The Express. — London, England, 1852-08-31 00:00:00

ICU erpreogi. T 4) o:oltitKintiNDEATal • f0r.m11.4 11 . 1 .1" e. tenlakelSAT No saw nea• g'. ••(anter,"is polkleued ens) rvitad., aal 1:144, oloy tiff Ps•t• Advowtt.epr , te to.ende V•: refs,. Leta I+Lake gAier. 4 tie i rYse . 1.4 flolSMe•affnit. if TIM Vchnk ea Ibe dm d pet. Itatien. PllOlO WATIM 1.1 1 1 1 11/0% ORIDOI Tar Das--)1•0•10‘ SI 10 To.llosooo o - 11 10ctut0. S.. 4100..—..1100e500. Sa. : UNDON. TUESDAr, AUGUST 31. Femme no longer ask is Lord NIALIIIENIICRY going out - only when is he going ? and ,eh. re is he going to a 'there is this difference between the facilities fur getting quietly rid of a proven failure in the Upper House, and those which err available under similar circumstances us regards a member of the Lower. When an official breaks down, plays the fool, or be. comes in any other way a nuisance to his party in the Commons. the remedy is always at hand of toss ing him up to the tette. But when one of that august assembly is found impenetrable or incorrigible there is no expedient equally obvious or easy. Where can a blunderer be placed that he can do so little barn. ? 'there is no duller chamber to whose benches he may be promoted, no emptier rattle by whose sound his elevated ears may be caught. It must be owned that this is rather a defect in our matchless constitution, and one that seeds a reuse sly. Banishment on the ground cf inv.- 'crate ignorance, or a softening of the political brain , no matter how palpable the tact may be, is not among the prerogative' of the monarch or the ptivileges of the minister. The only epeeies of ostracism permit ted amongst us is that agreeable one in which the intended exile is pelted out of the country by his own party with guides. shells. to this dim:softie our present Seer.t.r thy of S 'ATI for FOREIGN AFFAIRS Is said to be rapidly ap pose-Ling. 'the ridicule he has brought. not only upon his particular friends, but upon the office be has so pitiably failed to fill, can no longer be disputed or denied. (*one ict ion of the miserable truth MIS reached even the mind of the ruble pie tender himself, and it is said that Lord 111xest emit tale now become anxious to escape from a position in which he is conscious of cutting a figure at once so ludi ous and so lamentable. His vanity has paid dearly for listening in an evil hour to the mocking voice of the (tipsy King. Until he was actually tried, be could never have been found utterly wanting in all that constitutes diplomatic scholarship and political °wanton sense. lie might have abused Lord PAL iit.R•tos's foreign policy in private, anti talked platitudes in favour of a corn law in public, for many a day with impunity. He might hare railed at the Yankees ns dangerous democrats. whom a true Mine!' minister would speedily put down and occupied his intervals of pleasure in serious felicitations of his distinguished ttiend and confidant, the hero of the coral) d7tag—all this and much heeide he might have done in the obscurity of his station as an ertlinary " fool of quality." No dy tither at home or abroad would have clued what particular sort of nonsense a not' peer of limited fortune and labs influence might happen to say. But she n such a man is placed in a situation so conspicuous and important as that which within our own time has been the object of ambitiou and of pride to men of the greatest knowledge of affairs and ability in conducting them, the absur dities and yatirh. rigs, the stupidities and the bung hinge, the altercate threats and trucklings to foreign governments, of which an incompetent minister may be guilty, are matters of rave consi deration and of the deep at moment to the nation at Loge. Such displays of impudence and imbecility tend unavoidably to lower the character of the country in the estimation of our neighbours, and in our own. What a spectacle, for instance, dues the recent despicable wrangle with the Americans about the fishery question present to the world. How can our colonies Le expected hereafter to believe for ten days together the most pompous and patronising assui antra of metropolitan protection? Or how will any foreign state be persuaded that we are in earnest when we send a squadron to interpret the terms of a disputed treaty, and ere the ships have reached their destination announce that our rulers have changed their minds about the point in dispute, or rather that they have deemed it more prudent to pretend that they never conceived there was any point in dispute at all? Better far have no fleet and nu Foreign-office than to send the one on fool's errands, and maintain the other only to be snubbed, bullied, and laughed at by the whole world. But ss we have already said, we have erasion fur believing that Lord Msusxsnuar himself i- now aware of the ineffable folly he committed in allowing the reckless Patnien and still more reckless CIIANCLLLg IR of the Es. its eaten to stuff him into the Foreign-office, and that he would now gladly be suffered to scramble out of it as best he may. 'the question still recurs however, when dots Lord MALNL6IirRY retire, and where is he likely to retire to? A contemporary intimates with some reason that there are obstacles in the way of his obtaining the embassy to Paris, even were it vacant. The QuxEst and people of this country do not want a Bonapartist for their representative at the court of H. BONAPARTE. Lord COwLET may be distasteful to that aspiring personage, as we suspect any one possessing a spark of feeling for constitu tional right would be. If the gravity of the circum stances that may possibly anse at Constantinople seem greater than those which are discerned loongog in the perspective of France, that may be a sufficient reason few transferring . Lord Coweer to the shores of the Bosphorus : it is no reason for sending a con victed failure to the banks of the Seine. The public voice will leapt to exclaim, as the Duke of WELLING TON formerly did at some fresh foolery of another Protectionist peer, "this is too bad." Lord Coweue, or some one of equal energy and clearheadedness, may 1 e needed at Constantinople ; but we are far from thinking that Lord ' 48 ...A1.11E681MT or any one of his intellectual or moral measure is fitted to un dertake the duties of British minister at Paris. the objects for which they were founded, as the so ciety now again about to meet. it took its rim to the general feeling of the scientific men of this cower', that they needed a common point of uni on, . and that by cumbinatichi, discussion , and orgsmsa limy, they might aid each other in the progress of mience, es well as diffuse around a knowledge of its advantages. Existieg local societies, even those in the metropolis, were incapable of effecting this, and twenty-one years' experience has now demonstrated not only the wisdom of the first founders of this Asenciation, but has realised advan tages to science which they hardly anticipated. Those who wish to know what the Association ha. done for science will scarcely content them selves with the outline reports