The Express. — London, England, 1852-07-16 00:00:00

grit. eVorefsgi• TO C:ORItI8PON DENTS. • Area rd 11.0tolri retie serikrie. 0111t.tr," r pubtrOod awry Twirly arl Yr.day *O4 la Om re pro. • 1.1.1. acre t stAl uotemled fnr Th e prer," Loreor Lyn*: piper, at tot be le the Itlßcet. Itz eYret r SY Tyr elle& se Ur ay of inblicatics. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Taw D& -Ilentas. lk. lea- —.Alamos. lb. Ma Naimarra-aeramm A. S.. Allowass. a. No. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 16. Mr. Disatzu has emomenced his canvass; but with precautions that betray how strong his fears that his real meaning, .• looming" as it does through the haze of his verbiage, may be detected even by the mind agricultural. He will only meet after dinner the electors whom he weeks to bimhoozle. On Wednesday he encountered two hundred clergymen, gentlemen, and farmers, at Newport Pagnell ; but be did not venture to address them till they were l i crammed a ith solid food, washed down by co pious draughts of strong ale, on that intolerably sul try day, and consequently more disposed to sleep off their repletion than to listen critically. It is nothing sew in this country for a private—an unofficial candidate for parliamentary honours—to go the round of the beer houses and address knots of electors over their ale • but Mr. Dtsnazat is, we behest., the first Chancellor of the Exchequer, and mouth-piece of the ministerial party in the House of Commons, who has set about canvassing in this fashion, and developed a ministerial policy over ale-pots and clouds of tobacco-smoke—typical of his trolls harangues. The least fastidious must y regard this as scares:y consistent with minis terial decorum. If the example is catching, we may lest have the Lenin CHANCELLOR lowing case. is the Coal liole or delivering judgment in the Cyder Cellar. Well, the two hundred inteiiigent supporters of Mr. Dina tut who contrived to squeeze themselves into his room at Newport Pagnell being reduced , to that somnolent state produced by repletion—the chairman, who was as much on the alert for business as his principal, gave the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- I CHEWIER the signal that it was time for him to be gin. But a slight interruption occurred. Some of the 4 enlightened and corpulent electors of the district had fouad it impossible to obtain admission. They did sot possess the powers of compression attributed by Mwros, at the close of his first book, to the rebel angels flockieg into Pandemonium. And one of three irate and excluded worthies was haranguing his fellows in misfortune, at a pitch of voice that threatened—not to drown the voice of Mr. DISRAELI, to that there would have been no objection, but—to awaken his audience. A court preacher in the days of CHARLES 11. is said to have stopped short in his ' sermon, and remonstrated with Lord Boyne: ant for , nesting so loud that there was a risk of his awaken ing the KING : but Mr. Diseset.fs chairman did net deal in such delicate hints and inuendoes. He sternly addressed the outside vocifemtor —" Hold your tongue, sir, or you'll be put into the treadmill." Severe disciplinemins those Buckinghamshire mag sates are. To coal , sin rather loudly of being excluded from a dump.. ',ierhaps after having 1 aid for a ticket), is, according to Buckinghamshire justice-of pmee law, punishable by being put, not on, but into, the treadmill. 'file poor fellow was silenced at once, as well he sight, by such a fee-falum threat to "grind his boom," and all were still, except when a faint snore mos above the silence, and " the godlike man" pro ceeded. His exordium may be guessed. It con sisted of an intimation that Mr. DISRAELI is one of her MAJesTY'S ministers, a fact which must now be pretty generally known, seeing that Mr. DISRAELI can neither speak a speech nor write a letter without mentioning it. On M "dowdily afternoon he repeated die (to him) pleasing intelligence at least half a- , dons times in the course of his oration. The cool and easy impudent* with which Mr. Dts lAILI is in the habit of parrying all attempts to elicit explanations from him is pretty well known. Bat at Newport Pagnell he excelled himself; to be i sue, he was addressing a sleeping audience, and might venture something. No words but his own can do justice to his audacity: "We have been some times asked, Why don't you say what you intend to do? Why, gentlemen, we ought tor to the country upon principles, and not upon details. We say we think there should be measures brought forward to tplacetho cultivator of the soil in a position to all o w Lim to compete with foreign industry. That is the principle. We are not going to tell you what those measures of detail are. Aye or no—do you think English industry ought to be burdened? that is the question." Mr. DISRAELI does not condescend to show that English industry is burdened ; be does not venture to state that any person maintains that English industry ought to be abandoned ; he does not pretend to explain the na tare of the burdens that press on English industry, or describe the means by which they can be re moved; he leaves such of his dinner party as might chance to be awake utterly in the dark as to what he believes or intends, and then coolly asks them to approve of his thoughts and intentions. He subse gently told them that ministers could only act in accordance with the spirit of the age, and that the spirit of the age demands justice, but what was justice in the circumstances of the case he left no raised. at Mr. DISRAELI'e daring mystification of the Newport Pagnell sleepers did not stop here. He I reminded them that he had never said that Protec 6on was the best way to secure the interests of the agriculturist ; he reminded them that he had never told them a moderate fixed daty would compensate them for the loss of Protection : this he did secure from contra diction, as sleeping men are generally tongue-tied. He then went on to expound what would compen sate them for the loss of Protection ; and his nostrum was not " raising prices," but " reducing the cost of Motion." He also enumerated the means of re dwing the cost of production. In the first place, be mentioned vaguely and allusively revision of taxa tion l bat, he added, that to ensure success, the culti vator must embark in his undertaking with ardour and enterprise, with all the personal conditions re gaimite to success; he must bring a n ad equate amount of ski ll on the moo hand, and a fair share of capital on the other. That there might be no mistake as to hie meaning, Mr. DISRAELI also said, " I do not MUM that a negligent man, without capital, would Led my remedy much to his advantage. In plain language, BENJAMIN'S revision of taxation plays the same part