The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-28 00:00:00

;lie eVitreSO• A see. , sst I !Mr el" up.," ONlliu/trig lie IMO o.llllllPet Guette,* pattishal may Tea Any sal rndsT 04121. le Use pt A wituee oats mauled tat "The ispesss,"laa!e% Assaisa pa" —l4 st 40sr. 10. Ileassriarlass:,*7 Ise s'sissa Ye del of ;a!Lastice. HIGH WATER AT LONDON MIDGE. Tar n.l-311arriar. Afterwe. at. WA. Tmoasuos-11oralas, 21-43 a Almrsees. IL day LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 28. "Woens." said HOBBES, "are the counters of wise men, but the money of foals." "Give a dog a bad name and hang him" is another version of the same sentiment, enunciated in a form adapted for popular use. In whatever shape, however, the sen timent is expressed, there will be no difficulty in finding examples to attest its truth. Lord June Ressi.tt has just turned up a specimen, for the benefit of an assembly of applauding listeners at Perth. " Democtacv is the subject of his lord ship's elucidation, and we recommend his observations to the general attention of the country centlemen. For just as the poorer and middling classes of our rustic porelation become victims, on their Loudon excursions, to the light-fingered gentry, who make profits by passing bad money for good—so are the higher classes of the same portion of our country men "safe" to be duped by Protectionist and other iolitical " •+uutahcrs," who pass their lives in trick ing their customers with a base currency, which has apparent but no real value. " Democracy 'is the word to be ,played off now by the shut Hers—just as " Protection was before—to cajole the greenhorns. " lhanoeracy" has, for many ears, an ugly sound. Schoolboys mad how the Athenian democracy used to kill all its great men, and how thu Homan democracy could only be kept in order, under the rule of that virtuous body of men the Pa tricians, by being occasionally subject to whole sale slaughter. Since that time we have berg taught that a democracy when it happened to be religious, even, as in England, could be satisfied with nothing less than the beheading of a king, and that when it chanced to be irreligious, as in }ranee, it never rested until monarchs, queens. princes, nobles, and clergy were all murdered. Those of us who have not shut our eyes to the events of tae last fifty years, arc enabled to make some deductions from the sweeping charges urged against democracy in gene ral; nevertheless, many people arc conscious of some thing. like a twinge, when the proscribed term is mentioned. Knowing this the Tories are now crying—" Take care of democracy.' For the benefit of our country friends, we may as well state, that democracy means nothing more nor lea', than a government by the demos—the people. 'Whether, therefore, a democracy is a good or an evil, will depend upon the natnre of the demos. Now, who will say that the English denios is unfit for a large share in the management of its own con cerns? What has this demos been doing for centu ries past in the way of government? Has it not proved its fitness for legislative and executive power by the perfection to which it has brought its muni cipal and parochial institutions? Has it not proved itself to be the only country in Europe fit to be en trusted with full and perfect liberty? But what has this deeso•—or, to call it by its com mon appellation, this " democracy "—done for us in late years ? Who paid almost the whole expenses of the terrible war by which NAPOLEON was crushed ? The democracy, by means of its ma chinery. Who carry on that mighty industrial wo cess by which England is raised to the highest position amongst the countries of the world—a posi tion to which her mere territorial capabilities would never have elevated her ? The democracy. Who feed the intellectual life of England with daily sup plies of mental food? The democracy. Who are our writers, our inventors, our merchants, our manu facturers, our creators of nearly all the vast intellectual and material wealth of the coun try t The democracy. Who, then, will fear the advances of democracy if these arc the step which mark its vsogrees? The demo cracy constructs our machinery, builds our ships, store, our warehouses, floats the treasures of foret e rn countries to 954 :slang, lays down our rereads, invents electric telegraphs, and fills Great Exhibitions with its products. Are these the advances which Lord Joni RUSSILLL is called upon to defend? What then, as the ex-Premier observed, is the nature of the charge ? It cannot mean that a "democracy" of this kind can commit political suicide, and endea vour to destroy those institutions under which it has obtained its privileges and powers. Perhaps, how ever, the charge may mean something else. "It may mean, said Lord JOUN, " something that It behoves us all to wish—that the democracy of this country—meaning by that term the psspia of this country—by increase of power, by beam of intelligence, by increase of wealth, bee increased in that weight which they must have net saly in this eountry, but in each of the countries et the wail ; has gained an increase in that weight width is dae to a people highlLi o nlestrions. sad cs=gsm petals@ by their tat their Wads el is the Isinsisi sal et that pails grabs which is so mush the ma mat of this country. But, gen iftt v e r a li t: tempts to which I have all Med ere um* which, brag] they lave existed. emelt to be die• coward mai rile" this kis pow* el tbe homer el deasauer-tblerowdi el ieleillgease— rowtb el wedlb—tais Sinfiag m in as enlightened, ' sed sae celagual I to carry opinions on in en enlightened weer the government of the world,—this is on increased power which ought to be encouraged and maintained. I will say more. I will say this, that the manner of dealing with this increase of the power* of the democracy could not be according to the old system of restraint, with which I was but too familiar during the first few years after I had entered parliament, in 1817 and 1919, which, besides all the faults of an irritation, peomot rog • that discontent which it was intended to check, pprroov ed utterly powerless, and had much the same e&e.t as if pennons were to attempt to dam up your magni ficent river, with the view of preventing an inunda tion, or to use a simile which applies, perhaps more properly to the present tame, as if persons were to lock up all the gates of the railroad, with the hope that the expellee train would be stopped in its course." Nothing can be truer than this. The of democracy is the great feature of modern times. Look at the commencement of oar history, and we find the democracy little better than hewers of wood and drawers of water. It came to the aristocracy for help at all seasons. It was dependent on the nigher classes of government for order and safety. It could do but httle in the way of thought or action. It took its instruction, its religion, trom the lords of the land. It could not even fight its own battles. It lived by sufferance on the land of its masters. Ora dually it: effected some of the advances of which fre quent mer.tion has been made. It settled in towns, it acquired wealth, it gained some of the elements of order, it exercised some of the functions of govern ment. At last it became a power in the land, it asserted its rights by the side of its former masters. It became feared and courted. It ceased to be de- pendent on others. It taught itself. It exercised its own judgment on religion. It fostered intellect, it made its own laws, it fought its own battles. This is not a progrea that a wise statesman will fear. It is ono which ho must recognise as a gnat fact, and which must enter into all his political ma culation.. The people bare absorbed a vast palm of political power, and nothing is more certain than that they will obsorh more. No person who nob the history of modern times can deny this. Every government, therefore, which is desirous of maintain ing its position will do well to consider that the greet Problem to be solved is, how to make the increase ofl intelligence in the people coextensive with its in-' creams in power. This dose, the mighty strength of the democracy will go to increase the power of the nation and its government, and be the best guarantee for the stability of all that is mast valuable in our institutions. LORD Dzint digkelty d late in the ditessal et Lich booms and semisionle les Ws Idol err neiAlibeessidsowolly insighda he richness. Tarim Um bites essweenistio ci nines and prophllle et his het, sore then be kw. what to do with. He has not pen to till the places, or knees for the garters he :.as to give away. No thing but a sense of the utter worthlessness of those about him could have impelled him to the selfish and sordid attempt to till both hands at a grasp, and, while du . ..thing in the one the solid gains derivable from the, Unique Ports, to stretch forth the other for ilia embroiderLd gown at Oxford. No doubt hg would have seized upon the Commander i ship-in-Chid of the Army, had there been any precedent for such pluralism. Why should not a skilful marshaller of fighting-cocks have the direc tion of fighting companies and corps ? And if a man with little learning and no science is tit to preside over our oldest l:nntrsity, why may not any biget without piety make himself an Archbishop? We recommend the point to Lord Denny's disinterested attention, when York or Canterbury shall next be , come vacant. Bat the plea put in for the PREMIER by his salvo ' cater is good, as fur as it goes. IVhat could he do better ? Ho has hardly bestowed a single office upon one of his partisans, but a voice of derision had been raised at the unsuitableness of the choice. It was only. the other day, when ho named Mr. Swear V ice-Chancellor, that everybody exclaimed what an unfit person to be entrusted at such a time with such a function ! His party consists of the political halt, lame, and blind ; and what can their leader do but take them in tirn, and saddle the public service with them in rotation, according to their priorities of incapability? If Lord DERBY does cot job them in while the recces lean', • hat is to become of them? The session cometh, when no man can job,—at least not snugly or silently ; and the PREMIER has the repute of being what is called "a deucedly good-natured man", who having, for his own personal sport, led some 270 credulous gentlemen out into the Protectionist wilderness six years ago, wishes to give us many of them as ho can the bene fit of official burial before he finally breaks up his shifting camp, and raises the inevitable cry of were qui pat Still there arc sacred things which even Lord Inithe's pity for his helpless dupes will not suffer him to profane. There is the Warden ship of the Cinque Ports, an office of such con stitutional antiquity that the duties are nearly for gotten, and nothing of it remains but the profits, which as votive offerings to patriotism continue to be punctually paid and loyally pocketed. The t'hanoellorship of Oxford is another instance; and we have reason to think that Lord Dealer is now con sidering whether the most noble badge of ST. Gwent does not come within the same discriminat ing rule. He feels, as well he may, that he has no one around him to confer the vast distinction upon, whose nomination will not call forth • tem jt of murmurs and laughter. To do him ustice he seems to have felt this embarrassment, when six weeks ago one Garter fell to his disposal; what must his patriotic perplexity be now that there are two ? There was one solution whereby he might have defied all malicious comparisons with the conduct of his predecessors in power, and have baffled all envious conjectures. Why did he not put bolls on himself? None of his followers dared object ; and as a climax in his confession that his party is quite worn out and good for nothing, none of his opponents ought to have cavilled. The minor offices, however, are a source of still greater embarrassment to the PRIM: MINISTER. Om nivorous as his appetite is for place and for pa y, • ho cannot be expected to app to them aIL 'f here is the Secretaryship of the Board of Trade for ex ample : somebody else must have that. Being 1,,100/. a year moreover, and for life, it is one of the prizes in the political lottery which seldom turn uo for the subalterns. No sooner therefore was it known to be vacant than a fierce scramble com menced among them—the fiercer on account of the fast-spreading conviction—which like an ice-bolt is eating its mute way into the hearts of all concerned, —that the end of Derbyism is at hand. With rueful aspect and importunate tone have candidates be sought Lord DERBY to remember how faithful they have been, how much they sacrificed in purse to get into Parliament, and how many damaging divisions they were found in for his sake. One can imagine some wretched gentleman venturing to remind the noble Earl that it might be the last oppor tunity he would have of compensating his " devoted servant" for all he had done and suffered in the late cause of Protection ; the Pantiax's brusque reply, that he did not like the language of desertion ; and that men who de spaired of victory on the eve of battle were not fit to be entrusted with the command of important posi tions. For the subalterns are not yet allowed to affect a consciousness of any change of policy; aad it is deemed little short of mutiqy to One el thine is anticipate the moment when thee high•ardad leader shall, in presence of the Free-trade boots. give the word, " Up : guards, and—run away !" Meanwhile, who is to be Secretary to the Board of Trade? There have been rumours favourable to the pretender at tar BERESPORD. With a I view to diehiStiell alliances still said to be declined e 4 it Night be desirable, perhaps, to!