The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-26 00:00:00

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THE appointment of Lord DALHOUSIE to the Gover nor-Generalahip of India, especially at such a moment as the present, will be regarded by the public as more important from its indication of the state of feeling between great political parties than from the fitness and impartiality of the choice. To the latter few will demur. In the ministerial department over which be presided, Lord DALHOUSIE displayed a degree of industry, of zeal, of intelligence, of liberality, which presages well in his favour. Whether he would or will make a good Governor-General of India in troublons and difficult times were useless to assert or inquire. For India evidently does not want a Marquis WELLESLEY ; nor does it any longer present a glorious field for the hero diplomatist. India, to all appearance at present, wants a good administrator, one able and likely to effect those financial and social reforms, without which the profit, strengh, and dura tion of this splendid appendage to the empire must remain doubtful. The appointment, however, will scarcely be re oeived as one proceeding solely from the fitness of the individual. It is, at least, an homage on the part of a liberal government towards an eminent member of that fraction of toryism which has fraternized with liberal men and liberal opinions in questions of com mercial reform and of religions toleration. There exists a strong feeling in the country that the ex perience and the talents of such men should not be lost or allowed to lie idle. At least, it is felt that when parties come to differ little more than in name, it would be prudery, or worse, that would hold up personal incompatibilities. At the same time there are various inconveniences, as well as difficulties, in the way of chiefs coalescing —a political manceuvre that has never taken place without eventually throwing an immensity of increased power into the bands of the party opposed to both. That the followers of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and those of Sir Roemer PEEL are not enemies, either on the hustings or in parliament, is sufficiently evident. That the cherished aims of one indispensably require the support of the others,alone suffices to create mutual courtesy and forbearance. But that these aims would be more facilely attained in a joint cabinet seems very doubtful. So young a member of the press .s the Daily News cannot be supposed to entertain dee p - rooted party prej u dims, and we most freely sympathise with the public in its wish to employ all talents, and make use of those instruments most likely to serve the popular cause. But we do not think that it would be better for the oomtry, for Sir ROBERT PEEL himself, or for any progressive policy in contemplation, that he should be absorbed in the body of the great liberal party, even in the ranks of it. For this would leave a ropen that would inevitably be filled, and be e c c e l for the worse. The present time, too, would be most unfitted for any such mancenvre. The country party is that of all parties in parliament which knows le Ist its own mind, its own prospects, or even the interests of its constituents. Ledasit is composedas it is, imposed upon u it is, no one can reckon on its holding together, and if there remain a more rational and liberal, though conservative standard still floating on that side of the house, members mug in time rally to it. No one cube more convinced of this than Sir ROBERT PEEL himself, and he must be too sagacious not to be aware, that any junction entered into by him with either radical or whig mast injure him permanently to a far greater extent, than his conforming with liberalism might strengthen him temporarily. The alliance, if it take place, mast be that of inde pendent power. If it abandon co-operation for coalition, we have no doubt it will bo unsatisfactory in the commencement, and fatal in the end. Raverriso to the subject of the Scotch elections, it may help to place the transactions at Glasgow in a clearer light if we first call our readers' attention to the admitted fact that the pro minent questions in next parliament will be commercial and finaneial. The scavenging of towns will be adjusted, and the education question will be ventilated, and much of the nonsense now gab bled upon that head dissipated. As for the anti howl, having served its purpose at the ratings, it will be packed up and laid by for next election. Bat the pprrooggrrecssr that has been made in emancipating trade ffomcommercial shackles has left the whole of our commercial legislation and the whole of our financial arrangements in such a dislo- cated condition as will render it necessary, as much with a view to place the revenue in a stable ocadition as to relieve individuals from unequal and oppressive weight of Umatilla. that the reforms begun so boldly and intelligentlyis immediately carried further. One of the firaterawahorn the public voice would call to aid in in& t tusk, is Mr. MAccancoe.. He has in his tome a twenty years' appren ticeship to the trode of statesmanship, more espe. chilly in the departaneat of commercial and financial =L insey. He boas moreover, the recommen of a emelt. and avowed aim. Of all lin electioneering tereee that have oome under Mt nodes, those ddieund b a f Mr. MACGREGOR to the mialmethigs in Olargew one indicate a systematic j Ark the actual prilion into which recent legis- Wan bat brought add& commerce and finance, • VIII ballied plia kir the re-adjustment of that het: ems,bililelinee shattered by piece-meal llaommaort's addresses show that he °Mars cordially with the liberal movement in com mercial policy; that bolsi carefully and deliberately formed an estimate of what has been achieved, and what remains to be done ; and that he has made up his mind to pro or support definite measures to that end in monk opposi to Mr. MACGREGOR the hitherto domi nant party leaders in Glasgow offer two gentlemen. Both of them are, as private individuals, eminently intelligent and respectable. Their general views and sympathies are unquestionably on the right side. If the liberals of Glasgow were at a loss for can didates,—if they were so hard put to it as to require to keep their ground by oppoing to the conservatives two candidates, who, though they bad no ideas of their own, were sure to be tbsuid, en all important questions, following the liberal leaders,—they could not choose better than Messrs. DIXON and DENNIS TONN. But to prefer either to a man who brings not merely vague sympathies and general pre possessions, but knowledge and earnest moire to promote the liberal cause, would be preposterous. .Mr. DIXON is entirely untried in public business, and any person who takes the trouble to compare his original aa.rest to the electors with the trip ine —Put or appendix rato t yuentiv issued wir see that he has . .10•••‘1 1 1 1 Vir to teach him wnat ne ougut to ininx on some vital questions, but that external pressure has been able to modify some of his avowed opinions into a more palatable shape. Mr. De NNIR TOUN'S case is worse, for he has been tried in public life and found an utter failure. Bela known both in and out of t as