The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

cut erortws. TO COILHESPONI)nT.T. ♦ 4wasai4 Millie " The !spiels." illetali.ll '‘• aw fteelyee Gs-wtte." II pablakel evary Tawas, es:. Mello eight. to lee ▪ p. • his osmosis lessitded far "The Ispree." Ise _ea Yves*, pew. er n v al usi I illfss. Beeierle4w4t. .; Tee lesiese es tlw lasi pablisulos. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BIKIWI. !mi. lhl-11nra1ty. 3. U.. Aftasims. 31. Ugh ilmeoaraw—lilerstas. L. s- Afsinem 3i. Os. LONDON. TUBSDAY. JANUARY 23. tistics of every detail of the measure beautifully i s mapped out upon ruled paper, the ra t society w* peradventure wait upon our own P ter-0 and not, without a show of merite d lifactiotht, the subject of *international ni r% 2°4 l ° *1 a in posse which it only lama Jr o his o n tpAi j a accomplish in ease. Bu er g theiutisfme reality, be met by its firseserious check) for, from St. Martin s-le-Grand it will be transferred to that red tape purgatory, the Treasury ; and, from the Treasury into that o ffi cial Had,., the Foreign office ; in which a three years' imprisonment is the least that must be expected for it. 1 Diplomacy abroad and diplomacy at home stiffly attired in . gold-bioed uniforms will indite Idrafts, and preliminaries, and protocols; will send off despatches b 3. QUEEN'S messengers; will plot, and intrigue, and negotiate about impossible contin gencies and impracticable advantages to be gained by one court over other courts; and those courts will plot and diplomatise in return. There will be dis putes innumerable, and delays interminable. Every one of the friendly assurances in the hopeful album will be found, on closer examination, to bear a double meaning ; and, in the end, the movement instead of having advanced, will have been twisted into a tangle of red tape and gold-lace complication which no craft nor canning at the command of the Association will be able to unravel. I _ _ LORD Joue Russm.t. bas, at the instance of the Manchester Commercial Association, instructed Mr. DRUM MOND HAY. our Consul-General at Tangiers, to use his beet endeavours to induce the government of MULE/ ABDUR-ItAIIIMAN to remove at least the more recent obstructions to the development of owe trade with the empire cf Morocco. To effeet mute Is the way of improvement the Association is, bow ever, of opinion that the representations to be nab should be of a personal character, and that say mission sent from Tangiers to the capital, Morocco it• self, should be accompanied by " some British mar► chant acquainted with commerce in all its bearings, with a view to show the people how much they would be benefited by the commerce which we se much desire." Whether Lord Joni Russimt. or his successor will go so far as to despatch such a mimics to the coast of Morocco remains to be seen. Bat ordinary people the establishment of enlarged commercial relations with a State so near, so popu lous, and so accessible both from the shores of the Mediterranean and its coasts on the Atlantic; which has for centuries been accustomed at once to oar fame and our trade—would appear to be a much more likely and rational object of ambition than expensive conquests of Pegu, or another useless serWasy to Siam. What gardens and Paradises these very Muss of Morocco once made of the south of Spain,—what lourishiog cities and towns, great castles, and charm ing palaces they scattered profusely over A ndalusis, Grenada, and Arragon ; and how to this hour Spats suffers from the expulsion of a race so intelligent, skilful, and industrious. Contrast that period of their greatness with the present plight either of Morocco generally—the remnant of a Saraceaio power —or of their seaboard towns, Tetuan, Tangiers, Sallee, and Mogador, now ail, more or less, in decay and ruins, and we see what scope there is for im provement. Nay, even later than the period of its glory, Morocco was still of great importance; it fur nished the Peninsula with food ; it contribut ed very largely to the trade of the Levant; and it spread terror by its Rovers both in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. In the early part of the French war, its friendship was of military value to England and after the close of that great struggle we took the first opportunity that offered of repeating and eoa- Inning those commercial stipulations which we had formed during its progress. Since then, however, our relations with Morocco have been very little heeded ; its rupture with France turned attention to its shores for a moment—but, deprived of Euro pean interest, little thought has since been given be the country, although its Sovereign has not beta backward in showing courtesy to Queen VICf/ORIA • present of Arab horses. The proper way to regard the African shams of the Mediterranean is to include thaw, if it be possible, in Europe, and the aussagde of the French in Algeria, and our own success, still greater, in Egypt, show that this is not, after all, an impossibility. To neglect these countries is to promote their isolation from Eu and to consign lands of exceeding fertility and the highest political importance to barbarism. Look at Morocco. It stretches, for hundreds of miles, aloes' -• A:......nean with a coast indented by a wigs The Association will, therefore, do wisely to defer pursuing its foreign aims until it has pertormed its colonial mission. To that, all its resources and all its energy should be at first directed. The establish ment of cheap postage between the mother-country and her colonies is oppressing a necessity that a ioner or later it must be conceded; but, by the efforts of the Association, that consummation may be mato- rially hastened: The rush of emigration to the Australian colonies will soon, by dint of mere transference of popu lations from this part of the globe to the antipodes, place the Imperial Government in a position more politically difficult than the Colonial-office will be able to cope with. The fewer the facilities for intercourse between the people who have gone away and the people who have stayed behind, the more rapidly those difficulties will increase; and the wisest stroke of policy which the Imperial Colonial Government could effect would be to establish the cheapest, safest, and most rapid interchange possible of thougbts, sentiments, information, and commercial advices. Even if cheap postage were to occasion a small pecuniary loss to the postal department, that loss would soon be compensated by enormous gains to other branches of revenue from the new impulses it would give to trade, and the good understanding it would maintain and cement between worldwide communities. But we are prepared to prove that a sound system of cheap colonial ocean postage would not occasion loss even to the Post-office revenue. As it is, the charges upon that establishment are not fairly made in respect of the packet service. The greater portion of the item of nearly 800,00 W. per annum paid by Government to various