The Express. — London, England, 1847-08-26 00:00:00

the priest, ea priest, to his flock we have no right to interfere ; but to the relations of the priest as citizen, tothe members of his flock as fellow-citizens,we have a right to speak. When the priest enters into discussions about the relief to be afforded by a board of poor law guardians, or recommends a candidate for a seat in parliament to electors, he speaks of matters in which the practical judgment, not the religious faith of his hearers, must decide. He speaks as a common man to common men ; and appeals to his priestly character, and im pressive declarations that such is Gon's will, cannot be tolerated. He must confine himself to his logic, and lay aside kis anathemas. The right of laymen to discuss lay affairs, uninfluenced by priestly dictation, is by Roman esthetics as well as by protest suirtr%mmeeddigposition to infringe this right is the besetting sin of protestant quite as much as of Roman catholic clergymen. The evil lies not in the eccen tricity and extravagance upon which English writers love to comment, bat in the spirit of domina tion—in the undue advantage a man takes of respect borne to him in one capacity, to assert an authority he is not entitled to in another. The dictation of Irish priests, about which we have heard so much, would be more dangerous were it lees grotesque. Its undue influence is strengthened, not weakened, by tirades directed against the comparatively innocent absurdity of the men, instead of the vice which is common to them with mans more smooth and specious persons of all sects. There are among the Irish Roman catholic clergy men keenly sensible of the false light in which the exhibitions adverted to place their body, of the immense mischief it is doing their country. Even mere Englishmen can guess that parts played with such gusto on the hustings must have been fre quently rehearsed in more private circles. And there is scarcely any one conversant with Irish affairs who cannot tell of well-meaning landowners, ashamed of the absentee character, who have attempted to be come residents, and been obliged to resign the task in disgust from the meddling dictatorial spirit of some (it may be) well-meaning, but under-bred and ill judging priest, who insisted upon ruling them as he rules the peasant parishioners. The better-informed class of the Irish Roman catholic clergy are aware of the extent to which their country is injured by this. Perhaps their efforts to counteract the injudicious dogmatism of their more imperfectly educated brethren might be stimulated, could they be made aware of the extent to which such antics are sapping their legitimate in fluence over the lay members of their church. The Irish priests have probably more influence over their flocks than the priests of any other European cauatry—thePcninsula,it may be, excepted. But this superior influence they owe in no small egreo to accidental—to political ceases. The Ascendancy, to which the priests were looked up to as a counterpoise, having been struck down, human nature, rarely much addicted to submission, will kick against them in turn. Dictation, quietly borne when they were popular leaders, will soon be resented when there is no orga nised oligarchy to be led against. Even in the pal miest days of the Ascendancy, the priests had often to yield to their self-willed flocks in many things, in order to get them to obey in others. The domineer ing spirit, evinced at present by some of the Irish priesthood, is already working its own overthrow, and may involve the whole order in its fate. We are not of those who would have the clergy man abjure all interest in secular and political affairs; but we insist that when ho mingles in their discus sion, he mingle with us laymen on a footing of per fect equality. We protest against priestly dictation in Ireland, not because it is grotesque, but because it is an encroachment on the rights and liberties of the laity. And in the same spirit we protest against organisations of protestant ministers--of the esta blishment and of the nonconformist body alike—to dictate to laymen what course they are to pursue in political struggles. tricts, has greatly increased since the recent reduo tier' of the tolls; and there an be no doubt that the entire abolition of turnpikes would greatly increase the; use of it, and, consequently, the general productiveness of the country. It ie tree, that if all the inhabitants of a district used the roads to a given extent, they might not find any great difference between the expense of tolls and of rates; but we all know by experience that the way to promote the use of any commodity or conve ' sience, is to make the payment for it independent of tbs use. Many gentlemen would find it cheaper to wse poet-horses than to keep carriage-horses of their own ; but the practical accommodation is found to be diminished more than the cost. A man uses his own horses every day, because he has got them. He denies himself post-horses, because it is a definite saving to do so. Another serious objection to turnpikes is, the great difference between the charge to the public and the receipts of the road trustees. The farmers or lessees of the tolls cannot adequately check the gatekeepers whom they employ, and, in bidding for the tolls, must calculate not only the expenses of their own profits, bat the "stealing*" of their servants. They also in every neighbourhood form a very limited class, and have the power and the hahit of combieing to keep down the the of the tolls. We have no means of calculating proportion of the sums received by the trustees to those paid at the gates; but we have no doubt that of all kinds of taxation that by way of tolls leaves the largest margin between the groan sum levied and the net revenue obtained. If this portion of the road-revenue was abolished, it would probably be advisable to consolidate into one rate the sums at present chargeable under the South Wales Act, as county road rate, labour rate, and highway rate. Independently of any assistance towards the maintenance of roads which it might be thought proper to contribute from the general revenue of the country, the burden of the turnpike roads will, as we have said, hence forth principally fall on the owners and occupiers who already maintain the highways ; and we are not aware of any reason for providing for those purposes by different modes of taxation, unless the precedent of the South Wales Act should be generally followed by imposing a new and special burden upon land owners. On this policy we offer at present no opi nion. The various charges on occupiers have always been considered in the rent of land : but we are in clined to think that taxation always falls most heavily on its direct and immediate objects. The taxed pro ducer suffers a fractional loss besides that which is re imbursed by the consumer, and the consumer takes off a second portion of the burden before it falls on his employer. It is therefore we believe advantageous to the tenant, as it is certainly agreeable to him, that taxation should be transferred from his shoulders to those of the landlord. The justice of the transfer depends on the object of the tax. The repair of a road from day to. day is more immediately the inte rest of the occupier, while permanent improvements I are in a greater proportion beneficial to the rever sioner. It might not be found impracticable to adjust road-Wes with more or less accuracy, accord ing to these divisions of the subject matter. Both landlord and tenant must recollect however that the administration of the funds must go with the pay ment Occupiers, if they are exempted, will