** a second-rate put Ida the Wa l r ui trat apt I and if there be Urns te mow an effective or prier dmande*ades dodo. it le plain that ems sheep am* be Node. Above wL the indamemat is ebelem af gOng rid at nee aid be ewer el one of the met isas sad triable. seine perms is the petty. ant toe whose nes* • unsehrg_aupteils are ewe le thaw down upon the Timmy MU unite Mink arid owes* All tLeee andieualiame are likely to have buss eat. weighed by that which frequently governs the PIO. NOVI ammo both respecting len awl anemee. He appease to be eadmeated with the Ulm blea that everything should be tested 111 peeled& eoneequeusee to himself as the he of the waste, views, and airingielle hie party. His pelted& is not Tayina Mt Preteatisim or ty Pneeyies. bat Derbyiea: am& be awe le have nose about Ida who have set this Wale hi& LBW of purpose is Wise asthma idolise Leta his forWi eyes, if erallikasy et bead= * him self be found in fan detrelegneet. A sae way have run the entire roust et *Weft from ultas-dsaes crazy to ulteeeebooMmi--U may hare hen abated a Dieeenvo i _awl Oa ea ape** for all Cknreh abusse—a Pretiellsalet in mold*, and a Free trader in plain—by tones Baikal a Whig, a Tory, then Liberal lON d thus mare CAsservative than ever—if W augh - the tingled web of -coloured guilag alue be to Per emit dielft as rowed aut be too vont, me terse Is e W h a is the meter man whom the to banorer. It eigailee nothing that he IT *popsies; he is all the mere likely to stick his pares. He has proved himself diligent and "thfal then wt all the various shifting' and chopping' of bis leader's course; he is therefore the man whom such a self seeking leader would naturally and instinctively wish to grably. We have described a class of politicians, not very numerous indeed, but specimens of which are note. stonily to be met with in the camp of Toryism: and we venture to surmise that one of those who belong to it will ere long be putted as Secretary to the Board of Trade. Would our readers be surprised if Sir EMERSON Tate rarer were the maw? laisu Swim RuiTl23l.--The half-yearly meeting of this mew, wee Mid M tlatasslay at their nine, Kies Minden Terminal Dalin ; J. Redman, is the dais. 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Yeiew awn is the markisi upper of t he lin awl tom* lOU pee lama 'the Walk' at the _spy an sem minguiliai, mg the dinalon loge they will an* be Me rasoleigia what they se sea de stn—sithely, thethodeiagat theathlal asinst Onsider- Mg, thas, that par —,, s is moral ditgrolassis ham nos Mlle the baths mum ea yaw Yee la i o ands& mg way sass to upon that as the nmasen new onsin me apnea ass. ad Ila lawnearn aassasegat by ifra fika of raw esaimaimlisa, that 121111•10 11111,11.1111111 gragnanalitg imind. the bassi feel justified la lantglmg the to that at so erit this railway will be la a et theli Os a fair nous ladl e the they Savo " Attu a brief Almothes e the men was aaasimnil, lap& THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FRANCE. PARIS, 1110),DAT I understand, from a source worthy of all credit, that the Senate has resolved to go as far as Tours to meet the President, un his return to Paris in the middle of next month. The muncipal council of Paris is about to vote the Prince a solemn reception. Thus honours as great as ever were bestowed on Charlemagne will be conferred upon the author of the coup (taut of December 2. Tho only further particulars relative to the plot are contained in the following paragraph in the l'atrur : rThe barrels were all loaded, and there were seized, in addition to a great quantity of powder and balls, several seditious emblems and 'entices. AU the articles seiscd have been sent to the prifzZ:ure, When) lof. Sylvarn Bolt and the Wrocurcur-Ocneral were in attendance with the Prefect, to concert on the measures to be adopted. The entire statement is exceedingly unsatisfactory The public conscience desires to know, if a conspiracy really exists, who are the parties implicated. Until the fullest disclosures are made with regard to the whole affair, people will be apt to suspect that the only conspirator was the man found in the' . house, and that he was hidden there on purpose to be found. As if to envelope the affair in additional mystery, the Patric pnbushes this extraordinary Paragraph The Minister of Police bee ordered the transportation to Cayenne of 11 liberated convicts who had broken their ban. Their names are Legoat, Benton, Legarthe, Fouilliond, Lefort, Mongeot , ilenaff, Coniger, Clcrinot, Vapaille, and a woman named Laureau We are not aware whether this measure has any cunneaion with tier affair at Marseilles. There is an evident purpose in this suggestion, which strongly smacks of an Intention to hush up a matter that will not bear investigation. So little does the government discriminatebetween the value of free and forced applause that M. Sarda Garriga has got up a fête in Guyana to be given to himself, in honour of the Prince President, by the transported felons in that colony. A long pro. gramme of the fdte is published by the offi j cial our nal. These unfortunate men were made to erect three triumphal arches, on one of which was this in scription, " An Prince l'resident, Ice transports recon naissants." The other two arches were in "honour" of M. Duces and M. S. Garriga. A felon wim ap pointed to make a complimentary speech, the gover nor laid the first stone of a column to be erected by felons to the Prince-President, and the day concluded with private theatricals, in which the actors were felons, and a felons' ball. The following telegraphic despatches aro in the Muniteur : Marseilles, &pt. 25, Half-past 5 p.m. The Prince has this moment arrived. The whole impu tation his Rocked on his passage so well as the inhabitants of the adjoining country. Hu Highness is in good health, and was received with cries of " Vire l'Empereur,“ every where repeated on his passage. &pt. 26, Halt past 7 a.m. The Prince arrived at Maneilles yesterday at five o'clock. The city was dressed out throughout the whole line of his passage as tar as the prefecture. Everywhere tho most en thusiastic tries were uttered. The ladies waved their hand kerchiefs, and the men took off their hap; it is impossible to conceive a more cordial greeting. A despatch received to-day states that the Presi dent left Marseilles this morning at nine o'clock, by sea, for Toulon. The police of Bordeaux seized, a few days ago, several hundred tobacco-pipes representing Ledru ' Rollin, Respell, Louis Blanc, Garibaldi, and other republican leaders. Seven men were arrested a few days since at Toulouse for tearing down and obliterating the pla cards posted up by the judicial authorities. The national guard were yesterday called upon for the first time to resume their service. Two sec tions of the Ist battalion marched to do duty at the Etat-Major. The band, which marched at their bead, was more numerous than the detachment itself. The Muniteur contains a decree extending Savings Banks to Algeria. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose 25, clueing at 104.30 ; the Threes rose 40, and closed at 77.90. The railway market was heavy and most of the lines fell 'lightly. PARIS, SUNDAY EYININO. The following are the circumstances which pre ceded the anon of the infernal machine, and the arrest of the conspirators:— For some time past the Minister of General Police has traced the proceedings of a secret society, whose object became daily more and more manifest. This society resolved to attempt the life of the Prince President. The city of Mantilla was chosen for the execution of the plot. M. Sylvan Blot, an inspect of the Ministry of Police, carefullyfcod re minli develorneut and progress of the conspiracy.l The esmelrertion of an infernal machine having been resolved wpm, several members of the society set to work, and the machine was very quickly completed. It is composed of 2ao gun barrels, 4 blunderbuss bar rels of tarp calibre, the whole divided into 2$ par eels. Thaw 28 parcels were, for greater precaution,' Ideposited in 28 different plans until the moment when a soweenlest place should be found for fixing and meseatiag the machine. The sonspiraton then debated upon the this, of this Awe, which natu rally was te he Amsted upon the rade of his High ness tbie Wise Preshisat. at OA fad opera the lean Boor et a home L t hew lent when they ware to transport and want the nmolise in the night the arrival of the Prince at Marseilles. ems Mir tained by the a as irators inclosed this to abandon this first choioe. second locality was asses. Lie the first, it was situated upon the line tithe Prince's mete, in the greet Aix road. The whole of a small hems was takes. It is composed of a wand Boor, and of a first storey divided into two saw with windows looking to the front. The inherit mochine was to be placed in the first floor. It was plumber in one of the rooms on that Boor that it was mind. At the moment when the seizure and the arrests wee islet one of the minipirators wee is the my how whose the infernal maims was. The others were either at *a own boa" or in different places where " The t pollee were moored of Ora prence. he Procurem-General attached to th e Court of Appeal of Aix, who happened to be at Grenoble, being informed by the inspector-general of the Mi nistry of Police of the existence of a plot, went to Marseilles on the 2hd to es Bolt with M. de Bateau, the prefect of the Benshee-de-Rhone, and M. Sylvan Blot, upon the proper measures to be taken. " All the pircea de conviction were sent to the - Lecture, when M. Sylvain Blot, inspector of the Ministry of Police, and the precursor-general of the department, were consulting with the prefect of the Boucheeilu-Rhone on the measures to be taken." • The notice thus given in the D loniteur Ts repro duced word for word in aU the other papers, without any introductory remark, cunitnuniqsk, or indication of source to explain its official cha racter. Only one paper, the Pays, contains a leading article upon the subject. This is signed by M. AmWe de Cessna, and given below. There is nothing in the communication of the Mossi tour to throw light upon the class of opinion from which this plot, if not a scheme of the police, emanates, unless the expression societ. l . secrete be considered u exclusively applicable to the socialists and red-repub licans. Notwithstanding the repugnance of think ing minds to believe in as many comedies as have bees commonly attributed to the machinations of the police on the detection of such dark plots, the mani fest interest of the present government in starting SOON strong pretext for the contemplated change in the title of the head of the state, and the unscrupu lous character of its proceeding, are such as to war rant a certain wariness of belief, under different cir cumstances improbable. In fact the speech of the President at the Tuileries on the 29th of March, which declared that he should not assume " a pom pous title," unless forced by the seditious intrigues (sourdes misoiss) of parties, has always kept people upon the alert for some such discover; as that whsch bee just been made at Marseilles by the Police, and which would in case of wsesuity Aweigh the tau foreseen for the establish mid ke tkimihre. On the other hand, after the repeMed Idler, et infernal machines—the compli cated mmstructim al which renders them peculiarly inapt ler the unismitary act of assassination for which they are &Wiped, while the time required for their sunpkition the workmen to commen surate risk of it sterns highly improbable that any set of ma, seriously bent upon destroying the President's lib, skald have resorted to so clumsy • contrives's. kieuvriule we may be sure that on so delimits a sliest, eithing which is not strictly idol will be named le be printed in any news piper in Frame t so that the public must per force intent themsolvm with the unbalanced statements 28, 1852. of the Moniker. The use made of the event by M. Amedeo de Cesena is such as to encourage a pub lic already sceptical enough oa the reality of this plot, to look upon it as an ingenious figment to Oro a fresh impulse to the cannons% for the Em pire. Tho article of the Pays is as fol lows : In the midst of the narration of the triumphs gad fats which everywhere signalise the progress of Prince Louis Napoleon, the telegraph comes suddeely with an an nouncement that appals the imaginatim by the de pravity which it discloses, and the abyss which it discovers. The peril is pared, the danger was foreseen by the vigilance of the authorities who watch over the repose of the country end the life of its saviour. Is it not already too much, a great deal too mush, for the honour of the nation that the idea of so horrible a plot, of so monstrous • crime, could possibly have arisen In shaman heart In a French soul ? Jul nO, they who la their Bevies delirium emit ;moo Ifiligined 1 Ob. ,erne of blood and aerial, this teens of mourning and carnage, which, had God, for the punishment of France and the world, permitted the execrable project, of which Mar- scales was to have been the theatre, to be esecuted, would have terrified the population of that city, have nothing human or French about them. It is with a feeling of deep grief and profound indignation that Europe will learn that there still exists • factious race so degrade) and so perverse as to become assassins, in seeking through instruments of . vengeance and destruction, aptly named infernal machines, the odious triumph of we know not what doctrines, which belong to no petty so they belong to no nation. One would wish to believe, for the honour of humanity, disgraced by inch monsters, that there is more of madness than ferocity in the fury which arms their murderous hands ; and yet what refinement in crime, what frightful determination of purpose in this machine, which, to attain with more cer tainty the destruction of a single man, scatters death among thousands of ciders*. What a depth of wickedness! More fortunate than when, fifty years ago, the Emperor Napoleon, then first consul, narrowly escaped perishing in Paris, at the apogee of his power and renown, by an at tempt of the same nature, the authorities have prevented the explosion of the infernal machiae at Marseilles. But the peril which has threatened the days