The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-03 00:00:00

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MOH WATER AT LONDON DR I D OI. Tale Dee —Vaddid& 1 1 . ram- ---AN I "" 4 2b. l• +our,. —*xis. 331. lAa. --...Addrsaase da. 33a. LONDON, 711.1041, JANUARY 3. le the course of some remarks which we lately took occasion to make on the elaborate scheme of judiciel reform so oracularly announced by a morning oontemp.eary, we confined ourselves solely to the pelt tics! and constitutional aspect+ of the question. In this point of view we strongly expressed a decided objection to centralitiog in the person of one func tionary, and that functionary a member of the lees popular branch of the legislature, those powers and those administrative duties which ought only to be exercieed ueder the immedia.e supervision lied con trol o f the repreeentatives of the people in the Coat MOUS House of Parliament. Bet the tenor of our obeervations will have been each neisepprehend , d if it be for a moment *apposed that they 'ego- any ins liability on our part to the urgent necessity for judicial reform, or to 0 - .• great berollt likely to accrue from the existence of a state officer charged will the superintendence of such branches of the administration of the law as would harmooiss with our judicial system. What we op posed was retroeressiim under the guise of reform — the tenets:nos to • cabinet !Moister and a peer, of those important duties of surveying and reporting upon the *tats and evlsninistratirn of the law, direct ing government reenations, arid advising the crown in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy. There are three great objects to be a med at by thee- who would remodel the existing system of our ju;inal administration in its highest departments: the find is to obtain the undivided energies of a first rate legal fuLctiouary for presiding over our courts of equity ; the second, to aubetitute a permanent and satisfactory court of supreme appeal for the present etc •ssioral and most uneatisfactory tribe' et now afforded by the lew lords, or as was the case last setaio^, by the law toil, of the Haase of Peers; the third re to procure the appointment of a fun. tionary. charged with those impotent duties of legal and judiral administration which ere now thrown male Home Secreteries, who are rarely lawyers, law officers wl o are very °leen cot states. Len, and legal members of H o eol aed Parliamentary comineoions who barn tenet. time, inclination, nor abiiity fir the eght performance of those dutes which the skilled serve., of the ablest man sexing in a permanent espocity and under the praisera of personal responsi hitt, would not be mere than sufficient to diecLarge. I et the ttole object* thus inilicred, the two :maker, viz., the npp iintmeot of a chief judge in equ'-y and the ec netinoion of an I ffective court of appeal, have hitherto &Inbred the greatest share of attention sang practical law reformers. The project fur dividing the legal and poli tical inaction of the Chancellor, which has been of I .te paraded as as original when-, ism far from isairg new, that in different forms it Ass been softie and again preeted on the attention of tt e li-F,:ature. la lft33 Lord BROVUIIAM laid on the table of the Hone of love.; • hrel and ill-considered bill for ap pointing a chief judge in Chancery, and coustiinting • court of appeal : the measure obviously was one which would Lot work, and the bill was drooped. In 1 , 135 a plan for ee:ebli.hing apolitical Lord Cliencel lor and a ch ief _ j ade in nutty was under the consi de ration of Lord MEnnouareen governaseet : in 1830 Lord COTTKRDAN broeght in two bills for the mo vie- of earryirg this projiict into effect. and for eats bli ,ping a court of appeal which should bil provided over by the Lord Chaeoellor, be enabled to sit after a pr rogation. and have power to call in the equity judges to aid ha delineations. Tame bills were met on &division. It was in tl 0 coarse of the debete upon this mese ' nre of Lied Corratottraa that Lord LANGDALE proposed a pin which be never embodied in a bill, bat of which the following were tho pro.cipal bends: I. The Lord Chancellor to be confined to judicial fuectima of wiping/ jurisdiction in the Court of Chancery—to he ' in far, • clf.et judrito in null. 2. The Ilene of Lords to be a court of appeal ter all, nub perotonent judges, consisting of • L o rd Presi dent and I ed. assistant., and with power of sitting to hear appals neowithstandieg a Foregone*, or diselotion. 3. A L ird Keeper to bo appointed, with out any judicial power, but with the treat seal and all the poOticel functions, including the appointment of judges and the nomination of magistrates. Ile oaa, horde, to be charged with the duty of conductiig and dirieting ii.quirie a into the state of the law ; pre paring and bringing forward all bills intredem d with the sanction of the government. and examining and tem/sling on all bills lin nylit into poriOnneet by iatli• 14 Lot modem s if tither boas', 'fide latter portion of Lord LANGDALE'S plan relat ing to the appointment ard functions of the Lord Keeper, is identical in rubstsnee, almost in words, with the proji ct propounded with all the pomp of an original discovery in the Tinos a few deys doer. Of this project we have alreaciy spoken our opinion. With regard to that part of Lord LUIGDALE'S satin whirl proposes the establishment of a did' judge in equity, and the constitution of en effective and permanent court of copulae appeal, it is entitled to far more favourable consideration. Toot the Court of Chancery should be presided over by a permanent legal fanoionery selected fur that °Co solely with refire:me to judicial qiiallealuts, may now be regarded es a point on ohiedi all those who have dictated attention to the subject are anatimoasly sassed; we took minion tome time back to record mr decided opinion io ill favour, areompseied by the expression of a wish that the hig:i judicial ahiloy of Lied CIUMWORTII might jet be seemed fur the country in an office which he is so well qoaliticd to die-barge. Whether the functiene of the thief judge la cepity should b, confined, as Lord LAFGDALE proposed, to matters of original jurinktioc, or en. deer he should also, as at present, eaurtain sp. peels from the other eqaity yudgee, is a question which would very nrieh turn upon the 7:email:Op of dn.y organising a supreme court of appeal, which alloald at one i form a tribunal of ultimate retort in equity, and also absorb to itself the jurisdiction at rr.S as exercised by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Howe of Lords. So far back as 1833, Sir EDWARD BoODEY—Ito very rash or iotimperatt law reformer—aneom no! it a. the deliberre cenvicoon of hie mature experience Poet "no ef e? ire court of appeal had Sec one a Dec s lay which could no lorgerbe dispensed with." Every ear that Las mimeo intervened must have added eireogth to that conviction in every mind at all eine, reset with toe question. It soy were left arca still required fatten evidence en the point, tont evidetee mast have been amply supplied