certainly not be allowed to tax owners at their pleasure, or to share in the administration of funds to which they have not contributed. The ?encral adjustment, however, of local taxation ie a subject not immediately connected with our present inquiry. The consideration of practicable means for relieving the great and increasing difficulties of the turnpike trusts throughout England is a sufficiently important subject of discussion; and it is chiefly with a view to this general question that we have in this and a former article entered on the more limited inquiry into the operation of the new system of law established in South Wales. THE strong opinion which the principal members of the committee of last session have expressed in favour of the abolition of the law of settlement, will probably lead, when it is proposed to carry it into effect, to a reconsideration, if not to a re-adjustment, of local taxation in general. The heaviest burden imposed upon occupiers of land and houses, next to that of supporting the poor, is the maintenance of highways, including turnpike roads where the tolls are insuffi cient to meet the expenses of them. We have already called attention to the experiment of the South Wales Turnpike Act of 1844. The trusts in that district have been placed in a condition to discharge their debts within a definite period by the aid of a rate upon landowners, and at the same time the public has been relieved from a considerable portion of the tolls hitherto ' exacted on traffic. The advantages of the change are great and obvious. The deficiencies of the system are the want of a provision for expensive improvements, such as tatting down hills, or avoiding them by de viations, and the complicated system of taxation under which these different payments are received for the same purpose, 'and substantially from the same persons. The landlord pays the county road rate, the occupier provides either the labour or the money for carting materials to the road, and the surplus receipt of the trust arises from tolls paid by the carriages, waggons, and horses of the inhabitants, with little aid from the few strangers who traverse the country. In fact, the turnpike-roads in these poor and re mote districts are like the highways, maintained by the locality, and chiefly for its own accommodation p and the same state of things will soon be found to exist in all parts of England, as the through traffic is more and more absorbed by the railways. The "solitary and half-naked fisherman" whom Mr. Nlscsutsx's imagination once conjured up as in a future century mending his nets where London-bridge now stands, is, we hope, still below the farthest horizon • but the solitary and half-stapifled traveller may already ride along the Great North-road past shut-up inns, where forty pairs of horses were once kept, without meeting any vehicle for miles except the butcher's cart or the farmer's team. The burden of maintaining 100,000 miles of turnpike road will thus be in a great measure cast on the local resources which have hitherto main tained, and must still maintain, about an equal extent of highways which have never been subject to the jurisdiction of the turnpike trusts. Assuming that it will be necessary to make some consequent alteration in the mode of administering the trusts, and leaving out of consideration for the present the question whe ther the general resources of the country ought to bear a share of the burden, we wish to call attention to the great convenience and advantage of abolishing tolls in all cases where they are principally paid by the neighbouring residents. There seems to be no injustice in maintaining roads at the expense of thosewhoactually use them. Railroads and canals depend entizely on their traffic for support, when they do not add to their revenues by acting as carriers. The owners and occupiers in the neigh bourhood of these communications convey themselves and their goods to market without being called upon for rates to maintain the line or the canal. If they can levy contributions from passing travellers suffi cient to relieve them in some measure from the charge of maintaining the common high roads of the country, they are undoubtedly prudent to do so. It is when travellers and through traffic are, from the competition of railroads, or from the nature of the country, too scarce to do more than pay the expenses of stopping and taxing them that it becomes worth the while of the inhabitants to consider -whether they cannot tax themselves in a more conve nient way than by maintaining a body of " misan thropes, who avenge themselves on mankind by taking tolls." In the hiil districts, for instance, of South Wales, we believe that if the tolls paid by the f armers an d the few resident gentry were deducted, the turnpikes v, odd not pay for their own main- The L same - , s, therefore, first pay tolls esnoa- .7,1 34 7"'"` • . , —sire tip *hen compellea oat of one --- the deficiency out of the e nth er and the form of rates. dWelsh nature in Human nature in general , ani payment which partibcue is armies can avoided, espec i a ll y f or pu bli c uurpose s.. ,The ra te collector is not the most welcome al visitors , but tolls are felt even as a greater griev ance, and tend far more dir ectl y to diminish the amo;fatt of public convenience. The very rc . to toll may be saved, while a rate Is c i i ne u vr i table ce tends limit the utility of turnpike roads to those at last pay for them. W here the occupiers must ds a in cir t e h le e of ten miles pay one-half of the expense of ' form of tolls, and the remainder, by way of rate, t h e 1 1 effect of levying the whole amount by t ax ation word . d probably be to induce almost a ll o f them to use the road oftener i or, in other words, to derive greater benefit from it, sometimes to the great advantage of tie nubile. The carriage of lime, the moot indispen sable requisite of agriculture in the mountain dis- i As journalists we are, we hope, duly grateful that our lot has not been cast on the other side of the Chan nel. There the press is rarely left free from domici liary visits. A newspaper editor can scarcely lay himself down to sleep secure that he will not awake to find his journal, at least, if not himself, arrested in the morning. The other day it was the turn of the Democratic PacYique ; next came the Journal de Rouen ; and on the 21st inst., the Gazette de France, the Charieari, and the Riforme were carried off at one fell swoop, and bundled into the drawers of the police, " like Cerberus, three gentlemen in one." Our Gallican neighbours will have it that we duller English cannot appreciate the charms of rvalite. We plead guilty to having little taste for that " equality in the eye of the law enjoyed by French journals. The crime of the Democratic Pacffupte was, it appears, a feuilleton a shade too warm for the prudery of police office. Judging by the average warmth of the feuilleton roman, it must have been singeing. The crime of the .jour nal de Roueu was having let the public know a couple of hours too soon that Messrs. TESTE, CUBIERES, and PARMEN TIER had been convicted. The delinquencies of the other three newspapers are, as yet, swathed in mystery; but the Constitutiannel delicately in sinuates, and the National broadly asserts, that they stand accused of commenting rather too freely on the character of the peerage as it appears in the light recently let in upon it by the contemporary annals of French crime. Not having before our eyes the fear of domiciliary visitations of the police, we must say, that bating some exaggerations ascribable to the excitement of the moment, in some instances, perhaps, to