The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-23 00:00:00

'VERT SATE DAT UTZ/MOON WILL RE PEIILISHER. T LIE EXHIBITION EXPREISS, but of a Daily Illernieg DouSe raper, FRILL SOUK 'ME, Costaleirg awry po üble inkrisseco relative to the OREAT EXHIBITION Or PSI, II•Olgegb, Eshilibere Poopects, intended Cosmos, Arraegewent, Appeersoce, Moos. pasting future. ThiPallilirwei amber of poem ineweeshot le the ihrtheornine Gees& Labibleass et the WeieWs Leary Irwin hitherto sad oo eseidectory tepreeestalee is the prees—os goer segibeteotly wrz, old with saeleasion CY , enproben•lve most fri - gesio aad ezernp'lff the farehowniag mottles with taboo w oh , of se greed as eve* the proprieters of it. 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Al: siviotrvernentv mutt be et the Mike la Whitefriars at or before eight In the evening ..f each ruby, to secure lusettUet in the swaths: 1 the following d'lr. (Mee, le, lioseerirvateset, Ileet-Ozeet. en, erpreliii. TO CORRESPONDENTS. hivertdemeatabdandad be "The /apron," London T.vening mon., saaat be at tba Ma% Id, Dinveriention. by two o'cknk on ute day cd pablisaties. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. To 11166-11oreiair. lb. 1101.. Aft/TWIN 6.6.310. 76.6ca1k6m —Nursing, 6h. dJm. ..... Afterwun, :h. 210. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23. WIILS the Cape of Good Hope is spoken of ns a British colony, it is no longer the narrow field of Vs"; Bilusecien oriinal settlement— th e eligible station for refitting an d refreshing Indian fleets—that occu pies the mind of the speaker. It is at last the whole of that cart of Afr:ui that in situated to the south of a line pining the Portuguese settlements on the musters and western coasts of the continent. By the principle. of international law recognised in Europe and the United States, the colonisation of the whole of this immense tract is open to England, and to England txtluairtly. We are bound to remeet tie native title to lands within it—to acquire lands fur our coluniers by fair bargains with the aborigines whom we fir.d in cceepation—but no other civilised state except England has any right to formsettlemente there ; arid every foreigner acquiring lands or eviler fixed property there must be naturalised if he would . . aoqnire the fall fights o - citizenship. South Africa has already become not a colony, bat a colotiel group. In addition to thr colony, properly so calied, there is the new settlement of Natal, and there is the Orange Riese Sasertiguty, both Lasing defiuite dirtiact atirsiuistrative orgssisstioos; there is British esffraria, which, by the sitension of the mis sionary settlements and the influence of British ma gistrates, is imenaibly assuming the colonial charac ter and tLere is the Emigrant., Grens-Gebiet, in . . . - which th• iodnwitabld boersare founding lucid and civil instittrione, destined ultimately tole absorbed into a &nth African provincial union. Even wittrn the boundaries of the old cnony, two colonies may be Mid to txat at this moment. The broad and barren expanse of the Karroo is interposed between the eastern and western districts, leaving only a sorrow strip of fertile land, &rough which the lines of road are extremely difficult, in the immediate vicinity of the ocean. The overland route from the western to tne eastern dis•ricts is immer.sely more fatiguing and tedious than that by Ka, and the sea . . posing(' kiln/ only part ut the route'w , ,icit the inland settlers have to traverse. In addition to this the po- pulatioos . of . the eastern and sres'ern distric's ire narked by charectrriatic differences. Perhaps the noo-liritieb element in society exists to a greater ex- THE number of vacancies, actual and forthcoming, tent in the hitter than in the former, but in the esaterre in the representation at the present time, is unseat:shy districts the llECetiiiii• of a frontier life bays more' large even for the commencement of a new session of thoroughly soimilated the Dutch and English sit- I Parliament. terra in feelings and opinions, and in feelings and opi- Feist, there is South Notts, fir which the writ is nions less c impatibls with the traditionary policy of actually out : and there the question of real or of Downing -street than those which prevail in and ' sham representation will be decided in the course of arouud Cape Town. In South Africa the elemeuts of ; a few days. a federal union of provinces or states already exist. Next. there is a seat in Bedfordshire, also se'ually The question "in whet relation is this infant ' tweet by the death of Lord ALFORD in the empire henceforth to stand to the mother ooeutry ?" prime of his life: when accession to an enor is obviously one of immense practical importance. mous fortune had brought with it a due sense A few days ago we stated our reasons for believing of its great responsibilities ; when experience that this country has a deep and vital interest in per- was enlarging his heart and improving his head; pet tiating the political, as well as the commercial, l and when a career of eminent public usefulness lay be union welt its colouie s. The relations of indepen- h fore him, and he was, to all appearance, resolute dent erste* in the affairs of the world bear a strong Ito pursue it. By his decease regime' end con analogy to the relations of reties in the interval acientious ceeservatism hns suffered • loss which aff.ers of a free *matey. The party in any free I act all the TeRELLS or the YOUNGS can sup. nation which combine • within its ranks the greatest I ply. In Bedfordshire the usual territorial influence amount of numbers, property, and intelligence, Titres- bears sway; the tnrits yield one seat to its duke, sexily directs the national councils for the Lime bane. 1 who is "a whig and e onething more ;" and he returns Every one of these elements is indispensable to the I the heir presumptive to the title. The other ascendancy of a party. Intelligence without numb. ra seat they keep fur themselves; and it is now is sure to be ont-voted ; and even flambe's, if not ; vacant. All Bedfordseire would unite in electing possessed of wealth, can be brought to submission by Mr. PICK ; but, though active in the discharge of a Fabian policy on the part of those who have pine. I the county duties of his station, Mr. PYM is content party enough to **We them to " bide their time." h with a career of memo eitetious local u.efulnese, and And so in the intercourse of free end independent !decline@ tae represent Bedfordshire ; so Colonel states. The national banner which floats over the I OILPUE ia about to be returned, to neutralise by greatest extent of peopled territory, turned to the his vote the liberal opinions of Mr. lIASTINOS best account by the greatest amount of enterprising Run= ;at least that is all known of hint out of the intelligence, ever will be the rallying point of the . county. greatest power. Every Englishman, therefore, who' North