The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

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Mine Caimans Oar daunt! ...nett nil rite round awn and aid, leetemer, tomelaity *mad to all niffliol items in literature. Kieeee. NY en. Os everyday Inept nataday the Fr:cc ul Rd EXPRE.SS will be Theeteerom as hen Wave. ADTERTISEMI.NTM. The mat valet of the BILIIIBITION El Eland as a madam ant yey ißui to oda thorn Al reirenimmunie co e d be et I s M Whitertare ar nr tetare debt be the ens's, •1 ten hill% Is snare Isiertim to the number at the Mourne day. Oflkmla Bowerlerbset. flesiatreet ghe Onareoo. TO CORRESPO,4II ) ENTS. Athr c.mirt.isleveled Espees.." LAlSian Zees* psper, . e . the ell,e„ lionserlseeteeste toy Two END& ess the day of peleasttiosy. liloll WATER AT LONDON MUDGE. Tllll4 Day—Horsing, 2h. 440.._......m0rep0. I.wommovr —Morning, sh. la SW. LONDON, DIOND.4I; FEBRU.IRI' 17. THE Citorereerot of the Exetnetrita, we are told seini-offieially. has no story to tcU, except the known one of the abolition of the window-tax, which. he declams, will curry off all his surplus. Another sixpence he has not. lie has given all to the and tropolitan demanders, being L 9410,000/. out of 2,000,11001 Therefore soup, and fiats r, and tea, and the whole list of exe'ised nay 1.,•13 shout their busies. Even the window-tax is not to be giitin with the right hand, until a renewal of the ineome-tax is stewed with the left. And that renewal is to lie, without modification, the same rude and ill proportioned levy that it ever was. And, in addition to the income tax, the CHAN CELLOR has determined to ask for a tux of three per cent. upon the rent of houses. We mest own we doubt any such additional tax tieing mobil by the House of Commons nut from any radical objection bathe nature of the tax, although such o b j.ctiu u sare not wanting; but simply because Sir truenens Wiiou makes no case at ull for wanting this trifling, and, therefore, suapieknoi tax. It is to produce lion,olo. What for Oh! to pay a- the national (kid. The CHAN cri.l.Olt Of the Exteireireet is uuw t.nd then inclined to he jocular; and truly he will find it difficult to maw forward with a gram: face and propose a house tax of three per emit. to pay off the national debt. The ministerial organ insists that British honour and enslit require that we should at least make sonic effiirts to prey the ten millions sterling we borrowed in INK Let us consider whom we bor rowed them fur? It was to give relief to Irish dis tress. But Ireland now is flourishing. Its poor-law returns are quoted as a souse ci of ixultation for the remised prosperity of that country. Why not, then. elite nd at uni the income-tux to the sister 7.,land? It fall. On prigs rty and upon earn ings. Why should they not pay there as well as hen.' The Meow-tux, extended to behind, would furnish the (Item is with the half-million he requires to pay off, as he says, this Irish loan. And surely it is more just that he should look to the Irish for it. than to chip a tax on every householder in Great Britain for the purpose. Justice at once would suggest sail an equality of burdens. But unhirtunntely it is not of justice that ministers arc at this moment thinking. They see some twenty Irish menthers flying in their face, and menacing to turn the majority; and rather than offend them. Sir CHARLES WOOD has resolved to saddle• the industrious Englishman. in addition to his other burdens, with a house-tax. WITH every lilwral man, who had the freedom. the wrath. ss. aria regeneration of Gel many at heart, we have .I%erted attention from the affair,. of that calm. try. They are in a stute too painlul to contemplate, too degrading to dwell on, yet too hopeless for com plaint or ionimisemtimi to he of the least advantage. From the day that Prussia wits deterred by the united menaces of Austria and of Russia from nfam- I tai • g her own independowe and the constitutional freislom of the states of western Germany ; from that moment there ii.t4 nothing left but to regard Germany as another Poland, or another I Russia, which had either erased to be, or was not vet, of those states which belong to the great Euro- I jinni family. Poland we eousider so frozen up in I tlw ice of "despotism that no one eares to hear ° el what is done or said at Warsaw, beyond the Em peror's circle , until the day. when th e laud rises in wild insurrection. It is Row a cry insirly . the some with Germany. Subjected to brutal dellottom, eum pelted to stifle within its own breast and saentice the most sacred rights, the most cherished. the must legi timate wishes, what is the German now but the brother bondsman of the Pole? Seeing as we do, must manifest. that the word, the order, of the CZAR, ean eiwrve the greatest potentates of Germany, and make any or all of theai kneeling supplicants at the throne of Wan.aw, what cam we any longer for the forms, or the words. or the clauses, m which it may place the Russian Chants ry to direct that 1 the `rules of the Genital. confederation be drawn out? Of what importance can it be whether the valets of Russia, aho meet together at Frankfort, be limited to eleven, or amount to their old number of seventeen ? The papers have told us, and our own correspondents have written, of the langthened and entangled discussions which took place in that mock conference at Dresden. just as if the delegatos of German powers had any voice or influence in this matter. Was it not long since de freed at Warsaw, that Germany either separate or united. should not be allowed at free constitution? And did not this imply that the old Diet should ba immediately reston4 with that authority which the law of 1832 gave it of putting down constitutional liberty in any state? Was not this ailed upon in Hesse, with the sanction and even amidst the exultation of Baron MANTEUFFEL who insulted the bravelle;sians. whom he betrayed? And how could it be hoped, with the Prussian and Aus trian cabinets in such full accord with the Russian. that anything less than the despotism of the old Diet would be restored? It is to be motored. The propositions for modify ing or restricting it were mere moonshine. The oily difference is, that formerly it was a dull beast of prey, that lay upon 'ita victim , and suffo c ated without tearing or devouring it. whereas now it is to be rampant and active. Austria Mists not only nu the reconstitution of the Diet, but on the permanent organisation of a federal army of 110,000 men. always prepared to crush an outbreak. or to punish, as in He sse, every inkling of consti tutional or even passive resistance. And this double part of be ingat once the victim and the instrument of oppression, is not confined to Germimy. but is ex twaded to Hungary and to Lombardy. so that the (Vents and the Mdancao may be employed to en furor martial law in Hamburg. whilst the'Prussians and Potneranians are to be employed in the name and under the banner of the G,rmanic confederation. to keep down the