The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

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THE Times is very fearful of giving " ur.due im portance to trifles," but continues to make Mr. HUD SON'S illustration of the half-price paper the subject of uneasy comment. A trifle will sometimes sink deep, and make the meet serene breasts unhappy. Neverthcles4, much kindness is apparent in the midst ofthe uneasiness. The 7'imes, full of pity for Mr. Ift - nsoN's ignorance in resorting to such an -illus tration, benevolently bestows upon him its own history of prices ; and is good enough to repeat the warning it tendered to this journal the day before, of the " even tual ruin" which awaits us. Mr. Hunsom will no doubt be thankful, as becomes him, for the statistical information he has received; and it is our obvious duty to continue to relieve and reassure, as far as we justly can, the natural and honest anxiety of the Ti,,,,s iu the partic , ,lar of our continued solvency. "Hest, rest, perturbed spirit." There is no ground for appre hension. Our career, though brief, has been of un exampled sue eess ; and we will not suffer ourselves to be killed by kindness. Nay, more. Grateful as we arc to the public for a debt we can only repay by continuing to labour in their service, we do not mean 1 1 to do what the Times would have us believe it did for many years, publish oar journal at a daily loss for the mere "luxury of doing good." The Time: elaborately undertakes to prove that fivepence is the minimum charge of a daily news paper. What, then, was its own charge before the stamp duty was reduced to n penny? When it paid fourpence to: its stamp (with so trilling a deduction for discount as to be hardly worth allusion), and sold for sevenpenre, was it content with a charge Lehor the minimum ? Was it then content to sell for fourpence, and does it now assert that fivepence is the minim am 7 We should be glad to be informed as to this. The world knows nothing of its greatest benefactors. But let us venture a little deeper into the statistics of the Mites. To prove the assertion that " news paper charges a•e at their minimum," it favours Mr. HUDSON with the statistics of its own cost: " For his benefit and for the instruction of others who hare fewer opportunities than he has of studying statistics, we pre sent him with the subjoined account of the cost of each single copy of The Times, u published to-day : " Cost of paper for each copy of this day's pub- d. 2 " Stamp " Neweve mites profit •• Saic to the roblie Profit c.r. each paper 01" The disin,ennousness of this statement is obvious. Yesterday was one of the days on which the Times publishes a supplement. The twelve pages contain seventy-two columns. Of these, only thirty-one con sist of what can, in any way, be termed intelligence. -Much of it can only be so called by courtesy. Adrer tisements oet upy forty-one columns. This portion of the Times would return large profits were it given away. It is no charge upon the concern. It is the treasury of the concern. By no fairness can its cost be saddled upon the newspaper, properly so called. 'That cost is enhanced thereby in the proportion of 72 to 31. The addition amounts to no less than 132 per cent. For the sake of the advertisements, the Times goes to the expense of the halfpenny additional stamp. Here is fifty per cent. more, of unwarrantable increase in the item of taxation ; and occasional double supplements have imposed yet another fifty per cent. It also calculates the newsvenders profit on the higher (its own) price. Let the proportions be calculated in these several particulars, and, by its own statistics, the Times .'Vetripoper, as distinguished from the Times Adrertiser, is producible fbr sale by its publishers at less than twopence. All the additional outlay is self-paying, and something more. It is profit paying, to the extent of fortune-paying. To class it •with the cost on the newspaper, is like the excuse of the old lady who exonerated herself from charity on account of her large payments to the collector of the income-tax. We do not rest our refutation on these statistics ; but they abundantly disprove the asser tion they were put forward to support. They have also served to enlighten the public as to that " other pay master" to which the Times made allusion in the article on which we commented yesterday, and as to those " lo see" by which they are too glad to live. The five page; of the newspaper (there are no more) are not reap° Isible for the seven pages of advertisements. Let them bear their own burthen. Let intelligence fight its own battle, and not call in the big brother who carries the placards. We cannot allow garbled accounts to pass. The day-book mat be correctly posted into the ledger. The Times has lightened one account to load another. The figures are misplaced, which is tantamount to a falsification ; and the sta tistics so stated as merely to serve a purpose. " Newspaper charges are at their minimum." If it were so, the fact would be very extraordinary. What should have brought them to a minimum ? The great power for accomplishing such a result is competition. There is, we believe, only one daily London paper, and not one London morning paper, except ourselves, that is not fore than half a century old. The capital required for starting a morning paper is a practical - limit, and, a very narrow one, to competition. And the morning papers are not competitors with the Times. They have pursued their intermediate course of high prices and limited circulation. A very re spectable and useful course it may be, but it is not competition. They have run no race with the Times. AARON'S rod has swallowed everything, but with no blossom of promise for future cheapness. The Times had no competitor till we started in this bold enter prise, and realised the only sale by which the term competition is warranted. Low price is our gage of battle. In all things else we challenge comparison; in that point we claim superiority. The Times says, in its leader of yesterday, that it " courts competition." It is very well to say this as an empty vaunt ; but what was its conduct when a real competition for the first time threatened it ? The advertisement of its competitor was carried to the office of the Times, was accepted, and the money was paid for it; but the advertisement did not appear, and, on the messenger applying in Printing House-square on other business, both advertisement and money were returned without the show or courtesy of a reason. Was this courting competition? Was this picking up the gage? We put the Times on its trial; it shrank from the conflict by refusing to advertise us ; we have advertised ourselves. We have done so by the best of all means, an immense circulation; and we have no fear of the " other pay master" coming in abundance to our rescue. Wherever fivepence goes, twopence-halfpenny shall follow it, and invite comparison while it exhibits con trast. We will fight it out with the giant wherever the seven league boots of steam may carry him ; in Scotland or Ireland ; in Europe or America. The prize of our struggle is to determine the price of a