one of those impulsive per sons, o, while seder the stimulus of some personal deers) or getepor osnotion, can be brisk and bustling, but who evat then being no weight of intellect or inhneation e diecumelon, and who from weakness ofehometelep tees . pable of con tinuous earnest exer lids. Atng a contented nonentity in the E. el = through a whole parliament, he sake lir ti *maw effort when his seat is endan illorld; bed the utmost he can achieve, even when Ii4IVI by the !car of losing the office to which he diart emend of the 'Deal distinction it confers, le sone low amert personalities against his rival or theist ere higpoutere. liritr;boer ISOM itthat the choice of a shrewd and , Independent constituency ißie Glasgow, among three wash ciadidatea,sissaid to for a moment doubtful . Mr. Oswatn, the retired amber, was the choice of the oity--he was a power in himself. Strengthened by his Aisne% an infteeetiel section of the liberal ehre have beim able (except at the first election) to Malabo whe should be second member. For same rears thin have been increasing complaints, that, he oonseemmes of his annul years and the idioms scurried over him without his emorieresessa) by eannexione, Mr. WALD was no hew the efficient member he once was, and Mil Mr. Deterstrronst was no member at all. On this account some of the independent electors —encouraged by • report (which has been con firmed by events) that Mr. OSWALD wished to re tire—began to cast about for another member. Afraid to divide the liberal interest, they . made overtures to Mr. Demi erroures friends, offering to acquiesce in his being . again inflicted upon them on condition that an efficient member was returned along with him. The overture was haughtily and uncere moniously rejected. The nominators of Mr. DENNIS TOUN insisted upon naming both members, although at the time they bad not definitively fixed upon any second candidate, and did not even apparently know where they were to find him. finch dictation was in sufferable, and, rather than tamely submit to it, the independent interest resolved at all hazards to start two candidates, and having . already made choice of Mr. MACGREGOR they associated with him the pre sent Lord Provost of Glasgow, whose integrity is ' cheerfully acknowledged by all his fellow-citizens, I and of whom all public men who have been brought in contact with him in his visits to the metropolis on city affairs feel that be only requires a wider field to developo fully his high talents for public business. The domineering proced ure of the would-be lords of Glasgow mud not be imagined to be the mere result of overweening provincial vanity. These dio tators act upon system, though they lack tact to do so judiciously. They flatter themselves that they are the parties to whom is confided the guidance of what Mr. DENNISTOUN'S agent (and manager), in his mag niloquent language, calls " those well-known great party intense', by the legitimate management of which the rights of the electors are best protected and maintained.' In other words, these gentlemen are the agents (amateur and professional) who under take to find for party leaders safe and manageable mem bers for Glasgow—men who will be discreet enough to flatter their constituents by votes in advance of whig opinions when such votes can do no harm (or good either), and who will find excuses for bottling up their extreme liberalism whenever it threatens to be inconvenient. They belong to that section of local political agents who are at this moment undermining the political virtue of Scotland, seeking to patch up the whig ranks with all kinds of equivocal recruits. Independently of the grave reasons for deprecating the miserable policy this dam are now pursuing in Scotland to which we adverted in a former article, we regret it for the prejudicial effects it may have upon the prospects of one of the best and moat bril liant members of the whig party. An opposition to Mr. MACAULAY is threatened in Edinburgh. Of the splendid and effective oratorical powers of Mr. MA CAULAY there is but one opinion. But, for his business talents, less generally recognised, we need only refer to the opinion of the India House. Mr. MACAULAY, when sent to India, was forced by the government of the day upon the somewhat reluctant directors, who looked upon him as a mere orator. His sedulous at tention to business in Calcutta, combined with the tact and discrimination he displayed, disabused these gentlemen of their mistaken notion, and none are now more ready to do justice to Mr. MACAULAY'S working talents. Yet this consistent, brilliant, and useful member of the whig party is threatened with a serious opposition in that most whiggish of constituencies, Edinburgh. This opposition does not originate in any prevailing revolt against whig men or whig measures in the city of the Edinburgh Review; but it can be rendered dan gerous, and can only be rendered dangerous, by dis satisfaction at the electioneering tactic the Scotch Whigs are pursuing. There was an attempt at the last Edinburgh election to make a set at Mr. MACAU LAY on the no-pspsey interest That will not be tried again, but the leaden of the defeated party still owe hem a grudge, and only want a fair pretext to join any other body of easailants. The anti-excise agita tion, aware ef this, in resolving to start • candidate in - Edinburgh', have made Mr. MACAULAY their mark, instead of his lea prominent, and consequently . less obnoxious, colleague. The anti-excise agitation is too new to be strong: Messrs. MACAULAY and CRAIG might defy both it and the no-popery men if the rest of their supporters in the constituency were atuthaken in their alle But the game played by some of the whig l in Haddingtonehire and in the Dunferm line district of burghs has excited deep disgust in many who disregard " the sonorous bray of Exeter-hall," and are not yet awake to the importance of the anti excise agitation. Again, Mr. Cowart, the candidate who comes forward to throw down the gauntlet to the gau ger , is, so far as we can learn, an amiable and acoompliahed gentleman. It is far from improbable that, in the present state of public feeling in Edin burgh, standing alone, he may pick up so many second votes among the malcontents of different classes as to oast one or other of the late whig mem bers. And in a scattering battle like this there is no certainty where the bullet may hit. Mr. Ornsoe CRAIG may be thrown out—a denouement we have no desire to witness ; or it may be the fate of Mr. MACAULAY—Which every friend of liberal principles and admirer of genius would deplore. And if such be the result of the Edinburgh election, it will be the doing of the election managers of the whigs in Scotland. THE rejection of Father MargEvr by the court of Rome, and the nomination, in preference, of Dr. DE- Lull' to the catholic bishopric of Cerk, have excited much attention in Irish ecclesiastical circles. It was generally thought that there would be no opposition to Mr. MATHEW'S election. He had been chosen by a majority of the parish priests, and it was supposed that the bishops, with whom, since the reecnpt of 1820, the power of appointment virtually lies, would have confirmed his selection. His great popularity in Ireland, the respect