The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-29 00:00:00

11. i i I 1 i 111 i i i i y 1 li li 1 I I 11! 1, i 1 I I ' ' 11 , ; I i 1 I. I' 11 1 1 ) i 1 il , ) 1' 0 , 1 I I I 1 111 , il 1 i I 11 0 3 . I , 1 ' f oi 1 4' LOAN on , DEBENTURE'S.— WAyrED, the KM at SiX5O, in awns of £WO or upwards, on Debenture', Neared mute revenum of the Crean Colony of N. Lucia, redeem able at the end of seven rem ftto Integra pa) able in London every N>< months, beginning the Id July, 1547), under an ordinance moo. tbs.& by bee Majesty's government. Tenders, Main the rid* of harvest at wilich parties are willing to hike snob debenture", to he addremead, on or 'before the lit November, to Meier. Je. Ma ryas and Mina 2, LWOW PaGaiooplabe, of whom further particulars -or be °Stained. ..itv a nd SF ------------------c--i—*rrTfre El CROSBY HALL LIT RAH.' a.... INSTITUTION and CIRCULATING LIBRA—BY, Bishoperate street.--The Ibllowing LECTURES will be delivered during the WINTER sES3ION of 1848 and 1847 : T ea on Mineral Substances employed in tbe Ares of A rchitecture end Sculpture, by E. W. Broyles', Jan., FA. roar on Mode, by Sir H. R. Bishop. Two on the Steam En g ine and Atmospherics Railway, by B. Addams, Esq. Three on the Drama, by B. H. SITU" req. Three on chemistry, by T. GriGlths, Esq. Three on the Oratory of the French Reydution, by). 11.Parrr, Eact. Classes are in operation for Instruction in the Modern Languages, de. atutecription, Two Guineas per annum. S AMUEL RE tn. Tian. See. O c tober 7, 181 6 . TISIEA'I'RE ROYAL UARDEN.— M. JULLIEN' A.NNUAL SERIES OF COVENT CONCERTS FOR ONE MI NLY.—M. Jullien has the honour to state that his Anima Seri O NTl es of O °Duarte will commen ce TO-MORROW, Oct. 10, 1 848 ; and be continued for one month only. During the he has sow posed a new grand descriptive military quadrille, ream entitled " TILE BRITISH ARMY QUADRILLE," and intended an a companion to " The British Navy," which wee, lasi winter, honoured with such distinguished approbation. In order to render complete the Grandy nd Novel Effects introduced In the , Piece of Music, M. Jullien has (by the kind condescension of the Military Authorities) succankd :it engaging (entirely in oddities to his own complete and numerous Orchestra.) FOUR DISTINCT MILITARY BANDS ; via. : The Band of Iler llis ears 2nd Life Guards. The Band of Iler Mejesty's Royal Horne Guards (Blue.) The Band of tier Meeety's Grenadier Guards. The Band ot Her Ma est?. Coldstream Guards. these Fool' Grand Military Bands will, during the proems& of the Quadrille, be combined with the Concert Orchestra, and form a Musical Ensemble at once novel and extraordinary. The whole conducted by IL JOLLIEC Places and Private Loxes ma y be secured on application Mr. to "REILLY, at the Box Office of the Theatre; Mr. MITCHELL, Old Miled.street ; Mr. SA?dS, St. Jainesaatttet; mad tall. J CLLIEN and OlellinvicalFbial42l4, Reitent a 47 eet TRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S 1 Jiat/tilt& Sug—Mr. MITCHELL- begs respectfully to announce th the en. season of French plays at the St. James's Theatre will be omn mimed on WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 11, by the engage. meat of the favourite Comedian, Monsieur Fed*, who will appear tor a limited number of reniereashibenet IMMtt ay Monsieur Car - deny (of lan d et MissvuM. (of the Theatre do 0 1 admen& Brehm Mender* Soubrette of the Mire Prances), her feet apt h at , In dip country. Mr. Mitchell hat alvo the honor to saariseora that, immitut by tbe distinguished patronage which has boa conferred management, be hes engaged the following aeimmt &Mel" w will appear in succession during the season —Wearer Perlse.ludomaidie boh.n. Monsieur Frederick Letuaitre, Itmlemobeell - Illamisor Latent, Made moiselle Ime s (her float aneannos OM Misery), Mon:deur Aleide Tames (of tile Theatre Penllleyal c lis ant appearance), Mademoiselle Deemer (of the Theatre do Men her fl ap. ) ; !!.demoiselle Aline Vallee (of theThe4=l•Gymnase, her =reeppearanee), Mademoiselle Rose Cheri (of the Theatre da Compeer) whale performances, last year, were so eminently successful, and, during show entrapment, will be produced the new domestic drama of CI ARISSA MARLOWE, now performing in Paris with ex traordinary meters, and also a sew play, written expressly for itademoimue Rose Cberi, by the popular author, Monideur Scribe, Monsieur Meunier (of the Theatre Francais), Mademoi selle Denain (also of the Theatre Franca* bee appointee In this IS end the diatingaished actor, M. Scuff (his the appearance ewe ISM), in addition to which the celebrated traft6dienne, Beebe!, lor a limited number of representtion., and will appear in the popular oars of " Marie Stuart," by Le Bran ; " Britanicus," by Ronne; Tapered," by Voltaire; " Berenice," by Racine; " Arlene." by Corneille, and other plays of her well-known repertoire. Muffle. Rachel has also undertaken to perform, for the first tune, the character of Celimene, in Mol!ere's comedy of "Le Misanthrope." The subscription will be for fifty representatims, Monday and Friday everinga, with the privilege of exchanging for the Wednesday evening performance, an arrangement which lois hitherto afforded so much convenience and satiafAction. Anplications for Seaman Boxes and Stalls to he made at Mr. SLITCLIELL's Royal Library, S 3, Old Bond-street. rairtoo. MAILS. A letter-bag will be made up on the 30th October (to-morrow), for New York, to be transmitted by the Great Western steamer, from Liverpool. The mails for New South Wales, Pan Dieman's Land, will be made up on the 31st October. The West India maib., including those for Mexico, Honduras, and Havana, will be made up on the morningof the 2nd November. Tht overland trails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, e Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, via Southampton, made up on the morning of the 3rd November. The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the 9d November. The mails fur Madeira, Brants, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the morning of the 4th Nov. The mails for Coruna, Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 7th November. The overland closed mails, via Morsetlies,to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon. India, Hong-Kong, Am, will be made up on the evening of the 7th November.) TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice, in any way, any communication that Is rent to us anonymonaly ; but thcee who chance to address no in confidence will And their confidence respected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. e • • Advertisements intended kr The Express, London evening paper, must be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day of publication. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Ten DAY. - Morning, 25 min. put 8; Afternoon, 8 min. put 9. To-nonaow.—Morning, 48 mm. pest 9 ; Afternoon, 27 min. put 10. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 29. THE members of the Cabinet have not now met for six weeks ; and it may well be supposed that the topics for consideration have become amassed and swollen to a degree, not summarily to be dealt with. The state of Ireland, and the clamour there for charity, not work ; the conflicting accounts of the paucity of provision-supply in England ; and the cry that government should take advantage of that paucity to abrogate the remaining provisions of the cora law, are said to have impressed certain members of the Cabinet with the necessity of summoning Parliament to a premature cession. We doubt much if the weighty interference of Parliament would be found so effective as a simple order in council, issued on ministerial responsibility. If the case is urgent, ministers have beforehand their indemnity. If it be not, and the deferring it to a parliamentary session, which cannot commence im mediately, and in which faction would prolong debate, proves that it is not urgent, then there is little chance of a salutary measure passing, or of the time of the legislature being profitably employed. We are as eager as any for the abolition of the last dull vestige of the corn mono poly, that poor and needless compromise, which the price of all agricultural produce has proved to be so futile, and which has merely served to fill the granaries of the continental ports opposite to ns. But it is to be feared that the time for abrogating this duty with effect, and with full pretext, has been allowed to pass away, and that it would now thicken political difficulties to attempt to effect either by ministerial decree or by a parliamentary vote the supplement of reform which would constitute free trade in corn. We must own that we have few expectations from the Council, or ministerial meeting, held last night, of interruption to the ordinary course of things. THE Poor-law Commissioners have issued their official report in the St. Pancras case. It acknow ledges the existence of the evils and abuses which we have already denounced, and which the report of the directors, headed by Mr. HowAurn, ignored or denied. Instead of the commissioners being satisfied, u Mr. HOWARTH announced they were, with the management of St. Pancras workhouse, they con demn it in every particular to which their attention has been directed. Guarded as is the official language of Somerset-house, fearful as its Poor-law function- aries have ever shown themselves of calling a spade a spade, deeply as the credit of the system is in volved in the proceedings of every metropolitan Board of Guardians, we defy Mr. Howarrra himself toeztract from the ir report (which we printedyesterday) anything short of unqualified condemnation both of the workhouse system, and, by implication, the Board of Guardians of St. Pancras. The assistant commis sioner, Mr. HALL, was instructed to institute an investigation as to the state and management of the ward referred to, and in making such investigation they requested his particular attention to the follow ing points:-1. The admission of paupers into the " shed," or room mentioned in the evidence ; 2. The confinement of paupers therein, by keeping the doors locked ; 3. Whether any and what distinction is made as to the character of paupers, and the consequent dif ference in their treatment; 4. Thetreatment of paupers ontheiradmission into the workhouse, and their alleged punishment by being placed in the "shed," and on low diet The charge against the master of tricking the g uardians by false and unfair specimens of the pauper rations, was not gone into by the assistant commis sioner. How stands the case, so much of it as has been investigated, between the guardians and the commis sioners? The guardians in their report denied that thing they held classification to be, and an excellent place for carrying it out, that same shed. How far is this borne out by the report of the commiasioners, founded on the same evidence, be it remembered, as that of the guardians ? They entirecla=of any arrangement which may be.adopted for tbe due of the inmates of the workhouse with the the mixture of the more respectable and well-oon view of d w ith the profli gate . Such a classification of the Initia ucted tes, is emcee especially neceseary in the workhouses of large town. Great are swat, however, be taken not to compound elimstrwation with yonishasent, and the CONamissioners fear that this principle has not been safficientlit attended to in the arrange eras is the St. Pan cras workhosuic Is fact, the refractory wards Aare beets used indis criminately and aeowedly for both pwrposes. On this point, then, the commissioners and the guardians flatly contradict each other. When we look at the evidence, we shall not hesitate with which opinion to range ourselves. With referents be the ern of the four points to which his attention was especially dinned by the commindoners, Mr. Hall a re That therms pieced in the refractory ward termed the fakum yid* le appropriated to male Inmate.), and the shed," RrZt eereeeperie in every respect to the oakum-ward) which is ap promined le Inhales, are persons whose character is betimed to be beet, amid dad prow whose mama in the workhouse is disorderly. The assuir appeart to exercise a discretionary power as to placing iw hkeseranis, either on their admission into the workhouse, or so owe afdisard er ly con duet therein. And, again : It ewers that these wards are used for two entirely distinct pur paseelltret,ler thereeeption of a particular class olpaupers,.aamely, Mime, poen* irregular habits, sad for their separation from the mere respetekelde sad well-eotidacted inmates ; sad, secondly, = es plogoboolt for yorsvou who hare hems Frilly of me n woorkkomo. Woo the mooed point, wady, the con losount et tin peeper la Ine all refract yor wards, it appears that the nentee re rib* hem the parts of the wads at times. eel whit the areddow got the master Kennings gins an brans leen efehesese for silky or two to try and wily Ind took, they eat bre dr t hey If deeds to re applyenre theorems forea the 11111/idessie. They law dry MOM' to to dr meter is thdr drawn. amp the artykoryer a nd superintendents; boa it mom from doo widow • / other ovitssotoes, sad eke f the wader of the womba t himself; that their w ilderness for die. cheer are net ossoiliately attended to. A tonedtke of dinners meet every Prlaq. and the NNW states,lw tare owes 445ication for • diseharge pain werthare, word take I sbould apes to damn the paupers rail Oho tooetior so Friday t . g ave me no g ood rem& why they should so, u do if they k ne w the partite, and felt sure that ossy would run the drone and Morn immediately." With regard to tie third point, namely, whe ther mg. sod what, Melba** to ark with reference to the charac ter, Ina the consequent dillenage in their treatment, the evidence diem Inds ham ar Oro rellmelery wards. both those placed thete agleam ilaterar bed sharapar aid thaw who have been disor derly 11 sea. - tesrikeess, ••• the l'ede i^a•alcc below sekleat to wreaks restristfass, mut supplied with isfrrior diet. They are deprired of the pririteye of pang out of the workhouse on Sunday, for the purpose*, attending dirine service, and also of going out occasionally at other times; and they are allowed on three days of the week, four ounces of went for their dinner instead of sir Names, and is the men's refractory ward, every day. eim.aissi-a-half ounce of chase, instead of two ounces! These are, we should imagine, tolerably convincing proofs that " tho shed " may, without any great violence to language, be called " a place of punish ment." The picture given in these and other passages of the report, of magisterial authority in St. Pancras, is really startling. There is no English official (in cluding colonels of regiments and captains of ships) who ;at all approaches the workhouse master in the extent and irresponsibility of the authority he wields. Colonel and captain, stern as martial law may be, have yet martial law to control them. But the work house bashaw recognises no workhouse law except his will, while he laughs to scorn the law of the realm. Magna (Urfa and Habeas Corpus become inoperative on the other side of the workhouse threshold : the master of St. Pancras punishes in violation of both. Hear the commissioners on thin point : The commissioners also think it right to notice the power asenmed by the master of the workhouse to detain paupers there after they have applied for their discharge. The commissioners had amigo* formai) , to consult the then Attorney-general and Air W. Follett, upon the 91/411i0P1 whether any power existed of detaining in the workhouse for twenty four hours adult paupers mote In mind and body, and they g ave it as their opinion that no inch pouter exists, unless where some eaten has been committed. The master of the workhosiee, therefore, exceeds his duty, and acts illegally in de taining p a upers, although inmates of the 0ak606,00,16, who applied for their thechuge, until the weekly meeting of thi committee of direaors. Not only does Mr. LEE habitually impose illegal punishments, but even these he inflicts without record or report. How far Mr. LEE is fit to be entrusted with such unexampled power is proved by his use of it hitherto. Here again