The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

fine erprzoo. TO C0112E31'014 VEN FP. • u.i Idiom et " The Llama.' suatatata.! ' e same evesires • naatate." be pabllikal avely Troia, a 4 Prato atsat, b Wa• Pm peat. Mae usevaeala Mbarlid " Kappar," Loll4oll►trlollll paper, ▪ ba at tbe (Os% teevartnstreet, two 1..C401111. VS lie day at pabacallaa. NUM WATIK AT LONDON BRIDGE. ...- Toe wt.-arum 3a. 4.06 1•••••••w—ammill. 4.. 2Sfs. LONDOY, FRIDAT, JANUAR)" 9. ___L-.... • RV1101:11 is still busy ravelling and re-weaving bar marvellous web ut ministerial combination*. From day to day the chequered design of a reformed cabinet is changed, to little purpose. At one time two tory aristocrats and thirteen whig were paraded as the maximum of generous cuocessiun and the quintretence of genteel solicitude fur the public good. Again, a different arrangement of shades and tints of dulness was exhibited as pisisessing mare of what is called general harmony and unity mi the whole. But in the main, nothing that we WWI hear of has yet been ce en projected usriowoO, OZ. oept shuttling, and shillings of the old cards ls the hope of thereby contrie ing to win the last game of this parliamentary rubber. Two days ago, MOO business happened to bring air J.sur..s URAIIAW to town, and about the same time the Duke of NEW. CASTLE happened tuba guest at Windsor. Whereupon all the liveried vermin, of whiggery set about chattering after their fashion of great and important changes that were "not improbable, and niigiit have already taken place fur ought they could tell." A ' phlegmatic world continued to turn on its diurnal axis vety much as usual, these momentous hints at what was said to be coming notwithstanding. No body, either in city or West-end, seemed to believe that it signified much whether one, two, or three more trouts of respectable size were taken by Lord JOHN out of the PEEL pond, during his present angling excursion. Aft the remaining inhabitants of that stagnant water, it was obvious that no art or skirl on the prime angler's part could secure: and for the best of reasons, namely, that his stork of the. and length of line was, at starting, exceedingly limited by the Fortunate Family who, for upwards of five 3.ears, have made odes their private home. They had no great obje► lion to his amusing himself negotiating with DOM few of the most whig , ,, , ish Pe-elites, for whom they might, perhaps, be induced to make room in Downing•street, just to oblige him. But having offered to do this, they. doubtless imagined that they had earned for themselves the praise of unparalleled liberality. and even instructed, 'tin said, their daro tors to utter reproachful hopes that they should hear no more of "cliques " and " exclusiveness." We shall be perfectly plain-spoken on this, es it has ever been our wont to be on all such matters. We believe that in the estimation of the middle elegem of this country, it signifies scarcely 01.11 straw what the family names, tevitorial tidie s or club cognomens are of the lords and lonli• lings who constitute the administration. They may 1-e predominantly of one hereditary set, at principally of another. What does it matter? A great deal to their respective relatives and particular toadies, we admit; but to the gnat middle classes— the claws who have made the country what it is— the classes that comprehend within them nineteen twenti, this of the worth and work and wit of the nation--to them it matters simply nothing whether the cabinet be wholly funned out of a single coterie, or partly out of ono and partly out of another. With diem there is but one growing and indignant feeling—that they are disfranchised without reason, and defrauded of their fair share in the administra tive government of their country without a decent pretext or excuse. It is mere coxcombry, the vulgar insole ec of usurping power,—the sad stolidity of bureaucratic ill-breeding.—that ventures to insinuate doubts whether the hereditary monopolists are not intellectually abler to do the business of the emigre than the thinkers, the orators, the writers, via the discoverers of the commercial and professional ranks of the community. if this be Moe, shy not say it out at once and openly? Why sot tell the Commons house of parliament that the days of the eammonaltv are over—that all real wis dom and talent must henceforth be sought for on the . scarlet cushioned benches of the gilded chamber, at whose bar it is their priceless pm-Rego to stand and listen—only not too many at a time ?lrhy is not the ehameful fact avowed,—if fact it is believed to be, — 'that the plebeians of England are less fit than those of any other country in Christendom to be entrusted with the seals of a department of state ? There is not a country in Europe or America, save our own, when- such a system of exclusion is maintained Free or despotic, republican or Cossack, lay or same dotal. there is not a government existing in any del. Wed realm of which men of the middle class de not form a prominent and recognised part. An our merchants, scholars, manufacturers. author; men of inventive genius or of experimental know ledge. inferior to their Anglo-American kinsmen, et their French, German, Spanish, or Italian neigh' boors? And if, of the whole clique of oligarchs them is not one who would have the effrontery public) tea 'say so.—it an hardly be wondered th a t the d . shred claims of England should look with conetendg .renewed and augmented indignation at each new show of cheap that serves only to remind themof the sordid and &melees injustice done them ? The cabinet re-aesembled vesterdsy after the beg. days, and the privy council is summoned to mot to-morrow at Windsor. Whether at the former it was agreed to take in certain of the Peelle, notable.,, and whether it will form any portion of .the business of the latter to recognise or re-afilwit the choice, we are but little concerned to know. We 'contend for a great principle of civil justice end polities! eqoality, which such arrangements in no las spell West or touch. If the whigs - believe that they can diatom hostility of • certain kind by taking a few of &a prodlossooms in office into ths went admnotim . , pottairobip. they will po** dont shot is emphatteaffy their Whir. But the tile of the iambi at Wipe is ma whitlow this knot of balledpeeirkkes sr the ether, sr a odxture of both, soihrod to aspen to themselves all the proles end Immo and powers of the state ; but whether It k set dome kr the odious =dimply altogether le ow w dskomfas ? It is min to talk about lonshiso reform as • ast-elf against this int- Lireystem. The eriskeraey know full well with an sisclosta , deco, mad equal repel. mutation of the whole pupae in podia• Yet, their hereditary trade le politics, as a protected trade, must speedily come to an end. And Iptel:iple naturally disbelieve in the reality of say ion of seal for suffrage reform emanating fres each a quarter. The test of sincerity in this respell will probably bo The