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

latter is, indeed, a nice case, that requires setae cir cumspection and caution to treat with fairness• by one of his numerous °ether, which obliges him to inform his bishop of any . unsound doctrine which any of the clergy may utter in thepulpit. The bubo is not, we presume, one of those clergy. If he is, when he utters heresies from the pulpit, it will be time enough to communicate the delinquency to him in his episcopal character, that ho may take proceedings against himself in due course. Surely the dean does not set up ss an excuse for refusing to obey the law, that it might possibly render the perform ance of some of hie other dulies personally dis agreeable. With Dr. MEREwirritEß's pathetic recollections of the late King WILLIAM, Lord Joust RUSSELL, the church at large, and we ourselves, have singularly little to do. He appears to think that he may be accused of disloyalty to the crown, and not of disobedience to the law. Illogical loyalists' when they refuse to Csotaa that which is C.Eseß's, always profess their readiness to give him something which is not C.ESAR'S. If the dean had a voice in the choice of a bishop, we should recommend him to exercise it in entire independence of the crown. M the rove fi lire beam on its obverse and reverse, on its face and in its history, the image and superscription of C.EiAR, we think it would be more orthodox, we are certain it would be more right, to avoid discussing the question whether it be lawful to give tribute to C.E4AR or no. That leading case, if its ruling was followed, would diese of nine-tenths of the conscientious scruples which trouble the weak minds of half-taught moralists. The dean's proceedings at the election were as puzzled as his reasoning, and somewhat more puz zling. After a pompous speech, he voted against 1/r. HAMPDEN, and was supported by one canon residen tiarv. Three canons residentiary voted in favour of obedience to the law ; and a mass of honorary canons nominated by the late bishop, of course voted on the same side. The dean protested against the right of the honorary canons to interfere—a protest probably well warranted by law, but immaterial under the circumstances, as the net majority of the real ea pitular body was on the same aide with the gross ma jority formed by the nominal dignitaries. The dean farther protested against the validity of any act in which he did not himself concur; and if the rights of the different members of the chapter came under legal discussion, we are not prepared to say that a majority of the corporate body can per form any act without its head . In the present case, however, there can be no such investigation, for, after all, strange as it may seem, the dean con curred in the election of Dr. Hen VDEN. He himself proposed that the usual certificates of election should be torwarded to the crown, to the archbishop, and to the bishop elect. The capitular seal was attached to the documents, and the election is as regular as it would have been, if the QUEEN had recommended Dr. MEREWETHER himself to the choice of the' chapter. If he is prosecuted antler the statute of HENRY VIII., be has only to point to the seal of the chapter. That is his legal and official utterance, which neither he nor his prosecutors can vary by parol. True it is, his counsel will say, that the dean assured Lord Jwis RUSSELL that no power on earth should induce him to elect ; but HENRY VIII. made no law against making assertion% in newspapers. True it is, that in the chapter-house he made a speech; bat there is no law against speechifying. His duty was to concur in the election. The proof that he concurred is, that the proper documents were sealed by his direc tion; and no evidence can be received or suggested to contradict his official seal. We are very glad that Dr. MEREMETTIER is safe from the mysterious terrors of a prerniunire and we hope he will now resume his meritorious occupation of restoring the cathedral, with more attention to the rules of art than he has shown in the recent controversy. He knows that in archi- ' tecture the foundations and the lateral bearings, the strength of the arches, and the weight of the roof must be quietly calculated and provided, before the builder can occupy himself with ornamental tracery. Spreiora &bine miraeula puma. In the business of the election, having deserted his proper field of activity, the dean began with much sound and fury, and ended by doing what he might have done quietly, and what he professed that he would not do at all. The judicious critic cannot but observe Qu!d dignum tanto tent hie promisor Motu! We do not feel disposed to compliment either the I clergy and laity, who have addressed Dr. llampden, for the appropriateness of their language, or the bishop elect, for the good taste of his answer. The' charge ag ainst him being founded on the Hampto n Lectures, his supporters actually fail to express their opinion that the charge is unfounded. As far as they are concerned, the positions of their opponents are I conceded to them, while they compliment 1/r. Ham , - 1 I DEN on the possession of virtues which have not been disputed, and on a period of his teaching which no one has impugned. Dr. HAMPDEN on the other hand is determined to be a martyr to a supposed persecution, as the Dean of HEREFORD is to an imaginary tyranny. " The cause in which you are engaged,' he says, " is a much greater one than anything simply relating to an individual." "Congratulations are due to you for your strenuous support of the true protestant church. In other words, "the opposition to me, Dr. HAMP DEN, is a mere outburst of Popery, Poseyism, and heresy ; and the archbishop. the 16 bishop s, the ma jority of the Oxford convocation, and all the clergy over the country, who have been alarmed at my elec tion, are guilty of the crime of heterodoxy, with which they sought to charge me." We regret that the odium theologirum should blind all parti_s in this conte-t. We utterly disapprove of the charges against Dr. HAMPDEN ; but we are not prepared for the excommunication of all, who may have approved of them, or even joined in them. When Dr. HAMPDEN is cooler, perhaps he will see that the errors with which he was unjustly charged had nothing to do with popery , or with the disputes between high and low churchmen. It is true that the Puseyite party joined his opponents; but it is not true that they farmed the mass of the party with which they acted, or that the points at issue were those in which they took an exclusive interest. The bigotry, the narrowness, the ignorant timidity of the English clergy and people on doctrinal points, fully account for the misunderstandings which have thrown Dr. lAMPDEN on the down bed of episcopal martyrdom. It is pleasant to turn from the recriminations of partisans to the share which Archdeacon HARE has taken in the discussion. Instead of bandying charges of heresy he has studied the Hampton lectures, on which the charges against Dr. HAMPDEN were founded, and delivers an approval of them which is entitled to the weight which belongs to hie profound learning, and to the universal respect with which his character is re garded. Agreeing, we believe, in opinion with the low church party, and well known for his religious earnest ness, Archdeacon HARE stands almost alone among those who hold similar opinions in literary, philoso phical, and theological knowledge. Au intimate ac quaintance with the abatruser parts of learning, with philoloey and with metaphysics, enables him to judge of the merits of a work, which, like that of Dr. HameDEN, was intended entirely for a philosophical purpose. "It is," he says (and we ha ve, as our readers are aware, frequently said the same, though less fully and with far less authority). "It is a historical more than a dogmatical work—a work of historical and philosophical criti cism, applied