The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-28 00:00:00

gut entrtoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ...... .-• A rvad Wilke .I`. " sosablauar MUM imalres "Uaaate," r pulAulked egg', Tuesday sal !Imlay aq►4 la Wm, talieuled '• The Eimer." Wallas Evvoia, parer. wt be n! flu, q $ e , la, Rouverle•ctreet. kj Two o'clock of the lear d pear toes. nwu WATBR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tin. My—Morale& ilk. ..... Aftnowea, &b. rho. To•offluww—llkwzin. 111 Ma. .Annaeee. Itft. LONDON, WEDNIIBD.I Y, .1.1 NUA Rl' V. O*D►RS are said to have been sent out recalling to Hoglund three of the principal ships composing the squadron now lying in the Tag ; and as many of the vessels which contribute to form our fleet in the Mediterranean. If this rumour should prove authentic, —as there is reason for believing it to he,—the first practical con tention rill have been made to the force of public opinion on the subject; and the first step in the direction indicated by common tens , in the managc• sent of our naval attains will have lessen taken. We shall re-crve our congratulations un:11 we. have the satisfaction of announcing the arrival of the ships in question at Portsmouth. Some time must elapse before those which have to Rohe their homeward voyage from the ].want can dr. their anchors in a native harbour; and there has long becn too much of instability of purpose and in decision of measures about the administration of theme matters to allow us to feel altogether certain that sonic foolish countermand may not be issued which man leave the effect of interrupting the home ward sail of these floating fortresses. We must have. more-over, the fact t :illicitly avowed by a re sponsible minister in his place in parliament, before we shall feel unv assurance that the good thus dune will not be speedily undone at the instance of some foreign e.turt.or for the sake of some imaginary duty of dignity or dictation, in the performance of which oar rulers are usually so much mom sensitive than sa points relating to popular contentment or oreurity. Assuming, however, as we arc willing to do, that after this week only half the steam frigates and ships of the line, maimed and paid for by our indus trious people, will be wen lying before Lisbon, and that alter the Ist February some of the supernume raries of the Mediterranean squadron will be found steering for "the Pillars of Hercules," in order that they may us speedily as possible resume a post of real usefulness and true honour in our own latitude —assuming, we say, that these things are so, then we would ask what greater proof of the instinctive sense of seltprotecting national sagacity can be eonoeived than such a proceeding furnishes ? For years the system of placing the odious part of political gaoler in Portugal has been de nounced by the popular members of our le gislature, and by the popular press. Year after year these remonstrances have been doggedly disregarded; and amid profound international peace la Europe, the miserable court of Queen DoNNa MARIe lies been countenanced and sustained in ob durate folly, extravagance, and perfidy by the pre sence of an overwhelming naval force under the British flag. While now that rumours of war are rife, and that the most charitable and peaceable have misgivings as to the permanency of the continental skins quo, we are compelled by sheer necessity and the paramount duty of protecting our own shores, to withdraw the fatal boon which has heretofore en eiraraged the impenitence and selfishness of our un worthy ally. Had Portugal been left after the expulsion of Dos to settle its in ternal affairs as best it might without the overshadowing influence of our mischievous intervention, its domestic squabbles would have been long since terminated—most probably in the establishment of some constitutional system which the merchant could trust and which the sol dier would loyally obey. But the unhappy reliance of the royal government on British aid has rendered all attempts at permanent reform nugatory. and all pledges and guarantees valueless in the estimation of the Portuguese nation. They believe in nothing that is said to them in decrees and ordinances. They know that there is no waste of their sub stance too lavish, no caprice of authority too sudden, no organised system of official jobbery and robbery too flagrant tobc assured of impunity through the medium of British interposition. And the oaten able means of this scandalous service, rendered without thanks or profit in the name of a great and free people—is the British fleet at anchor in the Tagus. Let us hope, even against hope, that now, when the long-deferred moment has arrived in which our lag must disappear from the glassy surface of the noble scream that washes Lisbon's quays, better, because more self-reliant, counsels will be at last adopted by the House of BasitaNz s and its confiden tial advisers. The spell of their infatuation must rarely at length be broken. The days of their tute lage and their practical irresponsibility are ended. It remains to be seen whether they have learned anything, however late, in the difficult art of rule ; or whether, like the BOURBONS, they shall prove to the world that " they have learned and unlearned nothing." Be that, however, as it may, one thing is certain namely, that having got our gallant ships, with their gallant crows, home, the English people will never again suer them to be perverted to so despicable a purpose as they have involuntarily been of recent years. Should peace happily continue with all the great states of the continent, we may possibly find suitable employ ment in remote regions for some of these noble and truly national defences: while others remain at home. And in the calamitous event of war we shall hold them in readiness to defend the only royalty and the only realm they can honourably or usefully he employed in defending—the reyatu ate nd realm of Britain. But in any case we shall so more the maintenance of a police swim is the 'fagns or elsewhere. The goveraineut and the people of Portugal must settle their differences between themselves, withost our aid. We cannot afford to pay taxes for ship at war we do not want; and we do not want to Imvs anything to do with the dirty work of foreign courts. If the safety of our coasts does not require that we should maintain our present enormous nasal armament, let it be reduced; but at all events, ht us have the satisfaction of believing, that in case of seed we should have something for our money. The same motives that have led to the issue of mandates of recall to the Mediterranean and Tagus •eats ought to dictate like measures with respect to the naval force on the Brazilian and African sta tions. Philanthropy is excellent in its way; but even supposing its way in the instance in question were the right one,—which there is no ordinary rea eon to doubt,—philanthropy must begin at home. A dozen steam-ships more in the Channel may make all the difference some fine moonlight night between the infliction of a humiliating blow aimed at our national integrity, and the prompt and ex emplary defeat or any attempt of the kind. And laying aside, therefore, fur argument's sake, all unphilosophie