by the session of 1850, when the supreme court of appeal Or he British empire became mounts in the per son of one vivacious and volatile man of 'setae who lieei to display the range of his versatility Ly ;len ino to hear and jades the weightiest of awes is the brief intervals which he could at atoll fon t e impor tunities of political gossip, eked toe urgent claims of a eientirarious corresposideece. Lord DROCOHAIII was v 'TT wrath at the irrevinenn with which we then so..kei of his perf o rmance of the appellate (section of the House of Lords; bat even he, in his calmer mo menta, mast admit that, though the judge cn the `on oine alluded to might be faultless, the jalicial room could hardly be satisfactory. Lord LexoneLx s remedy for this s'ate of things is to here one supreme and virtually reennatent unit of appeal, with • paid Lord Presideot and two i l e.. 4 Lade Assistant; the two latter pit Leceesiely 1 4 be peers, but to be set c'ed from amongst loose errors meet *minor ! in the different bean:hes of the ow to be administered by the Supreme Court. The crest objectim to this scheme is the expense it would involve : a simpler, more economical, and THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1851. equally effecteel plan would be to confine the new fanctimaries to a paid Lord President, to require the I Lord Keener , or political Lord Chancellor, as part of his official duty to act as assessor in the clod of appeal ; to require the same seivice in rotation from all law lords avid Indian or other judges who are in th•: receipt of retiring pensions ; and to impose the like duty on certain of the acting common Low judges, whom, time, it may be feitly expected, since the ex tension of the county courts jurisdiction, will be far km occupied than heretofore with the routine bus:- Dem of Westminster-hall. By some sash plan se this an a4equate and efficient • supreme court of appeal might be constituted with out increasing the judicial expenditute of the country by more than the difference between the salary et the proposed Lord President and that of the additional Vice-Chancellor, whose serv:ces would become unnecessary if this scheme were adopter', but who is, on all hands, agreed to be ioevitable if the present state of things bo allowed to continue. THE correspondence between Mr. BENNETT'S fr'enee and admirers and the Bishop of LONDON has been published. On their part it is laboured and un satisfactory ; on his brief and inconclusive. They appeal to the utter pecuniary ruin—to " the deprivation of the means of subsistence "—which re s'i.goation will bring on Mr. BENNETT, he having given his all to St. Barnabas; and they promise obe dience on his part to the bishop in all matters where the law of the church leaves either ordinary or in cumbent discretion. He, having fortified himself by prayer, and finding in their ratement " no suggestion calculated to change or modify his opinion of the princip'es which Mr. BENNETT maintains, and upon which be has declared himself unalterably deter. minedlto conduct the services in his churches," per shes in accepting that gentleman's resignation. Whereupon, they inquire what they are to under stand by " the principles" so referred to as insuper able difficulties on the Bishop's part. Bud to this knotty irquiry Dr. BeusfelEno " declines" giving any reply. And so the matter rests ; the public being left in ignorance whether Mr. BENNETT will resign or not—a point the most unsatisfactory of all. On this correspondence a few remarks only are needful. And first, as to the appeal ad msericor dion made to the Bishop. Mr. BENNETT, it Deems, eacauraged by the success of St. Paul's, by its crowded congregaticns, and by their pecuniary libe -1 rally, has not only invested alibis fortune in St. Bar nuke, but is under heavy liabilities in respect of it, its schools, and presbytery. St. Barnabas WAS then, to some extent,a pecuniary speculation of the reve rsed gentleman's. Not, to be sure, in the eenee in which the Stock Exchange speculates for a rise or fall in consols ; but in laying out hie money on St.Bar 'tabu, Mr.BENNETT sought a compeent return for his inverement, a sufficient income, the means of gratify- I log his charitable inclir.ations, the opportunity of in dulging his praselytieing seal, his love of power, and hie ecclesiastical ambition. No doubt he imposed on himself great labour, incurred serious responsibility, and ran mach risk in transferring hie money from the Three per Ceuta. to St. Barnaboe. But success in St. Barnabas wou:d have repaid Mr. BENNETT a hundredfold; it would have given him papal authority ia Belgravia, might have workei a revolution in the church of England, might have changed the fortunes of this nation, and, at all events, would have made i Mr. BENNITT " monarch of all he surveyed" in Pim lico. Such was the coup Mr. BENNETT threw ; in it be has been disappcintel. A panic has overtaken him just as it did railway speculators in 1847; and he has no claim new to be helped out of his losses at the expense of public sentiment end oeieion. Far from us or our readers be the suspicion that Mr. BENNETT is a mercenary men; that in thus rashly venturing his all on St. Bernabas he was meisly seeking there that 10 per cent. he could not i get elsewhere. But, most certain it is, that Mr. BEN NETr and all his party ale darirg and ambitious ecclesiastics; that they seek to deify a church of which, when deified, they would wield the power as its high priests; that its deification would con for on them authority, influence, and as much mosey as they want. And it is in this sense Mr. BENNETT spe culated in St. Banishes; and having in that specula tion failed, be may be the object of our pity, but he has co claim whatever to our sympathy. Fur in the failurc of him and hiP, list our eat ty. All we can, therefore, do for him is to recommend him to the care and attention and benevolence of Sir JOHN HARRING TON crd the Belgravian ri , nalists ; warning them, however, that if a sub cription be opened, emelt will be the contribution of their neighbour, the Bi-hop of Oiroeu. 