The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-23 00:00:00

Vie etintisO• TO CORRE2YONDEBTO. • 'sm. rAtbs " [sprees," sestaislas lts vamp WNW el 0•1111/09" Pllighid every luaday sad Yru .Idbt. ta pos. eitertismat.blesdid for °TM Farrow," Leriaa Innisf mar, swat . 011 es. Immte-arest. Ise esteek Se, st ;AMMO'S. DIOR WATEII AT LONDON DRIDOD. Tv* . Mt —lleralike. N. 0n............Merr01k O. Mu tbmisavir—Sarstaf. M. 33 a.. Ewa. N. Ha. LONDON, TRURSDA F. DECEMBER 23. WHATEVER be the exalt proportions in which the Messeate of Whig and Tow an As* to be blended be the Coalition Cabinet MIMS SUM to be but little meson to doubt that as a whole Its mastitution will he more exclusively aristocratic than say of its recent predecessors have been. Of dukes, marquises, and earls, time will be the usual number, with Lords by courtesy and Peers presumptive, to fill up each inter stice of the privileged edifice. But representatives of the Commons, as the constitution recognises them, there mu to be none. No man, in the judg ment of the coalition, is tit to be associated with as a member of the executive govern ment who follows the vulgar pursuits of industry is the field, the counting house, or the mine. The principles of this joint coterie are declared by its clayeettrs to be impartial. and,—speaking in confi deace,—rather Liberal. Where are we to find the proofs of this ? No man of large landed property, noble birth, or aristocratic connexions can feel that he is shut out on account of his opinions. For that matter, it does not seem to signify at all what his opinions are. He may have voted tor the Jews or against the Jews. Ile may be a Pulley ite or • Low Churchman; in favour of more bishops, or in favour of none ; an advocate for the payment of the Catho lic priests out of the Exchequer, or an enemy of the Irish Established Church. Ile may be an advocate of university reform or a defender °revery mon as tic abuse. In short, he may profess any kind of political creed upon the topics we hair named, as well as many others not enumerated, provided he be a nobleman or fine gentleman. But it is quite understood at Argyle House that "No plebeian need apply." At Vienne, men made of common clay arc, for sake of their brains, sought for and placed in poets of power. Our nobles are more Austrian than the Austrians themselves. We have the houour to live in • free sountry,—• here merit, in the eyes of the aristocracy, appears to be nothing, whilst a privileged few are allowed to make free with nod appropriate to them selves, by a happy combination of joint stock im pudence and hereditary fraud, all the dignities, powers, and emoluments of the greatest Government in the world. Merchants in • commercial country , and men of letters in what is called an enlightened land; manu• lecturers amidst a manufacturing people; inventon and discoverers and men of practical enterprise in a eountry whose greatness is pre-eminently owing to enterprise, discovery, and invention—all these are to be outlawed as far as the right of participating in the executive government are concerned, because their mothers were not ladies of quality and their fathers the hereditary owners of territorial possessions. Some pro-subordinate posts may, by grace especial and favour of "my lords," bo conceded to the humble and pliant adherents of their cause— if MUSS it can be called—for even dogs may eat of the crumbs that fall from the great men's table. But the insolent line of exclusion, is marked all the more sharply and signi ficantly by the contrast thus presented. All real power, all high profit, all inspiring or ennobling in centives to ambition, is greedily clutched and held fast in unblushing monopoly by the privileged order. Nor is this the result of accident or chance. The only member of the New Cabinet whose family descent or personal position can possibly seem to reader him an exception to the invidious rule—we mean the right hon. member fur the University of Oxford—has within the last few days declared in the House of Commons that he and his party deemed it their duty "to check the further of democracy . " And a still more t i fn7uished member of the tome party not bog ago made it a ground of public reproach against Lord DERBY that, by elevating new men to the rank of Cabinet Ministers, he had conceded too much to the democratic principle. In point of fact, its indeed most true that the Tory party hive at all times showed themselves:moretolerant of humble birth, when coupled with conspicuous ability, than either the tapists or the Whip. Still, amongst these two last named unions, there have from time to time been relaxations of the ignominious rule. In the course of twenty years the Whigs did actually admit at different periods two men of rnersantile wealth within the precincts of the Cabinet. But it is mid that they compelled them both to qualify far the honour try withdrawing from their respective callings, and a similar offer is supposed to have been made by the late Sir Room Pert. to a distin guished merchant of his party,—by whom it is be lieved to have been declined. IVith humiliation we are forced to confess,—but we are bound to do it frankly,—that in the constitution of Lotd Denny's Cabinet, whatever its other defects =Limn been, the seanold and injustice we are adverting to was not to ha bead. If merchants were not numbered in its ranks, the principle of middle class repreenta ties ia the executive was amply vindicated by the meam In which @sterol of the high offices wane Sled up; and, above all, by the leader ship really awarded to the remarkable talents of " one at the Parliamentary rabble." It war a virtue that covered asap visa although it • MOM INS !ahem the keel mane et a Me puitias, sad it woe a abate be the true spirit amp wise of ear line esiestitadea which will be reaesailsweel ee the swat--the only eredft—at the ate Admiailsatisa, Bat it maid sera es if Podium and Whiggery in coalition were likely le berme ma anti-plebeian than in the days whew they were rivals. The salu tary inflames at political aampstitioa bad not much real effect. as we lave balm observed. But the little that it had is sew at as and. We an to have nothing now but lords, ralativas of had's, and lord's immediate eseardeem The mil Taker herd, out of whom main the sgememlethee of seedy all the =.. aitise Imes are tibia, the bankers, mer masalltatalma ma of seiner, literature, mei et_ Pt, the Thule Pratirmatery rabble, are to And bliMssetled 1111di wait without the decrees of ii dismte—saisaget witsmorith the single of dm noble member he the City of there is net ores who reprammito a greet apreentile esmsdlesmsy, ire whir bas shown himself ly aide vie with the mem of his time in Chard la rd sad bliph work et literature. We Amid be Ma to the prapie, to that great and in ad& d slew whose iadastri chiefs sad int ambles ere the thinking and moving pewits of ear bas esmamity—if we did am time promptly mei Petal, palest against the hasiemW -- asseplies et** oedema rights by a needy la peed/ dam —if we did auk Peip esselyee, mire all circus- Mem te raid M the utmost the attranot is rtmovais a opt= ef manaWy so opposed is the genies of ear iZeThe " Lend. .