steam-ship companies for the conveyanoe of mails, and debited against the Post office, might just as reasonably appear in the accounts of the Duchy of Lancaster. It was known when those contracts were made that the revenue derived—or possible to be derived—from sea-borne letters could never, under the present system, reach above a tenth of that sum ; and surely, if the early expense of those vessels to Government six times greater than their postal earnings, it must follow that we are taxed on the balance; and, being so taxed, the difference ought to be charged in the accounts of the department which is benefittd by the outlay. That undoubtedly is the war depart ment. The only parties to the contracts are the Admiralty and the steam-packet companies. "My Loris" tie down the contractors—very properly and wisely —to build the mail-packets in such a manner that they may be converted, on the shortest notice, into war vessels. The Postmaster-General has little or no control over them; he is no party to the con tracts under which they are built and employed; he is not even the sole regulator of their departures and arrivals. So little, in short, has the Postmaster- General to do with the matter, that hs is in the position of a man who has the pleasure of paying for what he does not possess, and has no control over. Putting, therefore, the greatest impulse to moral and social improvement that this age has seen— namely, cheap postage—upon the narrow ground of profit and loss, there can be little doubt that in reality , there would be no greater balance of deficiency created than already exists, were a low and uniform rate of colonial postage at once established ; for who can doubt, after what has happened with regard to Penny Postage, that the number of letters would be so enormously augmented as to bring, in a very short time, an amount of revenue much greater than that now derived from ship-letters? while the ex pense of conveying them would not be augmented. The difficulties of detail anticipated in extending the ,irinciple beyond sea are of a simple and technical character, and are easily surmounted. We question, however, whether the Colonial and International Cheap Postage Association are wise in pressing for a penny colonial rate. The more practicable limit would be—at all events at first, and until the experi ment is confirmed—a penny for transit to the port of departure; another penny for freight across the see; and a third penny for delivery in any part of the colony to which t he letter is destined. et three-psnny rate would lessen whatever little rick might attend the experiment on fiscal grounds, and would prepare the way for any reduction that may be found practi cable in future. Let us, then, advise the Association to concentrate its strength for the present upon the effectual extension of cheap postage to the colonies. That once brought about, they will have so strength ened their canoe that even diplomacy itself, whether at home or abroad, will be unable to withstand them. Cheap postage once existing for the colonies, inter national cheap postage will soon force itself into existence. ajpeei pale; ad. though limmisil ea the south by the great Sams and wandn hip navigabh rivers. containing nevertheless $ es 'gable of yielding in see at once the simple productions of Europe, Ai / emil Aeries. But its people—they are mil te be its curse ; they are hopeless. Let us not beim mere that this is net a prejudice. That which the Mews accomplished is Spain, there can be no names why they should not again display in Northern Africa. The Moors still form the aristocracy, the intelligence, and enterprise of Morocco; Englishmen who have visited their ports some away with the impression that they have seen a race of gentlemen in their higher classes—wealthy, dignified, and moral—and in every respect they are vastly superior to the Berber and Bedouins who occupy the interior, and the great chain of the Atlas. Nor ought we hastily to condemn a people, however differently and discordantly composed, who submit to a constituted government, or think too lightly of a government that has maintained itself for ages amidst such dis united elements, and fulfils all its internal relations . The trade of Morocco is almost exclusively in the hands of the Jews. The Jews of Gibraltar supply their brethren across the /Waits, and of Sallee and lidor, on the Atlantic coast. .Ted by Cue liar returns the bade is but se, not exceeding, both in imports ansorts, one maligns sterling annually, of which E ngland has at least five-sevenths. But the real state Morocco cannot be so estimated; for the vice of their com merce is its smuggling character. The facilities for smuggling keep gin inferior hands, and by diminish ing the imperial revenues, tend to protium that Is security and those irregularities now complained of The Emperor of Moaocco, like other potentates, wants revalue. The general run of duties which he imp impose on imports is not by any means heavy ; bat, failing to receive them, he resorts to unwise and arbitrary means of getting what he must have,— . Thus lately IkItILIIIT MIDIII - decreed all the skins and hides of his ;spire should belong to him. After wool and grain, Woe are the most important article of export, and the sleet of this royal confiscation was that his sub orning to kill their goats and their cattle. Thus g a. sans without the Court of Morocco being en- And. In like manner, the Eierazoa has had seesisse to • sessopely of other articlee—with almost opal lack efprolt. Uwe widi be extend our trading relations with Ikea" we Ind de so honestly. We must consent to par meleue dodos; to tsseh WHIT ABDO?, RAMAN peset that trade is more profitable than thYrefiene. We must repress smuggling ; and appear in Warl/M• with clean hands. This, no doubt, will be Meek ; for illicit trade ins chronic complaint at Gibraltar; but though in Spain it has its reasonable imams, there is much less apology inert in the African States. Irregular trade is always demoralised ; it runs great risks and sometimes makes great profits; but it is carried on by unworthy hands; it is subject to constant in terruptions ; and it is rarely an increasing commerce. The remedy on such a coast is not, however, easy. But this part of the subject, at all events, deserves the consideration both of the Manchester Com- 1 saercial Association and the Foreign-office. Other wise, when a mission, with its mercantile assistants, gets to Maroooo, MILEY ADDIIII.