01 his friend's reclamation to the Bishop, this must at least be said, that any thing differing more from Mr. BENNETT's letter to Lord JOHN RUSSELL cannot be imagined. That was bold, hee'oring, audacious ; this is wheedling, humble, and coaxing. That was the production of a mau who, to all appearance, would not yield an itch even to Queen \ ICTORIA herself arrayed in crown and sceptre ; this is the effusion of people who will give up every thing for the sake of teaming St. Beinaloss. Teat bore the spirit of an e'BecerTr ; this wears the courage of a mouse. Tee latter does not, it is true, bear the signature of Mr.' BENNET!. But it speak s in his behalf, explains in his behalf, promises on his behalf; and must be assumed to have been writ en with his authority. Now this antagoriem between the two docu ments gives a very unpleasant impression of Mr. Bittern; for in the one he is found insolent, where he could insult with impunity; 'in the other he is all submission in the presence of authority. He blusters like a bravo before Lord IJOHN Russell., and bend!' like a craven Mere the Bishop of LONDON. Mr. IIExNETC is not, then, the hero people took him for; but a true churchmaa, after all. Nevertheless, the offer made by Mr. BENNeTre friends to the Bobi ip, placed his diocesan in a dilemma. Mr. BENNETT will, they raid, obey big , I Bishop on every point on which obedience to hies would not involve disobedlnce to the church. Asa I piece of dialect ice' this was a skilful position to take. IFor throughout hie correspondence a ith Mr. BEN MITT, the Bishop, it will be recollected, had limited his objections to the forms and ceremonies used is St. II Inaba; and St. l'auhr• ' it was the practices there which, be feared, bad been carried too far. If, then, Mr. BENNETT was willing to confine himself strictle within the ritwl of the church and its rubrics; end ii ho agreed tolet tie Bishop be jrnlge of his con'ormey therewith—whet more could Dr. BLOMFILLD, in his val for forms, deare, or want, er wish? Logically, it is difficult to see how Mr. Bal een and his friends can be driven from this strong position. If it was their ceremonies the Bishop objected to; and if they consented to regulate their ceremonies by the interpretation the Bishop placed on the Prayer Bock, more could not be fairly demanded Aud by the Bishop's acceptance of this offer ' the dio cese would have had an opportunity of knowing what it is he regards as most fitting in the church services; and how it is he wishes them perfermcd. The brief reply Dr. Bnourienn makes to this offer is moat remarkable. Fort .eriy it was Mr. BENNETT's ceremonies he objected to ; now, for the first time, it is Mr. BENNETT'S "principles" that offend him. Here is a sudden and a mighty change; a complete raven lotion in the discussion ; a substitution is the issue to be tried : I find no sungmtion in that memorial calculated to chines ;.r modify my opiei.m of the pilciplee which Ur. Bennett main•ains, sad upon which he has dee wed himself unal terably determined to conduct the services in his churches. I au therefore under the pailful neeeesity, netwithstardinn the stroeg sew* which I ent:rtsist of his goal and devoted. new, of penistine in my acceptance or bil r.signatiOs. No wonder this answer astounded Sir JOHN HAR RINGTON, for it cut away the ground on which he was standing. He aud his depwation and his cotn fairies thought it was about forma the differences be tween their pastor and his diocesan had 'riser, aud, Just as they had yielded everything on that hi ad, the Bishop thrusts Mr. BENNeTT's "principles" into their faces. Bat "principles" is wily a word, and in itself a mosainglem word; all that it conveyed to Sir JOHN HARRINGTON is that Mr. BENNETT'S forms were bored on somethreinorym So h or belief e ve tha ry wu nat o u b t j al ee i t y io se ne k b t l d e to Wallop BLOMFILLD. the Bishop to sate affirmatively what the "prin ciples" were. Bat this Dr. BLOMFILLD refuses to do, and closes the correspondence. Now we know very well what unsound principles Mr. Be:sever holds. We know that he teaches that without an ictaliiale church no man can be a chris tier, that honour and respect are due to the cross, that auricular cos tension is useful, that there is small hope of salvation except at the hands and by the interposition of a sacrificial inediatoeial priesthood, that there is a real propene" in the sacramental elements of the Lord's Supper, that the church of England is a member of the mystical body caled the church catholic; which is to be found nowhere, that without epostolical succession there can be no proper administration of the sacraments and such otter Popish figments. These the public know are some of his principles. Bat when the Bishop of LONDON ir sists on Mr. BENNETT resigning because of his "principles," it is very desirable we should be told to what and which of them the bishop objects; and we cannot see the justice of condemning any man because of his "principles," without tell ng him in detail what the offending principles are. And this is all the more imperative, because at present the pub lic is very imperfectly informed as to what the Bishop's own " principles" may be. We know Archbishop Scoriae's "principles," we know Archb'shop WHATELY'S " principles," we know Bishop TURTON'S " principle'," and we know Bishop HAMPDEN'S " principles ; " and how, and to what degree, the " principles" of those prelates diff , r from Mr. BENNETT. But wherein Bishop BLOM FIRED does dissent from Mr. BENNETT'S " p:es" is not clear, and certain, and definite. And until it be made so, this discussion between him and Mr. lletiNerr cannot clGse, convenient though it may be for the bishop to decline answering Sir Joits HAa- RINOTON'S pertinent and proper inquiry. FRANCE. PARIS. WEDNIIIDA.T EVENING. A great number of representatives repaired to the Elyse(' yesterday evening, to offer their compliments to the President on the occasion of the new year. Among the first who presented themselves appeared M. Lapin, accompanied by several memeers of the bureau of the Aesembly. The conversation, a small portion of which I sent you in my letter this morning, and which took place between the President of .the Assembly and the President of the Republic upon this occasion has stirred a good deal of public atten tion, and is thus reported upon semi-offie:al authority : M. Dupin—Monsieur le President, I bring you the sincere wishes of the bureau. The President—M. le Presidere, I receive the wishes which you Ming me, and doubt not that they are sincere. I is of importance that the good harmony of the priers should not be interrupted in the difficult times which we liana to traverse. M. Dupin—All the acts of the Assembly, all those of the harem are inspired by a ',Wound attachment for your person, and the liveliest desire to preserve the union between the two powers of the state. The Presifent—l am willing to believe it, Monsieur le President, since you tell me le. You and I, each within the limits of cur atuibutions, ought to attach ourselves to mak ing the laws of the country and the authority given us by the constitu• ion TO , peeled, without one power encroaching on the other. I ass not tenacious' about the prolongation of my powers, but I am anxious when I deliver up to the people the power etti . .ch I have received from it to return lit intact and respected. My conviction is that France desires pose: and order, and it will consider that of the two powers which should attack the other us in the wrong. M. Dupla—lt has always been in in our country. You may rely upon the sentiments which I express to you. The President of the Republic—lt is fortunate that there an epoch. wh.ch separate, as it were, the peat from the future. One era ham just finished—another consistences. Let us hope ! After the representatives the President received the members of the council of state. Earlier in the day the President received the diplomatic body and the clergy. The President received this morning the ministers and marshals, and in s =mien the several consti tuted bodies, closing with the army and navy. The summary manner of the release