The Express. — London, England, 1851-07-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATritntv, in Y 26. The ht. Lutz' took the chair 'dowdy alter 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINEAS. The Snoth Holland Drainairc Acts Amendment IEII, and the St. Helen's Improvement (Nu. 3) Bill, were severally read a third time and mused. Tayleur's Divorce Bill was read a venni! time. PUBLIC nusisEss. PETITIONS PRESENTED. 8001 a DUTIII6.—By Sir Z. N. .BUILION, leant th. British. mad PevoigA Anti-Savory Soelaty, disapproving the &toy Aat of INA, sad praying that r... w• sugar might not be admitted on the awn terms as free labour saw; also from Kingston and another place in Jamaica, with the same object. CII,T4T Pstscn.—By Sir:E. N. DUNTON,frens Brent, wood ; Mr. HOLLOND, from Gatoihead ; Mr. 11. WIL LYAMS, from Truro ; and Mr. DROTHERTON, from Salford, in favour of the Crystal Palace being continued as a winter garden. TIM LONG-WALK, WINDSOR. In answer to Colonel S•LWST, Lord SEYMOUR stated that alterations wero going on at the entrance of the Long-walk, that iu • few works the existing obstruction would be removed, and that there was no intention of closing any portion of that avenue. STATE 01 , THE CHURCH, for E. N. BUXTON gave notice, for Mr. Mormon, to more next session an arlelms to the crown, praying for an inquiry into the spiritualities as well so the temporalities of the church. CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL. This bill was reed a third time, and passed. METROPOLITAN (INTERMENT) ADVANCES. TM report of the committee on this subject was brought ap, and agreed to. The resolution sanctions an advance of 137,0041. IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS (IRELAND) BILL. On the 11060 a for going into committee on this bill, air It. FERGUSON asked if the government had 'oa k y any hope of passing this bill, which contained 330 a b ma % If not, they had better postpone it fur a fort s/At. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that t o Sc t a e bill for that day fortnight would be to Hz it for two or t t vee days after the prorogation. Many Irish mem bers b a d t wsought the government to press this and some (A b u hum in the present session. RES 'NULLS was in favour of the bill being pro ceeded with. mu,. a r, w words from Mr. O. IlanwroN and Mr. Noreen, The house wa at Into committee on the bill. Th e c h te , w< -re of the usuai character comprised in im palement hills. On clause 120, regulating the times and places within which bathing shout,' he allowed, a discussion arose, and Mr. Rees oliD mov e d th e undo ion of the clause. The committee di* idyll— iAir the clause Against it On clause 172, relating to fain and am 'let■, Mr. .1. HAMILTON moved that tls clause be struck out. 11,,• thought that all the other elan 4CI to clause 1111 ought to be ..truck nut. Sir W. SOMERVILLE did not object to the clause being expunged, thinking it better to intruds ce a separate measure ..a the subject next session. Mr. REYNOLDS insisted ou the clause King main tained The committee divided— Yur the eLux-__— Against it lO-19 The clause was then *greed to. On chaise IM2, Mr. Serjeant MURPHY moved that the City of Cork should he encluded from the operation of the clause. The trade in the market of that city, which was well regulated, had inrreased to nearly a million a year. A fair and honest mode of dealing had always prevailed in that market, and the regulations contained in this clause were wholly mine- Mr. REYNOLDS opposed the amendment. An. r a emivereation, the alteration was adopted ; and, a ignition for reporting progress; being agreed to, the house rammed. Mr. M'CULLAOII protested against hills Moving put in the paper rut a time when there WAS no chance of their being pnweested with. The CHANCELLADt of the EXCHEQUER, said he put the posdponod orders for Monday evening, as the earliest period when they could ise•ioly have a chance of corning on. Mr. 1 :. 11. ItOCHE thought the heat course would be for the goverton4 nt to withdraw the bill, and introduce a more comprehensive measure nest 61.11600, to include both im provtonents and markets. NEW ZEALAND ACTS. ...... ...... ....... The houw then went into committee on this subject, and certain reedutioas were agreed tu. The Representative l'eers fur Scotland Bill wail read a third time and named. . . . The report on the Patent Law Amendment (Stamp Du ties and Comptusitions) Wal brought up and received. 'rhe Battersea Park Amendment and Estension Bill rimed through committee. NKW ZEALAND COMPANY. Mr. II AWES moved for leave to bring in a bill for regu lating the affairs of certain settlements established by the New Zealand Company in New Zealand. Agnool to. The bill was brought in and read a first time. The ',mate adjourned at four o'clock till twelve on Monday. l'Aiu.—Mr. John Tolh•macho ban paired with Mr. Rey nold 6 fur the remainder of thi awioa. Zhe earpreisfs. TO CORT.XSPONDRITS. *rad tattler" ;1"; ibTritpreee. -- " - ;alistalnir 7 ite UM. evestafs tau Ite," r yabilebal awry Toads, aid Pretty mem, to tor pat • Welt,. nrute Unman' " Tea Remain" Leaden Evening yaw, nun to. et tee deice, to, bouverte.reeset, try Tao o'clock an tie any of publication. 111011 WATNR AT LONDON slums Y. Die—litedas. lb. Vs. Attends. I► Shs. Tenor sow—Nsestss. 11.11 r Attestor. U. sOs. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAT EVENING. There la for the moment a dead lull in the poll -- tical region; andthe Assembly seems already to have file l entered upon its holidays,altlio ug h th e time proposed the look-o 'e sit ; for the bishops have prevailed against fortnight off. The fetes to be given on the occasion eond of the visit of the Commission of the London Exhi- CARLIsLES bill tor the better regulation of episcopal bition form almost the exclusive topic of converse and eapitular estates; have for all hubcap purpuca's lion. This project is exceedingly popular, and has denied that right of renewal which for centuries the given a freshening fillip to the flat season. lessees have enjoyed, with little and in some parts no An important decision has been taken today Y by variation as totems; and have substituted a plan of the Avignon Railway Committee, whi c h b a l ances in •their own, by which they will either sell the inheri some measure the proposition of M. D u f aure . Th e tanee, or buy the running tenure at rates and values which are destructive of that reasonable " expects - committeecommittee has voted by 7 against ti, that the section lion of renewal" which the bishops themselves admit from Lyons to Avignon should b e gran t e d f or 99 their lessees now have. years to the Company Talabot. There, in another column, is the Report of the Se- M. Fould is extremely chagrined at the haves lest Committee of the Lords on Lord Csausufs made by MM. Dufaure and Pasty with his financial bill : it isbe.bishopped all over ; and, if its mom- plans. The former, in proposing the continuation of mendations be carried out, it will ruin one-half the the Lyons Railway by tie state, and the contraction church team" in the kingdom. But what cares of a loan of 30 millions, has cut off from the starved epieeopiwy for