of Louis Napoleon, can only make the nation understand the better how much it ought to thank Providence for having raised hint up in the days of anarchy and misery to save us from the abyss towards which we were hourly marching, urged on by the wind of February. It is at this moment above all others that we must feel how intimately the destinies of France are linked with the life and power of the nephew of the emperor. If the impious bonus of assassins had snatched the life of Louis Napoleon from the love of the people that crowd to see him as he passim what a void would there not have been in the state? Who CM venture in cold blood to measure the ex tent of the loss? Who can dare to calculate the frightful coasequencee of such • catastrophe ? Yes, low can we not tremble with horror when we imagine to our wives the spectacle which the success of such an attempt would have substituted for that picture of the homage of the multitude which is as hymns of gratitude and enthusiasm chanted by • whole people ? What fear would have at once taken possession of every heart, and how would this pomp, this joy, and this serenity have Seen instantly changed into images of terror and desolation ! But God, who protects France, has crushed the plot of the south. Let us bless God for having preserved to us the magnet prince who alone can give us a long future of repose and prosperity. The following telegraphic despatches are in the 1 Muntteur : Avignon, Sept. 24, half-put 6.—His Highness arrived at Avignon at half-put four. An immune crowd received him with cries of " Vire l'Empereur." The Prince will go to the ball at the Hotel do Ville, at 9 o'clock. The en thusiasm turpnees all expectation. The peasantry of the Lower Alps came down by thou sands from their mountains, and distinguished themselves particularly by the warmth of their aoelematioss. Joy was depicted upon every countenance. The mime cry in every mouth, upon every Sag,'" Vire l'Empereur," every where " Vive l'Empereur." The Prinoe, after having melted the di&•mnt part of the town, has just returned to the pre fecture. Avignon, Sept. 24, 11 o'clock.—The Prince has returned from the ball, where he danced. The whole city is illumi nated. The crime( " Vive PEcapereur " hays never ceased to echo with pr .digious force and unanimity. His High ness is in good health. Avignon, Sept. 25, half-past 11, a.m.—The Prince has taken his wet in the railway train. He is ranted by the same acclamations as on his arrival and daring his stay. Avignon, Sept. 25, noon.—The reception given to the Prince at Avignon leaves nothing to be desired. It has been admirable in every point. I have just left his imperial highness in excellent health at the boundary of my depart. meat. . . . . (Interrupted by night upon the aerial' s lines.) Without drawing any inference whatever front the circumstance, I call attention to the fact that no telegraphic despatch has terminated in this abrupt manner since the commencement of the progress. The Monileur states that the Count do Saint- Marsan, archbishop in perilous, formerly a nuncio in several places, Ina been charged by the Holy Father to deliver a letter to the Prince President on his journey from Marseilles to Toulon. At Romano, M. Planche Beaticaire, the cure, accompanied by his clergy in their robes, received the President at the door of hie church, :and ad dressed him as follows : Monseigneur,—The clergy of the parish of Saint Barnard (Drome) hes the honour to lay at the feet of your imperial highness the hemmed its most profound riNet. It fer vently prays for the preservation of your eetenoe, for the continuance and establishment of your authority. It re commends our ancient and monumental church to the °m ind era tion of our well-beloved sovereign. The Prince replied that he would attend to the recom mendation. ------- At Valence, a ladv named Madame Alvin., with her two daughters, tell at the President's feet and begged for the pardon of her husband, transported , as a politinal offender. It is said that the Prince promised to comply with her r e q uest. The municipal council of Dipn, in an address call ing for the Empire, have used a novel form, with the object of dipensing with any new appeal to the people. They say : considerbg that the Prime Lads Napoleon bee deemed well or Frame by saving bar ken the abyss late wish the fray of paella had slagged bee, sad essisidering that, be. eldes his runs' =Mil awl Ws eareisse peadued the may.raw lash Narbea c _by elder et AMY II at the demi= Osasalensa of IMsea demi Ibe year 12, sanetined tri WWI enempule the kgallases eureeen. wive et the dynasty at the Imams Nevins . kb eagle, of glorious wasaery. we the wide SO the Mute should talc* measures to eoa4 mesa the Mee hereditary imperial power with the hest possible delay. The elections for the 3rd and 4th mrenmsoriptions of Paris have been going on to-day with the greatest calm. M. Doumet, the mayor of Cette, has been elected a member of the Corps Legislatif for the Ist electoral circumscription of the Remit. An unprecedented event in the history of universal suffrage has occurred at Herbignac in the Loire-In ferieure. Not a single elector presented himself to ' vote for the municipal councillors. The polling clerks, under these circumstances, did not think fit to vote themselves, and the electoral urn was taken away empty. A memorandum issued by the Minister at War states that his recent circular directing the postpone ment of the usual furloughs until after January 1 is applicable only to non-commissioned officers and privates. Generals commanding divisions are there fore at liberty to grant six months' furloughs from Oct. 15 next to officers in the proportion fixed by the general regulations. By a decision of Sept. 8, approved by the Prince President, the pay and allowances of staff officers and officers commanding corps are considerably aug mented. The increase is to have effect retrospectively from the Ist of July last. Tho gratification to a ge neral of division upon opening a campaign is to be 6,000 f. A considerable number of bullets was seised by the gendarmes on the 20th instant, at Vernon, in the Earn, at the house of a day labourer named Vincent Juste. _ _ _ Letters from Guadeloupe announce that M. Charles Dein, the new judge, continues to be badly received by the entire population. Not one of the judges for whom he left cards returned his visit. The Court of Appeal has discontinued to sit in civil oases, because the barristers persist in their resolution not to plead before that court so long as M. Dain continue. a member of it. It is still hoped in the oolooy that the President of the Republic will be induced to revoke the appointment. Pneos Paskewitah, the son of Field-Marshal Pas kewitch, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army and viceroy of Poland, passed through Chalons sur-Swine on Thursday, on his way to Geneva. ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states, from Cagliari, 18th inst., that a rich coal mine has just been discovered in the vicinity of the village of Go newt. The quality is said to be excellent. Several companies have already applied to the Sardinian go- Torment for concessions of land, for the purpose of sinking shafts, in the hopes of finding more of that precious mineral. TUSCANY. Telegraphic Aloes for the use of the public were opened on the Ist inst. at Florence, Leg hor n, Luca, has, and Sienna. They are all in communication with Modena and the Austro-Uermanio GERMANY. AUSTRIA. The Vienna Prone of the 22nd inst. contains a monitory article on Belgium. The youngest of European states is reminded that it is not entitled to Iplay the moderator in European politics, but is bound to conform itself to the ordcr•policy of the greater states. It adds that Belgium is not in the number of those states whose existence is guaranteed in the I treaties of ml 5 : its later independence is only an indulgence granted by the great powers, and one of the most essential conditions of the prolongation of that indulgence is the removal of all per cos w/....05i, presence en the wit laity h 0 prejudicial to Belgium's neighbours. According to the Breslau G«:elte, General Ilaynau has been summoned to Vienna by order of tho Em peror; his Majesty considering that the demonstra tions which his presence has excited in certain places are calculated to compromise the honour of the Aus- , trim uniform. The same authority says that the Em peror of Austria has made proposals of marriage to the Princess Carole Wass. THE ZOLLVLItEIN. BERLIN, Seer. 23. • Theconfercnce of the coalesced governments at Mu nich terminated on the 20th inst. Deliberations were held not only on the reply to Prussia's last declara tion, but also on the course to be pursued by the coalition in case of a separation of North and South Germany. The news of the separate conference held by Prussia on the 17th inst. is reported to have pro moted unanimity among the members of the coalition. The official Aualrinn Correspondence comments on the event in very plain and angry terms, and asks whether this step of Prussia's is to be the conclusion of the old comedy or the commencement of a new one? "If Prussia," it continues, "is so ill-advised as to provoke a breach, we might at least have ex pected that it would have the courage to avow its measures, and notify to the other states, in unequi vocal form, this breach, and the motives which have led to it. The pretext, however, is not well selected. Negotiations have been broken on account of the disregarding of a term fixed arbitrarily by Prussia' alone. In a question involving the welfare of Prussia and all its relations to the other federal states, one should think that a rupture would ensue only on considerations founded in the nature of the interests at stake as a consequence of the irroconcileableness of conflicting interests. But to break off on account of non-appearance at a pro scribed time is something new in diplomacy. Are the monarchs and princes of Germany cited before a tribunal at Berlin, that Prussia presumes thus to see-1 tence them in default ? This act, wherein the pas-, sions of an impetuous party have overruled the dis cretion of the cabinet, clearly exposes the position in which l'russia would fain henceforth place the coalition governments, and betrays the reason why it so strenuously resists the admission of Austria. Prussia aims at enforcing unconditional obedience." This concluding remark is unfounded; but unquestionably Prussia will be very hardly pushed in tho controversy which must now commence, became it has really not expressed its real motives. M. von Manteuffel pretended to be anxious for the preservation of the Zollverein, while, from the beginning, as I believe, he desired to split it; ho raised difficulties chiefly on questions of form, while directed by considerations of deep political interest ; but he did all this not oat of any want of courage in face of Austria and the coalition, but because it was the only way of getting the court and the Prussian people, who did not appreciate the real merits of the case, at least to back his policy. He has by degrees reconciled all parties in Prussia to the idea of splitting the Zoll verein, from which at its commencement they would have ooiled, as from an act of wanton destruction. The article referred to further says:—" It must be clear, too, to Hanover, that the September treaty assumes a character which could not have been con templated by the Hanoverian statesmen who signed it. Instead of a general German Zollverein, it leads to a restricted North-German union under Prussia's protectorate, which, with its unconditional tendency to free trade, must entirely isolate Prussia and its North-German dependencies from the rest of Ger many. Does Hanover desire to be numbered amongst these Prussian dependencies severed from the body of Germany? It has still the decision in its hand. It need but raise its voice energetically in support of tho compromise offered from Munich, and thereby prevent the dismemberment of Germany, and save its own independence." It is very true : Hanover has a casting vote in the question, and we are very anxious to learn how it will decide. The Ilanoverian Gazette contradicts, "as obviously incredible," the report " that M. von Schele, while at Berlin, had promised to support Prussia's mea sures under all eventualities." lam informed that the Prussian ministry does not entertain any appre hension of defection on the part of Hanover. I am informed that the Prussian ministry does not entertain any apprehension of defection on the part of Hanover. The concluding remarks of the Austrian Currc spondence would be highly consoling, if we could only put full faith in them. "At all events," it says, " these negotiations will preserve a peaceable cha racter ; they carry in their lap no chances of war. Nothing is more ridiculous than jingling with the sabre every minute at a conference oa custom-house Weir& We can assure the public that all attempts to ahem it by raising apprehensions of warfare are adesrable party tricks. If the customs question be left to be settled by passion and obstinacy, many lams for German commerce and industry may ensue ; and this is deplorable enough for everybody who has a heart for Germany's welfare. But there will Ibe no war. On this point people may be perfectly easy." Wo will devoutly wish that the author of these assurances is equally well-informed and sincere. But still we must remark, that this is the language which the Austrian official ,press would hold if Aus tria were on the very point of marching its army towards the Prussian confines. A letter from Frankfort of Sept. 23 eve : Several arreme made this morning at Borheim have occa sioned a great sensation, because the individuals arrested belonged to a politico-religious society which his assumed the denomination of " The Children of God." The chief of the society was only arrested after having made a passive resistant*. DENMARK. The concession of the government for tho construc tion of the Schleswig Railroad by Mr. Pete has been officiallypublishect It gives the contractor an exclusive right in the line fur the conveyance of goods and passengers for 100 years from the date of the opening of the road. During that period no other concession will be granted for a line in the sumo direction, under the condition that the road shall bo completed within three years. It will ruo from Flensburg, over Husum to Tonningen, and from Husum to Rendsburg; the tract from Flensburg to Tonningen to be oompletod first. CLERICENWELL BATHS AND WASIIIIOI7BES.