The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

THE KIDNAPPER—A CASE foe the POLK% Pee 7,4 7, kg SAWA 71. Otter, os, Fitt-Arms; .ed .014 bi Lfflllaad 11! 11. Bite •xtreois. TO CORRESPONDENT& floor..~ttaistended to Law.," London Erniet PiP , T• nu.: 're .0 the , orOoo, 10, Dourest...wet, by Two o'clook Oa the day .$ pa►.kattoe. 1110 K WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE . Tan U.,—llorroao, lOC 11w........Ah.eew,•. I Slat. ihtareamw—lionwig , I —AfterOroo. 111. (M. ,ONDON, T/WRSDAY. MARCO 27. Nor is it in Rome or in Westminster that the ab solutist and ecclesiastical reaction has declared itself. It is quite as visible in Oxford, quite as manifest in parliament. And Mr. GLADSTONE'S speech is but an adaptation of l'ustyism to politics. It is time for all protestant sects who cherish genuine religious freedom to unite, and for govern ment to support them. If episcopacy be necessary to a church, that is to maintain its influence over an aristocracy, and if thq Anglican establishment have that advantage, the dissenters had better league with that church which can wield the great power of our upper and wealthy class in maintaining the cause of religious freedom and of general protestantism against the aggression of Rome. Should dissenters, on the contrary, unite with the Roman catholics to pull down the establishment, they I would inevitably drive the upper class of England [ together with the lower and peasant class depen dent upon it, completely into the arms of Rome ; and then there would arise an establishment and an as cendancy, under which the Denominations of dissent might crouch and might squeak, as they do in Austria, and indeed as they are doing in protestant Germany at present, under the pressure of an Aus trian military occupation. We have not space to discuss the important questions raised by the speeches of Sir FRE DERICK Tuesicism and Mr. litste.im, both able in their way, and both English. If we evoke in imagination the spirit of PEEL, and suppose him speaking on this question, we cannot but think that, hating the details of jurisprudence, he would have spoken more in the language of TIIESIGER than in that of any of his quondam colleagues or actual followers. Ilienearo there is grest reason foe congratulation on the general tone and result of the great ceel.me of e s ias• tical debate. It has certainly oc cupied time the parliament from pressing and important matters. But it has vetabliehed a record and a declaration of English opinion upon a very vital question, which it would have been most pernicious to leave doubtful. The division, em the one hand. has proved . that par siateeto will not look on with passive inch upon papal aggression. Whilst, on the other hand, tow delete has shown how much the great principles a liberalism have been stn.n.gthened within . a few years, and how abhorrent to all is any legislation that savours of persecution. Yet there is one thing unsatisfactory in the debate, which Aids an ambiguity over its whole tenor, and shoes us this whole fortnight's outpour of oratory ss rather a concealment than a manifestation of genuine purposes and political ideas. Fur, after what is the present bill ? it is a temporary prohibi tion, to parry a blow, anal fling back an insult. It doe's nag pnaentl to settle definitively the per- TOE Chri s tians Mots hail published a goodly and roamed relation between the catholic and pro- instructive list of the fruits of (tensed teaching for tostant churches ; hut, as Sir (ieonee Gess the last years. These fruits being a string of about said, it 'limply prevent , ' the l'ort: from taking one hundred fellows, professors, and teachers, who without contliteona an advantage, for which advan- have journeyed from Oxford to Rome. To each col tage hi, predlll.loloTS showed theinadves ready and loge is assigned its peculiar merits, anal traced its willing to concede guarantees, most useful to protest- eatecial converts to the Pore. At the tail of ant anal to constitutional freedom. Mr. flume him- these one hundred ecclesiastical leaders follow seven- Pelf euid he would gladly see a r.od,ordat agreed teen hundred clergy, holding emoluments an . d fune open. But how are we to get the Pore to agree to than, in the church of England , who have disowned a mnrortlot, or to an undergunding on the same fair the Itnyal eupreinacy, and, in fact, the ... only oasis K e e, as a r,,nr,,rolot, if we are to give him up erre- upon which the protestant church rests . Such being tuiteuslv all that he may assume or claim? The true the fruit, it was time fur the crown to examine into ressetti of the l'ure's aggre,sion is that the Roman the state of the tree. lint, lo! it is paled round a nd catholitslauve in this way won everythingeteploy step, parked off. The universities are an imperian! Inl and have refused every guarantee in return. And prrio, lords of the national creed, guides of this might go tan, even to the placing the catholic national tendencies, education, ritual and logic. priesthood above the law, us ill Piedmont, and above Four eminent lawyers have declared that the com the constitution, as in every. catholic country. The mission of inquiry issued by the crown . .. is not eun prem nt bill aims at holding those advantages which stitutionul or legal, or such as the university or its the events of two) centuries lease slim protestantion, members are bound to obey." Taking for smutted anal which protestantion ought nut to eh:union with- the cerreetness of this opinion, it will be worth out securities apinst a return of that domination while to examine the nature of our prospects of any whirls it required a civil war to shake off. future enlightenment as to the actual condition of It is difficult to make out of the several speeches the universities, and the probability of any radical rJ party chiefs what each really ilium at, or what in reform. teelogu,otical matters forme the prospect of his pre- It certainly appears that, granting the illegality Ninon. This, leowt roe, at least is evident, that all of the coninilmsi ((((( the hope of penetrating into the take infinitely v i ews; ant i th a t l ang uage l an , been used, and eontin- college,. and of effecting any improvement in the gentles hinted, wheelstow twenty years since regulations of the universities, becomes less likely would have raised a clamour from England's tones to be realised than at any previous period of our far greater than (NCH the fury during the last week history. These institutions are fur the past time of the " Irish brigatle." • pronounced autuenetic and irresponsible. the crown And, first of all, let us mark, as a hatable sign of leas no power ; the Court of Queen's Bench can only the times, there was not one downright Orange Cottrell.• on occasion of malversation of property speedh during the is litole of this debate. (which it will always le. itapo,sible. to prove), or of ac hed' spade, as Sir Rement l'eee himself tied damage inflicted; and the only way in which the naight hare made, and dial make, thirty recalcitrant bodies could be readied would be by an age, would at present not have been listened to. act of parliament, to pasa which there may not be ir r e s intot remarkable fact is, tow declaratiton of Lord time this year. Anal yet it is clear that these foinel Peastansi O , N, that he abhorred the sorrel toleration : dations were not always irresponsible : "It may be what he aunts! was religious equality. We should granted," we read in tie legal opinion, " that Ga lilee to have 541.11 the countenance of Lord leieete ut nicely the fart: and other (retest:toes interfered in end' an ui 111111111 l emelt. What is equally caninome is the affairs of the univerity; but the universities the dedarat ion arid rept...nine of Sir smie ORtilem were then considered ecclesiastical bodies, and and Mr. flealseritate, ms the same St.llS4• and the subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary ; some. direction. Sir JAME. the sii CM was matter anti it may be grunted that the power which a cwt. 