newspaper. The Times calls us insolvent; we shall not make oar readers so at any rate. We say the public shall, and the Times says the public shall not, be supplied with an efficient journal at a reduction of .50 per cent. We say that a newspaper shall, and the Times says it shall not, be brought within the reach of the great body of the middle and operative classes, and of thousands of families that cannot boast of affluence. This is what we call competition ; competition with the Times ; competition for reducing newspaper ' charges to their minimum. We dread no ruin. We affect no indifference to profits. We seek them by a course which we anticipate will prove not less bene ficial to our proprietary than to the public. Bat neither will we affect to be unconscious of having a better cause as regards the public. The Times would over-ride them, as well as us. It declares for a five pence eternal. " Concession has reached its limits," as Sir JAMES GRAHAM said of Ireland before he became a party to more concessions. We will Grahamise the TYnies in this matter. It shall con cede more to the public. It shall find something less than a mitiinium. By the help of the public, Termi nus shall budge. The train shall not stop at the fivepenny station. We acknowledge our interest in the strife; it is at one with the public interest. We only want the people generally to comprehend how much they have at stake, as well as ourselves. Their needful information; the gratification of their curiosity; journals for those who never saw them, and to keep for those who only hired them for an hour; a tax on their pockets lightened ; amusement and instruction at their own firesides with their families ;—these are what we would win for them ; and what, it now appears, is only to be achieved by a triumph over the Times, the champion of cheap travelling, but of dear newspapers. Towards all existing journals, since the period of our commencement, we have exercised a forbearance which to many has seemed fastidious. We have thought, and think, that newspaper squabbles have done no credit to the press. We never stirred against the Times on its narrow exhibition of jealousy; we have lost no opportunity of upholding, in its cause or any other, the dignity of the common calling in which we are engaged ; and we are dragged into the present discussion now. It is not of our own accord we waive our ordinary rule of comment ing on events, to comment upon the comments of others. But had we from the first al lowed ourselves a larger latitude, there would still have been a point beyond, towards which we ' should never have approximated ; the gratuitous ascription of corrupt motives. The Times strikes at us through Mr. IlcosoN. Its imputations only allow us the alternative of a folly or a knavery so gross as to render this journal not:fly unworthy of public support. Time must decide on the ruin of our proprietary; but the prophecy is strengthened neither by facts nor by calculations. It rests solely on the inspiration of the Times, and we deny the infallibility of the oracle. The article of our contemporary thus concludes : " A journal may, indeed, weather out a short time on a scale of reduced prices ; but any one conversant with the exigencies of the press must be fully aware that to continue this mode of operation under existing circumstances involves one of two conditions,—either that the proprietors shall always be able to fall back on the ample subsidies of some undisclosed willionnaire, or that they shall be eventually ruined. Perhaps Mr. Hudson is not wholly unaware of this dilemma, nor practically unacquainted with the method of resisting or staving off the more disagreeable alternative." We cannot undertake to say that we understand this clearly, but so far as we can comprehend or fathom it, we give it a most unqualified contradiction. Mr. IlupsoN is not in any manner connected with this journal, nor has it ever been proposed, by any one concerned in it, to lay him under contribution for its support. In confidence, however, and for the relief of our contemporary's anxiety, we will mention the name of our " undisclosed millionaire :" one name, at least, by which he is known. It is not King IluosoN, but a far mightier end wealthier poten tate. One who has created riches through a life of centuries : whose debts are counted by hundreds of millions, and his assets by thousands of millions : who holds the landed property of the Bri tish Isles, has almost boundless colonial estates, and is commercially connected with all the world: whose annual income, from real property alone, is estimated at a hundred millions of pounds sterling, and yet who forgets not the difference between fivepenee and twopence-halfpenny. We reckon that we shall "al ways be able to fall back on the ample subsidies" of JOHN Bum., though paid in minimum instalments, and secure of value reeeived.—Daily News. IT is a miserable and melancholy state of things, when the statesmen and parties entrusted with the care of a nation's interests and honour, are re duced to a placid contemplation of evil, of insult, of encroachment, and of rapine, —occurring on every side and from every quarter, from supposed friends, as well as declared foes,—whilst the whole task of public men, and of their organs, in the face of such disastrous and humiliating facts, is to make light of them ; to laugh at them; to act the Merry Andrew, when any man of feeling and pride would weep; and to seek, not for preventives or remedies of menaced ill, but for consolation in the demerits of those who cause and inflict it, and in the hope that Pro vidence or their own folly may one day or other entail or exact deserved punishment. Now this has been the foreign policy, if policy it can be called, of English ministers for these last few years; and this has been the tone of their organs. When Texas was swallowed, when the Columbia was torn from us, the Americans, who so bearded us, were at first indeed loaded with very virulent abuse ; but we were afterwards told that interference was impos sible, and resistance idle, and that all we had to do was to console ourselves with the certainty that our Transatlantic friends would by the one conquest merely extend their .dangerous slave population, whilst by the other they would simply snatch a barren territory and thus that both acquisitions would punish rather than reward the unwarrantable ambition which grasped them. With regard to the gradual absorption of Spain by France—an absorption as complete as that of Texas by the United States—there were not wanting those who clamoured and who warned. Several voices were raised, protesting against the apathy which allowed the Regent, the Liberals, and the Con stitution, to be expelled by French military con- kb. THE 'EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1846. spirators, - Preach agents, French money. To this the ministerial reply was, that LOUIS-PHILIPPE was im maculate; that the anti-Liberal revolution was not of his doing, or to serve his purposes ; that the Liberals sad the Constitution might go to the bottom of the sea ; and that even if the King of the French did lord it at Madrid, and