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In addition to everything relative to tee Exposition, this amble Sheet will give General News, and will, moreover, especially attend to all Cairene Elmo , in Literature, Science, and Art. On tr.,' d,v e Kopp% Seordity the price of the EXPRESS he Threesomes, u heretofore. ADVEUTISEMENTS. The great value of the " EXHIBITION EXPRESS " its a radium, mast be evident to advertiser. All advirtistments must he st the °flee in Whitehiars at (*before Eight in the Evening of oath Friday, to lame In . sertkai is the mamba at the following day. the erpreoo. whilst his King profited largely by the more luxurious habits of the north German populatirm. Prussis, in fact, seer Seed lee revenue to her political importance, m thief of the Z 'Uremia. Austria cannot supply the place of Prussia in this respect. Her subjects are all poor and of email con sumption. Ste has come forward, moreover, with a great reduction of hgr custom tariff, or a proposed reduction, bringing tattiest all the duties en colonial articles very nearly to the level of the Zollverein, and thereby removing objections on the part of the people of suck states as may join the customs union. The revenue and the e xchequer of these states are to be indemnified however, it would appear, by an increased excise, and by the institution of tobacco and other monopolies, after the Austrian fashion. The mono roly, to be imposed upon the South Germans, and the Suabians, and the Hungarians, at the same time, cannot but give rime to great discontent. In the tariff project we notice some very ominous omissions. There is not one word slid of iron, whilst it is announced that the committee could come to no resolution on the subject of cotton yarn or twist. The raw material of manufacture, such as cotton, is indeed to be admitted at a nominal duty, but the article manufactured even in the slightest degree, is to be burdened with duties far exceeding the tariff of the Zollverein. This, it is expected, will recompense the Suabian manufacturers for the additional excise. Should this scheme of an Austrian customs union succeed, all we con say of Prussia is, that she is most deservedly punished and dethroned. But the combination of Austria, of Hun gary, of South Germany, including , perhaps,Ssxony ; of Lombardy, Tuscany, and through influence the chief portions of Italy, all these countries, and forts, and rivers, rendered at one fell swoop subservient to the commercial policy of the cabinet of Vienna, is likely to be far more detrimental to us than even to, Prussia. We have, however, strong faith in the progress and prevalence of the intellectual and advanced por Lions of humanity over the laggard and the be nighted. And we believe as little in the duration of an Austrian commercial league, as of a SCIIWAR UN BERG despotism for Germany. Both are forging the fetters in cobweb, which the first move of the German people would annihilate sod brush away for ever. But the pusillanimity and treachery of the Prussian cabinet have rendered any and every scheme of ty ranny possible for the moment. TO CORRESPONDENTS. daretlarseata intended foe "The Ewen," Larks Vial.' paper, coat tte at the I tfice, 10, Bourefirstroo4 0 7 Tim , °V.& 00 L l . l day of pub.tcatetu. 111 OR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trigs Lha—Moiami, 9b. 44e.. Alterseca, lob. Mu. To. roasuw —Mania& 1011. Sts Alsersoas, I Id 30n. LONDON, MONDAY. JANUARY 13. UNDER is arearwhat incongruous heading, in large capitals, of " PAPAL AGGRMION—REVIVAL of CONVOCATION," a meeting of the clergy and laity of the church of England is summoned for to-morrow at the Freemasons' Tavern. By whom called it is not, however, stated; but as reference is made in the summons to the Metropolitan Church Union, it is not unreasonable, from the antecedents of that body, to suppose, by the leaders of that party in the church which, in the proceedings against Bishop HAMPDEN, attempted to clip the power of the Crown in the ap pointment of bishops, which in the proceedings spinet Mr. GoRnANt attempted to destroy the com prehensive character of the church of England, which in the proceedings at St. Martin's Hall in the course of last summer attempted to explain and argue away the Royal Supremacy in affairs ecclesiastical, and which by its whole course of plicy is attempt leg to confer on the church some inherent power over faith and discipline, by restoring to it what, in the episcopal cant of the day, is called its synodical action—by, in short, the party who would infuse the spirit of papacy into the church of England —the tractariane, the Puseyites, the high churchmen, or by what other name they are known or designated. In this, as in all other parties, there are, of course, various grades rf opinions. There are some that, with the reverend gentleman who in October last in troduced discord into tie Bristol Cteurch Union, by giving notice of a motion to the effect that the Pore was the heed of the Christian Church, keep their eyes steadily fixed on Rome. There are probably a few who, with Mr. PALMER, prefer the Greek schismatiee' to the Romish heretics. More who, like Dr. PesiT, claim for the English church powers akin to that of Rome without adopting all the corruptions of Rome. Not a few who, with Mr. SEwELL, actk a new orga nisation by which to develop the " freedom" of the church of Eogland when they get it. Many who are misled by the pretty picture drawn by Bishop WIL BERFORCE of our reformed establishment being a re vival of an ecclesiastical will-o'-the-wisp called the Anglo-Saxon church. The majority, however, pro bably consisting of t hat passionate old high church faction which has irrevocably identified itself with ---- 7 No transient or merely diplomatic triumph, ob tained by the despotic, the catholic, the rineic and retrograde portion of Germany over the more tho roughly German, free thooghted, constitutional, and commercial region of that great country, can make us swerve from upholding the cause of the latter. If oonatitutional Germany has succumbed, this has been owing to its own internal jealousies and divisions, to those of reigning famili. s and donee, and to the very Intelligence of the people themselves, who cannot be led to combat or roused to resistance, except for a great principle, whilst the hordes of the South march at their rulers' bidding, scarcely caring or inquiring to what they are conducted. Yet even this natural frowardness and divergence of opinion seed not have so prostrated • great military country like Prussia, before foes, whom the Hungarians so boldly resisted and held at bay, had those at the head el the Prussian government possessed even &moderate quantity of consistency and courage. We do not regret having hoped and trusted till the last moment, that the great national and constitutional cause would have been sustained by that dynasty, whose fortune and rank de pended ePogether on its success. We should pre fer to have seen the German constitutional cause established by the instrumentality of a king and his counsellors. This WILLIAM of ORANGE accomplished in England, and his success did more for the mrintenanee of 'doily government than all the acts of the STUMM worked for its destruction. Germane, however, can henceforth have no faith in dynasties or in princes. 