, is to throw themeeleta Ito the arms of Russia, and thus realise that Panslavism, of a hich the Bohemians ale now lalsely accused. Russian eaten s have indeed been busy in southern Slavonia, and where are they not Ito ? 11.1 c who that knows the gulph which separates the Greek from the Latin c [lurch, can suppose that the agent of that dormer is willingly listened to by the scholar of the latter? What popes, and councite, and philosophers, have failed to recoocile, the Emperor NICHOLAS calm not unite with all the art of hie policy, nor wit ii all the gold of Siberian welds. A vote of the Frnekfort Diet, refusing the proffered cuetedination, would have a better chance of serving the CZAR. IT was curious to observe the eager countenances with which certain Protectionist members were flitting in and out of the House of Commons on %Wednesday in riming; and the phenomenon wrs ex plained by the fact that the horse was considering the report on Mr. Coi.vme's bill be permitting the occupiers of land, having the right to kill the flares upon the land they occupy, to rid themselves of such vermin without the meeseity of paying four guineas martian) forfora game license :—no large measure of erne, &don, certa'nly, to the strong and just fueling entertained by the public atrainst the game laws. So I tar De it weer, the measure is right enough. hie nothing more unfair can be imaAnial than to compel a man to pay heavily for a license to rid himself of one of the greatest petite with which cultivated land can be hill Med. Practi cally, however, it will have a very limited operation, fur the resery thin of hares and ether game is almost universal amstrest English lundoanere, and eons.- wetly to such via a the bid will not apply. As WM.. with truth remark. dby Mr. G. But ELM', it is ab surd to talk of the measure as a boon to the tenantry, " fur no ban could be given them without the per mission of the landlords, who, whatever the law might enact, would prohibit the shooting of hares on pain of expulsion from their farms." Now, ih ugh this remark will suggest "tome import ant considerations to farmers with regard to the &life sneiel position in which they allow thr m selves to he plan 11, it is no argument ceainst any ainge, let it he ever so small, that will relieve rein a few persins from acme of the oppressive operation of the game laws. Yet even this little relaxation of the feudal code rani id forth the moat diem •1 prophetic apprehensions ff ore s me Woke members, and excited the utmost ineemuity on the part of the whole body, aided by their corulj itor the Home Secretary, to fence and gilled their genie system from more than thi• m• infinitesimal int ruction. 'f he agony of poor Mr. when, regarding the bill as "the fleet step in the atini hil ition of the game laws," ho exclaimed, " An in corn so in game, the landed interest would b• veer ' thrown by letting in the thin end of the wedge," was quite touching. Then came the minute ingenuity exerri-ed to prevent this small maser(' operating too extensively. First, Mr. ELLIOT proposed that the leave given by , landlords to their tenants to kill hares, which should have the eft% ct. of ex. miffing from eertifiewe duty, must be in writing. sir. Cotvihe objected that sea an amendment" was calculated to frustrate the whole 'impose of the bill ;' and justly, fir every one who lthows anything of the relations of landlord and te , rant in Eneland is aware that such a written leave will scarcely ever be given. Farmers often complain that though their lanai irds are sometimra very kind in 'eremisitig, they are " desprrately apt to forget," and have the strongest poseible reluctance, in weir busi ness relations with their tenants, to el:Omitting lllMln=lp THE E' PRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1848. themselves to writing. Here Sir Q. GREY interposed in favour of the amendment, and Mr. Co' Lynx gave in. It is plain that the game-pres, ruing interest is perfectly safe in the hands of the present occupant of the Homo-office. They then, however, restored the power to the few occupiers who will be affected by the bill to kill hares by shooting as well as by nets and soiree. The absurdity of the restriction against ' shooting, introduced on the motion of Mr. G. BERKELEY on a previous occasion, was too palpable. Next, Sir W. ' Joi.LIFFE moved that a man must not shoot his own hares by night, and the limitation was carried by a , majority of sixty a ! Mr. SHAILMA:4 CRAWYoIti) said the bill was a elusion, fur it would not relieve the farmer from any of the oppression of the game laws;" and Mr. 11. Dieurentosiii said "all that was wanted was an amended trespass act, and then to got rid of the game laws altogether —laws he considered a tyranny, in defence of which not a word could b. said." And such are the opinions of all reasonable land owners on the subject. Wu believe the present law of trespass to be fully auflicient for the protection of land, d property, and tat the apprehensions of increased liability to trespasses, should the game laws bo simply repealed, which many proprietors entertain, are unfounded. Still we think it is worth 'he consideration of Mr. Bawler, whether, when he next moves fur leave to brig in his Clime Law Repeal Bill, it may not be prudent and useful to append thereto some moderate and reasonable facilities for checking trespasses, beyond those which, apart from the game laws, are dby the actual state of the trespass law. We hope and believe that very many landowners would by this conce:•sion he induced to consent to the abro gation of that mischievous code, the game law. ns to presume that the 2nd of the present year will also be 48 fli.rins. It appears from the accounts of the Bank, published at the end of May, that it actually possesses no more in nurnerary and silver bare than 22.000,000 florins, while the bills in circulation amount to 177,1110,520 florins." PRUSSIA.—HEREIN, JUNE B.