that so long us its own bags ore full ? Treasury the relief which was anticipated by grant- The tenants must then he on their guard; members ing the railway to a company. On the other hand, interested must not leave town vet, fur on Friday M. Passe proposes a loan of 53 millions, to contend evening it was reported in the Bowie of Commons with the alarming accumulation of the floating debt. " that a short bill upon the subject was to be gal- As both these loans are to be charged on the consoli loped through before parliament rises." Now, any dated fund, Rentes to the amount of 103 millions such a measure, whether permissive or obligatory, will have to be created, in case the Assembly should must lie steadily and deteimincilly resisted this ses. adopt the views of MM. Poesy and Dufaure. siou. We must have no burglary committed on the The club of the Rue des Pyramidee held last night church tessera, a sitting, at which it was resolved that overtures The Bus-si Commission on Episcopal and ('apitular should be made to the Rue de Rivoli club, for the Estates recommended a settlement of the question on purpose of recommending jointly to the Assembly a certain moderate and reasonable terms. The govern- prorogation till the 3rd of November; and of acting meet, to secure the assent and co-operation of the in concert for the appointment of the committee of bishops in petting church estates on a better footing, permanence. It was at first the intention of the by Lord CARLDILIS bill added 30 per cent. to those Rue des Pyramides to propose a simple adjournment terms in the church's favour, and disgusted the les- of the Assembly to be renewed at the end of every seer. But that would not satisfy prelacy; they fortnight ; an arrangement which would have I would nut discus the question in detail in public ; evaded the difficulty of appointing a coin they insisted on referring the measure to a select mittee of permanence. But the opposition manifested ! committee ; then, after embracing and fondling Lord to this plan by a large p or ti on o f t h e majority' Cseusiss's bantling, they hav e coo lly an d delibe- I caused it to be abandoned. The prorogation is sure rately strangled it ; and, in substituting a scheme of of being adopted, but whether the longer or shorter their own, they sing a requiem over the measure term will be preferred is as yet doubtful. The , they have sent to its long home, powers of the present Board of the Assembly ex they praise Lord CARLISLE'S bill for its bad qua- piring on the 12th August, M. I)upin euggestid to lilies and incidents; but they reject it for its good ; the committee of leaves of absence to modify the points. They were delighted with it, so far as it was' proposition of M. de Melun, which fixed the 18th calculated to preserve " a clew connexion" between : August for the commencement of the recess, and to the bishops and their present property; to " secure' substitute the 10th. In the meantime Lamoriciere, to them, with very little responsibility and who is intent upon ousting the members of the expense of management, an augmented Income, beard who inclin e t o B onapart i sm, i s exert i ng him increasing further with th e increasing value / self actively to defer the prorogation until this of the t pror ar L, and to provide them with I change has been effected. estates and and farms instead of a scurvy 1 Th e b oar d s o f t h e three parliamentary clubs of the stipend GE ' they were parish schoolmasters. So 1 majority having conferred to-day at the Assembly fir, Lord CAgLISLE charmed the holy men; so far, as , on the subject of the committee of permanence, a list 21.isicit'o did the monster euliban, they " stroked and iof 23 members, distinguished by their moderation, made much' o f hi m and his bill. 'They like to be ! was drawn up by th em i n concert . SPAIN. . " doevly connected" with the soil : for they are "oti ' ' The eonimatee on the Municipal' Bill decided to- [By Eleattle Telegraph ] the earth, earthy t" they gloat over the or day to adjourn the second deliberation of the first "augmented income " with " little respoosi • - ty end i part el the hill until alter the MOM; but to demand MADRID, Jrcy 26. =Pen" t o management t" and wax merry at ' that the part relating to the councils of prefecture The Senate has definitively adopted the law for Th e o bj ect the settlement of the debt by a majority of 59 to 19 the thought of getting rid of std payments. ! shotdd be placed on the order of the day. Now, all this, Lard Cantata, they .vee tail •of this is to defer the agitating question of the elm- votes. It will be promulgated on Tuesday. as, would have done foe thew, bat even this weald I tort law, and to pass as soon as possible that portion , --- nut aatisfY them ;he bid high for th eir atipport, l of the bill which tends to limit the control of the MADRID, but out high enough. know their power ever i government over the municipalities. In the Chamber of Deputies M. Bertran de Lys, a whig cabinet t 012 sots in W Ale ha SO sitting of the Assem ybl toclay M. Lion Minister of the Interior, replying to a question of M. robe's time who first taught i and they ars Beadle, meted a bill authorising the City of F . ignetas, re tied the continuance - of the state of solved to eureka it. 80. after batiattang- •as toosatraeta lain of 50 atilliaas for the cow- sir in • but da t l a ta tt t hat th s anthatitles 1 .peed LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 28. Considering that one of the essential characteristics of the offence of swindling consists in the employment of fraudulent man euvres to induce a belief in the reality of bubble undertakings, or of imaginary influence or credit, or in fraudulently giving rise to hopes or fears of a chimerical event; considering that even supposing Cabet to bare been in the wrong in publising in the Popufaire newspaper that he had obtained a grant of a million of acres of land at a time when the treaty bad not yet been accepted, still that advertisement cannot he treated as a fraudulent mazneuvre, seeing that Calm had actually taken steps to obtain the said grant ; considering that, admitting that the mem bers of the first and second advanced guard went to Texas upon the faith of the promises and assurances of Cabot, and admitting that they were compelled to abandon tho posi tions designated in consequence of disasters and sickness, the responsibility of these facts, imputable to the want of foresight of Cabot, do not fall within the scope of the penal laws ; considering that the sums of money handed over to Cabot were not intended to be applied in the purchase of land, and that such sums were paid to Cabet in pursuance of an agreement that all the members of the Icarian Society should give up all that they po ssessed in favour of th e com munity ; considering that it is not proved that Cabot ap propriated to himself any part of the money so paid to him ; considering that it was also not proved that Cabet had ap propriated to linmelf any part of the moveables belonging to ltousset and his wife, and others, the court quashed the judgment, and discharged Cabot from the sentence that bad been pronounced against him. General La