The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

gite enirtisS. DESTRUCTION OF LAGOS BY THE BRITISH SQUADRON. • LOSS OF LIFE. mow tbs Dry Nees.) The Admiralty despatches brought to Sontlitusp ton yesterday, from the coast of Africa, by the Bra zilian mail packet Severe, relative to the affair ti CapaLsgea, were considered so important, that Lim. tenon Striven, the Admiralty agent of the Benn o men dogatched to Lain with them immediAllg o is se* that no time miW be lost in placing then in the pomemiem of the Mndralty. It will be seen that Lora he. been destroyed, bet fast without lose of life ea the pert of the English: The following is the if a letter written as lend we of the ships en the coast of Alhise, amt widelo gives hi potholer, of the affair : ' • Dear he any to hear that poor Min, of the anquese, is rat, and supposed to be kit end* dr diming painful circumstance :—Wo eartand • Mans in October last, and Elliot parted with us, when we took the ground off =Y with 12 men, ono carpenter, and Mr. Wood, midshipman, with one month's provisions, with or ders to follow us to Cape Lopez, and in the event of the wind act being favourable to proceed to the Moil of St. Thomas and then to Dialoging to meet ti Since that time he was met, October Slat, by Sr Penelope at St. Thomas, who ordered him on to ledagang, about five days' sail, and neither he, his ties, or boat bare since been heard of. Several wens have been down there, ourselves twice, and raira It is feared the heavy tornadoes in the Ilind week of November most have taken them sud denly, and with her enormous sails capsized her, cad she must have sunk to rise no more. Poor Mow t Hectored is a rough sketch I send of the sews we have. "On the 16th December the Penelope arrived in the Bights from Sierra Leone and the Sampson from Anessmon, and arrived off Lagos on the 18th, and found there only the Bloodhound and Philomel, to the as small surprise of the commodore, who had ordered every vessel in the Bights to be there het the purpose of attacking Lagos on the 24th, but, by some excellent management, they were all dispersed. Ou the 23rd, the Tearer arriving. as also a party consisting of some GOO of King Atakoi's people, who had marched down from Badsgapg, it then became necessary to protect these people, and the commo dore nut knowing when he would get his vessels, it was judged expedient to attack Lagos with the pre sent force. Accordingly Capt. Jones, in the Bloodhound, and the boats of the Sampson, left at 4 p.m., and having safely crossed the bar, anchored off the en trance for the night. The Sampson had previously been moored as close opposite the supposed position of the enemy as wield be. On the morning of the 24th, two boats in command of Limit. Saumarez, Ist of Sampson,proceeded up and sounded and were fired into by musketry oft the right beach, and which was taken little or no notice of, and having ascertained the required information they returned to the anchorage at 2 p.m. Several largo canoes being seen on the right beach the Bloodhound weighed, and the boats, under her cover, landed and brought off six large canoes capable of bearing the whole of Atakoi's force ; having given them to these people at 5 p.m., being Good tide she proceeded up the river to try the depth of water, the Sampson's boats ahead, and when off the Ant batteries the enemy began to fire round and insister with very good precision, which Ins Marna by the boats and Bloodhound. At dial* the Tearer, with the Penelope's boats woe else to enter the river, and a signal was made • author, and it being dusk, the Bloodhound =and anchored alongude of her, out of the liesemsenee die. Th. 25th being Christmas dor, the ma vseeeined in their boats, and nothing done with the exception of reviewing and feed ing Atakora troops, and placing round each of their necks a white " rag," so that we might know friends from foes. Thus we stood en the evening of the 25th, certainly a misiralie Melina& At 4.30 a.m. of the 26th the following Mask was then made. The Bloodhound. with Clart. Ind in; the, the pert division d boats, consisting two pada. sod piano of desupeen ender esonond et Limit Inansan, Mimed dm the Teems with Ch M. Lyrae' sod ties the starboard maim mininsi et Cementer Salyer, of Penelege, whisk eosins& ef her twegadidb4ma bats pionsee, end the reit bests, sae hat sonnesiel by the lintenants of Penelope, and the roast i pelt LionOmbett, gunnery lientenant. As the B deemed up a terns fire was opened on her die battens and thousands of musketry whin was retort:pi by her with shot and a/sell. She got up to her deelbebm (with little damage), and then gat mrsind at musket shot from the platform battery. Ikea hissed trz e rt division of boats under a ase phis sopa . try, grape, round, and ambler, whhh was sehmed in good style from the bean who g godr ipe z gallantly, and took up their a two-c s battery, and whisk the Teener lis tbs allii = d aishisiter pa in trying he beep smirk Wig lon gometekser to cover the pert dits d beets, indmairitty look these rowad and mei set get oft She wee thins =poufs) the 'bed= gum Captain Lynes ,finding all finding olhangle fo godlier off d nedesii,lstit *sumead at die *bowl division stiles% sad nap he the has rat =s of orts . the gun Alter in, sad Ahead a Mreg, sal tisk ittez i l elawnp,. spade( its pos. The amp in ellabk. and a was anowney. enemy get pesisnioa Fpitie-box boat, away Xreassi 'av owals:sr& A eerie we then made to honored I° to tit " bel t11 1:11 we hr. barked, not, however withnit She ganan's nate, who s at left is the boat, hazg rennin two woo, niti the hen he wee age in Ca ll i wirtssar ' d' In this ands pg. next Ws so n less then 72 were killed and vromisi The bats of dating and bravery on the pert of Assn wed sm, with the easeptaon at the remedy Ireasea, hi impend Mist Captain Lyster received two wank Wesel Hidyer ens, Lieut. Carbon ( kliewLeeney Lien. Williams (in ni ft y three, Mr. Menhir (mid.) killed, Mr. (line inss t =s anhinat) mortally weendtd end doe dend. Dealt§ several other Acme dighely. This Ist the Team quiet, as ales the pow du took of the • heeds et the two rase whit we have dale im the brae. None this tine Se Mal Ilisedhomod W Anal the hnOnden• ill"a 811 " noi l l°ll4 asi the beds gesseeinf roiled its t i me sad Abased an is two men batteries by the time iti wee 111,41114 whoa they were all roasted and wad le dam, ensoyed oesmirealli s = desiaby lops* At Oa Twee but killed ens caromed. sod was Agonised to den when the die Weal NM Soianwan nail get et At two , w oad mi WO et the with' a nem id oil at eas. flannerem ar ni IVArAme, with di lie Me ty'sell lsry, were *rlnised to hod end iplhe the ism bilgeinaw the batteries eeve et Se Ihentena's Ust i ls of kir. Oen). Wins ing ist *the goes Tint Brava n's FM! PAZUAINLINTAZT DOOM Tab, ,11111111"._ the bats y~j was gins sa Satertay to es Ilikorig gown :—Lad ram sm. ono Rama% lad isyroar, Eft. Or Gems Orel, a 101111111111119 IMAM the aspentere with ax.. 0.c.n.. Kea. Aiwied C Eau Wllliaw7. the ma with Innehawice, whew the amor, who Ceweers_lllo- Omen Ai... k ei t hi lka r" IMO, were hying in sole* opened ludas i is % sad mils wee. Ilif i eb r i b ii s in Wee% Ilia fib Far* t h an h a m i nhage they add not 3Vanes Owl& ROI Sm. Or WI- N.. lc ski s m . on and bee this eneinie l an kb u n s t is ir return M ani t ot: xes. x. so:Wimmia to din Illenikend. bnvingjeat. mad El Leep i ._ . _ ... aa tUn em ir,labe Perim, Law m atft, "." *s i drie albard.