the immaculate prolegif of Mr. HOWARTH receives a hint from the commis sioners, followed by an intimation which must be peculiarly pleasant to the guardians. - - Punishments, again, ought to be recorded. This appear not to be done in St. Pancras Workhouse. The master says : " Whenever I transfer an inmate from the body of the work ' house to the oakum-room, I report the circumstsnees of the case to the board. Ido not report in every ease of punishment ; there reports are verbal, and no record is made of them." The commis ' sioners ore of opinion that by way of chock upon any arbitrary con duct on the part of the master, he should be required to report, in writing, to the guardians, all punishments, without exception, which may take place In the workhouse, and an exact record of them should be kept, also that the paupers who have been punished should be brought before the board at their next meeting, In order that they may . have the opportunity of complaining to the directors of any undue punishment, and regulations to this effect are contained in the commis sioners' general workhouse rules. No punishment, moreover, ought to last long. If the offence is one which punishment for such a limited time as can be inflicted in the workhouse is not sufficient to meet an offender, he ought to be taken before a magistrate, and dealt with under the 55th Geo. 111., chap. 137. The commissioner. are of opinion that the principles above ado-vied to hare not been snficiently attended to in the St. Pancras workhouse, and they propow to issue regulations with reference to the monagen.ent of the workhouse, which may contain such directions on this ankiect as appear to the commis sioners to he necessary. In other words, the commissioners will take out of the hands of the guardians a discretion they have shown themselvesuntit to be trusted with. Dr. Fenno, who accompanied Mr. HALL, reports on the state of the wards and the sufficiency of the dietary. He declares the one to be damp, over crowded, and ill-ventilated, and the other insufficient for refractory paupers : " The columbium= are desirous, further, of drawing the careful attention of the Abeam to the circumstances mentioned by Dr. Farre, in hie report is to the state of the wards inspected by him. The ands glow to oxford inewileind accommodation for the another: oeccudatea/ppilmed ia them ; to be generally deficient In the moans of rentilaelass; mad, in sosioamme. to be damp,. The cagmaideakmars are dadrour of being informed of any steps which aim be takes by the directors in pursuance of the suggestions made by Dr. Farm, for remedying these defects. They lime every that the matter will hare the immediate attention of the dir i and that nothing will be omitted to be done which the eelZe the premise. admits of for the of improving the ereememededat et the wards. They request tikersiae to brow whether aumbere so be admitted into each ward will be strictly Limited within the numbers recommended by Dr. Farre. The commissioners also desire to dram tie anodic,* of the directors to the °pluton of Dr. Farce, as to the *efficiency of the dietary allowed to the paupers in W refractory yards. -- - • The last point to which the commissioners direct the notice of the guardians is the case of the poor old man Winn.. The commissioners cannot conclude this letter without adverting to the evidence of the master of the workhouse given before the committee of directors on the 24th of September with reference to Wbitt's ease. It appears to be admitted by the master that Whitt has been deprived by him of the work he as previously engaged in, and consequently of the allowance made him, on account of the evi dence he gave before the committee of directors on the 22nd of Sep tember. . . . . . . The occomissioners are of opinion that the practice oanctioned by the St. Pancras Local Act of allotting remuneration to the inmates of the workhouse for work done by them is liable to great objection. 8o long so it exist., however, and so long as such employment is looked on as a privilege, to deprive an individual of It unnecessarily bears the character of punishment or of revenge. The commissioners are decidedly of opinion that no alteration, an regards the employment of any inmate, should have been made which might in any way have the appearance of punishment inflicted on such ifunnte for evidence given by him on the inquiries which have recently taken place. They re quest to be informed whether the act of the master, as regards the case of Whitt, has been confirmed by the board of directors, or wi.at has been done with reference to it.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant, W. 13. WILEY, Assistant Secretary. To John ',Maher, Esq., Clerk to the Directors of the Poor of St. Pancraa Parish, I, Gordon-street,Gordon-square. We are surprised to find that the commissioners do not go into the alleged fraud of the master, in pre senting to the Board of Guardians, as specimens of the ordinary allowances, rations superior in quantity and quality to those really furnished to the inmates of St. Pancras workhouse. We are still more surprised that with the misconduct of this man, LEES, so distinctly proved, in almost every point in which such an official can show him self unworthy of trust or authority, the commis sioners have not exercised the power they pos sess of summarily dismissing him from his situation. Do they leave this task to the guardians ? Is not their previous conduct during the investiga tion, followed by their report, a sufficient warrant that they will not remove the present master, simply because it is their obvious and bounden duty to re move him ? We maintain that the commissioners have left their task unfinished ; that they have neglected the most important part of it. They have pointed out the evils which exist; they have not removed the author of them. They suggest remedies, and omit that step without which all remedies will be defeated —the removal of a tyrannical, lawless, revengeful, fraudulent, uncontrolled, and irresponsible despot. While a LEES continues master of St. Pancras Work house with a How.urrn to support him in the board room, it is idle for assistant-commissioners to examine and commissioners to report. The one must be die- missed, the other shamed into silence, before a single abuse can be rectified, or the slightest amelioration effected in the condition of the wretched paupers of THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1846. [From the Daily News.) IF the Daily News could fail in the achievement of those more important benefits which it has been the intention of its new scheme to confer, it would yet take some consolation to itself, from the visible effect which its attempt has had upon the disposition of the Times. Rarely have the amenities and humanities of the " leading journal " been so fully called into action as by a rivalry which fights with the weapon of low prices. Adversity, or the apprehension of it, is a great softener of human pride. It is pleasant to see the Times taking an interest in the akin, and lend ing itself benignantly to promote the objects, of news papers, whose existence in the days when it was " proud of heart," it would scarcely have recog nized. And it displays at once its humility, ee well as rancour, by introducing to the Londe* public as a great authority—the Sherborne Jou" nal. Of course, the affections of the Times are not wantonly bestowed. There is a virtue in the Sherborne Journal which has won upon the super cilious spirit of its great contemporary ; and its mere detection of a Dorsetshire paper, by any sense more personal than that of its reporters, shows how fine an ear the Times has for the ring of monopoly. The means by which the Sherborne Journal has gone right to the heart of the Times is by adding one halfpenny to the price of its paper. The price of the Sherborne Journal, thus enhanced, furnishes the Times with the general and significant heading, PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS. Under that head ing, we have the following : The Slryborne Journal, in announcing an advance in