The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

Gable to be swindled from I'll) to 1833, and, for all she knows, may continue to be e r ased, tormented, persecuted, maligned, sod ha- reseed for the remainder of his life. Her happiness may be lessened, her health may be injured, he: e nergies may give way, her spirits may break under the intlietion—nay, her life may be shortened. But the criminal law affanls her no security. If Miss Corms was not sustained by high principle, in such A state of things. and with such prospects, perhaps the best course she could pursue would he to buy I peace and quietness from her relentless Irish Frank- I enstein. Then she would purchase what the law will nut provide fur her. In such casts as this, the burthen of motion, prose e l ation, punishment, and repression ought not to be thrown on the injured party, but on the police. Miss Coe rrs, in her natural desire for protection and Iran-1 quillity, ought t•r be put neither to expense nor trouble. The police, knowing her sit ustion, ought to guard her against constant and continual repetition of her persecution. Instead of that, the ►ittle pro tection she has received is, we repeat, very much" coning to the poverty of DCNS, who, failing to pay the costs of civil actions he has commenced and lost, is on civil process cast into a civil prison ; whence, how ever, he is able to continue his offensive proceedings with almost perfect impunity, if with some dimi nished force. And now that he applies to the Insol vent Debtors Court fur his discharge, the law permits him to libel and slander Miss COUTTS on his schedule, and obliges her to appear in the invidious and disagreeable character of an oppasing creditor, '1 in order that, by his continued incarceration on civil process, she may have further protection against his criminal persecution. Nay, worse still—and here, perhaps, the court was answerable—Miss COUITS is compelled to appear, and subject herself to a three or four hours' cross - examination by as coarse and indelicate a " barrister-at-law" as ever a Court of Justice had to deal with. The whole case from 183 s down to 1833 is discreditable in the highest degree to the state of the criminal law, which practically has laid Miss Courts at the mercy of Drs.s. Any restraint imposed on him has been owing to her sense of self-respect and to her courage ; and if to-morrow DUNS be liberated, to-morrow Miss Co terts's torments may recommence. LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. OALATZ, itLY 17. The main body of the Russian corps of occupation is marching through Moldavia into Wallachia, and particularly to stations along the Danube over against Bulgaria. PERSIA. Prince l►olgorouki, the Russian envoy at Teheran, demands the cession of the province of Azerbnidjan, one of the richest in the monarchy, as compensation for the nonpayment of an immense sum of money which he pretends is owning from the Schah to the Czsr. The province of Azerbnidjan is contiguous to the Russian possessions to the south of the Cas pian Sea. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The statement of the Comillaliususel, given yester day in our telegraphic despatch, and to-day more fully in the letter of our Paris correspondent, is the latest piece of intelligence touching the eastern question. The telegraph indeed has, within the last four-and twenty hours, been more than usually prolific in an nouncements. Thus we are told, amongst other things, that Moldavia has declared itself independent of the Porte, and that the same step is expected of Wallachia. Such idle stories only serve the purpose of Russia, by diverting attention from the real actors on the scene. Letters from Constantinople of the 18th inform us that the Hospodars of the two principalities had instructed their agents at the Porte, that "bp supe rior order," that is by order of Prince Gortschakoff, they were under the necessity of "breaking off for a' time" all relations with the government of the Sultan. This proceeding on the part of Russia is of course outrageous, but by no means surprising, for although Prince Gortschakoff, on entering the prin cipalities, formally proclaimed that he would in no way interfere with the government of the provinces, or with the existing institutions of the country, hie master had previously announced, through Count Nesselrode, to all the courts of Europe that he was about to take possession of Moldo-Wallachia, an act which, as soon as it was completed, necessarily ex cluded Turkey from all power over the country in vaded. Some public writers, misled probably by the Russian verbal disclaimer of warlike intentions, ex press. themselves as if the Czar, in occupying the principalities, were in some way or other exercising a treaty right. But there is not the slightest founda tion for such an assumption, and if the acts and not the words of the Czar are looked at, it will be found that in Moldo-Wallachia that potentate is exercising as far as it suits him every prerogative of a con queror. The Post-office is in the hands of Russia, the Czar's agents conduct the censorship, and twenty commissioners, acting in the name of the Hospodar. but receiving their orders from Prince Gortschakoff, have been appointed to give full effect to all the plans of Russia. The semi-official Oetterreiehimhe Corresponden: of the 27th ult. has an article upon the state of affairs at Constantinople on the 18th ult., two days before the departure of the Caradoc. It is anything but sanguine. The writer says that the ambassadors of the European Great Powers were holding frequent conferences, the general result of which was consi dered as favourable to the preservation of peace. Notwithstanding the unavoidable vacillations that have taken place in the adjustment of pending diffe rences, the confidence in the maintenance of peace, which is also entertained there, is an obvious and ratifying fact. This confidence, he goes on to sac, is constantly kept active and alive by an undeviating regard to the announced intentions of the august sovereign of Russia in no case to prejudice the Integrity of the Ottoman empire. If even on the part of the Mussulman population a certain fanaticism has become evident, and single instances of in sult* towards Christians have occurred, it must be borne in mind that the Porte itself has till now com mitted no aggressive act whatever. And thus all is made to depend on the magnanimity of the Czar and the supposed readiness of the Porte to bear any ill treatment with patience. In an article in tho °ester reichisehe Correspotulen: of the following evening, it is said that the serious difficulties of the case are by no means as yet overcome, but that on the other hand there is no occlusion to despond of a happy issue. On the 20th the English steamers Retribution and Fury were anchored in the waters of Constantinople. The Inflexible in crossing the Dardanelles ran ashore, and is now under repair in the port of Con- stantinople. On July 14th Admiral I)undas, with all the cap tains of his squadron, made a reconnaissance as far as Gallipoli. On his return he