The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

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Tor: note of triumph sounded by sonic of our ministraial contemporaries, on the strength of the division on Mr. LINUILSICei motion, is not very judichus. To declare that that division has placed the Ecclesiastical Titter; Bill out of danger, is to halloo before the hounds are out of the wood ; and, worse, it has the appearance of talking big to con ceal fear. Compared with the ministerial majority on the second reading. that on Mr. Uwe:nem s motion make, no great show; and though his mo- tion w:is skilfully worded, for the catching of loose' fish, it was PO palpably factious, and came from a quarter at which people are BO much accustomed to laugh, that the wonder is, so many were persuaded to exhibit themselves as its supporters. The really dangerous assaults on the measure threaten it from a very different quarter. Men like tiir HMIS INGLIS and Mr. PLUSIPIKE are not likely to be caught by motions which directly or indi rectly aim at diverting the expression of national in dignation from the Vatican. ltut they are less likely to he proof against the temptations of more dex terous tactieians, who appeal to their earnest reli gious con v i c tions and sentiments, by promising to sharpen the anti-papal previsions of the bill. They may laugh, indeed, ut the stern Staxtinars awfully vague notice, that he is "To bring forward certain stringent enactments." but they may snap at the mote tempting bait of Mr. Wiirois's amendments. It is to he hoped, however, that the very delicate and difficult nature of the task which has been forced upon government and the legislature by the insolent aggression of the !Cornish court and its minions, will not lust sight of. The nation has been compelled to take artier" Mirasarts4 to resist an attempt to lend to an alien priestly orAannation somewhat of the ap pearance and prestige of a national institution. 'f his I ran only be draw let resorting to measures which dexterous and unscrupulous sophists may represent to the ill-informed or unretlecting as encroachments ow religious liberty and the equality of sects. And, apart front their misrepresentations, it is no easy task to hit the exact limit which sepurates legitimate con trol of the machinations of pnestendt from interfe relict! with the sincere, though misguided, convictions of the dupes of ambitious priests. Great care must he taken to pay due respect to the latter, even in the hint and hurry of our struggle against the form , E. It cost too hard, and prolonged a contest to estnlilish the equality of all sectaries in nwpeet of civil rights, to admit of that principle being again infringed. Now, it must he clear to any one who takes the trouble to study attentively the amendments of which Mr. WALPOLE has given notice, that the eon-' sequences of their enforcement would be vexatious and oppressive to a degree not neceary to secure In against priestly usurpation—to a degree, perhaps, wan ely allowable even were they required to that cud. fake for example his proposal that every per son traivicted or an offence under the net shall for kit the sum of 11511, " to be recovered by action of debt. at the mil 1 preb,n, in one of her Ma r courts off law. Tlw names against which the bill is levelled are offences nut against private individuals. hut against the mute--the aggregate of the nation. The naturul and proper proweutorm of such offences are thy law odieersof the crown. Tu the executive government alone can safely be entrust's' the vindication of the national rights in matter, or so much consequence. There can he no risk or any government's neglecting this duty in a spirit of unworthy muslin 111 l ise ; the tutisessal and deep-felt indignation awakened hy the late pipitl ag.,rremisns shows that on this subject there is u spirit in the people Hhieh no ministers would dare to trifle with. On the other hand, thow of our mailer. who arm old enough to recollect thus offensive and oppressive law pnweedings, instituted towards the else of the reign of titutost: 111., and in the earlier yeitrs of that of his immediate M1CC4214- Nor. by the Society for the Suppression of Vim and mdse ( , institutional Association (better known in its day u. " the Bridge-street gang"), will be chary of ...unsling such powers to private volunteer.. The foolish and arbitrary prormlings of the worthies to almost we hose adverted, enlisted ut that time a vcry wide and dangenms sympathy with the authors of such revolting publications as those of Cmtost.E. Them is tuhliing so hazardous us enabling narrow minded and pragmatism' persons. under the intluente of low jobbing practitioners of the law, to convert (ander. int.. martyrs. The amendments !imposed by Mr. WALPOLE ought to rejerted on their own demerits. lint there isanother reason why earnest and zealous protestant:. 'should hcaare of allowing themselves to he curried away by their specious appearance of vigour. de em ST N LEV and others of his Mel* g have affected to speak dispanigingly of the Ecelesiustieal Titles Bill as inadequate to the attainment or its professed objeet ; but a hat 'lave they offered in lieu of it ? Lord ST th LEV has argued for taking more tinte to esnisider what ought to he done. The leaders of the rouservative party and many of their follower's do not WI were ly wish to increase the stringency of the ministe rial measure: on the contrary. they seek delay, in the hope that the national irritation may subside and admit of nothing to he done. This section of the party will support Mr. WAt.eut.t:s reenlu time. aitit the view, by engrafting them on the hill, to forte ministers to drop it, and thus lose the session. If the zealous protestants. w Ito are most liable to be misled by this trick, prefer the amend ments to the original measure, they will emulate the folly and share the mishap of the dog that lost his dinner by snapping at its magnified shadow in the water. ,T as we supposed ; policemen were ordinarily stuti 41 on either side of the Sutton 'funnel, and had been removed to other duties during the Chester rum week. In other words. watchmen were placed near the point where danger was most likely to meter when danger was lea.st limitable; hut when the chances of danger rose• as on the Chester Cup day, from 700 to 3.00 n, these guards were em ployed elsewhere. This appears to be the plane literal truth of the matter : and. sad to say, to have been at least the imme diate muse of the slaughter. For the heavy train the feeble engine, the wet state of the rails, would all have been guarded against had there been a man to wave a red flag at the tunnel's mouth, as the third train came up. Of mars•, the meeretarr, who is also the manager. won't admit this to have 'been in any way connected with the fatality. But his explanation.