The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-17 00:00:00

---se,-,-•••••---...--_ than Corn, y e llow, is held for an advance of 2.5. 6d. to 51. er ton-say, f r om 61. 12s. 6 4 . to 61 . 151. p er ton; and white aa slow sale, at about former rates. Coax, April 14.-The trade in Wheat bas been dull at no a decline of 6d. per barr el. In prepared Wheat we have tnumutions to record, baldness having been on the most limited scale. Barley, which is in fair supply, meets a moderate inquiry at a reduction of 4d. to ed. per barrel. Prime samples, for seed purpose', sell freely at ed. to Is. above the ordinary current rates. Oats also, owing perhaps to the depressed advice , from the English side, have again given way and may be Inirchased on easier terms, In prepared Oats we have so little doing, that prices may be considered nominal; we are disposed to think, how ever, that holders would accept lower rides. The trade in Flour is excessively languid, and any sales that are made are solely to supply pressing wants. stocks of coarse Flour, which till lately was in good demand, are accumulating. This may have been produced by the late depression in Indian Corn, which, however, has rallied a little this consumptive week,emand and for w hich we now experienc e a F ood d at rather improved prices. Indian Meal also exhibits an up ward tendency, with a somewhat increased sale. LIMEKICI., April 14.-Imports of Maize continue to a fair extent. Exports small. Demand large lordr food.ickly At this day's market W heat is small suppy, sold qu , at an advance of 6d. to Oil. barrel. Oats and Barley sell freely, at late rates. Flo urs dull sale, but not pressed at lower rates. Indian Corn in active demand, at an lata advancand e of ss. to 10s. per to n. Indian Corn. per ton, Ga Ibrail,7l.ss. to 71.10 x. ; Tuscany, 71. to 71.25. 61.; New York, 71.25. 6d. to 71.55.; New Orleans, 61.105. to 61.15. ; Spanish, 61. 15s. to 71.; damaged (or feeding, 41. to 41. lOs. Oats, per 1961b5 ., milling , Its. 6d.; shipping, 10s. 3d. to al.. II ir ley, per 2241 be., malting 14s. • grinding, 13 1 . Meal , p er t o n, whole, 111. 10 s. to 'l2l. ;' Indian Corn Meal. 81. to 31. 10s.; Oatmeal, Ills. 10s. to 121. Flour, first quality, per bag of 2 cwt., 11. lls. to 11. 121. ; American Flour, per. bar. rtl, 11. 6d. to 11. 7s. 61. Wheat, per 2801 b., Irish, milling. 11. 7s. 6 , 1. to 1/. So. 61. ; shipping, 11. ss. 63. to 11. Gs. 6d. ; Danteic, 11. 10s.; Polish Odessa, 11. 7s. 6d. Wsrearoan, April 15.-We have had a week of extreme dulness and inactivity in the grain trade, and all articles, except i ng Wheat and India n Cora, must be again written c h eaper . At this morning' s market the supply of Wheat was very scanty, and all samples tit for millers' use advanced 3d. per barrel. The late high prices paid for Barley have brought incre ased suppliis of this grain to our market. Grinding qualities still meet a fee demand at a reduction of 3d. per barrel, but meting samples are offend at a reduction of Sd. to Is. per barrel. Oats continue in good sapid), and, the demand having some what slackened, prices have declined allow. 3d. per barrel during the week. The recent decline in Indian Corn has ,attracted the attention of speculators, and en advance of 3d. to 6d. per barrel has been established on all qualities during the laet two days. The trade in Flour continues very dull, at a decline of 641. to ls. per sack on suplrtiuss, and 2s. to 35. on inferior qualities. Present prices of-Grain, Flour, &c. : tindried Wheat, millers', per 20 stone, 21s. 6d. to 255.; shipping, 22a. to 235. Barley, malting, per 16 stone, 14s. 94. to 15s. 3.1. ; grinding, 13s. to 14s. Oats, white, per 14 et., 9s. fid. to 10e. ; black 96. 10d. to 10 s. 3 d. Pre pared : Wheat, millers', per 2 et., 261. to 27e. ; shipping, 235. Cal. to 245. Barley, meting, per 16 st., los. Gil. to 16s. ; grinding. 1.55. to 15s. Gd. Oats, white, per 14 st., 10s. 9d. to Its. • black, 10s. 61. to 10s. 9 to 34. Flour, : super., per sack, Us. 61. to 36e.; seconds, 33e. . ed. third., 28s. to 30s. ; fourths, 29sto 215. Indian Corn, Danube, 17s. 20 to 17 sts, . 17s. 6d. to 18s. American, y, 14s. ellote 14w and Ted, . 3d.; Spanish and Portugueses. 6d. ; white, 14s. to 14s. W. ; damaged, for cattle, 12e. to 14s. Indian Corn Meal, per cwt., is. fel. to 8430. . Oatmeal, per -10 s. to Us. Bran, per 6 s t o ne, 3e. to 2d. Bread without alteration. Barley, the little required for malting, sold as last week ; inferior samples rather lower. Malt remains the same. Outs:: Scarcely s last down week s ' figures w ere mode : 19 3 . to 253. per qr. Bealower. n 33. per qr. Peas 2s. lower. T ares, 6d. per bushel Neweeferta-ON-Treat, April 15.-The weather this week has been so cold and ungenial as to put • total stop to vegeta tion ; however, we hear no curnp.aints of the appearance of the Wheat plant, although a continuance of the present weather for a few days longer would. aoubtless, cause the The on all heavy soils to assume a yellow and sickly hue. The trade during the present week has ruled quiet for all articles, and, with he exception of south country Barley, which, on account of its comperative scarcity,l has fully sus tained it. value ; all other grain, as well as Four, been offered at lower rates without commanding much attention. At our snerket this morning we had a moderate sheer 0(1 Wheat from the growers and the coast, whilst the ar. rivals front the Continent have been less liberal than of late. The trade, influenced by the more f avourable advice+ fnt London, Liverpool, and Wakefield, assumed so mewhat m o ro n activity' than of late, the farmers supply being readily cleared off, at an improvement of Is. per qr., whilst in the s ales made in south country and foreign • s imilar advance was e stehiiehed ; but the business done was more recrietee than it otherwise would have been, from factors reqng, in most cave, an enhancement of 2s. per qr. For Flour we have also to note a better inquiry, but last week's prices were generally accepted, which led to a good business being done. In Rye we have little variation to notice. Malting Barley scerce, and more inquired for. In grinding sorts no parts. cal ir change. Melt hilly as dear, me in fair request. - With Oats we were moderately supplied by our growers, but the arrivals from Scotland continue upon a liberal scale, which tend to check any improvement. At 21s. for choice Angus, weighing 411131. per bushel we have buyers, but be yond thet figure sales We quite in retail. he duty on Barley, Rye, Beaus, and Peas, 6d. per qr. lower; on other grain there is no change. The following are the quotation.: Wheat, Britieh, Northumbereand, new, white, 54e. to 565. ; 50e. to 53.. ; Norfolk and Suffolk, new, white, 54m. to fele. , red, 50s. to 535. ; Lincolnshire, new, white, 525. to 555... red, eoe. to 52e. Rye. Norfolk and Suffolk, 2Ss. to 31s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk, 295. to 31e. Chevalier, 31s. to 33.4 Northumberland and Scotch, 264. to 9e.; Cheyalier,2Bs. to 31s. ; grinding and distilling,'2:ri. to 28..Ma1t, 50s. to 515.; Chevalier, 545. to 565. Oats, Northumberland and Scotch, potato, new, 22e. to 24.. ; common end Augus, new, 20s. to 225. Peas white, boilers, 380. to 4 Be. grey grey and maple, 3fis. to 34. Bean., new, 340. to 38e. flour, per sack, fine, Stockton and Nor thumberland, 38s. to 40s. Norfolk, white, 36.. to 383.• houseboble, 34e. to 34k. ; seconds, 319. to 375. ; householas, 31s. to 333. ; thirds, 28s. to 324 ; households, 24e. to 27e. Wheat, ihreign, Beattie and Konigsberg, white, 54e. to 58s. ; red, 5415. to 52.. Silesian, white, 545. to 569. ; red. 521. to 515. Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, white. 565. to 58e. ; red, 525. to 555. H a mburg, Marks, and Anhalt, white , 519. to 56.. ; red, 50s. to 525. Kiel and Holstein, white, 525. to 545. ; red. 48s. to 50s. Petersburg and Archangel, red. 40s. to .1 If. Odema, red, 445. to 465. Polish, red, 445. to 475. Rye, Rus s ian, 265. to 30s. Barley, Seal, 304. to 32e.; Pomeranian and Holstein, 26e. to 18s. 30 to s. Outs, Birch Brew, 21e. to 23 5. ; Pomeranian, feed, 20e. ; Holstein and Danish, 16e. to 18s. ; 3fls. Archang Flour, per el and Riga, 17s. to 19e. Peas, white, 36e. to barrel of 196 lb., United States and Canada, duty paid, 241. to 209. The arrivals this week are: Wheat, coastwise, 1,IEL(II. 1,634. Barley, fereign, 735. Malt, coastwise, 20. Oats, coastwise, 1,260 ; foreign, GOO. Peas, foreign, 16, Flour, 1,370 sacks. NEWPORT (Ist.r. OF WIORT), April 15.-At our market to-day Wheat sold at about Is. per or. lower than last week. Barley comes slow to band, but meets a good sale at late prices. Wheat, 16e. to 495. per qr. Barley, 325. to 315. Beaus, 365. to 389. Peas, 38s. Oats, 20s. to 245. NORWICH, April 15.-In consequence of b i n g e ben small Barley s eed time, we hail hut a small attendance, and offer of Wheat ; and, owing to the indisposition on the part ef the millers to get into stock, prices ruled dull, at nominally the same rates as last week. N'ery little demand for Flour, f.0.b., at 65. per sack less money. Barley remained the same, with dull sale. Feeding Corn unaltered, anti not much wanted. Wheat, white, per qr., 523. to 51s. red, 479, to 50.. Barley, malting, •28s. to 30e. grinding, 255. to 27e. Oats, 21e. to 265. Peas, 355. toßeane, 345. to 91. Fi ne household Flour, f.0.b., per sack of 2801 be., 335. 6d. is 31s. Retail, le. lid. per stone. Not riN G RAM, April 15. -Today we have a smaller show of grain than usual The firmness noted in several of the leading markets has its effect here, and holders will not sell except at an advance of Is. to 2s. on most articles. particularly of Wheat and Barley. We have not many Oats or Bears showing. which are held less firmly. Petettaoniwott, April 15.-We have a flair quantity of Wheat offering to-day, but that of spring gr i m to short. All dry good Wheat are a ready sale, at an advance of Is. to 2.e. per qr., and secondary sorts we ts ] more in demand than of late. Barley, 15. dearer. and Beans fully maiatain their price. Currency to the grower , ' Wheat, new, 38s. to 12.. ; fine, 48e. to 525. ; old, 48e. to 50s. ; fine, 525. Barley. 295. to 303.; fine, also Oats, new, 17s. to 18s.; fine, 205. to 225. ' • old, 28s. to 305. Beans, old, .433. to 505.; new, 36 5. to 355. PETWOUTH, April 15 . -Though weU supplied with Wheat at our maz to-da, the amount of business done in that ar ticle was ket smell f r om an indisposition on the part of far mers to sell at the lenient rates. The transactions in other grain were very limited, at about former rater, Wheat, white, per load. 121. 10e. to 131. ; red, Ill.to 121. Bar ley, malting, 335. to 355.• grinding. 30e. to 325. Oats, Si.. t0".22.. Beans, 40e. to 42 . 5. Peas, 403. to 429. READING, April 15.-A very short supply of Wheat • the condition rather improved, and prices 2s. per qr. higher 'than Loa week. Barley in short supply ; sale slow, at same prices ' as last week. Oats, Beane, and Peas plentiful, without sra. nation in value. Sarritos WALDEN, April 15.-Wheat maintains lest wee k's prices. B arley , fr om 315. to 31s. Gil. per quarter. In ' Oats, Beaus, and Peas bat little alteration. SUNDERLAND, April 15.-The weather continues ough- very cold out dry, and vegetation Tin' km little program Pl ing at S cropping are proceeding very rapidly. There have supp l y o arnvale of ain coast.eise during the week, and the supp fr om the farmgrers to day was very small, the millers being in short stock, bought freely at last week's rates, and a clearance was soon male. The best Wheats are worth 525. to 54e.; good average parcels, 19a. to 51s. ;dab in sferior d qualities, 471. to 48s. per qr. South Country el an gona foreign in demand at these rat , s. Molting Barley is stow sale at 30s. to 325. Beans are in lees demand, at 365. to 395. Peas are only retail sale at 345. to 369. The demand for Oats is pretty good, at 21s. to 245. Malt is dull stale at 625. to 56e. The demand for Flour is con siderale, at 375. to 38'. for south country: and 35.. to 36e. for ho b memade ; American may be nominally quoted at 28e. to d em anda Meal at 165. to 17s. per barrel, but there is no at these rates. WARMINSTER, April 15.-Wheat : A very moderate sup ply ; the hest dry samples of both white end red were soon selected, at rather higher terms than on this day week ; heat hesvy, weighiutt 6211'. to 631 b. per bushel , sold at from 255. to 265. p r sack of 4 bushels ; moderate, 235. to 245. ; poor, 21s. to 225. Barley, though but in moderate supply, was fully equal to the demand ; the bright and heavy . chevalier went off briskly at Is. per qr. above last week's prices ; other qualities as last quotaunn-top prices, Me to 30s. per qr. ; other desctiptione, from 32e. to 355.; malt offered at Ss. to 84. 65. per bushel. Oats: Of dull sale • the demand having fallen off , prices rather down ; beet 26s . per qr. ; good white feed. 245. • common, 20e. to 22e. Beans The heanew vy , 40 3 . old ticks, weight 66111., sold at 451. per qr. ; moderate, to 425. Peas : Rather scarce, yet so few asked for, that both white anti grey were offered at 2.. per qr. des' money. WiNi.itEsratt, April 15.-13 , st Wheat., in dry condition, scarce. Fintst white sold at from 5.55. to 56e. per qr.; best rtd and old, 5.3.. to 549. ; moderate samples. 48s. • other qualities. 425. to 419. Of Burl • y, the supply d -rate, 32 me:dentes. ; h ea vy, 561 1' . Chevalier , veld at 365. per qr. ; mcon to 13..; fair, grinding. 305.; malt. beet pale, 64.. per qr.; good, Ms. to 60s. Oatie scarce; the best Pelands, 261.,per qr. Scotch, 24..; Irish white, 22e.: black feed, 20s. Beans, . sold slowly ; heavy tick 661 19 . per bushel, 465. per qr.; new, 641t0., 425.; common, tick, to 40e. Peas a1..3 on the decline; bee-white42s per qr.: grey and maple, 38s. Wt.srett, April 15.-With a fair show of samples the at trede is firm here toeilas , and deacrietione are in giotl di mend, et fully Is. per qr. over the price.; et last week. Oats end Beans in moderate supply, and former rates main taned. Prices to the growers: Whent, fine white glib' to 623 w.. 4tls. to 50s. per qr. ; red, 465. to 48s. ; gooi ram, 60110. to 6111 w., white, 464. to 483.; red, 445. to 46.. • common, 5711 w. to 5911 re., white, 42.. 41e. to 430 ' . Oats, fine new oneeling, per stune, lOid. ; iced, new, feed, 101. Bean., sew, 34e. to 3.55. WORCESTRR, Meet 15.-We hid a moderate supply of Wheat at our market this day, and !TIM, ruled lima at last week's rates. It d, 18e. to 19s. per bee of 9.t. 10:b. ; white, 19s. 61. to 20 e. B arle y , oa.s, and B-ans in limited supply, without any alteration in Deices. Yeovte, April 14. - There wee r. eery moderate at tendance of formers and desi res on the market today, but butineee of MI kinds was slack. Wheat was rather lower than last week, the prices being from ss. 9d. to 69. 3d. per bushel Barley, Vs. to 325. per qr. Oats. 21s. to 245. per qr. Beans. 59. to 50.6 d. per bushel. Tuna. April 15.-We have again to report a short supply of all kinds of grain at this day's market. Wheet has met a ready sale, at Is. per qr. advance upon last week's prices. Oats in better demand, at a trifle over the rates of Ist week In 111,1.10 y, Beans, and other articles no alteration. The present prices of grain :-Wheat, white, 50s. to 53e. per imp. qr.; red, 48.. to 515. Barley. melting, 31e. to 33e. grinding, 295. to 305. Beans, 375. te 40s. Rye, 345. to 355.; Malt, 60s. to 625. Oats, 10d. to 11d. per stone of 1411 w. Flour, 365. to 40 s. per sack of 28011 s. DULLIS, April 14.