minutely inspected the fort of Cheuck, the most important one belonging to the Turks on the Asiatic coast. Lord Redefine was expected at Besika. On his return Admiral Dundas was to accompany him to Con stantinople. A letter from Jassy of the 17th says that the 4th and sth corps of the Russian army, which have effected the passage of the Pruth, are composed of 24 regiments of infantry and 12 regiments of hussars and Cossacks of the 1/on ; in all, 110,000 men, with 12 batteries. These letters add that the 3rd corps was on the point of entering. The general in com mand of this corps had fallen sick at Kiew. A letter from St. Petersburg of the lith says a deputation of three Boyards, chosen from among the firict men in Moldavia, has arrived from Jassy, to! complain to the Emperor, with the permission of the ' 1 rtigning Prince, that his army treat the provinces as a conquered country, and commit numberless exac tions. The Portafaylio -Valk se of the 23rd of July says sorbs Wens ✓osrrnal reports, on the authority of letters from Ismail, that the Russians have thrown several bridges of boats across the Danube, to connect Ismail with the isle of Tchetal. The clergy blessed the works in the presence of Major-General Febrikoff, l governor of Ismail, Vice-Admiral Gortschakoff, and Lieut.-General Lmchner, commanding the engineers. ;t appears, then, that Russia is prepared to cross the Das:ube whenever she plea.es, without requiring much time to complete the works." A letter from Jassy, dated July 29, in the Gazette de Cologne, says: " .%'e learn that Russian agents are at this moment extremely active in concluding bargains with the possessors of the state forests and private individuals in the principalities, for timber for ship-building. It is well known that the forests of Moldavia and Wallachia abound in the finest kind of timber for that purpose." The Porteiv/i , s Miatese of July 18, says: "The French steamer Ajaccio, from Toulon to the Levant, has on board )2 superior officers of the French army, who are going to serve the Turkish government: 120 cases of muskets have been sent from Marseilles to Constantinople by the Leonidas." A letter dated Berlin, July 27, in the Gazette de Cologne, nays: "The division of the Russian fleet known as the Baltic squadron, is composed of nine ships of the line, six frigates, and fire small vessels. It is now performing evolutions in the Baltic." FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Constitalionnel repeats in more positive terms the important announcement it made yesterday. It says: " As we have stated, we were assured on Satur day that the conditions of arrangement concerted at Constantinople, and brought by the Caradoe, were not admitted by the cabinets of Paris, London, and Vienna. New information now permits us to add that this news is certain." According to a version current at the Bouise to day, the proposal brought by the earache was nothing more than the one put forward by M. de Bruck on the part of Austria immediately after the' refusal of Prince Menchikoffis ultimatum by I the Porte. Reschid Pacha then refustd to agree to this project, which has ever since teen thrown aside by diplomacy as inadmissible. But when recently a sort of diplomatic congress was assembled at Constantinople, M. de Bruck brought forward his old scheme again, accompanied by the tempting recommendation that the Czar had already approved of it in principle, and might very probably close with it now. It was, however, observed that the scheme in question was framed before the Russians had occu pied the Principalities, and was therefore inapplicable to present circumstances. Upon this, it is said, an amendment was made stipulating with more or less particularity for the eventual evacuation of the pro- vinces by Russia, but it is to be inferred, from the proposition not having been accepted by the powers, that this stipulation, supposing it to exist, was any thing but explicit and satisfactory. The above ex planation, which I merely give as a Bourse report, had the effect of counteracting to some extent the alarming nature of the paragraph in the C'onstilutionnel, but, notwithstanding this tendency to catch at any favourable hypothesis, the rente closed with a fall of 70c. from Saturday's quotations. The following mysterious statement appearing in the Journal de Rennes, of July 29, has greatly excited curiosity in certain circles, although the public is as yet hardly in possession of the intelligence: On Tuesday evening, about so hour after the sitting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, two gendarmes went in search of M. de Fallon: at the house of one of his relations, and the next day a sergent de villa presented hicuself at M. Sores with the same object, at the moment when the illustrious orator bad just left for the country. We might have given this news in our last number, but we thought it better to wait for further information, and to attempt to discover a plausible explanation. We now, however, know no more than we did two days ago ; but the story has made so much noise in tee town, that it is impossible for us to be longer silent. We will neither echo nor guarantee the commentaries to which it has given rise. It will be observed that the paragraph does not state in terms that the object of the visit of the gendarmes and aergent de villa was to arrest M. de Falloux, although it seems scarcely doubtful that such must have been their intention. I have not been able to learn any further particulars. None of the journals allude to the subject except the Union, which ex presses an earnest hope that the government will speedily explain this very serious affair. I have again to record an important and courageous judgment of the Court of Caseation. A medical man in the department of the Avyron is now in prison charged with a political offence. The provincial lrocureur-general, applied for and obtained from the ocal court a change of venue for the trial, upon the ground that demagogic principles were eo prevalent in the Avyron that a Jury , there was likely to be prejudiced in the prisoner's favour. The Court of Cas eation has quashedthe order to change the venue, and declared that whether the reason alleged by the pro cureur be true or false, the law does not admit that the political principles of the inhabitants of any de partment disqualify them from trying a criminal charge. I mentioned long since that the Emperor and lEmpress would probably not be absent from Paris for any length of time this year. I now see in the Presse a letter from Pan, stating that orders have been received to suspend the preparations going on at the chateau there, in anticipation of their Ma jesties' arrival, and that they will positively not go to the Pyrenees this year. The . price of bread for the fortnight commencing to-day is fixed at 40c. the kilo for first quality, and 32c. for second. These are the prices settled at the last augmentation on the 15th of July. The decree fixing the tariff states that the rise in flour is not I I sufficient to justify an increased price for bread. It is commonly believed that, whatever may be the value of flour, a fall in bread will be decreed for the Em- I pwor's fete day, Aug. 15. The Bourse to-day . has exhibited almost a panic almost every description of Securities having fallen lYd closed with a downward tendency. The Three I pee Cents. for cash and for the account have given Way 55c. each ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for , 30c. ; and for the account 10c. Bank shares, which for some days past have been steadily advanc ing, have also gone down 20f. At the close of busi ness the quotations were : For cash : Three per Cents., 781. 