'their trust must be in them selves, in the spirit which resents their wrongs and cherishes their rights, in the prudence that knows how to bide its time, and the wisdom that provides in the silence of indignant suffering and servitude for avoiding past errors and taking full advantage of future opportunities. Fur the final result we entertain no fear whatever. The flatheads and the Nez Perch, those Indian tribes that inhabit the great plains at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, will subject the active and intelli. gent races of the United States just as soon as the Bavarian, the Carinthian, and the Selavonian will tread down and subject the descendants of LUTHER, of lietenea, and of STeIN. And, indeed, had those stalwart and savage Bohemians, Count SCiIwARZEN BERG and Tuttle, made use of their pre asst conquest of Germany to forswear their own barbarism, and adopt for Austria the cowl tutimalism, liberties, and self-government indi genous to the north, they might then create • Germany, and permit Austria to be • part of it. But SCIMAKZENUERG has evidently no such ideas. 'Dui use that he has made of his triumph has not been to unite or to conciliate, but to humiliate and insult. The language of his despatches is degrading to the Prairies King, ulcerating to the Prussian nation. And his policy is like his despatches. It amounts to • proscription of all constitutional independence, a denial of all popular rights. It is literreaelen's despotism without his urbanity ; and his contempt for infant freedom changed to hatred for freedom already grown to man's estate. The more harsh the policy of the Austrian megneror, the more insolent his triumph, the wider has grown the schism, the more inveterate the hatred between north and south, and between the German and the non-German element in central Europe. Scitwartzt• BERG hopes to crush the Germans by the non-Germans, and to form a new confederation in which Sclavonic votes and interests, shall prevail morally and physically —over the moral desires as well as over the mate rial wants of the Germans. This may be done os paper. It may indeed be drawn out upon parch ment and in letters of gold, be enthroned at Frankfort as the charter of a new era, and have the sanction of every crowned and mitred head in Europe. And yet it is but so much empty sheepskin and waste paper. The Russian and the Schism, notwithstanding their increosiag military superiority, cannot seriously, and for any time, make laws for the German race and country in the middle of the nicetesnth cen tury. The Ruseien-Sclavonic invasion may indeed prevail for a season as the French invasion did. The confederation of the Rhine, and the infeodation of Germany to France lasted its few years, and looked at its ootausencensent as a thing that a century could sot shake. The yoke of NICIIOLAS and of &Ewen- Zatterao wants, however, the prestige of NAPOLEON, and cannot last even so long. No ; not although an Austrian legion has penetrated to the Eyder. The political yoke is fast making itself manifest. Already the Sta.dtholderate of Holstein has sur- rendered unconditionally, and V . z e r a. up the rights and liberties of the duchies to the The Ilessians are at the mercy of their Reams. And the com mission at Dresden, charged with examining the question of a German executive, have separated on the impossibility of agreeing. No doubt. The con ference of Dresden was but a farce to throw a slight curtain over the last scene of the drama, till the public were prepared for it, and that last scene is the re storation of the old Diet in all its tyranny and in capacity, with Austria, of course, as its fitting head. But what is more immediately important to us are the effects upon free trade, and upon our own trade with Germany likely to result from the partial breaking up of the Zollverein, and the groat extension of Austrian commercial and fiscal principles east, math, and north. It is clearly and truly perceived by the Austrian minister that what gave power and presumption to Prussia to compete with the court of Vienna, and claim precedence over the Sclavonic empire in Germany, has been its success in the great question of commercial union. To dethrone Prawn& from this pee-eminence, as from military and political equality with Austria, is evidently the present aim; and for this purpose , the Austrian government has put forth a project for • new tariff, destined to entice the amithern and some even of the northern states of Ger miey, away from the Zollverein. What chiefly binds the kings of the south, such as Bavaria, to the Prussian 'loll • , is the gnat issreme of revenue that the customs union afforded , •them. Whilst the amount levied was raised ..'ablefly on the richer and more largely con e/ming north, the distribution of the rum was proportioned to the population, so that the rade Bavaria n , . who knows scarcely what sugar is, 'attributed little to the revenue by his 000nampiim, Purreyisen. The complaint of all the various grades in this strange and heterogeneous mixture of learning ran ccad and ecelesiastical ambition over the traces, of priestly folly and lay stupidity,is that the church wants power; that being crippled ehe cannot withstand Rome. Give her freedom, they add, and she will do. They do not say, indeed, what she will ao—that we are to imagine. Power —power—power is what they want and ask for ; and how churchmen use power when they have it, all hiatory testifies. They want power for the church of England, OA claiming divine authority ; they want power for themselves, as having sacerdotal functions in that church ; they want power over us. the laity of England, as being bound, they say, to conform and yield obedience to that divine church placed in this oar land, and to them its appointed sacrificial priest hood ; they want power to give their decrees as to faith, order, and discipline, the force of laws of this land; they want power to restrict the