( Nis. tea raper s " CIL ' /gr.' hut. lard At 4.14 fin 74 4 2 set 5 and 11 =161 111 dews wee yeevensi. hawks ressivet i. nr , Melsstr's essmssis. fa. wake, Inded her dual, wed seat her Ansdiddet 111.1 . 81 . 19.6 4Cri la writ iren Des — verr emald Ism >sely the river: Ikss amid the tads i t rZt aa the wbY Ylllllll' Til the la glollll or Pearsissers.—* "di the St ores and and telly was iamb enellweint wevallei la the Awe* ef a w i ra in d gaga Illsatormot . bath, bed bee' the sew Mee of memos seeeewweee eilbe is .sin sea nos, N. esibenit el a Ire k 711 e. • Oemeetwooleen. Ile ball& ____,P amr, _ a _ l lllll ' hewed by seem abet use, sad in Ile ores "NW . 1 • 000 ` • •'" _ Ma" pm yips h pissed en Ms tap et the ee• senses en toe MOMS =II'MA the men to esemed. Os tbe mbar sea- ' and best conomeneed as also the Velum% ~ via rest t , dieseleavva of th. „ 2 and Waterwitch% bests, had then ended. "'"'" " Na male r oamer "." The roast boat easesedial he setting Sr. to llogel, • as 111 . 17 ill• C •6•••••• • 1.••• • the emend ales her" toll ion** Wall in • brim =psi plas•, sag t ins fa striaftairaar is Mem Aa des Ceemenrier Coots then lea ise boat, with the estinse woe mind by the semmene al liir mille roiliest hest still is eannead et Unit Marshal nes br news a Whop "i 1 g=7 1 6101 1 04 Piegispe) aid Missing bitinhe Vai se Whop seam b e n s wean =IOW w as p s b o om mi. gm akb sidowdelds& o s a l eslie e tt e wir mir emennosa bils to w eassibet t the pm ben s a, scat ant. sk,„,,„ sy vibi tm a gi f.th t he st,, i ti r omali wbm w t r y flame la the plps, lel bees, so 61416 the se Ida eblitis was la leak den push* bd 8 and were obliged to all night TO CORILIMPON DINTS. • a 'NNW Wins 4" To Tiperem," ortedolaet do moo ovesirre oseeete," pubttelmet every Teallay ead Pride/ .1810, be nose be pi& aer•oneee.eoiebteendell foe "Ts Itzproes." Gabs Fool's pipe, owe M e. tbe • 'Are. 19, Booyeebreireet, b Two els* as Uwe yet pollard's. WOK WATIR AT LONDON =IDOL lAno tOs.........kibumess. M. 1.. la. Ike Aimless**. 121. 401 s. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Cnsrrea 2 of the New Reform Bill relates to Ireland. If less extensive and complex in details than that respecting England and Wales, the neees eity of the case is if possible more palpable, and the duty of attempting without further delay to apply some remedy to the state of things existing there ts, V possible, still more plain. In the principal cities of the kingdom, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and Galway, there are altogether leas than 20,000 electors, while in twenty-thiee boroughs there are in all but t 4,000 electors, or upon an average 340 each. The bill which was passed two years ago has practically left the cities and towns of Ireland just where they were before. It substituted an 81. rating fur a Int rent, which amounted simply to the favour of giving as it were a golden sovereign in exchange for silkier crowns. In some instances it appears that the result of the alteration was even worse than witless, inasmuch as it actually lessened the previously existing number of electors. Ministers were warned at the time that this would be the case, as Mr. M•Cett ion and Sir JOHN YOUNU reminded them the other evening in the course of the discus sion culled forth by Sir W. SotteavaLt.'s confes sion of failure with regard to the measure of 114.50. Nothing in the way of legislation for Ireland seer seems to be done at the right time by those who undertake to govern her destinies. The act referred to had the merit of em'ioilying for the first time the salutary principle whereby rateability is substituted . for rent as the basis of the suffrage; and as applied to counties (though the amount of IV. dictated by the House of Lords was certainly too high), the value of the concession is indieputable. But in defiance of all reason and expostuletion a pecuniary limit in cities and boroughs was obstinately adhered to on that occasion, which has rendered the change, as we have said, merely nominal. Lord Joitx was pressed by every sincere reformer, both Irish and English, to adopt a 5/. rating in Isso for the town constituencies of Ireland; and it nas believed at the time that in dividually the Prime Minister was not indisposed to embrace the opportunity that then offered of con ferring a great boon on the civic, as well a 4 the agri cultural population of that country. But as frequently has hap' end in similar matters, evil counsellors with held Lonl Jon s from ae tingon his ow n better judgment. The jealous and grudging spirit of clan ascendancy which then ruled unfortunately supreme in the Irish department of tho government, refused to yield. Deceptive estimates were laid before parliament of the probable results of an Si. rating franchise. Two years have not elapsed, and the docile Cam SECRE TART in obliged to admit, without an attempt at ex *nation or apology, that all his former calculations lave turned out to be false. " Instead of an increase in the borough electors," said Sir WILLIAM SOMER VILLE on Friday night, "there has been a great diminution." Thus, in despair of any longer bolstering up the old rotten system in tho towns, government are oompelled at length to propose a 51. rating test. They likewise propose to reinforce the emisting constituencies by federalising with each borough two or three of the adjacent towns palming sufficient property and population. Ire land will, therefore, be dealt with in both these main =colors in the some manner as England and Soot- So far so well. It will naturally occur, how ever, to the most