35c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 25e. For the account : Three per Cents., 78f. 40c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 40c. Bank Stock, 2,840 f. Northern, 8701. 23c. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,162 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 928 f. 75c.•. Paris and Lyons, 9341. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,1071. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 760 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 745 f.; Rouen and Havre, 505 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 626 f. 50c. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1853 and circulars, which will probaby lead to the disco very of that engine which has up to the present Mo ment so, much puzzled the bloodhounds of the police office—viz., the Mazzinian printing press. It is a notorious fact, that, as long as the party of the republic in Rome was undivii:Zsd, and well looked upon even by the upholders of constittAional institu tions as the possible means of a return to liberal government, all attempts on the part of the police authorities to discover their places of meeting or their press proved abortive. After the affair of Milan, however, a . great split took place between the various liberal parties, the majority of whom threw off their allegiance to the committees out of Rome, and joined in what is now termed the "fusion" party, having for their professed object the re-acquisition of na tionality, the expulsion of foreigners from the soil of Italy, and reserving the discussion of forms of go- vernment, whether republican, united or federative, or constitutionally monarchical, until after the ac complishment of this great end. The minority, how ever, resolved to maintain their principles and their independence, and, according to instructions reeeivid from head quarters, re-appointed their leading men, and established a new printing press, the old one having followed the fortunes of the fusionists. From this split appears to have arisen the necessity of action. _ . It is of course difficult to ascertain whether the principal agents in the proposed outbreak have suc ceeded in escaping the clutches of the sbirri, but at all events it may be inferred that the government and the French general are so well on their guard at present as to render any attempt at political move ment, under existing circumstances, a piece of con summate madness. _ The slow progress of the amnesty, or rather of the separate instances of clemency which his Holiness had recently indulged in, has of course been put a sudden stop to by the news of this fresh plot. 'fhe ea:-triumvir Calandrelli has been finally set at liberty. lie left Ancona by the last steamer for Trieste. The Dutch Minister of Worship, M. de Lichten felt, has gone to digest the Pope's observations at Naples. His trip will only last for a few days, as he is expected back in Rome to wind up the object of his mission. The Neapolitan frontier authorities continue to inconvenience British travellers by confounding names, and imagining that every other person who presents himself at the Portella station is comprised in the black list of suspected foreigners, with which the police agents are furnished at the various entries into the royal dominions. An English gentleman, Mr. George Davison, was refused admittance into the Neapolitan territory by the police authorities at Portella on the sth inst. because forsooth the black list contained a name somewhat similar, Mr. George Dawson. In vain Mr. Davison exhibited his passport, duly signed by the Neapolitan minister in Rome; the police agents inexorably hauled him out of the diligence, told him that the mere dot of an i was too sl;ght a difference between him and the suspected Dawson, particularly as both were named George, and left him, deprived of his baggage, to enjoy the charms of a no?turnal walk back to Ter racina, which, considering the brigandish reputation of that tract of neutral ground, would prove more ro mantic than soothing. From Terracina Mr. Davison wrote to the British minister at Naples, who had the matter looked into, and the proper authorisation for the traveller's admittance made out and forwarded to the Neapolitan embassy at Rome, whither Mr. Davi son was obliged to return at great inconvenience. After a delay of more than ten days the luckless tra veller set out again, and triumphantly submitted himself to the scrutiny of the Neapolitan authorities, at the midnight halt of Portella, as being ln»sa fide Davison, tot Dawson. Exchange on London, 471; Roman Consols, 9G ; I Bank shares, 223. SPANISH VIOLATION OF ANTI-SLAVERY I TREATIES. JOLT 9. Since the arrival of the et steamer, bringing intelligence of the discussion in the house cf Lords upon Cuban affairs, and the continual infraction of the treaty for suppression of the slave tre.:`e• our s authorities have been roused by the apprehension ! 1 / 4 fearful consequences. In the hope of bringing about a reaction or abatement in public sentiment, so that they may continue to impose upon the intelligence of Europe, they are struggling to create the appearance of good faith, although taken in the criminal fact. In every case of recent apprehension of slavers, negroes, or owners, it is singular that the bonus to the authorities had been duly paid—the vessels de serted, and the crows and officers dispersed in con venient places of security. Oue of the principal traders, and one of the wealthiest proprietors on the island, is still detained in prison, because he will not make declaration " that he had not had official sanction for the introduction of his cargo by the Lady Suffolk, and that he had not paid any bonus therefore to the Captain-General of Cuba, lita agent, or other officials." He still remains in the Cabanas fortification, while the chief in the " palace" ' opposite is full of indignation at the obstinacy of the mau. He would send him to Spain, but is fearful of the influence of his wealth, and the rather near pobi lion to the throne of his friends and associates in business them; but this alternative he will be com- polled to, or negotiate a release for him here, and give up all idea of defence against the heavy charges heaped upon his head. It appears that three American sea men, who shipped on board of the bark Jasper for an honest voyage, and were not aware of her private character until after arrival on the coast, were com pelled to remain on board until that vessel made the port of Bailen, on