The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

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Let any one read what has taken place in the House of Commons apropos of the nomination of Mr. Humes Committee, and then judge whether the House of Commons, or its leading statesmen, arc to be trusted with the zealous and sincere management dutch •question as the Income tax. There is no one question that so deeply and intimately concerns the public, and every member of it. The interest of the country is, that there should exult some source or bans of direct taxation equable and just. The landlord class are, however, averse to direct taxation, unless such a law of direct taxation as the window-tax, seven-eighths of which would fall upon towns. And their object is, either to abolish the income-tax, or else to preserve it with all its inequalities and abuses, so that tho commer cial classes may be as disgusted with it as them seirsi, and so its repeal be demanded by an %mai rnous outcry. That each will be the fate of the income-tax and direct taxation, no one can have a doubt, if such men as Sir CDARLKS WOOD retain the management of the national fineness. Sir CHARLES WOOD has but ono idea at present, that of conciliating the country !laity, and reconciling them to free-trade. The it isteri.une never gets up, but to cast an imploring look to that side of the house, to venture an amendment to please it, or utter a supplication to implore) it. Sir CDARLES is a squire, and he looks and thiuks like a squire that had sinned against the rules of his fraternity, but who would do and sacrifice anything to recover caste. Such a Chancellor as that could norm set about the re-adjustment of the income-tax with impartiality, judgment, or courage. If Purr and if PYAL successively despaired of an equitable adjustment of the income-tax, it was not that the respective natures of lifo property and perm seen property were nut easily measured and adjusted; but that the interests of the one were so predominant in parliament to that of the other, that they dam not think of bringing forward such an adjustment as right and fairness suggested. Parr was at the mercy of his war majority, and abandoned many excellent clauses of his Income-Tax Bill to please them. Pr.r.t. promised Tory and land lord ascendency, at a time when he gut that interest to submit to the income-tax, even as it is. And when his fiscal policy aimed et depriving the landed interest of its great and unient privileges, quite enough was then the taak, aim, and policy of ono administration. If we luau at present a CHANCELLOR of the I?z -tItrart:R fur more feeble than his great predecui ears, we have, on the other hand, a public fur more alive, or fur more capable of being alive, to financial equity and wisdom. The propertied chums domi nate in parliament; and very . natural that they should. Hut as these champions of permanent property owe their power to the votes of the indus trious thousands, who have other interests, there are ample modes, especially on the evu of a general elm lbw, fur reminding int.mbers of parliament, present and future, that they must think less of their own class, mid more of the class of their constituent/4. For this purpose there ought to be Financial IG•tnnn Asauciations in every town. There is no need of their having radical ones, if the temper of the townfolk be such as to be willing to collect in formation and express opinions on financial ques tions, without embarking at the same time in another and a wider political struggle. What is desirable is to enlist the real and efforts of the middle classes towards obtaining ample information and a just view a our financial resources and possibilities. We are most anxious for electoral reform, and we doubt exceedingly if much call be done in financial reform without it. Still, if electoral reform, when mingled with such words as universal suffrage and tinged with a colour of Chartism, if this alarms the great body of English townfolk, it would bo far wiser to keep the electoral and the financial questions apart, than dispense with the aid of timid and moderate awn in the financial struggle. It may be said that this was tried, and with no marvellous success, by Nome of the financial reformers in Liverpool ; and they fared not the better for avoiding the electoral or political question. This may be. But thechief object of Mr. itOBEIVNON GLAD irromen and his friends' inquisition into finance, was to point out those same abuses which radical politicians naturally dwelt on; and the result was, that they wen• joined cordially by no party, and were eimmiderably vilipended by both. But what is now wanting, both on the questions of electinal and of financial reform, is larger informa tion, ample materials, real fathoming and compre hensive grasping of both questions, without making uw• of them fur party purposes, or turning either to diatribe or to personal questions. It is quite vain for the most rational, moderate, or even retrograde, to hope to stop or much retard the movement for electoral reform. Justice and the equiponderance of interests, and the contentment of intelligent and in dustrious mares, demand it. And when such men as the mover of the first Reform Bill indicate the necestity fur a second, this cannot be gainsayed or stoppal. But in this, as in financial reform, facts will speak fur themselves; and these can be attained, and proved, and brought forth to the public only by the exertion of a large portion of the intevested commu nity setting their shoulders to the wheel, and dealing with the franchise and with the income-tax as the corn laws were dealt with. If the public intelligence be not enlightened, pub lic resolve matured, public vigilance concentrated, no =blister will either entertain the desire, or acquire the power, to do anything. Lord JOHN RCS-SELL and his reform will be kicked out of place and par liament by the Lords. Aud Sir CUARLES WOOD will continue grimacing, and complimenting the country gentlemen, and calling everything that is just and popular impossible, unless he or whoever is in his place, have the screw of public opinion put upon them, and the 'anthem of public intelligence held full in his face. Governments hitherto were teams that trotted along from very pride, with rare need of the whip. Governments arc now the locomotive engines that have superseded the team, and which will never budge till the steam is laid on, and will never go elm jest in proportion to the impelling farce. And the public is now the only political steam generator. Ise the managers of the (kneel Screw Navigation Company are prudent, they will try to screw a little emus= muss and common