prerogatives of the sovereign, and to coerce the consciences tithe people of this realm. They may clothe their designs in gentle sounds and in mild phraseology ; they may addresses in the language of liberty and in the words of peace; they may produce texts from Scripture, praises from the fathers, and reecripts of the lower empire to delude us ; but this is what is I meant ; this is the legitimate consequence of their pretensions. " I fear for the English," said Father Petm, writ ing under not very dissimilar circumstances in 1609 ; " I hold in suspicion that great power of the bishops, though in subjection to the sovereign. I seem to see the horse saddled in England, and think that before keg, the old rider soiU mount. But all things are under Providence." And the " old rider" would assuredly mount if these men could have their way. Let it then be our duty to do battle for every inch of the country that lies between them and victory ; we shall then keep the " old rider " out of the saddle they have ready for him. The freedom which they claim for the Church of England is based on two assumptions ; first, that she is a divinely appointed church; secondly, that by the old constitutions of this realm, she is a church pos sessing synodical authority. Both are, however, gratuitous assumptions: the one as devoid of scrip tural, as the other is legal authority. That there is a church of divine appointment, no one denies. But it is the Church, or Kingdom of Christ; and for any human church to substitute itself for that church is little short of blasphemy. The object of a human church is to gain admittance for its members into that divine church ; and the latter consists of all the units coctributed to it by human churches. The people in this country have adopted the Church of England as the moat likely organisation by which to be led into the higher and holier church ; but in doing so they have not claimed for the church of England any of its attributes. On the contrary, they have ex primly laid down in its articles that it may "err.' " the grossest mistakes," says Bishop HOADLET, in that noble sermon which in 1717 produced the Ban goriest Controversy," in judgment about the nature of Crater's kingdom or church have arisen from hence, that men have argued from other visible societies and other visible kingdoms of this earth what ought to be visible and sensible in Hie kingdom : con stantly leaving out of their notion the most essential part of it, that Caller is King in his own king dom: forgetting this King himself, because he is not now seen by mortal eyes : and substituting others in his place as lawgivers and judges on the sense point, in which he mast either be alone, or not at all, • lawgiver and king." Now this detect is exactly what the people going to assemble in Free masons' Hall are about to display: they wish to occupy the place of lawgivers in a church or kingdom in which there is and can be no lawgiver but ONE ; for, as HOADLET remarks in the same sermon, to im pose a sense upon old laws is the same thing as making new ones. . As little doubt is there that there was once in actl hefty tn the church of Ecgland a convocation. But that convocation wee never such an organisation ae these men now seek to establish. Prior to the Refor ,aaatlen it we/14101y a body by which the clergy oat. triboted to the support of the state from the general taxation of which they were supposed to be free. At the Reformation its power to enact w hat S lethal AELFOIIB - in exatnioing,tit LerdHennwlext'e request, the monstrous pretensions contained in Bishop Giesori's Codes, expressively terms " bye-laws" foe the church, was, by the Statute of Submission, confined within very narrow limits; s 3 narrow, that real power it had none left, and even in popish times it required a royal license to deliberate on any subject even of discipline. The use of Convocation expired in 166.5, when the clergy gave up the right of self taxation, receiving in exchange the (privilege of plinked. suf frage. Since then it has occasional,/ flickered; but the sparks always threatening danger to the church, it has long since practically ceased to exist. And its revival now would not achieve the object aimed at by the Pussyites. To achieve that object the Convocation would have to be remodelled, and power could only be infused into it by diminishing the power of the Crown and Parliament. Are the people of England prepared for that? Are they pre pared to see the royal supremacy frittered away in order to place power in the hands of churchmen! Are they prepared to see Par•liament exempt the church from the sphere of its authority? These are questions that must be answered affirmatively before any men can give his support to any proposal to re vive Convocation. The Convocation that Puseyites want is a Convo cation possessing power such as general c3uncils of the Romish church claim to have—power such as the papacy in modern times exercises—power professing to have its origin in divine right. And of it may be said what Sir MICHAEL FORSTER in 1736 said of such pretensions generally :- 1 would not be undercood to insinuate that the supremacy of the Pope is a necessary coneequence from the divine right of episcopal jurisdiction. But I believe I may venture to affirm that the divine right appropriated by ecciesimtics is the cursed root of bitterness whence the papal supremacy sprung. And if the principle of a right of jurisdiction wide rived from the civil magistrate doth not always lead to the popery of the church of Rome, it leads to a state of things equal 4 mischievous and more absurd—l mean a popery at our mos doors. Our ancestors, at or about the time of the Reformation. had plainly this notion of the matter; and therefore they did not content themselves with bravely abo lishing the usurped power of the Bi'hop of Rome, but went to the root of the evil, and declared that ell jurisdiction, as well ecclesiastical as civil, is vested in, and exercised by, delegation from the crown. What they then wisely did, let it be our duty care fully to protect and perpetuate. For Account. PAIL'S, lA.+. 11. I For Money. Opening Ililehrot.l Lowest.' Closing pate whose rule is indispensable to them, the leadingl ceedings of this oommiesion than to those of either of men of the Chamber would have take n a mach I the others. The states represented in it are Austria, wiser and more dignified course in not retaliatiog Prussia, Saxony, Hanover, Wirtemburg, Baden, Saxe tit on the Elysee, but in demonstrating to the Prat- Coburg, Hamburg, and Oldenburg. The sitting yes dent the impracticability of his governing the country terday lasted but a very short time. The represents.