casual observer of the constitution of society on the opposite aides of the Channel, that if there is danger even with ourselves, that by sub tracting all the best country towns from the counties la order to strengthen the boroughs, many county ememitueneies may be seriously debilitated, and ren dered more amenable than they even now are to the lalluesce of great proprietors, bow mach more hazard most there be among our neighbours, whose county dodoes are still on an average little above 4,000. Aad if the first glance at the English schedules has created in the minds of all reflecting men grave misgivings as to the motives and intentions with w the outlines of this new political map have bum traesd,--how carefully will at behove our kins- Met the green lie to scrutinise every detail of the aiside by whisk it is proposed to re-distribute their portion et the passel reyeematstiao. These, browner, see smaideratiens de a ham day. Moan ed& IM as leek at the mason kr based as a whose, ad judge of it tether by what it prediess to whim r dre dam by the acmes, or adequacy of its pro videw ppose. In de mein it will ur teed to aid Os middle ssse of dist unhappy to ear midgets themesime bone the blig hting yoke of luadedima whisk hes blames bees rain. At proud nine-tenthe of loth seedy sad beret* amalms! for based are Luanda Oat of Id ves these see not halt-maw who de ad to the dembest elem. VIM wads that me Ingress has yet been made in legfriallag remellallyea the most important et all Irish gineetime—the of land? "As well might mie expect," mid r. BILIOIft on a recent deadom "an emembly of cats to legislate betel elegy demise.' We have often marvelled at what seemed to as the let etuation of a community so cir amilmesed exillanhe be mud as delegates to great of =ma k fits :ave recialL w" to mind ibe weetehmlly beedelent state of the eleo tarearem es constituted in 1833, and imperfectly is 1880: amid we have forborne to utter a repot whisk night be mistaken for an Mem- Mier* reprena. at it la cleat that so long am nine entitles repeemaistimalkaa the sister kingdom are doom from the pregekties el the moll, nethimc that is worth asking for will weer be obtained by the teeent-emcees or element's cheese. Receptions like Mr. Claymont and itr. Rocas serve only to illustrate the rule. Irish landlords se a elms have never made, and never will make. laws for the I. trial - iss eem a t g otation of :used*se I Pet as W regaled de corn laws bad they ` not bees Napes' be *equines in that long_ resisted est et a = by a phalanx ia the Hoene danames and kept together by, thoegh net emiedealy elm posed et, m ameant the cosemeteiel mod piellohod clams With her new redorte,—it rawly Awed la cammittse and properly worked Mink it bermes. kw.--Ireland may . at last find base/ psmswd of the meow et selecting freely her 108 Nponsisika We do not my that without the bast she will Ind it holiday work to exercise her new privilege.; lest the ballot aloe is inevitable, and with its puffin the people of both eounttisa will be ambled te deem mine what laws patliamet shed make, by doter. Wades who shall make they THE EXPRESS, MONDAY off the bar, and did net reach their .4611 moUt d r i . 28th. tae cram y al i dz ig on , hoes thsisMded awl took of the. ili p=on pu ll* taken nod dadzeff; the liaddirbox boat ra aswiffs Ism ; sad an Women, to the pre meds kiag, Atakoi, placed on the throne, and all lie men with him; and thus finishes the eaptsun of Lagos. and with it we hope the suppression of the slave Ueda A few deaths have since taken plisse from fever, and may those who fought and Wed there with their brother officers and men at last receive that weward for which Nome of thorn have served some four ycan on the coast, and looked for in vain, i.e. promotion. " The stockades collated of green cocoanut trees, then sand, and then coon-nut trees; hence they had no splinters. In each stockade was a trench, so that when a shell was fired at them they jumped in the trench, and keno° award clinger. Each stockade had a ditch to com municate, so that they could reinforce or retreat at leisure. About 16 feet from the shore, in 0 feet water, were a quantity of bamboo stakes, so thinly driven in and so secure, that 130Ibs. of gunpowder could not effect a breach, and lance prevented any ono from landing. Our total force was about 400 ; the enemy from 10,000 to 20,000. C. I'. It. FRANCE. PB,lllB, EIATriIDAT ETININO. I am able this afternoon to communicate to you a fact of great importance. I informed you that the princes of the House of Orleans intended to try, without delay, the question of the validity of the decree of January 22, confiscating the property in cluded in the donation of King lasi' Philippe to his children on the 7th of August, 1830. The mode which appeared to the council of jurisconsults appointed by the Orleans family most ad visable for bringing the matter before the tribunals, was to sell a portion of the property included in the donation. Accordingly it was announced in the usual manner by means of a notice posted up at the Palais do Justice, that "the Princes of Orleans, act ing as proprietors, by virtue of the donation of their father, the King Lou is Philippe, on Aug. 7,1830, set up for public sale such and such lands and here ditaments. The ale of a portion of the property described took place this morning in the form called "aide by emsdla," Ice the audience des crises of the tribunal of Ind instance of the Seine. Now the im portant part of the affair is this. It was expected that an opposition would have been put in by the government against the sale. Up to the latest moment the judge Deemed to expect that a huissier would hare appeared to bar the sale on the part of the domain. To the guest surprise of everybody the adjudication took plans without any opposition what ever. Whether the go.erumcot recoils from the execution of its own deeeue, and if not, why it has not taken the most usual course by putting in an opposition against the sale does not appear. The property sold was the Pavillon de Wurtemberg at Neuilly, and some other lands. M. Mocquart, the private secretary of the Presi dent, has been heard to boast that ho has in his pos session a document proving that, in the first days of the monarchy of July, the Princes of Orleans con templated the confiscation of the property of the elder branch of the Bourbons. I send you to-day an important document, namely, the consaltation of the council of eminent juriscon sults called on by the house of Orleans to de liver an opinion on the confiscation decree of January 22. The names of Berryer, Vati measil, Pullet, Odilon Barrot, and Dufaure, which are attached to this weighty paper are a guarantee for the solidity of its conclusions, which arc as follows : 1. That at the time when the domes were published the Plisses of the house of Odes= were truly sad lewdly pagebeen of the estates whisk Mu the MOM of the mesa berm 2. That the meal of thus lima bee sot hem ebb to divest the said mime of their peporty in *me Metes. 