The Express. — London, England, 1852-07-26 00:00:00

vie erproso. TO CO MIES. PON DWI TB, A doom. NAM of Kamm,' seat Waft ,to ammo ....mbire °maw; patitlasill eser7 Teisig mod Mil *iikt. Is Yam he peg, irestarierstolsweded kir "Mr Cameo," lACes Fmrsug paw, witiNt he at Ms oleo% 111, IlseverWins4l7 tee o'clock on the du pabliness. RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE ?Ass Dal—Nesums. 111.10a..........Ahm5e5. •a. Sir la-mossaw—lions. tic Ifs. km. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 26. DIFFERENCE of opinion may exist as to the effect which the general election, now drawing to a close, will have on the position and prospects of parties and political leaders. Bat there is one tact made clear by the tone and tenor of all the elections that have taken place, respecting which there can be only one opinion ; and that is the pervading, enduring, irreinoveable hold which Liberal principles have taken upon the public mind. Mr. CoaDEN said to the crowd assembled at the nomination for the West Riding, "We are all Free-traders now," and not • voice was raised—neither from the hustings nor from below—to contradict him. And in the mum manner it might have been declared, without risk of provoking dissent, at every nomination throughout the United Kingdom. " We are all Reformers now." In so far as Ministers and their partisans Sr. concerned. the practical value of their liberal and reforming professions is perfectly well known. Nobody is deceived by them ' • nobody looks for real substantial reform from such hands. But still the affected indignation of the Derbyites at being charged with hostility to Liberal and Reform principles, their admissions that there are many things in our institutions that need to be amended, their protestations of eagerness to contri bute to the amendment of all proved abuses, have a value of its kind. Like all other hypocrisies, they are a homage reluctantly paid by rice to virtue. They show that liberal opinion, the determination of the people to obtain reforms, are so strong, so ardent, that no politician who seeks for public confidence dare oppose them. In the same manner u reformed biblical religion and the principles of the re' olution of 1688 have become part of the popular creed— axioms in religion and politics which all agree to take for granted—so it is clear from the elections ter minated or in progress that the principles professed by the Reform Bill Ministry in 1830 are henceforth to be considered indisputable—fundamental points of belief to be acted upon, not criticised or contro verted. In those constituencies in which the Derhyites have carried the day, the successful candidates have been obliged to pronounce the Shiboleth of—free trade, the abolition of electoral abuses, law reform, economy in the public expenditure, and reduction of taxation and equalisation of its pressure. With most of the candidates, and with many of their voters, such pro fessions were doubtless no better than empty gri mace. But men do not affect a character different from their real one without good cause; and the cause of the Derbyitc hypocrisy on the occasions ad verted to was the knowledge of the storm of public indignation that the use of any other language would have brought down upon their heads. Nor is this aIL With a majority of the consti tuencies, this word-homage to sound political princi ple has proved unavailing. Mere professions of liberalism and attachment to reform were not enough. The Tory dews wearing these borrowed plumes were unmercifully stripped, and the real owners of such feathers chosen in preference. That mere conformers, mere empty praters about reform and justice to the people, should have been in so many instances elected, is no proof that the public seal in behalf of these objects is cooling. The people feel convinced that no body of men have it in their power to undo what has been done in the way of reform. There were no specific reforms pot forth to be struggled for at the elections. Benin a certain amount of inertion on the part of Reformers, which the Derbvites have turned to account. But let Lord DERRY and his colleagues make one attempt to retro grade into the old practices of Toryism, the spirit of reform will be rekindled with tenfold intensity. The result of the elections in all the centres of keen poli tical feeling sufficiently proves that this would be the In Middlesex, an insidious attempt to unseat an efleient Reformer, by raift a prejudice against him on a question regarding all Englishmen are at one, by gross misrepreneotadens, alarmed the Libe rals, and was signally daketed. In tho West Riding and in Birmingham the Tories did not venture to make an appearance even in their mosed slander. At Manchester and Glasgow t = proveited contests whisk only showed weehasse. In these parkas communities whisk was the centres and •011111115 of action during dm Mom Bill and antiarra.law struggles, there is not sal, that passive detsreskatioa to hear at on retrograde monment whisk penalise all the rest et the empire; then is a sisepiess *bap of all who ban on atimme rmesed the pagan d Lineal opinions, a to miss amensee inlay sure by seined% ane bat tried kalemare with the tosit =ardent, labia the dialing pada et hosti li ty to it on the pert of ma is ppoewworor mold Man through the whole nation. Wborver bib the rein el vvanesst mot be so content to do on the ass at those reform spas whisk the people have ll = hearts. bastion will set Lug be Iskratedoshstkir it mead lam be_ or almobring Aar old dam The MISR - blinalso--esee inorable mite et *slug assimptian—anot bo animated. The power at Wake sr imam mot be wanted kin Ile heeds et the weakly and vemessemay pails angealibm mot C l i g t elL eit basil maim edhosedes kr &ab tsred by tho high ma be intiodneel The obey et ear eereta et kw ant be increased; this einem and Allays iaii I the law they admi nister rendered more ample, more intelligible, mare eousenant to the dared videos et moiety sail more ealightend moslity that panda IL The powers of local asitgewaramsat aid be extondedoni as eSsinteastrelnor load Falk expeuditure eroded la tbe iri za. A awe illeleat isd trustworthy heal mg be ealedatted for " the great All esehelaThel abases mist be hosed. rahremei The pigsties et Iketresade TT* be tbarougbly aebreei. Tha swum dSe pleb& to see these amelioratlese remind im liseamiag Impatience. A do-aotlabeg shalatry TM met be tolerated. Thus are the rocks