The Express. — London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

the eritregsg. TO CORMS/WON DIN TS. • Snood I,lPicoo " farm," osotalsing the now ionises (UMW," paktiaboi way Wilda, and Itldq ikkbt, la Um • Noku Mewled for °no Earrooc," London Ittestog paw, nod Os ot the that* IQ, Boworkmkroot. b Two o'clock co tho faky of petkicauga. SIGH WAILTBR AT LONDON BRIDGE. TOP VAT-Nimbi" ib.1111•......--ahealea. lb. Iss. famosa,.—lliseilms. ffe..--Ahlgoir. Wr LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 7. Wt have alreadyezpreascdour opinion of that pro viso in the amended Ecclesiastical Titles Bill which appears to authorise prosecutions for the penalties it imposes at the instance of private individuals. On that head we have nothing to unsay ; it appears to us alike dangerous and indecorous to allow private parties, who may be animated by spleen, or worse feelings, to give vent to them under pretence of vin dicating the public interests and dignity. In other respects we are as well pleased that the measure has assumed the form it has. That the bill has been affirmed in the Commons by so large a ma jority gives emphasis to the national protest against papal encroachments. The seceding members, even though they had swelled the ministerial mino-1 rity, were not enough to have rejected any of the Truest e, amendments, except that to which we object. They were sufficiently numerous to have negatived the provisoin the third clause which may enable any person to pursue for the penalties by action for debt with consent of the law officers of the crown: but they did not choose to do so. Per haps they flatter themselves that a pettifogging war, to make the bill odious, or annoy any government that may lie friendly to it, may be kept up under the shadow of this proviso. If, by this means, they imagine they can abate the hostility of Great Bri tain to the arrogance of a foreign hierarchy, they will find thontwfres mistaken. In the main, the bill only gives voice to the national sentiment, a senti ment which has survived both the storms and calms of centinies, and is indelible. It was natural on the part of ministers to make an effiat to bring back the hill to its original form. No men like to have their own peculiar views over ridden without resistanee. And yet, seeing that Lord low. Itesstat ended by declaring that the altemt• were not °lsiah am essential nature as to induce 1 • to drop the bill, it could have been wished that the SIMICITIM.GENEItII. had not indulged in Ruch an exaggerated tone in his opposition to them. Such siss , i d pleading may be tolerated in an advo cate, but not in a legislator. The alterations, among other effects, will have a tendency to accelerate the passage of the hill through the Lords. The main obstacle apprehended to its rogress there was an intention intimated by Lord tiTANI.V.T to endeavour to render it more stringent. That has already been done in the Commons by amendments proceeding from his own party, in which the Pas though reluctantly, acquieseed.'the Mauls yites in the Lords have no pretext left them for farther tinkering on the measure, and ministers are not likely to renew the struggle in which their chief has been defeated in his own house. 't he attempt of a part of the opposition to raise a personal squabble when defeated on the 'merits may be breach over in silence. tessera are proverbially entitled to rail. The ultmmonfame section have no , support Milling the Willy out of doors that renders them dangenius; and the manner in which Owe have managed, or mismanaged their case has lowered them them in the opinion even of those whose prejudices they representid or app algid to. As fur the few lids sal fne front Itomanissing tentkawies, who have, on some crotchet or another, seen fit to abet them, if they have thereby injured themselves for a time in public • stimation, we c mnot help it; but fur our own part, the worst word we have to say to them is— gar dahle .' oUINrNi its fisirr doss re gat r. So far good. The law has been a . m.& clear and incontrovertible in its condemnation of the assump tions or it foreign priesthood. And that the law will, if nee' vestry, be caroms!, there tom be no doubt. The Millie public feeling that demanded the enact- Assent Or the law will insist upon its being carried into (leis t. that this is only part of the struggle in which the arrogance of the Itomish hierarchy, and its ineurolty to understand the feelings of those who base emancipated themselves; from priestly domination, has involved us. The insidious and open aggressions of blouse must alike be met at all points. We have noticed, on a former occasion, the attempt of Cardinal Wisessast to evade the inesinvenient in guinea of the committee of the Commons on the law of mortmain. Of course we are bound in charity to believe it is not an accidental coincidence that hue led to the CtltlMMer4 temporary abriellee from the ersuntry at the very moment that the summons for his uttentlanee us a witness was issued. it is, how ever, one of flame coincidences which people are apt to regard as suspicisvas. At all events, it is neces sary that no pretext be afforded to his eminence for throning dust in the eyes of foreigners, and persuad ing them that he has in anything or in any way been able to set at defiance: the secular authorities of the realm. If he is to be allowed to remain in this country. he 11111 , 1 lie compelled to appear before the committee and answer explicitly all qaestions that concern the public weal. As for the projected Italian Church in London, which the Poet is trying to stir up the Italians to oubscrils: for the erection and maintenance of, that is a time difficult and delicate question. Religions liberty require-4 that all bees shall be allowed to erect pions of worship and have public worship per formed in them. The Poet and his Italian friends have as good a right to contribute to the erection of a church for the use of such of their number as may be resident in this country as any other rect. Still there can be no harm in watching closely the proceedings of a church which is avowedly to be " governed by a congregation of Italian secular priests founded at (tome, that the Roman spirit may always influence the same." The time at which the prospectus of this undertakiug is issued, and the terms in which the prospeetus is couched, show that it is part and parcel of the same hierarchical move ment, against which the legislature has been called to do battle in passing the Eeclesiastical Titles Bill. Experience has taught as that the Roman court al ways has a mutis e even in its seemingly most pur poseleas arts. The Poets may have his Church built —in Smithfield, if he pleases, as a weekly contem porary sarcastically suggests, on account of "its his torical aasociutions; and his priests will be allowed to discharge their functions there so long as they respect and obey the law of the land. But that law they must obey. THE returns of trade, revenue, and population succeed one another so rapidly, that we hardly find space to dwell upon each st•parately, and are eon minims' to look at their results in combination rather than in detail. The decennial census for the three kingdoms was before us on Friday. The report of trade and navigation, up to the end of the first five months of the present year, was issued on Saturday; and, to-day. we present our readers with the tabular statement of the quarter's revenue. 