to an important point in the develop ment of Christian theology, professing in its title to consider the scholastic philosophy in its relation to Christian theology, that is, to point out how that philosophy, which exercised such power in the church for several centuries, modified the development of our theology—how it led to the construction of systems, in which at one time one doctrine, at another time another doctrine, was wrought out with great subtlety into all its logical consequi flees, and bow the traces of this philosophy, even so long after it has been exploded, are still discernible in our symbolical books, especially .in their terminology." Those who are really swoon, to coe to a sound decisicn as to the merits of Dr. HAMmPDEN, must refer to Archdeacon HARE'S pamphlet. In the meantime, his name and au thority will probably satisfy many that they have been imposed upon or deceived. We hope this tiresome controversy has stow reached nearly its last stage, and that, in a short time, all parties will be satisfied that it would have been better if it had never been begun. The relations of the Church to the Crown are highly expedient, and beneficial in their workin7. It is much better not to foil .et them out into all their con ceivable consequences. I":.ere is no c titution, and no considerable portion of any conatitation, which does not contain within itself, in a latent form, the possibility of a dead look. It is only by a judicious adjustment and occasional oiling of the wheels that the machinery continues to do is duty tolerably. We have already dilated too far to do justice to the prelates of Sarum and Oxford. The conduct of the THERE is, we understand, no doubt that the subor dinate officers of the various military departments have received instructions for, and are now actually ' engaged in, the preparation of estimates involving a considerable increase in the strength of the defensive services of the country. We do not, of course, pro fess to know whether these estimates are intended to inform ministers of the actual coat of the increase recommended for their adoption, or whether they are meant for submission to the House of Commons as necessary to carry out those measures of national defence which they may have resolved to propose to the legislature. But of this we are very certain, that, notwithstanding the alarm of the weak and the fore thought of the cautious, the present is not the time for any avoidable addition to the public expenditure. I A few days will show us how much the national receipts have in the last year and quarter fallen short of the like periods in 1846; and ere the lapse of another quarter the CHANCELLOR OF TIER EXCHE QUER will, in all probability, have given us some no lien of the manner in which he intends to make up the deficiency that is believed to exist between ordinary receipts and expenditure ; for the whigs, with the ex perience of 1840 and 1841 before their eyes, will not tolerate the existence of that deficiency, even though the income-tax must be increased to fill up the vacuum that diminished national and individual means have produced. In the meantime, the right hon. gentleman's inventive or suggestive faculties will be occasionally , diverted from this stern duty by the annual claims which are about this season introduced into the Treasury for the reduction of various taxes. Liverpool and Manchester will bring the duty on tea under his notice : the metropolis will wait upon him with fresh details of the inconve niences of the window-tax ; sanitary associations will show to his assenting mind how much health would be promoted by the abrogation of the duty on soap. Scotland generally has very special objections to the excise ; and every man who smokes, snuffs, or chews tobacco regards that weed as much too highly taxed. Sir ROBERT PEEL, too, when parliament assembles, and finance is referred to, will not fail of impressing on the CHANCELLOR the importance—the absolute necessity, in reference to foreign affairs, of keeping large Ireeaury balances. And Ireland is already clamouring for other millions to be spent—in food, in labour, or in any other way in which money is or can be misspent in that country. It is at such a time and with such prospects before us that government ie urged to adopt measures which, according to the wildest propositions, will involve an extraordinary expenditure of five or six millions sterling, and which, even in accordance with the more rational proposals, will render a very handsome addi tion to our yearly expense unavoidable. hereupon arise two questions : can we at present afford to make any addition to our expenditure for such purposes — and do the circumstances is which we are placed require that even if we can a ff ord , we should do so ? That we can afford, in the face of an increase of taxation to meet ordinary expenditure. to expend any considerable sum of money on objects of extraordinary expenditure, appears to us simply impossible : we may certainly borrow and tax ourselves to do so, but such a course appears to us far more impolitic and dangerous than to wait uutil we can afford from ordinary sources the outlay. To run taxation, in a period of great diffi culty and depression, up to its maximum point, or even to stretch our fiscal capabilities, is we think more calculated to weaken the country and to render it more obnoxious to hostile attacks, than to neglect for a few years, and until " things come round again," fringing the coast with martello towers, fortifying the Channel, embodying an army reserve, or annoy ing the whole population by calling out the militia. Just now we are not a little put to it to complete those great material works which must, when done, as Sir ROBERT PEEL has predicted, greatly augment both national and individual wealth ; every shilling we can spare is required to finish those railways the completion of which in themselves adds to our means of national defence; and by every six pence that we are additionally taxed, by so much the less shall we be able to complete them. It is doubtless always desirable to be as safe as we can, but it is a wise old saw that we must cut our coats according to our cloth; and when, for thirty years, we have been at peace with Europe, and in the course of that period have run fur greater risks of its rupture than any which exist at present, the prudent course, we repeat, seems to be to wait until we can expend millions, before we enter on the expenditure. So with great submission to those who think other wise, we cannot see, in our present situation, any irresistible reasons for bristling fortifications in the channel, or armies of reserve in every county. And when a belief in the proposition that we are no longer an island, and in the imminent danger we should run from fogs and storms in case of war, is the staple in which the lords and ladies who write and frighten themselves on this subject indulge, they are not likely to make many converts. Land fifty thousand French on the coast of Kent, and they would probably reach London, each Frenchman killing two Englishmen on the march ; but the rea sonable probability appears to us that fifty thousand Frenchmen never will be landed. It is a possibit lity; but a possibility of that sort against which nations cannot afford to ensure very highly. It as sumes either the inefficiency of our navy, or such a concurrence of military and natural disasters to it as never has occurred in its history. It assumes a want of notice of war between the two countries such as has never occurred; it assumes such a preparation on the part of France and such a want of prepara tion on oar part ne has never occurred; it assumes such a prostration of the rest of Europe at the feet of France as has never but once occurred ; in short, it assumes such a strange combination of circumstances as reasonable people will notassume. It is a