The Express. — London, England, 1852-05-24 00:00:00

the ervrefsfs. TO CORltiarosl ) 2NT B . fiord &Was et " Tbs !sprang,. arftstes t. (woos." polibiot tont Totoity sod PM. opt. I. cia. OW Pt& 0000 motet tateried tw laptoo." tondos PWllin pope, M In go Mr lava, to, itootonootnot. )ty Two **Wok so Ur dir of robnoltis. RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE . Ton luor—Worsies, M. 7r *Remiss. Sit. Mir T.lteastm-11eisuit. 1, SU. ..... Atierassa. it. 113 s. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 24. LOID Joni; Roastis has again tendered, to the electors of the City of London, his services as their representative in the House of Commons. We cannot entertain a doubt that the offer so frankly made will be ea cordially received;—that the connexion of ten eventful years will be prolonged that the city will set to all shades of the great party of progress, the important example of rallying round one of the meet prominent and able champions of its principles. We hear indeed rumours—dim and distant—of tome obscure intriguer., who, usurping the name of liberals, are seeking to stir up an opposition to Lord JOHN among the free trade and reforming electors. We have nut been implicit admirers or servile eulo gist. of Lord June when in etfice. We have, there &r. a., a right to expect that some weight will be attri buted to our support of his claims now that he is not a minister. We should regard any opposition to his re-clection, by any person affecting to call themselves reformers, rank treason against the cause of liberty and progress at a perilous crisis—an example of perverse mutiny and disunion at a time when con cord and combination among reformers is more than ever needed. It is not that we apprehend from the present shabby occupants of office any serious damage to the liberal cause. Their reserve indicating either an utter want of any predetermined policy, or fear to let the pub lic know their unprincipled schemes—and their inces sant eating of their words indicating an utter disre gard of the frank truthfulness and consistency that gees iues English gentlemen—are rapidly lasing for them the confidence of their own party, and justify ing and confirming the hostility of their opponents. It cannot be that England can long tolerate the re tentiou of the reins of government by such a crew of dealers in false pretences. But when they are forced by their own incompe tence and bad reputation to retire disgraced to their original obscunty, then will come the tune when the presence of prudent and experienced statesmen in parliament will be found neces sary. The whip ministry was not so much turned out, as that it dissolved by a natural process of decay. It is admitted on all hands that a recon struction of the liberal party on a broader basis—upon more explicit terms of alliance—is indispensable. But nothing has been as yet done towards the accom plishment of this object. It is possible , nay it is pro bable that the demissal of the DERBY-I/ISRAELI ministry might find the new alliance yet only in an inchoate state. Now such a period of party anarchy is precisely the one when trimmers and job bers, and all that unclean tribe of fishen in troubled waters, are prone to swarm forth from their lurkingplaces. The present disorganised state of the liberal party is encouraging multitudes of this class to offrr their services to constituencies at the coming election. The num ber of " loose fish," as they are called, in the next parliament, will in all probability be much more con siderable than is expedient, or even safe. In such circumstances it is especially incumbent upon con stituencies which have the good fortune to be repre sented by soy man of high principle, of influence in the council, of the liberal /eiders, and long experience in business, to rally enthusiastically round them. Such men are needed in the house that the par liamentary reformers may rally round them in the arduous struggles of the new parlia ment;—as Hausa IV. exhorted his chivalry to rally round his snow-white plume. Without a con siderable number of these to form the nucleus of a working liberal party in parliament the cause may be in imminent danger. Now without pretending to maintain that the say ings and doings of Lord JOUN RrSSILL have on all occasions been exactly what earnest and uncompro mising reformers could have wished, thus much may be said of him without exaggeration:—For the better part of half a century be has faithfully and ably fought the battle of reform in parliament. He has been in the main consistent ; any changes his political creed has experienced have been ever in the direction of increased liberality. lie has much experience and such ability in the conduct of parliamentary busi ness. Always clear and impressive in his oratory, he rises on ensergstsies to a =mending moral dig nity. His connexions enable him to lead many of our noble and wealthy politicians who might prove unmanageable under any other leader. It would be a severe blow to the liberal cause if a man possessed of such power, and endowed with such finalities, were not returned to parliament at the coming elec tion. It would be a severe blow if he were even obliged to enter it as the member of a new and less important constituency than the one he now repre sents. The united liberals of England are therefore en titled to call upon the electors of the City of London —as they value their character as staunch and intelli gent reformers—to accept Lord JOHN Reasem.'s tendered Derek's, and send him back to parliament by as marked a majority as at any previous election. To do Ices would be to warrant a suspicion that the seal of many reformers is waxing cold—that there is disunion in the ranks of the friends of pro- These considerations would have been fr r r e ettible, had Lord Jour, in requesting the votes of the London electors, done no more than allude in general terms to his past services, and de manded their ooalidencis, without any detailed ex position of his intentions for the future. But in his address—the weighty words of which we will not weskits by paraphrase or partial quotation, bat to which we refer our readers--he has chalked out a plan foe the next and future campaigns of parlia mentary liberals that would of itself warrant any constituency to choose its author for their repre sentative—even without such a long experience as reformers have had of Lord Jon's will and ability to serve them. Tea Revd of the Royal Comendsoloners on the state of the University of Oxford bas limply en dorsed opinions with which every reader of the Ilspreas has bees familiar for some dais poet. In a series of articles which go so farther beck than the last two mouths we have shown that the great source of the total failure of the Universities of Ox ford sad Cambridge, es of mafioso' education, is that the colleges have overridden the adversity. The argument maintained in our columns, and sup ported by quotations from ancient statutes of colleges, was, that the col ages, which were formerly eiwimeed Awarding-A.464e5, for the benefit of students wishing to partake of the privi leges a ff orded by the university, now stand in the pleas of the university itself. A very simple hypothetical cam will illustrate our positions. - Few readers are unacquainted with the history of CHAIM'S DICILILNB'II two medical students, Sawn& mad friend, so graphically told in the veracioss mem of the " Pickwick Peosere The sad Male of the herds candidates for the beware of the College of Bargees, mast have Made es Ma mmies as mehees al plasm besides the. who had experiment limilet OM ha prepria persena. Now if we ea sapper some neesessid Ai Stager kaki back at the elms al* es the weabdaseteele with the landlady in Lant-steeet. and delerealeing ..