—The reception of the Prince of Prussia has been very dubious. He arrired at Charlidtenberg on the 7th, but did not appear in the National Assembly till this morning. A party of abaut 30 persons had assembled under the portal, and cheered him as he approached ; but this mark of approbation aroused evident displeasure among the groups of persons who were assembled close by, who hissed and groaned at the prince. A gentleman who placed his hand upon the mouth of a youth who was hissing lustily was seized by the mob, and dragged to the castle guard. Along with the Preasaierlier Stair's Anzeiger, of the 10th June, is published the continuation of a curious enough document, an abstract of the con tents of all the petitions presented and motions an noiniced in the Prussian constituent assembly. The petitions, of which abstracts have been prepared up tii the date of this publication, are in number 1,051 ; the motions 211. A great majority of Vie petitions are prayers for relief front aeignorial exactions, or the stringency of the game laws. Hut there are a num ber of curious little personal ro quests among them. There is, also, a formidable array of prof i ate against the draft of a constitution presented by ministers to the assembly. DENMARK AND TILE DUCHIES, HAMBURG, JUNE 9.—The war has been renewed in Schleswig-holstein with increatti d inveteracy, and the pro:4l)ton of peace, to which English mediation seemed to pave the way, are dissipari d. The Danes have et übbotnly refustsl to make the slightest conces sion ; they have refused to recognise the right of the German duchies to their peculiar institutions ; a tight which the King, in his first patent, promised to respect; and they have abused the prtiffered media tion of England, to gain time to t nter into new alli anei s with Russia, Sw, den, and Norway. Prussia acquiesced in the preliminaries to a treaty of peace at fi st proposed by the English cabinet ; but Denmark refterid so dectili dly to listen to them, that Lord Palmerston modified his proposals to meet the wishes of the Danes. It was now recommended that the Germans should evacuate Jutland and North Schleswig, and give up the contribution de manded from the f.rmer province, and th it Denmark should restore the Gelman ships that bad been cap •ured. AY basis of the future peace it was suggested that the part of Schleswig in which Danish is spuken should be disjoined font the rest and incorporated into 1111 l Kik; that the part in which German is sp,keh should be uhited to Holstein and Germany; and that the Denish and Germ in sections of the king . . door should continue annexed to the Danish crown, as Norway is to the Swedish. This arrangement, cer tainty the very utmost that G. many could concede, was agreed to by Prussia on the urgent solicitation of the English ministry, who promised their easel's.- anee to have it carried through ; and General Von Wrangel, commander-in-chief of the German ariey, received orders to evacuate Jueland and North Schles wig without delay. But the expected ninon-scene* of Ih-tumult dio not ensue. The evacuation of Jutland was aft, ibuted by the Dahish court partly to the threats of Russia, partly to dread of attacks from Dee m irk and Scats:eel. The !tines therefore resolved to assume vie offensive, and occupy the districts from which the Germans had been withdrawn. How little a'tachment to Denmark there is, even in North Schleswig, np,reara from the fact that the inhubitanta of Ape tirade- and Hadendeben fled at the approach of the Dane:, and that a hundred heads of families from Iladeraleben alone (the population of the town does nut exceed a few thousands) hastened to Frankfort, to rote at against the incorporation of their province, into Denmark. I learn from a trustworthy source, that the conduct of the Danish government has given great offence to the Ehglish ministe-rs, and that an energetic note has been transmitte d to Copenhagen, hut without any effect. The conduct of the Danes has excited universal indignation in Germany. Fresh troops have already been despatched to the north, and according to the latest ac counts the assembly has sent agents to the two nearest Germ en powers, to accele rate. their movements. The main force of the Danes has been stationed since tl:c beginning of the war on Alsen. This island is ;Art of Schleswig, and the family estate of tit • Duke of Augustenburg is on it. The island is separated from the main by a very narrow ai in of the sea, which is deep enough, however, to float the largest snips. It was from this position that the I tants a Ivanced to attack the Schleswig-Holst. in triceps on the thh of Aptil. and hither they retreated after the battle of Schleswig. Here they have ever since boen busily augmenting the numbers of their troops, and throw ing a budge over the straits from opposite the town of Sonderburg,n here it is narrowest, and constructing entrenchments on the mainland. From want of artille-ry the Germans were a considerable time un able to check these operations. These intrenctiments were thrown up on what are called the Diebbeler heights—a tract of rising ground close upon the sea, and extremely defeneible. The matches of all the farms (as is common in this part of the country) are m liked by earthen walls as high at a men's head. Even without intrenchments, the-re-fore, the position taken up by the Danes on the main was of great strength. A few (Gorman) min south of these heights is the town of Flensburg, which has borne the burden of the war her about two months, and has alternately been held by a Danish and a Gei man garrison. Upon this point General Vein Wratege I had concentrated the greater part of the German troops, amounting—Prus sians, Hanoverians, Oldenhurgers, Nles.kl nburgers, a. d Schleswig. Holsteiners included —to about 20,000 men. The remainder of the army garrisoned the most important positions, or were enip eyed in partisan demonstrations to the north. The Zith