'llw Roman catleolits are a third had been exercised by the Mee us supreme ordi of the empire. You cannot park off this nary was, after the Reformation, el:aimed by the third in Ireland, anal get rid of avec in England by crown, arid that ucts were done by it under that giving them ascendancy tlwre—that would divide claim; but it is clear now that the universities urn the empire.. But you meet udinit thou to 'moist lay civil corporations, and being lay corpo touality in England as well as Ireland, fur this nations, the ordinary neither can nor ought to visit. simple reaeon, that they are strong. anal you dare and 'omelet:idly the crown cannot visit upon any not nine. them. This is a virtual pulling down of supposed claim." It is alleged that the Commis the whole protestant establishment. eitment have olotnimal informutiton, that one college. I Mr. (heliolater. said 'omelette the ...amt. thing. that of Stmt.', has peached; and tliat enough has Legislation in things spiritual he &eland no longer leaked out to form a for blue hook, and to serve as p o ssible. anal the duty of the state was to separate the granted work of University Reftom. We must somplefely things ta intoral from thing.; spirt- "on that the assurances arc not equal to our hoses teeth unit utterly abundon all care or in- in this respect. terterente in the latter. Rut unfortunately for The curious fact is that the Iteformation, which is Mr. Ile piers theory, the mate does interfere in supposal to have gone sea mutat to bring public opi thinge spiritual. It is dryad up..n the aesumption Ilion to bear upon all the gnat departments etf civil that sat ttf epiritual doctrines have more truth in lite, has actually in this one inetance thrown them than others, or are more emigemial to freedom. a torrier between the state and its gnat edu- It hue leased the throne as wall us the constitution MS eational institutions. While the universities were protestantion—it has given up to it all the wealth subject to ecclesiastical visitations, there was al sasuuesol and devoted in these kingdoms to ectlesias- ways a possibility that the heads of the church tical purps e es. It has gisn not needy to prides- —men not unfrequentle of large mina , and culti tantion. lint to one sect of it, as monopoly atf educe- voted intellects. removed from the mildewed trano time rind of the funds anuesed for and (hooted to it. mile of college life, and participating in some slight It has oleelanal tertuin apiritutil tenets necessary degree at least in the great living movements to pnofiseions, and stiletto the only avenue to of eoeiety, would exercise a beneficial influence pelitual power. All this is spiritual interference : upon the actions of the academie authorities. nay. it is more, it is toeing the whole Rana of poli- 'the mast bigoted ecclesiastics, when launched teal eociety am spirited differenece. .and Mr. into the actual currents of practical life, could Gestorties: talks of eland • g all that is spirituel. not help receiving so much instruction from anal retaining power merely over what is temponil. those whom they were obliged to associate with Why he might as wa ll int . ttlid to separate the brick., as to enable them to steer safely through the bleeds, Irene the statuses whist (31WIIMINV the grout edifiess or and this knowledge would guide them, in their deal- Westminster, or say that lie could do so with t first nigs with the universities. This slight possibility of smiling down the slitter. Mr. fie steeroe e is n aiding Imeficially upon our educational institutions e try, quite ws visionary as tiny Fifth Altmarehy is however removed, and the universities have to man that existed in the seventeenth century. thank the Reformation for liberating them from the lle looke to a state of things that may operation of the only influence by which they might exist a hundred some home. anal which wa may not ate made to approximate more anal more closely to' have any olojectitm to Ace exist. What we object to the standard by which the increaeing civilisation of is the propsed to legislate for the practieul veils the world would measure them. and necooeitiese of IteM with the ideas and the possi- How neceeaary it is that such an influence should What% art MI. exist to act powerfully upon these bodies, is evident Meet desirable would it he to abate the political enough from a mere glance at their history. The power, and break up the unjust monopolies of the modern university, upon its first establishment. un- Anglivan establishment n but let us nut alas this, in thane& the instruction of the ;fie. youth of the order to put a papal hierarchy in its place. We country its the whole circle of the sciences. The should be delighted to we the hand etf re- Quadrivium and the Trivium embraced all the sub- Zarin penetruting into the halls of Oxford jeets which had at that time been digested to we our unieersithe restored to the eharacter into science with the exception of theology. of national institutions; but if. under the plea that fly degrees, however, and a bile the know government is not to interfere with otpirinuilities, the ledge of the world Was receiving incalcu eedesiataksuf Oxford are tobeallowed towalk off with tilde additions, the. curriculum of the universities all their educational and eceleseitistical property into became contracted. Out ant' the seven liberal arts the pule of itonw. we must prote , t against such which composed the Quadrivium and Trivium, Ox voluntaryism as this, which would be merely a ford selected taro. grammar and dialectics, as the toilet . ..retire to the crosier of that aloolute power prominent objects of attention, allowed her alumni which Englishmen have veer denied even to the to pneecute the study of two others, arithmetic and sceptre. geometry. and abandoned the rest. In the mean The great enemy of the present time is Romanisni. , time edema. had changed the face of the world, and European despotism, which no long sustained its I the richest university in the world heeded it not. prindelte by material power and temporul resources , The principle's which governed the administration of lies found them inaufficida. Loyalty has died away,l society were developed and extended. and the uni maul f. mita reaped for princes eanished. European verity shut its eyes to the fact. and concentrated its demotes have unanimosolv resolved to replace this attention upon a fraction of that knowledge which principle by that of religious eulocrviency. They was otn,idered indispensable to a learned, clerk six leave acconlingly revered their pollee, rein- or seven centuries back. stated pope, bishop., monk... and the authority of I Can it lw said that this is not a national question? the priesthood over the • do and the actions of men. Ito not the bishops insist that all our clergy shall Phis w a urws lias t e of catholicism. a new d e velop- s ubmit to the instruction of the university. and is not mart of . political religion. which is not confined to this the reaeou why our clergymen are so far behind theconlinent, but which has