= me poetise of the wealth he bid es e predessisa to the Week of totem 47 — .1s Ike the Meson which he bed gained, we shall pic ture he Itemise@ apron animated by motives some what similar to these which iallaseeed the minds of bood l es of Only masewhel similar, doubt less, beim impasse melted Tay largely into the ceeeithredes of the beeden of aca demical lamitatiose. Nev o = th ere is this similarity between oar it iseikiel friend tomili : and the departed found e r • eac h de termines to endow a with funds to moist stedeete Who aro ' fa ra certain Our benevolent seeded • boys • = s c7e . two is Lastotrest, leaves certain property ila Met for Wet he the maintenance of a number of shall= Bl 4 118 halt as thy remain in the house smit themselves arreerov . . to the laws of th intiladells Illaiis map' thou the interest of the lIINIMmom... THE EXPRESS, MQNDAY y. Now, suppose fc7liVed by many other perty to receive enormous the lapse of ycars—suprea fur the time being efused number of recipients of - file from the bequest of the fe separate income arising to tageous to him to remain on ing passed through the cot leave it—suppose this increase k residence near the seat of study gave them such in fluence with the boarder examiners, that they gra dually acquired the power of deciding who should or who should not become candidates for a medical diploma—suppose all this, and you have supposed — ' — a case which presents testicle similar to those recognisable in ono halt of the university histories. To complete it, you mud make one er two morn suppositions. Yon mast sawse that the lite-tenants et these Limit able& boarding howne. having acquired the Pore dalermining who shell or shall not study amaisme, degree that they themselves alone shall be the legal teachers. Nay, farthw, you mot pess that they mast that no one shall perms medial stadie . s, stakes they themselves be the teachers, and that no one shall receive a medical demo makes he pays foe board, lodging, sad tuition, at an endowed Lent-street boarding house. This. allowing for the necessary imperfection which secompanies all similes. is a good illustration et what has token plume ia the universities. The gestations from the statutes rat Oriel College, Oxford, whisk appeared in our co lumns, is a case in point. The colleges were for merly endowed boarding houses. They now usurp the whole functions of the teniversity. It is gratifying to see the earnestness with which the University Commissioners endorse the opinion which we were the int to pcsmftens. After care-' fully summing up their they add—" Of the proposals which ailed the university, the most im portint are those which we have mode for remodel ling the (mutilation end for mediating the existing monopoly of the colleges and halls by allowing stu dents to reside at Oxford without the expense of con nexion with those bodies." Now, if the reader can imagine the effects which would arise from vesting the whole power of Guy's and St. Thomas's in the tenants for life of our ima ginary Lent-street boarding-houses, he will with his , mind's eye see results which arc completely analo gous with those which have flowed from the neutpa tion by the academical boarding-houses of the power of the university. In the first place, the Lent-street done, relieved by their fixed incomes from the necessity of practice, would confine their teaching to the limits by which teaching was bounded in their day. They would look with horror at the mad race after scam* which the world outside their walls was pursuing. They would make a dead stand at CUL/6.'4 and GREGORY, and ignore with disdain all that bad been done since. They would shrink with horror from new modes of treatment and operation. They would anathematise chloroform—as, by-the-bye, many have done—as an impious interference with the natural law ot pain. They would in short go to sleep over theold authorities, while the world outside was taking giant steps in the knowledge and cure of diseases. The consequence would be that they would be gradually abandoned by the world. A few would visit them indeed in the hope of participating in the wealth and honour of which they had made a monopoly, but the great majority of students would abandon them to drink at living streams of knowledge. The numbers attending the schools would be gradually thinned, snd they would be left in a gloomy unscien tific isolation, while the world outside would be making every day fresh progress in the realms of science. This has been the downward course of the univer sities. In time past tradition tells us that Oxford alone contained 30,000 students. This was when probably the whole population of England did not amount to the number now contained in London and its suburbs. At the present time the number is about 1,300. What a tale does this tell. The edwation at Oxford is not a natural education. The commission- ers well observe—" These results appear small *Men the !taw endowments of the colleges are considered. The education imparted does not conduce to Me ad vancement in life of many perso ns except those intended for the church." They m ight have added that even this is not on sesoust of ths eadatisatieal education received at the university, but simply because the bishops have made a rule that a university degree is an essential for ordination. There is a great deal to say on the subject of the report of the commissioners • it is enough, however, at present, to hue point ed out the cream of the whole. The college.usurpation is the peat will evil. Attack that successfully, and the rest will fall. FRANCE. PARIS, throzoat I have to-day to sail your attention to a saes 3L de Haupes, the misleter of police, 11111111 le Wig to mks some noise. In consequence et the imemem amber et pereons deported