of June was the birthday of the King of Hanover, and an order of the day was issued for a great review in honour of the occasion. This, however, was a mere pretext to deceive the Manes. Ilut the nee, slurry re quisitions for wazgons, the removal of the sic& and wounded in the Flensburg hospi tals to the rear, and oth-r preparations, of al: of which the Danes were informed by their German Rpiett, kept the enemy on the qui sire. Instead of wasting time in parade manceuvrt a, the German troops were marched straight up to the Danish position. The Mecklenburgem and liatio vcrians advanced with such imp, tuous haste, that nearly an hour elapsed before the Prussians could come up to their support. Thrice this vanguard as-ailed the superior toree of the Davies. aid thrice they were driven back with tl.e loss of to m.. guns. At last the rosin body arrived, and the Pi usdaiis pressed Mrwatd with such irr•simtible ardour, that the Danes were driven out of till their positions in sueems'on, the guns they had taken re-captured, and them- Se:ves forced h tek u d on their mit renehments on the Diibbeler heights. Th, , fiAlit was maintained with equal fury on both aides. The mans got rich booty and many prisoners. Among the prisoners were several Norwegians, who served as voiuntet re in the Danish ranks-- rah r dies the lc in of a Nowt:- Irian provincial Cove mw. Atter a morn, utary pause the main hotly of the Germans stormed the heighta in front, while a detachment attempted to take the Danes in Hank and occupy the bridge. The erect of the range was anoint d but the storm of attillery brought to bear upon the assailants Irma the heavy Danish artillery on the island, and from the gun- boats (several of which, however, were dest rap d), and which the G. rmans had ILO guns of sufficient calibre to return , 'breed the latter to withdraw. The battle was renew. d next morning, but without arm decisive result. The Ger man army occupied of tr the tight the position taken up at the commeneetnent of it by the Danes. Tile loss on either side bus not M e n ascertained, hut must have been great, for every p t>iiron was assailed and defehded with the tenuity nbainney. It is understood Oa' General Von Wrangel still adheres to his deter mination to drive the Dames Loin the main land. 1 learn from parties who have arrived from Flensburg, that the greatest eagerness for another battle pervades the German army. The hatred on b ith sides is exeessive. The Danes speak incessan ly cf the treachery of the Sehlr swig llolsteiners, and the Germans accuse the Danes of acts of great barbarity. The auxiliary a lions of the Swedes and Nora elziana will be confined, it is be lieved, to the defence of the Drnish islands. The in clination of it0,..4 to take part in the war is a mare ominous symptom fur the petice of Europe. Many young men from the duchies, who are here in llama- Drug to learn the mercantile profession, are aoout to relinquish it in order to take up arms. lam person ally acquainted with many of them. It is difficult to form an adequateconcept on in England of the warlike spirit which begins to animate the young men of Ger many ; and as the Danish and Swedish youth are quite as eager, thero is little hope of a speedy termi nation to the war. On the same day that this battle was fought the partisan corps of Ibaun, who had contemplated a surprise of Iladersleben, fell in with a party of the enemy, from whom they took ten fit Id pieces with all their accoutrements and munitions. [Along with the above letter we have received Hamburg papers to the anme da•e. They e mtion the order of the day issued by Gt nrral Von Wrangel on the 6th. Ile esprtsses in warm terms his appr cba lion of the conduct of his army, and intimates that they will bivouaek that day on the field of battle, and advance again the next.] GERMANY. FRANKFORT, Jest: lo.—The committee ap poittied by .he cons ituent ass( mbly to report on the .object of a supreme central government for Ger many are said to have approved of the plan pro s, toed by M. Dahlmann, of which the following is so outline:-1. Till the dcfioitive establishment of a :.upteme central power for Gs rmany a hderal di rectory shall be hernia cid, to take charge of all bie.iniss which concerns the German nation. 2. Ibis directory shall be composed of three persons, nominated by the governments, after a conlYrenee with a committee of :he assembly spe&ally appointed for that purpose. The lwrrons nominated by the governments must be approved of by the assembly. Austria and Militia are each to nominate one. The third is to be elected by the majority of votes by the rem lining states, out of a list of three proposed by Bavaria. 3. The functions of the general dire ctory ate: —To promulgate and execute the re- soiutions adepted by the constituent aeseni blr ; to issue the ordinances required fur gi . eing effect to the laws of the empire; to under take the diiection or the national defences, and nominate tho commanih f of the federal troop.,; to make provisions fur the representation of Germany, by nominating diplomatic emu' and con guts. 4. In all questions of pe ace and war, in every thing that relates to treaties, the ft deral directory will take its measures iii concert with the con stituent assembly. 5. The federal directory is to exeicise its power through the instrumentality of ministers nominated by it, and reeponsible to the constituent tutsembly. None of its ordinances can he valid unless conntt reigned by at least one reeteresible miiiister. 6. To this end the ditectory is to nominate a minister of foreign affairs, • minister of war and mar one, a minister of the interior,a minister of finance, a minister of agriculture, manufactures, trade. anti public works. 