Notts, though not actually vacant, is about Sets that in his own country the rights of private to have one of its seats vacated by the retirement of citizens are better understood and better maintained Mr. HOULDSWORTII, on whom age and infirmities are than on the old continent, and the rights of weaker creeping. Mr. lIOULDSWORTU is a successful Men and lees civilised nations and races more respected I cheater manufacturer, who, aehievirg great wealth than in the new, ought to aim at the perpetuation of while Manchester was yet in political darkness, took that political union between the mother country, its to toryism and horse racing; and has for a long colonies, and dependencies, which a10..e can ensure to series of years, by one of those strange freaks of for- England permanence in its proud position as the fore- tune which remind us how readily in this country most nation of the world. In the treat republic of fortune fuses into fashion, represented the most aria nations, as in any free state, tee mast enlightened tocratic spot in England. As Tet the candidates for views are ilicg unless they command the de- the fortbcoming vacancy are not named ; and who voted advocacy of the strongest party they will be depends, probably, very much on the Regard being had to the young provinces of our result of the neighbouring content in South Notts. South African settlements, and the increased rapidity In each of the three divisions of the realm a and regularity of communication between them and I borough vacancy will occur as soon as parliament this country. to which the first step has been taken meet.. In Dungarvon, by Mr. Saints substitution by the establishment of ocean steam mails, the pre- of diplomatic for parliamentary life ; in Pontefract, sect crisis of cur relations with them is intensely in- ; br the elevation of Sir SAMUEL MARTIN to the Wresting. Nay, apart from the corsideratiens to bench of the Court of Exchequer ; and in the Falkirk which we have just directed attention it possesses great boroughs by the succes-ion of Lord LINCOLN to the importance. Even thoee who attribute little coesequeace dukedom of Newcastle. Here, then, we have a tolerably to the permanent political union of a country with fair opportunity of testing current opinion on the its colones admit that there is a period in the carter great qu.stions of the day in England, Ireland, and of the latter at which such a union is all-important. to Scotland, and the turn three three elections is about them. That period has not yet been passed by the to take is already apparent. South African colonies. At the time of the American In two of them, Dungarvon and Falkirk, coated' revolution the continuity of European settlement are probable ; in Pontefract no opposition to the only throughout the "old thirteen" wan unbroken; their candidate who has hitherto been announced is at pre frequent ware with the French and Indians had at- sent talked of. In all, liberalism is likely to prevail ; castor:red the provinces to act in concert—a de fse!o i however it may differ in shades or forms of expression. union existed among them ; and the genius of or the nominal party flag under which it is waved FRANKLIN bad established an adaiirably efficient for individual suceess. system et postal communication. In South Africa, At Dungarvon, Mr. Meeente, of Cork, a gentle st the present moment, the elements of Earo- i man of the Irish repeal party, and consequently of peen civil polity ran only be said to have ultra-liberal opinions, is again a candidate, for at the tally developed themselves within the old colony:Hated ' 1 last general election Mr. Sam only averted his sad the Orange River Sovereignty are yet is the ; pretensions by a majority of 18. But though he has very infancy of settlement. British Caffraris and the , been in the field ever since Mr. SIIKIL's appointment Eftsyrints Grins- Gebiet harem:seedy advanced so far.. to the Florence mission became known, he is now And not only is there no community of civil organise.- I threatened with opposition. Not, however, by a tion, no incipient federal action among these pro-' conservative—for conservatism is hopeless in Dun since., it is, in fact, only in the old colony that any- garvon—but by, it is understood, an English thing deserrivg the name et political action can be , gentleman who has past claims on Irish constitu said to exist. A separation of these colonies from the I erciee, and who repeesents the possible, as Mr. parent state at present would be premature, according I MAOUIRR does the impossible, in liberal opinions. to the views of every theory, a:.d meat prejudicial to A contest at Dongervon under such circumstances their interests. will be interesting, as tending to show whether the Yet it is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact that ; row electoral law and its enlarged constituency is we and they are threatened with such a premature likely to prove mote favourable to moderate and use @operation. In the existing temper of the Englisu ful than to extreme and toeless opioions ; though it is public, no ministry will be allowel to retain these • not to be forgotten that at Dungarvon aristocratic provinces within the imperial union by farce of arms. liberal influence is said to prevail, and that its inch- Even if the people of England could be mad enough ; nations are towards whiggery, and against that to tolerate such an attempt, the nature of the country , senseleas reminiscence of tee past and Ignis fatuus would be sufficient to frustrate it. It is only by the of the future—repeal. bond of mutual affection that England and South At Falkirk. Mr. Glonort LocH, a whiggisti libe- Africa can be held together. And yet the r e stematie rid, and Mr. Jeates BAIRD, • conservative liberal, are conduct of those entrusted with the colonial depict- the candidates ; the one a Glasgow merchant, and Doe meet of government moms inexplfcible ' except upon of a gentleman long and intimately couneeted with the assumption that they wish to provo ke the South the liberal party and agricultural improvement in the Africans into a premature declaration of infers extreme north of Scotland; the other a partner in the peadenee. largest Iron weeks is Scotland, at Garteherrie, near We hare on former occasions called attention to Airdrie; both eminently qualified front position to the ungracious manner in which the convicts were I represent these borough*. Mr. Loci' is plain and withdrawn from the Glee, and to the silly and @Hen- r frank in the expression of his opinioni; he approves sive ostentation of knighting a Caps purveyor for the hof the great principles which have sow become the We heroism of running counter to popular opinion. I commercial back-bone, and, to give them fair The same unwise peevishness is still obstinately per- play, is Prepared to enforce economy by his vote, severed in. On the queatioc of the new ceestitudon t while Mr. BAL=D