in the 109116 he has cooked for his admirers, as the tint did in the pedlar's receipt for making "stone broth," of which water, mutton, barley, , =be, and salt formed th e other ingre- Bat his gorged and slumbering ali ases wen sot in a condition to detect the Wyk played upon them. Their oracle talked nook Pree•leads to thou smithy ham it not. And the regorteea sob deers their memo es " deem," and Ms Mumma &As, by wile me card was palmed dram his dew sir seetber, is sent forth to the world with theinprivishr of the wise men of New port PagnelL Mr. DISRAELI ma, se rather abused, his advan tage over his sleeping galls to the utmost. He un dertook to prove that the DUST ministry enjoyed the oonftdence of the urban as well as the county voters, and to this end appealed to the result of the Meatless in " the great ports of the country—Dover, Oresawich, and Plymouth." Thom trieknefeleight of hand were accompanied by main rem rats, in a style which may be sad esereetly described as a hybrid between that of the late Oman Don'ts and that of the " great wined of the north." Here is a sample:— "The MINN instakatiess et the Opposition already peeps Awn its shell and isaalaps its horns ; and from that shall the Oppadtica cannot emerge except aessisped in a shrine Vasiition." What a jumble of words (Mesa there are acme) is here ! An " institu tion" " peeping from a shell," and " developing hems, " "enveloped in a shrine," and that shrine "a Arles of sedition." But any nonsense may be MUNI lks plethoric skopers, snorting apoplectically wkr a ambit et gust and ale. 1 The penealles of Mr. DisacaLt's Newport Peg :moil erotism Illsoaded woandily lik e an excitement to !rebellion. "De prepared to MAt against these diffi culties and essepunctions whirl, an unwise and 'wont& a etition may create, and in the spirit of the ma hanishire, which has conquered In elms that es• pert, and which, I believe, will catty is ea to that Weber triumph which yet awaits l lrarere as &upend with ;631. Duties on registration, morripillso de Stamp tat Custom, Cereale duties ! Diem onshmailei of im- French nimbly/4m portatient Foreimainger Canines duties of exportation Narigatioe dues Divers customs duties Tea on consumption of salt levied within the radius of custom- 4,171,160 891,320 280 1,888,000 609,720 362,400 49,920 61,880 61,240 houses Tax OIL drinks Tea as consumption of salt levied beyond the radius of custom houses Duda on nautili sugars Dive tales Sale of tamp Sa s zereen Pos le l t Duty of 2 pr eget. epos Nod& maces of rawly by dot Sundries 473,620 2,069,320 94,060 686,040 773,920 2,635,080 79,960 186,600 38,400 160 331,200 205,960 36,760 6,129 101,720 9;4320 844;iii 22,240 16,680 16,583,880 9,360 17,660 61,800 7,040 63,360 240 There is a diminution, so _ 18,800/. on export duties, and of - 82,4801. _ sugar duty, which together with sundry other dimistualwi; will redoes the general augmentation to a little wise ems one million steriing. The total augmentation as esagnamil, with 18.50 amounts to one million sad a half sterling. The Constitutionnel contains the first chapter ie Dr. Verona promised work, "Le Nouvelle Frame The doctor opens with the financial department ; sad the drift of his composition is to exhort Louis Napoleon to tread in the steps of great financial reformers : 1,134,600 1831, of the native England, he says, drew bey confidence in the issue of the war she waged against the Frain emolotina team the lama ci3l disorder oft roans. Napoleon int proolnimal , which is not less necessary now than in as of century. The rapid spread of soda= woo ne te suf ferings of the agricultural clams. nay remains have been applied to heal this disease. The anesmatime of the National Assembly tried what the dhasainedien of tilde pamphlets about property and thoelly Weal lb. Than they tried electoral reform. Lou. Napoleon ISM MIA tried force. After the victory of Doc. 2, name and were brought in to beck force. Lead banks were But this insanities le too complicated and too slew of ct::: relieve wont beam A sheik we is to rodeos In 1804 Napless operand • of tea Winans of francs in the lame ea la/ No Embry ha done two good thing? lit the imensial way. _Mae Loeb Napoleon, in the ministry of M . ], all Mead the bad ow 27 mil lions; and Muer Deanna 2 he mei the opootry 18 mil , lions annually by the ammrsion of OM Five pee Cents. In ten years more a fresh emomemolon will be Ahead in the ' Four-and-arlialf per Beath The ben eon wer to the Mafia( propaganda is the remotion of mation, which • ' socialist government was Rabb to elibet. Search history and yea will dad that in lame • bet will is evermthiug. Look at Oaibeet, the coon of maw, on whom Mdme. &vigor Wad in ads an bar wile*.. paces. With what doubtlwoamptlsamiabtepremaidiseviand by wain better thus by W ordering to be mad alter the maim la all chatting ma oshmendien to all men to rata wades Oa of examasemimation, wbrYar poodolon em illawand tend the Meow ef, ad is lore? as the aim to the prometar ='Telco. Pitt and Nogolesa wens ether striking of the virtue of a strong sip la maltase of finance. ' The Ilinacial policy of the Meth Osend was ennased up In four beat:-1. To 'street tho ben fruit tawa existing WAIL 2. To reduce expender*. S. To Van now assess of stoma. 4. To bola a reserve, by employiog rho are tams to relieve the ell oast. The meat if these AM% was soca visible. la tin hadvt of WM Mom was a deride *llOO manliema Is dot of 1102 it wu redaced to 10 mains. 40 maillione wampooloodi by • stricter collection, and 33 monnas muse nal by onowashemat. When the moan of tha botion ouompnia amo to dir s : e ln i the Win, Napoleon SAL Ike win tee beginning of the restoration, maw the woodele of Count Oweetto, odemming of wolit. That maiater had swop r i en sm eemefolly with a war on of UN millisws, sad with t= t a kind, i and praileb is dos midst of unm anned , tor the fik of eirege tie penile serene. Louis Ntoulean also a great will; oadi why Maki he not, by brim** it to bear ea the duandoll pulls., resolve the saw me the Emperor did la 1804, la the next budget? Bomb is the pith and marrow of Dr. Nraroo's ar ticle. It has been stated that the agents of the govern ment took possession of the chateau of Amboise, pert of the confiscated property of the Orleans family, without opposition. M.M. Andre and Gondon the managers of the property on behalf of th e Orleans family, have explained in a provincial paper that they made all the opposition in their pewee. The chateau itself is let to the state, and strictly guarded by the military. They could not therefore enter it, and they did not know at what time the formalities of taking possession pursuant to the decrees was to be gone through. But they were present the next day when the agents of the state came to take pos session of the