a-bead of the ineenmetent and unprincipled men who have crept into idles. Even with the support of a venal majority in the Home of Coollloll/ they would be unable to keep their ground against the earnest determination which prevails out of doors to obtain these reforms. The public will not be diverted from their purpose by hollow and irrelevant cries about Maynooth, or by captions criticisms of the abilities and judgment of nval states men. They will not patiently submit to the retention of office by fawning parasites of foreign despot& like the Earl of MALHEUR:HT—trafficking in electoral corru ption and hustings bullies like the Szeu W rr•ae at as—dealers in phrases ss empty as they are sonorous, like the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER They will have men who are in earnest to uphold what is free and liberal in our institutions, and to amend what is amiss in them, and who have the ability to accomplish those ends. There is one device to which the Derbyites are disposed to have recourse, which cannot be too early or too perseveringly exposed. It is the imputation of disloyalty to all who distrust or oppose them. They affect to set themselves forward ea the exclusive champions of the monarchy,and impute republican ten deficits and leanings to al l their opponents. Such pre trues are not addressed to the people. Englishmen love a hereditary monarchy on principle because they know and feel the advantages it possums over any form of government in which the chief magistrate is elective. They know that a tempered aristocracy is required to serve u buttresses and props to the monarchy. They are, therefore, devotedly attached to the constituti on , l e t th e personal character of the reigning monar c h b e w h a t it will. And at present the high pnneiples and amiable demeanor of the reign ing Sovereign have elevated this enduring loyalty to a pitch of enthusiastic love. The Ikrbyite protestations of exclusive loyalty are not ad dressed to the people; they are insidious appeals to the court—attempts to breed distrust of her people in tho breast of oar Sovereign. But her own clear , judgment and her experience of the people's love will defeat the base and unprincipled attempt. That it has been made, however, is a ground for undying hostility to those who have as& it. There pa be no reconcilement with those who, to serve their own selfish and sinister ambition, have dared to think of sowing the seeds of dimension between the people and the Crown. " A coon and safe man, with judgment and quick ' nese, is wanted immediately at Derby." These are the words of • letter found on the person of a man arrested in the act of bribing electors at Derby, signed "W. 8.," and which the secretary of the late Reading and Reigate Railway Company declares he has not the slightest doubt is in the handwriting of Major WILLIAM BERFJPORD, now Secretary at War, formerly chairman of that company. The gallant major might have written—" A good and sale arm 'is wanted immediately for Derby ;" for Illmed l 7 there never was a Ministry so utterly doodle's of such a character—whose members showed se Emelt taste and talent for getting into serapes, es the egregious gentlemen whom Lord DESIST hes ame elated with him in the arduous task of this country. Lord MaLstatn nite wean= to have attained to a climax in minisha rial blundering, but Major BIRESTORD has outclass him. A pleasant personal question tor Ministered& letter will give rise to at the opening of parlianmat. It will be edifying to watch the fluttering and Ilona dering of the SeeILgTART at WAS and his collegian. In the meantime, we feel disposed to urge • paw ttcal application of this flagrant ease of Ministerial corruption; viewing it in connexion with the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND. proceedings in the dockyard boroughs, and in his county of North Northumber land. A morning contemporary is extremely scandalised —well he may—with these samples of Ministerial electioneering, and is loud and indignant in his denunciations of them. Apropos, of North North umberland, the journal to which we allude takes care to hint that the hands of the Whigs are not much cleaner than these of the Der belies. But, like Lord Jong RUSSELL and Sir fixonos GREY, it will not hear of the ballot as a remedy for these abuses, though neither the news paper nor the statesmen have any other to offer in lieu of it. Where is the use of indignant or pathetic denun ciations of corruption and intimidation by men who will take no steps to prevent or lessen the evil ? They are mere cant ; mere appeals ad inrilians to render political rivals odious. Men who proclaim that such malpractices exist, yet will take no steps to prevent their recurrence, do not hate the abuse ; they only envy their adversaries the advantage they derive from it. They rail at others for doing what they would gladly do themselves. But the people have a vital interest in the extinc tion of these abuses; and the people, it is clear, must take the work into their own hands. Political leaders will not denude themselves of such a potent instrument for the attainment of power, of such a popular topic for criminating their rivals, of such a fertile theme for popular declamation, as electioneering mal-practices. Corruption and intimidation of electors are valuable political capital ; the majority can use them, the minority can affect a virtuous indignation at them. But neither will abolish them; that the people must do, or it will be left undone. Now there is no need for instituting analytical comparisons between the efficacy of secret voting to render electoral corruption and intimidation impossi ble, or at least to confine them within much narrower limits, and any other means of accomplishing that end. They who affect to disbelieve the efficacy cf the ballot offer us no substitute for it. The arguments in support of the ballot, or secret voting, rest upon broad genersl principles. The soundness of these principles is not, or is at most but faintly denied. The objections to ballot or secret voting rest upon special difficulties or points of detaiL It is denied that any means of ensuring secret voting can be devised ; it is alleged that there will be great hardship in compelling those who would vote openly to do so in secret; it is alleged that the' elective franchise is a trust, and that the non-elec tors have a right to know how it is exercised. With regard to the pretext