The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-04 00:00:00

the ervrews. T., CuIIItL3PONDINTB. ~.174lit,tta "ru Eames,' ass!s4tair •Its sues ••••E•es i• p.-,1,1861 story lessday ea+ VraLay slit, is Us 4 ►e* vet. . . . - . A :.,,• ..1.11 , 1. intite.Pl 'se •' TM r. 7( I IVY,. Louise livestai parer, a.•: tet the IPSvs. 10, Iliaariminta. ,y two e'sbooli w J. day „• pub.:cabal. HIGH WATER AT 1.0:11)04 BILIDGE. 7.1. Dav—Mwaise. t7a. Altstasoa. 11r. I. to.vosa.w—Merousg. 4la ..Ariaratioi. Ya. U. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1. TUE sea rf politics, that for weeks has been resting calm, it not stagnant, will soon be in motion. The meeting at Manchester yesterday gives one t ar'y sign of the coming activity. On 'llursday mut Parliament will re-assemble, — the west of Landon will fill again,—the Clubs once more be thronged,—Ministerial action will begin, —and the pause of hopeful expectation be re placed by certainty on some points and criticism upon all. When t'..e doors of St. Stephen open on the Doh instant, there will of course be some prelimi naries to go tliruu4h, both parliamentary and minis • terial. Some writs will be wanted to summon new members to till a vacant scat or two in the House of Commons, and the proposed transfer of the seals of the Foreign Office from Lord JOHN Rtaskt.t. to Lord CL %KEN iHis has to be arranged in the Cabinet. iiless sonic reason should arise for interference in this latter matter, Lord CLARE'inuN, it is said, will be installed in Downing-street about the 12th or ILb instant, and then Lord ALERDEEN'3 corps being quite complete, we may make sure of the opening of the St. Stephen's season. The bill of the coming play is already sufficiently full and varied. A very promising list of questions is in procure of aLcumulation " to be put to the new Government on their appearance in Parliament. Queries are already on the papers of the House re ferring to Minim( nal opinions and intentions about the Reform of Oxford Lnivcrsity—the Law of Mort main—and the conduct of Sir JAKEs BROOKE. But the notifications now in type do not indicate • tithe of the points on which the new occupants of office must now, in a week's time, be prepared to give answers about The great query of all will come from the world outside the House; and to this—the gravest and fie greatest of them all—the most careful and candid reply is expected. Tho question 6—What are the new Ministry prepared to do? What will be tt cir prcgrammt ? How do they propose to deserve support from Without? To what extent will they justify the public faith in them as Reformers—and Low fez will Ministerial deeds go to prove the work ing power of the Coalition Cabinet? Are we to see the liberal element, indicated by men like Lord J. Runseu. and Sir W. NloLeswoun, permitted to liberalise the Cabinet which contains Mr. GLAD STOKE and the Duke of NEWCASTLE, or are we to See the latter paralysing their more forward coil in!., a state of Oxford torpidity ? These are IL' g r% A: questions for solution. The Budget will. it is said, not be tot thcoming before Easter, and an intimation to that effect will probably be ono of the first elicited after the opening of Parliament Should this prove true, Lord ABERDEEN'llGovernment will have nearly two months for attention to other things, before their financial plans are laid open to Parliamentary and public criticism. The Budget question will of course give rise to long and heavy— and, it may be, damaging—discussions. That tender money mattet—the Income Tax,—must be the great point of all, but not the only one involving difficulty. Tho claims to remission of taxation ; the pleas for abolition of the imposts on cleanliness (soap), publi city (advertisements), knowledge and trade (paper), on drink (tea and hops), are all likely to be strongly urged, and not the less successfully from a knowledge of Mr. DisoaLtt's opinions on these matters. The postponement of the Budget till the beginning of April, as • matter of course, ties up all decision on any of these subjects till that time. When, however, the day of its production does come, great will be the disappointment and dismay, and many the seeds of Ministerial difficulty and dis organisation, if it should not contain all that might have been good in the old Budget (omitting its blun- den and mischiefs), with much more that shall be good and new. Shipping should be freed from its but 'Leos, not in the sham manner intended by the Derbyites, but in the full and complete way for }cars past indicated in these columns. Light dues, passing tolls, and salvage to the Royal Navy, must all be thoroughly set to rights. Reforms, financial and fiscal, will be reckoned on. Parliament will expect that the whole taxation of the country will be made to pass under their super vision, instead of large sums being—as now—col lected and spent as the price of collection,—the balance only passing into the national exchequer. Till April, however, it seems most likely we shall have to wait for any explanation of Ministerial views on these points, contenting ourselves meantime with the many other texts on which parliamentary action may and will be taken. The papers of the House of Commons are far from barren of promise on this. Ve have only to turn to the Parliamentary Votes and Proceedings, to find " the shadow before" and indicative of coming debates. What do we see: Mr. Derr stands pledged in type to urge the esta blishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal ; the County Elections Polls Bill is to go (we trust success fully) to a third reading; County Rate and Expendi ture are to be again discussed; Mr. ADDERLET is to call attention to the affairs of the Cape of Good Hope; Mr. Bffitir.LEY to bring on his annual motion in favour of the Ballot ; the Mar quis of BLANDFORD seeks a hearing upon his scheme fur the management of Church Property; Mr. H. BROWN is to call attention to the lamentable results of Railway Accidents, and suggest interference for their prevention ; Sir WILLIAM CLAY is to make an onslaught on Church Rates. Whilst Mr. CsanErfus proposes to flagellate the mismanagers of the Na tional Gallery; Mr. Tnnitas Dtowoxiiit is to press his resolution for the enlargement of the Electoral Franchise, and to urge the extension of the good offices of England to procure the withdrawal of the French troops from Rouse. Sir DE Lacs Evects, like a soldier es he is, wants information about the piratical attempts on Cuba, and about the despatch of Madras troops to Rangoon, whilst Mr. EWART wishes very wisely and properly to extend Free Trade to all articles constituting the food of the people, and very benevolently to abolish the punishment of death. Mr. FAGAN is to run • tilt at Ministers' Money ; Sir HARRY HALTOILD, at the Truck system; and Sir B. HALL, at Episcopal Revenues. Lord ROBERT Onosvr.ison takes pity on the poor at torneys, and wishes to nee them of the annual certi ficate duty Lord HOMAN meanwhile dealing with the other end of the legal chain by urging