civility into the masters of their vessel. Twice have the general public been kept in • state of uneasy excitement with respect to the state of Wain in South Africa, by the pranks of these worthies. Twice has the oilier in command of the packet of the company refused to communicate the news from the Cape to the packet of the Royal Mail Compare which he met at St VIDOSOCO, from a hiltry ' to allow any oth er t o forestall m; and twice, in coneequenoe, has the Royal Mail Company's camel brought intelligence that news, of what nature was unknown, was coming from the Cape. We cannot for a moment suppose that the intelligent and respectable BIESI4IIIII of the Gemmel Screw Company can have sail or done anything to warrant such conduct on the wt of their servants. l2lll = nest be aware that as servants of the public more as in remipt government aid), it is their deity to take advan tage d e very opportunity to forward intelligesee without ' community . _ give it a skier publicity. The little that pertinacious inquiries en the part of the crew and passengers of the Teriot could ex tract from the crew of the Sir Robert Peel (reten tive and taciturn as its great namesake) is not of a very emnfortabie character. Sir Halm Sitrrn, it is reported, was at the date of the last despatches from the frontier, barely able to keep his own; he could not advance, and was merely gentling out oets sional detachments to tarry on a partisan warfare; and he was anxiously looking for reinforcements from Fngland. Papers to the 16th of April re ceived yesterday from the Cape render it highly pro bable that the news despatched on the 2nd of May would wear this ugly complexion. It is impossible to reed some of the more recent manifestoes issued by Sir HENRY Swim without en lortaning fears that his judgment is giving way under the combined influence of mortified vanity, a painful sense of responsibility, and misgivings as tie I his ability to extricate himself creditably from the dilemma into which he has plunged. A " Memo random" dated at King William's Town, the 31st of March, was published in our columns yaba*sy, and to it we refer in support of this imprimis& It contains, " perhaps," says the canny ceps el Sir HENRY in the Cape press, " all that the timasmander in-chief thinks it prudent to publish at glut" It contains, in fact, some incoherent andlncompre hensible allusions to some wonderful plot, which Sir HENRY says he has discovered; and every man of common sense will admit Sir HENRY ought either to have said more, or to have said nothing about the matter. The truth is, Sir IILtRY Sitivn, a general favourite wherever ho I had served from his frank and cordial manners, aspired considerable reputation for the courage, granptitude, and success with which he carried into elket the orders of his superior officer in the war against the Kaffir chief Hl,ire. His reputation was raised still higher by his exploits at Aliwal. But this latter distinction inspired him with an ambition to 21 - apieruse, and under this fatal delusion he has done nothing since his return to South Africa but play melodrama and commit blunders. The mortifying effects of his ill-success in attempting to make himself a double of the hero of Scinde in Katfirland may account for the incoherence of the note to which we have referred. However this may be, it is clear from the Cape news up to the 16th of April, the war in Kaffirland was not only being spun out, but was spreading on all hands. More Kaffir chiefs were giving in their accession to the war party in British l(affraria, and the disturbances on the north-eastern frontier among the Tambookies were becoming more alarming, whilst the whole of the Orange River Sovereignty appeared to be convulsed. The jealousy entertained of Hottentot conspiracies in the eastern districts of the colony was also (with or without reason) pal pably on the increase; and there appears to have been good grounds for apprehending that marauding hands of Kathie were beginning to swarm across the frontier. _ . ... To mar apprehension, not the least alarming part of the intelligence last received from the Cape is the riot at Graham's Town on the arrival of the clergy man appointed to visit and inspect the missions of the Scotch Secession Church in South Africa. The disturbance does not appear to have been of a very serious character, bat it indicates a state of great ex asperation between that party of the colonists which has always been for adopting a sanguinary policy against hostile native tribes, and the more humane who have sided with the missionaries. Wo are free to confess that the latter have often ap peared to us to mistake a maudlin nervous sensi tiveness for humanity; and that the mischievous re sults of the policy which they induced government to adopt has naturally irritated the border settlers, who suffered byit. But the revulsion in public opinion which has thus been occasioned appears in danger of carrying men as far in the extreme of harshness as it was for a time the fashion to go in that of leniency. To deal with uncivilised tribes as if they were wild beasts, and to deal with them as if they were mild philosophers, are equally dangerous errors; but the former is if anything the more discreditable and the more mischievous of the two. It is enough at present to direct attention to this topic; to %peculate further on the aspect of affairs on the frontier of the Cape colony, when a few hours must bring us more recent and more detailed intelli gence, would be sheer waste of time. A secoNto report of the new Charity Commission appointed to revise the reports of the old Charity Commissioners, whose labours were either quietly reposing in about a tun of blue books, or giving sluggish and costly employment to the Court of Chancery, has been issued. In itself it is a meagre, insufficient, and unsuggestive document, little worthy of the names appended to it. But its own defects and shortcomings are somewhat compensated for by two appendices, and by the draught of a bill " For facilitating and better securing the due Administra tion of Charities in England and Wales," which Lord Chancellor Tst•tto has already introduced into the House of Lords, but with the details of which we are not yet acquainted._ - - - - - One appendix contains the particulars of thirteen cases requiring, in the commissioners' opinion, the intervention of the AITORNET-GENERtL and a court of law, either to enforce the better administration of existing trusts or to lay down more useful schemes for the application of the property than the existing trusts direct. Whilst the other appendix furnishes a synopsis of a long string of cases illustrative of those defects and abuses