of M. Mauguiu from imprisonment is canvassed with much earnestness. The order of M. Lupin, de legating M. Base to effect the release, autho- rims bim to call in the public force to assist him in executing his commission in cue resistance should be offered. This authorisation rests on a somewhat ' questionable interpretation of the 31st article of the constitute o, which allows the Assembly to " dispose of the armed force, which is established for its secu rity, and for the maintenance of the respect due to it in the place where it holdreits sittings." Uu questienably the intention of this article was to protect the Assembly against those popular invasions, with which it was so frequently threatened in the first year of its existence, and one of which violated Its sitting on the 15th of May. But it may be doubted if any representative who was a party to the framing of this article contemplated its application to the rescue of a single member of the Assembly from the effect of a judicial sentence. In the opinion of many the Assembly has in this instance been guilty of a very grave act of usurpatiou, encroaching no less on the prerogative of the executive than upon the in dependence of the tribunals. It threatens, by its organ, M. Dupin, to employ a force, which the executive power is alone authorised to dis ese of, in order to reverse a judicial se n t e nc e. Not content with making the law, it usurps the func tion of the judges in interpreting the law, and the function of the government in executing its own in terpretation of the law. Such is the position into which the Assembly has put itself, and which will no doubt need very serious elimination Wrote it can be allowed to form a precedent. The Council of State has jut published the result of its deliberations on the bill for the organisation of the evil administration in France. It proposes that in municipal eleeions one-half of the electors inscribed shall vote to order that the elections may be legal, or if this number cannot be obtained, the elections shall not be final by a relative 'majority until after a third ballot. The mayors and deputy mayors are to be chosen from the municipal councils, and in communes of 3,000 inhabitants and upwards are to be named by the President of the Republic; in other cniimuces they are to be named by the prefects. The power of sn-pending these functionaries is to be given to the pref.cte, and they may be definitively revoked by a decree of the President of the Republic. The Minister of Public Works has granted an ex amination into the plan for substituting a railway for the lateral canal of the Garonne. In the phenomena of the day is the enlargement of Go:if/haat alt-tanger, which appears on a broad sheet, worthy el the L ondon press. The Bank of France is said to have discounted more bills on Monday than on any day since the re volution of February. The Bulletin de Path,' alluding to a statement in an English journal that the French commission as the gold question bad resolved to recommend that the gold cohrege should be withdrawn from circulation, declares that to decision has yet been come to, and that nothing indicates that the commission has takes this view of the question. It adds that the only im portant member of the commission who bad enter tained it was M. Thiers, and that there is reason to believe he has changed his opinion. TNI:XaDAT &Timing. The only iccident worth mention in regard to the receptions at the Elysee on occasion of the new year, beside the conversation with Lupin, wan the Presi dent's epeech to M. Portal's, the venerable head of the Court of Caseation, meant as a sharp hit at the recent proceedings of the Assembly in liberating M. Maui/aim He said : e I feel much pleasure in expressing to-day to the Count of Caseation, and to the meeis'eacy, my lively sympathies. My desztst wish is that principles should remain always above the rimiest of parties. It was said formerly, ' There are ledges at Berlin.' It wi thus that the meaning was ex male- *hat :here was a dyke to resist even despotic power. This is much truer in France. No person is ignorant of it. The enlightened, independent magistracy obeys only its conscience, and knows that the go vernment will olive's respect this fir= t guarantee of civilised societies—justice I" The republican regime seemed to have rid France of those speeches of ceremony of which so copious I and fruitless a use was made under the monarchy ; and the taciturn disposition of the President appeared suited to the new and plainer custom. The occur recces however at the Elyeee, on the last day of the year, teem to indicate a return to the prav ice of speechifying without the observance of ceremonious forms. The sparring dialogue between the President of tte Republic and the President of the Assembly, Winds the chief tepee for the two or three papers which epr esr tc-day to dilate on. The absence of M Bore from the deputation of the bureau, and the brisk and disre lei:ireful withdrawal of General &dean, at the first hint of irony and iedirece e rebuke from the President, have added disagreeable features to this interview. It would, perhaps, hays been more dignified on the part of the President to have abstained from mani festing his soreness at the recent vote of the bureau, but one can hardly wonder that the cool effrontery of M. Dupin in declaring that all tee acts of the bureau were inspired by a profound attachment for his per son, coming immediately upon the heels of a hostile vote, should hare irritated a character so frank as that of Louis Napoleon, and drawn from him an ironical expression of the hops that these compliments were sincere. In order to show the embarrassment which might have arisen from the order of M. Dupin to liberate M. Mauguin, and from the menace of M. Base to bring a battalion to force the prism-gates, the Petrie quotes from an order of the day by Den. Changarnier the following insti uctions to the troops under his command : —l. To obey no requisition without having first received the order of the lieut.-general. 12. Not to listen to representatives. 4. To shoot traitors on the instant. 