The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 15, 1847. mam ba directed that after the next avoidance a sum of 1 poratoald be paid to their fund out ef the revenue d wit. The rights of the Kemal blimp were by the act of parliament--(ironiml alas M "Maar, Taal therefore the alteration could not take plate in his lifetime. This, however, was not the fault of the Kale imbed co mmissioners, but of the act of parliament. The must recollect that the ecelesiastiml comma= was esly formed in 1836, and that parliament, in placing powers b their panda, had coupled it with great restrictions. pages is their resent system were, in certain partienlars, pa ' w e pt, desirable. But the commismoncn had the law to .inner, and if the law was imperfect the law should be a ltered, hot the comunisionera should not be blamed. With to the hon. gentleman's two first resolutions, he Heald meet them with the previous question ; if he premed the third, he must meet it with a direct negative. 111:MB said thLt the hon. member for Cockennouth, m used to show what was the intention of parliament with ei perd to episcopal allowances, and the Horne Secretary said d i git wee the fault of an act of parliament that three 'titm ice, had not been carried out. Well, then, if they bad not beta carried out the Home Secretary waste blame for not am igo it. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr Home) well recollected that yarliament had arranged Mat 139,0061. a Tear should be a pportioned for episcopal incomes, and all beyond that re ceived as bishops' revenues was to be applied to the gag natation of small livings. The question was, if that had blot done or not ? After a oeutence from an hon. member (said to be Mr. D cre k.e), vibe paid atribute to the bishop of the diocese in which he lived, Sir It. H. INGLIS said he was not surprised at the course taken by the hon. member for Montane, who had always been consistent in his opposition to bishops. The principle of that ben. member was that the church was very corrupt, and that her corruption arose from her wealth. If corrup tion did arise from wealth, the hon. member ought to be very corrupt, fir report said that be was extremely rich. (.. Oh," and laughter.' But though not surprised at the bon. member, he (Sir R. H. Inglis) was surprised at the ad dreces of other speakers. They had proceeded on the moraption that the church had no right to her pro perty. Now he (Sir R. H. Inglis) had always maintained dist the property of the church was as much her own as the property of any other corporation. In many instances the property of the church had been exceedingly well applied, sad it ought to have been sta•ed in the counts of the debate dist the Bishop of Loodon bad set the example, which might be advantageously followed by all, of raising all his vicarages to tho value of 2001. per annum. He had heard with great tern and pain some of the allusions of the hon. mover, es penally his reference to what he was pleased to st yle a gambling transaction." He warned the hon. seconder that he must not consider he was a friend to the church if ke seconded recommen d a ti ons so supported. Hewes thank- hl that the church estahlishesenCdid not depend es ea weal vote of that house, but stood en its foundaties. eel three was no period in which the hierarchy did not medeleit is position as the firth body in the state. The church wee need on to contribute to the spiritual dietitians, sad they did so by this bill; they were EMMA sinC saliog donor., and not pensioners He dolma the eso et that heave for the church, as a great .eig with their property as fairly as any lay . is ffie heeding'. It was said that the bishops in all dear edeethe tens had been mistaken in one way. - Could say see= say possible motive for this ? Twere They not to them as pauper pensioner+, or stipendiaries whe asked for est must dole ; but they held their estates as their own. U an act of parliament required them to give up a portion of their revenues they would do so ; but he maintained that huh by such an act you might deal with the property of the Bishop of Durham, there was no more right to do ea than there was to deal with the property of the corporatist of Durham. Neither of them had received their property from the state, and until that was so the state could not deal with it. The question at issue was, whether by the opera. the oldie act, the bishops were to he considered as propels. tors or stipendiaries. If they were proprietors, and were to age over a certain sum, and did not do so, a case wee mho out ; but as he believed that was not so, he was girl the previous question bad been moved. Hr. W. P. WOOD said that the incomes of the bishop mar exceeded the averages which were, taken in 1837, bat seeediag to the provisions of the act, the payments weft assesarily made under those averages, and so he the commissioners were not to blame. He thought Settle church property should be available for church rem There wee 26-0601. at the disposal of the ter whether it was to be applied to the creed= finer iihoprice, or to increase of spiritual instrneties, the meld ass say. To both of those uses it might well to milisd, kr bed were needed. There was by no means a sslemileeey of liseepi in this country, and there might be ea lemssse of those prelates, although not in the House of Lards. There was a greet want also of working clergy. The house ought m beobliged to the hon. member for Cockermouth for kriging forward the question, so as to give them such an Slight into it as would lead to • revision of the act of par- Went. He could not support the resolutions. Lord J. RUSSELL had heard with pleasure the lithe boo. gentleman who had just sat down, and be s = it with the more pleasure became it tended to lead the home tea decision. The hon. gentleman said, and truly, that the mover of the resolutions was nit well founded in his 'opposi tion that the act of parliament had not been complied with. Although the act was defective, that was no reason far sap psing why those who were entrusted with the coming ft moo execution had not fairly applied themselves to their _irk. That suppoeition was not well founded, and the hon. gentle man declined to vote for the resolutions. Any one who per used the act could come to no other decision. The other question as to the manner in which the act was formed, sad the made on which the incomes of the bishop should be met tied, was a very difficult one ; end although he (Lord J. Russell) could see defects in the present mode, still the ethers which had been suggested were open to grave objets time If it was mid that the bishops were to buy over the sarplus beyond the 8,0001. or 5,0001. a year allotted for Auk krona, they were deprived of any inducement to bestow ears on their estates. If, on the other hand, there was is be a common fund and the amount paid to them out of it, it would be liable to the objection that they would become rtipendiariee, and a change w be made in the character which the bishops had held as having their estates at their own disposal, whelk was a far different tenure to that I salaries. There berg each objections to that mode of distribution, be would dray that there were objections to the mode which bad hem adopted. It was impossible to say that it was the intention tithe act that when the bishops had a certain income allotted to them, they should receive a greeter one. Or. the other hand, there would be great difficulty in saying that a Whop should pay a certain sum, and if his income did not awe melt esarplus, that he should be forted to pay it by actions