price, says: "We have felt it necessary to add one-herpenny to the price ; it will, in future, he Id. per copy, which is the cost of our contemporaries, the Salisbury Journal, Dorset Chroaicle, and Poole Herald. Some may exclaim, ' Why, this is the age for cheap newspapers! On this subject we crave to be heard. Experi ments have born made to reduce the price of newspapers; but bow has the reduction been effected 1 By very materially diminishing the value of the article. The public for a time may be pleased with the cheapness, but they will wan cease to be amused with their bar gain ; and it has already been discovered that cheap newspapers mak poor proprietors. The Doily News attempted to mall TAe Tone e s very , by offering ft at half-price ; but, as far as Its mechanical and literary branches are concerned, it boo turned out an utter tenure : and what would bare been the consequence if it had succeeded in pulling the daily Jo urnal down to its own level! Why , that the p ublic must have been rived of the advantage of the expresses, by which foreign events are so speedily _ co nveyed throughout all the corners of this country. F ra nce would anticipate our Indian news, and we should sacrifice, nationally, one of the greatest achievements of winch, as Englifthen, we can boast. Our periodical literature ia the asto nishment of the world, and we will not lend a helping hand to destroy Its efficiency. Before we proceed to deal with the arguments assumed to lie beneath this conversion to hi 411 prices in Dorsetehire, and adopted by the Times as convin cing here, we may question whether the Times has not made a mistake as to the very fact of the conver sion itself? It is very questionable if the advance of price, which has so softened the Times, be an advance at all. The announcement in the Sherborne Journal has a different heading, which the Times seems to have fondly overlooked, while composing its own; and that furnishes a reason which takes out of the circumstance of increase in price all the events for which the Tones so complacently quotes it. ENLAIM - 31ENT or THE SHERBURNE JOULNAL: — We have the satis faction of fulfilling a promise that we made to our readers at the com mencement of the present year, and which we bad contemplated and announced to many private friends sometime before. The . enlarge ment of thnjournel has been required by the calls which its Increased connexions have made on its space. As merely supplementary to this leading change — and as its natural consequence with a view of main taining the old proportion—comes, then, the increase of a halfpenny to cover the increase of size. As we have not at the moment the Sherborne Journal before us to refer to, we know not what is the amount of enlargement which the paper has undergone ; but it is probable that any increase, for which it would be thought desirable to alter the established relations of a journal would make the new publication cheaper at sd. than the smaller sheet was at 4d. Nay, we might, if as readily led away by our impulses as the Times, claim this change as a reduction of price, and head an article of our own in that sense—as a FALL IN THE PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS! For, while the extra paper is boldly given, the extra halfpenny is not insisted on. The Times is a ready-money paper— which there is reason to suppose the Sherborne Jew nal is not—but would like to be. There seems strong reason for suspecting that the whole affair resolves itself into a bonus advertised by the latter for cash : the proprietors informing the public—by the very same announcement which, seen through the medium of its own sensibilities, has so captivated the Times, that all who will send a Post-office order for 11., shall continue to receive the new and enlarged paper at the old and impossible price! The Sherborne Journal has some other assertions which, in spite of the imprimatur of the Times, we must contradict. The Daily News, it is said, attempted to assail the Times by offering its paper at half price. The Daily News never meddled with the Times till the Times meddled with it. The Daily News no more assailed the Times than any or all the other journals, and, in truth, it assailed none. So far from doing any thing of the kind, it had one of these for its ally in matters of detail, while working out its own independent principle. The Daily News sought, on terms which it knew were sufficient for its own pro tection, to do a public benefit : and if they who would deal fairly by the public must necessarily, in doing so, tread on the heels of monopoly, that is the accident of the case for which the monopolists are to blame, not they. If the Times and other journals eventually suffer by the course which the Daily News is pursuing, they will suffer less because of that course than of their own adherence to monopoly. The grand argument of the Times and Sherborne Journal is that only fivepenny newspapers can meet the expense of foreign expresses. We should have taken small pains to contradict this assertion while confined to the pages of the provincial journal in question; but when reproduced and given currency to by the Times, it is requisite that the subterfuge should be at once and plainly exposed. The Times when it lent its columns to the borrowed fallacy, which it had abandoned in its own name, knew that the Daily News had, from the first hoar of its existence, run expresses in conjunction with the Herald, paying one-half the expellee while the Times was running them in COM junction with the Chronicle and Post—and, therefore, paying but one-third. The Times knew—at any rate it knows now—that, so far as the Daily News is con cerned, that treaty of amity and alliance with the Herald would have continued to this hour, but for its selfish interference. Had the expenses been equally shared, and the community of advantages made complete, as they should have been, we were prepared, in the matter of early intelligence, lc fight these rivals ei foutrance. But we were determined—and said so—that it should be a fair stand-up fight, in which each of the allies should take his share of the spoil, as he bore that of the burden ; and, above all, that there should be no treating with the enemy but in concert. This the Times knew : and it was the Times that put the drag on competition, and stopped all rival expressing. It was the high-priced Times that so managed matters that when the new system shall come fully into operation it will have to pay only one-fourth of those expenses, of which heretofore the Daily News paid half—and was content to pay it. It needs no Sherborne ghost to tell the public that one fourth is less than the whole—or the half—that the expense of expresses, like all other expenses, may be more easily borne by co-operation—that the high priced journals have therefore, for the moment, an advantage over us. But, in all probability, it will not be long ere our former ally will find out that he has made a serious mistake. Oar alliance with him for practical pur poses, was a safeguard to himself, which one day he may miss. The political principles of the Daily News and Herald were so widely different, that the one had little to fear from the other, while working their machinery in concert. Bat there may, and must be, ere long, a cheap Conservative paper. Then, other facilities for combination will arise ; and we, who are ready now to fight them single-handed in that good cause, will have natural allies of our own, whose ' will help our unaided perseve. If in the presence of statements so significant and irresistible, the public will suffer itself to be talked out of its rights, or have a monopoly thrust down its throat; if they can be beguiled into taking a fivcpcnny paper by !the absurd assurance of the enemy that they cannot have a threepenny one—then they are just such subjects as the Times and its allies desire. The present combination once triumphant, the pro prietors of the morning journals may, when they please, raise the price to sixpence—nay, a shilling— and justify the larger sum by all the arguments that have been