reached tour shores . and the age, and arc sx".rtually troubling the peace of which Is nairesented by the Roman (esthetics the church, in an endeavour to mould clerical died &minced us. nut one of whom repudiates the despotic dine upon a media.val model. supporting their cause reaction of the continent , and not one of whom does by mediaeval logic? Are nut our future statesmen nut neent an . allusion to the bigot and sanguinary many of them introduced into public life through the regimens of Naples and Itonesas if these re we part portals of the university; and do we not See how much of their creed. To any one acqu . ainted with these facts o f th e i r lif e i s wasted iu rubbing off the rust which as well as with England : notlung can he so glaringly h a d a l mos t eaten into their initials during the process false as Mr..GLtDSTONES assertion that the aut....4i- of their education? Would such a statesman us Sir 1 tution of bohops . for vicar* apex. tali'. was a step 'bourne feet.have required a long life-time to be tuwarde nationalising the catholic church . and ten - come convinced of the truth of principles which had daring it independent ut' Ittomc. This indeed was what lon g b e fore approved themselves to the minds of men the English Roman catholic,. asked for, but it is pre- far inferior to himself, bad he not been subject in ciely the nontras7 of what . the 'ewe has aestinuel. Ask youth to the sinister operations of the teaching at wh the !roman catholic church and prelate-were in and the society of the University ? Iles not the England before the days of WISEMAN and 'his hull, same cause acted upon Mr. Gi..toseoee? Is it and what they are since: and . the answer of every not of the utmost importance that states intelligent lloman catholic will show that e very word men should not have to unicorn when that Mr. GLADSTONE uttered on this subject was a in the senate or in office principles which glaring falsehood, and not . merely an evasion of the have been inatilled into them an youth ? The truth. but a direct contradiction of facts that stared public welfare is neglected, improvement is at a him in the face. Mn. GunsToNe may juggle as he because the rulers have not vet disembar will about the antagonisms of secular and regular , nosed themselves of a farrago of political lumber elasy but mere divisions on the point do not hold which the ruled have long learned to treat with con geal now. The illiberal and violent faction has tempt. triumphed in the councils of Rome, there can be no While an university education is considered in doubt of that, and NYlBEaLth and his rescripts arc the obedience to traditionary custom to be necessary for fruits. the younger members of the great families in the 11111111111111111111 I I I I I I I THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1851. kingdom—while the ranks of the church arc filled by members of the University alone—while the de grecs of the Univcrsit7 are :he only ve nues to numerous situations of great import ance, the constitution and administration of the universities are nutters of public interest and over which the public ought to exercise a cer tain control., The connexion betwan these bodies and the state ought to involve at least a supervising power on the part of the latter. Until this is the ease not only will the universities themselves ccn tinne to maintain their present oyster-like existence, but the several departments of the state, with which they maintain an indirect connexion, by means of those who have been educated within their walls, will have their energies paralysed and their useful ness impaired. FRANCE. WEDNESDAT EVENING. The debate in the Assembly this afternoon pre sented an incident of great importance. M. Raze moved that the Assembly should bring on the order of the day a proposition of M. Dtsmares for making the electoral law which applies to the election of representatives also applicable to the election of the President of the Republic. An immense sensation was produced in the Assembly by the motion of I M. Raze. M. Leon Faucher, without opposing the motion, desired nt the same time that nll the amendments to the electoral law of May, proposed by \ICI . L aroc h e . jacquelin and others, should be brought on the order of the day. Ile also demanded that the Assem bly should discuss another proposition, applying the electoral law of May to the municipal elections. MM. Bare and Dtsmares observed that the motion of the latter made no mention of the law of May, and merely embodied the wneral rule that the same law should be applicable both to the election of the Assembly and that of the President of the Republic. The Assembly decided that the proposition of M. Desmares should be discussed on Friday. This re sult produced great agitation in the Assembly. The part played by M. L Faucher in this incident, acid the animated conversation which he held afterwards with MM. Dupin and Rouher, were thought to coun tenance the report that M. Faucher had succeeded M. Barrot, as the statesman who is to take the lead in the ministerial combination of Fould, Rouher, and &niche. The article of the Pays, against the law of May has contributed, among other causes, to bring on the motion of M. Raze. The Assembly afterwards decided on discussing, next Friday also, the motion of M. Arnaud de for the abro ,, ,ttion of the law of May 31, after the motion of M . lksmares. The debate on MM. Laborde and Itance's proposi • tion relative to the Avignon Railway is fixed for Friday. This will hare a greater effect in Austria than in Prussia. The Prussian army is to a great extent a body of armed citizens, but that of Austria is en grossed with merely military ideas. Once this army dreamt of a glorious position: it is now partially undeceived, and the operation of enlightenment will soon be perfected. Thus has Russia contrived to dupe all Germany. Diplomacy may plume itself on this feat, and cer tainly the nation at large need not regret it. For if Prussia had succeeded in her designs, Germany I would have been divided; if Austria had been able I to enter into the confederation with all her states, Germany would have been subjected to the domina tion of Solaces, !daygars, and Croats. The ap proaching restoration of the diet may thus be to a certain extent a matter of congratulation, for at this moment it is the best "provisorium" that Gemiary ould hope for. Thus she will remain undivided. under a government, which again is not one, and which will certainly fall under the first great Euro pean shock. Then will Germany be able to profit by the lessons which, during the last three years. she has received. And she will profit by them; the last word between Russia and Europe will then be spoken. Neither a Manteuffel will render Prussia her tributary, nor a Sehwarzenberg subject Austria to her sway. Popular Germany will not wish, like ambitious 'Prussia, to divide Germany; nor to domi neer, like the Austria of the present day, over whole people by strangers for the benefit of a family. a court, and a few courtesans and aristocrats. It took the Jews 40 years to cross the desert and gain the promised land. Germany is certainly in a desert worse than that of Arabia : let us hope that a quar ter of that period may suffice for her deliverace. SWITZERLAND. A letter of the 22nd inst., from Berne, states that on that day, at eight in the morning, 80 peasants made a descent on the radical town of Fribourg, and suecteded in getting possession of some cannon in the old establishment of the Jesuits. The government