• are not the /Asia Wits and met to be the whole government i—the people are the realities of the country, and agnate be insulted with impunity. Br the last arrivals from Cape Town we learn that the Legislative Council had bees assembled by the Ltstrretester-Goveamon, and • despatch igsed, "bony 8. PAKINGTON" submitted for their cooni deration and guidance. This document iostructsd the Governor and Council to postpone indefinitely the peening of the new constitution into a law. The reason assigned for this extra ordinary recommendation was the uncertainty alleged to attach to the working of the proposed electoral qualification. Sir Jolts was pleased to my in his despatch that the restriction of the franchise to the occupation of buildings to the value of 251 was objected to by a large section of the council and the community. At the time Sir 'mix wrote he knew that the opposition of the colonial reformers bad been withdrawn ; that they had accepted it in order to ensure the speedy attainment of some kind of parliamentary gover nment . The opposition was ecofined in the nominee council to the under- Wrappers who wen serenely subservient to the Weasel aseestary (all his colleagues of equal sas k di mes d og fr om him), and out of doors to his dependants and agents. Sir JOHN PAKINOTON knew, moreover, that Mr. MONTAGUE and his faction, sfese objecting to the 251. franchise, on the ground that it was too extensive, and finding that no attendee was paid to this argument, suddenly wheeled round, and maintained that it was too narrow. This se* contradiction betrayed the factious doeteter of the Opposition ; its determination,recklan of truth: le attribute to the proposed electoral qualification any character moat likely to damage it in general esti. tendon. Sir Dome PAIUNGTON must, there- fore, have been aware that the opposition to the Cape constitution on this ground, was not only confined to a scanty clique, but was palpably hollow and dishonest. One of his last acts in office, therefore, has been to disappoint the Cape colonists of long promised self government, under a pretext which he must have kn iwn to be untenable. In the despatch some subsidiary objections to the constitution are thrown in as make weights. It is alleged by Sir lons that there is a lack of statistical documents to show the proportional relations of the different races in the colony, and that this is a serious consideration, inasmuch as " no inconsi,iera " ble number of the coloured population, upon " some of whom, at least, the fr anchise " would be conferred on any of the plans " which have been proposed, bays been re " cently in arms against the Crown, ar.d that under " those circumstances their admission to a share in the " government must be of very doubtful expediency." The grmamatical structure of this sentence is so loose' that it is not clear to whom the pronoun " their " in' the last clause relates. It may be to the whole coloured population, or it may be to those of them who have been in arms against the Crown, or have abetted the rebels. If the former, it is monstrous to withhold political rights from a whole race because "no inconsiderable number," or "at least some," of them are or have been in rebellion—a rebellion pro- voked by scandalous mismanagement and oppression., If the latter, no statistical details of the rela tive proportion of coloured and white men in the colony are necessary to enable the legislature to enact that convicted rebels shall not be capable of exercising the elective franchise.' This like the allegations about the 251. qualification, is p alpably a mere pretext; it is impossible that Sir JOHN PAIKINGTON can himself have attributed any weight to it. M ere our object merely to show that not one member o: the DERBY-Matsui Cabinet was better or more trustworthy than another, we should be unjustifiably occupying the time of our readers. But this last shabby trick of the late Colonial Secretary is so pregnant with danger that it is necessary to direct the attention of his successor in office (who ever he may be) to it by way of warning. For a long track of years the petitions of the Cape colo nists, for an elective local legislature, were superci liously neglected. For the last few years they have been incessantly tantalised with promises of elective legislatures, which have again and spin, under various shallow and untenable pretexts, been snatched away just as they held out their hands to grasp them. This, of itself, was enough to create exasperation. But the public mind at the Cape has been further irritated by despotic and ungenerous treatment, in other respects, at the hands of different Colonial Ministers —u, for example, in the attempt to make their country a penal colony by . sur prise. This systematic threatening and vexing of the colonists by the home Government is still per sisted in. At the very moment that Governor CATIICAIT is summoning the burgher levies en masse, he has introduced a system of secrecy respecting his operations that has often pre vented the colonists from learning even the results of his completed movements until the news was received by the return mail from England. In fact, the colonists have been given to understand that henceforth the labour and expense of defending them from their enemies on the frontier is to de volve mainly upon themselves, and at the same time they are refused any opportunity of knowing . or forming a jnelsrment on the military operations carried on in their name and at their expense. The wanton defeat of their hopes of obtaining a re presentative legislature at such a moment and ender such circumstances cannot bil to be more goofing than any of the many affronts and outrages they have previously experienced at the hands of the Home Government and its local tools or instruments. It is clear, therefore, that whoever is to be our new Colonial Minister, he will, at his entering upon office, find the Cape colonists in a state of great and justifiable exasperation. This is a circumstance not to be lightly thought of or trifled with. The South African settlements are spread over a wide and (for military operation) impracticable country If driven to the alternative of proclaiming themselves independent, they are, in fact, un assailable. Within the limits of the old colony and at Natal dens eau we look for any great MOM of British natiomality ; and the recogin tits of the independeese of the emigrant Boers keeps senstantly brier the eyes of the colonists the tpegged it men who have no distinct ier these M thwart, vex, and worry them. Ti a heats* severing of the colonel band whigl Wads Ilentk Africa to this country will de mand on the pin of the Colonial Minister great tamper, great caution, and, at the same time, the utmost promptitude in active. And looking round upon our public any we see but few who have taken say trouble to make themselves acquainted with colonial affairs, while the few who have taken any active part in them, almost