partiality for the safety of our own bones and households above those of Negro-land, we submit to their lordships of the Board of Admiralty that it is upon the whole plainly more important that the physical and moral power of this gnat empire should be preserved intact ar.d intangible, than that some half dozen of slavers should be chased by our cruisers during the next twelve months. In the lung run it will manifestly be better even for the interests of the negroes themselves that England should call on every man who wears her naval uniform to do his duty—the duty above all others which he owes to her—of maintaining in tho oarr , ,w SCSI the inviolability of her flag. 111.110 r PIIILLPOTTS again! When will the octo genarian prelate suffer his friend~ and his foes to rest Again, too, an ebullition of exclusiveness, uncharitableness, and episeopal spleen, such as ho alone knows how to pour out. Again, above all, a new onslaught on his metropolitan. _ _ Forgetful of the rule, solve sexescentem, ho dis ports himself with argument, alas! to the infinite delight or his opponents. To prove the exclusive validity of episcopal ordination against his primate, against common sense, against his church, and egotist scripture, was a temptation irreeistible to the aged contmversialist. " Nothing dm but the hands of my order," cries he, "can make a mm a minister. Dissenting and foreign churches aro served by a herd of usurping and unauthorised lay men. They have no sacraments, no miniafty : they are not churches at all." Let our foreign and dissenting friends be ander no alarm; they could have desired nothing better than that so subtle a casuist should have undertaken the positive proof of "no bishop, no church." It could I hardly have been known how absolutely nothing can be said for this arrogant doctrine, till this elaborate attempt to establish it had come forth. There is literally no evidence to go to a jury. Scarcely any other reply is needed than the repetition of the de mand for proof. The break-down is complete. "The tieeessily of episcopal ordination is the pro position which Dr. l'it t 'Axons has undertaken to" de fend publicly in the face of the church." Necessity is a strong word : not stronger than his case required ; but one, however, which calls for the proof of a very pe remptory obligation. We do not want to he told that the Lord seta his Apostles; yvhodenied Northat " the pure word of lieu should be preached:"—what body of Christiana, except perhaps the bishop's friends of the catholic persuasion, neglected this duty ? Nor that the officers of the Chrastian, or of every other society, should be duly commissioned :--who defends or practises anarchy? Nor that there was a sue- ceamon of authorised rulers and teachers in the Christian churches: —bow could it have been wise Nor, that when chosen, they were inducted into their 00k-ca by some solleinn form or ceremonial: —who ever imagined that Christians departed from the universal custom of mackitid ? All this is utterly beside the mark: a mere empty.show of proof hardly capable of deeciving boys. What we do want to be shown is what the Office of a bishop really was, and that the ismer of ordain in was limited to it--a matter about which scripture is altogether silent. Then we require to know whe ther (even supposing it was a bishop who placed his hands on the new officer) this ordaining„—that is the choosing, examining, and appointing.—did not belong to the whole church, the bishop acting merely as the president of the congre g ation. 'Ten we ought to be informed whether (as fur us appears from scripture) the imposition of hands was made by the bishops and presbyters alone : still more, whether it was caati•rred on these officers alone ; and, if not, whe ther the very numerous officers referred to in the New Testament were all clergymen ; and whether they might not all impart the succession which they Yid received. Nay, we want to know whether this vetch-vaunted ceremonial conferred Holy Orders, as we understand the term ; whether the presbyters, who did Not "labour in the word and doctrine," were clergymen ? whether they were not absolutely lay men ? Further, we require to be told, whether there is the slightest authority in the Bible for supposing that the imposition of hands was necessary for giv ing validity to the sacraments?—whether there was any connexion whatever between the two things ? whsther the Eucharist could not be fully celebrated, without even the presence of a presbyter ? On these great matters (so all-important to his can e), Dr. PuttLeorrs o ff ers no proof, makes no re marks at all. On the further inquiry, whether presbyter and bishop are not two names for the same office, he does indeed speak; and, as might be expected, with infinite contempt for the presby terian view. But a loud appeal to tradition and episcopal authorities of ninny generations is wholly insufficient to dispose of the difficulty. And, in spite of his sateen; ' Dr. Piticsrorrs must be again reminded that bibli cal scholars are now almost uni versally agreed in holding that there was one office only, and nut two. If he demands proof, he may re fer so his own authority, " the great man," Dr. BlT sox, who lays down the fundamental principle of episcopacy, " That in every church and city there might be many presbyter; there could be but one chief to govern the rest." If so, how is it that seve ral bishops of Ephesus came down to Miletes; and that these same bishops are also called presbyters. But the question may be safely placed upon one issue. Even if it were possible to give a detailed de scription of what episcopacy really was in the epos tolical age, what argument can be adduced, either from the express command of scripture, or from the essential principles of Christianity, which shall bind Christian churches of every age to follow the exact model of church government adopted by any genera tion, even though it be aportolical ? What law of CHRIST or his church has deprived Christian commu nities of the right of framing their institutions as may seem best suited to their circumstances? Until such a prohibition is produced, the necessity of epis copal ordination will ever remain an unfounded pre tension, whatever opinion may be formed of the ge neral e.rpedieney of episcopacy. " But, at any rate," replies the Bishop, " the church of England interprets scripture thus: she at least adheres to the succession, and makes epis copal orders the indispensable qualification for min istry in her congregations." Granted. But how does this make her pronounce the ministers of non episcopal churches illegitimate? Our civil constitu tion places the QUEEN at the head of the executive, and causes all commissions to issue in her name. But do we Englishmen, therefore, deny the officers of the President of the United States to be lawful minis ters of government? This is the oft-exposed fallacy which has been banished from every region of batman life bat the ep:seopal, viz., the fallacy of eenverting the acknowledged legitimacy of an ac- Smelly established institution into an eternal and exclusive right, to be the only one which can even be considered lawful. It is easy to quote an array of fathers, bishops, and presbyters, who have