• escus<•s, or foneing—call it which you please —on the point. irresistibly prove it. Policemen, he says, were placed during die progrrss of construction on either side the tunnel to protect landowner•.' property ; and after the opening of the line it was thought proper to continue them, but no new duties were imposed on them." 'they were• according to this person's incredible suggestion. still kept there t' protest property which, the navvies" and other w.erkeuen being all gone, needed no troteetion. No new duties were imposed upon them; so, their old duties being gone, like policemen elsewhere, they walked about with nothing to do. One of them, however, •" whose name was Kro,e, walked from the Frodshant end of the tunnel to within half a mile of the tunnel." But during Chester race week, he and his brother peripatetic were sent to Birkenhead. The men were withdrawn by myself on my own responsibility." We thus get it the fact thiet men were ordinarily there- -though for no purpose, if the secretary is to be believed—and that they were with drawn on this special occasion. The first stoppage in the tunnel shows the conse. quence of the withdrawal. No sooner had the first train ntuck fLit. than, with an instinatire sense of danger. I, :wt. the fireman of the engine, in dread, attempted to signal the danger; off is engine he get, and on his way down t,lat tutinel,nmeting DOYLE the guard of the second train,.-which bv that time had entered, bid him to go' bail for that purpose. Here then we have evidence of the anxitty of these poor fellows to signal from the mouth of the tunnel; and bow they, knowing that ' there was no one there to do that duty, rushed back to perform it themselves; in short, to uct as policemen, and firemen, and guards, or any way else, to save life and limb. Hero we have the highest order of evidence as to the necessity of having hatl,po !icemen there ; and of the imprudence of the secretary in withdrawing them on his own responsibility. To do, however, that officer justice, it must be stated, that though the engine driver on ordinary oc casions did see policemen at the mouth of the tunnel, DAVID EVAN,. " did not," he says," know what they were there for." Still, he thinks, that had he seen one on entering the tunnel that day, he should have left word with him to stop any train behind. So that had not the secretary, on the Chester Cup day, re m wed these men who there, to use EvaNs s signifi cant words, " walked about" on other days, notice to stop the third train would have been given, and the fatal collision prevented. But, the service of the company not having strength elsewhere for the extraordinary traffic of Chester races, the policemen were removed, and, before the guards of the two first trains could signal at the tunnel's mouth, the third train had entered, bringing with it death and destruction. The same miserable system of cruel and dangerous economy seems to prevail throughout the management; the guard.s have no watches, they are not allowed hand lumps, though they have to pass through a tunnel a mile and a half . long; there are no tail lamps to the trains "at that hour of the day," viz., half-past seven o'clock in the evening; there were only three attendants on trains contain ing 1,500 passengers; and men discharged for intoxi cation, an unexptable offence in well managed compa nies, from other lines are employed on this line. Putting these statements in conjunction with the fact that policemen were taken away from the mouth of the Sutton tunnel when most required there, because there was an insufficient service elsewhere, no ma sonable being can, we think, doubt where the blame of this awful slaughter really lies. FRANCE. SATCAGAT EVENING. The event of the day is an article of the Cbnstitn tionnel, which has been almost the sole subject of conversation all this afternoon in the Assembly. Dr. heron proclaims his opinion that if the old majority is nut prepared to vote unanimously the revision of the constitution, the government ought to bring for. ward a bill for repealing the law of May. It is needless fur me to repeat here the frequent alarms which the ambiguous countenance of the Elysee towards that restriction of universal sutfr.ige has occasioned to the old conservatives, and the various occasions upon which M. Waisse. • the late Minister of the Interior, was obliged to come forward and categorically disavow on the part of the government any design for evading or repealing the reformed law of eke tion. And now, although Veron expressly says that he is stating his own personal sentiments indepen dently, the parliamentam majority regard this article as a threat used to force them into embracing revision. One thing is, however, pretty certain, namely, that Leon Faucher can never he the minister emploSvd on so arduous a task ; for he has repeatedly given distinct pledges of his unqualified ad hesion to this measure, on which you may remember that he was the Burgrave com mittees reporter. I explained to you during the ministerial crisis that the removal of sonic of the xatious restrictions and formalities imposed on the exercise of the franchise by the law of May was the pivot of the programme proposed to the President by thhi mi Ih ria t. Th e 00;411a's . ..wart, which lately adopted the most hitter tone against Burrot, and at tacked him with the fiercest virulence, really because he declined co-operating with Fould and Burmhv, now seems to admit the wisdom of his views, and to grant that the grand means of disarming the so realists would be to snatch from them their banner, which is inscribed with the repeal of the law of May. It is at the sonic time incontestable that the must re- solute sticklers for that law are to be found in the club of the Rue des Pyramides, on which the • government relies mainly for support. The menace thrown out by the Oomlihttionwl must therefore be worded as a symptom that the government is nut satisfied with the Orleanists of the Rue des Pyra mils, who under the auspices of the fluke de Broglie will not probably consent to follow the ministry in their design of passing the revision by a simple ma jority instead of the required majority of three fourths. Veron says that if the old parliamen tary majority would agree to vote the revision, there nerd be no apprehension of the issue of the struggle in ease of .rorste ; for the majority %via be then as strong and united us it NV:L.4 at the end of May, 18,10, when insurrection shrunk from them into nothing. Hut if they will not vote ivvision, why should the President Lc expected to maintain a law which is or, judicial to his own re-election ? Is it not rather ; his duty to remove the cause of civil war beforehmid, when the divisiims of the party of order seem to render the triumph of the socialist not only possible but probable. Every day more discouraging accounts are reyeived