et law, ta order that the act should be complied with. The hon. gentleman the member for Cockermouth stated that the Bishop of Durham had been asked whether he would receive the income allotted to him from the commissions's, es whether he would pay to them the surplus required of him. No such proposition was made to the Bishop of Durham. He (Lord J. Bauteell) was in the come atmou, and he remembered that the Bishop d Durham left it entirely to the ecomalsica. They decided what should be paid, and he agreed, at ones, to par it, and there never was any other ent. Ho re. waded that a proposition was made by e late Babe et Ely. He was to receive 5,0001. a year, and to pay ever 2,1001., and, after two year's experience, he stated that his Scores would not allow him to pay 2,5001., and he asked the ansimioners to take all his property tar then hands ad It pay him 5,0001. a year, bat the emembiseas were pre dead by the act from meriting I& pereoltion. This wee a proof that there were breamskasso on both sit iotti i amotiames, a bishop reared we NM the income le boa, he sometimes land it Idle& e ing sEe : rhat was re trial r hiss. As it weahl be for the hon. amber for Cochineal& te Wee" Me to wpm to a mealution. declaring &at the sat bad not been eared out, be (laird J. Russell) scald "sly say thoit he wee net ready it Plage himself to ~et a bill to shesigethe presort mode of dierhation. He ml t think it defective, but be did mot as clearly any other arts by which it could be done. Be spud with the hoe. ignadessaa, the member for Oxford (who said that there was is orsories of 1:6,0001., but the eal editions of the commesissise made it only 16,0001 )—he speed with him, that there were plenty of ways in which Na, whether 26,0001. or 1441111., could be applied to the haft of the church. He (Leal J. Russell) maintained, ink had said last year, that time was not sufficient epia tyll soperintesdethe for the feerseming population of the atentry, as, with mesa to dr ausiski clergy, in relation to te ai asso oft& peep* them woe by no means enough thattheft, There 11112 idle ems* es meupy the eurplua thud , and it We be a matter for parliament to etesider low the present arreememest could be improved. lord R.OROSVENOR ressmaraded the withdrawal of the resolutions, and hoped that mat ef the object of kis Ifriend would be gained by the akillilliell which had plum Hr. ACILIONEY did net believe that the seembrosers bad carried oat the intend= of the set, sad he use pr pm& is support the whole of the resolutions. The hems sad the swami owed a debt to him hon. colleague he lien kr- an" the question. It was an endue talhalpdso th , that this questio n was brought forward he en dn a rpint to the church. The now embed in doe had been oonferred epos by the state, and be red the the state bad a nght to meddle with it kr the braid of the public. Ia far this had bra already shmely Se ApPropriation Act in Ireland, and the very slater rider _wkirb the Frionasitical Containers has boon emollealed is this Portion of the realm. He objected to dr amillollia of the rommiaion. Originally its members bed bees few, sad of them the laymen farmed the majority, 'Ed the elariestre the minority ; but now the numbers had bees iesemeed to 4- 113 unworkable communion, and of these II awe e'er- Mans and 22 onl laymen. Unless the immunise amid Pledge itself to a ttar the oonatiratisa of the eariesadoe, w well as to amend the status now is he. be loped the bar meld give its lull approbation to the motion of his Nh a ariullif said the right has bonnet the Home bad dealt so fully and so pomady with the 01 0 4 "'union, that he (Mr. Omallears) did not arra to himself upon the home at erg lon . yite_rmaent involved a direst sem= make essememmr all' kw set brag headed whet were the miglidoe of an act of parliament Theiteet led hen 111/16- by_si acute lawyers as dr ha, astatka r it Olio , #Flita)q) sobs win wised le Isle Si sew Mims the misset hob at Ilmobee4r/lbe winning it the bin a ilislies • to gee falow et 6 it as Me. etemboe's eon sollsi. Is (Mr. Goof. )eiejegualleesahod ISt Se truninerms bed sui lhodly NMI Its all et perihment Sly be ben spelelel Is sees Ste te n t. vie set a graft ulnas se OM the NSWse pewees So la egl__ Is end emedel. bet_ 9 WM l a r o ar a all assartas ef sot mho MI Mid with- Med em isemsmin. Mar.) Nan that It would hoe unjust to make the counniasioners elliewarebie hr the defects in the act of parliament, the pro visions of whlsh they were bound to carry into effect, be hid n• Isar but that, on • divides, the home would decide that the rionioaimioners were not to be censured for the faith hl discharge of the duties imposed upon them. (Hear.) Mr. HEYWOOD suggested • modification in the latter part of the last resolution, which he thought would remove the objection of many bon. members. Instead of the words " that the provisions of this act 6 & 7 Wilk. IV., C. 77, so far as relates to episcopal inmates, have net been carried oat according to the intentions of parliament," he would suggest the substitution of these words—" That the provisions of the statute 6 & 7 Will. IV., e. 77, require the serious considera tion and revision of parliament." Mr. HORSHAM, in reply, complained that the govern ment had pet en erroneous construction on his motion. He did not impute to the ecclesiastical commissioners that they had done anything that the act of par liament did not warrant; what to alleged was, that they had not carried out the intention of the act as regarded those sees which had fallen meant since 1848. Mr. BROTHERTON, while agreeing that some change we+ necessary, could not support a resolution which implied a censure on the commissioners, without being better ac.- %wanted with the facts and figure. brought forward on both sides during the debate. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GLADSTONE (whores. amid loud cries far a division) positively objected to the modification proposed by the hon. member for North Lancashire---becausc it would pledge the house to an opinion respecting the revision of the emlesias tired commission before it had the slightest idea by whom that revision would be carried out. (Renewed onus of " Divide.") The gallery was then cleared for a division. On oar re-admission, we learnt that upon the two first re solutions the previous question had been meted, and agreed to without a division. On the third resolution, Dr. BOWRING moved an amendment substitutiag for the words " have not been car ried out according to the intentions of parliament," the words " ought to be referred to the further consideration of parliament.' This was adopted, and stood part of the qua don, on which the division took place. The numbers were— For the motion Against it EPIPHANY QUARTER SESSIONS. . . . Mr. PACK it moved for leave to bring in ■ bill for defer ring the Epiphany quarter sessions, so ea net to interfere with the Christmas holidays. After a remark from Biro. have was given to bring in the bill. The bill was afterwards brought in, and read a first time. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND). The report on this bill was brought up. Some additional clauses and provisoes were agreed to.