without exception, have proved themselves dadaist in the tact and judgment required to deal with the independent entreliant spirit necessarily demigod in the settlers of new countries. It is Me esesideration—oo desire to hasten the day of ezposene he that small Sir Jonx Paintovonc—thst has Mined us to dwell at seek Megth on this Met giSINI it tridtery. We wend fix the paha, Winds' eatits eei tied aids it the relatiom dais mustry with ens of items* impetint mantel ispumbedsi, in odor to lbw the urgent need then h of megadoes and wall island stitmems at the head enr dike. There is no deportation it giesnmmat in whisk a first-ruts mans so urgently needed is which there is so slender a propel ef ded t ng a sompitent minister. • TM Gowen oftbe Caps mils% mak so mils •diviessd of elm =Amy rules of ompolillso do Souitaiv he Ms Wink& Is poodoessiso Lased by ban la Oslslier last, 0.01111 WYNN souks of Bray liesesseili who Mee been faith et yillbehlia sod Jerky is de Vele Old etAw hialeffOsta it a ekes ej slorootios." ahlembity et living la a sous of storm dos k sow Mu. AnzterfaD MUltron Or • Win n 8n Rue. MEL—Robert Kam, a taim ereallag be the Deg Bark, NewertiorperTyae, was hem& ip at the pee omit ea the ahem Mop ea Teselay. TM aliawle was seer minds re ail tilt. bet Mee lam bed met eeMelertly reseweed her be Wash if the mord she ..sieve to Ebat eraser SWUM AMU era 'Week es the Wawa of do gliL aft ewer were bend by emir reser rerred erns te at dim 'deism Ore et them a woad am So pi nny% v i him ard will es the rimer • her ban stride, bean F rill dim ?" Lea reelisk ~I 've time r. 7.5.. Mb sere NM, " Oh, 'utmost wreak what base yes dem te ae. radr,... acre it to Foamy. too." He dm add is Ni Mgr, Die with a good await. Mrs. Finaigar and ens ether females ad d ed Mn. Krea's deer, and brad bet dr had beer emenly weemied la be lessee, • sheep beenmert barn peresseed therm! bee err. Mare rue giver bile the herb ef the raw, the marl is his berm bison, prehary. 11e..a B. Fife, .spar, bevies beer sert he marred the meads. Met Kass sees la • seer M eareere der Miele, set lo math Ma the ant et Me mesa re hem ahem. The masa Er bed .mead sea .hesttwo base asp met dr eighth rib. It had paw lend is dam emd ingemerts, but me reverted Be. pimp dryer by the rib resit TM mead ma ham be. giveserred pest fever is it_permated he mays at • =tem they kM beer erMy sewed. Theme was so Mmeriage ; end Mir Mina he asseelaired the reehe weer red same ef amid, he did sr Mud may dower. TM prieerses marl wee age e s e g E re the at ter, but it permeated to the Wert his., w perverted it hoer plat deeper. Mrs. Kerr who was iamb agitated, stated Wien YIN right la pestles Mr his. bawl came in tipsy. rad they irserelled. no told hiss she remit lease tits larme, end he was small*/ she sheer do so. She wee reeleder la h ertwmiaatioa to Move, when the felt Ms* weraded. la sorer to the preesee's auserey, Mr. beleer, she sired this about la eambe age ha ha deer *lie, red Met the brk pt of his hawk sad he bra meow Mrs elight deer lb part wee grist rhea sober bet gun red Mir ha bril myekked b They bed bra mired 2S pu ma had hod • delibes. Ome ef the shirr*, ea istairatiOd d 1.1 Pus et spa, seer emmired, bit send Or pm me minim with peat eibeelim er e. The primer wee eemimlnd he Mel at the emb THE NEW MINISTRY. . • urriF ir ek i e Earl InaRDION tee 4 the ,so far . it fr a sei ci see: setikto lay it; ere bee .. the QUEEN ll4d learn he p as to the loci' femme li led ao far *mirk The rameen on the subject were not of a kind to eassurege aisg very high hopes for tho character of the incoming Cabinet. The list, so far as it was known with any thing like certainty. had a far mere Coeservative than " Progressive " look. Almost every name dead what every-day people are fond of calling " a boodle to it"—they were all Lords or Sirs; and though there is little objection to taking good measures from aristocratic men, the political experience of this country has a decided bias against expecting much advancement from any Cabinet composed ahnost ex clusively of Peers and their immediate adherent& What we need are principles—cdear, out-spokes enanciations of Liberal principles ;--and we all know that liberality and the House of Lord* have hitherto been the reveres of synonymoo& It was confidently said that Lord Jowl Russ= was in danger of being cajoled out of his Itheralism o and put in a false position amongst his new col leagues, and that after being the leader of the ad vanced Whigs, he might possibly be found in a posi tion little better than that of an honorary follower of anything but an advanced phalanx of reformers. On the return of the Earl of ABERDEEN to town after his interview with the QUEEN, it was confidently Med that the new Cabinet had been decided trin—that the basis of the Ministry was financial 111111111rimiset, and not suffrage extension ! This state ment wee received in many quarters doubtfully and nairilliegly, but with many misgivings, and must only be taken as a rumour which thousands will be natu rally and very properly anxious to find unconfirmed by coming mut& The Peelites generally are said to be fond of asserting the necessity for "progress," and Sir JAMES GRAHAM is understood to have expressed himself very favourable to a new Reform Bill, whilst Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT is declared to be strongly opposed to everything . of the sort. But to hear, and to know, such things, in such times, arc, we most re member, widely different things. Coupled with the statement that reform is not to be the basis of the new ministerial compact, comes the allegation that lad JOHN RUSSELL wished to be President of Ile Council—a poet of late yew.' regarded es essentially connected with education ; but this office h..ying been, from time immemorial, held solely by members of the House of Peers, the fact of hia being only a Lord by courtesy was held to be sufficient bar to his assuming the poet, and that of the Chancellorship of the Iluchy of Lancester was given instead,—with the Leader ship of the House of Commons. This, if true, is very poor news indeed for all those who hoped to see the Ex-Leader of the Whigs still in the post of influence doe to his past experience and career. The Earl of ABERDEEN will, it is now alleged, direct the Foreign-office himself, with either Lord CANNING or Lord ChLiNvILLE as ostensible Foreign Secretary. This glees a semblance of equality, between the Whigs and Peelites—six of each party being in the Cabinet : the thief Peelite,—the Earl of ABERDEEN, loading the Peers and attending to Foreign affair.; the chief Whig, Lord J. RUSSELL, leading the Commons, and holding only the nominal Duchy of Lancaster. But the equality—if such really be the arrangement—is little more than nominal, supposing Lord JoaN has taken Me tee on the subject of reform. Without east guarantee he falls into the hands of the Phil&- dues, with no rational hope of rescue ; and the rotates—the officers without troops—may well claim the victory over a leader who had a large and important body of supporters in the Lower