The Express. — London, England, 1848-11-22 00:00:00

CMPV.IIAL AVEILAOI6I4 or. lintioust inoan Wird, SI& %Oda perky. 166. 4d. ; OW 23, W.; dm =a 6d.; Ilesik $76. ; 416. 6d. Nasa l wormy, Oar. ; ners.l raw Ott 7 ... 44.114 Nib tcas. NON •I 14 414 04,204 44104 4471. as 14 It „. 7475. Id Its 114 Ws 44434 $d ,1i 74 'tts 5477. 7 . 2 1 1: 44104 at' ao. ld Nov. i3l4 14 Ns 1 Ns USN 4374 141.45 74 11 jlO2. 74 1104104 77. 24 , 404 N 11 woks' AA. Aver. 51 .. Dm.—Wlrid. 75.: Raft. ILI ONO,. 117,4. lima% led Tim b. Arrivals at the granaries by the Hestern Omeatiee Railway for the week ending November 18 Malt We qrs. Mem ...-..1e fps. arbeet Mirky 1311 " MU, rirs if ams. oats Hrt.e., Nov. 21.-Biainoss of every kind bas been Very inactive daring the week; the weather mon favourable, how end geed progress now making with Need OferStialer, the s of Wheat at this day's market was coasequently smaller than of Late, but fitly up to the wants of millers, who, ng ;wetly well in stock, are sky Mayen. A good s'iow of foreign, but the trade very dull, and tht balk of the 'Wee arrival goes to granary. We quote the market Is. loner then last week for all deiemptions of Wheat The greater part of our Barley import is of =dung quality, and such is very bad to sell even et a redaction of Is. to 2a per qr., the new English mortise; better than was repeated ; grinding sorts are comps. naivety mates, and go off freely at lull prices • momentasily the market is almost clear, hut further arrival; are expected. The transactions in other kinds of spring corn are limited. bat we have more inquiry for Beans and the better sorts of Peas. With only en insignificant arrival el Linseed, the actual business in this artielo has been very trilling. and we are unable to alter our quotatioes. Firmness is the chaveleristie haters of the trade. More doing in Linseed Cakes foe present delivery at Our quota tions, withl.ss Maine's for forward. Rapeseed saleable at our quoted - ire, and the market unsupplied. Rape Cakes ',covered from their late depression. le Bones there is nothing doing. The fallowing an the prises of 'rale :- Wheat, per qr., red, 62 .. to .51..; new, 48s. to 31 s. ; white, 52a to 345.; new, Ms. to 645. Bromic, 6Ga. to 80.. • Lower Baltic and Hamburg, 48e. to 325. Barley, malting, 30s. to 34a. ; grinding, 28s. to 235. Oats, Danish, 17s. to 10a. ; Friesland. 20.. to 235. ; Reesian, 10s. to 21e. Beans, 30e. to Vs. ; foreign, 325. to 38.. Pea., white and 'elide, 314. to 335. Linseed, crushing, Si.. to 40a ; feeding. 40.. to 44.. Rapeseed, per 10 quartets, 231. to 231. Linseed Cakes, linglisb, per toe, 81. 135.; foreign, 71. to Bs. Rape Cakes, 87a. 6d. Boom, 838. Osseo, 41. to 91. 3e. Isa mwm from the 11th of Nov. to the 17th Nov. inclusive: Wheat, toreign, 8.402; Barley. 6,212 ; Oats, 1001: Beano. 1,106; Pe 3,114; Team U; Linseed, Bdo ; Rapeseed, 700; Liassed Cakes, 11l ; Raps Cabot, 67. lt.swtot, Nov. 21.-. oar supply of Wheat was small, but quite equal to the amen I, and s aid at Is. per qr. dearer. Barter in fair supply; all sorts Is. per qr. lower. No shwa. tion in pries of Beans, Per, and Oats. Lev^. Nov. 21.-We are well supplied with samples this morning from v. owls agar at hand;; the market rule, slow for Wheat, at folly Is. re qr. below the rates of Friday. Barley does not sell freely, and prices ere 1.. per or. lower. Beans scare It maintain their value. Gate, BMWs', and other articles, without material alteration. Arr.v th this week: Wheat, 3,138 rim; Oats, 718; Barley, 1,243 ; Malt, 33. LIIIOIITON Bowen, NOV. 21 -At this day's market ewe was bat a small supply et Wheat, the time of yeas considered • aotwlthstanding. trade was dell, at a reduction of le, per lo ad moat last week's rates. Barley more plena. Rd, awl likewise la per qr. cheaper. Beans end Peas at late rates. Worst, old, per load of 6 braise* 30s. to 33. new, 265. to 31s. Barley, per imperial qr., 2tre. to 320.; Beane, old, Ms. to 29e. ; new, Vs. to 235. per 5 bushels. Lawns, Nov. 21.-Wo have to report a steady demand for Wheat, at Is. to 2s. per qr. decline from hat week's prime. Bosky was but little inquired tor, c inseqoeetly holders I .Id at a reduction of Ia per qr. from last Teesday. Other grain steady. Wheat, old, white, 151. is. to 131 10.. ; r ed, 141. da to 141. 10s. ; new, white, 111. to 141 .; red 101. to 121. 10s. Raley. 325. to 35e. Oats, 18e. to 23a flew, 350. to 40.. Peas, 335. to 39e. LirERPOOL, Nov. 21 -The Europa. Americo& steamer, arrived here yesterday, bri cgs advises from New York to the Bth inst. The grain market there remised nearly with out change, and as factors were etoriug their Floar against the winter demand, no material decline in prices was looked for. Low qualities of Wheat had needed 6 cents per bush. India* Corn remained stationary in value, but Indian Meal was somewhat lower. The quotations free on board, were, fine Genesee. Whoa 445. ; lower qualities, 34a. &I. to 38s. 81 per 480,o.; fine yellow Indian Corn, 275. 7.1.; white, fist yellow, tied mixed, 20s 9d.; and New Orleans, 245. 104. per 4301 b.; Indian Meal, 14s. IL per barrel. There had been shipped to this port during the previous fortnight, 30,000 barrels of Flour, 8,000 qrs. of Wheat, and 20,000 qn. of Indian C to. Freights were firm at 2s. 6d. par barrel for Flour, and 84. per bushel for grain. Exchange 81 to 81 for bat k bills. Letter. to the 30th ult from the Danube, state that the English consul at Bucharest having remon strated against the hurried prohibition of export of green from Wallachia, it was hoped the measure would be delayed until the c'oeiug of the navigation, so as to cause no inecn veuience to chartered ships. The fine weather eotieed last week has been succeeded by rain and boisterous winds from the west, which have brought in a considerable number of vessels, previously detained at sea by a strong breeze fro the east; those already in, coastwise and from Irelsnd, containing a full supply of grain, a fair quantity of Flour, and • further large increase of Oatmeal ; whilst the imports of Wheat and Flour from the American States and Europe are abundant, including also a tolerable arrival of Peas and Indian Corn. Influenced by the.. extended arrivals, and the demotion noted in most of the English markets this week, we have to report • very languid trade in all its bearings at oar Coca Exchange to day. The millers having been extremely cautious in their proceedings, the transactions in Wheat were altogether limited ; and every description of English, Irish, and foreign receding further this morning, piece. our present questions 2d. to 31. per 701 b. under those of Tuesday last. Similar remarks being equally applicable to Floor of all deeming. tions, home-made and to-h declined l• per sack, and States, including Canadian, Is. per barreL Barley sad Malt, al though in slow request, were held at late prices. Beans, meeting leas Inquiry ; Egyptians declined 6d., and other kinds la. pee qr. Peas being more plentiful, and giving way in value again to-day, were 2.. per qr. cheaper than on this day week, Oats, although not generally offered on lower toms, were in partial instances rather easier to purchase and Oatmeal, from th e largely augmented supply, dm ined 6d. per load. Indian Can, though in moderate demand, moved off rather lam freely than of late, at Friday's abatement, Corn Neel at the Mee time remaining unnzied. Pinces:-British: Wheat, per 70Ibo Engliak, red, new, ls. Od. to 7a. 3d.; old, le. 64. to 7s. 9.1; wkite, new, 7s. 3 1 . to 7s. Bd.; old, 8 7a. 6d. to .. Od. ; Irish, real, new, 6s. 10d. to 7s. 00. old, 7s. 04. to 70. 