7. Ministers hull have the right to be present at the debate n of the assembly, and to be heard whence. r they ask, but nut to vote u:.lese they aro e leered members. No member of the federal directory can he et the same time a member of the assembly. M. Av soon ns the eonsti tut.on of Germany has been filmed and p seed irita late the functions of the directory and its minieti re are to cease At the sitting of the este mbly of 8:h Jure the president announced the: te tmes of the members who see to esampose• the committee in the Selavonian affect's I Austria. M. Iles kscher next presented his report on the Schleswig-Holstein business. It concluder , thus :—" 'the Nations! A-sembly declare that the 'e lestvig-lloleteita question, as a national question, falls withi its sphere of action, and insists th et in the event of a peace being concluded with the crown of I tenimark, the rights of the duchies ut S lilt swig and Viols eon and the honour of Germany shall he duly taken care of. The assembly, more- IMO', in the belief that the evacuati rat of Schleswig by the Getman troops shall prove to have 'been • mere strateeetical movement, ex press -s its confident expectation that the &demi army will be reinioreed without lees of time, and the inheletants of North Schleswig protected from any hostile aggression to which the' may have been ex pueed by the above•mentioned retreat" M. Rade wite presented a rep et from the committee on a national navy, which recommends that the Germanic Diet he requested to appropriate by constitutional means hie millions of dollars to the f emetion and .support of a nary, lied to m eke the hilt s.f this sum immediately available. Lastly, the debate on M. Illuni'm inculpation of the Prussian ministers was re sulted, and after hietring M. Vin Auerewald and Prince Lychnowirki in defence of their cabinet, the assembly passed to the order of the day. AUSTRIA. —ViiiNNA, JUNE 7. —The if I,e;fonoi of this morning contains the following ad drees of the Emperor to " the loyal inhabitants of m 7 capital": the city of Vienna, in the first piece, anti subeequently the. delegates of the whole ampere, hare gratefully acknow ledged that when, in tile memorable days of Melee, 1 stet your wishes hall way by the grant of a constitution at one I free soil adapted to the cireuinefances of the times, I was perfectly sincere, and regarded that act of Wendt, as lore to toy people as the trinq sett-factory of my life. The promperity of my people is my prosperity ale e, and. guided be tide um timent, I granted, by the advice of my cabinet, the c msti lotion promulgated on the 25th of April. In it I have avoided the mistake of going in advance of the ea genies of the ileac, the *ante of the varieus provinces, and the public opinion of my p ople, which, wneu legitimately espre stall :Ow y. g re term in my resolutions. But my conviction that chi csnatitution is sdcauatete satisfy the general expecta tion has le ea shaken by the apprehenstnets cznres-ed in the dif ferent provinces that their Apical! relationsmay net be rightly understood and appreciate d. and also ly the events which occurred in Vienna on the WI of May. I felt, therefore, no hnit.tion to tit dare, on the 16th of May, that tore next convention of the State—general shall be authorised to act as a constituent assembly. The manner in wile!' this decleratiou was extoritei from me, has deep) , woettideel me. The pithlic opinion of Europe has unanimously and on. ph dically condemned it. But is matters stan , l, I um prepared to adhere to my el elaration, since I live rotor 'deifies that the conwitution which is to unpin morel and matt 64 strength to my empire shall be, iet its two al eut!ine, at in all its dew a an eniunatitin of Irgiti m itely•expressed public opinion, with which I sin resole-a t '-op rate. My most anxioue wish, end I feel convinced I shell not intense it iu vein, is that the States-general may meet in Vienne, the eat of my vernment, as AO in set POSANC. But the intlispeosalde c time or its not me. tiog in tame odor place is—that dee e ro tied mat undisturbed Kayo and or ler rein wbhin the VI ill. of Vienna, and that sativaceory gum-teeters 'hell fee afford...lto the provincial delepoes of the treed em o th it liberations. I am, therefore, entitled to :pert front the ittha lot tees of Vie terse that 1 very .ehertion shall ma-',, on it pert to restore the aapreett ry of the dew in all wings I it ,teet that personal feuds shall come t. an mil f, a al a spirit of recsoncilsaeion teed peace we igloo alt the inhabitants of Vt. nos. With rib roil aggregate population of Voltam', a n d rely upon its b sing tut filled; for I will ht. 114 the da) when thu .peeing eel the Stens- en rill will enable me a, the seine time to gram) , myself by once more to sing my people of Vi. ono ever true to my h- art —lnuspruck, 3rd June, Ilia logninea:so, MOM prennia. asses FIERO, M. p. Thentuatore, es p The same number ut the official jouriiel cteitsing a eireelar addressed by the ministers t o the provincial ate hoeities respecting the civilian.. It exhorts them to inform the primal and eicendery el core of •he van Als important eubji eta that will be submitted to the delib - 'rations of the 8-Weis-general. aid to impress upon them sound views respecting those suhjects with • vi w to guide them in their choice of representa tives. Much stress is laid upo a the necessity of the conetituetit assembly's being dilly impressed with the importance of guaranteeing the undisturbed pi e-erva i ion of the various nationalities of which the empire is compelled. lastly, t h e afield journal of the 7th of June inti mates that M. Von Weesciiberg, tho nt ev Miiiister of F. reign Affairs, has repaired to lensprutk, where the presence or several foreign embassies renders his pre sence necessary. The J”nrunl Fmnefet sift: "Thl directory of the Na lune' Bank of Austria have flxi d at 40 florins per share the dividend of the let *emigre of 1848. Last y. tar 'tee dividend was also fixed at 40 tt wins, and that of the 2nd at 48 florin. Everything le*4s Wbe Court. Sir James Clark left Osborne for town yesterday. the Duke of Cambridge returned to town )t s terrlAy site -noon Iron honouring the Duke or Rutland with lielvoir Earl Spence; had an intervivw with Sir G. G-ey yo.terdny et the Earl of Mandl had 41110 an interview yuteruay with the riot hun. baronet. THE MURDER IN COLDHATII-FIELDi PRISON. - INQUEST. Yesterday forenoon a jury of mxteen inhabitants of St. Joan,'., C.rkenwell, .