by the government of the state of political feeling iu the provinces. The seditious preparations of this sotialists are ceaseless, and their organisation is very formidable. Large supplies of arms are in tlrcir possession ; and the government knows not whets to put its hand ou the depots notwitluitand lug the activity of its police, and is unable even to prevent an immense quantity from being smuggled over different points of the frontier. Lyon* always seems on the eve of a movement ; a consuks able number of manufacturers and others have left or are leaving it to establish themselves in Switzer land. It is beeoeuing mom and more sensible to mo derate men that nothing but the firmest cemented union of all the fractions of the party of order will enable France to conic unscathed out of the critical struggle of 1&.2. Yet in the midst of all this danger never were the various shades of conservatives di vided by deeper dissensions or agitated by bitterer animosities. Count Dietrichstein, fbrmerly Austrian ambassador iii England, has arrived in Paris. lie is negotiating with the view of pushing Sehwarzenberg's VlCheme of the incorporation of the non-German provinces of Austria in the Germanic Confederation. The Assembly proeenk-d to discuss the Western Railway Bill. M. Sautayra moved once more an amendment to the first article. proposing that the railway should be executed by the state, which was njected. The house then proceeded to the (whirr dr. charge.. A lung debate took place on the "7th I article, fixing the term of the concession at 99 years. i .t (ter heating 11 M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire. Gustave dt. lkvwamt. Poujeard. St. Belli c, Cremieux and Magne, Minister of Public Works, the Assembly rejected nu amendment limiting the concession to .10 years. An other amendment of M. Poujt.ard. on the same article, was also rejected. The article then passed. The cahier des cl.aryes will not be finished to-day. I The new committee of initiative has decided that motions for the revision, if rejected, may be renewed after two months. The committee on the La Plata treaties has decided I to-day, after hearing M. Baroche, in favour of the I subsidies to Monte Video. M. Larrabarr is appointed 1 reporter. I. Leon Faucher was examined by the committee ou the E.eetric Telegraph Bill. • Letters from lfigne, Poitiers, and Stumm concur ' , in stating that the vines in those localities have been •I, much injured by the frost of the past week. Entire ' communes have suffered so severely that the crop is 7 looked on as lost. that a ;pi:vane.% which they regard as intolerable, be removed. The Notional says: „ Give u s back universal suffrage, and we srtll promise you peace and order." The Presic, while regretting the dis as owel of the Catstdationael bb the usual organs of the Blys 7 'fe, hails, nevertheless, the conversion of Dr. eron is a salutary symptom of liberal leanings in the l'resident, and a great accession of strength to the partisans of universal suffrage. The Siick, like the Natianal, is satisfied that no other step but the re peal of this law is necessary to restore complete calm. The Pays calls the recantation of Dr. Wron " .'e coup (Tito( du bon sena." When the formidable organization of the socialists, and the disunion of the repressive party, arc weighed, it is highly probable that the great mass of the bour geoisie has been gradually becoming more sensible to the hazards of a desperate struggle, such as the maintenance of the law of May would certainly occa- Ishin, and more distrustful of the triumph of the con servative party. Hence, the Conseitatiannel, which is essentially the organ of the middle commercial class, in trimming on the law of May, has sagaciously hit the tendency of tl.e great majority of its readers to acquiesce in the course which is safest and most quiet for the moment, deferring combat until some certain advantage may be gained. Truth to say, the C'uaslitutbasael is at the present moment, with an enormous circulation (esceeiling that of every other paper), quite as valuable as a test of what its readers think, as of what the President intends. For the rest, this change has nothing startling. Men whose prosperity depends on peace and industry, and) whose minds are continually alarmed by rumours of imminent eoneates, are not so keenly sensible of the advantages of a limited suffrage that they will not gladly come to a compromise with the fierce unpri vileged classes, in order to be released from the evils of a permanent state of conflict. At the same time, they withdraw their confidence from those politicians who cleave fanatically to a principle which com promises the very cause of order which they profess to serve. As soon as people see that the great storm of which they are hourly reminded as impending in 1852 may lie conjured down by concessions not obviously ruinous or even harmful to their cause, they naturally prefer disarming their adversaries by those concessions to persevering in a state of defiance to retain a privilege which may be fruitless. Univer sal suffrage has once given the most signal pledge in favour of order, while restricted suffrage would be a certain signal for disorder. I therefore make no doubt that the policy of the parliamentary majority in favour of maintaining, without compromise, the law of May will gradually lose the confidence of the nation, and regard the change of the C'anstitutionnel on this question as the first im portant step towards a pacific solution of the crisis of 1852, by coming to an undertanding with the de mocratic party on the question of electoral reform. People speculate much on the exteut to which dis avowals of the Coastitat .. ~, art by other organs of the Elysee are to be trusted as authentic echoes of the President's sentiments. A personage in the position of Louis Napoleon is in some measure constrained to dissemble, in order to have elbow-room for playing his game, and to keep in his hand all the cards that may serve him at a pinch. To embrace frankly, with entire self-abandonment, a positive line of policy, where all around him is heaving with change, and pregnant with unguessable results, w ould argue very shortsighted generalship. Too much importance must nut, therefore, be attached to the isolated voice of any ministerial organ, whether the l'«trie and Ilaildia (Is l'aris, which speak the sentiments of Leon Faucher, and deny the authority of M. Vcron, or the Oaistitritionarl, which is ever flashing forth some new solution, alarming to M. Rothschild, the commercial public, and the party of order. In the meantime this much is certain, that a money question has something to do with the relations of the C'osistitrotiotinci with the Elysie. You may remember that about the time when the stamp was inflicted on the French newspapers, M. niers, having i withdrawn his