that no means for en suing secret voting can be devised, that is a ques tion that can only be settled by experiment. If there is no other objection to vote by ballot, let us try. If, upon trial, it is found that secrecy is unattainable, why then we may and must revert to open voting. But it is childish folly, with a good of possible attainment before our eyes, to remain inactive simply because there is a chance of failure. With regard to the hardship of compelling those to vote in secret who would fain vote openly, it will suffice to remark that those who are so anxious to vote openly seek at best the gratification of an os tentatious display of partisanship. Now, this is an innocent enough vanity, and might be indulged if that were possible without entailing real hardship and suffering upon others. But can it for a moment be listened to, that A shall be allowed to strut and show his plumes when this can only be done by subjecting B, C, and so on through all the other letters of the alphabet, to intimidation, the seductive influence of bribery, and moral ' degradation ? But the desire to vote openly is some times prompted by motives lees venal than mere vaidly—by a desire to earn, corruptly, patronage and Apia, there are many who take upon to claim tie privilege of open voting in the =an of porgies who are most annoys to obtain the , AIM of the ballet. The answer to those who opook of the fran chise as a trust, and therein) .10 be exercised openly, is equally simple and otedusive so in the two preceding eases. If the framnise is held in trust for the non.electors, and it the non-eleeton have a right to know how it is not wised, then the non-elector, have a right to dials bow it shall be exercised. Merely to let Was know how it is exercised, without girls, tea say control denied the se issapdge elezerehlog it, over its ezeroin, f tS neeksoy. If the aswwlestoes are them it is injudiciou s down= to gin theta say envoi over itsatoreima. If tley are the bast judges how it ought Se he emeliod, it would be better to give them the bessldes at owe. If they can be trusted with the power of dooking how oaten are M vote, they aegis trusted whit Ile power of vot ing. There wall be no boodeldp or *jostles in allowing them to vote as they pines; bat then is hardship and injustice in empowesiwthsm to sow pel others to vote against their crint. Dais, the only means which non-electors haw of esoipel. ling elector, to vote is accordesse with their wishes is be violence and intimidation. This theory of • the franchise, when vested in a limited electoral body, being a trust' that ought to be exercised for the whole community, in accordance with the views and wishes of the whole community, if true, is a good reason for ex tending the franchise, but not for withholding the ballot. The argument foe the adoption of the ballot is simply as follows :—lt is the duty of every elector to give his vote for the candidate whom he oonscien dansly believes to be the most capable and trust worthy.. If the elector gives his vote openly, he is exposed to a variety of biasses. He may wish to conciliate a wealthy or powerful candidate; he may wish to conciliate the good-will of the multitude. Under the influence of these and similar motives, he may be induced to rotator the candidate whom iu his heart he believes to be the least eligible. But when ho deposits his vote in secret—with no witnesses but OOD and his own conscience—he is treed from such disturbing influences. The secret vote is much more likely to be an honest and conscientious vote than the public one, because the elector cannot possibly lose or gain anything by giving it, except in so far as he must bee gainer by the election of the beet candi date. _ _ _ We have omitted to advert to an argument against the ballot that is sometimes seed. It is alleged that inasmuch as the electors of a member of parliament have a right to know how he discharges his trust, so the member of parliament has a right to know whether or not the electors are satisfied with him. But he can learn this by the result of the ballot. That will show him—not, indeed, how Tow, or Dim, or HARRY, are satisfied with him, in order that be way be able to pick a quarrel with Tow, or Dicx, or HARRY—but it will show him how the aggregate body of electors are satisfied with him ; and that is all he needs, or has a right to kuo w. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAT.—The loop line to unite with the Stour Valley Railway will be cow platod iu a few days. 'CAE EXPRESS, MONIMY EVENING, JULY 26, 1852 PRANCE. PARIS, SATOIDAT EVISIWO. The President Oohed Pens yesterday evening at seven. Th e atlempl Is pump oat of the Parisians an eche to the - essamitalkes of Strasbourg proved a com plete kilos. biked, since I have had an opportu nity of compering the naked fact with the official version I isa grown soh more incredulous as to the I rea lity dike bdsp , enthimiaset of the popula tions of Ahem aid LioAiie. Immediately after I had despekheiq letter or yesterday I visited the whole Ike elmig whl i the troops were drawn up. I was stook et Smitlip the thin attendance of spec tator% IMO kited wee tenth less than on ordinary woke* sinning a Ike arm ear evening along the western kinkeemis. The owed thickened, however, ea se i h ma n =hll the oaten faulsourgs; but this ar people was the natural cones neense of the choked circulation, not a living to penetrate the line of soldiers on efthe lis AT: ll : lll l Ul te way. At 7 o'clock the bells of Notre Dago end of all the other chenille., together with the hesealsg of 101 guns, announced the Princes arrival at the railway terminus. There were einedged at the station to receive him Prince Jerome Bonaparte, president of the senate, the Arch bishop of Parts and his grand vicars in their robes, all the ministers, the prefects of the Seine and of efield dignitaries of the Mate, General Ike all the general officers of the army of and a large number of senators, deputies, and onneMore of state, all in full uniform. At a quarter pot 7 the procession est out. The two squadrons of guides, an the Ist Regiment of Lancers, with their respective bands, preceded the open carriage of the Prince, which was guarded by 20 carabineers. The 7t r t ee ttment of Lancers followed. The proces s ion pat • foot pace along the Rue Chabrol, the Faabotuit St. Dents, and the Boulevards, as far as the Madeleine, where the Prince was received by the curt and clergy