caused the tocsin to ring, and the yeueruh , to heat. The militia marched against the peasants, who occu pied the upper part of the town. The affair was .mart, but of short duration. Eight were killed or wounded. The Kill peasants in question formed the advanced guard of a body of 2,000, which dispersed when they heard of the defeat of their comrades. GERMANY. The only news brought by the German papers is that there are many symptoms of an approaching good undemtanding le•twecn the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin. A speedy retreat to the old Diet seems to be the condition on which the agreement of the two courts has again been brought about. A strong executive, however, is still talked of. The Koine,. Zvi- May says that something decisive muy be almost immediately expected. COLOGNE, MARCH 24. The .Journal des Dehots has been persuading the public that M. de Manteulfel was on the eve dir missal. and that General Radowitz had chances of mraitaing his position at the helm of Prussian aftiiirs. This news has made u sensation, but after all, M. Maidenftel is still premier, and M. ltadowitz is just what he was before. I believe this state of things is destined to last for some time longer, at least until after the formal restoration of the Frankfort diet. All those who take credit for superior judgment in German altars have always regarded the simple reinstallation of this diet as the final purpose of enlightened abso lutism in Germany. 1 think we are just about to arrive at that destml term. Letters from Berlin state that " it is understood that Prussia will pro lxibly give way on the question of the presidency." A Vienna correspondent states that a cabinet council has, just been held which has been favourable to M. de Schwarzenberg's policy, and it is expected that the Frankfort diet will be re-opened in about a month. Why, then, all this hubbub—so much mantra- wring to arrive at so simple a result? This is a ques tion which, even in Germany, it is found hard to answer. It is easy to understand why it was not desir able to open the diet immediately after the sitting of the Frankfort parliament. That might have led to the greatest inconveniences ; to remain with folded arms ' would have been equally unwise. It was therefore neeessarytoact even at hazard. Foreigripolitics, too, and especially the suggestions of the court of Russia, have had a at share in the false moves of the Austrian and Prussian cabinets. Russia has made both sides believe that she would sustain their policy up to a certain point. She has urged Prussia until that power has retrograded in her interior policy, and every such backward step has rendered her weaker and less able to win success in her exterior negotiations. This is the reason why Russia and her diplomacy seemed willing to allow Prussia to proceed in her projects to gain ascendancy over the small states of Germany, well knowing that her reactionary policy would render her powerless to carry out her projects to a successful issue. When it was seen that Prus sia had alienated all Germany, it was only necessary to leave her face to face with Austria to make sure that she would also retreat from her foreign—that is to say, her German—policy. But when at length Prussia saw herself abandonCd by all, and thus com pelled. by the events of the last six months, to play a pitiable part, Austria had gained almost all that her rival had lost. It seemed as if Austria was about to re gain the imperial crown of Germany. That certainly would not have answered the purpose of Russia cat European diplomacy ; which had already, viz., in the treaty of Ifls, left two powers in the Germanic Confederation, because here was a certain means of enfeebling it, and exposing it to the influence of the foreigner, and especially of Russia, a power always ready to *same the role of a protector, first of one, then of another, in order to assure its dominion over both. . _ The same game which Russia played towards Prussia has been carried on with Austria. She made the young emperor and his councillors believe that she would aid them to humiliate and maim Prussia, the " revolutionary" power of Germany. In the latter Russia certainly acted bwai finer but Austria believed that Russia would help her to strengthen herself at Prussia's expense. Before Prussia was completely humiliated in the opinion of Germany and Europe Russian diplomacy cujolled Austria in all possible ways. Even when Austria, for the first time, revealed her intention to enter the confede ration with all her provinces. Russia had nothing to object to that proposition, so long as it needed Austria, to compel Prussia to break completely and definitively with the revolution, as M. Dc Manteuffel phrases it. But once this work done. Russia held another language to Austria. Russia had no wish whatever to see a strong power by its side. supported by all Germany. It would rather, upon occasion, lend Austria an army for Hungary, and even another for Italy, than see her strong enough to dispense with her aid. _ _ Austria will retreat from her pretensions; there is no doubt of it, and then Schwarzenberg and Man teuffel may shake hands. Their position will be the same towards one another, towards Germany, and towards Russia, of which both have been the dupes. Each has put forward grand pretensions, believing that he was sustained be Russia, and each will have to confess to Europe his impotence and simplicity. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Papers from Cape Town, of one day later than those brought by the Bosphorus, that Is, of the 3rl of February, have been received. They bring no news from the actual scat of war, but the follow ing extracts from the Graham's TOW II Jo 11 Thal of January the 2`.4th are of interest: Monday, Jan. 27.—Received the following particular• of the deplorable state of aft:ars in the neighbourhood of the Kagu and Mancarana, from Mr. J . Thomas, who returned yes terday from Ilagabuer's Neck with some 14 waggons, along with Messrs. Ensly and Honey, Jun. It KV= that this party left town last Tuesday evening about sundown, and saw no Kaffir. snows until they got to Espag . s-drift, Fish River. Two Hottentots whom they found there with two horses, told their Hottentots that the Katfirs and Hottentots were going to join. They found the country about Dagaboces Neck deserted,—cattle and stuck swept off in great numbers,- 132 oxen had been taken belonging to Messrs. Endy and Honey alone. They were also informed that all Mr. Temple Nourse*s stock had been driven oil by his own Hottentots, and that he and his family had been forced to fly. This lousy misfortune, they heard, was not eontinml to Mr. Nourw. Mr. Ainslie's servants had risen against him, rob bing him in a similar manner, but allowing him two waggons to take away his family, and even offering him an escort to take him part of the way to Mr. Pringle's place. A similar misfortune lots befillen Mr. McMaster, Sen. In short, this part of the country, inhabited by so many intelligent, affluent, and enterprising Britisit farmers, appears to be completely at the mercy of the insurgent Hottentots, who are in league with the Kaffirs to exterminate their common friend and benefactor, the white man. The loss of stock in that locality must have been immense. Mr Stokes was at Mr. Trail, s, Dagaltates Neck, with his stuck, where it was intended to make a stand; and we rejoice to be able to state that Mr. T. Nourse, with his family, is safe at Somer set, this circumstance having been communicated to Mr. 