'lu , result of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom is that, setting olf the dimi nution on the other side of the Channel against the augmentation which has taken place ou this, the entire community of the British isles is more nu merous by 600,000 than it was ten years ago. The natural increase, it need hardly be observed, would, if unchecked. have given us a population of between twenty-nine and thirty millions. As it is we cannot boast of numbering much above twenty-seven. For while the rate of ptugre in Great Britain has failed to equal during, the decade of lti4l-18.11 that which characterised the three preceding peri4xls of equal duration. the fearful drain from Ire la nd. more than counterbalances two-thirds of the positive increase in Scotland. England, and Wales. The slackening of our speed in this respect in the more fortunate portions of the empire : is chiefly, no doubt, to be ascribed to voluntary emigration. Multiplied facilities of every kind. and exhaustless varieties attractive for the en terprising. the impatient. and the venturous. have contributed very obviously to this result. The alter native that twenty years ago sounded like roma nce , and that ten years ago was still a matter of dubious and difficult resolve, has come at last to be re , „mrded without fear or misgiving, and almost nithout emo tion. Quickened postal communication, as well as THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING JULY, 7, 1851. profits from passengers and goods might be estimated at 1,600,000 f. There remained 4,8)0,000f. to be found. How was this sum to be get? The com pany ought to receive •from the gowrnment what the Austrian Company received, and this was the only means of establishing serious competition. For a subvention of three millions they imposed upon the company the traneport of letters, the regnitous con veyance of certain official travellers of arms and provisions. In exchange for these conditions they gave a subvention of 3 millions during 10 years, and of 2,400,000 f. during each of the fallowing years. It lone said that the company might iecome a com mercial company, but this was in fornal opposition to the statutes. To-day, in the renewed debate spot the Mcditer-i ranean packet service, M. Dupont de Bassac read, amid the noise of private conversatio n , a speech in support of his daring misrepresentations, so clearly refitted yesterday by M. Dufaurc. Ilis amendment, to impose the working of the line upon the state, was rejected by 477 votes against 180. N. Charimaule moved that the concession should be adjudicated by I public competition. After the rejectian of this mo tion, the two first articles of the bit, relative to vs were adopted. The voyages will be made regularly during 24) years, and during the month , three shall be made from Marseilles to Malta, by !Genoa, Leghorn,Civita Vecchia, Naples, and Messina; three from Marseilles to Constantinople, by Malta, Syra, Smyrna, and the Dardanelles with the regular correspondence from Syra to Athens by a steamer of 60-horse power ; two from Marseilles to Alexandria by Malta ; one every 20 days from Con stantinople to Alexandria by Smyrna, lthodcs, Mer sine, Alcxandretta, Latakia, Tripoli, 3cyrout, and Jaffa. The house then proceeded to discuss the article re lative to the subvention which the conmittee pro posed to fix at three millions. M. Connarel de Ley val moved a reduction of half a million. After some warm discussion the amendment was rejened. Yesterday M. de Fabregue was brought up before the correctional police for assaulting M. de Mirahcau with a horsewhip in the streets, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment and 50 francs fine. The Pope has just created at Rheims an order of St. Remy, all the members of the metropolitan chapter of which will wear insignia. They will be authorised to wear the violet frock, like the bishops. Count Henry d'Aviselor has just arriasd in Pails, from Turin, charged with a special mission front his government. The ('currier da Marsritle of July 2nd, contains some remarkable exposures of the fallacious figures of M. niers' protectionist speech. M. Thiers as serted that the price of wheat at Odessa was from 8 fr. to 10 fr. the hectolitre. Now since 1 8 17 no wheat has been bought at Odessa under 11 fr. or 11 fr. 544 c., even of the most ordinary quality. So long as England perseveres in her commercial policy the prices quoted by M. Thicrs will never be peen there again. The average prices in the mar- I ket of Odessa in Isle-1817 were 15 fr., and houses at Marseilles received considera ble parcels from the Black Sea et :r. nearly double what M. Thiers said the Itussitn farmer was too happy to get. Again, M. Thiers says the freight from Odessa to Marseilles is only '2 fr. y This is true, when there is no demand at Marseilles, but, in 1817, the freights rose to 6or 7 fr. M. liners takes no account of the course of exchange in the exporting country, but this enters largely into commercial cal culations. When the market of Odessa is flooded with orders, they are accompanied by hills, and then the exchange rises and augments Sae price of the merchandise in a considerable degree. Details, such as these, could not escape so acute a mind as that of . M. Thiers, but he takes good care not to bring them , forward, because they would shatter the whole frame-work of his system. • The report of M. Haze upon the proposition of . which he is the author, relating to the sale of news papers or other periodical writings the streets, was distributed to-day. As already intimated, the commission propose to authorise the sale only in libraries, reading-rooms, and in railway stations. A dispute has taken place between the French authorities and the British vice-consul at Rouen, on the subject of the succession of a Mr. White, who died suddenly in that town without leaving any heirs, and whose property was then claimed both by the state and by the representative of England, as a British subject. The seals which were put on the furniture and papers of Mr. White were removed the day before yesterday by the juge de paix, in pre sence of the British vice-consul, and a strict search made, but no will was found. The affair will now undergo a thorough judicial investigation, in order to ascertain to whom the property belongs, as the de ceased died intestate. SPAIN. The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived, dated