The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

Si ey SATURDAY Miasma will In published, THE EXHIBITION EXPRESS, MB OP • DAILY MORNING DOTIOLII PAW, PRICE FOURPENCE, MST POOOlllll LIMILVATION ILILLTITII TO TNT GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851, m °gamy, 11111111T01111' PILOSTICTS, firma= CON AILIIIIOIIMONTI, APPIABANCT, TZOOILISS, TAIT AND MUIR. THE enormous Number of persons interested in Out forthcoming Cheat Exhibitiou of the World's 'actuary lhavieg bubierto had no satisfactory representative in the Press—no Paper enfiltreatly large, sod with meekaolem emeapre besides enough to reap and exemplify the forthcoming Zap *Won with fulness worthy of so grand an event—the Proprietors of the " EXPRESS" have determined apes busing, ovary Sa•.erday afternoon, a cicuWe sheet of that Paper, to cattails the tallest and latest information relative to the Es'd►itioe, together with a mar of other master acceptable to the multitude of paeans interested either as General and Lral Conimitteinnen and Secretaries. 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Landau Emelag paper, mot be a! tba !Wary 110, larawarirstriat. by Two o'clook as w 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tau Ma —Morning, Gb. 9m. Aftemeas, Y. Ms. 70.3101au5• —Morning, 6h. ilim...—..Atiernoos, 71. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. CERTAIN members of parliament from the sister kingdom have signed • kind of circular profession, or protest, declaring their readiness and their common usderstandiog to oppose any legislative act for laying restrictions on civil and religious liberty. These gentlemen are singularly sharp.sighted. For our part, we neither dread nor can discern any likely Misting of civil and religious liberty by parliament, least of all in Ireland. Fettering of liberty, indeed, we do perceive in Ireland, fettering of the parent from edu cating his child, and fettering of the state from attempt lag to supply the inability of parent and child in the matter of education. But this proceeds from the power and intolerance of mookdom, not from the power and intolerance of parliament. And if any set of liberal men were called upon at the present moment to meet and consider without party spirit, from what side civil and religious liberty was threatened, they must or might, we think, in fairness admit, that it is much more seriously inenseed by the Pores Prime Legate than by her BIAJEATT's l'rime Minister. In the divided state of opinion amongst liberals and amongst protestants on the subject of what is called the papal aggression, it is evident that nothing can be dace through the legislature of any serious import • efficiecey. What might have been done by taking advantage of the movement in opening the universities, laying the foundation of national education, eon- Reefing the church with the laity, and strength ening it by the large sympathies of public opi nion, rendering the church at the same time more simple and homogeneous in its rites and comprehensive in its principles—every such hope of reform, of im provement, of increased strength and widened founds. tionto the church, has been utterly flung away. And by the perverseness and party spirit, which have thus neutralised a great national movement, we firmly believe that the great cause of protestantism and freedom in religion has been weakened, and the cause of catholicism and of intolerant and dictatorial religion seriously and largely strengthened. All that government and parliament can do, is to take care of the state church, keep its ministers and prelates from the vain effort to gain iocressed ascen dancy over an English flock by recurring to Itlman principles and superannuated practices. Of the power and preponderance of their church, its dignities and titles, courtly rank and parliamentary privileges, form as important portion ; and in those it should be protected from insolent and idle rivalry and competition of that kind, for which no real claim can be put forward, or necessity pleaded. Government in • free country, and even in countries not free, most bow to facts. In a popula tion of which seven-eighths are determinedly of one eased, that creed must be respected, not only in itself, but is its hierarchy, taking such care and provision as the civil government is bound to do for the im provement, the freedom, and the instruction of that population. But government is not bound to respect a factitious hierarchy, or the assumption of dignity and authority by men who assume it not by virtue of the numbers within their spiritual jurisdiction, but by the numbers which that very assumption of dignity in to attr-ct. The Roman cardinalate of an English town is the speculation of a charlatan, and should, in truth, be as amenable to the LORD CHAMBERLAIN, as any other theatrical and interested exhibition. Nor do we see how civil or religious liberty is menaced by any act disavowing and forbiddiug the assumption of such eselesiutical titles. It might be both possible and preferable to ignore these things altogether. It might be better to sever church and state, allow each church silently and undisturbedly to erect what empire sad amass what wealth and power it pleased. And it might be admissible to all kinds of bigotry, or of religions perversion to exert their influence, pro. Tided the grated counteraction were established of a free, and full, and national education. Bat we have SO national education, and we hive a state church. And the worst policy certainly to adopt would be to grant the enemies of Protestantism all the advantages they could possibly claim, whilst not securing to Pro teetantism any one of the counteracting advantages which it has a right to expect Tail' would be for government to enact the teaching of PCSET and Newmao in a political sense, and to attempt to drive Englishmen, like an ignorant flock, to Rome, in order to their home assimilation with Austrians and Bavarians, and the other degraded rams of mankind. With respect to the quiet conduct of this nation, to the strengthening of its great protestant principle, which is that of religions freedom, ministers or go vernment have very little power. Can govern ment establish • system of public educa tion, against Mr. DVeisoN and Mr. &mese and Bishop Wiseman ? Can government reform the Marv, can it compel the Bishop of Erma to have gammon seam or Christian charity ? None at these things can a British government do. Bat they are things that a British public can always attempt, of which the public, by the mere expression of its voice, can prevent most of the evils, and pre clude their recurrence, even when failing in the im mediate or apparent efforts of summary condemna tion. Now, this precisely is what the British public have