did monopolise the government there, he could make no use of it. We were bidden to be patient, to be indifferent, to look on. Our envoys were accredited to the usurping, the military, the Afrancesado government, with the same humility as to the Constitutional one; and they were bidden to profess just as much attachment, and show just as much deference, to the military as to the constitu tional party. The result of this has been what every rational person must have foreseen, that the French King has made the most of his permitted supremacy at Madrid, to marry the Queen to a barber's block, and to give her presumptive heir and sister to his own son. In other words, Louts PHILIPPE has put the crown of Spain in his packet. And we are now unable to pre vent him? Of course we are, unless we rush to the foolish extremity of war. But all this ought to have been foreseen years ago. It ought to have been looked to when ESPARTERO wielded the legal, the liberal, the constitutional influence, which was his right as the victorious general of the revolution. The foreign policy of the Tories for their five years has ended in giving Texas and the Oregon to the Americans ; Spain, Greece, and, we fear, the Me diterranean, to France. They represented the quiet sufferance of all this as the security for peace; whilst, in fact, their (aches is now the very cause which troubles the future aspect of peace. In stead of laying the foundation of a permanently good understanding between France and England, they have allowed and incited the French King to take such a position as necessitates eternal and insur mountable jealousies between the countries and the courts. Even now the object is, to take no blame to our selves, but to magnify our sleeping statesmen as specimens of inscrutable wisdom. The King of the FRENCII is declared to be no better than he should be; his envoy at Madrid is depicted as a chevalier d'industrie and a midnight burglar. The Spaniards are an ungrateful and unmanageable people ; and they have lost their political and commer cial independence. Louis PniurrE, by means of a few bonbons put into Lord ABERDEEN'S mouth at Eu, has done what LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH could not cram down the throat even of his friend BOLING BROKE. And every aim for which our soldiers bled, and for which our wealth bled as copiously, in the peninsular war, is thrown away ; for JOSEPH BUONA PARTE at Madrid would not be so much our foe us King 111ONTPENSIER. There was a time when JOHN BULL would be told to feel indignant at such treatment. But he is now an old gentleman of too sanguine a habit, to whom fits of choler arc to be spared. He is told, therefore, that in Spain, as in America, all wrong and unplea sant things will mend themselves without either his intervention or resentment. Spain may be subject to France, but the Spaniards have some stubbornness in them, and may rebel. If they do not, they are a pusillanimous people, and deserve their fate. Wherefore, JOHN BULL is advised to put his hands in his pockets, and whistle himself to that degree of in difference which becomes his age, and will give the least trouble to the political doctors who have the care of his constitution. For our part, we cannot but regard it all with the most profound humiliation and with the bitterest disgust. Far from taking a Tory or semi-Tory view of the question, we commiserate the fate of the Spaniards and of their royal family, reduced to a state of tutelage, and to the show of freedom, pride, and independence. Nor are we consoled by thinking that they may rebel against it. It is no consolation for the ruined prospects of a free and noble country, that it is again to be forced to vindicate its rights by war, and by civil war too, and by a renewal of those struggles in which the executioner plays a more prominent part than the soldier. It is no consolation to learn, as we do to-day, that one of the results of these marriages has been the summoning back of Don CARLOS to Spain, to hoist his standard of bigotry and blood. Nor is it any consolation to be assured that France, instead of deriving any real benefit from planting one of its princes on the Spanish throne, may, on the contrary, reap a future war, and the renewal of that barren and bloody struggle in which Spain was devastated, Fiance exhausted, and the great NAPOLEON succumbed. These are no conso lations : no anodyne for the afflicting thought, that more vigilance, more firmness, more common sense in our statesmen, might and must have prevented it all. It may indeed be too late to play the braggadocio. It may be undignified to make idle threats of war, when it would be imprudent to proclaim it. But at least, if we arc humiliated and outraged, and if those guarantees and principles for which our ances tors shed their best blood and spent more than their last farthing to protect, are torn from us, let us not glory in our shame. Let us not assume the proud apathy of the philosopher, or the dignified part of the hero, whilst in reality we are playing, aye, and feeling the emotions, of a wronged and angry but helpless and superannuated old dowager. THE nineteenth century will be marked, in history. by the discussion of three great questions. " Shall CaomwELL have a statue?" " Shall the Duke stand on the arch ?" and " Shall Mr. It. L. JONES have a bust ?" Two of these questions are still unde:•ided. The third was, on Thursday, answered in the affirmative by the Common Council of London. Mr. JONES will take his place, in the Council-chamber, between the hero of Trafalgar and the great advocate of the aboli tion of the Slave-trade. Mr. JONES is well known in the city as one of those active and energetic men, who begin by making themselves useful, and end by making themselves indispensable. He was " chairman of the committee for rebuilding London-bridge, and making suitable approaches thereto; for rebuilding the Royal Ex change ; and for effecting public improvements within the City." Fired with gratitude for his important services, a Jones Testimonial Committee was formed, a Jones Testimonial Fund collected, a Jones Testi monial Bust executed, and, lastly, a Jones Testimo nial debate carried to a triumphant conclusion by a majority of 63 to 34. The motion for the erection of the bust in the Council-chamber was opposed by Mr. PRENDERGAST, on the ground that posterity would be puzzled to find Mr. JONES in such company as NELSON and WILBER FORCE. Mr. JONES, however, will share the credit of perplexing posterity, with many who cannot boast even such homely services as his. Mr. PRENDERGAST would have the Council-chamber a Valhalla of national benefactors. Mr. JONES'S services have not extended west of Temple Bar. Mr. LAWRENCE ridiculed the notion of " making the court a place of exhibition for the busts of heroes and men of rank and con nexion, and excluding their fellow-citizens." He pointed to the portraits of Mr. Deputy PINDAR and the City Chamberlain ; and asked why the bust of Mr. JONES was not fit company for their pictures ? The question was, rather, are they fit com pany for NELSON and WILBERFORCE ? There can be no reason why the city should not