3d.; white, sew, Gt. 4d. to 75. Od. ; old, 1 .. 2d. to 7s. 6d. Barley, perqr., liaeide, 341. to 365. ; Chevalier, 375. to 395.; Seoteh and Irish, per 601 be., 4s. to 45 . 24. Malt, English, per qr., pale, 60s. to 64n Oats, English and Scotch, per 451 b., MI, 3a. 3d. to 3a. Id.; Welsh, old, 3..24. to 3s. 3d.; Irish, line sans, nets, 2s. 9d. to 2s. Ild.; old, 3e. 2d. to 3e. 4d. ; general, esw, fa. 74. toga. 10d.; old, 3a. Id. to le. 3d. Beans, per qr., Eng., new, 40.. to 425, 04.; old, 421. to tie.; Scotch and Irish, r 4801 b., new, kie. fad.to 355. 64.; rid, 375. to 395. Peas, B pm qr., white, new, 41s. to 43e. ; ditto Mae Irish, grey, 36e. at Mk. Flour, per 2801 b., English and Irish, fine, 39e. to 40a.; superfine, 401. to 41s. ; extra; 42a. to 13s. Oatmeal, per load of 24016., Irish, new, 255. to 20.. Od. ; old, 23e. to 2.58. ; Canadian, old, 241. to 265. Been, per 241 b.. 10d. is ii Foreign: Wheat, per 7016., Canadian, red, 7s. Ott. le 71. 3d. ; white, 7s. fad. to 7s. 91. ; United State., 7s. 4d. to 7s. 81. ; white, 7s. 9d. to fie. 2d. ; Dantaie, and red, 75.44 . to Is. 6d. ; high weed, Se. Od. to 81. 68. Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 7s. 6d. to 7s. 94.; whits, 7s. 9d. to Ss. Od.; Rip and Petersburg, red, 7s. Od. to 7s. 24 ; Archangel, 6s. 10d. to 7a. 04. ; Odom, cononon, red, Gs. 94. to 7s. Od. ; Polak, 7s. sa. to 7s. 7d. ; French, Spanish, and Italian, red, 7s. 11. to 7s. 4d.; white, 7a. 4d. to 7*. 7d. ; Banned and Marlesopoli, red, 7s. 34. to 7s. 6d.; an, 6s. 64. to 6e. 94.; Mediterranean, &c., hard, rod, 6e.. - 2i to 6s. 4d. Charnel gualitlet, in bond, red, 6s. 6d. to Ts. Od. ; white, 7s. to 7s. fad. Rye, per qr., Baltic, dth., 28e. to 30a. Barley, per 601 b., 41. 2.1. to 4e. 4d. Oats, per 461 b., 3..3d. to 3s. Russian, 2a . 10d. to 3.. Beans, per qr., European, 34.. 04. to 36e. 641. ; Egyptian, per 4801 b., to 301. Pees,per qr., Baltic, Sc., white, 30s. to 395.; Ca nadian, 345. to 356. Flour. per barrel of 196 lb., Canadian, sweet, 28s. 0,1. to 395. ; United States, awed, 28e. to 295. ; United State. and Canadian, sour, 275. to 28s. Indian Cora, per 4801 b., American, white, 31. a. to 335. ; yellow, 335. to 365.; E , yellow, 34.. to 36.. Od. Indian Meal, per 1961 b.. 16.. 6d. to 17s. Anise, from the 14th Nev. to the 20th SW. fralmive, into Liverpool and Runcorn: Wheat, 26,212 qrs. ; Barley, 2,987 ; Mali, 303 ; o.ta, 10,830 ; Beans, 1,041 ; Pea, 6,603 ; Indies Corn, 13,029 ; Indian Corn Meal, 397 banns; Oatmeal, 16,027 sacks; Flour, 7,619 sacks and 26,031 barrels. LYNN, NOT. 21.-Rather more Wheat than of late, and • goal show of Barley. Wheat, L. to's., and Barley, Is. per qr. lower. Wheat, 6016. to 6211 a., 465. to 505.; white to 545. Barley, best runs, ad. to 315.; flue, 325. Beans, old, 40s. per qr. to the grower. PLy , pli:TX, Nov. 21.-There was a good attendance of millers at this day's market, and sales of Wheat were made to some 'Mem, at Is. to 2s. per qr. decline on late prices. Flour, 425. per auk. Malting Bulgy dull. Srannuar, Now 21.-We had a great quantity of Wheat in oar market to-day ; but the attendance was not very numerous. Fee the Utter samples the sale was brisk. at an abatement if la. Id. to 2.. per qr. Ibe demand for Barley was not very active, and a further reduction of 2s. per qr. took place ; tad gain chiefly confined to best mating qua lifies. Oats underwent • slight depremion in price, and trade slack. Beans and Pus were but little in request, an 1 quotatioe. remained much as before. 01.1 Malt in good de• stand. fietperier old Wheat, Ws. to 69 , .; new, 39.. to 668 Barley, 27.. to 34.. Beans, 40a. to 445. Oats, 191.64. to 24e. Peas, Ms. to 425. Malt, 62a to No per qr. 001.—HoDozaariaLD, Nov. 21.---Wools are mbar better te ern thee they were, owing, as doubt, to the rime whin art bs4. pad In the Hill of Calameree at the imbue Wool sales I. Madan. We mly cosedratly mate abet Wavle in the sale•ram en ►nli•iar more by Id. to I Id. per lb th►e at the September sale, which out have the tigers of ankh: prism better is the prerinres. WU erpfeliL HAILS.. TM *mind does/ maile, vie iere;illea. to , the Meditemmea, Wetm. =M. ticai-Keardke., *ill be made up s the the as mils let Ilettlelk North America, and the Dmitri them, .11 ls soft ep es the analog et the s4th Nov. The mho Or hts, o= ll l.lebes, Owl* mad OM:ohm wW he ink spa the el the Pith Nov. Ile Nei kr New heath elf. Tea Nemo% lAA toot New Salmi ye milke up se the melte et the Nth Por. Ife was kr the Vest Oast et Akita sod Wits will he made spas the see snits Nth Nev. Wat MIK tudneleg Demeas. Ithemt. New Mina% mil Illeidos, eseirlieg tho se for ll= lbe 111. his-d&lfisingem. Pew Oieusde. CM, owl Pety, will he made up so the monis' el tin lei Drs. Its mis kr Masks. tie Mile. red Dams Apse, will to geode sa as the semi., ea. 441 i Tee evolerl mho be Ofterisr. WY, Grease, the Tadao Weeds. Oesleu. bale. Neag.less. lad ages, eta lbetluesp- M 1 be made epee the =emits ~Nth Des. MOE WATTS AT LIMON 11110411. Tip SAT —tgatalas an an. psi iii. Altsneaat a te . ': IL stmlaastm.likaabstlla. pro anam O. LONDON,WEDNESDAY.NOV. 22. THE invasion, the extension, the zealous preaching and propagandism of the school of military politics us is very remarkable. In some instances it is alarming, in others amusing. The unblushing effrontery with which orators and writers, addressing audiences of Englishmen, uphold the wisdom and ex pediency of putting down constitutions, • the press, proclaiming and maintaining martial law, 'ek ing representative assemblies out of their halls, bom barding cities, and sending all who resist to instant execution, is calculated to excite surprise and indig nation. The aide ways and small apertures through which this ultra-conserva'iszn shows Writ are equally the symptoms of reactionary spirit, though more easily detected and laughed at. One of the most noted cha racteristics of every military system of gm erament is its horror of learning and its dread of education, if either be applied to the moral sciences, or to the indulgence of reason upon what concerns the nature and prospects of man. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, the Emperor Fitaxela of Austria, the Czar of Rue- SlA—all understood education in the same Way. For them it was to be confined to the drill sergeant and the mathematician. They gave every encouragement to the learning and teaching of abstract science; but logic, or moral philosophy, or knowledge of the classics, or the study of history —these were dangerous pursuits. Nowhere were there better scientific or engineering schools than in Vienna; but over the moral and humane departments of education the Jesuits had charge. NAPOLEON founded the Polytechnic school, and established de partments of a National Institute. One was of belles knees, another of sciences, a third of the arts, but the department of moral phi losory be carefully suppressed. Madame DE STAEL or I errurrr TEAcY were regarded by him as the most dangerous of writers. They appealed to man's nature, took it for granted that he had a soul and a heart, and that intellect should be the first object of his cultivation. BONAPARTE exiled the one and silenced the other. With these recollections in our mind, when we read the other day Lord Mtitos's speech at the Manchester Atheneum and the observations of the limes, we really fancied that we were listening to a speech of NAPOLEON'. Grand Mester of the Univenity, with a comment of the imperial M,miteur thereon. The principles of education and government are precisely the same. The doctrines are identical—the same fears of the public becomincinstructed in anything save the abstract science, of young men learning to reason or daring to think, are expremed by the English tory end the Purnell imperialist. Confine yourself to anima*, is Load MstiOX'S advice to the young inn of Manchealsr• echoes the Ms" But sato histuy,guiralpitatoaonittilitical walla& the pa = of man, ,lei his his wants, its bit &dial—pray a void such studies sa thus. • Praitiod• rein of Manchester—do give you selves fo star gazing. Now, in the whole range of human knowledge jai issiikp l ui L l pursuits, that which could be of least as nil interest to a youth of Manchester, is, per haps, astronomy. Even supposing any intrinsically intellectual study, soy pursuit that turns the mind I upon itself, forbidden, still amongst the sciences there are many departments, such as mechanics and chemistry, which might throw a light and congenial interest upon the Manchester man s daily pursuits. But astronomy !—the only portion of astronomy that is of religious and poetic interest, which discloses the wondrous mechanism of the universe, an I prompts to the adoration of the divine Creator—all this may be learned or expounded in two or three lectures. The popular science and know ledge of astronomy is a brief matter. But the pursuit of utronomical science, and the employment of the intellect thereon, this supposes and requires the knowledge of a great many other abstract and abstruse sciences, and these, supposing them ever ac quired, are so utterly unfit for the pastime of men busily employed, that Lord MAHON and the Times must have been making game of the good people of Manchester, when they broached such nonsense. They might as well have frankly preached what lay at the bottom of their hearts, viz., that learning and thinking of any kind are rangerons in a mercantile and manufacturing community, which is subordinate to the government of an hereditary oligarchy ! We were glad to see Mr. Baton? put in a man l y protest against all this twaddle by recommending the study, at least, of history, to which he would have a preference given over the works of light lite rature. Yet we do not know that the neglect of the study of history by such readers u the youth of Man chester is owing so much to want of taste in them. Unfortunately almost all our histories have been written in a spirit the most foreign and repugnant to the sympathies and ideas of our industrious classes. The key is pitched high. The audience or the readerare supposed to bean academic and tufted class, and events are in general connected together by a cement of high Toryism and genteel morality, which is mere French cookery to the plain, hottest palates of the readers of a popular institution. Those who labour all day cannot betake themselves to study at night, unless the book or the professor will furnish at least half the interest requ isite to enjoy ment and application. Works of history and of phi losophy might be made, we maintain, as interesting as any novel. If they be not made so, it is not the readers' fault. A book that excites an intelligent man to think, will always be found more interesting by him than the book that merely beguiles him with pictures of life. But a jejune string of occurrences, varied by the more jejune toryism of Mr. ALISON, is a dose of somnolence that no student in search of thought or recreation could resist. There are studies deeper than history, social, poli tical, politico-economical, not to mention the religious that mingles with all. Do what we will, !ct Lord mingles with MAHON preach each day in the year the virtues of the aristocracy, and let the Times act u his clerk, the people of England will not be satisfied with merely following the courses of the stars. They are pinched by poverty, menaced by oppression. Political preachers are at hand, who expound to them, some that emigration is the only cure for their distress ; others, that their total absti nence from marriage is required, in order that the progeny of those who do not abstain may be com fortable. The question put before the people will be considered and discussed by the people, and unites the military school should follow up the Napoleonic principle,by drafting the operatives into the reeks and killing them in war, it must make up its mind that the operatives , and not merely the operatives but those in the several degrees above them, will occupy themselves anxiously, intently, and zealously about those great questions of social and political philosophy which every day and every hour of life brings before them. Let Lord MAHON, then, and the Times, and the governing classes which they represent, exert their intellects to give a good direction to those speculations and a good solution to those questions. Stifle them they cannot. To bid men forget them for the study of the stars is preposterous nonsense. " The proper study of mankind is man," and not only the " proper" but the inevitable study. When necessities, and abuses, and hardships press upon every earner more or less, and when those charged with the conduct of society, now start one theory, new mother, to remedy its ill., displaying little be yond ignorance, arrogance, incertitude, and prodi gality ; when they treat the poor with harshness and the middle clue with contumely ; when the sole nostrum of government is to exile the labourer or stick him in the poor-house ; whilst the more thinkitg of the middle class are told to go and be taxed, and trouble their beads with nothing save astronomy in such times as these, we may depend upon it, that all who can read and think—and most persons would learn to read and to think for the purpose—will turn their attention to social and political questions, not from vain theory or an idle itch of meddling, but becalm the class and the persons, hitherto charged with these great questions, have shown utter inapti tude for solving them, and because the solution con cerns their interests and requires the intelligence and interference of every man. When a captain has driven a vessel upon the rocks, the humblest of the crew has a right to bethink himself and exert him self for his own and his fellows' safety. Tue meetings of the cabinet being resumed, we may well suppose that the measures to be next ces sion presented to the legislature are under discussion. Sure we are that they ought to be not only discussed but arranged now, that not