support from the President, came down upon Dr. Vcrou for the 100,000 fr. which he had given in aid to the funds of the o»istitationnet This gap in the funds of the journal was soon more than stopped by 150,000 fr. which M. de Morny, the friend of the Elysee, offered on behalf of M. Mossel man, with the condition of political subordination on the part of the subsidised paper. For a time all went smooth ; but, the financial crisis weathered, symptoms of mutiny appeared in the Constifittionarl; and when reminded of his bargain, the independent-spirited editor offered to repay the loan. fhis alternative was niused, the other party insisting upon the per formance of the agreement. " Aelhae saline:ire 14 rd." Renee the tmernufes of the Bullrlin Ile Paris against Dr. Veron. - 1 have already alluded to the meeting of the com mittee of the electoral union on Friday, to deliberate on the question whether they should use their organi sation for the purpose of propagating revision. The decision of this body is looked forward to with much eagerness, as their adhesion to the cause of revision would he tantamount to a declaration in favour of the prolongation of the President's powers. A new red" organ, entitled Joarnal Irma San, is announced as on the eve of publication. On the other hand, a fresh Bonapartist paper is going to appear, under the designation of the Prorogation. Eighty Isslitical prisoners, transported to Africa, were pardoned on the Ith of May. M. Adolphe parrot will remain as the representa tive of France at Lisbon, until replaced by M. Ma reschalchi, present charge traffairts in London, who will await the arrival of General Au pick. M. de Kisselef has presented to the President the credential letters of the Czar, appointing him to an extraordinary mission, and confiding to him the direction of the Russian embassy at Paris. A hundred and one officers of the national guard of Grenoble out of one hundred and sixty having re signed, General Parthomeaux has ordered the dis- armament of the guards, with the exception of the company of firemen, none of whose officers have re signed. A royalist print, the Gazette de Cmtinsunes, has been 'wins', and will be prosecuted, for the uncon stitutional announcement of its political programme. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1851. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 5. The -Ife , /rid Gazette publishes a royal decree regulating the receipts and expenditure for the present year, subject to such changes as may be made by the Cortes. The reductions on the last budget amount to 30,347,000 reals (nearly 8 millions of francs), and the augmentations to 12,015,000 reals. In addition to these augmentations, however, a credit of 30 millions of rents is opened or the inks-est and sinking fund for the last six months of the year of the public debt, the regulation of which is in the course of settlement, and a further credit of five millions of reals for the arrears of interest and for the sinking fund of the treasury debt for the last six nkunths of 1849. These credits are to be opened only in the event of their being sanctioned by the Cortes. The budget cd receipts is diminished to the extent of four millions of reels on the past-office revenues, and increased to the extent of 4,300,000 reals in the re venues of Puerto-Rico. In tho budget of receipts will also be included the extraordinary receipts of 30 millions arising from the sale at nati ona l p roperty . Another reduction of 32,962,888 reals is mentioned, as shown by Report No. 3, and an augmentation of 8.498.243 real*, as shown by Report No. 4, and for which credits are opened. The Captain-General of Galicia arrived on the 2nd inst. in Pontwredra, upon the Portuguese frontier, at the head of an army of observation. ITALY. Our Roman correspondent states, in his letter of the 4th, that the Austrian commandant of Furl had caused a young bo y to be flogged to d ea th f or acc id entally killing his dog with a stone. Count Nobili, the Austrian governor of Bologna, had issued a notice on the 27th ult. menacing with the bastinado all who were caught in preventing the inhabitants from smoking, and atatu:g that all such offences, having ; a political aim, are liable to be punished by court martial. SLIMILY Evextvo. The Tatri, contains a vehement disavowal of Dr. h'eron's plan for abrogating the law of May. which it regards as the standard round which the party of order mast rally. TUSCANY. The papers are filled with comments upon the new The C, ,, 911:i , 05ah. of Florence announces from plisse of the e.,msfieuti,iiiiri. The sanguine eager- Rome. that on the 27th ult., Signor Baldasseroni and lies, with which the republican oritans . junip lit the Cardinal .lutonelli came t o an agreement about the o: a coalition with the Bonapartlsts for awls continuation of the Bologna llailre';a to pistols. l gating the law of Mac, affords the best proof of the Nothing has been decided as yet eAc crn i ng pleitic intentions of the democratic party, provided way from Slena to Rome. On the 2filh four peasants were shot at Forlim popoli fe.r having given shelter to post of the Naas tore's 'oand. GERMANY. AUSTRIA AND THE DRESDEN CONFERENCES. The Austrian government has lately sent a circular to all the German courts, of which the following is a summary. The authority for this account of the contents of the circular is the .Isyslntry The preamble of the document states that the con tinuation of the Dresden conferences for a further indefinite period seems useless, and therefore it is necessary that they should close. However, as nego tiations are still pending between the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna, on the understanding that Aus tria shall admit all her states into the confederation, it would be desirable first to come to an agree- ment on this point, and then to make a common proposal at Dresden. But should the two powers fail in coming to terms, it is proposed by Austria that a communication should be made to the congress by the plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia, to the effect that further negotiations on the questions debated in the first commission (that of federal re organization) shall be reserved for the diet. Several points are, however, withheld from the cognizance of the diet, of which a summary follows. This com munication shall be accompanied by a declaration that the two cabinets desire to see the other labours of the commission ended; and if on the With of May the consent of all the governments cannot be obtained, the Diet would have to take the final decisions. As regards the labours of the conferences concluded up to the I.3th of May with consent of all parties, they will be submitted to the Diet for formal sanction. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP A.MERICA. [DY ELECTRIC TELEGR 11'11.j [FROII OUR ow CORREAPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNINCt• By the arrival in our river a few minutes since of the British and North Amerian Royal Mail steam ship America, we are placed in possession of seven days' later intelligence from the United States and British possessions on the North American Conti nent. _ _ The America sailed from Boston on the 30th ult., and made the usual monthly call at Halifax, to land and receive a portion of the mails and passengers on the 2nd instant. She brings to this country 111 passengers. The news from the United States is very meagre. A steamboat had been seized at New York, charged with having been intended for the Cuban expedition. Six persons had been arrested and held to bail. The Erie Railroad was completed as far us Lake Eric. _ Sir Henry Bulwer delivered a long address at the St. George's Society, on the 23rd of April. From Mexico dates are to the 9th of April. The financial condition of the republic was deplorable. A formal complaint had been made by the ministry of the United States government as to the Indian out rages on the frontier, which by treaty the United States was bound to protect. Mexico refuses to ratify the Tehuantepec treaty us yet. Truzina and Company, Mexico, had failed for 239,000 t. sterling. Business throughout the states was in an excellent condition. The export of specie for New York con tinued to be on a considerable scale, and seemed The following arc the proposals which Austria is desirous of having conclusively adopted by the con ferences and referred to the Diet only for sanction : 1. The proposal. of the second commission on the subject of voting, the plans adopted us regards voting by unani mity or majority, to apply, not as at first intended, to a new central power, but to the plenum and the restricted council. 2. The propo sals of the second commission on the relations of the central power with particular states. These are proposals which have already hero modified according to the views of the governments. 3. The question of at:Unwilling the fundamental rights voted by the Frankfurt Assembly. 4. The proposals of the thinl commission on material questions, in so far as they shall be decided on before the 13th of May. The rem• nant to be finished at Frankfort. 5. The adoption of the principle proposed by the first commission that the ques tion of vote in the l)iet cannot he shirked on the plea of want of instructions. 6. The principle that the confedera tion must always have on foot, and ready to meet internal or external dangers, an army of 121,000 men; the levies of the smaller states to by required only when war actually breaks out. likely to continue, as quotations for English exchange had not given way. The money market continued in a satialactory state. 3loney was by no means scarce. The demand for stouts was tirin, at former rates. There was little doing in breadstuff. at receding prices. Western Canal flour, 4 ill. 31;e. to 4 dols. 50c. per brl. Gennessee prime wheat, 1 dol. 12c. to 1 dol. 14c. per 601bs. Indian corn, round yellow, 62c. to 64c. per bushel, steady. Indian meal, 3 dols. 121 c. to 3 dols per brl. The cotton market at New York continued in a depressed condition. Sales could not be made ex cept at a reduction, which holders generally had submitted to. New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to' fair, 111 c. to 12;e. per lb. Uplands and Florida mid fair to fair, 101 e. to per lb. The current ex cess of receipts was 20,000 bales over that of last year. Prices declined on the arrival of the Asia's news. Such arc the points which the cabinet of Vienna desires to see conclusively settled before the breaking up of the conferences of Dresden. If this desire can not, however, be gratified, Austria will be satisfied to send the subject for debate before the Diet ; and in a plenary sitting all the points will be communi cated to the plenipotentiaries, who would transmit them to their respective governments, these in turn forwarding them to the Diet. The eentrul commit tee would then be immediately dissolved, and its powers vested in the Diet. This is a sketch of the Austrian circular. It may be supposed that as regards the question of voting l'russia can have but one opinion, and that in favour of the system of unanimity already prevailing in the Diet. Provisions were in goad demand, at former prices. Freights were inactive, and low in quotation. Exchange on London, 1 lii4 to I lui ,',gooddemand),; Paris, 5.10; llamburgh, to 36;; Bremen, 711 i to 791. FATHER GAVAZZPS NINETEENTH ORATION, YESTERDAY, IN THE PRLNCESS'S CON CERT-HALL As for the other points, they are not very specific, and if Prussia stands firm on the question of admit ting all Austria's states into the confederation, and on that of unanimous votes in the Diet, it is difficult to see what Austria will have gained at the much talked of conferences of Dresden. AURICULAR CONFESSION. P►llr I. This address, to which his countrymen listened with deep interest, offered no passage of exciting eloquence, no appeal to the feelings of an impassioned auditory, being a simple recital of doctrinal proofs, and a calm exposition of scriptural authorities. The theory of the confessional was admitted by its advo cates to be enveloped in mist and mystery, its war rant unsatisfactory, its origin indefinable, its develop ment gradual, its practical working surrounded with objections. The council of Trent had, nevertheless, not hesitated to assert its institution to be of divine ' right (14th session), and scouted the suspicion of its merely human enactment. Hut in that tumultuous assembly, swayed by a preponderatin and com pact majority of interested Italians, it was far easier to put a matter to the vote than to the proof; and of all the oppressive machinery by which priestcraft grinds down the laity into abject dependence, this engine is the must notoriously traceable to mere clerical ingenuity. Its pedigree was sought to be established by over zealous ortho doxy in connexion with the old law : and the acknowledgment of sinfulness on the part of the guilty, ou which Job and Ezekiel frequently laid emphasis, as an essential preliminary to pardon, was tortured by scholastic argumentation intoa precedent for "auricular" confession. To illustrate this sup posed analogy a multitude of passages of the Old Testament were brought forward, amongst others Lev. xvi. 21 : The journey to Poland of the King of Prussia is definitively fixed. He will enter Warsaw on the 13th inst.; it is said to be doubtful whether the Emperor of Austria will he there at the stone time. The Emperor of Russia will meet the King of Prussia on his arrival in Warsaw. M. Manteuffel will, it is said, accompany King Frederick, and Count :Vessel rode the Ctar. The Prussian Chambers were dosed on the 9th, in the White-hall of the palace, by the