forest. This was not done until after MM. Andre and Ooudon had . peesented a protest, and then only by means of forcing a door. There was therefore resistance, not violent, but legaL The day before yesterday the state took possession of the domain of Oren:, with the exceptioa of the mausoleum, and the agents, a ft er execut . sug the orders of ;he government, pr oce eded to La "Ferte Vidame, to complete their mission by taking posses sion of that domain. The system of doing busing.' at the Bourse has long been the subject of bitter complaints. Theo have lately been renewed with macli earnestness. A letter signed by the directors of the Northern, Paris and Lyons, Paris and Orleans, Pa r i s an d Strsabourg, Paris and Rouen, Orleans and Bordeaux, St. Germain, Central, Rouen and Havre, Tours and Nantes, Western, Montereau and Troyes, Marseilles and Avignon, St. Etienne and Lyons, Strasbourg and Bile, Lyons and Avignon, Paris and Sweat, Mont pelier and Cette, and Andre:jean and Roanne Com panies praying that the brokers may no longer be allowed to insist upon two settlements a month in railway shares, is now under the consideration of M. Binean. It is alleged that the heavy brokerages coming on with such rapidity, form a serious impedi ment to legitimate speculation in ordinary times, be cause they absorb more than a reasonable prat, while they are no check M reckless transactions in a wild market. The sumo complaint was made 18 months ago, but the syndicate of the Bourse was strong enough to jirevent any redress. The minister may, icdeed, possibly think that a short settlement does tend to prevent us." How the men of Buckinghilfir *eight, sae for what cause, is recorded in the : I X what CLARENDON called " the great ;" sate this might suggest an awkward eaplanatkas of " the higher triumph " to Which4s.N.lltalumil professes to look forward; but, luckily fee him, the whole tenor of his speech warrants the inference that these cioeing words have no more meaning in them than any of those that went before. Really, if the agricultural voters of England are stupid enough not to perceive the unconcealed scorn with which Mr. DLORAELI flouts, mystifies, and laughs at them, they must be more obtuse than the believers in JOAIVNA SOVTIICOTE or Joe SMITII. FRANCE. PARIS, fIiVASIM EVll , lll'4O. I informed you reiterday that Bou Masa had ob tained leave to visit, on parole, the ruins of Pierre- Fund, in the Oise. It appears today that the news of his Bight was premature, for the Arab chief has returned of hie own accord to the citadel of Ham. This news is the more gratifying, as the forfeiture of parole by lion tilssa would doubtless have added fresh rigours to the imprisonment of Abdel-Kader at Amboise. _ _ General Changarnier has, I understand, received en invitation to repair to Frolutdorf. The general has replied to this invitation by stipulating, as an indispensable preliminary, that the Count de Cham bord should make this request to him in writing. The legitimists are greatly divided at the present moment on the subject of the elections at the coun cils-general, the Serryer legitimists objecting to the impolicy of letting the adversary walk over the course, while these who venerate the instructions of the Count of Chambord, insist upon the necessity of paying a blind obedience to the will of the descend ant of Henri IV. and St. Louis. I mentioned some time ago that M. Viers, head of the staffed the national guard, had received a se vere reprimand in court on the occasion of his trial for a fraudulent loan. I now learn that the imbed tote of the procureur-general, who administered this rebuke, has r icen threatened with dismissal by the government; but the president of the Court of Appeal, M. Troplong, intervened on his behalf, and suc ceeded in obtaining grace for him. Today the Moniteur publishes a statement of taxes and indirect revenues for the first six months of 1852, which is as follows : STATEMENT or TAXES AND INDIRECT RETINUES DIALINO Till FIRST HAIJ OF 1862 : THE EXPRESS FRIDAY E'VENING, JULY 18, 1852. ig n • " this o * wodk j ten e rharthesexker of l e a rkindon Ike: I ? ge, w after ' panhi 'of '1846, ,,,L ditil the periods for me hatpins Ip re are, however, abases practi.sd Ms the B w = I ' ben, for which no precedent can be found in Eu rope. The stock brolcers charge brokerage upon the ' full nominal value of all railway shares transferred, although but a small part of the capital may be paid up. For instance, Lyoas shares are now to be bought for 373 fr., but they are quoted at 675, and the brokerage is charged upon that nominal sum. ' Western, upon which 130 only is paid, costs 210, and the commission is charged upon 5001 r. Many mere instances of the fame kind might be cited. A system more repugnant to equity and sound commercial policy cannot be conceived. The regulations of the Boursc,supposing them intended to check speculation, and not to favour the interests of the brokers, clearly fail in their object, for the wild speculation in rail way shares during the last month is matter of notoriety. Said Fiche left Paris yesterday, with all his suite, by the mid-day train of the Strasbourg railway. At the Bourse, the Four-and-a-Half p er C en t s . rose 10, and clo sed at 103; the Three per Cents. closed, without variation, at 72.3. Bank of France shares fell 22.50. The settlement in railway shares passed easily, and but little fluctuation took place. St. Germaine fell 10 ; Havre, and Lyons, 2.60 each; Northern, Dieppe, and Bordeaux and Teste, 1.25 each. Strasbourg row 123. at Dam an:dis 10th, at 1, p.m., was boarded by em Mien from her Majesty'. steamer Harp, on the 241 k Jam, lat. Sg, N. long. 33 W., NM gave in charge of said mast,/ two letter•lsags, .11ml" end " Winchester," together with • smell mad addrerioM to ber Majesty's rst agent. Lisbon. The Harpy was oat 40 days from Permunbsoo, In great distress : her machinery out of order ; no water on board ; no ; and to distil the water they were making use of, they were forced to make use of all the panels on board, and every deseripskm of wood-work; the steamer also required sails ,• the aforesaid master supplied then with sugar, coffee, bides, and • cask of wine. The day he 101 l the harpy, they had commenced to break up their lower deck. The wind N. to N.W., fresh, lead him to be.' lime that the Harpy would not be able to reach Fay'', as Its observed her going fast to leeward. The two hags of letters are detained on board the Flur•do•Porto, to be deli vered to her Majesty's agent of mails, on the arrival of the steamer from the Hrasils. . .. . . ,Loiss Putures, her Majesty's Viee•Cousul. Belem, July 11, 1862 The Brazilian ship Sophia from Rio de Janeiro, in 62 days, last from Fayal on the 2nd July; tut, up to that day, her Majesty's steamer