the south side of Cuba, and in the confusion of lauding the negroes, which was not seen, they endeavoured to make their escape. They were, however, picked up on the coast, carefully guarded on board of a Spanish armed vessel, and conveyed to Ha vannah, to be dealt with by the Captain-General, who is helping to show Lord Brougham what is the worth of a Spanish promise. There can be doubt of their innocence, and that they were not accessory to the piracy of the Jasper voluntarily : they have been most grossly imposed upon and wronged. The men are good witnesses, and ready to testify, but the Captain-General, finding their testimony could not be made to sustain his purity, will not allow their declarations to take a legal and docu mentary form. The American Vice-Consul, acting in the absence of the Consul of the United States, has asked to be allowed to take the declarations of these men, but that is what is also to be avoided, as it would be brought too determinately before the English public through the press. From a letter, dated at Laguna de lerminus, the 14th of June, I gather the following, confirming in , formation concerning facts of which I have previously advised you. "The curiosity of the inhabitants of the village named was much excited by the arrival, on the 30th of May, of a finely modelled, and apparently new, clipper-built full-rigged ship, painted all black. She entered the port under Mexican colours, which, was another cause of surprise to the people there. As soon as the captain of the port's boat returned from visit it was said to be the Mexican ship Ma riana, Captain Juan Gutienez, of 300 tons burden, American measurement, though she entered at the port only 410 Mexican. She came from Cienfuegos (Cuba), had eight days' passage, a crew of 30 men, mostly Spaniards, and 300 pipes of water for bal last. She was consigned to a very respectable house, and brought letters of credit for a large amount. It was soon suspected that she had been on a slaving expedition, and after her crew had been discharged they publicly stated that the vessel had been on the Mozambique coast, where she had laid in a stock of over 1,300 agrees, 200 of which died on the passage back, and the remaining 1,100 had been discharged at or near Cien fuegos a short time before the vessel's arrival there. She had been chased by an English cruiser off the Cape of Good Hope. The vessel is under seizure at the custom-house for informality in ship's papers. The crew have mostly been paid off, and left for Campeachy and other points. The vessel's figure head represents the Goddess Fame, with wings on her back, a speaking trumpet in one hand and a wreath in the other. She answers the description given of the Lady Suffolk in the New York Herald ' of December 6, 1832, and is undoubtedly the same vessel under a new name." The letter goes on to state that " the vessel was built by Messrs. Adams, Iray and Son (of Baltimore), and some six months ago taken down to Mariel or Bahia Honda by Mr. Gray himself. She will probably remain here at least one month more. From Cienfuegos she came here with a sea letter, given by the Mexican consul at Havana." It is some stretch of power as well as conscience in this gentleman to give protection by sea letter to a vessel known by every child that reads in Cuba to be a pirate ship, liable to capture wherever found by any civilised power of the earth. Bat necessity and money drive hard bargains with the tender-stricken honour of the race, mixed or unmixed. Since receiving the intelligence of the present whereabont of the Lady Suffolk, alias Mexican Mari ana, we have ascertained from undoubted sources that long previous to her expected return her owners had negociated with a former Mexican consul at Havana for a clean sea-letter for her under the Mexican flag, to enable her to enter their ports after discharge of her cargo in Cuba, and for her protection at sea. We are somewhat surprised at an order given by General Canedo to the post-office department, that none of the English papers shall be delivered to sub scribers—citing particularly the Daily News, Times, &c. The order has not been published, but was issued under the first feverish excitement caused by remarks in those journals, and the proceedings in parliament reflecting upon his official conduct as Captain-General of Cuba. May my information be of service to Lord Clarendon, enlighten Lord How den, and satisfy Lord Brougham. We have reports of several more landings which have been effected upon the island, but not with de tails and precision that will yet justify their report. The most important one as to numbers took place near the Lagua la Grand. As soon as I have con firming evidence of the facts I shall transmit them. Several vessels are yet due, which were despatched, as understood at the time, with the sanction, not tacit, of the supreme authority of Cuba. We have no British cruisers at this moment in port, and the steamer Avon arrived yesterday to leave in the morning. The health of Havannah remains good, and but slight fever cases were developed among the shipping in port. The active business season has passed, although a large stock of produce remains to go forward to markets. ITALY. ROME, Jvny For the last few days the Roman police has been actively employed in searching for the deputies of the revolutionary committee, whose presence in the city is commonly reported, and the nature of whose errand I hinted at in my last. Domiciliary visits have been made at several houses in the Via Laurina, and in other parts of the town, and arrests have taken place both in private dwellings and in the public streets. When at a loss for precise informa tion, respecting the whereabouts of their prey, the sbi..ri of Rome have a curious custom of drawing a cordon across some of the most frequented parts of the city, and arresting every passer-by where visage is not familiar to them, in the hope that this sort of chance fishery may bring some valuable fish into their net. The spot fixed upon for this operation in the present instance was the Pantheon Piazza and the neighbouring streets. where fifty or sixty sbirri seemed actuated by a sudden furor against beards, as being republican insignia, and dragged the wearers of them, in company with every one who was not known as a Roman or provided with his papers in due form, to the prisons of Monte Citorio , in the expectation that some revelation might result from the examination of so many different indivi duals. Whether such may hereafter prove to be the case it is impossible to conjecture, but hitherto the police seem only to have got hold of " tat and greasy citi -1 rens" in their street hauls, although nocturnal arrests have produced p risoners of a more interesting cate gory, especially n the neighbourhood of the Vicolo \ Scauderbeg and Trojan's column , where 'Monsignor Matteucei !I emissaries are said to have tumbled in upon a whole Mazzinian conciliabultis, presided over by a functionary wearing nothing more nor less than ' a priest's garb, and well supplied with proclamations SWITZERLAND. The verdict of the Fribourg jury has just been published. Colonel Perrier, the cure Delley, and MM. Carrard Morard, Joseph Pcrroud, James Per roud, and Marchon are declared guilty of high trea son with attenuating circumstances. All the other prisoners, 138 in number, are acquitted, and the president has ordered their immediate release. The Procureur-General and the parties to the civil action have reserved their rights in respect of damages claimed against them, and by consent this question is to be discussed at a special sitting. The l'rocu reur-General asks for a sentence of thirty years' banishment against MM. Perrier and Delley, and of four yews' imprisonment against the five others. AUSTRALIA. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 1. The ship Nelson, Captain Fraser, of Glasgow, has arrived off here from Melbourne in 106 days, having on board about 25,000 ounces cf gold and 50 pas sengers, some of whom landed here, with the master, on his bringing a bag of letters on shore. CANADA. IORONTO, der 18. The coroner's inquest on the ten men killed during the °mini riot, at Montreal, has just ended, and, as everybody expected, the jury have not been able to agree on a verdict. This inquest has lasted nearly a month, and a large mass of evidence has been taken and published; some of it of the most conflict ing character, and revealing the most frightful per jury, not on mere details but on the main facts of the ease. Tim jury divided into two portions, protestant and Romanist, and each of these signed a different and contradictory finding. The protestant portion found that one man (Walsh) was shot while forming part of a mob which attacked a church, in which Gavazzi was lecturing, and that the killing was justifiable. The protestant portion of the jury fur ther found that the nine persons shot by the soldiers were in the Queen's peace, and that the firing was upon a peaceable crowd, who were returning from the lecture to their homes. They also found that the soldiers did not fire from the regular military com mand of their officers, but in consequence of the orders of the Mayor. I must say that my reading of the evidence--and I have read it very carefully— justifies this view of the case. The Romanist portion of the jury found the firing to I be " unnecessary ;" but that a riot existed ; 1 and they classed the killing of Walsh' in the same category with the killing of the nine by the soldiers. The protestant jurors charged the Mayor and several other witnesses with perjury, which the Romanist. denied. The protestants also cast a stigma on the soldiers for want of discipline, which the Romanists refused to endorse. With reference to the soldiers, I must add a few words. They were a company of the 66th Regt., Cameron., under Col. Hogarth. The officers swore most positively that they did not give the order to fire. The soldiers and non-commissioned officers, equally positive, swore they did. The correlative evidence was in favour of that of the officers, and so the protestant jurors found. But, be this as it may, it cannot be concealed that this firing is a dis grace to the British service. It would be so if the order had been given by the officers; and equally so, if through lax discipline (which it is likely was the case), the soldiers had fired from the command of a stranger to them. An investigation on this point is now going on, by order of the Com mander of the Forces in Canada. As to the origin of the riot, there has been enough said of that—it was an ebullition of religious intolerance, which unhappily is not confined to Canada. This inquest has been the topic of principal interest for some time back. In colonial politics little has transpired worthy of notice since I last wrote to you. Dinners are being given to various members of the ministry, in different parts of Upper Canada. The threatening. of war in Europe are looked upon with fear, as, should war in Europe take place, it would matt rlafly check the rapid insult of Canada in improvement. The crops in Upper Canada are not likely to be very full this year; but from the best advices that I have been able to gather, the wheat-ear is very well develop< and the quality promises to be very good. Prices are not steady, andi are affected by the late news from Europe, so I will not send any quotations in this letter. We have had very fine weather. due Court. OSBORNE, Avorst 1. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the hives of Wales, the Princess Royal, accl Princess Alice, attended Divine Service yesterday morning at Osborne. The service was performed by the Rev. H G. Liddell. The Ladits and Gentlemen in Waiting were also present. A deputation from the Metropolitan Counties Branch 0 : Cie Medical and Surgi ca l Association had an interview with i . seourst Palmerston yesterday at the Home Office, on the subj..'" of the Vaccinalion Bill. The deputation con sisted of Dr. John Rose Coroncek, Dr. Patrick Fraser, and Dr. Robert Rueter Semple. A deputation avinst the proposed Bill for the suppress siou of Betting KOUSSI had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Mather, Maclure, Read, If•ines, and Price, and were intro• duced by Mr. Lewis Huffman, harthter-at•law. Mr. Anotey had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Homemffice. Di snatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the W.stlndia Islands, ar.d from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent yes. terday to the Governors of the West India Islands. Lady Thesiger, Lady Warrender, and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Platt, with their families; Colonel Watkins, the Baroness Von Steutz, &c., were amongst the numerous passengers who left London 'or the continent, on Sunday last, by the Antwerp steamer Baron Osy, Captain Jackson. ADMIRALTY. AUGUST 1. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant W. G. D men., to Odin; Bata J. B. 13,1toue, to Nition; Midlapmen P. J. Hawkins, to Pknipo; uu:l 11. J. Mlhimay, to Si„ lean d' Acre. REFORM MEETING AT GRAVESEND. On Friday evening, a pubic meeting of the in habitants II of Gravesend and neighbou-hood was hail in a large field near Gravesend. The meeting was convened to petition parliament for an effective Reform Bill. Fully 2,000 people were present. J. SADDINGTON, mayor of the borough, took the chair. lie said he felt proud to obey the call of his fellow-countrymen, and was ready at all times to promote their interest. He felt sure that the meeting would be worthy of Englishmen. Mr. VINCENT reviewed the late elections, and dwelt forcibly upon the danger to which the representative prin ciple was exposed by the wholesale bribery and corruption of the constituencies. Ile thought that the bribers ought always to be punished, and the bribed also, the close boroughs abolished, the suffrage widely extended, large constituencies created, and the protection of the ballot ex , tended to the voters. Since 1832, the nation had 'grown in eve ry direction, and the wealth ' and intelligence of the middle and working classes largely increased. In 1b32 there were not more than two completed lines of railway ; now the whole