3. That the mood Isom fame se obstacle to the dosiths of taw owesdea elmosterty ha Shama Mates se between the NM r the alms fase/ 17 7 the trt huseht. Mang the signmsehe tensed against Louis Napoleon is one borwrwel Awn the procedure of the Emporium who did as& in his own ow the principle epos whisk Ike &erns of January 22 rests, that by the sissieat mese of the monarchy the pri vate property of dm wasseasse to the throne merged in the dunk of the crows. I es sew about to Weidsomisate to you a turas dot elm& gravity. It 1$ arida that the nt time is big with some new emmt. A seatibatial west lsslisea issued by the Minister of War to all Ile guierals, to hold themselves nay with all their Eriand materiel for a ..r sat which is r the 22nd instant. Oa that der, I eat in that we may look for the predemelie• of the empire. Tie initiative is to be Mites this time e the_tersops at Lyons, under the cassaml de Tho army of Lyons seems to have been drigrided at the passive reds which it has bad to Laisg id the late revolution. The impeding ccup-d•-nseis is °clouted by reports of • dmosetration in favour of a Prima pretacto rate is Ita. But there is de toundadem fr this report, wh lch is a mere lAA France Imisi at the mend Aside samest ea s pethedy good saleostssding with TikerimiTient is repainted to be in a sista of eoemdeb gasman' both at naiad and body, which b iseelebkhisa ober pods* of peat mow and ezeitammt. Thee st t uM Bethke, is talked about Whitens and bedew and the frippery of mamma Wesawhile Pealimis peaky on reedy ter the eunire ' • and yea my be MO dint we demi wen the brink of mod imprtent mats Wend awns bas exerted limesid I bear, in Belgium and England, with auk seem" to bring about a coalition between the Orisesists and the mo derate republicans. At the Bourse the Five per Oats. till ltio ., at 103.76. The Three per Oasts. fbII 160., and it 65.66. Bank of Frames awe rose 10L Rail ways The other were we lines fell shibuy eker. .Orionis bil 16f. MONDA B. The iftwarsr is authorised te eontrad Y iot ynu in m the =sof Mod sastart the reports spread concerning supped to be imminent in the ministry. The following outline of the new law on the pram, given to-day by the Cbustitutimusel, confirms the news already seat to you on this subject, and adds some additional details : It is seoessary he nay one wades to pail& a nasal or periodical to be a Fresabasa, and to obtain wane autharieetket. Mesas of the pens are to be tried by the eornetiosa tribunal instead of by jury. Is the eon of libel dm names of witnesses will not be adoritted before the later omen The annhoun of saatithaiesey for the daily orwspepers is lowered to 80.4100te. The stamp duty is and at viz .satins., and raised to ones sestina he unbent oestaloing a rowasofwse7dOws. Fenian asernapers way sore Tenn after having bees inthested by the government; bat they will be subjected to the gene dean duty so those palliated la Freon. The Inn impend upon nowspepen for publishing Wee news, or he giving is keenest element of the *doss of the Corps Legaistf i l end the *haw& an to be pal within three days. On sowlenostion for GAMS, If Iwo sendeusastices he della queasy it enterreatioa comatted by news ef the pens will nowise' the suspeaden of the *ma. The signstore of artistes often to be obligatory. Beasellsee or. obliged to obtain a WSW The law is opeeted to appear in the Monigew of to-morrow. The minister of pollee has addressed the following circular to the inspeetore-general : - - Pa* rob. 14.1M2. Keeskrar l'lsepesteer Oseetal,—At the 11101anit whet gee are rim to le* penesisa Cl the high lunation. which have beet isallile t ara, it is attesesotg to deur- Wile the satire sou r el peer Weiss. Yea bus airs* geueselt with the Mao which =the media ef tabielly e gem l&Ne s e ig e:t e d I% Prism hea Wen sere le golf la the latter midi he Si as the haw to eildrele to se go the PK of lest latteeZe i releesie pressatticeogyetel In the Me st est lie meet to *lbw In the t et y i •eit doss. ino zzot gelies.l tee often Is cr tliou seree to • servellhumse ewer all the with the adsilleteolles stray. It is %- Whaled is taw to idled sad espieelmille been eke ?re alised ef lb. Ilejseklii all limit be the p-ie fattiest to no* Ilhareiefis. Chink's& et the reel star winks eer therein, is the asters Cl your §112 6 1: Whittier, it illr ittiotilis, remove the whisk say rim I. ether item ealeithiag P e g al si the getimesitt graft by yit kaiwkip, yes eat see- FEBRUARY 16, 1852. =awil i r ti grafiseta and their subordinates, tm , with tba oilcan of Pr damsel,. t ' employee of lama 81 , 4 puc lie Instrudthu, with alts " engineers • without Ws correspondents of a purely general intarast, alpering any manner whatever, the relations of these several form. thinness with their nspective ndaistries, pad wooksaini the ties of the ordinary hierarchy. At an epoch when four years of agitation and income% struggles bad paralysed all development of ideas or useful plans, klnaled so many passions, ucclassed so many euht, moss by 'wilily; so noisy ambitions, thu tutelary sod= of • ministry of penal poises became indispensable. Now Oat France te ruing from bar prostration, it is urgent to restore to her her strength and prosperity. You are called upon to concur in this work of reparation ' and salvation, and, in order to second it, your action ought to be exerted in a double direction. To feeundate the victory of order over anarchy, by gee sauteeing to the country the material and moral repose which is promised to it by the protseting power of Dee. 2; to paralyse the spirit of disorder, especially by disarming its audacity by the certainty of an infallible repression ; to out weary its mischievous activity by your vigilance and un shakable energy; to follow it in those dark associations where the most abominable plots are hatching ; to combat party spirit, under whatever colours ; to reassure opinion against fables invented by an indefatigable malevolence; to restore to the acts of the government their real character, when a pertilious