Madrid, 2nd inst., half-past three: Yesterday, at a Into hour, M. Fidel presented to the Congress a proposition to delay the adoption of the regulation of the debt. Although it was unex pected, and several deputies of the majority were ab sent, the government obtained a majority of 129 Totes to 56. Nine members have to-day given their adhesions to the vote of the majority." MADRID, Jess: 30. To-day the Chamber of Deputies entered upon the debate of the bill for the settlement of the debt, which was opened by M. Mon, who opposed the bill. You are aware that in the Spanish taichber members speak from their places. on were grouped all the notabilities of the oppo sition. to hear him with more attention, Fidel Albaida, Medea, Bermudez de Castro, and Figueroa occupied the nearest bench. The leading features of Mon s speech was as follows. Ile said that the ministry had done ill in presenting the bill for the settlement in the former Cortes, where they had not a majority, the ministry being less tolerant towards those who I had opposed them on •he settlement of the deb:, than towards those whose opposition they had encountered on the reform of the tariff. Ile then entered into a long history of previous administrations of finance. lie stated that the deficit amounted to three millions sterling ; this he was prepared to prove by positive and official data. - Bravo lklurillo, in his ac count of the treasury and of the budget, had done nothing but blot so much paper without producing one clear result. The economics of the budget pre sented were neither expedient, nor could they pro duce the resources necessary for the settlement of the debt. Ile made one highly important admission, saying that ho knew very well that the bill would be voted. He was still F peaking when the post closed. After Mon, Seilas and Madoz would speak in opposition to the bill. Besides several amendments would be presented. The Moderado opposition intends to make the debate last at least a fortnight. They arc not going to make a turbulent opposition to interrupt the order of the debate, but a strong one as to argument. For the rest it is certain that the bill will leas. In the senate, the bill for the settlement of the floating debt was passed by a majority of 62, in a house of 57. it'Llr 1. A grand democratic banquet was given yesterday, at the Hotel de las Peninsulares, in honour of the deputies °renal and Figuerns. Toasts were given to the emancipation of labour, freedom of trade, and other principles of the democratic party ; the liberty of Hungary and Italy was given with enthusiastic cheers. This is the fast dinner of the kind ever given in Madrid. lesterda)•, Bravo Murillo made an extremely able reply to Mon, whose arguments he completely re futed. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our correspondent at Rome contradicts the report of the Patric relative to the meal of Mr. Freeborn. The I'opc was expected to set out for Castel Gan dolfo on the Ist July. The little republic of San Marino had been invaded by Austrian and papal ' troops, and the capture of several political refugees effected. The conversion of an English lady, named Edmunds, had been celebrated with much ceremony. The cardinal-vicar had issued a strange edict on the coronation of a statue of the Madonna. Exchange on London, 41 . 9!; Roman Five per Cent. Consols, 55.70. SUNDAY EvrNTNO. The President started this morning at half-past seven for Beauvais, accompanied by the ministers, M. Leon Faucher, General - Rtuidon, Fould, de Crouseilles, and Rouher ; his aide-dc-ccmp, General Roguet ; and two officers of the household. Among the rest of the company were observed M. Boulay de la Nleurthe, the vice-president of the republic ; M. Dupla, president of the Assembly; M. Nun, vice president, and one of the secretaries; General Hare gray d'Hilliers; M. de Nicuwerkerke, recovered from' the wound which he received in his duel with l'ierre Bonaparte, the President's cousin ; M. Fremy, and the eight representatives of the Oise—in all thirty one persons. The cause assigned for the limited number of invitations was the difficulty of procuring conveyances from the railway station at Clermont, from which station the party proceedyl with car riages and horses sent yesterday by mil, and reached Beauvais at half-past ten. After breakfasting with the prefect the President proceeded at mid-day to the great square of the Norman city. In the centre, above a sea of those towering lace coil's so familiarised to us by the sketches of l'rout, stood the veiled sta tue. Round about the place tottered queer old jutting gables, from the massive, worm-eaten balconies of which the gay people, in their original costumes, leaned, looking on, under the most brilliant, cloudless weather. As soon as the ceremony of inauguration was entered upon, the drums beat, the trumpets sounded, and, the veil having been withdrawn, the bronze statue of the fierce heroine, wielding the rough weapon whence she draws her name, stood revealed to the applauding spectators. As Orleans has her Jeanne d'Arc, Beauvais boasts her Jeanne Hachette, and the ladies of the Norman city still feel proud of the feats of their countrywoman in the 15th century,' who rallied the faint-hearted burghers against Charles the Bold and his Burgundian, who were hated then by the French as much as the English had been a century . before. After the ceremony the President passed in review the regiment of dragoons at Beau vais and the national guards. His reception was not marked by any enthusiasm. At first, it had been settled that the President should return to-night to Paris ; but he yielded to the request of the municipal council that be would accept the banquet and ball given by the city. The President will make a speech at the banquet, and return to Paris to-morrow. The report of M. de Mehra on the petitions for revision was read yesterday in the committee. The total number of signatures is 1,123,623. Of these the reporter acts aside 40,000 as unconstitutional. Although the zeal of secondary agents of the govern ment is blamed, the central administration is excul pated from the charge of exerting a pressure for the promotion of petitions. The committee adjourned its decision until Monday, when M. Leon Faucher will furnish explanations. The motion of M. Larabit, for altering the 43th article of the Constitution, was distributed yesterday, with a statement of motives. Henceforth the steamers of the South Eastern Railway Company, corresponding to the Sunday trains from l'aris and London, will ply between Calais and Dover. The first starts to-day. Franzoni, the exiled Archbishop of Turin, is now at Paris. The debate on the Municipal Bill is fixed to begin on Thursday. The government will move its ad journment. Several representatives of the south of France have presented a motion for constructing a railway from Bordeaux to Toulouse and Cette, utilising the works of the lateral canal of the Garonne. I Letters received at Toulon announce that the French squadron has sailed from Cadiz. GREECE.