believed that they alone enjoyed the prerogative of being ministers of CHRIST; it is, however, quite as easy to make an equally long display of English bishops and priests, who freely acknowledged the parity of order and legitimacy of their non-episcopal brethren. To say nothing of the manifestly superior weight of authority attaching to the repudiators than to the assertors of a monopoly of right in such a case ; what after all does this come to? Nothing more than that the church of England has ever been full of men who held most conflicting opinions. She can be made responsible only for her own statements, her own words alone can fasten the ban of illegitimacy on her foreign sisters. The Bishop is well aware of this, and accordingly endeavours to elicit the sentence of excommunication from her declaration. And where does he find it ? In the last place, certainly, in which an ordinary understanding would have supposed so terrible an anathema to be lurking—in the 23rd Article : " It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully culled and sent to execute the same." Are we deficient in com mon understanding of English ? Is it passable that we shall be very absurd if we ask whether there is a single organised church in Christendom, be it pres byterian, Lutheran, reformed, or any other, which would not readily subscribe this declaration ? Does it really prescribe anything more than orderly and proper government in a Christian church ? " head on," nays Dr. PUILLPOTTS, "you will see who these law fully called ministers are; not any one commissioned and authorised by the church, but those only who are marked out by Oon by the public sign of impo position of hands." Who was the Bishop's school master ? The " Edinburgh Review" does not tell us. Ile, however, sadly failed in the ministry of correc tion, if he could not make his scholar translate ac curately a piece of easy Latin, with the advantage, too, of a good translation by his side. But however much old age may make a man forget his Latin, it seldom succeeds in extirpating the bitterness of an evil temper. The last pages of the pamphlet are filled with invectives against our foreign protestant brethren, as insolent as they are disgust ing. "In Paris," says Mr. GRAM/I'IEIIRK, " the members of the different sects all agreed to take the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper together—so that a Calvinist minister was seen serving one table, a Lutheran another, a Wesleyan minister another, an Independent another, and so with all the other denominations." Who but an Episcopalian priest could have added to these words the commentary, " Many will still less ever comprehend the feel ing with which I should turn roan such a spectacle asfront a dem,ration —I had almost said, a prafane apa-krry---or the last crown-fig act' of our Lord's own ministry !" M my, we say, aril yet less comprehend how such is Mall as he who wrote these shocking words can be the minister of such a Lord, or have caught any portion of the spirit of the divine religion which lie taught. And this, too, from one who can speak so tenderly of Boman catholic,': who rejoices to call them bream's, in spite of their " corrupt additions "—how soft the term--to the pure word of Goo. The idolatry which worships a woman is a trifle eonspared with the rejection of episcopal orders. It b pbassat, doubtless, for such a man to gloat with THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY. EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1852. indignant pleasure over the decay of religion in foreign churches, and to trace it to the want of epis copacy ; but it is hard to turn his ayes to the steady, constant, most unchanged witness of the truth which the last three centuries have seen,—the church of Scotland. Avarice, lust, incest, murder, — every crime named and unnamed,—have marked the infamous courses of bishops and priests of many episcopal churches ; which of all the contemned pas torates can be branded with such a succession? Has religion never known decay in episcopal churches? If piety has withered because of the want of episcopal orders, have the crime' which so outraged humanity happened because of episcopal orders? Is the law of reasoning different for both cases FRANCE. to mintribato to the service of the country. It is willingly allowed to the legitimists that their pair► ciplos are favourable to the grandeur of nations, but they are reproached with sacrificing too much to ea idea which they are nut prepared to realise, and with immolating too easily the present and its perils to dis tant views and securities. I know so well as any ono the weak point of this accusation, but no attentive *absent r can deay its bearing ; it has notably lessened during the last three years, and our perseverance in the same path will completely destroy it. Tke ballot of the 20th December is not open to the lame protests as several previous farts. It places the starting point and the supporting point where all right-thinking men must admit them. Soon after the re volution of rehruary I wrote to the Union de ours:, " The instinct of the mosses is frequently --not always— superior to the skill at' statesmen." 'f hat idea again struck me on the 20th I) centher. This ballot, divested of eircum stances on which I shall not now explain myself—this ballot taken in its most general sense, attests two sentiments of the greatest justness—that there is not for • great people any prosperity without authority; nor any authority with out unity. All the safety and future prosperity of France lies in this. Although lam very desirous to abstain from recriminations, which others have been making fur some time, it cannot but he allowed that diri shine and contradictions have played • deplorable part in official and administrative regions. A small number of persons who are nevertheless monarchical, have applied themselves to rendering the re•establiskinent of the monarchy impracticable, while the majority of republicans have only lahoured to make the niiiiiitenance of the re- I public impossible. Public opinion, out of the range of elevated spheres. supplicated in vain ; these difficulties could not be overcome bat from above, and the wishes of isolated citizens arc powerless when superior inspirations were wanting. The 2nd December, must, therefore, have been expected ; it is as much the work of its victims as of its authors. If, moreover, I call to mind a past which can not be forgotten, it is to have the right to say loudly to those to whom I address myself--Continue to cause to be everywhere heard the dis interested language of union anti of patriotism ; remain equally loyal towards the powerful anti the proscribed. Speak more than ever to parties of reconciliation, to the government of moderation and equity, and to the people of morality and order. I purposely omit any mention of liberty; that word will be badly understood at this moment. It will come in its day, and will naturally result from these first conditions carried into practice with sincerity. The Courrier de la Gironde states that Chef d'Escadrun Peyrotini is still detained in the depart mental prison. Those who have been admitted to see him say that he in very much cast down, and can