vindictive nisi' of Brescia and One good result, however. has followed this serous' revolution in the political partition and organisation of Europe. It has awakened France from the slumber which it was enjoying in the arms of an ab solutist alliance. All .through the great straggle be tween German powers and principles in 1849 and IMO. the French government, under the legitimist and reactionary influence of Messrs. IVIERS and Lamm, gave its every support, and adhesion to the muss ci tyranny and of Austria. It applauded the ci Hungary; the French cabinet went out oppressors,,,, to tick a quarrel with Prussia ; nay made itself the cat s-paw of Russia in getting up the landun protocol, and fiircing Lord Patmlamati to we it. The same French cabinet showed every eager sass towards acknowledging the Diet of Frnnkfort. Lk short, LOUIS NAPOLLON't) govmument played the THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1 Russians part in Athens, in Berlin, in Vienna, at Frankfort, and we may, add, at Rome. For this treachery—for it was no other—France now finds just retribution. Germany, prostrate at the feet of Austria and Russia, consents to form with them a compact confederation, which is to stretch not only to the confines of Moldavia, but which hoists its colours on the Adda and the Po. When a French general shall nett time find it necessary to cross the Alps to defend Italy, be will find the armies, not only of Austria, but of the whole German confedera tion, between him and Milan. And an expedition to Ancona will not merely be an affront to Vienna, but a move that must bring even the Baltic powers forward to the repression of France. As the fruits of the London protocol, this is certainly just. In the effort to render Holstein indq)endent of Germane, General LAIDTTE has succeeded in incorporating this whole north of Italy with the German confedera tion. Nor are these all the results of the Latirrre and Tultits policy with regard to Germany. Those French politicians were in great annoyance and alarm, wuen the Prussian union attempted to unite with it all the German states bordering on the Rhine, when Prussian troops occupied Baden, and Prussian policy threatened to prevail in the two Hesse' and Nassau. Prussian influence and l'nrsian armies have. indeed, been routed out of these states; but Austrian influence and armies have been substituted. The authority of the Grand Duke of BADEN U sovereign power may be considered as destroyed. Austria has renewed her old hold over Suabia, and is at this moment using her influence to restore the old catholic establishments, monasteries, and party. She is doing the same in Franconia. Her proposal in the Diet is to have those states on the Rhine no longer garrisoned by their own troops, but by the new army of the federation. So that, in i addition to an army of the united German powers l in Lombardy, France will find another permanent army of upwards 0f400,000 men on the other side of the Rhine. Instead of going to look fur them at Bregentz, the French will find Austrian armies iu Rastadt and at Ulm. South Germany and North Italy being thus included under the same riginvr, there comes forward necessa rily the question of that country which stands be tween them, which has so long maintained its independence, and during the last year has succeeded in preserving tranquillity and order. That great power, which has just proscribed constitutional monarchy from amongst the Germans, will scarcely tolerate • democratic republic in Switzerland. Self WARZENBERG and RADETSKI will not suffer German and Italian refugees to harbour in the Free Cantons. And in a month or two we shall hear of protocols, and corSotr and triple notes menacing to the inde pendence and freedom of Switzerland. Frame used to defend the Swiss. If she intends to persevere in the same honourable line, she would soon have to buckle on her diplomatic armour, and speak some other language than of Outman or I..turrre. Long since, indeed, have we said that as soon as Germany was fully subdued to Russia, the turn of France would come. The turn of France has some ! And perhaps it is all the better for L 01.38 NAPILEON and for France that it has come, since a sentiment of national dignity and danger may arouse the country once more to theme feelings of liberalism. dignity, and honour, of which it seemed in some danger of losing even the memory and the tradition. FRANCE. PARIS, SATVRTAT EVENING. M. Nis:ripen', private secretary of the l'residcnt of the Republic, has add eased the following letter to the editor of the Pays : Sir—You have just opened a subscription at the offices of your estirni'sle journal, noes ithstanding the declaration of the President of the Republic that he would accept none. That declaration, nevertheless, could neither give rise to any doubt, nor any inception. It is ■ sacrifice without reservation to the repose of the country. Crider whatever form, th" refure, the funds may be collected, whatever desti n ttion may be assigned to them, the President cannot accept them. Ile charges inc to repeat this in the ant formal manner; and while thanking those personal:4loas persevering regard would induce them to co-operate with your personal devotedness, he begs you not to follow up this priceted subscription. Accept, sir, the assurance of my distinguished and devoted sentiments. The President scents already to have thrown him self, without repining, into the measures of economy demanded by his new position. He has given orders for the sale of most of his horses, and two valuable English horses, recently imported, have already been wild. 11w horses Of the President which were at St. ('loud have been brought to the stables in the Rue Montaigne. A few days ago a Piedmontese paper, the Croce di .Sarnia, drew the attention of the Sardinian govern ment to the concentration of large bodies of Aus trian troops on the line of the Ticino, and on the formation of military magazines and hospitals at Pavia and other places towards the Piedmontese frontier. Public opinion required an explanation of these vast military preparations, so menacing to the independence of the Sardinian States, and so preg nant with warlike meaning. There is now no doubt ' that this stir of military demonstration on the part I of Austria is really levelled, through Piedmont, at France, and is the answer of the cabinet of Vienna to the emphatic protests of French diplomacy against the entrance of Austria, with her Slavonian, l Hungarian, and Italian states, into the Ger manic Confederation. Great Loss been the stir yesterday and to-day in and out of the Assesn- 1 bly on this subject, which seems suddenly to have I absorbed all minds. The fact is that France has been so taken up with the squabbles of her intestine power*, that her foreign policy has been since the, revolution of February completely paralyzed. Awak ening from this trance, she starts to see the un-1 wieldy bulk of her old rival Austria, so lately shat- 1 tered