the bias of preconceived opinions, there is a good deal of truth in what the French journals have been saying of the aggregate of the French Chamber of Peers. The exaggeration —might we not say unfairness ? consists in classing the crime of the Duke de PRASLIN along with the peculating sins brought home to other members of the chamber. His revolting atrocity is not the crime of a class or nation ; it is one which might have occurred in any rank of society in any country. It is characteristic of the stage of civilisa tion attained by the European peoples, that regard to external decorum is far in advance of the power of con trolling the passions. Hence, among the classes who are in easy circumstances and tolerably educated there is often an external show of propriety and well-regulated minds with an unsuspected latitude of secret indul gence in forbidden courses. The ground is under mined by subterraneoua fires, while the herbage still looks verdant on the surface. Some unforeseen con cussion breaks the hollow crust, the fire smouldering below bursts forth on the access of the outer air in devouring flame ; and seemingly innocent, happy and enduring family arrangements are shattered and broken up for ever. The recurrence of such phe nomena of more or leas startling vehemence and de structive power reminds us from time to time that even beyond the sphere of professional criminals — among those who have warmly any temptations but the impulses of their own hearts—there are elements of evil at work against which the law, morals, and religion have more than enough to do to keep their ground by combined exertions. Any moral beyond this the brutal and cowardly assassination perpetrated by the Duke DE PEASLIN does not read. His crime is his own : he cannot throw a share of the burden on his class or country. Widely different is the low peculation and swind ling of which his late colleagues have been convicted, I and of which others of them are accused in no sub dued tones. They affect the character of the French peerage as an institution. They invite inquiry on the part of the philosophical politician. ' In England, France, and America, the necessity has been felt or fancied of a legislative body some what differently constituted, to check or control the resolves of the popularly elected e.siciably. In England hereditary claims to a seat in this " upper I house" are recognised; in America the senators are sleeted for short terms. In France an intermediate sys tem^•^,l: the oair does not, as in Eng has been 110.0 p.... nor can he, as land, transmit his dignity t o law hew , deprived in America, be (except in extreme owe) of it daring life ; .he is elected to the honours as in America, but as in England it is the crown from which ' he derives it. Judging by their fruits, which of these three s ystems is to be preferred In America it appearsto us (an American would s ay with our English prejudices) that the universal application of the elective principle is fatal to that high and reeolute demeanour which we like to see in public men. The subservience to popular opinion is apt, even in the Senators, to degenerate into cringing. In England, on the contrary, the weak side of the members of the House of Peers is to rest their claims to deference more on their birth than on their per sonal qualifications. The American senator appears to as apt to be deficient in chivalrous sentiment ; the . THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1847. English peer to be insufficiently alive to the com mon brotherhood of his fellow creatures. But a high and just iense • of the duties of the statesman `is aqmts compatible with the class errors and weulmeww of both. The class faults to which ties French pair is liable are of a more degrading and incapacitating nature. He may wriggle (a in the majority of cases does so), into his dignity by court favour. So may the first ennobled mem ber of an English house ; but the second stands upon his hereditary right. The American senate is filled with men who must have force of character to control numerous democracies—the English House of Lords by men who are proud of their hereditary inde pendence. The French Chamber of Peers is mainly recruited from the ranks of those political adventurers whose prototypes ruffled in the courts of the arbitrary' sovereigns of France before the revolution. It bids fair to become the common receptacle for all projectors of bubble companies, keepers of private banks at rouge et noire and gallants of the Beau , vallon and Ecquivelley In a late edition of the Express last evening we gave the substance of the following, taken from the l'aris journals of Tuesday. All, except the Debuts— which says of course as little as possible on the subject—are occupied with discussions relative to the seizures of the opposition journals. Two others —the Democratic l'acue and the Estafette—have also been seized. The Canstitutionnel says: This makes in all six journals guilty, it is said, of having thrown upon the ministry the responsibility of the Was of corruption and immorality, disclosures of which are making everywhere. We shall see how it will be contrived to give to this polemic the character of a legal " offence." The &Me, alluding to the contradiction given by the official journals to the statement of the National, of an entry having been found in the books of a bankrupt trader at •Algiers, showing that 15,000 fr. had been given as a bribe to the minister of war, has the following: This contradiction, which might have been conceived in different terms, is at least formal. It is absurd to sup pose that the National invented the fact to which it called the attention of the minister, or that it cited it without be lieving in its reality. But it remains fur the correspondents from whom the National received it, and in whom it placed confidence, to prove that the lie cannot be imputed to them. We shall wait; but we must acknowledge that in this al fair, as far as it has gone, General Trezel has done his duty. We will not refuse the same avow al to M. Guizot arid M. Duchatel if they will enable justice to pronounce between them and those whom they accuse of having calumniated them. The National itself says, in reply to the attack of the Debats, in which it s peaks on the subject of the bribes to ministers, and calls the arguments of the National " hideous," — It accuses us of yielding ourselves to shameful excesses. This moderate paper adds, " If the system of the National had prevailed—if France had thrown herself, at the cry of faction, into war, into revolutionary theories with excesses, more crimes would have been committed in one month than have been committed in seventeen years. The only dif ference is that they would have been lost in their own mass —they would not have been reckoned one by one, they would not have been remarked." This is a formidable charge quite in rule! Fortunately, it turns upon an hypo- thesis. The system which would have produced in one month more crimes than have been committed in seventeen years has not triumphed. Blessed bo heaven! The crimes would have been lost in their own mace. The peer of France an assassin—the ministers stained with corruption, would have become so common that they could not have been counted. • • • • • Now the difference which characterises our hideous polemics and their elegant polemics is obvious to all the world. They imagine more crimes in one month than have been committed in seventeen years, and impute this to the system of the National—this, in all conscience, is giving to moral complicity an extension which will sadly vex M. Hebert. We, en the contrary, recurring