'Pharos by Mr. William Currie, who was met by Mr. Thomas at the Gobaineek, about fifteen miles from Hager boers Neck on the road to Grahani's Town. It seems, from the information afforded by Mr. Currie, that the Hottentots had left Mr. Nouns,. nothing but the clothes he wore, taking his sheep (WO), horses, cattle, and waggons, not leaving him a gun for his defence. The Hottentots shut an Euglisman in his emplootment, and tired at Mr. Nour.e, but the ball happily missed him. Afterwards Mr. Smirk: tied from his place into a neighbouring Moot; where he remained with hi. Mmily until he was escorted into Somer set by a party loom that village under Mr. W. Currie. We must not /omit to state that Mr. Currie was accompanied by Mr. N illiam llowker and It Hart, Jun., who, were in the first instance going with a party of 1.30 men against the Hot tentots in the neighbourhood, after which they intended to proceed to the Waterkloof, whoa: it was believed a large body of these men, it is reported, from 700 to 1,0011, was posted. The rebellion of the Ilutteletots evidentl furnishes a key to the present policy of the Kaffir chiefs. The Katfin were to engage the troops, when the Hottentots were to plunder the colony. A writer front' Somerset, says, under date Jan. 2-1: The liattirs and Hottentots are committing the greatest havoc. They have mu-tered in a place called Water kloof, not far from Ain4te's place, to which they send wag gcmx for meal ,itea n, they want it. The Dutch are very di latory in turning out. Forty voluntecro front Graaf-Rentet passed through here the other day, all English, mostly old soldiers and sailorw--the roughest lot 1 ever saw, but apparently a plucky set. Mr. Pears, the Dutch minister, hay been the hit two or three day. hi %wager's Houk among-t . the Dutch, explaining to them the danger. About IVO will turn out on Monday next j Bowker. We have fortified the Dutch church, mid made a parapet all round the top—firsd-rate to shoot from. It is rumoured they mean to attack Somerset after they have dune for Pringle, which in to be to-day or to-morrow. A party of horse end toot are going to-night to hunt a lot of fellows who are i 3 u kloof in Vet Kull. Joseph was obliged to bring in his cattle from the farm. They were brought in ut night, the Kaffir: being seen there at dark. We have our guard-house it the church, all taking their turn of watch every third right. We have about 30 Kaffir in the tronk, and it is thought an attempt will be made to rescue them. We learn also by the same opportunity that the strongest hopes are entertained of the fidelity of the Amagaleka chief Krell. At the date before us, namely the 25th inst., 2d had of cattle had just come in from the meat contractors agent at Butterworth—a very significant token of quiet iu that direction. These cattle had been brought in by a relative of Txatroe's, employed fur the purpose. Ile says taat on the 22d inst. Krell was at Butterworth, and called a meeting of all his great men—every one being present save ohl Bokoo, who sent his son. All were fur peace, Keen telling all the traders to go back to the several stations, vinch they did. lie reports everything quiet both in Kreli's and the II lambien country, that at night he drove ho cattle into the kraals of I.Trnhala's people, who rave him milk and treated hint kindly. The mow man was to start the next day on his return for more cattle. There can be no reason whatever to doubt the perket accu ney of this statement, inasmuch as, had the country been hostile, it is clear these cattle could nut have been driven through. It is added, that Sewani Buys the Kaftirs declare tie lingoes are devils. Ii nevem that the Kaffir Nagle t tmlanjeni denounced them, dooming them to destruc tion. The Fingoes have learnt this, and their blood is com pletely up. Cole'sberg, Jan. 15. The Colesherg boos are not altogether willing to turn out on Commando, although those front Bantam leave on the 16th, under Gideon Daniel Joubcrt, and some other field corneteies will Pillow ; from the Winterveld and Mid denveld the excuses arc rather numerous; the want of servants to herd the Hocks, the extreme drought which has so impo verished their horses, none being fit for the service, and the Pramherg Keffirs having been to Victoria to purchase gun powder and lead, having created a little uneasiness in that quarter, and strung doubts as to the intentions of those Tambookies that are still very numerous in the district, in the event of the farms being lull unprotected—all, no doubt, very weighty reasons fur not having that readiness anon former occasions. In the village large subscriptions have been rained to equip a volunteer corps, and a party will leave on Friday, the 17th, to join Gideon Daniel Joubert's farmers. MILAN, MArten 21. A military cordon has been established, by order of the Emperor, from Ststo Calenda to Gravedona, with strict orders to fire on all who break the line. SITE OF TIIF. COPYRIGHTS OF THE WAVERLEY Novm.s.—Yesterday the entire copyrights of the works of Sir Walter Scott, with the steel plates, woodcuts, and ste reotype plates attached to them, were put up to auction by Mr. Hodgson, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill. The property was in the possession of the trustees of the late - Robert Cadell, publisher, and comprised the novels, poetry, and prose writings of Sir Walter, with the Life" by Lockhart, as published in the various editions of these works, from June, 1829, to the present time. The sale appeared to excite much interest, and many of the most influential members of the trade were present. It appeared that the whole of the copyrights, &e., were offered for sale in one lot, the purchaser to be compelled to take the entire of the printed stock now on hand, amount ing in price to upwards of 10,0041/. ; but if the property should not be di-posed of in one lot, on what the trustees might consider advantageous terms, it was to be divided into carious lots. Amongst the bidders were the Messrs. Long man. Mr. Virtue, and Mr. Boyd (of the firm of Oliver and Boyd. Edinburgh), and the largest amount offered was 14,400/. These terms not being accepted, the whole of the property was bought in f0r15,000/.,byMr. James Mylne, the agent of the vendors," and there was no division into lots, as was originally intended. EXPENSIVE laironrs.—Another prison is being built in Glasgow to hold the fast-increasing mass Of crime devolved upon ns by the enormous immigration of out Irish neighbours. it is intended as a penitentiary, and is to be four stories in height. There will be 40 cells on each floor, or about 160 in all. It will be completed in the course of the summer.—North British Boil. Sr. PANCR ti P.titfiii.