the expulsion of ail Judges of superior courts of equity and ecclesiastical courts from the House of Commons. Mr. W. Witadans is to urge reform of the law of Probate and Legacy Duties; Lord JOCELYN, Mr. Orway, and Sir HERBLaT MADDOCK, have given notices about India; the benevolent Lord Deut.te STUART is to advocate again the shortening of Par insolent. and :he persevering Mr. ” ,- KE KING the propriety and fairness of making the franchise the same in counties as in towns. Long as this list may look, it does not yet include the whole string of topics already entered on. the Notice Book of the House of Commons—as " Lions after the recess for which no particular day has yet been fixed." Ireland and its Church are of course set down, and so is that dreary Maynooth. Law Reform very properly figures in the list ; and to it we must add—Oaths, the Law of Partner ship, Manning the Navy, Fire Assuranee, the Cost of Local Acts, the Law of Settlement, and—What slued be done with the seats lost by St. Albans and budhury ? If all this is not • dainty dish to set before the opening House of Commons, we know not what would make one. Ail these topics demand attention, and all deserve it. What varied interests are involved in them—what hopes, fears, expectations, are pending the resolves to be come to. What new branches of industry arc looking to be freed—what new channels of enterprise to he opened;—what irk some trammels wait to be stricken off the growing intelligence of our country and our time. Peers and psasants--landlords and traders—people at home and abroad, in our counties and in our colonies—the mild Hiudoo and the savage Kattir—men in alt ranks and in all quarters, have interests more or less in the decisions of the English Parliament. Greater or smaller the literate sad the topics may be, bat all ere portant. Look, for instance, at that one gigantic question of India, in which the welfare of hundreds of millions are involved, and on watch— unless startled by the responsibility—Emile ruent will assuredly run into another error of twenty years duration, by renewing for that term the Leadenhaa Charter. That topic alone would give food for many days debate. Thin, again, on the Cape of Good Hope Inquiry may hinge a discus sion and decision strengthening what is good, or con firming what is abominable, in our modes of colonial government ;—and so on with many another entry on this firm programme that now awaits the senatorial I performers in 'St. Stephen's. Whether the Budget, with its attendant discussions,—its motions by Mr. Hunk and others, and the many vital consequence* to follow its presentation,—be made before or after Easter, it is clear (as we started be saying)—that our present political calm will soon be broken thoroughly enough. The chief riddle to be early read, however, is,—Whether the Ministry will, or will not, at once candidly state their intentions and name the day for the payment of those promissory notes of Reform by which they have thus far gained the support and good will of the people ? What is looked for is, that they will fix their own time and keep it. FRANCE. PARIS, TUURSDAT EVENINO. The coronation of the Emperor and Empress has been fixed, it is said, for the month of May next, although it is asserted in well-informed quarters that the event will take place at a much earlier date. A decree, establishing a superior council of com merce, agriculture, and industry, signed by the Em peror yesterday, appears in this morning's Vunikur, nominating M. Billault vice-president, and appoint ing the following members :—Senators the Count d'Argout and the Duke de :Slouchy; M. Revell, for merly mayor of Lyons and vice- resident of the Corps Legislatif ; MM.:De I'arieu, De Vieillefroy, the Count de Morny, Legentil (President of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris), Usuticr (Deputy-Governor of the Bank of France), Dutfoar-llubergier (mayor of Bordeaux), Scycloux, and d'Eichthal. Ozenne is I named consulting secretary. Congratulatory addresses still continue to pour in upon the Empzrtr on his marriage. Those from the following municipal councils are given at length in the government organ of to-day, viz.:—Angers, La val, Lyuns, Bourg, Bourges, Aix, Saistes, Evreux, Rennes, Amiens, Chatesubriaut, Cherbourg, St. Lo, Chaluns-sur-Marne, Epernay, Commerey, Montmedy, Duokerque, Ilazebrouck, Verdun, Douai, Wiasem bourg, and Meaux. Besides these, the Imperial go vernment has received addresses from the following communes :—Conde-sur-Noireau, St. Memmie, Vig not, Petit-Quevilly, Sotteyille lez•Rouen, Sigournay, sod Armeau, the particular terms of which it is not thought necessary to publish. Among the objects composing the marriage offer ing of the Empress, the Emperor placed, instead of the customary purse, a portfolio inclosing 250,000 f. The Empress, however, having expressed a strong desire that this sum should be entirely consecrated to charitable purposes, the sum of 100,000 francs will be bestowed on the Maternal Societies, to assist poor lying-in women in providing for their wants. The charity will be placed under the immediate patronage of her Majesty the Empress, and the sum of 1.50,000 francs will be given to provide new beds at the Hoepital of Incurables. A decree tip pan in the Moniteur, confirming these grants, on behalf of " our mu ch-bored wife, the Empress Eugenie?' Official notice has been given by the French postal authorities that the correspondence for Penang, Sin gapore, and China, by way of Suez, will henceforth be despatched by the two English mails starting from Marseilles on the 11th and 27th of each month ; and that the mails for Australia will be forwarded by way of Sues on the lithof each alternate month, commencing on the 11th of March proximo. Although the decrees in the Illuniteur constitute the only ostensible result of the council of ministers held yesterday, it is beyond doubt that the ministe rial crisis continues. Many conflicting versions of what took place at the council are current. Some days since M. de Persigny was on the point of retir ing, but I have now reason to think that he will be triumphant, and that the ministers opposed to his policy will go out. I am informed that a sharp discussion on the question of the amnesty took place between M. de Persigny and M. Abbattucci, supported on this occasion by M. Duces on the one side, and MM. Fould and De Maupas on the other. The two latter ministers spoke ener getically against the amnesty, and referred to reports from the prefects and provincial police inspectors, for the purpose of showing that the state of feeling in the departments was not such as to render it safe to recall 3,000 more or less notorious political agi tators from exile. This opinion was combated by MM. Persigny and Abbattucci, who contended that the good effect of the amnesty upon the mind of the population would far outweigh its danger. The Em peror, as is usual with him, listened calmly to his councillors, without expressing his own opinion, and at the