for armed redeems. to the goverment is the days of December, many had. lies et venom and children have been thrown ate a etas of destitution. To relieve as mach u potable the distress of snoblamilies at Paris, • wady wu formed far pneremg enhariptions on their behalf. The opas, at Ms little elmalablo hod were gang on matielosterily, visa sudienly some ammo de 'ills Wen sent by 31. do if to Ant op the ofiloe and dissolve the safety. The persons who hod set the @herby so hot roprimental is vain be the mi nister et polies dist thaws landlies bed bees bereaved of their say mem of support by the. transportation of their male menhen. They so tested in vain that it es the day et lbw govorosamt to make • provi des he these peer mown sal children whom at had tedneed 40 Mum ; instead et tig abhors them Om eleateis ef private no.l, and forbidding the adoption r ef some m the obs emdialiy M. mean he vain sabscrip- densilleheaft womb . Mopes would set heir el mg gram hr helpin ri ng s the wives sad dmightore et mink Raising sob. seriptions ter sale. abject was taatamonnt to agita tion of a enemas bad ; with ether sleuth= of the like nature. $4llO and there isialie was a little be: be Tatielag sentributioso be these onliappy victims. All these homes bans been removed bv orients atthe polies. Whoa yen tionsiar sobs estentatisa with whisk the punt at trumpets items a for the ,and the dis play with "Ma it devoted 10 asgldoss of banes out of the Orleans spode to the construed= of eitis otiorieres, the act of M. de Mapes proves bow little the *At of real clarity even into any of those showy and ambitions same& At the lest reseption at the Elypee, limier de Camegnac was observed to converse for a eassiderable thee with the Presided. Leas Napoleon openly limes the article attasidng the generals. Re has written a letter to the blighter of to to anacenes that the reheal of the banished generals to take the oath will set memion any change in their pukka. The will primps appear an the Menaces in the shape of a esommiestod note. All the ionise* of the ministry of finance took the oath yesterday, without a single defaulter. By the general hilarity that prevailed among the official squadrons as they were called up before the minister it was evideot that them gentlemen did not attach any very solemn importance to their oaths. I observed yesterday that several leading members of the committee of the budget frequented regularly the Wes of M. Moetalembert. If I am rightly in formed the most impotent amendment to the budget will be moved by IL de Montalenibert, in the shape of a proposition not to allow the proceeds of the sate of the Orleans property to figure among the re cn The marriage of M. de Parsing with Madlle. de la Moskowa has been postponed for six weeks. The mental health of the Minister of the Interior seems to have been seriously affected by his close application to business. During some time peat it is said that he hoe been subject to fits of mental aberration. Being lately at his house with M. Romieu, the latter observed • fit coning on, and advised him to take the air. They walked oat toge ther in the Chauge-Elysees, and during their stroll M. de Posigny suffered serious attacks denoting mental weakness. M. Roinieu, alter conducting hi. home, proceeded to inform the President of these symptoms. The Prince answered that he knew that hie minister was subject to these tits, and that there was madness in his family, but that the attacks soon passed off. The high price fetched by the picture. of Marshal or tn. —_ Nicuwekerke will receive oidere to bid for them. The Patric enlarges upon the virtue of a minister who retires from office ea peer that he is obliged to sell his pictures. This humbug is a little too gross, con siderieg that M. de Morny entered the ministry on Desember 2, overwhelmed with debts. During his abort term of aloe he paid, it is said, three miffing hams of debts, and now remains one of the sob enterprising capitalist, in France. It was decided, I hear, yesterday, in the esan et 'ministers, that the Monileur shall be pahliehed at the low price of 40 francs per enema. This is ow 'Wend a terrible blow to the other pew% which chiefly subsist hy Saving a cheaper edifice of the contents of the Monsieur. The Journal des Chemists de Per says that the al ministration of the Marseilles and Avignon Railway, wandering the guarantees offered by the Lyons and Avignon Company to be insufficient, have deolinedie proceed with the contemplated arrangement. At the Howse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closei without ch ange at 99.75; the Three per Ceuta rose 5, and dosed at 70.65. The railway market was Ggenerally weaker, although some lines rose. Bt. ermain rose 12.50; Orleans, 5; Tours and Nantes, 3.75 ; Rouen, 2.50 ; Bordeaux, Lyons, and Dieppe, 1.25 each; Northern, Strasburg and Bile fell 1.25 each. Havre and Central were not quoted. PARIS, SVNDAT STUDIO. I have obtained to-day a copy of the letter ad dressed by General Bedeau to the Minister of War. It has not been as yet published by any journal, either French or foreign, so far as lam aware. The letter is as follows : kibre,—,llstseme fixes the delay within white dm esib Ingesed aped soldiers ought to be taken. Deprived of tbe Isms& of tke law since the 2nd of Decem ber, I might abstain Ilrem simpemilag to this injunction. lea aawtlllag tbat arg slime ebeedd be misinterpreted. My Mine halm bad deer flsepriseiple and aim the m esas are &doss at the ism I. have been for this cause aloe vlaiestly aneeeed. Implemsed, and proscribed. In t= persecuting da nut Asap the convictions of ea man. I setae the cede.—Banana, Deseret. M. Heckereen, the seers& envoy to Vienna, has been met with at Stanger& There this new-fledged diplo matist talked of his minima with a publicity which ins tines the opinion amplest Paris as to his discretion. He said that Freese - Whirs were sadly mismanaged oa the German side et the Rhine, whether at Vienna, Berlin, or at the sumac spurts. That was all owing to the Czar. But he inlaid shortly see Nicholas, and bring him round to *ore reasonable sentiments. He knew his man, and how to work upon him. By the latest advices we learn that Baron Heckereen had arrived at Berlin, and that he was preparing to open his diplomatic campaign by soliciting an au dience of the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is thought here that the Czar will not receive him. The following communicated note appears in the Moniteur : A groat number of persons approach the Prince President idiom be goes oat in a carriage or on horseback, to present to him. Accidents result from this. In future maw Ilion, will only be received by the adjutants of =They will bs brought under the eyes of the and will be the object of a special