to the trials, the lugubrious dramas, the shameless robberies,' the in stances of abject corruption, which have taken place, enter the offices of the ministers, and there find corrupt function aries. The Minister of War, after having denied the truth of our statements, has been obliged, on the very next day, to cause the chief of the cabinet of the Secretary• General to bs arrested for peculation; we interrogate the administra tes's, and all expose the same sore places ; we recall to mind Its conduct of the ministers of October 29 ; one has been pehilebdisgraced by a fiat of justice ; another is degraded, Ise lb* language of his own colleagues, for having committed a shameless and infamous action. This one is convicted of having lent his hand to the sale of a theatrical license, and OM other is convicted of having offered a peerage on un worthy conditions; masters with little scruples authorise servants to act without faith or law, and then the most abominable dealings are imputed to the servants. Queen Christina returned to Paris yesterday, from Havre. As she hitended to stay at Havre until the Riddle of September, it is supposed that her return bas been caused by recent accounts front Spain. The National contains the following remarkabb paragraph relative to the Duke of Prashn : It is by no means probable that the Duke of Pradin, Peer of France, gentlemen of the bedchamber to the Duchess of Orleans, and at the some time accused of mur der, will appear before the court instituted to try him. We are informed that his health is hourly declining. TM weakness of his organs is so great that he cannot endure ma interrogatory for any length of time, and it is with tles greatest difficulty that an intelligible reply can be obtained from him. DEVASTATION BY A TROSIBE.-011 the 18th tin August a dreadful storm broke out over the town and territory of Gy (tipper Saone) which now pre sents the aspect of ruin and devastation. The trombe, which has occasioned such havoc, dis charged masses of rain and hail, and nothing could withstand the violence of the inundation ; the walls of the houses fell down; doors, windows, shop fronts, furniture and wares rolled along the streets, by the strength of the current. The waters invaded every house situated is the lower part of the town, and scenes of desolation could be witnessed in all. One man carries off his mother in his arms ; he endeavours to save her by taking her to an upper story ; the impetuosity of the flood forces him to return back ; he then advances, leading his mother by her hand towards a door which opened on the street. Ile has already passed the thrcshhold, when, owing to the impulsion of another wave, the door closes, leaving the unfortuaate woman in the interior of the home ; her son stills retains his hold. After three quarters of an hoar passed in this horrid situation, a squeezing of the hand is the last farewell the dying mother can Rive the son, who still vainly endeavours to save her life. Suddenly the door flies open, the unhappy man disengages his mutilated arm, and sees the remains of her who was his mother borne away by the flood. Elsewhere a gendarme, who was rolling beneath an avalanche of sand and enormous stones, was with drawn from thence in a dying state. Several persons have generously exposed their lives to relieve their fellow-creatures, and have met with serious injury. In the outskirts the ravages are dreadful. Six or swan hundred hectares of vineyards are now but a Rosa al' rocks and earth. The territory of Bucey, sliest ' equal in extent to that of Gy, has been entirely devas tated by the tempest.—Djbats. We have received Madrid journals of the 19th. They contain long articles on the palace question. The Heraldo and other journals of the moderate party' state that the attempt of the ministry to effect a re conciliation between the Queen and her husband had failed, the King, after having shown a disposition to accept the conditions proposed by the Queen, having anddenly turned round, and declared that he de manded a delay of four months before coming to a de cision. The progreasist journals unhesitatingly ascribe this to foreign influence; and the .Ero del Comereio goes so far as to tel a letter the Queen had received from the King onhe French, in which instructions were given to her as to the course she was to pursue, with a menace that,in case of a refusal, Gen. Names should be sent to Spain, to carry the inten tions of the King of the French into effect. The retire ment of the ministry was hourly expected. The capi tal was in a state of excitement, and the funds had I fallen. The Three per Cents. are quoted at 26. A letter from Rome of the 12th, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that the French ambassador there had reproached the Cardinal Secretary of State with pre v.oitaricn in publishing officially the first protest of the Cardinal Legate of Ferrara, printed above, and had stated that tho course adopted was not diplo matic. According to this letter, the cardinal replied, that he did not pretend to be a diplomatist, but had I done what he was entitled to do. _ _ The following is the protest of the cardinal-legate of Ferrara, alluded to in the last accounts from Bologna In the most holy name of cloy In the PUROOIit• of Mr ix., sae the mood of Itte reign, at Perm, aa thle Prirph Os 13th%ef Arrest, IBC : —I, Dr. Mae reed. =me nelarrablle, r at Perm, on rear . We her the amileia.lepee ef town, proceeded le the err b the mei et ge net , art there tech (lowa the Weedy as a, Midas Her. Codlog lads Ckidd, he an idty sod redmie of Famv ....« Me riled wide I badesend ea tie Illb MI. 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FLAMINIV• &mow, advocate, 'Atom. Yuscop-MAIIZ Cumern, doctor of law.; witnema. Eusso Mown, doctor of hare, notary ; demanded to draw up the above act. Respecting the affairs of Switzerland, a corre spondent of the Journal des Debuts writes from Berne, on the 20th, as follows : The celebrated note of Lord Palmerston has not yet been made public. This has not failed to perplex those who, on the faith of certain doubtful communications, had eagerly proclaimed that England had suddenly formed an alliance with the radicals, and that she had promised to protect them in their schemes. They imagined that no effectual response could be given to the incredulous, who ceased not to ask, " Then why not publish the note 1" Or rather they thought that the only answer would bean immediate publication of the document. Unless I am mistaken we have here the un revelment of the enigma. Mr. Peel contented himself with reading the note to M. Ochsenbein, not giving him a copy of the same. It is said that M. Ochsenbeio, recollecting himself somewhat late, wrote some days since to the English charge d'affaires, begging him to transmit him a copy, and that Mr. Peel answered he had not authority for so doing. It is added, but I will not answer for the correctness of the rumour, that Mr. Peel sent to London for instructions on the subject. In a few days we shall know how we stand. The military preparations still continue. I spoke in my last letter of those of the Sonderbuud ; those of the radical cantons are prosecuted with not less activity. The soldiers are daily exercised; every saddler in the canton of Berne is repairing or making harness for the cavalry; the horses are being recruited in the country, where the proprietors are paid at the rate of two francs or two franca and a half per diem for their keep. M. Ocheenbein has caused twelve pieces of cannon to be brought from Berthond. You know that there are al resdv four batteries at Berno is full readi ness. You will thus perceive that