bean doing. It has expend its indignation, its mown, its hopes, its advice. It has given warn ing to the Anglican clergy, and warned the Pore that his insolent ' in Rug land, fir from profiting there, may contribute to shake his seat even as the Beres Hills. We shall have no more Cardinal Avatars. It has warned Puseyism of its folly. It has not instantly cured or quenched the rash abuses se they existed, nor prevented the dowers from farming into the fruit. Oa the contrary it has precipitated the conversion of those whose idiocy was nearly ripened. Bat it his scorched op the roots of the tree by scattering on it the hot cinders of popular reprobation. All these results of the effervescence of opinion have best good, minter/ io n:: legitimate . Instead of leading to either or intolerance, they have rendered it inexcum to recur to either. Inatead of impelling ministers in the path of persecution, public opinion, by its fall expression, has spared thoM iAl__ THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1851 in detail, it ham none so formidable as to be insuperable if in " sticking to our prin ciples" we will only follow Mr. Osnonnes 'advise, and "Throw away our preiudicea" In passing under the consideration of the practical men of Manchester, it will docabtleft be rendered still more compreheneive, the standard of education to be pro vided raised still higher than is even now proposed, the power of local administration be still farther carried out; and, when perfected, it will be a worthy sight to see Manches'er commencing a new half century by corning to Parliament to tax itself for the removal of that ignorance with which the detractors I of its greatness reproach our manufacturing system. VERT striking are the contrasts of a great city. In London, for example, one short step will take a sojourner from scenes of luxury more than Augustan into depths of misery more deep than those of JOB. Morality in stalking through the streets is jostled by licentiousness at every corner; vice seizes the arm and carries off in triumph the very pupil of virtue ; crime holds its levee at the very door of the hall of justice, and immediately over against the temples of the law. Last Monday was one of our festivals. Ordinary people celebrated it u "Twelfth-day;" Puseyites kept it as an " Holiday of Obligation." A gentle man from the country, whom, for distinction sake, we will symbolise as Mr. lolly Green, was spend ing the evening at a friend's in London. He had enjoyed the magic larrern of the younger branches ; had danced polkas with all the muelin misses; had banded ices, and perhaps eomethifig stronger and more suited to the season, to all the elder ladies, and ultimately had himself sit down to a carper at which, as he explicitly declares, the champagne was the best be ever remembered to have tasted. Nothing could exceed Mr. Green's joviality. At a late, or, if you like it better, an early hour in the smelting, he went down Sir linger de Cawley with the prettiest girl of the party, and ultimately let his friend's one of the last, and quite inclined to find his own way home on foot, despite the remon strances of his host, who hospitably warned him as he saw him safely down the ate ps, that he would do far better to secure a cab. The night was fine and Mr. dilly Green's route lay through Holborn. As he passed along be stopped occasionally to admire the glimmer of the gas lomps, which seemed on this particular night to shine with more than ordinary brightness. Whilst loitering for • moment under one of these illuminators, he was accosted by a young lady, whom he took to be thevery pareonification of Venus, and who, without much difficulty, induced him to diverge from his route to pay a visit to her bower. Had the chew agne not operated pretty strongly, the route to the bower eight have appeared to our hero anything but Paphian. It lay up Gray's-inn-lane, and diverged from out of it into a narrow and, truth to say, a filthy court, where it appeared that the boner of the Queen of Love was enshrined in the recesses of a " cellar." Diving deeper into this cellar, Mr. dilly Green finds himself in unexpected comoanv. His angelic vision of the gas-lamp appeared to have numerous company in her Eien. Two large kitchens were filled with men, women, and children, smoking and boozing, and the blaze of two large fires reflected visages which even to look on might have sobered a reveller further gone even than Mr. fol'y Green. lie had scareAy got into the "ken" ere has recovering senses told him to get out of it. But easier said than done. He had namely reached the top of the cellar steps ere he was pinned by two men who had has teoed after him front below; one of whom embraced him cordially, whilst the other dived into the recesses of his pockets. Luckily for Mr. Green, two police men, who bad seen him descend, were on the watch for him on his exit. The light of a lantern turned full upon the party caused opera ions upon Mr. Green's pockets to be momentarily suspended, and, before he could look about him, he found his assail ants in custody, and he and they together in full march to the police-station, where he was freed to assume the character of prosecutor. What was this kitchen to which Mr. Green was taken? The following account of it is given in the police report:— Mr. Cosh* said he had heard I great deal about the kitchen in For-court, and Inquired what sort of a place it waa ? Tyler replied that it was a house rented by a person from the superior landlord, and wu appropriated for the accom. moda , ion of thieves, cadgers, prostitutes, rere., who paid 21. and 3d. a night for a bed. The parties slept indiscrimi nately in the tame apartment—men, women end children. Tkere were two large kitchens, in which tite motley group coutregatal ; and, on rotibt ries being commiitcd, the thi-ves inveriatly repaired to the kitchen to dispose of the produce of their deireditione. Mr. Combe—ls the piece lit up Tyler—Yee, your worship, it ie lit up with gas. Two large fires are kept up is large ranges in the kitchens all day and night. Mr. Combs asked how many could be kitchen t Tiler—Abut 200, your worship. It is never difficult to apprehend thieves at toe kitchen after the robberies were in the eie r eoitted. Two points are suggested by this account of the thieves' haunt :—first, how it comes that such places are permitted to exist ;--second, the wretched nature of the trade the criminal population of the country follow. There could be little difficulty in putting a stop to such a place as the Thieves' Kitchen, in Fox-court. A magistrate could cause the plac3 to be shut up any day, or if he felt difficulty about putting the law in operation against snob a place, the police could still more effectually