-RALIMAN may very reasonably complain that a low tariff has not pre served him from the inroads of dishonesty and loss of revenue. If we want Fns Trade in Morocco we mast have fair trade also. Tne Colonial and International Cheap Postage I Association will owe most of it■ difficulties to red tape. At prompt its gallant efforts to obtain the greatest and most civilising of social blessings— & quick and easy community of written thoughts across the globe —seem, superficially, to be prosperous enough. The honorary secretary, Don MANUEL Di YAMII, is at present assiduously travelling on a tour of persuasion amongst the various Courts and Post muters-General of Europe. Armed with unanswer able arguments, backed by facts, fortified with expe riences of the unhoped-for success of cheap postage in this country, and in every other in which it has been established, his mission will bo apparently triumphant. Already the postal chief of all the Rus- Wu has " pronounc.d" in favour of the scheme in a private no'e, which has no doubt filled the com mittee at home with the liveliest hope. Similar notes full of the distinguished-assurances of estcum with which the writers remain the Assoeiation's most tic voted servants wi I, doubtless, soon fill its official album. With that volume big with certificates of the Cra nimity of All Nations, accompanied by plans and eta- TEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1853. influence, the Pays affirms that French monarchs have seldo . isymarrieci with& view to anything bet personal con*iisjsee, o' the interests of their internal detains tied. lathe present degraded state of the French goverdniert press, to examine toyer their arguments seriously. would be se idle se to investigate the civi h. olt Mother °stick's cloud was really like a w hale or a *easel. The amusing feature of the present effort of the Pays is this, that while the Emperor, in hie speeeh, declared that incorporation with the great royal family of the world was an object that every sensible Frenchman would desire for France, he, from peculiar exceptional circumstances, was justified in following a " new policy," his most devoted journal argues that he has done nothing but follow the old monarchical tradition. In truth, Louis Na poleon's declaration that he is a " parvenu" has pro duced much confusion in the ranks of his supporters. They have been at infinite pains to show his " legiti macy." History has been ransacked to prove that neither the Carlovingian, Merovingian, nor any other line of French monarchs had in their inception so many distinguishing features of a royal dynasty as the Bonaparte family. The legitimist journals have taken advantage of the opening afforded them to contrast the now admitted experimental charac'er of the empire with the tried principle of which they are the supporters. They rejoice in perceiving that Louis Napoleon's speevh draws a broad line of de marcation between himself and the other sovereigns of Europe. he following anecdote of Mdlle. Montijo appears in the Bulletin de Paris: Some of the innumerable acts of generosity of the Duchess de Teba (Mdlle. de Monello) are known among the working classes. Lately, u the Duchess was passing in her carriage through one of the quarters which are so miraculously transformed at this time by the will of the Emperor, at the moment when a poor workman had jut fallen from a scaffolding, she immediately stopped her car ri age, alighted, and went to the man, whale injury for tunately was but slight, and gas, him eminent*. Another day, when near the Barriers de l'Etoile, a poor wornan,half-clothed, and carrying two young children on her arms, who appeared both cold and hungry, attracted the attention of the Duchess, who stopped and questioned the poor wom in. Without allowing her to complete the re cital of her mi-fortunes, she took a wrapper from her car riage, which she threw over the woman and her children, and then emptied her purse into the emaciated hand of the poor creature, and disappeared. A great nnmber of high functionaries and persons of distinction yesterday entered their names at the Palace of the Elysie as a mark of respect to the future Empress. The commercial bulletin of the Presse gives an unfavourable account of the state of trade generally during the past week, but regards the depression as temporary. _ _ . The Consulting Railway Commission has of late met several times at the Ministry of Public Works, under the presidentship of the minister. The Com mission has been occupied with several questions con cerning tariffs, and with a plan proposed . for extend in the railway from Rheims to the Belgian frontier. It has heerd the reports and representations of the various parties interested, relative to the direction to be taken by the line, which the government appears to regard as of general interest. Several sub-com missions have been formed for the purpose of urging on the examination of the various matters on which the Consulting Commission will have to pronounce. An account was given some time ago of the trial and condemnation by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Nantes, of M. E. de la Rochette and other gentlemen of that city, for having assaulted M. 0. Merson, editor of the Falstaff, who had attacked them in that journal. A duel was subsequently fought between M. de la Rochette and M. Merson, and the latter was slightly wounded. In conse quence of this M. de la Rochette and the gentlemen who acted as seconds for both parties, were on Thursday tried by the Tribunal of Nantes, on the charge of wilfully cutting and wounding. M. de la Rochette was fined 100 fr., and the witnesses, M. de Is Palme, M. Coquebert, M. Cornilier, and M. De merle, were severally fined 60fr.; and all five were jointly condemned to pay the costs. FRANCE. YAMS, MONDAY Sesame). There was to-day a still fur.her decline in the Rentes, beyond the depression noted on Saturday. The attempt made by some agents to rea li se at Fri day's improvement proved quite unsuccessful, and an additional fall of 40c. took place on the Three per Omits., and of 20c. on the Four-and-a-Half per Omits., the former closing at 79f. 80c., and the latter at 104 f. 80c. for the account. Bank Stock, after undergoing a trifling depression, closed at Saturday's =on, but there was no improvement in railway or any similar investment. This morning's Motsitoor announces that the grand ball to be given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs b definitively fixed for the 4th of February. On account of the storm in the Channel yesterday, the steamboat was unable to cross from Dover to Calais ; there was consequently no mail from England. The Patric announces that the Archbishop of Paris has been desired to celebrate the sacrament of matrimony for the imperial couple at Notre Dame, on Saturday next. Notwithstanding the decided contradiction given in some of the Paris papers, it is still confidently believed in usually well informed quarters, that Prince Napoleon Bonaparte will be married to the Princess Wagram shortly after the marriage of the Emperor. In fact, the rumour still prevails that both marriages will take place on the same day. Business affairs in France are generally reported as dull, and little improvement is anticipated before next month, when extensive orders are looked for from America. The prevailing inactivity is attri buted chiefly to the extraordinary decline in the public funds, which has sensibly affected every branch of commerce. The