nation was vered by the rail ; and the industrious classes had increased proportionably in property and importance. In the inter val between 1832 and 1833 the British national and other school, had thrown into active life workmen better in structed than most of the boys of boarding schools. lle showed the danger of giving the same vote power to Har wich in the Commons an to Birmingham or Manchester, and acid that reform was now a conservative necessity. lie urged the meeting to support an einctive measure, and he trusted the New Reform Bill would, in addition to what lie had recommended, provide for the abolition of the property . . . • . qualification for members and for the triennia eljetiOu of members. (Cheers.) On the motion of H. DAVHION, Esq., a petition to par liament was carried unanimously, with loud cheers. THE NEW CAB AND OMNIBUS LAW. Yesterday a meeting of omnibus proprietors took place at the Cranbourne Hotel, to consider what course should be pursued in reference to the denial of any right of appeal, contained in the Metropolitan Hackney Carriage Bill. Mr. Gray took the chair at four o'clock. lie expressed himself opposed to a strike, and stared that the proprietors had come to the conclusion to p-titien the House of Commons on the subject. Mr. Willing read • letter from Lord D. Stuart, pledging himself to place a motion on the notice-books of the house, with a view to the inserion of a clause giving the right of appeal to persons convicted under this act. Ile also read • long petition to the same effect, which the noble lard had promised to pre sent this evening. Mr. Hartley proposed, and Mr. Lines wooded, the adoption of the petition, which was unani ca 'wily carried. The meeting they adjourned until Wed nesday nest. The feeling of the meeting was decidedly against any attempt at a strike. S-me rumours of another cab strike having obtained cir culation, a question was put to the Home Secretary last night in parliament, when Lord Palmerston said that lie had heard no rumour of another cabmen's strike ; but, if such should take place, the government would take mea sures to meet the caes. THE FAILURE A T PEMBROKE DOCK PEMBROKE DOCK, JULY 31.—Since 1 last wrote the arrangements for getting off the Cesar have been wholly changed. A secure foundation having been made, she is effectually shored up, and by the aid of powerful wedges applied at them the dtilexure has been considerab:y reduced. Attention is now being directed to the means of floating her off, which work is to be attempted on Than tay next. Immense air tight tanks of capacity sufficient to lift the entire vessel are being constructed, and on them the whole available force of the establishment is employed. They are to be securely attached to her after body, and when sufficiently afloat the power of various mechanical forces will be brought into requisition to force her into the water. The workmen carrying out these operations are employed from four o'clock in the morning until eight in the evening. Several immense pieces of African oak— the largest the dockyard can produce—are to be I projected through the after ports on the gnu deck beneath, and to these the tanks are to be firmly attached. The getting these ponderous pieces of timber on board is a work of great difficulty and interest. They are taken in through the bow port by powerful tackle, and then drawn along the deck to their place of destination, operations which require great care and attention to prevent accidents. To effect a firm foundation for shoring up the after part of the ship, large logs of African timber were first laid down, crossing these another layer, and another, and another, each crossing the former, until a foundation equalling the solid rock has been obtained. On Thursday the Vulture steamer brought in tow the Devon dock-yard lighterwith heavy gear for getting her off. Yesterday the Blenheim, steam-screw, 90, arrived, and is taking in a supply of coal from the depot at Hobbs-point. The Rhadamanthus steamer is detained for the purpose of aiding in ',towing off the Caviar. " EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN ST. MARYLEBONE." TO THE EDITOR. OF THE EXPRESS. Stu,—On the occasion reported under this head in Saturday's Express, there was no evidence given before Mr. Wakley save that of a Mrs. Jones, an aunt of the deceased, and that with the view of identifying the body. I deny the statement of deceased having been con veyed to my residence in Portland-terrace, but admit that I was called to see the body by the police, and did so with two of my surgical neighbours, viz., Messrs. Fuller and Head ; and we ordered the police to convey the body to the baths and wash-houses in the New-road, upon the grounds of its being the nearest place where a warm-bath could be obtained; and am sorry to be compelled to make a statement that the authorities on our arrival there, in stead of aiding us, even upon the grounds of humanity, threw obstacles in our way in every possible manner. Ilcr,e ever, more of this will appear at a future day. I am not satisfied with allegations, but rather truthful statements, and court, in common with Messrs. Fuller and (lead, the fullest inquiry and investigation ; and relying with full confidence upon the opinion of an enlightened public, I remain, sir, your obedient servant, DAVID J. ALLEN. 3, Portland-terrace, St. john's-wood, July 30, 1853. LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS' AasoctATlON.—Last evening, the annual meeting of this association took place, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great STRIKE OF MARKET GARDEN LABOURERS.—Yea- Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn. fields ; Mr. It. G. Statham in terday morning the whole of the labourers, including men the chair. The report, which was presented , stated that th e and women, principally Irish, to the numbe r ' of about 500, association was in a prosperous condition, as might be seen employed in the market gardeners' grounds in Fulham, from tho annual statement of accounts, which showed that refused to work, on the ground that their wages were not there was a balance in the hands of the treasurer, amount sufficient to maintain them, now that provisions were so nut to 82/. 7s. 9d., being an increase of 7el. 2s. 3d. on the dear. They have been in the receipt of Hs. per week for half year. The net profit derived from the ball and con working from 5 o'clock in the morning until 7 o'clock in cart at the Eagle Tavern, on the 20th January, amounted the evening, and they have demanded of their employers, to 321. lls. 10il., a sum exceeding that of former years, col- Messrs. Bayley, Finch, Matgear, mid others, some of the lected under similar circumstances. The result of the last principal, growers that attend Covent-garden market, an annual dinner, which was presided over by Mr. increase of their wages to the extent of 2s. per week. This Sheriff Croll, was also extremely satisfactory, and the the masters have refused to accede to, and the labourers committee desired to express their thanks to the subscribers have determined not to work upon their grounds unless who so liberally supported the society on that occasion. they are paid 16s. per week. The report was adopted, and some alterations were made in THE CITY POLICE.