of its meetings which the daily-liners can afford space for. It is in the volumes of its transactions that they will find on mistakeable evidence that the Association has called a body of labourers into the fields of science who, but for its direction and aid, would have bestowed their ex ertions on less important subjects, or in many instances not been occupied in scientific reacaich at all. It is more especially from the reports which have been called for by t 6 annual meetings of the Association, and which have resulted from the meeting of men of science who, otherwise, would not have been brought together, and the discussion of scientific subjects of interest, that the importance of its labours may be estimated, and an idea of its influence obtained. In these reports we find not only a series of histories of the progniss of many departments of science during the last 20 years, but the results of patient and labo- rious investigation establishing general laws of the highest importance, not only in the more recondite and specu:ative branches of science, but in those which arc immediately available for the practical arts of life. In the preparation of these reports, by payment for the performance of experiments, and manual scientific labour, the Association hes spent upwards of twenty thousand pounds—a small sum compared with those which are annually spent by our government in idle experiments in our dock yards and other public places, but a large sum to be contributed by the annual guineas of needy men of science. Amongst these reports are to be found those which have cleared up some of the difficult problems of past ages, whilst others have initiated new eras in the departments of science to which they are devoted. It is here that we find that series of reports by the Master of Trinity and others on the subject of tides which have explained so many of the anomalies of these curious phenomena. The early volumes contain the result of a long-continued labour in the reduction of the various catalogues of stars. It was a request from the British Association that called forth those reports on organic chemistry, as applied to agriculture and physiology, which have since made the name of Limo familiar to our farmers, our medical students, and to the well-in formed general reader. The laws ef the distribution of marine animal and vegetable life, discosered by Emu ARO FoKBEB, were the result of researches made by the dredge in the iligean Sea at the suggestion and expense of the Association. The insight we' have into the laws which regulate the phenomena of earthquakes are due to the experiments made tender the direction of Mr. MALuerr, whose report aa this subject forms a conspicuous feature of the lust volume of reports. It was the British Aseocia data that supplied Mr. Scorr Resssu. with the 1111111•11 or performing those experiments on the forms of vessels which resulted in the discovery of that shape for a ship which should sail fastest and safest over the ocean, as the Americans have proved. The reports of the Rev. BADEN POWELL on Meteor olites ; of Professor OWEN on British Fossils; of Mr. G. It. PORTER on the Iron Manufactures of Great Hritain ; of Sir hefts Ilsksestsi. aid Colonel SA BINE on Terrestrial Magnetism ; of Dr. R. C. Ixrnan on Ethnographical Philology, may be noted as ex amples of the men who work for the Association, and of the range of subjects upon which their labours have thrown so much light. Although the principal claim of the Association on the world is the merit of its reports, it realises for science numerous subsidiary advantages. Its peri patetic charaeter,—the quality which of all others, by depriving it of a local habitation and a place in which to accumulate scientific property, such as books and instruments, which might be supposed to be a draw back on its usefulness, has been productive of very beneficial results. By its visits to towns distant from the metropolis, a spirit of scientific emulation is excited, which sometimes results in great good. 'f he geologist of the neighbourhood is stirred up to make inquiries, and a whole country is eagerly investi gated for natural products, to exhibit to those who are about to assemble, and not uufrequently a per manent stimulus has been given to a branch of research, and sometimes of trade, by a visit of the Association. In more than one instance, men work- ing in obscurity, and unknown till the time for the assembling of the philosophers, have been brought out and are now occupying conspicuous positions in the scientific world. The pursuit of the humble naturalist, laughed at by his townsmen. ha+ been encouraged by the Association, and thowands have learned by these annual gatherings to appre ciate the labours of the man of science. Nor is this all. The Council of the British Association, represent ing as it does the various departments of science, and containing members representing the three kingdoms, has far more weight than any ore society devoted to any particular branch of inquiry ; and it has acquired an influence with the Government of this country which no other body possesses. It has obtained this influence by the caution with which it has proceeded, and the care which it has always taken that in all its applications for assistance, and all its recommendations of scientific researches, its information should be thorough and complete, and the objects aimed at definite and satisfactory. It is not without anxiety that those who take an interest in the Association have followed it to some new locality. Should eminent men of science cease to take an interest in it, should it be received coolly, away might go its advantages. But this anxiety diminishes every year, and although in some places the attendances are nut so numerous, or the recep tion so cordial, yet the annual volume appears, and assures the philosopher that the machinei y set in motion by the Association is in action, and that as the origin of it was the love of science', so this nee er dying principle continues to nourish the body which it has begotten. To-morrow, Ireland receives, for the third time, this assemblage, and certainly no happier spot could be selected just now than the City of Belfast. The prosperity of its inhabitants will give them spirit to receive their distinguished visitors, and the new buildings of the Queen's University will enable them to make ample accommodation for all the scientific demands of the Association. The Irish meetings have been especially characterised by the amount of native talent that has been contri buted to the interest of the various proceedings ; and from all we know of Belfast, we feel convinced that it will not be behind either Dublin or Cork in the amount of its exertions for furthering the cause of the Association. The city of Belfast and its neighbourhood will of themselves form interesting objects of investigation to Insley of the scientific men who will assemble there. Its manufacturing indus try will afford an ample study for the statistician and mechanical philosopher; the round towers and castles of its vicinity will invite the research of the antiquarian, whilst Lough Neagh, the newly-opened pal , mine, the picturesque coast of Antrim. and the Giant's-causeway, will afford abundant fields for con templation to the naturalist as well as to that large class of persons who, needing relaxation at this season of the year, could scarcely du better than, by paying their guinea to the Association, enable them selves at once •oenjoy the beautiful se. nery of Ireland and promote the science of Great Britain. 