Hitte has been appointed president of the committee of artillery, ewe General hullhon, retired. General Guillabert, commanding the second divi sion of the army of Paris, has been appointed to the command of the fourteenth military division, whose head-quarters are at Nantes, vice General Gerard, retired. The tariff on the importation of sand to be used in the manufacture of glass and earthenware has been modified, and fixed at lc. per 100 kilogrammes. Yesterday, an attempt at assassination was made in a suburb of Paris, under circumstances which have stirred some sensation. :A young lady of 17, who had expressed strong oppositi on to the intention of her mother to contract a second marriage, repaired to the house of the accepted suitor, and said, on being ad mitted, " I wish to know if you persist in your design to marry my mother?" On receiving an answer in the affirmative, the girl, who is of a highly re spectable family, drew from beneath her mantelet a istol, which sfie instantly di sc h arge d at her inter locutor. The ball graced his shoulder, and lodged in the wall. The young lady was eonditeted to the commissary of police, and after having been interro gated was ylaced at the disposal of the peocureur of the republic. Lord CARLISLE with lands as if they were singing f matins on a saint's day, they read his bi'l out of their chapel ;it has " serionttebjeofions," iliac " tel to its adoption." ~., '- —, si7 . . And what arc the objet 'oitl . ie , summed up in a word. It 14 , t giv h enough. It conceder: o ri e l of rei:e . ua t les sees that the bisho ..:- 't4seith or [epiaeopacy was nevei , amour - far tali gramimrfi-its morality] capitular bodies now are nor [where is the birch for the episcopal bottoms?] have at any time been Wound by any obligations in law or in equity to renew their leases?" Perhaps not; but law and equity do not make up the sum total of human obli gations; morals and practice have still some little force here on earth; and an expectation which has for more than two centuries prevailed, and been jus tified by its uninterrupted fulfilment, is a small matter which the House of Commons won't overlook with the same complacency the bishops have. There, at least, the lessees will find some " bowels of com passion." But the bishops, denying all legal and equitable right to renewal in their leases, and ignoring, as the phrase is, all moral right, - cannot overlook the fact that the lessees, notwithstanding such legal and equitable wants, have had such a property as they have been able to sell at rates far exceeding the value of its actual tenure, and to borrow on sums greater than that value, and to settle on their fami lies as if it were freehold. They admit these inci dents to their leases. Admitting them it might Ibe expected they would apply them ; make some proposal to give them a legal status. No thing of the sort. They suggest, it is true, either the enfranchisement of the estates or the sur render of the leases. But on terms positively de structive of that " expectation of renewal" which is admitted to be " sufficiently definite to be treated as between third parties as approaching to a certainty." For they propose: That, if the bishop or capitular body agree to enfranchise, the price to be paid for the enfranchisement shall be the value of the fee simple, deducting the value of the lease at such valuation as hereinafter is mentioned ; and if they de cline to enfranchise, they shall pay for the surrender of the lease at each valuation. --- iisaitieberseKiaiinterest of the lessee shall be valued at the same rate of interest at which tho value of the fee simple has been determined. But, if the lessee's interest, in either alternative, have to be calculated on the basis that it is limited to his existing lease, what becomes of that " expectation of renewal sufficiently definite to be treated as between third parties as approaching to a certainty," and which has been bought and sold, and settled, and mortgaged as a " certainty" ? Why, under these terms, that "certainty" will be utterly destroyed; and the interest of the lessees will be cut and pared down to the actual existing duration of their lenses; notwithstanding the improvements they have made, the residences they have built, the woods they have planted, the price they may have paid, the money they may have borrowed, or the settlements they may have made. A line specimen of episcopal sense of justiee this : a rare example of doing unto others as the bishops would have others to do unto them. Such was not the spirit in which lb. MONK, or as our neighbour Punch cells him the Bishop of Double Gloucester, dealt with Horfield Manor. Better far for the lessees to let all the leases run out; to make all they can by and from the estates for the remainder of their terms; to exhaust the soil; to cut down the timber; to pull down the houses, and sell tho brinks and timber as old mate rials; to level the hedges, sad hand the properties back to the church a waste sad a desert, as they can do: for such are their legal and equitable rights; and therein lies their safety. But no: the legislature will interfere to reconcile these conflicting interests, to protect the chursh lessees from the fangs of episcopacy, and to give the church,. what we freely concede it is entitled to a much better interest in its property than it now has. Parliament has recognised the vested interests of the bishops in their ars ; it cannot overlook the vested interests of church lessees in their properties. The bishops are great and powerful personages; but. great as they are, they are amenable and - obnoxious to the intim ence of public opinion, and in this country public opinion will not sanction any such gross violation of the rights of property or disregard of public mora lity. 'lle lessees must be up m self-defence, but they need not be much afraid. In parting for the present with this report, we must not, however, overlook that there again the bishops have one word fur the church and two for theineelves. They must, they say, be closely con nected with their estates. lint, in making over to them certain estates, " duo provision, they add, " must be made, that the transfer does not give them • less income than that they are by law entitled to." They insist on being grand seitineurs with all the advantages of annui tants ; they will have the land, but they won't bo content with its rent; they must have both the soil and the stipend. And it is at this moment—when all Europe is ringinF with their incomes, their Nerambliugs, and their jobbing—that they promulgate this new theory. QllOB Deus rod perdere prime demential. Greediness will burst the bag at last. pletion of the Rue de Itivoli and the construction of the Hallos. Urgency was demanded for the bill., anti adopted. The remainder of the, sitting wa g t%lerup wit& tlkspOsing of astaiag of.sotEou N A. 4st till `least imliirtance.. • • w r i utle, SI:NO Vf 4 , I 'l,?