preparations are going on' on either side, and it would be somewhat surprising should all this be to no purpose. MADRID, Arousr le. Don Francisco d'Assis has repented him of the answer which he caused to be given on Monday to Senor Benavides. I announced yesterday that when that minister notified to the King, through his major domo, that he was charged with the delivery of a message from the sovereign, the first subject of the realm replied that he should not be at leisure to re ceive that message till Thursday. This answer neither appeared respectful towards the head of the state, to whose messages all lieges' ears ought to be at once open and attentive, nor considerate towards her subjects, whose minds were thus kept up on the tenter-hooks of suspense for four days concerning the issue of a business which takes precedence, and bars the progress of all others con nected with their highest interests. The Faro at tempted to gloss over the impropriety by averring that the King had no knowledge of the subject on which the Home Minister desired to confer with him —an excuse doubly absurd and inexact, as Benavides had already entered into negotiations with the King on this matter; and the official note stated positively that he was charged to communicate the " wishes of the Queen." If the consort wished to Fain time for deliberation, he might at least have received the mes sage, and deferred his answer. And this seems to have been the course which, upon second thoughts, he decided to take. For a few hours after displaying this ungracious fit of inaccessibility, he sent to tell Senor Benavides that he should be at leisure to receive him to-day at one. But no one expects that a terminative result will follow from the anticipated interview. Imme diately after Benavides had communicated his official note on Monday, a courier was despatched from the French embassy to Bayonne. It was said that he had orders to reach that place in 36 hours, to com municate thence by telegraph with Paris, and then to post back to Madrid with telegraphic despatches from the French government. This report occa sioned considerable excitement among the smelters and denouncers of French plots, and has given the Leo an occasion, which it seldom neglects, to furbish and clap on its plumy armour of patriotic souvenirs, such as the Dos de Mayo, B.:c. General Pavia has taken occasion of a note ad dressed by the alealde of Salient to the military com mander at Manresa, to indulge in some general reflec tions upon the tumultuary and incendiary tendencies of the liberals as a party, which have set the pro gresista journals of the capital bristling with just wrath; forgeneral denunciations of this sort are par ticularly misplaced in an official bulletin, and on the present occasion they are based upon the affirmation of the mayor of a small town that some youths, who had fled to join the rebels, had served under the central junta in '43. Pavia's words are: "It is the centralists, the thorough-going revolutionists, who have now proposed to make common cause vrith the Pretender. They unite to rob and assassinate with the Carlists coming out of France, and with fugitive felons, the offscourings of prisons and presidios. They all now conspire to one end, to subvert the legitimate throne, and set up upon its ruins anarchy and despotism." It appears from the alcalde's letter that he had re ceived orders to seize upon the fathers of the young men who had joined the rebels, and place them at the disposition of the military commander at Mimeos (another atrocious act of tyranny). He entreated to be excused from complying with this order, as the rebels had paid a visit to his country-house, and, having seized upon his son, threatened to shoot their hostage if the alealde delivered up the fathers of the young . rebels to the military authority. The bitter, engrained political party rancour of Pavia is another reason why he should not be entrusted with the arbitrary authority of captain-general of a province. Col. I). Francisco Campuzano dislodged on the 10th the bands of Borjee, and other cabecillas, from their position near La Bisbal, dispersed them, killed three, wounded some, and took one prisoner. The troops sustained no loss. Three rebels of the band of Pozaa, coming to Gmcia, a suburb of Barcelona, to recruit, were surprised in a deserted house by the soldiers. One of them was shot in his attempt to escape, and the two others, captain and lieutenant of the baud, were taken prisoners, and will be executed. Other versions (the above is the Gazette account) represent the party surprised as gamblers and not rebels. Letters from Corunna state that a party of seventy mounted Carlists entered Mellid (between Santiago and Lugo, in Gallicia) on the 12th. They carried off with them the proveedor of the troops. The soldiers shut themselves up in the convent, which 'erre' them as a rasafiterte, or fortified barrack. The Ebaniata has not been found since he crossed the Minho. Other bands were spoken of as having appeared in different parts of Gallicia. The progresistas cry out with every fresh insurrectionary news from the provinces, " There is only one possible way of disarming the rebels: arm the national militia." "And who, say the moderados, "are to disarm the national militia P" Any how the offing looks queer. If 21,000 troops in Cata lonia have been able to do just nothing to put down the rebellion, if it has continually gained on them, it can scarcely be hoped that 9,000 additional soldiers will end the war. More are not disposable. Ru mours of disturbances are continually pouring in from other quarters. The only visible alternative, if they do not arm the militia, is to call in the French. Brunelli is said to have presented to thegovern ment a diplomatic note on the subject of the distress of the clergy. The Queen, in token of her satisfaction with the manner in which Count Thomar has discharged his Portuguese mission, presented bim, upon his depar ture for Lisbon, with the collar of Carlos 111., of which order he is gran crux. The Clamor exhorts the progresistas of the pro vinces to exert themselves in the coming elections to fill the halves of the ayuntamientos about to be vacated with liberal members. The Duke of Vcragua has offered several bulls of his famous breed gratis for fights, the proceeds of which are destined to animate the languishing works for the new church of the suburb of Carabanchel. How the Coos de Fepana mast shock the good Monsignor Brunelli ! FRANCE.—As HOLLOW AS A DkUM.—On the 29th ult. an omnibus from Creteil stopped as usual at the barriere de Chareuton, and one of the officers of the Octroi put his head into the carriage, and asked the passengers whether they had anything liable to the duty. All answered in the negative, but the officer cast his eyes upon a child's drum, one head of which bad evidently been patched with paper, on the knees of a man at the far end of the omnibus, and going up to it found on lifting it that it was very heavy, and asked the man what it contained. As an evasive answer was given, the officer mined the basket and made the man get out and follow him into the Octroi office. Here the basket was opened, and found to contain three brace of part ridges, three quails, end three thrushes. The man protested that the game was not his, hat belonged to his master, who had made a bet with a friend that he would get game into Paris without its being concealed either in the pockets or in any other part of the carriage. The man, refusing to give the name of his master, was taken into custody and pro secuted fur breaking the game laws. He was brought to trial on Setnelay before Or ( .77.,:rertional Tribunal, and as be still concealed the name of his master and took the whole of the responsibility upon himself, he was sentenced to pay a fine of 100 fr. and all the costs of the prosecution. GERMANY.