scarcely be brought to believe his degradation. Mme. Peyronni had bdt fur Paris, with the intention of soliciting a pardon fur her husband from the Presi dent of the Itepublie. A journal of the department of the Cher says that about sixty persons detained in the gaol at liourges, under an accusation of having been concerned in the recent insurrectional movements at Cowie and other places, are shortly to be set at liberty. In the Nievre, about sixty persons are about to be tried on capital charges. The Journal de Nierre expects that this department alone will furnish 1,000 prisoners for transportation to Cayenne. The late adjudication of the Lyons to Avignon railway has caused great activity in the iron foun dries in the department of the Loire. Furnaces which have been disused for some years past are now re-lighted. The Courrier de Marseille announces the arrival in that city of M. Antoine Bonaparte, en route for Italy, where he is charged with a special mission by the government of Prince Louis Napoleon. The ministry of police is to be installed in the hotel of the ministry of agriculture and commerce. A committee is occupied at present in determining the attributions of the new ministry. The Patric says: 4. 1 t is remarked that since the I disputes between the workmen and masters in Eng land, important orders have been given by foreign houses to French manufacturers of machinery." The Court of cessation has given a highly import ant decision. It has decided that when a department is declared in state of siege citizens may be tried by court-martial for offences anterior to the declaration of the state of siege. Lord Ilrougham read vesterday at the Academy of Sciences a paper upon his optical researches, which took more than an hour in the delivery. lie starts to-day for England. By virtue of a decree of the minister of the interior, the general direction of the museums forms hence forth a distinct service in the ministry of the interior. It comprises besides the museums of Versailles, Trianon, and the Luxembourg, the inspection and direction of the provincial museums. rho director general of the national museums is charged with the service of the annual exhibitions of painting and sculpture. The Moniteur publishes the following . communi cated note :—" The minister of state is installed in the Pavilion Mat min, at the Tuileries. He gives no audiences, and only receives applications on affairs specially placed under his direction by the decrees of the 22nd instant." The l'atrie says : " It is announced that a commis sion of revision will be formed at the ministry of war to decide on all the sentences to transportation." The Maniteur de l'Arav'e states that General Pel letier Descarrii , res is charged with the permanent inspection of the depots de renaonte. The Dowager Princess de Berghes died in Paris the day before yesterday, aged 97. The Duke de San Teodoro Carlos Caracciolo has arrived in Paris from Madrid. The minister of war will give a grand ball at the end of the month. A decree appears fixing the number of deputy inspectors-generat of prisons at five, and defining their duties. The Monileur publishes the decree relative to the promulgation of the convention concluded between France and Great Britain for the reciprocal guarantee of the property of works of literature and art. M. Dupin resigned tke post of Procureur-General to tho Court of Cessation, in the following letter, as soon as the decree of con fiscation appeared: To the President of the Republic.—l regret exceedingly that, previous to the publication of the decree which I have read this morning in the Mon iteur, you had not heard my opinion with the same benevolence you have sometimes manifested towards me. I should have tried to demonstrate to you, not merely in the private interest of the children— the greater part minors—of the late king, of whom I am one of tile testamentary executors, but in the interest of your own government, that those who have suggested that measure are not acquainted with the facts, and that they have disregarded all the rules of law and equity. In tact, there is an extreme exaggeration (at least to the amount of half) in the estimate made of the property of the Orleans family. In law the decree violates in its essence the very principle of property. This right of property was recog nised, after • solemn discussion, in the person of the late king, by the 22nd and 23rd clauses of the law of 2nd March, 1832; and in the person of his children by the very acts of the revolution of February, by the decree of the Consti tuent As.embly of the 25th October, 1848, and by the law of the National Assembly of the 4th February, 1850, pro mulgated by your government, and authorised the loan of 20,000,000 f. on that property by your minister of finance. Thu., public right, will, special laws, contracts, all have recognised in the hands of the princes of the house of Or leans their right to the property which the decree of the 22d January deprives them of all at once, and in • manner so absolute that the sacred rights of the tomb, the burial ground of Dreux, is not even excepted. If the constitution of the 15th January was in vigour, the senate might be ap pealed to in virtue of the 26th article, which permits that body "to make opposition to the promulgation of laws which are contrary to the inviolable character of property." In the present state of things, the only resource is to appeal to you, prince, and to invoke your wisdom and the magnanimity of your own feelings when they arc again consulted and more deliberately listened to. But if these rigorous measures are to be maintained, a great scruple arises from the depth of my conscience. As l'rocureur-General to the Court of Cessation for nearly 22 years, as the principal organ of the law in that high branch of jurisdiction ; charged as I am by the government to proclaim the constant respect to right, and to require the reversal and the annulling of the acts which violate the laws, or which constitute the in competence or the excesses of the government—how shall I he able henceforth to exercise the same firmness if acts are introduced in our legislation which are in contradiction with those principles 1 1 feel myself bound, therefore, to tender you my resignation. But I pray you, Prince, and in an earnest manner, not to misunderstand my motives. The resolution I have adopted has nothing to do with poli ties. As President of the late Assembly I rigorously kept myself apart from peril. a and their fatal divisions, and limited myself to maintain, as much as I indivi dually could, the legal and moral doctrines on which the essential order of civilised society reposes. After the , coup ttOrst of the 2nd December, against which it became my duty to protest, as I have done, I awaitiol the judgment of the people appealed to by you. After that solemn judg ment I adhere d frankly to the immense powers which were the result of that appeal, considering them as the strongest guarantee that could be presented to preserve or re-esta blish those principles which a wild socialism had endan gered and menaced ; and, as a public functionary, my co operation was loyally given to you. But, at the present moment, and on • question of civil right, and