—The bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow (this day). The house adjourned at 11 o'clock. catholic, yet in proscribing monastic institutions, we do not see that France or Austria can have a right to prevent them. That lay-brother, Mr. joRN 0 CONNELL, may imagine that ca tholicism and monkery are synonymous; but no one out of Ireland entertains any such pre posterous ideas. Monkery is on the wane in catholic Lombardy, throughout all South Germany, and in every catholic state. Why should not the Swiss catholica be allowed to follow similar tendencies ? When the refugee officers and statesmen of the Son derbund reached Milan they were recognised at the gates, and followed by a mob of the Milanese to their hotel, hooting and pelting them. There can be no people more attac he d to the creed and the ceremonies of catholicism than the lower order of the Milanese. Yet they hooted the political Jesuits of Lucerne, who are the adored of Mr. JOHN O'CoNNELL. Why should not Italian opinions of catholicism be as much respected as the very absurd ideas of catholicism en tertained in the ultimo thule of Ireland, where bigotry is kept up, and honoured, and aired, as a capital electioneering qualification ? Tim infirmity of purpose which often characterises national councils might drive one to wish for a batch of Lady Macbeth; in office. The great function of each successive British parliament appears to be, with or without cause to undo sismething that its predeces sors have done. With regard to colonial affairs, the suddenness and frequency of these changes can only be equalled by the weakness of the reasons generally assigned for them. Bearing in mind these facts, our readers would not be surprised to learn from our yes terday's publication that the new House of Commons is busy rescinding in part the act : peered by the old one in 1846, for the government of New Zealand. The act of 1846 conferred upon the colonists of New Zealand elective municipal councils and elective provincial legislatures. The bill of 1847-8, if passed into a law, will withhold the latter boon for five years., When we look back upon the history of our colonial empire, we find that all those colonies, without excep- ' tion, which have had from the beginning elective legislatures, have become energetic, self-supporting provinces of the empire, or powerful independent states; and that those which have been denied this essentially British institution have, so long as it was withheld,' remained ricketty and valetudinary communities. The reasons which have induced a ministry, whose leading members pride themselves upon being the hereditary representatives of the section of our aris tocracy favourable to liberal institutions, to recom mend this retrograde step to the legislature, ought to be strong indeed. The main reason assigned by Mr. LAROCCUERE for the introduction of the bill to disfranchise the free colonists of New Zealand is a despatch from Governor GREY, in which that officer expresses great objections I to bringing the constitution into effect in New Zea land at present. The despatch referred to tells mi nisters nothing that they did not know when the act of 1846 was pa.md. It tells them that the aborigines are possed of much property ; that they understand the value of property, and are anxious to acquire and retain it; that they are intelligent enough to know that duties levied on imported goods are so much subtracted from their property; that the power of imposing customs duties vested in the provincial legislature will enable it to tax the natives; and that the natives will be dissatis fied if this is done. All these statements are true, bat assuredly they are not new. Earl GREY, who has dwelt with such an attentive and intelligent observa tion upon the progress of events is New Zealand from before the sailing of the Tory, and who, as chairman of the last committee of the House of Commona on New Zealand affairs, passed in review every addi tional source of information respecting the colony, digested the evidence, and formed his own conclusions from them, knew all these things when, under his auspices the bill of 1846 was introduced. The introduction of that measure is a proof that he thought the boon of free institutions to the colony promised advantages which more than compensated these drawbacks. Is it like the approved firmness of Earl GREY to back out of his own measure simply because a meritorious officer, in terse phraseology tells him what be knew before ? Bat Governor Gen . 's despatch does not recom mend such a sweeping measure as the suspension of the new constitution for five years. Governor GREY said in his despatch that he feared theme would be the greatest difficulty in promulgating the charter in some parte of New Zealand, and that it was only in one portion of the islands he would recommend its promulgation for the present. Our readers will remember that by the act of 1846, and the letters patent issued under it, New Zealand was portioned out into two provinces, with power to the governor farther to subdivide each into districts. The districts where there was any cool- derable number of English inhabitants were to be erected into municipal districts, with elective town councils. These districts were also to elect represen tatives to the provincial legislature. In the exten-1 sive tracts of country as yet only inhabited by a thin population of aborigines, the natives were to hi allowed the enjoyment of their own laws and memos, free from legislative interference on the part of the settlers. «e can quite well understand that in the disturbed temper of the native districts, consequent upon the insurrections under HEM in the north and RANGIHAEATA in the south, it might be inadvisable to publish there any parts of the charter not immediately bearing upon their inhabitants . But this ie no reason for wi thholding from the settlers in the municipal dis tricts that entire control, on the part of the public, over local legislation and taxation which is the end and aim of an elective legislature. And Governor GREY did not recommend that it should be withheld from them. It is not Governor GREY, but the ministers, who conferred upon New Zealand an elective legislature, who now advise parliament to rescind the grant. We say rescind the great, for though five years is the term now assigned for its being withheld, is there one man conversant with colonial affairs—acquainted with the views of government officers and governors—who is not convinced that at the end of these five years some pre text will be found for a further postponement? The denial of free institutions to New Zealand—the dash ing of the cup of constitutional government from their lips, already touching it—is for an indefinite period. It cannot produce even the good effects attributed to it. If there is no elective legislature to impose cue tome duties and other taxes, the governor and his nominee council must impose them. Will the natives bear the one kind of taxation one jot more patiently than the other ? Will taxation be more equitably and judiciously apportioned, laws more judiciously enacted, by an irresponsible governor and a council of parasites nominated by him, than by a constitutionally li mited governor co-operating with the elite of the settlers ? The sole effect of the bill for rescinding the constitutional charter of New Zealand is to re-eeta bliah the irresponsible governor and council of 1840, and deprive the colonists of any means of checking their proceedings. The bill plunges the colony back into that anarchy from which it had been promised the means of emerging. It is a bill to disfranchise the white settlers, and it is a bill which affords no greater security to the aborigines. Its only possible tendency is to facilitate misgovernment and oppres sior, and thereby engender in all claws a dislike of British oonnexion and sovereignty. It is of no avail to tell us of Governor GREY'S excel lent qualities. Can parliament ensure his