conclusion of the deliberation said he would consider the question. I hear that Prince Napoleon Bonaparte lately re presented to the Emperor that MM. Fould and De Maupiss did infinite harm to the government by their opposition to the amnesty, and that they had hitherto succeeded in rendering illusory the greater part of the pardons announced to have been granted He exhorted the Emperor not to recede from the gene rous resolution he had taken. The belief that the Persigny faction will gain the day is strengthened by the news of warlike preparations now making on the Prussian frontier. A good deal of uneasiness was felt on the Bourse some days since at the news of General Reoaud's appointment to the demand of an active division of cavalry at Luneville—s command not usually created except as a war measure. To-day, it is said, that the railways abutting on the Rhine frontier have been ordered to send in reports of the number of troops they could carry in a given time. This report has had a con• siderable effect upon the funds to-day. The minis terial crisis is generally felt to be intimately con nected with the great question of peace or war. MM. Fould and de Moray are understood to belong to the pesos party, and M. de Persigny is univesally believed to entertain war-like views. Should M. de Persigny ultimately get the best of the present difference, it can scarcely be doubted that there will be a change in the mi nistry of war. Without reference to other reasons for the retirement of Marshal St. Arnaud, it is felt that be does not enjoy sufficient popularity, nor pos sess sufficient influence with the army, to continue at its head in critical times. Marshal Valliant and Generals Lourmel and Canrobert are all spoken of in turn as likely to succeed him. The two letter would make it a sine qua non that the banished generals should be recalled, but complianes with their conditions would probably be one of the conse quences of the complete sue ess of M. de Persigny. If, contrary to my present expectation, M. Fould should remain in the cabinet, it is more than probable that M. Itineau will retire from the ministry of finance. I understand that he is considered to have exhibited a lukewarmness in declining to adopt certain mea sures suggested to him for keeping up the price of the funds on the occasion of the announcement of the marriage. It is well known that at the time of the conversion of the Five per Cents. the government ap plied to certain wealthy institutions to buy the routes, undertaking at the same time to guaran tee them against loss. 11 I am rightly informed, M. Bineau was asked a fortnight ago to give a simi lar guarantee to the credit mobilier society, but he thought the occasion not sufficient to warrant such a departure from all sound financial principle. General Allouveau do Montreal passed through Lyons on the Ist inst. on his way to Rome to re lieve General Gemeau in the command of the army of occupation. There Is much talk in the fashionable circles of the diamond neckiace which is being made fur the Empress by order of the Emperor. It is said to be completed with the exception of the centre diamond, the jeweller charged with the order not having until lately found one of sufLiint beauty. A Brazil merchant has arrived from Lon don with a diamond of the size and character re quired, and for which he asks I N),000f. It is said that the offer made by the jeweller is, however, much less than the prize demanded. the bail given by the Minister of War on Tuesday evening was very brilliant. More :kin four thousand persons were present. Amongst them were Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the Prunes@ Mat*, the Princess Murat, all the Ministers and that. ladies, a•great number et gene. ads, admirals, and other dicers, members of the Senate, Legislative Body, and Councillors of State, end several oder high public functionaries. 'There has been a general and very heavy decline en all the Rentes to-day. The Three per Cents., after many attempts had been unsuocessfully made to "bull" the market, dropped down nearly a franc, or more than one per cent., and eventually closed 90c. lower than yesterday, being last called 78f. 70c. for the amount. The Four-and -t-Half per Cents., after undergoing almost the same vicissitudes, left off 33c. worse than yesterday ; thus showing that the state inents put forward that the former decline was solely owing to the liquidation were erroneous. The rate, have not been so low fur many months past ; there is a great want of confidence, and a general feeling of instability which keeps all the securities from eking. Letters from Madrid, of the 29th ult., announce that the Ministry still rely upon a majority in the elections. The clergy patronise everywhere the go- vernment candidates. It is thought that M. Olozaga will not succeed at Saragossa. Narvaez, abandoned by his friends, is still ill at Biarritz. Spanish Three per Cents., 401. PARIS. WIDNIIIDAT EVININO. Tho Emperor's marriage . has prompted several most unhappy poetic effusions. M. Mery's really pretty cantata is the only one of them that can be read with a grave face. A poem by M. Barthii lemy says that the empire required,— t_r as femme an ease ler, noble gamma. ginereux, Tolls enfant que les Run; n'en Out *nate - pour eus. The assertion that kings never possess a woman with a proud, noble, loving, generous heart, pushes Louis Napoleon's argument against royal alliances a very long way indeed. 1 think you will scarcely grudge space for the following poetry by M. Rodolphe Omani), prefect of the Yonne, who was apppointed to that office before December 2, on ac count of his well-known devotion to the Bonapartist cause : LE MAZIAO3I DA L'EMPIIREITI. Vous Vans rill , Cesar, dins le plus beau langage Out soitjuiqu'a cejour d'un none descendu; Dieu voua inspire aussi pour sone marisge, Oui, par lui votre appel est encore enteudu. Onand on a revs la couronne De hull millions de Francais, Qu'ane nation sous la donne Pour le prix d'immenses bienfaits ; II est juste que Pon choisine La camomile selon son cons. Nous aimerona Plmperatrice Comm. nous aim us l'Empereur. Nous lui dermas du fund de Fame : La dette de tons acquitta ;" Nous lui dirons merci, Madame, Du bonheur que votis apportes Au sauveur de none patrie, Au siuveur de la societe, Au monarque pour lequill pin Le pure de la ehrsitiente. En recevant la diadem.', Deja Francais* par le cmur, Vous, si digits du rang supreme Par les venal, par la douceur, Dune Josephine nouvelle, Pres d'un sure Napoleon, Occupes la place al belle, Acoompline: la mission. Dans la nine dee baailiques, 01 so prepare nitre hymen, Vanes, au bruit des saints cantiques, A Cesar donner votre main. Et nous, des vont', vineries De Notre•Dame-deeParia Veit les demesnes etherees Pumas awater nos yaw: chide, Pour qus le Seigneur, en as grim, Donne longue vie et ante Au couple augu.te, et lui fuse Des jour. pleins de prospirite. Pais longue d'un lien si tends* On Ms I l'Empereur naltra, Ainsi que devant Alexandre