of that parish, who were drawn up with the cross at their head, in front of the_ portico of the church. The Prince then condoned hi rote by the Rue Royale, across the Plies de be Ossorde, where three batteries of artil lery were placid, down the avenue of the Champs Elyebes to the Barriers de l'Etoile, and thence to St. Cloud. Nothin4 an exceed the glowing accounts given in the official and semi-edictal organs of the dense crowds of spectators, and of the enthusiasm of their demonstration. From all that I witnessed my self, and from what I can gather from other impar tial sources, these narratives are marked by the most unblushing misrepresentation. Generally the reception of the President wu extremely cold. Where I stood he was received with unmistakeable, chilling, solemn silence. Here and there • hireling cry vainly strove to wake an echo, and died away in space, like a mound uttered far from the haunts of men. There was something terrible in the holyday show, the military display, the crowded streets, the peopled win dews, and the absence of any demonstration of sympa thy. The crowd looked like a collection of wax figures. It was the hour when the cafes are full—the leisure hour of the promenade after dinner, and of the evening chat in chairs under the trees. Those who were at home came to their windows to look out, but there were certainly none of those paying tenants who compete anxiously for six square inches of space on really exciting public occasions. However, there was a crowd, and this crowd was inanimate ; its silence was striking. It was evident, upon reflection, that this immobility betokened something more than indifference. It would otherwise have been unna tural. Not only were there none of those signs of interest and animation which people show when they go out to see even the commonest sight together, but the ordinary buss, the busy hum, that attends an agglomeration of men, was hushed . As the cortege approached, the natural thrill of expectation seemed forcibly suppressed ; as it panned by, every face be came cold, blank, passionless. No hostile cry was heard ; no man was so senseless as to provoke the surrounding legions, among whom were seen those very soldiers whose deadly bullets but six short months since scarred the peaceful dwel lings, from which the marks, yet visible, frowned ominously upon the triumphal car. Not a sarcasm was uttered even to a friendly ear, for the lictors were present, and spies were at the corner of every street. But if the silence of the people be the lesson of their rulers, that lesson was given last night withl an emphasis which I must have seen to have believed, and, having seen, shall never forget. From the Porte St. Denis to the Madeleine scarcely a head was uncovered as the President passed. He bowed repeatedly, however, to the vacant crowds on either hand. At the cafe at the corner of the Rue Montmartre four waiters mounted on a stool, and attempted to raise • cheer. Here and there, at wide intervals, a solitary female might I be seen convulsively waving her pocket handker chief at a window. I saw a man forcibly restrain a lady front so employing herself, as if he thought the exhibition indecent on the site of the massacre of I Dec. 4. Occasionally the drums beat to relieve the I appalling silence that prevailed. But everywhere I the imperturbable attitude of the masses was main tained. I know not what orders may have been, given to the troops, bat I heard no cry of any kind from them. As the military regulations prohibit cries under isms, the government may avail itself of this ecologic Ask ontenese. The Waiters have been to-day to St. Cloud, and held a cabinet council presided over by Louis Napo leon. The President bee determined not to lay the foundatiem dear of the Lew" es had been at first decided, bat to leave this beaver to IL Casablanca. This is to take plass 6941111 MW Naming at eine. A ersiai struck at the Mint to memmemorato this coolies, and bearing en one side tin boa of Louie Napkin, is to be enclosed la the atone. The bat the p * a s: Meneheser aro mewled with M. de s new list et Eerier* and dirty mayors, for the of ileartatents and arrondis laments. la the of Britten so neral is the deteneinedela to imam as snarledplace at the Made et tin protest goverment that it is ex ceedingly dillieult to Mai mayors who will serve. On the other hand, the legitimists are in open rebel lion against the orders of the Count de Chambord to abstain from canvassing foe seats in the Councils- General. They cover their disobedience with the excuse that it is not a political, but a municipal, Aloe which they seek to fill : and men who occupy their position as proprietors in the departments can not abdicate the influence which they have hitherto exercised in voting lines of road, rates, and other de partmental concerns. The Count de Chambord seems, indeed, to be surrounded by anything but judicious advisers, when he is constantly issuing manifestoes which his partisans are obliged to disobey. By the death of Count Excelinans, the number of marshals is reduced to four, via., Marshals Mlle, Jerome Bonaparte, Hariepe, and Valliant. The leading candidates for the two vacant batons are Schramm, Castellane, St. Arnaud, and Magnan. Accounts have been received of the arrival of the Charlemagne at Syn. After taking in coals at that port, she continued her route for Constantinople. M. Lemoyne, formerly French consul at Alexan dria, has been appointed consul-general and chargé d'affaires of France at Buenos Ayres, and is to set out soon for his post to join M. de St. George, the special envoy at La Plata. _ News has been received of the arrival at Tahiti of Captain Page, commander of the French establish ments in Oceania, whose flag was hoisted on board the frigate Arthemise. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed to-day at 103.20, with a fall of 10 centimes. The Threes fell 60. and closed at 72.46. SUNDAY Eviitnio. This morning took place the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new buildings of the Louvre. Count Canibianca, minister of state, to whom I mentioned yesterday that the President had delegated the function of presiding at this inaugura tion, was early on the ground, whose dust had been laid by heavy thunder-showers. The leading civi lian in attendance was the Marquis d'Audriffret, senator and president of the Committee of Control of Civil Buildings. Among the miltary guests appeared Orneral Magnan, commander-in-chief of the army of Paris, with the officers of his staff. Count Nieuwerkerke , director of m useums , an d M. Visconti, the architect appointed to execute this great work, stood also by the trench opened to re ceive the foundation-stone. Before taking the silver trowel M. Casablanca nob & speech, freeing the history of the building a the Louvre. The curate of St. German L'Auzserols, followed by his clergy, recited the usual prayers, and blessed the stone and medals to be inclosed. The ceremony was then com pleted in the customary form. The stormy weather caused only a sprinkling of people to be preeent. I informed yon that General Dufour was commis sioned by the Swiss Confederation to congratulate L. Napoleon at Strasbourg. It is snid that serious conversation passed between the Prince and the Swiss general on the question of Neufchatel. From the impression left on Oen. Dufour's mind by this , conversation, it would appear that France is rather I disposed to Jack out of the position in which she placed herself by the signature of the pro tocol of London, thereby giving, pre tango, an adhesion to the treaties of Vienna. The French government, it is now said, will undertake to mediate between Switzerland and Prussia for a pe cuniary indemnity to the latter state in consideration of relinquishing the claim of sovereignty over Neuf chatel. The King of Prussia is just the last sove reign in the world to listen to any proposition of the kind. We may therefore expect that any negotia tions undertaken by France in this direction will be received with any thing but favour at Berlin, more particularly as they may be supposed to conceal the design of annexing on some future occasion the terri tory abandoned by Prussia. The President sent from Baden his aide-dc-camp, Colonel Fleury, with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour to the Grand Duke of Baden. Another aide.le•camp, General Canrobert, was sent to Darm stadt All political parties are actively canvassing for the elections of the councils-general. From the mode in which the departmental authorities are conducting their manceuvres for the exclusion of opposition can didates, we are still better acquainted than at the elections of the Corps Legialatif with the way of managing universal suffrage under Louis Napoleon. A notable instance of the dishonest practices resorted to by subordinate functionaries has just reached my knowledge. M. Gute, • member of the expiring council-general of the Manehe, published in a recent number of the journal de Cherbourg an advertise ment, announcing to the independent electors of that canton his intention to offer himself again as a can didate for their suffrages. To the great surprise of this gentleman and friends, at the head of a succeed ing number of this newspaper appeared • comma , Rigid, stating that M. Orme could not be sleeted, as ho paid no direct taxes in the canton as the law prescribed; and that in consequence all votes in his favour would be thrown away. Now the qualifi cation prescribed by the law, enacted in July 1848, is that a candidate to be elected councillor general must pay direct taxes in the department. and is therefore falsely and maliciously described by the official communication to the Journal de Cher bourg, which substitutes " canton" for " depart ment," to the prejudice of the liberal candidate's election. But this is not all. Together with the communique the sub-prefect had sent to the editor a notice requiring him to insert the warning relative to M. Gage's ineligibility, but not to publish any rectification or comment thereupon, nor even the notice of requisition. Now this prohibition is wholly illegal, it being the common practice of all journals. in conformity with the late decree of February 17 on the press, to publish with the official article the no tice requiring its insertion. Neither does the dicta torial decree forbid rectification or comment. Here then we have the chief authority of a canton forcing a journal to state a deliberate lie in order to frustrate the election of a liberal candidate to the council of a department, and prohibiting the correction or discussion of that lie, and even the publication of the prohibition. Thus an impudent misstatement of the law is proclaimed by the officer whose duty it is to enforce the law, and a tyrannous silence is imposed upon those who suffer by his lie; while one-half of the public are gagged and the other half cheated. Generally, the authorities are too ready to avow and even to boast of an act of oppression, but even the vulgar courage to avow his own order is wanting to the pasha of Cherbourg; and he commands the editor to conceal the fact of his having used the gag.l By the way, these eonimuniquie to provincial papers have raised a curious question. It seems that every petty official upstart conceives himself entitled to issue a notice to a newspaper, with a for mal requisition for its insertion. This mul tiplied impertinence, producing a swarm of eemmuniquhr from clerk, of the smallest official magnitude, has so discredited the higher spheres of office, that it hes been found necewry to take a de cisive step to stop the abuse. Accordingly we find to-day in the journals of the Dordogne a notice from the prefect of that department announcing that the Minister of the Interior has ordered that in future no communication to a newspaper is to be considered as official unless emanating from the prefect himself. Asa striking instance of the dissension prevailing between the legitimists on the subject of the Count de Chiunbord's latest injunctions, I may mention that in the department of the Maine-et-Loire, M. de Boyssard continues to canvass for a seat in the oouncil•general, while his more orthodox colleague, Count de Quatre-Barbes had withdrawn his candida ture out of respect to the word of command from Frohsdorf. It is still more important to note that a leading disciple of M. de Falloux, M. Albert de Res meguier, has offered himself as a candidate in the Basses-Pyrenees, which department he represented in the Nation Assembly. M. de Campaign, an in fluential legitimist, offers himself at Toulouse, and M. Feral, one of the chief royalists and most eloquent advocates of the south, comes forward at the same place. Most of the members of the Corps Legislatif appear among the candidates for seats in these depart mental councils. Among others I notice the name of