* rt on the A blfs prorogation will be peas to-moerow. .A grand series of miliftiry evolutions is to take place on the nth August, on thh'occasion of the fetes given in honour of the London Exhibition. A bridge will be tarown over the Seine by the artillery. Another 13th democratic bulletin was posted up in Paris last night, surpassing in violence all its predecessors. To-day a general meeting of the democratic repre sentatives takes place at Lemardelay's, in order to proceed to the appointment of an electoral com mittee selected from all shades of the Left, to fix de fiaitively on a republican candidate for the presi dency is 18a . All fractions of this pa r ty are in the meanwhile united in their determination to exclude Ledru Rollin, whose candidature they agree in con sidering fatal to the existence of the republic. The Assemblee Nationale states that a meeting of the moderate republicans has already been held at Lemar delay's, at which General Cavaignac resigned all pre tensions to offer himself as a candidate for the pre- i sidency in 1852, in favour of M. Carnet, who is now , understood to re-unite the votes of this party. This , report is incorrect. No definitive step has yet been; taken on the subject. The circulars of M. Carnet to the Institutears prunaires during his administration of the department of Public Instruction give this ex-minister, without doubt, considerable claims to democratic popularity; but General Cavaignac is supported by friends who will not allow him so easily to withdraw his weightier name from the field. A decree in this day's Moniteur dismisses and re places the sub-prefect of Barcelonette of the Basses- Alps, to whom was addressed the circular of the pre fect of the same department, which made so much noise in the recent debate on the petitions for re vision. The Mountain has resolved to issue to their consti tuents a report of their operations during the session, and to give their view of its results. The supporters of the government wish to push the revision movement with great energy in the pro vinces during the parliamentary recess, in order to exercise a pressure upon the anti.revisionist minority of 278, and to force them. by stress of petitions, and demonstrations in favour of revision, to reverse their votes upon the next division, which will take place three months hence. The bill brought forward yesterday by M. Leon Faucher fur authorizing the city of Paris to contract a loan of 50 millions for two great public works, is the most vigorous practical effort which has yet been made to occupy a vast number of laborious hands, which might easily be tempted, through absence of employment in the coming crisis, to bundle other implements than the trowel and hod. Of all branches of speculation, perhaps, building is that which has fallen into most deplorable stagnation since the revolution of Febru ary ; and of all operatives perhaps builders form the most intebigent soldiers of ; , mentea. Hence the con tinuation of that magnificent line of mended street which Banks the Tuileries, and will eventually de bonch before the Palais Royal, and the construction of the great central markets, form two enormous works, which will throw timely employment into thousands of disposable hands, whose idleness con stitutes equally a deep social evil and political danger. The Bank ,f France is to lend the munici pality 50 millions of francs for the completion of these enterprises, but an act of parliament is indis pensable to authorise the loan, the ways and means of reimbursing which must bo fixed by a law. The bill of M. Faucher affect* to the payment of the loan the extra tax on drinks, which is to be continued until 11470. This plan is strenuously combated by the deputies of the wine-growing departments, who set their faces accordingly against the urgency de manded for the bill. M. Leon Faucher made an effective reply, and the urgency was voted by a large majority. I announced to you yesterday that the Avignon Railway Committee had krommendeiLin their report on the line from Lyons to Avignon, the concession of this section to the company o f Tali:bat. The principal conditions of this concession are, that the company shall finish the two sections from Lyons to Valence and from Valence to Avignon within four years, under the control of the engineers of government. The state, within the limit of 60 millions of francs, is to aid the company by paying half the expenses. The company is authorised to contract a loan of 30 millions. The Minister of Public Works guarantees, on behalt of the state, 5 per cent. inte rest for 50 years, and also 5 per cent calculated on the same amount to provide a fund for the gradual repayment of the loan. The cone ion is for 99 years. The net profits of the line are to he primarily applicable to the payment of the interest and of the company's bonds for the principal. During the continuance of the works, and until the line shall be completed, any deficiency in the net profits is to be supplied by the capital of the company. In case of the state as surety paying the whole or any part of any annual payment of either interest or principal, the net profits of the line, whenever there may be any, are to be liable to the repayment of the state iu priority to any interest or dividends to the sharehold e r s . If at the end of fifteen years from the period fixed for the completion of the line the net profits shall exceed N per cent. on the capital expended by the company, one-half of the excess is to belong to the state. The company is to deposit caution-money to the amount of three millions. The Court of Appeal, reversing the decision of the court below, have acquitted M. Cabot of the charge of swindling and embezzlement, on the following grounds: THE EXPRESS, MONDAY _EVENING, JULY 23, 1851. • Tin ttat province were of opinion that it was impel , skids lola* the state of siege at present, and that lit was the rely means of consolidating the existing tranquillity. At tic end of the sitting the committee charged to report ni!on the railway front Aranjuez to Almanza appended to their labours a report of far ge li a i t , cr iiil: l o g rtin )y nc, a r i r a o ci tis t :r La d line l fro . mAl e alr in id e to s i to be constructed in six years': at the cost of 60,0001. sterling per Spanish league. The expenses of the whole line from Madrid to Irun a.c estimated at six millions sterling. According to the bill presented by the minister, ways and means are to S provided by the issue of three per cent. bonds at the type of 40 per cent. The estimated expense of the line to Almanza arc 2,200,0001. sterling. The company to whom the Ist line is adjudicated is required hi de posit caution-money to the amount of 240,0001., and the company to which the line of Alminza is con ceded, is required to deposit caution-money to the amount of 120,0001. The 3 per cent bonds of subsi dies arc to be delivered gradually, according to the progress of the works. The Senate terminated yesterday the discussion on the regulation of the floating debt, and the debate on the bill concerning the public debt was opened 1 , to-day. M. Collado was left speaking against the bill. i The result of the discussion, so far as regards ' the 6 first articles, which are the mast important, ' has been already forwarded by telegraph. It is ex pected that the Cortes will bZ prorogued at the end of next week. ITALY. ROMP, SrLY 20. In my letter of