close it, by deterring people from going there. But this is not the policy of the police. The truth is, that those places of general resort for thieves are useful to them. They have spies in every t one of them. It is from those who attend them that they get their information. If these " kens" were closed they wouli be at a loss for many • scent which they are now able to obtain without dit ficulty. The frequout and much-abased police phrase " from information I received," would, if thoroughly probed, be found, nine times out of ten, to refer to something that emanated from the "Thieves' Kitchen." Is a great offence--a successful burglary, for example—committed in the town, " the informa tion I received" canvinces the police officer that Bobit and Smasher and Crack were " in it," because they all met at the "ken" early that night, or were all absent from it, as the case may be. On this ac count it is that such places as the "Thieves' Kitchen" are permitted to exist, the police thinking that detec tion is better than prevention; and acting on that prin ciple as becomes people who make their living by it. Whether this be right or wrong, it is not, however, our present purpose to inquire. We prefer turning to another feature in the case—the thieves' mode of life. Certainly the description given by " Tyler " of the Thieves' Kitchen in Fox-court anything but impresses one with a notion that the thieves' pursuit is success ful, or that their life is pleasant or agreeable. Very differenefor example, is the account of "the kitchen" from the notion of the haunt of the " Forty Thieves," which we are apt to derive from early reading and a little stage experience. No entrance here from a dense wood, where policemen never penetrated—no steeds standing ready saddled in their stalls for the special accommodation of the squadron—no chests full of gold ready to be dispersed by " the Captain " among the most deserving of his comrades. On the contrary : An entrance watched from every owner ; a squalid cellar, where a couple of hundred men, women, and children, are all huddled together at twopence a night—these, and worse than these, are the realities of thieves' existence. In another police report on Tuesday, there was an account of a thieves' den which bad been discovered by the police " in consequence of information they received," under one of the closed arches of the South Western Railway station. It was a horrible bole into which about twenty boys, who composed a gang of petty depredators in Lambeth, found their way through a sort of large rat-hole, and where they slept it seems on straw laid upon the ground, and subsisted upon the small pleader of the neighbourhood. A ladicroas account is given of the consternation of these misera ble, when the officer discovered their den and threw the light of his bull's-eye lantern in among them. They are described in the police report to have been a ragged and miserable lot of boys," and though their whereabouts had been previously unknown, all of them, according to the police, had been long fend liar as thieves or thieves' companions. Such, thee, is the wretched life of the thief. But a fact which seems important in connexion with this subject is the consideration of what becomes doll the property which is stoles ? We hear of gangs of thieves tolerated by the police in their "kitchens"— we hear of knots of dirty boys arrested and com mitted to the House of Correction, as trespauers upon the property of the Smith Western Railway—but we bear little or nothing of the arrest of the FAorne of the thieves' society—the employers of these criminals —the wretches who profit by their breeches of the law. It is a singular and rather a suspicions thing that " the information we received" is so rarely found to extend to the whereabouts of the valuables that are stolen. There was the plate robbery the other day in the Strand : the police failed to get a clue to a single article that Wltslost! There was another robbery of the same sort a day or two ago at Liverpool—what has become of all the jewels, and trinkets, and watches that were stolen on that occasion ? It may be all very well to keep up Thieves' Kitchens for purposes of detection, but would it not be tar better to try and get at the root of the evil ? One thing, however, is clear from all these facts. A thief's lot is no enviable one. He has a bard time of it : be is always in peril either of detection or betrayal : he is no sooner a skilled practitioner, than he becomes a marked man: he cannot move wit! out some one at Lie heels, and when he makes a "hit" the profit goes not to him, but to those who relieve him of articles he cannot himself possess without auspicion,and whose silence it is cheap for him to pay any price to purchase. At a very remarkable meeting of thieves last year, which was attended by Lord ASHLEY and others, and of which some particulars found their way into the public prints, we remember ice being stated that the thieves present, one and all, declared that if only a chance were open to them of leading an honest life they would infinitely prefer the hardest employment that could be given to them to the life of hardships, of peril, and of misery to which their unlawful avoca tions exposed them. We beleve that could the statistics of crime be taken, it would be found, among males, that in nine cases out of ten they were led to theft by want. And the real difficulty is, to decide, not how thieves are to be punished (which is all the police and legislature seem to care about), but how thieves are to be pre vented from becoming thieves, and how they may be reclaimed where there Is a reasonable prospect of re claiming them. the neeessity. Much more might have been made of the movement in the way of good, and of impelling ministers to meutires, not of intolerance, bet of com prehension, education, and reform. But what has been done is good, and what ministers mast and can do, cr require, is harmless, though it may be, after all, of no great import. Moven the National Public School Association has not, it seems, to expect any active aid from Sir Kees Sulrm.sworeto, to whom education in this country owes so much, friends are nevertheless rising in support of its great principles: 1. That free pri mary instreetion ought to he made a public right; 2. its cost a property burthen; 3. its administraion a local duty, in quarters whence co-operation was oer minty not to have been first expected ; nay, from gentlemen who commenced their education labours by defeating in a public meeting the Lancashire Pubis School S tciety, out of which the National Association was formed. For we, yesterday, gave the outlines of some pro ceedings of a semi public meeting, held at Man chester, on Monday, which promise to