examination. Two captains of chuseurs have been placed on the retired list for refusing to subscribe to the fête given by the army to the President. One of them is the son of General Apgar. In answer to questions offi daily addremsed to him on this subject, he replied that his father was an aide-de-camp to Louis Philippe, that he himself owed much to the Orleans princes, for whom he continued to have much sympathy, and that he did not feel called upon to pay for the mani festations of a contrary feeling. The subscription for General Changarnier goes on swimmingly. Many rich people have put down their names foe large sums. M. Pourtales has given 4001. The well-known phalanstertatt bookaelling esta blishment ea the Qusi Voltaire has been closed by seder of the ipmemed. The way in which this sup plies et ties smart iegmbree social theories has boss eibeted, hes bees to refuse the license whka sn booksellers are obliged by the recent de ems on the press to obtain am the minister of police. the managers of the "Librarie Phalans terienne" intend, however to dispute the point be fore the tribunals, as they hold they are not book sellers, bat manufacturers of books; that is, they sell no boib but their own. The VII now before the Corps Legialatif for en- Wrthe jurisdiction of hem= caste of law emosst to crimes and midemum sseamitted he heap countries, contains ma inmeellsat pro- By the exieting Me • illelinil who in, a country oWN a elm onatat maw FsiiSi e emlbey et lis GM if he return to bremyht to trial. WI neither =.14 _per anal by Prenehems =oh moue by ms moo rera n :miss lopokol roso he the French state, I nor oar alas at alohatmaik semitted &breed by a haiiver against Frenchmen, or the French state, um now be tried in Fru= In 1842 a bill for empowering the marts to try Fremeinen accused of crimes er misdemeanours sokst insigners abroad, was pamented te the Chambers. This bill was blest= with mow for the rehabilitation of con =rg CI Il e be nCi ft d to the principle of 'a te reject the whole bill. Ills yeemslipeleet pee mach further, and proposes to met ovally OW the above cases now beyond the mask of dis law, wield to certain exceptions dic tated by s cans regard - le the indepenhence of foreign ammtrism The compasies of the French courts is to be embhied to cm where no final judgment shall here be.. jpreacaned in the country where the Atm kW have boa smutted. With regard to shiseneMses, these only can be prosecuted which N g be Railloil in diplomatic conventions. Another z eej= h emiles , is taeczernsaweliiiereme noran aumtisseumnisheanaobuler in the 'sentry gime it may be committed. Bo far as this bill proms to supply the unavoidable want hat tin of power a tribunals where a criminal may have fed free , it is worthy of praise and imitation. But eau be no doubt that the main eldest it duo Mt= at this bill is to strike a blow at Possi sehysee and exiles who write politica. =Wok Pstaphlet, and newspaper published in or Brum= by Frenchmen will be carefully scene= by M. is Maupes' lawyers. There will be few in which seminal matter may not be found, ac cording to the 'monstrous pre= laws enacted by dic tatorial decree. It is stated that the principal object of the clauses relating to foreigners is to repress pi racy, whether of books or manufactures. A first warning has been given to the Coneiliaterr de 1' hire for having in one article blamed the ne cessary act of Dec. 2, and qualified the present law of the pram as a for mal attack upon the most ele mentary principles of public right and liberty, and in another article protested against the government consecrated on Dec. 20 by more than seven millions of suffrages. The oath has been refused by M. Benjamin Doles sect, ex-representative, mumcipial councillor of Pansy i and M. Genie, councillor-general in the Meuse. M. Oscar Lafayette, ex-representative, has reamed the oath as a captain of artillery, and conse quently loses his commission. M. Base, the ex questor of the Leralative Assembly, has written from the place of his exile to the prefect of the Let and Osronne, to refuse the oath as a eouncillorie neral. -- fiately mentioned that the Patric explained away the fact of the non-admission of the Charlemagne into the Dardanelles, as a matter of little consequence. The Constslestionnel now says " The entrance into the Dardanelles has been decidedly refused to the Charlemagne. By letters from Smyrns, of the 9th of this month, we learn the arrival of this vowel before that port. _ . . k 41 14301 d s that MC ipample." Ito I%terminai'lietin law; ,7tlke persons—auffSeo thoN. bz- ,to ,advanttigis di the farMitable I inert* ne Nabs, `fate pastket, . get ria of kb ereateik.whlab ir; i thee: the - are not gli z ve as hallwitshares. M. de "ea„ 0.,,, .\ illerift )I °lc er7 Itali e*P O 4l ll, k rink! view or lii• - laws wowing to-datt will 14•Tien to the`puho-morrew. founder—suppose that the The Paris of tis evening w contain a tre- o each made it move advan- mendous pu ff of the pictures, which were visited to- m the foundation after hay- day by the President and M. de Moray totether. course of studies than to The latter indicated several works which he,affinabol muse of wealth and constant to be worthy of the Louvre ; and •no doubt Ir. do __. SPAIN. MADRID, Mat 18. The ministry have not yet been able to agree about who is lob* the new minister of marine, Ad miral Vigodet having persisted in declining. At Aranjoes it was said that this difilealty in finding a fonetionary who would lend himself to all that is re quired of him would cause the resignation of the ministry. Ido not, however, believe it. The Es pana, Christino paper, which naver neglects an op portunity of attacking the Palmerston ministry, 'G, MAY 24, 1852. .' les Cie article on the speech of Lord Deft at the ner. The Spanish print psoi the 's iselaration of foreign policy, and makes allow sasaparisons between him and his pre dearness% Allow absolutist journal, sopported by the afilittitewcz, and named the Corona, appears to It is edited by D. Manuel Candiat, leL &want republican writer of some ability. it&" the' 14th a shock of earthquake wu felt bees at about a quarter past 6 in the morning. No domain was done. On the same day, as we learn Orem W. Barbadem papers, the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada ' several hundred mike distant, acre visited with similar concussions. There had been during the fortnight another arrival of coolies from the East Indies to the number of 300. These people, who were brought by the Zenobia, have been allotted to the follo"ing estates ' in the county of Derbies —plantations Adelphi, Reliance, Rose Hall, Canefield, Smitheon's-place, Proepeet, Loehaber, Smithfield, and Goldstone Hull. "The weather during the fortnight has beonlof the