—Accounts from Athens of the 34th ult., received v ia Trieste, state that the Greek Senate had unanimously adopted a vote of censure on the ministry. The unanimity of the veto caused sur prise, as only a few days before ten new senators had been created. shaspened and shortened transit, have alike tended to make the notion of a brother or a son, choos kg a farm in America, in preference to one in Lincolnshire or the Lothians, an affair simply of prudence and convenience, in which no element of a sentimental kind has any longer a r eal or instinctive place. And as for mercantile iurruits—a young min 1 of activity and self - dependen t spirit would almost feel ashamed of objecting to adopt an eligible open ing in an approved line of business on the ground that the counting-house happened to be in Broadway instead of Mincing-lane. I What will follow? This great good, amongst others—that the stagnant weight of unemployed popu lation in these insulated realms is never likely again to accumulate suddenly to the dangerous amount which there was sometimes cause to apprehend that, from unforeseen revulsions in industry or foreign trade, it might have done. A natural vent is now so tho roughly opened, and so certain to grow wider and clearer every day, that the overflow will pass off whenever a moderate degree of pressure recurs. Po pulation, skill, and capital, also, will no longer wait in consternation till they are half spent with watch ing and fear. The way is ready. 'they will silently shift their quarters when the competition or depres sion here becomes uncomfortable. Every family has already friends or acquaintances who have gone be ' fore them over sea. Socially our insulation as a people is proved, by the census of 1831, to be at an end. What the countervailing consequences of this mighty change in our national condition may be, we do not pause here to inquire. To say that there are none, would be simply to feign that we are blind— to pronounce dogmatically that we are as yet able to estimate fully their nature or extent, would be to play the coxcomb in political philosophy. It is enough to feel thoughtfully alive to the duty of ob serving carefully this new do elopment of the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon race. and to rejoice at the positive mitigation of buffering and privation for all classes which the bridt.ting of the ocean seems to insure. For the labourer; the threat of starvation or the workhouse need no more sound in his cam as an inexorable and probable reality ;—for the youth of decent education and intelligent ambition, there need no more be hung the dismal spectacle of dis heartened companions and parents utterly at fault fir a chance of occupation to eawk for their sons. To the inventive and speculative man of limited means, there need no more seem to be an insurmountable jail wall barring all his efforts and designs. What is equally note-worthy for those who are likely to tarry to the cud of their days in the land of their birth, there is no mare the sad and demoralizing cause for apprehension that we are glowing too numerous as a people, and that industrially we are in danger of a specks of uncon- GRsed ilism. The gates of this debasing jealousy are fairly taken off their hinges and have been Hung into the unfathomable sea. Practically the evidence of this great good is already beginning to be appreciable. The returns of the Board of Trade for the tivemonthsendingJune 3, la:it, show a value of exports amounting to 27,K65,731/. against 26,027,915 t. in IsbiO. and 21,191,9731. in 1849. It will hardly be disputed that the rate of improved production here set forth far exceeds the rate of increase in population. But this is not ull. The quarterly returns of the revenue show that notwithstanding large reductions on sugar, timber, and coffee, the diminution of the customs receipts at the treasury are hardly worth notice,—do not in fact amount to 100,090'. The meaning of this striking fact is plain. There has been a steadily increasing consumption of the mime necessaries and chief luxuries of life, which almost compensates the exchequer for the taxes it has re linquished. But as the ratio of population has by no means kept vice with this augmented consumption, it follows that the change has been absolutely realised by the community individually and collec tively. FRANCE. PARIS, SyrunnAT Esincimo. To-morrow the President willprocced to Beauvais, _ to he pre.cnt at the inauguration of the statue of Jeanne Hachette, the heroine who defended the city - , against the siege of (•hnrhw the Bold of Burgundy. The club of the Rue des Pyramides resumed last night the adjourned debate on the revision of the constitution. Several members, distinguished by their Bonapartist real. declared that the petition movement had been perfectly sivontancous and natu ral, while others inveighed vehemently against the unworthy mann•uvnes which had been put in opera tion to scrape together these signatures, which amount to übout 1,200,000. The debate was again adjourned. M. Dufaure made in the debate of yesterday a very able reply to the arguments of M. Dupont de Bu-sae against farming out the Mediterranean packet service to a company. lie said, since 1#435 the govern ment had undertaken to work the line of steamers in the Mediterranean. Bouts took the mail and pas sengers, the service had been performed in the most irreproachable manner; but after 1815 the transport of merchandise had been added, rind hardly had the state undertaken this fresh service than it sustained severe losses. During the fi ve last years the transport of goods has producd for the first year 20,500 E, for the second 400,000 E, for the third 407,000 f., for the fourth 500,0001., for the lifth 475,00nf. While the French steamers in the Levant made so little progress, let them observe what was passing upon other points of the Mediterranean. Neither the English nor the Austrian government charged Ciemselves with these operations of trans port; they had been contented with encouraging the companies —they had appealed to private in dustry. M. Dufaure then described the progress of the Austrian Lloyd's and of the l'eninsular and Oriental companies. It was said that in encouraging steam they were destroying the shipping in terest, but the sailing vessels of Austria had increased precisely in the proportion of her steamers. The Peninsular and Oriental, not eon tent with carrying off from them the transport of llndian goads, was now depriving them of the Indian mail, which seemed, however, the natural prize of the French railroad. It had decided some time ago on building two iron boats of SOO-horse power, that would arrive at Alexandria in nine days from Eng land. Fortunately, the English admiralty prevented the construction