L'Univen entier se fain. Vous Paves dit, Cesar, dans le plus beau longer Qui wit juequ'i ea jour d'un trine descendu; Dieu vous inspire aural pour cone miriage; Oui, par lui votre appel est encore er.tcndu. CONTE RODOLPHE D'Oaxxxo. The Union is authorised to deny the authenticity of a legitimist manifesto, said by the government journals to have been extensively circulated in the manufactories of Path. The Prase says :—" It is said that a new company has just obtained the concession of the steam packet. between Marseilles and Algiers now enjoyed by the company Basin. The new contractors have agreed to make nearly twice as many passages between these two points as were effected by the old company, and to make the passage in from 35 to 40 hours, in stead of as hitherto in from 55 to 60." The Courrier de Marseille of Jan. 30 says:— " Yesterday a despatch by electric telegraph of up wards of 80 words was sent to London at two in the afternoon, and an answer arrived back at half-plat three." A fanatic, named Billot, professing legitimist principles, has taken advantage of the flat season to publish what he calls " Lettres Franques" to the Emperor, perhaps the maddest outpouring of anti- English passion which has yet been exhibited: I repeat it (cries H. Billot), we are p roud of our Wee. lion for the House of Bourbon because it is detested by the English. In conclusion, we must, in order that the evil disappear, we must destroy it in its egg Vase sow my). It is not India or any other foreign voint we must invade ; people would not permit us; we could not (do it. It ia to the very heart of Great Britain we must advance—it is the Eogliah spirit we must destroy in its own home. Then indeed the decline of England will be a truth. To say and to do any other thing is to talk nonsense. The time for declarations is past; the word must no longer be other than action, and action the most grave and the most decisive. Then proceeding to the treaties of 1815, he cries : I do not hesitate to say—and all France will say it with me—that they have been infamous, and the pease which followed them thrice shameful. The treaties of 1815 have been imposed by fore., by hatred, by jealousy, by bruta• lity, by vengeance 1 The treaties of 1815 were not accepted by the elder Bourbons, who submitted to them se the vie ton submits to the will of the brigand who despoils him. They form a page of mud ; there is not sufficient blood in the veins of 10,000,000 of men to wash out that immense stain. The question to be settled is not then Napoleonism, but national, and completely French ; and it is, therefore, I maintain it against all comers. What the Bourbons begun is that:onset:of dignity, honour, and prosperity ; in a word, is the eause of the nation. Can4on abrndon it? Ido not think so. Yoo have a mission ; that is your mission. You are in power; you dispose of the force that makes your authority. You eammand, you order, you decree—you are a powerful, for- midable fact. Inaction would make of you •canse without effect; and a mast without effect is valueless in physical as in political organisation ." " I would say to Henry V. himself, if he filled the throne of his fathers, and if he sub mitted to those treaties (the stain of which, thank God! his rue has as much as possible washed out), ' Yes are not worthy to command Frenchmen.' If I have told the truth, must not the brow* announce in oar 37,000 communes that • crusade without trace and without pity be opened against her (England); and ought not the tocsin sound wherever a Frenchman is found to hear it ? sad ought not the cry of Ara ormes be repeated until millions of men, with the torch and the sword is hand, shall have interred under its own ruins that people (the English) condemned by the universe ! When your victorious Sag waves over the Tower of London, you will summon the powers to a general congress. Then an alliance shall be formed which may indeed be called holy. France will resume her limits, and all the maritime, positions to which she is entitled. Her colonies will be ' restored to her: Malta will be hers; Egypt will exist under her laws. Poland will have her limits with her indepen dence. Russia will be supreme in the East. Constanti nople will once more be Christian. Austria will have her part in European Turkey. Hungary will be independent. Prussia will absorb the associated states . Italy will be free from a foreign yoke. Spoils and Portugal will form one ; and the Methuen treaty, like so many others, will be pul ver.ed--twie as The seas will be free; for all the same settee, the same rights, the same tariffs, the tame ad vantage.. Then will be no difference. The superiority of one will only be the result of its greater intelligence and activity ; it will be man exalted, not as Proudhon means, but according to the sentiment of his interests united to hie dignity ; and the fraternity of peoples will be henceforth a . trutb _ _ _ In the postscript to the work he exclaims : Prince, distrust the English within quite as much, and perhaps more, than the English without. The ignorance of the greatest part of our publicists and of our statesmen, the gond faith of others towards the close of the last century, rendered them the fanatical apostles of English doctrine,. We have not in France anything which resembles England —let as incessantly repeat it. The English are protostaats the French are catholic—they are aristocrats, we are parti lane of equality—they are the fathers of privilege and of monopoly in all, we ars the initiators and the propagators of common rights. The English are for all restrictions, the French for all !inertias—in England the land forms a pri vileged domain, in France it may I:nlong to all—England is the country of castes, in France they are for ever abolished; the English only dream of trouble and anarchy to enrich themselves with the *Waist the vanquished—the French only dream of the civilisation, the emancipation, and the grandeur of nation,. The English only communi cate poison ; the French carry life throughout all the coca tries where they penetrate. We are not and we cannot be English in any manner. To be English is this day inFranee to be more than traitor, to be parricides. Prince, it is to the English within that we should again owe, in great measure, a new invasion of France by conti nental Europe if it was ever conjured, from their impious desires, sent assured of It. When they say, "AU by the Bagßah," we will answer them contemptuously, " AS by true Frenchmen • aU agaiitat the English !" Anathema, thee on the Eng lish within! Death to the English with out ! All from real 'France and by France ! France will lover hare any other try. From the north to the south, p rom t h e east to the west, the sentiment is the same. All Frenchmen see united in this thought of . honour sad dignity. And it is with teeth that the poet has said— .' Et la Vendee aiguiserait sou glaive Sur la pierre de Waterloo!' THE IMPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1853. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam packet Madrid, Captain Weeks, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails, under the charge of Lieut. Scriven, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are— Gibraltar, Jan. 25th; Cadiz, 26th; Lisbon, 20th; Oporto, 30th; Vigo, 31st. The Duke of Saldanha was seriously ill at Lisbon, and great anxiety was manifested for his safety. Re had suffered an operation for a tumour in the breast, and was considered better, but by no means oat of danger. Prince Auguste of Saxe Coburg landed from the Madrid on her outward voyage , _ on a visit to his brother the King of Portugal. The Baron de Siesal was also a passenger to Lisbon, returning from a special mission to Brussels, relative to some dif ferences between Portugal and America, which had been settled in favour of Portugal. The Madrid was detained at Vigo fifteen hours, not having been able to obtain pratique, although she anchored before sunset. This is a detention one would hardly expect in the present day, and certainly ought not to be submitted to. Her Majesty's ships Sans Pareil and Inflexible, were at Lisbon. Lieutenant Mav, of the Sans Pareil, died on the 16th of January. Vice-Admiral Dandas, with the Britannia (flag ship), Trafalgar, Albion, and Bellerophon, of the line, Arethusa (frigate), and the steamers Sampson and Niger, left Gibraltar for Malta on the 25th of January, immediately after the arrival of the Madrid from England, leaving the steamer, Retribution, to follow with the Admiral's despatches from England by the Indus. Commander Bickford joined the Albion on the 25th January. Our correspondent writes: LISBON, JAN. 29. On the 25th, at daybreak, the police, both civil and military, entered the tecond floor of No. 27, Rua do Patrocinio, and seized a machine formed of seven musket bar rels, seven red caps, and a red flag, hav ing on it " Mons o tyranno" (literally, the tyrant dies); a table was laid out, having on it some frag ments of fried fish, a piece of bread, part of a bottle of wine, a small bottle of some inflammable liquid, two torches, two rockets, a bundle of furze, and a i trunk full of papers. The only demonstrable fact connected with this extraordinary circumstance is, that the street in question is in the line of Saldanha's transit to and from the Palace to his own house; hence a variety of conjectures; but I understand the machine is a wretched burlesque upon any instru- ment intended to hurl death upon any one, as the barrels are not only weak and imperfect, but the machine by no means complete. It appears, how ever, the invasion of the house took place by de nouncement, which probably explains the whole affair. The Portuguese a:c not a people prone to assassi nation, and even in the most excited seasons no at tempt was ever made to remove obnoxious public men by such means. I informed you in my last that the definitive con tract for the railroad had not been conceded, but that the government was waiting the arrival of competent persons from England, with an unexceptional list of associates, whose means would insure the completion of the work. The packet of the 17th having arrived without any such persons, the public disappointment wss attempted to be allayed by a paragraph in the .Rerolucoo, the organ of the railroad projectors, that "information had been received from the secretary in London, that Mr. Barry and the other directors would only arrive in London from Paris on the 18th, immediately after which the material, and other ob jects for its construction, would be forwarded from Leeds, so as to arrive in Lisbon by the next packet." This has afforded room for much comment ; that the material should be forwarded without even knowing that the directors would confirm Mr. Hislop's (the agent's) verbal and consequent conditional concession. The government required to change the course both at Lisbon and Santarem; that the government would approve the list of the proposed company or that the required deposit could be made, is somewhat odd ; and has suscitated the opinion that at the present discount Portuguese faith is at in London, Mr. Barry has been obliged to resort to Paris for the formation of a compan y ; failing the success of which, all idea of a railroad in Portugal will, for the present, be aban doned! This course, in fact, will not only save to the unwise projectors of it the money they designed to invest, but will put it out of the power of the go vernment to lay violent hands upon it, or withhold the interest of it at any future period. If the Pari sian purse be shut against Portugal as the Lon don is, a crisis must soon take place. The capi talising decree of 3rd of December, 1831, promised thenceforward pay to the troops and navy monthly ; the latter, however, has not only gone into arrear as heretofore, but the government has again adopted the expedient of paying in paper, which can only be turned into cash at an exorbitant discount. It is true the pay of the officers of the army and pensions are yet kept up in this division: but it is said to be going into arrears is others; the army must, however, be paid, or squalls may be expected, as discontent is as widely spreading among the people as it did under the administration of Count Thomar, at seeing the tendencies of the government, whose conduct is perfectly anomalous ; it pretends to desire the improvement and instruction of the people, while it publishes a penal code prohibiting the association of more than 20 persons ; it desires arts and manufactures to flourish—while' ' it prohibits religious, political, literary, and indeed' all other societies, under severe penalties; in tine, it is a retrograding government, and when it gets the steam up m its subservient and obsequious Cortes, it will run down all before it, and endeavour to stifle thought if it be possible. The Port of Ceara in the Brazils is considered " suspected." Notwithstanding that many deputies to the Cortes have loudly exclaimed against the practices used at the elections, the Chamber has already approved of nearly the whole of the returns. It is said the go vernment are in some fear of the Upper Chamber, and that a creation of peers is contem Aided. Exchange, 54 ; discount of notes of the Bank of Lisbon, 2 per cent. MONTENEGRO. We receive with the Vienna and Dalmatian papers fuller accounts of the events noticed in yesterday's telegraphic despatch. Respecting the operations at Grahovo, the Oaserratore Daltnato of the 23rd ult. says, "On tho 15th the Turkish cavalry advanced upon Grahovo. Upon their approach the inhabitants set fire to the out.lying houses resolved that they should afford no shelter to the enemy. Meanwhile, the Woiwode. with forty of his bravest adherents, retired to his own house, which was fortified, and resolved to defend it to the last drop of his blood. According to the latest accounts, the house was enveloped in flames, while a dreadfu l conflict raged in the streets." In the same journal of the 25th ult. we read further :—The floods of