entertained for him in England, his extensive influence in the city of Cork, were sup• posed to constitute invincible claims. Opposed to him was Dr. DELLIfY, a clergyman whose name was not very familiar to the Irish public: his life was not pained mpolitics, and hie pretensions to promotion were simply founded on his scholastic attainments. Addresses of congratulation were precipitately voted to Father MATHLW. A body of, u( Ests indeco rously sought to overbear the j of the bishops. The chimes of Cork "lined lions of their sentiments a par* setisinsdeal question. But the alma et in ter eslative opacity, inelbstheety , nisi& trim jansayinelea aedsa of ethos. Ills wig maws takes togwineW the election of Fadent Karam asisted• with ether causes, in stopping.kit elevation. The blimp elected Doctor DELANY. Their deshien was, as a matter of course, confirmed at Bowe, and the best Mends of the catholic church app eesed at the moult. The reason why ss sebeisable • man as Father MATHEW was nimbi dleweves attention. Many mesons were enciselTinth beurard. It was said that ORS of the bishops inn Minmaisquoting Sr. PAUL, and opposed Mr. MATHS, wkly on that ground ! Others imputed ketweinny et opinion to that excel lent man l But the real reason why Doctor DELANY was appointed was, because while the virtues of Father Martusw were appreciated as they deserved, his capacity for enforcing discipline over an extensive diocese was doubted by . the bishops. The catholic dioceses of Ireland require at the present moment ri"oroue oont - 01. Too m"'..'y of ins priests have be coMe m e n! politicians. The late bishop was old, and not very strict - in Lis die pline. A necessity existed, therefore, for the app.:!ntnient of a vigorous control. ling spirit who would bring into better order the affairs of the diocese. It is believed that Doctor DELAHY is opposed to the system of a tribanitian clergy. His influence in the south of Ireland will not, it is thought, be given to the cause of limitless agitation. He enjoys the repu tation of being a man of sound scholarship, of fine taste, an enlarged mind, and generous eeneibllities. He has also the credit, whether truly or otherwise remains to be seen, of being a man of firmness, who I will compel the clergy to a more careful avoidance of irritating topics and offensive proceedings. Much scandal him been canoed by . the conduct of Mr. Do- TIENT, the parish priest of Dunmanway. This pastor of peace at present stands before the public in a cm-ions position. Every recent Irish journal brings us an account of his disgraceful notoriety. One day, the Southern Reporter tells of his figuring as the electioneering bottle-holder and conducting agent of Dr. MAURICE Powen, the medical M.l'. for "the Yorkshire of Ireland." The Evening Poet next day THE ',IAMBS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1847. supplies at with the eever eo z=de addieneed to hies by the Two or three day. 'after, C r it il i b eil w °magnifies drier a rienet of law proceedings against Miklos a peninel malt! This reverend echoes:le essurto bavetweind &swish of Danmanway into a hot-bed of *hied religionkem. lie L in the catholic ehamireflim present time mist some of the debut illitlaffiranne sad Taitnesse were formerly in the ressitua esiablishmeat. The most respectable eUhoiio ia Dunieanway, Mr. O'Sci.- Linn, of Bridgemetent, a gentleman of independent fortune, while Weeding Mill whit his lady, was de nounced from the altar in Unpaged the most insult ing character, buena he di ff ered in politics from the parish Priest. It is believed, however, that the new bishop will curb each clerical disturbers as Mr. Dollen% The relation of the two churches in Ire land to each other is too well known to Dr. DELANY to allow of his permitting such men as Mr. DOHENY and others to continue their intemperate career un checked and (=ensured. It was for the special pur pose of bridling-in the headstrong spirits of the clergy, and reducing them to habits of clerical decorum, that the bishops chose Dr. DELANY in preference to the good Father MATHEW, who is amiable almost to a fault, and whose weakness it is to suppose every one of his ecclesiastical brethren as pure-minded as himself. We have referred to the rejection of Father Miernew, for the purpose of directing oar readers' attention to the spirit of self-respect which, in various directions, is beginning to manifest itself in the Irish Roman catholic church. Those •ho wield the highest power in that church arc becoming sensible that a body of demagogues in holy orders is far from realising the majestic idea of the catholic church, though Bishop O HIGGINS by his epistolary tirades, and Mr. DOHENY, by his vituperative propensities, evidently cherish the erroneous notion. A taste for something better than parish politics is beginning th awaken amongst the priests. They are gradually improving their order as well as circumstances allow them. The coarse and stupid contempt in which too many of them have held literature and the more re fined pursuits of the human mind, is beginning to pass away, and in a few years it is to be hoped that it will be as difficult to find • DOHENY amongst the Irish priests, u it is now-a-days to meet with a Trulliber in our establishment. The sentiments of Dr. DOYLE are beginning to prevail. "Religion herself," said that eminent Irish catholic, " loses half her beauty and influence, when not attended or assisted by education ; and her power, splendour, and majesty are never so exalted as when cultivated genius aced refined taste become her heralds and her handmaids. Many have become fools for CHRIST, and by their simplicity and piety have exalted the glory of the cross ; but PAUL, not JOHN, was the apostle of the nations, and doctors even more than prophets have been sent to declare the truths before kings, princes, and the nations of the earth." We earnestly hope that in the approaching elections the conduct of the catholic clergy will not give cause for censure to the political opponents of the frith catholic.. We trust that a spirit of self-respect, and a regard for their own order, will restrain them from plunging into those unseemly courses by ahich religion and her ministers are degraded. The time has not far gone by when circumstances made the Irish priest a politician. But the same necessities exist no longer, and the anomalous condition of a tribunitian priesthood is one which the court of Rome can never finally approve, or the English empire alto gether tolerate, for a long-protracted period. THE conduct of some one of the officers of the Royal Agricultural Society, with respect to the list of prizes awarded at the late meeting at North ampton, cannot be allowed to pass with the mere equivocal reproof; given in the vague words of the resolution of the council. The whole proceeding, indeed, is an apt illustration of the way in which too many of these societies are worked to private and profitable uses, and a proof that the very names of the honourable men prominently put forth on these occa sions are only additional protection to those who desire to use the influences of the society for their own selfish p Prior to the u rte e nieeting, the council of the society, by its officers, requested to be