for which a legislative rather than a judicial remedy is required. These appendices will, no doubt, prove exceedingly valuable in rousing public opinion on the subject of the large amount of charity property which still re mains either positively misapplied or is applied in a trivial, profitless, and mischievous way. And though doubtless the first object is, and ought to be, the preservation of this property and its rescue from misuse (as, of course, is aimed at in the bill prepared by the commissioners), we do not think that they would have trespassed much beyond the bounds of their commission, if they had considered on a large and comprehensive smile the propriety of laying down some general principles for the application of the surplus revenues which, in so many eases will, under improved administration or under stricter ad hereon to existing trusts, remain after the spe cific objects of the foundation have been amply ful filled, and had thereby endeavoured to arrest the enormousamount of legal expenditure now involved in all informations at the suit of the ArroasEr- GENERSL, and in suits carried on in the name of that public functionary on the relations of private persons ; the latter being probably the very worst form in which a misused charity can be reformed, and which is, as several cases referred to by the commissioners show, sometimes fraudulently resorted to for the purpose of preventing the reformation of abases. the intention of the founders must always w T hert h be practicable be fully provided for in the reform of chanties, it is not, in the application of the sorplan remaining after it shall have been secured, to be overlooked that, in many CMS, the growth of misty and of political economy, a higher appreciation et public duty, a better administration of the par law, and the application to charitable and humane and military purposes of the groat prissiplo which distingwahas modern times —diet d vidwatery oontributiono—have in this sso supple& mak better institutions for the minuteman 411111 , the mecum of old age, and theroast d than any further develop- 1 mat el dims eld Isawilatises can furnish. It were, thmshooos a general rile, a waste of power and of aims to emote by the army of their surplus reve als* adillitsal almshouse, other medical hospitals, spil sew reaglasho !R decayed gentlemen ; for Sem wants misty NOW greatly provides for by its usimilnry exertions, Ore and the greatest at all moini wants is yet, however, most insufficiently ; and that is education ; and to it, we - • charities masters; and the misters having thc; patronage the brethren. The income of this foundation is now nearly 1,5001. a year, and its . property would, " if properly let, produce a certain annual income of 3,0001. a year; the present system of leasing, for the con tinuance of which there does not seem to be any reason, being, add the Commissioners " certainly injurious to the charity." Of the income, labout 2501. only is applied in the maintenance of the brethren, and repairs and other incidental expenses; and the master (at present a non-resident la ), after paying 40/. a year to a chaplain and more to a steward, takes the balance for his own tare. This, of course, is a case which a court of law will, when the ATIORNEY-OVIZRAL takes the neessrary steps, correct. But how? To enlarge the establish ment would at best only benefit a score or two of other old men ; while, to devote the surplus income to educational purposes, would civilise and improve the surrounding country. And to this point we venture to think the commissioners might very use fully have devoted a little attention. The case of Archbishop . HOLOATS'S Hospital at Hemsworth, in Yorkshire, is an instance of another species of abuse, where, also, a large surplus might bo secured for education; or, with the addition thereto of the other property left by the Archbishop fora free grammar school in that parish, there are means almost to found a university there. The Archbishop first founded an hospital for a muster and twenty brethren and sisters, fixing their stipends, and restricting their rates of increase, as the value of the property augmented. The present income is now upwards of 2,3001. a year ; and it is divided in certain proportions between the master and the twenty brethren and sisters. The latter get 04/. a year each, and to persons in their station of life such an income is found to be unnecessarily and mis chievously large—in fact, a mere waste of money. But the same Prelate left also considerable property for a free grammar school in the same parish, in the administration of which abuses are strongly sus pected to exist. Now here, if these two means were united, after the maintenance of 20 poor persons had been properly provided for, it is clear that a large in come exists, sufficient to provide education for all the neighbourhood. So, also, there are the Crewe estates, in Northam berland, worth upwards of 10,000. a year, with spa cific charges thereon under 1,5001. a year, at press frittered and trifled away by the dignitaries of Dur ham Cathedral; in Hampshire, there is the fine pre , perty belonging to St. Cross; at Chatham, there is a large property belonging to the Old Leper Rano in Lincolnshire, there is the Mere Hospital In short, there is scarcely a county in England where considerable funds might not be rescued out of old foundations, with worn-out objects, for education, if we only had a government bold enough to ta ke: this great subject irrhand. nothing for feiauining America had re • / cony, . vanished • antj the repub li c becante eternalt to do the same, and the result same. Therefore he was• the courageous revision of some articles of The exclusion of the President 'from die meet way to incline a people, , restrietion, to elect him. He wanted, severity, an indestructible guarantee tint , would not be need as a pretence for the subversion of the republic. That guarantee was the restoration of universal suffrage. He would vote for revision; but only en the condition of abrogating the law of May. JUNE 10, r e 1 fr • THE EXPRESS, 'TUESDAY EVIMIRG. r. sch it before theirs , it was their eimpilks dutch , rie rally de when.w ollirkista Till 101, me, whiv-wer4 lir {del It on board of that vessel dapßeatei of apky to Contra • ,• • - . to . r o: t, ,• • a do ~. . • everiihint . i.yfell his possession. That &propeller ea • ~. i the 4 4 ,. MO witili tutlem 1 arn* P ll _, ins 4llo .. te • a peddle-00=er ea a bead • 'nabob no • eistbd etzen 1 1,‘li of w ' inlltte cont ore nniverbal sun edit on it ; that the propel • built fallible gig ibr. o 7 ' , is, it s, a s , kmattion in Let loam dare b editerranean, and only mak _employed a iikenty . \ CC 1 • ...