1 he time of the year is most favourable for the meeting, and se are inclined to wonder that the I Prom , it can think of any other months than August or September. The fixing the meeting lad year at Ipswich so early es the first week in July must have been some hundreds out of the exchequer of the I Association, besides producing a world of annoyance I to those who, engaged in teaching at that time in oeis anieersities and medical schools, could not • possibly attend. If the truth must be told, these I arrangements are made to meet the accommodation , of some one or two individuals whose presence is supposed to be important to the success or lilt' meet ing. Now, this is never the case. 'I here is no more palely democratic body in the world than the Ih leis!: Asaociation, and the great body denote: never all',w their beat interests to be put off for the accom modation of individuals. We have no doubt that the present meeting will be a successful one as far as science is concerned. 11e only cloud that hangs I! IP s encumstance not unworthy of note, that within a few weeks atter Sir STRATIFORb CANNING left the Porte, /Immo PASHA. the acknowledged head of the amore liberal school of Turkish politicians, has been overthrown. His personal superiority as a man of information and talent availed as little as his near connexion, b . , family alliance, with the SVLTAN. He had long been an object of e.ietrust and aversion with the French and Russian embassies, and was indebted on many occasions for the maintenance of his power to the friendship and adviceof the English ambassador. Lord STRATVOND, as he must be henceforth called, exercised a wise and salutary influence over the councils of the Divan. It was by his courage and decision that the memo rable demand of Austria and Russia for the surrender of the Hungarian refugees was resisted by the Porte, and the Ottoman empire thus saved from an irretrievable act of self-humiliation. No sooner was the British plenipotentiary de parted than hostile intrigues', backed by formidable menaces, began to work upon the mind of the SULTAN. Unsustained by his fearless and up right adviser, RENCIIID PASHA was unable to coon- tenet three influence.; and within the last few days! we learn that during the deliberations of the Council of State, the seals of office were demanded from the untb mined Vizier. The weak and wavering mo narch is reported to have privately assured HANCIIID of the unabated regard in which he still held him, and, as if to mark how involuntary was the set of summary dismissal, the fallen Minister was to con tinue in the receipt of his former pay. All this shows too clearly whence the blow in reality erns aimed, and how desirable it is that a romp, tent representative of British interests should to cent to the Levant. How far the qualities of in tunict and temper that made Sir b. CANNING an excelit eat envoy at Constantinople, would render him a sitar tofu) foreign secretary at home, is an im -I).M:int inquiry. But all men seem i greed that worse !han Lord MALMESIII HY there cannot bc. 10 MORROW the t wen t) -second Session of the British Awoeietion for the Advancement of Science will eminnence in Belfast. The presidency will pus from thu A. , TRONOMER ROTA! to Col. BARING, whose dis tinguished labours in the science of terrestrial mag net ;pm, and lone settlers as secretary of the Associ ation, fully entitle him to this distinction. Few scientific institutions have in so short a time taken so good • position, or have attained more effectually 'ME EXPRESS, TUESDIY EVWING, AUGUST 31, 1852 lover its prospects is the promised visit of the i.ORD LIEUTENANT. Of course there can be no objection to Lord EULINTON as an individual, but experience has simian that sometimes the court paid to royalty, or its representatives, has sadly interfered with the business proceedings of the Association, and given quite a different aspect to its meetings. Science should never give place to sycophancy. facture.* of bronze, cut iron, jewellery, sullrry, and, indeed, all Paris goods are doing well. It has been observed as a good sign of commercial confidence that the bills lately brought to the Bank of France for discount are drawn at longer dates than for some time past. Since 15448 bills at 90 days' date have never been brought to say quantity to the bank. - At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell Sc., closing at 105 i. Sc.; the Timm per Cents. fell 10e. and closed at 76f. 40c. There was a heavy reac tion in the railways that have lately riven. &coma fell 70; Monterean, 20; Bordeaux and Trieste, 20; ; Orleans, 7,50; Lyons and Avignon nee IL a FRANCE. rmus, foamy EVISINCI. Tho Moniteur, makes a retort, but by no means a courteous one, to the fresh punishment applied to the government of Louis Napoleon by your morning contemporary. It is briefer than the previous article, and safer, as the writer takes refuge in the mples tionable accuracy of official returns of killed and wounded at the o'nteitle of the days of December. The note is as follows: The goverutnent is not irritated by insults. It does not reply to them. But, when the question is of facts auda ciously and calumniously disfigured, its duty in ever to re establish the truth. The Times convicted of premeditated defematien eau only defend itself by teeth sunders. In iks number of the 28th of August it pretends that after the 2nd of December 1,200 inoffensive and unarmed persons were essassiosted by drasken soldiers in the streets of l'aris. 