only the principles, but the details may be settled, and measures prepared which will carry out the objects intended, and not be liable to the charge of crudeness, so aptly applied to the " tom hand to mouth" attempts cf the past session. To settle what proposals are to be made next year it will be necessary to take a retroepective glance at what was left unfinished in September. Among the bills then dropped was the memorable scheme for inquiring into corrupt practices at elections. The unfortunate bit had the misfortune of kindling no sympaliy in doors or out, and when it was quietly shelved in the Lards, the suspended writs for Derby and for Leicester were as quietly issued by the Com mons. The subject, however, will not be allowed to rest. The canker of electoral corruption will not be permitted to eat up the vitals of our system, and the government will be called upon to produce tome plan which will facilitate the punishment for corrupt prac tices, not only in the towns where by the accident of a petition atter the election of 1847, the facts were made patent, but in those towns and counties where the notoriety of the evil and the tacit assent of both political parties stopped all petitions. The trumpery payments in Derby and Leicester must not alone bring their punishment, the whole system must be amended. What ministers intend to do or to attempt is be yond even our surmise. An old and zealous friend, however, has just rim from a bed of severe, and, as we once feared, fatal sickness, to tell them sad the House of Commons some home truths. In the whole range of men who have been in parliament no one hashad better opportunities of seeing the working of the machinery by which elections are carried than Mr. Ttromets GISBORNE, and no one of the Whig party has more ardently striven to extend the fran chise to a really free constituent body. At a dinner given the other day to Mr. Svnuvr, at Derby, to pre sent him with a memorial from the electors, in whose service he had been for 17 years, Mr. GISBORNE thus =of the_ pseudo-hatred of corruption which made and Mr. &rum . the victim to screen more earrept places and worse men : Hs was somewhat rudely pushed out of the House of Cammene. Now Ido not impugn the decision of the com mitten who tried my right hoe friend's election, but I've no sympsthy with the general feeling which mused that election to be avokled. I don't mean with regard to the case of Derby merely, but others. I don't like sham proceedinp. The House of Commons had no serious intention of putting down comurion They Cr. " Conservative Reformers." They only wish to put down the scandalous parts, in order that they may preserve the rest. If they really imam to put down corruption, they pi about it in the clumsiest way in which anybody ever tried to carry out a sincere purpose. I never at in a House of Commons that would have granted • committee for the most unreserved inquiry into cormytioa. Now, if men are sincere, and an abuse exists, is it not easy to asoertain what that abuse is, its stature and dimensions ? But the House of Commons do not want to deal with it When Mr. Liddell wanted to put down dog stealing in the metropolis, be readily obtained a committee, sod some tow. . 4 tear gentlemen were shut lap gene er vs weeks buoulriog into all the mama with whirl Mang was con nected. And a blue bock was = 4 IFY be Pur ebred at the green's prima, he la and pro- Ibably he something less at the lewarmakers. a this fall and iirt!cular account you may learn thew the ElpaMsh sat =deg was ache, sad of iiiltil it was by his sureness, 1 har Faintawsy WOW poodle, and how bar ladwa d I letter by re tweirenny post, stating that if ot sent by fim Warr nest dm, the poodle should lose one of his legs, for which she begged so heartily. All this is to be found in the report of the commitme, and upon that ample information, Kr. Liddell brought in a hill, which was passed, in order to pat down dog-etealing in the metropolis. That bill, how ever, was kicked out of the 11 use of Peers. That's the way that practical, sincere, and earnest statesmen proceed. They inquire into the nature and extent of the abuse they wish to put down, and they proceed." In 1833, indeed, the Commons did venture upon a partial inquiry into the proceedings at the two oleo dons after the Reform Bill, a mass of evidence was taken and a report duly published; but the inquiry did not exhaust the subject, it did not point on; the many places where corruption went on, and when the report was laid upon the table no measure was founded upon it. For 13 years the subject has been allowed to slumber, or to be taken up by fits and starts, as some particular committee or some private member has thought it worth bringing to the notice of the house. Thus, Sudbury, by common con sent, has lost its privileges—the return of Mr. DTCA liornitit completed the measure of its virtues in the eyes of a house jealous of all taint of electoral impurity ; whilst Great Yarmouth escaped with the sacrifice of its freemen, and other towns suffered the more mischievous and less useful punishment of hav ing the right of representation suspended from the many for the sins of the few. Rut there has been no systematic attempt to trace out the crime u ProtAns like it distributes itself in a thousand ramifications throughout the different constituencies, for in each it takes some particular shape, and develops itself in some peculiar phase. It is not always in the shape of direct corruption ; it is more f fr. quently indirect. It is not so often the hard cash at the time of voting as habitual rules of the place. litre, again, is Mr. Gls uoarrit's honest avowal : It tees se ermy to inform oneself of the statistics of corrup tion la the country as of the statistics of the import of coffee. Ha man wants to represent some borough, for instance, he knows where to find the place where every information is to he obtained concerning it. You go and inquire, " What ere the circumstances of the place you have invited me to stand for?" The answer Le, "There are 300 Swiss; they have three guineas each; they are staunch men, quite with us on princine, and would not sell us for Rh. a head ; they were paid up at the general election, but as this is a by-election, we will tope that they will take half. Then there is about 2001. of back water: that must be cleared off. There are the publicans and others who must he paid, and until this is done the borough won't do for you." " Well, what risk is there i" " With a capital fellow, as little risk as poesibla." Now, I would be bound to prove before a committee of the Howse of Commons, and would take delight in doing so, what this corruption is about which I have been talking ; but the house is not doom in the desire to put it down. The thing occurred to myself. I was invited to stand for a place. I asked what Sr. the circumstances of the borough the answer was, there is no buying of votes. Well, I raid, that's good. " But you must keep up the charities." Well, I said, what's that ? " About 3001. or'4ool. a year "; and then the name of a great purist was mentioned—a very great purist in the House of Commons—and I was told that " it