Ballot. If the minishnid scheme shall not contain the only effective ginumlni that can be afforded for un intimidebel loft es Middle clauses will recognise the midge ee a consistent adherence to the family compact; they may not wonder at the circumstance, for they will thoroughly understand " the ream) why." There is another point of view in which we op prebend that the Secretary of the 'treasury mast already begin to ponder seriously on these things. ) The whigs have been hitherto held in their places sometimes despite the tumbling and sprawling of some of their heaven-born set— the radical party. So long as a general election was remote or uncertain, the latter el themselves at liberty to lay their plebeian cloaks hi the mire for their dainty rulers to walk en. Hitherto their collective humiliation has been their merited reward. But the temper of the public niind ie changing. The people are growing impatient wed irritated at the continuance of an exclusion white, in the persons of their representatives, they feel io intended as an insult and defiance of their entire order. Radical members are very likely to hear at the hustings a cry of " Business men to do the Muntry's beeriness!" The sheep-faced fear of being taunted with the desire of office has too long do termed the men of the Commons from demanding the demolition of the lordly system of cabinet-making. Respect for themselves and for the class whose tights they have been appointed to guard will prompt them, we trust, to take henceforward a very dif ferent tone. THE Rev. J. W. E. Bt.NNErr has again rises to the *dace of=e bringing with him frtsh troubles mad now Since Ins compulsory resignation MIIIIIMIIIM THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1852. of St. Paul and St. Barnabas, the public had not taken I any interest in the reverend gectleman; he had gone unnoticed to Rome, am was %1112.7 natural ; but, when dere, did not outwardly confirm till Popery. lit was very illogical. Still, in that exercise of fret of thought and ef conduct, there was nothing *OlO lie had any right to num& on. Mr. lem Niar, the private person, we entitled to be ma lamas- I I tent as he pleased, without popular reproach ; the responsibility was his alone. There was no desire to molest him after he had ceased to outrage us. We might have un opinion that he ought nut to remain in the church of England, but we had not the I slightest wish to drive him out. Persecution never entered into our heads. All we wanted was to forget him; for we had other and better things to think about than Mr. BENNETT. One of his disciples has, however, forced hint once more On public attention. Mr. 111:xxErr's strength lay amongst the aristocracy. It was in Belgravia he planted his peculiar "centre of unity, and thence he exorcised all popular Christianity; there it was that he raised nunneries and appointed lady abbot..in; propagated meth:era taster, habits and practices; opened shops for the sale of what pour SYDNEY S3IIIII called "little books of nonsense, pictures of the VIRGIN and illuminations of the saints:" undertook to reconcile dirt and diamonds, squalor end %plendour, at ;tryst ion and superabundance, misery and fashion. Belgravia had. indeed, always had its qualms of conscience and its tweaks of piety. Some fifteen scars ago evangeliennism was growing fashionable flierr ; but evangelicanism insisted too much on the difficulty of the camel passing through the eye ot a needle; so Dr. Tilton% s chaps: ceased to be attractive. The Bishop, too, did not choose that Arcadia of Bon Tun to be disturbed ; he refused to license Irish curates to " set a trembling" the shat tered nerves of its charming shepherdesses; and Mr. Bust N crr became the Ammo Los of the Flock. ... • The difficulty Bishop !limit' , mu) had in pulling down the piping Pan he had assisted in setting up we all recollect; for we all enjoyed the trounc ing which Mr. BENNETT gave The episcopacy which he commenced with reverencing. It was ou both their parts, however, an indecent and discre ditable controversy. For it displayed a bishop with out any consistent rules for the proper government of his clergy ; ready to take advantage of all their vagaries when they were popular; yet prepared to sacrifice and abandon them to the first burst of public indignation; and it also ',hosed how such prelatimil lubricity encouraged a bold and audacious priest to go On advancingin Itomish errors and practices until a sense ofehame cut off any retreat; and hence, owing to his obstinacy, far more than to his bishop's firm ness, Mr. HENN I:TF . 9 expulsion from Belgravia. Belgravia was indignant ; Belgravia subscribed its money. censured its bishop, and vowed desperate deeds of insubordination against the divine right of episcopacy. It resolved to fellow Mr. BENNETT wherever he went, and the probability is, that Mr. BENNEtr's hesitation, and not Dr. BLONIFIELD . B influence, has kept half Belgravia from Rome. At last, however, Belgravia has had its great revenge : for again Mr. BENNFrr has been presented to a benefice of the church of Eugland. The noble house of TII YNN F. has large passessions in the west of Fngland ; and attached to them is, of course, a corresponding amount of church patronage. The church has, therefore, always rejoiced in an abandance, sometimes in a superabundance, of TIITXNES ecclesiastical. At present, it seems from the Clergy Lid. we have only two,—Lord CHARLES, a canon of Canterbury and vicar of the family living of Long-bridge Deverill, in Wiltshire; and Lord Joitx, a cation of Westminster, and rector of the sinecure rectory of Backwell, Somersetshire—" pa tron, the Nlarquis of BATH." Such were the uses the T/ITXN ES in times past put their church patronage to. Non cadem est :etas non MOM" New lights have, however, dawned even upon the TitvNNEs—or, at least, upon one of them. I.ike other noble ladies, the Dowager Marchioness of BATH has seen the errors of her family's ways ; and, eschewing what Mr. Disk IEI.I calls the tt meagre theology " of the Chun h of England, has bestowed her widowhood on that church universal which is to be found nowhere; and in the true spirit of a Norman conqueror has resolved to impose it and its apostle on her vassals at Procne. Now, Frome is not an obscure, scurvy village, or • great straggling rural parish, illustrating what Lord GRET when a liberal used to term the " bar barous agriculture" of Mr. MitEs's constituents. Frome is a considerable town full of educated people, with a large district surrounding it ; together con taining some 12 or 13,000 inhabitants. It is a vicarage; the vicar has generally kept three or four curates and there are in the parish three chapels, all in his gift. The importance of a new vicar to Frome re sembles the importance of a new Prime Minister to England; and what that is we all at present feel. The peace, the policy, the improvement, and the comfort of the place. are all concerned in the appointment. , When, then, a vacancy recently