of these vessels. The new Pacha of Egypt was said to be completely identified with English interests. He had permitted the establish ment of a steamer, of 100-horse power, upon the Nile, between Alexandria and Cairo, and a railway be tween Cairo and Suez. The company hail persuaded the I'acha to employ Mr. Stephenson to present a plan for a railway between Cairo and Suez, and had at its last meeting voted thanks to the new viceroy. Thus what diplomacy had failed to obtain, had beim gained by an Industrial company. M. Du fame then proceeded to depict the deplorable state of French commerce, and its inferiority to that of the other powers, in Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. It was evident that the working of the Mediterranean steamers would be very ill-placed in the hands of the state, and that the wholly commercial character of this service was not suited to officers of the navy. He then gave his entire approbation to the stipu lations of the contract. The company would have to buy the steamers of the state for about four millions of francs ; it would take three steamers belonging to the Rostan Com pany fur 1,201t,000fr., the government steamers neeaed a reparation amounting to 1,200,000 fr. The company was then obliged to build, within a certain time, five new steamers, which would cost five mil lions. That would make eleven millions and a half. Independently of this, there were the stores and working fund—the latter would be twelve millions. The steamers bought by the company would be ap praised. The subvention was three millions a year, which would be employed in the service of the steamers. The capital engaged is twelve millions. He counted the interest of the capital at five per cent., the insurance at five per cent., and the liquidation and depreciation at eight per cent. The company would, therefore, have to find eighteen per cent. upon the protits of the working, that is, their first profits ought to be 1,900,000 f. Meantime what were the returns of the undertaking? The average expense of the last rear had been four millions and a half; adding 1,000,000 f., he obtained 6,400,0001. How could the company hope to realise this sum? The receipts during the last years had been by the post in 1847, 410,0001. ; in 18121, 396,000 f.; in 1849, 961,000 f.; in 18:4, 723,000 t; but they must remember that the postage of letters belonged to the state. The average DENNIARK Count loltke has been charged with the recon stitution of the ministry, whose programme is to be complete unity of the Danish monarchy—the assimi lation of Schleswig, and Holstein. Germany cannot, however, allow the absorption of Holstein into Den ' mark. AMERICA. [Dy E:cctrit Te.egraph.) tritoM Or IL OWN CORD.V4rONDENT.I LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING The British and North American Royal Mail steam ship America, Captain Shannon, has just arrived in the Mersey. Iler dates are to the 25th from Boston, which port she left on the afternoon of that day. She made the usual hi-monthly call at Ilalifax, to land and receive mails and passengers, on the 27th ult. She brings . 96 passengers, and a small amount of specie on freight. The steam-ship Brother Jonathan had arrived nt New York from Maitre!, and Jamaica, with specie to the amount of 3 , ;(000 dols. She sailed from the latter port on the 14th ult. The United States mail steam-ship Arctic, Captain Luce, arrived at New York on the 22nd ult. The yacht North America had sailed for England. There is no news of political importance from the United States. It was rumoured that a project was on foot by Mexico, whence dates arc to the 2nd ult., to sell Lower California and Chihuahua to the United States, in hope of improving the finances. The extra session of the Congress was opened un the Ist by a speech from the President. A conspiracy had been discovered at Carracas to change the government. The Tribune states that a federal government had been agreed upon between the states of Nicaragua, San Salvador, and Honduras. Our adrices from Havannah arc to tho 10th ult., but they contain no news of interest. In commercial matters we have no change to re port since the Pacific sailed. The money market was slightly easier. Prices had receded slightly in the breadstuffs market, and very little business was doing. Western Canal flour, 4 dols. to 4 dais. 121 e. per barrel. Gen nessee prime Wheat, 1 dol. Re. to 1 dol. 10c. per 60Ib. Bound yellow Indian corn, .5Se. to 60e. per bushel. Indian meal, 3 dols. to 3 dols. 121 c. per barrel. The cotton market at New York was quiet and business to a moderate extent only had been done ; prices, however, were quite steady. The following are the quotations: New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 11e. to 12c. per lb.; Uplands and Florida, mid. fair to fair, 10,1 e. to 101 e. per lb. Ashes.—Pot ashes arc firm at 5 dols., and pearls 55 dols. 55e. per 10014 s. Iron.-100 tons Scotch pig sold at 19 dots. 75c., eight months. Lead, Galena, sells at 4 dole. 75e., and Spanish at 4 dols. 65e. Naval Stores.—Rough turpentine is steady, with moderate sales, at 3 dots; spirits of turpentine, Gle. ; co mmon resin, 1 dol. 30 e , to 1 dol. 10 c.; tar, dol. 75e. to 1 dol. 871,e. Freights are unaltered in prices. Provisions dull, without any change in quotations. Exchange on London, from 1101 to 11 1 ; Paris, 3.7 ; Hamburg, 361, 37; Bremen, 701 to SO. NvA: ORLEANS, Jexs T 2. Cotton is in limited demand since the receipts of the Arctic's news. Exchange, 10 to lid. HAVANNATS, Jr NE IG. The business of the week has been hard for buyers from the north, who have had to supply themselves with funds at 7 per rent. exchange. The regular packets are doing a good business in coast wise freights, while there is a constant demand for both north and across the Atlantic. Northern produce bean a high price, the market being bare of the leading articles. TWO DAYS LATER, BY ELECTRIC TELE- GRAPH TO HALIFAX. Advices from New York to the afternoon of the 2Gth arrived in time to be put on board the America at Halifax. These state that the news by the Europa, which reached New York by telegraph on Tuesday, and the details on Thursday (26th) had produced little effect on the cotton market, which remained firm at ' advancing rates. Her advices had a marked effect on the corn and flour markets, causing an advance of G Ic. to 12Ic. on flour, 2c. to 4c. on wheat, and 2c. to 3c.:onandian corn. The orders and letters from England are unusually large, but the scarcity of vessels limits business. Sr. Ltxtes's Ctrh.—A petition has been presented to the Court of Chancery by the promoters of this club to I wind up its affair under the act. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. The Royal 'West India mail packet Clyde, Captain F. E. Moss, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at Southampton last evening, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant T. J. Wilkenson,lLN., Admiralty agent. Her dates of sailing arc: Vera Cruz, June 6; - Tampico, 3; Chagres, 9; Carthagena,' 11 ; Jamaica, 12; Demerara, 11 ; Trinidad, 11 ; liar badocs, 13; Antigua, 14 ; Martinique, 14 ; Grenada, 12; Porto Rico, 16; St. Thomas, 18; La Guayra, 19; San Francisco, May 13. She brings fifty-four passengers amongst them is Lord Harris, lute governor of Trinidad, with his lady and child. Amongst her cargo is the following specie : silver from 1 ampico, value 76,711 dots. ; silver from Vera Cruz, 162,222 dole. ; specie on account of Mexican dividends, 9,624 doll. ; gold-dust from Cali fornia, 238,650 dolt.; silver from the Pacific ports, 99,113 dole. ; specie and bullion from Carthagena, 182,5:37 dolt. •, from Jamaica, 6,802 dots.; anti from other parts of the West Indies and Spanish Main, 62,365 dots. ; the total value being 884,066 dots., or 177,000/. sterling. The Clyde also brings ten cases of animals and birds for the Zoological Gardens, as a present from Lord Harris. Only 2;19,090 dolt. of the specie brought home by the Clyde were from Mexico. The Trent left Tampico ou the 4th of June, and Vera Cruz the 6th. Political parties were quiet, though an outbreak was very soon expected, for the Mexicans, with eN cry levity of young republicans, are soon tired of their rulers. From the Isthmus we learn that large numbers are , 1 leaving California, particularly since the fire. At Santa Martha there was a rumour that two of the provinces bud opet,ly revolted to annex thentscives to the republic of Equador, and that a force of 10,0:X) men had been voted by the House of Assem bly at Bogota to make war on that republic. A correspondent, writing from Santa Martha, snys: " This poor and unattractive-looking town is in no very thriving condition, but is 10611, I believe, a con siderable eiiircput for cotton goods, &c., to be con veyed up the country rid the .. Magdalena." JAMAICA. No measures appear to have been taken to miti gate the cholera at Jamaica (whence the dates have been anticipated vin New York), notwithstanding the sufferings which the Jamaican's have undergone, although the Joorna/, of course, urges the import ance of cleanliness. On the north side of the island the cholera still lingered, particularly in the parish of Hanover. It had likewise re-appeared at Up-park Camp, three miles from Kingston, among the troops. At the latter place, although the disease appeared in a somewhat violent form, the mortality was by no means great, and at the time of the packet's depar ture it was said to be on the decrease. The hon. I lector Mitchel had qualified as castes of the city of Kingston, and had included in his commission, it is said, nearly 20 new magistrates. There seemed little probability of the legislature being called together before the usual peri.xl in October as the country members were unwilling to attend. The Police Bill was, therefore, lost --at all events, for the season. Parochial constables had been sworn in in several of the parishes, agreeably to law, much to the dissatisfaction of the public, who arc decidedly fa vourable to the old police bill. The Supreme Court had refused an application made to admt to bail the several parties charged with the murder of Mr. Mac lean at the late St. David's riot. They will be tried in August. Regarding the cholera, we glean the following notices from the Morsiny..foorsaf: _ . This awful disease has appeared in Wi stmorelatul and the town of Falmouth, and is, we arc sorry to learn, already working its dire results. A correspondent at Westmore land of the County Union, writes that paper, under date Saturday, 7th June, as follows: " When I last wrote you find a case of cholera had occurred at Paul Island estate, I was in hopes that it was nothing more than a complaint in the bowels, which is generally prevalent at this time of the year, and often occurs here utter heavy seasons, such as we have hod of bate; but sorry am I to soy, that many similar cases have occurred since I wrote, and, although several have proved fatal, still 1 am of opinion that they have not all died from , cholera. On Saturday last we hail one of the longest and I heaviest rains that have lath n here for a long time, so much so that carriages could scarcely get through the rivers near the town and on Tuesday an in quest was held on the body of a man who was found in tho Calrarritta river, near Blnekness estate. Front the two or three dry days we have had I was in hope that the rain had left us, but regret to say we load a return of it last evening ; and although it is fine at this moment, yet, from the exceestve heat, I fear wu shall have its return again. I ant truly sorry to inform you that there have been several more cases of cholera, a statement of which, with these remarks, is made up to last night from Dr. Mur phy's letters: • That a host of cases of diarrhma have made their appearance.' lam sadly fearful that Westmoreland will have now us much disease as most other parishes have had ; however, I do hope that the Almighty having spared this place so long, lie will extend His merciful hand still further and assist us to get over this sad calamity which has come so near us. Total eases from the 2ttth ultimo. to the I 4th instant : Paul Island Estate, 3; Bell isle 3; Frome, 1; king's Volley and Mint, 4; Geneva, i; Morgan's Bridge, 1; Messupotatnia, 4 ; Blue Castle 1; total . 1 he cholera, in its most malignant form, still lingers in the parish of Hanover. It is, alas, too true (writ, the County Union) that since the 31st ult thirty-seventh deaths have occurred at Sandy Bay, and Seven at Blue Hole, making a total of forty since its reappearance there. No doubt the late rains are in some degree adjuvant to the fresh outbreak and spread of the disease. Dr. Mullett has been sent for by the Board of Health, and stationed at Si.ntly Bay. The Tee/away announces the existence of the disease in the same parish as follows "We regret to state that cholera has become endemic to this parish, to all appear ances. The disease still wages a war of destruction in various parts of the parish. At Sandy Bay there have been several deaths during the past week. At Green Island the deaths have been numerous." A meeting of the Hanover Board of Health was held at the Court-house, Lucca, on the 3rd of June. The correspondent of the Falmouth Post supplies that paper with the following notice of the proceedings:—" After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting a letter was received front Mr. Hutton, acquainting the board that cholera had broken out again in a more malignant form than ever at Sandy Bay and Bloc Hole. That five fatal cases had occurred on the night of the 2nd instant, and that there were upwards of twenty others under treatment, some of which are of a desperate nature. Mr. Hutton requested that a medical gentleman might be sent at once to the district, ne Dr. Brown had been called away to the