M. de La Guerronniere, who,though deputy for Le Centel, stands for a seat in the Haute-Vienne. Meanwhile the Duke de Levis, the feeble counsellor of the feeble court of Frohsdorf, has arrived in Paris, and settled himself at the Chateau do Noisiel, in the Seine-et /Larne, a short walk from the capital, whither he am every now and then to hold conferences with his colleagues, the Duke des Cars, and M. Chapot, and to shake his head at the sensible expostulations of M. Berryer and his followers against the absurd, impracticable policy of his master. The decrees of Jan. 22 continue to be rigorously executed. Large placards are posted up announcing for sale the forests belonging to the Duke d'Aumale, in the departments of the Ardennes, the ?dense, and BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. Our Feria correspondent, writing last evening, says : "The important intelligence has been received from Brussels that a convention has been concluded be tween the Belgian and Dutch governments for the amalgamation of the railways of the two countries. The great trunk line beginningat Antwerp will be con tinued to Rotterdam, and so be put into communica tion with the whole of the Netherlands. It is stated, upon good authority, that the Bavarian government has engaged to pay 1,400,000 florins to the adminis tration of the Palatinate Railway on condition that the latter shall undertake to execute the works on the line from Ludwisghafen to Wileembourg speedily. This is the point to which the Strasbourg Railway is to be continued beyond the French fron tier." The Emancipation states that there is no founda tion for the report that Count Lehon has been sum mooed from Paris by the King. M. de Lehon is only oome on the business of the Vieille-Montagne, and set out on Saturday for Angina, to take the chair at the meeting of the administrative council of that company. SWITZERLAND. DERNE, Amy 23. The Council of the States have passed the remain ing articles of the railway bills, with some few for mal alterations. They have introduced the following new clause : The width of the rails and the forms of the carriage' shall be determined by the Confederation, with a view to the es tablishment of uniformity in all the Swiss railways. Mr. Clarke, who is at the head of the English ' company to hich M. Sulzberger, the engineer, said the concessions obtained from the grand Swiss coun cils, writes that the company will immediately begin its preliminary works on the Lausanne-Merges- YVOlllon line. GREECE. An Austrian oorresporTienoe of Trieste, of July 19th, states that King Otho will leave Athens in as days, and arrive in Trieste on tho 22nd or 24th. A letter from Athens of the 13th, in the Itultspetr dance of Brwoels, states that the monk Christophoras has been arrested. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. THE BRITISH CONSUL CALLED TO AC COUNT BY THE PAPAL GOVERNOR OF ANCONA. ROME, Joi.v 20. Mr. Moore, our worthy and zealous consul at Ancona, has been reprimanded by Monsignor Ainici, papal governor of that city and commissary extra oidiaary for the province of La ?tierce, with rather more asperity than the circumstances of the case (which I narrate below) seem to hare warranted. Ou the 13th inst. an Austrian steamer arrived at Ancona from Trieste with a number of passengers on board, many of whom had come to attend the great fair of Sinigaglia, and a Mr. Davis. an Englishman, who came to visit abrother of his, who is mentally afflicted and under charge of Mr. Moore, after which he was to leave again by the same steamer on the following day. From the steamer Mr. Davis wrote to Mr. Moore, informing him that having inadvertently omitted getting the l'apal consul's visa affixed to his passport at Trieste, he feared that difficulties might ensue and objection. be made to his landing. Similar cases have frequently occurred at Ancona, and Mr. Moore has always arranged them with the local authorities without any difficulty, by allowing the immediate disembarkation of such persona, and afterwards writ ing • letter explaining the innocent cause of such informalities ; therefore, on receipt of Mr. Davis's letter (time being very precious to him) tho consul started instantly for the director of polio 's office, which ho unfortunately found closed. Ho then repaired to the steam agency office, to see if he could arrange anything there for the passenger, but found that office shut also. Mr. Moore next went on board the steamer, and caw his friend, who was under no restriction whatever, verbal or written. The captain recommended him by all means to leave the ship, so that Mr. Davis stepped into the boat with Mr. Moore, who took him to the Health-office, and asked the officers there whether there was any restraint upom Mr. D.'s movements, to which they replied that they had nothing whatever to do with him. The consul, re solved to leave no stone unturned to set his friend's brief stay in Ancona upon • regular footing, then conducted him to the police-office once more, but, finding it still closed, he repaired to the Dele gation, the palace of the papal governor. The fates decidedly frowned upon Mr. Moore's efforts. His reverence wu at dinner, and the consul, unwilling to disturb him for what he considered so trivial a matter, arranged with his (the consul's) secretary to give notice of it to the police when the office opened at eight o'clock, p. m., in order to settle there the kind of letter or guarantee that might be re quired to repair the slight error in the passport. Next morning, to his utter astonishment, he re ceived from the governor the following arrogant communication, which sufficiently chews the anmaus of the ecclesiastical authorities and their constant readiness to pick quarrels with British representa tives and subjects: It has been reported to me that amongst the passengers who arrived yesterday on board the Austrian Lloyd's steamer, coming Inns Trieste to Binigaglia, there was a British subject, named John G. Davis, who was forbidden to disembark on account of his passport wanting the rise :of the pontifical consul. Notwithstanding this, I hose been informed that you, sir, presented yourself on board the said steamer, and bringing the passenger back with you, introduced hint into the city. I do not know how to account for such an infraction of the pratique reru lotions having happened. You know better than any other person that it is an international right and custom