- Mined Oratho Capita ,• I would 'be the si e Cape line, should be beaten by the week staineil was origin Ily founded in the thirteeath century ; advocate of a coup{ an old company, is nothing to be ashamed of ; bat but, the Reformation interfering with its objects, it the constitution. Tit ee though the event were discreditable to the was reeonelitated by Lures I. Under that inonareh's te-e•gib~ility was th moral Svrew Company, the disappointment of the statutes it c on sists of a master and thirteen p oor who d i sdained restri mmnnity by the non-arrival of news would only brethrai r the Ilishops f of Dtlirfai ippotnting the however, full marl masters: and the masters having the patronage of that revision would BELGIUM. The president of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies has addressed a circular to the various members, dated Brussels, 6th June, informing them that, as he had received notice from the ministry that the modi fications which were to be introduced in the various measures before the Chamber would occupy them for some time, he considered it advisable to adjourn the sittings until the 23rd inst., on which day business would be proceeded with as usual. SPAIN. MADRID, luxe 4. The Geeettc contains the appointment of Armero to the ministry of marine. It is stated that a deputation of three Portuguese officers of the revolted garrison of Elves presented themselves to the Spanish Captain-General at Ba dajoz, requesting his co-operation to put down the government at Lisbon. The Captain-General ap plied to the government at Madrid for instructions. The Marquis of Miratiores pursues with zeal the scheme of intervention in Portugal, but is opposed by some other ministers, especially Lersundi. Bravo Murillo and his party allow the negotiations on this subject with the great powers to proceed, foreseeing that England will put her veto on intervention in the present stage of the revolution at least. Lord Howden has frequent conferences with the ministers on this subject. M. Arnao, ex-secretary of the Spanish embassy in Paris, has been despatched to Vienna, with a view to consulting Prince Schwarzen berg. The sitting in the Chamber to-day has been animated. The violent abuses resorted to by the go vernment in the elections have been vigorously im pugned by Mozano, ex-rector of the university, in the case of the election of M. Villaverde, minis terial candidate for the district of Puente-Candelas. The opposition candidate, Pereira, was fired at, and his horse shot under him, and other atrocious means of intimidation used to frighten away his voters from the poll. Eseosura, Salamanca's minister of the in terior, and banished after the events of 18-18, has made a brilliant speech, which was being answered by Bertram de Lis when the post left. ITALY. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna (published in tho Augsburg Gazette) announces the advance of the Austrian troops to Spoleto, in the Papal States. GER MANY. Jens 6. The revival of the provincial and district diets simply by a government edict continues to be the engrossing subject of conversation here in political circles, and, as far as the now press law (which is not far) will safely permit, of - public discussion. This revival is said to be merely temporary and provisional; that its expediency has arisen from the fact that the gmeinde ordnuny, which divides Prussia into parishes, and provides the sufficient local authorities, has not been carried into effect, and that the class and classified income tax abso lutely requires some such authority as the provin cial diets to be brought into operation. Supposing, however, all this to be true, why was not the temporary renovation of these diets submitted as a motion from the government to the Chambers whilst the Chambers were sitting. The Chambers were compliant enough to the will of the cabinet, and had the measure been carried by them, it would have at least been so far con stitutional. But its postponement till after the Chambers were prorogued, and then its realisation by virtue barely of a government edict, shows pretty clearly both the spirit which dictated it, and the purpose in view. A measure more constitutionally important, in every sense more important, than any brought under the consideration of the Prussian par liament whilst it was assembled, has been deemed, and virtually declared, too important for the cham bers to meddle with, and the minister has taken it upon himself to decide upon it without consulting them at all about it. This seems to be as gross and flagrant an outrage upon the representative system as ever was committed. I know it is said by the advocates of the government here, that the renewal of the provincial diets is a mere administrative act, and if the re-creation of an abolished organic institu tion can be so called, it may be thus designated, but not otherwise. The better way to explain the fact is, by simply stating that Prussia still remains a despotic power ; that its constitution is regarded but as a matter of sufferance, of grace, of indulgent con cession, whilst a sic vole, sicjubeo power is considered as belonging to the crown by inherent unalienable right. The Austrian, Prussian, and Danish commis sioners have all, as it were, with one consent, left Kiel. These movements have, it is likely, but one object. After the return of M. Pechlin from St. Petersburg, and probably as a result of his unsuc cessful mission, the son of Prince Christian of Glucks burg was adopted as heir to the Danish throne by the actual King of Denmark. In a ca binet council held at Copenhagen on the 22nd ult. this adoption was definitively de termined on. It was then moved and decided that this matter should bo laid before the Assembly of notables at Flensburg, after which it was proposed that a general Diet of Denmark and the duchies should be convoked. And this it is, I am given to understand, that has caused the two commissioners to return to their respective courts. The differences that exist between them and the Danish cabinet have also made them desirous of conferring personally with their governments. The commissions insist chiefly on five points: Ist, a guarantee for the union of Schleswig and Holstein; 2nd, the maintenance of a German nationality in Schleswig, which the Danes seem particularly desirous at present to root out ; 3rd, areal amnesty in place of the edict which excludes so many ; 4th, the composition, of the military contin gent of the Diet from native Holsteincrs only ; and fifth and finally, the abolition of the line of custom houses between Schleswig and Holstein. HAMBURG, MONDAY. JUNE 9. A bloody collision has taken place