- without regarding the sentiments of the parliamen- tive s of Saxony and Bavaria handed in memorials tary majority. As it is, they have east stone for whichi n many points are understood to be ahkel; stone, and the government can, in deference to its they are precisely the same as those whir own honour, only defy them until they change their the governments of the two countries caused mood. What earthly goad can result from raking to be presented to the Congress of the up the old stories of Satory, Neumayer, and the Dix Zollverein at Cassel. The proceedings of this con- Deeembre ? All that they can prove by such gives have not been made public, but it is well known a course is, that the man who must govern that the memorials then presented by the Saxon and them is unfit to govern them. Id. Thiers Bavarian representatives contained proposals for and his compeers may, with the minutes paving the way for a customs union with Austria, a of the Permanent Committee in their hands, measure whi.:h both documents recommended in the step forward and say, "Here are the reasons why we strongest possible manner. The Saxon memorial, object to the removal of a pledge for the maintenance moreover, was understood to have been very consi ot order like General Changarnier ; here are the derably biassed by the leaning of the government reasons why we will not become the ministry of Louis towards Austria, and the desire to escape from the Napoleon. Who is secure against his coups d'etat f influence of Prussia. In Magdeburg, also, the Saxon May he not dismiss us, as he did MM. Barret and Dm government supported a highly beneficial measure faure, to make a fresh experiment of personal policy ? proposed by Aostria, which would have equally facili- You talk to us of the President's message, of his toted the customs union with the latter empire : that well-meaning intentions, but can we forget the im- measure was the total abolition of the Elbe dues. perialiet intrigues in which he has tampered, and of The government of Prussia, however, opposed the which the proof lie here? As well treat a lunatic total abolition, and recommended a reduction of one because be has lucid intervals." It is well to weigh half. On every other point convected with the both sides; and both are so much in the wrong that it question of a customs union with Austria, the were rash to say on which side lies the right. government of Saxony is prepared to give an Meanwhile one important symptom is disclosed in unqualified assent, but I am not certain the debates which took place on M. de itemusat'e whether the memorial presented this morning motion in the bureaux. All the Orleanists, and contains any direct allusion to the Austrian places or Thiers among the chief, were profuse in protestations any direct promise to support them. It recommends of attachment to the republic. If the present in @trot g language a customs union, and deals at situation of conflict is prolonged, a clear premium great length with the question of the Elbe dues. is held out for the outbreak of a legitimist plot. The Bavarian memorial is, as I have said before, very The bureaux of the Assembly met yesterday, to similar to the Saxon, but I understand that while appoint the committee for examining the several recommending a customs union with Austria, as propositions relative to the exercise of arrest for debt necessary to the prosperity of Germany, it also against the representatives. The majority of the ba- alludes to the existing Zollverein, and expresses the reaux appeared to prefer the proposition of M. Pou- desire that some kind of representation of the in geard, whose principle was borrowed from that of terests of each state belonging to it should be England, having for its object to consider as having admitted into its constitution. I hope to procure the forteited his seat every member who, after three documents themselves. months from notice given to the qaestors of the The Saxon government are about to make a new Assembly, should not have satisfied his creditor. M. loan of 13 millions of dialers. Berryer thought that the report of the committee I see the Berlin papers state that the congress of should support the decision of the Assembly, and con- the Zollverein is to be resumed at Wiesbaden. sidered that in the affair of Ni. Mauguin there had A letter of the same date, in the Constitutionnelk been an encroachment by the judicial authorities. 70 , thing, says : The Duke de Broglie thought that the inviolability "Little transpires of what passes in the Conferences. of the representatives extended only to the opinions In the first committee a proposal for the organisation expreesed at the tribune, and not to his private per- of the highest Diet authorities was made to the see. He required that in civil matters, when the following effect .• The central power to consist of proceedings are legal, an authorisation should not be seven factors (fictoren) and nine votes. Two of refused. As to the compulsory vacating the seat, M. these factors, with two votes, to be Austria and de Broglie objected to it, and thought such a provi- Prussia. The remaining five votes to be divided Mon could only take place in the electoral law. M. among the remaining states. This council of states Datum said it was necessary to settle the question, to possess the executive—in exceptional cases, the and to put an end to the uncertainty in which it legislative power also. The legislative body, con placed the law officers. He did not admit the aim- sieting of thy plenum of the princes and free states of lute inviolability. If the constitution did not speak of Germany, to assemble once a year," Oa this proposi arrest for debt, it was that a decree had *us; ended its tion being set forth Bavaria, we are informed, claimed exercise. With this fact beforethem, and with thedonbt an entire vote, which claim was neither contested by which (xi/red as to the maintenance of the arrest for Austris nor by Prussia. Wurtemburg claimed a fourth debt, it was not possible to mention it in an article vote. Saxony and Hanover made a similar demand; of the constitution. It was understood that in a po- so that one vote only remained for the rest of litical matter the representative would not be rm Germany. The first committee has, as already spooeible, but the same reason did not prevail as to stated, come to no resolution," civil matters. In criminal matters all was arranged. The most reasonable manner of settling the question is to make a decree, which leaves to the Assembly the right of examining the authorisation ch mended as to arrest for debt, which could not be exercised without previous authorisation. Public opinion would be satisfied by making a rule so sim ple that the representatives are, like all other citizens, liable to arrest in civil matter-, pro vided the authorisation of the Assembly be ob tained. M. Lequien thought the cases of vacating the seat for debt and on bankruptcy might be made analogous. Amongst many members, and particu larly among those of the Mountain, there prevailed an opinion that the representatives should be ob.