have its hall of heroes. There are many worthies from WnrrriNnrox downwards, who would do honour to the collection. But some principle of selection must be employed. The rationak of testimonials wants overhauling. There is an itch for this sort of recognition now a days. From the silk cassock and teapot of the popular preacher, up to the 20,0001. of a HVD,ON testimonial,every kind of service is acknow ledged in the eleemosynary way. Virtue used to be its own reward. Now-a-days, it is not only praised, bat paid. Honesty is proverbially the best policy. When Mr. JONES receives the honor of a bust because he allowed 2,000,000/. of public money to pass through his hands without any of it sticking to his fingers, the proverb is substantially realised. We are becoming marvellously liberal, both of enthusiasm and money. There seems, however, to be one condition to these trifling acknowledgments: the recipient must have made his fortune. There is a delight in contributing to the comforts of a mil lionnaire. It is pleasant to give to those who don't want it. The best trade going is that of a benefactor of the species in all that helps to money-making. But you must be rich before you take it up, or acquire riches in the course of your calling. We have no doubt that Mr. JONES is an active chairman, strict in his accounts, bland to subscribers, peremptory with architects, discriminating in his patronage, pleasant in Guildhall, solemn at the laying of a foundation stone, by turns awful and condescending at a public dinner, —in short, a model of the more pompous virtues. He has contributed to the comforts of his fellow-citizens. Probably he has received his equivalent in more ways than one. If public monuments be records of historic services and remark able virtues, we do not hear of any great conception Mr. JONES has originated; of any mighty sacrifices he has made; of any large charities he has fostered ; of any principle he has suffered to confirm, or of any ini quity he has martyred himself to destroy. But all he has done has been in the right direction for the City. He has smoothed the avenues to business, and made the paths of stockbrokers pleasant. Such are the activities the City delighteth to honour. Father MATnEW guided a nation to temperance, and public sympathy had a hard struggle to raise where withal to release him from a paltry debt contracted in his noble work. WILDERSPIN, the founder of infant education, might have starved but for a timely pension. THOMAS CLARK, the conceiver and first exponent of the railway system, is at this moment in indigence at Exeter. But Mr. JONES has his bust, and HUDSON his testimonial twenty thousand. Mr. LAWRENCE ridicules the notion of filling the council chamber with the heroes of warlike or poli tical strife. He thinks " they cut but sorry figures by the side of the great promoters of national and commercial improvements." We entirely agree with him. The only question is, what are great national and commercial improvements? We appre hend that Mr. JONES is too modest not to feel that be has been tolerably rewarded already. Some carping persons may maintain that such situations as he has filled so creditably, bring with them advantages so solid, that they never rise to the surface. There are such things as dispensing contracts, deciding on plans, and distributing employment, which make the burden ofchairmanship tolerable, even without the honours of a bust in the council chamber. The Paris journals of the 17th arc still occupied with the Madrid marriages; and the Presse espe cially denies, from, it declares, good information, that and• note orremonstrance against these marriages has been addressed by the English to the French government. The Duke de lontpensier was to leave Paris on the 25th or 26th; and his marriage was expected to take place on the 10th of next month. The King and Royal Family have left Paris for La Ferte. The Minister of the Interior has also quitted Paris. It is inferred from these departures, that there is no immediate complication or difference between the Cabinets of London and Paris. Our Madrid intelligence is of the 12th. Notwith standing the definitive step of the demand of marriage of the Infanta, the signing of the contract, the certainty of its being announced to the Cortes, and receive& by that body without any effective opposi tion, still the journals display considerable anxiety as to the mode in which the precipitate act may be re ceived by Europe. Every word is quoted end scanned from the English and continental press, evinc ing that if England and Europe should show marked reprobation, and if the former should formally with draw her countenance from the settlement of the Spanish throne, as now to be arranged, still the French and Spanish courts will have no reason to consider this hurried marriage as a triumph. It, in fact, opens a new drama, of which the escape of 1/on Carlos is the first scene. The hands of that Prince are up in Catalonia, as appears by papers of the 11th, from that province. Tristani has appeared at Palos, and the Queen's marriage is likely to be lit up by civil war. The future husband of the Queen was to be de clared Generalissimo, whilst General Pezuela, as his aide-dc-camp, wanted the seal of the War Minister. . . The Miguelites on the Spanish frontier seem to have been dispersed. PARTS, SErr. 16. M. Guizot had left Paris but fora dai; the busi ness of his department prevents his leaving entirely. The affairs of Spain cannot but give the ministry a certain anxiety, as the marriage of the Duke de Moutpensier is one of those bold strokes which success alone can justify. The question abroad is, whether the relations between France and England will be cooled by the marriage, or whether the policy of Louis Philippe will purchase it at the price of some too sub stantial concession, made at the expense of foreign interests. At home anxiety is excited by doubts as to whether the con sequences of this union will not be, to engage France deeper than it wishes or ought to be engaged, in Spanish affairs. The ministry meant to excite great enthusiasm by the marriage of the Duke, but it has been deceived in its expectations ; its own partisans look !upon the news with mistrust, and it has caused a fall in the funds. The panic of the speculators has, however, subsided; but parties arc narrowly observing each other's motions, and public opinion is on the alert. The moderate party of the opposition has taken up a good posi tion. It does nut blame the policy by which the match has been brought about, but it reduces to their full value the consequences of alliances between dynasties. It has done, like the cock in the fable, who found a diamond, but imme diately dropped it saying, "a grain of corn would be of much more service to me.' Would not a commercial treaty be, in fact, a much better thing for both countries than a marriage between the two princely families ? Is not that what common sense requires? The chiefs of the opposition, however, remain in a state of prudent reserve on the subject; they are neither insensible to the danger of a coolness which would be fatal not only to both nation..., hut to all