between the sailors and Austrian troops. Six men have been killed and a great number wounded. The Senate bad declared itself en permanence. THE LEVANT. A letter dated Constantinople, May 25, says: Mehemet-Ali Bey, one of the youngest sons of Mehemet Ali, late Viceroy of Egypt, has arrived in Constantinople, and been well received by the Sultan. He will remain here to complete his studies. A letter from Aleppo says : Youssouf Bey, who was civil governor after the revolt in this city, and who is considered as the richest and most powerful Arab in the country, has just been arrested by order of the Governor•Oeneral hfehemed Pacha ; ho to be sent to Constantinople, where an examination into his conduct will be instituted. This arrest has produced a very salutary effect on the Arab population, and takes from them any idea of again disturbing the country. Youssouf Bey was the intimate friend of Abdullab Bey, who played such an important part during the disturbances, and it was thought his immense riches would shield him from any pro ceedings. The imperial government, however, appears to be determined that, without distinction of rank in future, every one found guilty of being concerned in that insur rection shall meet with the punishment which he merits. From Athens we learn that the Prince of Olden burg, brother of the Queen of Greece, embarked at the Yyreus, on the 20th, for Coustsntinople. He will remain for a fortnight or three weeks in that city, and then return to Athens, after which be is to pro ceed to Germany. TheMiliantbeit of stile Cowed' has just rendered a decree relative to the assassination of the minister Korflotaki. It sob& be fedi the Court of Assizes the throe , indi4iduals accused sad imprisoned from the beginning, end adds to than Kiriacouli. The acres numbers of the Mavtomichali family, who were charged with being accessory to the murder, have been acquitted, in despite of the hostility of the ca binet against this family. Two of the judges were , dismissed for having procured this sentence, which I has been referred to the Court of Appeal, in the hope ; of its being reversed. UNITED STATES. Our correspondent writes : NEW YORE, MAY 27. Passing down Wall-street to-day I noticed in front of one of the express offices the luggage of the British minister, marked for the Boston steamer. Most probably h is lady (as we say here) will sail from that port to-morrow. Sir Henry has made hosts of fr'ends in this country, though he recently offended the Irish by talking about the Celts. Wo ask now, and humbly ask, when will all Ireland be landed hero ? We have scarce a hospital, or an almshouse, or a liquor shop untenanted, and we certainly should make the necessary arrangements in advance fur all the interesting and valuable accessions to our popula tion. But we are equally obliged just now by our kind friends the Italians. Some hundreds of their beggars have appeared in our streets within the last three months, covered over with sores and stains produced artificially, idiots, boys with mice, and shipwrecked mariners. I think that Italy, not withstanding the smallness of her marine, produces the greatest number of shipwrecked mariners in the world! Well, we first have all this beautiful dis play of Europcanism in our streets ; we next find these men voting at our elections, next getting the small offices of the country, and next affiliating with every possible robber who wishes to take Canada or steal Cuba. Let our true friends in England under stand all this. Let them not abuse this country for the disorders that may occur in it. They are attri butable to any but ourselves. One of the principal arguments used by the South Carolinians in favour of secession is, that the North ern States are now governed by a foreign rabble. We have recently received news from Lima as late as the Bth of April. It appears that General Jose Rutin° Echenique received 2,39:: electoral votes for President, and has been declared constitutionally elected. There were five other candidates. The Peruvians are very much gratilieff.at the result. It is the first time, they say, that the ballot has ever directed the choice of a President. Our domestic news is of the usual character. The President has gaiety reached Washington. Mr. Webster is making a brilliant progress homeward, speaking to delighted audiences everywhere, and receiving the greatest applause and attention. Ile has made himself very popular by this tour, and looms up in the political horizon larger than ever. The cholera has broken out in the west and some deaths have occurred. No apprehension is entertained of its becoming general. ' The concerts of Jenny Lind are as well attended as ever. We hear that some of the greatest artists of the Italian opera are coming to this country ; and as our love of music is now a fixed fact," there can be no doubt but that a visit to the United States will be extremely profitable to them. The President and a portion of his cabinet passed quietly through this city, on the 23rd, on their return to Washington. They have been warmly received throughout their journey, and their well-timed and energetic appeals to the people to stand by the com promises of the law and the guarantees of the consti tution, have had a palpable effect. There is a great ' change come over us within a few weeks past. We are unanimous in the wish to get rid of slavery, but not at the expense of three millions of white lives and fifty millions of treasure, with a perfect chaos in our public affairs. It is a very singular fact, which has only come to light within a few days past, that the large slaveholders in South Carolina are almost without exception opposed to secession. The noise and clamour have been made by men scarcely owning any slaves at all. I must confess I was much asto nished at learning this fact, but I draw front it the conclusion that the movement in that state is not one of the property holders, but of the demagogues. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The following particulars are related in the Cape Town Moil, which had been received from their cor respondent at Graham's Town, dated the Bth of April: On Saturday evening, a sane of no very creditable char acter occurred in this town. It was known that the Rev. Mr. Renton was in town, and thut he and Mrs. Renton had taken up their quarters at Mr. M'Kenzie's hotel, in Bath urst-street. As soon as it was dusk, a crowd assembled, and having constructed a rude transparency showing the in scription " Extermination of the Rebels," and also made up a fig ure to personate the rev. gentleman, they paraded the streets with them for several hours, and eventually re mained in front of the hotel, where they proceeded to burn the efagy, and also several tar-barrels. it not been for the interference of some of the respectable inhabitants, it is to be feared much mischief would have been done. At this period of the evening some two or three stones were thrown, which broke as many panes of glass in the windows. Previously to the aasembling in front of the hotel, the mob had visited the house of Mr Tudhope, having been inform e d that Mr. Renton was there, and had broken s veral panes of glass, and one of the panels of his front door. After leer. ins M'Kenzie's hotel they went to the Rev. Mr. Smith'', but there did no damage. About 12 o'clock he crowd dis persed, and quietness for a time reigned in the .treets; but about two o'clock on Sunday morning, a number of per sons again assembled, and demolished about 2i or 30 panes of glass in Mr. M'Kenzie's house, by throwing stones through the windows, which also did considerable damage to the property within. The state of popular feeling runs very high against the missionaries said to be at all concerned in the events which have taken place at the Kat River, and of this the above may be considered as an index. On Monday the authorities were employed in investigating the aff.ur, and many depositions were taken, but we cann t learn that any measures were adopted to prevent a recurrence of the disgraceful scene." _ _ The following is an extract of a letter from Mr. F. G. Ashmore, formerly of Dover, dated, Village of Richmond (Ill 000), near Mr. Allison's station, Port Natal, March 27, 1851: We have been rather alarmed at the war breaking out on the frontier again, and were afraid that the Kaffirs would also break out upon us, although they are exceedingly civil, but I am sorry to say very treacherous, so much so, that all the English settlers have met together, and have enrolled themselves as volunteers to protect their property. We meet every week for drill, under the command of Mr. Weir, formerly a sergeant in the Royal Artillery, who is now a pensioner, and we made him our captain on the 21st of February. Mr. Allison sent us word that the Kadin were assembling some four or five miles distant, and we had better be on our guard, as he did not know what they intended. We accordingly called a meeting, and canto to the determination of keeping watch taut night. At 12 o'clock we were called up and told by the watch that they could hear Kaffirs whispering by the bridge. Every man was immediately armed with his gun, and if they had come we should have given them a warm reception. It proved to be a false alarm, being some Kaffirs that Mr. Allison had despatched to Pietermaritzburg ; they bruivilit a letter from the body of Kaffirs in Natal, who had met in conse quence of our preparation, and decided that they did not wish for war, but for peace. Sines that time we have hail no cause for alarm, owing, probably, to the exertions of Sir Harry Smith on the frontier. There are nearly SOO Christ ian Kaffirs about us in the village of Richmond. I am mos .••••. An Am. ...ANA. A r.T.• •••••• An NA mimeo.* AMINION, IMMO& use add ids waren at ad tae same unmans divisions as republi can F ranc e. b urg , brother of the Q ueen o f dpi rs eamm i g IN). it is Sidi* to labs ober modem mow h yet, 1101110Viri Meg immillskatly Royalists who wanted to set up a king ; radicals who the Yyreus, on the 20th, for C o =f t wary opprtmdly to Ihmitad hikilligwoos provided kr; sod that is eandalissi ; and to it, we wanted to abolish the presidency ; ambiti ous men rema i n f or a f ortn i g h t or three eibrodi that id Maas amilhor mud sehmit. the morphia mows of eadstims charities who wanted to perpetuat e th e pres id ency ; oom- and then return to Athens, aft pressoig ho Nwskad e wai `sirs • sines to apt lob 8 ON** ilsoindi as try very rauaists who raved for phiuder; timorous people mod to Germany. • A . . . -, A:4MM' -... ' Am FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. There is not a breath of news stirring to-day. The Assembly did not sit, on account of the fete. fhe two or three newspapers which have appeared con tain nothing worth quoting. The grand difficulty of revision is its inseparable connexion with the electoral law. M. de Tocque vile admits that Fiance calls for revision, but he hesitates to respond to the call lest the divisions of the majority should give the socialists the victory in the elections, particularly under the present system of voting,which is peculiarly favourable to a united mino rity. It is therefore clear that one of the guarantees de mended by M. de Toequeville before he will consent to revision is a modification of the electoral law. Larnartine also demands an alteration of the law of May; but,plecing more confidence than deToequeville in the right sense of the people, he requires the restoration of universal suffrage unmutilated. This, according to him, is the surest guarantee against the restoration of monarchy. lie is satisfied that the vast majority of French citizens desire earnestly • reformed republican constitution, equally free from the Utopias of socialism and the privileges of the old regime—an opinion which bears a remarkable affinity to the President's assertion at Dijon. The committee on the Internal Administration Bill, on Saturday, concluded the revision of the Mu nicipal Bill. One article alone remaining to be re vised, gave rise to a discussion of some interest. This article (170) is as follows : "The organisation and the municipal administration of the city of Paris shall be decided on by special law to be presented to the National Assembly in the year succeeding the promulgation of the present law." M. de Vatimesnil proposed not to specify any fixed delay. This pro position, which was opposed by M. F. de Lasteyrie, was adopted by the committee. In consequence of this decision, Art. 1760 f the committee is suppressed. It is said that there port on the part of the bill rela tive to the municipal law will be presented at the end of the week. The committee charged to examine the bill for the ratification of the treaties of La Plata, after having successively heard the explanations of several ofH cers of the navy, who have held commands in that quarter, and M. Deffitudis who was minister pleni potentiary in La Plata, yesterday heard those of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which were considered perfectly- satisfactory. The committee is, it is said, posed to propose purely and simply the ratifica tion of those treaties. The report will be presented for examination at the next sitting of the committee. The inauguration of the Poitiers Railway takes place on the 15th. The President is expected to be present. It is reported