sort of Joinrille mania, such as common acute cannot fall into ; we have risked it before, and we will risk it again, rather than commit the greater folly of taxing ourselves in the hope of preventing it. We have laughed at and ridiculed and jeered the fortifications of Paris; and it ie now gravely proposed by some that we should follow this example. Our army is, perhaps, considering the present state of' Ireland, and the demands of our colonies on it, somewhat too small; if, on mature consideration, such be found to be the state of the case, let it by all means be augmented; or, better still, let us introduce such a system of colonial corps as would enable us to have a much larger proportion of our troops at home. But in the name of all that is convenient and reasonable let us not precipitate ourselves and the exchequer into military expenses, until we have the desirable requi sites of disposable funds, matured plans, and some cause or necessity that will bear examination beyond the scribblornania of staff-officers and newspaper --endcnte. =--- M. Sauzet, whose election to the presidency of the French Chamber of Deputies we announced yester day, was opposed by M. Odidon Burrot, and obtained a majority of 227 votes against 105. The election of M. Thiers to the presidency of the eighth bureau, which we also announced yesterday, was gained by a ma jority of 21 against 20 . M. Thiers was opposed by a conservative candidate, M. Dupont. As examples of the comments of different sections of the opposition on the re-election of M. Sauzet to the presidency of the Chamber, we give the following from the Conetitutionnet, and the Union Monarchique, a legitimist journal. The Ccnatitutionnel says : Sanzet's majority is relat.vely inferior to that of 1846, but we attach little value to these calculations, which are matters of mere curiosity. In fact, the ministry possesses its majority elways olio , i—nt, voting as it desires ; and it'll it is so well aware of, tbu A spares no injunction nor any caprice. The Union Monarchiquc Las the following : Scout has been re-elected. M. Sauzet has obtained a triumph of 227 votes out of 363. Bravo ! that gives us some idea of what is to follow. In this first combat, in which the majority has merited so well from its doctrinaire patrons, what has become of M. Dupin and M. Dufaure ? In truth their disappearance resembles greatly an irony. We seek their names in vain in the bulletin of the great battle. These names, attractive of little sympathy, and which were un wisely hell up as railing points, vanished at the moment of combat. It was when all was over, when the tiring had ceased, when the dying and the dead were being picked up, that IC Dupic was discovered, timidly squatting down behind a group of 13 votes. As to M. Dufanre, he bas had only nine to console him fer his failure. It is true that the left had de termined the evening before to set usae these two impos.ible candidates. M. 0. Barrot it was resolved, should be the paten supported, and in cowerturnee the leader of the dynastic opposition obtainel an honourable minority of 105 votes. This preference at treat had one advantage ; it sanc tioned the reform movement iu him who for the last three THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 180. months has been for the left the aunt assiduous and most constant personification ; it replied by an energetic and nificant vote to the provocative language introduced by M. Ouisot in the speech frometbe throne; and, finally, it has shown that in the Cheinher there is an imposing minority decided to accept the combat, anti to reply to the irritating challenge of the ministry relative to reform. Thus consi dered, the defeat of M. 0. Barrot has its consolatory side ; it is a hope which it depends henceforward on the left to realise. The left, in becoming in the Chamber less exclusive than it was in moot of the reform banquets, in showing itself lam imprisoned, less confined in its intolerance, in pursuing the idea of reform in the name of France, and above all by France, can give the signal of a large and salutary fusion. There is only that menus of arriving at a common object. We mentioned on Thursday a statement which we had received from a quarter entitled to credit, that Austria had intervenes( in Italy. In corroboration of this, a letter since received from Florence, 'dated the 20th, mentions a report that the Emperor o? Austria, at the request of the ex-Duke of Lucca and the Duke of Modena, has marched troops into Modena and Parma. If this report be well founded, and the movement should have taken place without the pre vious consent of the King of Sardinia and the Grand Duke of 'Tuscany, it may lead to serious remelts money sent from Austria, and this on evidenee that could not be rejected. This money is now available for all the intrigues that are on foot, and which are destined to prevent this once happy country from - settling in peace, notwithstanding the unanimity that now reigns amongst the central governments. This is, however, unfortunately not the worst We seriously fear that the aim of the Jesuit party is to take advantage of the large armed forces which the Austrians are collecting in Tyrul and Lombardy to break out in insurrection, and thus afford that power a pretext for intervention. Rumours have been afloat concerning an intention to throw garrisons into Modena and Parma, in order to encourage a reaction In Italy ; but Switzerland is of still more importance than Italy at present, being more divided, and offer ing a specious pretext for interference. Sir Stratford Canning is pressing the Vorort to disarm; but surely in this state of things it would be running a risk which England will not demand as the price of her friendship. FRANCE.—OOI.3IAP..—A dreadful conflagration has just reduced nearly a whole quarter of the town of Colmar into ashes. In the night of the 22nd ult., at two o'clock cm , the fire broke out in the outhouse of a farmer in the Rue Wickranirn, and, despite the most immediate assistance, it was found impossible to get master of the fire before nine. All the neighbourhood uetween the Rue aux Ours and the Rue Wickranitn is destroyed. The damage is estimated at more than 200,000 f. BELOIUM.—BRUSSEI. B , DEC. M.—CHAMBER OF REPRISENTATIVES.—The chamber adopted, unanimously, the budget of the expenditure of the army for 1848. The chamber then proceeded to disown' the organisation of the army and the reductions which were proposed. Baron Charal again stood up in its defence, and (roved by exam ples from the neighbouring states that the most economical government gave mare fur the erganiaation and support of their armies than the Belgian.—Col. Ernens proposed that the soldir n should not serve more than t oor three months beneath the deg.—The discussion was adjourned. Tim POST-OFFICE.