hostility is labouring to distort them ; to encourage men sincerely devoted to the executive support, by pointing them out to its solicitude; to seek out merit devoid of ambition, and make it known. Such is, M. In spector-Dem:l.Al, what I may call the political side of your attributions. But if you represent the power which, observe, pointa out and provoke, repression, you will know how to maintain its dignity, its moral authority, by the scrupulous respect of the judicial attribution. When the action of justice begins, that of the police ends. Above all, never lose sight of those social words hitherto too much neg'ected—vagaboudage, source of all dimrders; mendicity, of which you ought to furtive the repression by calling forth the resoorees of public or private beneficence. To puma the count, of those incendiary publications which pervert the population; to exercise s 'name over hawk ers, and amcortain the morality of association,, and of the objects which they propose to themselves. These are also duties of which I recommend the accomplishment to you. In the economical point of view, which is their second aspect, your attributions are not less important. To study everywhere the wants of the population, the amelioration of all sorts demanded by the public interest ; to take ac count, in order to recommend them to the solicitude of the government, of useful ideas too often buried, from the want of some means to bring them to light; to sound the opinion of the masses upon political or economical innovation, thrown into the domain of discussion or of study ; to watch for all that concerns the public health, and the material and mural welfare of the population; to devote to these objects your strength, your intelligence, and all the re sources which power places in your hands. Such is, I re peat, the economical side of the high mission confided to you. If at other period' prejudices have been raised against the institution of a general police, it was because that in stitution had been diverted from its object essentially moral, and pervi tied to the service of political and private passions. This is a shoal against which you ought to be for ev eron your guard. Let your authority then be scrupulously kept within the limits, beyond which it would become oppressive or inqui sitorial. _ _ _ If you know, so I hope you do, bow to conform to these instructions, the police will be a subject of fear only for the wicked ; peaceable citizens will behold in it on the con trary only a safeguard ; and as the Prince himself has said, only the meet efficacious means of conveying continually to the head of tho state, the truth which is endeavoured too often to be kept at a distance from the supreme power. (Signed) Da Marra.. Minister of General Police. The ..Voniteur contains a decree regulating the in ternal organisation of the Ministry of State. This is divided into four heads—l. Cabinet of the minister. 2. 3. Direction of palaces and manufactures. 4. Direction of accounts. The first head includes, among other matters, relations with the Monil, ur. The secretariat-general comprises relations with the great bodies of tho state and the ministries; studies of all the questions submitted to the Council l of State; summary of French and foreign news papers; relations w►th the periodical press; decora tions and pensions. The third department is suffi ciently described by its titles. The direction et ac counts includes the preparation of the general budget. By another decree there is established for the pro fit of the Invalid Fund a reserve of 11 per cent. upon the expenses inscribed in the budget of marine and the colonies for purchases of tisatelriel. Another decree abolishes the royal ordinance of Dee. 8, 1830, for the creation of battalions and cons panics of military workmen in the ports and arsenals of the marine. This measure is based on the dissolu tion of the national guard, and on the consideration that the said companies and battalions have never been in reality anything else but the assembling as maritime national paid of the working population in the service of the mdse. To-day I have ^ hMA tie rumours of schemes of temitorial aggrandisement, which have prevailed mere or lees ever elms the 2nd of December, se dately dimmed in me of the leading political circles d the eapitaL Thus reports, which at first seem no absolutely incredible that one can barely anode to them in the most resemed manner without appearing to exaggerate, gradually gather head, sad ammo spelpable Fobabiay. I - alluded, on the se. swim eM de Persigny to mice, to the sebum of menu's Belgium as thus growls, Cato a settled and serious plan. Tea have men elms that time bow probing, the mummeeet of Leopold Me hem biro every mask" that has bees made upon it. The I. ya tem e se et m the s Bailt iiees= peen itbeen 'ertin the et reated ; and now hear the deshielha d the W 'dil aterloo lion, and the indemnity for the Antwerp expedition have been granted ea soon as urged. It was all ahem evident that Belgian had no support but England; and now the notion has been taken up by the Prone gewermsent that oven Great Britain would only blister i little, and then Five up the paint rather than risk war. Certain it is that Belgium swarms with Prue* emilearles, and that agents of the government of Loeb Ideptdeen have been sedulously engaged in Nappies the allegiance of the army of Leopold; so that a Wilton _declara tion in favour of annexation to Premmorlieb might easily be got up in any Belgian would be interpreted here as the cry of the =mph, end acted upon accordingly. Intrigues are on foot also far abide; the mien of the grand duchy of Baden, through tie =diodes of the President's aunt, the Prineses Dowager Grand Duchess of Baden. I s, this, as the annexation of Baden, as well u the Rhine province of Prussia, was seriously discussed to-day in the drawing room (of which I have spoken above), where such projects certainly would not have been mentioned had they been as unreal as might be supposed. . The departmwis a the Pas de Calais, the Allier, and the Wm, are authorised to awes themselves for various rates and terms for the easetrootion of roads, and the fulfilment of departmental obligations. __ . M. Bandsept, ex-representative for the Bee-Rhin, his addrased a letter to the Moniteur, announcing that having been comprised is the decree of banish ment, he conceived it consistent with his duty, after the unanimous vote of France, to write to the Presi dent of the Republic to solicit permission to remain