found reasonable in defence of the five pence, with the added one of the pronounced acqui escence of the public in favour of dear newspapere. The despatches of our Paris correspondent, and the French journals of Tuesday, received by the ordi nary express, inform us that notwithstanding the heavy ram of Saturday and Sunday, no further in crease of the disasters of the innundatiou was re ported. The waters of the Loire and the other rivers which had overflowed were gradually subsiding. The festivities which were in preparation at St. Cloud and Versailles, in celebration of the Spanish marriage, and which were to have been on a scale of extraordinary magnificence, have been, with great propriety, given up, in consequence of the calamity which has afflicted the country. Royal ordonnanccs, signed at the late Cabinet Councils, appeared in the Moniteur of Tuesday, by which an extraordinary credit of a million of francs was ordered to supply immediate aid to the sufferers from the recent in undations; 400,000 francs for the hospices, bureaux de chariti., and institutions de bienfaisance ; 2,000,000 for repairing the damages produced by the inundation; and 1,000,000 to be employed generally on the public ways. The Conatitutionnel says : "The intelligence which reached us to-day from the theatre of the inundations does not confirm the rumours of the disasters which were said to have befallen Saumur, and we learn with pleasure, that at Briare none of the houses were destroyed. All apprehension of a fresh swell in the Loire had subsided. "We place the two following letters before the eyes of our readers : " ' Blois, Sunday, 6 o'clock p.m. " The new rise in the river, announced by the couriers, has sot been felt. The froth which covered the Loire during several hours, ant which is the ordinary precursor of some catastrophe, has nearly disappeared, and no further fears are entertained. The incessant rains, which fell during the entire night, had for a moment alarmed the popu lation, but the waters having ceased to rise, the people expect to escape with merely a fright. I have just returned from an excursion down the Loire as far as Amboise. The hospital of Blois-en-Vienne was reached by the inundation, but fortunately the waters only eptered the kitchen ; the dormitories, as well as the halls of the infirmary, were spared. At Orleans the embankments resisted the violence of the swell, but Suevea and /der were nevertheless sub. merged, in consequence of the water rushing over the em bankments. At Amboise, however, the latter having Riven way, the lower town suffered considerably. The Tours Railroad is there covered with water to an extent of four or five kilometres; but the report of the falling in of the bridge of Mount Lewis was unfounded. That viaduct is very solidly built, and is one of those that resisted best. The company cannot yet fix a day for the resumption of the circulation on the entire line." " ' Orleane, Monday, 10 o'clock, am. "' The exhaustion of the waters in the Val is proyeessing rapidly. The houses are now nearly all accessible, but many fell is after the retreat of the waters, which, surrounding them both interiorly and exteriorly, supported the walls by keeping them in a state of equilibrium. To-morrow the Val may he traversed in every direction. The population looks up to Paris and the government for relief. I have been told that the Administration of the Civil List intends to place at the disposal of the victims of the inundation all the timber cut down this year in the Royal Forest of Orleans, which would be a most valuable gift, inasmuch as it would enable them to reconstruct their houses. Iu compliance with a ministerial decision, the bridge of Vierzon is being repaired. in spite of the wish expressed by the municipal body of Orleans, who recommended that it be demolished and re built on a new plan. This decision has caused the utmost irritation among the people, and the peasants of the Val declare that they will pull down the causeway which nar. rows the channel of the river, and increases its devastating flay. The apprehensions caused by the swell in the Rhone had been fortunately dispelled . B y the last accounts the river had re-entered its banks, after rising to the height of 17 feet. The Durance, which had suddenly risen 10 feet, had resumed its usual level without causing any material injury, beyond the interruption of the works of the viaduct of the Avignon and Marseilles Railway.' " The Epoque quotes the following extract from a letter dated Lyons, the 24th inst. :—" We have just learned a dis. graceful fact for our civilization, which occurred during the inundation of the Loire. We have been asiured that bands of marauders had descended from the mountains and plun dered the goods and furniture rescued from the floods and exposed on the public square of ltoanne. The armed force was obliged to interfere, and even to fire on these banditti." - - A report of the imports during the month of Sep tember also appeared in the ..ifoniteur, which shows an increase as compared with last year. The total amount of duty is 13,800,000 francs, being two mil lions more than in 1845, and one million and a half more than in 1844. The import of corn alone has given, in September, 1846, a duty of 1,400,000 francs, being 400,000 francs more than 1845. The quantity of corn imported in September, 1846, was 357,000 cwt. • in 1845 it was only 192,000 cwt. The question of subsistence continues to attract serious attention in France, and has acquired in creased interest in consequence of the devastations produced by the recent floods. It is certain that the insufficiency of the harvest of the present year will render it indispensable for France to obtain one month's subsistence from abroad. The agronome authorities contend that this deficiency in the supply of food is not exclusively to be ascribed to the bad ness of the season, but in part arises from the injurious operation of the protective duties on textile vegetable productions, and in general on those products of the co-operation It is, at this moment, of some importance that the tended, re-acts fatally on the production of alimen pubthlic sho uld and has contributed also to in increase the general cost of farming and the market price of land. Whatever, meanwhile, Mr i n terest beth ahorodugh our ly own, satisfied hhs that our it our nothing scheme, tary substances, may be done to remedy these evils, it is certain that vceisitto:ahrya—nothing which orposi their tton. su l p h po m rt e th ean w n h o o t th mak the e the support of the population for the year will impe ratively require the purchase of about 17 millions of co and n s o p i u c r u o o u s w h s ae e perfects s of a o h u r i it ty o own personal stand firmexperiment— against the bushels of corn in the foreign market. This supply powerful combination now directed against us, with is confidently expected at reasonable prices from the the trifling addition which we have demanded from ports of America, the Baltic, and the Black Sea. The public support—are not evidence sufficiently con- corn harvests in the provinces of the Danube and wincing, must ha ve that evidence reinforced by a body southern Russia, as well as in America, are said to of una nswerable facts which were the grounds of our have been good. In spits of the increased demand, the sale price appeared not to have been considerably own original confiden ce, and which our own case now raised. At Konigsberg, the 12th October, the price confirms. of wheat was 48s. a quarter, rye was 325., barley 245., and oats 16s. a quarter. At l)antzic, on the The following statistical particulars, furnished to us by a friend, are of course familiar to the Times ; 10th October, the prices were nearly the same. who on the strength of them must have been certain The market of Odessa continues to be well from the outset that we should succeed if wo were in supplied, and the supplies from Bessarabia increase earnest, and could persuade the public to be so. Had from day to day. New wheat fetches, according to its quality, from 325. to 40s. a quarter. A great