'I he fel station of such a calumny lies in its very ea , geeration. Everybody knows that the official report lays the number of persons killed during the insurrection et 380, that is alrady too much, no doubt. As to the persons accidentally mounted, the number fortunately amounts to eight or ten only. In the presence of positive documents opposed to false assertions, let every one judge of the good faith of the journalin." Every person will be satisfied that tl.q comber of those wounded by accident was but small. But this is no answer to the statement that the soldiers on the boulevards fired deliberately with the intention to kill unarmed and inoffensive persons. For the rest, the only importance of this skirmishing between the official press of France and the most widely diffused organ of English opinion, lies in the peculiar character of the prince, who may be sup ' posed to have dictated the two notes of the Moroiteur, and who seldom takes a step of that sort without some ulterior design, not immediately penetrable by simple observers. M. do Persigny has just returned to l'aris, and his return coincides with an eruption of rage against the anti- Bonapartist English press, and with the threat to expel from Paris the English correspondent of a London paper. Nothing could play better into the hands of the English tones than this sort of violence exhibited by the French autocrat against the liberal press of England, for it tends to propagate a belief that the accession of a liberal government would be followed by war with France, and that Lord Malmesbury, the intimate of the Elysk, is to bo the tutelary genius of the country against French invasion. The more the President shows his hatred sf those institutions which are the safeguard of our country, the more it behoves us not to leave power in the hands of a party whose press is favourable to the destroyer and denouncer of parliaments. Were the reign of the second Napoleon likely to be a long one there might be sonic solid motives for somewhat muffling the censure due to his libertieide acts, and seeking to Inc on better terms with him; but this nation will never endure the imperial high-pressure, and at some day not tar distant a political boiler constructed of such treble materials, and subjected I to such en enormous pressure, must explode. That epoch must enter into our calculations, which ought ' not to be based, as the tory foreign policy is, upon the lasting success of an audacious anachronism, and upon the durability of a despotism which ignores the first French revolution, while it apes Louis XIV. The Count de Chambord has written another letter, which is much spoken of, expressing his regret at the disobedience of certain legitimists in accepting functions under the present government in the coun cils general, &e. lie says this will teach him better to distinguish his true friends, and that if he is re called to France it will be by the needs of the country, and not by a party. A whole class is on the point of being liberated from military service. To prove his solicitude for the well-being of the army, the President has re solved to give for each regiment of cavalry liberated six or eight places with civil functions. the number of places reserved for regiments of the line will be more considerable. As Frederick of Prussia used to like to have the biggest and tallest men he could get for his guard, so it appears the President is about to choose among those huge brawny sons of Martin, the carabineers who have finished their time of ser vice, the most gigantic for his footmen. M. Creton, in a letter to a friend, written a few days since from Ostend, expressed great doubt whether he should accept the amnesty offered to him while so many of his friends remained in banishment. With the exception of M. Thies, I am not aware that any of the Orlcanist leaders, to whom the act of grace on the oecas'on of August 15th was extended. have returned to France. There is • report that they intend to sign a collective refusal ; but I believe they have as yet come to no decision upon the subject. M. Thins is at great pains to make it known that he returned absolutely without conditions. One of his former colleagues in the assembly at first made interest for him, and wrote that a letter— e word only to the government would suffice to pro cure his recall. M. Thies positively refused to ask a favour. A passport was then sent to him, but he sent the passport back, with an intimation that he would not be the subject of an isolated exceptional revocation of the decree of banishment. But when at his retreat at Vevey he saw in the Ahmdeur of August 7, his name in the same list with those of Remosat, Lastey Tie, Duvergier de Hauranne others, he unaffectedly expo seed the joy he felt at being able to return to his country with honour and independence. M. Berryer, who for several months has been re siding on his estate at Augerville, lately came to Paris to pay a visit to M. 'I hiers, with whom he had a long conference. M. Emeraud de la Hachette, the editor of the .Es peralice du Petyk, the legitimist journal of Nantes, was arrested at his house at six o'clock on the morn ing of Saturday, and thrown into prison. The nature of the charge against him has not transpired, but as warning had been given the day before to a paper of different politics (the .1.1411dall), for provoking language towards the Eye's-once, it is thought pos sible in Paris that the arrest may have been made to prevent a duel, and not for any political reason. The price of flour at the Halle of Paris has fallen lfr. per suck this week. Although but little business has been done the fall has in great measure allayed the apprehensions that have been entertained with respect to the harvest. Amidst many conflicting reports the better opinion seems now to be that although the harvest will certainly be below the average, perhaps to the extent of one-fourth or one fifth, there is no ground for serious alarm. In 1846 the bad harvest followed three others, either bad or middling, and those were preceded by two not very good years, 1839 and 1840. But the lust five years have been good ones in France, and a falling off was to be looked for in the natural course of things. There is a good deal of wheat of 1851 in band, and tee quality of this is so excellent that it may very well be kept for another year, should the damp state in which undoubtedly much of the new grain has been got in. render an early consumption desirable. With regard to the wine crop there is no question but that it will be very de ficient, and to what extent is yet extremely uncertain. The disease hiss already attacked many of the vine yards in the south, and should its progress the effects limy be disastrous. The wet west cr has made the , 1 gropes very backward, and it is feared that wine generally will be of but midoling quality. At Bercy an active busisfess is doing, the dealers being anxious to fill their cellars, although they resist a further rise in prices, already sufficiently high. Commercial affairs arc calm and steady. The manufacturers are later than usual in preparing their assortments for the autmnal sales. They generally do this in July and August, but this year, owing t o th e " high price of raw materials, they put off their pur lchases us long as possible, fearing that in the event of a fall they might he obliged to sell at a loss. Tho '' speculators, however, kilos% ing how little stock was on hand, continued to buy. The manufacturers must now, at the lust moment, buy wools and cottons at the highest prices. &serail orders of manufactured artic es for exportation have been given within the last fortnight, and many more are expected. The workshops will, therefore probably be in full ac -1 tivity up to the end of the 3 ear. Raw silk is lees firm than wools and cotton. The crop haa been plentiful in the south of France, as well as in Piedmont and Lombardy. The mane- BELGIUM. The president and secretary of the Central Com mittee of the Belgian printers, went on Saturday to the ministry of the interior, at Brussels, to