yield valuable fruit, and we have now before us the paper, printed "for private circulation," on local cducatioe, in which that meeting originated. This document was issued to the friends of education in the City of Man chester, irrespectiee of their religious opinions, see tariin differences, or political diversities, by a work ing, not a sinecure, member of its cathedral church— the Hee. C. Swages, who is, we believe, the clerk in orders of De LA WARReS noble, but ill-u sed founda tion ; in it Mr. Mance has at least made proposi tions and suggestions worthy of the spirit of his founder; and around his scheme have gathered men and ministers of all denominations, "sticking to their principles, bat giving up their prejudices,. as the representatives of Wesleyaniam happily ex it. The spectacle was encouraging and hopeful; it wore all the aspect of real work and business, of men resolute and determined to remove the stigma of Ignorance from at least their own city, the seat of their labour, skill, wealth and happiness. Last year, about this time, a similar batch of men met and de termined to reform church abuses in 111micaester ; by Perseverance and never listening to suggestions of capitular ccmpromise or of legal and legislative delay they succeeded. This year a more comprehensive batch meets and resolves to supply education, as well as Christianity, to the 370,000 people inhabiting this great town; and by the like earnestness and zeal they will also be equally successful. Aristocratic shams and episcopal prejudices will yield before their steady march. Let, then, their first rule of conduct be—not to fear the House of Lords. The actualities of the busy, laborious, material life of Manchester so pervade every street, lane, alley, hole and corner of that great city, that none of its citizens (except its sinecure clergy) escape from their influences, and one of the most remarkable of their results is the practical character of men's minds, plans and purposes there. The burthen of its cathedral ditties falls on the two Minor Canons and the Clerk in Orders; and their weight has, it appears, made Mr. Rtcusos as practical in his views as any spin ner or merchant on the Exlhange. He finds in Manchester a large extent of unoccupied whool-room ; very praeically he proposes to use it. He finds in Manchester an immense amount of youthful igno rance consequent on the parental poverty; very practically he proposes to remove this igno rance by furoitbiog the pecuniary means of education. lie finds in Manchester a combined movement in favour of general religious educa tion impossible from the variety of denomina tional and distinctive religious opinions; very prac tically he proposes to confine combined efforts to secular instruction. He finds in Manchester a ge sere' opinion that the voluntary principle in educa tion does rot contain the elements of a sucli ss com mensurate with the emergency to be dealt with ; he therefore proposes local taxation, not as a substitute for, but as a supplement to, voluntary conrtibutiona. He finds in Manchester an eagerness to do something at once ; he therefore proposes that they should not wait for a national measure, but set the rest of Eng land an example by a local plan of their own. He finds in Manchester a strong desire for really good primary schools; he therefore proposes to estab!ish schools to which all classes of society may be able to send their children with the certainty of obtaining the basis of a sound practical education. He finds in the existing local institutions of Manchester a power Ito manage local sflairs generally with skill and suc ems, and he therefore proposes to throw the manage ment of his new school system on its municipalities. Tee means by which Mr. RICUSON would carry out these propositions are very simple. He does not wish to compulsorily alter any existing public schools; he does not seek to force education on Man chester, to disturb existing societies and establish ments, or to interfere with systems in operation. His obji ct is to enable its inhabitants, _" by means of local rates, to promote and stimulate education therein, to render existing schools, if they fall in with his views, more efficient; to provide for the repair of school buildings; and to supplement voluntary efforts." I School room is not, Mr. HICHSON finds, the primary want of education in Manchester. Out of a popula tion of 370,000 Mr. Rtensow calculates that 31,000 children are the minimum number of children who would probably avail themselves of free education; and he has ascertained that there is at present re dundant school aocomm elation for 47,000 children. "The effort," he says, " required at prevent is rather to fill existing schools than to erect new ones." What is chiefly needed is to remove the indifference of parents, by furbishing so superior an education that its attractive advantages shall be irresistible, to re move the obstacle of poverty by famishing free edu cation, and to remove the temptation of wages to children by making education a condition of obtain ing employment. Mr. Itunizos therefore proposes: 1. That Manchester and Salford be constituted into school districts; that the municipal councils of each ee these two boroughs yearly elect out of their own wombs= a school committee ; that this district committee be mum end to lay a school rate on the district, in nn cue exceed/ft sd. in the pound, and the annual amount beneath that sum to be regulated by the sums for which two amnion shall declare the ecesmittin to be liable under the act to be ob. Wired. 2. That the managers of schools now under govern ment inspection, and employing competent teacher., shall be able to plan such school in union with the district cos mitre', may separate therefrom, and be readmitted ; the committee having, of ecuree, the like power of separation. 3. The district committee not ;to sequins by the union right of interference with the schools joining it; but, after the union, the schools to be lies schools ; the parents of chil dren upwards of 4 years of age to be able to require free education therein is their own districts, but not to change schools without sufficient cause—no school of course receiv ing a larger number of free trawlers than its capacity will allow. 4. School-rooms, =occupied u day schools, may be placed by their annum' in the union on these condition. 