Harpy had not ar rived there. The Tay brings a mail hag from the Harpy, and one from the Winchester frigate, both of which have been taken to Lisbon by the Flor-do-Porto. At Buenos Ayres some portion of tho troops had been disbanded, and the congress had assembled at San Nicolas, in the province of Buenos Ayres, forty leagues from Buenos Ayres. The treaties with the Brazilian government had been ratified. Country generally quiet. The wholesale markets since last advice' show great elasticity and sales have been freely made at increased rates. Stocks on hand consequently were limited. The money market was quiet, with easy accommodation, and confidence buoyant. Bills on England per doubloon 645 per ounce. R harbour there were 700 German emigrants, who are encouraged to go to the Brazils to replace the negro population, the planters having entered into an agreement with them to work on the plan tations upon some very lucrative terms. A railroad for locomotives, connecting the suburban village of Petropolis with the city of Rio de Janeiro was to be commenced on the 29th of June, the first sod to be turned by the emperor; this, the first railroad to be executed in the Brazils, has been undertaken by a Brazilian company, organised by Senor Iremo Evangelista de Souza of Rao ; the works will be con cluded during 1853, under the direction of Mr. Wm. Bragge, civil engineer. Bahia letters of the 18th ult. mention that the im port market remained in a depressed condition, with little prospect of improvement. In exports rather more had been doing, and prices of sugar had ad vanced. The quality of all descriptions was decidedly inferior to that of former years. The bulk of the exchange operations had been effected at 27d., but towards the close money was scarce, and a fess sales took place at 271 d. Her Majesty's steamer Vixen, having on board Sir Charles Hotham, was at Bahia awaiting the arrival of the Chevalier Bt. George from France, ere proceeding to the River Plate. The city was pretty healthy. From Pernambuco we have reports of a slight change for the better in business. The sugar crop was nearly ended, the receipts from the country being small, notwithstanding favourable weather. Ex change, 270. There was a project on foot foe making a railway from Pernambuco to the south of the province, pass ing through the principal sugar districts, but it was supposed that it would not be a paying line. The screw steam-ship Queen of the South was at St. Vincent on the Ist. inst., bound for the Cape of Good Hope. Her Majesty's ships Centaur and Express, were at Rio; the Plumper sailed for Montevideo on the 15th ult. Her Majesty's steamer Pluto sailed from Cape Verd for Sierra Leone on the 30th of June. The Herald and the Torch were at Madeira. The Sir Robert Peel screw-steamer passed as the Tay was entering St. Vincent. Our correspondent at Rio writes as:follows - :'' RIO DE JANEIRO, June 11. Dullness continues to reign in every department of our import market ; this, in some measure, may be accounted for by the wholesome fear entertained by the roceiros, or people of the provinces, of the yellow fever, which hitherto has carried off a large proportion of those who were coura geous enough to visit us. The principal cause of this dull-1 nem, however, is the largeness of the stock of all Kinds of impart goods, and more es-ecially in piece good.. After the sailing of the Teak*, transactions in coffee were very limited until the end of the month, the total sales not exceeding thirty thousand bags ; dealers, however, submitted to a slight reduction in prices, and about 60,000 bags were taken in the interval between the beginning of the month and the arrival of the Tay, of which—For the United States, 40,000; for Europe, 20,000. Arrivals have been tolerably free, and the new crop pro misee to he abundant, and of excellent quality. To-day (14th) considerable animation has prevailed in the market, and we estimate the sales at 20,000 bags, at prices fully equal to our quotations. Exchange has gradually improved since the beginning of the month, and some considerable amount has been passed to-day at 27d. Shares of every kind have continued to advance. As an instance of the extraordinary spirit of speculation prevail ing, it is sufficient to notice that shares of the Mena Rail road, of the original value of 300 milreis, now meet a ready market at a premium of 100 milreis per share, al though not a shovel of earth has yet bean turned towards the formation of the line. P.S. The beam of Schmidt, Kohfahl, end Co. stopped payment on the arrival of the packet. Their liabilities are estimated at 430 Goatee of reps. Rio as JANEIRO, JUNI 14. EXCHANGES, te.—On London, 27d.; France, 365 to 360; Hamhurgb, 860; Stock, 6 per cent., 106; provincial, 106; Spanish doubloons, 30.600; dollars, 1.930. Corr. E.—Superior, 3,900 to 4,000 ; good first, 3,760 to 3,850 ; first ordinary, 3,550 to 3,650 ; good second, 3,250 to 3,360. 8 des since the last packet, 110,000 bags; stock this day, 190,000 bags. Museavo, 1,600 to I,Bdo ; bronco, 2,300 to 2,600. Stock, 3,000 boxes ; market very fiat. . - he discovered; the stuff was conveyed in rads about tour or Ave hundred yards. Further dis covery of dry diggings hail been made on the hill opposite Ration Hill and Pennyweight Flat. The diggings on this bill in January last were remark ably rich, as much as a hundred ounces a day having been procured in the richest claims. Subsequently the bill was abandoned, having been considered as worked out, but upon more careful examination this was found by no means to be the case. At the be ginning of April last the miners were tearing the hill up from top to bottom. The stuff was hard, • pick required to be sharpened twice a day. Paterson's Point diggers continued to be doing well. It is said that more industrious, peaceable, or better behaved diggers are not to be found at the mines than the Americans who emigrated from California. In Van Diemen's Land gold has been discovered, but we have little more than the announcement. Large parties had gone out in different directions with the ♦iew of prospecting. INDIA AND CHINA. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 10th July, gives the official details of the financial esti mates, showing • deficit of nearly two millions. There wu a report of the remaining paper money being converted into consols. The Cardinal Vicar had spent 60,000 dol.. on the Newman trial. The Prince of Leucbtenberg was in negotiation with Cardinal Antonelli respecting the papal rail ways. A French company was about to reconstruct three bridges at Rome. All in steals quo with regard to Murray. The Abbe Hamilton had sold oft and left Rome. Several works bad been prohibited by Cardinal Brignole. Our correspondent concludes as follows: " The exchange on London has fallen somewhat rapidly, in consequence of the market being inun dated with bills drawn by agents of the English houses who have contracted for the new Austrian loan. As bills on London have hitherto borne a high I price at Rome, many of these have of course found their way here, bringing the rate of exchange down to 49.5.76. The Roman Five per Cents. are at 94 a fall accounted for by the deduction of the first half year's dividend." - - - GERMANY. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Jute 13. The birthday of the Empress of Russia is ode ' heated by the royal family at Potsdam. To-morrow the Emperor and Empress commence their return to St. Petersburg; they will be accompanied by the King and Princes to Stettin and Swinemunde, where a Russian steamer is in waiting. The health of the Empress has much improved. The Prince of Prussia's son, the probable future heir to the crown, accompanies his uncle and aunt to St. Petersburg, on a visit of some duration. The elections for the new First Chamber, which ought to be constituted at the beginning of August, will not take place till October, after the sessions of the provincial diets. M. Haseenpflug, prime minister of Electoral Hesse, has been acquitted of the charge so long pending against him. PORTUGAL. By the Tay, Lisbon dates are to the 12th inst. Captain Robinson, of the Arrogant, had, whilst senior officer of the steamers in the Tagus, been too stringent in his orders, and placed such restraints on the captains and officers as to give rise to a letter of remonstrance from them. The finance committee had, by its majority of ul-1 tra-liberals, laid before the Deputies at Lisboa a sub- stitution to the capitalization decree of the 3rd of December providing • limited and uncertain amortization fund that is only calculated to pay off 2 per cent. per annum upon the four dividends, ar rears of salaries, paper money, and other State debits, for which it is proposed to issue bonds without inte rest to an immense amount. Such bonds would na turally be nearly valueless, and become an easy prey to the audacious principle of robbery contemplated in the Bth clause, by which the committee proposes that the government shall buy them up at the market price. M. Avilla, ez-Minister of Finance, had moved a much more reasonable substitution, which would place Portuguese bondholders in the position they held before the decree of the 3rd of December, pay ing the dividend of December, 1850, by a temporary boa ape 4,000 contra, or 1,000,0001. of new insenp• tires, sr Four per Cent. Bonds, and providing for th a s.... of the dividend of June, 1851, and fol lo divilsada by the usual revenue restore(' to the of Public Credit on the let inst. The deputies had not come to any decision when the Tay left Lisbon. Our Paris correspondent writes: The Portuguese commander, J. da Oama de Castro, in a letter to the Union, dated Paris, July 14, states that he has received a protest from the " king his I maatee Don Miguel, against the violence of which he is the victim, and is counquence of which the legitimate heir to the Portuguese crown is about to be born in a foreign land. This protest, sent to the Union to be published for the information of Europe, is dated Langeneelbold, June 18, 1832. It states that Don Miguel has never renounced the rights that Divine Providence has annexed to his person. That, on the contrary, in his proclamation of May 27, 1834, and his protest made at Oenoa on the 20th of June in the same year, he solemnly claimed all the personal and political rights which belonged to him by the fundamental laws of the Por tuguese monarchy. Now that his dearly beloved wife the Princess D. Adelaide Sophia Amelia Louisa Jane de Loewenstein Wertheim Rosenberg Rochefort is about to present him with a first-born child ; he renews his protest spinet the irresistible violence of the quadruple alliance =eluded at London, April 22, 1834, which alone forced him to quit Portugal. He claims the the prince or princess about to be born, as well as for all his other future issue, the full rights of his legitimate heir, and solemnly promises in the Ace of Europe that he will give them that Portu guese education which is befitting for princes and princesses of his blood. He will bring them up by the aid of Portuguese tutors in the principles of the holy catholic religion, in the love of their absent country, and with the tulip and manners of the Por tuguees nation, so that their fellow-countrymen may find nothing either in their persons or conduct to re call the fact of their birth or education upon a foreign soil, unless it may be that their hearts will feel more intensely the value of that country from which they are temporarily exiled by a hard necessity. The protest is witnessed by Viscount de Quelus, Jose da Beira Tavares, and Augusto-Antonio da Mate E. Solve. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS. The Rotel West India Company'. Mail packet Tay, Captain Moss, from the Brazils, &e., arrived at Southampton last evening. Her dates are:—Buenos Ayres, June 3; Monte Video, 6; Rio de Janeiro, 16, 8 a.m.; Bahia, 20; Pernambuco, 22; St. Vin cent's, July 1; Tenerife, 6 ; Madeira, 8; Lisbon, 12. The Tay brings in specie and bullion from Monte Video, 9,1641. ; from Buenos Ayres, 3201.; from Rio de Janeiro, 26,6111.—T0ta1, 34,9031. Diamonds on freight, value 36,2011.10 e. The following is the copy of a letter, written on the 11th July, by Jas. Philippe, Esq., her Majesty's vice-consul at Lisboa, relating to the rumoured lon of her Majesty's steamer Harpy : The Portuguese ship Flor do Porto, Ceptaiu Manuel Antonio dos Raatos, from Rio de Janeiro in 60 day , arrived THE GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA. By the India and China Overland Mail we have received late 'dykes from the diggings to April. The Victoria gold fields still engross the chief attention of fortune-hunters, and really the out-movings appear to be immense. In five months, say from October, 1851, to tho beginning of March, 1852, the Victoria diggings yielded the enormous amount of 853,270 ounces of gold, which is valued at' 2,319,1081. 