evades any committal of *ls valile Ist b AN& pbong y. • tvei sari ismiela h n i t ill he liberal in the tratoughe titB net, of course, hesi tate; for Ike candidall who to good protestions add sound .psisoiples. is is every way prefersble to one mho NO so few principles that he is all professions. But even in the event of Mr. BAIRD'S success, stupid conservatism will bare no gain ; and Falkirk in re turning him will only be exhibiting another example of the gradual progress of constituencies from put Nilto future intelligence. So also at Pontefract. The liberal party could have desired a fitter representative there than the son of Lord WENLOCK, liberal though both father and son are. But so long as these small boroughs depreciate our parliamentary system, we must be thankful when they are more susceptible of liberal than of tory in fluence. In these three boroughs liberal opinions are thus likely to be fully sustatr.ed at the forthcoming elec tions. In none of them dove protection dare to raise its vacant head, or show its selfish face. . - The importance, however, of the South Notts con test far exceeds that of then boroughs; and to it we shall confine our concluding, as to it we gave our commencing, remarks. The success of the popular candidate, Mr. BARROW, there, will give an impetus to real representation in English counties far greater ', than the Reform Bill gave to boroughs. For, it will teach farmers everywhere how easily they c'in return ' men of their own, and not of their landlords' choics ; at how small a pecuniary cat, at how little personal trouble, and at, in the present state of prices and rents, with very little danger to them selves or to their holdings. The truth is that land lords are at the mercy of their tenants, if the latter will only, to use a Highland expression, "stand shoulder to shoulder like the Mix GREOORS." Aad by their union it is not merely political inde pendence they will achieve; for, politically free, they will be treated with respect, and attention, and con sideration by their landlords in the more interesting questions of rent, of improvement, of leases, of game, and of local expenditure. The squires new rule the counties, because the tenant-farmers are politically degraded; but let them once assert their political independence and freedom, and they, the cultivators of the soil, will be uppermost in all provincial affairs. In Lord CUATHAM'S time it was to the counties he looked for independent support; it was the county interest that was liberal and independent ; and so it will be again if the tenant farm-4, of South Notts set their order on this occasion a good example. All that is wanted for complete and speedy success is a beginning ; and if &nth Notts will only take the first step the rest of England will be soon on its heels, and then we shall have a House of Commons worthy of the nation. THE EXPENS, THURSDAY EilicNiNfik„ JANUARY 23, Ali for the colony a serious disegreeniMia hoe mein the local government and tbdcrmm e The latter insist that the existi4o,4llfijilativ , cil shall only act as a ' anstftuent pie* bly, and abstain fromet)ll parmaltaat Ele nos= argent acts of legislation. Th. governor, ors-ttrir other hand, has endeavoured to impetrate from it legis lative acts which would materially embarrass the future legislature, and nentraliee its power of doing good. Complaints are also made that the governor, atter affecting to relinquish the appointment of the non-official members to the community, has endeavoured to pack it by nominating inaividtials who received fewer votes than several gentlemen who have been pissed over. With a few inconsiderable exceptions, the whole South African community are opposed to the governor on these matters. They have I appointed reprerentativesto plead their cause in per : son with the home government. One of these is at I present in this country, the other is detained in the : colony by bad health, but has untqoivocally declared his entire concurrence in the steps taken by his fellow-colonists. The antecedents of Sir ANDRIES STOCKENSTWEN render his conduct on this oc,ariou particularly full of meaning. Government have experimentally found I im to be one of those likeable, well-meaning men, who, with an extreme ! craving for popularity, find it difficult, almost im possible, to say "no to men in office. When he unreservedly and irrevocably takes part with the public against government the torrent of public I ; opinion must indeed be irresistible. The Colonial office must therefore be aware that the South African delegate who has arrived in this country speaks the earnest and unalterable wishes of the whole comma ; city. And yet he her been received with studied slight and disrespect—admitted only to a three minutes' interview with the minister, and coldly in , formed that until an answer to despatches, sent off to , the governor a few days before, bad been received, no ' communication could be held with him. . . The lesson of the American revolution seems to be utterly thrown away upon ministers. Tney have forgotten, or they do not know, that the closing of the ' port of. Button was only the last drop that made the coo of bitterness ovetflow—that the alienation of the affections of one transatlantic countrymen • u the work of years of supercilious oppression exercised upon the colonists by the evil and military officers of the mot^.er country. They have forgotten, or they do not know, that FRANKLIN preserved, in all the gloss of newness, the coat he wore when insulted in the Privy Coosa, to appear In it at the signing of the treaty of Paris. Nor can it bo said that the treatment of the Cape I colonists by Downing-street is an exceptional cue. The medical awastaree which New York spontane ously rent to Jamaica wh. n decimated by the cho lira was reluctantly despatched by the Colonial-office at the twelfth hour wi , h a callous re-assertion of the opinion that it ba 1 nor.r been needed. Mr. Howe, of Nova Scotia, Li at this moment in England seek , ing to promote measures for rendering the co-operation of the mother country and the colonies in the de velopment of the mounts of the latter more *if:e `live: what countenance or er.emiragement has he received from the Colonial-office? An organised league to resist the con'inuance of convict transports ] Lion to Van Diemen's Land at present agitates the whole of our Australian settlement", with the excep tion of Swan River. Yet no attention is paid to it in Downing-street ; and the opportunity is embraced to i nt imate to New South Wales new military ar rangements, moat proper in themselves, in a manner ' certain to be offensive and irritating to the col4nie mind. Were we then wrong, when we lately attributed, to parties in this country connected with colonial ad ministration, a willingness to see the bonds which twit* the c..iknies to ttc mother country ruptured, net of sheer p qui at the pr, grealive curtailment of official jobs