—A meeting of the members of the Central Parochial Association of this parish took place on Tuesday eveniag, at the Hawarden Castle, Gower place, Euston•square, to consider the nomination of vestry men for the next election, previous to holding public meet ings on the subject. There are 45 vacancies to be filled up, of which fire are occasioned by deaths, or non-quall fication, and 40 in place of those who go out by rotation. ROMAN CATHOLICS AB ROAD. From the parliamentary papers recently published relating to the regulation of Roman catholic, in foreign states we make the following extracts : SWITZERLAND. The Supreme Federal Tribunal, or Diet, cannot be said to exercise any positive authority or jurisdiction whatever in religious concerns, and in fot it is difficult, if not impos sible, to my what precise control it possesses in ary matter, religious or political. Its authority is founded on opinion, and it possesses no coercive power whatever, independent 'of that opinion ; in other words, whenever coercive mea sures may be necessary, a proposition recommending them must be supported by a majority of yokes, to insure their execution and success. It is true, that by the act of Congress, the power of de ciding on the preservation or suppression of the bishopric ' of Bile is placed in the hands of the Diet, by which it might he inferred that the supreme jurisdiction in ecclesias tic:a affairs resides in that body. Even the Pope himself seems to have recognised the same ismer, by recently ap pealing to that tribunal on the subject of the restoration of the Abbot of St. Gall. The simple fact however is, that the Diet possesses no fixed or specific authority whatever in matters of religion, and whatever power it may hereafter be called upon to exercise must depend entirely on the feelings and circumstances of the moment. The bishoprics actually established iu Switzerland amount only to three ; viz., that of Lawianne or Fribourg, that of Sion, and that of Coin ; to these it is now in contemplation to add two more, one at Lucern, the other at Soleure or Porentrui Besides these indigenous dioceses, however, there are sere nil foreign sees, whose juriolivtion embraces various por tions of ,this country; fur instance, those of Milan, Como, rind Annecy, the two former of which comprise within the circle of their spiritual government the Canton of Ticino, and the latter a part of Geneva. Still the relations generally subsisting between church and state are essentially the same throughout the whole extent of the confederacy, under whatever spiritual juris diction its individual parts may happen to lie. The bishopric of Lausanne exhibits the only instance in all Switzerland of a bishop nominated absolutely by the Pope, without the ooneurreoee or even control cif the government. The principal kindred points of conduct amongst all the ' confederate cantons, are : 1. The exercise of a strict superintendence and control over all religious establishments, by the supreme secular power. 2. The right of examining into the mode of acquiring and disposing of all ecclesiastical and monastic property. 3. Liability of all such property to all burdens imposed by the state on secular possessions. 4. Subjection of all bulls, pastoral letters, &c., to the Placet or Exequatur of government, prior to their publi cation. The extreme jealousy and watchfulness hitherto con stantly felt and exercised by the government of this coun try, in all matters where the spiritual and temporal power were brought into a state of collision with each other, and where the former may have endeavoured to extend its au thority at the CIIICIM of the latter, hare been the means of preserving this free and happy country from innumerable eviii and embarra•sment , which hare fallen on others where that vigilance was wanting. It is to he hoped that neither threat nor intrigue will ever induce them to alter their con duct. SWEDEN. 1. That all persons of a foreign religion shall enjoy all the rights and privileges due to a citizen, except bring em *red in any chive under the government, or a member of the . Diet ; their children will nut he refused this liberty, provided they have adopted the Lutheran 2. They may build their own churches, at the same time observing what is prescribed concerning the public buildings. 3. They mar provide their churches with bells, and hate their own burial grounds. 4. Clergymen of their own religion must be procured fur their r congregations. 5. Their children must he baptised by their own clergy, and brought up in the same religion. 6. Their own ceremony may In observed at nuptials, pro vided none of the parties is a Lutheran, and the harms have twen three times bidden, according to the laws of Sweden. 7. Churching of women and funerals to be performed according to their own custom. In order to avoid a mis understanding in regard to the conditions granted by the Sta t. s-General, we have found it necessary to explain them as follows .... . I. Persons of another relioion, being forbidden to esta blish public schools, may nevertheless have their children taught by their own clergy, or other private teachers. 2. The prohibition against the adoption of missionaries does not prevent their clergy front visiting people of their own religion when called upon in such plains where they have a parish, to assist them in baptising children, serving at communion and wedding cerenumiec. 3. 'fhe prohibition agauut public processions does not ex tend itself to the consecration of their churches, &c. &e., or any of their ceremonies transacted within their churches and church-gates, Our subjects are moreover earnestly cautioned not to prevent any person of another religion from free access into our public divine services, on paying a fine of 11) silver dollars. If anybody gives offence at their service be is tined 25 silver dollars : if anyone breaks the peace during iniblie service, lie is tined llCCutdillg as the Igth chapter of the criminal statute of the law tlirreta. Who him plume, their different opinions or holy customs, will he fined front 10 to 410 silver dollars, according to the nature and circumstunees of the crime ; the said line to be doubled on the nest offence ; the same lbw will he laid on any person who in u company enters into religious disputes. PRUSSIA. The Roman catholic bishop+ are either actually appointed, in the first illAtiltlee, by the government, or they are elerted by the chapters, whose election is subject to the approba tion of the sovereign. In the German provinces this is universally the ease, as it was through the whole of the empire ; and the kings of Prussia, us they acquired pro vinces in which there were Roman catholic bishop, entered upon and exercised the rights which devolved to them from the preceding sovereigns of that faith. Upon a see becoming vacant a commissary is sent to the chapter, bearer to it of a letter from his Prussian maje3ty, by which it is directed to proceed canonically to the election of a new bishop, and the name of a person it stated to them, and they are informed that if it is made in his favour it will be agreeable to his majesty. This recommendation is uniformly conformed to. The chapter is aware that, as his majesty's approbation of their choice is indispensable, the surest male of obtaining it will be to make tha election .. . reetimmentlisl, otherwise the persons successively chosen by them would be exposed to endless rejections. 