heavy rain descended in time to stay the total conflagration of Grahovo. Divisions of 'Darkish infantry and cavalry stand in the neighbourhood of the town." The Meat Chnette of the 29th ult. says :—We learn from Risavo that the house of the Woiwoden Wujatich of Grahovo has been entirely burut down by the Turks. Eighteen Grahovians, among them the brother of the Woiwode, having fought to the last extremity, perished in the flames. Whether Wujatich himself fell into the hands of the Turks, or saved himself by flight, is unknown. The accounts published by the Dalmatian papers respecting the operations of either side since the 15th are conjectural and contradictory. Both &des arc fighting with great bravery, and with all that aggravated cruelty which has always marked the hostile encounters of Montenegrins with Turks. Letters from Vienna state the opinion of Austrian officers that, notwithstanding some local successes, the Montenegrins are daily losing ground, while Omer Paella is completing his operations for the con quest of the country. Prince Daniel pays two ducats per caput for every Turk's head brought to Cettinje. THE UNITED STATES. [Wf ALICTRIC TILRORAIW.] (FROM OUR OWX CORILRAPONDINT.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The United States Mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived here this morning direct from New York, bringing 54 passengers, but no specie. The Andes had armed out at New York, and the Europa at Halifax. By this arrival we have four days' later news than that brought by the America on Sunday last. The advice' from Washington state what General Cass, on the 18th, in a long speech iu the Senate, ad vocated, the acquisition of Cuba by purchase or by action. Mason, Chairman of Committee, followed, and advocated exactly opposite views. The discus sion was then adjourned over to the 25th. From Mexico we learn that the revolution was extending to all the provinces, and all had revolted but three. It was believed that Santa Anna would come to power. President Arista's message had been published, but it contains nothing but gloomy despondence for Mexico. From Havannah we have papers to the the 13th ult., by which we learn that a large cargo of 800 slaves had been landed on Cadanes, whilst the British ships Vestal and Geyser were taking a captured slaver into Havannah, Governor Canedo and Parcja, Queen Christina's agent, largely inte rested. Canedo, though appealed to by the British consul, refused to give explanation or redress in Boyleu's case. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The commercial news by this arrival repots business good, money plentiful, and stocks in good demand ut full prices. hints market good, and prices firm. COTTON.—In the cotton market at New York, notwith standing the Europa's news, there has been a fair business done. New Orleans and Mobile commanding 12 to 12k, and Upland and Florida 111 to II:, being a rise of half a cent. per lb. The advice' report a felling off at all the ports, and the crop estimate decreasing. At New Orleans, on tke 23rd, there was an active market. Pfolllllol2 market quiet, with price lower. BItEADSTUM.—Pminus to the reception of the Eu ropa's news from Englund, the market was active and prices very firm ; since her arrival no business of importance has been transacted to show the tendency of the market; it was however anticipated that the business would be large. The quotations at the departure of the steamer were : Western Canal flour, 5 621 to 5 75; Gennessee wheat, 1 dol. 24c. to I dol. 26c. ; Indian corn, round yellow, 1 dol. 16c. to 1 dol. 18c. ; Southern wheat, 70 to 72; LAM meal, 3 doh. 621 e. to 3 &N. 75e. Exchange in fair &mend, at the following rates: On London, 1091 to 1; Paris, 5 13; Hamburg, 351 to ; Bremen, 791 to f. In freights there is no material change to notice. 'be court. WINDSOR, Faa. 3. The following had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday : The Ducheu of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Duke and Duchess of Lt inster, the Lady in Waiting to the Ductless of Kent, the Baroness de Bpeth, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Mulgrave, the Dean of Chester, the Rev. F. and the Hoc. Mrs. Anson, an 1 Mr. Gibbs. The Band of the Grenadier Gnards attended in the Cas tle, and played during dinner. Fier Majesty 's Private Band afterwards attended, and played the following selection: Overture ' "Joko" Lindpaintner. Pantn•lAContra Bunt, Ilk. A. C. Rowland Rowland. Selection. " Leatoeq" Aobrr. Kliegs's Marion Prince Albert went out hunting this forenoon, attended by Lieut.-Coloael the lion. A. Gordon. The following have been invited, and are expected to day: The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cranworth, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, Lord and Lady Ashburton, the Right Hon. Sidney and Mn. Herbert, and Sir William and Lady Moleswoith. The Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Mac donald have succeeded to the Hon. Amelia Murray and the Hon Lucy Kerr al Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage this afternoon, attended by Lord A. Paget and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, on horseback. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on 'Monday neat, the 7th instant, at Windsor Castle. Summonses were issued yesterday from the Privy Council-c•fficc to the ministers and officers of state. Count Colloredo, the Austrian Minister, had an inter view with Lord John Russell yesterday, at tho Foreign office. A deputation of the Local Executive Committee on the Manchester sad Salford Borough's Education Bill, consist ing of Mr. William Eutwisle (chairman), Mr. John Peel (honorary sezretary), the ltev. C. ltiohson, and Mr. J. P. Bunting, were introduced by Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, and had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of Lans downe, Lord John Russell, and the President of the Board of Trade, in the course of the day. The Earl of Aberdeen left town for Windsor Castle after the breaking up of the Cabinet Council yesterday after noon, on a visit to the Queen. The Lord Chanesllor also left town yesterday afttracion, on a visit to her Majesty. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview on Wednesday with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing. street. Despatches were received at the Colonial Office yesterday from the Governors of the West Indian Islands. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. The Lords present were—The Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Pattesoa, and Bir E. Ryan. An appeal from Canada, part heard, " Pollok v. Bradbury," was resumed and con cluded. An appeal from the Prerogative Court, " Parlor v. Lane," was commenced. The cue wu adjourned. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town on Wednesday night from his seat, Clumbcr, Notts. . A Cabinet Council was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Marquis of Lansdowne travelled from Bowood yesterday morning to attend the Council, and arrived at the Foreign-office soon after 3 o'clock. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer also joined hie colleagues, after attending in the Treasury with the Governor and Deputy-Governer of the Bank of England on the subject of the loan. The Council broke up about half-past 5 o'clock. THE REFORM MEETING AT ' This meeting, given last evening in the form of a wird*, at the Town-hall, was expected to be an effective ga thering. It wee to consist of the leading reformers, or heads of the liberal party, from all the leading towns of South and North Lancashire, to the number of 300 or 400 persons, to meet their representatives. In other words, it was to be a friendly or social reunion of the representatives and repre sented, to talk over the leading questions which are ex pected to engage the attention of parliament. Great un animity of sentiment is believed to prevail be tween most of the representatives of the county and of the boroughs of the county, on these questions, and the object of course is to draw the bend of union by such interchange of sentiments as close as pos sible. The members present were to be—Messrs. Wm. Brown, Jas. Heywood, John Cheethsm, John Bright, T. M. Gibson, Joseph Brotherton, Charles Hindley, W. J. Fox, James Pilkington, Wm. Eccles, Thos. Barnes, Joseph Crook, J. B. Smith, and James Kershaw. Gentlemen have accepted invitations to be present from the following among the principal towns of the county, in addition to Manchester and Salford:—Liverpool, Warrington, Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn, Bury, Ashton, Chorley, Colne, l'reston, Barn ley, Rochdale, Oldham, Stockport, and St. Helens. A similar gathering was held two years ago, before the assem bling of parliament, at the Albion Hotel, which, besides being found to give much gratification to the reform party generally, was also found to lead to good practical results. It was the success of that meeting which has encouraged the party to summon another at the present time. TrIEYELLOW FEY ER IN TIIEWEST INDIA STEAMERS. The accounts brought by the La Plata steamer from the West Indies, clearly show that the yellow fever has nearly spent itself. The cues which have most recently occurred are of a sporadic character, having no traceable origin. If the disease was still existing in all its primitive virulence, the La Plata would, so doubt, have brought it to Southamp ton, on account of the rapidity of her voyage from St. Thomas, which was performed in 14 days. The La Plata was the first ship that had the yellow fever on board of her during her homeward voyage, and the first to bring a clean bill of health after the fever had abated. During the con tinuance of the disease, five of the homeward bound West India packets have been infected with it. There have died on board the West India Company's steamers of yellow fever two admiralty agents, one commander, rive pursers, several officers and engineers, which, together with men, invalids, and passengers, amount to nearly 160 persons. There has been no calamity in the West Indies such as the yellow fever has been for the la t 37 years. Many of the deaths, the news of which was brought home by the La Plata, ware of persons who were left ill at Jamaica from the Parana steamer. It is expected that the next steamer will bring home accounts that the fever has ceased to exist. A SPEEDY FORTUNE.—A young gentleman of Glasgow who has shipped for Australia these lest four years, now finds that he has made 40,0031. by successful consignments of rough goods to that quarter. This may appear incredible, but it is nevertheless a fact.—No►tA lb 444 Moil. LONDON AND CoUNTY JUINI-STOCK BANK. The annual meeting of the proprietors of this bank was held yesterday at the London Tavern. Mr. SALLEIkt, M.P. in the chair. . The following report and balance-sheet were real by the secretary : "Your directors have more than ordinary pleasure hi sub mitting to the proprietors a general statement of the affairs of the company, and the result of the halt-year's accounts ending the 31st of December, 1852. In dues last your di rectors decided, that the large and steady advance in the business of t':e company made it desirable to idereaiet thy capital from 300,01,01. to 400,0001. In carrying out this measure, they offered to the proprietors the option of the new capital at a preiniunt of 31. 10s. per share, sail they have the satisfaction to state that the whole amount was at once taken up. The sum of 17,500. arising from the pre mium, has cnubl-d your directors to extiuguiso the dead weight of 17,0001., arising from the prelimi nary expenses which had accrued from the year 1836, in establishing the miles branches of the compdny. During the past year your directors have opened branches at Colchester, 11,gh 'Wycombe, Richmond and Uxbridge, which they have every reason to believe will tend materially to promote the interests of the company. The marked im provement in the progress of the bank has enabled your directors o give expreesion to their entic e approval of the uniform seal and integrity of the mimes...us officers em ployed in Linden and at the country branches, by present lug to each ellicer a gratuity of 10 per cent. tau the umount of his salary. The net profits of the half-year ending the 31st December, 1842, atter reserving an ample sum fur bad and doubtful dehte, amount to 14,::99:. Ti. 2,1., as set forth in the balance bind t, signed by your auditor*. You directors recommend that a dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum, and a bonus of two per cent. (equal to 8 per rent. on the year,) both free from in come tax, should now be declared. This, if ape proved by the proptietors, will leave 4,6741. 19s. 4d. to be carried to the guarantee fund, which will then be increased to 44,3251. N. Tenet:leo:tors have great gratification in stating that their respected chairman, John Sadleir, Esq., has laid the foundation of a provident fund for the relief of officers who, from misfortune, sickuesa, or superannuation, may b.coma incapable of providing fur themselves and their families. Your directors have thought that the most acceptable return they could offer to Mr. t•ad leir would be some general measure by which this provident fund might be eyetematically enlarged for the benefit of the officers. They have given to this object their most ma ture consideration, and have established a graduated scale of guarantee among the officers which combines the advan tage of mutual watchfulness and control over their fidelity and good conduct, with a regular contribution by each officer to the increase of the provident fund. Your direc tors anticipate that the result of this plan will, in the course of a few years, give an extended and efficient aid to the be nevolent views el the chairman." BLLANCIt &LIM. Dzwroa. To capital £360,670 0 0 Reserved fund Customers balance., do 3 281,603 14 4 Profit and loin hal:ince brought forward from last account Net profit for the half-year, after payment of gratuity to officers and 13,4121. 