and redaction of official Emoluments? FRANCE. PARIS, WZDNESDAY EVIINING. With regard to the composition of the new cabinet only one condition can be predicated with any pro bability—namely, that the ministers will be chosen from the 286 who rejected the vote of censure. Aa article in the /Writs insists on the necessity of this, and all the efforts yet made by the Elysee to form a government seem directed by this prin ciple. It is thought that even those who were neutral will he excluded; and the fact of M. Odilon Barret having announced this morning that no overtures had been mule to him, in his inter view with the President, lends some colour to this impression. A report prevails that Louis Napoleon is resolved to take a ministry out of men entirely strange to the Assembly, and to follow the system of presenting bills through c. mmisaioners appointed fur the purpose. I have previously alluded to this plan, which was much discussed to-day in conversations on the b-nehes of the Chamber. M. 13onjesn, the Minister of Commerce in the last cabinet, pre bents an example of a minister so chosen. Still the talk about such a system proceeds rather from the curiosity moved by a newly propounded idea, than from any probability of its being reduced to practice. , The Presse has • lung, zealous article in favour of a Lamartine ministry. A moment or two of reflection would show that the situation is not ripe for putting in nen whose task would be to undo the work of that stro-gconservativeleague which hasjast split upon the question of the amount of support tobe given to the Pre sident. To the energy of the.: league, whether justly or not, the public attrihutes the I-epee which it enjoys, and no minister would obtain either the support of the Chamber or of the conutry which did not uphold, with the crisis of 1852 in full perspective, the same policy. The first duty of M. Limiting as a minister, in regard to his own position and conscience, would be to introduce a new electoral law, which should restore, to a great extent, the feature of an unli mited suffrage, mutilated by the law of May. However indi ff erent the President may be personally on the subject of such a change, or however glad he would be to restore universal suffrage to that state which gave him 5j millions of votes, be could not venture to face the opposition which such a measure would meet with from the Chamber. I look, there fore, upon a Lamartine ministry as out of the ques tion. Indeed, one of the reasons why so little varia tion is observed in the state of the public funds, so little political excite m -nt in society, is that every body feels convinced that, whatever men come in, tee same eau must be pursued. The following list was circulated last night with some confidence : President of the Council and Justice, Odilon Barrot; Finance Leon Faucher ; Commerce, Quentin B en chart ; interior, Daru ; Marine, Dupetit-Thonars ; War, Oudinot ; Public Instruction, Langlais ; (de la Seethe) ; Foreign A ff airs, Drouyn de Duly,. M. Billsult had also been summoned to the Elysee. One of the measures which will meet the new mi- Meters at the threshold of office is the dotation. Much more noise is made about this than it really deserves ; and the only importance attachsble to the question arises from the factious attitude of hostility suddenly assumed by the legitimists against the President. The Mountain refuse him funds on the principle of economy. Perhaps no feature of the Assembly's op position is so much calculated to array the sympathies of the nation on the side of Louis Napoleon. It is expected that a message will be hunched with the new ministry, which will furnish indirectly an answer to the accusations of M. Thiers. A symptom of considerable importance to-day is the mitigation of the acrimoLions tone visible for the last few days in the Debate against M. Tillers and his followers, and the adoption of a conciliatory key. In the sitting of the Assembly to-day the following bills were adopted : On tke callir g out of 80,000 men of the class of 1850, third reading; On opening a supplementary credit of 192,000 f. to pay the salaries of the parochial clergy during the last quarter of 18.50,first reading; On judicial assistance, third reading The motion of M. Esquircka member of the Moun tain, proposing that juries, instead of being named as they are at present by a mancipal committee, should be appointed by lot, was rejected by 462 votes against 192. The sitting then broke up, there having been to debate of the least interest. MM. Rouher and Duces were the only ministers present. The Assembly adopted yesterday, by a majority of 426 votes against 233, the bill of the committee on the arrest of reprisentaives This bill is given in our depot& of the day before yesterday. The Mondeer announces the conclusions to which the commission appointed on the 14th of December to examine: the question of mintage, and presided ' by M. Fould, has come. These are: That the recent depreciation of gold hes been prineipally produced by accidental causes, of which the action is be ginning to slacken. That the influence which permanent causes might have ex @relied Oa this depreciation cannot be at present euffieiently determined. That, in this state of thing•, it is necessary to collect pre cise information upon the production of the precious metals, principally la Clitoral& and Ru In consequence the coratniutonis of opinion that, accord ing to the tarts made out, there is no ground for introducing any modification into the monetary system. The Gazette des Tribunau.r announced this morn ing that another deputy of the Mountain, M. Pascal Duprat, was engaged in a suit precisely similar to that brought against M. Mauguin. The tribunal before which it was to be brought has declined cognisance of the affair, in fear of a fresh conflict between the judicial and legislative powers, or rather in expectation a the law passed yesterday, which requires the previous authorisation of the As ' sembly before a representative can be arrested. It appears probable that the new law regarding the , arrest of representatives will ba applied to M. Pascal ' Duprat, the bat s i caket of the Mountain. An ap jalaiiiin will be"fmnsediately made to the Chamber far authorisation to execute a warrant of arrest upon him. An attempt has been made, for political purposes, to attach some Importance to the discovery of the secret society, which I mentioned yesterday, but has com pletely failed. The funds remained steady. A alight rise took plies' in the Fives. Bonne. For Aaoseet. PARIS' 'IAN. 22. 1 / 5 2 e ey . lopeeLeg Histmeet. Lowest. Closia, per Cent 5.. . ......... 57 10 57 13 67 23 67 15 67 15 per OWL. ... perCesta. Newton 9.925 95 15 13 89 96 15 93 30 per Cents. PI 0008, —•• 83 0 3 per Cants 57 10 57 IS 67 33 17 IS 37 15 spm 4atl.. perCesta. NOWL/5111 93 23 93 16 15 110 95 15 93 30 4 par Ceuta. 