remaining in New Zealand, three, two, or even one year ? Can they give any security that his successor will partici pate in hie qualities? Can they even guarantee that his nature will remain unchanged under the tempta tions of irresponsible power P There is one feature of the debate which arose on the proposal to introduce the bill for disfranchising the New Zealand colonists, which invites notice, and may, ere long, receive it at our hands. We allude to the resuscitation of the calumnies against the settlers, and the Ronmeauish panegyrics on the aborigines, so long and freely vested by the land-sharking por tion of the New Zealand missionaries. But a graver subject calls for immediate attention. The New Zealand Bill of this session not only contemplates enactments positively mischievous : it omits an urgently required and essential reform. Morten and acts of parliament are but so much Hank paper, unless there be in the communities to Mbleit they relate real pre-existent powers to give AM amt. The Reform Act was nothing more l ien a formal recognition by the ostensible govern - mint of Great Britain that political power had passed into the hands of the constituency recognised by t measure. Important though the legislative cha rter of New Zealand unquestionably , is, • measure to liberate the colony from the factions contests of those aqui-potent authorities established among them by the British government, would be far more useful. There are in the 00-e institutions of New Zealand three rival powers, whose inevitable oollisioes will frustrate every attempt at regular legal govern ment. In the first place, there is the governor, pos sessing great political power among all claws of the inhabitants, from the patronage he has to bestow. In the second place, there is the bishop, affecting to live amen and be the political oluitapion of the natives, over whom he exercises a double induence—as their spiritual instructor, and as deriving a peculiar juriediceon from the British crown independent of the local civil authorities. In the third place there is the resident oommissioner of the great colonising New Zealand Company, with an amount of pationage to dispose of which must for many years be equal, if not superior, to that reposed in the bands of the governor. Facts were stated in the course of the debate on Mon day evening which show that the ... Bishop of New Land is enacting the part of a modern THOMAS A Braterr, and bearding the civil power in the arrogance of his ecclesiastical assump tions. And various arrivals from the colony have borne witness to an antagonism less noisy and obtrusive, but not less irreconcileable, be tween the colonising functionary and the officer administering the civil government. In order to impart reality to any charter of constitutional go vernment, a centralisation of authority is required. The bishop may be divested of his political power by placing him and his clergy on the same footing as the clergy of all other sects. However difficult of intro duction in an old oonntry like Great Britain, the vo luntary system of clerical support is in the present state of European religious opinion the only one that can safely be adopted in a new colony. The functions of directing the progress of settlement, and adminis tering the civil authority, cannot safely be separated. If the home government is still determined to entrust the colonisation of New Zealand to a chartered com pany, to that company ought also to be delegated the power to appoint the governor. if on the other, hand, the home government deems it injudicious to delegate to others the exercise of this function of the sovereign, it ought also to take the charge of colonis ing the country into its own hands. Independent colonising and administrative authorities in the same province must of necessity be constantly coming into hostile collision. The multiplication of political powers in the colony, mutually independent, can only provoke to factious contests, by which its peace must be disturbed, and the interests of the settlers mate rially compromised. The Paris papers of Monday are chiefly occupied with the altered tone of the ministerial journal respect ing the Swiss question, which we noticed yesterday 'flie sore discomfiture which M. Gnizot has en countered in Switzerland is aggravated by the still more serious results arising from the same minister's policy in Greece. M. Guizot's abetting of M. Coletti has produced a serious and open quarrel between Greece and Turkey, of which Russia seems deter mined to reap the fall advantage, in the way so ably exposed in our Constantinople correspondent's letter. We have received the journals and despatches from Constantinople to the 27th tilt. The cholera was fast disappearing;and at its worst it was so trifling in its effects as to be altogether disregarded. The journals are chiefly occupied with the note of the Greek go- vernment to the representatives of the five powers, and the answer of the Porte, which are too long and not sufficiently important to claim a place here in their full details. The Madrid mile of the 6th and ith have arrived, but they communicate nothing of importance. Letters from Palermo of the let, received by the Sicilian and Neapolitan steam-boat Veravio, which arrived at Marseilles on the 9th, afford information respecting the state of Sicily more definite than that which we gave on Monday on the authority of a cor respondent of the Semap h ore, and which received a l contradiction rather too and unqualified, as it now appears, by the Journal des Debate of Sunday. The Vesuvio sailed on the morning of Wednesday the lst inst. Then, and for several days previously, the greatest agitation prevailed throughout Sicily. The organisation of a civic guard was called for at Mes sina, Catania, Syracuse, and other towns. The government, fearing the consequences of leading the troops against the people, had withdrawn them within their barracks, where they were retained. According to some accounts the government was un willing to incur the odium of a popular massacre, and, according to others, it feared that the troops would refuse to act, or perhaps join the people. On the 27th ult. a sceneof extraordinary enthusiasm was exhibited in Palermo. In the Theatre Cerolino the audience rose and uttered various patriotic excla mations. The popular demonstrations of the 27th were repeated on the 28th, 29th, and 30th. The theatre rang with shouts in favour of Pine IX. and the Italian Union. The population of Palermo, in cluding the most respectable claws, demanded the immediate formation of the national guard, as the surest means of maintaining order. Several of the moat influential inhabitants of the town, including the professors of the university, had writ ten to Naples on this subject; but the answers re ceived were unfavourable, and a revolution, according to some, had become inevitable. Besides the letters received directly from Sicily other adnoes have been received from various parts of Italy, which all tend to corroborate the reports already given. Letters from Leghorn of the 4th say that a steam-frigate had arrived from the British squadron lying off Sicily, which brought despatches to Admiral Parker, inform ing him that Sicily was in full revolt, and that the I insurgents had declared themselves independent of the Neapolitan government, and had placed them selves under the protection of England. The correspondent of the journal dos Debats, writing from Naples, on the 4th, throws discredit on 'the reports of the proclamation of the constitution of 1812, the declaration