and prostrate, towering over her, hand in hand with the great German rival, against whom she was a month or two ago butting and bellowing war. The old jealous suspicion of an European league against France is at once revived in all its force. Meanwhile people arc waiting here with much anxiety for official knowledge of the course which the English government is prepared to take on a re- organisation of Germany, which teary up the treaties of 1813. The Minister of Marine, Admiral Valliant, seems I not to have persevered in his intention of stopping' the voyage to the missions; for I learn to-day that the Cassini, commanded by M. Le Plat, has been I commissioned to sail, during three years,on a voyage , to all the French missions. Nar aez quitted Bayonne on the 10th inst. to re turn to Madrid. M. Leon Faucher announced, at the beginning of the Amernblfe sitting, over which he presided to day, that the great importance of the new depart mental and municipal law demanded strict attention in the bureaux upon its examination. He therefore proposed that the Assembly should adjourn till Thursday next. 'this proposal was agreed to; there fore no sitting will take place on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. The rest of the Assembly's sitting of to-day was occupied in passing several articles of the Mortgage Reform Law. I informed you some time ago that M. Saint- Beuve had presented a series of propositions for re forming the French tariff on free trade principles. This question begins to be seriously agitated, and to-day a long article appears in the Debats from the pen of M. Michel Chevalier advocating the new liberal doctrines in commerce, of which England has shown the example. This frank adoption of the principles of free trade by an organ representing the upper bourgeoisie marls an important epoch in the question of French commerce, and opens a cam paign against protection and monopoly under good auspices. The government stands well-disposed to introduce extensive changes in the existing commer , tint legislation iu favour of la rie a boa tnarelse, which is found to be impassible as long as the whole community is taxed for the be nefit of gavial classes. The great popularity which has followed the cheapening of meat by the uew freedom of public auction created by the prefect of police is a stimulating encourage ment for the government of the President to perse vere in making the comforts of existence as accessible as possible to the poorer classes. I send you some account ut• the state of the coal trade to show the de plorable effect of this monopoly upon iron and steel Imanufactures and other branches of industry. The govcrntnent has issued the following official notification for the purpose of stepping preparations going on in Paris for a clandestine piratical expedi tion to Monte Video : EnroLtni no' are at this moment going on in Paris far a miittary and agtitultural colony at Mont* Video. The French goverment is entirely unconnected with this re- cruitiag, which has be.ni undertaken without its consent, and it is resolved not to authorise any expedition of tlis kind. It is said that before the government had crushed : the Monte Video enterprise Laio passports bad been , prepared at the Prefecture of Police for the recruits enrolled. The funds recovered today much of the firmness which they had loi.t during the last three days. There was a rise in the Fives of 25c., which nearly balanced the full of yesterday. MM. Alexandre Dumas, Mere, the Marquis do Grimaldi, anti Lieut. de la Pierre, seconds in the duel between MM. (*harks Hugo and Viennot of the Cursaire, appeared to-day before the (*hombre Cot rectionnelle to appeal against the fine of NOE im posed on each of them. fhe chamber confirmed the previous sentence. Report says that Count cfOrsay is appointed mi nister to the court of Hanover, and that the Duke de Guiche is to be First Secretary of Embassy in London. SVNIMV EVENING. The next political question of magnitude which pre sents itself in France is the revision of the constitution. As this question cannot, according to the rides of the constitution, be entertained before the third year of the Legislative Assembly's existence, we must wait until the end of May until any proposition can be brought forward on the subject. Meanwhile, it is perketly clear that the adversaries of Louis Napo leon, on both sides of the Chamber, have a para mount interest in maintaining the present constitu tion, simply because it excludes him from re election. Iu order, therefore, to prognosticate the fate of the question of the revision, which requires fir its success a majority of three-fourths of the house, we have only to ask ourselves what chance there is of the 396, who have given the most emphatic pledge of their opposition to the President by voting against the flotation, being reduced to somewhat less than half that number. Now there is not at this moment any reason to suppose that one of these 396 will be a ! bit more friendly to the President three months hence than he is to-due. M. Thiers says that he is not in the habit of making a half opposition, and we may be pretty sure that he will keep his word. M. Berrver, notwithstanding all his past sup port to the government in the cause of order, would, if he truly represents the legitimists, rather sec a fresh revolution than the triumph of the President ; for a fresh revolution would give the legitimists a much better chance of coming into power. The Mountain is equally bent on excluding the President ; because his government is strictly, inexorably, con servative. The revision must, therefore, in all human probability, be thrown out ; and the Assembly remaining of this mind to the end of its term, in May, Louis Napoleon will be by law excluded from the number of candidates for the presidency. The coalition will then have to pitch on their candidate. The royalists, remaining divided on the ques tion of' which monarchy is to be restored, and when, will evidently be obliged to sacrifice their Monk, Changarnier, and receive a candidate from the Left, either Cavaiguac or Lamoriciere. This natu rally brings us to the subject of M. Creton's motion, postponed some time ago to the Ist of March. The general opinion is that this motion will be rejected by a considerable majority. So far the Assembly's course is quite clear. It is not quite so clear, how ever, whether that course, which is to all appearance at variance with the wishes of the majority of the French constituency, is so decidedly in antagonism with the national will ns to necessitate a revolt from the law and bring matters to the arbitrament of a fresh revolution. Unless the French nation declared its preference of the President by soine such spon taneous movement of enthusiasm as gave birth to the election of the 10th December, the probabilities are in favour of the maintenance of the law. The diplomatic world is much occupied by the pre ration. on the part of the great German