most propitious nature for vegetation ; and our plan ters are looking forward with confidence to an im proved crop. There has been, however, a good deal of sickness; the yellow fever, though materially abated, still pursuing its deadly career. " The Trinidad journals state that a good deal of rain had fallen dining the beginning of April, but subsequently the weather became dryer, and sugar making was progressing satisfactorily. Turco slight shocks of an earthquake were felt on the 6th ult. The St. Lucia papers are principally occupied with a dispute between the Legislative Council of the island and the municipality of Castries, relative to an attempt on the part of the legislature to curtail the rights and liberties of the corporation. Some refreshing showers had fallen in Antigua. Debates had taken place in the Legislative Assembly on the present unhappy state of the island, with reference more especially to the payment of the in terest due upon the earthquake loan of 1613, recom mending an application to government for a remis sion of the whole debt. PANAMA, Our correspondent writes as follows: " The Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company's steamer Golden Gate, arrived at Panama on the 19th April, from San Francisco, with 1,800,000 dollars in gold dust, and a large number of passengers. I send herewith a San Francisco Alta, which contains very flourishing accounts of the mines. " The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Santiago, arrived at noon of the 19th from Callao, &c., with a number of passengers and 714,269 dollars in specie and bullion for England, reports 11.M.'s ship llido on shore on the Whale's Back in the Bay of Callao, and H.M.'s steamer Virago was endeavouring to tow her off, when the Santiago left that port on the 9th inst., the Santiago having made the attempt previously. " General Flores had taken possession of Prina, at the entrance of the river of Guayaquil, and his fleet were at an anchor there. His steamer, the Chili, fired a shot across the bows of the Santiago, when Creing up the river during the night, but the n: l nied proceeded and anchored in front of the town, and on the return down river would hold no communication with Flores. " Gen. Bernaza, who has command of 1,000 men on the borders of New Granada, in the Interior of Ecua dor, has pronounced in favour of Flores ; and Lieut.- Colonel Campo and many other military commanders in Ecuador, were about to fallow his example. "From Buenaventura I learn on the first authority that General Franco (New Grenadian), with 2,000 men, had received from the new Grenadian govern ment orders to march into Ecuador to oppose Flores ; and General Herrera has left Bogota with 1,000 men for Panto, to take command of the army in the south. "All respectable parties are wishful for the success of Flores, and think this government will lose all by meddling with a foreign country', affairs. " The Trent will take from Chagres about 1,004,008 dole. to Europe, and a good number of passengers." Another correspondent writes : "At Panama the junction with Navy Bay is in operation, but it seems that there are great difficulties, partly from elevations to 370 feet, partly from swamps, so that it will require an immense capital to complete it to the 30 miles on the other side on the isthmus, which are less necessary owing to the steam navigation on the river Chagres. This railroad will hardly be ever useful, as it will be abandoned when the Tehuantepec railroad is opened leading from the river Guazacualco, some miles south of Vera Cruz, to the Pacific, which is under the examination of an American company, and will be a much nearer route to California; and aa to South America, there is a water communication opening, which will be sooner completed than any other isthmus route on the Atrato River from the Gulf of Darien to the town of Quibde, capital of the province of Choeo, through a fertile and healthy country, up to • spot where, in the dry season, there is at all times five feet of water, from whence a New York company has a charter for a canal of eight miles through a level ground to the junction of the river San Juan, deep enough for ships of any size to be entered from the Pacific. The funds for this enterprise are represented by the firm of Belknap and James, in New York, and security of 24,0001. has been deposited with the government of New Granada for its being completed in ten years ; in the mean time the said company is now building a board road along the side of the Calal line, which will be opened for travelling on the Ist January next, and offer the speediest passage from Europe and the United States to the west coast of South America. This road and the Tehuantepec will render the Nicaragua Canal superfluous in a great measure ' • and it seems that there is no su ffi cient guarantee for the latter enter prise being completed, as the term has expired for the privilege granted to the Anglo-American Com- PanY• A company has also been formed at Costa Rica for opening a cart-road from the ancient Spanish port of Cartago, between Grey Town and Cherokee Bay to the town of Cartago, to join the already built road from thence to Punta Arenas, on the Gulf of Niooya. This road will offer, perhaps, the most preferred advantage to travellers across the isthmus of • reating-place in a cool mountain atmosphere, combined with cheapness and despatch, and may come into play next to the Atrato route. It is said to offer surpass ing beauty of scenery, and a country unsurpassed in abundance of metals and productions, both tropical and European, according to the elevation the road traverses, most part of it being 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, as is the situation of Cartago, in the centre of the valley of the Irazu, a vulcan crowned with ice, and liming forth hot and cold springs." CENTRAL AMERICA. The travelling on the Nicaragua route is as great u it was last year, when it amounted to 20,000 per. sons, but is also as difficult as it was then, inasmuch as the river continues so shallow, that the steamers have been for weeks impeded from going. When the Trent left Oreytown there were so many travellers that some of them resolved to abandon their through tickets, and to try their chance of Chagres, where they went in the Trent, but also here their difficulties were great. The passengers which the royal mail steamer received from Panama stated that they had been put to an expense of about 150 dollars each for the journey across the Isthmus, and were much exhausted by the same, stating that they had required two and a half days to peeler!' it, almost starving, and the mules to the stirrup in mud. The decision of the boundary question between Nica ragua and Costa Rica is still pending at Washington, but it is expected that it will bo given in favour of the latter state, in which case a charter will take effect that has been given to the Sapoa Company for opening a canal from that river running into the Lake of Nicaragua to the Bay of Salinas. At Rivu a land company at Hamburg have obtaineda gran t for a German colony to be established there forraising food. In New Granada there is no political news; every thing is quiet. LIMA, APRIL 9.