'the instru• went by which the chapter declares its choice is transmitted to the minister of the interior; if he approves it, it is sent, through the minister for foreign affairs, to the Prussian agent at Rome, who sends to Berlin the institution of the new bishop, when it is granted by the Pope. It is indis pensably necessary that the elected bishops should be eon. firmed by the Pope; and in many canonical cases, such as want of qualifieations, &e., his special leave is equally necessary for them. This government has always chosen to transact its affair' at that court by an agent of its own, resident there, and has never consented to a nuncio being sent to it. There neither exists, nor ever has existed, any concordat between the court of Berlin and the Pope; although the King of Prussia, as far as the written law is concerned, is regulated respecting the spiritual affairs of his (lerman Ilomun catholic provinces by the German concordats; and as to those of his subjects formerly Polish by concordats existing with the former sovereigns of Poland. A great variety of deviations from them, however, have arisen in practice, and the court of Rome has tneitlyaccelled to them. The state in which this government has found the spiri tual affairs of its Roman catholic subjects in the provinces late a part of the French empire, and which it has ac quired on the leR hank of the Rhine, is such as to render it indispensable that it should enter into a negotiation with the court of Rome respecting them, and a Prussian minister is actually there for that purpose. In this state of Altars those provinces are left wholly out of view in the present answer., and, circumstanced as they are, no authority could have been derived front them, had they been brought into it. All the convents in the Prussian dominions, such as they existed in 1810, were suppressed in that year, and the state took possession of their property. At present there exist no convents in this kingdom, except some very few, and very smally endowed, in its I'olish territory. so per sons will be allowed to take the vows in them in future, and they will he incorporated into each other by degrees, as their present members are reduced in number, until they finally expire. The Grey Sisters, the Compassionate Brethren, and the Crsulinc•s, are maintained, and a small portion of the revenues of the suppressed convents have been assigned to them. The two former of these orders devote themselves to the service of the hospitals, and the latter is solely occupied in education. The members of these orders cannot at once bind themselves by religious ' vows for life. They may, at the age of twenty, take vows fur three years. I% hen that time is expired they may re new them fur the like period. At the end of the second period they may repeat them for a third of equal length ; and when this is completed they are then at liberty to I bind themselves by such vows for life. In Prussia the royal family have long been Calvinists. Before the conquest of Silesia, with few exceptions, the subjects of the monarchy were Lutherans and Calvinists, but chiefly the former; but as the state is now consti tuted, at least two-fifths of the population are Roman catholic,. The members of these different churches are capable of holding all employments, civil and military, under the state ; and, it should appear, all persons holding tho Christian faith, as established and recognised in any of the European states, would be comprised in this capa bility :—A case of exclusion would arise in that of a person pror.xsing doctrines under which his oath of fidelity to the I sovereign could not be deemed valid. SAXONY. No catholic bishops have existed in the kingdom of Saxony for several centuries. The individuals of that re ligion in Saxony, who have been invested by the Pope with the episcopal dignity, do not wear its insignia and habit in any part of this country , and that dignity i s no t (*Wil lie'', connected with the ecclesiastical functions which they may have to exercise; fur instance, that of apostolic vicar, who is always presented by the king. After the system of equality established in Saxony, since the treaty of Posen, between the catholics and protestants, and which was extended under the foreign administration, to those professing the Greek religion, the individuals of all these confessions enjoy equal rights in the stat e , an d are equally capable of holding civil and military offices. The income of the catholic clergy in Saxony is charted on the royal revenue, except in Upper Lusatia, the only pro vince of the country where that communion puoseross en dowments and lauded property. CANADA COMPANY. Yesterday a general court of proprietors watt held at Canada House, St. Helen's-place, for the election of a deputy-governor and three other directors, and an auditor. Cu ARLES FRA NKA, EMI., the goveruor,ru the chair. The directors' report for the year ending the 31st of De cember last stated that " The directors have much satisfaction in referring to the great increase which hut taken place in all branches of the company's operations during the year lhal, as shown by the accounts now read. The prosperous state of the province, and its growth in population and wealth, have no doubt contributed materially to this result. It is however to the mode now adopted for disposing of the lands of the company by way of lease that the directors attribute in a very great degree the present satisfactory position of the company's affairs. A very interesting statement has lately been received from the commissioners, showing the work ing of that system as regards the crown reserves lands leased, which have been abandoned and resumed by the company ; from which it appears that of 41.179 acres so re• sumed, representing a value when originally leased of 26,0621., 34,;i26 acres have been since se-leased at a value representing 26,3011., being an increase of 3,675/. upon those st dispesed of; at the same time 6,6-12 acres, the remainder thereof, have been sold for 4P47/., being an advance of Itl2l. upon the price of those sold, showing an improved value obtained upon the whole of those lands of 4,3271. The total quantity of crown reserves land. , taken up under ten-year leases has been 230,600 acres; of this quantity 30,2117 acres have been resumed by the eompane, 41,179 acres of which have, as has been shown alcove, been re disposed of at a greatly enhanced value. It further appears that the lessees of 5.464 acres and of 43 town lots have exer cised their option of purchase at a time which upon average would be about six years before the termination of their re spective contracts, and have converted their leases into free holds for the suns of 3,318/., which has been paid down. The object the directors had in view in adopting the leasing system was to snake the conditions fur the disposal of land as beneficial to the settler :IS to the company, being fully impressed with the belief that it was only un terms of mu tual advantage that any such plan could be carried out suc cessfully to any great extent. The directors have no wish that the company should derive advantage by a sacrifice on , the part of their settlers of the fruits of their industry, in consequence of their inability to complete the 'purchase of the lands held by them on lease. On the contrary, their hope is that every settler may be able to avail himself of the option allowed him during the terns of his lease, and, so far as it is in the power of the directors and their commis sioners, no pains are spared to promote this result, and • to afford all reasonable futilities to their settlers ; among • others, has been the establishment of the • settle rs ? savings bank account,' whereby the settles on the com - patty's lands, and they only, are at liberty to deposit any monies they have to spare in the company's hands, and aro I allowed interest at six per cent. per annum therecm, the object being to encourage their settlers to accumulate ; money for completing the purchase of the lands held by them on lease • and the settlers have largely availed them- selves of the advantage thus offere6, the aVARS..% the 31st of December lost, a 00000 tinting to no les: a sum than 10.4891. Steps are elm coostantly taken in Canada to remind the lessees of their plpition. The last notice to those whose leases expire in 18.3 was issued in February last, and was in the following terins:—• Notice to Canada COM. pany's Leowees.