of the independence of Sicily, and the appeal to the protection of the English. It is, however, confidently affirmed in Pans, that the government has received despatches announcing that several of the towns of Sicily had spontaneously ce ganised the national guard. The advices from Berne, which come down to the 9th, add nothing of importance to the intelligence we have already given. Sir Stratford Canning had had a long conference with M. Ocbaenbein, but had not delivered any note from the British government offering to join in a mediation ; nor was it expected that any such note would be presented. The closstion of Neufchatel was adjourned until the deputies from the cantons of the ex-league should have arrived. Letters from Milan of the 4th say, that a great num ber of the chiefs of the Sonderbund had arrived in that city, who had been well received by the Germans, but =favourably by the Italians. Theme refugees said that the great midortune of the Legg= was that two-thirds of - its partisans were cowards and the remainder traitors. The Bale Gazette of the 11th, says that Sir Stratford Canning informed 14. Others bein that, in consequence of the change which had taken place in the affairs of Switzerland, he would not deliver the note of mediation prepared by the Britiah cabinet, CONEITANTINOPLR, Nov. 27. The journal de Coossfotatisoopio, the enei-offleial organ of the Porte, has published the memseeeditm which the Greek government lately addemeed to the representatives of the five great es the sob ject of the difference existing betweem tie eahiset of Xing Otho and that of the Sultan, tegelhw with the reply of the Turkish • ' . The ant ci these do cuments is merely a recapitulation at hats from the refusal of M. Mumma to great a peeped to the ex bandit, Tamil, Grethen, up to the suspension of relations between the two countries, all of course dis torted for the mew of junifying the conduct of the Greek rever The reply of the Porte, as I in ketesd pa ha ar Wee of the 19th Met., is a plain sad simple oldsolot, which completely exposes the Whelks metaimid the Greek memorandum. Mae Tereo-Oreek l a settlemest as ever. On the 2.5 th inst. a cabinet council was hid at the Porte, and it was de cided to put into immodhde operation further coercive niseseres spinet Oreeekespecially that which forbade the odraoce of the the* flag into the porta of the Ottoman empire under any eiretossimess. On the thypredeas to this cabinet mums% NA* Titan the Ihmelea eavoy, bad an interview with he Mhishr of Aweigh ANths, fat the pe of OM limiest* the eesteate of a dmpefaitwidth he imd 'waived from the llowiate Ifieholeoi sad width was a reply to the note a ion thoe Wage aimed to the our by the Omsk govemalat. The Emperor ap proves, In mann:deur, of the mint of the Porte, and blames that of the ministers of King Otho. M. de Tltoff, in compliance with instructions which he had received from St. Petersburg, urged the Turkish government to proceed to extremities, if the satisfac tion required were not instantly granted; and it is greatly feared that the arguments of the Russian envoy have produced the effect he desired. The Greek government, composed as it is at present, of Russian tools, will never yield. The Emperor, whilst he urges the Ports to adopt coercive measures, co vertly advises the Greeks to resist. In this way mat ters will be brought to a crisis. Greece is already • prey to anarehy ; without money and without re sources. The only quiet and respectable portion of the inhabitants of the country, namely, the merchants and ship-owners, are now threatened with ruin by the stoppage of their trade with the east. The cause of all these disasters can easily be traced to the hot-headedness and ob stinacy of King Otho. This idea properly dismal noted, and aided in its effect by hostile pr to the part of Turkey, will eventually drive Otho from Greece. It will then be the part of the Emperor Nicholas to save from destruction a people, who look up to him as their spiritual head. Like the people of Wallachia and Moldavia, it is to him alone they will appeal, for in him alone will they have any trust or confidence. Sanctioned as the acts of the Czar will be by the united will of a nation, England or Francs will find it difficult to prevent what they should have long since foreseen. The policy of Russia is always dark and tortuous, bat the plan which I have just detailed was confided to too many to remain long. anassaled. Russian agents may have frustrated the deign of the Porte, of which I spoke in a former letter, of serving Servia, batthe friends of Turkey caa now in part retaliate, by at least preparing the public' for the fate which is awaiting Greece. I have just received the information from a sure source, that another of the coercive measures which the Porte intends to put in force, is to cause the ex pulsion of Greek subjects from Turkey. This idea, it appears, has emanated from St. Petersburg. If acted upon, it will certainly aid immensely the plans of the Emperor Nicholas by the increase it will give to the materials for anarchy already existing in Ossosa. The want of energy which the Porte at first sensed to display in this question, can no longer be made a subject of reproach, for it is now rushing into the other, and, at present, fatal, extreme. It IS not, however, the Porte that is so much to blame as her allies. The system of policy which exists in western Europe can neither be well understood or acted upon by semi-barbarous people like the Turks and Greeks. Had the Ottoman government been left to themselves, they might have put a period to this difference long before now, by employing the only means understood in Greece, where probity and honour are unknown. The sum of the advice given by one or two of the representatives of the five greater powers to the Porte, at the beginning of this question, may be safely said to be contained in the following lines of Boileau : " lin-u -yrs 119tentot ; et, ism sasrige, wm ali b aiorta imallimilaasavalip; me et Gene et le twines ; Ayer.Ayer.ipellyedele, 1100.111. i The Porte MN iaeed to follow the inetnetions of her punctilio= adelsors, and she will shortly begin to reap the fruits. Fires have, for some time past, been of daily occur rence at Constantinople and Pere. I have informed you of the horning down of the barracks of Scutari, which were built entirely of stone, and capable of accommodating 20,000 men. The lose to the govern ment was very great ; 20,000 muskets were destroyed by the flames, together with an immense quantity of stores and provisions. Suspicions were entertained that the fire was not accidental, and, by the orders of the commander-in-chief, the general who commanded in the barracks, together with the colonel of the royal guard, who also resided there, were planed under arrest. Their trial was carried on with closed doors, and nothing but vague rumours have trans pired. A few days since another barracks of great extent, situated not fax from the Seven Towers, were burned down. This building was also solidly constructed of stone, and the cause of the fire is as mysterious as that of the barracks at Scutari. Mr. Smith, the architect of the new Eng lish embassy, was requested by the Turkish govern ment to give a plan for the reconstruction of the bar racks at Scutari. Mr. Smith, to the great satisfaction of the Porte, has shown them a means of rebuilding these barrack/ at a much less sum than was origi nally expended, and perfectly safe from fire, both in ternally and externally. The. cholera is still at Constantinople, but the num ber of deaths is