—Her Majesty's ship Dido is aground on Welisbank, near the port of Callao. The steamer Santiago has been trying to get her off, but in vain, with rupture of two cables. The steamer Virago has now come in assistance, and will probably succeed by the turn of the tide. GUAYAQUIL, APRIL 13.—General Flores is lying with his squadron, consisting of four sailing and one steam vessel, up the ricer at Gunado, preparing his army, now consisting of one thousand soldiers, to make an attack on this city, occupied by Urbino with double that force. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From De Cordova's Nerewstils _ . KINGSTON, JAMAICA, APRIL 28. We are unable to report the occurrence of any improve ment in business operations since our issue of the 13th lust. ; on the contrary, we regret to state that the prevalence of disease in the agricultural districts is exercising a very de pressing influence on trade generally. The peasantry, it appear, are either d.sinclined or unable to visit the towns, and they supply their wants principally frura the prod up of their own little settlements. The weather, too, has be ts unusually dry for the season, and although souse districts have been ; p laited with one or two spring showers, /m i d i loss and deterioration of the plants on the ground have 00 . tuned in consequence. Supplies generally arc sunicieng, ample to meet the present restricted demand. Flour and meal, perhaps, are rather wanted, the latter especially, th e comparative scarcity of native vegetables at market, owing to the circumstances above stated, having cataract a ti me.- ti mo o . rary revival in the den and for those artich.s. The procluea market continues languid and deprissed, with little probe. bility of presimt revival. Covrii.—Ordinary comnrinds 28a. to 30s. prr 10016 . BgoAM.—The market suff.lrs under continued inactivity and esemeive deliveries. We quote dark to fair at Ii fa, lbs. %I. per 1001 be TUBACCO.—Cavendish is plentiful and dull of sal, at 84 . to 10d. per lb. We have not heard anything el leaf'. FRP.IOIIII, are dull._ _ EICHANGEI3.—On London : Colonial Bank, !on days, per cent. premium ; ditto, 60 days, I per cent. ueemi,,, n ditto, 30 days, I} per cent. premium. Jamaica flank, 30 days, par; ditto, 60 days, per rent. premium; ditto, 30 days, I per cent. premium.—On ".dew York here have been sumo operations at I per cent. prem. fur 60 day hi W . , GERMANY. VIENNA, MAT 20. The official journal announees a reduction in tho national expenditure (Arions ersparnias) of 14,268,020 florins. A reduction of about 2,600,000 florins in the cost of the army is about to be cfaxted. HESSE. A letter from Darmstadt states that the punish ment of death haa been re-established in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. ITALY. - PIEDMONT. TURIN, MAT 18. The Chevalier d'Azeglio ie still engaged in the attempt to construct a cabinet. Here it is generally felt that it is a misfortune for the country to have lost, especially at this moment, the services of the emi nent statesman and financier Count Cavour, who has just resigned the seals of office. I have it from very good authority that the new ministry will be composed of the same members as the last, with the exception of Count de Cavour, to whom will succeed as finance minister the Marquis Spinel*, a Genoese of talents far inferior to those of Count de Cavour; and the Chevalier Parini, to whom will succeed as Minister of Public Instruction an at least equally able and far less obnoxious minister in the person of the Chevalier Bonoompagni. There is much doubt whether M. Galvagno, the present Minister of Grace and Justice, will retire or not. _ . In tho sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. Cavour took his usual place on the ministerial bench, together with MM. 3Farini, Paleocaps, and Perusal The articles of the International Sanitary Convention Bill were adopted without discussion. and the bill was passed by 110 votes against 8. The Raorgimento of Turin, of May 20, says : We contistie to notice, without warranting their correct- DIM, the rumours in circ ulation about the ministerial crisis. It is said that Chevalier Cibrario will have the finance portfolio, in consequence of the refusal of the Marquis of Bpinols. It is stated u certain that the Minister of Public Instruction persists in his resignation, and that this office has been offered to M. BIJIIO the advocate. lie is a Genoese, an ex-deputy, and the author of the law for the expu!sion of the Jesuits from Piedmont. It is further said that M. Bizio has declined, and that hopes were entertained that the poet would be accepted by Commander Giulio. TUSCANY. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has issued a decree directing that the works for the enlargement of the port of Leghorn shall be commenced forthwith. FLORENCE, Xs: 17. The Tuscan Mositeur publishes • decree of the Grand Duke organising the whole infantry of Tus cany into eight separate battalions, forming two brigades, with the exception of the regiment of gen darmerie, which is to remain in its present state. The regiment of mounted chameurs is disbanded. A new corps under the same denomination will be formed, consisting of 260 men and 234 horses. The preamble of the decree states that the object is to reorganise the military force of the state, so that it may be ade quate to all the exigencies of. the service without being an intolerable burden to the public finances. TURKEY. The Courrier de Marsei , k publishes a letter from Bagdad of the 9th ult., which states that an insur rection had broken out in that province. The com munications were intercepted, and the mails could not be forwarded but with an escort of one hundred or two hundred horsemen. Tho Arabs arc masters of the country from Mosul to the Persian Gulf. EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria in the Paris Public, dated May 7, says: " The Paeha has paid the Sultan 275,0001. sterling in consideration of the right of life and death being left to him. He has further en gaged to pay immediately half a million on account of the million claimed from him by the family of Mehemet Ali. P eop le ask how he will manage to procure the 800,00 W. sterling which he requires for the constnietirm ot the railway. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. Tho Royal West India Mail Packet Parana, Capt. Revett, arrived at Southampton on Saturday night with the West India and Pacific mails, which were landed under the charge of Lieut. John Brown, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are :—Havana, 24th April ; Chagres, 24th April ; Honduras, 21st April ; Carthagena, 26th April ; Jamaica, 29th April • Demerara, 28th April; rrinidad, 28th April; Barbadoes, Ist May; Antigua, 2nd Ma y• ' Marti nique, 2nd May ; Grenada, 29th April ; Porto Rico, lit May; St. Thomas, 7th May. The Parana brings 123 passengers. The freight on board consists of specie to the amount of nearly a million and a quarter of dollars on account of mer chants ; platina, 2,7071.35. 9d. ; 332 serous of cochi neal, 28 serous of indigo, pearl* Vara° 1001., 117 bales of tobacco, 77 cases of cigars, 130 bales of sar saparilla, 24 cases of suocadees, and 48 packages of sundries. The Parana left Southampton on the 17th ult. ; she arrived at St. Thomas on the 3rd inst., and after coaling, which occupied nearly five days, owing to the scarcity of hands at St. Thomas, she left on the 7th for Southampton, which place she reached in 14 days, 20 hours. Her consumption of coal was very great. Labouring hands are very scarce at St. Thomas, owing to the number of persons who have gone to work in the copper mines in Virgin Gorda, an island near Tortola. These mines have been discovered some time ' • but, owing to a want of cspital, they have not been worked. The requisite capital has now been found, and the millet are working very successfully. The ore from these mines is very beautiful. Amongst the passengers by the Parana was Capt. J. B. Harwood, who was the means of making the British government acquainted with the discovery of gold in Queen Charlotte's Island. He has come to England to lay before the Secretary of the Colonies the fullest information respecting the gold in the above island, together with specimens of the gold quarts, which is elan exceedingly rich quality. He is acquainted with the exact spot where the gold is to be found. He states that• the waives of the island are of a superior race, and of a light colour. The discovery of gold in Queen Charlotte's Island was revealed to the Americans at California, owing to the intoxication of the messenger who had to con vey a letter announcing it to the se nior British naval officer in the Pacific. Another passenger is Mr. Walsh, who has been a judge in California, and who is now a senator for that state to Congress. He Ades that the yield of gold in California will be double this year what it was last, and that California also will be found admirably adapted for agricultural . purposes. JAMAICA Them is no political news, the island being per fectly quiet. The state of agricultural affairs here is fearfully depressed. Very many of the largest and most productive sugar estates are being thrown out of cultivation. Worthy Park Estate, the property of Mr. George Price, a resident proprietor, who has expended thousands of pounds in improved agricul tural machinery, by his confidence and energy felt assured he could succeed; he hes now been obliged to dismiss all the effective labourers on his estate, ho and others finding it impossible, with every *ble advantage, to compete with slave-prod sugar. The commerce of the island is also much depressed, having lost nearly all its foreign trade. Cholera has entirely disappeared. Small-pox is prevalent in many parts of the island. DEMERARA. The events of the past fortnight in British Guiana may be disposed of in a brief compass. Of political intelligence there may be said to be almost none. The Court of Policy is at present in non-session, having adjourned from the 14th ult. till the 28th, when the bill for the reform of the coned tion will be proceeded with, and in all probability pined with very little delay. ebt Court. OSBORNE, SATUNDAY. Tier Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal chil dren, attended by the Viscountr,s Jocelyn , the lion. Matilda Pinot, the lion. Mdry Seymour, Lord Charles Fitzroy, the Hon. Colonel Phipir, and Colonel Wylde, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon ut 20 cuinutes Nee ail o'clock. Strasnar. The Dueling of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howart Sir George Couper, and Lieut. Colonel F. Seymour, arr i ve d at Osborne yesterday afternoon, at 20 minutes hidote tlina o'clock, from London on a vi-it to her Majesty. The Queen, the l'rince, and the royal family walked anti drove in the park and gardens. The party at dinner included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Iton. Colonel Phipps, Sir ()curie Cooper, and Lieut. Colonel Seymour. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Iloward and Sir George Couper, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at • quarter tnJore eleven o'clock on Saturday morning for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Iler Royal Highness travelled to Southampton by the London and South Vest rn Railway. A deputation, headed by Mr. litotherton, M.P., and the Earl of Shaftesbury, consisting of Mr. Grant and Mr. Mawdaley, from Manchester, and Mr. Tite, from Ashtray had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, ou Saturday, at the Hume-office. _ Sir George Bonham, Governor of llong•Kong, has arrived in town, and had an interview with Sir John Pakington on Saturday at the Colonial.office. A deputation from St. Giles-in the-Fields and St. George Bloomsbury, consisting of Messrs. George Fitch, Alea. Marshall, Fred. Sanders, James Slater, Henry Cooper, Thomas Savage, Smith, and Chipperfield, had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole at the Rome-office on Saturday. Mr Forster, M.P., and Mr. M'Gregor Laird hod an in terview on Saturday with the Right lion. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester, at the Board of Trade. A deputation on the affairs of Jamaica, consisting of Mr. Edward Thompson, Mr. Girod, and Mr. \t•m. Smith, hod an interview with Sir John Pakington on Saturday at the ir Thomu Phillips bad an interview on Saturday with Mr. Secretary Walpole at the Home-otbee. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on Satur day from the governors of Van Diemen 's Land, South Au► trolls, and Hong-Kong. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yes. terday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The service was read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the serraon was preached by the Mon. and Rey. Mr. Doyle. A cabinet council was held at three o'clock on Sa turday afternoon at tho Foreign-office, Downing street. It was attended by the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lomidale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmeabury, Sir John Pakington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Northumberland, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Right Hun. J. C. Herries, and Lord John Manners. 