6. Schools in union to be assisted in repairs, enlargement, and improvement of buildings, on the Imperative condition Mos no child attending swat schools is to be compelkd to kern a creed or formulary to which his parent may object. The district committee to pay such schools 4d. a week for every free boy, and 3d. for sefront girl ; three fourths of them payments to to go to the prin cipal teachen, the rest in the parchsee of books and in incidental expences. So far, Mr. RICUSON'a suggestions aim at enlarging the sphere of usefalnees of schools already in exist ence ; but having done this, he then goes much fur ther—and herein lies the great value of his scheme. For as to additional school accommodation, he pro poems : The the District Committee and the Government Inspee ton shall inquire into and report on the want of mumble schools la the districts, that their report and recommends. toe shall be published in the local papers ; and that, if within sixty days alter such pnblicatio• nodes Wall not be given to the committee oreousell of an intention to erect the eekootreem wonted by volantuy efforts, the district com mittee, with the sanc tio n of the Conned of Education, shall than maned to sleet the schools that me wanted. The schools, so erected, to be placed under the management of a committee of rate payers, trot one of whom is to be in holy orders, and are, of course, to he rubject to government inspectioc. Next comes this all important condition of their erection and nmeagement: Ia esisele sesseed by the district conininew tastes.ea In the dailyresliss of Smiptaree always SO be provided tor; hot me Maher,. veliyiem ere. erjarrestery to be amp. In eimaniou with these schools workshops we to he provided for isdeserlal instruction, examinations to to yoszly held, conflates and rewards Is be publicly given, and class lists, after examination, to be inserted in local papers. Such is an outline of Mr. RICIIBOI4I plan, now under consideration of a committee of some of the piaci* citizens of Manchester. In the main it is founded on the Musachussetts educational system; and though here and there it may show defeats SPAIN. Dates from Madrid to January 3, state that the resignation of the ministers had not been ac cepted. The estimates were definitely adopted. The Highways Bill was read a first time and discussed by Repack, °liven, and the Minister of Public Works. _ _ . • • —•— Naomi), JAN. 3.—Three per Cents., 331; after Bolts, 33 7-16 1 cub, 339 16 paper. Four per Cents., 121. Five per Cents., 12 7 16; after Boles, 121 paper, 121 cub. Cou pons, 61 ; after Sulu, 6 15-16 cub. Passives, 31 cub ; after Solis, 31 cash Bank of St Ferdinand, 96. Exchange on London, 50.65 paper. GERMANY. [TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.] BERLIN, TUESDAY, J AN. 7. The Second Coamber, in the sitting of to-day, re solved, by a majority of 147 against 141, to pass over the debate in the address to the simple order of the day. BERLIN, JAN. 6. With respect to the assertion of the reputed Austrian despatch, that M. Manteuffel had most urgently solicited an interview with Prince Schwarz enberg, and that, a few hours after the receipt of this request, had informed the prince that ho should, by the positive command of the king, betake himself to Olnuitz, without waiting fur a reply, the following details, which modify the sense of the de epa'cb, have been communicated to us (Cologne Gaz.tle) from a well-informed party. The first pro position of an interview with Prince Schwarzenbmg came from M. Manteuffel. But as the prince would not coo sent to this except on the condition that the entrance of the Austrian and Bavarian troops into Cassel should meet with no impediment, a rejection of this condition on the part of Piussia followed. On the evening of the 26th Nov.,at half-past', a telwa phic despatch from Vienna announced, that the prince, on the command of the Emperor, would give M. Manteuffel a meeting at Olmiitz. Before this despatch reached Berlin, it was intimated at half-past 10 o'clock from Berlin to Vienna by telegraph, that M. Mantenffel, by order of the King, would meet the prince early on the 27th. He mentioned o.mutz as the place of meeting. Upon this the two courts came to an understanding. The debate of to morrow in the two chambers is awaited with anxious interest. On all sides it seems de termined to let the debate on the address full. Many " s, ecial" orders of the day have been pro posed. The Vincke and Riebel fractions have had sittings to-day, in which the line of proceeding they are to adopt will be determined. M. Geppert will probably propose a special order of the day of his own party. The first chamber have resolved to adjourn their debate on the address till the address committee have drawn it up with the amendments, and made their report thereon. DRESDEN, JAN. 7. _ . _ In the Austrian camp it is said that the execution against the duchies will be terminated on the 15th of this month. Before the lapse of the next week the full complement of the plenipotentiaries will hardly have come together. In the meantime the committees are at work, or are rather making preparations for their future work. The King of Prussia, it is said, will meet the Emperor in Berlin in about a week. Prince Lichtenstein has gone to Berlin to make the necessary preparations. The agents of the Hanee Towns are organising a formidable opposition against the proposed Austrian Zollverein. CASSEL, JAN. 5. According to an ordinance published to-day by the administration, the following papers are excluded from the Electorate : The Berlin " Constitutional Zeitang," the " Kladderadatach," the " National Zei tang," the " Deutsche Reiche-Zeitung," the " Weser Zeitung," the " Kiilner Zeitung," the "Frankfort Journal," the " Augsbourg Algemeine Zeitung," the 6 Vereins Blatt for German Operatives," the " Turn blatt of Schwalm," and the "Nord Deutsche Zeitung." At 2 o'clock this afternoon a part of the " execu tive" troops, destined for Holstein, arrived here. At their head was General Legeditich. The Elector and the two commissioners awaited the arrival of this division at the Leipsic Gate. It consisted of the 3rd Field Chasaeur battalion, the Ist battalion of the Wellington regiment, and a foot battalion. HAMBURG, Jmr. 6. This morning both the commissioners left us for Kiel. There will the conference they desire to enter into with the Staadtholderste take place. The:commissioners will give them three days to consider the question and the course of action which they ought to take. The Prussian corps under General Wnasow is moving against the Holstein frontier. Banux, Jag. 7.—Voluntary Loan, 106 ; New Loan. Four-and-a-Half per Cantu, 891 ; National Debt, 841; Commercial Ma Society's Premium, 120; But Bhazu,96. FORGERIES ON SHE NOTTINGHAM BANK.—The re tail traders of Nottingham have sustained considerable lose during the lent fortnight from an extensive circulation of forged M. notes in that town. The notes appear to have been put into circulation simultaneously on egristmas eve, and were exchanged by residents of the locality at the shops of •arioua groom, butchers, bakers, &o. Four of the utterer, of the counterfeits were committed on Tuesday to take their trial at the March Amine. ADMILLIT, JAN. B.