-Our supplies this week have been small, yet e our markethasbeen inanimate. We have scarcely any change to notice in the value of any article, and werepeat our quotations of this day se'nnight. Th to e follow. inc is the general cur renc y : Wheat, red, 235. V.. ; white, 265. to 3Oswper 280Ibs. Oats, 9s. Gal. to Ils. par I bd. to per 96ibs. Barley, 14e. to 16e. Gd. per 2'241,9 . Oatmeal, 10s. Ils. 81. cwt. Flour, 15s. to per cwt. for secoude. 'hied= Corn, 24e. to 28s fid. per 480bs. BELFAST. April 14.-We have now seasonable weather (though cal) for sowing, and all hands are engaged getting the crops into the ground. Toe sowing of Oats and Barley will also be fully an average. The young Wheat crop looks well, and there io about an average breadth sown. The sup- Om of Frain to market are smell. but, generally, of good uality, and in fair condition. Wheat pelts slowly, at last week t e prices, and some small parcels, et store. sell at 10/. to 101. to. per ton. Flour is nominally uhehanged in • *alas ; 28s. to 29.. per bend. Barley sells freelr, rid we hare some inquiry for parcels. Oats maintain tneir valve, and are taken chiefly for ierdiuF, Oa , meai gme pretty steadily into censumption, at about the prices named Lot week. In- . '4, -----------------, where the extinction of credit by war and revolution full Tear -73 per cent., therefore, of this amount -. makes gold a necessary for social existence, this ex- consists of the anticipated revenue of the remainde portation (under the operation of the bill of 1844) is of the year. a bad preparation for the contingency of a bad harvest. A correspondence appears in the journals of this It was difficult enough to manage matters when there evening between Lord Brougham and M. c r , was gold in abundance to pay for grain, and when all mien:, the provisional Minister of Justice, whi c h roads were open whence supplies could be drawn. proves that I was mistaken in regarding the lette r But we do not envy the bullion worshippers their professing to be written by Lord Brougham at Gene t responsibility, who stake our existence upon the state to be a hoax. The present correspondence, whi c h of the Bank cellar when it is mewed with a double will send you in full this afternoon proves that LA drain. Brougham did seriously apply for letters ' of grand a,. A serious inquiry into the mode of meetiag difficul- turahsation, which would invest him with e n ties of this kind would present a more dignified as the rights of a native Frenchman, including th e well as a mor pop occupation for statesmen than of sitting in the assembly. The Minister of JUslic, raking up precedents of coercion. We may easily explained, in reply, that such naturalisat i , fall into Scylla in our eagerness to avoid Cha- could only be granted on the condition that 1.4 rybdis, and far our own parts we should much Brougham would renounce his rank, privil eges , and prefer any extension of the franchise to the risk of a rights as a peer of England in that country, f or t h u renewed and aggravated commercial crisis, under France could not acknowledge a citizen so lon g es laws that allow of no play of credit to meet an emer- should claim and extvcine rights as a British stiej te t. gency. Upon this Lord Brougham withdrew his applicanee, FRANCE. The Madrid mail of the Ilth has arrived. Th e country was still under the operation of the arbitruy power consequent on the suspension of the conno d , Lion. Atrests were made on Blight or no pr e t enem Sentinels tired on unottending and peaceable citiet, Escoeura had arrived at Cadiz, and was imprison e d - 4 the castle, and prevented from communicating a id, his friends. At Valencia a regiment was kept several days on inch severe duty that the soldiers ne-er took off il i a cross belts, and slept with their muskets at sides. Our correspondent says: "I am able to-day to pie. sent you with proofs drawn from the organ o f ti.t government that the soldiers make a practice of fin ag upon the inoffensive citizens." Popular.—The alarm of yesterday (;;andse, th e pdo arose Irons t h e circumstance that a seritiml stationed is Ik e Cafe de Correos fired upon a group that salesman teams, him and did notnnswer the three " gonna vire i" th e e , according to the regulations, he adiireased to them. h t sentinel was going to be relieved at that mment, ,th e; „ observing what passed with the group the guard that cam to relieve him repaired to the aid of his eonrade, sod tu charged his musket upon those who appeared to Is ba enemies. The operations quoted on the llo:st are merely forced salt s, managed by the govel amen, to keep tt.? appearances. At this moment no one ventures to speculate. MADRID BOIJA, APRIL 11.—Tbree per fear., 211 paper; Foe Colts., 13i paper ; Twelves, II paler; Coupom. yl paper; Bull Verdin.utd, 101 paper. Exell.tage 011 1.0t1 , 1011, 43. PARIS, SATURDAY, 5 P.Y. The chief topic of domestic interest to-day is the expected measure of the l'rovisional Government to take po-rression,on the part of the state, of the entire railway property in France. The Provisional Government has, asl told you, decided on immediate expropriation. The only question of debate among them is the form and amount of the indemnity. The companies are in the highest degree indignant at this. The direetors of the Tours and Nantes Rail way sent in last night to the government t the a sointenlemn de re monstrance an d protestation agains d measure. A like document, still more strong in its language, in which the government are expressly charged with spoliation, was to have been sent inbly this afternoon by the Stra sbour g company, and is proba now before the government. A meeting of the dele gates of all the companies is called for this evening, for the purpose of agreeing upon a joint remonstrance and protest against any measure which should force their property from them, on an indemnity to which they should object. The council of the Provisional Government sat yesterday afternoon for some hours, but did not come to any final decision. I am in formed that they will have another meeting on the s eet this evening, whe n the p rotests of the Nantes and Strasbourg CJinkairies will be before them. Considerable uneasiness is entertained here respect ing the movements and designs of the communists. It is rumoured that several meetings have lately taken place, attended by some thousands of them, at which violent addresses were delivered by their leaders, the object of which was to excite them to organise them selves so as to make menacing demonstrations pre vious to and during the elections, and even to resort to the force of arms, if necessary to attain their ob jects. The name of one member of the gwernment at least has been mentioned in connexion with these We have received by the Levant mail letters fres our correspondents at Malta and Athens. We have also received advises from Athens of the let, in which it is said that the new ministry WWI to grant a general amnesty to the Greek refugees is Turkey. It is also said that a georral mudnicatio will be made in all that part of the former amnia tration which took part in the political proceedings d the late ministry. The senate, it is slid, continent° disallow certain items of the budget of 1817, and I s make the late ministry personally responsible it them. A hostile demonstration was made against Ili Austrian ambassador by the pupils of the Athenian. versity. Much agitation prevailed, and the arrival d every vessel from France was expected with anxiety. ITALY. 