—Last evening a meeting of the rules of betelhe society p ensioner it was agreed that no per sari shall gible as a to receive benefits from the constables of the City police was held at the Flying the institution unless he has been a subscriber for five Horse Tavern, Milton-street, Cripplegate, for the purpose ears (instead of three, as before)—that the entrance fee of approving certain alterations which had been made in a y should be 2t. 2s. (instead of 10s. 6d.) ; that no person can petition to the commissioner of the City police for au become a candidate for the benefits et the institution un increase of pay. Police constable John Foster was called to le ss he has attained the age of 55 years (instead of 20) ; and the chair. The petition as amended prayed for an increase that on the death of any member who;has been a subscriber of pay on account of the dearness of lodgings within the for five years and upwards, his widow or orphans shall be City and the increased pries of provisions. It was ap- • proved and then sigaed by 300 of the men. el i g ible to the benefits of the associltion. The president and vice-president were then elected for the ensuing year, BETTING-HOUSES Ml:L.—Yesterday afternoon a the auditors were re-elected, a committee was appointed, deputation of betting-office keepers, amongst whom were and other formal business having been transacted, the Messrs. G. Read, Maclure, Mather, and Baines, waited proceedings terminated. upon Lord Palmerston, and were received with great tour- DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE was rowed for yes tesy. Their object was to direct his lordship's attention to the most stringent clauses of the bill which is in progress terday by six competitors, against the tide, from London for the suppression of betting houses. That some revision bridge to the Swan at Chelsea. After a very bar d stru gg le. the victory remained to James Richard Film's, of the Tower is required is unquestionable, but whether any would be sta i rs . made his lordship could not undertake to say. An opinion, TIIE OUTRAGE AT BARNET. —Yesterday the three however, prevails that the bill will not come into operation prisoners in eusttely on charges arising out of the horrible before the east of the year. treatment of a pour old woman, of which she afte rwards TILE CHILD MURDER AT WELLoI.O4E-stQUARE. died, were again placed at *he b •1* . u,tote , tl.o ;carnet bench Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest on the remains of the of magistrate s. No 7,lfigress has been made in the discovery Child of Sarah Leipman, when the facts stated in our yes- ache other Wenders. In the course e the examination terday's report wen given in evideaoe, and the inquest was Magoanis and Farley were set at liberty, and the evidence adjourned. 8 of the latter was taken against Cunningham. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Yesterday the Registrar-General issued the quar terly return of the marriages, births, and deaths registered in the divisions, counties, and di.tricts of Englcr,d. This return comprises the births and dean , ' registered by 2,190 reglstrais in all the districts of England during the spring quarter ending June 30, 1833; and the =thaws in 12,025 churches or chapels, about 3,39 G registered pl.ici s of worship unconnected with the established church, and 625 superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended March 31, 18,53. . The rehire' of marriages is not complete; but the de fects are inconsiderable, and approximative numbers have been supplied from the records of previous years. The increase of marriages proceeded at an accelerated rate through the first three months of the year; in April, May, and June the births of children exceeded the average notuners of preceding spring quarters, but fell a lew hundreds short of the births in the spring quarters of the two previous years. The spring in town and country was unhealthy; and the mortality, chit fly owing to the cold weather and the scarcity of potatoes, was considerably above the average. MARRIAGES. 3.74014 marriages were ceiebrotcd in the first quarter of the year, or 2,051 more them were celebrated in the corre sponding quarter of 18-52. The um. xampli d increase of marriages is shorn in a table, where it is snown that in the wirer nnarte•s 44,591 per ons married in 1511, dl;✓uJ in 1847, 70,028 in 1863. The increase in the marriages is most conspicuous in London, in the seaports. and in the manufacturing towns ; in Northamptonshire, Devonsfike, Cornwall, Gloucester shire, Shropshire, St..flurdshire, Worceitershire, Leicester shire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, Lancashire. the West Riding of Yorkshire, Westmorland, and Monmouthshire ; in Portsmouth, Plymouth, S nithatupton, Bristol ; iu Nor thampton, Bath, Stroud, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Birm ingham, Nottingham,Chester, Mancehater, Leeds, Sheffield, Merthyr Tydfil. In all the most prosperous districts of the country the marriages i►ereascd. In Dover, in Brighton, is St. George Hanover- tittare, in several other districts, and in the eastern counties the m trriuges declined. DIRTUS, Tho births fluctuate less then either the marriages or the death•, sad fu the three quartos e 'Wing June 1861 .5_-53. the numbers were 139,138, 1.',9,1 3a, end 168,718, or nearly the same in amount, but con luerably above the • go of preceding years. The birth., on an ge of 10 spring quarters, were at the rate of 3.•12S per cam.; in the last quarter ending June 30 the rate was 3.607 on the pupu• INCREASE. OF POPULATION. As the births of 158,718 children or.el the deaths of 107,861 persons of all ages were registered in the quarter, a balance of 30,8 . 7 remains in favour of the popu lation. rhe caress of births over deaths is less by eight or twelve thousands than the excess in the corresponding quarters of the three I revious years; chit fly owing to the high rate of mortality to 1853. 115,959 emigrants sailed from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there are government emigration agents; 78,203 to the United Status, 20,107 to British North America, 17,132 to the Australian Colonies, and 493 to other places. 7,884 of the emigrants sailed from Glasgow and Greenock, 16,993 from Irish ports, 71,616 (including many Irish) from Liverpool, 2,093 from Plymouth, 3,722 from Sou' hamp•on, and 10,619 from Lon don. The emigration from the United Kingdom has been at the rate of 8,920 a week, equal to the number of inha bitants in a majority of the 368 municipal boroughs of Great Britain. In Scotland and Ireland the births and deaths of the populationsare lelt unregisteri d, so that it is impossible to determine the rate of natural increase in the United Kingdom; but at the rate prevailing in England, which it cannot exceed, the excess of births over deaths would be 79,820, or less by 36,139 than the 113,939 emi grants. 