of private rights, of natural equity, and of all Christian notions of what is just and unjust, and which I cherish in my soul for more than 50 years agjuri.se 'alate and as magistrate, I feel myself absolutely called on to resign my fanctiona of Procu ' reur-General. Ile pleased, Prince, to accept the CIIITCIOIOII of my senti ments of respectful consideration: COMPOSITION OF TILE SENATE. PARIS. Ti agnAr EVENINfi. Bp a decree ill the Menitoir, the following persons are appointed members of THE SENATE. General Achard, ex-representative ; Count d'Argout, formerly minister of finance, governor of the Bank of France ; Marquis d'Audiffret, president of the Court of Accounts ; General de Bar, ex-representative ; General Baraguay d'llilliere, former amhaesador, es-representative; De Beauraout (Somme), es-representative; l'riocc de Beau vau, former peer of France ; Marquis de Belbeuf, former first president of the Court of Appeal at Lyons ; Derthier (Charles) Prince de Wagram ; Bouloy de la Mturthe, former vice-president of the Republic ; Count de Breteuil, former peer of France ; Count de Castel lure, general-in-chief of the army of Lyons; De Cambaerri , s, Sen., former peer of France ; Viee-Admiral Cesy, mem ber of the Council of Admiralty; Count do Caumont La force ; Francois Clary ; Marquis de Croi ; Baron do Cron seilhes, former minister of public instruction, ex-represen tative; Count Curial, es-representative; Drouyn de Lhuys, former minister of foreign affairs, ex-representative ; Dumas, former minister of agriculture and commerce, member of the Institute ; Dupin (Charles), member of the Insti tute, ex-representative ; Elie de Beaumont, member of the Institute; Achille Fould, former minister of finance, ex-representative ; Fouquier d'llerouel, es representative; Baron de Fourment, es-representative; Gautier, formerly minister of finances, regent of the Bank of France; Count Ernest de Oirardin, ex-representative ; Goulhot de St. Germain, ex-representative ; Marquis de Lagrange (Gironde), es-representative; °carrel Count d'llautpoul, former minister of war, es-representative; Admiral Ilugon ; General Hussein, ex-representative; Lacrosse, former minister of public works, es-representa tive; De Ladoneette, ea-representative; General Lahitte, former minister of foreign affairs, president of the com mittee of artillery; Count de Lariboissiere,ex-representative; General Count de Lawresiine, commander-in-chief of the national guard of Paris; Lebeuf, regent of the Bank of France, es-representative; Lemarrois, es-representative; Count Lemereier (Louis) former peer of France ; General L. de St. Arnaud, minister of war; Leverrier, member of the Institute, ex-representative; Lczai de Marnezia, for mer peer of France ; General Magnan, commander-in chief of the army of Paris ; Manuel (de la Nirvre), ex-re presentative ; Marchand (du Nord) es-representative ; Meynaud, president of the Court of Cessation; Mimerel, ex-representative; Prince de la Moskows, ex-representative ; Prince Lucien Murat, ex-representative; General Ordener ; General Count d'Ornano, es-representative; General Duke de Padone, el-representative ; Admiral l'arceval Des ehenee ; General Pelet, es-representative; Duke de Plaisance, former peer of France; Poinsot, member of the Institute ; Marquis de l'ontis, former peer of France ; Count Portals, first president of the Court of Caseation ; General Count de Preval ; General Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, former minister of war, ex-representative ; Gene cal Duke de St. Simon, former peer of Franco ; Sapey, for mer deputy, former conseiller-maitre at the Court of Ac• counts ; General Count do Schramm, former minister of war, president of the committee of infantry ; 1)e Segue d*Agueeseau, es repre-entative ; Count Simeon, ex-repre sentative; Amedee Thayer, member of the municipal commis sion of the Seine ; Thibandeau, former eonsciller of state of the empire; Troplong, first president of the Court of Ap peal of l'aris; Duke de Vicence ; Vieillard, es-representa tive. The decree is dated Jan. 26, and countersigned by M. do Cusabianca, minister of state. The following supplementary list of councillors of state appears in the same official journal : Brcnier, former minister, director of accounts in the ministry of foreign affairs; Darricau, military intendant, director of the administration of war in the ministry of war; Daumas, general of brigade, director of the affairs of Algeria in the ministry of war; Oreterin, direetor general of customs and indirect taxes in the ministry of finance; Ilcurticr, director of agriculture and commerce in the ministry of the interior ; Mastro, director of the colonies in the ministry of marine and colonies; Niel, general of division, member of the committee of engineers • Petitet, director of accounts in the ministry of war ; Do Royer, former keeper of the seal., procurcur-general at the Court of Appeal of Perla ; De Sibert.Cornillon, secroxary-general in the ministry of 4ustice ; Thayer (Edouard), director general of the administration of posts. By another decree a direction of agriculture and commerce is created in the ministry of the interior, with salary equal to that of the directors of the ministry of finance. M. Ileurtier, ex-representative, is appointed director of agriculture and commerce. Another decree appoints M. Pietri, late prefect of the Haute-Garonne, prefect of police, in the place of M. de Maupas. M. ltomieu, former prefect, is appointed director of the fine arts, in the place of M. de Guizard, who is dismissed. It was generally reported to-day at the Bourse, and believed by well-informed persons, that the decree of confiscation pronounced against the poor session, of the Orleans family would be suspended, and submitted to the Senate and Council of State. This is by no means improbable, for the character of Louis Napoleon although obsti nate and inflexible in taking rash resolves, displays by no means the same infatuation in carrying them into extreme execution when a formidable mass of the nation shows decided opposition.' has immediately after the coup Iflat, he issued a decree that the voting on the plAiseite should be open. This pro duced such an unfavourable effect upon the nation, that M. de Meetly, immediately he saw the breakers ahead, put the ship of state about, and in bet a day or two after a new decrecappeared, making die tote secret instead of open. Still I give you the 111111111 W of the suspension of the execution of the eeselseation decree with all reserve. Meanwhile, the rise at the Bourse is attributed to it. It is not clear, even if the decree be referred to the Senate and Council of State, that, entirely pledged as these &elks are to the policy of Louis Napoleon and subservient to his will, they will give an opinion against the decree ; particularly in tho face of the foreign protests which will infallibly be received by the government. That of the King of the Belgians has, I understand, been already received. It will be followed up by similar notes of expostulation from Spain and Naples, on the part of the relatives of the ex-queen, the Duchess d'Aumale, and the Duchess de Montpensier. I have already indicated in a preceding letter the other foreign princes who are