occurred, Lady BATH was addressed by the inhabitants, with a view to a suitable appointment; and she, it seems, pro mised to attune her choice to their wants. But a suitable appointment, in their opinion, meant something very different from what it did in her ladyship's judgment. By it they expressed attachment to that good old protestantism for which the West of England has always been famous; whilst by it their feudal chief signified that Sacerdotalism with which the weak and sensuous portion of our aristocracy has of late been inoculated. They relied on her promise; and, dreaming only of coming low church zeal and fervour, were astounded by the news that Mr. BENNETT was to be their vicar. Frome rose at the announcement ; clergy _and laity, uniting, poured forth their sorrows to Lady BATH; snatching at the first (and it by no means the most offensive) of Mr. Berme - Ws books on the shelves of the town library, they pointed out his infidelity to the church of England ; they showed thence how he had aspersed their Church, maligned the Reformation, and denounced Pro testantism to his own children ; and, drawing thence the inevitable inference, that under him they and theirs could not be secure, they implored Lady BATH to save them and their little ones from such a vicar and such a pastor. Lady BATH is a mother, a religious woman, and a person of generous sympa thies, as well as dispenser of church patronage; and here is her reply ; Longleat, Jan. 3. Rev. Sir,—l have received with sincere regret a commu nication signed by yourself and others, relating to the ap pointment of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett to the vicarage of Frome, in my gift. In reply, I beg to inform you that the appointment is already mad, and cannot be revoked. I remain, rev. air, yours faithfully, li. BATH. The Rev. W. Calvert, Vicarage, Frome. On Lady BATH personally,—u the writer of this letter, we have no further remark to make. The law enables her to give such an answer ; and for it the law is answerable. Let us view it from an emi nence loftier than Longleat. Here then we have • whole parish rising against Mr. lietcsim's appoint• ment ; showing irresistible reasons for their host i ity to it ; and all the answer they can get is " the appoint ment in already made, and cannot be revoked." The peace of Froine has therefore to he disturbed, religions animosities and discords have to be introduced into it, the church has to be rent, and strife to become the order of the day therein, because the law has con ferred on Lady BATH the unrestricted power of assigning to the 13,000 people of Frome a vicar, against whom the meanest parish in England would protest. The cure of their souls is " in my gift." What is given " cannot be reroked." The church in Frome was consequently established for the benefit of Lady BATiI'S patronage; not for what its 13,000 inhabitants deem their spiritual edifi eation. Such is the legal position of the matter. This, we say, is • monstrous grievance; it is a state of things for which there is no parallel in any other protestant country ; from which even Scotland is free. Under each bondage, the church belongs, not to the people, but to the aristocracy and to the episco pacy of England. The benefice of Frome, in Laid, trit's gift, is convened into a piece or semi-popish missionary machinery, which its inhabitants, with souls as immortal, feelings as acute, capabilities as cultivated, fears as sensitive. and hopes as humble as her ladyship's, can only avoid contact with by leaving their parish church. The church at Frome was, therefore, made for Lady BATH, not far the people. But there is the bishop to protect them against the patron's wantonness and disregard of their wishes and entreaties. Yes, there is the bishop. And small is the se"urity Protestantism him in Dr. !Wan% under whose fostering care, while at Oxford, the Mammas and the WARDS were encouraged to enter on that road which, in the consistency of their logic, 'MI relpieition of the censors. Mr. Nettement replied led them to Rome; who has approved of and sane- I withtheepiritanddignitywhichhavealwayscharacter tioned all the wrst practices at reactarismism i who,j ised his public life, whet her as a representative or . writer. th Abs, iray, titteibrded aid 'farenitna, • her. G. IHe said that as a staunch moldier of the dropeau 1 the de of the Questes supremos , and I /done he could never submit to so unworthy a capitu tho cr of t ' put:ells gercrnment. is Intim' ; and that he preferred to !week his pen rather lllit4n the security the plc of Viva° are now thrown than write under such humiliating conditions. In balker. . fact, the Opinion l'seblique desired nothing better ....--..-..1.wee,.. r t than an opportunity of dying sword in hand on the 4, , field of battle, as it was only kept going since the FRANCE. imposition of the stamp at a loss, and its ruin was evident under the new is , ;/One. Thus the fairest, PARIS, THURSDAY EVICIIINCI. most manly, and talented organ of the legitimists' The Marquis and Marchioness o f N ornian hy w ill has given up the ghost. leave Pans to-morrow for England. The departure The story is quite true which I reported to yea of the English Ambassador, at a moment when our yesterday of a soldier who deserted during the days of December, and pleaded in extenuation of his relations with Franco are of such pre-eminent im portance, induces the belief that his excellency's offence that he had been a sentinel tit Ham, and con visit to England is not unconnected with the minis. nivcd at the escape of Louis Napoleon from terial crisis on the other side of the Channel. that fortress. I now, again, allude to the You aro aware that the news given by the Coma- circumstance, to call your attention to the remarkable fact, that t'he offi c er b e f o r e w h om tiabontel of a complimentary note from the Emperor this impudent justification of one breach of military of Russia, received an official contradiction from the duty by another still graver, nev e r dared to rebuke M *tear. lam enabled to-day to present you with the canine' delinquent for has ',harmless defence, but an explanation of these conflicting statements. Its silently admitted the perverse palliation. Thum the true enough that the Czar has written no autograph letter to the President; but a note has been addressed grossest offences which have accidentally s e rved as a stepping-stone for the progress of ambition beeome by M. de Neeselrodo to M. de Kisaclef, the Russian interpreted as redeeming merit'', and the v o i c e o f chargi , d'affuires at Paris, with instructions to read the contents to Count Turgot, minister o f f ore i gn authority which ought to challenge and rebuke affairs, but nut to deliver any copy. This note abuse is choked by dastardly apprehensions of giving umbrage to corrupt power. lour centuries e go th e congratulated the l'resident upon the success of the Lord Chief Justice of England condemned th e heir coup debit of Dec. 2; but