15 pa Cents ... V/ 00 kaiobllnre au La wton, at raki, A 95; so days, 24 775. " Bedgiaa, 5, 1510 1005 skim. :tapas /1611. e. gamy. Dw 6, UM Boman Loan —.1350 755 Do. 45 - 1530 701 Do. 24 1930 „ Treasury Bonds — " Piedmont 3 per Ceuta. 112 53 „ Bonk Shams 2230 801.111142 —Versailles (right bank), 168 75 ; ditto (left bank), 162 60; Paris and Orleans, 847 60; Paris and Rouen, 676; Rouen and Have, 270; Marseilles and Avignon, 166 25; Strasbourg and B de, 141 25; CHM', 387 50; Or• leans and Blrdeaux, 397 60; North, 470; Pans and Stras bourg, 3.53 76; Tours and Nantes, 247 50 ; Diei.pe and Fetramp, 196 26; St. Germain, 410 ; Boulogne and Amistr., 218 76. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 16. Bravo Murillo bee read to the two chambers his programme of government, which is summed up in respect for the law, impartiality and economy in the administration. He promises to present a plan fir settling the debt without, however, giving any details. General Lersandi is said to have been appointed poll ucal chief of Madrid. MADRID, Jew. 16.—Tbree per Cents., 33f ; after Bolus, 331 to 1 caah, 3311-16 paper. Four per Cents., 121 Five per Cents., 12 9 16; after Boles, 121 paper, 121 cash. Coupons, 6j; after Boles, 61 sub. Natives, 3i paper; after Bo'sa, 31 cash. Bank et Bt. Ferdinand, 96 cask. Ex. thugs on Loudon, 50.65. GERMANY. In consequence of a delay in the Berlin post, occa sioned by a railway accident, there are no dates from that place later than the 19th inst. __ The Dresden Journal of the 19th says:—" Yester day a pletary sitting of the whole minist.rial confer ence took place at the Bruhl Palace. I know not on what grounds the Frtiesuthigen Sachsen Zeitung has asserted that the Hessian cabinet had, at Dresden, objected to an ' arbitration tribunal' to decido on the affairs of Hesse Cassel, but this I can assure you, that neither in a toll meeting nor in the committees has this question at all been mentioned in the conferences." Advice' from Hanover testa that the Austrian columns have come to a stand-still in that capital The cause of the delay is not accounted for. The movements of the Prussian and Austrian troops, which sere crossing the Elbe into Lsuenburg, have been suddenly suspended. RAIZ EBTJRG, JAN. 18. _ ..... The proclamation of his Majesty for administering oaths of fidelity to the military was read here in the Market-place on the 16:b. In the same document the appointment of Count Reventlow Criminil as pro visional head of the administration is announced. We learn that a wend proclamation, dated the 18th, is to be published to•day. It is undersigned by Count Reventlow Criminil, and transfers the former power of the Stattholdereto, of which all the members are dismissed, to their formerly subordinate Lsuenburg government. The assembly and its stand irg committee's are thereby also expressly dissolved. RENDSBURO, JAS. IS The commander-ic-chief, General Hurst, has pub lished a farewell order, or rather greeting, to the Schleswig-Holstein army. Henry von Gagern has re ceived, at his own request, his dismissal from the Holstein service. BERLIN, Jax. 21.—Voluntary Loan, 106 ; New Loan, Four-mil-a-Hall per Cents., o'4 ; National Debt, 841; Marine Society's Premium, 123; B►nk Sham, 051 : _ _ _ v lENNA, Jew. 20. Five per Cent. kletallignes, 944. Four-and4,-11a11 per Cvnts., M. Bank Shares, 1,140. Ex :large on London, 12.41. WEST INDIES. As announced in last evening's Express, the Roy al Nest India mail ship Trent, Captain Clark, arrived yt s'erd-.y at Southampton, from the West Indies, and landed her mails under the charge' of Lieutenant O'Reilly, It N., Admiralty agent. Tie Trent's news from Jamaica is only of the 29th ult., that is two days earlier than rin New York. Other dates are: Havannab, the 25th; Chagres, La Onayra, the 26 h ; Demerara and Trini&d, the 27th ; Carthagena and Granada, the 28th ; Barbadots, the 29th; Antigua, the 30th of Dec.; Porto Rico, the 2nd, and St. Thoms., the 4th of Jan. The Trent experienced a succession of gales from the west ward, which were first felt on the 10th inst., and lasted till the end of the journey. On the 15th the gale blew almost to a hurricane, and a heavy sea struck the steamer, stove in the dead lights on I the main and lower decks, carried away the atter part of the starbosrdsaddle-box, and the pinnace. It was with difficulty that the other quarter boats and paddle-box boats were saved. Through some mistake on board the Conway steamer, which brought the northern Wench' mails, in transhipping on board the Trent, at St. Thomas, our regular tiles of Jamaica papers have not come to band. 'Dais is fortunately of little moment, as the dates have been anticioated. • Mr. H. Walsh, lieutenant in tho 3rd West India Regiment, escaped from the county gaol of Surrey, in Kingston, on the night of the 26th of December. He was awaiting his trial at the January assizes, on a charge of forgery. He was assisted in his escape by one of the turnkeys of the institution, whom he bribed with a few dollars. The is flux of Californian passengers at Greytown, who, having landed at Realejo and passed through Nicaragua, find themselves without provisions and means of proceeding homeward, as the following ac "hint will show : At a meeting of American passengers on board her Majesty's steamer Inflexible, from Greytown to Chogres, held at Champ, Dec. 29, 1850, G. P. Barber pees ding, the following protest and resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whims' Commander Dyke, in conjunction with her Majesty's consul end Poet-Captain Foote, taking into consideration that we were strangers in a foreign land, and in the atomics of shipping are usable to proceed on our journey to our native lend ; also understanding that hundreds of oar countrymen were following us on the same route, that provisions were becoming extremely scarce, and many of our number prce trated by sicknees, did most generously and with the most kinoly spirit consent to e-nvey Its in her Majesty's ship In. &sable to this port. Resolved, that our moot sincere thanks are dos to Commander Dyke, her Majesty's Consul, and Poet Captain Foote, for the humane and obliging assistance thus rendered as in our difficulty. R.solved, that our sin cere thanks are due to Commander Dyke and officers, for their obliging and gentlemanly treatment to us while on board the Inflexible. Resolved, that a e••py of the regalia none be prevented is Commander Dyke, 11.1 Majesty's Consul, and Captain Foos. R. solved. that the resolutions ' be publiahed in the 1 English and American pipe rs.— G. P. Beaus, on behalf of 376 passengers.