grain market has been rather do pressed during the week, but to-day there is a shade of improvement both here and at Bordeaux. In the silk trade, however, an exce ption must be made as to the general depression, a fa ir average business being reported at the full rates which have latterly ruled the market. The almost absolute silence hitherto observed by the press upon the only subject of present interest is broken to-day by three journals. The Pays, Journal de Climpire, in a laboured article of three columns, undertakes to prove that from the time of Cloves downwards it has never been the traditional policy )f the sovereigns of Frans to strengthen their foreign alliances by intermarriages with royal limilics. With the exception of some marriages contracted in time of war with the hope of striking off certaiu powerful states from the list of the enemies of France, or iu the expectation of acquiring useful SPAIN. Every day makes it increasingly doubtful whe ther Spain has really obtained a more liberal, or rather less arbitrary government by the last change of Ministry. After promising free discussion the itoecali government has seized newspapers every week since its appointment, and maintains the exile of Narvaez, and now the more completely to stifle the expression of public opinion, it has resolved to break down by force the electoral committee, which promised to interfere with its electioneering success. The following royal order has just been issued : MINISTRY Or ?RR NOMI DIPARTMINT. Her Majesty the Guess (whom God preserve) being in formed t►at an association established in this capital, with the name of Electoral Cosomittei, has put itself in combine tion and correspondence with others analogous out of the court. is order to treat of political sublimate, aid to intornoe is the affairs of the state : Considering that this junta is an assembly of coalesced persons of different parties, which may mislead public opi nion, introducing distrust in men's minds, by the announce ment of false dangers and of imaginary calamities; Considering that this association not only seeks to coerce the free tierces of the public authority, and to lower its prestige and consideration, eetablishing committees prying into its acts, officiously charged to seek pretexts, is order to promote accusations and processes, which may give aliment to bad passions, under colour of maintaining uninjured the political liberties, but which also, as if on equality with the government, issues orders and circulars, sad a dopts mea sures proper to the public authority; Considering that if it be lawful to every citizen to address himself individually to the electors by word or by writing, in order to ask them for their votes, and to make known to them his of thinking respecting the policy of the government, it is not so that • junta formed without tke competent authoriostion should address itself collectively to the electoral body, wl sidresses and circulars profusely distributed, in which the lassatiott is attributed to the pub lic functionaries to commit abuses, illegalities, and vie lenses, and in which the laws in vigour respecting the press are infringed in other respects ; Considering that, although up to this time meetings have been tolerated which had no other object apparently than to influence the minds of the electors, they ought not to be allowed from the moonset in which the. have changed their character, placing themselves in comminication with others established in the provinces ; Considering that according to the 211th article of the penal code, every association of more than twenty persons which meets daily, or on particular days, to treat of reli gious, literary, or political subjects, or it any other class, is unlawful if not formed with the consent of the public authority ; Considering that what is disposed it this article of the code is also applicable to routings of more than twenty persons, which, to elude the law, divide themselves into sections of less number, or do not meet oa particular days, her Majesty the Queen (whom God preserve) bee thought ilt to command= let. That in fulfilment of the laws of the kingdom you prevent that there continue established or be established a novo, emaciation. or juntas of more than twenty persons, which meet daily, or on particular days, without previous or express permission of the authority, although such juntas divide themselves and meet by sections of less than twenty persons, and do not hold sitting all the days designated, wh the member. that compose it exceed the said I number. . . _ . . 2od. That you seise and cause to be denounced by the fiscal of the press, every printed or lithographed writing which the said j owns should gi•e to light, whate•er may be the number of persons who sign it, lib there is com mitted in them aoy of the offences defined in the law in •igour respecting the prem. 3rd. That though you nay authorise political meetings, which may be held on days determined on for consulting the will of the electors, and their coming to an accord as to the candidates for whom they are to •ote, whene•er ne danger may result from it to public order, you ought not to authorise or tolerate any association of permanent or tem poral character, eompoeed of determined persons, which may ha•e for object to treat of political matters, and m►y offer any of the incon•eniences manifested in the conride rands of this royal order. By order of her Majesty, I communicate this to you for your understanding and fulfilment. God preser•e, &c. (Signed) BIINLVIDIMI. Madrid, January 17, 1853. To the Go•ernor of the Pro•ince of —. M. Martinez de la Rosa is reinstated in his post of Vice-President or the Royal CounciL DENMARK. The official journal of the Danish government contains a royal ordonnance, aprointing the 2dth of February for the election to the new Chemin!. of Deputies. The same parer speaks of a note received by the King from the Germanic I)iet. The Con federation announces its intention of adding 50,000 men to its army, and calls upon the King as Duke of Holstein to reinforce the contingent of that duchy. GERAIANY. The government of Baden appear to be outstrip ping all the German governments in its reactionary career. The proscription of the treatise of Gervinus has been followed up by new and vexations restrio- Sons on travelling. Notice has been 'given to the agents and managers of the steamboat companies that they must not take any one on board for pur poses of conveyance who cannot give a satisfactory ac saint of the object of his journey,and produce his peas tine papers to good order. For say legitimailoo passed by the stamn-boat agents and subsequently found defective the company will be held responsible in damages. From Stuttgart we learn that the police have paid visits to every bookseller in that capital in search of Gervintuee book,withouthowever, finding any copies. Gervinus himself, according to letters from Berlin, will hasten back to Baden to meet the charges of