did not cost him more." How well that sounds—" keeping up the charities." Well, if I did that, what would be the chance of a man in those charities—what chance would • man bare, or ought to hove, who did not come to the poll and give me a vote ? It's only another name for bribery. It's nothing else. It's a round-about way of bribing, and I hope that the present Ileum of Commons, if they ever in take into their serious consideration this question of bribery, will put down the charities. That is perhaps of all sorts of bribery the most offensive. It is not by sending down paid commissioners to particular and selected places that we shall get at the true facts. There are half-a-dozen men in London who can give " every information" respecting the boroughs and the counties, who can hit the blots of each, and expose not sing le places, but the whole system, whether it be the corruption of the freemen, the hard gold to the " Swiss," or the insinuating " charity" of blankets, coals, and meat, or the exor bitant subscription to some partisan society. It is the system that must be known, and the sys tem that must bo changed. Here and there we may find such flagrant instances that condign punishment should fall on the whole constituency yet in most cases the leaven will be found to be small ; remove that, and the mass will no longer be leavened. It is clear that the law lords, with Lord DaNttaN at their head, have an insuperable objection to the principle of the last bill ; the government must, there fore, fix upon something less objectionable. Let as hope that it will also be far more extensive ; it should sot be limited to some half-dozen towns, it should ex tend to all where corruption is capable of proof; and with the proof the correction should follow quickly and certainly. WE hasten to do an act of justice to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. Capt. STEPHEN LUSHINGTON, R.N., whose appoint ment to the office of Superintendent of the - Indian Navy the journal in the service of the company an nounced on Thursday last, or the morning after the appointment was made, is not (as we yesterday stated) the son of the ch airman, he is nephew only ; Sir J. L LLSHINGTON not being blessed, we believe, with any son. The inaccuracy is not, however, of any consequence to our argument as to the abuse of patronage involved in the appointment. For, be he son or nephew, the nomination of Capt. LIISIIINGTON is equally objectionable. In correcting the mistake, we take the opportunity of giving some further particulars relative to this ap pointmint ; more especially as it has occasioned very great dissatisfaction. The candidates for the vacant post, worth 4,0001, a year, were Sir HENRY LEEKE, and Captain Lesnlxaron, who was of course pro posed by his uncle, the chairman. The court was, we are assured, equally divided as to their choice; and, on a division, eleven directors voted for each can didate : whereupon the chairman, it is posi tively asserted, gave a casting vote in fa vour of his relative, whose nomination was, as already stated, publicly announced next morning. Now if these particulars be correct (and we have them from a quarter likely to be well informed), the appointment is clearly void. For on turning to the 53 Geo. 111., cap. 165, sec. 77, it will be found that where there is an equality of Totes in favour of two or more candidates for any place in the gift of the Court of Directors, such election has to be determined "by lot, in manner directed by the charter." Consequently, the chairman of the court had no more right to two votes on the occasion than Mr. Locu or any other director, and having given two, the nomination made inconsequence is null. As, however, a mere notice of this asserted irregu larity must lead to come explanation on the point, we forbear further remark on this part of the case until it has been given, and proceed tonotice another objection to the appointment. It is the fact that Capt. LUSIIINGTON is at present in command of her Majesty's ship Vengeance in the Mediterranean. Now, though it may be quite proper for an officer in commission to resign his command on receiving another appointment from the crown, it will surely be a very bad and hazardous precedent to allow Queen's officers to resign their commands on the receipt of an appointment of great pecuniary value in another service, even though such resignation may allow ministers an opportunity of throwing a sop to their political opponents. For in this instance the Earl of lIMIDWICK6 Will, it is re ported, succeed Capt. LUSHINGTON in the command of the Vengeance. Nor can we find in Capt. LtISIIINGTON'iI past services in the Royal Navy any evidence of his surpassing fitness to be entrusted with the superintendence of the Indian navy. For, on re ference to Allen's " Navy List," we find these ur eic( e contained in two lines and a half, " Lushington, S., Lieut. of Cambrian, at Navarino, and commanded the /Etna Bomb at the taking of the Morea Castle in 1828." For all which, most people will think, his present command of the Vengeance, 84, to be ample reward. THERE is nothing that any man or body of men ought more to deprecate than the advocacy of the Time. Whether it be owing to an irrepressible spice of malice in its composition, or to sheer stupidity, is nn "pen question, but this is certain, that the Times never praises anyone without insinuating parentheti cally an imputation or two that neutralise all its panegyric. A political abuse may survive the most vigorous assaults, but as soon as the Times undertakes its defence, it is all up with it. In the Times of yesterday accordingly we find an article vituperative of the Liverpool Finance Associa tion, and laudatory of our military system ; and wrapped up in this laudation are two charges against that system which are conclusive as to its rottenness and need of a radical reform. _ -1, Our military system," says the Times " may be too mercantile, but it certainly is not too aristocratic." Too mercantile it certainly is. The act of procuring a com mission is in time of peace neither more nor less than a profitable investment of money. The vast majority of commissions are obtained by purchase, until recently all commissions were thus obtained. An ensign's com mission may be had for 4501., and the purchaser comes immediately into the receint of 901. per annum; a lieutenant's costs 7001., and a lieutenant's pay is 1801. per annum. And when the holder is tired of wearing a red coat, or wishes to invest his money otherwise, he can sell his commission for what it cost him. His duties in time of peace are not sufficiently onerous to prevent time hanging heavy on his hands. This is patting out money at tolerably . high interest. The Times is right: the accent certainly is too mer- 1 cantile; though owing to the peculiar constitution of the British aristocracy it is not a whit less aristo cratical on that account. Again, that " good-natured friend "—the Times, while eulogising our military system, takes care to remind its readers in a parenthesis that our " much abused and much-worked army " is "just equal to that of Belgium and one-fourth of that of France." This is not strictly accurate. The effective force of the French army at the time of the last revolution was 336,000 men ; the number of men borne on the estimates for 1848-9 (army and ordnance together) was 128,141. The English army is in number about one-third of the French. The coat of the whole French army in 1847.8 (exclusive of extraordinarica for Algiers, which may be set off against our Kaffir war expenses) was 13,500,2441. The army estimate for 1848-9 was 6,318,6861. ; the ordnance estimate 3,115,2181. ; in all, 9,433,9041. In point of numbers the British is only one-third the strength of the French ; but the British army costs this country more than two-thirds of what the Fri nch army costs France. . The Liverpool Financial Association ought to pass a vote of thanks to the Times for assisting them to prove the rottenness which pervades our system of army administration, and the profligate exec*s of ex penditure entailed upon the country in its name. ......