little more than two or three a day. The last accounts from Erzeroum state the number of deaths amongst the small population of that town to be twelve per day. The epidemic here seems to be entirely . =,arded. The weather for the past fortnight has been remarkably fine. MALTA, Nov. 30. The Sidon left for Alexandria on the 28th nit., with Lord Dalhousie and mite en route to India. It had been mentioned that the governor, Mr. M. O'Ferrall, would leave England about the 20th in the Oberon steamer, direct for Malta. He has not, however, arrived yet. Everything is being done to give him a handaome reception. ATHENS, Nov. 30. The Austrian Lloyd's denier of the 27th brought , the answer of the Ewen: ell 1a to the last letter of King 1 Otho, relative to thelllsimus question. The senate has only held two sittings elms lard Oct., and of those I gave you an ~,c,„;!unt. The Chamber of Deputies might as well claw also, for it does nothing—the say meet to abuse each other, and cavil about Wawa. The hair t for 1847 is not passed, nor has it ems bum alsommet; whilst, by this time, that for 1848 ought to have been gresseisd to the chambers. The remonstrances of the prom, or the orders of the French ministers, ham teesed • little more activity on the part of the government in linen ' handing the brigands. The Imam robber Bibles:, who has plundered and robbed in the vicinity of Athens for same three years with haa bean entrapped hy an other robber chief, named sip 4 who undertook, for a ▪ at ,to deliver him up. earl or alive. To effect his he took with him is eishderatco, and tracked Having found him, be pregessit to him (represent. Mg himself u a brigand) to join Sete amen, and plunder in y. This Bibini declined, until ha had consulted kis ou, who were absent. Bulgeri then watched an opportunity, drew out • pistol, and shot Bibimi dead. The mom was brought to Athens and exposed to public view, as •• •••Whll cad a warning to evil doers. In consequence of the reported minonce of the cholera in Constantinople, the I KW hr published an ordinance of sanitary escalations. A lawt has been prepared at Bgina. Steamers from Con. ohmialsople will land letters, be., at Salamis, in charge of • gmoodian, who will accompany the post-offloe agent. The proongers will be landed at Spina, with a quarantine of eleven days 71: - ht erprtOli. The Left the V Litham, likddra Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be =the iii am Or albs 171 Des ember. The With Ulla Ibmis. Nsman, Havanna, Main% bre Odirfirs Onob al Porto Rho, and I bastafiksi Ur • fir 14/171774 Santa Martha, Gimpar. Pemmed, Went Onest ; or end Bt. Joan-do- Nlesengesa wen bo min =Ow nab. a nd e 17th Decembe. TY albs Bs add* Herms. and the Unita. bobs, wet tom& bp a lbs •=2 tin 17th Dessiber. The emelimel dm& fler Obrebbr MMlNOnsio, the lonian Islands, !MC aiikh•OfffmidelesSeweingd=ie Southampton, sew be made me ea Ille Romania( Use The soubia doled Ntias, we Marrinr, to the Mediterranean , link dii=. =V b. % Heed Yoag, *a, will be made up on the 7 7 7biblattbe The meth it Mew bet *ales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Tomdend will be mils bp as the evening of the llst December. The nabs for the Ilitedda. the River Plass, Monte Video, Parma, = ig lbiltia, Medeire, ma Enema Ayres, will be made op on the oldie 4th Jamemp. 4 ,. iteleetenteell I Steal t C : I Nl2 111. NDI. .heat do cam Bobborbbbableb by Two yeadyelt 41•1 the Ah. ".."1 =1 ."4 v.+ let MON WATER AT LONDON NRIDON. TN. Day—Nwalos I WE. p•N 7; Afiamom, via. Not TeII•NaNN—NmNINIL I; LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, DEC.IS. By the valour of its sons, by the prudence and 1 1 wisdom of its statesmen, Switzerland has escaped the greatest of dangers ; and it will redound to Lord PALMERSTON'S honour that he in some degree contri buted to this rescue. Had Austria and France suc ceeded in their joint project of rendering the Jesuit cantons independent of the Diet, and impregnable to the ideas or influence of the more liberal portions of the country, there would have ensued a kind of par tition of Switzerland between the surrounding powen, analogous to the partition and destruction of Poland in the last century. As to the states of the Sonderbund, they would have become to all intents and purposes Austrian, guided by the council" alai supported by the arms of the ca binet of Vienna. So complete a breach of the Confe deration would have driven the liberals to desperation. They would have broken forth in violent acts, and then the French world have intervened by Austrian permission to restore order in Berne, Lausanne, and Geneva. The liberals of those cantons would have been treated like the Spanish ezaltados, shot, exiled, despoiled, and the south-west of Switzerland reduced to the state of a French department; whilst Prussia would have been indemnified by the complete sove reignty of its own Swiss principality. No scheme more fatal to the peace of Europe or of Switzerland could have been devised than this. It must be evident to every one who knows France that, whenever a government or a party carries things there to an extreme in one direction, it is sure to lead to a terrible reaction in a contrary sense. It has pleased M. OrIZOT to become hyper-catholic to espouse the cause of monks and clergy a broad and at home ; and, though a protestant, to enact the part of Pope lIILDERRAND, in ouch a way as to make even Prince Martnasitcs appear tolerant and tame. M. GUIZOT, as champion of the Jesuits, may reduce a portion of Switzerland under French influence ; but M. GMZOT may fall to-morrow, and this influence in Switzerland might then be I wielded by M. TRIERS or M. BAREOT. French and ! Austrian influences then, instead of being as hitherto kept apart, and out of all risk of collision, by the inde , dependence and neutrality of Switzerland, world rush I together like fire and water, or like clouds of contrary electric tendencies; and the consequences would be an explosion, compered to which the present inter cantonal strife would appear but a child's experiment. If Prussia and Russia therefore entertained a wise and truly conservative policy, they would have joined with England in dissuading France and Austria from interference in a country where the result of such in terference would have been moet injurious to both. Had the Sonderbund not been suppressed, there was an end of the Confederation, of the Diet as a collective 1 body, or of a Vorort, as a general executive. The sumese of the Sonderbund was the dissolution of the 111....aa• This revolution, attempted in the political state of Switzerland by M. GIJIZOT, has, fortunately, been defeated; the Diet and its government have triumphed; and the great object now is, that it should make a jest and wise use of its victory. One of the first requisites is that there should be no ascendancy of protestant. over eatholics ; no religious permen tion ; and that, in maintaining the supremacy of the Diet, and enforcing its decrees, there should be no domination established by one canton over another. Of the three cantons which act alternately as Vowed, Lucerne alone is catholic. Its catholicism, thereat., ought not to be suppressed. One of the most math factory symptoms of the war was the atter absence of obstinate fanaticism in the defence. The Lnoernese not only did not resist, but even welcomed the troops and officers of the Diet. They feared no religious persecution, and felt that it was not a war for their holy religion, for their altars, or for their hearths. This confidence ought to be met by recipro cal justioe and tolerance. Thme