the 11th I promised to give you the earliest information of the decision of the go vernment respecting the railways throughout the state. In the first place you must know that every thing which takes place in this country is enveloped with a certain mysterious veil, which hinders the plain words "yes" or "no" from ever transpiring frankly. It is in vain to hope for any question to be clearly and definitively settled. The only result which appears to be hitherto obtained in the railway vestion is that the government will have no objec tion to authorise the execution of the line front An cona to Rome, but not that from Rome to the Nea politan frontier, nor the line from Ancona to Bologna, the only one which offers a fair remuneration. The Austrians object to the latter of these two, and the King of Naples to the former, whilst the line front Ancona to Rome. although nominally permitted, is virtually prohibited by the great difficulties of its execution and the little traffic it would obtain with out the co-operation of the Bologna branch. Thus the free and independent condition of his Holiness under foreign tutelage may be fully appreciated even in internal questions. But, beside foreign opposi tion, tho very principle of railways finds many ene mies here, act being a step towards that progress which is so hostile to Ecclesiastical dominion, and therefore even the line which is now authorised may be prohibited again in a short time. One circum stance alone might perhaps decide the gov e rn men t to keep its word, and that is the proposition of the company to pay down six or seven millions of francs as indemnity to the proprietors of the land through which the railway would have to pass. This money the government might pouch, and pay the proprietors with consols, or treasury certificates; now that it is obliged to have recourse to so many expedients to keep its financial department in order, so favourable an opportunity will probably not be neglected. The Marquis of Montclar, who treats the affair on behalf of an Anglo-French company, is nearly worn out by the delays, excuses, and shifti ness of the ecclesiastical ministers; nor are the sen timents of legitimist veneration and catholic devotion which he brought with him to Rome, likely to be in creased by the way in which he has been treated by the govenunent of his I holiness. The scandalous chronicle of this city has furnished some details respecting the cause of Monsignor Tizzani's fright, and the blowing up of his house; which, without answering for their correctness, I consider sufficiently amusing to lay before your readers. This prelate, who is said to be rather of a gallant disposition, was obliged to leave Rieti, of which place he was bishop, on account of a rather scandalous affair. On his return to Rome, although he belongs to the regular clergy of St. Pietro in Vin colt, in his quality of bish he lives out of th e con vent, at the house of a lady to whose charms back biters state that he is not insensible. Recently this prelate was appointed to preach to the political prisoners at St. Michael's Prison, but these poor wretches were so enraged at being exhorted to re pentance by a hermit of the boudoir, that long groans and hisses interrupted his sermons, and some agent or accomplice of theirs carried the unfavourable demonstration so far as to throw a grenade into the cellar of his house, which produced no other mischief than that of inflicting a severe panic upon all the inmates. Whilst disapproving strongly such modes of testi fying opposition, one cannot help pitying the people who are reduced to them by the oppression of tbreign armies and domestic tyranny. As to the spy, Squaglia, everybody here supposes that he scratched his own hand, in order to induco the belief that he had narrowly escaped assassination, and obtain com pensation from the government. English journals are now virtually prohibited in the Ronnie States by the enormous postage people are made to pay for them. The pnests take this mode of showing their admiration for the London press. The Duke of San Paolo, eharg ciaffains of the King of Naples, has arrived in Rome. MILAN, Juz.v 20. The chief feature of Itadetzky's proclamation, issued from Monza yesterday, is the threat to hold the entire municipality responsible for the acts of iaslitious citi zens. Ile is persuaded that the state of siege is no inconvenience to peaceable citizens; is resolved Si abolish all the mitigations which have been introduced into that rtcgime of military , despotism, and declares in full vigour his proclamation of March 10th, 1849. UNITED STATES. The royal mail steamer, Atrica, Captain ltyrie, which left New York on the 16th instant at noon, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday evening at half past nine, with the usual mails, ninety-six passengers, and upwards of a million of dollars in specie. By this arrival, which is one of the quickest voyages ever ' made, we have dates from New York four days later than those received by the Hermann, which arrived at Southampton ou Saturday morning. The steam ship Franklin of the }lavre and New York line, arnved out at New York on the 14th, and the Asia from Liverpool, on the 16th, at half-past eight (o'clock, a.m. The Tehuantepec Surveying Expedition has re turned to New (h•leans. All the es.ential surveys, at least those which go to show the entire practica bility of the railway route, arc now complete. A few parties have been left on the ground to make reconuoisances and survey a line for the construction of a carriage road. The ecatzacoaleos river is re ported navigable, for twenty-five miles above its mouth, for ships drawing eleven feet of water. The climate is healthy, and the officers and men attached to the expedition contracted no disease. 'The Piesident of the Tehuantepec Railway Com pany, finding that the Mexican government are em ploying all their influence against the completion of the work, has proceeded to Washington with the in tention of enlisting the aid of the federal government. The overflow in the Upper Mississippi and its tri butanes still continues, to the great damage of the inhabitants in the vicinity. Such a flood has never I been known before since the settlement of the cows- i try. It is IbOW more than a month since the waters began to rise, and for hundreds of milts along the Mississippi, Missouri, and their tributaries, the bot tom lands are completely submerged; the growing crop LAB bees entirely dtetroyetl; many houses have been washed away; a vast amount of live stock has perished ; and a wide extent of territory, which pro- raised an abundant yield, has been rendered barren i led desolate for the season. The levee, or dyke, at the city of St. Lotus has been entirely overflowed, cod the warehouses filled with water to the depth of several feet. During this period business has been almost entirely suspended, as boats could neither re ceive nor discharge their cargoes at the usual lead ings. The river is now several mike wide opposite , tit: Louis. Great fears are entertained that *hen the waters 'aside, ho tag a lart a e madam otwet and err itopiluld exposed to the t=sze r son, the egcot fa h hightfigiodooo