recommended him, in dip Lord of the crown of the Plantagenets for a min lomatie language, not to be hurried away into any demeanour; and his fearless integrity wa s r e w ar d e d precipitate measures, such as assuming the title of' emperor. The latter advice has been very ill re- afterwards by the prince who had been chastised by (Tired by the government; and it was chiefly on this his impartial sentence. To-day in France an o ffi ce r dares not punish a deserter, because that d eser t e r account that the congratulations of the court of St. l'etersburgh were disavowed. winked at the escape of the prisoner whom he was s The national guard is about to be dissolved, and set to guard, and whom France has now chos e n for will he replaced by a voluntary guard, which will b e her master. Such is the progress which morality called the "Guard of the President of the Republic." and manly virtues make in four centuries. It is said that very important news his arrived I called your attention some time ago to the fact that the military commissions, at first instituted to from Algeria, to the effect that many regiments were in insurrection. rimer° the indictments of the prisoners to he tried The members of the now council of state are all Ey court-martial, acre disposing summarily of the accused without trial. It now appears that the trials chosen, and the names will appear in the Moniterer b at the same time as the constitution, the publication by court-martial will not take place at all ; and that of which is for the present fixed for the lath or 16th some 2,004) of the citizens arrested for resistance to 1 inst. the coup d'etai will bo transported to Cayenne uu- It deserves to be remarked that on Tuesday night, judge d. at the Opera, the imperial etiquette was punctually The family Lehon, intimately related to M. followed. Ono of the most striking features of this Morny, will, it is said, have 6,000 shares in the Paris ceremonial was that the signal for applause was always and Lyons Railway. given by the President, and then became general. It is affirmed that the name of the Assembly will You may observe by such innovations how accu- be changed to some other than " Senate." rate were the predictions of those who foretold its There is much tale of a pamphlet by M. Thicrs, the supremacy of Louis Napoleon a return to the published abroad, and copies of whi c h arc even now, sycophant usages of the Bas-Empire. it is stated, circulating in l'aris. I drew your attention lately to the circumstance M. de Ntrode, late representative• and now mcm of an article giving the palm to civilians over the her of the Consultative Commission, has bought the military, appearing in the Assemble'e Nationale. Emancipation, of Brussels, which is to be turned This has given great offence to the military aristo- into a Belgian Unirers. M. de Nlerude is a near cracy, and appears to have been disapproved by the relative of M. de Montalembert. government ; for the censors have been had up before The construction of the viaduct of Viroflay, thrown M. de Morny and severely reprimanded, for allowing across the valley on the sides of which the two Ver the article to pass. It some the censors are so ashamed miller lines of railway now run, is getting on with of their employment that when the proofs of jour- frrelli activity. Thin viaduct is to connect the two nets aro presented they aro merely passed through lines. The two new termini of the Western Ra tan open parcel, or rather slit, behind which the mys- way. one at the Plato de l'Europc, and the other on terious castigators of the press cannot be descried. the lidulevatd Mont rammer, are also rapidly pro- This precaution, worthy of the old Venetian police, greasing, and the works will certainly be completed has only just been adopted. in the course of next spring. The fine terminus far The I)ibats and "IssensWe Nationale exult over goods in the Plain of Vaugirard, is also nearly the erasure of the democratic device, " Liberte. Ega- tiniehed. • lite, Fraternite," claiming an independent right to tri- The Directors of the Bank of Franeelhave just had umph in the abolition of revolutionary symbols, which constructed in the middle of the garden of that build they have never ceased to assail. These organs would ing extenske cellars, the masonry of which is nine do well at the same time to reflect that it is mainly feet in thickness. These cellars which, at the slight by those violent tirades against all that remained o f est alarm, may be immediately tilled with water, and the revolution of February that the conservative the entrance to which is, besides, secured by thick party gave Louis Napoleon an instrument which ho iron doors, arc intended to receive the immense masa of gold and silver, both in coin and bars, which forms turned to their subjugation and enslavement. lied they been as sedulous and vigilant in their guar- the reserve of the Batik. dian.hip of constitutional liberties as they were blind The Marseilles journals publish a note from the and rabid in their denunciation and persecution of de- Minister of Commerce to the Chamber of Commerce magogic phantoms, they would never have seen can- of that city, calling attention to a report front the non planted on the Boulevards, for the destruction of French consul at Pares, relative to the falling off in their houses, under pretence of putting down the French commerce with that part of Greece, and eon socialists. Their cry against " Liberty, Equality, caning suggestions for its revival. 'he consul states Fraternity" has ministered to their captivity, depres- that articles of French manufacture are still much sion, and disunion. As a political party the conger- esteemed in that part of the country, and that al cadres can no longer be said to exist. More and though Corinth raisins, the principal article of ea more of them daily will be registered among the port front the Nlorea, are not in great demand in "adhesions" to the new power. The rest will re- r'rance, it would be possible to encourage large ex main condemned to inaction, obscurity, and ennui, ports of oil, wool, raw silk, and other raw materials The great orators will exchange the glories of the for which there is a demand in French manufac tribune for the "odium sine eiegreitate "of the Acade- tories. But for this purpose the consul thinks it my arm-chair. Those whom political aspirations necessary that, after the example of England and lured from the exercise of the bar on other lucra- Austria, the French merchants should form penile tive professions, will be fain, like M. Nadaud, the nest establishments at l'utrus. By these means he mason, who, from being a candidate for the prem.