10s., or nearly 10 millions of dollar L l The Melbourne journals contain numerous instances of outrages committed on life and property at the mines, and we need hardly wonder at such a state of things. Thousands of pounds are passing daily in cash and gold; thousands more in stones. The ab sence of rain was severely felt, and in most places the miners were unable to work owing to the drought. The miners were complaining loudly of the exaction of the monthly license fee when they were unable to work. A correspondent, writing from Mount Alexander, April 4, notices the improve ments in progress, and the measures being adopted to introduce wholesome municipal regulations. The road through the diggings is progressing : the logs are cleared out of the line, banks cut away to form a level, holes filled up, many of the latter being fifteen feet deep, and merely filled up with loose earth. During the winter these holes will form a bog, out of which it will puzzle the unfortunate to get. The writer then goes on to remark, " A material change has taken place on the roads. Last week all were wending their way to Melbourne, now the tide has turned, and thousands are coining to the diggings, trusting that rain will fall shortly, and they will then be on the ground for work." The Bathurst sad Twin diggings, which have been longer and more extensively worked than those of Victoria, have yielded up to March nearly one million of ounoes weight of gold; the actual exports to March 20 being 1,126,317 ounces. These diggings yield as plentifully as ever, and new localities, abound ing in rich deposits, are being met with in abun dance. The waters of the Turon are described as falling rapidly, and in a few days it was expected the bed claims would be workable. Pending the fall of the rivers, many were busy washing the tail ings in the bed of the river, standing all day in two to three feet of water. The average earnings of these parties was about half an ounce to each cradle, at which two men are employed. Several new dry claims have been opened on Thompson's Point, from which large quantities of gold were being taken-20 to 25 ounces per day being no unusual earnings. This discovery had created some excitement amongst those of the Turonites whose spirits had he some time been trembling on the verge of despondency. The Californian pumps were getting consi derably into vogue and answered well. At Circus Point sumo fresh surface diggings had TIIE OVERLAND MAIL. TILE WAR IN BURMAII.-CAPTURE OF BASSEIN. We have received our despatches in anticipation of the overland mail. 'f he dates are :—Bombay, June 5; Calcutta, June 2; Madras, June 9; Hong-Kong, May 22. 'lite following particulars of the capture of Bassein are supplied by the Calcutta Englishman of June 2: General Godwin and Commodore Lambert, with 400 men of her Majesty's 61st Regiment, 300 men of the 9th Madras Native Inhuitry, 60 Sappers and Miners, the Royal Marines, some seamen of her Majesty's ship Fox, and a few artillerymen, embarked at Rangoon on (war d the steamers Tenasserim, Seuetria, and Moosuffer,'on the 17th of May. They proceeded to the Bsuein river, which they ascended, after being joined by the Pluto on the 19th. On the afternoon of the same day the squadron anchored abreast of Bassein, without a single accident. Th,.re were large stockades on both sides of the river. Tho troops were lauded immediately. The I Begot:a was first carried, and after that a strong mud fort was after an obstinate defence gallantly stormed by the detachment of her Majesty's 61st, accompanied by Lieut. Rice, R.N.. Lieut. Ford wish the Sappers and Miners, end joined by Lieut. Ansley, with a detachment of the 9th Madras Native Infantry, the whole commanded by Major Errington. On the opposite bank of the river, a stockade was carried by a party commanded by Captain Campbell of the Ses e stris. The enemy in the mud fort suffered very severely in the contest. Total number of navy and army killed and wounded : Three men killed, seven officers and twenty-four men wounded. Names of officers who were wounded—Lieut. George Rice, R.N., severely ; Lieut. John Elliott, Royal Marines, slightly ; Major Errington, H.M. 61st, slightly ; Captain Darroch, 11. M. 61st, slightly • Captain Rice, H.M. 51st, very severely ; Lieut. Carter, ILM. 31st, severely ; Lieut. Ansley, M.N.I. 9th, severely. The despatches will be published for general information. Crowds of natives are daily coming in with their families.' The health of the troops is improving daily since the rains set in. General Godwin, after leaving a detachment at Bassein, returned to Rangoon. Rangoon, May 24 —Last night the general with part of the force returned from Bastiein. I proceed to give you all the particulars I have gathered on the subject, and as far as they go they may be relied on. The fleet, consisting of the Sesostris, Moosuffsr, and Te-i nasserim, left this at 2 p.m. on the 17th, the Pluto having proceeded some 36 hours before to get soundings. Bassein, I which is some sixty miles above Negras, was reached by the fleet on the afternoon of the 19th. The Pluto had in tercepted a boat which was on its way down to give warn ing, and, on taking the crew on board, nothing could be got out of them hut that it did not matter whether news reached the governor of Russia or not that a force was coming up against him, as everything was in a perfect state of readiness up there to blow us out of the water. The steamers passed close under some works to their right, when suddenly soma bindings were cut, some tatties or screens fell down, and a masked battery discovered itself, but, strange to say, did not open fire. A little higher up the troops were landed on the same side of the river, Captain Latter, advancing some races a-head with a corporal of the 61st, began to parley with the Burmese behind their works, he began by saying, that if they would not fire on us, we would not fire on r them. The reply to that was, that if our force advanced one step further on, they would fire on us; the reply to which from Captain Latter was, that in that case we would turn them out root and branch—hereupon our gallant in terpreter had a brickbat, or clod of earth thrown at him, which struck hint in the face end knoceed him over; at the same moment a heavy discharge of musketry and jingals and round shot was poured into us. The corporal ac companying Captain Latter was killed on the spot, and fell over him, whom every one supposed to have been killed. A large mud fort bothered our troops, which however was taken from the upper right angle, a con siderable detour having to be made to get to it, and here oar chief less was sustained. The place was, however, soon gained. No waling ladders were required, our fellows get ting round by gateway and traversing the place. The Bur mese went helter-skelter through the place till they were brought up by a large tank, and here many of them were bayoneted and shot. The Burmese bravely resisted us, not leaving their guns till we had mounted their defences and ' many were cut down. Lieut. Ford, the officer commanding the Sappers, himself shivering with his sword the skull of , a Burman who was below, and in the act of thrusting a spear at him. The whole affair occupied 60 minutes, and a gallant one it was ; 6,000 of the King of Ava's picked riot diets were there, and 2,000 men of Bassein. A fair-faced dark-whiskered man was