nations ; nor indifferent to the idea of an alliance between France and Spain, in whatever manner that may be brought about, though always in the condition of honour and security to France. They wait till events show in their real light the combinations to which M. Guizot attaches so great importance. If the marriage of the Duke de Montpensicr has a lucky issue for France, the opposition will not seek to deprive M. Guizot of the merit of success; in the contrary case, 111 opposition reserves to itself the entire liberty of its opinion to defend the real interests of the country. The project of law on th^ customs, of which I have already spoken, seems to be wider in its scope than was at first anticipated. The duty on coal is to be reduced as well us that on cast and sheet iron; some prohibitions will also be taken away, but only to give place to high duties. It may be in your recollection, that in the treaty of id, Gee term and M. PortZs, in 1840, the prohibition upon woollen stuffs was taken away; it appears that the project of law proposed by the mintsters will keep it up. The reason, however, is apparent. Is not M. Cunin Gridainc a cloth manufacturer ? However it may be, this insufficient pro ject will be attacked by the protectionists in the Chamber. But the partisans of liberty of commerce will be active in its defence. 0. AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, SEPT. 4.—His Excellency Count Stadion, Governor of Trieste and the Coast Lands, is, it is said, to be appointed Second President of the Aulic Chamber in Vienna. The excitement at the Vienna Bourse has not yet subsided, and railway shares are exceedingly low. PHISSIA.—BERLIN, SEPT. 9.—An article in the Prussian tiiirersal Gazette, concerning the letter patent of the King of Denmark, and which emanated, it is said, from the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and of the Interior, was received with great joy at Berlin. This article, which bears an official stamp, alludes expressly to Holstein, and originated inn note addressed by the Danish government to the states of the German Confederation, to Prussia in parti cular, requesting them not to permit their journals to take part against Denmark, the king himself being a member of the Confederation. The King of Prussia replied that the censorship would prohibit any publication against Denmark, hut that an opinion was not to be forced upon the press, and that he himself shared the opinion of the journals on the question of the duchies. POLAND.—The three great powers have been informed that a new insurrection was on the point of break ing out in Galicia, at Posen, and at Cracow. lit marea o f precaution have been taken in consequence. RUSSIA.—ODEssA.—The accQualte of the harvest in Kherson, Nikolaieff, Tagarzaii, an d Eh ea b et h ara d are favourable. The district of Voznesensk is an exception. The accounts from Ktteff, Poultava, Ekaterinollaff, Po dolia, and Betwarnlv- ..a are also favourable. The grain is generally o f K fa b goe",, quality, with the exception of the middle di,triet erson, where it has suffered from the locusta and dreugk. A comparative table has been published at Odessa between the commercial movements of the first six months of 1846 and the corresponding months of 1845. According to this table, the exports, which from the Ist of January to the Ist of July 1815, amounted to 4,733,827 silver roubles (about 757,4131. ),amounted in the corresponding months of 1846 to 7,867,43.5 silver roubles (1,2.58,7890. The increase is on corn as well as on rye. During the first six months of 1846, 500 vessels entered, and 529 left the port in the corresponding period of 1845; 451 entered and 422 sailed. Nothing can be said as yet of the turn commerce will take in the second half of the present year. It is, however. conjec tured that the Archipelago, Spain, and the South of France will require provisions from Odessa, and that the exportation to England will also be on the increase. All which circum stances will tend to keep up an increase in the price of export articles from Odessa. SWITZERLAND. Zmnar, SEPT. 12. The Swiss Diet has been dissolved, after a session of ten weeks. SOUTH AMERICA.—TnE REPUBLIC or NEW GSENADA.—There was a report that war had broken out between the republic of New Grenada and that of the Equator. Private letters from South America state that the two countries were decided on corning to an amicable ar rangement, and that commissaries h►d been named to that effect. The new general of the Equator, General Rosa, had made his solemn entry into Quito. He intended convoking the Congress, so as to obtain the necessary aid to repulse the inva.ion of his predecessor, General Flores, who was expected from Europe with considerable forces. TILE INDIAN MAIL ria VENlCE.—(Communicated.) —The approaching change in the commercial route from India to Europe, which became apparent when the first steam ship from Bombay arrived at Suez in February, 1842, has been accelerated by Waghom's experiment of bringing the Indian Mail to London by the Adriatic, the Rhine, and the German and Belgian railways. Venice, which appeared to be cancelled from the list of commercial emporiums, as well as that of independent states, is again attracting atten tion with reference to this change. For the last ten years a gradual improvement has taken place in the activity and general condition of this iuteresting city. Its population has been increasing, its pauperism diminishing, new build ings and embellishments have succeeded each other, its revenue has doubled. During the last five years the num ber of ships of the long voyage that entered Venice has in creased nearly 70 percent. • the coasting trade has steadily augmented; the principal harbour, still affording great natural accommodation, is about to be improved by a mar- nificent new pier. But it is to the facilities ;Worded in Venice to travellers, and the transit of goods, we would'at present direct attention. The steam navigation of the Po connects Venice with Milan end various fertile provinces of Central Italy. The great railway bridge across the Laguna, one of the most wonderful works of our day, is finished, and locomotives now run from Venice to Vicenza in two hours. Next year the railway will reach Verona, and thence Milan. These cir cumstances indicate Venice as an eligible pivot of the com munication between the Adriatic and the North Sea—be ts eon Alexandria and London. As a harbour, Venice offers great security ; as a place of transit or depot, great accom modation ; as the centre of a rich and fertile region in itself, a valuable customer for our varied produce. The communi cation between London and Alexandria would be both more expeditious and more convenient by Venice than by Trieste. Mr. Waghorn's route via Trieste is by no means the shortest, as will appear from consulting any good map. From Druino to Mittenwald, the route pursued by Mr. Wughorn is 221 posts; from Venice to Mittenwald by Treviso and Cenetla, is only 181 posts. 