___ L ______----- Mit& cwt. T. 1:163. 14. 011.11. Mt IL Sim 3. IM. 14 - ... ... -6 3 1- 2 0 6 =. ... •.. ... ... 31 11 ... a. ... ..• ••• ••• II T ... ... ... ... ... 31 1 _ ... - .- ... II 0 , _ - . - . . .._-___ •••......4... Rahn& TEE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22. 1848. PRODUCE.— M:SCING-1.011, Half-past Deo.— The small Barr Wes de set skew any alteratiess in prissy bat the !Midi is deli telerably steady, bat dam set whew say iy admmes es lest week's priese.—Cedela smintaiss the improved eppeareace it took es 'Cheese yestioniar—Ram dall.—Tea: the market has set mitered slate tke anival d the Chien mall.—le other a nkles as slossilsa ; tke sweat of business dam small, as frequently seem es the Wednesday. 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Ist !muds .. • 10 fintlybsp4loll.p 1 0 0 Soot& high I ... • u Ras, pa tam £33 0-41 • ot: Pourobom bed Mid% sad /17• Y 90 0... e• 0 Vflu•1883 huh at per ton. 4t.Petergom9o3BoB/00 19_31 outAtiot - • half dam 21 15... • aim Mao U 18-30 ostabst - • pre SI 0.- • 183•3113 . 311 •. ..97 to ....38 tiostbsi IS 34 his T 33., at For wt. Oars U • .86 • strata• ..SI 0...•• • GL le Woks - 79 0... • • Laos, It per um. Sus S3 3 SO 0 TALLOW.—The Tallow market remains Mealy. Petonemg T. C. on the spot, 46t. to 45. 3t. ; October to Member dtlivery. 440. 9d. to ek; separate months' my, 16s. 64. to 455. 9d. CATTLE, &c.—Totr•l of Cattle received in London be. ths Eastern Counties Railway, for the week ending Nov. 18 Baru, 29• i; C►lves, 109, Shcep, 8,091; l'ip, 299 - - - Danny, Nov. 21.—Oar market continues to be tolerably well supplied with fat Beasts as regards the number, but in the Quality generally there is a great deficiency. The de. mud for the best things wu somewhat improved to-day, and higher prices were obtained, although the meat market is in a low and depressed state, and we may say, worse than it has been for many p osed spes of. The number of Sheep which was effered for sale was not large, and but little demand for any but the best quality, coasequ. ntly there were many left unsold. Fat Pigs were not so plentiful, but they were a quicker sale. Beef, sd. to ' iyd. Mutton, bid. to 6d. Lamb, Gd. Veal, Gd. to 7d. per lb. Pork, 9s per score. • • ^ •- - . N ZWCASTI.I4 Nov. 21.—The supply of Brute was not so 11.101111101 N as the preeeding week, but were severthelens equal to the &mend. Their quality generally was very interior, there being very few large, prime-conditioned ani mals. Dealer., it appear., keep them back, choosing rather to feed them on turnips than submit to the low prices. Prime cattle brought from 6s. to 64. 6d. ; and inferior, 6.. to ss. 6,1. The supply of Sheep was greatly deliciest, but, in consecuence (Atha demand being limited, priees did not rise ; Wedders, good, realised 6d., and Ewes, bed. per lb A good show of Piga. and prices still look upwards ; is. per stone for good porkers; and store Pigs, the youngest and smallest, realised fully 141.6 d. a-head. Others at prices tuning as to size and condition. For Yeas►dap'a markets sat fad pita FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY, 530 P.M. There appears in the journals to-day a sort of manifesto on behalf of Prince Louis, in the form of a letter addressed by M. Ferdinand Barret, member of the Assembly, and brother of Odillon Barret, to M. Chambulic, member of the As&mbly and editor in chief of the Sitlrle. This manifesto is too long to be given here. A political dinner was given yesterday by M. (Milton Barrot at his country house at St. Germaine, at which several members of the Bonaparte family, including Prince Louis, assisted. Several of the leaders of the moderate party were also present. It is understood that the above-mentioned letter of M. Fer dinand Barrot was reed and sanctioned at this meeting. M. %Wide has had a conference with M. Von Reimer, chargé d'affaires of the central government at Frankfort. M. Von Raumer,who has now been at Paris for three months, had never yet been officially received or acknowledged by Gen. Cavaignac. He had not been admitted to present his credentials, nor has the government in any explicit manner acknowledged the central government of Frankfort. M. Von Itaumer was accordingly ordered todemand of M. Baatide categorical explanations on the subject. M. Bastide answered that the conduct of the government was based on the reasons :-1. That England had not yet acknowledged the Frankfort government. 2. That the Frankfort government was not yet definitively constituted. Upon the second point M. Von Itaumer observed that the European powers did not wait for the vote of the constitution to acknowledge the French republic ; on the first he referred to the excellent reception given at London to the envoy from Frankfort. M. Baatide then gave a third reason. He said that nothing I could be di fiaitive in France until after the election of the President, who would probably change the minis try, and that M. Bastide wished to leave this question to his successors. M. Von Raumer then declared that he would communicate with his government, which had authorised him to remain in Paris until after the presidential election; after which he would imme diately demand his passports it satisfaction were not given. The following is a report of the speech delivered by M. Ledru Rollin at the banquet of the democratic and social press. Being loudly greeted as he roes, he said : May this applause, which I em aware is not bestowed on me personally, be heard through the whole world, that it may know that we have at heart seriously the near advent of • complete reign of democracy in the reign of the social and democratic republic. My brothers, to establish in the world the reign of the democratic and social republic, one most im portant means is the union of the democracy of France. By one retrograde step in France the fate of the world will he compromised, and its well-being long postponed. Would you have a proof ! It is before you. On the 24th February the people, in its holy enthusiasm, named a government. This government at once issued a manifesto to Europe, and what was its demand? Conquest? No I the reign of fra ternity! What language ? It was this, that wherever men