will, however, be little difficulty with Lu cerne, which was not long rime a liberal though a catholic canton, and in which there exists a large c=in of liberal electors, and numbers of en catholic', fit to form executive and legisla tive mavens. A general election at the present montimt. under the influence of late events, would no doubt prudes, the formation of liberal assemblies, and Awe the government of the canton beyond the reach of Awaits and ultramontanes. With Friburg the case is more difficult. That lowa and canton have been ever since the events of 1830, and even previously, the great retreat and ren dezvous of French Cwrlista and legitimates. It has been a modern Coblsnta for young nobles, and a semi nary for the rising generation, taught to execrate Louts PIIILIPPE. Fribsrg has derived so much wealth and advantage from this circumstance, that its Carlism and Jesuitism is part of the stock in trade of its middle classes. They, therefore, are attached Wit, sad find their hypercatholiciim a lucrative speculation. To make the canton liberal would therefore be to de prive it of its bread and butter. And in justice Loth it and the forest cantons ought to be left to their Ware tendencies, and be allowed to indulge in motile and monkeries, their influence being con fined to their respective cantons. At the lame time, if the liberal catholic, of Fri burg and Lucerne wish to reform the excrescences of the church; if they wish to imitate France, in being PORTUGAL. In our last we announced the receipt of acommta from Portugal, and gave an outline of the DOM. The mails arrived yesterday at Southampton by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Montrose, Capt Burney, in charge of Lieut. Newenham, RN.. admiralty sent. The dates are:--Gibraltar, Dec. ft Cadiz, 6 ; Lisbon, 9 ; Oporto, 10 ; and Vigo, 11. The political intelligence from the peninsula is fully detailed in our correspondent's letter. From Gibraltar we learn that twelve convicts, the crew 'of a boat.) towing a lighter, had escaped to I Algearas, and thence to Cadiz. Four of them had since returned to Gibraltar and surrendered. These escapes are becoming more and more frequent, the Spanish authorities generally refusing to give op the convicts except conditionally. Sir Charles .Napier was keeping the squadron continually on the move by all sorts of exercimes. LISBON, Dec. 9. The elections (so Galled) ans ova, the military faros Le triumphed, and the nedsmel party will not have even Gas as fiery lava* is the mat Guess. The meeting of this' amenebly is sword he Ole id if January. A new minis try h now be swarm d preparation ; the Cabrais (both brothers), deem" take the Mad. The list of the ministry new In eirenhitkat at the dabs is as follows :—President of the COMA Duke of flakkaha ; Hosno-ofiles, Costa Cabral ; Judea Otos Cabal's benther, Jay dos Cone yos ; War, Dabe Oneidas ; Fteeles Alhiet, Marquis of Fronteira ; Mobs, _so Thema, Jibe Olivira ; embausies, or edne Al eMisp l esenee, eire owed out e for Costa Cabral Other mad readaleg tee bretkeri, and tout ends the ohm tithe mem& posolotons of tie he. taint now be temmallall nye a, taiga eh MA* bywiii the °Yeah and end eslievea a emieg akagh, lee yet is be x od os a. fhe espletlorNh ihe hrelaa illpiemade body ea e the oast mislai ma etlho geelemak s u m not well be leis ea *who of unlit letup; le Uwe band le eleteMehe eldeate, me the sateseueema arm ef Ilbsel divan ea the 11111111 beak sal Ile hared= ea e a m um ey a geedua et esilhey, eel others bev ies's air ,Uw Mame* • resit ; Urn even this hat seal be trdti lliedty sigma, "a wealth Wm bees It a seal et tmleillay Mame m a beat ramatel le by wbillt the allehey Owe eaahajte ..... haw aseemale, awl Om et ea aa). Ia the Ma (lira) Mislead t1.= 1. 1b4 Camay %wads Ss mist So pi, Two Si therefore two hundred and sixteen of the potty officers of the municipal guard and of the 2nd battalion of volunteers were marched in squads to the poll. Mends, therefore, returned Cabral members. In the twentieth dis trict, that of Laps, things looked very blank, defeat seeme d sure, when, hurrah ! to the rescue ! the tramp of many feet were heard, and up mass as auxiliary detaehment, masabar- L ing 212, composed of a select li body of the palace very Ree -1 vents, the German Guard, and policemen. One moire in stance : Sao Mamede. Here matters wore a sad when, lo ! the sudden apparition of the non-com ' officers of the 10th ltegt., the band, drummers, fifers, sad all, changed mourning into mirth, and Cabral " was the cry;" and so on throughout tome eighteen out of the twenty two Lisbon districts, and the fight was won. The same thing occurred at Cintra, the Windsor of Portugal, where the Queen has her glimmer palace, and the foreign minimal' their residence. Turn now from mean frauds and dirty chicane to outrages of a different description. At Aides Galles', a small hamlet on the Tagus, not quite three leagues from the city gates, the smoke from the village hearths can be seen from Lisbon. The popular party, in spite of the presence of • compact little force of voting Swiss, composed of 36 bayonets and 14 cavalry soldiers, contrived to gain the elu tion by a couple of votes. 8o unexpected a rrsn.t was re sented by the armed force, and some trifles outrage in flicted ; but when the next day's post brought the news of the state of electoral affairs in the capital, the troops broke bound', marched into the village market-place, and pro ceeded to compel the inhabitants to illuminate, and griev ously maltreated many ; neither woman nor child, nor grey babe, were respected. The people at last sounded the alarm bell, and a gathering of their rustic neighbours, armed with stout sticks, came in, and then the tables were turned. The troop. were compelled to retire to their barracks, but they were not ill-treated. The government, on the accounts arriving, despatched immediately a strong body of troops, on the arrival of which at Aides Genes& quiet had been re stored. But the landing of thee* wretches soon altered the case. The first thing done by the petty Cabral authorities, was to quarter the soldiery upon the liberal voters, then to levy a money contribution. A majority of the inhabitants fled: their houses were then broken open, their property sacked, and a general pillage was permitted. Other borrows it will be well to shroud with a veil—it is sufficient to say, that the sack of Braga was imitated upon a minor scale. The same scenes as at Alden Gallegos were enacted in scores of places. Politics and the election doings have absorbed attention so, that little of minor matters remains to be touched upon. We have had but three small items in the way of occurrences —e fire, • feast, and a royal christening. The Convent of Menino Des was found to be in flames on the 2nd instant, it raged with great violence, the inmates were happily saved, but the edifice totally destroyed. On the 3rd, the christen ing of the infant prince took place, and the names given him at the font are as follows :—Augusto Maria Fernando Carlos Miguel Gabriel Rafael Agricola Francisco d'Amis Goneaga Pedro de Alcantara Loyola de Braganca e Bourbon Saxe Cobourg Gotha. I at tint thought of sending you but half of the list, and to say " to be continued in my next ," the cere mony was unusually brilliant, several of the leading liberal nobles being present. The schooner Hannah Codner, of Yarmouth, bound from that port to Genoa, with herrings, put into Lisbon the day baton yesterday, • part of her crew in a state of mutiny. It appears that three of the men (as far as can at present be