House of ParliaineLt. A difficulty said to have been un settled yesterday before the journey to Windsor is understood to have arisen upon the question in the new Cabinet—who shall be Colonial Secretary ? A Whig in the Commons was wanted, but not readily to be found. Would Lord PALMERSTON take this? was a question said not to he still unanswered, but those who conjectured a certain refusal on his pert augured from that refusal a belief on the side 4 the ex-Foreign Secretary that the Ministry was MD sot worth joining. If this be really Lord PALMEILSTON'S decision and his reason, many will be quite ready to agree with him. Mr. GLADSTONE is again posit ively placed for the Chancellorship of the Exchequer—which of course indicates what we may look for about Income Tax in the new Budget; whilst Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT is now located at the Admiralty — where be may superintend the clerical opinions of the chaplains of the fleet. The Puseyite rock a-bead will be found to be a very formidable ministerial difficulty. Mr. CARDWELLU named for a seat in the Cabinet ; and Sir CHARLES WOOD is =id to be expecting a similar compliment, —but with what other position seems not quite fixed. Of muse Lord ST. LEONARDS—though the Earl of DERBY did slaver him with compliments—cannot retain the Lord Chancellorship. Lord CRANWORTM Will probably be his auccemor ' though other and eminent legal names have been spoken of as those of expectant' for the honour. All this, vague as it seems, is very unsatisfac tory. The Peelitea may talk about " program," and mesa nothing all the while better than " re•actiou." A mil progresses—but at a miserable pace, sod leaving anything but a satisfactory mark behind it : When talked to about "progress," we most ask at what pace we are to move, and to what end we are to go. Even a Reform Bill may mina anything bat what the country requires. Mr. WALPOLE oiled us an extension of the suffrage —to the militiamm; and Mr. DISRAELI proposed to eat a hale county couselhiency into a small one, and talked aim it as a " pullementery reform." Ac mediae I. press= &prelims= =thing will satisfy the perm leaks of the Miss bat an enunciation of the priesighe of the new =Met, and that enuncia tion we met Me the sided paselble opportunity to smart If the required setiliatioa be not given °bestially mad telly en tbe seam& legitimate occa sisa we mist entertale the met m Nip that a me beneeseatic trick is likely t i e ssia rred and apse the samitry. end that whoa Mr. D lard loin Ilvesim, walk &eras the I. St Om. acme en the thinks formal= of the aew gems meet, maker Riau meg alma Is carryon, all theirfeireser tali Me. Again, ia ear meat of prom Km dm 47. formation of the ew Cabitst, it is =WM Se aria visa we have bet= said, that in all them OM lb meat the *realist can do for the matithellin el public anxiety is to detail such inthellitlaa se Os uncertain character of the su ' will pm& Until the new appointments are not h can be relied upon . with met le t t y is l the Weaee of adverse parties being as toreador =its at one hour thought liable to the next. Ist! THE MINISTRY. Tlee Sam et this arming sir t Ire my se sash Mee en ease, ke asislise et Ines titer Men who whit se aped the reteresise ef thi ma ether ase thee le dada( easedraos pelaneek Net, es• Si: Lord Maisie% ane, ma wry reesseelle wain elll be resseseell this maw. Of men rem wet. a Ine4 NNW. mem% tat kb feral m en:aft rd kaiak Imprensa all b. d« piked—Um ate IN sesnieshe, the other of a new eakMaber am W leedlalp himself took a whole year MMRkb ma Mist set ef see pearl some, be mast myna V lie swataxis lee net Ihelly arranged easy parader ham the embalm d see ma. The Haw et Loeb will be agespard this swat to next lisairay, wire there ill so am the mem lin parser e preneeset with a fair promise a semen sad durability. PUERILITY or DIMPOTISIL-1110 Mika mom Le e of dr °Aeries of ea Os lath : Vie. wears I have to eseuessioste Is of as oalboomab The astadatuosat mad fear mama by theeprosse meessers end the egotism! arrests, deemed by tbe ommoarism of Mantua, are so anneal tis tr all s a l er la WW2 to epee Ms mouth. wordo s alma seem imprudent ems premien used in • letter by Ike pest, are • sell cleat pretext to Justify demieWary obits sad imprisonment. Same days ago, despatches having rosebud for General lierUni, the pot:nester forwarded them lo &Linrs e' by ore of his employes, who wore • loos beard. Willer ana log in the ante-chamber to deliver his despatehes mg *Mar a receipt , the latter crompied himself fa carry hi =USW chins. The general, to whom the act was mortal, pro nonneed it to be indecent, disrespectful, and revolutionary. 'After treating the man with great rudeness, the general I sent for the postmaster, and directed him to enjoin all his employis to shave off their beards. A barber, by his order, I proceeded forthwith to the poet office for the purpose. On the following day thr whole of the employis had their chins ▪ smooth r potatoes. MARIA ANTONIA RAILWAY.—Traffio for thil week sadism December 9, 1862: 1411.-1861: 1981. THE EXPEBiIS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1852. ' FRANCE. PARIS, WZDNZIIDIa HYMNING. The following highly interest 4 ng and important document appears in the A/couleur: The went abandonameut of the barracks constructed in 1848 for the caesium of Pares has diminished by about 13,000 beds the barrack accommodation of the capital. The army of Paris, reduced in consequence, is now dispersed throughout a great number of barracks, the greater part of which are capable of containing but few troops. Amidst the security which now prevails uudrr the auspices of a government whose strength consists in thu respect and sympathy of the country, this subdivision of the garrison no longer offers the dangers which it would have done during the troubles and conflicts of recent years ; but it entails serious inconveniences in the services, which it is important to put an end to. by discontinuing tho occupation of smell barracks, and collected the troops now scattered about, into more considerable establishments. It Is for these reasons the Emperor has ordered the eon struction behind the hotel de N ills of • barrack destined to contain • standing t ire:tire force of 2,1U0 men, and ca pable of receiving a larger number if necessary. With • isimilar object measures of still greeter importance are about to be taken tor completing and ameliorating the tine range of brrracks at the Lc*le bldiviire. It is the Emperor's intention that this establishment, which already constitutes the largest barrack to France, shall become the centre of the principal organisation of the army of Paris. His Majesty has manifested his intention to transport the head.quarters there, and to organise barrack rooms capable of receiving imposing forces of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. The general commanding-in-chief will occupy in the cen tral pavilion, the apartments which were formerly eo occu pied under the Empire, and which were lately the residence of the governor of the school. Around