20. Every order not pro seeding from the general-in-chief to he null and void. 21. Every requisition, summons, or demand of a civil, juoicial, or political functionary is to be rigorously repelled. This is the first public mention which has been made of each an order of the day, and it seems likely to draw vehement attacks from a lu-ge portion of the prem. It was expected that Gee. Chanirsraier would be iaterpellated in tie Chamber with regard to ic structions which might be interpreted as flat rebellion against the constitution. It was expected in the sitting of the Assembly to- day that interoellations would be addressed to the government by M. resin on the subject of the con versation between M. Dupin and the President, re ported in the Constitutiontael, but up to six o'clock this incident had not presented itself. The rest of the debate was not of much importance. A bill, opening a credit of 33,000 fr., for going towards the expenses of the colonial indemnity was passed by 325 votes against 84. Then the last deliberation began on the bill relative to the commerce of Algiers. The question was raised if the wools of Algeria should be admitted intisFrance free of duty. Tne 2ud and 3rd articles of the bill were adopted without any debate of interest. The committee of initiative has voted the taking into consideration of the proposition of MM. Lopez lichee, and Favreau, relative to slavery. The com mit•ee considers as just, politic, and indispensable, the delay demanded by the propoeers of the motion for the proprietors of slaves, and has adopted the con clusions of the reporter, M. Flavigny. The Simaphure of Marseilles states that the bank of that place has just refuted to receive in payment a large sum in gold, the gold pieces ot 20fr. of Charles Albert, which hitherto have always passed current in France. At the last sitting of the French commission on the gold question the following papers, by M. Merlotti, the director of the Paris Mint, was communicated by order of the Minister of Finances: I had the honour of addressing to the Minister of Fi nance, on the 4 h ult.. a note, in which I endeavoured to' show that the decline in the premium on gold was to be at. tributed mire to the importation of Dutch 10 florin gold pieces than to the quantity of gold sent from California. On the 7th alt. the min:st. r asked me for another note en the measures which ho should adapt to protect the country stalest too considerable imputations. The difficulty of solving this yestion arises from the fact that everything is hypothetical in all the intcrmation that can be obtained. Thus, since the decimalsystem was adopted, there have been coined in Franc* up to the present time —ln silver, 4,290,000 k. ; in gold, 1,300,000 r. Serious nu n pretei.ded some years since that we au looper had in France more than from 160 to 206 millionsof gold; and an experienced banker estima•ed the amount at tidy 60 millions. These a ncunts are doubtless below the reality, for it must not be forgotten that there is much of our gold in Italy, and that, it some day remains of interest should induce the holders of it to get rid of it, we Oswald again see it in circul , .tion. It may, thers'ore, perhaps be rerincable to estimate the ::mount it gold, the nonplus' value of which is guaranteed by the stamp of the state, at from 300 to 400 millions. It is only sines 1848 that there has been may guestion of the produce cf California. The gold of unknown origin brought to the Mint amounted in 1849 to 21,500,0001 r.; in WO, to 22,400,000 fr. I know that all this did not come from California, and it would, perhaps, be correct in estimating the amount from that same at two-thirds. According to the quantity which is Weight from that country, it is probebte that each state will be supplied with gold mat direcly, and the resource et selling our gold at a premium will be 'octa -1 Maly lost to us. If the question was only from 18 to 20 millions per year, or even double that um, there would be no reason fa thinking ouch of it • for thi.t quan tity would only rvaliso slowly the desire whi ch France mwi tested some years since to tee coil coin in circulation. If it be exact that California in 1850 has produced '250 milli oak, we have not received more than about the twelfth part of it. What leads me to think that foreign osmium has no inte. rest in overloading us with gold, is that, for the lint eighteen' months, there have arrived at different times in Fresco large sums in 51r. pieces, which had been exported about 1847, at the period when we were in want of corn. At this very time !active gold from England, but that is in consequence of the abundance of paper on London, to which our ex- ' portations of wheat give birth. I, therefore, do not, up' to this time, sae anything to show that we shell soon be in undated with gold, as some people appear to dread. My csneasiOn is, that there is nothing to be done at present, and that it lb , necessary to beware ot any small or labs measures, which might tend to alarm commercial ioterrsts It gold were to be directed on France in such suits that it went be ur.ent to guard easiest the export of our silver, what course should be pursued. Thu only efficacious measure would certainly be to interrupt the coinage of gold. In that case it would be to be feared that the present holders of 20 fr. pieces would get alarmed and seek to exchange their gold fur silver. Italy might also act in the lame manner. And the consequence would be that our export trade would be disturbed. I have heard a course of proceeding suggested which appears to me to be impracticable—that of tubed tuticg, for our geld coinage, small lingers stamp d with the weight and crudity, bat without any indication of their value. The state, by the accounts which it oubliettes periodi. ally, would give the average value in Eur.pe of the kilo,ranutte of fine gold, and it is on such a date that transactions would take place. But whilst the state slimed not pledge its responsibility with regard to gold coinage, the lingo's would sot be accepted by the commercial world ex apt when the price of gold should be is its favour. There would therefore be in this issue of !ingots, in addition to the expense of making th.m, which the public would not incur without just complaints, numberless diditulties in the exe cution of the plan, wLiCh I cannot at this moment point out. If therefore the state anould one day think it its duty to momentarily or definitively suspst.d the coinage of gold, there would be reason, I think, for leaving gold within the Comain of commerce. M. Cheron, at whose suit the representative M. Manguin had been arrested, has given formal notice to the governor ot the prison of Clichy that he intends to proceed against him for the lose incurred by the illegally setting his debtor at liberty. BOURSE. P.illlq, I. 2. r For 1 ,1 Mow. I fat Amount. Opening qligheet. Lowest. Closing. —t— 3 per Cents. 67 6 1 66 70 31 0 36 10 37 0 3 per Cents. 9S 13 94 63 93 IS 94 73 93 10 5 do. New Loan 96 21 94 63 93 23 96 63 93 23 t 1 per Carte. P. le SO le •• i per Cents. e Eacetange on Lando.' t of sibt. 24 93; 90 dapr . 74 271. " Belidan,S, 1640 17e. 3, 1641 Do. 4$ — n Do. 100 7' . Da 21 — Treasury Bonds... Piedmont SpAX.I949 94 70 - Bank blames Botruz.—Versailles (left Dank), 165 ; Paris and Orleans, 862 50; Paria and Hawn, 672 50; Strasbourg and Bale, 13G 25; Orleans and Bordeaux, 400; North. 481 25; Yarn and Strasbourg, 355 ; Tours and Nantes, 250 ; Mon tereau and Troyes, 92 50. ITALY. NAPLES. The offirial Journal of Naples publishes a royal decree of the 12th ult., permitting the introduction of foreign cheese into Sicily free of duty, owing to the great scarcity of that commodity in the island this season. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 27. Rumours of ministerial modifications still contioue, but there is nothing certain known. The discus4on of the report of the committee of authorisation still goes on in the Chamber of Deputies. Our Madrid correeponient, tinder date of the 26th ult., writes :—" Yesterday, Chris.mas-day, the well known hospitable banker, Mr. Henry O'Shea, Rave a sumptuous dinner to H. E. Lord Howden, the British ambassador, and to the English reside...to at Madrid. It is currently reparttd that the res'gnation of Gene ral Figueroa, Mints'er of War, hes been accepted, and that he will be replaced by General Sane." _ _ _ _ _ ?Lump, Dm; 27 —Thre• per Cents., 347 ; Vier Bolsi, 347 rime, 35 psi er. Four per Cents., 12. Five per Croce, 121 Coupons, 61 ; after BA's, 61 paper. Passive', 31 paper ' • after Bolas, 3 13 16 cult. Bank of 6t. Ferdinand, 931 eaab. Exchange n London, 50.60. FRENCH FISHERMEN.—Ninety boats of Boulogne, of 2,47 d toss, with 979 men os board, have bees this year num. d in the herring fisher! os the coast of Scotland. They hits brought home 17,866 toes of salt herrings. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—On Christmas day the clerks and others employed by the Eastern Counties litilway Company at Brick-lane etstim presented Mr. W. Moseley with a silver tea smite as a token of their respect for Ms public and private character while their superinten dent dozing a period of four years. GERMANY Our correspondent writes as follows: DRESDEN, Dec. 30. The ministerial journal in Berlin has published the commissions appointed in the conference on Friday last, to the astonishment of all the plenipotentiaries, who had been strictly enjoined by Herr von Man teuffel himself to preserve the deepest silence regard ing them, an injunction which they scrupulously objed. It seems, therefore, that this silence was en , je;ned by the Prussian minister for the sole purpose of promoting the interests of the ministerial paper, and of restoring to it part of the character which it has loot during the last twelve months. You will have seen these commissions in the paper in question, but will prebably have been somewhat at a toes clearly to understand their meaning. They are of far greater importance than they appear to b 3 ; they havo provided a method by which the discussion of the question of the parity of Austria and Prussia, and of the admission of Bavaria as the third great power, has been avoided in the full sittings, together with the formal but no less difficult question of the presidency in the conferences themselves. The first question will now be breeched in the commission presided over by Austria, in which Prussia is also represented, and in which they are secure of a majority should it c dne to a division. Too other question, that of the presidency in the conferences, has been settl d in this way : The president of each commission will take the chair in the full conferences, whenever the eectiou of the constitution which is under the examination of his commission shall come before them. This is a good arrangement, will save time, and will negative many of the intrigues which the representatives of the Napoleon made kings will , inevitibly concert. The plan is understood to have pro c cried from the Prussian minister, who is indebt , d for it to one of his inferiors. Manteutfel wished also that Austria and Prussia should come before the con ferences with joint propositiors; the Prince Schwarz-' enberg, however, who saw the danger of this pro-1 ceediog, succeeded in convincing his Prussian col league that the plan which he proposed was much better, viz., that general joint-propositions should l not be made, but that on each individual question Prussia and Austria should vote together, having beforehand settled between themselves the ex act nature of the alterations which were desirable. I mentioned this in a former let -1 ter; and 1 only repeat here to show bow complete is the understanding between them. It is natural that they should cause the strictest silence to be preserved with respect to the details of their plan until each question shall come before the con ferences, and the public will therefore not expect to be made acquainted with them immediately. I have stated in a former letter that the main idea in the plan of the two ministers for the restoration of the Germanic constitution is the division of Germany into too political bodies, the heads of which are to be Austria and Prussia, with a joint organ fur controlling the whole, in which they will resells the chief power. It was at one time antici pated that these conferences would terminate in an extensive mediatisation of the smaller princes, a mea sure which by many of them would be welcomed with joy, provided their future prospects are gilded with a bountiful appanage. Among the sovereigns tired of the trouble of governing knruly subjects, without foreign support, are the Dukes of Olden burg, Brunswick, Saxe Coburg, Schwarzberg, and, several others. 'Their representatives do not hesitata to say that they feel it to be their duty, in all deliberations on the German question, to be pre pared at any time to cede the sovereign rights' of their meteors, but that they must take care to secure for them a future free from care. I use expressions which I myself have heard on more than one occasion. It was anticipated that these and other' small sovereigns would here have ben required to lay down their crowns and retire upon full pensions.., I believe that the two ministers have settled between themselves that the proper moment has not yet arrived for such a measure, and that the alterations which they will cause to be made Li the coa stitatien of the corfederation will be such as on this point will pave the way for a future, and perhaps general, sweeping away of all the small principalities. All clear-sighted politicians agree that the tendency of the timed will lead to the division of Germany into two great powers. The next conference takes place, I believe, to morrow. Count Alventilebon returned late last night from Berlin, and Prince Schwarzenberg was expected this evening. I understand that Manteuffel will not return to Dresden at present, nor will the Aus trian premirr remain here more than a few days. Baron Alat.ttuffrl will remain in Berlin to meet the Chambers, when it is expected that they will again be adjourned for a few weeks after voting the budget for three or six mouths. The adjournment must, how ever, proceed from the Chamber, and not from the government; under the circumstances, this will not be difficult to procure. The sanction of the Prussian government has been given to the pt,sage of the federal troops through the Prussian territories, and they will be forwardvd per rail to Hamburg tin Magdeburg. The name of the Austrian commissioner is Major-General itlensdorff. The German papers state that Count Reventlow, an envoy from the Stadtholderate, had an audience at Dresden on the 26th with Prince Schwarzen berg. The Prince r,carnmended simple submission. The count, it is said, replied that that could not be. Prince Schwai zeuberg left Berlin for Dresden on the night of the 30th ult. An article in the Deutsche ellyenteine Zeitung, sup- Fsei to be rorni-lfficial, and coming from Hanover, asserts that the sole purpose of Prussia and Austria at the conferences is only to modify very slightly the existing conritution of the diet. The voting by ma jority, instead of by unanimity, is mentioned as one of the slight modifications intended. But this mcdi ficaticm would be so important that other pipers think there is to possibility of its ever beit.g carried. A Berlin correspondent of Dec. 30th, says .