in Frames, promising that he would entirely cease to loseepy himself with politics. The President has complied with this request. M. Bandsspt was a member of the Mountain. The Cinsetitationsia announces that its director, M. Louie Veron, is the candidate of the government for the O M NI Zajalatif in the arroodineement of &coax. X. Napoleon Bonaparte, late representative of the bribe, has addressed to the Corsican papers a letter, arid from Paris, on the II th inst., stating, in to a requisition to numerous friends to stand fir that he cannot accept any candidature, , maim ollllmg to live in retirement, and quits aloof iron The court-martial Ch atecy has condemned 13 spiv insurgents to , ftiMildeo, ,tbe 14. will cause a " TeDeunt" to ved= boxiiiret Queen Well& immose, is the Madeline, for the pewee- Letters of the 12th from Berne state that Mr. Ma gennis, lately appointed British minister in Switzer land, had received orders to leave Loudon and repair immediately to his post. As Mr. Mageams had been indith a cove of six months, this precipitat e ' for his return is attributed to tho complications likely to arise in Switzerland. It was also said at Berne that a spe cial mission had been proposed to General Dufour to proceed to Paris, but that he bad declined on account of his health. . SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch. dated Madrid, Feb. 12, 5i pa., states that the convalescence of tbe Queen con tinues without the least accident. Her Majesty was even able to get or in the evening of the 11th. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Faa. 15. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, Cap tain Charles F. Burney, arrived here at 5 p.m., and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. James Inglis, It.N., Admiralty agent. Iler dates arc— Gibraltar, 0 p.m., 4th; Cadiz, 10 a.m., sth; Lisbon, 8 a.m., 9th; and Vigo, 8 a.m., 12th. There was no communication with Oporto. The Iberia brings the important intelligence that Commodore Martin's expenmental squadron had loft Ithe Tagus for the British channel, having been re called by the home government. The only ships of war at Lisbon when the Severn left were her Ma jesty's steamer Dragon and the French steam-sloop Newton, besides the Sampson, which had called there for colds, on Ler way from the coast of Africa. LISBON, Ise. 9. An anticipated long debate upon the address in reply to the speech from the throne was quickly terminated on the 29th, by its having been voted, almost unanimously, as it came from the committee, and without any alteration whatever. As no opposition 1. expected to the projected re form of the charter, I send you the " Project of the additional Act to the Constitutional Charter," which ministers have presented to the chamber. OF THE_COITIF. Art. 1. It belongs to the Cortes to sleet the regency in the case foreseen by Art. 93 of the Charter. § By this method the 2nd paragraph of the 15th of the Constitutional Charter is amended._ Art.'s. :Neither peer nor deputy during the sitting of the Corks (dasrante a sues deputacao) can be made prisoner by any authority whatever, except by on order of the chamber to which he belongs, and in JlayraaSs ddicto. Thus is amended and reformed the 2tith Article of the Constitutional Charter. Art. 3. The deputy who, after being elected, shall accept any public salaried appointment, dependent upon the government, vacates his seat; and remains as to his re election, comprehended in the dispositions which regulate the eligibility of public employes, according to the 10th Article of the present additional Act. 1. lle will not lose his seat who is in conformity with the 33rd Article of the Charter. 2. By this method is amplified tho 23th Article of the Constitutional Chatter. - Art. 4. Each chamber may, at the request of the govern ment, permit its members whose employment is in the capi tal, to exercise it together with their legislative functions. UI THIS ISLICTIONS: Art 5. The nomination of deputies is mado by direct election. Art. G. All Portuguese citizens who shall be in tho enjoyment of their civil and political rights have votes in those elections. _ _ Art. 7. Those are excluded from voting : 1. Who stall nut have a clear annual income of 100 mil reis 22.,(.) proceeding from property, capital, commerce, in dustry, or employment. 2. Minors under 25 years of age, with whom those above 21 years of ego shall not be included who may possess any of the following qualifications : 1. Being married. 2. Those in holy orders. 3. Officers of the army and navy. 4. Those qualified by literary at tainments of whatever nature in conformity to law. Also arc excluded from voting 3. Menial strvants, with whom shall not be classed bookkeepers and clerks in commercial houses, servants in the royal palace who do not wear livery, and administrators of rural tstahlishments and manufactories. 4. Those who shall be under judicial restraint (inferdricoo jwlicia , ), or have had a true bill returned against them. 6. Those not in tho free exercise of their liberty. Art. 8. All those who hays the right of voting may be elected deputies, without condition of domicile, residence, or birth. Except— . Foreigners naturalised. 2. Those who shall not have a clear annual income of 400 milreis (901.), arising from the same sources declared in Art. 7 of the present additional act, or shall not be quali fied with the same degrees and literary attainments treated of in No. 4 of the said article, sect. 2. Art. 9. Those who have no right to vote at the election of deputies cannot vote at any other election whatever for a public trust, except where the law defines a difference of qualification (eeuro). Art. 10. The organic electoral law will determine : 1. The method of the elections and the number of depu tise in proportion to the population of the kingdom. 2. The employments which are incompatible with the position of deputy. 3. The cases in which any citisens must be ineligible, by reason of the exercise of public functions. 