19s. 2d. for interest t• customers , CREDITOR. £3,703,470 3 9 By cloth in hand an !at calf £581,810 2 9 Government and other securities, dis counted bills, tee 3,088,318 14 8 Bank premises, freehold and leasehold 30,303 6 4 £3,703,470 3 9 PROFIT AND Loss ACCOUNT. To half-year's dividend at 6 per cent. per. . annum Bonus of 2 per cent. Balance carried to gulrsutee fund 4,674 19 4 £21,546 1 9 By balance from last account £7,2443 14 7 Net profit li.r toe halt )ear 14,297 7 2 £21,546 1 The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the usual resolution con firming too report, remarked that as the general com plexion of the report indicated that degree of prosperity for which the proprietors were all more or less prepared, he need not trouble them with nny observations on that point. From the time when he was first called upon to occupy the chair—viz. at the close of the year 1818—the bank had enjoyed an uninterrupted course of prosperity. The financial &Wiliam' for each succeeding year had shown en increase sod improvement of business, and to an extent that had rendered it necessary on two separate occasions to increase the paid-up capital. Mr. FRITH seconded the resolution. The report wen adopted unanimously, u were resolutions confirming the dividend of 6 per cent., with a bonus of 2 per cent., free of income tax, and the transference of 4,6741. 19i. 4d. to the guarantee fund. 'The auditors were re-elected and thanked. A resolution of thanks wu passed in favour of Mr. Luard, the ma nager; and the retiring directors, M . Wheelion, Frith, and Springett, having bees re-elected, the business termi nated. TELEGRAPH TO THE PACIFIC. A memorial was recently presented to the United States Senate, asking for a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land, to be located along the line of a telegraph which the memorialists propose to build between St. Louis and San Francisco, by the way of the Salt Lake City. We have seen the plan and estimates of the above project, and are acquainted with the individuals who aro engaged in the enterprise, as well as with their means, and feel convinced that not only is the plan pertcctly feasible, and the best that could bo devised, but also that the projectors have the adequate funds, and aro the wily men to put it through. The projectors contemplate the construction of a subter ranean line, with testing tubes every five, and working stations every one hundred miles throughout the route. The distance from St. Louis to San Francisco by the way of Salt Lake City, being about 2,400 miles, there will eonsequently be twenty-four of these stations on the route, each settled by several families, furnish ing • nucleus for so many towns at no distant day, and serving, front the first day of their occupati on , as halting places for the innumerable caravans of emigrants that are constantly traversing the great prairies of the West between St. Louts and the shores of the Pacific '1 he ad vantages of the undertaking, even from this point of view, san hardly be over-estimated. But it will also open to the market an almost unlimited amount of land along the line of the proposed grant, which is now lying waste, and trod den only by the foot of the Indian in pursuit of game, or the hoof of the buffalo, and thus be the means of adding a large sum to the revenues of the country. The memorial ist. propose to give to the government in return for the grant the right for ever to transmit, free of charge, over their line, all official despatches and communicatioes, with a preferenee over ell others ; and they stipulate, in addi tion, that if they or their assigns shall, at any time after the line is opened, cease to operate it for the space of six months, said line, with all its appurtenances, shall be for feited to the government. The projectors of this vast enterprise ask for no money, but simply for a grant of land—land which at present is worth nothing, and probably will not he for a century to come, except through the agency of this, or of some similar undertaking. And this boon is asked for on conditions and stipulations that make it not only safe to grant it, but, in view of all the accruing immediate and prospective advan tages, absolutely a pro fi table investment for government. Among thus advantages, that of having at all times, but especially in ems of war, • channel of instantaneous com munication betweon the Atlantic seaboard and the shores of the Pacific, is too obvious to need an argument, and its importance is too great to be measured by the value of a few agree of worthless land. To the merchant and business man—to every one who has business or friends in California or Oregon, its importance will be equally obvious. The mode of construction of the proposed line will give to it a permanence, a comparative exemption from inter ruption, aed an efficiency, at all times and in all weathers, that eau be attained in no other way. The men who are ready to build it, and risk their money on its suttees, are no theorists, but practical men, who are already engaged in the telegraphic businesa, and thoroughly acquainted with its operation., as well as its pecuniary affairs ; and having counted the cost carefully and closely, they are willing to risk their own fortunes and reputations on the resell. It is hoped that Congress will look favourably on the petitions of the memortdivrs, Messrs. 11. 0. Alden and lames Eddy, and if consistent with their duty, grant the prayer of their memorial. ' A telegraph to San Francisco, and that in the briefest possible period, is greatly to be desired ; but if government aid is ti) be given, we hope it will be afforded in civil) in stead of land. Let Congress vote whatever money may be necessary, securing a euzetantial and cheap telegraph; but let them avoid grants of land and land monopolies of all shades.—New Turk Tribune. ROYAL MATERNITY CllAßlTY.—Yesterday the annual general meeting of the governors of this charity was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the committee's report and the financial statement of the audi tors, and for the election of its governing officers; Mr S.C. Norris in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the Secretary brought forward the report, which stated that during the past year the accoucheurs and midwives of the charity had attended to 2,378 deliveries, attended by few casualties; that the area of the districts had been modified, and Dr. S. Griffith, of St. Thomas's llosp;tal had been appointed phy sician to that south of the Thames, and that seven ac couclaeur surgeons had retired from the charity. The in come for the year wee 1,4561. 16e. 7d., and the expenditure was 1,1321. 13s. Bd., leaviug in hand a balaneeof 3041.0c10d. This report was received and adopted. Three surgeons were elected aecoucheurs of the charity without salary ; the committeo and other officers were then elected, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chair- MBA.