—The King of the Belgians and the King of the French being anxious to regulate, by a new convention, the mutual correspondence of their respective kingdoms, in a manner conformable to the intimate and ac tive relations which exist between tho two countries, have nominated as plenipotentiaries for the King of the Belgians M. Constant d'lloffschmidt, minister of foreign affairs, and for the King of the French, the Marquis de itumigny, peer of France. These gentlemen, after having cummuhicated their full powers agreed in due form to various articles which are published in the Moniteur of Dee. 30. trances. The Cul7B titutionneldiscredits this rumour, and con eiders that it has probably arisen from a notice which it affirms that the court of Vienna has given to the great pewees, of its intention of augmenting the force I of its army in Italy, disclaiming, however, any de sign of interfering with the other states of the peninsula. The same journal affirms that M. Guizot has pro posed a joint reply to be sent to the answer of the Swiss federal government, in which the powers declare themselves released from the obligations in relation to Switzerland imposed by the treaties of 1813, but that the Emperor of Russia declines being a party to it or any other diplomatic note, although he is ready enough to join in an act of armed intervention. A reform banquet, attended by a thousand persons, took place at Grenoble on Sunday the 19th. A much greater number applied for tickets, but no building sufficiently spacious could be obtained. l'd. Guizot and Count Mole were among the guests at a dinner given on Tuesday by M. de Montalivet. The Union Monarchiqw, remarking on this singular conjunction, says, "Far from showing themselves gratified by so piquant a surprise, the two statesmen observed towards each other during the repast the coldest and most disdainful reserve." Vice-Admiral Mackau, ex-Minister of Marine, has been raised to the rank of full admiral. It is stated that a marriage between the Duke de Guiche, and one of the daughters of the late Duke and Duchess de Prielin, is about to take place. M. Isturitz, ex-Prime Minister of Spain, and ex- I Ambassador of Spain at Rome, has returned to UNITED STATES. Madrid. 'thugs') AY EVFNING, 5 o'cLorK.—The four minis terial caudidutes are elected vice-president& Marshal Itugeaud has succeeded against M. do Maleville. The secretaries arc not yet announced. Letters arriving daily from Italy continue to bring reports of revolt and fermentation in the territory of Naples and Sicily. The vagueness and obscurity winch surround all the information which we receive from that portion of the peninsula, still mark these rumours. One letter states that the whole island of Sicily is in open revolt. Another says that the people in the Calobul ges havin destroyed the telegraphs, government is without any certain knowledge of' the internal state of the country. The Florence journal, the Allot, of the 23d, affirms that it has received a letter from Mantua, dated the 20th, written by . a persod entitled to full credit, which says that a courier had arrived there from Milan, bear ing an order to the Ilungarian regiment of Ferdinand d'Este quartered in Mantua to mch immediately for Modena. The advanced guards as to leave at half past four on the evening of the 20th, and the remainder of the regiment the following morning. The same courier continued his route immediately for Verona with an order for troops quartered there to march to Mantua. Extraordinary activity was displayed in the ar senal and regiments of Helen cavalry were expected. M. Neuman, minister of Austria, had started with urgent speed for Parma. The A oysburg Gamete, under the date of Rome the 16th December, says it was reported that the diplomatic corps were jealous of Lord Itlinto, because the Pope had more frequent and more intimate con ferences with him than with the accredited ambas sadors of other courts. That journal, however, sees nothing in these, except an effort to effect some mea sures tending to the improvement of the catholic population of Ireland. The Currier de Marseille has the following from Rome, dated the 18th : A great subject of conversation at Rome is the probable end of the proceedings instituted relative to the conspi racy of July 16. It is said that the Chevalier Minardi and Count Dertola, now confined at St. Angelo, are to lie set at liberty. The other prisoners, 16 or 17 in number, will be condemned to a longer or shorter c infiuement. A circular of the Cardinal Vicario revokes, from Dec. 31, the authority given to all the confessors of nunneries. New powers will he conferred on Jun. 1. This measure appears intended to put down certain movements, and remove several con fessors without publicity. On Monday, the 20:h, Mgr Fee rieri will set out for Constantinople, charged with the task of complimenting the Sultan in the name of Pius IX., and of treating about the establishment of a nuncio in that city. Mgr. Ferrieri will afterwards visit the missions of America. Mgr. Valerga, patriarch of Jerusalem, left on the 15th for his residence. No person can yet say who is to be the sue. aessor of Cardinal Ferretti. According to a rumour now in circulation, Pius IX. intends prohibiting the entrance of the .416 a journal, on account of its bitter ness a g ainst the Jesuits. Ile lately inflicted a fortnight's imprisonment in a conven t Latel y two persons, going out shooting, pe set their dogs at a man, whom they took, from the form of his hat, for a Jesuit. Ile was a French deacon, of the diocese of Aix ; he had his clothes tern, and was hit in several places, nut the Jesits opposed his making any complaint to the Freach ambassad u or. Mgr. Massoiii, of the secretary of states °dire, is to be sent as charge d'effaires to Florence ; and Mgr. Marconi passes from thence, in quality of nuncio, to Munich. It is said that Mgr. Corboli returns to Modena without having been able to convert the Orand Duke to the Italian customs union. We read in a letter from Rome, of the 19th : " The pontifical government has just adopted two measures of considerable importance. Hitherto the Diario di Roma, conducted by the Chevalier de Angelis, was erroneously considered in foreign countries as the official organ ; it is only after Jan. 1 thst this journal is to be official, and that it will be conducted by edi tors named by the Secretary of State, the former editor retiring." From the same date the political journals, which hitherto were not subject to an 7 tax, are to pay two baiochs (12ic.) each number. These two measures will have the effect of gravely compro mising the Bilancia, the conservative print, and the Gontemporaneo, an ultra journal. The Patric of Florence states that the Pope has re jected the application of the students of the University of Bologna to be allowed to form themselves into a guard, as has been the case with the students of the University of Pisa, by permission of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Madrid mails of the 24th arrived at the mo ment our correspondent was closing his despatches. MM. Mon and Tidal had refused to enter the cabinet, and some other ministerial arrangement had to be contrived. General N irvacz was to continue Presi dent, without a portfolio, General Figueras was to be Minister of War ; Beltran de Lie, Finances ; and Roca de Togores, Marine. The resignation of M. Or lando was announced. - ZURICH, DEC. 25. The activity of the agents of Austria in ex citing the eatholics of the Grisons and Tessin to renew the struggle is so glaring, that it is plainly exposing Switzerland to another civil •. a. to dis band the army while these machinations are con tinued. Unfortunately many circumstances concurred to intimidate the protestants, and to give strength to the supporters of the Jesuits in those cantons during the late troubles. The general in chief naturally directed his grand effort against Lucerne, and in order to appear there with overwhelming force, concentrated his forces, and left the extremities exposed. The men of Tessin were thus unsupported in their attempt to take the mounta 4 n passes, and the enemy's troops made them feel tue woes of the vanquished during their short period of success. It is, conse quently, natural for the outlying cantons to be im pressed with the dread of having to play the part of scapegoats for the rest when it comes to blows, and they will, in future, be disinclined to speak out as freely as they have done. Austria keeps up an easy communication with Tessin through Orse from Bregenz, and through the Valt..lino with .hui. It is now known that the military chest taken from Siegwart Muller at Domo d'Ossola was restored on his proving that it contained We yesterday announced the arrival of the Bri tannia, Capt. Harrison, at Liverpool on Thurs day evening. She left Boston on the usual day, but did not leave Halifax till the 19th. She brought on freight 52,0001. in specie. By the Britannia we have New York papers to the 15th inst. Tito proceedings in Congress had been meagre and uninteresting. In the nominations fur chairmim of committees, with the exception of one or two unim portant ones, whig members were appointed chairmen. In all the important ones the wbigs hold the majority. The reports of the Secretary-at-War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Postmaster-General have been published. In that of the Secretary-at-War we find that: The whole aggregate land force, employed in prosecuting the war, is estimated at 43,536, of which 21,509 are regular troops, and the remainder volunteers. The distribution of this force is as follows ..