- thinks they might advantageously compete with the dency, now seeks a jab for his trowel, to go English. lhe Messayer des Chambres of B russe l s , ex pl a i ns back to their abandoned career, and resume the web of their earlier and humbler labours. Let us hope and corrects as follows the report of M. Victor that such will prefer that honest independence to nue , ' arrest : cringing for offices and employments to the unprin- M. V. Hugo could not have got away from Paris with cipled trate who has trampled upon them and out the help of a disguise, and a pavvport in a fictitious magis name. On arriving at Brussels he was obliged to deposit betrayed the liberties of their country. his pa at the Hotel de Ville, and to take a permis de You will no doubt have noticed the remarkable s9oeir in his supposed name. But immediately afterwards expression let drop by M. de Moray at the dinner of M. V . Hugo called upon M. Hagler, the Minister of the Interior, to whom he was personally known, informed him the Prefect of the Seine, " Providence," said the of the necessity which had compelled him to take the false minister of Louis Napoleon, "never does things r:sii i i:i.g, um anll n obt r aped ct s a a l t assur N sT y ce er t t tal he might by halves." This oracular maxim his been interpreted as meaning that the President " goes in" be the foundation Pe for the report of M. '‘' .e . " l - I - u a g n o's t &re s e ll :t wit for the whole empire. Few had, indeed, the aim- two police agents went to his hotel and desired to see him, plicity to believe that Louis Napoleon w ou ld s it d own but upon hearing his explanati o ns they p o lit e ly ma d e th e i r contented with a consulate for ten years, when he excuses and withdrew. had the game all in his own hands, and therewas A shocking murder of a priest has just been com nothing to restrain but his word from playing it after witted at ltoybon (Isiere). In the night of Jau. 2, M. Drevon, the cure of Beaufort, was called up upon his own fashion. But it app e a re d so a b sur d an anomaly for the re-elected power to call itself the pretext that ho was requtred to administer the last sacraments to a dying person. Ile at once left " Emperor of the Republic," that I f e lt n o little his house, and had only walked a few yard s w h en hesitation in sending you this news ; which has, the pretended messengers cut his head open with a however, been since confirmed from various quarters, and in particular by the correspondence of the hatchet, and afterwards mutilated his body and cut Independence Beige. The latter s o urc e g i ves ou t off the head. M. Drevon has been curate of the parish ears. The assassins are not yet in cu s tody. to-day that the imperial title is seriously expected. 20 ' A provision in the new organic decrees pro- At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 65c., closing which forbids mud at 105.55. The Three per Cents. fell Sc., and c l ose d gated by the Emperor of A ustria, at 72.20. No cause for the fall in the Five per Cents. oral pleading in the courts of justice, has struck a was assigned, except the realisation of profits cense panic into the hearts of advocates here, as they fear that Louis Napoleon intends to copy this new feature w ere, upon the recent rise. Most of the railways of Austrian le elation . To-day there has been a were, however, weaker. Rouen and Havre each fell good deal of talk upon this subject in the lobbies of 20fr. ; Bordeaux, 17.00 ; Centre, 15 ; Northern, 7.50 ; Teste and Bordeaux rose 10fr., and Dieppe, 100 fr. the Petals do Justice. Bank of France shares fell I(M)fr.From an early hour this morning numbers of workmen, perched upon ladders, or suspended in cradles from the roofs of the public buildings, have been busily employed in erasing the proscribed words, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." A variety of medals are being struck to comme morate the election of the President M. Borrel, the engraver, has just finished two. One represents the bust and profile of Louis Napoleon, and on the re verse contains the numbers of the vote of Dec. 21. The other has a bust of the Emperor on the face, and that of the President on the reverse. SPAIN. MADRID, 3. General Peznela has resigned hie post as captain general of Madrid. Generals Sane, Pavia, and Canedo, are spoken of as likely to succeed him. The last has the best chance. The motive assigned for General Pezuela's re. signation is his dissatisfaction with the explanations given by the Minister of War. It is said that a conspiracy was on foot to liberate the convicts in the bagno of Rochefort, and was dis covered by M. Becker, the shipowner of Rochelle, who informed the authoritiet, and enabled them to frustrate the designs of the conspirators. I informed you yesterday of M. Proudhon's en gagement to write a weekly review to tackle the Jesuits. lam able today to add some more details on this curious subject. It seems, that when the decree was published for transporting persons under the surveillance of the high police, who had broken their ban, it excited great apprehension among the political prisoners of St. Pelagic as the decree might be applied hereafter, and it was agreed that Proud. lion, who is allowed now and then to leave the pri son on parole, should seek an interview with de !Horny, to shield them from such a terrible visita tion. The conference was granted, and was of con siderable length. l'roudhon represented to the go vernment that the course they were launched upon would infallibly end in a revolution which would bo their ruin. M. do Moray took this occasion to engage the pen of the celebrated editor of tho l'eople to harms the ultra-inontano party, whose preten sions are foiled insupportable at the Elysk. The Opinion Publique has been suppressed. The immediate motives of its suppression, I am in-' formed, ix the appearance of a gnat deal of the paper yesterday in blank columns, owing to the exci sions practised by the censonthip. Yesterday after noon a commissary of police called at the office of the journal to demand the reason of this exposure of the deeds of the censorship, the wounds inflicted by which are expected to be marked by the insertion of trivial matter of no political interest. It wax signi fied to the editor that if he wished to avert the sup pression of the paper, he must write a letter to the miaistry of the interior, promising to conform with SWITZERLAND. The Gazette de Lausanne states that Sergeant Boichot, the ex-representative (who is not dead as reported in one of the French journals), and M. Avril, another ex-representative, were arrested in the night of the 30th ult. in a house near that town, in which they had been hiding for some days. The same journal states that M. Kopp. professor at the Academy at Lausanne, has been ordered to leave Switzerland without delay. The Suisse of Berne states that the explanations demanded by the French government relative to political refugees relate more particularly to those who had published a seditious proclamation at Lau sanne. The fact appears certain, for the federal council has ordered their expulsion. The Bund, however, declares that no expulsion of French refu gees has taken place. ITALY. NAPLES, Dec. 30. The state trials are still proceeding, and from the way in