—Last night a special vestry meeting, convened in compliance with a requisition numerously signed, took place at tho vestry-room of St. James's church, and was very numer ously attended. Mr. Charles Hill, one of the church. wardens, presided. Mr. Mence moved " That it is the opi nion of this vestry that great social benefits and advantages would result from the erection of baths and washhouses in this populous parish ; and we hereby agree to adopt the act of parliament, 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 74, believing that the ng out the provisions of such act will be conduciv e to the health, comfort, economy, and happiness of the inhabi tants." He expressed his belief that the establishment would not entail any burden on the parish. About 10,0001. would be required for the purpose. This would be bor rowed on security of the rates. The interest at 3 per cent., OT 3001., would have to come out of the rates for perhaps two yeah ; bet the increase to each rate would not be more then a farthing in the pound. The establishment, when opined, would, pay the interest, and ultimately the money beggewed, after which the profits would go in reduction of the poor rate. Mr. Mason seconded the resolution, and re hired te the baths in other parishes as highly remunerative. Mr. Lee moved en amendment, declaring that the proposal was "highly Improper," and that the question should be adjourned for six months. No one seconding the amend ment, it fell to the ground. Mr. Bestow, 'Mr. Holliday, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Paris, and Mr. Powley spoke in favour of the motion. Mr. Brigs, the keeper of the baths on Pentonville-hill, said he could assure the meeting that the success of baths was no experiment ; he hoped to see them established. The motion was put and carried, with a single dissentient, in a meetias of about 140. A rots of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. The resolution of the gaieties will be forwarded in due course to Mr. Wab = r ho Home Secretary. On his approval being signified, vestry will be convened fot the election of commis sigmas under the act, I UNITED STATES. The accounts just received by the America include the following: The New York State Agricultural Show concluded on the 10th inst. The New York Times says of it: Everything has passed off well. No serious accident has occurred to sadden the occasion. Tens of thousands were assembled to compare products, and receive mutual in. formation. The effect of these gatherings is distinctly marked in the rapid progress of our state in the science eg agriculture. A few years since the Dualisms, 8,1111 Devon.... and Aynhires were unknown, almost, this side the Atlantic.. except through English publications; while our old native American stuck, from careless management, wean likely soon to become almost worthless for yoke or sharable, Farming and grating was a sort of make-s Lift liu.duess, to be followed by those who could do nothing els.. Skill, tact, and above all, education, were deemed useless accomplishments for those who followed the plough or tended the herd, indeed, "book learr.ing " was looked upon as rather detrimental to the plodding agriculturist who " must live by work." The spirit of inquiry wia aroused at last. A better (lay dawned : a few enterprising indivi thuds boldly assumed that farming was something more I than senseless drudgery and that well-applied knowledge of the simple principles by which the seed gl rrniweek and sprouts, and earth, and air, and water yield up their . te mente for transformation into grass, and grain, o r beef, would lighten the farmer's labours, fill his ts , C,.,ts, sur round his home with then unheard-of rural comforts, end elevate his profession to the position it occupied when the I Creator gave it as his chosen path for man's happiness the most " used ul, most healthful, and most natural employment' lof the created. For awhile their temerity was r. warded with ridicule and abuse. llut the good seed took deep root. and the thrifty tree soon spread its rapidly de velopuig branches all over the land. The chemist, the mechanic s and the inventor sate new fields fur their labour, and im. proved implements of agriculture, and more segeotiiip methods of marling on the operations of the farm wars introduced. Agricultural societies were founded to stimu late those efforts for inaprosement. The Veils, and Ali e n s , J and Sherwood', and ewetta crossed the seas to get new tenants for their stables and grazing lands. Fine stock was Introduced into the country at great risk and taorbi. tart cost. Then followed thou agricultural fairs, to name and encourage the new born zeal; until now, as we look back from the lofty eminence we have already attained, we wonder that a pe,ple always so ambitious and aspiring in every other department of life were content for so many yearn to dwell in the deep slough we see in the short dis tanco behind us; and, thus looking and contemplating, wo gather newfstrength andlenergy to aid in climbing the loftier heights of advancement our enlightened and quicken 4 vision sees still to be attained. The British consul in Acapulco appears to havo come into unpleasant collision with the local Mexican authorities. The correspondent of the Neu. I , ,rk Daily Times writes : Acapulco. Monday, August 21, 1 , 5.",2. Since my last some things of importance have occurred which may have sonic weight on the disposition which must shortly be made of the crumbling republic. Yen are already acquainted with the course of the authorities towards the United States consul, Mr. lice, on his departure for Pa nama. Now it is her British Majesty's consul. Thorns, Fuller, Esq., who is in trouble. Mr. Webb, of y our city, built four schoenen for Mexico u revenue vessels—two for the Atlantic side and two for the Pacific. One of three, which arrived six months since at Acapulco, was placed under the command of Senor Don Christiana Hansen, a Swede, who has a commission in the Mexican navy. Don 'Jensen had mounted on his schooner a 32- pounder, and the vessel carries 30 men. Some three months since the captain was ordered down to Tehuantepec, to keep a watch on "los Yankees," who were eusneted of an intention to roost around the quiet precincts of that hotly-contested part of the globe; but the Don getting into some cliffieulty with " los Caballeros" of the village, was obliged to take his departure. He tame to Acapulco, when