obtain information respecting the literary treaty with France. The chef de division endeavoured, says the Emancipation, to convince tnem that the suppression of the power of reprinting works would not be inju rious to the printing trade; but they declared that it would cause its ruin, and that of the trades de pendent on it. SWITZERLAND. BERNE,Avourr The final result of the elections in 'Freiburg con firm the anticipations of yesterday's letter. Of 10,222 votes polled, Charles had 6,9411, Folly 3,311, Schaller 1,797, and ltouiller 1,7/47. The Sonderbund party has thus an organ in the national council. }Lots have taken place at Cagy and Freiburg. The general railway conference was opened on the 22nd at ltagatr, and was attended by 150 capitalists, proprietors, and others. The Rorschach, Wallensee, and Coiro line was first considered, and a committee appointed to arrange ulterior proceedings. ITALY. VENICE, Avourr 23. The Gazette publishes a sovereign resolution, de claring that the loan decreed by chiefs of the revolu tionary government of Venice (with the exception of the debt proceeding from the distraction of the depots) can have no legal efficacy or validity, that conse ckuently it can furnish no basis for obliga tions of any kind, either against the legi timate government or private individuals, that all such obligations, whether paper money is sued by the revolutionary government under the denomination of "patriotic paper," or bills of ex change intended to cover such paper, are to be re puted null and void. Some of this paper still re mains in the Bank of Venice, which being itself an establishment founded by a revolutionary govern ment. must be itself dissolved. This resolution bears the signature of the royal imperial lieutenabt, Tog genburg. NAPLF.S. NAPLES, Acover 23. The minister of police has received from Brindisi and other places, that a number of handkerchiefs have been found ^ ith " Murat, King of Naples," printed thereon. The consequence is several arrests have taken place, and at the particular town of Brindisi, the arch-priest of the district is one of the supposed leaders of the Nluratists. It is by means impossible that the whole affair may be got up by the police. A change of ministry is spoken of as certain. Filangieri will hear of nothing but the removal of the whole cabinet. The Queen is understood to be op posed to such advice, fearing it might involve a change of policy. The French fleet is still in the bay. Admiral de la Busse is to M. a grand ball on board the flag ship in return for M. Barrot's entertainment on the 15th. The fleet will then proceed to l'alermo. The grape blight has spread throughout the king. dom. The olive is also affected, and oils arc ad vancing beyond the present high prices. CrE ItNi AN Y. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Atmvrt 28. The Prince of Prussia, who seems to have been born under a most unlucky star, has again met withan acci dent. At the manteuvres,nearStettin,on thenthinst., his horse, while at full gallop, shied and fell, throw ing the Prince with great violence. His royal high ness escaped without fracture, but suffers consider ably from the concussion, particularly in the shoul der, which first came in contact with the ground. As yet there are no symptoms of an alarming cha racter, and it is hoped that the accident will pro duce no serious effects. Baron Scbele, the Hanoverian premier, arrived at Berlin on the 26th, and next morning had a lung interview with M. Manteuffel. The critical state of Zollverein affairs has occasioned this meeting. AUSTRIA. The Vienna Gazette of the 23th contains a notifica tion by the finance minister on the subjett of the Three per Cents. Reichschatzscheine, or treasury notes. At present these notes have a forced currency, but the new ordinance provides that after the first of January, 1853, no one shall be held bound in law to take them as payment. Holders of these notes may now exchange them for the treasury notes with forced currency not bearing interest, or next January for new three per cents., without such compulsory cir culation. MALTA, Anoner 25. The fleet with Admiral Dundas is now hourly looked for; but, with the exception of the flagship, which will go into the Bighi Bey for a short time, the others will lie off port. Lady Emily Dundee came up to-night in the Growler steam sloop, and A. Stafford, Esq., will be on board the Fury. It is known that the fleet of screw steamers has returned to the Channel. Before leaving, a oeneral race took place, Britannia bring the starting poet and Trafalgar the winning post; distance about 20 miles. In the rats Fury wag the Ant, besting all other competitors by 20 minutes. The order of arrival was very unfavourable to the screw. The beautiful frigate Phaeton beat one of them, Arrogant, sail ing against her tail and steam. They came in as follows:- 1, Fury ; 2, Terrible ; 3, Encounter ; 4, Dauntless ; 6, Higheyer ;6, Phaeton; 7 Vengeance; 8, Arrogant. On leaving Gibraltar, the screws were directed to tow several of the windbound merchant ships through the straits. On Wednesday, 11th, • review of the blue jackets took place on the neutral ground, in Internee of the general. His excellency, who was attended by his suite, was much amused with the precision and regularity with which the various movements were executed, and the manual and platoon exercises accomplished. On leaving their moorings the Albion and Indefatigable were the only Towels that went out without the aid of steam. Britannia was towed by Spiteful; Trafalgar, by Terrible ; Bellerophon, by Antelope. Captain Goldmith, of the Leg-ship. has been invalided, and is to be succeeded by Captain Carter, late of Caledonia. Fre= Corfu, news wee received by Medina. Small-pox among the Jews had prevailed, and a pernicious and dais prop fever hid made sad havoc. Major Symonds, Resident of Cephalonia, had died of a Amp de John'', and Mr. M•Donald, paymaster of the 30th Regiment, bad also been carried off suddenly. Scourge steam-frigate was lying at Corfu. MERCHANT-SHAMEN . B ORPHAN AATLUIL The half-yearly election of orphans for reception in the above meritorious institution, took place yesterday at the Asylum, Bow-road. This charity, which has been about twenty three years in existence, languished for some time after its arst establishment, but subsequently, through the indefa tigable teeniest of Captain Nelson, elder brother of the Trinity House, it completely recovered itself, end is now in acomparatively healthy and flourishing condition. At pre- sent it contains 78 boys end 38 girls, to which must be added the 6 boys and 3 girls of yesterday's election. They are nearly all the orphan children of merchant ship-masters, and are comfortably lodged, clothed, and fed under the au. perintendanee of Mrs. Bailey, the excellent matron, and receive • sound elementary education calculated to fit them for the counting-house ; the fact being— and it has some melancholy in the reading—that the mothers shudder at the idea of sending their sons to the profession in which the