'i he voyage from Alexandria to Venice is a few hours shorter than to Trieste. From Venice there is • railroad as far as Mestre ; as yet there is no such accom modation on the Trieste line. Still more time would be saved by taking the Innspruck route; and travelling by railroad nt present as far as Vicenza, next year as far as Verona, and thence to Innspruck. The advantage of se lecting Venice in preference to Trieste as the point of debar kation for Adriatic steam navigation, will be yet more ap parent, if the lines of railway projected and in actual pro gress in the intervening states are taken into consideration. A continuation of the line to Verona to the Lake of Cnustanz is projected. It is in contemplation to connect Chur railway with the Zurich line to Basle. The Indian mail disembarked at Venice, might, by the links of this system, reach the termini either of the French or Baden railways which run along the opposite banks of the Rhine, having thus a choice of routes—the advantage of competiton. It may proceed from Basle In Strasbourg, Paris, and Boulogne, to London, • distance of 710 miles ; or from Basle to Stras bourg and Metz, along the great Luxembourg line, to Brus sels and Ostend, a distance of 610 miles. Or it may proceed from Wiell along the Baden state line to the Trhe terminus of the Great Luseinbourg, and thence to Brussels, Ike., a distance of 63:i miles. The third route, though longer than the second in number of miles, would, probably, from the immunities of the Zollverein, be found the shorter in point of time. The railroad communication from Venice to the coast opposite England will be more direct than that from Trieste, and will pass through countries of more highly de veloped industry and resources—in which there are greater sources of sunport for railroads, greater inducements and ability to make them efficient. It has been already oh served, that the navigation from Alexandria to Venice is some hours shorter than that to Trieste. It has also to be remarked, that the steamers between Alexandria and Venice might touch regularly at other Italian sea-ports :—Brindisi, for example, and Manfredonia, and more particularly Bar letta, now that the Neapolitan Government has permitted the construction of a railway between that city and Naples. These would be feeders of the passenger and goods traffic of the Alexandro-Venetian steam navigation, such as would be looked for in vain on the line from Alexandria to Trieste. There are reasons for hoping that the superiority of Venice to Trieste, as a pivot of overland communication, may be re cognised before any useless east is expended upon its rival. Thus may Alexandria and Venice, the commercial centres of two thousand years ; and London, the great centre and metropolis of modern traffic,".become the three main stations on the highway from West to East. ATROCITIES OF TILE SLAVE TRADE. The Lirerpool Mercury publishes the following narrative respecting the capture of the slave-ship l'ona, on the coast of Africa, in the month of November last, having on board 900 slaves : It appears that in November the barque Pons, of Phila delnhia, commanded by Captain James "terry, was at anchor in the port of Cabinda (Africa), for some time before, taking in the slaves, during which time she was closely watched by her Britannic Majesty's brig Cygnet, Captain Layton, com mander. The slaver had come from Rio, and a person, named Gallen°, an Italian, who embarked in her as pas senger, had entered into an arrangement by which she was to be given up to him on their arrival at the Coast. On the morning of the' 7th, the Cygnet, being ordered to leave the Coast, was got under weigh and stood out to sea, and the captain of the slaver taking advantage of this ercumstance, immediately commenced getting on board the slaves, with the water, provisions, &c.: so expeditious were they in their movements that at eight o'clock the same evening the vessel had left Cabinda, having em'arked 903 slaves. She did not stand out to sea immediately, but kept along the coast during the night. and at daylight, being off Kacongo, about twenty five miles north of Cabinda, they discovered the Cygnet in the offing. Under these eircumstav , they drifted near the shore, -- - "sr that a number of lined the beach, in so near that a . negroes the expectation of her going aground and becoming a wreck. Towards noon, however, the Cygnet drew off from the land, and the crew of the laver, finding they had not been ob served, set all sail and cleared the shore. About this time the United States ship Yorktown, under the command of Cap tain Bell, having observed her motions, and judging that she was engaged in the abominable traffic of slavery, gave chase, and after a run of two days, succeeded in capturing her, in lat. 3 deg. south. When first observed she hoisted American colours, under the impression that the vessel in chase was a British cruiser, but, discovering her mistake, raised the Portuguese flag. Owing, however, to Captain Bell first showing one colour and then another, the captain of the slaver became confused, and during the fright threw all his papers overboard, which he admitted on being captured. When the slaves became acquainted with the fact of their re-capture, they were so overcome with joy that they gave a shout which might have been heard at the distance of a mile. The crew consisted of Spaniards, Portuguese, Brazilians, and seamen from other nations. 011 examination it was found that she had shipped upwards of 900 slaves, between the ages of eight and thirty, embracing 47 girls ; and that about 20 had died, although the vessel had been out only three days. The slave ship was then placed under the command of Lieut. Cogdell, who proceeded with the unfortunate victims to Li beria, where he arrived on the 15th of December, and landed all that remained alive, amounting to 756, upwards of 180 having died ma the passage. About 30 who were in a dying condition survived only a short time after their arrival. The vessel had no slave-deck, and upwards of 850 of the wretched human beings (males) were piled almost in a bulk on the water-casks below, while forty or fifty females occupied one-half of the round-house cabin on deck, the other half being for the use of the officers. She was bound to Rio Janeiro, and being a vessel of only about 350 tons, it seemed impossible that one-half of the slaves could have lived to cross the Atlantic. The Captain said he had intended to ship 400 or 500 more, had he not been pre• vented by the proximity of an English cruiser. The suffer ings of the poor wretches can scarcely be imagined, as the stench from below was so great, that it was impossible to stand more than a few moments near the hatchways, and several of the ship's crew who went below, from mere cu riosity, were brought up sick in a few minutes. The victims of the abominable traffic were taken in charge by Dr. Lugenbeel. the Secretary of the American Coloniza tion Society at Monrovia (Liberia) and afterwards placed under the care of responsible persons lathe colony, aguarantee being required that they should be kindly and humanely treated. The Rev. W. 13. Hoyt, missionary from the Episcopal Society at Monrovia, visited the Pons on her arrival at Liberia, and describes the scene which was there presented as of the most appalling