—With Maj.-Gen. Scott, and belong ing to hie column, including the troops en route, at Tarmac°, at and about Vera Crux, and on the line thence to his head. quarters, the aggregate force is estimated at 32,150. With Maj.-Gen. Taylor, at the several posts under his immediate command, it is about 6,727. In Santa Fe, and on the Oregon and Santa Fe routes, and in the Indian country, there are about 3,634. The force in the Californias is about 1,019, including atO now on the way to that country. Our further operations must (says the Secretary) be con ducted in one of the three following modes :—First, to take and helot an indemnity line, to recede from all places and positions now occupied in advance of it, and cease from all aggre , sive operations beyond that line ; second to overrun the whole country, and to hold all the principal places in it by permanent garrisons; and third, to retain what we now pos sess, ,men the lines of communication into the interior, and extend our operations to other important places, as our means and the prospect of advantages shall indicate, keeping a disposable force always ready, within approachable limits, to annoy the enemy, to seize supplies, enforce contribution., and frustrate his efforts to collect means and assemble troops for the purpose of protracting the war. In addition to the treops required to garrison places to he retained, it is pro posed to have in the field &competent force for aggressive ope rations, to strike the enemy whenever he may present a vul nerable point; to open avenues from the ports in our posses sion into the enemy's country, and to cover and subject to our control some of his rich mining districts arid productive agricultural regions. It is not deemed proper to point out in more detail the movements and objects contemplated in the further prosecution of the war upon this plan. The se,- tual strength, as near as can he ascertained, is now 21,533; it will therefore require 7,381 enlisted men to complete the regular military establishment. A most important and diffi cult part of the duties devolved upon this department is the management of our Indian affairs. The wise policy of sepa rating the Indians residing in states and organised territories, from contiguity to and intermingling with, the white popu lation, and of settling three is a quiet home, removed as ter as practicable from the reach of influences so perni cious to their well-being, has been steadily pursued, and generally with favourabe results. Some embar rassments have arisen in the removal of the Choc taws, but they have been, to a great extent, overcome. The depredations upon the trains on the Santa Fa route have been, it is believed, committed principally, if not en tirely, by Indians with whom we have hitherto had but little or no intercourse, and who can, therefore, only be con trolled, and their mischievous propensities repressed, by a military force. For this purpose such a force has been sent into that region with instructions to chastise the offeuders, and procure, as far as practicable, the restoration of the plun dered property. The anomalous condition of our relations with the Imitates in Texas embarrasses the action of the department in relation to them. The laws regulating intereour e with Indian tribes do not extend over Texas. A special agent was, however, appointed at the cline of the last session of Congress to visit the several bands in that state, to counsel with them, and to distribute such presents, in goods, as were deem' d most useful and best calculated to conciliate their good will, and to inspire confidence in the friendly diapoetion of the (hilted States towards them. This proceeding has been attended with success; but it is desired that Congress, at the approaching session, should place our relations with these Indians on a more permanent basis. A difficulty has arisen among the Stockbridge Indians in Wisconsin, occasioned principally by the legislation of Congress, which cannot be overcome without farther lislation. The necessity for the farther action of Congress on the subject is clearly presented in the commissioner's report. The report of the Secretary of the Navy says: The moneys collected in Mexican ports have been applied, under the direction of the commanding officer, to the uses of the squadron. No returns have been received from the Pacific; those received from the Gulf of Mexico show an amount of between thirty and forty thousand dollars col lected, but they did not contain collections educe early in September. Vera Cruz and Tampico are the principal ports, avid the cloth a at those places are not collected by naval officers. No doubt is entertained that a considerable revenue will be collected at the several pore of Mexico in our p 'mis sion, which will reduce the expenses of the war on our treasury. But the great advantage resulting is, that the ad mietion of trade under moderate duties will remove the temptation to smuggling, and the import trade being com pelled to pass under the inspection of our oflicers, the enemy will be deprived of aid by the introduction of articles con traband, and at the same time an active and profitable employment given to our own navigating interest. I have the honour to present herewith the reports of the several bureaux of construction, equipment and repair, of ordnance and hydrography, of yards and docks, of provision and clothing, and of medicine and surgery, with estimates in detail for the several branches of the naval service for the next fiscal year. They are based on the employment, peed log the war, of 10,000 men, as allowed by law, and a num ber of vent Is in commission requiring their services. The gross amount estimated for ix 10,365,822 dull. The amount appropriated fur the current fiscal year is 10,052,636 dole. 10c. The estimates now presented include an item of 1,200,000 deb. to complete the four war steamers, authorised by the act of the 3d of March last, an increase of the appropriation under the head of contingent emits , rated, and 3.50,000 dole. for the prosecution of the work on the dry &Aid New York. I deem it not inappropriate to the occasion, as illustrating the expenditure of the navy department since the commence ment of the Mexican war, to present a comparative statems nt of the appropriations and expenditures for the three last years, under the heads of appropriation of " pay," " contingent," " increase and repair," " provisions and clothing," and " surgeons' necessaries an I appliances." These may be de nominated the variable appropriations, and will show the increase of expenditure during the was, over that of a cor responding period in the time of peace. This comparison ex hibits the following mutt : Apprepriathei, Msltabla mere. For year mama • 14104 e. Dal.. c. 1,018. e. Juu4 30, 1845 5,018.813 71 6,101,413 28 1.818,214 - June 30, 184 i 5.0415,102 us 6,564,428 62 6,371,314 (0 Jane 3), 184/ 6,434,341 01 7,301,733 48 6,435,118 And of the expenditure for increase and repair during the past year, 345,176 dollars have been paid for fifteen ves sels, storeships, steamers, and schooners, of suitable draft of water, purchased and sent to the Gulf of Mexico. By the direction of the act of the 3rd March, 1817, measures were taken for buildine