which the tnals are conducted, it is clear the prisoners will he all sent to the gal leys at toast. The events of France will hasten their lute. A batch of 54 political offenders arc now being' tried at Salerno. PIEDMONT. In the Chamber of I kputies of Turin, on the 3rd, orders of the day were proposed on the discussion of the budget of the war department, to the effect that the Minister of War should be called on to present without delay a law on the organisation of the army, its provided for by Article 2 of the law of June last but, on the demand of the minister, the simple order of t h e day was adopted. GERMANY. In the Second Prussian Chamber, on the Sth instant, the retirement of the Minister of War, General von Stockhauscn, w•as announced. A communication was al,o read from the Minister of Finance, stating that the government did not intend to lay before the house any account of the administration of the finances for the present year ; that an account of the expenditure of 18 7 19 and 1850 in excess of the estimates of those revenues would lie presented during the present session (this document was laid on the table before the sitting of the day terminated), but that the general report of the expenditure of 1t450 might be produced in the next session, after it had undergone examination by the chief court of audit. The message was gives over to the general committee on the budget. It did not produce a favourable impression. M. von Vineke moved that the message, "on ac count of its importance," be printed, which was agreed to. M. von Manteuffel laid on the Lade the text of the commercial trot• between Prussia and Holland. Our Paris correspondent says: " Martial law bus been proclaimed throughout Hungary." TURKEY AND 'TIE LEVANT. By the Levant mail we have received Constan tinople journals to the 2lth, Smyrna to the 26th, and Athens to the 27th ultimo. The former announce the death, on the llth ultimo, of the Murth Sultana, mother of Fathma Sultana; and she was buried next day in the Mosque of Yeni-Djami. Cabouli Effendi, formerly first secretary of the embassy at Loudon, huts been nominated Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Ple nipotentiary at Athens. The dissension between Austria and the Porte on the affair of the Dardanelles has been, as stated by the German journals. settled, ! by the dismissal of the civil governor, and by the Porte consenting to make Ins successor visit the I Austrian consulate, and salute the flag of the con sulate with the usual number of guns. The Constantinople journals state that as a bunker of Galata, M. C--, was, on the 19th ult., returning from th • ministry- of finance wi:h a bag containing bills for 305,800 piastres, be was stopped near the Mosque of Yeni Djami, by a man who threw a hand ful of dust in his eyes, and then stabbed hint near the heart. His pocket-book fortunately lessened the force of the blow, but before he could put himself in a posture of defence he was knocked down by two other men, and his bag was taken from him. Later accounts from Trebizond confirm the news from Persia of the disgrace of the minister, Mirza Taghi Khan, and say that it was caused by the dis covery of a plot, in which he was engaged, for de priving Persia of the province of Gillian. Orders were given that Mirza Taghi Khan, although bro thet-in-law of the Shah, should be strangled, but his life was spared on the intervention of the Ulemahs. The Smyrna papers contain no news. The Chamber of Deputies of Athens has adopted a resolu tion, calling on the ministry to take measures for Fitting down brigandage. The journals contain sore further accounts of excesses committed by the brigands. The town of the Piraeus is being beauti fied, and measures have been adopted for improving its sanitary condition. TILE LIBERATION OF LOUIS NAPOLEON. —A pri vate of the 6th Regiment of the line, named Girardin, who clitimtd the merit of having favoured the escape of Louis Napoleon from the fortress of Ham, in the year ISIS, was tried by court-martial in Paris yester day for dese rtion. The following are the particulars:— On the 210 bee...tither last, when the decrees of the Pre sident of the Republic were posted di=ioising the Assembly, and the troupe in Paris were commanded tooecupy the line of battle assigned to them, the roll was c Wed over in each ' regiment, and a report was made of the absent to the com ! mender-in-chief. The private, Ilapteste Oirardin, was set down as absent from the 6th Regiment of the Line, rum. mended by Colonel de Oardarens. Nut haling returned to the regiment fur several days, he was returned as a deserter, ' and when he made his appearance clad in an old blouse he was arrested, and hi+ trial took place yesterday. The Pre sident of the court-martial having in the course of his in terrogatory told the prisoner that his absence from his regi ment at such a moment had led to the belief that he had made common cause with the anarchists, the latter replied warmly, " Oh, no, colonel, I'm too much devoted to l'rince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to have entertained such an idea. It was I who, when the prince was detained at the fort of Ham, had the advantage, which many others envied me, of favouring his escape. Colonel, I must tell you that I was on guard at that moment. The prince pawned before me disguised as a mason, bear ing a plank on his shoulder. When I saw him approach ing me, I very quickly perceived that his was not the step of a mar, but that it was the prince himself. I was much affected, and I turned oa my left beul to lease a free passage for the mares carrying the plank. I was punished for list having kept a stricter watch by one month's int prisonnient.' The colonel replied to the prisoner, that al though he had listened patiently to his statement,which was no excuse for the desertion, he believed it was a vain boast. The prisoner—" Colonel, it is a fact known by every inai vidual in the 70th Regiment of the Line, of which I formed part at that pa riled. If I had had the means I would have procured certificates to prove that I might if I had wished have prevented the escape of Prince Louis Napoleon Bona parte, but I was ton happy to see him at liberty." Not withstanding an eloquent appeal front the prisoner's coun sel, who observed that the prisoner's previous good character entitled him to the merciful consideration of the court, Oirardin was found guilty, and sentenced to hard labour for five years. THE AIECIERA SCREW STEAM-FRIGATE AND THE TILOOPB mot rus Care.—A letter from an officer, allud ing to the breaking dowu of this steamer on her first voyage, says :—" She was sent to sea on the 3rd of January with one of the finest regiments (the 60th Rifles) the world could boast of on board, destined for the Cape of flood Rope. It had for some daysilven known that this gallant and dis tinguished corps was to embark for immediate service for the Cape, and a steamer large enough to convey the whole regi ment was ordered to Dover to receive them. Mark the re sult. The morning of the 3rd was fine, the sea like glass, and this gallant band embarked amid the cheers and regrets of the inhabitants to be landed at the Cape, and to imme diately take the field against the enemy. 