11 1 '. ; THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1848. fictitious, and large public meeting s were held to pass resolutions in accordance with the prayers of the peti tions, in order to prove the existence of the parties signing them. By means of theee alternate bat teries of petitions and meetings, the parliamentary liberals contrived to extort many important conces sions even front an unreformed parliament—the re peal of the Test and Corporation Acts, the repeal of the Roman Catholic Disabilities, and lastly the Reform Bill itself. These tactics were persevered In after the passing of the Reform Act ;at first, perhaps, more use people had got accustomed to this mode of political action than from any distinct convictions of its neces sity and expediency ; but, subsequently, from a grow ing suspicion that the legislature hail not yet become suciently identified with the general community in interests ffi and opinion to be left to work without such external pressure. Questions involving the interests of such masses as did the Test and Corporation Act, the Catholic Disabilities, and Parliamentary Reform, could not be effectively agitated without preconcert and co-operation on the part of great numbers in every locality, and on the part of their leaders throughout the country. Arrangements were made for pouring in petitions relating to thine subjects on the legis ns l a ture simultaneously, for having ouch petitio signed by the greatest possible numbers of names, and for keeping up the fire from session to session, after it had once been begun. This organised system of petitioning is of pretty old date. Among the dis senting congregations, who, in the central board of the three denominations, had a standing committee I in London, we can trace it as far back as Act the movemen t against the Test a nd Corporation , which began about 1730. Since 1793 a , vrious cen tral committees of reform, with conventions in the prey - nce., succeeded one another under different names till the passing of the Reform Act. The Anti- Coin Law League and chartists have since established agencies more or less perfect. It is not our object to question the propriety of such arrangements. When ever the people have no voice in the appointment of the legislature, or an inadequate or illusory v oice, it is only by such combination that it can bring the legis lature to hear reason. B ut such arrangements re quire paid agents, and the permanency of such ar rangements calls into existence a class to look to the uire agency for a livelihood. These political agents t he e much subject to the same b iases, and req as looking after as the openly avowed political agents of parliament or the administrative departments. From the bustling lawyer seeking to make or in crease a business by acting as secretary to committees and associations innumerable, down to the humble drudge who stands at a street corner with a table be fore him, where passers by may have an opportunity of signing petitions, and who is paid so much a day, or so much a sheet for his pains, it has become a trade with all of them. 'they live by agitation, and as one theme loses its interest by becoming stale, or by being redressed, they are ever eagerly on the look out for another. They seek to obtain a character for zeal and efficiency by the loudness of the clatter, the mul titudes of attendants on meetings, the number of sig natures to petitions they can stir up or procure. Ex aggeration is their trick of trade. It behoves the parties by whom and for whose interests they are em ployed, to keep a wary eye on them at all times, lest by this exaggeration they hurt the cause they profess to be promoting. The readiness of this not very scrupulous tribe to get up at any time a factitious demonstration of po pular interest in any q uestion, or to exaggerate the apparent amount of a real interest, has betrayed itself, though not exactly to the same extent, in other agitations than that of the chartists. The leaders both of the reform bill and the anti-corn-law agita tions could tell what a sharp eye and bridle hand they preventdoing harm by vapour and bragga docio. And the annals of parliament can tell that even the most watchful and sincere endeavours of these leaders did not always succeed in keeping the followers front playing tricks. The anti-education petitions of last session, had they been as severely scrutinised as the chartist petition, would have yielled Erne comical revelations. The lesson we would draw from these facts is pre cisely the reverse of what some of our conservative contemporaries have been drawing. They arc pro posing means to check the abuse of petitioning, be cause they fear it may precipitate the downfal of obsolete and oppressive laws and institutions to which they fondly cling. We want to have the abuse of petitioning checked, because we believe it weakens the popular assaults u p on obsolete and oppressive laws and institutions; but we do not believe that sta tutes and enactments can check it. There is no remedy for it except in the experience of the people teaching them its mischievous consequences, and the growing knew-ledge of the people making them ashamed of everything quackish that adheres to popular demonstrations. The chartists have had a lesson of this kind read to them which they will not easily forget. The sincere, well-inteutioried among the Chartists, have, , for months, been looking forward to the effect their petition was to have on the House of Commons. They now find that the men who took the lead in getting I it up have, either in a dishonest spirit of exaggeration, or in a caress le reception of all the ex aggerated stories told them—which, in their position, was scarcely less culpable—palmed off a document on parliament so suspicious that it can produce no effect. Tho work has to be begun again; and we are much mistaken in the shrewdness of the w , rking classes of England if they allow the blockheads who were in dulging in termagant mclo-dramatic speeches—grati fying their vanity by personal display—when they ought to have been attending to busiaese, to meddle with it again. And, as we have shown, there arc others who will do well to lay to heart the rude lesson the chartists have received. The work of petitioning parliament has been horribly overdone of Into years; and as we are obviously entering upon a period when it will require to be pretty liberally had reco urse to, it important that as much of judgment and wary dis crimination as may be,should characterise its manage ment. But we frankly confess that in our eyes the whole of the paid labourers in the petitioning vine yard are no better than a necessary evil—that among the beoefits we anticipate from a wide extension of the franchise, by no means the least in our estima tion is that of being enabled to dispense with their services. CATTLE, Two o'Cleck.—We have today s large supply of Beasts, and trade consequently worse ; the mild damp weath-r makes buyers very cautious. The extreme price for best Scots is 4s. Gd. • some very good ones have been sold as low ; and ' for choicest short horns, 4s. 4d. is barely obtained. There arc 311 from Holland, 220 front Scotland, and about 2,000 from Norfolk and Suffolk. We have a few more Sheep, but the number is still very small ; trade is dull, but tmakihis is ng about mainly attributable to high p rieee. Good qualiti.s are the same price as of Ism From Holland there are 340 Sheep and 30 Calves. Choice Lambs are in demand, making from 65. Bd. to 7s. 4d. Tr Ole is cheerful fir P Calves, but at n o advance in price. There i x a good demand for igs, at fully late prices. Per stone of d. ,4. 