informed whether it was the intention of the Daily News to send reporters to the meeting, that tickets and other accommodation might bo prepared. No doubt, like inquiries were made of the other London journals. This may be considered as the act of the council—and proper — tending equally to the benefit of the society and the public. Reporters accordingly attended from all the London papers. As we now desire to speak by the card, we shall gnote the very words of the gentlemen who attended the meeting from the Daily Netts; In reference to the list of prises, it may be necessary to explain, that the reporter of the Daily News applied to Mr. Hudson, the secretary, in the morning of yesterday, and to Lord Egmont, who presided, and Mr. Shelly, who took a leading part at the evening meeting, and who is also one of the judges, for a copy o 1 or permission to copy, the award previous to its being publicly read, which not being till 8 o'clock at night, it was explained to those gentlemen that it would be too late to be available for publication in the Lon don papers the next morning. Mr. Shelly and Mr. Hudson (the noble president coinciding) assured the reporter of this paper, together with the gentlemen representing the Morn ing fleraid, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Post, that it would be contrary to the rules of the society to grant su s request, but, at the same time, they gave their word that NO representative of the press had obtained a copy or should obtain one, except by attending and taking notes at the read ing of the award, or waiting until the next day. Notwith standing such assurance a copy of the whole of the award, including that upon the horses, which was not read at all, was forwarded to the Tunes, whose reporter was not present at the meeting, by the half past eight o'clock train, and ap pears in that paper this morning. Perhaps the council, to whom we have made a repreeentatien of this matter, may be able to explain it satisfactorily. Thu there is a clear case, and proved, in which " the rules of the society "—binding on its president and more distinguished officers—have been violated, and the list of awarded prises given, after u Mr. SHELLY and Mr. HUDSON (the noble president assenting)" had given " their word that no repre sentative of the press had obtained, or should obtain, one." The next morning the gentlemen on whom this trick had been played presented a memorial to the council, and the following resolution of the council was passed on the same day, and a copy forwarded to them : _ ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Or ENGLAND, JeLY 23, 1847.—The attention of the council having been called by Mr. Shelly to a memorial addrowed to them by certain reporters of the London Daily Press, stating that the reporter for one of the newspapers had obtained the award of the judges on Wednesday evening, while the memorialists bad not obtained it until the following morning i the secretary was desired to inform the memorialists that it was the intention of the council that perfect impartiality should be shown to every reporter, and that steps have been taken to prevent on any future occasions the possibility of a similar occurrence. Now, this is all very well, so far as it goes—well enough for the moment, as expressive of the feelings of such of the members as danced to be present at the harried meeting of the council. But the affair cannot end here. Who will believe that the partiali ties of such a men are confined to the newspapers P Who, if the party be retained in power, will ever after put faith in the awards or any other the pro o,edings of the emaciation P The public and the sub scribers have a right to know who it was that thus violated " the rules of the society," and what security the council have, or can have, that he will be more bound by the new laws than by the old laws, which, under circumstances so paintbl to the noble president and Mr. finnwr, he has so openly violated. THE appointment of Sir HENRY PO'rfINGER to the government of Madras pleas ministers in a condition to unite a graceful act of justice to a meritorious individual with an important public service. They can appoint Sir HARRY Shrill governor-general of our settlements In South Africa. It was the skill and energy of Sir H. (then CoL) Sutra that checked the Salbir invasion of 1836, per med the invaders into their mountain recesses, and established British ascendancy among them on a footing that would have prevented the forays since experienced, had not the excellent arrangements he made under the direction of Sir Biszaortri LYVABAii been subsequently reversed. Daring the brief period that Sir Kamm administered the government of the conquered district, be gained the ocmtidenoe and attachmest of the Baffin and their chiefs to an unprecedented extent. In appointing him to govern our South African settlements, ministers would appoint a man who knows the country, and has expermnos of the native modes of warfare; who has approved himself able to conciliate and control the natives by a judicious mixture of firmness and humanity ; and who enjoys, on account of his conduct on the trying occasion alluded to, the confidence of the natives. We have advisedly used the epithet governor general of our South African settlements, In to that of emu of the Cape .. The New charter of government has led warm and general approbation through out our South African settlements. Mr. FAIIILBAIRM and fMr. GODLE.ITEN have eulogised it with equal emphasis. If ministers were to send out Sir HARRY SUITS as governor-in-chief to South Africa, with such a charter as that of New Zealand, combining three provinces—the Cape Town districts, the eastern districts, and Natal—into one general government, as they have done in the cue of New Ulster and New Munster, they would promote the prosperity of those settlements, and confirm their loyalty to tho British crown. The court of peers was engaged on Friday with the trial of M. Pellapra for his share in corrupting M. Testa. This inquiry lost all interest from the result of the preceding trials. The facts being already esta blished and not contested by the accused, the same sentence was . prouounced as against MM. Cubieres and Parmentaer—ten thousand franca fine and loss of civil rights. The shock which the proceedings before the court of peers and their result have given to M. Testa has produced a serious effect upon his health. The symp toms of congestion of the brain have been more deci sive since his removal to the Conciergerie. Applica tions of ice have been resorted to, but without success. An enteute took place on Friday, on the occasion of the exposition of some convicted prisoners at the Palais de Justice, which was quelled by the inter ference of the municipal guards. La Palrie has the following : - • --- - A great deal has been said for some days . past about minis terial modifications. The subject was again talked of to-day at the Chamber, and the best-informed deputies wetted that MM. Duebatel and Guizot had resolved to replace MM. Treed!, Cunin.Gridaine, and Jayr, and that M. de Sal candy had expressed a wish to retire. It we. elided, that M. Cumin-Gridaine will be replaced by M. Vitet, M. Jayr by M. Muret de Bort, and M. de