he found orders from Minister Ramirez and l'reaidcnt Arista to proceed t Mazatlan. Men were scarce in Aca pulco, and hard to be got, especially on Mexican promises to pay. Don Hansen, therefore, following the example of Old England herself, set about impressing men into tho service and wised four English sailors, belonging to a British ship in the harbour. A demand for their release was tom ' plied with, but the Don returned the same night, and took off the same men a second time, and even tired into the boat in which they happened to be to brins her to. The British Consul on hearing this went to the Acting United States Consul, Henry J. nice, and requested him to accompany him to the commander-in-chief, Oen. Moreno, to remonstrate against the outrage. The interview took place, and a good deal of hard talk passed, and the meeting adjourned, the American Consul saying but little. The British Consul has been insulted most outrageously by the authorities here so many times that he has deter mined to resign unless immediate redress is obtained, and in this he is right. No man should be required by his government to remain in such a place without pro tection. Busiaess is extremely dull. The steamers pass up and down with but few passengers, and everything is at • stand still. We are gratified to learn that Sir Charles Lyell, the geologist, arrived at Halifax by the last steamer, and immediately proceeded to visit the county of Albert in the province, now becomiag celebrated for its mineral wealth. As this province requires only to be b e tt er k nown t o t a k e a much higher rank than has hitherto been given to it, we look upon the visits and upon the publicity given to the opinions of such gentlemen as of very great importance. The opinion of Sir Charles will go far to settle the muck disputed coal or asphaltum question, as if this mineral is in the place where it has been formed, it will belong to the coal family; and on the other hand, if it has been melted and ejected into its present situation, it will be entitled to the name of asphaltum. We understand that Sir Charles is on his way to the United States, and will be accompa nied on a tour through the "far west" by Lady Lyell,who arrived yesterday morning from Halifax, via W incisor, and proceeded to Fredericton with Sir Edmund and Lady Head. —Si. John's (New Betinswick) Courier, Sept. 9. CANADA. The Quebec correspondent of the Mmtreal Ilmild writes: 0 41:EBICC, Seri'. d. The postponement of the Clergy Reserve debuts has taken the great subject of interest out of the proceedings of the week. To-night the house adjourns early, on ao- count of a very large dinner given by Mr. Speaker; and on Friday, to which night the clergy res erves were postponed, the whole legislative body proceed to Montreal, to celebrate the opening of the Sherbrooke Railway. The postpone- ment was caused by the delay in printing of a return to an address for correspondence, which I have now before me. It is too long for you to print entire, and a large part is of seoondary interest. The first document is by Sir John Pakington, to Lord Elgin, dated April 22. Sir John lays: My Lord,—By a despatch of my predecessor, Earl Grey, of the 11th July last, you were informed that her Majesty's then servants found themselves compelled to postpone to ranother scission the introduction into parliament of a bill giving to the Canadian Legislature authority to alter the existing arrangement with regard to the clergy reservet. 2. With reference to that information I have now to in ' form you that it is not the intention of her Majesty', pre ' sent advisers to propose such a measure to parliament this 'session. 3. They have, in the first place, taken into consideration that since any opinion upon this difficult subject was ex pressed by the legislature of Canada a general election Mu taken place in the province, and it u yet uncertain what the views of the new Assembly u to the disposal of this clergy reserves may be. 4. But, independently of that circumstance, her Ma jesty's government feel serious doubts, how far they would be able to give their consent and support to an arrange ' ment, the result of which would too probably be the diver sion to other purposes of the only public fund, except that devoted to the endowment of the Roman catholic church, which now exists for the support of divine worship and re ligious instruction is the colony. 5. While it appears to her Majesty's government that under the distribution authorised by the Clergy Reserve Act, 3 and 4 Vic., chap. 78, of the proceeds of the sales of the reserved lands, no ground is left for reasonable jealousy or complaint of undue favour to particular religious deno minations, they think it may possibly be desirable, on or• count of the changes which may be effected in the charac ter of the population, through extensive emigration or other causes, that the distribution in question should Inc front time to time reconsidered. 6. Any proposals of such a nature, her Majesty's govern ment would be willing to entertain. But they are of opinion, that they could only regard any measure which would place it in the power of an accidental majority of the colonial legislature, however small, to divert for ever from its sacred object the fund arising from that portion of the public lands of Canada which, almost from the perii..l of the British conquest of that province, hu been set apart for this religious instruction of the peo ple, with the most serious doubt and hesitation how far they should be justiiiid in advising her Majesty to give her consent to such an enact ment. 7. These views on the part of her Majesty's government, with respect to a proposal so deeply and permanently affect ing the intemts of Canada, cannot but derive additi.mal strength from the numerous petitions, having many thou sand signatures, which have been addressed both to the Queen and tp the parliament of the United Kingdom praying that tho existing act, relating to the clergy reserves, may continue in form. Oa the 3ril May, Mr. Mocks wrote Sir John rakington from Morley's hotel Sir,—l have learned, through the medium of the public journey, that her Majesty's government has determined to take no action on the question of the clergy reserves during the present session of parliament ; and however much I may regret that decision, I am wall aware that under the circumstances it is irrevocable. I have already had an op portunity of urging, during the interview with which you were good enough to honour me, the importance of this long vexed question as speedily as possible. It was my duty to state that the number of those who insist on the present settlement is very small ; and 1 may now add, that one of the leading opposition newspapers in Upper Canada, and in the interest of the Church of England, has Come out distinctly for • new scheme of distribu tion, I would press on her Majesty's government more formally what 1 have already urged in my conversa tion with you, that if, as his been alleged, the present