uceetained) were under the impression that the vowel had specie on board, and laid a plan for murdering the captain and mates, trusting to the chapter of accidents for after me mo in their designs : their intention was to throw the second mate overboard, and then, with a cry of " man overboard," to surprise and kill the captain and first mate in the confu sion. They were overheard consulting about the matter by the apprentice, who at first fe red to communicate the fact. Subsequently he mentioned it to the steward, who at once went to the captain, who, with the mates and a portion of the crew, appeared upon deck well armed, end, as Lisbon was the nearest port, sail was made for the Tuns. The men have undergone investigation on shore, at the British Consulate, and for the present are in safe duress at the police prison. The Oberon, which came in some days since, having on board Mr. M. O'Ferrall, the governor of Malta, has since left. The diplomatic body have been recently taken by sur prise by the publication, in the Betandarle (Cabrera private property), of a confidential correspondence brtween Mr. H. L. Bulwer, our minister at Madrid, and the Spanish go vernment respecting Portuguese affairs. The shameful abuse of confidence on the part of the Spanish minister, in forwarding these documents to Costa Cabral, meets with in dignant comment. Mr. H. L. Bulwer's letter is as fol lows Banat Legation, Stadrld, Ott totOonadarraL) Sir,—l have the broom to Inform year maim. *at I haw resolved lastrochoro from her its ti goverment Is esmssimisses es your earelleatg the enclosed opiaice at the ridge aransirmar at Woo (`whir I beg may be returned to ma ear ilems VW, realm thet then is no legal unction ter Ms arlimed adninerse is Partneri et the re. Hanel battalmas, sal farther as bre her ti 16.11/11r. eVIES. most to Warne their dlgimatie spit la IYml ima=s .a llh her Britannia Malady% mutest them la aldsliabg the of thew national battalion. I avail goad of this soorter is nam e he. (dined) H. I. Bosom—H. E. the Dar at lielamayor. The bellowing are sego extracts from dr ragly theretary of State's 011" Madrid, lkw. I.—T►lb Itintser P. potmatery of her Britannia Ilegaty.—tuna,-1 have the harm Is acknowledge the reedit et the emodifetliet nete, addrared to me and by yom excellency, under Mee the rilts red is whir gen erten reter to an operas et Ohs Meta Wigs esestrearr la= end remise that her lkaselfs grememor wart to their repreaentstive at that wad the segaire irerrihre be acting la sword with the mtablmt of her adeener obtainer the haunts= at the ward estarer Whiner weight Rig Me* to dr sprier agsarel in the report et theregasererstor. yes met writ nos Is raw M a ktat regerien at in ark at ern power ander dr ar ghat by hoe. andreity. der will alio DM le seri* Orr Semler 'the eigis=wriing le Ns Jadgmmt, err kr met swig le =ne =pored in the nees I have Ms herr Is reply M; sd your Inmileacy, M your enlishersd jsrperh odd err sea the great issendy that would arias st the must limai tip hided the fed tiothet red controning her meet feithM MegraW In • imam of se grass erre% •pestieniarly, le in • very sheet ft* the grad else doe. mar dr narks of full liberty, lan amino bar Wad faithful Majen4 ef Os whim@ of the majority of the when lardy reresentoi. Mar don dr. the dieheading the battalions try in emit morn bourn with the rellsdrreere hitherto drenved at the emeeens. (81=)—fless se nelmara am theft deamoste is supordoom, The Landon Exchanges are 30d. 331 ; 90d. 54. In metals no novelty. Lisbon bank notes, 44 per cent. discount. The mutineers of the Hannah Codnor were last night sent on board the Montrose, under escort, to be conveyed pro somas to England the names of the men are Pease, Burns, and Dsibc, the latter en American from Rhode Island state, and leader in the piratical attempt. trix etourt. The Vinsaatem Canning arrived at Osborne yes terday, and >W aarrerded the Marchioness of Douro as the lady in welting to the Queen. The Duke of Cambridge went yesterday morning to the But India House. His Royal Highness afterwards paid a visit to Haileybury College. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, and Mr. Presley, secretary to the board, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his offi cial residence in Doming-street. Mr. Baines, M.P., and Mr. Clay, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Royal yesterday, at the Home-o ffi ce. Mr. Wyon, of the Mint, had an interview yesterday with the Chanoellor of the Exchequer. The Commissioners of the Merchant Seamen's Fund had • meeting yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Tha commissioners present were the Earl of Ellenborough, Sir B. Codrington, Sir W. Clay, and Mr. Enderby. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yesterday. Mr. Bethell, Q.C., was heard in reply, en an appeal from New South Wales, "The Bank of Australasia o. Breillat." The lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Ducky of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. PRESENT TO THE ROYAL CHlLDREN.—Yesterday an elegant miniature carriage inn exhibited at the 'Laken, in Queen-street, Linooln's-inn-Beale. It is a step-pies barouche, being nearly a joe-Mesile of • hamar/se now used by her Majesty and Primes Albert, but ea the scale of six indigo to one foot The hind standards are chastely carved. The interior is lined with claret-coloured cloth, the sgnabs and cushions are of crimson morocoo, decorated with hanioose silk lace, with a design of the rose, shamrock, and thistle entwined. The pannela of the exterior body are lake, picked out with crimson. The only Insignia of royalty are Prince of Wales' coronets in brass, which form the handles of the doors. This equipage is designed to carry four chil dren, and has been built by order of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, for presentation to the Prince of Wales and his royal sisters and brother. [From last night's Gawks.] 8T hires PALACE, Dec. 9.—The Queen has, on the nomination of Lord Foley, appointed B. Ford, Seq., MO of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentleman-a t Arms, Asa Hoare, »dry& FOIUtION-OFFICE, DEC. 11.—The Queen has aE. }wad tr of H. Eug2oe Poujade, as Comma at Malta for his the King of the French. Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has been pleased to order a cortgi d'elire to pan*, great ocelot the United Kingdom of Great Britain end Ireland, empowering the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Hereford to elect a bishop of that see, the same being void by the translation of the suet revermd father in God Doctor Timms Musgrave, late bishop thereof, to the lee of York ; and her majesty bee alto been Eland to re. orausead the Rev. Rosa Dickson Hain en, doctor in divinity, to be elected the said dean sad e Ater bishop of the maid see of H 00URT at ALDERMEN. ALDERMAN Llauscam—The V liesption, on Ilbt Mara of thooloolina of Alaimo alielalai for the girl Cordraima, la tit. roes of Motor Wood, Esq., Wok piss at Cilailima 3111INSION 0. m EzacTroh Farsomes.—Altheara llutte give ado, that ha work km iv karo Is kir k aUll to mai ea eisetite hamika 4 dim= gail = senTig m a i rr 17 eht=el krellkobeare, allmabees, other polaris Iniaat, at the muted mit of 10c and tt tar.) Tar Pamir '"• 044=11 . ko Mukha r kook kr Yr las sili ne al the A sassi el Ilk add Ike eavairi poem k slams kik . in ban la kagis b egr id =, *- Ow dare milkluesis 1, a kw, and she puma elanglier Mr, MIMI aim Ilassor.—Ahlu , ha of as heat a tbiA _ pliattal . • Wait Leadm Miasmal lad It aPUS4I 3 Wt t esetat mni Wptik :12E migisq ad • t•i•