Salvandy by Y. Liadieres. As to the Ministry of War, there is said to be some hesitation about confiding a to Marshal Bugeaud. It is certain that Marshal Souk has sent in his resignation as President of the Council, and that M. Guisot will replace him. The em bassy to Naples is spoken of for X. de Salvandy, and the direction generale of the indirect taxes for M. Jayr, is place of M. Boursy, admitted to retirement, in consequence of his advanced age. - - • The offiCial returns of the production, consumption, and importation of sugar in France, to the 30th June, have just been published. The number of factories for the fabrication of sugar from beet-root in France has for some time past been on the decrease, but the magnitude of the several factories in operation has augmented in a greater ratio. The actual production of native sugar has, therefore, increased. In the ten mouths ending on 30th June last, the beet-root sugar made in France amounted to 52,700 tons, while the quantity fabricated in the corresponding period of the last season was only 39,400 tons. The amount expected for the current season is 55,000 tons. This is about half the annual consumption of sugar of every kind in France, and it is two-thirds of the quantity of colonial sugar imported. Owing to the heavy duty on sugar, indigenous as well as colonial, the consump tion of that article is greatly restrained in France. In Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium, where the price is lower, the consumption is relatively much greater. In' England the present consumption of sugar may be taken at 280,000 tons per annum, being at the rate of 211 b. per head of the population, while in France it is only 81b. per head. 'The Madrid mails of the 19th, with the letter of our own correspondent, which we give below, have been received. Other private letters say that the die- i cordanee which unhappily has so long prevailed in the palace has been attended with a new scandal. The prince-consort had signified, as we announced on a former day, his intention of returning to the royal palace at Madrid immediately after it wan vacated by the departure of the Queen for St. Ddefonso. It ap pears that before her departure her Majesty caused it to be intimated to the prince that she requested that he should not adopt that proceeding; notwithstanding which the prince gave orders, on the sight of the Queen's departure, to those in his service to prepare his apartments in the palace for his immediate recep• tion, signifying his intention of assuming hie residence there the same evening. All the usual prepara tions were accordingly made, and the halber diers were ordered to form the guard of honour for the interior of the palace. Before these attendants, however, arrived in the palace, to occupy their usual quarters, Gen. Cordova arrived there with an order from the Minister of War, and caused the gates to be closed, and communicated to the persons l in the service of the prince-consort a royal order I which forbade his Majesty to occupy the palace. This subject, as may be easily conceived, was the engross ing topic in all circles on the 19th. The elections are favourable to the Progresista PartY• The Seetinelle de Bayonne says that the Infante Don Henry, who ie at Bagneres de Luchon, has offered himself to the Spanish government as a me cliator between Queen Isabella and her consort, Don Francisco de Assis. He has at the same time written to his brother, urging him to reunite himself to the I Queen. The Spanish government has not yet re turned any answer to the prince. It is added that Don Henry has written also in energetic terms to his father, Don Francisco, protesting against the pro jected marriage between the Infanta Josephs, and General Portillo. A report of the proceedings of the Swiss diet, on the 19th and 20th, has been received from Berne. Although the result has been exactly foreknown, the importance of the consequences to which it may lead confers much interest upon it. The diet can scarcely be considered as possessing a deliberative character. Its members are delegated to give utterance to the predetermined votes of the cantons on questions already discussed and decided in the cantonal arani bliee. The speeches of these delegates are the ex pression of the sentiments of the cantons, from which they have been respectively commissioned. The ques tion of the dissolution of the Sunderbund was the subject of debate, if debate it can be called, on the 19th and 20th. Whether or not, the seven cantons of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwald, Zug, Friburg, and the Valais, could, under the existing federal pact form a separate and independent league, levy armies, make laws, and do all the acts of a separate federal sovereignty, and yet continue to be members of the recognised confederacy of the 21 cantons, was the first question to be decided; and secondly, in case the dissolution of this subordinate league should be pro nonnced, when and by what means such dissolution should be carried into effect? On the 20th, the diet, by a majority of twelve votes and two half votes, pronounced for the dissolution, and by a second reso lution threw the responsibility of the execution of such dissolution on the separatist cantons. The dele gates of the cantons of the league have protested against these resolutions. The means of executing the resolution of the diet for the dissolution of the Sunderbund, in the event of the cantons refusing to comply with it voluntarily, are not yet decided on. The delegates who are commis sioned to vote for the execution of the resolutions of the diet by armed force, not constituting a majority, nothing definite can be settled as to the means of execution until those delegates who are left without instructions shall have referred to their cantonal con stituents for the necessary commission. It is now even confidently believed that, if nwry, the federal government will be commissioned to diseolve the league by force of arms, in which case civil war would seem inevitable, as there is little probability of the voluntary submission of the cantons of the league. Meanwhile, the ministers of the despotic states of Europe and of France affording countenance to the separate league, and threatening the Vorert and the diet, foment the growing discord with a view to a settlement of the question by foreign intervention. MADRID, JULY 19. The Queen set out for La Granja on Saturday, 17th, at 8 in the evening. Her departure was attended §gth , 12 little show as possible. Families are daily escaping from the torrid capital to the cool and delicious place which the Queen has selected for her summer retreat. Fountains are re stored; statues scrubbed; the theatre, a dingy hole last rar, is being newly painted up; fi ddlers are pouring in in omnibuses from Segovia; and lastly, a fine battalion of engineers mount guard at the palace, and give promenaders the benefit of their band. While all this merriment is toward, the Faro, that bird of ill-omen, croaks about the accidents that have happened at La Oranja, and may happen again. On the morning of the day of the Queen s departure for St. lldefoneo the King-Consort left the Pardo and came to Madrid, where he dined, and passed the day with his