—" A conference took place this morning between Barcn Manteuffell, the Pentagon premier, Prince Schwarzen berg, and the commisgaries appoin•ed to pacify Schleswig-Holstein. A ministerial conference was held at noon, at the close of which the premier left for Cnarlot'enberg to meet the Ring. The Prince will leave Berlin to morrow by the night mail train. Whether Manteuffel will return to Dresden is as yet uncertain •, in any epee he will be present at the re opening of the chambers. Yesterday the Prussian premier gave a dinner to Prince Schwatzenberg, to which all the members of the cabinet were invited." Another letter of the same date has as follows : " Prince Schwarzenberg, who dined to-day with the Austrian Ambassador, Baron Prokesch, will to-mor row take leave of his Majesty in a private audience. A setting of the cabinet council was held at noon, which was attended by the new Minister, Von Rea mer. The new Minister, Count Westphalen, went • out yesterday for the first time since his sickness; be is still very weak and incapable of transacting busi ness. It is stated, that in consequence of an agree ment between Prince Schwarzenberg and Baron Manteuffel, the Prussian and Austrian Commissti ies in Heise will act henceforth in the name of the Germanic Confederation ; not, however, in the name of the Diet. COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, We have received Cape Town journals of Nov. 2 They contain little of importance. The South Afri can aonntercial Advertiser says :—" Public docu ments, giving the governor's view of matters on the frontier at present, shows that his excellency is more than ear pine in respect of the pros, ect of continued peace. I) .übtleas his sudden appearance in Ksffirland was of a beneficial influence. It is also stated that a timely fill of rain had just taken place, and that this had greatly relieved tee apprehensions entertained by the Kalfirs of continued injury from drought. Private letters from several parts of the frontier are, however, less cheering in their contents than the government documents." _ _ . Vessels in Simon's Bay :—H.M.S. Seringspatam, J. T. Rim's% master-commander ; and H.M.S. Hermes, Fishbonne. New Towle HALL 1 e LIEDS.—At a meeting of the Leeds town cmocil, on Wednesday, resolutions retro passed in favour of erecting a new and conams , Lous town hall, with suitsble corporate buildings. Tne oos; of these buildings will probably exceed 20,0001., but that cannot yet be ascertained; a committee was sppr•inted to make pre liminary inquiries and procure plans, &e. THE BRAZILS. The clipper packet Swordfish, Captain Green, has, after a vapid pahsage, reached tile Mersey, beta k ing data from Pernambuco to the day of her oiling, Doe. 8. Th e elates from Rio JaiAiro are to the 15:h, and Bahia to the 23rd of November it.clusive. The political intelligence from Rio Janeiro elates Me warlike feeling announced in previous advice" still continued, and the Brazilian government were colleting their .orcee for the south, and making al, preparation' for a war with It ems. The commercial advice, from Pernambuco state that sugar was in active demand, and the receipts bad b-en on a larder scale than usual at that season of the year. Tee ex ports to the end of November exceeded those of all previous yeert. Currency prices had receded, but principally for lower qualities of whites Lail Muscovado; the declino was, however, not suffi:ient to allow European limits to come into operation. The crop, from all appearance', went tbe a large one. Prices were-Whites, first and sr cand, 275. 61. to 28s. 101.; common assortments, 23e. 104. to 25e. 84. ; low, 20s. 7d. to 1221. lla. ; Muscovado, selected, 16.. 11d. to 17s. 441.; ditto, average quality, 18s. to 16a. 6id.; ordinary, 18s. per ewt. Cotton was in lbraited supply, and eagerly bought up The receipt', from July Ito present date, were 19,000 bales. First quality was quoted at Bd. to 814. per ib. Dry salted hides continued very scarce, at 40. per lb Ex change on Loni.on was quo•ed at 'aid. to 304. Freights were rather quiet ; some snips were loading cotton for Liver pool, at id. per lb. At into Janeiro the demand for coffee was active, and prices had advanced to 3 doll. 900 c. to 4 dole for superior, 8 dole. 700 c. to 3 dole. 800 c. for good firsts, and 3 dole aloc. to 3 dole. 700 e. for regular". The stock on band sea. esti ' mated at about 60,000 bags. Freights were steady, at 60s. fur the Channel. Exchange was very firm, at 291 d. At Bahl, sugars were going to market very slowly, and bought at 1 dol. 700 c. for browns. and 2 dole. 100,. foe woitet. Cotton was quoted at 6 dole. 800 e. to 7 don. Freights were looking up, and vessels very scarce ; 60e. might oe obtained for Cnannel. Exchange on England ruled at 30d. THE CHOLERA IN JAMAICA. Amongst the passengers by the steamer Severn, which left Southampton y day wi:h the West ladle mad, were the , ollowing surgeons and physicians, sent out by go vernment to Jamaica on account of the cholera in that island, via, Dn. Tucker, Beveridge, aed Joseph Brown; and Messrs. Campbell, Crawford, and Murphy. The odlow ing medical Inspectors also were sent out, viz., Dre. Gavin, Laidig+, and Milroy. Dr. Beveridge, who only arrived from J mad+ by the last West India swami r, wto re he had been serving on based bar Majesty's ship lento+, volun teered to go out again. About 60 or 70 casks, cum, and packages of medicines were seat out to Jamaica by private merchants, and between 40 and 60 by government. The following staff of military officers also left y , s•erday in the Severn for B irbadoes, vie., Colonel Yule, Captain Mazwell, and Lieutenants Brune, Sandentan, Barber, sad Grantham. On the subject of the cholera in Jamaica the following letters here been received : "Admiralty, Dec, 31, 15.50. Sir,—liaving laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your totter of the 30c12 instant, forwarding memo rials respecting the cholera in Jamaica, I am commanded by their lordships to acquaint you that the mule have been transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. "I am, Sir, your very humble servant, (Signed) " W. B. HAMILTON. " J. W. Dover, Esq., No. 124, Fenchureh-street." "Admiralty, Jan. 1, 1951. Sir,—With reference to the memorials teansmitted to the Lords Commissionersof the Admiralty by bankers, mer chants, and brokers of the City of Loudon, praying that medical men and a supply of drugs might be s rat to Jamaica by the mail of the 2nd inst., to meet the isigeacies occa sioned by the prevalence of cholera in that island, I ail com manded by my lords to acquaint you that the ennorrinicre commanding on that port of the statioa hos aksady given such assistance as was in his power, and that lie won'-.1 con tinue to do so, when not inconsistent with the public se crier. " My kids would beg to point out to you that any airee flans for sending cut a medical