1 Per stone of Albs. s. d. s. d. Bait Sat', Hereford.. 44 4 'Best Inis. a db 50 5 4 Bost dbort-botus ......4 04 4 Be-4 Linipslool , •• •• 60 6 4 n o quality Mosta_ 323 8 . Do. its. Shims Calved ...... . ..... 44 5 4 Dins and second quint) 4O 4 Pigs . .44 5 4 80. do. shorn Best fin, * ri ifiliSbii;;B 5 4 5 8 Lsouln•_ .. 0 0 0 0 Beam. as soar/tab ; Sheet. and lams, i 6,21 .... ; Buses. 123: Plits.3lo. Stterrksnenv Fein, April 15.—Lea stock lers. went The off briskly, at nearly the p rices asked by the dea dairymen selected many in-calved Cows and Heifers, giving high prices for the best breed.. Cows, with a calf by side, in full milk, were taken freely elm. The supply of weaned C a l v es was very great. 01 Sheep there were sn Wilts and DO rsi ts, which realxed rather bette r p rices. Tim quantity of Horses was not so great as at last fair, yet trade was dull. Rather a short qumtity of fat Beasts, which went off briskly, at;from Ils. to lls. 6.1. per 'core for best Devens and Short-Horns; 10s. to 10, G.l. fu indifferent and coarse. The few fat Sheep were quickly dis posed of at 4s. Sd. to s'. 4•1. per stone of IRA. Fat Calves in number exceeded the demand: prices w ere therefore from from 9s. to los. 6d. per score. Best fat Bacon Bogs made 10s. 6d. to lla.; small and inferior, 9s. Gd. to 10s. YEOVIL, April 117—There was an average num farber of Cattle in the mark et to-day, hut the trade was from brisk ; prices may be quited thecame a.s last w old readily eek. There were about 200 Sheep in the pe, and they at stood prices. Of Pigs there were 130 in the market—trade in these was dull. GLASGOW, April 13.—At our market to-day there was a good supply of heavy Cattle he Beef m ss. to to 535. per cwt.; second quality, 48a. to 505.; Cow and inferior, 38s. to 43; ~ sinking the offal. T hee Sueep market was also well suppled, there being 13 d. Salm were, however, dull, and a few turned T out unsold. Best 11l ick faced Wethers realised 7d. per ; second quality, Gd. here were no BIM In the market. Wit erprefigi MAILS. The West India Mails, exc l u ding Bermuda, Naiad', Havanna, Il on duras, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Biro, aml including those for Madeira, Jame), Carthagena, Sante Martha, Chmtres, Panama, West Coart of South AMeriol l , and St. Juansite- Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 17th April. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madeire, Cadiz, and °Shreiner will be made up on the morning of the 17th April. The overland mails lot Oibraltur, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, eellon, India, llong-Kong, and China, aid nouthatsp. tan, will be made up on t he n , morning of the 20th April. The mails fur British North America, and the UR. laid /taw, will be mute up on the evening of the 21st April. The ,„„i. n a e i e . o d ,mile, rid Marseilles, to the ma Mediterranean, E g ypt, Aden, Ceylon, Italia, 8 0 0n -Kong, ire, will be de up on the evening of the 24th April. The mails for New houth Wales, Tan Dieman's Lead, an d New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Soth April. The mails fur the Wcat ~ .;,set of Afoca and Madeira will be made i up or, the evening of the 30th Apt il. i The mails for the Brasile, the Hirer Plate, Monte Tides, Peream. erringa, Madeira. aud Buenos Agree, will be made mi on the ; eof the 4th Mop. -_-----. NOTICE TO ADVEIITMEAS. The number of STAMPS itaued by the authorities of the Stamp-othee, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,009 This, we believe, is with in eight per . cent of the n ronick umber issued to the Horning Herald, Mornang CA, and limning Post, ALL PVT TOGETHER. In addition to the above, imbued to the DAILY NEWS, Nor,ting Paper, there were issued for the Evening Mition, THE EXPRESS 778 714 Whirb was time. we helieve, the were issued ..ither to the Globe or Ntanda , d, Evening Pape n rs. TIIE Glabe indulled, some days ago, in a fierce diatribe against one of the most moderate and philoso phic publicis a of France. M. Jolts LEMOINNE, the thief writer in the Journal des Debts on the public affairs and men of England and of Ireland. Rook can base perused his writings without being by their justice and profundity, by their liberal and amicable tote towards these countries, as well as by the originality of thought and felicity of expression, which distinguish the writer. The Globe is indignant with M. LEMOINNE for asserting that the English have founded liberty upon inequality; that their g.ivernment and parties are fash.onial after, azi‘i imbued with, a thin ough aristo cratic spirit; and that this keeps and must keep England isolated trout the great movement of Europe. Now, we should think that whig and tory would admit the justice of these observations :—nay, that the greater number of our politicians would pride themselves upon the very state of things indi cated. When M. LENIOINNE, however, gots on to hint that this inequality is likely to emetic artvolu tion, and that a war will surel y spring upwet u lords and levellers, we altogether differ from the French writer. There never was a people so little actuated by mo tives of vanity es the Engiish ; never was a people more willing to accept those inequalities of human ,condition, which have ever been the law of the world, and which the scriptures teach us to accept. No Englishman hates another because he is richer, or better born, or has inherited a title. All comprehend that man's dignity and independence can and ought to be as fully maintained in a low as in a high sta tion. And to defend his right in his station is the Englishman's aim, habit, and resolve. Social inequalities, therefore, constitute no griev ance with us, unless so fir as they constitute political inequalities. And even political inequalities would scarcely p•ovoke murmurs, if the power of making laws, which respect persons and property, and which touch every man's pocket, were not implied in the possession of these political pcivileges. All classes in England are now struggling for political power, not for vanity's sake, or a love of equality, or republican pride, but because political power is indispensable to private protection. TO GORItESPONDENT IO. ad•Htbenettll Oran lea tor "The Eorreor," boo lon erroina ►arer. moo Or Al *Mellor M. Bouvelne-Street, by Two dcl ra b., Ole Jar of poolveatura. WWI VC ATKA AT lAPII/y/91 RHIDOL. Tim 049-11orsyag.3. raln.pasa I; Afternywy, AV mi.. past I. To.sonsem-31.0,14. yu.A past 9 y AA•rwouo. 