the public prosecutor. The Austrian Emperor has abolished the Ministry of Agriculture as a distinct department of the go , vernment, and assigned its duties to the Ministers of Finance and the Interior. The Oeat Corresponden: contains an article in tended to herald the coming decree on the govern mental organisation of Hungary, which has been so many times announced and postponed. According to this semi-official authority, the ancient kingdom is to be divided into seven administrative sections, in- dependent of each other, and each having its own statthholder, a civil and military governor presiding over the whole. The Second Prussian Chamber has in its turn given its sanction to the royal decree of August 4, under which the present upper house was elected. The left struggled against the ratifying the act, but all its amendments were rtjected, and a bill of indemnity was granted to the ministers On the 20th the Minister of Finance laid the budget of 1853 on the table of the house. In the same sitting the Minister of Commerce re-introduced the bill dropped last year for taxing railways. The Hamburg Nachricken publishes a copy of Count Buono despatch to M. Hubner , at Paris, in which the Austrian government makes its reserves concerning the dynasty of Louis Napoleon. The despatch is dated Vienna, Dec. 29, and reads thus : Excellency.—The French government, in notifying to us the inauguration of the Empire, has at the same time for warded copies of the ftnatus consults and of the plebiscite relative to the transformation of the government which has been effected in France. Them documents, u relating to the interior affairs of France, we have not here to discuss. Regarded as such, the changes which they have effected must be considered as out of the range of the international relations of the two empires. In proceeding as it has done, to the acknow:edgment of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and in frankly expressing its in tention to m►intain with his government the friendly relations which have hitherto existed between the two countries, Austria had no intention whatever of paving a judgment upon the principles contained in the plebiscite which has now become a law of the state, nor of admitting beforehand the consequences which might be de duced from it in the future. We abstain from adopting a more solemn form for our re serves,and we believe that we thus give to the French govern meat a new proof, which I trust it will appreciate, of those conciliatory dispositions which animate us, and which inspire the desire of avoiding all that might be calculated to interfere with the good understanding existing between the two go vernments, to the invariable maintenance of which we at tach the highest value, for the sake of social order and the peace of the world. With these sentiments I have tho honour to transmit to you the letters which accredit you anew to his Majesty the Emperor of the French. a strong resolution for the purpose of effecting a change." This subjugation of Montenegro will be the reverse of advantageous to the commercial interests of Cattero, and Austrian subjects will suffer in comae ' queues of the mutual dependence of the two places. An alteration of the status quo in Montenegro, caused by a Turkish invasion, is consequently prejudicial to Austria, and mug; be regarded as a rupture of exist ing relations, Turkey never baring succeeded in en forcing its nominal sway. In illustration of this, al lusion is made to former inroads of the mountaineers mw, the Austrian territory of Cattaro, when the Porte never showed itself able to protect an ally from the outrages of plundering hordes who are now claimed as its subjects. It disclaimed all responsi bility on those occasions, and offered no compensation. " Such being the case, the position of Montenegro as sumes international importance," in which other powers, and not the Porte alone, are concerned. Moreover, the religious intolerance which would fol low in the wake of a Turkish army, cannot be s mat ter of indifference to Austria. ITALY . A Genoa letter of the 19th states that one Daniel Mazzinghi,a surgeon, aged 25 years, native of Volterra, has just been tried them and sentenced to three years imprisonment, for having, conjointly with Capt. Pakenham, of the British navy, preached in favour of Protestantism at La Bpezzia and its neigh. bourhood. The trial took place with closed doors. Letters from Turin state that on the 19th M. Brof ferio brought this case before the Chamber of Depu ties, and that Count Cavour promised to give expla nations on the subject the next day. The Intendent-General of Chambeiy, says the Union, has published a decree prohibiting the intro duction into Savoy of the Bible bearing the name at de Sacy. The Intendant founds this measure on Art. 28 of the statute, which requires the authorisation of the bishop for the printing of Bibles, and conse quently prohibits Bibles printed abroad from being introduced into the country without that authon- The Piedmonlese Gazette contains an official article calling upon the conductors of journals to abstain from severe reflections upon foreign governments and their chiefs. "These censures," it is said, "are more deplorable when they are addressed to the govern- ments of neighbouring countries with which our relations are of necessity more intimate and frequent, and it is not unreasonable to fear that those relations may become embittered in consequence of the publica tions referred to. To affront, as is often done, the honour of foreign armies, is so much the more mis chievous and unjust, inasmuch as the foreigners so offended have often rendered to our army the most flattering testimony." The police authorities of Milan have prohibited the use of masks at the approching carnival. It is also forbidden to throw certandole in the streets. MONTENEGRO. Letters from the Dalmatian oast state that the Porte has sent orders to press forward the war, being anxious not to give opportunity to the intervention of diplomatists. The Trieste Gazette of the 19th states that the Turks have already commenced offensive operations against Montenegro. Fight battalions had arrived from Bosnia, and pitched their tents on the Turkish frontier, at Veleme, within six hours' march of the mountains, - for further reint cements. The Kellner Kollenstein auuuns, waiting Imperial Adjutant-General von - - had caused the Austrian outpost' near Montenegro, . --- and he was se n tenced to death ; which was, how.. and slept at the river, - where they remained all next day. commuted by his E xce ll ency into transports- On the following morning they saw • commando coming at Dragal, to be strengthened, and was on his way ever , .of Cape Corps, Flagon police, dke., which came into lion for life. The chief, attended - by a favourite wife back to Vienna. the bush when they were, upon which Brander fled, and The Osseroato Dalmato of the 13th, states that and councillor, was conveyed to this town a short