the general will be grouped 6,000 infantry, the regiment of guides, four squadrons of cavalry, and three batteries of artillery; this will be almost a corps d'armee. This organisation will necessitate the Junction with the Eeole Militaire of the Aveous de Sutfren, and of all the ground to the west comprised between the Avenues de Lowendel and de la Moths Pivot, the barrier de l'Ecole, end the Itoulavard hlestdco. Six hectares of land will thus be added to the surface occupied by the present barracks. There wall be built therein in the first place quarters fur for the regiment of guides, the principal building of which facing the Champ de Mare, will resemble the architecture of that due edifice due to Gabriel, the nephew of Mansard; and one of the most able architects of the commencement of the present century. This establishment will possess the improvements recently introduced into our principal cavalry quarters, the organ isation of which has for twenty years been the object of such happy ameliorations, as to have excited the admiration end envy of foreign officers. In the accommodation for the men, the arrangement of the stables, ante the convenience of the service, every advantage compatible with rightly un derstood economy will be provided. Rooms will be re served for officers where they may take their repasts t igether, and enjoy the convenience of drawing rooms and a library. Being established under altogether special circumstances, the quarters of the guides will, as a model for con structions of a like kind, which will be made hereafter, and the extension which it will furnish to the resources for quartering cavalry in Paris, will enable us to have two ca valry regiments besides the guides in the capital. The cavalry will thus obtain a fitting share in the tempo. skims of the garrison of Paris. By the aide of the quarters of the guides, in the Avenue Suffice ' will be erected buildings destined to complete barracks sufficient fur three batteries of artillery—there are at present but two in this establishment. The present barracks of the Beale &tibial?* are capable of holding only 3,600 men ; 2,400 new lodgings will be re quisite to make it fit to contain 6,000. With this view a story will be added to some of the misting buildings. Some unimportant structures will be taken down, and large and scious ones erected in their place. New buildings will also be erected on the ground destined fur that purpose. As to the four squadrons of cavalry they will occupy the stables, and a part of the lodgings of the men now provi sionally occupied by the Guides. Au an indispensable complement to this grand project, the Emperor has resolved, besides, to annex to the P.colo Mili taire a vast field fur manceuvres, such as will permit the exercise of troops in movement on a large scale, under the eye and the command of the general-in-chief. The Champ de Mars, in front of the Bade Militaire ' is insufficient for thatobject . His Majesty's will is that it shall be extended so as to comprise the ground in front of the barracks about to be erected, and that the ground com prised between the Avenue Soiree and the interior boulevards shall be included in it. But, at the same time, he intends that the present Champs do Mats shall maintain its astral appearance. The shaded terraces form, with the Ecole Militaire, the bridge of Jena, and the heights of Tres:eider* the decoration of that great theatre of our national fetes, our races, and our military ceremonies and reviews. The terraces, therefore, towards the Invalides and lon the °resells side will be preserved. The latter judiciously sloped, will not hinder as evolution in liae, end when necessary they will represent either an obstacle to be crossed, or a position to be taken. Thus the Ecole Militaire at the same time that it will be come the centre of the organisaton of the army of Paris will form a permanent camp of instruction, such as exists in no other country in Europe. The Emperor yesterday visited the Hotel-Dieu and the Hospital at Compiegne. Ile was accompanied by General Canrobert, the prefect of the Oise, and the mayor of the town, and was received by the di rectors and the attendant &curs de diorite% The Minister of the Interior has addressed a cir cular to the prefects of the departments directing them to prevent every description of clandestine telegraph or communication by signals, however innocent the apparent object of it may be. From the Madeleine to the Place de la Bastille, there were erected, up to yesterday, 1,782 stalls along the pavement, almost every one of which con tains articles calculated for presents on the Jour de ' PARIS, TUISDAY Evermio. Tho Council of State has just decided an important point of military law. General of Brigade Chadeys son appealed to it against a decision of the President of the Republic, dated the 11th December, 1851, by which he was placed on the retired list. It was stated on his behalf that he bad entered the army on the 29th June, 1813, and had served for 38 years, 20 of which had been in war, namely, three years under the empire, fourteen in Africa, and three in Italy ; that unconnected with political parties, he owed his different promotions solely to his courage, which had been eight times mentioned in orders of the day in Africa; but that he had been placed in the retired list in December, 1851, because he had declined to accept the command of the department of the Basses-Alpes, at that time in a state of insurrec tion • and that thereby the law of A ugus t, 1839, which enacts that generals of brigade shaU only be placed on the retired list at the age of 62 had been violated, his age - being only 58. In reply to the gene ral, a despatch was read from the Minister of War, setting forth that in the extraordinary circum staaoss whir* Jor_evailed in December, 1851, he was perkily pinned in placing him on the retired list, ta el his refusal to take the military et tie DarawAlpes; that he fell within the appalled= eta law of 1834, which gave power to the gotreansest of placing generals on the re tired lint after they should have been 30 years in service; and that cart from that point, the consti tution of 1852 woody confirmed all the acts done by the Pendant kis doe 2nd December. As might have Wm aziptaisi , the council of state have decided againat the gansral, but they avoided the adoption of the argoost that the °Destitution had confirmed all the acts of the President, and rested their decision upon the construed= of the law of 1934. The Mersitetir shim that the Emperor has extended his disobey to a great number of persons in the army osaismned by the courts martial. Out of 488 such persons undergoing imprisonment, 443 have obtains& the remission of the remainder of their mitn at tad 45 a reduction. Full pardon has to 72 prisoners condemned to the chain and iron weight on the leg ; and a reduction of punishments to 135 others, subjected to the same sentence. Likewise, 18 soldiers condemned either to death or to five years' imprisonment in irons, for acts of insubordination, or to the weight