*ere empanelled be ore Mr. I'. Wakley, M.P., in elle hoard room of the lions° of Correction, Coldnath-lields, to investigate the death of Wm. Woodhouse, aged 34, the warder of the 'above prison, who wail mord, red by a prisoner named George John Ilewsun eu Saturday morning mt. 'l. oleic field, the surgeon of the prison, &pored that the knife hal proeed through the skin and p sterol meat. s without 'onetime/ the hone. There was an opening in the ,nricatelitim sufficiently large to admit the latent of a filler, and which is...tit through the anti rior of tuc teen of th right ventricle of the h , art in the middle. It was in tact a wound of the lit art passing completely into ito cavity.—fly the coroner I have no hesitation is saying that the wound in the heart caused death. Allied Waddilove deposed, that he was plainer No. S in N.l.word of be prison, saw Mr. WOIXIIIUU)C, the warder, go to No :lc , 11, anti /pen the cell door ab tot 9 o'clae Saturday woolen— Saw, as soon an the door was opened, the ,11.1111 in the cell, with his p nineteen in lite left hated, and an instrument of some sort in his right. The moment the wen appeared at the d or he Ins& a plunge at )Ir. Wood- Immo. , who called out, " Oh, my God, I am stabbed to the hearti" he rat. to his assistunce,snd then saw that man (point log to the accusal) throw the knife down on the floor of the mit (the knife was produced and id , ratified by wi By tee Coroiter Beeman said he should m ise no resistance and was wain locked up. Had sen Mr. Won 'house care fully search Howson on his r turn from going b fore the go vernor, which is usual before locking a pritioner up. Thu accused here said there WAS a discrepancy, as the wit- ' nes, once said he bad the mannikin is his right ant then in his left hand. 1 tie Corcuer said to hid token it that the panniken was in the left need the knife in the right hand. 11 nry Young, prisoner No. 1, of No. 6 Yard, depnted that . eat h elf-paot via on Saturday morning be h. and the ae• ruse 1 sok Mr. Woodhouse t• if he meant to repot that ? " and na the warder reply inv, tt Yes, certainly," that he then heard the accused say, " If you do, it will be the worse far you." 'The prisoner here denied that he wide the o' emotion as applicable to Mr. Woodhouse. lie said hu bad himself done Levant , to he reportc,l. lie hul tasked Wirallionee V. report another prisoner for what he had said to him on th • pre it , ILIS owning. Woodhouse having nothing to rep re hien ( Ilewson) tor, why should he hold out any threat to Wood. le else T Mr. G L. Chesterton, the governor, said the prisoner was brought before him silent a quarter before eight on S cur , day morning by Mr. Woodhouse, warder of No. 5 Y .r.l. Woodhowie deposed that the prisoner,:heolconte to Move complain that prieune r No. 14 had spoken to him on going routed the yard, and asked hem how loom he bad gut to stay, end if he was not the wan who was there for keling his own chililien. Woodhouse said he di I not he hem one word nl liewsonta statement. Ile e, Mr. Chest, rtou) expreseed a einular opiate' and hold the prisoner that he ewe such a worthless and dangerous character that he should confine him he hirneelf. 'Thought No. 14 was present at the time, hut he was not puuisht d. —By the Curote r • Ilemene's coin that tal wee for two y. ars, of which he has served nine eamiths. I would be fur the visiting justices to de:ermine whether he should he kept in solitary contiumnent or nut. Toe prisoner, with great useuratioe, denied the accuracy of Mr. Clers er'ase's statemt tit. Hs change was evilest pris • n r No. 02, mod he wished Ii to be called to c.rroborate what he said. Mr. Chesterton said if he had made an error in the num- Ii r the prasenewe the facts were the same. The amused tomtit inu illy eadeevour .d to set the whole yard in aloha-ion. The praeoner (violently): The governor has treate I me most harshly. lie not only three - eine to leek me up, but to put me in irons. His usage to me It is been so rascally that I lied better have been put to death at once than endure whet I have here. Mr. Chesterton, in reply to this statement, said he would he' willioor to ref r the coroner and jury to the whole ..f the prisoners in N 0.5 yard in contraeictim. With retard to deceased, he was a most keiod and ineffehaive olii.er, and there was a deep (eerie; of regret at the occurrence relined by all the prisoners who were under his care. The knife produced was one used in the oakum wards fee ewting coir end roue. It was an old slioem eker's keine ground Wien. The priein r might have hail to use that Knife. There were many similar ones, and it was no' missed. Had waders:Dud the roe contessed to Cap'. Wi limn*, one of the inspect, s of ;iris :nee that he had himself sharpened it. lie ha I mole a etatemt nt to Mr. Owen, one of the warden, who had taken it down in %tieing. George 0 sme depeeed that Fe was a sub-warder of the prison, and had had charge of Hewson on Saturday night and Sunday eight. The accused had male two statemews, which he (Owen) had put in writing in his presence. list oid not caution the prisoner. He held the paper he had w. men in his hand. The firer, made on Situreay night, was a• follows: " Ge-orge John newton states that he placed the unite in his stocking; tnat he etherwarde went to the closet and plier..ti it inside the ft mot his trousers: that of his trial lie must mention crimes whew% he is afraid Will imp ie t e hie daughter with the di-p net of two children. (I thiek he said two children.) lie intend, to apply to two pieties etre ten se-1. thinks they cannot refuse, as if