neighbourhood of Cas cade. The board very promptly engaged the services of Dr. Barnett, who lost no time in proceeding to Sandy Bay, where a supply of medicine was placed at his disposal. The disease still lingers nt Pell River, and we regret to add that it had rieappeared in Lucca." The Trelaway (Hanover), after alluding to the cholera in several localities, says : We have line seasons for planting, but the cholera is still raging at Bias's, Ging er-hill, and Glasgow. The roads to these places are very bad, jeopardising the lives of all who have the misfortune to travel over them. In fact, they are the very worst in the island, and ought to be repaired. The C'ounly Union (St. James's) says: One congenial season is prevalent over the whole court ', try, and we are gratified in announcing that experienced planter. have declared that for many years past the island has not been favoured with such a season as the lost few weeks have been the harbinger of. All, however, unite in the universal regret of the scarcity of labour. We are fully authorised in stating that the sugar and rum yield of the present year has, taking all things into consideration, rea lised the expectations made while it was yet on the ground, and, hail not circumstances beyond the control of the planter intervened, there is not the slightest doubt but that a ge nerous return would have been the crowning reward of industry, however little remunerative it might have been to the manufacturer. In Westmoreland the crop has been what may be termed a liberal one, and but that during the last few weeks that parish has been deluged with rain, which has of course been detrimental to the balance of the uncut canes, we should have to report with great truth on the thriving state of the few estates still in cultivation I there. As regards St. James, planters have placed the crop as fair—very fair, considering the drawbacks they met with at the commencement of the season, at which time the mann faueture was held upwards of fi ne or six weeks, owing to tho cholera not having ceased in the agricultral portions of the parish. The Western Interior district may be said to have finished operations, and that satisfactorily, but the general crop of St. James cannot be stated as more than half taken off, more particularly on the sea-side estates of the Trelawnyborder. The quality of the produce is ranked at front middling to fair. The Falmouth Post (Westmoreland) says: We understand that the weather in Westmoreland is very severe, and that all the rivers are considerably swollen. On the 31st May there was a heavy shower of ra in iu the town of Savanna-la-Mar and in the country. It commenced at half-past two o'clock, p.m., and lasted sex hours. In en deavouring to cross Southfield on his way to Lochiel, his place of residence, Mr. Frazer, who was driving, had great difficulty in preventing his gig and horse from being car ried away by the force of the stream, and in saving himself. We arc glad to learn that he did not sustain any injury. Our correspondent edits, that serious fears are entertained about the progress of cholera. in consequence of the state of the weather. Several cases had occurred at Morgan's bridge, and Mesopatamia. At the last named placo there had been two deaths. On the subject of the Coolies the Morning Journal has; the following: _ . ... The Coolies in Hanover and some of the other parishes are beginning to be troublesome on the subject of their re turn to India. They came here under a guarantee that at the expiration of live years they should be returned, free of expense, to their country. The period for which they agreed to rernaiu has expired, and tney claim front the island a fulfilment of the contract. As usual, no prepay_ tion for sending bark these people has been MVP', and there is little prospect that any will be made for some time to come. They are becoming dissatisfied and tniublesmno to certain gentlemen, and these will have to hi va le trouble sonic to the governor, who will have to trouble the House of Assembly on the sobje-t. The ix pease will not be trilling, and additional taxation will have to be resorted to in order to comply with their just demands. There are many persons, we are sorry to be com pelled to admit, disposed to break faith with these people, and who would refuse or neglect to furnish them with the return passage to which they are entitled. It is to be hoped, however, that the Assembly will feel the obligation under which it is laid to vindicate the public honour and preserve inviolate the public faith. True it is that the exchequer is nearly empty, and that there Ls no chance of our inviting any more Coolies to conic to the island. The public faith was nevertheless pledged to send them bark, and l eac h th ey must be sent. But when and how ? If they are to go at all it must be by way of England. There will thcres fore be their passage to England, and from thence to Bombay or Calcutta, and a pre Sty exle n sive affair it will he in all probability. Means ought to be adopted at once to ascertain about what time it is best they should reach England, and the expense of keeping th. m. there, and of taking them on to their native country so soon as passages can be procured fur them. Trinidad has either resorted to this mode of fulfilling its engagement. with the coolies which went to that island, or is about to do so, la consequence of their refusing the bonus which was Litt. red to them to remain in the island. It happens, however, t o have a fund for immigration purposes, whielt we have not, and to lie in a condition to meet the heavy outlay which is necessary without delay or any greater loss of time than may be uccoisary to procure trmsports. BRITISH 61.3.1 NA From Demerara we learn that during the last fortnight the weather in the colony had been dull and wet. The only important event that had occurred tuns the bringing forward of a motion by an unoffi cial member of the Court of Policy on the subject of reform : Whereas on the Sth October last, a memorial was pre sented to this court from certaiu inhabitants, praying the court "to abstain altogether from legislation in connecti.m with the subject of constitutional r..form, until the c 'art shall he prepared to adopt, as the main principle and obi, it of such legislation, the substitution for the existing I,xis lative institutions of this colony of an elective council an 4 house of assemb:y, bawd on a Fplent of full, free, direct popular representation ;" and this COWL ill ttrm resolve to abstain, as prayed, from any legislation on its subject, until sutilivient time had been afforded t.. the memorialists for explaining, in detail, and communicating ti this court their plans and views with regard to the tar rying out the wished for thong, in the franehis • and the constitution. And whereas up to tic , present moment (a period of seven months Itising is the meantime elapstol), the said