following speech from NI. Manteutfel: " Gentlemen,—The Prussian Chambers have reached the term of their second regular session. Public affairs have , for four months appealed to their anxious attention and strenuous exertions. Their deliberations opened at a cri tical and much disturbed juncture. All the military re sources of the nation were called out to meet threatening dangers on a scale that the Prussian people had never be fore seen, and with a success that has given the Prussian people a full sense of their own strength, and has cam ma need the respect of foreign nations. Circumstances in the mean time intervened which the government of his Majesty deemed it their duty to take advantage of, in order I to avoid a war with brother races. But there were other subjects which, in the then state of things, appealed to the attention of the Chambers. The patriotism of t he two chambers has nevertheless avoided conflicts which would have heist Only fit to endanger the position of Prussia abroad, and to forsju• dice her interests at home, whilst they would have filled Inc enemies, both external and internal, with hope. With zeal have you, gentlemen, fulfilled your duties, and entitled yourselves to the thanks of your country. Thirty-four hills, having passed through the chambers, have been laid before the government, and have, in part, received the royal Salle tion. You have also the satisfaction, gentlemen, of leaving put the last hand to a criminal code, urgently needful, and which has been in process of preparation [tir mane years. You have, by your deliberations on the class and classified income-tax, which has passed into law, furnished a means I,f meeting the necessities of the state, by which the poorer elm re s., will not only he spad the burthen of tax-gathering but the taxes themselves will be much lightened. The state expenditure for the year 1841 is settled t and by the grant of 1i million Meilen you have furnished the government with means of covering the cost occasioned by the calling out of the military strength of the land, which was nut without initold and permanent advantaget for the army itself. If many law project, have not during the sessient been brought to maturity, the discussion, to which they have been subjected, and the petition, which have been received respecting them have at least given the government abundant materials tier their careful consideration. You have, gen tlemen, by the decisions you have come to relative to the bills that have been laid before you, prised that in all es sential matters the government and the legislative bodies entirely agree. It is the &wire of the government to main tain and further to promote this agreement by the careful observance and vigorous execution of the laws. A retrospect of this session is alsocalculatetl to corroborate the . conviction that the good sense of Prussia remain undisturbed tender the new forms of the constitution, and that the main con dition of the development of the future destinies of Prussia must he the maintenance of historic foun dations, that the convulsive period we have just passed through has nut been able to shake. The enemies of this beneficial Ilevelopcment, the enemies of all divine and human onlinetnees, are as restless as the passions that agitate them. But the revolution, is whatever form it may show itself, will find his Majesty's government watchful and firm, and l'russia armed. 'llse threatening position of these enemitesmakes it, other remota apart, the most urgent duty of all German governments no lunge,' to leave Germany without a central power, re cognised on all sides, at home and abroad. Whether the German governments return to the old forms of the Diet, or whether the (by no means abandoned) plans jof a reor ganisation of the confederation be brought into Greet, the independent development of Pniseda will be in no respect, in either case, endangered. But the truest and surest gun nuntee for a happy and glorious future, fur political and material improvement, for the increasing interim welfare of the land, and its power and influence abroad, you will find, gentlemen, in thf indefatigabk CO-operating% • and cordial unanimity of all those who in truth and loyalty have the old motto, the old inscription, written on their hearts—. With God, fur King and Fatherland.' " And Aaron stall lay both hit kin& on the head of the live goat and einifett over him ail the iniquitiet of the Children of Israel, and all their tr. u n¢re.•ion• in all their tint, putting them on the head of the goat, tiud than tend hint away by the hand at a llt man into the stildtrnett. These and similar inconclusive references were to sane logicians so obviously nugatory that Thomas Aquinas had fairly given up the matter us not proven. The case of patients afflicted with leprosy orelephantiusis, who were commanded to exhibit their syinptoms to the Judaic priesthood, was clearly a sanitary regulation, these functionaries in the Ilebrew theocracy being invested with municipal administra tion, and it being indispensable in the civil and social economy to prevent the spread of u contagious disease so fatal at that period among Oriental tribes. The fitting corollary would be public dispensaries, not private confessionals. Hut, dismissing all these allegorical reasonings, and coining to the supposed allegations found in the Gospel, he found that alle gory was still the predominant element in the sus tentation of this claim, and the famous " power of the keys" the main groundwork of its assertion. The ceremony of presenting conquerors with the keys of a subjugated town and the constant allusions in scripture to the gates of a city as the emblems of force and authority, were overlooked in the construc tion of these passages, the literal interpretation of which would involve the manifestly madmissahle theory of man being completely at the capricious mercy of his fellow mortal for admission into God's inheritance in direct contradiction to the solemn and inspired announcement. Revelation iii. 7. The President of the Second Chamber, Count Schwerin, in his closing address, congratulated the Chamber on the labours of the session, inasmuch as the legislature had got at least out of its provisional state, and had passed many positive laws. In contemplating, however, he added, the political state of Germany, the eye found no single spot on which it could rest with satisfaction. The struggle between the past and the future still continued; unanimity was no and discontent everywhere ; that he would not from that place pronounce any Judgment on measures or men, but trusted that a protective Providence would watch over Prussia, and guide her through all obstacles, however for midable thee might appear, to the fulfilment of destinies in which the whole fatherland was interested. King Otho arrived at Trieste on the sth of