The Express. — London, England, 1852-10-22 00:00:00

i d gut expreogs. TO COBRILSPON DINTS. recaNl 'Patna W" fheliireee,"eainahuag 7 16 am mane . ' " Canter," is publiainet net, Tawny aa.l rnny sign. la eine for re.et. da+erraciaeatelateaded for " The laprere," Leans Fenn; pion, rant be at the Mks, le. Inunthaetteet. b Two @Week ea the day of pulaknien MOH WATRD, AT LONDON BRUME. Ti.o DAT —ltegaial. T.toasow—Monalse,ll4. 5i.........—ANAr11f5.111. IS.. LONDON, FRID.IY, OCTOBIR 22. Oxe mutt of the recent deliberations of the Cabinet will, it is now confidently stated, be the pro minent insertion in the QUEEN'S Speech of a passage fully recognising, and fully accepting, as the conse quence of the general election, the permanence of the present Free Freda legislation. The motives for this piece of compulsory penitence by an administra tion that would if it could, have been Protectionist, must be tho hope that an early and frank aban donment of restrictive commercial principles and practices will induce parliament to listen more fa vourably to the policy and measures it may develop, and remove the difficulties that have hitherto obstructed a junction be: Neon it and the Duke of Stu evsrte and his friends ;—to facilitate which junc tion it is believed that some of the members of the present government are quite prepared to vacate the °tikes they now hold, Whether the l)uke of Saw- CIq . LE and his friends—all of whom owe their intro duction to offielal life to the late Sir ROBERT PEEI., and who arc the legitimate heirs of his views and the bounden guardians of his fame —can, however, bring themselves to sit in a Cabinet with Mr. DISRAELI re mains to be seen. Tile result of the general election had, indeed, from the tirst rendered Free Trade legislation secure from government injury on all subjects but one— and that ono is sugar. On the sugar question both hopes and fears have even subsequently been experienced—hopes by the West Indian in terest that they might still be able to induce their friends in the Cabinet to arrest the decline of the present duties before they reach equality on all sugars, regardless of their production ; fears that by attempting any alteration in the present law, tho whole subject of our commercial policy might be kept open and in doubt. On this point, too, it seems certain that no change will be proposed; and that the prevent sugar duties will be untouched. So that the recent publication of a memorial to the Earl of DERBY, praying for the exclusion of slave-grown sugar, from the committee of the Anti-Slavery So ciety, is anything but well timed, or likely to in- Emma the commits of the government. There are, however, some statements in the memo- rial of so singularly inaccurate a character, and so illogical in their intended effects, that it is important they should not be allowed to pass unnoticed, at a time when free trade in sugar is happily about to receive parliamentary confirmation. The memo rialists persist in saying that the Sugar Acts of 1846 and 1848 have greatly stimulated the slave trade. Now, no doubt the slave trade did increase' between the years 1843 and 1830; but the cause of its increase in that period, we most confidently avert, and proceed to prove, was not our admission of Brazilian sugar. The cause, on the contrary, is to be found in the law known u Lord ABERDEEN'eI Act, which paned in 1843. This, however, requires a little explanation and a slight retrospect. There are in Brazil, as in all other countries having parliamentary government and a constitutional sys tem, two political parties ; one called the liberal, ad vocating mcreased power to the provincial govern ments ; the other conservative, aiming at strengthen ing the central authority rather than weakening it in a country where the state can hardly ever attain adequate power. The former were in possession of the government from 1842 to 1848. On popular and philanthropical principles this party were then more anti slavery in their views than the other; for it rested on the support of the great proprietors of the empire and on high commerce. In power for nearly six years, the liberal government made several efforts to pass laws for the repression of the slave trade; -without, however, being successful; for public opinion had not then been eonsolidated in favour of such a policy. Notwithstanding this anti•slays trade inclination of this party, it was, nevertheless, by the government constituted thereout, that the Right of Search was terminated; and from its termination arose Lord ADIRDECN'S Act of 1813. The immediate consequenees in Brazil were that Lord ABERDEEN'S legislation arrested the anti-slave trade feeling which had previously been growing ; it associated that trade with the national inde pendence attacked by tho act; and it created a belief amongst the . planters that under its operation the slave trade might be suppressed. They, therefore, made the greatest efforts at once to increase their supply of alarm; and the consequence of this anziet3 . , to procure additional labour was the enor mous increase of the slave trade between 1846 and 1850—which the memorial ascribes to oar Free Trade policy. The increase was certainly owing to British legislation; but it was to the act of 1846, not to the sugar duties law of 1846. tio . large, indeed, were (notwithstanding our costly cruising system) the importations of slaves into Braga in 184650, that they rosily exceeded the ability of the planters to pay he thus. The agricul tore of the country, therefore, booms deeply indebted to the slave trading interest tat slyly imparted mires?. The mortar/ Naomi this oimoi of slaves la verygr ; and the eztenalve importations of dame phssei the piasters is this position : a large properties tithe's , mamma on credit died, while their debts contracted by the purchases re mained. By this means large tracts of coun try parsed from the hands of their cultivators into dined speculators end slave-traders; and thus many of the gu st sse rstoes of