he woes to split it woml.l be the ruin of them. lie speaks a , if therm penis we re men of property." His seemod statement, made on Send ey night, is: " That he did not intend to murder Wieglitouse, but on account of Woodhouse going to the cell and telling him that he seemed likely to t.e very trouble emote, and having in n iod what the governor had said to him .ob tut put ing him ios i-ono, ho then retolved that he should be the eicem. Latham was the warder that lie intended to have murdered, but an opportunity die not slow itself. Ile says that on Wednesday mornine rte was eat nt to the work-rown, as it was naming, He then got the knife and pieced it in one of the closets. On Thursdey merning he Moe it to his yard and sharpened it on a piece of stone, which was taken from him. He then pieced it in his st erking, and there kept it l'hurtday and Friday. He in tended to keep it by him till an oepertuotity offsred i self to rah Latham." Hewn, on bring a ked if he wished to nut a question, sxchimed, "He has not put down hall. He has net said what I stator' prisoner No. 62 said to ate. —Coroner : Has he mole any intsstatetnent?—lieweon: He has not stated .11.—The Corea r I teat ho It a stat .d a great deal too mocha for you.—Hewson: That is all very goal; lam coke slalom of that, but I w eh to have a risomers 52, 56, aces 14 called.—That Cornier mid he was willing to heir any Mate meat, hut considering the parties the acetord wished to call would tend rather to damage the accused than otherwis • he should ex. reise the discretion in hie p error, and refuse to call them.—Prisoner (iesolently): I thank you ought t o hear rem irks Menefirial as well as prejudicial .A) me. The- Cern. er, having die. cud the removal of the aremed, oboe rept that the reason he had refused to eall the p 'rites referred to was that he feat there was a prithabil• cy of suede, a oreetteught being pros sI by them,and that the accused would th. ite fore add to the danger of hi. position. The feets w. re to plain to require comment. The qu scion was, had pre melitated malice afierethuucht barn proved, or bad the ac ' ewed committed the act under a sudden im outse of wafter or excitement ? He (the coroner) thought that hu his own ad mistime premeditated malice was ea eetwol shed that in.. jury could have we hesitation in re turning a verdict of wi lui march r. With reference to the eh ore., of ill tts atm ,et thrown nut by the accused, he (the caroieer)thouetot it ought to gas forth to the world that in the inquests held by hi te it was undeniably proved by the pris niers them-eh*. that their teeatmetet was of the mast humane and madden:he character. The jury returned a maid of " Wilful metrics. " ag einet genie John NeWPOII, and they were b mod over to appear en Wednesday next to sign it, Red wiineas the sweaters committal fur trial on the co toner's warrant. NATIONAL BRAZILIAN MINING AItsOCIATION.—An advertisement, shined by Mr. W. R. Caett, chairman of this society, stating that a meeting of the snarehtedere would be held at the company's others yesterday, aas met by a cuter notice, signed by Mehr4. Ox and Ha milton, informing the shareholders that so wen m' would he *uttered to be held at the offices, aa the pr. miles* are in poweicion of Mr. Oxentord. The nu tting was aeon d ingly adjourned.—Mr. W. R Collett, the chairman of the company, arcompanii d by Mr. Fordyce (of Reid Irving's), and a nuinemus body of the shareholders, proceened to the London Tavern, where, a room being procureo, the cna.r men, io the presence of the aeeemb.y, proceeded to real a statemi nt which he hid prepared tort he occasion. Mr. C. lie t remind , d the shareho l ders that he had been elect' , a director is March, 1847, and that he had been puberty' ntl etopian as ehsirrnan of the company. At that time the c ash a• their hankers wan below 301., and they were 30PM/, in di bt. la the space of ins year their debt hid been ~,, i• nished by one h.dr, and the balance at their bankers was increased. H trim done this much at home, he next th'ne he directed his attention to was the state of their affair. abroad ; and in i Her to make himself matter i i theta he pr raided at once o, •he 11 order to imp et the mines. lie had applied to his lirdher directors for his el proses for making this voyrge, hut they were ri fun , d to hhn, and a correspondence en.nid of an unint, rest:nit aware The object which ha had in view was to se whit h er some return could not be obtained for the ihvgt meat of 250,0001. which the shareholders had Mule in the Brasil, and for which during 14 years they h a d re ceived no interest. He had called together a meeting of th e ehareholders in ureter to submit to them a statement of their &Girt% and to propose a plan fur their adoption by whi c h they would, irolved of working the mines ate I,s, deri ve a very good interest for the capital invi sted. lie would ne w proceed to read a report of the result of his itioutrie. at th e unite. in the Becalm (of which we wive an ebetraer). It had already, he most state, met with the approval of the go ,„ parties officers on the spot. The property of ibe company appears to consist of two Woe. am an made (lintulo), which produces ' an lord other thing. eh ,. ad oil. After an inspection of the first mine (Cuialri), Mr. Gillett vete into a ealculmion of the receipts and expeuditute during the m , In If, and 11147, and found that a has of 2,7051. heal teen the emi t , thin tactic pralweing no more than en Wrl raw. of MM../ metal lea ton of aurifenius atone. Mr. ollett, talefore, term, fiends that the cork.' of this mine he suspend,. I. On the workioe of the second mine (Coeur.), the Irma In the two years tote Old 111,7 was 4.932 On Mating It. emaidlltimi, ha Nand, h og. eser, that despite oils dispiriting result, Mt *remise 'induced the mine had teen one and a half MU'S per ten of aurihsroits tame. ex , thremfold that of Culatik. Ile pr.minses to witharaw the rith a