fathers had been lest. Ample play and exercise grounds are prosided, and the boys are regularly drilled under • military drill master. At the conclusion of the election yesterday they went through their exercise to the satisfaction of a crowded company, and their healthy and cheerful appearance was the subject of universal comet-n'. The results of the election were then declared (for which see our advertising columns), and the f4in ra gs terminated with a short address from Captain rerseonel exhorting his auditory to • continued and more extended support of the institution. In particular, he ex horted shipsnasten and others connected with the sea, to contribute even the smallest mire to a charity of which their children bail the almost exclusive benefit. The other mem. ben of the committee press nt were—Messrs. Charrington, T. H. Devitt, J. (1 , 4 e, N. Griffiths, C. Kenriek, N. Middle ton, G. Ward, and P. J. Warren. Mr. Geddes, the secre tary, was is attendant*, and wee universally commended for the real and success with which he had carried out the chime of the institution. INDIA. TIIE OVERLAND MAIL. THE WAR WITH BURMAIL We have received our journals and despatches in anticipation of the overland mail. The latest dates are Bombay, July 24; Calcutta, July 12; Malta, August 25. The intelligence contained in the missing mail of June has also been forwarded, but its contents have been anticipated. The steamer Ajdaha, it appears, proceeded to within about 790 miles of Aden, and then put back to Bombay, in consequence, as alleged by her commander, of inability to cope with strong head winds and a want of fuel. The following 'sour Bombay correspondent's letter: BOMBAY, Jeav 24. In my last I gave news from Rangoon to the 10th June. Since then intelligence to the 22nd only has been received ; and although we have been expecting despatches a fortn'ght later, none have been received. The repairs of the I'hlegethon and Mahanuddy steamers had been completed, and they were being rigged and stored for service. The barracks were nearly finished, and the 18th Royal Irish was to occupy them immediately. The Engineers had received great and well-merited praise for their incessant labours to get the troops housed. The 18th and girth had 97 and 47 in hospital, and the 40th and 07th Native Infantry 103 end 84 ; so that the troops were not more unhealthy than they would have been in India. From lath May to lath June thew four corps lost 22 men. Rangoon and Bassein were nearly rebuilt, and the markets thronged with traders and sellers, who were punctually paid their own prices for their goods—and the people were de lighted at our presence. The Burmese soldiers had re-occupied Pegu the moment we left, and had behaved with greater barbarity than ever to wards the people, who fled in all direc tions when they could manage to escape. The I'roserpine had reached within -10 miles of Prome, having captured 100 large boats laden with grain for the army ; many of these Captain lirooking woe compelled to destroy—the remainder he sent down to Rangoon. lie had surveyed the river all along, and will act as pilot when the fleet moves up. The General, and Colonel Thompson, of the 40th, had been unwell: the former was about to visit Bassein and Martaban, and the latter Moulmein, for a little change of air and scene. General Godwin has applied for 12,000 men to enable him to leave large garrisons in Rangoon, Martaban, Bassein, and Peau—which is to he again occupied for good. He has asked for a light field battery, two troops horse artillery, two regiments cavalry, four of European and six of Native Infantry—which will leave India to join him early in September. Bengal is to furnish the remaining wing, Her Maiesty's Ruth, and two Native Corps; Madras sends the British and Com pany's troops, horse artillery, the 84th Foot, the Ist European Fusiliers, and the Ist. 18th, 30th, and 40th Native Infantry, with probably the 7th cavalry; while it is expected Bombay will furnish the 83rd and 86th Foot, and the Poona Irregular Horse. These are at present only rumours, but they are likely to prove correct. General Godwin will then have 18,000 or 20,000 as fine soldiers under him a• any officer could wish for; of these some 5,000 will require to be left as garrisons in the places named, leavi•.g him, say 15,000, with whom he might march to P. kin, if it so willed him. --The Zenobia steamer left Moulinain for Madras on the 14th June, and must have put back to that port, for nothing has since been heard of her : great uneasiness is felt re garding her; next news from Rangoon will tell us what has become of her.—Sir John Cheape, Bengal Engineers, will, it is expected, command a division of the grand army ; and Colonel Ashburnham a brigade, es ho has, like a gallant soldier, applied for one. The Governor-General is probably by this time in Rangoon, as by last accounts the Feroze was hourly looked far at Calcutta, and his lordship intended to return in her to have a personal interview with General Godwin, and learn from him what be wanted to enable him to renew the war with such vigour as to ensure its speedy termination. It is extremely probable, too, that the proclamation annexing Pegu to our dominions will be issued by Lord Dalhousie at Rangoon. Everything continues tranquil on our north-west frontier, and negotiations are In progress with the Momunds, Swattees, and others, which are expected this time to secure peace for us for a couple of years at least. They have consented to pay a small an nual tribute, and in consideration thereof are to be allowed to rule themselves as they used in former days to do, without our interference. Matters in the Nisam's dominions continue in much the same state as they have dont for years. General Frazer had become completely disgusted with the Prime Minister he himself had set up, and had told the Nizam ho would have no more dealings with him. The Contingent were eight months in arrears of pay, and nobody seemed inclined to pay them, both the Nizam and the Minister saying they had not the means. The annexed has been published in the Madras Spectator: HYDERABAD.— (From our Correspondent.) —July 4, 1852.