21 nun. paaa LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 17. THE report of the petition committee on the signa tures to the monut‘r pettti *cactus a lesson which the Chartists, and more politicians than the Chartists, will do well to lay to heart. The abuse therein ex posed MR do little harm when caricatured in the manner the agents for collecting signatures to the petition in question have done. But in a less out rageous form it had previously done much to dis credit popular petitions to the legislature. Parties who have a taste for such dry reading as the reports of the petition committee, must often have ob served comments appended by it to desetiption of peti tior.s, casting doubts on the validity of the signatures , attached to them. And recriminator,' tauntsexchangtd in the House of Commons bet w friends *ad oppo nents of petitions, have • sespicions into minds caring little and km; eels bout the work ing, of the political machine, t •uu a thing as a petition manufactory exists in the country. There can be no doubt of it. The immense extent to which the practice of petitioning the legislature has been carried of late years, has called into existence a class who live by the trade of superintending the sign ing of petition., or procuring signatures to petitions. Before the pi:ming of the reform act the House of Com mons had so little counezion with the people, that the people's voice had no more chance of being heard in it, except hrough the instrumentality of etitions,than it had of t being heard at court, except b p y some similar agency. It 1:000L111 . therefore, the practice for the unrepresented musts Xo a rm, their few friends and patrons in that house with numerously signed . peti t ons. whereon, as on e. u xt, they big .t debate. The obstructive majority alleged that the signatures were Our middle classes do not complain of the pride of the upper ones, but of their monopolis in g the influence and manipulating the property of the state. Our lower classes do not, like the French, anathematize the middle, as a selfish bourgeoisie, whom it R o sa lor u tary to intimidat e. They merely demand por f themselves, in order to remedy destitution, to provide perpe t ua l employ me nt and equitable remuneration. In this, indeed, the lower classes of England, imitate the upper or aristocratic classes, and adopt their arguments. Both claim power, on the groun d that it is sa lutar y that they should exercise it. Nobles plead a sort of divine right to legislate and administer, not as possessors of pro perty, for in that case they would admit all kindds b of pro p e rty to enjoy the p rivile g e, but as qualifiey the subtle attributes of birth they stigmatise any attempts to drive them from their monopoly of power, or to share it with them, as a step to anarchy. The lower classes put forward the rights of numbers, in opposition to those of birth. They, too, seek another basis for political power than property. They have their scheme of government and society, and set up the rights of labour in contradistinction to the rights of property and those of birth. The middle class hes to defend itself against both, against spoliation by the aristocracy through the machinery of the old system of government, and against spoliation by the mob thr ough the machinery of a now and revolutionary goverement. Between the two, the middle class has need to keep both eyes open, the more especially as the gentlemen of birth and the flatterers of the mob have often played into each other's hands, and combined to obtain and to keep power. Tories have flattered chartists, and chartists have elected tories, and Nottingham has combined the two extremes in its return to parliament. To this struggle of every one to keep his own, we see no iseue like that feared by the French writer. No class in this country is inclined to carry its claims by violence. The chartists themselves have had some experience of this, and led as they are by chiefs not wanting in intelligence—we mean the real not the mock chiefs—they are fully aware that a revolutionary or anarchic outburst would be fatal, even in its success, to the prospects of the English operatives. The worst element amongst them, indeed, is not English unruli ness, but Irish unreason and example. Having powerfully aided in bringing down too large a class of the English operatives to the brute level of indi gence the Irish leaders are now endeavouring to superiedd the requisite addition of brute frenzy. In nu country, however, has a lower class pre vailed, or even risen, unless excited and aided by the class immediately above them. And no one class in England durst risk violence, without uniting the others instantly against it. Despite. therefore, of the multifarious elements of disquietude and turmoil existing amongst us, and stirred up to the fiercest de gree of agitation by the anarchy of the continent, we shall see no combat more rude than that of argument, and no change save that effecter through means pro vided by the constitution. As to social hatred, or any crusade in search of equality, the writer in the Thbats may rest assured that kmgland contains no germs of suc h a feeling. Our struggles are those of interests, our pretensions those of right. We have been too long used tb political theories and discussion, to be carried away by them into fevered hallucinations, and too universally impressed with religius truth to enter into any schemer the rege neratioti of society, and the abrogation o f all evil. seeedings. An impression generally prevails that the military spectacle which is in preparation to cel ebra the re- conc ili a tion of the troops an d the people is intended to be used es a favorable opportunity for the introduc tion of a military force of regular troops into Paris. I am as-ured, howev er, that such is not the case. The intention is, as I am informed , to b rin g into Paris, for the approaching occasion, about 200 men from each of 20 regiments quartered within a convenient distance of I' ur ie, making a total of 4,000 regular troops. Tin prohibition of the export of grain from Russia After the ceremony these detachments are to be sent by the Emperor is a measure calculated to awaken se- back immediately to their respective quarters. veral considerations of no pleasing kind. The wet The illoniteur publishes the official returns of the aced time in England would, under ordinary circum- direct and indirect taxes and sources of revenue fur stauces, have already set the corn merchants on the the first quarter of the present year. it shows a alert. Stocks would gradually have augmented. In falling off, compared with the corresponding period proportion as English dealers undertook those lying of 1817, of 16,310,000 fr. at Hamburg and Rotterdam, the Dutch and German The Coruitilationriel says :" M. Ferdinand Lesstps merchants would have speculated at Konigsberg and is officially appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Dantaig, and the brokers in those Baltic ports would Chargé d'Affaires from the government of France to then have held out encouragement to the growers in that of Ma kid. It was after a long conference be the back country to forward their lust year's produce. tween M. Lesseps and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Were we to regard the question as con- that this determination was come to?' sumers only, we might console ourselves with the A Marseilles journal, the Nourelliate, gives the fol prospect of obtaining what we wanted elsewhere. lowing, for the publication of which we leave that America can furnish larger supplies, and on better j co We t, su i l l io c i n u t (nand responsible : terms, than can be obtained front Russia. America, pd a a at s document, andw which hhiN been e a n cti n t t t o „ u i s tt y .. our of course, has aba'ay a been able to do this, and of British eccentricity. 