t,,, force from Cuislfi to co-operate with the miners of this mine. and to procure additional stamping maehliw ry. Tim reporte r a „" : " By the applmetion of 67 wt• of biters ail the preterit sail be lararty extended; whilst easterly the level toward. and w. tartly the hide toward. the Terre I ahida AeirlC;aro reise well be similarly prosecuted. The protium (at the avenge titherto maim almsl since the ripening of the mine.) wild st fly• rate of 2,420 tons monthly, prising (Maud, the stamps amount to 14,1502 grow, or 15,1100/ net annually. Twelve new et ono-head. would meter., the net produce one-half, or bring it to 22 SOW., real a Nether :Atha teem of 12 stunpsheads (making in all only 40 at wirrk) would yield to,oool. neL This cakulation has been male wit :unit any reference whatever to the sunferous veins or hunches ca goal, which may he found in the course of our extentkd workings,. At prearmt only two ran ill veins have been illar. .re. eel: cis., in the sink and eastern end; but it Is contitientty cepa, tea to and others in the Ilindeira Slopes awl In Irving'. ones-eat- Th e tendency (air far Se cut be judged at present) to fK all these veins to unite and f , rm one rich deposit eta leer fat henna brim the level of 'tenure shaft. Thi, will, however, be proof' our rag the present y m ez iii ss7 p ilatthe n ee ng woly; ‘ T v d e eg t,, iti . n ori pmr .e llice . f in ro u na te t , he lot itene ., th r:d ex ir pem ale i. tore required for the efficient working n7Coctla eta... The remit Ii that 10,0001. per annum must be appionriated to that purpose, ba i t this sum will include the comm.*, in I..inelon. I amp eaared to fur. ash the cornmosi mere with every item in detail. The tidal black force will amount to 477 souls, the Enilish to 21. to el Si".i The net pro loam I previously waled would be halo if., or with additional stamping power 29,6001. net. The fornier would pay a very fair dividend, the latter a very large one, to the shareholdt es after deduct ing 10,00411. for expenses. If, continued Mr. Collett, the shareholders would adopt his views and give him a trial for three sears, he would undertake to produce the resul s he hal witted in his report The mess of auriferous rock which exists', At the Coates mine was upwards of league its length an d shout. IS feet in cubic dinten e sions. He would al-o state to the m eting that although Mr. Oxenford had expressed himwll in such hos tile terms. he (Mr. Collett) entertained no snotty towards that gentleman, but would willingly co-operiVe an far as hi could with hint in managing the Aft ra of the com pany, only however upon the eonirtion that the views enterained by him as to the beat .o,d of work ing t‘e mines be adnred and serried out. After Mr. C llett had conclut ed bin statement, and gives aatisfaetory answers to several guewtions put to Aim, Mr. Caamher, a shareholder, prop ..ed tla• 1.00 a in, resolution: The. Mr Wil:$4111 Itiet.foril Coileit's etwem nt and i• mat the approbation of the ahareleilders or the h d soul thatilian Mining Siewaietion ; and it is hereby ',waved lad on same be received, adopted, and circulated aniong4 the getierst batty. Mr. D. atrium seconded tna resolution, which WAS carried unanimou.ly. The meeting then a parat. d. CIVIC " STATE" VISIT TO TO it CHIN Dir. JUNK.— On Friday list the Chinese Junk " K your " n s visited by the Lord Mayor, several of the aldermen, and other func tionaries. The Lord Mayor wu attete!..l by the City Mar. shot, beeriest the m..ce of office, an. the -h rir, in their state "dirrisitea. The whole tarty were attic:- ^ in court dresses. The Mtndarin and Chinese art's., on being irvr .dueed to the civic dienitarim, at flint mistook the state footmen is their splendid sold lace liv rise for the L ird Mayor and sheriffs, and performed the h0w1.... • r salaam at cordinely. The matter was speedily ex Joined to them. Toe civic party expressed themselve , ~,uch pleased with 'heir visit, and returned to the City id their rat , . huge, I which was in waiting for them a' the Ilininswiek-pier, GREENWICFI WIIITSUNSIDE FAIR. - Never dating the memory of the "oldest inhabitant" of Greene melt has • here hem such deluging rain as fell upon toms to en daring the afternoon of yesterday. The str. is were r. n•lered =- passable, end thousands who were eej -yi. g shrir holiday in the ark teok shelter unite -u ath the cape erie. elms which line the avenue. to the renowned " holid hill." Vivid fl edits of lightning a d a moat unint. reueteel peals of thunder, attended and !succeeded by the trow e'renehing rain, however, drove even the gayest frau, their rat:dreier, and almost every house where eidertamiuelos w, re obe had warfib•dwithcustomers.Thevariousr,tnu.rmeel. with which the fair abounded were closed, and the booths tieing saturated with water offered no inducement for even the most lalt. gain. lovers of the dance to ye tare. The stalls were de. 'rare!, and the eveeine closed gl ,oray and unprofitable. large number of persons 'led emits:A the lain but they were compelled to retire from the scene in evident dksppointmenr., and at po inconsiderable loss to tie se who u el rtake to cater fur the general arnusem. nt. At the railway every iseility was given for the outeoing and ins ming of pas sengers, a large number of a bud mai pens , s 'taring been selected to afford mounting aceounneletten t , all parties. SHAKsPEARE Av ALten.