would shake off their chains, France, which desired not conquest, would with her armies support the cry of "Liberty!" She wished the force of opinion and reason united where the rays of liberty shone above the barricades of the people to extend to them the hand of friendship. How have we fallen now ? If we look at Spain, we see that 1' ranee delivers up her exiles. The government, forgating all laws of hu manity, sends Irma to Narvaes to he shot men whose only offenc,s are political. In Italy, what have we said to its glorious people? " Rise, call on us, and we will assist you!" How have we kept our promise ? Italy is abandoned, and at this moment writhes under the heel of the oppressor. (Profound sensation.) They condemn the red republic— this is the work of the monarchists. See what the tools of ty ranny do. Radetski, in spite of treaties, in spite of the in tervention of France—Radetski, that garage old general, seizes on property, appropriates, confiscates it, and France has not courage to say " You are an outlaw to all nations." The Danubian provinces which have intimate alliance with France desire their independence ; they apply to France, and tee government allows 80,000 R1110141:111 to approach the Danube, and her ambassador cannot say " Withdraw, or war!" Turning to Berlin, immediately after the revolution of February, that city cried " Liberty," and formed a provisional republican government, when suddenly the reaction which governs France joins with the King of Prussia, who now is endeavouring to gag the parlia ment. My brethren, let this immenu concourse raise a shout which shall say to the people of Berlin that if the government of France is against them, the people of France are with them. Responding to the pulsations of the heart of France, Vienne, that city of an old and elegant aristo cracy, sees her people rise and drive away their Emperor by the cry of " Vire la liberte !" The Provisional Govern ment promised to Vienna and Germany the aid of France. You have at the foot of the Alps a courageous army, ready to succour Vienna. Now what has happened ? Liberty is oppressed. A man whose hand once in my life I had the honour to clasp, Robert Blum, has expiated his courage and his patriotism. (Sensation. " Viva Robert Blum!") You have greeted the name of this martyr. I ask for his wife and his children a triple salvo of applause. (Thunders of applause from all sides.) Blum, may thy great spirit be evoked by this, and may it place in the hand of shuddering Germany a sword to extrude its despots. I repeat it, then, may social democracy at last govern the world. We need union, power, determination, and energy, for if we be divided, the fate of democracy is for the time sealed in Europe. Let then union, determinatien, energy, be ours ; and be assured that we shall soon succeed against the oppoeition of all the governments in the world. The people is powerful, and when it wills anything legiti mate it can accomplish it. Let our friends, let our brothers who arc absent, be re-assured, for, if for a time we be op pressed, by universal suffrage we shall at last arrive at the will of the people, and I repeat, there will then only exist one sentiment—fraternity. Vire /a Republique &meta tique et sociale. TVISDAY, 11 AM. The measure for the indemnification of the deposi tors in the savings banks and the holders of Treasury Bonds was again brought before the Assembly yesterday ; but its decision was adjourned to this day, the number of members present being in.ufficient to confer legality on it. It will be remem bered that after February the provisional government declared itself insolvent, so far as related to the savings' bank and the floating debt. The matter stood over until after the convocation of the Assembly, and at length on 7th July that body adopted a de cree, in virtue of which the depositors in the safety bank were compelled to accept a repayment of the capital they had lent to the state in 5 per cent. stock, valued at 80, the price it bore on the Bourse on that day, and the holders of Treasury Bonds were to re ceive three per cent at the rate of 55. In other words the claims of these creditors of the state were to b: , consolidated, and even stock was to be issued to them at these rates. This decree produced an immediate effect to the damage of the creditor. The large amount of new stock thrown upon the market caused a considerable decline of value even before the new stock could be issued, and the injustice of the de cree became glaring. The Fives have since fallen so low as 60, and the Threes to 40, thus producing a lose of 25 per cent. of the capital for those creditors who were compelled to sell at these rates. By the decree now proposed some compensation vat be offend for this loss. It is proposed to tau the average of the prices of the funds from the 7th July to the present time, and to give credit to the d e , positore of the safety bank for the difference between such average and 80, the price at which they compelled to take the stock, and a like measure will be provided in reference to the holders of T reasury Bonds. A decree to this effect sill probably he adopted today. The Mimitetsr of this morning gives, in reply to th e Journal des D4bata, the following accouut of the portfolio of the Treasury : The Journal dca paws has nn uneasiness left but as to th e compoeition ut the p.,rtfolio. It is euy to satisfy it ou thji putt. The Canal S • area and the stock in a and 3 p er c ub , , from the savings hark. are credi.ed in the portfolio not at their cost price, that I , 86 millions stated by the Joanne! (111 Lau, but for their real value at the price of the day of being credited; that is, 4G millions. The bonds of the Northern Railway amount to 57 millions, of which 12 are payabl e i n 15 49. The retraining pert of the 143 millions, leas 5 milieu of values to arruwe, is composed of bills at short date*, which the treasury, it it thought fit, could immediately negotiate, ITALY. LOMBARI)Y.—We have given the decree of Man shal liadttski, imposing heavy contributions on all members of the late provisional government and cons. mittees. A correspondent of the Censtitotitoin e l states that the famil'es of Visconti, Borromeo, Litta, and Pio, have been taxed to the amount of a million of franca op? , 40,0001.), whilst the family of Clad will be deprived of ore half of its wealth by this iniquitous tax. The same correspondent adds :—" The Sardinian ministry is abut to propose a law denlaria t null and void aoy sale of property of haiyrit whirS may take place by order of Radetthi. No buyers will be found to take the land ctfered for tale ; bat the Austrians will pull up the last tree, break and b%rn everything, rather than be fiustrated." In the sitting of the 16th instant of the Chant, bet of Deputies of Turin, M. Manzi addressed question to ministers concerning the decree of Its. detakni, imposing a contribution upon the city d Milan. The Chamber resolved unanimously :—Thst it was struck with indignation et the horrors corn. mitted by Radetaki at Milan ; and to recommend to the Cabinet to employ more efficacious msans in future to prevent the recurrence of such spoliatiun