— AUSTRIA. —The Emperor and Empress left Vienna en the 17th inst. for Gritz. It is his Majesty's intention to inspect personally the railway actually opened as far as Cilli, and the works on that part of the line which is still in the course of construction. The Austrian Lloyd publishes a communication from Milan, dated the 13th of August, in which it is stated that the government had issued a notice to the effect that on and train the 12th of August current all grinds brought from countries beyond the St. Glothard, across that mountain, shall, on entering Lom bardy at Ponte Chime", with a view to be forwarded to Sar dinia, Paring, and Piacenza, enjoy the immunity already con ferred upon goods brought for the same purpose across the Splugen, entire exemption from transit duties. This immunity is limited for the present to one year, and the carriers must produce evidence of origin, and of the goods having been actually brought by the way of the St. Godard. BAVARIA.—PROGRESS OF LIBERAL INSTITU TIONB.—The Nuremberg C' rresponelent intimates that a municipal decree has been issued in Munich, permitting civilians to continue smoking when they pass a sentinel, and even when they remain near him. RUSSIA.—The reports which were in circulation, that the Russian Minister of War, Count Tschernitscheff, had incurred the imperial displeasure, appear to be con firmed; the count has just received orders to proceed to St. Petersburg immediately. He therefore intends going by way of Luhee and Hamburg. The cause assigned for his speedy recall respects some new plans and opera tions in the Caucasus; and report adds, that his Majeety intends to appear in person in the camp. A step of this kind would not be in conformity with the usual course of Russian policy, which would not Expose the person of the Emperor to the chances of war, without a pretty certain hope of victory. Great preparations are said to be making in the left wing of the Russian army, for the taking or rather the annihilation of the fortress of Gergebil. Woronzo seems especially anxious to wipe off the stain which the Russians have incurred by their defeat before it, and which has acted as a stimulus upon the mountaineers. Many of the tribes have, in consequence of their victory, gone over openly . to Shamil, and immense activity is manifested by the skirmish ing parties iu carrying on this dangerous petty warfare. The cholera has so raged among the garrison, on the east coast of the Black Sea, that scarcely one-third of it is said to be left. The time of the intends(' expedition is not yet fixed, and special orders from St. Petersburg were expected. PERNAMBUCO.—A few days later int(lligence from Pernambuco has been received in Liverpool by the Serafins, arrived at Cork, but the advice., as is most usually the cue, contain nothing of interest. THE PRASLIN MURDER. The Gazelle deo 7'rieurtaux mentions the existence of several wounds on the person of the Duke de Praalin. " In dependently of those remarked on his hands, and which seem as if caused by bites, two others have been discovered, one on the side, and the other on the leg. When called on to explain how these wounds had been occasioned, the duke, after having at first refused to do so, replied, it is said, that it was the buckle of his trousers which had ru`,bed his side, and that he gave himself a violent blow on the leg the even log before, when getting into one of the railway carriages. When asked if he had mentioned these injuries to any one, he replied in tho negative, but afterwards said that he had spoken of them to a person of his household. It is also known that after having found in the fire-place the remains of clothing, almost entirely consumed, and en which traces of blood were perceptible, it was discovered that the dress ing-gown which the duke wore was also stained with blood, and that it had been recently washed. The duke, it is said, admitted this latter fact, but attributed the blood to his hav ing come in contact with the body of the duchess, when he found her expiring ; the cause of his washing out the stains of blood was, he said, to spare his children the sight of it. Several versions have circulated relative to the circum stances of the horrible drama which took place on the night of the 18th instant. It may be comprehended how difficult it is at present to make on this point plausible conjectures, if the precise position of the rooms of the apartment, at the moment when the crime was discovered, and the nature, as well as the direction, of the wounds, be not known in an exact manner. We do not therefore think it right to repeat these several versions, particularly as they to not accord completely with the contents of the proei s-verlkaur, and the observations of the medical men. In fact, if the bloody stains marked on the floor, and on the hangings of the chamber, proviug the desperate efforts of the victim to escape from the murderer, be taken into consideration, the conclusion must be come to that the unfortunate duchess was first struck in her bed, and that then, escaping from her murderer, she must, whilst overturning the furniture, and whilst she still was receiving blows, hove struck with her mutilated and bleeding hands at every door, and then, at last, must have fallen exhausted into the arm-chair near the chimney. There, bent double, still uttering cries which her assailant endeavoured to prevent by pressing her mouth, she received from behind on the head and neck repeated blows, one of which opened an artery, and produced death. According to these indications, it appears probable that the pull at the bell, which roused the persons belonging to the household, was not given during the struggle, but that the duchess, recovering for a moment her senses, after having been left for dead, found sufficient strength to seize the bell-rope, which was at the side of the causease on which she had fallen, and where she was found expiring." FUNERAL OF TILE MURDERED LADY. —The whole of Sunday night was employed in making preparations for a funeral service for the late Duchess de Praslin. By 7 on Monday morning they were complete. A rich catafalque covered with velvet adorned with silver ornaments, having candelabra at each corner and covered with tapers, was put up in the middle of the nave of the church of the Madeleine, but without any armorial emblazonment,. At 4 on Monday morning the body of the late duchess was removed, without pomp, attended by some members of the family of Marshal Sebastiani, to a vault under the church of the Madeleine, from whence, it is supposed, it will be conveyed to Corsica, to be interred in the tomb where repose the ashes of her mother. " On Monday," says the Wats, "a funeral service was performed in the Church of the Madeleine for the Duchess de Praslin, in the midst of the tears and lamentations of all who attended. Some friends of the unfortunate lady joined General Tiburce Sebastiani, the Duke of Coigny, and other members of the family, to mingle over this tomb, so pre maturely, so cruelly opened, their heart-reuding regret, their despair, and their tears. Never was mourning more natural, more true. The disastrous termination of the life of the Duchess de Prulin, her virtues, her amiable qualities, and her great and genuine charity, called forth the most bitter and inconsolable grief, even from the moat indifferent. All that can make a woman beloved and respected was combined in the Duchess de Pnalin. She