'lt is a letter addressed by Lord yet we have at all times drawn largely from Russia Brougham to the mayor of Cannes, and in which he an and her subject lauds in seasons of scarcity. The nounces that he cf.,rnee firward as a candidate for the National give the letter reason is obvious. Taking is only halt the calcula- Aw•e oll,l s. We textually, leaving, of cou• se, tion of the tradesman ; what he is to give in exchange e . t li rcii , i• e o a ns , t it le:ty r o( trrcoeseeimtunicautioat to :li a r rrre: o p: t i o drit : forms an item of at least equal importance. That the 4inistry . of Justice (Kate tleondoomeseraritsr :certifilatteo, America has never yet fixed our market price in years proving that I have possessed sad inha'bited in the depart of scarcity, but that our prices have been governed by meat of the Var, anondissement of Cannes, for more than those of Russia, is matter of liistoiie fact, and five years (more than eight, it live will not do), with a certi requires but little consideration to explain why it i g a irelness .n t: send this wr ititrete: moral n c : l u tble i t i .o av tte the should be so. The Re-sian empire is at least six be c p i leas a :d 4' t 3 o ;in '' me forward ministry, and porter) ten a y s o o u no wl ot times as populous RS North America, and although your deputies; but, at least, do not forget the certificate. — labour is not ns well economised, nor its rewards as .afille amities. BROUGHAM." well distributed in the former as in the latter country, I have just learned that M. de Tallenay has been yet a certain consumption of our manufactures, in appointed French Minister in London. pite of hostile tariffs, is insured by the circutustatce P.S., 6 r.m.—The council of the government met ofthere existing so large a body of COPSUIRCIE in this afternoon, and sat for five hours discussing the Russia us we know to be the case. railway question. They separated wiliont coming to It is true that our direct exports to Russia do not any decision. To-morrow there will be no council, much exceed two millions of pounds sterling, but but they will meet again on Moaday, by which our exports to Hamburg and the Baltic, united time they will have before them the separate and with Itussia, are between nine and ten mil- colleetive remonstrances and protests of the railway lions, equal to the exports of our manufactures companies against the contemplated mi asure. to the whole of North America. Polish Jews PARIS, Sesnar, 104 a.se ' and agents supply themselves at the fairs of Leipzic A considerable sensation was produced throughout I I and Frankfort-on -the-Oder, and no doubts large share Paris yesterday afternoon, and accompanied by ant of the goods sent to Germany is consumed by the immediate tall of the funds, by a manifesto which population of Russia. Germany and Austria are troth was posted through the town bearing date from the manufacturing countries, and their tariffs are strin- Ministry of the Interior, yesterday, from which we gently prohibitive. That of Russia. is not less so, but give the following extracts : the great length of island ftoutier, Ow shelter of the MINISTRY Or THY. INTERIOR, PARIS, APRIL 15.—1 f the e t le e ct e i r inito io n ii ot o r t re e t ot he to u ro i , u t in f h o of social truttrlf f they are ad rotTld forests, the distance of the Russian manufacturing districts from the western provinces of the confiZtit loyalty of the peopl , the elec te ti l o n n s ; c 4:ict r i °l should empire, with the want of internal communi- be the safety of the republie, e will be its downfall. There cations, offer a primiam to the smuggler will then only be one means of satyr for tho people who that is irresiie ible. But even this deplorable formed the barricades, that will be a second time to manifest trade supposes that the consumer is able to pay for 1 rites will, and tr roo d oo ecis o io ot ns e lif ror a k fa f l o se Jo iat t iol o d what he - buys, and unless the produce of the interior I to f t, this depletable remedy ? /4 ! P France has confl•leet he free to go to market we may be very sure that no e, Paris a great mission; the people could not render this goods will be consumed, and thus one valuable than - miesion iecampatihle with the order and the calm necessary eel of earnings will be closed on our manufacturer& to the deliberations of the constituent body. Paris con Ilitween the sth Jul), 1846, and the 10ta Outuber, .....(b.r.; it-alt, and with traz.o, the . trie.tee uf all the trio•yul::ipoonroto o[ the tbooe iiase iartioomollthoternostory. of Paris wit 1847 we imported grain and flour to the value of 3.5,0(10,0001. in round numbers. We exported to the who suffer, wait, and put forth claims from the one countries who sent us these supplies about one-half the end of the country to the other. If anarchy travels abroad, sum in manufactured goods. the remaining part bad it the social ilifluences pervert the judgment or betray the wi o di of the i t maelies o ilivereedsi is b z o ol y deceived hl in t o h n e c lrire• to be paid for in bullion. No doubt the largest portion of this trade was with America. But the tendency of rhe u m% le e s respans people ible for the inter° them all v tl es ie flatlets. declare the stream is to find its level by flowing to the east , some places the populati . .n is abused and led astray, at when the west is over supplied. NVhen the trade with where wealth clams its privileges with , itesle farce. w o d o l tail America his attained the extent to which it can be Th•ee who act thus cemmit a great cr and threaten us carried by the aid of exported gonds, resort is had to with the painful duty of subduing when we would onlv the Baltic at advanced pnees. flu ndvalice is in the first instance only as much as would be required, it ~,,h, u i s now l e re ., ea b eet :ll.6 roofits deliver b-•esft noti persuade only t i t h n o, e ; a r ;t i el f , c t fi h u e t t republic ' it,l lht ll o s t r t i l i w i l , +:; r e i l:, bullion were taken as the means of payment in the si.ce. Citizens, it must nut be et you yourAlves should American trade. But as the deuiand for grain increases compelled to violate the . principle of your own soverei. ivy, the v i er , o f corn must r i se , in or d er t h a t t h e B•tween the danger of losnig this conquest by the fact of an incapable a l iet o m p b r ly ,, ,.o . o by of th;tof a movement of p o pular i n . Russian duties may be covered, and our Government can only warn you manufactures introduced on a large scale in spite of and "s po l int'out the danger which threatens you. It has not them. The result of this calculation shows itself to the right to do violence to your minds, and. to attack the Rass'.on merchant in the alteration of the rate of the principle of public tight. Elected by you, it cannot either pre"ent the evil produecd by the czercise :if a exchange, by which lie has to remit an increased sum 5 0 1 t ...r 0 .d ,c rig o ht m ill i understood, ta Te l et-e,t. yi.),. : r ene r r : i t ii 1 eh , n, in bills on England to make his payno rats in Loudon. In England we perceive the change in tie prices at ei,e o f toiisriiiih-t.keiliTitouthwatowl'h:tc•attnin, wash Lan „ th eu e g. e t r o Mark-lane. Our candle burns at both ends. We du is to make you w.ucrstand the co useu ot your both charge less for our exports, and pay more aeti. In time past the representatives the people saved Rite country in proclaiming the country in danger. dearly for our imports, than when the flow of trade If the country not in danger as in the time of OUT first re. is a natural and constant one. Still, even sucheen.etestity being not amongsta t us,uts r there gates l o t I t s: t i o l i tl o s t i t e t tl a trade is better than a pure exportation public; trugge is not of gold, which frightens the Bank and struggle, a moral danger, that great moral eourage and great makes it put on the screw. The manufacturer, per- confidence i.e our principles can alone allay. Citizens, take haps, gains little, or nothing ; but he may get the cour Abandon your merely private interests ill under stuudoo , the selfish fetangs of your . unmeoiate position. Guard wages of his workmen, and that is a great deal for the country. Our vessels, too, are employed, and the yourselves a r :t l r v o e y s tl a ir a s ttrt tit y . "4e Sa e v n e e Tra i l I w ll h ar o a e n ar ls e' ' s the republic. It machinery of our induatrial edifice is kept from rust- again depends on you to save it without