powers for destroying the independence of Swit*erlund. The note relative to the measures decided on by Austria and Pni.ssia against the Swiss confederation bas been communicated to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Broder has laid it before the council of ministers. It proposes to put in execution the plan adopted in 1847, to restore the former consti tution and ancient government, and to claim the principality of Neufchatel in the name of Prussia. tederal corps d'arrt* of occupation would amount to 100,000 men, of whom Prussia and Austria would furnish 35.000 each, Bavaria and Wurtemburg 20,000, and the other German states 10,000 men. It is said that the declaration recently made in the Assembly by the Minister of the Interior, relative to the application of the electoral law of the 31st May to the election of the President of the Republic, as well as the proclaimed intention of the government to support that law, was the expression of the per sonal opinion of M. Waysse. No deliberation on the subject has taken place in the council of ministers. The Pays, to which paper M. kloequart has just administered a hint to stop once for all the subscrip tion agitation, has now taken up the line of avenging the President on the Assembly for rejecting the Potation, by advocating the retrenchment of the salary of representatives. A new evening paper, entitled the Messages de l'Assemblee, made its first appearance last night. The name of this organ, which is conducted by MM. Foreade and Solar, sufficiently indicates its political tendency. You may remember that MM. Foreade and Solar withdrew from the Pattie in consequence of the strong Elysean bias impressed upon that paper in the disputes between the Committee of Permanence and the executive power. The council of ministers was occupied yesterday with the proposition for amnesty and the German question. It was resolved to address a fresh protest to the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin against the con templated violation of the treaties of 1815. The Monitear contains some changes in the mili tary commands. The most important of these is the appointment of General Herbillon to the command of the Ist brigade of the 3rd division of the army of Paris in the place of General Julien, placed in dis posability. General Julien was one of the four generals of brigade wider Changarnier. Yesterday we were informed by the International that Narvaez had left Bayonne on the llth to return to Spain. To-day we read in the Debuts that the Spanish hero has reached Paris. For the rest, this is the third announcement of the Duke of Valencia's arrival in the French capital. The dismissal of lift v-four prefects and sub-prefects is now decided on, and is expected to appear in the Moniteur in a few days. The club of the Rue des Pyrainides has appointed a board ; MM. Baroche, Beugnot, and Faucher have been chosen presidents. Admiral Romain-Desfos4s, now at Brest. hoists his flag on board the Chaptal, to repair to his com mand of the French naval station in the Levant. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 10th Feb., shows the difficulty encountered by the govern ment in carrying out the new administrative changes, both from the reluctance of prelates and cardinals to . . accept office, and the remonsirances of provincial de putations. On account of the sudden deaths preva lent in Rome, the cardinal vicar had ordered prayers to be put up to St. Andrew of Avellino. Our cor respondent mentions an extraordinary will of the late advocate Pemichini, and the scandal caused by it amongst the clergy. in consequence of it com mencing with some satirical animadversions on their body. The Jesuits are rather in disgrace. The French arc fortifying points round Rome. A railway con tract has been concluded from Bologna to Ancona. The anniversary of the republic was celebrated with tricolour illuminations, in spite of military de monstrations on the part of the French. SPAIN. Our &dykes from Madrid reach to the 11th inst. Don Manuel de la Concha, captain-general of the army, is appointed, by royal decree, vice-president of the Senate, in lieu of the Prince d'Anglona, deceased. Private letters of the same date say that a collision was expected by every one between the ministry and the Chamber of Deputies. It is said that the ministry hesitates to present ite financial and administrative reforms, of which so much had been said at its ac cession to power. The funds have been a little un steady. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, Captain Burney, arrived at Southampton last even ing, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. John Hay, R.N., Admiralty agent. Iler dates are— Gibraltar. Feb. Bth; 9th; Lisbon, I Ith ; Oporto, 12th; Vigo, 13th. Her cargo comprises nine packages of specie, and nine packages of mine rals for the Exhibition of ism. Our correspondent writes: LISBON, TEA. 11. The local and loving subjects of Dona Maria had been nearly six weeks on the tip-toe of expectation that she would add another scion to her royal house for them to provide for; but their hopes were agree ably disappointed by her having, on the morning of the 3rd, given birth to a female child, which imme diately died. The expenses of it, therefore, were confined to the pomp and splendour of a royal inter ment for the gratification of the starving population of this metropolis. In the absence of any law for recruiting the army, the minister has issued a decree for raising 4,509 men to fill up vacancies. The law for destroying the currency of all foreign gold, except sovereigns and half-sovereigns, is being carried into effect, in so fur as relates to the changing of all gold now illegal for that which is legal at the Mint ; but the matter proceeds but slowly. The bank question has not progressiid; a new direction has been elected, and those most opposed to the government received the greatest support. There are still reports of ministerial changes ; but the time is quite inopportune. I regret to be obliged to revert to the pending (if I may so call it) question between the two govern ments. The claims have not progressed one inch; and notwithstanding the conciliatory letters which Sir Hamilton Seymour addresses to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and his otherwise courteous beha viour to the government, the former meet with no attention, while a sort of apathy seems to hang over the cabinet. ...„..