4. The method and form by which proof of the qualifica tion can be obtained in the different provinces of the king dom, the adjacent islands, and colonies. {i By this mode the 63rd, 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, and 70th articles of the constitutional charter are re voked sad altered. Or Till SILO:ITV/1 POWIIi. Art. 11. The treaties of alliance, offensive and defensive, subsidy, commerce and navigation, shall be approved by the Cortes before their ratification. By this method the Bth paragraph of tho 76th article of tho constitutional charter is reformed and amplified. or THII.IIUNICIFAL Art. 12. Ineverydint:WC; mniiicipsl7hMnber, elected WV:by the people, shall ham the economic administra ft municipality in conformity to the laws. I 11y this method the 133rd and 134th articles of the con stitutional charter are substituted. OF TIM PUBLIC 111211131U1. Art 13. The iireeieiliiiiesTisiit;s; are voted an nually: the laws which Mali& thmt ass all in force one yeas, molar they shall be mallsomml. 1. The same voted for who Mose public disbursement cannot be vpbed to say other pompom, sakes the trans forma eh& he outhorissd by an mrsoil law. 2. The einleietretles and reeenwret of the revenue of the state belays to the public treaeury, wept in eases de clared by law. 3. There shall be a tribunal of sossonts, whose mem bers shall be appointed for life sad immovable. f 4. It baser to the tribunal eireeseeate to verify and liquidate the somata of the reeelple awl disbursements of the state, and of all those who are segeowlble to the public tressuey. 6. As especial law shall regalia, be organisation sad duttee. 1 6. Dr thie mode the 138th, 137th, and 138th articles of the ormatkrAratol shorter aro nrhansed sal altered. Art 14. The Krim. NA of am. far Finance will lay Wire the Climalsar of to the bet 16 days after big immetinsted, the estimate of die receipt of the following peer; sad within the time of the mama maim a parcel neement of the disbursement of the year aided. f This mob tie 136th, 137th, and 138th articles of the Auger are reformed. 01!ill/L#L DI Art. 16. Bach cTlTheTdramisris It; the right of proem& lai, by moms of comasimices of inq w she sxmainstioa of any opt wisslever within its j ' f by this ark w 111th article of the oonstitationsl charter is nog intended. Art. It 141*. 11414 nth, and 132 ad smieles of the coastitatisaal down, are daeland unconstitutional, and ma Mt shored by dm ordinasy issflalature, in conformity to !ha 144th &Misfit of the mid *rear._ the oonatitational lbw*, sow* y • imilsissi. Ass. 17. Tics n/tramarias mewisses are governed by es pecial kws, according as the anwaiesce of each of am las ilie n V i Zy steamer arrived from England on the 3rd, with orders for Commodore Martin's squadron to proceed forthwith boss. This has caused a won derful sensation here, and there is no end to the opinions given. Returns have bass amisued by each family, so as to ascertain the amble stpussems liable to be called upon for military servise bore, thus a preparatory note is sounded, for die Portuguese . army, under any other circumstances, does not require an augmenta tion. The Count of Tojal, known in London ea Jan Oliveira, died in the night of Friday last, aft a long illness. Exchange, 53g. Discount of Lisbon Bank notes, 2! per cent. BELGIUM. In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives ' of Belgium, on the 10th, one of the members, Mr. Sinave, made some very offensive remarks on Eng land. In the sitting of the following day the subject was again alladod to, and the discussion terminated as follows: - 11.affihikoidt, Moister of Foreign Affairs, proeintod =tholugssgo weekby li. Uk.,., with nugget In tho prommui. Mr anlitinr idling that the t... relr.timsd arse, onlyit ... igs s Ua bar tler ar t a r e f . and bindings at Qom Vl= grrommint Imeds In memo of snob !timidly conduct oe the part eg osbinet of 111. Jamoolt, govern oningottoolly spirt Oho nup dr of M. Sint" ment protostrit M. Nom nide-Tho ei iiii I pomposped your day, I essintain witty. The Enate goreeninost is a !government of pirates. The Prondent—Monsieur aim., withdraw your ex pression or I shall eall you to order. K. Nam withdrew the expremies. I COLONEL HAWKER'S CAunts.—The United Ser vice Gamete states: "The ordnaniss eeminittse, on Tuesday !sat, unanimously approved of Colonel Hawker's new double cubing." GERMANY. BERLIN, Pas. 12 The first Chamber has (as you know) passed a motion, by a majority of 92 to 50, that p o li t i cal offences shall not, as the constitution provides b e brought before a jury, but tried by a special tribunal to be instituted for the purpose. This is certainly one of the most important strides that the reactionary process has made. An Englishman, jud g i ng by tbe order of things in his own home, would shudder at the thought, and see in his mind's eye the restoration of all the horrors of the Star Chamber. But in Prussia, with the exception of the Rhenish pokiness, trial by jury did not exist previously to lisle Political offences were tried by the c o t: loges of royal judges in private se ss i on , on the strength of written evidence without the presence of the accused, who had, perhaps, never beta is en by the majority of his judges. During the peri sl of the notorious prosecution of the demagogues, som e twenty years ago, chiefly students at the universitie s, there may have been some dark doings, allich not have passed in an open court; it is counnoni % ;„ Bend that public trial would have proved tit, • I i • of unfortunate youths then sent to linger oat years of their strength in dungeons, to have luso ,- •.e victims of an atrocious plot, which aimed at ueiki„ , , German rulers believe that their subjects w, in a great measure, assassins and convb raters, capable of being curbed only by tha retention of the government's absolute power. Nevertheless the judges were regarded in gentral with confidence, as humane, highly.educated, and conscientious men; and as a class they enjoyed siderable popularity from the energy with whie:,, in many instances, they resisted attempts at making the law an instrument of arbitrary persecution. tsiece the introduction of trial by jury, political offend, re have been acquitted in wine eases, where nl 4 l judges would have condemned them. But in many districts the classes from which jorors are cleendar such violent reactionists, that nobody accused of e police! offence would have a chance of escape. On the whole I really believe that if the democrats wt re to he asked whether, in case of their getting int o a serape, they would be tried by a bench of judges alone. Grty such rcactionist burghers as they are likely to sec en a jury, they would unanimously choose the fulmar, d the trial Were only public, and the evidence taken by word of mouth on the spot, not in writing duriew a long process of inquisition. The resolution of the First Chamber has not, therefore, caused so great a sensation among the public as you might supp,,,e. The Frankfort l'o4l .fournal states that Ihnocer