—J. W. L2W, Secretary." BRITISH GUIANA, The most grievous complaints are made, and justly so, by the mercantile community of Demerara, of the wretched manner in which the mail service is being performed between England and the West Indies generally. The Royal Gazette eats: W. ma assure the West India Mail Company that a storm of indignation and disgust is brewing against them in this colony, and all other parts of the West lollies. The repeated delays of the steamers—the thorough disorganisation cf their whole packet service—sr* shemlul, and becoming cinema.' so intolerable, that the attention of parliament will be drawn to the subject, unless the company bestir themselves, per• i form their contract properly, and introduce a rapid and radical change into their whole =adze operandi. Mail after mad has to be depatched from this colony to Europe before the correeponding European mails have been received here. It will hardly be credited that though this company profess to give us tidings from England in little more than 20 days, the most recent intelliaenee w e have received up to this moment from England by the company's steamers is nearly 60 dare old, or to the 2nd of N ovem b er . N ot an E ng li s h , paper or letter of later date than the 2nd November has been brought to this colony by any one of their vessels. We have now two made overdue. Farther comment on this • state of fasts is needless. On the same subject the Colonist puts forward as worthy of imitation the plan adopted at Bermuda, where the Bermudians "succeeded in eatabliebing a steam communication with the Cunard line, via New York, and with the West India line via Bt. Thomsa. Now, it occurs to us that were British Guiana to join with Trinidad, Barbadoes, and other of the Windward Islands, a weekly steam intercourse with Europe could be established via St. Thomas, Bermuda, and New York, which, while it would double the number of mails hitherto transmitted to and fro, would supply us with intelligence quite as soon as by those 'slow oos.chei—the lamberiug, top-heavy 'W. L'e.' This is not a new ides, though circumstances now render it well deserving of a . tentive consideration, and close calculation of relative expense and advantage." The Royal (h.zetete says: Tee Curt cd Policy has been busily engaged doting the fortnight on several important measures, and now stands adjourned to the 13:h proximo. Among other business transacted, bills establishing a new department of the public service, 'he office of Auditor-General of Accounts, for the examination of the litigated advents of the Cotters of Justice, and of all publics 1100011011 generally, and providing for the holding of inferior criminal Coat a in Essequibo by one cf the puisne jat Isis, were advanced a stage. An ordinance also has been pawed, among others, fur sties ituting boards of health for Georgetown and New Amsterdam to guard against the eontingeccy of a vis.t from cholera, which, by the I dein advice', ww devastattng Jamaica to a frightful extent. Ht. Excellency the Governor left town on Monday last upon a visit to the penal settlement in the Musaroony, where, it is rumoured, the lax discipline preserved among the convicts has required executive supervision. Centuries Day pawed otf veiy quietly. the weath. r during the tcrqnght, though occasionally wet, has on the whole been favourable, and sugar-making hu been proceeding in the diffirent rural districts. The crop, however, we fear, will be • smell One. Yet it cannot be denied that some twat, s in favoured districts have done well. As an instance, we will give Lusignan, on the east coast of auerata. That prrperty in 1844 made 704 /Ads. of sugar, which was then considered so large a return, that we recollect mentioning the circumstance. Since then, how ever, the quantity made has advanced to 810 hide., and Mr. Stewart, the active manager of that estate, completed this year's crop on the 21st art this month with 920 With., and that too on the old principle of working with one engine and one est of coppers. C,uld all estates get on in this way, planten would have no Collie to grumble at the hard timer. liall.co•t 4 p.m.—Biases writing the above, the mail steamer has berm signalled. TRINIDAD. The Colonial Secretary gave notice of a motion, at • sitting of the Board of Council ou the 17th of De cember, far a vote of 1001., for providing specimens of the various productions of the colony, to be forwarded to the Exhibition of 1831. ST. LUCIA. The governor presented his address to the Legisla tive Council at Castries on the 18th of December. In it he congratulated :he members on the attainment of the privil, ge of self-government engrafted on their constitution. He laid before them communications from the government at home in reference to African immigration—in furtherance of provision for the moral and social improvement of the blacks. He in vited tbeir attention to an amendment of the law for promoting African immigration, which would expli citiy declare that the maintenance of all establish ments required for the benefit of captured Africans must form the fist charge upon the revenue derived from the stamp duties and taxes leviable under that ordinance—a provision, the justice of which could' hardly be questioned when it was remembered that those imposts would virtually and ultimately fall capon tie Africans themselves. Tile inadequate amount of provision far popular education would render it necessary to make express stipula tions that each employer should be bound, whether the agreement be for six or five dais' labour in the week, to allow to every captured African in hisservioe who shall henceforth migrate to the colony a certain number erf hours on every Saturday fur purposes of education. Upon the immigrant also, it would be compulsory, us a condition on his part of his contract with his employer, to attend such school as the Lieu tanant-Governor might direct. An ordinance would be submitted for the promotion of measures tending to prevent the appearance or spread of cholera. The address concluded by saying : Saving be. n iodated to enter with u ninth minuteness as the materiels at my command would admit of into an examination of , 14 present state and prospect of sugar cultivation, as affected by the coat of labour and the price of produce, and of our relative position in this respect with countries where production is 'utilized by the slave trade, the con,lutious t" which I have been led are so much more encouraging and satieLctury than I had conceived possible, that I cannot deny coys,ll gratiliiation of commutaes tioß them to the Board, and I accordingly lay upon the table, fur the parallel of honourable members, cvies of the reports upon this subject which I have addressed to toe governor in chief. A deficit in the treuary is noticed in a minute ap pended to the address, from which the following is an extract : The estimate of the probable revenue from duties for the year 18-50, under the plan submitted by the lieutenant governor to the council fur adoption, was 3,6001. ; the amount collected and doe under the plan determined on by the council, as calculated to meet that utilise:et, is 1,4(01., of which 1371. 