Brazil head rain where they hod prowsity,_ Those kilo im portations of slaves boils§ a Most lossiossT to disturb the equilibrium at misty, sad to plus is jr- q ci. partly the safety of do empire . This in-1 jury to the cultivation, and political to i the country, made a deep impression on the t pert of the community ; at last it brought as natal interest to the conclusion that the epoch the history of Brazil had been reached when the slave trade most terminate. Concurrently a new Administration having the confidence of this clam had attained power, which it' has since, with some modifications, retained. From ib secession to office it wee engaged in the prepara tion of measures for the suppression of the slave-trade, and had nearly perfected them when, in 1849, instruc tions from the British Admiralty directed our cruisers to greater violence than ever ; and in the presence of their ads the excited state of public opinion in Brazil against England prevented their enactment. In June, 1850, however, the British admiral agreed to suspend the instructions he had received. There upon the Brazilian government at once introduced the measures they had prepared ; these incomes were speedily enacted by the Brazilian Chambers, and are now known as the law of the 4th September, 1850. NotwithManding the violence* of our cruisers were renewed in November, POO, the Brazilian govern ment honestly and entrget . cally carried out the law, and with such success that in 1859, according to our own Foreign-office returns, the slave importa tions had fallen to 3,000 Africans. In 18.32 Lord M‘LNIEMIVIT revoked the instructions issued in 1810; and at the close of the meanie:l of the Brazilian legislature last month, the Eatrettoa, in his speech, stated that " the slave-trade may be considered as extinct." For the memorialists, then, in the face of these facts to say that they cannot place confidence in the Brazilian government" is really only to expose their want of information. For so copfirmed has the anti-slave trade feeling in Brasil become, that a greet part of the last session of its legislature was occupied by the disputes of the two political parties as to which the merit and credit of this policy belonged; and the speech of Senhor ne QUELHOZ, in which ho successfully defended the government, would have made Exeter-hall resound with cheers, as it did the Senate-house of Rio de Janeiro. Addressing the opposition, he concluded in these remarkable words:—" There are many ques- tions on which you can show us to be wrong, or that you can govern the country better than us. Do so. But in a question of this kind, before all things, coo sifter your words; ace that they do not, intend of attacking a government, affect the national }oor." And thi m g in the genctil fueling now ist THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING,• OCTOBER 22, 1852. FRANCE. . PARIS, TNIIIIIIIDAY Byname. The excitement of the triumphal entry, the release of AM-el-Nader, the decree convoking the Senate, and the reduction of the duty upon bacon has now Eraaway. and left the political atmo s ph ere dread ydull. In the absence of any tangible news, people indulge in idle conjectures as to the precise day . when the empire will be proclaimed, and the particular formalities by which it will be preceded. It is surmised, and with much reason, that the de bates in the Senate will not be long. There can be no qeestion but that a ready cut and dried pro wintion will be laid before it on the 4th of November, which the senators, after a decent delay of a few days, supposed to be devoted to the careful examination of the people's petitions for the empire, will embody in the form of a senates consulicon. But, it is asked, will the Senate at the same time vote the modifications in the constitution consequent upon the altered form of government, or will it remit to Louis Napoleon the power of framing . a new im perial constitution, and thus once more invest him with a dictatorship P Then, again, speculation is occupied with the question which of tho three great anniversaries of the President's life, the 2nd, the 10th, or the 20th of December, will be fixed upon for the assumption of the imperial title. Each day has its partisans. Some think the 10th of December when Louis Napoleon, on the mere strength of his name, obtained five millions of votes, in spite of all the e fforts of a republican execu tive, th e day most worthy to be commemorated. Others are of opinirn that the less spontaneous but more numerically imposing demonstration of Dee. 20, 1841, was the crowning triumph of universal suffrage. But the favourite supposition is that the 2nd of December, at once the anniversary of the battle of Austerlitz and the coup d'elat will most commend itself to the President s' mind as a day of good omen. And although it has been objected that the coup d'Not awakens mournful recollections of strife and carnage, it is answered that no blood was shed on December 2, and that the massacre of the boulevards did not occur till the 4th. Of somewhat more importance than the tittlo-tattle to which I have alluded is the report that, simulta neously with the proclamation of the empire, the Count de Chambord intends to issue a very decided fusionist proclamation, and to exhort his friends to abstain from voting. Such a measure would un doubtedly produce a considerable number of absten tions, and if the republican party were also systema tically to abstain, and I learn that great efforts are making to induce them to do so, the polling clerks might be hard put to it to make up the required tale of eight millions of votes. Since the triumphal entry the ministers use the title of " Your Excellency" in the letters they ad dress to each other. The creation of an imperial guard of 10,000 men is spoken of. The journals recount that the Prince President, before leaving Tours, gave 20,000:r. to the General Hospital at Tours. In addition to which ho gave different sums to the old soldiers of the empire; 