—.... The subject of the Quinta do Alfeite continues to irritate the public mind; beyond which there is no thing at all interesting to the British reader. On the 30th ult. the Prince Regent sailed to Eng land, Commodore Martin shifting his pendant to the !Render. On the 4th the French steamer Caffarelle sailed to the north. Discount of Lisbon bank notes, 5 per cent. Ex. change, 541. GERMANY. In the sitting of the Berlin Chamber of the 13th M. Arnias motion touching the Schleswig-Holstein afhtir, was rejected by 71 against 41 votes, the chamber, as recommended by the committee, passing to the simple order of the thiy. A cabinet council was held on the 14th at Berlin, so late as K ocick in the evening. It was thought that important news had arrived from Dreaden. . . . In the Lower House the opposition had a majority of nine votes in the division on the income tax. The resolution thus passed is prospective, and provides that the rates of taxation shall he lowered in 18,6. Our Berlin correspondent writes that Manteuffel and Schwarsenberg were to meet in Dresden to-day or to-morrow (Tuesday). The Hanorer Gazette contains an article which hes additional importance to the note which France has forwarded to the Court of Vienna, protesting against the entrance of Austria with all her states Into the Itund. That note has now been communi- - gated to the small courts. The additional import anceoi it receives arises from the fact that Palmerston, according to the Hanocer r;azette, sent a very strong note on the subject to both Vienna and Berlin on the 3rd of December last, directly intimating that as the confederation was the wor k of a European congress, it could not be subject to any reorganisation or alteration without the co operation and consent of the powers who were par ties to its formation, by the Vienna treaty of Itils. The ./astrian C'orrespondenec informs us that Austria and Prussia are about immediately to establish a military line, of which the central points will be Frankfort and Mayence, from ltadstadt to Dusseldorf, the main object of which, is said to be, to make it a matter of indifference what decision the Dresden Conference may come to about the constitution of a central power, and to secure Germany from being taken by surprise by foreign enemies, or by any democratic movements at home, as she was in 1848. The Deutsche Kronik of Stuttgart publishes a programme of Count Spon neck tiir the settlement of the questions between I)cnmark and the Duchies, which enumerates all the propositions that arc to be laid before the Assembly of " Notables." It is as follows: 1. The different states at present under the throne of Denmark form a federative monarchy, whose parts are united under the rule of the same sovereign. 2. In all these states there subsists one and the same system of ems li and trade legislation, of shipping, post administration, and coinage, with the exception only of the Duchy of Lau , enburg, in reference to customs duties and the partition of the public debt. The Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg form a part of the German Confederation. These hove their separate parliaments (landtage), in which, in unison • ith the authority of the sovereign, all their home affairs are transacted. Each of these duchies is held obliged to contribute its proportionate quota for the support of common interests and common order. The budget of those contributions should be die. , tinctly fixed, and then exempted from the interference of the parliaments. The mode of raising these contributions to be determined on by the government of the sovereign. 3. For the consideration of all questions of common inte rest the deputies of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauen burg will have their place in Copenhagen in equal number, and with the same privileges as the Danish counsellors and minister. Laws of general interest, especially such as refer to .customs and post-office matters, will be submitted to committees composed of members of the Danish parliament and of the parliaments of Holstein and Lauenburg, in equal number. The results of their deliberations to he subjected to the rejection of each parliament separately. Proposed laws will be consi dered as null and void, if they remise not the sanction of all the members of the committee. 4. The Duchy of Schleswig should have a separate parliament, with legis- Mire privileges and a separate administration, within the competency of which is included civil and criminal legisla • tion, the police, public instruction, and church affairs; also communal regulations, regulations respecting industry, the separate budget of the duchy, and also all discussions with respect to the mode of raising the BUM which the duchy will contribute to the common interests of the monarchy. The two nationalities, of which the population of Schleswig consists, are perfectly on a par with respect to their rights and privilege.. 6. The armed power of Schleswig forms a part of the Danish army, and is subject to the same government and discipline. With res pect to the common interests Schleswig and Denmark should have a common legislation and administration, and the Schleswig parliament should join that of Denmark for these common objects. 6. The com mon relations between Schleswig and Holstein com prehend : the use of the Eyder Canal, the establishment of tire insurance companies, the University of Kiel for the Ger man part of Schleswig, the Deaf and Dumb institution, the prison in Gluckstadt, the Knight's institution (Ititterstand), inasmuch as it is a mere social establishment without pub lic attributes, and the nobility chapter (adeligen capitel). All that respects the administration of these institutions is a subject which commits the legislatures of Schleswig and Holstein jointly. These propositions will he submitted to the consideration of an assembly of notables from all parts of the monarchy to be summoned by the King. The num ber of notables from Schleso ig will amount to double the number of those of Denmark—in this way, that Schleswig alone will constitute the half of the common assembly. Our correspondent writes : BERLIN, FEB. 12. A fortnight ago the upper chamber appointed a com mittee to report on a motion brought in by Baron Von Ar nim, which contained the indirect assertion that the com missaries in Schleswig-Holstein had exceeded their in structions, demanded the disavowal of their acts, and the denial of the ratification of the convention they were dei hired to have concluded some time ago. This motion was founded on the fact that the troops of the united powers hail entered Holstein notwith standing the promise of the commissaries that this should not take place, if the government of the duchies succumbed to the Blind without resistance. The committee appointed to report on this motion has just presented its report : the reporter being the celebrated Stahl. It is a document of considerable length, and remarkable for the lawycrship dis played in the marskdling of the arguments, the employ ment and the distortion of facts. There has been a great deal printed in the newspapers collocating certain protocols which were said to have been drawn up at Kiel between --- , ;..aaries and the Staathalterschaft. It iv upon . . the contents of these documents that Baron Arnim founds his motion. On the 7th of January, 1851, at a conference in Kiel, " the Commissaries assured the Staatchalters chat% that the Austrian and Prussian troops would not enter Holstein