four war steamers of the first class, and they are in ac. oa. of rapid construction. The mode f r ls, tonnage, and ,a , `•i..ery w e re adopted on the report o a mixed board of re.: • .1 Oleos. e instructors, and engineers, and I have no doubt the vessels will constitute a most valua ble accession to the navy. By the same act con:rocs were authorised for the tran,partstion of the mail in steamers b tween New York and Liverpool, beta ~n New York and New Orleans, arid from Havana to Chartres. Tho contractors on these two routes were named in the law, and the basis of the contracts was adopted by Congress, by reference top ropoeals heretofore submitted to the Postmaster-Ueneral by Meets. Collins and Sloo respec tively. The contracts with these gentlemen have en tered into, as directed by law, embrace conditions by which the steamers are to be constructed under proper inspections , _ so as to be converted into war steamers, and subject to be taken far public use at a fair valuation, at the pleasure of the department. The 6th section of the act makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to contract, on the part of the government of the United States, " for the transporta tion of the mail from Panama to such port as he may select in the territory of Oregon once a month each way, so as to connect with the mail from Havana to Chagrea, across the isthmus; said mail to be transported either in steam or sailing vessels, as shall be deemed most practicable and ex pedient. ' From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury it appears that — The receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1847, were: dol.. c. Total rceeips Add balance ha the Treasury lot July, 1816 Total medusa The expenditures during the wine &seal year were Leaving balance in the Treasury Ist July, 1047, of 1,701,231 25 The . atimated receipu and expenditure, for fiscal year ending 30th June, 1818, are : Total rercipts From areas of Treasury notes and loans 54,900,000 00 6,285,201 SS 41,155,294 SS 1,701,231 25 Add balance in the Treasury let July, 1847 42,86,848 80 Total means, an estimated The actual expenditures for the first quarter, ending SOth September, 1847, were The ectimated expenditures for the public service during the other three quarters from Ist October, 1817, to 30711 June, 1001, are, civil list, foreign intercourse and rabic ceilancoua Army proper, including volunteers Fortifications, ordnance, taming Wil lis, ike. Indian department —— - 1,720,660 26 PellikOnS 1,063,523 66 Navalestablichment 10,241,072 49 Interest on public debt and Treasury notes Treasury notes outstanding sal "w -hit when promoted 287,139 St 58,615,600 07 15,729,114 27 Esceas of expenditure over means, let July, IMO The estimated receipts, meant, and expenditures for fiscal year commencing lot July, 1948, and ending 3uth June, 1049, are— From Customs „ Sales of public lands „ Miscall:mews sources 32,000,000 00 3,000,000 00 100,000 00 Total revenue Deduct deficit let July, Idle .... 35,100,000 00 12,729,114 27 19,3700333 73 • The expenditures during the aline period, as esti mated by the several departments of State, Tr sure, Wu, Navy, and Postmaster-General, are — The balances of former appropriations which will he required to be eapead ed in thni year 1,475,210 77 Permanent and indefinite awing:whi -4,587,377 82 tlows Specific appropriations asked for this year 0,582,153 13 53 614,941 72 Deduct maim remaining applicable to service of fireal . 'oar ending 30th June, 1 849 19,370,68.1 73 Excess of expenditures over MCVIIII. let July, 1849 .... 36,274,03.5 99 It will be perceived that if the war is continued until the Ist of July next, and no additional revenue provided by Con gress, nor any sums received from military contributions in Mexico, there would be a deficit in the treasury, on that day, of 16,729,114 d&s. 27e. For teasels& hereatter stated, under the operation of the Constitutional Treasury, it will not be necessary hereatier to retain in the treasury, to meet the wants of the government and afford a constant supply for all their enlarged operations to the mint and branch mints, a sum exceeding 3,000,000 dole. Adding to this the deficit in the treasury en the Ist July next, it makes the sum of 18,729,114 dots. 17c. to be supplied during that period, to meet which, if the expenditures authoris.d and estimated should take place prior to that date, a loan for that sum would be required, if no additional revenue was derived from any source whatever. It is believed, however, that it Congress would adopt the following measures which are re commended to their favourable c insideration, additional revenue to the amount of 4,500,000 dole. per annum might be realised—tint, fr.nn a duty on tea and coffee of 25 per cent. ad valorem, 3,000,000 dole. per annum ; from the re. duction and graduation of price of public lands, 1,000,000 dole. per annum, and from the extension of the pre-emption privile2e to every bond fide settler on our unsurveyed lands whenever the Indian title may be extinguished, 500,000 dol.. per annum. Should these measures be adopted by Congress, the loan might be reduced to a sum not exceeding at the most, 17,000,000 dolt In estimating the loan at 17,000.000 dole, allowance is made for th: fact, that these measures for additional revenue could not all go into effect, so as to produce the full amount during the time ink nen ing between tne present period and Ist July next. After that day it is not doubted that they would produce the full amount of 4,500,000 dots. per annum. The internal revenue collec ed by the Mexican govern ments as well as departments was about 13,000,000 dub. per annum. Ido not believe, however, that any very large por tion of this revenue could he ellected by our military com menden ; and I have no sufficient data upon which to base any reliable estimate as to these soure.s of revenue. In view of the uncertainty of the amount of these contributions at pet sent I recommend that authority be given to negotiate a loan for the sum of 18,500,000 dole., upon the terms autho rised by . the act of 28th January list. Should the war be continued until the Ist of July, 1849, an additional loan amounting to 20,500,000 dela. would he accessary, if no additional revenue is granted by Congress and no contributions are levied in Mexico. As it is believed, however, that a considerable ruin must be derived from these coetributions, no further loan beyond the amount of 18,500,000 dolt. is asked at this period, and it is believed that this sum is all that will be re quired, in all probability, until the meeting of Congress in December, 1848. It is possible, however, that a further loan for a sum not exceeding 6,1100,000 dots. may be required be tore that time. Should this he the case, there will tie ample time to communicate the information to Congress, and ask a further provision to that amount. The secretary then recommends a duty of 25 per cent. ad valorem to be imposed on tea and coffee, and dwells on the necessity of keeping down the public debt to the lowest peesible sum, by the largest increased revenue that can be raised is the country. The report further demands the authorisation by Congressof treasury notes,bearing interest and fundable, by a 6 per ee .t. stock at the end of the war. Mr. Walker further recommends the extension of pre-empti , a claims from surveyed lands (to which they are now admitted by the law) to unsurveyed lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and the graduation (his hobby for many years) of the public lands, but their sale only in limited quantities to actual sellers. - - The report of the Postmaster-General shows: The revenues of that department for the year ending the ' 30th of June last, including 65,353 dole. 53e., due from the United States Treasury for the postage of the government, appropriated by the 12th section of the act of 3rd March, 1847, and not