touched by this decree. The bad effect produced in England, has I believe produced a greater effect upon the mind of Louis Napoleon than anything else ; but probably the attacks of the preen have produced more irritation than contrition, richly as they are deserved. Generally the composition of the Senate is re marked as being less creditable than that of the Council of State. It seems that the restoration of titles was brought about merely to give a lacquered t'clot to the list. There is abundance of pomp in this respect, and even some old family names, such as those of Rcauveau and Crot, drag their decayed splen dour among a crowd of the mushroom nobles of the empire and a few of the bourgeois peers of Louis Philippe. To the 72 nameswhich are published in tho Mani- Sew are to be added those of the cardinals, marshals, end admirals, which I have sent in a previous letter. In one part of the l'st you will see the probable bait that tempted the Minister of War, General St. Ar naud, to sacrifice his scruples about the confiscation of Louis Philippe's property. A few scientific notabilities, such as tho ae , tronomer Leverrier, the mathematician I'oinsot, ! and three or four members of the Institute, make up in some measure for the brainless mediocrity of the greater part of these senators, and in particular of the ex-representatives selected, who were about the least capable men in the National Assembly. A new paper, with the title of La Iklntoerati• Napdenriirmir, appears to-day. It is said the abolition of the ortrnie is revolved The following in an extract from M. Falloux's letter, to which I alluded yesterday morning: I am desirous to make politic the motives of my retire ment from a fear that my ideas may he mivontlerstood, and and that an act solely and alwolutely founded on personal and private eotividerationv may not be attributed either to discouragement or to a feeling of systematic bovinity. Far from wishing to give a political signal. I now 'spree., my revolution without having convoked any of my old col leagu and f, on the contrary, intake my friend, to re• double their devotedness, their activity, and their energy, whenever they may be fortunate enough to be able at 63-10. Bank of France shares rose 23f. Most of the railways roes, but.not more than to recover from the slight fall of yesterday. SPAIN. MADRID, JAR. 22. M. Isturitz, ambassador to the court of Great Britain, is to set out on his return to England on February 1. The garrison of Madrid is 12,000 men strong. A letter dated Madrid, Jan. 22, says : . . . _ Spain is to be in future divified into seven maritime dis tricts. The first comprises the coast of Gerona, Barcelona, and Tarragona, and is commanded by Capt. Arcadio Cal dem', who has under his orders the steamer Lepanto, of 200-horse power, and right other ships of war, mounting 20 guns. The second is formed of the Balearic islands, and com manded by Capt. Federico Santiago, who dispose. of the steamer Piles, of 160-horse power, four vessels, carry ing seven guns, and several gun boats. The third a steads along the coast of Castellon, Valencia, and Alieant, and is commanded by Captain Jose Jaudenes, who has under his orders the steamer Alerts, of 121-hurse power, and 7 other vessels, mounting 20 pieces of artillery. he fourth ouiripriww the roast of Murcia and Almeria, anal the naval barer, under the direction of Capt. Francisco O. Guesada, consists of the steamer Santa Isabel, a 192-horse power, and eight other weasels, carrying 16 guns. The 6th us formed of the roast of Grenada, :Malaga, and Algesirap, and also commanded by Captain Francisco Garcia Queaada, who disposes of the steamer Vigilante, of 120 bane power, and eight other weasels, carrying eighteen guns. The sixth comprises the coast of Cadiz, Huelva, and the Canary Is lands, and is commanded by Captain Francisco Grandallana, who has under his orders the steamer Vol. coon, of 200-horse power, anal right other vessels, carrying 24 guns. The 7th, finally, includes the coest of Cialliela and Biscay, and is commanded by Captain Nicholas Chi charro, who has at his disposal nine sailing vessels, mount ing 36 guns. Those seven maritime circumscriptions embrace 75 commanders and superior offers, 90 officers, 302 marines, 3,133 seamen, and 7.' engineers —in all 3,623 men. ITALY. LOMBARDY. The Risoryintrnfo of Turin, of the 23rd, a ministe rial journal, gives the following sketch of the origin of the misunderstanding which has arisen between Austria and Sardinia respecting the navigation of the Lago Maggiore : It is well known that the hanks of the largo Maggiore be long to three different states, viz., to Lombardy, Piedmont, and Switzerland. The navigation of the lake is extremely active, on account of the large transit trade chiefly carried on there. In 182.1 a company of capitalists, mostly Piedmon tese subjects, obtained a privilege from the three govern ments, granting them the exclusive right of plying with steamers on the lake. They accordingly started one steamer, and enjoyed their privilege until 1811, when it expired, and a new contract became necessary, in which, however, the Piedinontese government limited its own responsibility to the prevention of Piedinonttse steamers being started without any stipulation as to foreign ones. Neverthe less no competition was attempted against the corn• pany until IS4O, when the Austrian iessermaeot started an armed steamer, and then asked permission to touch with it at the Piedmontcse side, which naturally was refused, and Austria did not think herself entitled to press the demand. But subsequently the Austrian government sold the said steamer to a private company, who used it for the convey ance of passengers and goods. It was then that an Austrian subject applied to the Piedmontese government for permis sion to touch at the Pisvimontese ports with the steamer in elocution, and the answer was, that the steamer should be admitted into the Piedmoutese ports, provided it was un armed, and did not convey Austrian soldiers. This decision of our government, it seems, has been overlooked or ignored, from the heedlessness of the petitioner, who, not receiving an answer to his petition (which is never sent), did not take the pains to inquire what has been the result, and concluded that the prayer was refused. This is the origin of the mistake which has led to the prohibition contained in the decree of the 19th of the Austrian government. ROMAN STATES. ROME, J. 20. Financial consumption, the prevailing malady of European governments, is making rapid strides in this country. The Papal government is in such want of money, that hints have been thrown out of extraordinary contributions being about to be levied upon the nobility and rich proprietors, and silver plate required, wherever it is found in large quantities. I can not guarantee the truth of this report, norcan I imagine that the government of his Holiness would wish so soon to imitate an act which produced such discon tent during the republican period, but the very fact of such a rumour existing suffices to show to what straits the administration is reduced. The archives of the government printing-office have been ran sacked to find the old circulars of Pius VI., in order to see how his