was still handsome. Brought up in the house and under the eyes of her illustrious father, Marshal Sebastiani, by a governess of the highest character, she possessed every good ment 1 gift. Her bounty was inexhaustible. At Paris, at her country seat, in every place which she inha bited, she bestowed her alms in abundance, and the poor may be said to have had the enjoyment of her fortune. She was adored by her family, the great consolation of her father, an example to all who became acquainted with her. She was beloved and venerated. What • void is made in society! What an eternal grief has been planted in the hearts of her friends! Above all, what a dreadful stroke for Marshal Sebastiani ! Up to the present moment, per haps, be is still ignorant of the fate of his cherished dough ter ! The reports of his arrival in Paris were unfounded. His family, up to this hour, do not even know where he is, and whether he has received the fatal news; whether it has reached him by any one of the messengers sant to him in four different directions, or whether he will learn it, without re pparation, through the public journals, or, perhaps, from the mouth of some indifferent person. This uncertainty forms a subject which keeps the minds of the family and friends of the marshal in the most painful state of agitation. However it many come to hint, the blow will be frightful. No one can judge of its force. The marshal has lost the person whose tender care and filial affection constituted the happiness of his life—and how has he loot her!" After the service the coffin was carried down again into the vault, where it will rennin till removed to be seat into Corsica. At and 10, all the draperies with the catafalque were cleared away, the church was opened to the public u usual. Seals have been affixed to all the property in the hotel at Paris, and at the chAteau of Vieux Praslin (Seine et Marne) in the in terest of the children of the unfortunate duchess. MADEMOISELLE DE Luxor —The governess, is of Italian origin, and belongs to a noble family; her name is de Luzsi (Laura), and not de Lusy. She allows that she was much moved and annoyed at being obliged to quit the duke's famila and reiterated from the young ladies whose education she had superintended ; ea , eir!"in" i n all: tt: l '" - guage of a letter written by her to the Duke de Pnalin and seized amongst her papers. What is certain is, tha t the duchess took offence at the intercourse subsisting between the governess and the duke, and without • high intervention would have demanded a regular separation. The duke, yielding to prudent advise, contented to the governess being sent away; and the duchess, in acknowledgment of this con cession, settled on her a pension for life. Its said that some of the royal family interfered recently to reconcile the duke and duchess. The King, the Queen, and par ticularly Mme. Adelaide, had a great affection for the duellers. The duke, who had been the intimate friend of the Duke of Orleans, was intimate also with the Duke de Ne mours, who invited him to all his hunting excursions. They thought the duke and duchess reconciled since Mdlle. di Luau's departure. Marshal Sebastiani, it is said, consented to set out for Corsica only when assured that his daughter was reconciled to her husband. The governess is no longer in secret confinement. The correspondence seized at her re sidence has been examined by the commission of the Court of Peers, by which she is to be interrogated. She is very calm and does not appear to have the least dread of the result of far as she is She acknow • ledge■ having replied sometimes with vivacity to the Duche ss de Praslin, whose jealousy and violent language A i , dreaded. We have spoken of tho altercations between the duke and duchess, of which she was the cause The duchess suspected her relations with the duke, and fre quently complained of them. What contributed much to irritate her was a journey which the duke made two year s ■ to Corsica with Mdlle. de Luzzi. The duke took with Mdlle. de Luzzi his two eldest unmarried daughters. It was only a month since that the duchess was able to obtain the removal of Mdlle. de Luzzi. It is also said that a war rant wee issued. against another mistress of the duke's, re. aiding in the Rue de Varennes, but who was not found ■t her residence. ebe erottrt! ARDVEREKIE, AUG. 23.—A continued wet day yes terday. la the afternoon har Majesty and Prince :ilbert, and 1 1 ,s o Prinee of Leiningen, walked in the forest. The Prince and the Prince of Leiningen went out grouse shooting this day. The Marquis of Abercora will join the royal dinner party. The Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Gore, Hon. Mitchell, Earl Howe, General Sir Andrew Barnard, and the Rev. G. T. Hudson, left her residence, Bushy.houw, Bushy-park, yesterday morning fur Hyde, Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and suite proceeded to the Kingston nation, and travelled by the London and South-Western Railway. Her Majesty it is expected will make a short stay at Ityde, Her Majesty arrived at Portsmouth yesterday at three o'clock, and after receiving the honours due to her illustrious rank went over to Hyde in a goacrnment steam yacht tender. The Earl of Auckland leaves Eden Lodge this week for l'lvmouth and Devonport, on an official visit as Fitt Lord of the Admiralty. His Excellency the Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki have gone on a tour in Wales. MARRIAGE IN HICII LlFE.—Yesterday the Mar riage of the Marquis of Drogheda and the Hon. Mary Caro. line Stuart Wortley, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Wharneliffe, was solemnised at St. George's Church, Ha nover-square. The noble bridegroom,l accompanied by se. vend members of his family, reached the church soon after eleven o'clock, and at halt-past eleven the youthful bride arrived, in charge of her noble parents. A very numerous circle of the relatives and friends of both families had bythat time congregated at the church, among whom we oseereed the Earl of liurrowhy, Viscount Bandon ' the Earl and Countess of St. Germans and Lady Louisa Eliot, the Earl and Countess of Beverley and Lady Louisa Percy, the Earl of Darnley, the Earl and Countess of Haddington, the Coon tees of Darnley and Lady Elizabeth Bligh, the Dowager Lady Wharneliffe, Lady Henry Moore and Mr. Cole and family, Lord and Lady Granville Somerset and Miss Somer set, Hos. Granville Dudley and Lady Georgians Ryder and Miss Ryder ;Hon. Frederick and Mrs. Ryder, Lady Elizabeth Dawson and Misses Dawson, Lady M Saurin and Captain Ssurin, Hon. Geo. Parnell, Hon. ll ary . Parnell, Hon. John Fortescue, Lord Eliot, lion. Jocelyn Percy, the Right lien. Col. George L. end Mrs. Dawson Darner and Miss Hamer, Hon. Mary Seymour, Lady Charles Hervey, Mrs. Hurler and Miss Metier, Mrs H. Erskine and Miss Erskine, Mn. Longley, Mr. Seymour, &c. The bride and bridegroom then proceeded from the vestry to the communion table, and in the bridal train we noticed as bridesmaids the lion. eerily Wortley, Lady Elie. Bligh, Miss Darner, Hon. Mary Seymour, Hon. Miss Ryder, Miss Georgians Ryder, and Mies Cole—these youthful attendants on the fair bride being similarly attired. The bride was given away by her noble father, the Rev. Lord Charles Hervey officiating at the religious solemnity. The marriage ceremony having concluded, the wedding party repaired to the vestry, where the marriage was duly registered and attested. The bride and bridegroom then left for Lord Wharncliffe's residence in Green-street, and the circle assembled to witness the inter esting ceremony separated. The Earl of Harrosrby, grand father of the bride, gave