10s. is still outstanding. There remains, there fore, a dtticieuay el 2,0601 The other sources of revenue have proved, upon the whole, as productive u they were esti mated to be. The debt of the colony, at the dome of the Icor, will be about 2,0001. A portion of the loan (to the amount of 1,6001.) obtainid from the Colonial Bank, lox the purpose of meeting the deficiency discovered in 1849, and a further sum of 1,0001. on account of the arrears of that year, have, however, been defrayed out of the revenue of the present year, leaving this satisfactory r.sult, that, had the financial year commenced free of debt, the revenue, notwith stendina the failure of the still tax, would have been more than sufficient to meet our ex,ienclitute. Barbados.. and Antigua furnish an item of news. At the former island active steps were bring taken to prevent the appearance of cholera, and at the latter the board of health refused to enforce quarantine as Bermuda had done. The island of St. Kitts had been favoured with abut.dapce of rain. In Dominica he tvy rains had fallen, and in conse quence the river lt,seau, having been swollen by the numerous rivulets created by the rain descending from the sides of the mountains, ruse to an unparal leled height, and did a great deal of damage to the town. Very considerable injury had been sustained by the (states in the interior and along the sea-coast of the leeward part of the island. . . . . _ All the winevrard West India islands had adopted sanitary measures, in anticipation of the approach of ' cholera, HAYTI. The following aopeare in the Jamaica Morning Journal of Decealber 27 : Information Lai reached St. Thomas that Soulongue, having acccmplished the preparations which he deemed necessary for en attack upon the ll.ireinicans, had been somewhat surd. d at the decisive stand taken by (as It Is re. ported) the tempo consuls, who had not oaly expressed their disapproval, but threatened to oppose biro vie et ormis in the prosecution of hs hostile plans. The French, it is said, show a di• position to play a prominent part in the matter, it there be foo,,ttsi o n f o r the imsals received is St. Titoraes, that ti the steamer Elsa, which had arrived there. was the bearer of despatches to the admiral at Guadeloupe, demanding a nasal force to enable the French consul to uphold the threats made by him to his sable Majesty. [For Commercial Intelligence, lee psge 4.] FLORENCE. bor. 15.—A French squadron has ap pear.d before Leghorn. This fleet is going to cruise upon the coast of Sicily. TILE JUPITER MAIL STEAMER, which left South ampton on the 7th inst, wit► the Peninsular mails, arrived at Contnna at 11.30 p.n. the 11th inst., having been obliged to bear op for that port In consequenee of having discoverer', when 70 miles from that port, that the main shaft was quite gone inside the second b a of the starboard paddle, and only kept together by the framing and floats. The weather crossing the bay had been most severe with a tremendous see. It modueted on the morning of the 11th, or she would not have succeeded in reaching that port, u the framing of the paddle-wheel would not have held together any longer. Seven or eight days will be required to repair the damage. It is proposed to forward the Vigo and Oporto mails over land, and endeavour to telegraph to Lisbon the cause of delay, NATIONAL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. —Thin 'witty bre recently made two important purchases in the county of Essex. One of the estates is situate at Waltham stow ; it will be divided into 70 lots, each haying a frontage of 26 to 30 feet, and varying in depth from 95 to 160 feet. The estate is situate in close proximity to Grosvenor House, and being laid out in streets is well adapted for building purposes. Its distance from town is about six miles. The °tit..r is a very large purchase, consisting of an estate of 20.5 acres, close to the town of Rom , ord, consisting of land pat tly adapted for building, and partly for agricultural purposes. It has been purchased by the satiety at et cut of 701. per acre, and will be allotted in small farms, of two or more acres. The situation for this purpose Is admir ble, lying to the right and left of the Eastern Counties Rxilway, and a portion of the laud is close to the station. A meeting was held at Romford, on TUf 'day evenieg, for the purpose of celebrating the com pletion of the purchase. Mr. Fletcher, of Rorer. rd, pee stied, and the spacious Corn Exchange was crowded. In proof of the rapidity with which the society's operations are extending, it was stated that up to that tame 15 estates have been purchased, at a out of more than 60,0001, and that 6,600 shares have been issued. The estates are situate re spectively at New hialdun, Kingston, Croydon (North and South), and Austerity. in Hut Sauey; at Uxbridge, Bromley, EnS•li, and Stoke Newington, in Middlesex; at Chatham and Tunbridge, in Kent ; at Godabning, in West Surrey; at Weithamstow and Romford, in South Essex; and at Mennlogfurd, is North Wilts. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITABLE TRUSTS. TO TED EDITOR OP TN■ DAILY NEWS. BM—Taking a great interest in the subject of your recent remarks on oar charities, and feeling that every underhand practice is now going on to enslave us, I lose no time in exposicg some facts which do not appear to have come to your knowledge. A new document is just announced from Propaganda, by which Cardinal Wiseman is made protector of the flourishing and hitherto independent College of Ushaw, near Durham, in the nee diocese of He sham. He is named protector not only in spirituals —a hum bug long practised with regard to such institutions— but specifically in temporal,; and this by a foreign power, for such is the Roman court. Ile intends to act under the powers so conferred, and to adjudicate as such in a dispute now pending between the college and Dr. George Brown, the Bishop of Liverpool, who claims a right to divert a part of the feuds of the college, and, apply it to the purposes of a new college of his own in Lancashire. The cardinal has ale:, we bear, ob tained from the same Propaganda a confirmation of his lamas " statute" (lately published for the first time in your valuable paper), by which he sub stituted his own authority fir the legal and canonical powers and rights of patrons, incumbents, and congregations. This is the avowed principle of the Cardinslites—"We have the eFeritual power, but we will rule by holding the temporal control also." They care • great deal more about this than about titles. It would be a great kindness to us if parliament were, first, to secure to the courts of jus tice all matters concerning our temporalities—the court ejecting priests, &c., when, and only when, found, by canonical procese, to be canonically unfit; and, second, to stop all intercourse with Propaganda —a secret, exceptional, and aggressive tribu, al, not tolerated in any real hierarchy, and only loved by ours because guided by no law but what suits the temporary purpose. No catholic state allows it. Even the priests of Malta refused to accept its