to The health of Mr. J. fe:.'nimore Cooper has im proved, and he is now oat of danger. Hon. Luke LA, Commilsioner of Indian Affairs, ! was accidentally killed at Fort Leavenworth lately. Mr. Lea was a native of Tennessee, and in 1839 emigrated to Mississippi, and was appointed by Gen. Taylor to the office which he held at the time of his death. The alleged thud upon the government in rela tion to the settlement of Mexican claims Lis not yet been decided. The investigation is being pro- scented before the grand jury at Washiniton. The extra session of the New York Legislature adjourned on the 11th instant, after passing several important enactments. The passage of the bill for the enlargement of the Eric Canal is a measure of great moment to the industry and commerce of the state. This bill provides for the complete enlarge ' went of the Erie Canal within four years, thus secu ring the immense business which would else seek other avenues to the seaboard, and endowing the state with a large revenue independent of taxes. Cornelius M'Caullay, Esq., of Philadelphia, is ap pointed by the President Consul of the United States to Belfast. Mr. M'Caullay is a native of Ireland, and has long been known as a highly respectable merchant in Philadelphia. The political canvass for state officers continues to produce great excitement in Texas. Col. 0. W. Hockley, one of the veterans of the Texas revolu tion, died at Corpus Christi on the Gth ult. Dates from Utah have been received to Mny 31. The first ground was broken for the Great Salt Lake and Mountain Railway on the Ist of May. When this enterprise is completed, preparations will be commenced for the erection of the Temple. The condition of affairs in the new settlement is repre seated as highly encouraging. The following is our correspondent's letter : NEW YORK, JvLv 16. By the way of New Orleans we have dates from Vera Crux to the 28th and from the city of Mexico to the 2lth. It is said that Arista's popularity is on the decline, and that a revolution is extremely probable. Indeed, it is spoken of as likely to occur in a few weeks. He is said to have abandoned the liberal party, and gone over to the clergy, who have paid him liberally for his converson. On the contrary, an attack on the catholic clergy and creed in Mexico, taken from the government organ, the Monitettr, would seem to give a very different view of Athta's policy and vie we. The following interesting news is taken from the New Orleans Picayune: The Chamber of Deputies have adopted the proposition in regard to the dcrecho ale consume). This Imposes an additional tax of eight per cent. on all foreign merchandise imported through the maratime and frontier custom houses into the interior of the republic. The chamber rejieted the re-establishment of the ale tliala in the dis trict. The alcabala is a tax on the transfer of property. Senor Pena y Cuevas had introduced four propositions for the raising of revenue. The first imposes a contri bution of four dollars on a thousand on nil the urban and rural property of the republic, excepting only churches and benevolent or charitable institutions. The second re-establishes the capitation tax; the third provides far collecting the duty of 3 per cent. imposed by the law of 1821 on the production of gold and silver; and the fourth imposes a contribution of per cent. on the con sumption of tobacco. It is doubtful whether any or all of these measures can effect anything in the way of relieving the government from its embarrassments. There were but 300,000 dols. in the treasury while 500,000 dole. are owing fur May alone, and it will be still worse during the summer months. The government seems determined to follow strictly the lead of Congrewin the Tehuantepec affair. In accordence ' with the late decree annulling the grant to Garay, the supreme government has addressed the following official communication to the authorities of Oajaca : "In another note I communicate to your excellency the decree rendered to-day by the National Congress annulling the decree of November 5, 18:6, which prolonged: the privilege con ceded to 1). Jose de Garay for the opening of an inter oceanic communication across the Isthmus of Tehu antepec. Ile Excellency the President, understanding the imperious duty imposed on him by the constitution, of amusing the will of the National Legislature to be en forced, desires that your excellency publish the said decree without loss of time; and that, in the prescribed manner, you prohibit all labour or scientific reconnoissance at Tehu antepec or Coma:tin:dens, making the Americans concerned in the work depart from the republic; or, if they be per mitted to remain, giving them to understand that under no consideration will they be suffered to prosecute their work, and that they ran only remain subject to the laws of the na tion, in the mine manner as any other foreigners." We learn front a private but a reliable source, that 100 regular troops have been ordered to the Isthmus to enforce this decree. - The frad d' I num asserts that foreign diplomacy had no thing to do with the action of Congress on the Garay grant. That holly alone must bear all the responsiiiility. The go vernment itself cannot be accused of participation in this act, which was passed against its inclinations. The only reproach which can with propriety be urged against the ad ministration is, that it did not oppose the proceedings of Congress energetically, and with all the means in its power. The diligence between Vera Crux and the city of Mexico was recently attlikeil a short distance this side of Puebla, by a small party of robbers. The stage left Vera Crux on the 9th ult. with nine passengers in all. Of these, two were Mexicans unarmed, one n Frenchman indifferently provided for defence, three were English miners, also poorly armed, one was a Californian with a trifling revolving pistol, but in the roach were two English gentlemen, S. T. Clissold and C. W. W. Fitawilliam, who were armed and equipped as the law regulating safety on the Mexican roads requires and directs. In addition to a goodly showing of Colt's revolvers, file hest weapon we know of fur any service, they had double-barreled guns, well loaded with buckshot, and for the latter in particular they found especial need. Everything went on smoothly during the first day's journey, and they reached and passed Perote with out molestation from the swarms of ladronea who have long held travellers as their own property. But while on the route between Acajete and Imosoque, about two o'clock in the afternoon of the second day, the stage was suddenly beleagured by a party of brigands, well masked and better mounted, who riding up ordered the driver to halt. They next, and with great show of courage, presented their pistols in a way to bring them to bear upon the passengers inside, and were about to charge bolt upon the stage, when Clissold discharged a heavy load of buck shot directly into the breast of one of them. The fellow's head fell listlessly, his bridle reins dropped from his hands, and he was evidently about to tumble front his saddle, when one of his companions, seizing him by the collar and steady ing