May, on his return to Venice. Ile that hath an ear let him Lear what the spirit with unto the churches. Three things saith Ile that is holy, Ile that is true, Ile that bath the key of David, Ile that upeneth and nu man shuttetli, and shutteth and nu man openeth. In anticipation of the meeting of the Diet on the 22nd inst., the garrison of Frankfort is to be in missed from 5,000 to 15,000 men, at once. This corps will form the nucleus of a force which is des tined to reach the number of 150,000 men, intended, according to the latest arrangements, to be kept at the disposal of the Diet The text of 16th Matthew, in which this meta phorical transmission of keys to Peter occurred, was next sifted with masterly criticism, and its hearing on the exclusive and individual prerogatives of the presumed successor of Peter shown to be hardly com patible with a general particieation of the priesthood in the prerogative of forgiving sin. An intimate acquaintance with the writings of Aiwistiii, Chry modem, Tremens, &c., was evinced in the cr ow d o f quotations which the speaker flung into his argu ment. Nor were the less conspicuous and more mo dern authorities of Bonaventura, Peter Lombard, Maldonatus, and Denis the Carthusian, less copiously drawn upon for corroborating testimony. Cardinal Cajetan, whose name was heard frequently amid the din of controversy , at the outbreak of the Reforma tion, had admitted that the New Testament furnished no direct warrant for auricular avowal to a priest ; that the words of Paul as to the preeamtory process before a fitting reception of the Lords Supper, " Let a man examine himself (pro/oct seiesuin); and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup" (1 Cor.; ii. 28), seemed to point to a quite different conclusion but the pertinacity of the schoolmen when direct evi dence was either not forthcoming or broke down, still took convenient refuge in allegory,and a fanciful inference as to the necessity of a power in man to unloose from sin even when God had forgiven there . pentant sinner was drawn from the injunction of I I Jesus in the case of the resuscitated Lazarus: , I And he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot i with grave clothes and hi. face w a s bo un d a b out w i t h a ' napkin. Jesus said unto them, " Loose him and let him t go._ (John, ii 44). PROJECTED DOCKS AT STOC KTON - TPO N-TEES.—A I very important meeting was held in the Town-hall, Stock- I ton, on :Monday, to consider business relating to the report of the government engineer, concerning the conservaney of the river Tem, and other matters connected therewith. Extracts from the report of Mr. Bald, the government engi neer, were given, from which it appeared that tho best ' situation for the t stahli , hment of docks was the town of Stockton, and that the fiver Tees might advantl,geously be ' made navigable to Yarm. Most enerstetit• and prompt measures to carry out the plan alluded to in the report will be proceeded with, the Tees Navigation Company and the inhabitants combining together for this purpose. There 'run% a cliseentient voice ge the meeting. Of equal value and corresponding relevance were the other scriptural attempts to vindicate this pre posterous assumption. The total absence of any allusion to this secret ' practice in the records of early Christianity, while the frequent reference made to public declarations of , guilt before the assemblies of the faithful in the first centuries went to demonstrate the nature of church discipline, salutary and inoffensive in the one case, and indicative in the other of the tendency to dege nerate to which all human arrangements are liable; for nothing could be more clear than Ithe gradual subsidence of public confession (a voluntary self-htuniliation) into the private abuse of auricular and compulsory disclosures. The evi dences of this comparatively modern substitution of a demoralising and repulsive practice for an ancient . edifying and impressive ceremony were abundant in the pages of ecclesiastical history, and it required no less audacity than that of Pope Innocent 111. (the contemporary of John !Ackland mud Cardinal I'un dolfo) to exercise over Christendom the same tyranny that he attempted in England, and openly incorpo , rate the confessional into the dogmatic teaching of !tome, by insisting on its first formal establishment at the fourth council of Lateran, a. It, 1212. The speaker's object in this first part of his inquiry into a painful subject being merely to elucidate the facts and arguments usually alleged for its acceptance as a Christian institution (of which we can only give the above meagre outline), he reserved for next occa sion the development of its moral and social ineonv.2- nienees and evils, from a long personal experience of its working. His discourse, which had been singularly.dispas sionate, kindled up at the close with u glowing pic ture of the weeping penitent of Bethany at the list of the Redeemer, anointing them with the precious perfumes hitherto lavished in extravagance and guilt, unabashed by the presence of the Pharisees, who rebuked her, and seeking forgiveness from him alone whom she had offended: 4S. And he said unto her thy sins arc tori;iven. 49. And they that at at meat with him began to say, within themselves, who is this that forgiveth (Luke 7.) - _ So convinced were these doctors of the law that an infringement on the attributes of the godhead was involved in the solemn act of forgiveness; a condo nation vouchsafed to silent but sincere repentance, un attended with pharisaic conditions, irrespective of detailed disclosures, unaccompanied by irrelevant or loathsome revelations, but elicited at once by tho fervour of divine love, genuine sorrow, and con trition. Vbe Cottrt. lier Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal, accompanied b the Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince Frederick IVilliam, and the Prince,. Louisa of Prussia, visited the Exhibition of the Industry of all Na tions on Saturday morning. The royal suite consisted of the Countess Oriolla,Colonel the Hon. Charki Grey, Lieut. Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, and Count Goltx. lice Majesty and Prince Albert, with their illustrious visitors, spent two hours in inspecting the various objects of interest in the Exhibition, and then returned to Buckingham Palac,. The Prince of Wale., attended by Mr. Birch, paid a visit to the Exhibition on Saturday forenoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive in an open carriage and four on Saturday. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince and l'rincess of Prussia and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, took a drive on Saturday aftemoon in a carriage and four. Colonel the Hon. Charles Greyand Lieut.-Culonel the lion. C. D. Phipps attended on homlnuk. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Prussia and Prince Frederick Wil liam, honoured Her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The rayal suite consisted of the Countess A. de liacke, the Countess Oriolla, the lion. Eleanor Stanley, the lion. Beatrice Hyng, Lord Water park, Count Polder, Colonel lion. Charles Grey, Lieut.- Colonel F. 11. Seymour, Colon e l Fi sc h er , and Major von Doyen. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom panied by 11cr Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cam bridge, also honoured Her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. In attendance were Lady 'army Howard, Lady Caroline Murray, and Lord James Murray. The royal tunny took their usual airings yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and hi. Royal Highness Prince Albert, with Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, the hulks and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yes terday morning in the Private Chapel in Buckingham Palace. The lion. and Rev. Gerald ellesky officiated. Prince Albert presided on Saturday afternoon at a meet ing of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry• of all Nations. A deputation of the trustees of the Middlesex and Essex turnpike roads, headed by Mr. Bramston, M.P., and Sir E. N. Buxton, M.l'., had an interview, on Saturday, with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office. The deputation con sisted of Sir John Henry l'elly, Burt., Mr. William Cot ton, Mr. William Ephraim Snow, Mr. Octavio' Mushiter, Mr. Edward Charrinutom Mr. ((verge Offiw, and Mr. George Dacre (clerk and solicitor to the trustees). Mr. John W nod, chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Excite , quer, on Saturday, ut his official residence in Downing street. liespatehea were received at the Colonial-ottice, on Satur day, from the Governor of the Cape of Good !lope. Des eatehes were al,o received front the Governor of Sierra Leone. The Duke of Wellington and the I)uke of Rutland at tended the early service, yesterday, in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The prayers were read by the lter. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Der. T. Randolph. Mr. Cuhitt, M.P., was, ott Saturday last, elected alderman tor the ward of Langbuuru, in the city of Loudon. THE GREAT EXIIIBITION. The fineness of the day on Saturday, and the anticipation of the presence of her Majesty, caused the Crystal Palace to till better than on any day since the open ing. Her Majesty's visit, however, was a private one, the public not being admitted until after her departure. The Royal party arrived ut about half-past ten o'clock, and her Majesty, after a hasty glance at some of the foreign novel ties, proceeded to the British department, and examined the varied products with much care and attention. No thing could be more pertinent thou her inquiries, and, indeed, her general knowledge in the various de partments of British manufacture was a matter of gratified surprise to the exhibitors. Another gene ral topic of convenmion among them was her Majesty's acquaintance with the continental languages. In her pro gress through the foreign department she might be heard at ate moment speaking French, then Italian, and afterwards in German with the idiomatic cornetneet seldom found ex cept amongst an educated native of the several countries. A considerable crowd outside greeted her Majesty on her departure, and a similar assemblage awaited her return at the gates of Buckiuglum Palace. The Duke of Wellington was also a visitor, and was an ohiect of considerable cu riosity to many of t►e visitors. The police cotaputed the numbers at 40,000 t and, judging by the rule of proportion, have funned wonderful auticipations of the influx when the ahilhag admission csaumeuees, It is stated that it is in tended to limit the daily admiwions to 60,000. The Exhibition was airain favoured this morn iug with s royal visit. 11cr Majesty set a good ex ample by beginning the week with a walk through tho l'ulace of Industry —an example, nu doubt, intended to draw visitors, and it is evidently elfeetive, as every day the amount of receipts is larger. Thy royal party included her Majesty, the Prince Albert, 11.1t.11. the Prince of Prumata, 11.11.11. the Princess of Prussia, and lI.RII. the Prince Frederick of Pria.aia, attended by Colonel Grey and tho gentlemen and ladies of the Prus sian suite. As Prince Ailwrt had appointed to-day to preside at the opening of the Museum of Hconoinic Geo logy, the (seen arrived early, but remained until eleven o'clock, during which she inspected several departments in the north side of the building. lie, Majesty was very re spectfully received, and, although her visit was limited, she, took great interest in the objects of her examination. At eleven o'clock, the Duke of Wellington arrived att ae Exhibition. llis Orace rode up attended by a groons,,'und WWI in good health and spirits. The morning was gloomy, but visitors arrivod. at the Exhibition early, and from the crowd of ?cop'► th ere i s every prospect of a good day's receipts._ NOM that France has raised her flag Ow Aw h out h er territory, there is every promwet of her dep. „ tinvnt b eing complete. The French workmen were har . i at work this morning. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCRGEONFi.—The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations, were admitted members of the eollirge on the 9th inst.:— Messrs. W. T. Carr, Aberdeen; F. J. Chaldeeott, Dorking; J. Wilde, Islington; W. Warwick, Belfast; IL Simpson, Chester ; H. Power, London ; E. Moore, Isli ngton ; E. A. W. Hanford, Notti ng h am; F. T. Buck- Wilson, Hyde, Cheshire ; It. Wellings, ltay.,ustone, Lei -1 c la e n t d e , rl De a nery, hire; Westminster ;E. G. Wake , Hull ; H. C. Thomas, Vauxhall-road; J. Fountain, C o wley, Middlesex; and A. Carpenter, ltathwell, N or thamp',onshlee. FEARFUL ACCIDENT WITH A / . ..3pIRIT LAMP.—On Thursday forenoon last Mr. Smith , of No. 1, Lucretia street, Gibson-street, Watcrlocerr, a d, was attending to a naphtha lamp, when, from SUMO • unknown cause, the spirit became ignited, and, blazing •upwanls, threatened destruc tion to the house. Mr. fires ih having given an alarm, the unfortunate deceased., who lodged in the house, but alto was passing down e.n., street, run into the building to ren der assistance, wb.en the flame ignited his wearing apparel, and before the are could be conquered, he was most fright fully burned an both legs and over the lower part of the abdomen. He was forthwith removed to the hospital, i but in spkte of the utmost exertions of the medical MA- I eers, he lingered in the most excruciating agony till Satur day, Then he died from the effects of the injuries he had received. Owing to the exertions of the firemen who at i tended, the house was saved. I