memorialists 1c,5i.,4 neglected and refused to favour this cone: with such c' And whereas the Secretary of State, in it late dated IGth April, Mil, has transmitted to this court, :in.! the same time has expressed his appres al of cert,lin tions in reference to ibis questiori, that were meeting of proprietors and merchants beneficially el I deeply interested in the welfare of this colony. held , d London Tavern on the 4th April, Mil, anti whic4 r' lo tions nerve, in the main points, with the changes and tions suggested by his Excellancy in his address to t!,: on the 15th ticpiember last: Resolved—That this now prepared, and willing to adopt, and to legi•lat • upon, the basis of the saki resolutions now on tie t.0.1e, an-I request his Excellency to instruct tat. Attorney General to inttoduce the necessary ordinances accordingly. This motion was carried, without the consent, how- e•mrt ourt ie ever, of the majority of the elective members. V I IO declined voting upon it one way or the other. In the Court of Policy to-day His Excellency the Governor promised to send forward the moti ut of the honour able member to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Alter the pas,ing of the resolution on the Gth the court adjourned until the loth, then to inert merely for the purpose of enabling . Messrs. Ross, Haynes, and Quayle to put on the minutes of the court their reasons fur declining to vote. Accordingly, on that day, on the meeting of the. court, Mr. Rose handed in, to be placed on the minutes, the follow ing document : We cannot assent to the resolution before the court, and therefore decline to vote:—tint, because the prenu:i•:•• states, what is inconsktent with the fact, that on the s•li October loathe court did invite c;rtain incium iali.ds on t! • subject of cou•titutional refocus to to this co' tllllCinsand views with regard to the carrying out ti wishes for changes in the franchi,e and the constitution whereasnosuchinvitationthustocounnunicateeveremanat, from this court. Bicond, lxcau+c in the Necond paragraph. • • • • . the preamble this pretended in% itat in, WhielllEN Wlexistenco, is assumed as a fact, and it prow ed% on this baseless fabric to state, " And whereas up to the present moment (a period of seven months having in the man time elapsed) the said memorialists having neglected and refused to favour this court with such details," we hereby mujihatically declare our disapprobation of the paragraph here quoted, as ha, it upon fiction, as embodying an objectionable, unites& reed, and insulting reflection on a large number of our fellow colonists, and as tonding to lower the estimation of this court with the community at large, by the ase of langua4 , , and the introduction of An unnece-sary and ofn.n.iv, taunt, derogatory to the character and dignity of the legislature. (Signed) PETER no,E, RICUAll1) GEOILUE QUAYLL. Court-house, 6th June, Mil. The Rval Gazette speaks disapprovingly of the motion, observing " how utterly absurd and ina-i -plieable would be the legislative institutions of Ct nada, &c., transplanted to British Guiana, Nvlt. to there arc only a few hundreds of Europeans livimt is the midst of thousands and tens of thousands of half civilised people." The vacancy occasioned in one of the scats fir Essequebo by the retirement of Mr. Daly, promotO to the office of Administrator-General for Demenua and Essequebo, has been filled up by the uttoppu,d return of Mr. Philip Hughes, of plantation Anita Regina. A testimonial, valued at 1.50 guineas, had bect presented by the principal colonists to Deputy-Com missary Cowan on his departure from lb:nu:ram The estate called Adventure, on the cast coast of Essequibo, had been sold at an execution sale for It than 4901. sterling. The Cu/osist says :—" The weather hm lately been, we believe, all that the planters desire, and IA lien agriculturists do not grumble about the tneteiric economy of the atmosphere,. we may feel perfeolv satisfied that the season not unfavourable further operations." TRINIDAD. Lord Harris had received a number of valedictory . addresses previous to his departure. The last act of his lordship s administration was to announce that the estimates and plans for bringing the water of the Moray into the Port of Spain had been approved of by the home government. The Pore qf Spain 1 ; , 1- zette of June 10 has an article highly eulogistic of Lord Harris's government of the island. The Trini dadian is less favourable. Lord Harris was suc ceeded by Colonel Ward as acting governor. The weather continued to bo very propitiolts for agricultural operations, and the wages of labourers had not experienced any alteration. In the Board of Council, on the 2nd of June, the go• vernor submitted the budgets for 182, which showed an increase in the receipts arising from the duties on imports over the preceding year's estimate. The e)- 10:nal secretary had moved for a grant of 10,00 1 /. for immigration purposes. In the Board of Councili sitting of the 6th, says the (Malec. : Ilk excellency had the satisfaction of putting the lakt stroke to a work of fiscal reform to which he had plc dz..l himself from his first assumption of the ruins of goes ne meat, :—the abolition of the export duty of 31 per cLut ad valorem, hitherto levied on all produce grown in aIA exported from the colony. The council at the same ra,t ing passed the ordinance entitled an ordinance "to autho rise the advancement of public money to a limited amount, to promote the improvement of public roads, not royal roads, in the colony." The other proceediugs of nu: , legislature were of merely local importance. The Trinidadian, of June 4, says: - A most deplorable accident has occurred in the quarter of Isaparima, resulting in the death of Mrs. Crosby. the sister of the HOll. Dr. Philip. About raid night of Saturday, the 31st ult., the house on the Corinth Estate, occupied by that lady aid her family, was discovered to be on fire, and so rapid was the progress of the flames, that each sought for safety in flight. Mr. B. Philip, alter great difficulty, had succeeded in securing the retreat of the greater portion of the °era pants of the house, when the staircase gave way, and it W. 13 discovered that Mrs. Crosby and one of her daughters were mis•ing. A ladder was immediately reared up against tha house. Mr. D. Philip saved Miss Crosby, but when he rushed up once more to the rescue of Mrs. Crosby, the house was enveloped in flames, and Mrs. Crosby, in a state of asphyxia, had already fallen a victim to them. tinder the house there were several puncheons of rum, which, upon the falling of the flooring, hurried on the dreadful disaster. Everything was consumed, and anion.; the ruins only a portion of the carbonised remains of Mr-. Crosby were discovered. The material loss is valued at 15,000 dols. or 20,000 dais. Mrs. Crosby has left a name , roue family. LEEWARD ISLANDS. At Burbadoes the weather had been favourable rl