convulsions, and i ng . This is the value of OUT connexion with the intact. e ast of Europe, as supplementary to the American The effect of this unexpected sal l y of the govern trade ; and on occasions like the crisis we have meat was in some measure couweract d at the passed through, it is not too much to say Bourse yestereley by the news of the victory of the that it is of vital importance to this em- Sardinian troops at Goito, which arrived a little be pire. It is this connexion which the arbitrary fore the close. decree of the Emperor of RUSSIA has placed in The account of indirect revenue on the customs for jeopardy, and that at a moment when our farmers the first quarter leas just appeared, and shows a deficit are watching, in fear and trembling, the showers that as compared with the corresponding quarter of last unfit the ground for the receipt of the seed potatoes. year amounting to above sixteen millions of franca. The circumstances make us heartily wish that the The total produce of the first quarter of 1817 was 1911 course of the Vistula were in the hands of some more millions, while that of the present quaiter is a little friendly power. • short of 178 millions. There is nothing coneoling (in our present dis- A compensation for this is reported to have been organised condition of commercial credit) in the found in the direct taxes. in which there is an excess fact that an export of bullion has coin- as compared with the corresponding quarter of last emitted before any failure of the crops can year of not less than twenty-tour millions, but this be anticipated. The state of the continent which is apparent rather than real. A large proportion of farces produce of all kinds into the market at almost the tax-payers, with a view of assisting the country any sacrifice, is what causes the new drain. But as we in the difficult crisis of the revolution, instead of pay cannat expect the bullion to return from countries ing as usual their quartet's taxes, paid for the DEFEAT OF TILE AUSTRIANS BY THE PLEDMONTESE AT GOITO.—fWO THOU. SAND PRISONERS AND FOUR PIECES OF CANNON CAPTURED. LONIBARDY.—Accounts of an important vicar, gained by the Sardinian army under the King,at de bridge of Goito, on theNlincio, on the evening of the td, have arrived. The battle lasted two hours, after wk , .: the Austrians retreated in confusion towards Met,..— leaving a great number of killed, wounded, and ,e• Boners, with four pieces of artillery. The fallow.:; is the bulletin published by Chitties Albert it thi occasion. Castigl.one is the place rendered etlebres'. during the Italian campaign of Napoleoe : From the head-quatters of the Kirg at Castigliest de.! Stiviere, April 8, 1818, at 8 p.m. The Austrian troop to been retiring for several days before the l'iedraontese troop who, preceded by their ancient renown for ialour and , ciplute, kad been crossing the lime of the Ogle° ad Chet without an obstacle. The enemy bad already absolete the positions of Montethiaro, Luneto, and Castiglioat 41 Stiviere, which had been considered ve re &diamagnets ' them. 'They had already retiree! beyond the hue el •,la Mincio, to concentrate themselves between Pew:bias . Mantua; but our troops pursued them who • ' rapidity, converging towards the pastagis of the 'gees this morning the King boldly estahlished his head•qt.m. lei Castiglione dale btiviere, and at about nine Oa - the Brigade Waiva, the Battaliou Real Novi, mei i of the corps of tirailleurs, reached Gordo to attack hate Ideas. The war of Italian independence woe be opened with an important action, which mig reae evate.a. serve the name of a victory, and we shall call it theri t ale bridt attack upon Goito, where the enemy had fondled . selves, barricading the etmets end occupying the window , u whence they directed au unioterrupted tire upon us every obstacle was overcome by the intrepidity of the .. leurs, paced at the head of t he column, and s appgra .. some pieces of artillery. The en ley Mere forced webs- . their position. On their retreat over the river they Mem bridge that had been mined a short time before • mU se the parapets remained nearly entire. lh. tinilirel. pidly ventured upon it, and by main force twit poirenes the artillery that was playing upon u psid h short time the passage of the Mime) forted our smelting ruins of the bridge ; the enemy, purged si• interruption, fled towards Mantua, leaving a gr• at of prisoners and dead, and among these some officer. r fruit of this 'victory in nun rernaiuing wagers of Ns ' . of the Mincio, of which we at present occupy the len: , Oei our part we h..ve to deplore, with other std r. too officers. Cols. La Merman, of the tirailleurs rani, of the regiment Real Novi, are among the s and:' one. The dates from Milan are of the Bth, Brescia of the 7th. While the Piedmontese wail thus occupied on the line of the Mincio a MIF volunteers and national guards of the I.:andard auxiliary troops, amounting to 8,00 or 10,000 have been detached to make a diversion in the I 'Tyrol, and at the date of the (eat adviccs ne wrest ferent places to the west of the Lago di Garda, the east of the Lego d' Idro, a small lake to the of Brescia. The object of this expedition WOW tick, and, if possible, occupy, Trent, Arco Rive Roveredo, and thus cut oil Luc cumumuicAtion bas the Austrians and Vienna. A proclamation of General Allemandi,date d 7th inst., invites.the Italian Tyrolese to rise,and common cause with Lombardy. .. The Milanese bulletins of the Bth monk* two mishes : one near Rivoltella, and another el bridge of the Itasega ; in both of which the )1•21L . guerillas were successful, and advanced as fit pedaletto, near Mantua. Cannetto, Piedra, ill,' and Marcaria are occupied by the riediuot.te , 'file Augsburg Gazette gives a letter Iron of the 9th, saying :—. Bulletins ay iced 3 -,- • front the army announcing that the Austria have had two affairs of out-posts, in wk, gained the advantage. Colotwl do Be:ied k• tng a reconnaissance from Mantua iii the d.. -, Marcaria, fell in with the advanced guar,: Piedmontese, and captured ten dragoons ad -- horses. Another rencontrc took piece no, l r :.. Bonifacio with the tree corps r.dsed in the • States and in Tuscany , which %etre come, churchmen. The Austrian oei.-po,•.s retina, them, bat the Croatians Joh...wed them of General' ltadetzki proposed a n exchange ages. The road between Villath and CIO il established." Letters from Milan and Turin have WO -, further details of the affair of the boir . 0 1 which I announced in my letter of last eyeing. The village of Goito, situated on the ne . ,, of the Mincio, that is to say , on the banknw combined Italian a my was . pproaching,nllL intrenched and occupied br the Austrian , :' . 11 "'"_,,, was the bridge which this affair will retnr . ;:a mor able. The village was obstinately d . e7 the Austrians. After the flight of the le : , the blowing up of the bridge, the". only a narrow ledge or footway he" . other parapet. By this path the brave army marched across in single fie, aln, derous fire from the Austrian', who Wid P"' on the opposite bank. ro to u Aft i t t ua t h h e e an A acc° u d st s r o i m a P n i e j:,l ; paired the bridge by planks, making 1 . 71, 0 1 mently wide to enable the entire army c1.1711.„bi artillery, and baggage, to cross the ri%er,B were about to do when the last aenuntoiwfi:l,o Letters from Desenzano, a small . eat Garda, near Pesclaiera, dated the Btbi 17 140 , columns of volunteers had been dir ecte !..4o l and Roverido to dislodge the Austrian. gr: ti l einv'elkno"terttooefnattim, ; t ighg h l e netel&t StiTirlits.l:ol these places. Also that two steambosw NI P 1 P 1 w• r rytl