°. lutely inviolable. M. Dupont (de Bussac) thought no trader should have the right to deprive a hundred thousand electors of their representation for a cause of private interest. M. Michel (de Bourges) saw in the provision tending to a compulsory vacating of the seat the restoration of the privilege of the rich. Several other members of the Mountain and par ticularly M. Madier de Montjau, opposed the proposition as illogical, unconstitutional, and opposed to the dignity of the Assembly. He reminded the bureau that preceding charters, less liberal than the constitution, had established the:principle:ot the invio lability of the representatives. M. Morellet insisted on the abolition of arrest for debt. M.M. Emile, Leroux, Garnon, and Vavin, spoke in favour of the application of the ordinary law to the representatives, but this opinion met with but little support. The bureaux finally named as a committee, M. Odilon Barret, President ; M. Houle, Secretary; and as members, MM. Martel, Garnon Cretan, Ternaux, De Charency,Grimsult,Moulin,Sauvaire-Barthelemy, Heurtier, Lamm, Lequien, Thomine Desmasures, Leon de Malleville, Vitet, BOURSE. CASSEL, JAN. 0. For the last eight days a permaorrt military tribunal has bren established here. It consists of an upper tribunal, an under tribunal, and a committee of inquiry. The first is composed of three Austrian and two Bavarian officers. The under tribunal cm sista of three Bavarian and two Austrian offi.ers, and the court of inquiry is comprised of one Bavarian and one Austrian officer. _ - . — The City Council being assured by Count Lein ingen, both verbally and by writing, that the " severest measures' were in contemplation it and - they should continue to hold out, that on their submission compulsive measures would cease altogether, sent in yesterday their submission. The " executive" now should be c moldered as over, and now is the time for General Peucker to act his part, which has been hitherto only that of a spectator of Count Leiningen's proceedings. Count Leiniugen published yesterday a permi , - Bien for the re-appearance of the late forbidden journals in Cassel. They are still forbidden through out the rest of the electorate. MUNICH, JAN. 6.—ln the course of this month the Augsburg-Ulm telegraphic line will be opened, and the oft-mentioned ambulant post be at last estab lished. _ _ . • CARLSRIME, JAN. B.—By the arrival of the Aus trian-Venice regiment in the fortress of Radstadt, the garrison for the time is settled, but not definitively established. For Prussia we heat has not yet spoken out upon the subject ; probably she will not do so till the conferences are over; and it is not unlikely that Radstadt may eventually be garrisoned like Mayne. by Austrians and Prussians jointly. TREWS, JAN. B.—Yesterday the former member of the Reichstag, Louis Simon, received sentence of death for high treason. Stumm, Jam. 11.—Volun.ary Loan, 1061 ; New Loan, Four and a-Half per Cent..., 994; Natioaal Debt, 844; Com mercial Marisa Society's Premium,l2o; Bank 88aree, 954. VINNNA, ,JAN. 10.—Five par Cent. Idstalliques, 95; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 821. Bunk Shares, 1136. litchange on London, 12.44. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13. 1851. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The event of chief importance is the formation of a parliamentary committee to propose the measures commanded by circumstances. Tee composition of this committee, which has to-day chosen the Due de Broglie for president, and M. Lanjuinais, a member of the tiers partie for secretary, shows that it is hostile to the government, but se with the exception of MM. Bens and Nettement,who have always dis tinguished themselves by their vehement opposition to the government of the President, the committee is in geetral composed of moderate men, it is certain that no measures will be recommended, which will result in throwing the country into a revolutionary path. The first step of the committee has been to demand the communication of the pro eis-verlerus of the committee of permanence. Not only did the government cell upon the house to comply with this request, but M. Baroche challenged their publication. The voluminousness of these docu ments, which will take some time to print, renders it probable that some days e ill elapse before the com mittee will adopt any decisive course, as their conclu sions will be based upon the study of these printed minutes. As these chiefly refer to the questionable proceedings of the Bonapartist clubs during the recess, and to the system of treating the troops with cham pagne at the reviews with a view to getting up an imperialist demonstration, it seems as if a reso lution was in contemplation condemning the dismissal of Changarnier as the removal of the only guarantee against the ambitious projects cherished by the I President. Any how it will be exceedingly diffi cult for the committee to formulate any ' resolution which will gain a majority in the Assem ' bly, for if an eulogy of General Changpriiier should be introduced into their motion the Left to a man will ' vote sgaiost it. In the mean time I hear that the com mittee will call on the ministers and General Clan gamier to appear in its presence to give explanations. The ministers are evidently in no mood to retreat before a vote, which is not of the most decidedly hos tile character, and equivalent to a direct vote of want of confidence. The journals of the Elyiffie are very quiet to-day. I hear that all of them have received hints from the government not to irritate the majority in the Assem bly by any attack. Changaruier has removed from the Tuileries to a lodging in the rue St. Honore. The committee chosen by the bureaux to carry out the proposition of M. de Itemusat is composed of the following representatives, which I name in the order of the bureaux :—Bixio, Bsze, Cavaignse, Buffet, Montebello, Flaodin, Nagy, Gustave de Beaumont, Daru, de Broglie, Nettement, Lanjuinais, De Mornay, Lamartine. To-day the committee has chosen M. de Broglie for president, and M. Lanjuinais for secretary ; thus showing itself favourable to the proposition of M. de Remusat. The minority of the committee, favourable to the government, who voted against M. de &mood's pro position, consists of Buffet, formerly minister of public works under Civaignac ; Flandio, and Limartine. All the others voted for the proposition with the exception of Morellet, who abstained. The most vehement opposers of the government are Bice and Nettement. Gustave de Beaumont, Darn, Bixio, so will be seen from their speeches, deprecate all wild measures, such as placing Chsngarnier at the head of the troop ; and, in fact, the majority of the committee, if disposed to vindicate the dignity of the Assembly, are by no means inclined to encourage revolutionary On the opening of the sitting great agitation pre vailed in the Assembly. All the ministers, with the exception of M. nacos, were present. M. Hendon proposed to adjourn the third deliberation on the commercial rigime of Algeria, on account of the pre occupation of the Assembly. This adjournment, opposed by M. Dufaure, was not adopted by the Assembly. The bill was definitively adoved by 563 votes against 112. During this discussion M.Duvin had quitted the chair, and was replaced by M. Leo - n Fau cher. In fact, the committee appointed yesterday had sent M. Darn to fetch the president of the Mumble. M. de . Broglie, having been appointed president of the committee, came to explain to the Assembly that the committee desired the communication of the pro ci.-verbaux of the committee of permanence, and as this communication could not be made with out the authorisation of the Assembly, he came to demand that authorisation. M. Baroche demanded not only the communication to the committee, but the publication of the procis verbatiz. It had been said yesterday, that the ileum hiy had had the generosity not to publish the procia verbotts. The government demanded the concurrence f all members of the Assembly, but it did not stand in need of the generosity of any. (Movement.) The ministers still insisting upon the publication of the procis-eerbeux, M. Bete, the irascible questor, got into a violent rage, and gesticulated furiously, but could not be well heard, owing to the noise. He said that M. Baroche was greatly mistaken if he thought that he (M. Base) was opposed to the publication of these minute. of the permanent committee. ' The publicatson of the procia-verbaux was voted unanimously. During a suspension of the sitting, MM. Bue and Baroche appeared engaged in a vehement altercation. • The third deliberation on the bill relative to judi r cial assistance was adjourned. The sitting broke up without any further incident of importance. SUNDAY Events°. The committee for the vindication of the Aseem. bly's dignity held a long sitting to-day. The minutes of the Committee of Permanence will take a couple of days to print. The report can hardly be ready before the middle of the week. The 'putt of the measure proposed by M. de Remneat was an unfortunate one, and the first drat measure which the committee has taken, in call ing for the minutes of the Committee of Perm►nence, only tends to exacerbate the contact between the two powers, at a moment when the least incident might give birth to a revolutionary conflagration. Instead of aiming at the derecaatica of a magi*. 5 per Centa. ....... '66 63 ' 56 45 56 60 IS 20 56 55 3 per Cana. 94 44 94 10 94 50 id 95 94 50 5 do. New Loan 94 25 94 03 94 15 94 05 9. 15 It 0 4 per Cents . le Elth9llol on Lowdgi :at sigh " i 5 21;1 0 dam& SS. " ealgLin, 5, 1810 Da. 5, 1649 Do. 41 Do. 24 lB5O „ Tremary Bootie 4l ie Piedmont 3 peaCtata. 94 80 i• Bash Shull 9232 30„ GERMANY. (TILIORAPILIC DZIMITCH HIEL, JAN. 11. _ _ . The Aseembly yesterday, in a secret . sitting, re solved, by a majority of 42 again-t 26 votes, to authorise the acceptance of the demands of the coin mieaioners ; but only on the condition that Rends burg and Fredricksort remain in the possession of Schleswig Holstein troops. KIEL, lAN. 9. Accoriing to private information which may be relied on, the following are the conditions the Aus trian commissioner would lay on the Stadtholderate : the Schleswig Holstein army to be withdrawn over the Eider, and reduced to a third of its present force; the Danes also to reduce their army in Schleswig, nevertheless being at liberty to maintain garrisons on all points of danger, even in Rendsburg ; the Assembly to be dissolved; the Stadtholderste to remain till two German and one Danish commissioner under take the direction of affairs. For the release of prisoners, or a general amnesty, Austria will give guarantees. The Prussian demands are the same as these. HAMBURG, JAN. 10. All that we know positively with respect to what is going on between the commissioners and the Stadt holderate is, that unconditional submission is re quired. Yesterday the Stadtholderate consulted with General Horst, who, it is said, dissuaded them from a submission without terms. From the character of the man, and the confidence he may have in the Rends burg fortress, it is easy to believe he would give this advice. BERLIN, Lis. 10. M. Mantenffel has gone to Dresden : his return the day after to-morrow is awaited in ministerial circles with a good deal of anxiety. Daring his absence M. Lccocq officiates for him in the Foreign-office. To-morrow a sitting of the Second Chamber will take place. VIENNA, Us. 9. The bank directors have resigned their Posts. The Vienna Zeitung gives the postponed budget for the second quarter of 1850. The total amount is 47,460,761 florins ; the total expenditure, 66,045,892 guilders, making a deficit of 18,585,130 guilders. Riots have taken place at Fiume. The Croatian population of that city have palled down tie Austrian fin, and hoisted the Croatian banner instead. Our correspondent at Dresden writes u follows: _ _ DRESDEN, Lx. 8. The second commission. as was expected, has sepa rated without coming to any result. The same pro endings took place as in the first; different projects were proposed, several memorials pro and con. read, sad the only result of the three sittings which it has held will be a lengthy protocol. The last sitting took place yesterday. The third commission met this morning. It it presided over by Bavaria, and has to discuss the trade communication and navigation etc- done of the meditation. Under exisag dream duo% far pester importance attache. to the pro- BRAZILS. The Empress, Captain !garden, after a very rapid run of 24 days, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday, banging dates from Pernambuco to 17th Dec., and I Bahia to llth. The Brazilian government was still actively en