—Alexandre Dumas has obligingly consented to leave his bowie- d feud/eons, his " Monte Chriwo," hie " Utley 6," hie " Mot ." ids polities made romantic, his duels, his belle France, his everything, to come to London and teach us French orensits We an to be instructed in French history in the course of two weeks. Dramas, too, are to last for leo nige s. You enter at the reign of Clovis, and virile ant at the taking of the Bastille. You travel throng'. hi-tore nt the r of a hun dred years an act, and do not feel in the least gid ly, only a little confused, when you arrive at the end of your eistorical journey. To make the arrangements as couveni-nt as pos sible, the stalls will he fitted up se French beds, end persons have been engaged to go round .nd collect the huts ' so that they may be cleaned by the foliose ing meriting. Tea English actors, it is said, have been engeged for this particular line ; and some of them, the tragedians especially, get up a very reep. cable polish, considering the shert " weed, they ha» nee( inertly had. The poor fellow , are lila 4 t.4turia their hands to anything. Several of the " alkiog geta.l-,mee" have entered themselves as box-keepers, and h ,s• la.l in a stock of nightcaps, though the bill. it is iteelered by prams who have been at the Thliitre H storique at Paris, will knower the same purpose if carefully wrapeta roan'l the head. Pre caution* have been taken that no one shall disturb the publie rest, and any one found snoring will be lin oediet. ly turned out, and not a penny of his ton-ley returned. A big night. shade will burn all night aspen the stave, an- . Compton, as Doaberry, will walk round the gallery and 'dips, and an nounce the hours. Shaving will be allowed at • ieht o'clock, and the French actors have kindly agreed, on this occasion oily, to shave the English ones. • Breaktinceital li, with real French rolls, not from M. Dimas' Kpe,toire, hut made as light as possible, will be emoted in the lobei- a. The nears sp.rs will be supplied as soon as published, and every eon reidence given to persons who wish during the day to follow I their business. Everything promises a happy two nights' amusement; and one arreneement we are sure will give universal eatistaction—" Forty wink- wailer el owed between the fortieth and forty-first acts " One great d-fhlculty has been experienced in finding cheek-takers who *wild Five sureties not to go to sleep dining th forty-eigh hours; but this has been serutounted at last, an persimus have been found who, it can be proved, are perfectly wide awake at all times. Oae is au old dirk of the House of Co:an:one, another a manager, of the Mosaic p, remotion, another the waterman of the Haymat ket canal-in& anothe-r the porter at Evans's, whilst the remelted, r have been made up of old lawyers and bill-discounters, who go In " just for the fun oj the thing." A prosperous sleepy 'eaten ua expected, and thirty beds have already been taken for the firs: two nights' performances. There was au teenier sehearsal yesterday of box-keepers and orange-women, and the latter are now perfect in calling out" Apples, oranges, ginger beer, a pillow, or a cotton niahteap."—Pune4. SUPPOSED RELIC OF TILE GREAT PLAGUE OP Lost:um—On Saturday last, during the progress of an ex cavatioit in Union-etrcet Sou•ftwark, between High-street and Itedcrosiestreet, fur the formation of a main sewer, about three feet below the surface of the r adwey the workmen come upon a compact mans of human rkeletous, all lying with perfect regularity - and entirely free from any admixture of t- e eurrountlieg earth, or temente of cetliee ; and these skeletons acre piled one on the other to toe depth of ten feet, covering an area of 2GO square fret. The workmen cut toe., way with pickaxe and shovel through this stratum of the lint vestiges of humanity, and upwards of three Or leer cart-loads of bones were thrown into tile public thoroughfares. This deirecratien of the deal caused observa tion, and the assistance of the police had to be obtained to protec the remains, some pentane from the Mint having en deavoured to sell the bones at the mating st.re sh ups. At a late it. ur on Saturday the par whial (AR nos of Sr. Saviour's, S 0-Athwart, caused the reinaMs that had heen dug up to be n moved to the parish churchyard for int. emelt , and on Sueeley the excavation was covered r, to screen it from rub ie view. Considerable elettentrat prevails Irom fear of contagion, it having been aecertained that this spot was uwel to bury the dead during the great plegue of L indon. On Sunday night several curt-loafs w, re piled up in Union street. and still more rim tin tr. be dug u,i. It is calculated that at the very least there are tne remains of !tom 600 to 600 Persons. 'nig STAMP DLITT ON NEWSPAPERS. A corra -1 sponiteut of the Stockputt Mercury, writing on this subject, sale: " The vast increase in the coculetion of newspapers , iece the reduction of the duty has no doubt been noticed by tile most careless ohserver. The feet that the increase is ' letw ening on, if eossible, more rapidly than ever, is also ithei• u , and there is no reason for doutrine that if papers were cheaper the time world bo near at band when the pe riodical would be the inmate of every house—the instructor and elevator of every indnectuel. I am amongst that large class of the community who attribute much of the nation's progress to the press, end I believe the tie eis now arriv e d when another important step may he tak. n with safety to Mere:lee its woefulness. One strong reason for an al.eration is the inequality of the pre, at imeost of a penny on each paper, whatever may he i's form or sitar; and ie these days. when the cry far jus tie • is h. coming too strong to he meth longer unneeded, I thi k the grievance to which I call attention ought at least to he considered. The bent of civilisatten is to moke good thing* cheap,' and whatever law bar-mine to meke them dear is a law founded oa injustice, and ought to be removed quickly as possible. Perhaps semis refiners will be sure prieed at nay characterising tee tenep up- r stamp as unjust, hut a tingle illustration will le aunt: rent to siphon my posi tion. The poor man who tan &third only thuseje nce for a Mercury p ono penny, or a third, to government in the ahuge of tax, while the richa men, eche can afford to purchase a ninep. nny Spectator, pays only one-ninth gross and pa`pahle injustice. 1 world substitute for the existing lac a ttsated male commenenk; Ir"