'I he price of provisions during the quarter was considera bly higher than the ruling prie, s in the corresponding months of the year 1832; wheat was sold on an average at 41s. 6d. a quarter; heef, by the carcase, in London, at 411 d. per pound ; mutton 51 1 ,1. per pound ; potatoes (York regeuts) at 1275. 6el. per ton. The price of wheat was 10 per cent., beef 22 per cent., mutton 31 per cent., potatoes 31 per cent. higher in April, blay,june,l6s3, than in the cotresnonding months of 1832. It it evident that the price of wheat Mare no longer any constant relation to the price of the other chief articles of food consumed by the rich or the poor ; and it must he considered a fortunate circumstance that the price of bread is not now likely to ductuate so largely as the prices of the mire perishable articles with which the mar kets of England are supplied from a comparatively limited •area. STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 107,861 deaths were registered in the three months of April, May, and June. This number is the highest that has ever been registered belle in the corresponding season, and exceeds by 7,018 the deaths in the spring quarter of 18.52. The rate of mortality in England is highest in the winter (2.467 per cent.), lowest in the sumixer quarter (2.129 per cent.), while the mortality of the spring quarter (2.23) holds an intermediate rank. near the average of the year. This average is exceeded by tke present return, which shows a mortality at the rate of 2.3a3 per cent. per annum, higher than the rate in the corresponding quarter of every year, 1843-52, except the spring quarter of 1847, when the population ,pas infested by scurvy and its attendant diseases ofter the great failure of the potato crop in 1816. The rate of mortality we, then 2 506; in the autumn influenza broke out, and cholera followed on its footsteps in 1848 and 1810. The mortality of the quarter was above the average both in the town and in the country districts ; the annual rate of mortality was 2.606 in 117 dirtricte, comprising the chief towns, and 2 - 19 G per cent. in 508 districts, extending over the rest of the kingdom. The population of England is, there is reason to believe, collectively healthier than any equal amount of population in any oilier kingdom ; but the rapid increase in the pro portion of the town population,—in which the mortality is 27 per cent. higher than it is in the country, and the sick ness, the suffering, the debility, the physical degeneracy of race are in an equal excess,—makes this question of the health of towns and the fertilisation of the surrounding fields one of the great questions of the day demanding immediate solution. It is difficult for the imagination to c.inceive all the beneficent effects that would flow from the possible diminution of the mortality which the subjoined figures express in town and in country throughout the changing seasons of the year: Average annual number of Lives de : atroyed by the matters which are reiwine in rtna houses, and •lreallP, but are fertitio .ng matures tiealn. Deaths to Deaths to 10,utru per. SOLD :was. every 10,000 per eons living In *be month. of January February, 'Much April, May, June July, August, September October, November, Dicembet The year in the counury. In London the mortality has considerably exceeded the average, and it is chiefly due to diseases of the respiratory organs, typhus, hooping cough, diarrhoea, and violence of various kinds. Twelve deaths were referred to privation, 25 to poison, 68 to burns and scalds, SG to hang;ng and suffocation, VI to drowning, 171 to mechanical injuries of various kinds, 33 to wounds ; and in nearly all these cases ' the numbers exceed those returned in previous years. The violent deaths, including a few from intemperauce, want of breast-milk, and privation, in London, increased from 1,206 in 1840 to 2,140 in 1852 ; and in the last quarter the excess in deaths from violence alone over the deaths of 1852 was 131. The increase of steam-vessels, railways, omnibuses, and new mechanical forces of every kind, as well as the obstructions of the streets, may partly acceuet for this loss of life, as well as for the numerous injuries and mutilations not fatal, in the battle of every day. The mortality in the South Eastern Counties has been above the average, and the greatest caress has occurred in Gedstone, Croydon, Bromley, Dover, Eastbourne, Lewes, the Isle of Wight, Alverstoke. Woking has been unusally healthy. Scarlatina has been rife in Smileaks, Maidstone, and other district'. In the South Midland Counties Wisbeach continues to experience a high rate of mortality; the deaths in . three months, cut of a population of 36,215, were 274. In Cam bridge, on the other hand, the deaths out of a population of 27,815 were only 110. Hooping-cough and bronchitis pre vailed at Wisheach ; while in Cambridge the Registrar re ports, that " great improvements have been made by the local authorities in the sanitary arrangements; they have been assisted very materially by the reports and suggestions of the medical profession." Romford, Tendring, Colchester, Witham, and Saffron Walden in Essex; Sudbury, Thineoc, and Stow in Suffolk, experienced a high rate of mortality. Typhus has Ina n fatal to many persons in nigh Easter, Dunmew ; in Down ham, Norfalk, ague and lever have prevailed; in Norwich the mortality bas not exceeded, and in the whole county has been below the average. In the south-western counties the general mortality has slightly exceeded the average. The typhus in Lougbridge Deverill broke out a second time, and the deaths in the sub-district equal the birth.. In one house the man, et ifs, and six children were all attacked, and one child, nine years of age, d ed. At Exmouth fever has prevailed. In Wharton, Heavitree, small-pox is raging ; several children are suffering, and two have died; "still the people refuse cow-pox." In Barnstaple typhus and small-pox have pre vailed ; the deaths helve exceeded the births. The emigra tion from Redruth has been extensive, and the births have consequently decreased; in another district of Cornwall, Lerriu, the registrar says: "The births and deaths ore much below the average. Numbers are yearly leaving this l district for other putts of thi s countr y , or for America and Australia, which is the only explanation 1 can give of the decrease." Measles has been very fatal in Truro. In Freres the deaths from pulmonary diseases are much above the ave rage; the same diseases have prevailed in Batts, In the West Midland Counties the mortrd.Sty is somewhat above tee average ; small-pox prevails in Gloucestershire ; Bristol, Gloucester, anti Stroud have nrilected vaccination ; i carbuncles, boils, and purulent eruptions have bern very prevalent in Stow-on-the-Wold as well as in London. This Lot medicalet o b y ti f n e e o . l io a n l l . the A a ba tt d e i f it o i r o m n el t which ens i i l t edeserves epidemic from has t t of scarlatina has pro - ,ailed in Staffordshire, "the cause of which," the Registrar of Bilston conceives, " is insufficient drainage, cesspools stagnating, and filth of the slat offen 1 \