him for a moment, turned his horse's head in an opposite direction. In another moment, a second charge of buckshot was lodged in the side of the second robber, while the Californian, who was seated on the box with the driver, opened an ineffectual fire from his little revolver. After the second shot from Clissold's gun, who was seated inside the stage and on the quarter upon which the brigands made th • onslaught, the entire party scampered off, and thus was a party of Mexican robbers completely beaten off with loss by two well-directed dis charges from a double-barrel ed gun. Had Fitzwilliam been on the side of the stage immediately attacked, and could he have brought lis gun to bear upon them, the scoundrels would have gone off with greater loss. On ar riving at Amosoque, n large village 10 miles this side of Puebla, and where the stage hones are changed, Clissold was advised to go to the aleade, awl inform that functionary of what had happened. lie did so, stating that he believed be hail killed one rubber, if not two, when he was told it was a pity he had not slain the entire party. It afterwards appeared that the first brigand shot lived but a few mo ments ; and that the second, after lin4ering four days, finally expired. They were all described as new hands upon the road, their laces not being retoguised. The affair created not a little stir along the road. We are somewhat interested by the present condition of the Roman church in this country, so far as it is affected by a struggle in various places between the clergy and the laity. In every instance where it is practicable, the bishop of each diocese takes the deed of the churches in fee to him self and his successors. Occasionally, however, the trustees of the church property refuse to surrender it, and particu larly where the devise or endowment is evidently made with a different intention. A church in Buffalo, with a valuable progeny given it by a French gentleman of the WILUC of La Coulteux—a name well known in ' , Fiume—has been deprived of its priest, because the vestry or trustees would not surrender their trust to the bishop. In New Or leans a similar case has recently occurred, with this difference, that during the controversy the church edifice basheen burned down. We are hero mush amax.d at the impudence of Archbishop Ilughe ,, , for praising up toleration, the great virtucof our government, when ill his owe diocese he per mits nothing of the kind, and he had just come from Italy, where there is no toleration at, all. We learn from Washington, this morning, that Mr. Web ster, Sir. Henry Holwer,, end the Nicaraguan minister, have had many Consultations together in relation to the un settled affair of San bap s , The two former gentlemen, with the President, arc un llerstood to be cons:nil round to New Turk in the steamer Golden Gate. Great indignction lasi:wen expresser' in the Canadian PM at the, escape of the deserter Walsh, who was de-. amodlimi as a fugitive, under the Aehbarton treaty. Lord - overalls With the American courts, that neither .Ik.slileartord him se lf gave the construction of the treaty which slaves dot deserters were liable fa anent under the treaty. and %he same detiiiio44 was spade some few yearn since by the Ammonia mart et the Ilshames when seven slaves who Issiltiblunitted murder in Florida were demanded by our . . ,These facts s h oo k' not b e forgotten by these r _......ignant gentlemen of th e Csaattian pram ~ -Us Weather is attausivaly tram The mortality la this liMenument. eity during the hat week has been very larip, infant population. 320 deaths occurred. Alm el , one who is able is going off into Cie cuuotry for Ow I fresh sir. . [For markets see last page.] CANAJ)A. TORONTO, .f , I.v 14 . Our parliament during the past week has horn occupied with matters of chiefly local interest, and a nurah rr of private hills have been advanced a stage. the principal one has been a bill of Sir Allan Mal. N.til i to in. , corporate a college, under the name of Trinity College, t, I under the superintendence of the bishop of the ehurch 4 g a ..-land. This is the college that Bishop Strachan s hall run in opposition to what he terms the " godless" pr,. Tindal university; and it was to obtain aid for this that he recently visited England. This pro; osition of Bishop Strachan has caused a good deal of hate: feeling against the church of England on th , , part of the pam . ty who are opposed to state endowments of churches. Nat em the ground that this college is a stab: endowment, but teat it is an attempt to break down th, provincial university:. which was rendered non-sectarian le its character by an act of last cession, which cm lode d all v.- ligious teaching from w 4hin its walls. The charter will granted, as the hill has already passed its second re,, and been committed. Bu., in place of the college b tin allowed to hold real prormr:y to the value of 10,000!. ts , r annum us demanded, it will 0.'4 ho allowed j,0001.; an,.' a chili, of the bill which proviL'ed fur the incorporation 1. affiliated preparatory grammar a......h001s all over tho countr) • has been struck out. . . _ On Thursday there was a delun:e in the legislative As sembly an a motion of Mr. Moulton relative to the late resignation of the lion. It. Baldwin of his scat in the cabinet. Mr. Baldwin retains hie ofiles of attorney-general until his successor can be appointed, w;liie he dues nut re tain his office of minister. This Mr. Moulton contends is contrary to the British practice, and he further argues that when the chief of ministry goes out his colleagues should follow. THE OVERLAND MA IL. The following intelligence, received rin Marseilles, in anticipation of the Overland Bombay Mail, reached our office on Saturday afternoon, at tour o'clock: MARSEILLES, Jinx 26, 7.30 A.M. The East India mail has just arrived. The dates are: Bombay, June 25; Calcutta, June 12. No news of importance. The exchange at Calcutta, 2s. Old.; Bombay, 2s. o.ld. ALLEGED DISCOVERY OF PART OF bin JOHN FRANKLIN'S CHEW. The following paragraph, which appcarA in the Dundee Warder of I riday, requires contirmution. " On Saturday, the 19th instant, the whaler Flora, of Ilull, J. Robb, master, who leis been out a year and a halt; cast anchor at Stromness, and sent her letters and papers by post " A letter was received in Aberdeen on Monday by Mr. John Douglas, King-street, from his brother, Mr. 0. Doug las, mate of the aforesaid ship. It contains the following affecting narrative:—ln February last our ship's crew partially abandoned the vessel, and erected a large SHOW house on shore, it being in many respects more combinable than on board, and better suited fur hunting operations. We had been at that time five mouths frozen up in Lancaster Sound. In one of our excursions we fell in with a party of Esquimanz Indians, nine in number. They had a slight knowledge of our language. They in quired whether we were English or .tmerieaur. Ou being satisfied on that point they inquired if we belonged to Chief Franklin. The idea bow flashed upon our minds that they knew something of SirJulin and his crew, and we answered in the uffirmative. They then pointed to the right, to a towering heap of snowy mountain,, and by their gestures they signified they had guns to sleep. IS e brought them to our snow-house, when 1 instantly reported the case to Mr. Robb, our captain, and it was agreed that a party of twelve men would accompany the Indians, and prolxe their story to the foundation. The party consisted of Mr. Page, our surgeon, J. Brown, carpenter, 'Wilson, Blair, Hall, Murray, Agnew, Crosier, Jones, Jenkinson Rafferty (seamen), nad myself. W e h a d a ientifid sup p ly of provi sions, wha , M were packed into a Hat-bottomed boat, which was covcredtwith seal skin, mid several rides, spears, dtc. We started on our journey on March 27 ; our route was one of the wildest that can be conjectured. We proceeded in a zig zag course up one hill, down another, then to the right, then to the left, and then to the right again. On the fourth day, symptoms of discontent began to be manifested br our hardy tars. Our feet were cut and wounded by the ;harp projecting fragments of ice ; the thaw was setting in, and we were apprehensive of being buried by the avalanches of snow, which descend like lightning down the sides of the mountains. On the tenth day, April sth, our guides led ns into a large natural amphitheatre among the mountains. Atter a journey of some miles, we descried something wav ing over the snow. It was a black silk handkerchief tied to the top of a walking-stick. We eagerly drew out the staff, and commenced operations by digging about two feet deep. We came to the body of u man, and in a few minutes after we discovered three other bodies.dies. They were frozen like icicles; decutnposition had not commenced. Their beards were long and shaggy, while their rigid fea tures nut wasted limbs, sp o k e i u th e l anguage o f nature— they had died from want. ' dreg was that of British seamen in cold lati tudes. One man had his novae written, or rather en graved, on his arm, H. Carr. The not were all more or less marked ; some had crows on their breasts, others stars, ships, letters, &c. Our harts sickened at the sight. We replaced them iu their cold de plate graves, and set up thu same sad memento ntori. Poor fellows,' I exclaimed, you have attempted to regain your homes by an overland jour ney, but you are left in the desert ' Th.; Indians could give us no more intelligence, so we returned. The most probable conjecture is, a large party had set out from Sir John Franklin's expedition ; tbur had thus perished, in all probability the whole of them are now dead.' " The letter is signed " Thomas Reid," and is dated " Dundee, July 22, ltia." ETON COLLEGE.—On Saturday morning, the Rev Dr. Okes, l'rovost of King's College, Cambridge; the Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Provost of Eton College; the Rey. Dr. Iliewtrey, Head -master; the two posers, the Rev. Mr Wilts and the Rev. Mr. Thring, and other eminent pi r• Sollage3 connected with the college, having taken their seats in the tipper School, surrounded by a large and brilliant company, the election speeches were proceeded with. After the delivery of the speeches, a large party of the nobility, clergy, and gentry dined with the provost, fellows, minders, and king's scholars in the College Hall. The school at the present time numbers 604. if a molesta tion dues not full before Monday next, at two ~clock, the present captain, Foriliall, will be autwninnuated. Green is captain of the next year. The regatta nook place in the evening, and the day's proceedings concluded with a dill play of fireworks. CONSECRATION Op Two RO3LIN CATHOLIC 1 3 / 8 1101 . 8.—Yesterday morning two more of the prelates nominated by the Pope to dioceses in England were con secrated at St. George's ('atleedral, Southwark. The cere monial was iu all respects a repetition of that described by ,us on Saturday as baying been performed at Birmingham on the previOns day. Amongst those who took part in the proceedings were Cardinal W isensan, Dr. Morris, Dr. Ulla theirue, Dr. Briggs, Dr. Brown, Dr. Wareing, the Bishop of Texas, the Hun. and Rev, Mr. Talbot, Dr. Doyle, the Rev. Mr. Cotter, and other ecclesiasties. The two bishops chat (Dr. Burgess, nominated to the so-called bishopric of ('lif ton, vice Dr. Hendren, trunaluted, and Dr. Brown, noun meted to the bishopric of Shrewsbury), were them presented to Dr. Wiseman, who, after the usual preliminary car - molly, admitted them by imposition of hands to the epis copal office. High mass was celebrated, null after the service the company sat down to a repast provided by Mr. l'uncod. Cardinal Wiseman taking the head and be. Doyle: le, lower part of the table. TILE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AT GRAVEsEND.— It is understood that the Rev. Mr. Manning, late .anh. deacon Manning, who recently seceded from the established church, is to be appointed to the che.rch at Gravesend, which has been purchased from Mr. Blew by the Cardinal Wiseman, for the celebration of divine service according to the forms of the Roman catholic church, assisted by another minister of the ehurelt. It is expected that the bulletin:, which is sufficiently capacious to contain about 1,500 per sons, will shortly be Trudy to bet opened for its destined puporse.—/lover Chronicle. - - IGNORANCE AND SUPE,IINTITION.--In a large lege in Donsetshire, not far from the county town, an inn+ ligcnt man went recently into the house of a somewhat r,- spectable WOlllal who keeps a general shop in the lam, and who is the mother of a mann:roue •tua her with a large family bible open before her, and swar d of her children collected aroimd, while she was cutting and paring their finger nails, and so hulling their hands a, t"..,t their cuttings might drop on the leaves of the Mlle , . la' asked her why she did this. Suspecting, by ilCr 11.1.1111 t r, that she had some objct in view, judge of We when she replied I always, when t c u t the of my children, let the cutti ngs f a ll on tho open bible, tent thy may grow up to be h onest. They will never s teal. ii tto nailsare cat over the hibl,c •," Do we not yet require toe educator to be abroad ?--Prem Notes and charier. R Efuonv- 8 . - -A young man, eighteen } •ear , of age, a refugee, whose mother is a Polish countess, is at I sent serving his than as a moulder in a foundry at BleYd n ''' Another of the fulled, Hungarian refugees has got eml'h'Z' meat in North 'Shields, at Messrs. Ogilvie's mageol . a works. Three et the twelve who Intel y arrived in that Chrotsiele neiltheoulhoo3' are still out of' employment. —Nona.' • • LecEN 151'A/tint AT FAVERSII.\II.—On Monday even hiff.,ahortly alter n in e o'clock, it was di,cover,ol th.t 2 large eiover stack, H property fire pperty of Mr. T. iiing,nar! .. . 'situate , in a brickyard; known 'as Kingstteld, INP'"inite-road, *as lui fire. The stack was the produtt ablvat ifieeres . oegrainut, Ifalued at between 2001. and The engine* were got to work as quickly ns possible, bet wee minyy Abuts belbtr the flames could be catingthsh'l"; We greatly regret to state that there is little or no doubt that it was the net of an inceglfitry. Fortunately the nt4. , t was 'my still, Of the coneequeiteee might have been tar I 'Riau to other prOperty.—Door Chrawk. I