rye harvest has been sold at the rate of we laid them sooner before the world, the Times world I Pa ass th ot an .th 2 e 4s. a quarter. These facts are stated as ld scarcely have ventured upon that ingenious arithmetical exercise with which it amused its readers grounds for allaying all apprehensions in France of some weeks ago• any excessive advance in the price of subsistence. In Paris, until within the last few years, the price of the principal The Liberal party in Switzerland, and those who journals MIS 80 francs per annum, being at the rate of 2 I-sth of a penthe ~ pee day, very nearly. Within a few years all . the thief papers, sympathise with them elsewhere, exult with much ap- Journal da llfbatS excepted, reduced their price one-half, and parent reason in the tranquillity with which the elec •ue n ow forty francs a year, being at the rate of 1 I -10 th o f a p enn y tions roceed at Geneva, and in their result, by per day. The stamp on the Paris journals of the ordinary sire is four p wlh iic egetames, but on the larger ones six. A CaltirllC is equal to 1-10th of an immense majority will be obtained in favour i s = take r anexample the Cons fititliinusel. The annual sub- of the party which overturned the late Can =to this paper IS 52 franca. This is at the rate of 14 t.iots tonal Government. Never on any former occasion vs fur- - Tio fflarhP being 0 eenthho's there remain , 88 the did so great a number of citizens of that canton deliver their suffrages • 6,617 persons voted. In the Colle ass owe the papa 4 4-l o th Celltilrlefl, equal to eight-tenths of a na droardri of the Clinsfitagioariel, by an official F e r r il of 900 votes. In the College of Carouge the inagibia, is Olesteeting tractions) 25,000 'copies daily, Zff:l i t of Geneva 44 radical deputies were elected by a majo ors wpm on Sundays) will give a gross annual resit. meat Die advertisements - of the Carutibitiorinel are fanned W • at a rent or 12,0001. a-year : this raises the annual radical part also triumphed; 15 radical members reersa las 42,6 pf. Such is the return , of I a e ri l l ' : g Wee r , faublt,hed the small College of Saconez, where the population had a majority at the departure of the last mail. In i i: Peril atigehth ual l i tel , ths o s f icss a penn y . have always been swayed by the conservative party, the " L a ant.eription is only s p o ro tr. fit with : ei th rs e ii l l l7 . oii tir 2 ia t ig oo rin . el, l b s u is t seven radical members have been elected, and six Ina balm that of these paper= are conducted by the most asellumit literary ability which the country can supply, an liberally to their contributors of every clam. The Journal d i r P s a lii= liberals of different shades. In fine, of the total num has maintained its price at no felines per annum, or 24. I-sth per bee of 93 deputies, of which the constituent council day. Its circulation amounts to little more than B,oon, being a little above one-third of that of is cheap competitors. Yet the Journal i s to consist, from 60 to 55 votes will be radical, the des Debate has the advantage of being the recognised organ of the remainder consisting of a mixed opposition, government, which is supported by a large majority in the Chambers among which not above half-a-dozen wi op position, favour and in the country. In America the journals published in the larger cities were, until the ultra-montane league. Nothing could exceed within the last ten years, published at eight dollars per annum, being the tranquillity which marked these proceed at the rate of I id. per day, very nearly. About that time, or soon . after, sestral papers appeared in each of the principal cities published luaus Instead of raising a corps of volunteers selected at a cent, which Is equal to a halfpenny. Most of these aeon became from their own partisans, the provisional government entrusted the city to the guard of the common mili esbeisiosigicoalvd.,chtlax,6o:r abili iinisi tc. t d ih mii. lllore taining or less . proa char. t. S t e .r ver , r o c, t them ability and integrity, have Geo=e the best newspaper property in the tia—the troops which, in the recent emeute, had been Union. A. examples of these, we may mention the New fork Sas employed against them. resolution tlie r nec t i n and the Philadelphia Leek:T. These papers have each smeared a . . trge uissed eapi . tal sid th e e rii ir bis prop pro ri;M ri rs y. are n z s ll a r co o n - d n iiam to hassiveihalgrseldsesacepisitt themselves i se s l re ves por passed ted tha a t that, of in the having their examen% their corps of reporters, and the other regal- sites for good morning papers. The Sun is a single sheet, as larger si t ua ti on,. of the Canton , th ey , prayed the grand man tilla of the London morning papers . The Ledger is a Mall sheet. ell to proceed b/ the aid o f a constituent council to Their reputed circulation ia 30,000. They arc enabled, by their sheen- the revision oft a present constitution. This address lotion, to exact from advertisers higher prices than other journals. The old paper at lid, still continue, but with less commercial pros- was signed by almost all the members present at the verity than the cheap papers, and infinitely legs public influence, meeting, and being submitted to the approbation of There ia no stamp on the American paper,. and no advertisement duty. • • The wages of labour (and especially of skilled labour) are notoriously the citizens generally, the Radicals gave their adhe higher in America than in Englana. The rate of interest from Ail to sion to it. me grind council was accordingly sum seven per cent, and the profit on capital invented in commerce at moned for the 29th inst., to consider the best means least double its rate in England. If these halfpenny parer. did not return the average rate of profit on the capital invested in them, they to form a constituent council. would not be continued. _ The new government of Geneva continued to re . ceive from the different foreign legations and diplo matic agents assurances of the continuation of their pacific relations with the Canton. The correspondents of that portion of the Paris press which represents more especially the interests of the church, continue to supply most gratifying in telligence of the liberal spirt in which the papal administration is conducted, and of the unbounded enthusiasm of all classes of people in favour :of the person and government of the Pontiff. Letters pub lished by L'Unirers, dated the 15th and 18th inst., supply interesting accounts of excursions made by his Holiness to Tivoli and other places in the vicinity . of Rome. The interest manifested by the sovercign pontiff, in the advancement of the arts more especialy, is noted. At the college of the Jesuits he caused numerous experiments in physics to be made in his presence, and was minute in his enquiries re spccting steam machinery, and its application to the arts, the application of electricity to the transmis sion of intelligence, and various other machinery used in the arts and manufactures. He expressed an earnest hope that the Roman states would not remain behind other countries in the application of these new means of civilisation and advancement to which Pro vidence in its wisdom has directed human invention and discovery. In passing along the route to and from the capital, it is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the fervour of affection which is manifested towards him by tha multitudes assembled on his route. In returning from Tivoli, in the evening, his course was one continued triumph. For more than six miles from Rome, carriages were ranged two deep on either side of the road, to the very gates of the city. It was night when he arrived at the Quirinal. On the extensive place in front of that palace, fifty thousand persons were waiting to welcome him. A most interesting spectacle was pre sented in the same place on the evening of the am nesty. The assembled multitude implored his bless ing. The Holy Father appeared on the balcony, his person being visible by the splendour of the surround ing illuminations prepared by his people ; and when he was seen raising his hands to Heaven, in sign of the benediction, he was answered by one accordant response of AMEN from sixty thousand voices! At the time our Paris correspondent closed his despatches of Tuesday, no intelligence later than the 20th had arrived from Madrid. Two mails, those of the 21st and the 22nd, were then due. The Iferaldo of the 20th states, that Don Enrique had written a letter to the Duke of Victory, abandon ing his attachment to the liberals. The Nationalstated Ifrom its private correspondence that the Marquis of Saldanha and the King had assembled about 2,500 men, when they learned that the parties who had risen in the north against the coup d'etat were likely to attack Lisbon. Nevertheless, the fidelity of this troop, thus collected in haste, was suspected. A bounty of 200 francs was offered, with menaces of severe punishment against deserters; still a small number only could be enlisted. The authorities were obliged to organise a corps of chasseurs, to call regi ments out of Lisbon, and to weaken the garrison of that city, in order to resist the insurrection of the north, which had spread over the most important and richest provinces of the kingdom. ALEXANDRIA, Ocr. 11. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pottinger arrived in our port on the morning of the 7th inst., with 88 passengers. The Austrian Lloyd have opened their direct line of steam communication between Trieste and Alexandria; we had an arrival here on the morning of the 3rd inst. of one of their steamers, the Imperatore, which had left Trieste on the morning of the 27th ult., having thus accomplished a fair passage of little more than six days. We have since beard that the Ardent reached her destination in five days and ten hours. In anticipation of the views ex pressed in my last, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Arid has come out purposely to run in opposition to Mr. Waghorn. She will start from our port at the same time as the Ardent, which is daily expected from Trieste, on the arrival of the next Bombay mail. It will be recol lected that the Arid, in a former voyage, with a heavy cargo on board, was only 121 days under steam from Eng land. In this last voyage of hers she accomplished the dis tancein the same time, with this great difference in her favour, that all stoppages (23 hours) are included in the time specified. We have had news of late from Cairo and other quarters of a very sudden rise of the Nile. It had overflown its banks in several districts, and considerable damage and loss of pro perty was the consequence of this unlooked for inundation. The Transit Wharf at Cairo (Boolac), which stands con siderably higher than the ordinary level of high Nile, was completely under water. A nephew of the Pacha, and brother of Ahmet Pacha, Minister of War, named Ibrahim Pacha Koochook (small, to distinguish him from the Pacha's son), fell a victim to the liver complaint about a fortnight ago. The Pacha is in negotiation with the Peinaular and Ori ental Company for the sale of their canal and Nile steam boats, an event we regret to learn, inasmuch as the last vestige of British interests in connexion with the transit through Egypt thus falls into the hands of the local govern ment, at 'whose hands we can only expect a most stringent and grinding monopoly. The Hon. C. A. Murray, our present Consul-General in Egypt, arrived here from Malta on the 9th instant, in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Arid. The day following he had a private audience of the Paella, prepara tory to the official and public presentation which will most likely be at Cairo, as it is reported that the Pasha's depar ture will likely take place on the 13th instant. Arun Bey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, aad Khosreff Bey, Chief Interpreter, called on Mr. Murray in the morning after his arrival. This step being quite new, seems to be either some novel custom intr od uced into Turkish etiquette, or else intended as an honour due to our consul-general, as the ?ache seems to attach a great deal of importance to his being a member of one of our noblest tamilies. Mr Murray seem, to be already aware of the low standing of British interests in this country, and it is to be hoped that a friendly, but, at the same time, a firm line of policy will be adopted for the restoration of the same.—The Bentinck arrived at Suez on the evening of the 9th inst, with 96 passengers, bringing Cal- The Bth " Congressomeedtazeginuriudbha.iatiteSeloniirine.nz:tuta.:te,!-1:1_:tfLni::00:.„114. e t l e c n i t c o t terminated m tnedt ed ai i tts ul l otafi attendant sin a such dietan review the influence f , Meeti m omihilli o upon Italy - nay, objects. I take for granted th a t 'W a ir ;4" , ners and flees you have already been--L,Tani„ now through an d them by and endeavour, Congress . 0 less in its ecientific than its ex4 oths illi e character. There are many here, atia ,„„ h , with the association, who ff not h u l etd owe a Let to laugh at • 11161 . 11 1 farce, as affording many a good 0 a 46. social reunion. Without meaning P°rtu°3Y 626 '4 which all Italians may scientific character-which, all ' at a 1 1 .% aet, imit le haps yield to that of any other si i ru n Ta m me. °l°l"°4 '‘ 4l , k -it is the very fact of its being a kind ' feons .- '".. 'mot eat advantages. To be thoroughly can cr:11111 11 1 :1 cessary to be well acquainted with the State i° predominates in the different sections o f ---,1-L. of states into which it is divided is separation; but apart from these not po the sole 41 there if an under -current of I "1111 1 . 1. lea easy and bed e ee e„._... 1 more than anything else, prevents that enet. ---1 „„„ollk essential to political regeneration. No w, b .„',""lent will have the effect of uniting Italians , and ia, and which ,sai - an opportunity to the Genoese, the Roman,thee ssq ~ pi I Neapolitan, of showing that in spite of . and defects, they have ea c h their good and egidefects, ties will go farther than all the wishes, or ragni - r. let tenons that were ever e x p resse d or painted to ' accomplishment of so grand an object. It ' " Congresea degli Scienziati Italian" supp lie sth-"?a turn that I regard it as one o f t h e happiesta nd matt institutions of modern Italy. All t h e ele i5e,..71 Italy were not equally represented at Geno a, t - "e h .21 there was a vast preponderance of men from the .••• of course would be expected for local r eason s , was that thorough amalgamati on amongst them me good to witness. Nor are the Italians th insensible to such an influence of the " COORTIU. -" " peat advantages which it promisee. Ir was mart in the speeches of Prince Canino, Marchese Paeali7 4 , others. In conversation it was an ordinary thee he , -- ',.. 1 ' several occasions I waspresent w hen the hahZ! ars national union elicited a burst of a la PP we It have been worthy of an English assem bl y. It w e h a„ - '` good feature in these " Congreasi" that th ey are ebia a popular movement-they show th e strenath opinion-and prove that it is taking a right diro. assured that the sovereigns of Italy a may esti Pope, perhaps) are not in ha rmony w i t h them e themselves at the head of a movement which they e s '; resist-they permit the existence of what th e y reel,' 6,7, evil, in order to avoid falling into a greater. The 'Co.; are, therefore, a purely popula r creation; andtaleZ fact with all i:s consequences, it is impossible to awl; high au importance to it. You may think, perhaps , l h; been hasty in condemning the sovereigns of Pa s" light men. Did not the King o f N a pl es coquetteyvait Scienziati, and Pe them, and make them a speed/ f t that pass: we will test the sincerity of u a suchmai -- affection for science by his acts. This year, haw; have had no mark of royal benevolence -nothing bid e • empty permission to meet in the Sardinian States. Itve whispered that the King was to visit Genoa, ended, visit would have been both graceful and appropriate,. merely as a compliment to the distinguished rata th e assembled, but to the memory of one of the erentet he Genoa ever