on the leg or hard labour for desertion, have obtained commute tion of punishment. In fine, remusion of the re mainder of their punishment has been accorded to 4 men condemned to imprisonment for insurrectional acts. Thus 717 prisoners of various kinds have already experienced the Emperor's clemency. The Sleek then states that by changes recently made, the vote of the ministry of state must be mo dified; that if, as stated by some of the journ a l s , t h e number and salaries of political agents abroad are to be increased, a modification of the vote to the depart ment of foreign affairs will have to take place; that the budget of the war department will have to be modified from the retention of the army at Rome, and the establishment of a new constitution in Al- 1 geria ; and that other changes will, from different canoes, be necessary in the budgets of other depart ments. It then continues : All them changes, and those which may be realised in consequence of the deliberations of the senate, give to the 1 budget of nal proportions different from those in which linn:rtinfiviotyytewmhthibobirttystshthisie:utsec ta h w a boda a n r s a eli pre i ym t , i w bo t w ;i fi l himt l i p otco ri en :: :: to- usekeslegisealuag m th , t tl :rr ia 7 use . , qmposthhouniku:sii3aeoc,,olgurlsfeendbowtchuhthekoloailintestreogicei;ou to the tarns masrladie, di saris and votes bills sad lasso, shall be seennease ss weevily IA possible to asnerea dock/ages 'lda hate airesdy taken place, and than wbielt may aks piece sbasaly. All the roniiiiiel governallent journals contain the following :—N Th e Roo m chronicle, under the head of Serious news etelmeeted with the property of the Orleans' family,' announces that it is in con- I temptation to place a sequestration to the amount of 100 millions on the produce of the sales made in conformity with the decrees of the 22nd January last. The government renounces the contradiction of the erroneous reports which certain foreign jour nals appear to take a pleasure in propagating ; hut we can affirm that the article of the Chron i cle is utterly devoid of foundation." SPAIN. We have accounts from Madrid of the 16th. The Ilera'do states that the new ministers had nothing to do with the threatened prosecution of the three journals which published the address of the opposi tion electoral committee. The act, it is said, pro ceeded from the Governor of Madrid, who ventured on so important a s'ep without consulting the go vernment, and has thus fallen into displeasure. It is stated that Bravo Murillo will leave Spain proba bly for Fiance. The programme of the new govern ment was anxiously looked for. h was expected to appear on the 18th or 19th. M. Martinez de la Rosa is to be again appointed to the post of Vice-President of the Royal Council, which he resigned in consequence of the unconstitu tional course pursued by the late cabinet. The Progresaisto address was printed on the 15th, aid distributed far and wide on that and the follow ing day. The document concludes thus : The question which is to be decided in tho next Cortes, convoked for the lst of March, is one of life and death. On its result depends the loss or salvation of all the right. that you have recovered, of all the conquest. obtained by liberal principles in half a century of sanguinary struggles and painful sufferings. Union, electors, union among all men who belong to the great constitutional party, without dis tinctions or rivalities. Whoever may be the deputy whom you send to the Conger..., take care that be be firmly resolved to oppose by legal means the projects of reform recently published. The nation confides its di stinies to your firm- MSS, to your independence,.to your patriotism. It is signed by fifty progressiata notabilities, amongst others by Senor Antonio Gonzalez, Generals San Miguel and infante, Senors Mendizabel and Olozaga, Generals Alcala and Sancho, Senors La Serna, Lase', Collado, Cantero, Domenech, Alonzo Cordero, Corradi, F.seosura, Figueroa, Muchada, J. 111. Lopez, Gramonde, Sagasti, and E. Sancho. The Dcbata says, on the recent change of ministry in Spain : T.iere is no doubt that what ha. just taken place at Madrid will be favourable to the cause of constitutional monarchy.. M. Bravo Murillo has been overthrown, be cause he wished to lay his hand on the constitution, and showed himself disposed to undertake its reform without the Cortes, if that body should resist him. M. Bravo Murillo has failed in this undertaking, and before the movement of public opinion ; that alone is a legitimate triumph, and we congratulate ourselves on it. We find, besides, in the name. of several ministers, guarantees which tend to tranquillise us. Wu have called to mind the prece dents of the President of the Council, and we shall merely add one word on the subject. When Oen. Urbina, Minis ter of War, with M. Bravo Murillo, retired, in order not to second the new policy which it was wished to adopt, tits latter offered the vacant portfolio to General Roncali but it was refused. General Lars, who is Minister of War in the new combination, held that poet under the Murillo ministry; he resigned it on the 2;th of November, three days before the opening of the session, when he was informed of the projects of reform, and the measures to be employed, in order to ensure their success. The depart ment of the Marine having been confided to General /Cresol, the new ministry contains three generals. They are all men of courage, sincerely devoted to the person of the Queen, but also to the constitutional regime; they were end are the friends of Marshal Nereus, whom they energetically supported during his ministry. M. Llorente is very highly spoken of; he has formed part of the Cortes, and be is re markable for the firmness of his character, and the modera tion and loyalty of his principles. The line of conduct of the new ministry is traced out by the circumstance in the midst of which it his been formed. The Chamber of Depu ties is dissolved, and fresh elections must take plane. It is thought that the cabinet will act with reserve and impar tiality, that it will not exercise the influence which regu larly belongs to it, and that it will do nothing to impair the sincerity of the electoral results. It is thought that the great majority of the chamber will be monarchical and constitutional. The Cortes must now solve the question which baa been brought forward of the reform of the con stitution ; it is hoped that a compromise prepared with good faith will fie the points on which that reform is to bear, in order that the constitutionel government, maintained under good conditions of strength and authority, may resume its regular course, and secure to Spain that peace and prosperity of which she stands so much in need. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 14th December, states that numerous arrests had taken place at General Gemcau's request, for placards against the Emperor. The departure of the Pope, or of Cardinal Brignole, to crown Napoleon was announced for Easter next. The French offi cers continually mentioned the conquest of England as about to take place, and hinted at that of Naples also. Edward Murray had not yet arrived at Peiliano. Monsignor Matteuoci had been appointed director of polioe. Mr. Nichol had turned catholic. The Bible had been again prohibited. EXECUTION OF ITALIAN LIBERALS BY AUSTRIA, LUGANO, Dec. 16. You will have received through the medium of the Italian papers accounts of the recent executions in Lombardy. Bat hitherto, I think, none of those papers have reported what appears in private corre spondence from Mantua—that the Priest Tazzoli was whipped twelve times during his trial, and that by such means they vainly tried to extract from him, as well as from filcareellim and the other three who were executed with them, confessions and revela tions against themselves and others—that a few in coherent words, pronounced in the agony of pain, seem to have been extorted by the inhuman judges from the rest, or from some of the other five who bad their sentences commuted, and those words were the only foundation on which were rested both the accusation and the sentences. On this foundation solely were the accused declared guilty, and self convicted. Another fact in this most atrocious drama, which reminds one of the barbarity of the middle ages, and goes indeed beyond it, is, that the other political prisoners were carried before the presiding judges, and interro gated, at the moment of the execution of the other victims, and within hewing of what was going on, in the hope that thus, under the appalling impres sion of the fate of their brothers, answers might be more easily obtained in conformity with the blood thirsty vengeance which stirs these imperial savages. Other particulars are contained in the fol lowing article, copied from a Turin paper which pro bably does not reach London. I have not the heart to relate one by one all the horrors and enormities of which Austria now makes Lombardy again the scene. It is the gauntlet thrown by the persecutors to the oppressed. A terrible defiance. But woe, if the op pressed shall arise to take up the challenge all bloody with the assassination of their brethren ! I cannot tell you what I have suffered from this news from Mantua—a suffering embittered by the personal ac quaintance I had with Scarsellini. Poor young fel low, he was the type of patriotism and of courage ; his life was held precious in Venice, where he was universally beloved by the people—and in all Italy, to which he would readily have devoted it in the field of battle; instead of this it was taken from him by the imperial hangman. But our youth will learn more than erer not to hesitate too long between one fate and the other, and in order not to fall martyrs they will become the soldiers of their country and of liberty. This fruit we shall gather from the terror with which Austria presumes to prostrate us. (From the Gaudin del Popolo.) We have rellatcdffiow on the 7th instant, in Lombardy, in the town of Manta.. from five gallows erected by Austria, were hanging five patriots—ltalians executed after the most shocking tortures in defiance of all humrnity, by means of • newly-invented halter—invented by the fertile ingenuity of Austrian janisearies—which prolongs the strug- Ilse and agony of those unhappy victims of enraged de spotism. Now we think it well to add some further particulars. Twenty days had sufficed for the Austrian councils of war to collect proofs, documents, and witnesses. Some spy was summand to declare on oath, " In the name of the Holy Trinity, I swear I recognise him (the prisoner) es possessor of such and such subversive papers." Thole 1 1 thus charged answered, " Yon fratricide, you lie in y our throat. - The Director of the Cowell then wrote at the head of the process, " The culprits hays confeued ," the sentence was published on the 4th of &timber agsinq ten SI guilty, being both convicted of and con f essing high treason. Al l ten were condemned to death. but the paternal feelings of Marshal Itadetsky were moved at „, much slaughter, and for this time ho sati•tied his a , e tense of justice with the hanging of only five. The five sentenced were all of good and respeetsb:e fen:. lies. The sentence was signed by a certain Charles Brn de Culos, who, having been spared by the emity el the Venetians in March, 1311, with restored in safetto k, fugitive troops after a few days' imprisonment. abs.T the Croats remember benefits. What a 1040 a to th e Italians ! The scene of martyrdom was in the Fort 1321fiore, near the place where, a year ego, the priest Utioli fell. As the condemned reached the spot, they embraced each other , and impressed a last kiss on their foreheads,xitying calin:r tt We @hall soon meet in II ." Tanoli then knelt' and holding a eracifix, addressed a last prayer to God, aw l words of peace and hope to those who had generously ac companied these victims. Ile encouraged hi. erompastiont to be firm, was the first to unmet the seaffa:al, and, at the foot of the ladder, he answered to the monk who was (flier:. ing him not to despair yet of the imperial particle, e quick ; far better to die on the gallows than to be pardosted by Austria." The lent executed was Dr. Pima. The mother of one of the condemned went out of her mind ou the horrible announcement—the father of another attempted suicide. Tezzoli will formerly Profersor of Belles Lettres, awl afterwards of Philosophy, in the Mantuan .etninary. Be was of bright intellect, mild and charitable, lie wrote with much elegance both the Latin and Italian languages; this is proved by various comp° itions which he published, and whose chief merit is great (eating and love. Ile we. the very soul of the infant schools in both the town and pro. vino. of Mantua—lo belorged to a very rich fae - ily. was most liberal of his means to the poor, and was esteemed and beloved by hie fellow-citizens. There was no publication of the trial, which was carried on with clewed door', and before judges who do not under stand—who rather misendentand the Italian languege— while the perdition of the tried is already plotted through false depositions. The judges proclaim that the accused have confessed—after their death—whi-n the se..ret of that infamous process rotted between tic judges and God. To, victims are dragged in the flawer of tie it youth and hole to the scaffold yet warm with the blood of the Priest Orioli, of Selma, of Dottrel°, and of other unfortunate brave ones, strangled by the hand of their eze cetioner, utter having embraced their own rela tions introduced to the chap. I of the condemned probably far the very purpose of rest, ring their last mo ments more agonising. Such, Oh Italians are the tries, the judgments, and sentences of Austria—that Austria whom our opponents preach up to us ill newspapers oat from the pulpit as a modal of provident and honourable governments. Thus is requited iu the country beyond the Ticino the love fur our oppressed country, and the look of sccrn towards those • ho oppress her. More than two hundred and forty families of Venetian Lombardy see now