character, the living and the dying being crowded together with less care than would have been bestowed on the brute creation; some of them were so emaciated that their bones almost protruded through the flesh, while others had upon their bodies large so: - es produced by lying on the planks of the vessel, the ulcers being covered with swarms of flies, who were feeding as upon a dead carcase. The ther mometer in the hold would, it was supposed, range between 110 to 12.4 degrees. Several of the sufferers had jumped overkoard during the painage, and others would no doubt h..5e done so if an opportunity had been afforded them. The prize master stated, that as won as a slave became helpless, through debility or sickness, those around would strangle him in order that his body might be re moved, and more room thus afforded to his companions. —The Italian captain was brought to Liberia in the York town, as a prisoner, but on his arrival he was released by the officer in command, and such was the excitement amongst the inhabitants of the colony against him, owing to the lawless and ferocious brutality he had exhibited, that it was deemed unsafe for him to remain on the beach. lie stayed only a few days, and then sailed for South America. It appeared he had been engaged in the slave trade upwards of twenty years, during which period lie h 4 been six tim ss captured by Eng:ish cruisers, but had, neverthclew, ra i d s many successful voyages. The whole affair was no doubt as. ranged between him and Berry before the ship sailed frank*. but it is thought the parties cannot be brought to jiaga se C. the present laws of the United States. Th e slaver wassail mately taken into the river Delawarre, and examined's,* the navy yard. The part of the roundhouse, in which 47 et the female slaves wero confined, was found to he 11 (sat 4 inches by 8 feet 6 inches, and 6 feet in height. On /Sidi ill s were two tiers (three in a tier) of spaces, probably in berths, each about half the length o f th e room, 2 f eet .' and the two upper ones in each tier 2 feet 3 inches Idi; the berths on the level of the floor were only 18 inch.'`' height. The hold measured 100 feet in length by 2 4 1 ,„ 4 8 inches in the widest part. Several casks were there, whi s k had been covered with bags of farina (the food of % I slaves), upon which was spread old coarse matting, Ya m hog a sort of platform, on which the male slaves en s , stowed. When the bags and mats were there, the hews of the hold occupied by the inmates could not be more trsi six feet. The area of the platform was found by wows, tion not to exceed 1,720 feet, and as 860 slaves were stowed there, each slave must have had only two square feet of mom, or a square space of seventeen inches in th e s i de. If they had lain side by side, and each occupied Ma ss inches in width, and five in length, 286 of them would hay s filled up the whole space, but that was only about ow third of their actual number, and some idea may cp s ", quently be formed of the suffer:ng they must have end It was found that when the h a t c h es were c l osed they wow breathe all the air in the hold twice over within as how, There were but two apertures for the admission of frai l air, one near the middle of the deck, 6 feet 9 by 7 feet, the other 3 feet 9 by 3 feet 6, with a stepladder occupying* small put of it. The area of the two openings would be about sixty square feet, and those furnished the only mesas of ventilating this pestilential receptacle for 840 human beings, during the period which might be occupied in a voy age across the Atlantic. COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES.—TILE SPEAKER'S Dm, NERS.—Mr. M'Leay consented, for the convenience of the Legislative Council, to continue Speaker a short time t ones , on condition that no increas e of th e salary s h ou ld b e mad; while he retained the office. Mr. NVentworth, neserthelee on the 14th of May, moved an address to the Governor (e( which be had given notice previously), praying " That his Excellency will be pleased to place on next year's estimates a sum not exceeding 1,5001. fur the salary of Speaker ; and to place on the supplementary estimate fur this }ear ama of 2501., to make up the salary of chairman of cunimittem to 5001. a year ; and on next year's estimates a sum not ex. seeding 5001., fur the salary of such chairman ; and to plan on the supplementary estimate for this year a sum of 1001., to make up the salary of the fier,eant.sit-Arms to 2001, year ; and= next year's estimates, a .Ulll not exceeding 2001. for the salary of such Serjeant-at-Arms. In support of this motion Mr. 'Wentworth obeerved :—" lie did think that a gentlemanoceupying the position of Speaker of the Colima, ought to have a dinner salary; nay more, he thought be ought to have a house furnished him. He was of opinion that the ability to extend such hospitality as might be ex pected from a gentleman in his station, would tend greatly to the despatch of business, by softening down those aspe rities which were apt to spring up in the warmth of debate. (Laughter.) If, he would ask, there was nothing more than the eating a dinner, why had the practice grown up at home? Yet, it was well known that it was the practice of the Speaker of the House of Commons to give regular dinners to the mem bers during the session. It was not the mere dinners, (oche would not suppose that the Members of Parliament wanteda dinner—(great laughter)—and in this colony they might, is all probability, get a snugger, warmer, and more comfort able dinner in their own houses than they could at the Speaker's ; but it was beeiuse that these dinners were found useful in forwarding public business, that they had become, as it were, an established part of the constitution. (Shouts of laughter.) In their colony, where the members of the legislature received uo wages for their labours, when they were at a long distance from their abodes, it was only right and reasonable that the public should beat the einem . of entertaining them once or twice a week. (Laughter)" —Mr. Lane opposed the motion: "He would trust that even the seducing prospect of dinners twice a week would hardly allure the council away from its sense of duty. The cost of the legislative establishment was already 3,5434; and it would be well to consider before that amount was in creased. They had already net been sparing of censure of subordinate bodies that had cost more than they were worth; and if they adopted the motion before them, the public would soon suspect that they had uo affection for any jobs except their own. He felt sure the house would reject the motion, which, if carried, he would expect to see followed up by two gentlemen with two hills of fare as candidates, one coaxing a vote with champagne, whilst the other tapped them on the shoulder with Iturgundy--one tempting them with turtle, whilst the other proffered some other rrrhercht'delicary. (Loud laughter.)"