preamble ran as he imposed ex traordinary contributions on his subjects, when he was in want of large sums of money to satisfy the rapacious demands of the French. The finance minister, Galli, is certainly fallen into disrepute, es pecially since the notable deficit shown by the esti mates for this present year. The Pope is also dissa tisfied with the aspect of the new post-o ffi ce, as being dark and inconvenient, and has been informed (no doubt by some parties who would very gladly step into the minister 's place) that the whole affair of this new building has been a moneymaking job. Then, again, his Holiness was disposed to facilitate the completion of the Frascati railway by taking up the unsold sham% and paying for them in console, so as to enable the works to be resumed and finished forthwith, which might have been effected for about 200,000 dollars, but Signor Galli is said to have thwarted the plan. By a notification of this minister, dated on the lith January , the old treasury bills, f the value of 50 scudi, with the in terest of 1 scudo and 80 baiocchi, of the consecutive series from the letter A to 0, will be withdrawn from circulation onthe 114th of February next. By a no tification,dated 15th January, Signor Galli has fixed the days for paying the dividends of the national debt for the last six months of the year 1,431. Al though due, properly speaking, nt the end of Decem ber, 1851, these dividends will only be completely paid by the 24th of May next, as the holders of con sols are to present themselves in duo order, accord ing to the consecutive numbers of their shares, from the 21st of January to the 24th of May. Roman Consols have now risen to 93, and the exchange on London is 491. GERMANY. The Free Gazette of Saxony states that Lord Granville's note in answer to the demands of Austria, Russia, and the Germanic Confederation, respecting the pretended democratic propaganda in London, is dated Jan. 13, and contains the most tranquillisiug BELGIUM. By the decrees of the President of the French Republic confiscating the property of the Orleans family, the children of his Majesty the King of the Belgians are deprived of an income of 400,000 fr.— Brussels Paper. SWITZERLAND. We have received some details," says the Jour nal des Iktregle, "relative to the precarious and perilous state of the canton of Berne at the present moment. It has been often observed that when that canton is in movement, all Switzerland is agitated, and that remark is at present more true than ever. The radical opposition, nut having ever been able to obtain any of the reforms which it has demanded in the Grand Council, has come to a grave deter mination, but one which the constitution of the canton authorises; that is, to get together 8,000 signatures to appeal to the people, if it desires the revocation of the Grand Council, and, consequently, of the government. There are certainly arrondissements in the canton where this programme will hod an echo, and they are the most populous ones. It is very probable that the radicals will obtain a majority fur the revocation of the Grand Council." PARISII OF ST. NimiTtN's-iN-Tini-Fiiiius.—Leat night an adjourned meeting of the past and present parochial officers was held in the Vestry, room, to take into consideration Mr. West's proposition to abolish the law re lating to the removal of the poor; Mr. Staunton in the chair. Neither the present churchwardens nor the mover nor seconder of the motion for adjournment were present. A discussion, however, was entered upon on the subject of the law of settlement generally, Mr. Coehrane contend ing that it was necessary to deride that question Mime they could take kl r. West's plan into consideration. Mr 'Abram moved an amendment upon Mr. Coehrote's motion, for the further adjournment of the question to Monday, which was carried. DE•rritumvE ' , int: AT (i.%T1 , ...+111:%11-WA-TTNE. On Monday morning a portion of the glass-works of Joseph Prim", Esq., adjoining the river Tyne, in liatestimul, was destroyed by fire, which originated in the j •hop on an upper lime, hut from what cause has not been wow ! taini el. The fire was confined to what is nodded the Queen's 01a...house ; it was connected with the King's tilaa;-house (signed) llertr. by a warehouse filled with straw f , r packing, to which it At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 1.111, I wan fortunately prevented from spreading by the elfici ncy with which the fire-engines were woskeo. The premises closing at 102.43. The Threes rose 110, and closed and stock were insured in the Norwich Union Fire office. INDIA. We have received by electric telegraph the follow ing summary of news by the Overland Mail fro m India, under date Bombay, Jan. 3 : " Dhost Mohammed's health is re-established. " Sir C. Campbell's forees had not yet returned. Some skirmishing had taken phtee, and one aliir with cavalry, near i)erra Gazer Kahn. Troop s of Upper Seinde were going to Keypoor, and a reserve was forming at I lyderithad. "The Nizam had only paid 90,004. mi account of the 400,0001. due, and cannot procure a grean r sum. Ills domains were in a state of anarchy, also those of (hide. " A naval tom had been collected at Rangoon. " Exports and imports were lively. I'6ms of goods without alteration. Cotton, 72r. to MMr. p r candy. Freight to Liverpool, 21.; London, 21. Jo, " Money cheap and abundant. Company.* Five per Cent. Loan, 10;t! i ; Four per Cent, ditto, 119. Bills on London, six isont6, 2s. 2J." MOROCCO AND ALGIERS. The following note is communicated by the French government to this officidl Tiondeue, oat the sultis.tt of the negotiations with Morocco: The press has pickup can for the last month int.rraatioa respecting the off ors of Morocco, which is totally inicet e rate. The expediti o n of S.U, conducted by Rear Adnotal Dubordieu, has produced an the fruits that ts. ec , from it; and M. 1). IkcorrC,•„ eltarip; trail - cites of Ercti Tangier, has Gbh complete satisfaction ,5,0,„ ? corporal eliastisiow ot or in money for the of which we had to complain to the auttiontas of that town. The consul-general of &rebate has therefore, no mediction to exerene ; th e rare ~f pro! testing the French residents is alone ronstoittecl to him. The Emperor of Morocco has written spootaneousle to the l'rinee President of the Republic a letter tilled ; r at, the most explicit assurances of good sill. This amicabl e overture has been ree,•ived as it descry, il, and there Is no doubt that the few dittleulti, a of form which are still in the way of the return of the mission ~f France t o will be very speedily resolved according 0, our widtes, and conformably to the ink re.ta of the two cmantrevi. The Marseilles correspondent of the isseiciscosbasso. Belyr states that the last packet from Algiers brought intelligence of a new and scriotus rising of the Kabyles, which had necessitated a French expedition into their country. The _I/./,har, of Jam. 21), brought by the same boat, simply states that a battalion of the Nth Light Infantry had just lett for Boujia,whcre a column of troops was to he formed us a measure of precaution, in consequence of the agitator lluu Bag hcria haring made his appearance in that circle, but it was affirmed in private letters