juris diction. S e long as we are under the intriguing Pro paganda peace between protestant, and cit holies will never exist. Thirdly, all our bishops should be required by law to be natural born subjects and elected by priests, also natural born subjec's of this c;own. Fourthly, the oath at ordination should bo forbidden. It is un canonical and against English law, and it leads to great injustice. As for the oath of testimony in spiritual courts, a solemn affirmation ought to suffice. If government require information on these points, let them ask such priests as Tnomas Macdonnell, of Clifton ; Michael Trappes, of Hull ; Francis 'frappes, of Hedon ; Tierney, of Arundel ; Mau Hogarth, of Selby ; Lithgoe, of Tunbridge Wells ; and a score of such I could mention; and they will see how easy it is to satisfy reasonable catholics, and yet give full and real security to protestants; fur I think that protet tants have a right to every security consistent with the free exercise of our religion and the legal protco don of our religious, educational, and charitable esta blishments. Propaganda, air, has given mitre after mitre to its creatures, and now there is in England a party of u tras, with Cardinal Wieeman at their head, pre pared to break through every obstacle in their way to more than mediaeval domination. They have got poor Mr. Langdale and his set into their snares. They are now making a fess about, their titles. It seems to me most natural to call the bishops what they are— e. " Bishop of the Roman calli,3lies of Clifton, Bir mingham, &c.;" and I suppose nobody will object to that. Before these men interfered, the views of Rome were moderate. But now she is acting under the advice of her own ez officio prince and counsellor in temporal., Cardinal Wiseman—himself a member of Propaganda—alien by birth and educition—and assuming more than a nuncio's power in a kingdom to which the Pope is forbidden by act of parliament to send any nuncio bat a layman. The address to him, at, ntioncd in the Daily News of last week, begins to circulate far and wide. The clergy who signed it scorn the hole-and-eerner wotk of the Cardicalites. Whether it will be backed by many priests out of Yorkshire it is d:fficult to guess, although many make no hesitation privrtely to give the strongest assurances of their adhesion. Many' however, plead—and many more feel—the danger to themselves of signing, for they hold their livings at the mere will of their bishops, who will probably suspend them if they and them out. This foot is im portant, and should be made known in all quarters. Jan. 20, 1861. A CATHOLIC PRIEST. ROMAN CATHOLIC OPPONENTS OF WISEMAN. Translation of "An address and memorial to his Eminence Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster, &c., &c., &e., agreed to by the Itomin catholic clergy of the diocese of Beverley in meeting Resembled at Selby, in Yorkshire, on Tuesday, the 14th January, 1831. Tho Very Reverend the Dean of the District being in the chair." "May it please your Eminence graciously to re ceive this dutiful, as well as respectful, address and memorial. It is the address and memorial of catholic priests, who take an interest in the re-establishment of the hierarchy, and are, at the same time, strongly attached to the free institutions of England. " They implore your Eminence to use whatever influence your Eminence may possess to establish such laws and such institutions for their ecclesiastical go vernment as may be in accordance with the free con stitution and equitable laws of their country. " They are of opinion that the ecclesiastical law of every nation origin ally was, or at all events was intended by the church to be, of this description. " Oce of the noblest features of their religion that its canonical institutions can and do accord with the equitable institutions of the most despotic, as well as of the freest nations of the earth. "They therefore ask, and they ask with con fidence: 1. That their ecclesiastical constitution be compounded of these four ingredients—the civil law° of Engiand, the canon law (in spirituals) of the catholic church, the common law, and the just and equitable statute laws of their beloved country; for they are convinced that these would constitute, if properly compounded, a safe, salutary, and uniform system of ecclesiastical legislation for the esthetics of England. 2. They deprecate all spiritual interference with the civil rights of individuals, in reference to property, knowing, as they do, the fatal consequences arising from such interference, is a country where catholic bishops cannot exercise any civil authority whatso ever, in order to carry out the sentences of spirituel tribunate. 3. They deprecate the introduction of any mere foreign system of ecclesiastical legislation, es obnoxious to their own feelings, and as hateful to the millions by whom they are surrounded and with whom they are iu constant intercourse. 4. They implore your Eminence to oppose the establish ment of any spiritual courts which may, in the mode of their construction, be liable to the imputation of undue influence ; such courts being in England held in utter abhorrence, and in all countries con demned by men who have been nurtured in the prin ciples of rational freedom. 5. The memorialists have long borne, bat they have borne with an impa tience subdued only by a sense of religion, the system which has prevailed in the nomination of bishops. On this point they now look forward to a complete change—a change which may give to the governed an effective affirmative in the nomination of those who are to be their governors. " Finally, the memorialists beg permission to assure your Eminence that they anticipate a fa vourable reply to this their dutiful address and me morial ; for they are convinced that the contemplated restoration of the hierarchy without these measures, instead of conducing to the advancement, will be the cause of the deterioration, of religion in England. "And the memorialists will ever pray that the contemplated government, so constituted, may be long aid proep rotas in reference to your Eminence, and in reference to the church, so long es the church itself shall exist." • That of the eccle•iastial ccurtais supposed to be hue meant. ADMISSION TO TER OZIAT IsIIIIBITION. SST. Patton, through the medium of the morning papers, has ad dressed a letter to Lnd John Russell, euggestiog " that for the Bret fortnight of the Exhibition admission shall be, in every case, by payment; and, further, that one day in the week (and for massy seasons I should select Wednesday) shall, fur the whole term of the Exhibition, be reserved for the higher class,. of all nations who may prefer to pay for the exclusive privilege of admission, rather than encounter the ieconvenierice of a crowd. With them exceptions that the entra - me shall be entirely fere." We reserve the letter Welt tor publi:atitri in oar impression of Saturday. 1 . ..