—APPOINTME Amalgam : H. J. C. Wise, to the Athol:. WA* : I. H. 0. Mitchell, to the Ocean. FRANCE. PARIS, WIDNZADLY Remise. I have this evening a most important piece of news to cimmunicate to you. Thu afternoon, at two o'clf•clr, eight of the leading parliamentary chiefs, MM. Dupin, niers, Mole, de Montalembert, Dare, de Broglie, Berryer, 'and Odilon Birrot, were sent for to the Elyiee. During their absence a thousand speculations prevailed in the Assembly as to the re sult of their conference with the President. At half- past five they came back. The house thronged about them to hear the upshot of the interview, which, I understand, was as follows: Unanimous in demand ing the maintenance of General Changarnier in his c3mtnand, they found the President inflexible in the contrary determination. The Presi dent declared his firm will to respect the constitution and the prerogatives of the Assembly; but he said that he wished also that his own prero gatives should be respected, and that he could not consent to remain the subordinate of General Chan gamier. He went so far as to say that the Assembly might, if it wished, dissolve the army of Paris, or give the command to whom they pleased—to Gen. Cavaignac, for instance—but maintain Gen. Chan gamier in his post he would not. So positive was the language of Lois Napoleon on this point, that no further answer was possible on the part of the tight burgraves, who accordingly retired. The account of this interview produced in the As sembly the moat extraordinary agitation, and the sitting broke up in a complete tumult. Will the President find a ministry not only of su ffi - A letter front Paris, of the same date as the fore going, says: M. Mold proceeded to the Myatt yesterday morn ing, at 10 o'clock, and a long interview with Louis Napoleon. M. Mold, justly fearful of thermion of a continued collision be tween the two powers of the state, employed all the force of his eloquence, and all the jaunt* of hie impious experience, and even made appeal to what he was pleased to term his personal devotedness to Luis Napoleon, to take into favour able consideration the opi'.ion exprenrd by the meeting, composrd as it was of so many influential members of the National Amenably. lam informed that M. Mold did not find the President in a state of feeling disposed to torn panes. L-aria Napoleon expressed, in a forcible, and perhaps a feeling manner, what he considered his grounds of complaint against the Assembly, that invariably thwarted his every act. There was not a fraction, however senate, of that body, that did not consider itself justified in secretly or curtly opposieg him. For the sake of public order—for the sake of maintaining peace at home end abroad —he had unhesitatingly exposed himself to the ' enmity of the revolutionary party ; and, in the choice of his various ministers, he had consulted the prejudices of the legi. Minima, and the partialities of the Orleaniste, with all alike, with the exception of those who were the tr ete...cable enemies of social order. Several of those who coalesced against him owe the power they posissied— oot merely to take a prominent position in the public strain of the country, bet even to pursue himself with their hatred—to the lenity of his government and to the mildness and tolerance of his own administration. A fraction of the Assembly, whose views were net even attempted to be concealed, bad adopted as their champion a general officer, who owed the exceptional position be was in, end the large power he possessed, to his govern mat; and this penonage.wea set opal a noel to the chief of the state, chosen as that chief was by 6,000,000 of elector,. General Changarniar, however high he may be, was still not a third power of the state; the constitution recog nised none such. Hs complained that while his every act was jealously watched, his thoughts seru tinised, intentions imputed to him which he had entertained, his motives misrepresented, hi' conduct an incessant object of suspicion—those who profrosed themselves as his bitter adversaries were allowed every latitude, provided that latitude war against himself. It was neither consistent with his own honour nor with the dignity of the station be bald that such a state of things could last. lie was decided it should not last, so far as he had any haute;ii ail , ne rat timing of General Chugarnier was what he could not consent to. M. Mold did his utmost to remove those impressions from the Penile/nee mind, end pointed out the consequences of the dismissal of a general who would be supported by the msjority of the Assembly. M. Mold quitted the Elyfda without making any advance in the object he no doubt bad sincerely at heart. cient bo!dness to uedertake such a measure , but of sufficient weight to set upon it a stamp which wi4l give an impulse to public opinion in its favour? That he himself is resolved, and has screwed his courage to the sticking place, is evident. Granting, then, that the deposition of Gene ral Changarnier be pronounced by tho executive power, will the Assembly adopt a revolutionary step, and place itself in open war with the President, by calling on the whole army to rally to its defence, and giving Changarnier the command-in-chief of all the forces ? This is what its organs I have long threatened in a similar event; but it may be well doubted whether they would suit the action to the word. Meanwhile the crisis is pregnant with the gravest dangers. There is nothing yet a.ttled as to the composition of the new cabinet, because of the President insisting upon the abolition of the command Riven to General Changarnier as the first condition under which the new ministers would take office. There prevail different opinions u to the best mode of doing this. To dismiss Changarnier, even were the measure exe cuted, would be only to get rid of the man, without getting rid of the thing. The ministry of war would not bel the less a nullity if the command-in chief of the let division passed into other hands. It has been reported that it is not the intention of the government abrup'ly to pronounce the dismissal of General Changarnier, but to arrive indirectly at the same end, by repealing the law by which that military chief holds his exceptional position. The object is to destroy that excepional position, which during the last two years has made General Changarnier the chief power in France, and which having been created against sociali,m and insurrection, is now used by a royalist parliament to prevent the consolidation of the republic. It has been already stated in yesterday's letter, that when it was known at the Hoarse that a majority