—State affairs here are becoming quite farcica l; a farce, however, which will end in some tragical catastrophe. Three yeses ago the Governor. General eulogised Seen) 00l Moolk, in his letter to the Nisam ' and the Nisam dismissed ' him. The Resident now compl ains of Sceraj 00l Moolk's vicious administration, of false promises and engagements ; affirms that he cannotbeliove him, and that it is impossible to do business with him—and the Nizam retains him in office. Of the two positions I have described, the Nizim was right in the first, and is wrong is the last. The minister makes a promise to the Resident, whilst be is making his charges against him in the presence of the Nimes, to pay money in five days. The Resident will not accept the promise from the fieenjool Moolk until it is confirmed by the Nisam. With so much to impress the minister with the necessity of keening faith, the time is passed, end given in reliance upon the minister', engagement, it is the Minister and not the Nisam who has failed in the engagem. at. This will be explained in what follows, as is the farce of farces. The Nisam, in pointing to the TESOU/Ci.'S which could enable the minister to pay, told his minister to assign to the Resident the money, he, the minister, had Ac cumulated to pay his Highness's family pensions. This certified to the Resident that the payment would be made, it is forgotten that the minister had dealt more largely in fictions towards his master than towards the Resident, and no money is forthcoming; because the minister, although he had so apprised his master, had accumulated none. This one instance is sufficient to show that the Nisam has not participated in the tricks of his minister, that he had been sinned against, and not sinning ; but how his folly, in taking part with the and making his conduct, which was not so, his own, may be disposed uf, and dis united from the consequences likely to ensue, will make a difficult matter. Ilia Highness has been tiught that it belongs to his greatness to maintain his own servant, and he has subjected himself by it to the imputation of having shared in the petty tricks of his ministur, which were em ployed to deceive the II h government, and what is worse, in the vicious administration of his own affairs. It is generally rumoured that en official note addressed by the minister to the Resident, on the subject of the promised payment, was returned with the declaration, that the limn. dent would not receive any communication on the subject from him. The Delhi Gazelle supplies the following item of real interest : The new causeway across the low lands of the river Jumna at this station is at lest completed. The work con sists of a broad embanked road, laid down with metal, from the water mills of &limpets on the other side, to the bring of the river, • distance of snore than a mile in length. Mid way is • neat and substantial bridge on three elliptical arches stretching acmes • small branch of the river. From the extreme end of this causeway to the corner of the old Fort of SaJeengurh, o• One side, is • distance of about nine hundred yard., which is now covered by the broad and turhid waters of the swol , en stream. The causeway on the Delhi side commences slso from the brink of the river, and skirting the picturesque wail of the shove mentioned old fort, is connected with the city of Delhi by a fine well built bridge of preen arches, which wawa another dream of the over running immediately under the walls of the city ; at the head of this bridge is the new or Calcutta Date, with its two arches and double roadway. This great work then is at length completed, and we need scarcely say that it will prove • source of the greatest comfort and convenience to travellers, merchante, and traders of all sorts, and it will else eapedite the mail ; but, after all, this is only lialf a work. The space between the two river ends of the oau•ewuy will be connected by the bridge of boats, which we underattind will be brought up to its new site ss soon as the prevent flood is somewhat dimi nirhed bat, surely, at • city lilt• Delhi there ehould be a permanent bridge across the Jumna. The grand trunk road has been coinple•.ed to Kurnaul, and its further con struction is, we understand, hem:. prosecuted with vigour. The line, however, thus far cannot he mid to be completed without • permanent bridge at Delhi, and we trust that the day snot far distant when the native* of Upper ludia will have cause to applaud the skill, the liberality, and the wis dom of the Britoth government in bautig constructed such a nee amity and useful public work for the benefit of so large a community: The Governor-General continue. at Calcutta, and Sir W. Gomm at Simla; Lady Dalhousie being at Ceylon for change of air. Mr. J. I'. Grant has sue. (veiled Mr. Halliday as Home Secretary to govern ment of India. The Bank of Madras has given a dividend of 141 per cent. per annum. Colonel Mo. berly, stipendiary member Madras military hoard, died on the sth inst. It is reported that Sir Armstrong has been ordered down from the lulls to Madras, sick or well, to superintend the embarka tion of the large reinforcement for the Rangoon army, to Ito embarked from Fort St. George in the end of next month. The sum realised by the seventh go. vcrnment sale of opium at Calcutta, the 12th inst., was 331,00111. M. E. de Valbezen has been appointed consul for France at Calcutta. During the post three weeks the community of Bombay has lost two of its members—Mr. John Hol land, a barrister of the Supreme Court, who died un the 12th ; and Mr. Alexander Sutherland, a incr. chant, who died on the 3rd inst. The fernier gentle. man had an extensive practice, and was considered a very talented man. The latter had risen by Cavern as u merchant, and was universally respected fur his I integrity and meekm as and gentlemanly behaviour. We have now only four barristers in Bombay, via, Mr. Le Metaturier, whose duties as advocate-general preclude him from practising largely, and Messrs. 1 fickinson, lloward, and Jenkins. Mr. Crawford has withdrawn almost entirely from the Supreme Court since he became first judge of the new small cause court on a salary of 1,14001. a year. The governor has quite recovered aguin—if, in died, anything serious ever ailed him, and seems to be enjoying himself at Dapoorie. We were perfectly disgusted, on the evening of the 13th, to find the Atelaha re-entering port with the mail of the 25t June from Bombay. It appears she had on the 7th reached within 71)7 miles of Aden, when her commander turned the vessel's head to Bombay, instead of beating up for his desti nation. Ilis excuse was that his coals had been burnt out, and under sail he never could reach Aden with such head winds to contend with. A court of inquiry was ordered by Sir 11. Lecke, who gest: it as their opinion that commander Barker had acted very wrong in what he had done ; he has been severely reprimanded by government—his previous services and good character alone saving him from a court martial. Ilis vessel, it seems, had 100 tons of coal on board when she reached port—she had sailed back. So our mail of the 25th June is sent back in company with to-day's, and it is to be hoped will have better luck this time. P.S. The H.C. sloop Elphinstone came into har bour this morning with the English mail of the 24th June and two passengers, Dr. Malcolm Mackenzie, and Lieut. Lawrie, 3rd M.N.I. The mail had just reached in time to allow of answers being sent back by return of post. Sir W. Gomm is to be at Cal cutta in October to superintend the embarkation of troops for Burmah. Of the reinforcement, Bengal is to supply ILK 29th, 2nd European Fusiliers, 10th, 33rd, and 37th N.i., the regiment of Loodhi ana, and 2nd brigade horse artilery. Colonels finish and Dickinson are to command the two bri gades, Sir 11. M. Wheeler commanding all. Lord Dalhousie is to be accompanied in his tour to Burnah by Mr. Courtemv, private