younger brother and sisters at the palace of St. Juan del Baea Retire. The latter went in two coaches and six, with their tutor and governess, in the evening, to take leave of the Queen, with whom they remained an hour. The Duke of Sotomayor from the baths of Biarritz, nesr Bayonne, and General Urras, minister of war in the duke's cabinet, from the baths of Fitero, have written to the papers to con fi rm the flat contradiction given by their colleagues to the assertions of the Correo concerning the part which the Sotomayor ministry took in dip palace question. These seven individuals deny, in the most positive manner—First, that the differences between the Queen and King- Consort broke out during their ministry ; secondly, that a dispute for authority arising between the royal couple, the ministry decided in favour of the King. and sought for support in the course which they had taken by appealing to the co-legislative bodies ; thirdly, that they solicited the support either of the King-Consort or of the Queen-Mother amidst the difficulties that occurred during their ad ministration ; or consulted any other direction than that of the Queen's own enlightened understanding and upright sentiments, regarding, as they did, with veneration the Queen's sovereign and free will in the exercise of her royal prerogative. The Correo answers these assertions by the revela tion of a very important fact. No sooner had the senate authorised the bringing of General Serrano to trial, than the King-Consort assumed supreme com mand within the palace, and ordered that no one should be admitted into the Queea's apartments with out his permission. I give, in the words of the Correo, the statements with wkich it concludes its very deci sive answer to the denegations of the Sot/ mayor ministry. 1. The votes in the congress and in the senate approving extemporaneously the principles of the Sotomayor cabinet, and authorising the trial of a well-known general, revealed to the eyes of all the world the melancholy disagreement which existed between the King-Consort and the Queen. 2. In consequence of this disagreement the King arrogated to himself the command of the royal apartments, allowing entrance only to inch persons as he pleased, a resolution with which the Queen could not conform. 3. In this dispute the ministry of the Duke of Sotomayor did not support the will of the Queen. These facts stand in direct contradiction with the assertions of the seven ex-ministers. Tho Correo accuses Lord Palmerston of adopting a war-menacing tone towards Spain in the debate upon Spanish bonds, while England swallowed the repu diation system of the United States quite meekly. The Heralelo accuses England of being at the bottom of the Montemolinist insurrection, which has burst out anew with so much violence. The French do all they can to encourage this absurd belief. Re ports of this cast may be generally traced to the Lon don correspondence of the French and Spanish papers, than which there is no more active forge for issuing the most monstrous deceptions. Thus, a London cor respondent of the Union Monarchique affirms thst " the French government caused Lord Palmerston to be sounded as to whom he would support as successor to the Spanish crown in case of the death of Isabel 11. without heirs. Lord Palmerston replied Count Mon temolin." This precious specimen of London corre spondence has gone the round of the Spanish papers. The Heralds states that a Carlist officer has been stopped at Bayonne on his way into Spain. Two documents were found upon him : one was the order of General Alzaa, enjoining the bearer to place him self at the disposal of General Villareal, Commander- General of Navarro and the Basque provinces; and the other a eolonel's commission, dated 1840. It ap pears that this person was going to join the band of the Student. In consequence of the proclamation of the Captain- General of Burgos, on the 13th, seven Carlista have presented themselves for pardon, among whom is Don Julian Uzrecho, the curate of Atapuerca. The Captain-General of Catalonia reports from Barcelona, on the 14th, that the troops had fallen in with the band of Bartolome Pozas, consisting of 40 men, near Gallifa, and killed some of the rebels, among them an officer. On the lith the treasury received 30,000 dollars of surplus revenue from the rrovinces of Segovia and Toledo, in gold and silver, which, the Correo says, is only one of several supplies which are to arrive at Madrid within a short time from the provinces. No notice of importance has been received from Portugal to-day. General Concha left Oporto on the 11 th to pay his respects to the Queen at Lisbon. Saldanha was to set out on the 12th to visit the pro vince of the Minho. _ . _ The elections of the provincial deputies began yes terday, and are going on actively. On the 24th, Queen Christina's birthday, there is to be a levee ; or, as they call it here, a kiss-handa, at San Ildefonso. _ . _ ------- Yesterday, the minister of the government of the kingdom, Senor Benavides, set out for La °romp. FRANCE.—Rocumar, JULY 22.—A despatch has been received in Paris, from the maritime protect of Rochefort, announcing that, on the 21st, the buildings of the workshop and store-house of the artifices (rockets, cart ridges, &c.), at the extremity of the arsenal, from which they were separated by a canal, were destroyed by an explosion. According to the lists sent in to the prefect, there were in the workshop, at the moment of the explosion, one maitre srtificier, five civil, labourenrs, thirteen naval gunners, one soldier of the 3rd company of workmen of Marine Artillery, one distributor, and one clerk; total, 22. Two of thz gun- nen, one of the civil workmen, the artillery workman, the distributor, and the clerk, were spared. Thirteen dead bodies were conveyed to the hospital, and three wounded persons, ef whom one died an hour afterwards. The fire that followed the explosion was got under in three hours. The loss is limited to the workshop and store-house, and their immediate vicinity. The explosion is attributed to imprudence. HOLLAND.—Tan HAGUE, Jut 23.—At the opening of the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States I General to-day, the president informed the assembly that the I committee of reporters had terminated their work on the proposition of Mr. Hoffman, oa the subject of the Dutch- Belgian treaty. The discussion of this subject Is fixed for Monday next. PRUSSIA.-11Entrr, JULY 19.—The proceedings in the lets Diet have the promise of producing important consequences. Among the foremost, we are informed, will be the complete reorganisation of the machinery of public administration, which has been at work for the last forty year., and owing to a boot of supplementary branches dove tailed to it, is become too cumbrous and unwieldy for easy ' and accelerated movements. The plan is said to be metered. —The Director-General of Police his resigned, preparatory to his being appointed chief of the proposed general police department for railways. flit Court. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her royal coneort took their usual early Iralk at Osborne. The Queen and Prince Albert, and the ladies and gentlemen of the court attended divine service yesterday in Whippingham Church. The Bishop of Tasmania had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday at the Colonial office.