with all governments to prohibit any passenger from disembark ing who has not the required consular rue. If my memory does not deceive me, it appears to me that every time that you have hitherto requested permission for the disembarkation of English subjects not provided with rum, 1 have granted it to you, although contrary to the regulations. Alter all this, therefore, not knowing how to qualify the step of taking from on board the steamer a passenger not furnished with regular papers, and whose disembarkation was consequently prohibited nail my intentions were known, I now demand from y,,u an account of the occurrence, reserving to myself, atter your reply, to return to the very serious argument treated of in my present o ffi cial letter. In this communication—than which a more dicti: tonal one could hardly have been written to one of his own subalterns—Monsignor Amid appears to have entirely overlooked the efforts made by the British consul to accomplish the disembarkation of his friend, with the knowledge and consent of the police authorities. Mr. Moore replied in civil terms, simply narrating the facts of the ease, and then waited to see whether the governor returned to his senses or not, It is absurd to call the landing of tho passengers a strange "infraction of the pratiquc regulations," as he was not called to appear before any authority, nor were any steps whatever taken to show him, or the consul, that he was prohibited f ore landing. His remaining on board at all, after the passengers and goods were landed, was always an actilof tolerance on the part of the Austrian captain. What chance is there of harmony existing between governments when important commands are entrusted to men like Monsignor Amici, who magnifies so trifling an affair into a " very serious argument " (grarusimo argornento)? Meanwhile his reverence has become the laughing-stock of the town by the circulation of his letter, and several of the foreign consuls who have perused it are highly disgusted at its tone. TUSCANY. ANOTHER MINISTERIAL CRISIS. FLORENCE, JULY 19. The Grand Doke on his return from the baths of Montecatino :declared to M. Baldasseroni and the other ministers, that the policy followed by them was in opposition to his conscience, and too contrary to the duties of a catholic prince to the court of ' Rome. In consequence, unless they would embrace his maxims of a Roman catholic policy, he was prepared to accept the resignation which they would offer. This sovereign determination has sue prized no one, except, perhaps, the ministers, who had flattered themselves that they should overcome the prejudices of the Grand Duke. M. de Casigliano wrote confidentially to his colleagues from the baths of Montecatino in a way to lead them cor,fidently to hope that he would 'noosed in getting rid of Bocoella. Boccella is now muter of the field, and a jesuitical policy will be forthwith inaugurated. Thus are realized the forebodings of the inevitable consequences of the abolition of the fundamental statute. PIEDMONT. TURIN, JULY 20. The Opinions gives the following statistique of the parties composing the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies : ortptwo belong to the Left; Si sit is the centre, and constitute the ministerial party They require to be vigi lant, and forget their former friendships in the discharge of their present duties. The 40 next sometimes vote with the Right and sometimes with the ministerisli.ts, according to the questions or to their personal sympathies. The pure Right only consists of 19 members. The 1 remaining are completely independent and cannot be claimed by any Parr/. LOMBARDY. _ . . The official Gazette of Milan states that the Aus trian government and the Lloyd steam company have concluded a convention for the establishment of a fleet of steamers under the denomination of the Flotilla of the Po, to ply on this river and on the waters which unite it to Venice, Milan, and the Lego Maggiore. The Milan Gazette quotes a letter from Rome, stating that the attention of the public has been much engrossed of late with the numerous fortifica tions erected by the French troops around the Castle of St. Angelo, and that another circumstance excites some surprise, viz., that while General Levaillant displays so much zeal in drilling the Pontifical artil lerymen, ho has brought all the cannon to Rome which were in the towers along the coast of Civita Vecchia, and put French artillery there instead. SPAIN. MADRID, JETTA 20. It has been stated that the court was about to re move from La °rani& to the Escurial and to the Pardo. Nothing has been decided with regard to this. It is merely believed that some weeks of the autumn will be passed at the Pardo. M. Pourcet, to whom the canalisation of the Ebro has been granted, has made proposala for the forma tion of a railway from Sara (410 to Madrid. The Curren de Andalucia, tho moat important journal of Malaga, has been suspended by the go vernment. M. Jose de Sataru.una has deposited at the Bank the fifteen millions of reale required to enable him to commence the northern railway. The English company that intends to competc for the Almansar lane, at the adjudication on the :Slat, has also made its deposit. The Heraldo says, that it has been stated by journal that M. Salamanca has sold the railway t o Aranyuez, but to whom or upon what conditions does nut appear. Wo read in the L'imen The UffiCial meeting at La °rank', which w.is announced by a journal yestertl ty, nothin2 'more, aectinlmc to our information, than a meeting of the uopectors of an ana l with the Minister of War, to consider the butl.tet of that department. We should be glad to think that the exams. nation of the state budgets was a symptom that they would speedily be submitted to the Curtis. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Jrxv The National Zeitung brings an article on th e treaty of amity just concluded between Saito,'laud and the United States of America, in %hid it re marks that the impolitic London pr.docol regarding Neufchatel has hastened the period fur the uineace ment of American interference in European diplomacy. The crown lawyers have sanctioned the coufiscap tion of the Kreu: &dung, and c , surn, nevi an in. diotment. Since its re-appearanee, un Nlontlay it gives no leading articles. Never, perh aps , did a newspaper act in so ill adv isee! a mane, r, u s t h e !Crew: 'edam/ has done on this oce.ision. It liss entirely dispelled the iliaskin, so lung and so gene rally entertained, that it represented and embodied a power. It must, for the future, entirtly drop the overweening tone hitherto assumed; and it is a question whether it will be able to maintain a puei. tion when restricted to plain arguments. The Frankfort Diet has voted to the invent:no( the gun cotton a national reward of 3,5401. This is the more surprising, because the public was not aware that that invention hitherto had proved applicable to practical purposes. Ihe first locomotive has arrived at Dantzie by the new railroad from Bromberg, and was greeted by public festivities. The cholera is severe at Ostrow,'; hut energetic measurts have been taken for supplying the pour with good nourishment and timely medical aid. On the 19th inst. a fire broke out at Kulisch, con awned sixty houses, and was still burning when the last accounts were sent off. This visitation, (smiled with the late ravages of the cholera there, made the town a scene of the utmost despair. The Elector of Hesse Cassel having dispensed with the oath on the constitution, the Chainbus have been opened. It is said, however, that as soon as the Hes sian government shall have got the grant of a loan of a quarter of a million sterling "for the expense of resti , ring federal and constitutional order ia the elec torate" the Chambers will be prorogued. On the 20th a communication was made to the Second Hessian Chamber at Cassel, of the financial situation of the country. The Finance Minister stated that there was a deficit of from three to fur millions of thalers. It was reported at Hanover on the 20th that the ministry had resigned, and would be repLieed by a cabinet of a completely equestrian caste, which, ea the commercial and customs question, will adhere to the liberal commercial views of the Prusbian quer trian order. AUSTRI A. Tho Vienna Oazette of the 21st publishes the balance-sheet for 18:51. The receipts amount to 223,252,038, and the expenditure to 2;5,t30,470d. The deficit, therefore, amounts to 53,168,432tL ZOLLVERE IN. BERLIN, Jety 72. The importance and the multiplicity of the in terest involved in the Zollverein question sufficiently account for the avidity with which the public seeks for information on the progress of negotiations ; and as the Zollverein question is, at this moment, the only great question actively mooted, and which must come to a determinate issue within a stated time, it forms almost the whole and sole matter on which oar newspapers must live, till the ministers of German states return from the baths, and legislative chambers are re-opened. Hence the newspapers niake as much of the Zollverein question as they possibly can; they endeavour to persuade themselves and their readers every day that the affair has assumed some new feature. When nothing has been done, they are inexhaustible in conjectures, and not very scrupulous in inventing. And when really something has been done in the matter they exaggerate, in order that they may be able to fill their columns for a week to come with modifying and retracting their first assertions. Within the last few flays some thing really has been done in th e * Zollverein question. lam not of opinion, however, that the state of the case has been thereby so much altered as our press would fain persuade us. The coalition ists, with the exception of Wurtemberg, have deli vered their conjoint reply to the Pru.sian deriva tion of 7th June. They avoid the term "Customs' union with Austria," but insist, as formerly, that a treaty of commerce with Austria be negotiated si multaneously with tho negotiations for renewing the Zollverein. Prussia has adjourned the conferences till Aug. 16, declaring that it expects, before or on that day, to receive an unequivocal and unconditional declaration, whether the coalitionists will renew the Zollverein as extended and modified by the treaty of Sept. 7, or not leaving all relations to Austria oat of question. The Kretsz Zeitung asserts that the period fixed in this newest Prussian declaration was ex pressly designated as "preelusive," which means that after the day named Prussia will break of nego tiations with all parties who shall not hare given the unconditional assent demanded. The coalitionists, reply was not signed by Baden; but this state, it must be remembered, did not sign the second and third Darmstadt pro bawls, and is not bound to the coalition. The cir cumstance that Wurtemberg has not signed the reply, is construed as nproof that there is a split in the coalition. But, perhaps, the reply was regarded by the Wurtemberg government as conceding too much to Prussia; and the refusal of its signature may indicate the reverse of what our newspapers deduce. Ihe most important symptom of an inclina tion on the part of the coalition to giro way, is a notice in the semi-official journal of the Bavarian Palatinate to the effect— That the coalitionists are 'willing not only to drop the customs union with Austria, but also to accept the teary of 7th September, and that, in fact the differences rest rather in ;mints of form than of material interests. If this avowal really have the sanction of the Ba varian government, which is the head of the coali tion, it is certainly important. Nevertheless, how ever great may be the desire of the coalitionists to retract their rteps and conform to the Prussian pro gramme, it is a question whether they con do 60, and whether Austria will allow them. And even if they were of late in a more conciliatory mood than at the commencement of the proceedings, it is probable that the manner in which Prussia has received their last reply, disregarding all concessions and demanding; unqualified submission, will rekindle all the irascibility of their tempers. Prussia will not leave them time and opportunity for coming to terms with a good grace; it will not let them save appear anees; it demands not only assent but obedience. It is likely, that not only the governments, but also the people of the south, will take fire at this; and that popular sentiment will disregard there, as it has done in Prussia, the commercial sacrifice attending split of the Zollvercin. On the whole, Ido not see that the prospect of renewing the Zollverein is greater than when I last wrote. TURKEY. lONIANS BASTINADOED BY TURKS. DARDANELLEs, JULY 11. Two lonians hare been Issatinadoetl by ouler . d Kaima Kan. 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