produced, and of the statue of whoa dohs stone was laid. The King, however, did not come, ma of his family, except Prince Carignan°, his cousin, weemei here, and who cannot be considered as representing ka t slightest degree, royal feeling or °pinions. Yet Tenni", one day's journey from Genoa. It was said th a t t h e mom i then being held n the neighbourhood of Turin was. Yet, had there been the slightest sympathy as tS part of his ms)esty, with the objects of the Comma°, lea not but imagine that some mode would have been discuses of expressing that sympathy. But how can such epee exist on the part of the Italian sovereigns ? Examine ti political institutions of their states. The Marchese di Palle vicino, the General Secretary, in his admirable roods* speech, contended for the free unrestricted diffuses at tit light of knowledge-a sentiment which was revived see • thunders of applause. Let us cap this with aan regulation for the press, just emanated from tie Nevoem Government. Some of the works of Eugene Saes wee lately detected in the course of printing-the =wpm was that they were seized, and an order issued that elm ' printing shop should be visited at stated intervals byth police. The press was before most heavily fettered. ffs fresh chains are added. A r.eighbouring sovereitmta his spiritual head-and remarkable for his wisdom ssi benevolence, shows a disposition to rule his Weeds a principles of justice ; and this obedient son of the elma, this great admirer of science, who last year mold seta ciently express his joy that her beams were being over his own dominions, commences a kind of wadi:est the Holy Father, and prohibits the Diario di Remain being introduced into his states. Can such amen betakes friend of Congressi Scienziati. But to return to the KIRI Sardinia; he, as well as the King of Naples, area pletely under the dominion of the Jesuits, who, in die several kingdoms, have the regulation of public edecanmi the training of the public mind. Naples and Sardiai in Italy their strong places: judge, then, whether, mit such influences as these, there can be any hearty commas between an Italian sovereign (or either of those 'meat* and his people in forwarding the views of Congresi great deal has been said lately of the liberal policy of CO Alberto, as regards the other portions of Italy : he some tented to be regarded as a kind of rallying point ix Italians, and as their legitimate head in care of say pikes emergency ; but we must seek for any other motive of lei conduct than really liberal feeling. The great secret slid is a jealousy of Austrian influence ; a jealousy witted mutual by the by, and which is now expreseed by es difficulties about the salt question. Austria makes snap' went with a portion of Switzerland to supply it with at But the Swiss finding themselves i:gorg.4, and that they a get salt cheaper from France by permission of d King of Sardinia to allow it to pass through his brae which his Majesty, like a good neighbour, pe mite ; whereupon Austria waxes furious; pa prohibitory duty on all Piedmontese works; Sardinia retorts : but all these quarrels may ts ferred to jealousy of each other's influence ; and doused salt question were arranged to-morrow morning, you MU still find the feeling between these two powers as irritable ever. It V singular, however, to observe bow his obis have made common cause with the king in these transsetial In the spring of last year there seems to have been a do mination formed, in which the military took a part, to d dare their sovereign King of Italy. The day even • named; when the governor of Turin, at the instigatioa of t Austrian ambassador, sought an audience of his Majesty a implored him not to leave his palace. Such is the story rent at Genoa and Turin, and an other towns of Piedmont It is impossible, too, to enter into conversation with finding a kind of enthusiasm felt for the king ar regards Austrian policy ; the truth is, that a kind of detestatios felt for Austrian influence throughout the Peninsula, rad than any admiration ofthe principles of his Sardinian 3laje From Sardinia, let us run down to Rome: throat out the whole route you bear but one sentimee that of veneration for Pio IX. Nothing can eta the enthusiasm which is everywhere felt and pressed-an enthusiasm, I fear, which is doomed to me disappointment. I make this remark, net from any di or suspicion of the intentions of his holiness: on the teary, I believe him to be as benevolent as he is Poll ened, and to be perfectly sincere in his good intentics but I feel that it is impossible that expectatie such as have been formed, can ever he realised ; and ind they are inconsistent with that calm deliberation wh is so essential to good government. On entering the Pis del Popolo the first object which struck me was the triump arch erected for the fees of September. It is cures elegant, and is after the model of the arch of Coneu tini the Forum. Devices and inscriptions were scattered t and there in praise and honour of the " Immortal Pio E My first effort was to be presented to his Holiness ; 13, October is a great holiday month, this was out of the q tion, and I was obliged to content myself with seeing k for this purpose I went to the Quirinal Palace about time that he usually takes his airing. There was a b crowd assembled, anxious like myself to see him, as shortly made his appearance. All of course instaatly on their knees, except the heretics. Outside the Ports one might have imagined that a great fife was being I heated ; the road was thronged with carriages and pe trians, and so it is every day. The next morning it known that he was going to Albano, and I amused m for some time in standing before the church of Giovanni Lateran°, as the evening approad and watching the groups as they left the city meet the Pope, and escort him back to his palace. three hours there was a perpetual stream of carriages tending towards Albano, and of every possible deseript from the humble carnets and omnibus, to the curiae the noble. All Rome seemed to have turned out to met father. That which struck me as a beautiful feature in scene was, the number of lovely Roman girls who lined roads, dressed, as to their heads, with flowers; ind I think the ladies surpass our sex in their idolatry of Si Padre. Imagine, if you can, with what shouts he wee ceived on his return : rising from their knees, all folio the good Pope to his palace, and soon after he had ent , the vast crowds began to shout " Santo Padre; la ben zione." When coming to the window, he gave the ben( tion to as devoted • mass as ever prostrated itself befoi pontiff'. This is a daily scene: indeed, instead of flap, the enthusiasm seems to be on the increase. " What al sovereign we have," said a Roman to me, "we are longer in Italy, we are in New York." " Yes,' another, " listen to what he has done for us : there is amnesty ; and the introduction of seculars into office; continual acts of charity, and abolition of espionage: and voluntary reduction of his own expenditure : then he nee twice a week publicly allwho choose topreeent theme's ., him and seek for written communications which ho exam himself-but he has a large party against him. With few ex , "ions the cardinals are unfriendly, and the great properio the priesthood ; but if anything were to happen to him eardinsl in Rome would be torn to pieces. Of course R 1 1 is full of on dies. It is not true that the General of Jesuits has fled ; but it is true that on several fifes when Pope was going in different directions the people show " Non mangiate sin beet-our Santo l'adre." This winter be a most interesting one in Rome : in the early part of t month the Pope takes possession, e Rion a most liberal and comprehensive edict a ill be 1 , lished. His Holiness, who has a most benign exprces lee countenance, seemed, I thought, flushed and agitated. w l may be explained by the fact of hie now being en g a g ed looking into every department of government with a to effect reforms. when the fires will b e most brilliant character, and it is expected that on the rener's name was Seru;n—he is no, }~' ~~