—Lord Howard M Walden had an Interview with Lord John Russell an Saturday at his official residence in Downing street.-81r Harry Smith had an interview on Saturday with Real Gory. —Sir Thomas Mitchell had also en interview with his lord ship at the Colonial-office. Sir Denis Le Merchant attended on Saturday at the Rome-office ' as Under Secretary of State, in the room of the Right Hon. air William Somerville. Sir George Grey left town on Saturday, for his re sidence, Fallodon, Alowick.— Viscount Morpeth left town on Saturday.—The Chancellor of the Exchneer left town an Saturday for Halifax.—The R#t Has. H. Laboucharo boa left town for Taunton.—The RqbtHan. B. J. Stanley Itas left town. Despatches for the Governor of Ceylon were sent off from the Colonial-office on Saturday evening. The Duke of Wellington, the fluke and Duchess Sr St. Alban's, and Sir Prod. Trench, attended the early med. yeetariay at the chapel royal, at. James's. The Bev. Dr. Wesley all dated and preashad the sermon.—At the daily Strebill the pra yen Welt read by the Rte. T. [tensors, and the the Roc. J. C. Haden. The inmost wee preachßow. Br. Wesley. The anthem ald• Praise the Larito Jamaica. - (Ha a. - The Grand D. Constantine of Emilia, accom panied by Baron Bewmassr end attended by Vice-Admiral La ke Rear-Admiral Coolßlydw, Baron Fredericks, Count Orloff, and IL de Marmarlft s arrived at Blair Athol', Perth shire, on Wednesday hat, as a visit to the Duke of Atholl. The noble duke gave hie ingsgial highness a true highland reception, his graoe's gallant bend of mountaineers, is full national catmint, sit she grand duke sad party a cordial welcome. The Earl and Countess of Enniskillen and suite embarked at Blackwall, on Saturday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company'. steam-ehip Giraffe, for Rotterdam, en route for Switzerland. The Baron Bony left London, on Saturday, by the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship Caledonia, for Hamburg. OF INDIA.-NEW APPOINT- aritere.—lt is reported that the ministry have recommended the Earl of Dalhousie for the office of Governor-General of India., and Sir H. Porringer for the appointment of ‘lovernor of Madras. MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLES AND THE OFFER ED PRNSION.—Tbe Alholawn states that Sheridan linowlm's reason for refiuing from government &pension of le'dl. a year is, that in as far as the amount given measures the compara tive estimation, his acceptance of this sum would have been an admission on his part of lower rank than his long dramatic successes entitle him to bold. THE MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A LETTER -CARRIER. —Bradley, the letter-carrier, who was so inhumanly attacked in Mitre-court, Wood-street, is not likely to recover his reasoning faculties from the effects of the blow he received upon his head. He was led down to the Post-office on Sum day, and had an interview with Mr. Peacock, the solicitor, when he appeared to be labouring under complete uncon sciousness. The opinion of the Post-office authorities is, that • discarded bank clerk, sr Post-oeice clerk, was pr,vy to the evidently preeencerted attack upon Bradley, front the f act that no other person could hove known the conteuts of the bag Bradley carried. The key with which the bwhwaymen locked the gate consists of the rusty pipe of an old street door key, to which is soldered a skeleton end, quite new, and seemingly made expressly for the lock. Inspector Shield', Serjeant Brennan, end a number of the detective force, have been throughout the week in pursuit of three men, whose description they have received, but they have hitherto eluded detection. Up to Saturday the police Lad got so clue as to when the life-preserver was purchased or the key made. Neither of the instruments bears any distinctive mark. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday evening, a cutter containing seven persons, through the nu drill mss of the coxswain, came into violent collision with one of the abutments of Westminster-bridge, and broke about midshipt, Only five of the party were saved ; two brothers, aped 18 and 23, sons of Mr. Carter, of 9, South-row, Lambeth-walk, were drowned. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. TILE METROPOLIS. FINSTIVILV.—Mr. Warren having withdrawn himself as a candidate for this borough, there appears to be no .ikelihood of a contest. Wedaesday has been fixed by the ietuthing officer as the day of nomination, which will take pl ce at eine o'clock, on Islington Green. Mesa,. T. 8. Dun, ombe and Wskley will be returned without opposition. LAM BIITH.—M It. D'ET t 4 COI/ ILT.—At a meeting ~f elector s held at the Swan, Stockwell. on Saturday en. ning, Mr. McLeod in the c hair, Mr. D'Eysicourt entered into a fall explanation of his political oisinions, from which it appeared that, if elected, it was hie intention to support vote by ballot and short parliaments ; to oppose the endowm. at of any religions sect out of the funds of the state, and to be a strenuous antagonist of any increase in the number of bishops. In answer to an elector, Mr. D'Eyncourt stated that, during the last session, ho had, in the first instance, Toted for the Health of Towns Bill, but that subsequently Owe Pechell had called his attention to the seventeenth clause, giv ing a plurality of votes to the holders of property, and otherwise perpetuating the evils of the corrupt select vestry system. Having ascertained this, he, in common with other liberal members, had with drawn his support, and the consequence was that minis ters were obliged to abandon the bill. He was a friend to the principle of the bill, but was of opinion that it could be most efficiently carried out under properly regulated local control. The eleetois expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with Mr. D'Eyncourt's explanations, and • resolution re commending bum as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in parliament was unanimously agreed to Previous to the day of nomination, the respective candidates propose addressing the CORPtilueney at the following times aid places: Mr. D'Eyncourt, at the Horns, Kennington, 7 u'c!ock this evening; Mr. C. Pearson, Victoria Theatre, same hour Tuesday evening ; Mr. Hawes, Temperance Hall, Waterloo. road, Tuesday evening ; and at the Rosemary Branch, Peck ham, on Wednesday evening MARYLEBONE. The abrupt and unexpected retire ment of Mr. D. W. Harvey, when his return had been placed beyond a doubt, appears, for the moment, to have paralysed the liberal electors of this borough ; and unless some more united course of action is quickly determined on than seems at present to exist, Sir James Hamilton (the tory candidate) will be seated, in consequence of the division in the ranks of the reformers. The idea of a bkland ballot appears by all parties to have been abandoned. We stated on Saturday that Lord Dudley Stuart had again some for ward, and we may now add that Mr. Serjeant is also fairly in the field, and that both declare their intention of going to the poll. A large number of the supporters of Mr. Harvey will unquestionably transfer their suffrages to Lord Dudley Stuart. At a second candidate, the liberals would have voted for Mr. Ilarvey . in preference to Lord Dudley Stuart or Mr. Serpent Shee, because of his well-known talent in debate : they say that since the borough has been created, they have never been represented by a man of sufficient wending in this respect; and a great number of them are now disposed to prefer a good public orator to any other man, or at leastto obtain a candidate who has in some way distioguthed him self in the political arena. With the latter view a deputation was appointed to invite Mr. Hume to come forward, and the name of Mr. Grote has also been mentioned. It is said that the former gentleman is not unwilling to obey the call, but nothing definite can yet be ascertained. Meanwhile we may state that at the vestry on Saturday morning the greatest indignation was expressed at the conduct of Mr. Harvey, and the general feeling seemed to be that Lnd Dudley Stuart, as the next on the ballot poll, was entitled to the support of the liberal electors.