that the semioffi cial journal was concealing the gravest and truest part of the news. EGYPT. A letter front Alexandria, of the 9th, says : The accounts which we have received from Cairo throw some light on the two great timidly's" of the Tanzimat and the railway,—questions the latter of which is of paramount importance to all nations who have ports in the Mediter ranean. Abhor I'acha is more than ever determined to re sist the establishment of the *rimmed. The deputation from the city of London, headed by Mr. Andersen, has given him great moral support. The Arab Gazette, which is printed at Boulak, makes known the feelings of the Vice roy—he is for resistance. The Tanzimat is the summary of the new civil law established at Constantinople by the constitution of 1839, known by the name of the Ilan ! Scherilf of Oul-liatte. This Tanzimat limit, in considerable degree the power of the governors of provinces. and par ticularly the ourf, which the latter os•ume to themselves, in imitation of the Sultan whom they represent. Under the old regime the Pedichahs, or Kingsof Kings, a title which the Sultans give themselves, h rd the right of the um!, that is to say, the right to put to death fourteen persons every day by divine inspiration, and without rendering any ac count of the motives which induced them to do se. It is this right of the rime!, which the Paellas same in their pachalice, and which had tended to constitute that tyranny which depopulated the Ottoman empire. Ihe situation of the Viceroy of Egypt is, however, exceptional, for in Ib4l France, in recommending Mehemet Ali to restore Syria to the Sultan, promised to negotiate for funs with the Divan to obtain administrative independence, on the payment of a tribute. These rights were in fact conceded to him. I do not mean to say by this that the French government stipulated for this right of the owl, for no one then thought of it. Nevertheless, as Egypt is nothing but a long except in the Delta and in the l•'ayoum, a valley which sometimes is only two leagues in width, it is exposed to the depredations of the independent lkdoit.s of the Libyan and Arabian deserts. It iv necessary to have a summary Led justice in order to deal with such marauder.. It would not he easy to follow judicial form. with such men. Abbas Pasha therefore rejects the Tanximat, for soon the times would return when the Beduins would fire on the proems who came up the Nile—like those times when they were masters of the Pyramids, at three leagues from Cairo, and seized on all who visited those monuments fur the sake of obtaining a ransom for their release. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. i For As erraat. PARIS. Jan. 27. 1 For Money. Upewleg 'lllesest. Loweil., Claw. - - 3 per Orate. 5 per Ceuta 3 per Cents. New Leen ... ... Cent.. 4 per nt.. 81 73 ... .. ... 441 per ceute. . __. ... 5 Per (Vote _.,... . t ... I ND 90 3 per Cease. Now Los! 111 7 j 4 per Cent.. riper Ceuta. . Eltehai;ire on 1954eine: 94 1 014 2 3 22 9 - : .313 ci 3 2' . : .3 ll' . eelgiaa, 5, 1810 Do. 9, 1844 Do. 46 Its. 26 Piedmont 3 p.Ct.....1 i 9 •71 ... T he re tr .: 7 91ree il°161 ... i.. . 4 2ftr,0 ..... PARIS, JAN. 27.—St. Germain, 49.); enadle. (right bast). 290; (let bank), 211; Parts and Orleaft4, Id 6.; Parut rad Rance, —; Rouen and Haan% 260; Marandlea and Aurnae, ntraabourge and Bata, 210; Centre 497 5..; Houlorie sad innena, 280; Miran. and Bordeaul. 425; Sallheres, 557 SO, Pavia and 'tear_ blurt, 452 50; Pavia and Lyon.. 502 50; Tours and Nantes. 79a 25; Montereau and Trojea, 150; Dieppe and fecAmp, 221; Bdedeaul and Tana, 90. MADIUD, JAN. 2 2.—Three per Cents., 38 13.16; ed a ft er Boles , 38 13-16. New Three per Cents., 19; after Bolxa, 19. Coupons, 9 ; after Bolsa, 9c. Pas sives, 5; ; after Bola, 5 9-16 c. Bank of St. Fer dinand, 103 c. Exchange on London, 50.9.5. BERLIN, JAN. 26.—Voluntary Loan, 1021; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cent., —. New Loan. Four and-a-Half per Cents., 102 ;. National Debt,• Marine Society, —. Bank Shares, 971. VIENNA, JAN. 26.—Five per Cent. Mkalliques. 941 • Four-and-a Ilalf per Cont , ditto, 811. Hank Shares, 1,216. Exchange on London, 12.18. i ft ,e l7 ;o lfi rt. A ft ou X t l: r bench a ofN Xvi'ALL5O - E I - Ze P rd a l y i was occupied for several hours in hearing evidence in . T port of • charge of murder, brought against an engineer is her Majesty's service, named Thomas Blake Barrow Peel, for the death of his father-in-law, John Perkins, quarter master sergeant, of the Island of Ascension, on the Mho , June last. The violence out of which death was alleged to have arisen was inflicted at that island, but the ease had to be brought to England for trial Icy the civil power, as a had not occurred at sea, but on shore, and within the the tish dominions; neither could it be tried at Ascension. b there was no court capable of taking cognisance of such a charge. It appeared that on the night in question the pri soner and has father-in-law had been drinking and Sestiol together in reference to their respective professions, and that this resulted in a tight. This passed off without much injury to either, but shortly alter the prisoner went to de ceased's house, where it would seem a tuore serious matte took place. Ile shortly left, when deccas“l seas found in a very load and exhausted condition. Ile sva , conveyed to - bed, hut soon died. The morning after the occurrence prisoner sent to deceased's for a sword. which was found to have blood upon it ; and after decea sed ' death a sword wound was found in his left side. of which, it was alleged, together with other violence, he had died. The evidence in the case is very voluminous. and a large portion of it hosing been taken,,the prisoner was re manded. DEATH OF THE WESTMINSTER thV tRF.—EVerY one who has had to visit the houses of parliament, or the law courts at Westininsterhall, must have occasionally seen George T , called the " Dwarf 11 '; was not a yard high, with extremely short arias and legs, but had a most enormous and unnaturablook ing head. His singu'ar appearance so u s attracted the attention of m members 1,11 . the Houses of Lords gad Commons, and he was often aunt by them with "'"`" to different pots or the town, upon which occasime he wits exceedingly important in his little way. ei if he met any one who askoul hint to take same shcht refreshment, his answs r was, " Don't stop me; I am going with despatches for Icaril—" and old George weed las way, always being faithful to his tnist. lie was • groat id vourite of the late Sir T. Tyrwliitt, rsher of the Black If al, who presented hint with several suits of clothes, so that he might appear respectable in the lobby of the him.. Ow! . Tro m t e t m i o n n v , is y ri i i n lol a y m tizose ,y dress ~t ht e t i h n e . d lx o ic o a rs u ri,L se h n i d i . ol n o t tai l V he was forbidden access to the lobby. At 71i years of ag'.'• infirmity and poverty came, and he went to St. Margo., s workhouse, when the visitino surgeon directly °Mired lea to the infirmary ward, where lie had the kindest treatment , but he died, a few days ago, from decay of nature. - THE 811 trout( to re B RI O kovio goes• mum , work] about long 1,000 detail estint. exclu , 7,000 Wi mo Shil siui nei