if the duchies conceded the de mands then made upon them." In a subsequent conference, on the 11th of the same month, the two emu ' mmiasartea " repeated their assurance that now the duchies bad given way to the demands of the Germanic confedera tion, and if no resistance were made to their being carried out, the Austrian and Prussian troops would not enter Holstein." From the report drawn up by Stahl, it appears that the representative of the Foreign-office denies that the documents front which the above extracts are taken possess the character of protocols, and that they were only certi fied by an official of the Staathaltersehaft. The only offi cial papers of importanceon this question were exchanged in writing between the commissaries and the Staathaltcrachaft, on which the following is said to be the answer of the com missaries to the question of the Staathaltcrschaft, whether under any circumstances the Austrian and Prussian troops would enter linlstein, if the demands made on the 6th of I January were peacefully acceded to by the duchies ? This answer a : " It is expected that the Staathalterschaft will fulfil the demands made upon their future regulations, must be left to the decision of the confederation, and in so far as they arc obeyed without opposition, the pressure of execution 1 troops may be spared." It would be natural to suppose I that the former extracts were the substance of verbal ex.- planatims, subsequently given by the commissaries, of that w hich is now said to be the only official communication, and the inflexible honesty, highmindedness, and gentle manly character of all the members of the late government of the duchies, demands that even their opponents should credit their words. This is their explanation of the circum stances, but Staid, ignoring the so-ealled protocols alto gether, denies that the answer of the commissaries, last referred to, excluded any and all federal troops from Hol stein. Ile says the troops present were only execution troops. On these grounds the reporter declares the commissaries re solved unanimously the rejection of the first part of the mo tion. The other part of Baron Arnim's motion refers to the oc cupation of portions of Holstein, the nationality of which is doubtful, and calls upon the government to take care that ' they are not occupied by other than federal troops, for which the recent occupation of the crown work of Kends burg by the Danes is sufficient foundation, though when it was proposed the matter was not decided. The committee, as Deputy Stahl reports, declared against this part of the motion, on the ground that the treaty of peace Of the 2nd of July, 18.10, placed this question in the hands of the con federation and the King of Denmark. Another motion was then proposed to the effect that the chambers should at least express their sympathies with the duchies. A mi nority in the contmittee supported this motion on the ground that it did not in any way bind the chambers to the motion, and that it would strengthen the hands of the government in dealing with the foreign powers. The majority in the committee rejected this 'notion, and the report concludes with the recommendation to proceid to the order of the day. It is confirmed that France has protested against the intention of Austria to cuter with all her pro vinces into the Germanic confederation. The pro test contains the following sentence : The French government holds it impossible that the entrance of Austria with all her states into the Hand can take place before the consent of the parties guaranteeing the treaty of Vienna be obtained. It seems also that the Swiss affairs are not only under consideration at Vienna and Berlin, but also at Paris, and that France wishes much to assume the part of a mediator. It is said that the ministry has prepared an elec toral law resuming the semi-feudal system of States general. The only delay in presenting the new law will be to ascertain the tenor of an electoral last- for all Germany. which is said to be in course of prepa ration at the Dresden conferences. GREECE We learn by letters from Athens, of Jan. 28, that the wife of the ex-Minister Mauromichalis is accused of complicity in the assit.ssination of the Minister of Justice, Korliotakis, and orders have been given to bring her to trial. AMERICA. We have just received one week's _ater intelligence from the leading cities of North America, by the United States mail steamship Arctic, Capt. Luce, which arrived at Liverpool last night. The Arctic sailed from the port of New York on the sth instant, and brings 125,000 dollars in specie. The Royal Mail steam ship Canada was at Halifax on the 3rd inst. The steamer John Adams struck a snag in the Mississippi--120 lives were lost in mnsequenee. In Congress no proceedings of interest had taken place. Nicaragua accounts to the 31st December re port that the port of San Juan had been made free to all nations. The canal operators were rapidly progressing, the steamer directors having succeeded in getting on the lake. The frigate St. Lawrence, with articles for the Exhibition, was nearly ready for sea, having taken on hoard nearly all the contributions, numbering about 500. In commercial matters the intelligence from all ports of the Union continues favourable. The prices of stocks had declined. The exportation of specie hod not diminished. COTTON.—(From Talcutt and Brother's Circular, per Aretie.)--Our last review of the market was written for the 'Asia 28th ult. On the 29th 1,300 bales were sold at ie. decline; on the 30th, 800, at a further reduction of ie. to 4e. On the 31st buyers, tempted by this reduction, entered the market, and sides to the extent of 2,500 hales were effected, embracing nearly all on sale. On the Ist instant 1,000 bales were sold at ie. improvement, the market closing within :c. of the quotations advised per Asia, with a finn feeling in anticipation of at least el, advance per Canada, hourly expected. Yesterday morning, at 11, n.m., she was telegraphist at Halifax, and waiting her advims, which were not made public until this morning, no sales were effected. To-day the market has been unsettled ; and the accounts are so contrary to what the trade here had been led to anticipate from the tone of the Liverpool annual circular, that it is impossible for us to judge of the effect they will produce. Nu explanation of the decline is given, no cause assigned for the reaction other than a slightly in creased demand for money. Trade continued good, food cheap, and stocks, both of goods and the raw ma terial, light in the manufacturing districts. Our view of the subject is this: the English spinners have bought fully on this side since the season opened, and having supplied their immediate necessities, arc pursuing the true policy to depress prices, by working their imported cottons, and abstaining from buying in the Liver pool market. The decline thus produced and advised, enables their agents on this side to proceed in the execu tion of their orders at lower limits, which they will do so long as the planters hurry their crops to market, and sell freely. This they have thus far done, not from any want of means to hold, but because they were , satisfied with current rates; and the question of price for the remainder of the season depends mainly on • the course which they may deem advisable to pursue with the balance of their crops. Of this we can judge better a month hence. At the moment, the Canada a un- favourable advices will undoubtedly cause a depression, especially at New Orleans, where the stock at latest dates amounted to 238,000 bales; hut whether more than equiva- lent to the advance in freight and decline in exchange, is questionable. The annexed quotations are those current prior to the receipt of the Canada's advices. Buyers diimand a conces sion on these of at least ie. Inflreter ew OrLeeoe Other AUantie Cotten. and Mobile. Gulf Cotten, .... nominal nominal ... nominal rir ' clinTrytogoodord... 