drawn from the Treasury, amounted to 3,94.5,892 dole. 31c., exceeding those of the preceding year, by the sum of 458, 683 dole. 96c., being an increase of the lest over the preceding year of 13 15-100 per cent , and falling short of the annual average revenues of the nine years pre ceding the Ist July, 1845, by the sum of 418,731 doll. 34c. 01 this sum there was derived from letter postage, including the sum yet due from the Treasury fur the government post ages, the sum of 3,234,512 dole. 98 c., which exceeds the amount ofletter postage of the preceding year by 372,815 dots. 24c., making an increase of 12 93 100 per cent., whilst it falls short of the annual avert revenues from the same source, fur the nine years preceding the let of July, 1 815 , by the sum of 533,479 dole. 91c. In the same time there wee derived from the next ages on newspapers, pamphlets, 3:c., 613,160 dots. 59 e., making an increase over the preceding year of 81,018 dots. 10 c., and an increase over the annual average of the nine preceding years, of 114.181 dots. 61 c. This stament in- cludes the sum of 35,6 09 dole. 2.5 c., paid by the te British go vernment for the transportation of her closed moils from Boston to Canada, part of which properly belongs to the re venues of the preceding years, but was not paid until within the last year, The expenditure of the present year w'.ll exceed that of the last year by the following sums : For the mail steamer Washington 100,000 dud. For the steamer Merman, for seven months 34,333 For cost of the mail routes, established by the act of 3rd of March, NM Add for contingencies 20,000 323,331 dote. From this sum may be deducted the savings which were made in the southern ti•ction, at the lettings in the spring, which amount to 108,697 duds. The imam of the department for the present year are eshmated at 4,813,157 dole. Expenditures estimated for the saute time Leasing a surplus of 413,951 dohs. It is gratifying to find that within so short a period after the great reduction of the rates of postage, the revenues of the department have increased much beyond the expectations of the friends of the cheap postage system, while the expendi tures for the same time have diminished more than half a million of dollars annually ; and that the department is in a condition to sustain itself without further aid from the trea sury. It is not doubted that these results would have been still more favourshle if the modifications of the act of 1845, heretofore ated by this department, had been adopted. lot. Private .sea still continue to be run between the principal cities, and seriously affect the revenues of the de partment, from the want of adequate powers for their sup pression. 2. The privilege of sending sealed letters "in re lation to the cargo " free over mail routes, is the source of innumerable frauds upon its revenues. 3. If the single let ter were raade the quarter or third of an ounce, instead of half (except when written on a single sheet of paper), and prepaid, or double postage required when not prepaid, the re venues of the department would have been greatly im proved. -4. 'Tne postage on newspapers is unequal and un pat to the publishers themselves. The —.me postape is chargedon each, without regardto weight. Mauy of the larger class of papers weigh over two and a half o s ices each :rid pay but 14 cent for any distance over laj miles; and if charged as letter postage, would pay, under 300 miles, 15 cents, and over, 30 cents. Other paper weigh as low as half as ounce—only one-fifth of that weight, v.d pay the same rates. Some of the larger sire periodicals weigh °sir 121 or., and pay 141 cents over 100 miles ; and if charged with letter postage, would pay, under 300 -:.files, 1 dol. 30c., and over, 2 dole. 60c. This inequality of tax oe the different publications should be regulated in some way; and no reason is perceived why the postage should not be /minium: eV weight, as on letters. The weight and bulk of the snails, which add so greatly to the cmt of transportation, an i 171- pule the progress of the mai:, are attributable to the mos s f printed matter daily forwarded from the principal rhi....0, the union to every part of the country. Justice r.-.,• - 0 1 that the expense of their transportation should be pa, '. • / the postages charged on them ; and it is believed that :ti present rates would meet that object, if the posters e 'aid ,i equalised, and in all cues collected.-5. The peymetit of postage, or double postage, on all let , ers passing t'irough $ . mails for delivery within the United States, and prep ‘) menu on letters destined fur foreign countries not having pound arrangements with the United States, and on sit printed matter. —6. The abolition or modification of the. t: &tilting privilege, so as to cover only official correspondence, f.• which payment is made to the department, by the 12th sec tion of the act of 1847. The report of the state department will, according to the Washington correspondent of the G.O ier end Enquirer Recommend the creation of a bunch of new ebersteships, . or rather so many new ministers to south and .antra: An,: rice, fur it is intended to abolish all chargeehips, and t. 'end in future nothing but ministers resident abroad. 1 his is to give them standing in foreign courts, and to prey-nt the di plomatic agents of the smaller powers of Europe t.• :...... pre evil. noe of our own. No serious change in t' : , i;iirall of these gentlemen is proposed, so that they will • • , ..e better off in any respect alter the change, except sa fa, ~ relates to their title. The shargeship to Rome will be t ~:.; attended se, and will probably be given to a gentl,inan in New York. One of the south cr central American miss sions may Le offered to Mr. Trig. She Comniler Bill will be alluded to ; but there is no hope of having saythin; done to it during this session, and the um holds of the reorganisation of the state deportee• ht whit: his been proposed so often without effect, that • m•y n• x ! • considered an obsolete idea. From the 11th f i .• .n the southern mail leaves from here for Ba'• • , • . us thence conveyed in steamboats acmes the •• . . lames River. This was the only way in which tl .stmaster general could manage after the contractors on e old Wash ington and Fredericksburg line had given Ism notice that they could not in future comply with the terms of their own contract. Secretary Walker was attacked its the Treasury Department, says the Union, with fainting ; some say apoplexy, but probably by extreme exhaustion. He fell, and was taken home, where be still remained very iIL He had been ill for the past ten days, and had slept but little for the last five days, being con stantly in the department. The steamer Monmouth, from Brazos Santiago, ar rived at New Orleans on the 30th, bringing General Taylor and suite. The grand reception of the general took place on the 3rd inst. On the 4th the presenta tion of the sword, voted by the legislature of Louisi ana, took place. It was an interesting ceremony. The sword was presented by Goverpor Johnson, in a long, eloquent, and enthusiastic speech. Gen. Taylor made a short and appropriate reply. Gen. 'faylor left on the morning of the bth, in the steamer Missouri, for Memphis, on his way to his plantation at Tilton Rouge. He would pass a few days in quiet with his family, and then visit his country seat in Mississippi, so that, if needed in Mexico, he could return imme diately. ____. COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. The dates from these provinces by the Britannia are:—Montreal, Dee. 14; Quebec, Dec. 8; Toronto, Die. 4; Halifax, Dec. 19 ; St. John's (N. B.), Dec. 15; St. John's •. (Newfoundland), Dec. 14; Bermuda, Dee. 2. CANADA.