has succeeded iu engaging Oldenburg, Brunswick, Bremen, and Hamburg to enter into negotiations for taking and supporting the so-called German fleet at their joint expense. Senator Duckwitz, from B K > men, has had a long conference with :Minister Von Scheele on the subject, and given hearty support to the plan. TURKEY. The Constittgionnel contains a letter from Constan tinople, dated January 2S, describing the late minis terial crisis, but imparting little fresh news. It ap pears that tho Sultan deigni d to communicate his intention to replace &stint l'a.,ha in a Ault or ha. perial letter, to that minister, filled with the most flattering aekuowledgnients of his services. This compliment is without precedent. The next day, the only post which can be held by an ex-grandvizier, namely, that of President of the Council of State, was taken front Nitwit l'ashn, and couti•rrcvl upon Iteshid. Ali Pasha had tendered his migna tion as minister of foreign affairs, but was persuaded by the Sultan to rental,, in office. Thus no change whatever has been indicated as yet in the policy of the government by the disgrace of Iteshid. film Pacha, formerly the rival of the lato Grand Vizier, is spoken of as likely to be appointed Seraskier. the affair of the holy places is still iu suspense. GREECE. The llionileur Parisien publishes a telegraphic despatch, dated Athens, Feb. 1, stating that a new change in the cabinet was probable. M. Trikoupi, minister at Constantinople, had been at first spokta of as the new president of the ministers, and alter wards M. Ambrosiades. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMERS WASHLNG- TON AND AMERICA. (A telegraphic summary of the following appeared in our edition on Saturday.) On Saturday morning the United States Mail Steam-ship Washington, Captain Floyd, arrived off Cowes on her way to Bremen. She left New York on the 31st of January. Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 1,0001. for Bremen, 33,000/. for Havre, and 20,0001. for England. The New York papers brought by her contain several days' later news from California, Oregon, and Nicaragua, but it is more voluminous than interest ing. Tho New Turk Herald says : There is nothing of uarsual interest in all this intelli glace, if we except the accounts of the very friendly meet ing of the American and British vessels of war at Sin Juan, the ease of the late outrage of the British brig of war Eames' against the American flag. The acts and seta rity of Mr. James Green, of Oxeytown, in behalf of the King of Mosquito, are disavowed, as also the insult span the Prometheus, and we are intimated that the British cabinet will make it all right. The rainy season had set in all over California, doing considerable damage to property, sad it is very likely that the neat intelligence upon this subject will be still more disastrous, if we are to judge from the heavy snows along the Atlartic seaboard. The business and financial interests of California continue prosperous, and without any material change. The intelli genee from the Sandwich Wands is of an encouraging cha racter to the friends of the Bimini kingdom. The reports of an invading expedition from the western shores of America are all dissipated. The islands will continue to advance with rapid strides hereafter. They may hereafter belong to us ; but for the present they arc better as they are, and sea half.way depot for our steamers to China, Japan, &e., &e., &e. Our advice. from liavannah are ten days later. There is no news of political or commercial im portance. Quietness prevails is all parts of Cuba. In the mining districts several new discoveries of gold and auriferous quartz are announced. The ac counts include also the usual large number of mur ders, dreadful accidents, &c. On the trial of Cap ' tain Waterman for assaulting a number of seamen on board the ship Challenge, the jury could not agree upon a verdict and were discharged. Being put on trial on a second indictment, ho was found guilty. The Indian difficulties are quelled for the present, but fears are entertained of a further outbreak. Koesuth was still at Pittsburgh and continued to receive addressee from nearly all classes. He had not however succeeded in removing the indifference or opposition of the Homan catholics, who disavow ' him because they believe that he has made common cause with the European socialists and red repub limas. " Though Kossuth," rya their mouthpiece, a certain Bishop O'Connor " disavows their principle*, and though we believe him sateen, yet he has, nevertheless, professed a community of interest with them, and they have hailed him as their brother in Marseilles and London. Besides idend himself with socialists, Kossuth has stooped to grearantsnt of England to • degree which amemmily aiiismaed na. The sods are not yet green over the bogiesof MOM than • million of victims of British policy. The haggard osustenanees of other millions are cr)ing to heaven against that government, on whose course the Life or death of the nation hangs." The following is from a New York correspondent : NEW YORK, JAM. 31. The complaints lately entered by certain captains and merchants of Liverpool against the pilots of the Mersey, but more particularly against the pilot sys tem there in force, has excited considerable attention here. The charges made appear to have been hardly sustained by such witnesses as were called; but the importance of a well regulated and thoroughly effi cient pilot system cannot be overrated. Our own, though admitting of free competition amidst those seafaring men whose qualifications arc duly accre dited by a commere . el board, is yet subject to the most serious inconveniences. Incompetent men, shirking a good portion of the required examination by moans of certificates, force their way into the service, and, by their ill-manage ment, engender a distrustfulness on the part of captains said merchants, many of whom will not accept any pilots but those accredited by the Cham ber of Commerce. Thus you see, the master of a ship has the option of taking on board whom he will; and this power has never been, and cannot be, contested. Free competition, however, has this advantage, that a yawl ready to enter is never delayed long for proffer of service. Nor is the chance of incept- rase arta° Fier bimm a Le haa a nd ut c apital =DIY tl Ai cial the fu vs m man. Kt>. lavibl ) T 1 Hay Hali for s . • vntli pellc even ship tion !mean hart TI Al that of tl o ' the Peal vary 6th, to I Can Ass last debt 1113 t and stat