'the council sat two hours and a half APPOINTMENTB.—Tha western coast of Africa in erected into an episcopal see, embracing in its juri6dictioa !Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, sod the Gambia, which are all placed under the spiritual superintendence of the Moat Rev. Owen Emeric Vidal, D.D., of Sierra Leone, who will be the ant bishop. Mr. A. Boyd Fenton is appointed Queen's Advocate at the Gambia. Joseph Thomas Com missiong, Esq., Collector of Customs at Sierra Leone, is appointed a member of the council in that colony. THE DUCHESS OP KENT ARRIVED AT SOUTHAMP TON on Saturday afternoon, and proceeded to Osborne in the Fairy yacht from the Southampton dock. Her royal highness was accompanied by Lady Fanny 'toward and Colonel Couper, and was received as soon as she alighted from the royal carriage in the dock by Colonel Henderson and Mr. Watkins, of the South Western Railway; Captain Austin and Lieutenant Daranda, of the Admiralty; Mr. Willcox, M.P., and Captain Engledue, of the ['enamour and Oriental Company; Captain Hay, of the West India Company ; Captain Peacock and Mr. Levi, of the docks; and Mr. Powell, of the Customs. Her royal highneu will leave Osborne to-morrow. THE LATE " AFT'AIR OF llONorit."—A correspond. eat sap:—" The Hon. G. S. Smythe and Col. Racially, the two combatants in the " affair of honour," which came off on Friday last, left town, attended by their seconds, Capt. the Hon. J. C. Vivian, M.P., and the Hon. John Forteseue, M.P., by the South Western Railway, at an early hour in the morning, and proceeded as for as the Weybridge station, where, by previous arrangement, thcy bad agreed to alight. The appearance of four strange gentlemen at this quiet station was calculated to excite no little observation, and, with a view to disarm suspicion of any hostile intentions, the pistol !ASCII, carried by two of the gentlemen, were, for the nonce, converted into something like sketch-books, with which the party trudged away as if intent upon an artistic cacursiun in the neighbourhood. They had not gone very fez before an impression that they might possibly be watched seems to have entered :heir minds, and one of the patty returned to the station and chartered the only "fiy" in attendance, for the nurpose of conveying them some little distance into the interior. A difficulty now arose as to how the combatants should be disposed. It woe not very desirable that two gentlemen entertaining such deadly intentions should be " cooped up" within reach of each others noses inside en old post-chaise for three or tons miles. At length it was suggested that Mr. Smythe should mount the box, and that Col. Homily should go inside with the seconds. Mr. Smythe readily yielded hie assent 60 enjoy the fresh air, and away the party drove some two or three miles until they arrived at the boundary of Lord Ellesmere's Hatchford estate, where all the gentle. men alighted, and having given the coachman an in junction not to leave his horse, they struck • path across some greensward, and entered a wood on the rising ground above A dell on the other side of this wood, partially bidden front observation in every die rection, was selected as a coovenieut spot for the settlement of the dispute. Mr. Smythe basing again declined to with draw the expressions of which his colleague complained, and the duty of measuring the ground having fallen upon Capt. Vivian, the gallant officer proceeded with his task, quietly and deliberately marking twelve paces in • very business like manner. The principals were then conducted to their positions, and Mr. Forteseue war on the point of putting the ominous question, " Are you ready, gentlemen ?" whoa a cock pheasant, which had been a quiet observer of the scene thus far, suddenly rose within a few yards of the combatants, and with a loud cry dashed into the adjoin ing wood. This untoward circumstance occurring at such a moment caused • little excitement among the party, who at first feared they had been surprised. The alarm having subsided, the combatants resumed their places, and ex changed shots, as is known, without effect, when Col. Remaly haring expressed himself satisfied, they lett the ground. The party returned to the station in the manner of their arrival, and thence to Landon by railway, but not a word was exchanged by the principals." LAUNCH OF THE AOAMEUNON.—On Saturday tho launch of the Agamemnon, line of battle screw steam ship, of ninety guns, took place at Woolwich pursuant to public announcement. The Agamemnon was designed at the office of the Surveyor of the Navy (Sir Baldwin Walker), andis intended to possess the twofold advantages of being as perfectly equipped for a sailing vessel as other men-of-war of her owr. class, while, at the same time, she will (unaided by sails) be an efficient screw steamer, being supplied with engine 600-hone power. She will mount 36 eight-inch guns on the gun deck, 34 heavy 32-pounders on the raga deck, and 20 thirty-two pounders on the quarter leek sod forecastle, and she will be manned by a crew of about 850 men. Iler dimensions are as follows —Length extreme, or from figure head to taffrail, 266 feet; length between the perpendiculars, 230 feet; length of keel for tannage, 195 feet, two and • half inches breadth extreme, 3.5 feet; breadth moulded, 53 feet; depth in engine-room, 24 feet ; bur then in ton , , 3,102 old measurement. Precisely st a quartet past three the preparations for starting the Agamentaas were commenced. The last supporter having been cleared away, the lady of Commodore Eden, who had taken up her position at the bows of the ship, in company with a dis tinguished circle, officiated in the " christening." Taking in her band a bottle of wine, suspended from the vessel by a line, the signal was given, and the leverage at her foot giving impetus to the vowel, away she went triumphantly. It was truly a splendid sight, and every one apps ared de lighted with the ceremony. The ship, after quitting the dock, reached near across the river to the Essex shore. She was then hove into the stream, with the royal standard flt ing at her main, the union jack at the fore, and the Adm. nifty ensign at the misen. Upwards of 1,000 per-oils wen on board when she went off the stocks, and among them • number of old pensioners who had served in the old Aga memnon during the war. Not the slightcst accident coo warred. presen by as of why dent —es II Book, chronic dense mit to but tht tinue t old fric The been i Hendee decease and stn roofing its mo Park w impery attract prove Offers la ngtut Will b c d arter W hich 1