and atrocities. Advice' have been received from Naples to the 13th, and from Palermo to the 11th. Tranquillity co lt . firmed to prevail ; but much impatience was mini. feeted for the return of the British minister, since all proceedings in the Anglo-French mediation were ne. eessarilv suspended until his arrival. The king of Naples was expected to be willing to make large concessions, thus he would grant thecon stitution of 1812, and an independent government under one of his sons as sovereign, but a serious diffi. culty remained to be surmounted. Sicily has no organised army, and without one order cannot bs maintained. The Neapolitan army is so detested by the Sicilians that its presence would be utterly incom. patible with the tranquillity of the island. What, under such circumstances, is to be done does not appear. It was reported that the King had applied to the Emperor of Russia to take a part in the proposed me. diation, and that the latter had responded unexpectedly by a recommendation to the King to make huge unexpectedly liberal concessions. The English squadron, consisting of five ships of the lir.e and two steam-frigates, were still moored be. fore Naples. SWITZERLAND. A letter from the canton of Vaud says The celebration of catholic worship was interdicted on the 12th at Nyon." The following is the new Swiss federal govern. meet :—Furrer, of Zurich, president; llney, c Vaud, vice-president ; Ochsenbein, of Berns; Munziger, of Soleure; Frey }lsms, of Argau• Franzini, of Tessin ; Naeff, of St. Gall ; &hies, chancellor of the federal government. The two chambers (the Council of State and National Council) met for the first time on the lath instto proceed to the above.mentioned elections. The gen. tlemen elected thanked the assembly, reserving the option to resign until it shall be decided which town of the federation will be the seat of government. It is supposed that in case the united chambeea agree for Berne M. Furrer will resign. The Gazette de Tessin of the 16th says, the deputise at the conference at Fribourg have decided, it is said, on the subject of the bishop of that city-1. That he shall discontinue his functions at Lausanne and Geneva. 2. That he shall be interdicted from residing in any of the cantons dependent on that diocese. 3. That the council of state shall take necessary measures for the administration of the bishopric. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—The Berlin papers of the 19th have not rcaehed us. An extraordinary edition of the Co. Incog Gazette, of the 19th, says that the government has determined to withdraw its decree adjourning the Diet to Brandenburg. Foreigners who could not assign a good reason for ' their residence here have been expelled the town. The Diet of Oldenburg has unanimously adopted an address, in which, in the name of the people of Old enburg, it expresses to the Prussian National Assem bly its gratitude for its energetic conduct in repelling the attacks of absolutism. The burgomaster and common council of Cologne have published the fol lowing proclamation : Fellow.citisens—ln the sittings of the communal coned this day, the question was discussed of the critical situation in which the crown and the National Asembly are placed with regard to each other The communal council has resolved,llDr niMOUlliy, to take steps for putting an end to this division, and has voted the following address: May it please your Majesty—The deplorable differences between the National Assembly and the crown increase every moment, and plunge the whole country into profound grief and fear. Our city in a state of great excitement, and the communal consul fulfils an argent duty in confidently add • g its petition to your Majesty. The ministry of Count Bran. denburg is not supported by popular opinion. We rispeetfully pray your Majesty to dismiss it, and to replace it by a popular ministry. The intelligence that your Majesty has taken this resolution will cans. gene ral joy and gratitude. We hope that tranquillity will be re established at Berlin, and that the liberty of the National Assembly will be secured against every disturbance. Under this supposition the National Assembfy might, according to the declaration of your mijesiy, continue its sittings at Ber lin. Fixing our eyes only on the actual gate of things, we humbly pray your Majesty not to carry out your resolution of transferring the National Assembly to Brandenburg. We earnestly conjure your Majesty to do all that is possible and necessary for the restoration of peace. With the most pro found respect, the Communal Council of Cologne."—M. Brea, canon, M. Guillaume, and M. Ricker, pri curator-general, have been depot , d to present this address in person to the King, and to accompany it with verbal representations on the state of the country. The deputies have already set out for Berlin by the night train, and will meet at Potsdam a great number of deputies and other com munal authorities of the Rhenish provinces. We con fidntly expect that the measures which we have adopted may produce a happy effect, and urgently recom mend that all do maintain that gravity and tranquillity which our inhabitants have so frequently displayed in times of - difficulty .— Cologne, Nov. 18, 1818.—The Buigomaster ana Communal Council. It is reported that Potsdam and Stettin are in a state of siege. A letter from Berlin, of Nov. 17,Ittays • For the last day or two we hove had an inceissnt fall of snow and rain. No one would imagine from the appearance of the city twit we were in a state of siege. There are no crowds or groups of people about the streets, and the suldien who are charged with the disarmament conduct their task with great propriety. Order and tranquillity eut wardly prevail everywhere. The sub-officer enters the house, and receives the arms which are delivered to Min; ' Le inquires whether there are any more arum, and ois t receiving an answer in the negative he wiihdrawe with great poli-eness. Those only who behave violently are . arrested; among these are the democrats Risky, Osaka, Ligke, M. Benarig, the editor of the IrtikanfotOff; K. Thide, the editor of the Publicist., and an officer of the 12th regiment, who declared in the face of hie ' men that it was an act of high treuan to fire upon the people. It is likewise affirmed that Major Heerwarth true been put under arrest, because be did not prevent the faction of the National Assembly from passing the vote to refuel' the taxes. Colonel Somerfeld, who was charged with obstructing the sitting of the faction of the National Assembly, has es r signed his commission. 9 The burgher guard of Berlin has sent 500 deputies to different parte of the country, in order to come to an arrangement with the various political societies t and burgher guards of the cities and the provinces, t respecting the attitude which should be taken in the t present state of affairs. • The Constitutionnel of the 20th says :—" It is an nounced to us as certain that the King of Prussia has t charged M. Grabow, formerly President of the Na -1 tional Assembly of Berlin, to form a new cabinet. If this news be confirmed, the conflict, so fatal for the Puts the soli Wil