'this steamer (51vglicra) was one of those singled out by the Beard of Ad mitalty as superior to any we have ready, and so well fitted that uo one could complain of any want of accommoda tion. She started, the prayers and good wishes of thou sands accompanied her. Night came on, with a molt ter rific gale—nothing stowed away—all confusion, and so perfectly unfitted for a troop-ship was this pet of the Ad miralty, that she had not even a place fitted to receive the soldiers' rifles or accoutrements, not even a locker of any description to stow away their food ; and it is further a fact that so shamefully has she been fitted that there was not even a place to contain the officer' wine and stock. At midnight we are told the scene was frightful-800 men with no place to sleep in—beer-barrels, hampers of better cheer, great drums, o®c•rs' stock, men's wives, baggage of every description—all reeling and knocking about together. At this moment the gale was at its height, the rudder became choked, so that for a time the vessel would not steer ; her topsides opened so much as to admit of the water pushing in, and her decks fore and aft were up to the ankles in water, at which moment some confusion took place in the engine-room, from the circumstance of some of the com partments of the machinery catching fire, dec." FOREIGN GOODS IN TRANSITC.—An important communication has been made from the Lords of the Trea sury to the Commissioners of Customs on the subject of the importation of foreign goods in transitu for other foreign countries. It is their lordships' wish that the regulation which has been applied to watches without tho foreign maker's name should be henceforth extended to watches on which an English maker's name is counterfeited, it being understood that the search made by the Customs officers of foreign goods in port, intended for transhipment, is to be confined to the prevention of the introduction of contra fowrareho me contra band goods into this country ; and to thatthe t regulation in v i i i es ti t t ion is respect theto .11 . 1 ., xle o nd o e f d a w atche s intended for exporta tion, and which it has been the practice hitherto only to restore upon condition of their being returned to the place of shipment, their lordships approve of an alteration being made in the present regulations, and they accordingly de sire the Commissioners of Customs to authorise their officers to allow the same in future to be introduced into this coun try upon the understanding that they are merely in transitu, and are immediately transhipped for their destination. THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.—It appears from the trade and navigation returns just issued that in the month ended the fith ult. the quantity of wine imported numbered '.03,401 gallons. In the like period of the pre ceding year it numbered 783,530 gallons. In the eleven months ending the sth ult. the quantity imported was 7,8.52,167 gallons, and in the preceding year 8,043,321 gal- I lon.. In the month ended the Sth ult. the quantity en-1 treed for home consumption was 573,013 gallons, rind in the corresponding month of the preceding year 601,527 gallons; whilst in the eleven months ending the sth ult. the quantity was 6,118483 gallon., and in the preceding year 6,231,100 Fallon., showing a decrease in 1851 of 112,826 gallons. There is a decrease in the quantity of spirits ent.•red for home con- 1 sumption last year compared with 1850. In the eleven months ending the sth ult. there were 4,2/43,790 gallons of spirits (rum, brandy, and geneva) entered f r home con sumption, and in the like pa•rind of the preceding year 4,312,291 gallons, being a decrease of 28,501 gallons. LONDON ('try I M PROV EY ENTs.—The sum pro posed to be raised by the corporation of the City of London, on the credit of their estates and revenues, for widening and improving the north end of Dowgate-hill, Threadneedle street, opposite Old Broad-street, the south-east corner of Mark-lane, and the north side of Greet Tower-street, is 40,0001. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. The Thames, Capt. Abbott, Admiralty agent Lieut. Ilay,arrived at Southampton la s t night, with the West India and Mexican mails. Dates: Vera Cruz, Hec. M; Tampico, oth; Chagres, 10th; Carthagena, 12th; Jamaica, 11th; Demerara, 12th; T. iiiidad, 14th; liarbadoes, 17th ; Antigua, 17th; Martinique, 17th; Grenada, 1 lth ; Porto Rico, 17th; St. Thoueut, 20th; Guayra, 12th. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 1,000,019 dollars from Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Chagres, of which 81,000 dollars are on account of Mexican dividends. She has 31 passengers ou board. Also, gold dust, and gold value, 193,671 dole.; gold coin, 27,610 dull. ; silver, 28,113 do's. There is nothing of political importance from tlw islands+ excepting that rains had fallen, and the crop., are healthy and promising. Fever prevails a! St. Thomas's, but fatal cases are rare. At Grey Town the usual fever and ague continual to swell the sick list of the shipping. A letter, dated Grey Town, Dee. +l, says;—,\ schooner, named the Jessy, was commissioned for the service of the Musqitian government. Salulis of 21 guns were fired on this neeasion by iI M. brig Exprt WI and royal mail ste.mer Trent. A dematnl had been made by Capt. Feud, of the Express, on the commander of the American steamer Hamel Wehster for the amount of port charges which had until the late affair with the Prometheus been resisted by the United States steam•vessel+, after much negotiation, the captain of the Daniel Webster paid the said dues, under protest The river steam-boats are constantly plying Is.. tweet' Grey Town and Machucha Rapids, thirty miles from the Nicaraguan Lakes. Passem, , er to an from this port to San Juan del Sud is fast in creasing, every ship to and from the States being literally crammed with human beings. Land ut Grey Town is now valuable property, and it is not difficult to foresee that this route to California will crc long be the favourite one. The river stainers are well adapted for their work, the paddle's-heel being placed astern, and their draught of water not exceeding 15 inches. At Chagres the excessive rains had caused an in undation on the banks of the river, and much pro. periv had been destroyed at Cruces and Gorgona. At the former Dia,• the inundation swept away the lower part of the hotels, effiees, &e.; the water rose to 21 feet, reaching the ceiling the American lintel, which, on receding, involved a serious lot, of property to the owner. At Gorgona (says our cor res(ondent) the damage has been equally great, and it is believed that several persons are ruined by this disaster. 