—A Gazette extra, issued on the 7th of December, announced the disselation of the Provincial Par liament, and intimated that the writs are returnable en the 21th of January. The information was immediately trans nntted by the electric telegraph to Quebec. The notification had been expected throughout the province for some time, • and electioneering movements bad begun, though languidly, • conspired with the keenness evinced throughout Canada on recut occasions of a similar kind. This apathy has been somewhat dispelled by the actual intelligence. By the 10th • all the ministers who had seats in the late House of As- ; mmbly, had left Montreal to meet their respective con stituent*. Mr. D. B. Papinesu, it is said, had re signed the office of Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Mr. A. Macdonald had been appointed his successor. • Mr. Daly, in his address to the electors of Megantie (Co.), 7 says: " In my connexion with the government of this great tied growing count! y I have ever advocated the maintenance - of t •at policy, and the adoption of those practical improve ments, which, securing to every man the honourable fruits • of his own induatry, tend at tile same time to expend the • enterprise a n d intelligence of the country for the attainment of national prosperity." At a meeting held in Montreal, on the evening of December 8, it was resolved to preseut a requi sition, then in the course of signature, asking Messrs. Laton- • taine and Holmes to present themselves as candidates on the • opposition interest. Mr. Lafontaine had previously declared himself candidate for the representation of Terrebonne (Co.), and was considered sure of bis return. What his reply to the Montrcd requisition was expected to be, does not • appeal. Some of the organs of the conservatives in that city represented their party as willing to avoid the dis agreeable excitement of a coutest by an arrangement allowing each party to nominate one member, so that both sides of politics might be represented in the assembly, their expo nents concurring to advocate i.a concert measures concerning the city. The feeling of the oppositiou party as to this pro posiil had not transpired. The conservative organs hint that • their friends, if put to their mettle, can return two members, and there is no detain that they did so at the last election. A rumour that the Hon. P. M'Gill was to resign his seat in the legislative council, to admit of bis being brought forward • for Montreal in the conservative interest, had been contra- • dieted. At Quebec Messrs. Aylwin and Chabot were, at the date of the latest intelligence, the oily candidate , in the field. The conservative journals were however doing all in their power to inspire their friends with resolution to take the field. The Solicitor-General was to be opposed by Mr. id`Donald ; and in Buren (Co.) Mr. Galt, of Guderich, was to oppose Mr. Cayley. Mr. C. R. Gowan, formerly , Orange Grand-master, haul addressed the electors of Leeds, declaring : " My political love is for loyal . hearts, and my political aim for liberal measures. lam neither a bigot nor • an exclusionist, and I look upon every good subject of her Majesty, whatever be his creed, his country, or his party, as entitled to equal rights and privileges." The weather had been of a vsriaule kind rarely witnessed in Caned* in December. Oa the 3rd of that month a frost that seemed likely to be permanent gave way at Montreal to 'sudden thaw, and the atmosphere became as mild as it usually . is in October. On the 4th there was a fall of snow, and sleighing set in. It was understood, however, that be yond the limits of the macadamised roads in the vicinity of the city, the country was almost impassable. The market supplies were in eonsequence cut off, and prices were at the highest. On the evening of the Bth, three barges from Kingtton, laden with flour, were towed into the Lachine Canal. At Quebec there was a fall of snow to the depth of two inches on tne night of the 3rd, and at the latest date travelling was practieal•le and easy. It was the dead season of the year for business. Large sales were, however, reported at the latest dates in stock of the Montreal Bank, and 6 per cent. premium. The other banks were at par, except the City, which was at discount. Nothing was doieg in mining shires. Railway shares were at a discount. Shares in the Electric Telegrh Company had been sold at 2i per cent. premium. The M antreal Ga zette observes:— ' It is a subject of much satisfaction, that notwithstanding the depressed state of commercial aflei , s, the business of the savings banks continues steadily to progress. We see, by the remade published statement of the , City and District Savings Bars' which occurs in another column, that the increase in Its deposit., since the 30th July, amounts to 13,6361., wheal fact, together with the large amount due to depositors, bespeaks public confidence in the soundness of the institution, and the excellence of its management." The mail oags, with the English newspapers of the 4th of Nov., reached Montreal on the lit of December. " Their contents," says the Montreal Gazette, " showed visible signs of tear and wear in crossing the wilds of New Brunswick— ' many of them ' tattered and torn' like the hero of the nursery ballad, who was so polite to the' maiden all forlorn.' The wonder is how at this time of the year they get here at all." The post-otfice department in the colony is not, however, it would appear, from the following paragraph in the Montreal Herald, altogether inactive : We are much gratified in having it in our power to state that the co emissioners appointed by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, to examine into, and report upon, the ex isting order of our postal arrangements, with a view to the adoption of a system and rates of postage more is ac cordance with the times in which we live than now pre vails, have, with the lion. Mr. Cayley, the commiesioner appointed for Canada, unanimously adopted a report, which, Hatted upon, will give the inhabitants of the British North American colonies the' advantage of a uniform rate of in land postage; and that each rate will not, at all events, be hijAher than that now in force in the neighbouring republit.'a The following, from the Qu,bcc Gazette of Dec. 6, has a beering on this subject: "St. John (N. 8.) papers of Nov. 27 are received. Some interesting extracts relating to the railway between Halifax and Quebec are inserted in this day's Ga:ette. It is a pity that this railway is not in operation. We could supply our friend, in Nova Scotia and Nee 13n.aawick at a much lower rate than 400. for flour, their present market price." As also the following from the same paper of the 3rd : "Some of the men employed by the exploring party to lake St. John have COMO to town. They left on Nov. 27, and report that the straight line from the south-west corner of Stoneham, in the direction of lake St. John, had been run for about 30 miles, but with great difficulty, on accou it of some mountainous tracts thickly timbered with fir trees. The explorers on each side of the line for a road hail, how ' ever, been successful, and hail marked out a practicable tract t w e o n t d ild th p e roc ir s eed urve a y s s fro pec in di t l t fo hr rw ou ' a g rd h w so i m th e p p ro ar ,... ts io t . f an or d se it ul w em u esainta that t par a t e y ha exp il lo go ren ne on a depot of provisions at the lake to complete any part of the road which may be left wifiaished. lhe distance from the place where the party was left te lak St. John may be Quebec Mercury that tyl that city about 60 miles." y he as lak ix"i e to ble Crico la u k timi e St, John, to e tc' pe e n x d - We regret to learn from the folios • aatement in the '• While in Quebec we cannot procure • • hospital to protect ourselves from typh us, the people of Torouto—who are more inflicted by ismer. , and disease than we—have peti tioned to be taxed for the maintenance of a similar institu tion. 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