that he contemplates a journey through the central departments. The funds have risen sensibly to-day. Tho Fives closed at 91.40, with a rise of Vie.; the Threes roes 30c., and closed at 54.80. On Saturday M. Lamartinespoke in the 15th burets. He began by an allusion to M. do la ltloskowes assertion that unless the Assembly remedied the 45th article of the constitution the nation would do it far them. Two things were necessary for that re bellious pretender, and an army of insurgents ; sad he respected too much both the President and the country to believe that either of those conditions ex isted. Ile next pointed out the absurdity of the. club-government advocated by the Mountain. He then addressed himself to refute the arguments of M. Haze against revision. M. BOZO wee for deferring the question until the country made its opinions known in a more decided way. In Lamartine s opinion it was better to prevent a danger than to wait for it. He then proceeded to show the necessity of establishing the republic after the fall of Louis Philippe. The republic was a neutral ground on which contending parties met in peace. If the people suffered, which no doubt was the case, they suffered to pin political rights, which they would not sell again for a mess of porridge. What the people wanted was the settlement of the re , public, the consolidation of republican institutions ; order, security for acquired rights, inviolability for property, the source of all wages, inviolability for capital, the heart of all work; the stability of mo narchy with the dignity of liberty, the possible and not the impossible republic. It wa s quite a mistake to suppose that such republicans as he represented were averse to tho reform of the constitution. Two chambers, the re-elegibility of the President, the suppression of the sereitin de tide in elections; mew tion of the conflict between the two powers; longer lease of power to the President; parti a l renewa l of the chamber;—all these reforms were called revi sion, and were not unwished for by republicans. Well : was it wise to repulse brutally such hopes of amelioration, and to say to the people, "No ; you 1 1 shall have no change; you shall return to roll ea your uneasy bed without remedy." No ; that was the way to make the republic hated ; to drive the nation in despair tinder the banner of pretenders and The example of America had been cited. Wile American republic had been assailed by the same intestine divisions as republican France. Royalists who wanted to set op a king ; radicals who abolish the presidency ; ambitious men perpetuate the presidency ; eon for plunder; timorous people CANADA. TORONTO, MAY 24. The session of the Canadian parliament was opened on Tuesday last by the Governor-General, Lord Elgin, after the ceremony used in England upon such occasions. His excellency delivered the speech from the throne in the English and French languages. It was general and guarded, and the address in answer to it excited very little debating in the house, and was carried without discussion. It commenced by alluding to the general prosperity of the province, and expressing congratulation for this and the high rate provincial securities commanded abroad. It expressed satisfaction at the recent changes in the im perial navigation laws, which it stated would en able the provincial government to provide increased facilities for emigrants, and thereby cruse the ex ' pending of capital in the completing and rendering more perfect our internal communication. Satisfaction is ex pressed at the spirit that exists in favour of railway enter prise, and. it is stated the credit of the province will be pledged to aid the construction of railways, with proper regard to its protection. I may state with regard to this, that there is as strong feeling existing which will pre vent the government, even if it felt so disposed, from entering into any rash enterprises. Congratulation is ex pressed for the new postal law. On the subject of the proposed Quebec and Halifax raiiroad, th, re is no thing definite stated, but the despatch of Earl Grey is promised consideration. The Canada and New Brunswick boundary question is stated to be in train for final adjust meat, and in a satisfactory manner. The Great Exhibition is alluded to, and the house is glad that reports have reached his Excellency that Canada will not be unworthily repre sented. On the clergy reserves nothing is said further than that the house is grateful to her Majesty for having so gra ciously received its address, and also for the communication of her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State upon the sub ject. A measure for the increase of the representation in parliament is again recommended, and the address closes with the following paragraph : This house feels deeply sensible that as the province ad vances in wealth and population, and the authority of the local parliament is extended and confirmed, the responsi bilities which attach to members of this legislature become necessarily more onerous, and they rejoice with your Ex cellency in the assurance that the people of Canada, while they justly appreciate the requirements of an age of pro. geese, are attached to their institutions and faithful to their early traditions, and assure your Excellency that they will earnestly endeavuur, in humble reliance on the divine blessing, to promote in this spirit their best interests. There is one thing very remarkable about this address: it is that, after the resolutions had been passed upon which it was founded, Sir Allan M'Nab seconded the various motions of Mr. Attorney-General Baldwin fur its final adoption and engrossing. After the violence and bitter ness of the strife of 1849, such a thing as this sounds strangely in Canadian ears. Sir Allan, you will likely remember, was then one of the most violent, nay even frenzied opponents of the Rebellion Indemnity Bill, and denounced in no measured terms Mr. Baldwin and Lord Elgin ' • yet now, before this same ministry has gone out of office, Sir Allan seconds a motion for an address to Lord Elgin. What the object of this action of Sir Allan is, I cannot say ; but I should hardly think that either he or the ministry could entertain the idea of a coalition. Sir Allan has been already condemned very strongly by the leading conservative press of this city. The Hon. W. H. Merritt gave his reasons for re signing his place in the ministry, in the debate on the ad dress. The principal of these were that he disapproved of the Minute of Council forwarded to Earl Grey on the I subject of retrenchment. Mr. Merritt held that a far greater retrenchment of the governmental expentes should he made than