't he weather had been so unfavourable that com munication with Chagres and the steamers was on many occasions impossible. The Georgia (as an nounced some days since) was compelled to land bar liassengers for Calitbrnia at Navy Bay, her boats having been swamped in an attempt to pass over Chagres liar. No less than four vessels arc on shore on the bar, having been driven from their anchors by the heavy "freshets" down the river. Fort Lorenzo is occupied by a small force of artillerymen to hold in cheek the unruly and extortionate Yankee boatmen who on a recent occasion wero the MUM: of the riots. JAMAICA. Front this island there is little news of interest. The House of Assembly have passed a bill appoint ing a commission for inquiry into the public and pa rochial institutions and establishments of the country. The commissioners art invested with large powers, and are to report to the house within a year. The raunial Standard, of Dec. 10, says We learn that on the north side of the island, and in the central ridge of mountains, the weather has been fearfullly violent during the latter days of the last week. On all the coffee properties, from Shildon to Abbey-green, a perfect hurricane has been experienced from the north, which we are sorry to hear has blown almost all the coffee off the trees. At Farm Hill the weather was so bad that there is scarcely a negro house on the property left standing. In Metcalfe we understand the came weather was experienced, and with the same effort. Scarcely a pl intain tree has been saved in the higher districts of the parish. A. 4 regards the cholera, the Morning Journal. of tho 11th is glad to learn that:it has slightly abated in the town of Montego-11 y, but we regret to say, the reports from the country are not more chicring than those we received by the last accounts from the parish. The Chronicle states: We regret to learn that the cholera has been raging with great virulence on Copse estate, and that during the last week eight persons had died. Its respectable proprietor, we learn, had himself been a sufferer under its influence, though we are glad to hear be ix now restored to health again. It is said that the disease is located at Chceter Castle, a few miles distant from Copse. lIANOVER.—The disease ix still ragini with severity in this parish. The ('Lester Castle district, on the borders of St. Jams's, is fearfully visited, but the tea n of Lucca is tree from the disease. We learn with regret the demise of Mr. John Fr.uer, of Sod Hall. The Chronicle hen the following from its Green Island correspondent: "Satur day, 6th December,—l regret to inform you that cholera is still raging here badly. Mr. Edward Lawson, a brother of the Rev. li. 0. Lawson, came down here on Wednesday to spend a fow days with his brother, and en Thursday evening about ii o'clock he was taken ill, and died on Fri day evening." In THELAWNY the pestilence is doing its destructive work with rapid progress. Mr. Ilowden, overseer of Shawfield estate, is among the victims. The accounts from Fet.uovrit mention that cholera and small-pox exist in Trelewny to an alarming extent. At Deeside, the Hague, Bounty-hall, Swanswiek, Orange-valley, M ales, Potosi, Retreat, Hampstead, Golden Grove, Wakefield, and, is fact, upon almost every estate, there has been several deaths. In the Duncen's district (especially at Spring estate) the mortality is increasing, and from the 23rd to the 30th of November there have been no less than 103 cases and 41 deaths. Among the victims is Mrs. Deans, the wife of Robert Deans, Esq. The Cuuntv Union states that Mr. Deans also has fallen a victim to the disease. There are at present in the immediate neighbour hood of Duncan's 196 eases of small-pox, and the deaths are reported to be 19. WEVTMOKELAND.—The disease still lurks in the pariah, but has lost that very malignant power which, but a few weeks back, it so fatally exhibited. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the precinct of Saint Catherine was held on December 3, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the neces sity of establishing a system of responsible govern ment in this island," when the following resolutions were carried: That the system at present pursued in the administration of the public business of this island is based upon unsound principles, and is in practice found to work disadvan tageously to the public interest, and that inasmuch as the institutions adopted by, and fitted to, the requirements of a slave state arc unsuited to the wants of a free people, it is desirable as far as possible to assimilate the constitution of the colony to that of the mother country. That a system of responsible government, based upon the model of the British constitution, offers the best security to the people as well for the clue preservation of their rights and liberties as for a salutary comical over the sets of their representatives, and affords to the Legislature, without the ucritice of any of their proper privileges, the best guaran tee tar consistent and wise legidation, founded on the indi vidual responsibility of its members, and that to this end the bill now before the honourable House of Assembly, euti tied, " A Ltill fur the establishment of a responsible govern ment in this island," Is in every way well adapted to meet the requirements of the cane. That is memorial, embodying the above resolution, and to be signed by the chairman on behalf of this meeting. be presented to the hon. House of Assembly. That the members of the parish be requested to give their utmost support to the bill now before the house having for its object the establishment of responsible government in this island. The Governor had appointed Simon Noyes, Esq., to be a justice of the peace and assistant judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the precinct of St. Thomas in the East, and George Barnes Vidal, Ho bert Francis Thomas, Jacob Segre, David King, and Richard Spence liarrision, Emirs., to be justices of the peace and assistant judges of the Court of Common Plena for the parish of Westmoreland. In the House of Assembly Mr. Hart moved that the report from the commissioners of account.. in respect to the taxes due by the governor, and levied upon by the collecting constable of St. Catherine's. be taken up and read. lie hoped the house would do something to remove the stigma and disgrace whioh had been cast upon the island by the conduct of the St. Catlwrine's vestry, and that the would go with him in the proposition he was about to make, as the only means by which the house could be re lieved of the charge of having participated or mile timed an act which was as disgraceful as it was un paralleled in the history of Jamaica. (Hear and laughter.) Alter much discussion a motion for rejecting the report was carried by a majority of 11 to 10. BRITISH GUIANA. The Court of Policy met on the Bth, and adjoin ned to the 15th. An importation of coolies from Calcutta is expected at Chagres. tel tag tat - tie le 1 ice se K! dia ea sit la. IP of PI tit