an elegant luncheon to a circle of about thirty-six of the immediate family connexions at his lordship's mansion in Grosvenor-square. The noble mar quis and his bride, Lord and Lady Wharneliffe and family, Lord and Lady Charles Hervey, Capt. and Lady Mary San rin, Hon. G. Dudley and Lady Georgians Ryder and family, Viscount Sandon and lion. Miss Ryder, lion. Fred. and Mrs. Ryder, Hon. Edw. Stuart-Wortley, &c., were among those present. At four o'clock the hippy couple left town for Ratchford-hell, near Cobham, Surrey, the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, for the honeymoon. DEATH OF COL. SIR HENRY GEO. MACLE.OD, F.H. —We have to record the demise of the above gallant officer, who expired on Friday last at his residence, near Windsor, after a comparatively short illness. Sir Henry entered the army in 1907, and saw considerable service with his reziment, the 35th foot, up to the great victory at Waterloo. He was severely wounded in that glorious contest, being at the time on the staff of the deputy-easisteutt quartermaster-general. In the same year he assisted with his corps at the siege of Dantzic, for which he was decorated with the order of St. \Vladimir, of Russia. He was for some years lieutenant governor of St. Christopher's, and was subsequently ap pointed governor of Trinidad, and in 1842 was also appointed commander-in-chief of that dependency. He remained go vernor of that colony up to last year, when he nu succeeded by Lord Harris, the present governor. In 1913, he married Miss Robinson, daughter of the late Rev. Sir John Robin son, Bart , but does not leave any family. Sir Henry's commissions were dated as enhjoined :—Ensign, Nov. 3, 1807; lieutenant, July 15, 1808; captain. Sept. 29, 1813; major, June 18, 1815; lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 1, 1825; and colonel, June 28, 1838. THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE, AND ALARMING INCREISE OF THE POOR-BATE.—Yesterday special meting of the vestry of St. Pancras took place at the vestry-rooms, Gordon-square, for the purpose of receiving the estimate of the sum required for the relief of the poor for the ensuing half-year, and making a rate for that par pose.—Mr. Churchwarden Wagstaff having been called to the chair, the vestry-clerk read the estimate for the half year, which amounted to 32,0141. 17e., to meet which sum a rate of le. 3d. in the pound would be required. A is. 3d. rate upon a rental of 56:3,7651.: would give 36,6621. The vestry-clerk then read the estimates fur various items, and admitted, with retard to provisions, that he bad taken the estimates at rather a high rate.—Mr. Churchwarden Howarth moved that a rate of Is. 3d. in the pound he laid, and con tended, if the present state of the workhouse was to be taker' as a criterion of what would be the case during the ensuing winter, the pressure would be to greet, that the rate proposed would not be more than adequate to meet the demands of the poor.—Mr. Campbell said, if such a rate was carried, the effect would be to pauperise one-third of the parish. There were hundreds of poor people who could not pay the present lid, rate, and how could it be expected they could pay 4d. more in every pound ? If they wanted more room an the workhouse they must make the new vestry-roosts built there available to the accommodation of the inmates. He believed, however, if the system of out door r elief were extended there would be no necessity for an enlargement of the workhouse. He moved an amendment that a rate not exceeding 13d. in the pound be laid.—Mr. Greenwood se. conded the amendment.—Mr. E. F. Smith complained that the cause of the crowded state of the workhouse was the carrying out of the poor-law system of restricting out-door relief. That system, since the appointment of the new master, was being carried out to a disgraceful extent. The poor inmates were deprived of their boxes and their little ad ditional clothes and other extras, and, what was worse, the reeolution of that vestry, passed ten years ago, that allorderly inmates should be permitted to go out of the workhouseevery Sunday, had been set at naught. They had stopped all Per' sons under sixty from enjoying that privilege. Ile contended that if they made so large a rate they would not he able to collect it.—Mr. Clarke considered the estimates of a most ex. tram:pot character. Instead of potatoes being, as they had been, 141. per ton, they could now be got for 4!. He be- Raved that theyehould never see wheat again at 51. a quarter, and the probability was that it would won be as low as 421. per quarter, and that meat and other provisions would be come equally reduced. He therefore entered his praise against such an enormous rate.—After a stormy discoed/14 the larger rate was adopted, by a majority of 14 to 12.—Kr. Howarth then mowed, pursuant to the recommendation of the board of directors, the appointment of a committee with reference to enlarged accommodation of the poor in ake workhouse; but the matter was ultimately adjourned to future day. RAILWAY CLUE.—At a meeting held last evening at the King's Arms Hotel, Bridge-street, Westminster. Mr. J. Valentine C.F., in the chair, it was resolved—. That the growing extent of railway enterprise, and the consequeot increase in the number of gentlemen engaged in the profes sion of civil engineers, surveyor', architects, railway toli citors, parliamentary agents, and their assistants, not only resident but who are occasionally located in London, renders the establishment of a club absolutely necessary, which shall extend to those parties the benefits usually denved from sack institutions contemplating the ultimate establishment of a library, museum, and model room, and forming a centre for this now numerous and most important class of individuals." A provisional committee was appointed to draw up the nit emery rules, and otherwise carry the foregoing moieties into effect. It is proposed to establish the club in the nearest convenient vicinity to the houses of parliament, where leo , Cures will be occasionally given, and conversexiones held, whereby the member" may acquire greater proficiency in their respective avocations, and where, in the words of the prospectus, " their leisure boars, in the place of idle recrea tion, may be employed is embracing the facilities that afforded for increased mental cultivation." RAILWAY STATISTICS.—A parliamentary return fo r the year ending 30th June, 1846, shows the number of Towenem set ‘ ; ;;;:elledtin re a .7"N in the United king dom uunng that period, and amount of receipts dertvil from each class. The number of passengers who travelled by first class was 0,160,354 ; by second class, 16,931,06 6 ; by third clam, 14,559,615; by parliamentary class, 3,946,922; by . mixed, 2,193,126—t0ta1, 43,790,983. The amount of re ceipts from passengers was :—First class, 1,661,897 1 . 19 a. MA* second eau, 1,937,9161 : 191. ltd.; third class, 738,47e 1 . 41. Ild. ; Parliamentary clan, 293,7321. 711. ; mixed, 93,1642-- hotel. 4,,25,2151. Ili. Bl'. The amount received for goods, cattle, &c., was 2,741,2001. 164. 61d. Grand total, Bs. Ol d. ANOTHER FAILURE IN THE CORN TRADE.—LIVER POOL.—Yeaterday, the stoppage of a respectable but not a first-rate house fn the Liverpool oorn trade was Locoweed on the Liverpool Exchange. In the early part of the reason the firm cleared upwards of 60,0001. Our Liverpool corre spondent sends us the name of the firm, but we do not deem it expedient to publish it prematurely. • INTERCOURSE WITH THE CONTINENT. — The pas engers to and fm Eastland rid during the . week ding:3lK inst., ro were 2,878 in namber, Boulogne, against 1,893 In the 1