plainly seen on the works directing the artillery, but whether he war an European or Arme , num could not be discerned. The number of Burmese bayoneted show how bravely the Burmese remained at their posts. Their loss is calculated at 800 ; the gunnery from the ships was terrific and moot effectual; considering our small numbers, our loss is considerable too. Three officers of the 61st wounded, Major Errington, command ing the whole party, was struck in the thigh by a spent round shot. Captain Rice and Lieutenant Carter wounded, the latter severely, having the ball still in his thigh. Two men of the 61st killed, and about 25 wounded. Lieutenant Ansley, of the 9th Native Infantry, was wounded in the hand, the ball flying up into his arm, where it remained; 1 mak of the regiment was killed and 11 wounded; of the little body of 18 gallant sappers under Lieutenant Pord, though they were in the thick of it, not one was touched. A gallant captain of the Slat bad the greater part of one of his whiskers car ried away by the roots ; as he rejoiced in a large pair of black bushy ones, and as his prospects in life may be marred (as the whisker won't grow again there), he should get a pension. Fifty-eight pieces of cannon, ranging from 3 to 24 pounders, and upwards of 20 jingals, were taken ; an immense number of war boats were sunk and burnt. While the military were at work on the right, the naval brigade landed on the left, and took a strong work there, in which Lieutenant Rice, of the Fox, was wounded. The four companies of the 9th were left there, and two compa nies of the 61st. The remainder of the 9th are to be sent from this to garrison Bassein immediately. This will leave us very weak indeed: as it is, the 33th N.I. have so few officers (only two subalterns fit for duty), five or six being on the sick list, the rest away on sick certificate, that they have lent the services of a subaltern officer of the 9th to relieve them in the nightly picquets. It is very clear that if fresh places are to be taken, reinforcements must be sent down. The stockade is in several places, I am sorry to say, showing symptoms of giving way—the heavy rain that has lately fallen not finding any way of escape, has given the upright timbers an inclin ation outwards at the top, which, unless put right, will soon bring them down. Drains will have to be cut through the earthen bund inside, and so let the water off and relieve the pressure. An exp edition starts for Pogue is a week we hear. If that is taken, and troops have to be left there, we shall be very short of them here. With the original force, the duty fell heavily on 0111011 and men—much more so will it be now. The government will find it impossible to carry on matters with a high hand, which they must, having now begun, without at least double the force here as at present. From the last specimen at Bassein, the Burmese show themselves deter mined to withstand us to the last, and every inch of ground will be contested. Depend on it, no place will fall so easily into our hands as Rangoon has done. No loot of any value was taken at Bassein. I hear of some thousand pounds, and the usual number of gold umbrellas, glen, crockery, clothing, &c. The barracks are getting on now that the sentry boxes have been flaished. May 26th.—The Phlegethon returned yesterday from a trip up the river. She went 20 miles above Dosoo new, and no fortifications were found there ; merely the town, and the remains of the works destroyed in the last war. The yople flocked is hundred' to the steamer, begging to know the country is to be annexed by the British. About 300 of them IDLIDO down in bets with the steamer, and were fired on from the hanks by deceits who go about plundering and murdering ; three women were shot; the chief of the party went to Captain Nablett, and begged he would lend him a dozen muskets or so and they would lend and capture these marauders. Captain Niblett lent them the fire-arms, and the fellows landed, shot four or flee of the deceits, and bound the chief of the party, whom they tied to a tree and shot through the head. Everything shows how favourable the people ate to us. Indeed, I hear that the general says that if he had the authority to promise annexation , he would levy a m iliti a o f these fellows, and go with them and a portion of our force to Proms at once. There is accommodation for 4,000 men in our steamers and transports now, could such a step be adopted. Sickness among the native troops is on the decrease. Our Bombay correspondent's letter is as follows: BOMBAY, JUNS J. The King of Burmah is said to be dead, and the ger . ..erument of the country broken up. In this case is possible the war may be brought to a conclusion earlier than it otherwise would be. Great sickness prevailed amongst the troops, one regime n — t, 40th Ben&al Native infantry, hissing as many ee 300 in hospital. The 51st Foot had lost Lieutenant Bate mar. and 30 men from cholera by the 22nd of April. Major Lockhat, 80th Foot, died of the same. disease on the 6th of May, and several others had been se prostrated by sickness as to be compelled to leave for Calcutta or Amherst. All the officers and crew of the steamer lenobia were sick ; Commander Ball was dangerously ill, the first-lieutenant had gone away sick, and a midshipman had died. Th e 61th Natiwti Infantry, from Kyouk Phyoo, had reuched Rangoon, and joined the Bengal brigade. The night they landed they caused the whole force to be got wider arms. They were encamped outside the town, and one of their sentries having received no answer to a challenge given to some one advancing towards hint ho fired, when, as a matter of course, the whole of the sentries near him followed his example—hang, bang, bang, went the muskets, and in a minute every bugler of the force blew with all his might the "assembly," and all was speedily bustle and noise inside the town as well as outside, everyone hello,- ing the enemy was on them in force. It turned out that the first sentry had fired at a Burmese and his sister who were proceeding towards the town, and who, not knowing what the soldier said, had not answered. The woman was shot dead. The trip s were nearly all housed fur the ruins; hut an old Her mah campaigner, now an invalid at Chunar, hus ad. dressed a Bengal paper, advising the government to push the force on, and not allow it to remain inactive during the monsoon, giving as his reasons what hail happened to our army in the last war when cooped up in sheds and huts; and ho appeals to Sir W. Cream to vouch for the truth of his assertions. The Governer (exj oT Rangoon being known to be secreted some miles up the country with a thousand or tie followers, who were brutally murdering every one who fell in their way, a detuelinu•nt (200 of 18th Royal