— Mr. Serjeant Shee presented himself at a meeting on Satur day evening at Ellis's Rooms, Euston-equate, and was re ceived with great applause. The learned serjeant stated that he would not form a coalition with any other candidate, and that he was resolved to go to the poll. He added that be had attended a groat many public meetings, and had only seen one hand held up against him. At the same meeting an address from Robert Owen, the socialist, was read, announcing himself as a candidate. The nomination will take place on Thursday ; the poll will be taken on Friday.— A meeting of Lord Dudley Stuart'o friends took place at the Colosseum Tavern, on Saturday evening. Mr. Church warden Howarth, who occupied the chair, declared that Mr. Herne having deserted his friends, they were bound to sup port Lord Dudley Stuart. After his lordship had addressed the meeting, the following mainline to Mr B. Hall sad Lord Dudley Stout was deawa ut w ee+eperA te : We, the nudes deans otitis et li ri karsterm is ne. some at a reenoti oe pena lat in the Oism en NetlsoLiVal. IR deteriehlbea wa Insh Jen, Islll. de napeaffeli Till a gager Iftt la Ira erii Larri Vein Steen to nelson eel unie In nen dinteleusene air Warn ea law nesesensthestar the bereogli liss7tabsse gas inveleg perlitnest. SorrawAltz.—Tbe shotiori hr tWa berottet will law place on Friday next, tie 710th instant, in the Town-hall, when it is expected that Mr. Alderman Humphrey and Or William Molesworth, the late members, will b., re-eleenil without *contest. The nuns of • Mr. R. Archer is plasmas& as a third candidate, but there is no intention of a mime opposition. At this late period any attempt at distathag the peace of the borough must be altogether hopeless. Towisa Hantare.—The nomination takes place oa Thursday. WEEITKINSTEIL—LOID MANDETILLE.—.4. cooserratim candidate, taking advantage of the division muted by Mr. Cochrane in the liberal ranks, has crept into the field, in the person of Lord Mandeville, a eon of the Duke ot Manches ter. If the politico of the sire have descended to the sea, they may prove something too hot and impracticable fir Westminster in these days; but it has been aa,,erted, that after many careful deliberations, the conservative party haw made • selection which is likely to command the s of conservatives of both sections. There can be of conservatives that the introduction of • conservative candidate will quicken the efforts of all parties. Had lie. Coch rane r. - rnained alone as the opponent of Sir De Lacy Evans and Mr. Lushington, the result would 'imply have been, in spite of streamers in every street and the mat sedulous attention to the " wives, daughters, and sister of the electors," his being left in • woful minority at the opt' ; but he has too well &Tailed himself of his powers of captiva tion amongst the poorer class of electors, and of hiapece &they resources for ordinary election purposes, not to prove formidable to the liberal cause, as assisting the chances of Lord Mandeville. All the thoroughfares of Westmisuiter evince the activity of Mr. Cochrane's committee, his portrait and addresses are to be seen everywhere, and he will, pertain, make • much more respectable fight than might have been expected. Wednesday has been tiled for the nominations which will take place ea formerly on hustings to be erected as front of St. Paul's, Covent-gardea. THE PROVINCES. ASENNEEN.—The electors of the granite city will bare learned before this reaches them—though it will be news • our more southern readers—that Col. Sykes left London on Saturday night to offer himself a candidate for the bona[ of representing them. The gentlemen who have taken upon theta to put up the representation of Abel*** at a sort of Datsh auction in London, after hawking it through half the banking-houses in the City, and ferretting every ins of court in search of a candidate, ventured at last into the purlieus of the India House, and there caught a director. They were by no means exorbitant in demanding Pleads' from him. After ascertaining that he wee hostile to the free church, they allowed him discretionary power la all other questions. Colonel Sykes' recommendation to these gentlemen is, that he is a negative—oot • free church man. Whether this mere negative quality Bey be suffi cient for the electors of Aberdeen an only be decided ST the event. For the information of our Abew&Pas reads" " may date, the gallant colonel has for some years been kaown as the moot persevering and voluminous contributor of papers on record to a number of second-rats scientific so dation. Asotaszv, Bonorox.—The Hon. W. 0. Stanley is te contest the borough with Lord G. Paget. ANGLESEY, COUNTY. —Bl/ R. Bulkeley is unoppoort Antstonow.—The nomination is filed forWedn.sday seat. BEADFORD.—ME. 0. R. MOSINESE, the returning dime of this borough, has appointed Thursday, the 29th initial 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the nomination of codidsten Friday will be the day of polling, if a pollto demanded; and as both the conservative and the liberal parks "P T O themselves as sure to win, there is no doubt that the poll will be appealed to, to test the accuracy of their assertions. Sturrnon.us.—The mayor has Sued the nomination fee Thursday next. BiusroL.—The nomination is fixed for Thursday. placard has boon posted stating that Mr. Apsley London, would solicit the suffrages of the dissenters spa that gentleman hes sines issued an address to the electoss. He lays " I conceive that a crisis has arrived when mea• stares, not men, should be vigorously pressed upon the stun-. tion of all constituencies ; and that se both great Puli el fa the state have, in my opinion, sacrificed the religious Dana of the people, all liberd• should unite in promptly acting out their truthful and enlightened views. Should I have the honour of being returned as one of your repro/mutative, In parliament, free trade, vote by ballot, great extension of the suffrage, and short parliaments, will have my ardent eat port ; while I shall as strenuously oppose all grants of pub, money (at home or for the colonies) either for sedan/stied purports or for religious education, it being my sera Pm*: