The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1848. IT strikes us that oar government is playing a very hazardous game in defending Austria from the attempts of the Italians to liberate their country. Were the Austrians completely driven out of Italy, it then might be prudent and generous to interfere and prevent the forces or ideas of the peninsula from in vading the Tyrol, or the Frioul or Trieste. But for England to interfere in preventing the Lallans from making joint efforts to expel the Austrians from the banks of the Adige and the Po—this we cannot but Clink illiberal, unfair, and impolitic. We are ready to admit that it may be desirable to preserve the existence and the force of Austria as one of the great conservative powers of Europe. But we deny that the strength of Austria is really increased, or more firmly based, by her retaining a portion of the Italian soil, and thus exciting the continued enmity and hostility of the whole Italian race. We have before described the policy of our government, and the mission of Lord Nlisro to assist in the endeavour to necare possession of the Venetian territory for Austria. Now, of all parts of her dominions, the Venetian ter ritory is that to which Austria has least right, and her retention of which can do Austria least good and Italy most harm. We need not surely point out the inconvenience of one country and race possessing all the upper part of a great river, whilst another nation and race occupies and shuts its mouth. The Po is the great canal and transit for the produce of Lombardy. Venice, at its mouth, is the na tural trading depot of North Italy. To give this to Austria is merely to gi ve it a padlock upon a valuable chest after the property of that chest has been taken from it. It is giving Austria merely the power to annoy and the tendency to provoke the Italians. It is perpetuating war between the races, and really precluding all possibility of lasting peace instead of facilitating it. Our government is, however, induced to favour such an arrangement, partly by the difficulty of driving the Austrians from the Adige without calling in the French, partly perhaps from the idea that Austria, still strongly entrenched on the Adige and holding its for tresses, would not only be interested in keeping Italy independent of the French, but capable of doing so. We think,however, that it would be much safer to up this eternal mistrust of France, which goes so provoke the very thing we would guard against, which not only makes an enemy of France, of Italy. rke what we have done—we acknowledged the Austrian blockade of lice, whilst we have forbidden the Neap ditans to vessels to combat and to raise that blockade. ~ the same time we have disauaded Naples and forbidden the Pope to march to the succour of Venice, -ving vainly tried to intimidate the King of SAR IA into a similar abstention. The Pope, in seek to obey us, has got nearly overthrown ; as it is, has exposed his government to the greatest shake and discredit that it has yet suffered. Our advice has also shaken the Neapolitan throne, t would have buried the Sardinian, had Crisat.Es SEILT listened to us. What a position is this for --ngland and its whig ministry—acting and negotiat ing in enmity to Italian unity, Italian independence, Italian freedom? The result will probably be, our at saving Austria, and our being hooted out of Italy the popular execration. CHARLES ALBERT has not listened to us. lie has at his army on a true Italian mission, and he would eye sent his fleet, had we not prevented that display the naval force of Italy in the Adriatic. CRARLES ,LBERT'S military operations seem hitherto marked skill, and crowned with success. He first drove .40 Austrians behind the Mincio, and cleared the western bank of the lake of Garda. lie has now pasaed the Mincio, beaten the Aus trians in two places, cut off the commu nications between Peschiera and Verona, and, what is more important, between Peschiera and the Tyrol. The combat and capture of Pastorengo has made him master of the country and of the roads lying between the Adige and the Lake of Garda. lie has passed that river at Pontone, and his next opera tion will no doubt be to get possession of Le Chiu-e; and of the road on the left bank of the Adige, the only way of communicatio n between the fyrol and Verona, and the only means of the lat ter city receiving supplies. The hope for the .ustrians, then, lies in NUGENT'S 'wing able co reduce the whole of the Venetian territory. Con sidering that the region is full of a hostile population, NUGENT 'S force is scarcely equal to this. It remains, hoWever, to be seen, whether t o King, Itanurzto, 'T NUGENT, will prove the best general. But the misfortune is that, whoever gains, Austria cannot win, since the success of her generals, in de feating CHARLES ALBERT, can have no other result than the summoning of the French into Italy—the very thing that we are so anxious to avoid. ------- - - ON Monday next ministers are to unfold to the House of Commons the arrangements by which they propose to emancipate our commerce from the thraldom of the navigation laws. The near approach of this revelation has revived the anxiety out of doors to adopt means for impressing ministers and the legislature with a due sense of the necessity of doing the work thoroughly and at once when it is taken in hand. In all our great marts of commerce, the pre ponderating wish, eagerly and resolutely expressed, is that the measure contemplated by ministers may be one of entire, immediate, nhconditional repeal. Nowhere is this view more decidedly or more g ene. rally entertained than in the city of Lir.don. A petition for " the total and immeiliate repeal of the navigation. laws, and thorough revision of the Admiralty ..r.a Viee-Admiralty laws," which has tor some oven preparing, was yesterday put in eir culatiaa to receive the irtguatures of the merchants, bankers, manufacturer", &c., of the City. It goes largely into detail, the object o f the petitioners being to present the maleficent influence of these laws upon the production and distrition of a manifesto national wea of the lth in all their bearings. It is, i bu n fact, commerce of London—a solemn te stimon y of its merchants against the impolicy and injustice of these laws. This is a document that cannot be lightly treated. It speaks the ripe convic tions of the leading traders of that city in which the infinitely ramified commerce of the civilised world cent res. it is no exaggeration to say that no extensive commercial operation can be undertaken in Yurope, Asia, or America in which the ekill and resources of London are not called upon, nt sorne stage of the proceeding'', to bear their part. In London ere to be found traders the magnitude of whose dealings, and the earnestness with which they concentmte their respec tive transactions upon some one region of the earth, render them of more consequence in their respective walks than any other merchants in the world, and more thoroughly masters of all that relates to them. The ag gregate commercial knowledge and judgment of London embraces a wider range, is more tamiliar even with the minutest details, than can elsewhere be found. It is large and catholic, yet practical in its views. Its bias—it bias it can be said to have—is to seek universal development of commercial enterprise, as based upon the unrivalled productive power and accumulated capital of the British empire. The deli berate capreasion of opinion about to be transmitted by the mercantile body of London to the legislature will be one of the severest blows which the Naviga tion laws have yet received —rudely though these laws have of late been kandled. The London petition declares that " shipping and navigation arc the results, not the causes, of manufac-, tering industry and aurees4gl trade." A peeptee among whom skill an persevering industry are so universally diffused as the British ; who possess such an unequalled amount of accumulated capital ; whose mineral treasures and scats of manufactures are so easily accessible from the sea, cannot fail to command at all times ample supplies of shipping, unless they themselves, by fantastic and arbitrary regulations, impede the approach of ships to their harbours. An island everywhere env'roned b y the sea, scarcely any part of which , owin g to the winding! of its coasts and to its deep indented gulfs, is a day's journey distant from the sea, is the natural site of maritime tastes and habits. Navigation is a natural instinct of the Englishman, quite as much as swimming is of the duck. Englishmen cannot, if they would, abstain from embracing the profession of seamen, or at least investing their money in ships. No artificial regulations are necessary to ensure to England the possession of a colossal commercial navy. No branch of the shipping interest need fear the rivalry of competitors in any foreign country. The ship-builders of EnLtland, apart from difficulties to which the navigation laws subject them, enjoy ad vantages denied to those s ot all other countries. " Iron, copper, tools, machinery, coals, cordage, paints, &c.," says the City of London petition, are cheaper here than elsewhere. "By the unrivalled advantages this kingdom possesses for obtaining every kind of valuable colonial and foreign timber, it has justly been called ' the great timber-yard of the world.' " If the navigation laws exercise any influence upon our shipbuilding interest, it is by enhancing the price of these commodities they im-1 port from abroad to diminish the advantages they naturally enjoy. Even with this drawback, how ever : " It it satisfactorily proved by the evidence of competent witnesses, given before the select committee of the House of Commons in 1847, that the British shipbuilder as well as the North American ship builder have built and can at present build ships more cheaply, taking their quality into account, than they can be constructed in any foreign country." This being the case, the restrictions on competition in the carrying trade, imposed by the navigation laws, have not even a shadow of palliation to be alleged in their behalf. " Freight," the City petition truly ob serves, "is of all ethos the most i:npoitant raw material of British industry." The danger of enhancing freights is proved by a variety of illus trations. "So exorbitantly high have protected freights recently been, that there are innumerable instances at the present time in which freights from continental British India have more than absorbed the entire market value of many of our principal Indian staples imported here." Again —" By the repeal of the navigation laws both English and foreign ships trading to and from this country would be enabled frequently to carry goods to and fro, where they are now compelled to make one of the two voyages in ballast at great less, the British con sumer being obliged to pay a double cost fur freight on the one cargo to compensate the ship-owner fir the freight of the othe r cargo, sacrificed to hie ' protection: " And yet again—" The navigation laws, by denying British and colonial capitalists the means of obtaining cheap foreign ships when advantageous opportunities offered, and other mari time facilities enjoyed by the foreign capitalist, have virtually surrendered to the latter that lucrative branch of industry now prosecuted on the oceans sur rounding our southern colonies; which oceans, abounding in wealth, are now covered by 700 sail of foreign South Sea whalers." One more example— " 11; the discouraging and restrictive tendency of the nav i g ation laws on British commerce, &c., vast sums of British capital have been at various periods diverted to foreign loans and schemes, and totally lost to its owners ; which capital would otherwise have been profitably embarked in extending British manufacturing industry, colonial production, naviga tion, trade, &c." The petitioners might have added that the navigation laws are a principal cause of that tendency in capital to accumulate in this country in a more rapid ratio than the means of investment, which is the source of those frequently recurring epidemics of joint stock company, railway, and other manias. It is not only by increasing freights that the navi gation laws clog and embarrass the operations of Bri tish commerce. They compel the merchant to en trust his wares to carriers in whom he can have no confidence. They augment the risks of sea-trans . port, and of' course the expensiveness of sea insurance. " The recent official reports of her Majesty's consuls in foreign porta," say the city . petitioner", " show that the effects of the navigation laws have been d the demoralisation of the greater number 3, of the seafaring population em p lo y ed in our comme rcial marine, and consequently B ritish 0 trading ships have in a great degree lost, and are daily losing, that preference which they enjoyed ' he among merchants a t home and abroad, over those of li e other nations." us- The grand jury of the merchants of London has sat Du. upon the navigation laws, and its finding is that they ,nd, arc a national nuisance. It is for government and the the legislature to abate that nuisance without lose of time. has FEW people trouble themselves to read a corre spondence. If it be highly-spiced and very peppery there are some among the least busily occupied of the newspaper -reading world, who may cast their eyes down it, to cull the " strong expressions" and other elegancies ; and if it relate to the subject of a duel, an elopement, or a breach of promise, it may possibly even engage the attention of a proportion of the fairer readers of such a journal as our own. But, in all but extraordinary eases, a " co rrespondence . ' is universally voted a " b ore," and the probabilities are that if you take any per sonal interest in it, and ask a friend has he seen or read it, the reply will be, "Oh ad ! I saw some thing of the sort; pray, what was it all about ?" Above all, a correspondence of compliment, civility, apology, or explanation, has the worst chance : these, few people look at, if they extend over half a news paper column ; and certainly if they go over half a page there is no more chance for them than for the advertisements in the Times. And yet strange things ooze out sometimes in the course of " a correspondence " remitted " with Mr. I So-and-So's compliments to the editor." If a lawyer sees all the pettinesses of private life among the clients who bring him their complaints and grievances for redress, so certainly the "editor" has a wonderful . opportunity of scanning the littlenessee of public men who want his assistance to wriggle out of a scrape them selves, or to set a snare for the entrapment of an re neut. There wain the Times of Saturday, in that lack pert of the paper whlohno one ever refers to ex cept in the lest necessity for something to dein a rail way carriage, just one of these correspondenoes, ex tending over three mortal columns, and ending, as is usual in these cases, precisely where it began. Com mencing with a mistake, it concludes by the mistake being set right, and both parties retaining their I own opinion. But in the coulees of this corrsl-1 epondence there are some points elicited oC so much general interest as to repay the trouble any I one will take of wading through it, and as to justify as in bringing it in a condensed form under the notice of our readers. The parties corresponding are the Bishop of SALIB- BURY and Mr. HORS/JAN, and the subject of the correspondence is the rather delicate topic of the right reverend prelate's income. Every one knows that the act of parliament, which constituted the Etcleeiastical Commission, gave it power and direction to fix the incomes of the several bishops, ar.d to apply, as was supposed at the time, o ral purposes of the church the sur p lus revenues of each prelate over and above the amount it might be deter mined ho should receive. Onecent occasions Mr. lIORNMAN has exposed the glaring way in w hich the right reverend prelates themselves have, as members of the commission, evaded compliance with the act. They have "respected existing rig hta," i.e.they have refrained from applying the act to any bishop in possession—they have framed their estimates on net incomes, pernsit ting deductions from the gro-s annual revenues which aro wholly irreconcilable and incomprehensible—they have arranged their nu amens in such a way that if I: icy fix the c ,ntributionfroei a see some thousands a year under the mark (as in the case of they have no power of obtaining the surplus until after the next avoidance; whilst, on the other hand, if they fix their own payment to the see above all justice and tiecessi!y (as in the case of Chichester), they must go on paying infinit urn to prelates who seem by no means scru pulous about taking the money. But, bad as this is, worse remains behind. The surplus cc go to the episcopal fund has no t been applied a to the geeral purposes of the church, but mainly to the purposes of the bishops thslfisselvee; whilst, in one ease—the ease of the see of Salisbury—the commissioners have abso lutely put a new life into the bishopric, without taking any measures for carrying out the intention of the net, and have thereby di limed thems-Ives from receiving any share whatever of the surplus revenue of what turns out to be a very we-.lthy benefice. Tho intention of the act was that the Bishop of SALI , BI'ItY ould receive as his incomebout 5,9110/. per annum. sh From the last r e turn of th e bishop him self it appears that on the average of seven years lie had received nearly 14,0001. per annum, without paying over a fraction to the purposes of the commission : end it further seems that in ono recent year the bishop received as much as 17,iielt., and in another year us much as 12,879/ , instead of the 5,000/. which alone he oaghtto have appropriated for hisown uses. Mr. Holes- MAN having exposed the conduct of the commissioners in permitting what he was fully justified in etyline this gross abuse of the act, the Bishop of SALlAltUlt'i writes to him, not to deny his statement, but to show him " how very erroneous" are the inferences he draws from the facts. The way the right rev. prelate sets about this is remarkable. Ito says, in effect : " I admit the truth of all you say, but you do me a great injustice in supposing that I receive the same amounts every year. On the con trary, for the list four years I have received, on the average, only 3,139/. a year." Mr. llonsot vs replies to this, that he never supposed and never said that the bishop's income was 17,000 t. every year ; that what he had supposed a nd said was, that it ex ceeded 17,000/. in a particular year, and that not a fraction of the excess had been paid to the commission ers. So far this is set right. But the bishop, who is seemingly properly ashamed of the commiseiontrs, though he profits by their doings, returns to the charge in order to correct another misapprehension of Mr. llottsNt AN'S, that the arrangements respecting the att . of Salisbury were made " under his own administre tion." No ono can be surprised at the bishop's desire to get rid of such a suspicion. It is bad enough to receive a surplus amounting in some years to as much as 1•2,000 t., which ought to go to augment the livings of poor clergymen pining in misery on from 501. to loot. per annum, without being respon sible for the act which permits such a gross wrong to be perpetrated. The bishop, naturally very anxious about the matter, argues thus : " The question of affixing a charge upon any see was considered and decided by the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners in 1837. I did not myself become a member of the board until the reconstruction of the commission in 18 le." Now, prima fitrir, this is an answer ; but we must hear what Mr. Houses": says to it. His argu ment is this : The commission in 1837 did nothing. To use their own words, " they made no order" respecting the see of Salisbury. It was left open, therefore, to do what might right and necessary at a subsequent period. "In ISO you became a member of the commission, charged with the administration of the act, and re sponsible for the proper carrying out of its inten tions." Why did you not then proceed to do some thing? It was not until 1847 that any order was gazetted respecting the see of Salisbury ; and is the order fixed, with your concurrence and probably at your suggestion,a charge of 1,850/. a year upon the see to ho paid after your avoidance of it, it is dear that you must pretty well have known you were re ceiving more than the act prescribed for you. What does the bishop say to this? To the inquiry why he did nothing he makes no rejoinder; the last part of the answer he traverses, by declaring that, "the pro spective charge upon the see was fixed in 1846, by a committee, of which I was not a member, and with which I had no communication till they arrived at their conclusion. I then told them," sacs the bishop, " that 1 did not think the ace could afford to pay so much"—a part of his lordship's statement to which we aro sure every one will give unaffected credence. But tire allegation of his lordship, that he was not • member of the committee which decided on the ease of Salisbury, in 1819, is by no means so fully borne out. In the evidence taken before the par liamentary committee, on the affairs of the commission last year, both Mr. KNIGHT MURRAY, the secretary, and the Bishop of ST. AMAMI stated that every bisho was a member of the committee, and the former p absolutely declared that " no business could be completed respecting a diocese without the written consent of its bishop.' The Bishop of SALISBURY un fortunately cannot get over this fact, of which Mr. HongmAN very acutely reminds him. lam sure," says his lordship, " Mr. Knight Murray can never have intended to say, that a veto is given to a bishop on all business affecting his diocese.' No one sup posed ho did. But will tie Bishop of Ssi.tsee ay say, what he does not venture to hint in his letters, that his own written consent was not asked and given, before the prospective charge upon the bishopric was imposed? Until he can say that, he can not, we apprehend, escape the responsibility of the act of the committee, "of which ho was not a mem ber " though it seems that it s decision was submitted for 'his consent, and, if we believe Mr. NIURRAY, was not of effect without it. Such are the main points of a correspondence which certainly puts the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commission in no improved light. How the Bishop of Ssitseenv fares in the matter we leave the reader to decide, merely remarking that we think he would have bccn more wise had he followed the example of his brother prelates of Dettiima and CIIICUESTER, and contented himself with expressing in private his mortification and annoyance at the unpleasant, but too necessary, exposure, without rushing into print upon the subject. In these observations we have merely treated the matter with reference to the special facts. There is, however, another and a much more important view to be taken of it; and as Mr. llonsat,tx puts these considerations in very forcible language, we cannot do better than conclude by adopting, as we do most hco rtily, the following pas sage from his letter: should not he dealing fairly by your lordship did I not say to you what I-have stated elsewhere, that in my opinion the merely legal view of this question is too low a one to take. I thought it involved far higher considerations than those of strict law. Certain right rev. prelates aro appointed to certain sees on the understanding that they are to receive certain incomes, and parliament has entrusted to the epis• copal bench (as ecclesiastical commissioners) the carrying out of its act. If it be found that in the earlier stages of the commission errors and miscalculations were made, tending to defeat the intentions of parliament, I have hell that the character of the episcopal bench was invo:vcd in the correc • tion of those errors. The individual prelates in whose favour those errors operate are bound not to take advantage of the Haws man act which they are themselves administering; but they ought to he the first to propose to the board to bring back the working of the act to a conformity with its manifest intentions. .dreary ----------- EVERT alteration made in a bill in its progress I through par li ament is by courtes y called " an amend ment" It hto this parliamentary phraseology that we are indebted for what may be called " amendments for the worse." To this anomalous class 'of deteriorating amend ments unquestionably belongs one modification of the Sanitary Bill to which government and the House of Commons seem disposed to assent. The constitution of the Board of Health originally contemplated is to be changed. It is to consist of the chief of the Woods and Forests, with two unpaid commissioners. The reduction in the number of the members at the board to three is really an amendment. It increases respon sibility, and therewith efficiency. But the entrusting of the delicate and laborious duties of the board to the head of a department which, if it does not find him in sufficient employment, ought to be abolished I or merged in some other, is, to say the least, question able, while the notion of two unpaid commissioners has nothing questionable or doubtful about it. Unpaid commissioners aro sure to work in propor tion to their remuneration —that is, a little while the feeling of novelty lasts, and not at all after it has worn off. Unpaid servants of the public pay them selves bT indul4ing their own whims and conveni ence. lhey think that the public has no right to look a gift-horse in the mouth, and that their labour is a gifi-horse. Servants for love, or for the honour of the employment, ore always the most castly in the lung run. Again, the substitution of unpaid for paid offi cials, is tantamount to the substitution of less efficient for more efficient. There are persons who fur years back have made the study of the prin ciples of sanitary police the business of their lit-, to which every other pursuit has been subordinate. While engaged in preparing the public mind for the reception of a comprehensive measure of sanitary law —maturing its provisions so onto render it self-recom mended and obviating all objections—rind stimulating government to throw its weight into the scale of such a measure—they have thoroughly mastered the subject in all its details. From such men the public has uo rigl it to exact further gratuitous services,r.or are they in a condition to give their services on such terms. Yet these men are obviously the most capable to work the measure efficiently ; if indeed they be not the only men in the country capable of working it at rill. We say nothing of their equitable claim to have fair play given to the child of their labours by en trusting the first carrying of it into execution to com petent and friendly hands. The non-payment project is a sentence of exclusion against such men in favour of wealthy ditettasti or amateurs, who will make it their plaything, their hobby-horse, overridden or left idle in the stall as spiel n or the whim of the moment suggests ; or to ministerial hangers-on, who are contented to be put into any unreinunerative office (careless of their competence to discharge its duties), in order to estabish a claim for future promotion to some remunerative appointment. The non-payment clause goer' to enact that official apti tude shall give way to jobbing. 'there is a false economy involved in the miserable plea of expense, by which this amendment for the worse is supported. The expense of the commis skniers salaries will be saved at the coot of hundreds of thousands of the public money, sure to be wasted by the incompetent who will accept of a mere hono rary appointment, or the idle who will make their gratuitous services an excuse for neglect. It will be savd at the cost of perpetuating the ffering and disease e which the sanitary Bill is su intended to prevent. The non-payment clause will make a dead letter of the bill. Ministers, i I they can <tarry their measure, ought to insist upon carrying it as an efficient measure. It is despicable in the last degree to purchase the putt ing of a law by consenting to enttralt provisions upon it which must render it merely illusory. It is a weak and contemptible vanity to take credit for carrying a measure, knowing thst care has been taken to render it inoperative. The labourer is worthy of his hire ; and a ithout hire you will not get labourers to work continuously and well. These are the truths which ministers have disregarded, the principles they have sacrificed, in consenting to modify the constitution of the Board of Health in a manner that will render it impotent for good. The means of paying efficient commissioners. without increasing the annual public expenditure, might be obtained by lopping off halla dozen of the supernumerary colonekies with which the army is encumbered ; but ministerial retrench ment always consists in pinching the working servants of government, while sineeurists are left untouched. FRANC E. PARIS, WPI)I49APAY, 105, A. At the moment of closing my dispatches last even ing the assembly was still in session, and continued their discussion until seven o'clock. I sent you the result of their first division, which was the rejection of the report of the committee in favour of the assembly nom i n ating directly an interim mi nistry. As the only alternative left was, that the chamber should nominate an executive commission which should appoint ministers, and exercise the other functions of royalty, this resolution was consequently adopted. The next question was. as to the number of members to compose such a com mission. After several propositions it was resolved that the committee should consist of five members, and that the names of these should be decided to-day. After this the Assembly adjourned. During the sessionof yesterday the principal speak ers, and especially those connected with the Provisional Government, so frequently and emphatically declared that the question of persons had no weight whatever with them, and that they were all for principles,that one must have suspected, even if ho had no other means of inf Traation, that the case was precisely the reverse, and that in fact persons were the only thing thought of. But we, who have hid some opportuni i ties of information, could see plainly enough that the real and only question was, whether or not M. Ledru Rollin should remain in the government. The truth is, and it is necessary to say it, however unpleasant it be, that M. de I.amartine has not the energy, firmness, and independence necessary to raise him to the level of the position into which the tempest of the 24th February has thrown him, he is himself sensible of being unequal to the situation ; he shrinks from the encounter of the fierce opposition of the small but 1 energetic party of which M. Ledru Rollin would in- 1 I stantlybecome the leader , and desires to disarm such l opposition by placing his opponent beside him iu the government. This is the true meaning of all the fine 1 phrases which M. do Lamartine evolved in the assembly yesterday. Of course M. Lcdru-Rollin will bo one of the five. It is not necessary to wait for the decision of to-day to tell you that M. do Lamartine will be another. The other three are less certain ; but the names most ge nerally mentioned are MM. Gamier Pages, Arago, and Marie. Indeed I have in former lettere mentioned these five names to you as those of the most probable interim government, and I believe that I shall be able in this evening's despatch to inform you that such is the result. M. Woloweki is to bring forward to-day a resolu tion for the appointment of a committee of inquiry respecting the condition of the labouring classeucs manufacturing and agricultural--and to report such measures as may tend to ameliorate their situation. It is undm stood that this proposition has been prepared, and will be supported by a considerable number of the representatives, among whom are mentioned Wit. Leon, Faucher, Bastide, Duchez, Corbar, Peupin, Considerant, Gustave de Beau- wont, &c. The grand celebration intended for the 11th of I I May (Sunday) is postponed. Yesterday morning 50 men of every company of each legion of the National Guard were called out sod ordered to be in readiness to answer the first 1 summons. These picquets will form a force of from 19 ' 000 to 20,0 00 men. Tho p ost at the chamber is composed as usual of one battalion of the National Guard, but in a few minutes reinforcements may be called to join it. A petition which certain clubs in tend to carry to the bar of the assembly is talked of. As soon (says the' Commerce), as the consti tution shall be voted, several members are to I n t errog ate the executive power on the measures to be taken against the Commune de Paris, the heads of which appear to desire to place themselves outside the common right, in having a prietorian guard, armed mid eqaipped. A member, whoee patri otism certainly cannot be suspected, was speaking of this matter to one of the y Provisional Government, when the latter said, .' let them alone ; there are arme which wound those who sharpen them !" her rete , Italy m Wee one cou a gore i occupici • . great Lombai tural t to Aust valuabl I been to power n i i f and ree instead howevi partly from I partly , strong tresses indepe We I' i give n far to I and v but o have Venici send i At ti forbid Navin; DINIA ing tc 1 he h shake 1 Ou as it ' ALBI Engl ing i 'min not e 1 by tl CI sent . .1 . have of tb ALB by a 1 ' the woe' has i trial nice ache Tyr mac lyir has ' tior ' and wa; Vei ter Au tot i 1 I aid I I I ht ho' .. I or 1 ea] fee I , th, ve: H in th of to le th hi r i bo guilty of default in the payment of any calls made upon the shareholders of the company ;" but being opposed by the Solicitor. General, on the ground that it wasminh better to leave the matter altogether to the discretion of the court, the member for Sunderland consented to withdraw it, and other amendments given notice of by Mr. Headlam, as that bon. gentlemen would have another opportunity of bringing them forward. The clause was then agreed to, as were the remaining Clauses, end the house having resumed, the bill, with amend ments, was ordered to he reprinted. 10BAGO RELIEF AND IMMIGRATION INTO BRITISH GUIANA AND TRINIDAD. The consideration of the report of the grant of 170,0001., in reference to the latter subject, was deferred, in conse quence of the absence of Mr. Runic SCI EN 111 IC SOCIETIES. The ATTORNEY-GEN Elt Al. obtained leave to brine in, and brou,rht in, • bill to exempt from county , loc al, and borough rites, buildings occupied by &dentine societies. The bill wrs r. ad a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday nest. The house then, at a few minutes before tbisie o'clock, adjourned. ELECTION COMMITTEES. LONGFORD. —The committee met for the first a e tim Yester day. The petitioner is Mr. 1.41r0y, the del/mic eon aidate at the late election, who disputAche seat tmer. of Mel ' r. 11. M. Fon. The ease is one of scrutiny ; pti that 140 of the suppor.ers of Mr. Foe had been struck ott the roil by a former parliamentary committe. Th e clay wa ny, s im• copied in llearitur sirgumet agaeinstscruti . . Vite erVEISfS. MAILS. EOTICE.—MaIIs will be made up for MIRICITI4, Ito Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, and ValpartiLvi, to be conveyed byte I.M. Meamer Gorgon. All letters and newspapers roust be sply soldrivsed, " Ily steamer Gorgon.' The Gordon Vs expected to nut front Derenport on the 10th instant. Te mails tor British North Amerlea, and the United Oates, Will be made up on the evening of the 12th M.. The Wnit New Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Havanna, Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Tuna Miro, and Including than: for Madeir Carthagemi, &ante Martha, Chasm, ranant.S. West Coast of South America, and St. JUAII-llt. Nicaragua, 'sill be made up on the morning of the 17th May. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Units, and Gibraltar will lir made up 11l the worattot of the 17th Mae. The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta. Om:co, the ltaiian Islands, Egypt, Advn, Ceylon, India, llong-heng, and Clung, Southainr ton, will to mole up im the morning of the 10th May. The c toied Marteillea, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, .kden, Celtic, India, Dong-liong, 5.., will to made up ou the evening of the 11th May. The twin for New South Walee, Van Dieman's Land , a nd New Zealand will be made up oil the evening of the 31st M iy. Toe mails ter the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will Jimmie elp on the prewar of the 31st May. The !Tools for the Bnotils, the Nicer Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buc. Bahia Madeira, aml bamboo Area, will be made up on the evening of tite 3rd June. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number or STAMPS issued by the authorities of the BEITSTOtfiCe, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,009 TEle, we believe, is wit hin ei g ht per cent. of the ronic number issued to the Morning Herald; Morning Chle, and Morning Post, ALL PVT TOW:TIRES. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning l'aper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, THE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening PsPra. BIOS WATTS AT LONDON lINIUGT. Tuts 1:41-111•1•1•6 TI mI•.MM I *Mrs.*, o Afist Ifisphino aim per I Ism Asa W. LONDON,THURSDAY. MAl' 11. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. CONCLUSION Or Tusswor's Session. After the division above noticed, M. SIMARD proposed that, as the vote just given ren dered the nomination of an executive ceur c . il an act cessity, the Assembly should withdraw to its bureauxtod consider what names it should be advisable to bring for ward. (Cries of" No! no!") The proposition, not being seconded, fell to the ground. The PiIIISIDENT.—One proposition suggests five mem bers, and another ten, for the executive council— sit that M. Room (du Loiret).—l propose as an amendme the number be t h ree . (Approbation) that the provisional go vern- M. BAKIIES should p ro p ose ment should remain in power as it wsi., in order that the socialist principle might be represented. lie thought the vote just given was an erroneous one; but, since it was given, ho hoped to remedy it by bringin3 furward his pro position. (Agitation ) A M gullet& observed, that If the question had been to re tain the Provisional Government, there could not have been any necessity to deliberate on the question of the executive committee. The premint situation could not last any longer —the country had condemned it (Daniel.) lie did not think that the Provisional Government eculd be maintained in power, as was proposed ro . A n other MENIBIAL ppoeed that the executive commit tee should be composed of el , ven members, namely, the gentle men now forming the Provisional Government. A confused dismission hero arose, at the end of which, M. Ili:nano mid, that in order that the aseem ifblthy niPghtro know what it had to expect, it ought to ascert e v isional Government was united or not. (Agitation.) lie should, therefore, ask M. Lydro-Rollin if it were not true that in a priVate c inversation—(great tumult). M. Leone ItoWN said that the sittings of the assembly were too important to be taken up with what occurred in private conversation. It was said that the Provisional Go vernment was not united; no doubt some of his colleagues ha.: ideas whirl were not those of others. How could it be otherwise ? When was humanity otherwise constituted ? 13Th had his individuality, his opinion, and his predilec tion., hut all were unit d together by an ardent love for their country. ( hood applause.) He couli appeal to his colleagues if ever a harsh word had been exchanged between him and them ? Always when they differed the minority had bowed before the msjority. "We have all been good citizens," said the hon. minister, "we have joined our forces to serve France ! Do as we have done!" (Applause.) After some further discussion, the Assembly decided that an executive committee should be nominated, and that the number of the members should be five. M. Louie BLANC announced that the president and vice president 01 the committee of workmen having resigned their situations on the day that the National Assembly met, did not intend resuming their functions, and hat to call on the Amembly to ap, oint persona to replace them. (Movement.) The Assembly then decided unanimously that the nomi nation of the five members of the executive committee should take place by ballot and by an absolute mijority. The sitting concluded at • quarter to seven. The Madrid mail of the sth has arrived, with the letters of our correspondent. Their contents, how ever, have no general interest. Moo -Three per Cent., :2 wet.; Flee per Cent A., 14t, ptper ; Vargivcs paper ' Coup nn, 9 paper; Bank of St. Feed-- nwoL en die., 90 coda, 96 paPn• Exchange on London, at dx)e, After Wm.-- Tbree 9,21G-sta., paikr ; lice per Cent., ; I•a- , ovex, Si ROME.—The address of the Pope to the secret consistory held at Rome, on the 29th ult., has been published. The chief part of this document is nothing more than a retrospect of the political wunts of which Italy has been lately the theatre. The following ex tract from it will, however, be read with interest : Everybody knows, venerable broth( re, the words which we addressed to you on Oct. 4 of last year, when we reminded princes of the paternal kindness and attentive care which they owe to the people placed under their pawer,and the people of 'he fidelity and olicilitnce which they owe to their princes. Afterwards, we neglected nothing to impress these same sen timents on all. Would to God that the effect had resp.inded to our paternal exhortations' But every one is aware of the public commotion' which have taken place both in Italy and in other countries. If any one should wish to pretend that the path was opened to such events by the acts which our love and kindness prompted us to carry out at the commence• men t of our reign, that man certainly is mistaken, and cannot justly impute such things to us, since we have done nothing but what appeared necessary for the prospi rity of our to mpo vary state. With respect to those who in our king.lom have abused OUT benefit', we shall, is accordance with the ex staple of our Divine blaster, pardon them from the bottom of our hearts. We call them back to better thoughts, and we pray God to turn away from their bees the chastisements which fall on ungrateful men. Besides, the people of Germany cannot rea , onabls complain of us, broils:. we were unable to contain the ardonr of such of our subjects in the temporal order who have applauded what was done in Italy, and who, inflamed with the love of their own nation, united their ef forts to those of the other Italian p..pula6ons. Many other princes in Europe, whose armies were more numerous than ours, beheld themselves equally unable to oppose the up risin g of their' people. In that state of thing', we, however, gave no other orders to our troops than to protect the integrity and security of the pontifical state. however, several persons --..iiiiiie.t. a desire to behold us, in accord with the other popu lations and princes of Italy, declare war on Germany; in con e, quence we judge it our duty to announce in your assembly that nosh tan; be more distinct from our thoughts than such a course, which would be altogether unbecoming our position as holding on earth the place of him who is the author of peace. But if, notwithstan , ing a great number of our subjects are led away by the example of other Italians, what means have we to repress their acts) We cannot here help disavowing, in the fAC3 of the whole world, the perfidious designs of those who in the our and in pampa new re. hlets pro pose to place the Roman pontiff at r and in of public, termed of all the Awes of Italy. In addition, we 'wise on this occasion, in our love for the Italian populations, to warn them to keep out of these project., so disastrous for Play herself, and not to allow themselves to be turned away from the tbzdi, nee which they owe to their prince. In act ing otherwise they would not only fail in their duty, bat they would cause Italy to incur the danger of seeing intes tine discord and factions increasing every day. A' to us, we declare it anew, all our thoughts and solicitude have no other object than to procure the advancement of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, which is the church ; and by no means to extend the frontiers of tho temporal kingdom which divine providence has been pleased to assign to the holy see to protect its dignity and the free exercise of the supreme aposodate." LONIIIAIII)I7.—The only news as to the opera tions of the Sardinian army relate to a skirmish be tween the Genoese regiment of cavalry, and three squadrons of the Savoy regiment, supported by some artillery, and a party of 60 infantry, a body of 600 Tyrolese Austrians, three squadrons of 'Wiens, and three pieces of artillery. 'This affair, in which the Sheainian troops bad the advantage, took place near illage of Bosco, a short distance from Verona. The journals of Turin, speaking of a proclamation of Wirral Oudinot, which announces to the French army of the Alps his approaching entrance into Italy, arc unanimous, while protesting their svmpat h y for the French nation, in declaring that they desired no foreign intervention in the affairs of Italy. La Onrooliet says, " Italy must alone fight against Austria.and the national Italian conquest must be an Italian work." The Piedmontese parliament (senators and deputies) .., met in a preparatory sitting on Sunday the Bth. from GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—We have our usual files of German papers. Those of Berlin, which are of the Bth inst., contain no news of interest. The following is a letter from our correspondent at Posen : POSEN, Max 2. The news from Posen, received this morning, may be re duced to the following points:—Another sanguinary battle has been fought at Wrochen, and with the same result, viz., the retreat of the Prussian' Other partial successes gained by the Poles at Prussianorik and Gabka, are reported. A great many soldiers arc every day deserting to the Poles. Immediatay after the bat tle at Xionz, a deputatien, composed of the prin cipal inhabitants of the duchy proceeded to Bet. lin. The most desperate courage was evinced at that battle. The Poles had only 20 fire-arms altogether. Thirty emi grants fell at one of the barricades. Onlythe exiles, Mazurkiewiez, escaped. There are 150 wounded Poles at the hospital at lhrem. Colonel Dombrowski has died from with The Abbe Koszueki who was nearly killed the butt-ends of the muskets by the Prussians. is likely to recover. A great many young men, the flower of the Posnanian youth, have been killed. The names of Potwe roski, Lubowidzki, Boianoski, and Stablewski, are found in a long list of victims. But the most melancholy case is that of young Zaliwski. His father, one of the chiefs of the insurrection in 1833, was taken by the Austrians and im prisoned at Spit 'berg. The son was born only half a year before his father's disappearance in the condemned caverns of that horrible state dungeon. Now they met for the first time at the barricades of Xiona. The son fell down the first. The faker, severely wounded in the leg, was carried away on the same litter as his expiring son. The victory of Milos law was decided by the timely arrival of Poles from Plea chen, under the command of Biado,kurski. It is not true that Mieroalawski has been kille 1. With 6,000 scythemen, and four cannons conquered from the Prussians, he pro ceeded to Zaniemysl. Two officers, taken at that battle, have been liberated by the Poles, and they are loud in the praises of the conduct of the latter. Even General Colomb has been l a tely obliged to withdraw his charges: On the other hand, a number of young men (Poles) of the military school, imprisoned at Kro toszvn, are treated by the Prussians with the utmost severity. Their families are net even allowed to send them provisions. The commander, Colonel BenM, dares not show them any in dulgence, for the soldiers are so infuriated that they would not obey his orders. Ile said to a friend of his—" What can I do ?—we are ourselves in the greatest peril from the soldiers, who have broken through all rules of discipline? There is a government in Berlin, and another at Potsdam — and he re another under King Colomb and Field-Marshal Steine"ker." lie also added that he had an order to attack the Poles on the 16th, that is, three days before the expiration of the truce. The Jews at Posen have ill treated the celebrated Abbe Prusinoeki. DENMARK AND TnE DUCIIII.S. General Stalnecker has ordered the rioters to be in • but he was obliged to yield to the clamour of the Jewe set them at liberty. At hiss the Jcws were going t e tie mu skets, but the Prussian soldiers declared they would Tag down their arms if this intention was carried into effect 'the Vossische Zeitong says that the new mh o , sador at 'Madrid will be Count Raczynski, at prtropl ambassador at Lisbon. AUSTRIA.—In accordance with the wish ea „ pressed by Count Fiquelmont, Baron Lehzelteni h es been named interim Minister of Foreign and Home Department. The Emperor has, in an i rnew ,„ rial resolution of the 3 rd of May , taken r-off the sequestration upon the family of Prince Adam Czartoriski. There is bad news from Hungaty. A communing, Lion from Szent Micklos of the 27th of April en . tains fearful accounts of the cruelties committed et Barote. The Illyrian and Croatians revolted the game day at Kikinda. They repaired in great aero „ bers to the district Stadthaus, released 110 men under arrest, and then went to the Roman catholic church, where they pillaged and destroyed everythin g . Thence they went to a firmer assessor, who fled and endeavoured to conceal himself with property to the amount of 60,000 florins. He was discovered, and though he offered to deliver up all that he had it they would spare his l•fe, they cut off his head, stock it on a pule, and caused his dead body to be dragged through the city fastened to a horse's tail. They the e went to the present assessor, and while he wee attempting to effect his escape they shut him dead upon the spot. Magazines and houses were entered and plundered. Everything was destroyed. Bed e and furniture were thrown into the streets, and the city treasury, together with the documents, were destroyed by fire. Fifty hussars who were in the stadthaus fired upon them, and di.l their utmost to stop the mischief, but they were too few in number, The rebels were furnished with long poles, le th e ends of which scythes were attached, and w i t h these they attacked the military. The ridin g , - master had his right arm cut off, and Lieut. Bann Zichy had a scythe run through his body, and tee privates were killed and many disarmed. The revolt commenced at Nensutx, where the Hungarian flee was destroyed, and a red one h e isted in its stead Emissaries from Serna are said to have instigated th e revolt. Many families fled thence during the night, and after daybreak persons were not permitted to leave or enter the ci,y. 0.. T..: i•l.t), however, dig, dren were allowed to leave in carriages, and childni of only eight and ten years had to act as (Mei rs. The city has been encompassed, and the neighbouring ten villages belonging to the district have been calledia to the aid of the rebels. The military and 10 canna are expected to-day. The rebels entered every wi l e. cellar, and partook so freely of the brandy and yin that they were quite infuriated. We stated yesterday that the Danish-Holstein quarrel was in a fair way of being adjusted, and that in consequence the Danish government had counter. mended an extensive order for the supply of arm We also stated that Prince Frederic of Hesse ending father had resigned their employments in the DOUAI army, and their stations in Denmark. It seems that th's extends also to their claim to the throne, which they are willing to abdicate. The Prince is nephew of the Duchess of Cambridge, and is now in We country. Forced in the present state of things to choose between his Hessian and his Danish prospects, he is said to decide for the for mer. His abandoning the latter would leave the succession both to Denmark and Holstein open to the Duke of Augustenburg, a prospect, of course, which, it is thought. will satisfy all parties, and restore peace. The Danes, indeed, may show some redo twice, and the Russians perhaps still more. It eeo- tainly opens a door of escape from the difficulty, tee it is also to be feared that Prince Frederic would sot have waived his claim to the throne of Denmark except for an indemnity guarantee d to him is Ger many. And of guarantees to German princes we have already had quite enough. The Danish frigate at Sewinemande is said to be encompassed with a net, to render any at tempt at grappling more difficult. The reports of the strength of her crew vary ; some say 400, and others 2(H). The regulations fur the blockade have been con• firmed by an order at Copenhagen of the Ist of May, according to which Danish cruisers are to act. The following arc the main points : 1. Blockade of the enemy's harbours.-1 and 2. A herb= is is a state of blockade as soon as a man-of war is strioned at its entrance, and the commander of the blockade has noti fied the same by an open letter to the consuls of the neutral power., and has called upon them to name a time by 'chick free vessels might be able to quit the herb tar. Neutral vessels bound for a blockaded harbour are to be ordered to return, and are to notify the refusal on their papers. The bringing up as prize all hostile and•sutpected vessek.-4. This can be dune by the royal vessels only, and Ursa only such vessels as belong to acknowledged hustle powers. A vessel not being free shall not necessarily cause her cargo to be put iota bond ; on the coutrui, neutral goods in hostile 'Awls shall be forfi ited only where it is proved that the cargo was embarked after the notification of the blockade. Such vessels as Imes attempted to break through the blockade. All vessels who* neutrality is doubtful. G. Vessels belonging to neutral powers—no matter to whom their cargo belongs—are not Se be brought in prize, if they had no contrabands of war oa board. All veisals will be treated as suspected that has either duplicate, or to all appearance fella., papers, as wait su ch who shall have destrol ed t h e ir papers, or w hose motel* shall ri fuse to show and open all that may be demanded. 10. The following are con sidered lawful prizes: a. Al vessels which belong to the enemy ; b. Vends laden with contrabandsof war; vessels which resist detention by forte of hand or arms. 12. Last of all that is considered con:rebind 14. Neutral merchantmen under convoy will not be visited. 15, 16, 17. The vessels brought in prize shall, with out anything on board being touched,be taken to the nearest Danish custom-house, where military protection will be afforded. 18. If the goods arc of a perishable nature, or the average is so, the vessel shall be dealt with according is may be judged most expedient—lll. Inspection and condemna. tion :-19. As soon as a vessel is brought in as a prize into' Danish harbour, the same shall be publicly announced; and in 24 hours a hearing shall be granted to the captain, my, and passengers, and the whole matter settled before t. e dose of four days.-21. Before the hearing is closed, the captaia shall be asked if he has any further statement to make be fore the case is laid before the Court of Acimiralty.-22. At accurate inv. %tory of the vessel's lading shall be takes, and no nnlarling shell be permitted unless the preserre• lion of the goods may render it absolutely necesorY.. — 24. Two Court, of Admiralty shall be appointed, do fur Iceland, Zealand, Falster, Moen, and liornhoha, Copenhagen; and the second at NI harp, for all °the points. 25 to 35. Conditional regulations respecting jwit meat and condemnation. 23. Concerning the maintenance of care of the crews of prize vessels. 31. The crews shanty maintained at the expense of fig. the Ro if yal Treasury, until sen- tence s hall have been passed; but the captain makes thee appeal, all cost must be paid by him. 35. The crew of prize and condemned vessels are to be taken by the author , ties of the place, and delivered up to the nearest fortress. 36. Every cruiser must have on board a copy of these regulations. A despatch from Gen. Ilalkett, from the head quarters, Nichel, May 3, announces the removal or the quarters of the Hanoverian moveable division to Ulderup, and the staff of the vanguard to Fischbeek. UNITED STATES- MEXICO. , --- By the arrival at Southampton of the Washingtas we are iu possession of dates from New York to tha 25th ult. The dates from the city of Mexico arc to the 3td April, and from Vera Cruz of the 9th. On the 9th, Major-Gen. Kearney , who maid Vera Cruz on the 6th, with the Hon. Mr. Sevier, sta installed as Governor of the state of Vera Cruz. Os the day previous Mr. Sevier, the peace commissioner, left Vera Cruz fur the city of Mexico, with an escort about GO strong, under command of Capt. Tilghman. Santa Anna had arrived at An ea from Jalapa. ,c ll the sth, under escort of Capt. • hman, and Jalapa pasmge in the Spanish brig Martino, Capt. an lie was to go to Jamaica. It was supposed at Vega Cruz that Gen. Scott and suite and Mr. Trist sccda leave Mexi adjourned hof April : the court having, it was saidto the 'United States, but fins was only a rumour. During the week ending the Ist of April there *el 56 deputies and 19 senators present at Queretal ° ' Only 15 more deputies and 3 senators were want to make up a quorum. But some members of ear grass had left Queretaro under the pretext of relay tance to vote for the ratification of the treaty. From the very earnest and indignant manner IS which the Star mentions this subject, we test rt at or the Courier and Enq uirer) that the greatespply.; hensions are entertained lest a sufficient number of factious deputies should withdraw to prevent a quorn° from assembling. Opinions are very various se lathe probable ratification of the treaty. The .51ar is urgnig upon the Mexicans the absolute necessity of giving a their sanction if they would preserve their nationaf. The The news of the action of of reached Mexico at the end ~ despatched at once to Quo flounced it on the 2nd inst. on the 3rd. Ex-President Gen. Bustal.ii Potosi on the 27th March 1 from GuarWaal°. lie rep ti the general government, 5. an y symptoms of rebelli , i attempt. From the Star, of the i; ruinous a sacrifice the M. z cated itself from the hinds .. tomb. We quote : The 111 , , million dollars in Mexican .14 Manning and Mackintosh -I charge of their loan of G0i.,1 who at the time was at the ai vernment, have been disp- , hundred thousand dollars. Berstegan. Ile pays 600 '. dots. in instalments, and 40 , i,‘ latter may possibly be la dl will bring the whole cost of tised for sale at 750,000 de . The Progreso of Queret , tions from Durango, whii*. Angel Tries, of Chi huahua, was taken prisoner on the Cruz de itosales, by a body from the camp at Buena Viii began at nine in the morn when the Americans car , i Eight pieces of artillery, si , < of ordnance), and more thuni into thu hands of the A 11.21 cording to this ?denim. troops sacked the place. the houses of any val• e waggons; everything else i hi A correspondent gives ..h concerning Mr. Trist and th to arrest and send him out of Mr. Freaner, who arrived at 1 with despatches from Wa , hin communications, an order to out of the country as soon as h the court of inquiry, a' t immediately communicated to government, and apprised lit them. Mr. Trist then addressed denying his right to arrest, . r f try, an Amencan citizen. 'ft briefly, that he had rectiv d imperative in their nature, nt to the letter ; and further= -e, inclination to reply to the at; to his rights as a calm. We mentioned in theinte a riot had taken place at W of the part taken by the Na paper, in the matter of the a schooner. A letter from in the Courier and Enq zir Very great excitement txist escape and recapture of the di Sunday night in the sloop Pei should think three thous od 1 of the office of the National published immediately oppeni purpose, as was alleged, of d press. Capt. Goddard. th ch upon the spot, and, with the small number of the city wt number) succeeded in ke pin his position against the , entt uniform reply to the th.n 'etchings of the crowd ryas: ing it must be over my hod it must be while I maintain by violence." Many ston:s a short of their mark, the prop ground for fear of rec-gnitic was the breaking of three or t a single letter of the sign, aaaaaannnnnnJJJJJJ letter from General Taylor, w isertion. At a late hour the en to meet again at the City Hal of concerted action in transmit of the Era, to remove th , it o of their failure so to do to d The examination of the Pearl is going on at the gr ol t is surrounded by an imnieni persons. The negro buyers advantage of the present pant to make advantageous purchi A further letter of Lie' The summary process co abolition paper, called the N A few persons are collected office, bat all remained qt let. In the sitting of tit( Hi the 20th, Mr. Palfrey, of question, and wished th forth the whole proceedim in consequence of the or the runaway slaves, and committee to report what to secure its members attacks. A debate spritni tions, and the app' al amendments were Mien 1 a heated discussion 1- journed without any f 4 A great fire had tail COMMER . I. - - NEW YORK, APRIL 24, Du kept the city in a state • commercial accounts are fat of French bills are returned. coutaging. The maw of the Mining, shows alarm, and • ver by invistmints from the or .ti in the English funds. T Acadia*s ictelligenoe WI, • t duce, untirourable. Intim , either cotton, corn, flue, : 17. S. Treasury Notes, whit tip to 102 i. Primsylv.uti.l Fit neatly touch .4 last wee' , not heat of any stocks sent rut orders to purchase. Tics• tat change on London is held 11 a remittarce, United Stab • 8 be an advisable substitute i serest. The banks are Artviral finding Its way thither. 1 ,e Monday Reels, the let of 401 animation and activity to ae well. carton.—The sales sine rate, at a slight decline; tnyl pound. The following an t. Inferior Ordinary to good ord, 'tat Middling to gout Middling fair to fair Fully fair to good loci Fine Fiore, Re.—Tbe marl , t stock on hand. Western f tn. 37Lc. ; common southern meal : 2 dole. 371 e. to 2 t: sold at 1 dol. 341 c. A sma • at 53 cents ; 700 bushels , , h 45 cents to 46 cents ; &nut There emits, 23 cents ; steady : pots, 6 dole. ; pr rL PHILADELPHIA, At Ail day under the influence • t demand, and prices are n ml western uninsts stud, at de are held at G dole. Rve •nu 311 c. Wheat: 2,000 it , teli 40c. for white. 1,000 bu but little inquiry ; 1,000 bi weight. Provisions in •no Cuba and New Orleans at clover seed dull, at 3 dol . IS Bosros, APRIL 21. has not so far produced .131 same sales of 530 barrelr of brands, at from G dole. t somewhat heavy, while p 7,000 bushels ,white and 77 bushels at 820. ; sales of 401 in provisions or freights. NEW ORLEANS, A ri of middling to good m 4! IW changed. Molames, s American ship taken to 1 .ve On Tuesday aI et Albert, accompanied t Princess Royal, took Illustrious inmates at di attended on horsebai Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Countess of Charlemn..l Grey, and Captain tI e gardens of the Royal 114 yesterday morning. Fl gardens yesterday. The Queen ha'. Buckingham Palace. ' Dowager, the Duche., the Prince of Prusain Base Weimar, the Weimar, Prince Fr. •14 Mecklenburg Strelit Duchess of Sutherhu, I, de Speth the Dukt the Bari Fortescue, Howe, Earl of Cawdo Per, Captain Francis the Gentleman in Watt l'einee Albert left t) Last eight o'clock for tl Llighneai being the dirt eve lilliP eruld m e to r io ed tlid ! ie e orsi ri adm o ec te ool n arr t eo o df be ttith . pecansLineate n tio n t the a s j w c i w t carried wer e tb into go in gw e i f 1 44 ec e tl e x . e co lta u y n s t Ip tac al zy th ns e ki n , ew ainha s .. ..------ -- T -- _ The news of the action of en rlmont, Baron Lehz a e t ltera ha s reached Mexico at the end . ri m in pe is r t o er r ot i ' las F , ort i i n gn an an d H ira m; despatched at once to Que flounced it on the 2nd inst.. on the 3rd. Ex-President Gen. Mutant. e 3rd of May, toke n off Potosi on the 27th March. rom Hungary. A commanies. the fr ay e 1 general ey G m e a' to j m : s e l o government, n m i r l e e: e n t r u e , i E l i - I. : . 11 , d os th th a o us e f th , fa r e e m it i 2 l ase y 7 t o h d f I : l l l o .:in A e m P e rd n A ti : aderi attempt. From the Star, of the i ruinous a sacrifice the M. a cared itselt from the hands . i a t D o fla t i h nt'led : ye Homan (reerrilpleitlr e ditoi cruelties n t e l r il gem l rv i ell e :ll t( C tea n dn u e !, tomb. We quote: The ltle million dollars in Mexican . and destroyed evert-A in g , Manning and Mackintosh - • charge of their loan of G 04,4 who at the time was at the a orsncioarilf.nihro.immseerilife wan s h venimcnt, have been disp , hundred thousand dollars. Berstegan. He pays 600. . i assessor, p d roperty to dols , in instalments, and 40 , 1, I:o .ho ve lied rea, latter may possibly be Ii I to deliver up all that he had it will bring the whole cost or Ife, they cut off his head, stock tised for sale at 750,000 do' . ied his dead body to be dragged The Progreso pf Qaerei , ued to a horse's tail. They the e tions from Durango, whir , t assessor, and while he teed Angel Trios, of Chih uahua, his escape they shut him deed was taken prisoner on the urines and houses were enter e d Cruz de ltosales, by a bode . erything was destroyed. Bed. from the camp at Buena V . . 4 .hrown into the streets, and the began at nine in the more . her with the documents, w ere when the Americans car , i - Fifty hussars Rho were in the Eight pieces of artillery, si , < n them, and dil their utmost t o of ordnance), and more than too few in numb er . into the hands of the An- • set they were rnislied with long poles, to th e cording to this Mexicat. ythes were attached, and with troops sacked the place. A the military. The *he t - the houses of any vat' e A arm cut off, and Lieut. Omsk ' waggons; everything else I e run through his body, and m g , A correspondent gives • ~ and many disarmed. The n e concerning Mr. Trist and mutz, where the Hungaria fire to arrest and send him out o 1 a red one hoisted in its atm( Mr. Freaner, who arrived at • with despatches from Wa'hin rna are said to have instigated the communications, an order to ilica fled thence during the night, ' out of the country as soon as h.. p er sons w ere n e t perm i tte d to i the court of inquiry, a , 1,,..,.. 0.. T.-:. i• 1.9 , however, chg e immediately communicated to to leave in carriages, and childri government, and apprised Lit. them. Mr. Trist then addressed en years had to act as drivirs. Th e desying his right to arrest, . r f Dimmed, and the neighbouring tee an Amencan citizen. T to the district have been called is briefly, that he had recede d bets. The military and 10 cannoa imperative in their nature, n• to the letter; and further= -e, r . The rebels entered every wig,• inclination to reply to the at gas so freely of the brandy and wise to his rights as a citizen. to infuriated. We mentioned in theinte a riot had taken place at W of the part taken by the N. AND T 111: DUCIII ES. paper, in the matter of the a schooner. A letter frem terday that the Danish-Holstein in the Courier and Enq jr.: 'Air way of being adjusted, and tlut Very great excitement oxis escape and recapture of the al c Hanish government had counter. Sunday night in the sloop Fe- leive order for the supply of emu should think three thousand at Prince Frederic of Hesse and his of the office of the National ed their employments in the llama published immediately oppos rations in Denmark. It seems that purpose, as was alleged, of d press. Capt. Gaddard• th eh to their claim to the throne, which upon the spot, and, with the o abdicate. The Prince is nephew small number of the city w A Cambridge, and is now in this number) succeeded in tee pi A in the present state of things set a his position against the ,en • his Hessian and his Danish uniform reply to the t . 'etchings of the crowd was. s said to decide for the for- ing it must be over my hod ,doniag the latter would leave the it must be while I maintain a Denmark and Holstein open to the by violence." Many atoms nburg, a prospect, of course, which, short of their mark, the prof sill satisfy all parties, and restart ground for fear of ree-gniti. was the breaking of three or les, indeed, may show some wise• a tingle letter of the sign, w tussians perhaps still more. It se. letter from General Taylor, r of escape from the difficulty, I* sullen. At a meet again late hour the en wa aced that Prince Frederic would sot to at, the City Ha of concerted action in transmi i claim to the throne of Denmark of the Era, to remove th , it .' lemnity guarantee d to him is Ger- of their failure so to do to d- guarantees to German princes we The examination of the Pearl is going on at the grol 1 quite enough. frigate at Scrvinemunde is said to is surrounded by an loam • persons. The negro buyers 1 with a net, to render any it advantage of the present pa. Ling more difficult. The reports of to make advantageous porch her crew vary ; some say 400, end A further letter of toe The summary process co ns fur the blockade have been can e abolition paper, called the N A few persons are collected der at Copenhagen of the Ist of May, office, bat all remained qt iet. itch Danish cruisers are to act. The In the sitting of the H. e main points : the 20th, Mr. Palfrey, o he enemy's harbours.-1 and 2. A harbour question, and wished . ickade as soon as a man-of-war is strioued d t h e commander of the blockade has nod. forth the whole proceed * . an open letter to the consuls of the n eutnl in consequence of the called upon them to name a time by which the runawa slaves, and y it be able to quit the barb iur. Neutral committee to report we • a blockaded harbour are to be ordered to to secure its members o notify the refusal on their papers. The orize all hostile and•suspected Tess/la.-4. attacks. A debate ap . me by the royal vessels only, and the tions, and the appeal we to l b n o ot po b t e Is as belong to acknowledged hoes amendments were our • ill) fr bo ee nd sh r all oa not the ateemuli contreg i e a heated discussion e- - journed without any f a hostile Tenets shall be forfeited o r ed that the cargo was embarked aftes A great fire had tal -• of the blockade. Such Teasels as hen : ak through the blockade. All vessels whom CO:AMER . :I oubtlul. G. Vessels belonging to neutral NEW YORK, APRIL 14, ter to whom their cargo belongs-are not es , Das kept the ci junta state 4! , ize, if they had. no contrabands of war as , commercial acs are Owl • ass will be treated as suspected that have of French bills are returned. • or to all appearance false, papers, as wells' - couraging. The state of We alining, shows alarm, and' , rave destroy ed their papers, or w hose mini* by inn stmtuts nom the cr .t • tnw and open all that may be demands In the English funds. T ring are considered lawful prizes : a. a Acadia's ietelligenoe lir a { i :long to the enemy ;b. Vessels laden with , duce, unfavourable. lode( , • war ; vessels which resist detention by force 1 either cotton, aonl, flour. . " b •Fs Treasury Notes, üblk • a . 12. list of all that is considered canTabsed. '.. up to 102/. Ihstmaylv.uns l't rchantmen under convoy will not be Tidied. ... nearly touch.ll 71 last wee' : 'he vessels brought in prize shall, with- 1 no h t ir. hear riNnonzetw. o ... f s an or.Rß y oL s p toc y: lca dN,i ar :,, rent al• I board being toucheil, betaken to the neared ,1. , orders to purchase. lbws. la. -house, where military protection will be con London is held : 1 a remittarce, United Stab . . If the goods are of a perishable nature, or the be en advisable substitute I. -r se vessel shall be dealt with according is say A street. The Links are steal, t expedient, -111. Inspection and condemns- ". finding Its way thither. Ite loon as a vessel is brought in as a prize bites Monday Reels, the lst of 'la r, the same shall be publicly announced; and animation and activity to • ae well• taring shall be granted to the captain, any, Corrov.-The sales sine- • , and the whole matter settled before t. e doss rate, at • slight decline; .at 21. Before the hearing is closed, the mina pound. The following an • if he has any further statement to make be. ; laid before the Court of Acimiralty.-22. At Inferior tory of the vessel's lading shall be takes, Ordinary to good or& • • Middling to gaol mi, • I•iee shell be permitted unless the prams • altddang ter to fidr. .. rods may render it absolutely necessary- Fully fair W good lei ... rt, of Admiralty shall be a ppointed, ass Fine :ealand, Falter , Moen, and liornhoha, ill F 1. 0 ,14 Ite.-The mewl. t and the second at N s borg, for all °the stock on hand. western e - 35. Conditional regulations respecting jeer 37.1 c. ; °animal soutberr• meal : 2 dote . 371 e. to 2 i . is demnation. 23. Concerning the minutemen/ , sold at Idol. 361 A sena •I. crews of prize vessels. 34. The crews slants -' . 3 cents ; 700 bushels' Di t the expense of the Royal Treasury, until leo- 45 cents to 46 cents ; atoll we been passed; but if the captain makes fig- Dredge casks, 23 centa ; se • 11 cost must be paid by him. 35. The crew of steady i pots, G dols. ; Per lemned vessels are to be taken by the author , PHILADELPHIA, Al al ce, and delivered up to the nearest fortress . . clay umler the influence •.i demand, and prices area IR riser must have on board a copy of Chess western unitive cted, at di are held at G aols. Eve --5 eh from Gen. llalkett, from the head- ' 311 c. Wheat : 2,000 bee nos ichel, May 3, announces the removal d eoc. foe white. 1,000 bu lie but little inquiry . • 1,000 b lof the Hanoverian moveable division to . weight. erevisre;es in .n.. d the staff of the vanguard to Fischbak. Cuba and New Orleans • a clover seed dull, eta dot . 7 Bosros, APRIL 21. Mo STATES—MEXICO.tooki ~.., notice sale, of 530 barrels 0 brandy, st from G dais. 3' 1 • rrival at Southampton of the Washingtos somewhat heavy, while 7,000 bushels ...white and possession of dates from New York to the bushels at SM.; sales of 2, On , Tues d ay a atpan 7 e a d ,e s from the city of Mexico arc to the 3ed el from Vera Cruz of the 9th. Buckinghamr ded on horseba, i 9th Major-Gen. Kearney, who reachdi e., : on the i oth, with the Hon. Mr. Sevier, ITS - The Queen and s Governor of the state of Vera Cruz. Od 'evious Mr. Sevier, the peace commissioner, . Grey, and Captain tl e . ...ruz for the city of Mexico, with an WO tronee, under command of Capt. TOO* la had ' arrived at An sea from .IVg 0 • older escort of Capt. Ti*hman, to k :. illustrious ate. inmates at ,i Gen. Scott and suite and Mr. Trist wo' .. • Countess of Charlemn-A L o g th o e to Slp:mniasihcabrictlwlattas s o u o p , po C s a ed pt. a 3 t fa l tin a ... tAeo id, adjourned to the 'United States, the Royal I • yesterday morning , r xico on the sth of April : the court having , . a rumour. the week ending the let of April there WI gardens yesterday. but add inc°AmA gdr ill' l ra i lilpb o er d w riogc:llling o vrmt e i'i:Chi n 30 2 Eu f toP" l l ot7 o liru f re7nal c ig . al:Wt w eta* d 1 . 04:. The Queen ha'. les and 19 senators present at Quervidi t• Buckingham Palace more deputies and 3 senators were wantilli Dowager, the Duchees .._._ Prince of Prussin • I left Queretaro under the pretext of reldr V ir i? Weimar, the l' up a quorum. But some members of o. o _ the vote for the ratification of the treaty. ,_ emu, Prince Fr..l Mecklenburg Streli .. Duchess of Sutherliu, t I to Star mentions this subject, we infer (or • . de speth the Disk •ter and Enquirer) that the , greatest sprit the Earl ? ortescue , 1 . : are entertained lest a sufficient number 01 the very earnest and indignant manner rol P er, Captain Francis the a 5.,,, . G entleman in Wait ambling. Opinions are very various I°Y_' . .: p rin ce Albert le ft t r. ratification of the treaty. The Star is err 1 . I ism eight o'clock for t. deputies should withdraw to prevent aq ua e Mexicans the absolute necessity of giving_ , ifi ghneie being the dir, , action if they would preserve their natiaaV