of the ministers had pronounced in favour of Changarnier's dismissal the funds rose considerably. Considering that the rumour of the same measure having been resolved upon in the time of the Permanent Committee produced exactly the opposite effect, a good deal of surprise has been mani fested at the former result. Perhaps the true expla nation of the change is that the nation is not so royalist as the Assembly, and wishes merely for a steady government of whatever kind, perfectly indif ferent whether it be republic or monarchy, as long as it possess strength and durability. The continuance of the present conflict between the powers being fatal to all commercial affairs, any event which would once for all settle the question in some definitive way would be hailed as so mach gain. When the news was brought to the chamber that the funds had risen with the rumour of the dissolu tion of General Changarnier's power, the countenance of that general, who had hitherto been in high spirits and surrounded by friends, was observed to fall. The President exhibits the greatest indifference to the prolongation of the crisis. He was waltzing at the house of his cousin on Monday night, until about two o'clock. Louis Napoleon seems to be quite confident that the delay is in his favour, and that public opinion will pronounce for him in the departments. He counts, evidently, much on the reaction of the provincial feeling on the capital. A battalion bivouacked last night in the Salle des Pas Perdue of the Assembly, an occurrence which has not been known since the days of Jane. Explanations of a very animated character took place yesterday in the couloirs between Gen. Chan gamier and M. de Montalembert; but the fact of the latter having to-day joined his fellow delegates in supporting General Changarnier in the interview at the Elysee, shows that they are still political allies. In the Assembly the debate was renewed upon the Mortgage BilL M. Rouber was still the only member of the government on the ministerial bench. Gene ral Changarnier was in his plane. Conflicting ac counts prevailed with regard to his dismiaul. M. Datum was also present; but the absence of MM. Odilon Hulot, Darn, and other parliamentary leaders was remarked. Sion after 2it became known that 8 of the burgraves had been summoned to the Elysee. How they sped in their conference with the President hu been described above. The, articles involving ths p rinciple of the mortgage la w , were rejected. The project of the committee may, therefore, be regarded as thrown out. A new ministerial list circulated, In which the names of M. de Morny, as Minister for Foreign Affairs; General Randon, for War; M. Fortoul, fer Public Instruction ; and M. Leine, for Marine, were mentioned, with those of Fonld, B aroche, Domes, and Bingen retaining their present places. An incident occurred in the debase on the Mort. gage law which produced some little animation. M. Vatimesoil reminded the house, with much energy, that formerly the President's attached much importance to the question of ere it fowler. This statement drew forth murmurs from several members, and appeared to greatly irritate M. Abbataocd. PAWS, JAN. S. Tor . For aCantal. Money..:Openleg W aken. Lowest. Closing -- 3 per Cents. ....... 34 63 56 SS SS S 3 15 45 66 80 5 per Ceuta.. 5 do. New Loan 94 75 94 33 94 75 94 55 91 75 61 per Cents.— ,s a a 6 per Cents 74 n s, itzobanne on Looms: at sigh " 25 21; el days, 34 SS. Belgian, 5, HBO lOOl stoney. Nap.. Rectra ... 96 30 Mosey. Its. 5, 1642 Do. 44 Do. 24 1630 „ Treasury Bonds 3l ~ Piedmont 5 es:Ceuta. 85 ~ Bank Shares 2210 8001951 —St. Germain, 4 10; Versailles (right bank), 161 25 ; ditto (left bank), 162 50; Paris and Orleans, 831; Paris and Rouen, 877 50; H. -uen and Havre, 267 50; Strasbourg and B de, 136 25; North, 470; Paris and Stras bourg, 352 SO ; Tours and Nantes, 247 50; Dieppe and Feeemp, 195; Bordeaux aad Taste, 40. THE LEV ANT. We have received Athens papers to the 28th ult., and Constantinople to the 24 h. The reports of the sittings of the Chamber of D. puties of Athens are uninteresting. The Courier d'Atlvncs sates that bands of robbers continue to infest the country. A party of brigands lately pillaged the principal houses of the village of Meliseima in open day. A few days after this exploit the robbers had a skirm . a% wi'h a party of soldiers, of whom one was killed and another wounded. Scenes of a similar doicriution have occurred in Euboes, Livedia, Bototia, and Attica. At Gortyna a party of 90 travellers were attacked and robbed on their way to Tripolizzi. A numerous band attacked the village of Macho's, in Acarnania, pil laged several houses, and put some of the inhabitants to the torture. Oa the 17th ult., a band of twenty robbers, under the orders of Cmtzomili, attacked the Turkish village Zstanti, and had a skirmish with an Ottoman detachment, which lost two men. The Journal de Constantinople, of the 24th ul'. ' mentions an insurrection which had br ken out ht Domaacus against the recruiting laws; but was quehed by the imperial troops. Eight of the ringleaders were ar rested and sent to Constantinople to be tried; the other prisoners made on the occasion were sent to Canes, to be enrolled in the regular troops. The Turkish official Gazette contains an account of the troubles which hare broken oat latterly in Bosnia, Damascus, and Aleppo. The same journal describes a proj. ct which the government has set on foot for the establishment of a regular steam communication along the B,sphorus. Said Pasha, governor of Damascus, has been dis missed, and banished:to Konich, for the bistinado in. ft:cted on the Prussian Jew Romano. Mehemet Pasha was proceeding with vigour in his ingniries with regard to the late disturbances at . _ Alepp,. Zsrif Muetapha, the late Pasha of Aleppo, left on the 3rd for Constantinople. BUENOS AYRES. Letters from Buenos Ayres of the 6th of November say :—Failures and insolvencies continue to be re ported at Buenos Ayres, and amounted to 2,000,0001. The expected war with Brazil was causing great anxiety and was the subject of the most contradictory rumours. To one person Rosa. states that war Is already actually declared; he 'satires others he has no idea of a campaign, and that the demonstrations made in the representative chambers and streets of Buenos Ayres are not to be regarded as serious. Whatever may be the real intentions of the dictator, prepara tions for war are pushed forward with great expedition, but with equal Kersey. Artillery carriages are constructed, while it is given out that the wood is used in making yeoman,. The Italian house of Coati and Co., received a great quantity of bombs and ammunition by • commercial vessel from Anvers, on the 18th of October. It was asserted that, during