secretary; Mr. Allen, foreign ditto ; Major Banks, military ditto ; and Cul. Hawkins, commissary-general. Sir F. Currie is to act as president in council, Bengal, during the Go. vernor-General's absence. Lieutenant W. D. Free man, 80th Foot, died suddenly in Fort William, on the 12th July ; and Lieutenant W. Wheeler, adju tant 2nd M.N. Vet. Batt., at Arcot, on the 13th inst. The 6th, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, or Nth Bengal Ca valry, go to Podia% ur, Nyogong, Kurturpore, and Meerut, respectively, in course of the relief, which this season will embrace some forty corps in all. The 16th irregular cavalry and 4th N.l. had returned from Peshawur to Rawul finder. The Lahore Chronicle of July 3, says: Within a comparatively short time of the military men pation of the Punjab by u Brirish force, the prineiples of free trade began to develop themselves in the reduction of a considerable amount of the vexatious duties leen d along the frontier and within the empire itself. No Pounce had the Sikh kingdom become a British province, than even those few items of taxation that still continue to disfigure the customs tariff dissppertred from the schedule, and the merchant of the Punjab was free to export or to import every article of trade, raw or manufactured, without living subject to a single demand on account of the state. Salt remained the only tax-paying article, and the result has amply answered the expectations of those who carri e d out in the Punjab the liberal views that are rapidly extending iu Europe. Free trade is an absolute fact in the most extended sense of the word in the newly-acquired province. The whole of the measures that led to this most desirable resuit were fully described by us in three articles that appeared in the Chronicle of June, 1850. But while these wise resolutions were introduced on both banks of the Sutlej, at a period that would hardly have been anticipated by the most sanguine, it was found (the fact was discovered almost by an accident arising out of the complaint of a merchant conveying goods downwards) by the authorities irs the-e provinces, that the boasted freedom of navigation on that portion of the Indies running through Sind, so pompously proclaimed by Lord Ellenbomugh, was a myth, and that goods passing through that country were su luect in many instances to exorbitant demands in the shape of transit sad river dues, all the more entroue fur being let out to farmers. We have for some time had before us a tabu'.ar statement, divided into three schedules, from which we learn (Sched. A.) that no less than 31 articles of goods were subject to duty if imported by land into Sind, and that many of them, such as spices, manufactures of iron, etc., paid ten per cent. if imported on British bottoms, which means, we presume, by British merchants, and that this per eentage was double in the case of goods imported on foreign bottoms ; 2ndly—from schedule B. that cotton, tobacco, and " all articles not above enume rated," exported by land from any part of Sind, were sub ject, in the great majority of items, to three per cent. on the value, doubled as above ; and 3rdly—from schedule C., that comparatively speaking, heavy duties were levied on grain of all kinds, cotton, silk, copper, iron, tohaisco, im ported or exported by the river from and to foreign coun tries. These schedules, were calculated to ruin the trade of any country, especially one adjoining a province in which the must liberal measures of free trade had been introduced. It is with much satisfaction, therefore, we have the pleasure to announce that a portion of these duties, that is, the river and export demands, which, notwithstanding their vela. thins minuteness, yielded only an annual re-venue of 46,579r5. (thus divided: Shikarpoor, 10,448r5. ; Ilaiderabad, 13,533r5. ; Hurachee, 5,325r5.), have been abolished by order of the Governor-General. Though much of the credit of this measure (a public notification may be immediately expected) is due to the representations of Mr. Freer, the commissioner of Sind, the board of administration fur the affairs of the Punjab has some share in the adoption of a resolution of a measure calculated to prose of great benefit to the province of Sind. MIL! lAitY INTELLIGENCE. Casua'tits by death in the Indian arms' since the departure of the mail of the sth of July. Ilex Majesty'a Troops.—Lieut. A. Cumming, 21th Fo at Wuseembad, on the 25th June. Bombay.—Dr. Bair:leather, in England. Madraa.—Lieut.•Col. 11. Moberly, 22nit N. 1., stipendiary member military board, at Madras, on the .Ith July . Bengal.—Ensign C. Sultan, filth N. 1.. at Csanphre. oa the 25th June.—Lieut.-Col. 1). Williams, sth N. I . at Mean Meer. Indian Navy.—Acting Muter J. Bundock, team r Chc naub, at Mooltan, on the 23rd June. Ilan MAJYAIA. THOOPN.—ArriIINTIIPNI+ Av Floi• muTiose.-78th Foot. Ensign A. Wickham I'ym %%Wks to he Lieut., by parchue, vice Dahmer, who retire.. 2ith June, 1842.-91 th Foot Ensign Robert A. Bonthhy Tod to be Lieut., by purchatie, vice Boileau, who rearm, 23th June, 1&12. _ . rIII4LUeOII TO Et noen —The following order is eon firmed:—By Major-General W. Starely, C. U strinittalt of absence to !Quarter-muter W. Colborne, s: rd root. to England, for two vest" from date of embarkation, °a medical certificate. HENHAL UENIPMAL OHDR/M.-11T HIS 111.1.1MCY IHS CuMMANI , EH-1,4-4111KE or 11,1.1 A. _.........---...-....... ... —...... . Head-Quarters, Simla. July 5. 1852. Under instruction' from government, the Commander-in. Chief is plessed to announce the following revision in the divisional commands of the army : '1 he Henan* and Dinapore Division' will hi neeforward he united under the latter designation. Diniirre hi toe the head-guarder' of the new division, and D. nares all be come • second claw brigade. The l'unjaub Division will be divided ibto two distinct coinuisuils, to be denominated the Lahore and Peshawar Divisions, The Jullundur field-force will team to be • aparAlO and indeptutl.nt c o mm a nd ; an d J u ll un dur. l`a 0 I..er, :Kw 'Josiah, li Ur i w.p.m., Muni, Umballah, and Hosliey aqui*. Loodianah, Piiillour, are trato.hrreil *0 J uttogb (Simla) Diakinlali the Sirliind Divi•otili Dugshaie, J (illumine, which will in future Kuosiwlie, Kurturpore, comprise the soreral Sahathoo, Haiheyarpore. stations noted in the margin. The Lahore division will include ■ll stations I..torrn the " Sutlege," " Bess,•• aid " Jhelum,'• as also the idetom Lahore, Sealkote, of Fonwporo. which F • erotepore, %V uarerabail, is transferred from the (foriiiilguth, Noorpore, Sirhind Divrtion, nod Goordsspore. Kenitra. will compose the v.re• Moulton MI ntatoons noted is . .. . .... the margin, Lahore being the head-gu;tereOt the diriuon The Pe,liawur diviiiion will include all the 'nation , yond the "Jhelum. Hann! Pindee, Khan, Jhelum, blurree, Aitock, P ea b awur , Kohut, I smae l. wnta the heal Dlien, w q. i nutei a u t ti ti Li be ma rtin , rsion. The , 4• Brigs bora th to Prose b o re meet of Brigs 800 CI By Tax Isl. 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