Jack took that opportunity of leaving him. The coin- Omer Pasha's army numbers 12,000 regular trols time since, where he remains under surveillance of mando fired upon Brander a party during the day, but and 5,000 Arnauts or guerillas. The loss of the the police authorities. with what casualty Jack does not know. Jack then wait Derail eon of Qu es h e, has-alei surrendered • but to the Rena by himself, and fell in with Hans Hendrik, a Montenegrins in the late engagement near Zabljsh, " - 0 - ' .' . ' Blinkwater Hottentot, whop had also left Brander, and this we have not learned in what manner he will be dealt man came is stated by the same authority to have been 60 with. with him to Wont Hill. Hendrik came into wounded and 42 killed. The telegraphic accounts Graham's Town for some fire having lest the steel of his " Some straggling Hottentots are dropping in or tinder-box, and never rejoined' Jack, who then surrendered state that the entire Turkish expedition against Mon tesegro comprises 34,000 soldiers. allowing themselves to be caught. From one of to his old master, Mr. Dell, of Boreal() Park. He did so Der Lloyd has a long leader on the subject. The O l i v i er . their women it has been ascertained that Kasper because he saw no prospect of living with the rebels—he eould no longer endue the hunger he had felt, and the en a and his party, who were paid to have been *elide sets out with th e assertion that the largesettled life be bad been leading. H.. father had been fares about to be set in motion for the reduction'un justly by Commandant Pringle in the - attacked so hal e d in t h e war, and he had relatives living in the colony. beginning of the war, ' had a perfectly good under- He had not heard of the Governor's proclamation. lie of Montenegro must inevitably endanger the ex • h Uith aalder, andremoving, • • d stealing would be thought if the rebels continued they ex butanes of that mountainous people, and at the standing . with . were then_ off at his . instance, with the booty carried f rom the terminated ; they were greatly disheartened. He had Memo time incommode Austria—for which reasonnever heardwly the Hottentots joined the Kaffirs; he him- Eseenore.s of precaution have been taken by that Colonists'.self had no exam of becoming a rebel, but joined the rebel laudlnorder to show with what plausible effronte meat to defend the district of Caftan by 1 7 lion because others did. the cause of rebels has been defended by the London It is very remarkable that this man bad been in Mr. en :ad sea. Austria cannot withhold her sy.m -51. • ry Society we may q uote a sentence or two Dell's service for ten years prior to the war, and was in pathies from a. people professing the Christian the'fro isuona Rat It'v ' er Letters of the Rev. J ames dustrious and honest, and his muter used to employ him faith, that are about to experience the cruelties hea d , un I to deliver waggon loads of hay, trusting to him for the of the troops of Omer Pacha, and whose territories '''' accuracy of the account, as he could both read and write. P e i 43.. : Kasper Gllvie •r is a respectable member of the will be exposed to the scenes of rapine and bloodshed „dolled congregation at Kat River. Page '4B—Kupar From the Graham's Town Journal of December 7 previously enacted in Bosnia. Th e arti c le then Olivier laving heard that some of the rebels had gone in we take the annexed accounts of the most recent oe touches upon the question of treaties. "No Power the direction of the Maneasana, left Fort Armstrong for carrences at the seat of war : in Europe has observed the treaties with the Porte, that place. . . Boon after a report reached the camp v ,.., LI7ANT'S HOlllt, CAURCH-PLACE.-1 regret to say that and public law in general, so religiously as Austria. that t m th os e t Pr o i f a g l ee had l attacke dhb et l nas it slain. livle h r i ' s s s ca r mz a ;V another Englishman has been shot this morning near the It has repeatedly sacrificed the most natural sym- wild-fire in thee peop l e p * The English could not get p a singlee house of Messrs. Kirkwood and Phelps, at Groote Viey. pathies for the sake of positive right," perceiving men to accompany them , although a number o f hoot.. were The k report states that as . Joiseph N i ir s ar . d . , en it it t o o ne w s o t, r l74: that every deviation from the status quo must im- fed at 'government expense, and all the men on duty were co working l a b n a w :l e raie e r e j a i l :t ig hi h to e employ,'' sa w-p it was suddenly peril the existence of Turkey, and lead to daogeroua rationed. . . There seemed to ooze out the preminitions surrounded lip rebel nottentou and Kaffirs, when he re consequences. "The preservation of Turkey is there- l o w f h a o had war of races. escaped froPmagiesZ.Ln—K:p.araLlivier came to 11:1 ers ceived two balls in his left shoulder. One passed near the fore, for Austria, not only a public duty, but in con- 1 ton ; and Mr. Wienand took row: the s y ta ea te m ment of Ph ili p . the collar bone, and came out at the upper part of the shouldet4 formic with with her own interests." The Porte 011yslearties. The ministers (Missionary Read, &c.) merely eat the other has lodged in the fiei.h. 'The poor fellow took o ; t; o h o il the article) has dons nothing to restore the good .es witnesses, and as such avouched the statements. Page h w ee ns ls e s u s a z l e e ll t o o s h r e oc co ee ul d d, a b r ut slave f . rr en w t eLknessand loss boy instantly understanding with Austria, which was broken by 158.—The parties implicated in Kasper's case are among got Ward on i) his back, and made all possible haste to the conduct of that Power on several occasions 1 the most respectable men in this colony. . . By Messrs. Messrs. Kirkwood and Phelps' house, where no time was within the last few years ; and it is inconceivable ! Itt u oms r on ol tai r to w n Renton , and preventedN ie e's o endeavours r ei i i 7 d t i o nte n n e e: : lost in sending for medical as.istance to this place. The what can have induced the Porte to estrange itself eeee Pe . . . and he left his men at ' ) Uith aalder'. ~, boy reports that the Hottentots were so numerou s . that cam e' he cou not count em, but them he d from Austria, and commit acts amounting to a rup- I His m.ii connected themselves with Uithaalder. saw five ld Kaffir'. It t h is evident these among ruffians must istanctl have y turnof treaties. Allusion is then made to the refugee I "It thus appears that Olivier with his men went to waylaid poor Ward. and waited for Lim at the saw pit. question, and the official recognition of political Uithaalder, and that the men remained, but Olivier This it the third Englishman that has been shot in the adventurers, known as enemies of Austria. The per- returned to exonerate himself by a statement which same neighbourhood within a shut time. Two were secutions of the Christian population of Bosnia—the was ' avouched' by the missionaries. The strong savagely slaughtered