his stay in Rio, General Guido came to an understanding with the Chargé d'Affaires of Naples, and contracted for the d. apatch of live thou sand Sicilians to Buenos Ayres. The conditiols of this transaction are not well known ; it is only known that the volunteers are to be robust your g men, trained to military duty, and that after the war they are to receive a reward of land. The expenses of the passage will be defrayed by the Neapolitan govern ment. This contract was sent, towards the end of July last, to Buenos Ayres by Guido, and received the approbation of limas; it was then returned to Rio, and the Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires at once left for home to carry out the convention. Another contract was spoken of, according to which several thousand Irish volunteers were to be enrolled and brought over. These European enrolments do not appear to harmonise with the American system proclaimed by Rosas. The dictator is continually sending muni tions of war to Cerrito; six thousand suits were just completed for the soldiers of Oribe, brother of the soi-disant president of the oriental republic. S•.raugere are not secure in the district cccupied by (tribe's troops. At (Monis cries of death to the Jachuisians (partisans of Raron Jachuhy) and Brazi lians are every day heard, and the bastinado is applied very freely. The Itincon battalion which is keeping garrison, practises the most hor rid cruelties. Two negroes have been shot, or rather assassinated ; two officers loaded with chains have been sent to Oribe, after having been kept seventeen days in a prison. A mo:.k having died, three soldiers exhumed the body of a French offic,r, which they left exposed on the face of the earth ; they then placed the body of the monk in the grave, with many apologies for interring him in the t.mb where a French pirate had laid. Admiral Le Predour has interdicted the manteuvres of the troops of the expedition under the orders of Colonel Bertin Duchateau, which formerly took place between the two lines at Monte Video. The presence of these troops, it appears, gave umbrage to Oribe. THE CHOLERA IN THE WEST INDIES. The following reply was received yesterday to the City memorials for medical aid to the West ladies: To THOMSON UANXET, ESQ., Aar. Downing,treot, lan. 6. Bir,—l am directed by Earl Grey to acquaint y-u chat his loruehip has received several reemoriala signed by bankers, intro-ants, brokers, and others in the city of le:ilden, pray ing that in consequence of the ravages of the cholera in Jemmies, Lord Grey would send out competent medical gentlemen to that island, and a eupply of the requisite eines from the government stores. Lord Grey did not fail to give his moat anxious attention to thy.e memorial'. and to the accounts he had recited from the governor of Jamaica and from other quarters of the deplorable prevalence o: cholera in the island, and he thought it right to communicate with the General Board of Hod* on tie subject. On consultation with that board, however, Lord Grey has not thought it expedient to endeavour to send out a sutilsient numbtr of medical practitioners to undertake the treatment of individual cases, the board being et opinion that the virulence of the disease would have abated in the towns, in all probability, before such aid could reach the island, and that it would be impossible in this country to organise in time to he of service a medical staff for the pur gum of following the progress of the disease to detached estates and villages throughout the interior of the island, and that there would be no real advantage in doing more than to sand a very limited number of medical gentlemen, for the purpose of organising general measures of precaution, and thus guarding, so far as it is possible to do so, against the recurrence of that disease in Jamaica, and against its extension to the otker West India colonies. L rd Grey hoe been the more induced to come to this con clusion, since it does not appear from the last despatches received from Jamaica that it had been considered necessary or desirable either by the governor or by the Assembly, which was sitting when the disease was at its height, to ap ply to her Majesty's government for additional medical aid. Lord Grey accordingly selected three medical gentlemen, who took their departure in the West India steam-packet of the 2nd inst., to proceed to the West Indies, for the purpose of giving to the local authorities the benefit of their advice and experience in adopting general measures of prevention. The accounts received by Lord Grey do not lead him to believe that any deficiency of the necessary medicines we. apprehended by the local authorities; but if in particular cases such a want should be felt, the medical officers other hisjeety's naval and military services have been instructed to furnish whatever supplies of medicines they can safely spare. Lord Grey would be glad if you would moke known to the gentlemen who have signed these memorials the etepe he has taken, as being, he trusts, the most conducive to check or mitigate the progress of the disease. I em, Sir, Your most obedient bumble servant, B. BAWLS. MELANcuoLY Occuaskscs.—A painful sensation has been created in the neighbourhood of Cramond, (says the Scots/runs of Thursday by the mune nee of a most 'MBA- Iog casualty. A public ball was on Tuesday night given in the sinews, and conspicuous among the brit tent throng was the lady of Alexander Caddell, Esq., of Cramond Iron Works. Shortly alter midnight, Mrs. Caddell, accompanied by two maids, with two of the children, proceeded homeward, and in order to shorten the distance she had to traverse, took a bye path passing along the brink of a mill-lade, falling into the river Almond. The night was dark, and the water wu, from the previous mho, considerably swollen. Mrs. Caddell we/ briskly walking along the aide of the lade, when is the impenetrable darkness, she sod denly stumbled, and was in an instant precipitated into the stream. One of the servants was close at her heels, and Mrs. Caddell, in her first struggles in the ei eta managed to get hold of the foot of the child, with which the girl was accompanied; bat the latter, apprehensive of being also pulled into the water, mimed her mistress's grasp and re treated out of her reach. The girls shrieked for assistance, bat no one was near, and the unfortunate lady was allowed to struggle helplessly in the turgid stream, till she wee carried far beyond the reach of all human aid. The alarm was instantly given, and every search was immediately made for the body, but up to yesterday afternoon no trace of it had been found, and for the present it is oonjonured that the force of the current rust hate carried it into the Almond River.