121 ... nominal 12 t, 13 Middling to good mid. 131 to 134 ... 13$ to 14 ... 131 to 13 1 Middling fair to fair.- 134 to 13 ... 14 to 141 ... 134 to A Tully fair to good fair It to ... 14 to nominal - . - Freight to Liverpool, last engagements, 1-Bd., 3-16 d. now asked. Havre, nominal 3-Bd., no offers. From New Orleans we have the following, per telegraph of lot inst. " Week's sales, 34,000 ; middling, 12d. • freight id. to 9-161. ; sterling 7." Crop :—Nothing ins occurred to authorise in our opinion any change in our advised estimate. The market for breadstuffs was inactive, and prices were unaltered. Western Canal flour, 4 dole. Inc. to 4 dols. 871 c. per brl. Gennesse prime wheat, 1 del. 23c. to 1 dol. 'lle. per 601hs. Southern wheat, I dol. 6e. to 1 dol. Bc. per 60Ibs. Indian corn, round yellow, 66e. to 68c. per bushel, steady. Indian meal, 3 dols. to 3 doll. 12ie. per brl. The ashes market is heavy for pots, with sale at 5 dole. 32ic. Pearls unchanged, and saleable at 5 dole. 62ic. Sales, 50 barrels. Iron.—There have been sales of 200 tons of Gartsherrie and Coltness iron, at 21 dole. Slit., at six months, to arrive. The market is firm. Flourand meal were a heavy sale, at easier rates, the market being unfavourably influenced by the Canada's ad vice.. Wheat was a dull sale ' at late rates. Indian corn was steady, but quiet ; 3,500 bushels of Southern sold at 67e. _ . PBOTISIONS.—The market for pork was dun. Beef firm, and in fair demand. Lard was is good demand. 100 tierces new sold at Bic. to 81e. TOBACCO.—There is a fair amount of business going for ward ; holders are firm, and prices well supported, with as increasing inquiry for low grade Kentucky and Maryland. The stock in the inspection warehouse on the let inst. in first and second hands consisted of 5,259 hhds., 612 ditto Virginia and North Carolina, and 73 Maryland—together, 6,944 hhds., being 430 less than on the Ist ult. Exchange on London, 110 to 110 i ; demand moderate. Paris, 5.12 ; Hamburg, 361, 37 ; Bremen, 79i, 79i. FIIIIIOIITaI steady, but shipments smaU. Flour, Bd. to 9d. Cotton, ; dead weights, 12s. 6d. to 18s. NEW ORLEANS, FEB. I. Not much doing in corn; prices are 65c. to 68c. PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT OF TUE ENROLLED PENSIONEILS FOE AIMY Racut:lTlNG.—Lieut.-Colonel Tulloch, in his evidence before the committee of the House of Commons last year, gave his opinion to the effect that the pensioners distributed throughout the United Kingdom could, with great facility and economy, be employed in en listing recruits. He recommended that his proposal should he tried in a moderate way first, and, if successful, that it should be extended so as entirely to do away with the exist ing recruiting staff, which consists of 9 inspecting field officers and about 40 sub-division officers. The Nora! and Military Gazette, in alluding to this proposal, calcu lates that by its adoption a saving of 18,0001. a year would be effected. INDIA AND CIIINA. TIIE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received our usual dispatch , ' ar.•i f,!•., anticipation of the Overland Mail. 'lie rho' re Bomba)•, 17, and Calcutta, 7th of January. Our !tomboy correspondent writes as follows • BOMBAY, 17th JANI:AttY. The Governor General was on the fith inst. at a place called Kuttala, on his way to Peshawar, having left Wuravralsad on the sth inst. At this latter sta tion, the long talked of meeting between the Marquis Dalhousie and the Maharajah Goolaub Singh took. place on the 20th December. The latter was accom panied bv his son, two of his nephews, and Colonel Steinbach, the commander of his army, of which about 2,500 men formed his escort. The chiefs were re ceived at the durbar tent with all the pomp imagin able, the whole of the troops being drawn up for the purpose. The Governor-General wore the full dress of a minister of state, with the star, ribbon and collar of the thistle; the members of his staff, &c., also wearing their several decorations. The Maharajah was splendidly dressed, but not so his attendants: he appears to ho a man of about to, but had dyed his beard black, to make himself appear younger. The whole of tho chiefs having of gills us cash, the presents in tended for them in return were brought in and dis tributed, the Maharajah's consisting of an elephant with a silver howda or chair, two horses, and forty one trays of miscellaneous articles. The usual quan tity of protestations of eternal fidelity and friendship on the part of both rulers towards each other was exchanged, and the tumasha ended. The next after noon the Governor-General returned the visit, ac companied by Sir 11. Lawrence, Sir W. Gilbert, Sir 11. Elliot, and a host of others, all mounted on ek phanbs, the noble marquis seated in a apcndid new howdah, which is said to be the most magnificent thing of the kind ever made. The Maha rajah's son had come es far as his lord ship's camp to escort him to that of his sire, who had advanced nearly a mile for the pur pose of doing honour to his illustrious visitor--the marquis only accompanied his guest the previous day from his seat to the centre of the carpet in the durbar tent. Here of course any further quantity of oily gammon was expended betwixt the great men, and they separated, never likely to see each other again, and nothing caring to do so. The health of tho troops throughout the Punjaub was steadily im proving, though the hospitals were still crowded. Majors Taylor and Lake are in future to receive a salary of t r.,001. per annum in place of 1,200/.; Messrs. Sapte and llowring 1,2001. ; and P. S. Mel vill, Lord W. Hay, and Lieut. Pollock, 8401. The Punjaub, which was to have been divided into two divisions of public works, is for the present to remain as It is. Major J. Abbott, Deputy Commissioner of Ilzaris, has been directed again to examine the boundary of his dis trict, so far as it adjoins that of the Mahara ' jab Guolaub Singh. 