without the sghtest provocation- 7 forced conscriptions that drive so many to seek for sympathy that was felt fur Kasper Olivier and his poor old Mr. Smith, and Thomas Willi a ms , a n d Jcs . e ott Ward, the present victim. Should he recover, which is protection on Austrian territory—the steps taken by I men, when the report came of their having been doubtful, he will probably be disabled for life. Although the•furkielt anthorities to throw obstacles in the way • attacked by Pringle, is also worthy of notice; cape- sev cal applications have been made to the authentic.. of of traffic with Austria, and injure the interests of the I cially the fact that horses and men rationed by the Uitenhage to post a ftw men to keep . clear the ostensive . subjects of the Emperor—are there recapitulated, i rovernment were not to be procured. The ' loyal woods between Mr. Eduard Hea l th a place and that o f y Messrs. Kirkwood rdid Phelps, which have never been j with the additional remark that all these grievances I lotteutots' meditated' a war of races.' free rince the war broke out, either from rebel Hottentots remain unredressed. "This system, followed up in " Tarnbookii land has be-en settled. The death of or liatlirs or both, I reeret to say that no attention has the fierrogowitia, was felt still inure in Dalmatia, I Mapassa, and the submission of Tyopo, have opened : hitherto been paid to such applications, and life and and Austria will be obliged, sooner or later, to take ' the way, it is said, for a new plan of occupying the property in this quarter are as lust cure us ever. It is true THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuzanst MostNixo. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Tagus, Captain T. K. Joy, has arrived here, and landed her mails, under the charge of Lieut. J. Stephens, R.N. Her dates are : Gibraltar, Jan. 15; Cadiz, 16 ; Lis bon, 19; Oporto, 20; Vigo, 20. The Tagus brings twenty-three passengers and six packages of specie. On the 22nd Jan., at 7.45 p.m., she broke the main-shaft of her engine, whereby the starboard engine was rendered entirely useless. At 11.30 she proceeded, working her port engine only. She brings eight of the crew of the Sarah Parks, of Newry, wrecked near Oporto. The weather has been fair, considering the time of year, with a heavy north-west swell. H.M.S. Britannia (flag-ship), Trafalgar, Albion, Bellerophon, Arethusa, Retribution, Sampson, Niger, and Antelope were at Gibraltar. The Sans Pareil and Inflexible were at Lisbon. The second lieute nant of the Sans Pariel died on Jan. 15, after a short illness. Exchange, 54. Discount of the notes of the Bank of Lisbon, 2 per cent. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. ARRIVAL OF THE LADY JOCELYN. THE KAFFIR WAR. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail packet Lady Jocelyn, Commander Stuart, has arrived at Plymouth. Her dates are—Calcutta, Nov. 15; the Sand Heads, Nov. 16; Madras, Nov. 24; Point de Galle, Nov. 24; Mauritius, Dec. 5; Table Bay, Dec. 27 ; St. Helena, Dec. 28; Ascension, Dec. 31 ; St. Vincent, Jan. 13. She reports, Nov. 22, at 10.30 p.m., passed within hail of the General Screw steam-ship Indiana, off Point de Galle, had left that port at 8 p.m. for Madras. Dec. 8, lat. 26.58 S., lon. 46.04 E., exchanged numbers with British barque, Lady Bruce, out 50 days from Calcutta; 9th, lat. 28.42, lon. 41.49 E., exchanged numbers with the British barque Chief tain, standing as ourselves ; 13th, lat. 34.15 S., lon. 24.49 E., exchanged numbers with the British barques Christabel and Chamont, standing as ourselves : 14th, Ist. 35.04 S., lon. 21.16 E., exchanged numbers with the schooner Elizabeth Jane, from Fable Bay ; 15th, let. 35.06 S., lon. 20.10 E., exchanged numbers with ship Alfred the Great, from China. Dec. 23, in lat. 27.13 S., lon. 7.38 E., spoke ship Lochoo, from Calcutta to Boston : same date, spoke ship Clymenes, from Calcutta 62 days • Dec. 26, lat. 19.01 S., lon. 2.48 W., spoke barque L aidmans, from Mauritius ; 27th, in sight of St. Helena, spoke barque Champion, Landon to St. Helena; Jan.s, in lat. 7.28 N., 10n.18.45 W.,spoke ship Palantine, bound to Calcutta; 6th, lat. 10.13 N., lon. 20.40 W., spoke brig Deva, bound to Melbourne; 14th, lat. 20.58 N., lon. 24.29 W., spoke barque Geraldine, standing to the south ward; 18th, lat. 34.15 N., lon. 21 W., spoke barque Eliza Jane, standing to the southward and westward; Jan. 22nd, lat. 47 N., lon. 8.32 W., spoke ship John Cooper, ditto. From the Mauritius, by the Port Louis Prices °arrest, we learn that since the Australia touched there, six vessels have been laid on for Australia, at lg. 15s. per ton. Port Louis is shortly to be lit with ps by a British company. The Maseppa has arrived at Madagascar. The events which have occurred since the depar ture of the previous mail are thus summarised by the Cape Monitor of Dec. 18 : " Our last monthly . summary indicated the speedy termination of frontier hostilities. Subsequent ac counts inform us of the broken and dispirited condition of the Kafir, and their rebel allies. In deed, the war is over. It only remains to pursue and capture the fugitives still infesting the country, to whom massacre and rapine are become a second nature. We regret to say that the utmost caution is still necessary to avoid the murderous assaults of Wes desperadoes, who show no mercy to any nn traveller. Within a short space of time, M i victims have fallen in the vicinity of Oli phant's Hoek. The particulars of this last atrocity will be found in another column. Nothing more has been heard of Sandilli's proposal to deliver up Uithaalder to justice. Perhaps the heroic tutor is nursing his wound in some of his mountain dens. Further rumours have also been circulated of Uithaalder's death by the hands of one of his own party. The Hottentot chief slain near the Wit Kei, who, in our last, was supposed to be Uithaalder, has been since ascertained to be Jan Cornelis, one of the proscribed rebels. " We stated that Seyolo, a Slambie chief, who had joined the Gaikas in their attack upon the colony, has been tried and convicted. Indeed, he freely ad mitted the fact of his guilty participation ; but he seemed to consider Sandilli's influence over him to be an ample and adequate excuse for his conduct in 1846, as wells during the war now concluded. His defence and expressions of sorrow were unavailing, forfeited territory by farmers, holding their lands on condition of rendering military service. " The progress of the Commander-in-Chief towards the Bassouta country is reported as most gratifying ; though the various wiles and subterfuge] ascribed to Moshesh render us unable to speculate with any cer tainty on the result. " 'tzatzoe has been detected in an attempt to ex change some of his own iP.-conditioneci cattlx !or others sent by Krell, and ho was accordingly fined by Col. Maclean. " Disclosures continue to be made of the means by which the enemy obtained ammunition and intelh gence. The native levies were wont to drop their cartridges iu convenient places on the march, andfthe friendly Kaffir'' were found ready to barter their government' powder for stolen cattle. The women remaining about the mission station of Alice were among the principal purveyors of intelligence from the colony for the use of the rebels. "During the absence of the Governor in the sove reignty, some apprehension has been entertained on the frontier lest the enemy should muster in overwhelming strength ; but this fear has proved groundless. True, there are petty attempts at de predation, and life is insecure on some of the unpro tected roads ; but this would be the case though there were only a dozen of rebels remaining to be hunted down. Hunger is compelling many of these to surrender, who, it is to be hoped, will be punished severely, and not be turned loose upon society, to await the outbreak of fresh hostilities. Little dependence can be placed in the steadiness or peaceable dispositions of men who have been in the bush nearly two years, robbing and murdering all that time, without compunction or remorse. Hun ger may, in their case, be a present motive to sub mission, but is far from being a guarantee for their future good behaviour, especially when plenty and a quiet life shall have reanimated their strength and courage." MURDER OF CAPTAIN REARMS. The following particulars, given by a rebel named Jack, show the circumstances under which the late unfortunate Captain Hearne, 12th Regiment, lust his lite. Ho was shot, it appears, by liens Brander, at the time this ruffian had entered the colony in rob and murder. The articles taken from the second dead body mentioned were the property of the de ceased officer. The first dead body alluded to was that of Mr. Riley. Frederik Jack said he was living at Theopolis when Hans Brander and Jan Andries came and took the people there with them to the Amatola. He did not wish to go over the Kei, and so he joined Hans Brander, who was going to reside in the Addo Bush with about 40 followers, having only 17 guns between them. They arrived at Drivers Bush one evening at sunset more than a month ago, and slept in a kloof near the road, half a mile only from the military post. On that evening Brander sent Jan Specimen, Snit Jager and two mere to report if any waggons acre out spanned, and they reported in the affirmative. At day light next morning they proceeded up the kloof towards the road, where they heard the rambling of the waggons proceeding towards Trumpeters. Brander then sent two men to see if there was an escort with the waggons, and the answer again in the affirmative. When the wagg ,, ns had passed the bush they sat down at the river, whilst Brander and another went to the road. Soon afterwards Brander seat for them, saying there was a man riding along the road after the waggons on • sort of yellow horse. Before they got to Brander they heard a shot, and then another, and when they got to Brander they found that he had shot a whit. man, whose body was lying in the road, and whose hone Brander had. The deceaseiiwore a long hip jacket, a pair of tanned trowsers, and a black wide-awake hat. The body was stripped of the clothing. They then went along the road about 20 paces when they perceived two men coming along on horseback, upon which they turned into the bush, but Brander told them to remain quiet. The riders were coming along the old road and saw them run into the bush, and turned off the road to the spot where tiny wire. Being startled by the appearance of the two riders they had separated, end Jack then heard two shots fired in quick succession by Brander's party, and soon afterwards three more shots were fired, and Brander called the men out of the bush and told them he had shot one man, but the other had ridden in the direction of the post, sad a party went along the road to over take him. Jack went with this party, and when they came to the rise they saw the two horses galloping towards the post, which for the first time they discovered was there. Hans Brander and others joined them, when they saw a soldier come from the post wearing only his trowsers, shirt, and cap, and carrying • saddle cover. This soldier came up to them and asked what had occasionedthe firing? These words were addressed to Flink Oerson, a Cape Corps deserter. Jut at that time four or five mounted people were coming along the road, Jack ran into the bush, leaving Oenon talking to the soldier. Jack then beard shot fired, and the men who rode up fired into the bush. The party that had gone to the spot where Brander said the dead body was, found it, And brought back • single barrelled rifle, a rifle pistol with a sort of round wheel with imps (revolver), a very small powder flask, a dagger with a carved handle, • pair of tanned trousers seated with leather, • black wide-awake hat, and • cap marked with a number. Jack did not see any of the bodies of the two persons who had been murdered last, but only the body of the man who rode the yellow horse. The articles were divided amongst the people. The party left Driver's Bash that day, and reached Blnekrante that night, and early next moeaing they gait° taher's place, near Robey's , on Hanley's flat. Brander here with three others left his party to reconnoitre if cattle were in the neighbourhood. About the middle of the day he came back, and said he bad waited until the cattle had been turned out of the kraal, and had driven off four head. An English bey was herding the cattle whom he had tried to catch, but the boy saw him, and called out, and three men who were acsi dently riding came to his assistance, and he had been obliged to leave the four cattle behind. They then went to the Kareiga near Webber's place, sleeping that night in the bush. Whilst there they saw a white man with a gun and two dogs walking towards this place. At this time Brander was picking up wood to make • fire, and they sent to him not to make a noise in consequence. Brander sent them word to shoot the man, but as they had been living upon berries and honey for five days, and should not pro- cure any cattle the next day if they shot him, they spared his life. Brander was very angry at this forbearance, and threatened to shoot Jack. The next morning Jack and three more men were told to watch when the cattle were turned out of the kraal, which they did, and pointed out the direction where they had gone. Brander said the rattle were too far off to take, as it was • large fiat, and men were posted on an elevation to report the nearer approach of tha cattle. Brander afterwards took the cattleand went towards the Howie, where he had 7 head killed. He had alas taken the Kaffir herd prisoner. Jack, it appears, had gone to drink when the cattle were taken, and Brander threatened to shoot him if he again absented himself when ordered to take cattle. They cooked some of the flesh and carried away the remainder. Brander liberated the herd, giving him some meat. They went that night to the Kowie busk