pending over the head of 1.01110 dearen e the fate of .he first ten victims of imperial veettrence. A most refined barbarity, which, rather than leave the mind in doubt, prefers to give a taste, an earnest of the way in which the other prisoners would obtain justice, in ceder to reassure the truly rights Us who dread e d the too great e.o. mency of the ch ivalrous Emperor. At the head of the military tribunals stands Benedtk, the assassin of Gallicia—backed by a Bolea, nephew of that en mated Botha who was spared by the no rey of the Milanese in 18111—anti the Commissary Rossi, who holds at once the offices of both accuser and judge! We must °beery° that in this trial a most important part was acted by Casatti, who was formerly employed in the house of correction at ?Santee, and dismissed Irma his post in PM, onthc imputation of being an wenn plies with the prisoners in coining, and of malversation in tee adrninkra tion of that establishment. Casatti had now the clime of gaoler, and directed the proceedings to which the coaxed were subjected even in their cells. The Emperor (grandson of that Francis L who was pleased to force the wife of Frederic tionfalunieri to drain to the dregs the cep of grief), through fear le.t the execu tion should be delayed sent as xpecial courier to Verona an aide-dc-cam to see that his orders were fulfilled to th e lit , ter. This Emperor is a youth in his twentieth year, and even before he reached that age had already ordered the shooting of hundreds of Magyars and of the unhappy Count Bathyany. But there is ie., thing that these slanetters teach us, that the scales in which the Almighty weighs the lot of oppressed peoples overflow with blood. Italians! be nut discouraged, the assassination of the Duke of Alba opened the way to the neLpeoduare of Flanders. A letter from Turin, of the 17th, states that the city of Turin had resolved upon the construction of a commercial dock, for the convenience of the railway. The Sardinian government had contracted fur the construction of a screw frigate in England. for the sum of 2,214,000 fr. It was M. Cavour who, daring his journey to Scotland, signed the contract with a shipbuilder at Newcastle. The court commenced on the 16th the Christmas Novena. It was an old tradition, which had bun suffered to fall into disuse, but the two Queens (Austrian princesses) insisted on its re-establishment, and every morning they set the example by visiting the cathedral. SWITZERLAND, We read in the Suisse of Berne that the Prato of that city had summoned before him all the book. sellers of the place to inquire of them whether they had sold any copies of Victor Hugo's Petit, and from whom they had received them. Tn:i proceeding, it is said, took place on the dental of the French ambassador. BELGIUM. The budget of the Interior having been ad ,yed by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, the• d!,- canton on the budget of war was taken on Mondsy. TURKEY. A correspondent in the south of Hungary writes that the aspect of affairs in Servia is becaming darker. The Prince is preparing for action against Turkey by concentrating power in his own hands, releasing himself for that purpose front the embarrassment of a senate, and dismissing functionaries and appoint ing men who will render unlimited obedience to has personal commands. The Prince keeps up the most intimate relations with Daniel Petrowitch, the ruler of Montenegro, and with the Russian Emperor. He has also in creased his regular army by 4,000 men. TIIE DUKE OF MONMOUTII.—ItefetTing to the di. eapitated body recently discovered at King's - :tuneham, a correspondent of the Notts and (furrier writes as follows • I have a strong suspicion that the decapitated body will tarn out to belong to no less a personage than the Dike of Monmouth, who wag beheaded on Tower-hill in 168.5; sad although, according to Burnet, he was, soon after his ext• cation, buried in the chapel of the Tower. his body may have been afterwards removed, and privately deposited in the quiet chapel of Nuneham Regis, at that time, as now, the property of the Buccleuch family. Monmouth married Ann, the daughter and heir of Francis Scott, Earl of Bue cleuch; and though in some measure estranged from him by his improper connexion with Lady Ann Wentworth, yet the tender interview that is recorded between Monmouth and his wife previous to his execution, gives countenance to the idea that she may have procured his remains fur deposit privately within her own family receptacle; and. under such circumstances, it may readily be conceived th.t such secrecy would be used so not to leave any mcmenio with the corpse as to whom it might belong, the very rtr• cumstince of decapitation being thought, probably, ,irate sufficient then, as now, for designation. CHRISTMAS IN TAsMANIA.—For mart' yearb I have been accustomed to eat my Christmas dinner in a white jacket and a loose shirt collar, the doors and windows thrown wide open, admitting with the warm and sluggish breeze the scent of summer thwers and newly-mad e hay. A much prized lump of ice cooling my tepid lemonade has long been to me the only sign of frost—the Fula mrmram of old-country Christman weather. In Tasmania, a dew!: of juicy English cherries, ripe jolly-looking goosrbrrno. ruddy bunches of newly-gathered currants, and delicices strawberries, formed a repast far more in keeping with the weather than the dinner of roast beef and hot plum rad ding which, in obedience to the good old custom, we vainly strove to swallow. But still, in Australia, as in every Eael,ra colony, whatever be its latitude, Christmas retains it , da associatioas and loved usages; and the Yule log, end mil night waits, the rich spice cake and mellow cheese, recall the long ab sent settler many a happy Christmas of h:r tor hood. In the bunch of mistletoe that hangs above hisbeei (for Australia has her mistletoe), the newly-lorded eaus great sees the bright eyes and sunny smiles of that for cousin who was his partner all last Christmas-eve; and is whose company he was continually lo.ing hiwself sacof the dancers, and as often turning up bewail& tic elisarouf bou,zh that hung in the ball-room kitchen of the fa hog' at home.— Dickens' " Horiseigoid Whrde. - LORD NELSON.—Everything which Matt% to car noble-hearted hero is of importance in the gee of to ad: !aims ; therefore the epitaph on the gravestene of em 0 ; his old followers will be read with intere.t. I met with it. tour years ago, in the chur c hy ar d of Wo u ldt!arn, a village on the Medway, half-way between Rochester and Mra 6 stone. The concluding lines appear to contradict the state; meat of my reverend brother, Mr. flatly (A . " 1" ax- Queries, Vol. VI., p. 438), that Lord Nelson died to tM arms of his chaplain, Dr. Scott ? Can the two statement* be reconciled ? " Sacred to the memory of Walter Sark!, Esq., of this parish, who died on the Lim September,lsl), in the 70th year of hi s age. H e was purser or his Msfell ' ship Victory in the glorious battle of Trafalgar, and in a 4 arms the immortal Nelson died."—From Notes aid Wart' 0