'Heavy rain fell at Wuzeerahad early in January. Mr. Frere has gone to Kurracheo to assume his duties as commissioner; Mr. Pringle has - resigned the service, and will, probably, go home on the 3rd Feb. Sir C. Napier reached Sukkur on the 3rd Jan., and left again on the 4th, arrived at Hydralsul on the Bth and Kurrachee on the 12th. lien- he would remain for a few days, and is ex pected at Bombay immediately: he leaves by tho steamer of 3rd proximo. The Governor-General of Portuguese India arrived at Bombay, by last steamer, on the 6th, and left for Goa on the 10th. Sir W. Gomm and staff; left Calcutta for Agra, on the 7th inst.. where head quarters are for some time to conic to be fixed. Sir E. Perry does not, it is now affirmed, go home till April, 1852; he likes his 6,000/. a year pay better than a pension of 1,000!. I fancy. lie and his learned brother, Sir W. Yardley, arc doing all in their power to reduce the charges of litigation, and cutting down the fees of the lawyers. The 96th Foot left Cawn pore for Lahore on the 3rd inst. 'f he 24th Bombay Native Infantry have arrived here from Upper &hale, and proceeded on to &Baru; and a wing of tho BthNative Infantry has arrived at the presidency for duty. The wing 27th N. 1., now here, proceed on the 20th to join head-quarters at Poonah. Sir J. Grey leaves for Maliabuleshwar in March: from the hills he will go to l'oonah, and return to Bombay in October or November. It was a pity to scud tho poor old man out to India again : if he deserved 7,0001. a year pension, why not have given it to him, and at the same time an active, middle-aged man as chief of the Bombay tinny? These jobs are far from creditable to the duke. Cholera prevails to an alarm ing extent in Bombay just now ; and on two or more days last week upwards of a hundred died of it in a day. The weather just now is somewhat English, the thermometer standing an hour heforo sunrise at 58 degrees : this is very uncomfortable to the poor natives, who have not clothing to cover themselves ; and the cold is probably the cause of the cholera raging so much amongst them. Very few Europeans have suffered from the epidemic as yet. fhe Parsee firm of Itadahhoy and Muncherjec l'estonjee has failed—liabilities,27o,ooo/., to 300,0001.; assets not expected to realize half that amount. With them, two smaller native firms have gone down. The scarcity of money is beginning to be felt rather severely, and trade is nearly at a stand still in consequence. Ensign C. F. F. Chamberlain Adjutant, sth Punjaub Cavalry, is about to proceed home on medical furlough. General Batten was to leave Calcutta for the upper provinces on the 10th; it is expected he will get the command of the Pun jamb division. Lieut. John Howard Imlach Grant, 50th Madras N. 1., has been cashiered the service, for having repeatedly broken his arrest. Brigadier Mackenzie, Nir.am's army, has obtained sick leave till 30th June, 1852. Other Bombay items of interest will he found in the following extracts of the Bombay Times' sum mary Mr. West's stymy of the line for the railway front Baroda to the sea, a distance of forty-two miles, has been published. The expense for a single line of rails is estimated at 3,0001. a mile, or 160,0001. in all: this includes a pier estimated at 20,0001., and 21,0001. for working stock. The present traffic aloug the line is estimated at 47,000 tons, hut it is be lieved that this would rise to 60,000 were the railway once in operation. The total income derivable is set down at 34,0001., of which the working charges will absorb 20,0001., leaving 14,0001. for dividends, or close on ten per cent. The whole preliminary charges are defrayed by the Guicowar, who gives the ground free of expense, and takes a large allowance of the stock. The offers of Messrs. Feud and O'Fowler are stated to have been accepted fur the con struction of the railway from Bombay to 'launch, at the rate of 3,0001. per mile, or 53,0001. in all for earth work alone : chairs, rails, eke., with other matters, will it is stated bring up the charge to 7,0001. per mile in all, not including, of course, the Sion embankment or the termini. The Gazette informs us that Mr. Ralston's offer wa56.5,000/., Mr. Jackson's 60,0001., and that the engineer's estimate WWI 67,0001. ; the successful competitor is thus 14,0001. under this, and 7,0001. below his nearest rival. This is good news for the railway interests of India at large. The broad gauge is said to have been determined on fur our Indian railways, on the same principle, probably, that 861 b. rails were selected, after the public voice, concurred in by the local authorities and board, and all the engineers, had declared unanimously in favour of the lightest kind of rails, and the cheapest mode of construction that could be obtained. The principal canal for watering the Baree Doab will leave the Barre some miles from Shahpore, follow ing the line of highest level right through the centre of the Dealt, and will rejoin the river about sixty miles above Mooltan, a little above its junction with the Chenaub. Two branches will flow off from the main trunk to the south, both limited by the Sutlej, one watering the country in the direction of Sobraon, the other in that of Kussoor ; one branch to the north irrigates the land around Lahore, and so along to the southward of the Itavee between the river and the main canal. The length of the trunk and its branches is no less than 450 miles, and it will serve the purposes both of navigation and irrigation. The work will cost, it is believed, half a million sterling : it will irrigate about 545,000 acres at present in a stet° of complete sterility. It will cost for its maiute • nance about 20,0001. a year, and yield a free return of 120,0001., or 24 per cent. on outlay after meeting all charges, thus repaying the cost within five years, and leaving us a clear increase of 120,0001. on our revenue from this single department. From the Jumua canal, now in use, govern ment derives a revenue of 25,0001. a year from a total in vestment of 90,0001.; from the western Jumna canal, an investment of 140,0001., government derives a revenue of 44,000!. a year. The most magnificent of all the works of this sort is the grand Ganges canal, navigable for nearly 900 miles, and on which a million and a quarter is proposed to be sunk. It is expected to yield a return of 400,000/. a year, of which 180,000/. will be direct revenue ; it will fertilir no less than five millions and a half of acres of land now in a state eor comparative sterility, and relieve a population of above six millions of all fear of those frightful famines by which the country was wont to be decimated. After this talk of the benefits of railways, with their dubious fire per cent. returns, and the wholesale jobs in which their revenues are squandered—yet millions on millions might be expended on irrigation is India with equal assurances of return. During Lord Ellenborough's administration all these opera tions were suspended: hedeemed the. ide of the Commander