—The Canada Company taku this oppor tunity to again call your serious attention to the enn dition of the lease issued to you—particularly to the covenant, which requires, after all others are ful fi lled , that you should. on ur be fore the expiration of the term of ten years pay the amount of purchase money men tioned in the lease, if you desire to exercise the right roc served to you ; if you do nut punctually do this, all your rights and interests in the property wilt laconic absolutely forfeited. If you cannot yourself furnish the requisite purchase money, we would urge you to find some person who would advance the required money, or purchase your iniprovements, so that you may ware the benefit of them - but you must take care that no transfer is attempted with out the company's VIVIISCIIt, and that it must tie completed before the expiration of the term of lease.' " The following is a statement of land sold and leased in the year : " Sales.—Crown reserves, 2,401 acre., at an average of 13s. 9d. per acre ; Huron tract. 111,376 acres, at an average of 13s. 2d. per acre; total, 12,789 acres, producing 8,4771. currency. 13 town lots in Guelph, lot -educing 4331. ; 6 town lots in the Huron tract, producing 111[1.; total, 9,170/. . . . " ILML , I'A. —Crown mum", in,134 uenw, producing an . . . - . annual rental of 8121., valued when leased at Its. 3X per acre on :metwe; Huron tract, 91,371 :tyres, producing an annual rental of 3,1148/., valued when leased at Ins. 2d. per acre 1111 average; 43 town lots, pnalueing nn annual rental of 311.; total, 113,i08 arms; total, annual reutal, 4,4341. Total sold and lewasl, 12n,t*tti . . • " Receipts in Canada in the year 1840.—Purchuse money of land sold, 10,2601. currency; Lille receivalge, 14,7114/.; rent, 13,1771.; interest, 8,8811; transfer lees, 22:d.; timber cot, 3111.; whams" repaid, &c., 1,3481.; total, 49,0434 currency. The cost of management hl4 year in London was 2,2241., and in Canada, 4,3611., besides the income tax paid here, and the asses,mi sit and road tax in the colony. " The debtor and creditorgencralatatement showed a total of 970,001/., in which the land Imams' tar 10 years, 513,476 acres, npri,ents :460,071/., and the $10,190 acres undisposed of, 310,100/. The surplus ~f assets, including the land, is estimated at 527,630/. The capital of the company is 2411,7371., and the amount raised on debentures. 133,2001." After mum conversation, during which several gentlemen expressed illenrwlve , highly satisfied with the report, tho report was adopted unanimously, thanks were voted to the govcraor uud the hoard, and the meeting adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY CONINIITTEES. Commumi or SELEcriox.—This committee re port that they haw withdrawn tin North and South Wes tern Junction Railway from group 5, and the Stockton and Darlington and Mahon and Driffield Railway bill from group 11, and have added the Dundee and Arbroath Rail way Bill to group 16, and the Regent's Canal Bill to group 17. SOUTH DEVON H.tD.w.►v.—Teslerdav the effill mittee on this company's bill, fur facilitating the conversion of loan into capital, and regulating priority of dividends (Mr. Fitzroy . in the chair), declared the preamble proved. The capital is nut to be increased by conversion •if loan, and in no ease to exceed 478,156/.—the min authorised to ho borrowed. The bill was opposed by Mr. Stevens, a share holder, on the general mental. _ _ GItIAT NoOTHERN HAlLWAV.—Yesterdtty the com mittee (Mr. Liddell in the choir) passed the preamble of this company's bill, fur enlarging the station at King's cross, and for improving the approaches by the diversion of the Ohl St. Paneras.road. The stations ut Knottingley and Wakefield to be enlarged; and power; are taken for theso purposes to raise, by new shares, 7.50,1100/. The bill was opposed on the ground of the too approximate passage of the line to some gunpowder mills. ROTHERIIAM, AND Goori: RAILWAY. —Yesterday the committee on this hill, for deviations lie. tween Sheffield and Barnsley, declared the preamble proved. ntt.lisworaft, BEMIS" AND HADDISCOE RAIL wAy.—Mr. Bernal reports from the committee on this hill that the preamble is found proved ; that the pm prised capital is 150,000/., with power to borrow :10,0001., ; that the amount of shares sulfserilsed for is 118,5001., and the deposits paid thereon 11,850/.; that eight shareholders having a Meal interest in the line have subscribed 63,5001., and live others 55,000/. The line is 13 miles, without engineering difficulties, as reported l Mr. Bidder, the engineer. The committee are satisfied with the Itonafides of the subscription contract. BANGOR AND CAERNARVON RAILWAL—Mr. Bernal reports the preamble of this tall, for making a railway from the Chester and Holyhead railway, near Bangor, to port Dinorwic and Caernarvon, proved. THE SAILORS' STRIKE.—A large num&r of ROOM still remain in Manchester, in consequence of this strike. An intimation having been conveyed to them, a few days after their visit to Manchester, that they must desist from peram bulating the streets, and waiting upon shopkeepers, &c.,with corecting boxes, they made arrangements to leave the boxes for subscriptions at various stations. This regulation has, however, been departed from to some extent, by parties going on Saturday afternoons and evenings, with their boxes, to meet the work people W. they issued from the various factories and other establishments, at the time when it was known they had received their wages. About two o'clock on Satur day afternoon, one of the sailors, named Henry hurley, was seen by a policeman stationed with his tin box near the mill of Messes. I3irley, and when the people came out, they gathered around him, and constituted a large crowd; the policeman consequently took him into custody for street begging, and he was placed before the magistrates at the Borough Court, on Monday morning. lie stated that he was authorised by the committee to go there, in order to receive what they were willing to give, but he did not ask for anything.—Mr. Maude said that, although he was authorised by the committee, he was not authorised by , the law; and it was improper for the sailors to attempt to live upon the hard earnings .of the factory people. It was the first time one of the sailors had been before him, and he advised him to tell his comrades that the practice was against the law, and he should be obliged to put it is operation ; he trusted they would take warning, as ho should be sorry to have to do so. Their present mode of subsistence Was very demoralising, and would have a bail effect; it was also a system contrary to law, and if any other individual were brought before the court, ho should be obliged to punish him. Hurley was then discharged.— On Monday morning placards were numerously posted on the walls, headed " Magisterial Injustice," and referring to the determination of the magistrates to punish those who were found soliciting subscriptions for their support. It also urged upon parties to make collections in their shops, and forward the proceeds to the committee.—Manchestsr Examiner. HORRIBLE DEArn.—A few days ago an elderly man, named Joseph Shaw, met with a shoeking death at the Grecnside Mines, near Penrith, Cumberland. Finding the machinery not to work properly, he commenced an examination into the cause. While doing so he unfortu nately approached too near the wheels, and his clothes becoming entangled in them, he was drawn in, and literally torn to pieces in less than a minute. An inquest has been held on the body, and a verdict of "accidental death" returned.