li ish, 200 3rith M.N.1., 60 marines, in the steamers Tenesseren, Pluto, Enterprise, and Medusa), quitted Rangoon on the 7th, and proceeded up the river in search of him. They landed next morning early, and reached the place where the rascals had been by 'J a.m., hut the objects of their search had flown. Our men got sight of the governor, who wan running to the jun gles with a couple of elephants and a number of carts; the latter they overtook, but the former got away. Some weapons, household goods, and three gold umbrellas were found. A bailor of the Tenaii serim died of sunstroke; the detachment teturned next day to Rangoon. The ex-governor of Della had a narrow escape from capture on the river; his wife, grandmother, and 1,100/. in treasure, fell into our-bends. • It was rumoured that an army of 20,000 men was in full march on Rangoon, under the com mand of the ex-governor, but the report was not con sidered worthy of belief. The steamer Mali:muddy had, it was feared, broken her back by ground ing on a bank,—and the Bereni ce had gone to Calcutta for repairs ; all the others were us busy as bees conveying sick, stores of all kinds, building materials, and reliefs, to and fro betwixt Amherst, Moulmein, and Rangoon. Heavy rain had fallen on the 11th, 12th, and 13th, and it was thought the monsoons were on them. The fear of sickness was prevalent, dysentery and diarrhoea being the princi pal disease. Something went wrong with her Ma jesty's King's Own Light Infantry on the 14th of April, and hints are beginning to be thrown out on the subject. It is quite certain they were never mentioned in the despatches—equally certain their colonel has since invalided. They aro said not to have followed Major Fraser, the engineer officer, to the breach as English soldiers should have done ; but I totally disbelieve it. Had they been ordered to run their heads into the mouth of the enemy's cannon they would have done it. I really think they have been unfairly dealt by. The annexed diary of events, by a correspondent of the Calcutta Eaylp , ll- man, gives particulars of the three weeks ending the 14th of May, and is highly interesting indeed: You are aware of a large force being out in the Ensufzaie district after the Swattees, under Sir Colin Campbell. The details of the force are as fol lows 32nd Foot, 600 men ; 28th N. 1., 800; 66th N.I. (Oboorkas), 600; Ist (Coke's) Punjaub In fantry (from Kohat), 600 ; Guide Corps, say 3(10; 2nd Irregular Cavalry (Jackson's), 400 ; Baldwin's Troop Horse Artillery, 120 ; Artillery, foot, 4 guns, and 2 howitzers, 80 ' • 2 Ressalahs let Punjaub Ca valry, 200 ; 2nd Co. Sappers and Miners, SO ; total, 3,780. On the Bth May, an alarm was given in the canny of the force of Colonel Campbell (the 28th N. 1., some cavalry, and a couple of guns)--Sir Colin with the main body had not then joined—that the enemy was approaching to steal away the cattle then out grazing; when Lieut. Hardinge, of the Guides, with a party of his men, made a dash out after them, and a gallant encounter ensued. Young Ilardinge and his charger were wounded in several places, but not dangerously. We had two killed and eight wounded : the enemy left six dead behind them. The whole force crossed the Aboozaie River on the 9th and 10th. On the 12th, the village of Nawabeend was destroyed, and the crops around cut down and burnt, —an occupation in which the sepoys are said to have taken great delight. Oa the 13th the fort and village of Pranghur were served the same ; the people made a somewhat stout resistance, and we had a number of casualties. A heavy cannonade was kept up for a few hours before the enemy evacuated the fort, and fled across the hills. W had three killed and eleven wounded. Major Browne, 66th N. 1., died of coup de snlell on the 12th. Lite. Laimeden hiferdein one of the chiefs in a hand-to-hand conflizt. During the next three days nothing seems to have occurred. On the 17th the force halted within six miles of the Ranezaie valley, when a considerable gathering of the enemy had taken place, and where, consequently, a good fight was expected. On the f ollowing morn ing the force moved on equipped as lightly as possible. Sir Colin had gone on in advance with a troop of the guide cavalry, when they were suddenly fired on and sixirycalled up killed " and encounter fa the enemy showing a bold front for some time, and not taking to their heels till 130 of their number hail niteartn took v n w ia e cespeedilyeedre, been killed, and we had nine killed and 20 or 30 wounded. The enemy quitted the valley and took to a deep nullah where our men were not allowed to follow them. One village seven miles up the Itanezai valley was burnt. Several of the officers' hories were killed, but none of their riders were harmed. The gallant general himself had a narrow escape, a ball having grazed him. Young Ilardinge was by latest accounts doing well. A great number of the officers and men were suffering from fever — especially her Majesty's 32nd. Preparations were being made for the force to follow the enemy. into the mountains, and the Mallabund Pass was to be threaded so soon as elephants for the transport of the guns were provided from I'eshawur, and cattle for the carriage of the stores, all of which had been sent out to them. Further reinforcements of troops from Kohat had been ordered to join, and it was expected they would be out for some time. In two or three other directions small parties of troops were out on Itthhee e w n a u t n eh tr . y, The and w th e e at f h ear er w w as aa d t r h e:dfuly ho t si l rcni t al n.a l over force would suffer severely therefrom. Heavy rain had fallen at Lahore, which it was hoped had been gene ral, and which would help to reduce the temperature. The deaths of Lieutenants C. Baddeley of the 47th Bengal Native Infantry, at Jhelum, on the 11th, and of C. S. Patton, Bengal Engineers, at Simla, on the 14th tilt., have been announced. From the return of mortality in the town and islands of Bombay and Colaba, it appear,. that the total number of deaths during May was 1,508, or on an average 48.645 daily. 153 casualties occurred from cholera and small-pox, the number reported for April was 284. The greatest number of deaths on any given day was 6.5, the least 35. Letters from I'oona state that the weather had become very warm during the day—the evenings and nights continuing cool and pl e asant. Brigadier Farrell had arrived and assumed the com mand of the station and brigade. Sir J. Jejeehhoy and suite had come in from Mahabuleshwar, and in tended spending a month in the Deccan before returning to the Presidency. Dr. Weston. sur geon to the governor, died at Mahabuleshwar on the 27th ult., after an illness of two days. 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