gaged in warlike preparations against Buenos Ayres. The screw steamer Esk, belongiug to the Weat India Mail Company, arrived at Pernambuco on the 15th December from Southampton, having occupied 35 days in the passage. Commercial affairs were not much changed. Sugar was in better demand, some purchases being made for the Mediterranean, consisting principally of fourth and low thirds, at 2 dole. 100 r. to 2 dole. L 2oor. Fine qualities were in request for native ports and the United States. About 3,300 tons would leave the ports for various places the week the Empress left. Cotton had fallen to 6 dole. 500 r. to 6 dole. 600 r., and but for the receipts at Pernambuco being light, prices would have gone lower. The receipts from Ist July were 20,247 bags. Hides had an advancing tendency. Irisa buyer was in moderate request at 600 r. per lb. Freights were steady. Sugar to iLiverpool, in bags, was quoted 405.; cotton to ditto, id. per lb. Exchange on London was quoted at 291 to 30:d. Rio Janeiro dates of 3rd December, state that ex change ruled at 29!d. to 30d. Good first quality coffee was quoted at 3 dole. 700 r., and the stock of all kinds was 140,000 bags. Freights to the Channel 57e. 6d. to 655. Nothing new in politics. The advice, from Bahia are to the 11th December. Exchange ruled at 30d. Sugar 2 dole. to 2 dole. 100 r. for white, and 1 dol. 600 r. to 1 doL 700 r. for muscovado. Freights 60s. to 70s. for sugar, and 75e. to 85s. for tobacco, to the Channel. BRISTOL MARINE BOARD.—Mean. Edwd. Drew, R. P. King, W. P. King, las. Cunningham, W. Braes, W. Patterson, R. Rowe, 3. K. Ilaberfield (mayor). and F. W. Green, the members of the Bristol Marine Board, hays re signed their appointments, and it is expected that the re maining member, P. W. S. Milos, Esq., M.P., who is absent from the city, will follow the example of his cAlowes. The proceeding hu arisen out of a dispute between the board and the government, the latter having refused to Bristol the ' privilege of examining for first-class certificates, which it is contended, on account of its large foreign trade, its position as the metropolis of the west of England, and its connexion with the ports of South Wales and Monmouthshire, it is entitled to equally with, if not in preerenco to, Glasgow, Newcastle, Shields, &c. The matter has given rise to • good deal of feeling, and it is not expected that any men of mercantile eminence or importance will be got to act on the local board ; if, indeed, any citizen can be found who, after what has taken place, will serve as a member. The opinion of the best informed hero is, that Mr. Labou there must have acted in mistake, being deceived by the largo coal tonnage of the northern ports, and probably bringing it (very absurdly) into comparison with the tonnage of foreign merchandise, and it is thought that some means will be found for bringing the subject again under the consi deration of the authorities. Bristol has • maritime trade with Africa, the West and But Indies, America, New Brunswick, Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, Sicily, Spain, Portu gal, France, Belgium, all the ports of the Baltic and the Mediterranean, in fact with all parts of the world, and the importance to seek a port of the privilege now refused must be obvious. A NEW GLASS AND IRON RAILWAY STATION.—OD Thursday the Buckinghamshire Railway Company con tracted with Mesas. Fox, Henderson, end Co., to erect a new station at Bewley, Oxford, which is to be constructed on the same principle as the building for the great Exhibition, and it is to be completed in three months. It is stated that this has to London is to be opened tot the Ist of May aut. NDIA AND CHINA. We have received a telegraphic despatch from Trieste in anticipation of the overland mail. _ _ The steamer Oriental arrived at Sucz from Cal cutta on the let, carrying 63 passengers, and the mails from Bombay of the 17th December, Calcutta of the 7,h December, Singapore of the 6 h December, and Hong Kong of the 24th December. The greatest tranquillity prevailed throughout India. A trifling encounter took place at the Kohat frontier, between the British troops, under Major Taylor, and the Wucker; the latter were repalsed by the British troops, and only one woanded. On the 31st of November the Governor-General set out from Amar Kullen to prccecd to Lemdar meet. . Malignant fever and dysentery are decimating the troops in the Parjaub. Sir Charles Napier was expected at Bombay on the 3rd of January. Sir William Gomm arrived at Calcutta on the 6th of December. The negotiations respecting the Calcutta Railroad have come to a stand-still. . . Java is tranquil. Piracies are still being perpe trated. _ Siam is tranquil, but apprehensions existed u to its future state. The King is constructing a fort. The Indian papers have late news from New South Wake, from which it appears there had been heavy gales, in which sundry vessels had gone ashore and been wrecked. Violent rains had fallen in the interior. The Legislative Council passed a vote against the transports of convicts in the colony. Trade Report.-11tmbay market brisk, with con. siderable supplies and lowering prices. Exchange on London, 2e. 24d. to four-eights; I freightage to Liverpool, 21. 10s. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA. Ewe market very brisk. ' . kgood harvest is expected. Indigo, SUM, and anis command high prices. fisltpetra and raw silk are firm; much was ding in import., espe cially in Lancashire invoices. The sugar harvest has been bad in Siam. Cotton is muck in demand at Canton, and commands high prices. lischange on England, 5i., 3.. 4d. to ss. 2d.; freights, 21. 