—Mr. Robinson supported Mr. Wentworth: " Those who ridiculed the idea of dinners and state, knew very little of human nature—nor were these displays without their benefit in an economic point of view. The Lord Mayor of London had 14,0001. a year granted him for state alone, for his services were not worth MO/. a year; hut if it had not been for his salary, the City of London would have gone to pieces long ago." Mr. Windeyer wound up the debate by remarking that " The object of the hon. m2mber for Sydney, and the object of those who had resisted any reduc tion in the salary of the Governor appeared to him to be precisely similar; they both wanted to increase the strength of those tablecloth chains which are so binding in so many instances, and as the Governor has the power of giving good dinners, his learned friend wanted to set up an opposition shop on the popular side." Mr. Wentworth withdrew the motion. LORD STANLEY ON COLONIAL ADENTS.—A dispatch of Lord Stanley relative to the appointment of the lion. Francis Scott as parliamentary agent for New South Wales, was laid before the Legislative Council of the Vith of May. Lord Stanleyacquiesces in the appointment with some cavils, and conditionally, as will appear from the following extract: "The assent of the Queen's government to the proposal :um be qualified by stipulations winch the legislative mined will regard aa inilhipenscible, and on their observance of which your acquiescence is their applicution must depend. First, 1 obis eve that the third mo nition is in the following terms That Francis Scutt, member of I parliament for lionbunthshire, is in the opinion of this council efah neatly go:Jinni, and is herrn. appointed to represent the interests of New South Wales in the Douse of Commons and elsewhere.' I must, however, decidedly object to the appointment to such an oilier being made by a mere reaolution of the council. Iler Majesty's govenunent can be no party to the recognition, or to the payment of an agent for the colony, unless be be appointed as in all other colonies by a local ordinance, iv:twilled to by the governor, and transmitted for the litiemi's confirmation or disallowance. I object also to the ap pointment of a member of the /louse of COMMOI expressly to repre sent the interests of New South Wales in that house.' Every member of parliament is in one mew time representative of his constituents, though in another and sense he may be said to represent the Continuos of the United ' ban, and of all its colonial de tendencies. But to undertake to act in parliament as the representative of any local interest, at the expense of other interests of the British nature, would be an engagement at Tarim& with his duties; and the Owen cannot be advised to sanction any resolution or ordinance the terms of which would appear to suppose and to require such a departure by any member of the House of Commons front the dirties which in that capacity he is bound to discharge. Further, you enclose a resolution uppomiing fourteen member's of Council as you select standing com mittee to conduct the necessary correspondence with Mr. Scott, and you state that it is intended that this committee should Mt during the recesses of the Council. I observe that, of the fourteen gentle men thus named. one only is taken front the members sitting in Council by the nomination of the Crown. (tut I flunk it Indispensable that such a committee as this should have the same proportion as the council itself proposes ; an agent who is to he atithoriaed to act for and to represent the whole colony should not be instructed by a particular section only of the Colo nial Legislature. Neither can I concur in the appointment of any committee of the local legislature with authority to sit and act during a prorogation, or pending a dissolution of the house. Experience elsewhere has abundantly shown the necessity of firmly opposing any such encroachment from the first. I inn not of course unaware of the Inoonvenienec which may be consequent on insisting on this constitu tional maxim. Not the opposite moonvenience is far arcane. It wrests from the Crown the prerogative of dissolution and morogation for many practised purmass's, and tends to tender the Wiling", 04 one branch of the Legislature not only permanent, but wholly inde pendent of any intervention of the royal authority as represented by the Governor. Permanent committers meeting throughout every recess, and debating either publicly or privately at their discretion, must ripen In New South Wales into an institution subversive almost of every other authority. If an ordinance shall be presented for your acceptance framed on these principle, not made to con tinue in force for more than three years, 1 authorise you to assent to it. But I cannot authorise you to assent to any ordinance in which these principles any not recognised, nor which should be of longer duration. In the appointment of an agent by a new resolution you wilt noir:occur." Me Court. The Court remains at Osborne-house. Iler Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia ar rived in town yesterday morning from Cashiobury Park, Herts. The Princess was received at the Easton-square terminus by his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Earl of Denbigh, and Baron Witzleben. Iler Royal Highness drove to the Temple, where the Princess and her suite in spected the Temple Church. Her Royal Highness next isited St. Paul's Cathedral. The Princess afterwards went to the Bank of England, and inspected the different offices of that establishment. After lunching at the Prussian Minister's, her Royal Highness inspected the Pantheon and Madame Tumaud's exhibition, and then left town by the London and North Western Railway for Cashiobury Park. Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday from Wimbledon. Sir George Grey had an interview with his lordship. The Earl and Countess Grey left town yesterday for Howick Hall, Northumberland. (From last night's Gazette.) DOWNING -STREET, SEPT. 18.—The Queen has ap pointed the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine to be Captain( General and Governor-in-Chief of her Majesty's provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and of the Island o Prince Edward, and Governor-General of all her Majesty's provinces on the continent of North America, and of the Island of Prince Edward; also, F. Partridge, Esg. to be Deputy Commissary of Police for the Island of Mauritius. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 16.—The Queen has appointed the Right lion. Sir J. R. G. Graham, Bart., to be one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart. ; and the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Bart., being one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, an Ecclesiastical Commissioner for England; also, directed letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain arta Ireland unto E. P. Coffin, Esq., Commie sary-Oenerak of her Majesty's Forces. WAR-OFFICE, Sanwa. ma I. 9th Light Dragoons—R. Houghton to be car., without per., Nice 'french, prom. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.—Ens. F. IL Daring, from 68th F.,to be ens. and lieut., by pur., rice Verner, who rat. 11th Regiment of Foot.—Lieut. W. Douglas to he rapt., without pur., rice brev.-maj. M. C. Lynch, who ref. upon full-pay. at I Mr. day dou Tot [Thi II 29t it s apt 441 • fike .471 61. USW