staff to the colonies should come through the Calonial•office, to which department the memorials to their lordships have been duly forwarded. " I am, sir, your very humid , . servant, (Signed) " W. 13. HAMILTON. " J. W. Dover, EA., 124, Feschurch-strect." Whatever the government may do, the merchants are doing their ditty. Many have sent out medieinesand mod cal instructions, sod one merchant applied to a surgeon in whom ha had confidence, offering him five guineas a day tor air ser vices in the ielsnd. - - - SIR CHARLES NAPIER. TO 1115 EDtTOA OP THIS DAILY MIMS. Sra,—A correspondent of one of your contempo- Wire, iioning himself " Nautiene," has a. length written Ike a gentleman, though anonymously, and I a ill reply t him. Mr. Tierney said in the House of Conuneno, " Give me • well.manned navy and a full exchequer, and I will defy the world." " Nanticus " m ty, in one of his sneering moods, deny this almost his'erical axiom; but I can tell him, if he will only find the pet', I will undertake to find him ships and sailors ; but I suspect be knows liige enough of either. " Nauticus" once hail an opportunity of testing the merits of a competing squadron of ehips, but a more meagre account of the performance of each rises of vessel was never rendered to a Board of Admiralty. am assuming all this time that " N,atiens " is identified with a gallant officer connected with a boroire h in one of our couutiee of a natu rally volcanic nature. I only wish I was cert , in of being coerce. in my supposition, I would then—Erten:moiler though he be—make the place too hot to hold him. I had my doubts, and will—Old Bailey fashion—give him the °meth, as it tas also been intimated to me that a riliant admiral, not a 100 miles from Portsmouth, knows sow thing about the scurrilous attacks on me. I am rather surprised at this, as when • young man he could scarcely write a cer. tificete, and old age does not generally improve one's powers for competition; hut he has a more youthful assie.int at his elbow, who has aiways been ready to rush in.o print ! well, abuse of me, as I have already shown in my book, Is • good road to employment. So, I snopxoe, heture long we chill see them both snugly moored in Portsmouthor Devinsport harbour. " Neuticus" insinuates that my relative, Bit William quarrelled with the Ordnance respecting the erection of a cowshed in Guerefey. I will not attempt to utter one word in defence of my gallant tousle, knowing that out of that shed he could, should such be his desire, drive out a bull that it would puzsle even " Nauticus," with his in fisted consequence,derived from a little newspaper notoriety, to take by the home. I cannot quote Lens or French—l never pretended to such acquirements ; but can only tell him that if my advice l is not taken, the next waitron will hear more of the latter language spoken than would have been endured by their fathers, but I cannot expect to be listened to when each successive administratien of late years has turned • deaf ear to the remonstrances of the captain of the, age. Let the citizens of London beware cr some flee mornieg, when all apparently is going smooth as • marriage bell, they will find that my repeated warnings have been attended tote° late, and • horde of bearded suit mouse achmed gentry will be possessed of their money hags, and their other precious commodities. My motto is to Us forewarned. While I hove my pen in my hand I may as well reply to some of the insinuations cast out against ma. In reference to the freight transactions, I mean to say I was fully entitled to the wivileges I possessed myself. I only put it to you, Mr. Editor, it I did not act as it behoved a prudent en..n to dn, and surely my dead was not to be compared with that nt an hnucurable captain, utterly related to a late cabinet minister, who sailed from his station with a vast amount of treasure against the positive orders of his admiral. I would also put it to you whether in the little affair of tlo Wale money, when I &elated the three guineas per diem, if the Admiralty of the day was justified in sending beck my bill, and thus reflecting upon the honour of* BriOsli officer which, like • women's virtue, ought to be above all inapt. don. I will venture to swear that I spent 51010 01 my allowance than any admiral afloat does. In coeclusion, will ask "Nauticus" if he knows " Beta," who wrote satinet me In the Morning Chronicle. If he does, let him advise his friend to read my book, and if they are not con vinced that both are wrong, and I am right, I shall be happy to hold one the hand of good fellowship to them, and see them under my humble roof, where, throwing aside all minor differences, we will unite in one grand object, that of putting the British navy, and, e,pecially, the stenos portion of it, on • wend and permanent tooting.—l am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, CHAS. NAPIER. Merebistona, Jan. 1,18 a. Sot:TR SEA CouPANY.—The half-yearly general court - .1 the Smth Sea Company was held yesterday at the esablishmint in Threadneedle-street, Charles Franks, Eq., tuck the chair. From the annual ac.ounts Wd before the proprietors it appeared that the receipts for the ; lost halt•jear were 153,6381. 17s. 6rl , and the outgoings for the some period 88,6121 45., leaving a bailors of 65,0261. 131. sd. ; out of this would be payab e tt'e helt.year's dividend on 3,662,7842 Bs. 6d. S Juto Sea Stock at 11 per cent, amounting to 64,0981. 14a. 61., leaving a balecce of 9271. 18s. 114. The chairman moved that the above dividend be mode payable on the same day PS the government funds. This having been agreed to, the chair man stated that the effect of the late sale and purchase of steels had increased their income by about 301. The e not than adjourned. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly Rentral meeting held yesterday at the society's house in Hanaver.squere, Mr. Terrell, V.P., in the chair, Lancelot De:d, Esei., and James Crowdy, Esq., were elected fislicws, and E. 11. E'q., Marefiold Parkyce, Erg., and W. Hatter, Req., were proposed as candidates for the 'chow ship. The report of the council stated that the number of elections during 1850 nearly doubled the average of the four years immediately preceding it, and that the total t•umber of visitors to the gardens amounted to 360,402, exc. 'ding the most succerstul year hitherto known (1831) by nearly 100,000. Upwards of fifty species of animals which bad not been previoutly exhibited, have been added to the collection ; and amung them three of the most singular and interesting in exis:euee, 'tensely, the Hippopotamus, the Wart hi g, and the Thylacine. Many new names have been added to the list of donors, and the prospects of additions during the ensuing sess.33, both from this source and by purchase, are of the most promising character. The first part of the fourth velume of the transact:one hem been published, and .n second • cottaining the anatomy of the rhinoceros bi Professor Owen and other Important papers is In the press The Menme cf the society during 1850 exhibits an increase of 6,1661. over that of the preolicg year. r