2s. CHINA. Cotton in pieta not in usual demand of the PP3IIOII, mar ket choked, and pric.s pang down. Opium was going down; the stock on band is small and bad, and prance low. UNITED STATES. The Africa, Captain ltyrie, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, with dates from New York to the Ist inst. She brings only 25,000 dole. on freight. The Baltic &mild at New York on the Ist instant, after a passage of 17i days. She is reported to have run short of fuel. There is little political news of import. The House of Representatives, at Washington, had taken a respite for two days, and the Senate for one. Tne proceedings had not been very important in either branch of Congress. In the lower department the Cheap Postage II:11 was di s cussed. There is to be a convention held in Utica on the 28th of January, to be composed of a committee from each stock and mutual insurance company in the State. organised under the law of 1849. The object is to fix on a regular tariff of rates for insurar.ce. We karn, by this arrival, of the lies of Captain Knight, of the packet-ship Ivanhoe, who was washed overboard on the outward voyage. From Canada there is no news worth recording further than the commercial intelligence given below. The steam ship Ohio, on the passage from Ha vannab, damaged her anchoring, sprang a leak, and but fur the energy of the passengers would have been lost. Jenny Lind was expected at Havannah on the 4th inst. A revised tariff has been published augment. ing all articles of foreign importation j per cent.,and increasing the imposts on national imports by 1 7. It likewise augments the export duty on each box of sugar 50c , on each quarter of leaf tub tcco ex ported 29e and on every thonsind chests 25 % In imports this change is to take place on the Ist of Febraary, nod continue for two years, in exports from ti c Ist of January. Vessels from Europe are allowed to the Ist of March. _ _ . -- --- According to acvices from Nicaragua to the 18th of November, the ports of Salvador were then blockaded by the British, and those of Nicaragua threatened. It is stated that war had been prepared between Costa Ries and Nicaragua. The coffee crop was good, and prices high. The New York Tribune for Europe says: We have news from Valparaiso to Oct. 25, two days later than our previous dates. The extra session of Congress. which wee anticipated, had not taken place. The govern ment, although nominally conservative, are Cispmed to adopt Idxral mra, , ures for the encouragement of commerce. A railroad is soon to be commenced between &Mier° and Val ptraiso. Din Vicente Peri z has been app inted agent for the colocisation of Valdivia, and will take measures toeupply the emigrants on their arrival with such nece ssss lee of life u cannot be transported from Europe. Peru at Mix moment is in a wets of political tranquillity, although the election of the President is the all-absorbing subject with all psrties. The candidates for that office are Echenique, Virtue°, Goma, and Elias, of whom the first is the gavourite in the southern portion "t the republic. The affairs of Bolivia are still unset tled. Gen. Belem, who was assaulted and severely wounded by a party of conspirators, was slowly recovering A perma nent court-martial was in session, whose sentence was decisive and absolute. Col. Lsguea, President of the S'nate, was found guilty as an accomplice in the attack on Brine, and was shot on the 19th of September. Seven deputies, holding a prominent rank in the opposition party, had been ar rested, and it was supposed would share the same fate. New arrests and punishments were daily occurring, but the prin cipal conspirators were thought to be in concealment at Sucre, with the exception of Morales end Lopez, who had pro • bably crossed the frontier at Tarja. The zeal of the autho rities, with the influence of Beleta's name, had been sutcessful in the preservation of order. It was reported that General Ballivian had made his appearance on the soathern,frontier, at the head of 4,000 men, but this was not generally credited. A great impulse has been given to industry and enterprise on the island of Juan Fernandez. A company has been formed, with the exclusive privi lege from the government of occupying that island far a specified term of years. The object of the government in this arrangement is to colsnise and cultivate the isind, for which purpose it presents remarkable facilities It abounds in every variety of agricultural products, the climate is fertile, and there is a safe and commodious harbour for all commercial operations. A communication will be estab lished immediately between Valparaiso and Copiapo, in the first instance by sailing vessels and afterward by steamers. It was supposed that the island would soon become a phone of fashionable resort. NEW YORK, DEC. 31. MONIY 2ditnewr.—The demand for foreign exchange for remittance by the steam ship Africa, for Liverpool, has been moderate. There has been no material alteration in the rates. We quote on London at 101 to 101 per cent. prem. ; Paris, sf. 111 e. to sf. 10c., scarce. premium 60 to 831; Amsterdam, 415 to 415 ; Hamburg, 361 to 37, Corrog.—Since the 24th inst. we have had a fair inquiry for cotton both from domestic consumers and exporters. The Wes have amounted to 6,500 bales, of which the greatest portion has been for Franco. Prices have been firmly supported, and on some grades an advance was obtained up to the close of last week. Yesterday we received news per telegraph of the Baltic having put into Province Town,Cape Cod. The re ports that the Liverpool market had advanced id. per lb., with sales of 41,000 bales, led to an increase of business on the part of holders, who have obtained an advance of 5c., and show little disposition to make sales. The market closed last evening very firmly at the quotations. Inow.—The market remains firm, full prices being realised. 450 tons English bars afloat, and 40 tons in store, sold at 40 dole , and 500 tons of Scotch pig, one half to arrive. _ . _ TOBACCO.—The market for the various descriptions is firm, but dull ; and, though prime qualities have not varied, middling to medium leaf Kentucky had receded Bc. from the highest point. FLotra.—A moderate locsl demand for Western State* Cur. Prices are unchanged. Nothing doing for exports and the East. Canadian is firm and in moderate demand, at 4 dols. 870. Cluaix.—The market for domestic wheat is quiet. The firmness of holders restricted sales. The demand is only for small lots for milling. Canadian is held firmly, but prices are nominally at 1 dol. 60. to 1 dol. 12e. in lend. Freights were dull, and the engagements were light. For cotton for Liverpool 5 32d. to 3-16 d. was asked. Flour wen study at ls. 6d. Grain was nominal at 4,1 d. to sd. asked Chess* was taken at 20s. to Glasgow. Tierce beef was taken at 3s. 6d., and St. Domingo lo e wood at 15s . To Cali fornia dipper r ates were at 50c. to 60c. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29. _ _ Cotten has been very active. The sales oa Saturday were 8,000 bales, at full prices, owing to favourable accounts from New York. We quote middling at In. • MONTREAL, Dac 27 • _ Asses.—Pots mark to-day 255. 61. to 265. No pearls offering; probable pries of pearls, 261. FLOM—Since the Loge speculative purchase. last week, of No. 1 superfine, we have not heard of any but retail transactions. No. 1 superfine probably could not be pur chased under 215., while N. 2 sad evra rule as before. OaAIN. Plus, &c.—Western wheat, nose, L. C. red, 4a. 6d. to 4e. 7d. per miuot ; oats, la. 4d. ; peas, 21. 9d. to 2a. 104.; barley, 7x.101, to 3a.