the government was disposed to concur in. He also believes our constitution to be radically bad, and intimated that it was his intention of proposing, during the present session, some measures of constitutional reform. His proposals will fall dead in the present house ; but he will make a speech, and it will go to the country, and may likely produce some effect there. This, I suppose, is his calculation. As to the state of Canadian partial, they are all broken up; and it is impossible to perceive a glimmer of light through them. During this session the ministry will, no doubt, bold on their way, and Puffer very little decrease from their usual majorities. While the action of Sir Allan M'Nab and Mr. Merritt would seem to indicate that the struggle will ultimately come between real independents, but nominal, eounexionists, and those desirous of maintain ing, or rather holding, to ancient " traditions," to use the phraseology of his excellency. The former will be at first the more powerful, but the probabilities are in favourof the latter going on increasing. Since the above was written Sir Allan M'Nab has made an explanation of his vote, stating that he did not act from political motives, but only oat of courtesy to Mr. Baldwin. This is RO reason. And, also, since the above was written the ministry have sustained a slight defeat by a majority of one. But the house was not full. Several of their eau& supporters did however go against them. , Commorcial—The spring ships continue rapidly to arrive at Qaebee sad Montreal, and some have begun to clear out wards again. Business is increasing in activity. Ashes of ' both pots and pearls have changed hands at 295. 6d. Flour —This market is rather flat. There have been some sales of " fancy " at from 20e. 3d. to 20,. 6d. per Dural. • The quintal may be taken RS equal to I cwt. Kneads, m4d the ard,b, divided Into 24 kites, as equal to 5 English bushels. Th. .stre Is divvied into 44 perm; 97, or in the ordinary course of account 100 piastres, are equal to LI sterling. THE BRAZILIAN MAIL SERVICE.—Since the com mencement of the Brazilian mail contract, four packets have arrived from the Brazils, and two of them hare hap pened to touch at St. Vincent on their homeward passage at the same time u the Cape of Good Hope screw marl steamers, and have arrived in England before the latter. In both instances the officers on board the screw steamers have refused to communicate to the officers of the Brazilian steamers the news from the Cape, although it has been of the utmost importance both to the government and the country. The publication in the Express of yes terday of the fact that the officers of the Sir Robert Peel, Cape mail steamer, had refused to communicate at St. Vincent to the officers of the Brazilian mail steamer Teviot, which arrived at Southampton on Sunday, and also the publication in the Express elf the few items of important intell.gence from the Cape which was obtained secretly from the passengers of the Sir Robert Peel, have excited the attention of the government, and a telegraphic instruction was sent to Southampton yesterday from the government, which it was expected would reach before the departure of the outward Brazilian steamer, ordering the Admiralty agent of the Brazilian packets, if they arrived in future at St. Vincent at the same time as the serew steamers, to demand. in the name of the government, from the Admiralty agents of the screws, the full particular" , of the Cape news. Instructions will also be sent to Ply mouth to order the Admiralty agents of the Cape packets to furnish in future such information, and any refusal to do so will cause the persons so refusing to be dismissed from her Majesty's service. THE NICARAGUA NOUTF.—Thc Nero York Tribune states : " We learn that the Prometheus will leave this city on the 13th of July, direct for San Juan de Ni c aragua, taking the Brat company of passengers for California by the Central American route. The steamer Pacific will' leave San Francisco the same day fur San Juan del Sur, and corn. plate the connection. The two iron steamboats intended to ran on the San Juan Riyer will ho sent out in a few days. Mr. Vanderbilt leaves on the 13th of Juno to complete the eirsegements to the opening of the route." CEYLON. KANDY, APRIL 25. I avail myself of the additional steamer the Penin sular and Oriental Company vend for the convenience of the Exhibition visitors, to give you the intelligence up to this date. The rains have been tolerably regular since my last, and a great quantity of laud has been planted with new coffee. Sickness has decreased with the change of weather. His Excellency the Governor is still here, diligently apply ing himself to the consideration of the nee,sary changes in the legal and other departments, to be proposed to the council probably next session. Mr. Mc Curthy, the colonial secretary, is in Colombo, much better, and there is now no fear that he will be obliged to go home. All are glad of his recovery. His absence just now wouln be agreat loss. Captain Watsan's court martial is still pending. The pro- secutor seems very careless and negligent in his duty, but I cannot say more till the result is announced. According to present appearances, there will be more than an average crop of coffee the next crop. The blossom looks well. _ k.xchangcs are again down. Six months bills 6, to 6 per cent. There is a probability of the Commercial Bank establish ing a branch in Ceylon. Another bank i 3 needed. Bad accounts front the Cape frontier. Several officers are ' going there, of those who were lately reduced from the Ceylon ltine tiegiment. TRADE OF EGYPT. Table showing the amount of raw produce ex ported from Egypt during the three lunar years com mencing with the month of Jamadhi-al-Akher 1254 A.H. (April 1848), and ending with Jamad.d-al-Awal 1267 (March 1841); also the total value of Egyptian imports and exports of merchandise during the same period. cgT aa .;r*"l'4 0 1101.11477.-7,4i5:= E a 7, L I e Filitl2.7-3t1.534-`°' 1 , 4.• 115:-.1 -4 : 4 ;f5 4 1 a 14.' ITZ.7S:I2StiZZI*.tI:: _ Me UPS' ~r~ 4...•11,0• m ••66.41,.. rvrg;-..r 4.• • • ; I F Value of merchandise imported iuto and exported from Egypt during the thrm years above mentioned. IMPORTS. From Jantad6ltl-Akhrr irt Piastm• pro. (11461 to Jattladlil.ol-Aw 1 1205 0649) Ditto ditto 149 to l*SO 127.V:3032 20 Ditto ditto Isso to 1051 122,770.103 0 Pitrtret prs. 342,091,459 90 From Jamadhl-41-Akhoir 1261 (1701) to J 0601141.4414•1 75350.4 1262) 17119 Dili° ditto .M 149 to Ditto 6100 1910 to 1631 195 346,907 36 -- 473,274,226 0 637,3101,125 0 ; s.a. 5 5 p 77 - `.4 I -.:-.. 9 . 1?.. t p r • 4 r.• •7 ao_ El .17 f 0 -:: I* -I UN. ..f ~....