600 fr. to the Sisters of Charity for the establishment of a Creche; 300 fr. to the Dames do la Hallo ; 200 fr. to the young workwomen who presented him with a bouquet; and 200 fr. to the workmen who preheated him with a magnificent silk bell-rope. On passing through Amboise, he gave 300 fr. to tho old soldiers of the republic and of the empire. I understand that the money disbursed by the President in the course of his month's tour amounts to the enormous sum of 31 millions of francs. _ Fifty thousand copies of tho Bordeaux speech are about to be distributed among tho miners of the basin of the Loire. The annual general meeting of the shareholders of the railway company from Mulhausen to Thann has Rnet been held in Lemardelay's great room, Ru e ichelieu. The company has constituted itself from its state of en conamandile to that of socke . anonyms. The accounts presented in the name of M. Nicolas Bccchlin, deceased, were unanimously approved of, and the dltectors were authorised to act as might appear to them to bo best to obtain the extension of the line across the department of the Vosges to Nancy and TouL This matter is more particularly confided to Td. Mathieu Dollfus, M. Javal, and M. Benoit-Laroche. At Nantes a petition praying the Pope to come to France to crown Louis Napoleon is being signed. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per:Cents. rose 30c., closing at 106.6.5: the Threes fell 20, and closed at 81.40. ,The St. Germain Railway rose 40; Orleans, 12.80; Dijon, 15; Bordeaux and Teste fell 10; Lyons and Strasburg, 7.50. ITALY . PIEDMONT. The Savoy otScial Gazette of the 18th inst. states that the government,. having consistently held aloof from the movement in favour of annexing the pro perty of the church to that of the state, had ad dressed a tirellar to the provincial intenda nts, recom mending them to dimuntenance petitions having that measure for their object. The Patna mentions that the Committee of the Senate on the Civil Marriage Bill had assembled se• vend times to examine it, and chosen for its reporter M. de Margherita. The greatest part of the docu ments collected by the ministry had been already submitted to them, and all the minutes of the littler of the committee appointed to draw up the first bill on civil marriage, which was rejected, were being printed. The President of the Council and the Keeper of the Seals assisted at the sitting held by the com mittee on the 18th. ' COMMANDER INOLEFIELD'S EXPEDITION ill &BARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. The Admiralty have received the following letter Gem Commander leg Wield, who has se disinterestedly pro- Deeded, in the screw-steamer Isabel, to assist in ins bawd pus search fur Sir John Franklin's expedition : (Cy.) " Screw Discovery-v op essel Isabel, Aug. 12, 1862. Oodhaven, Disco, Greenlaad. Sir —The assistance I have received in so many ways Ifrom this Board of Admiralty in equipping my little vessel for her Arctic voyage induces me to suppose their lordships will be pleased to learn I have so far advanced on my voyage, and that the squadron under Sir Edward Belcher passed this port on the 12th of June, having left it on the 10th, and lading the Waigatt Passage blocked with ice, returned southward to take the open bay. , " I shall sail in a few hours, having only put into God. haven to make good some lows sustained in a gale off Cape i Farewell. ! "I am now (from the favourable appearance of the reason l and the opinion of these here as to the state of the ice 'northward) determined on proceeding direct to Smith's I Sound. . . . . - -7 1 s; ships having been seen returning southward from Melville Bay, it is presumed that they have been successful in making an early north passage. " I am, Sir, your obedient, humble servant, (Signed) "E. A. Inotsrucco, Comrnander,R.N. "To the Secretary of the Admiralty, London." Extract from a letter received from • officer on board the Isabel, Commander Inglefield, R.N., now search ing for the missing Pular Expedition of Sir John Franklin. The letter was posted at Helensburgh, and received in Lon don on Wednesday, the 20th inst. : " At sea, off Goatee's, " Island of Disco, Aug. 11, 1862. " Here we are so far on our voyage, which, on the whole, has been very favourable. Wo made Cape Farewell on the last day of July, and encountered a great deal of ice off the East Coast, meeting some very large bergs, but thanks to Abernetby,• we managed to get clear of them. We ran along the coast for two days, and then ran out to avoid them. We bad a strong northerly wind with an occasional calm up to last Friday, when it came on to blow a tremen dous gale ; so we were obliged to beer up, and make for a Danish settlement called Lightenfells, or Fie Renesh, which we reached at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and remained there until Sunday evening, when we came out, and have had • very strong breeze from the southward ever since ; so much so that we could not go into Holstein burgh to get Adam Beck, which was the commander's in. Mutton. " Our first destination is to explore Smith's Sound, if time will permit, and then go to Jones' Sound, and win ter somewhere near it, ready for travelling in the spring. " Now the question that naturally suggests itself to you is this: Is Commander Inglefield the man to head such an expedition ? My answer is, that I really believe he is one of those brave, fearless fellows who would face the devil, but who, at the same time, has judgment with it. He tries in every . way to make us comfortable. " It is not • feather-bed expedition, bat one in which you must rough it out a bit. But what of that ? There ss plenty of provisions, and the commander lives as every one in the ship does, with the exception of Tuesdays, when we, that is the officers, dine with him, and then he comes out. With this exception he lives as the slup's con any. regret that time will not permit me to say more than that we ga up Lancaster Sound and communicate with Sir Edward Belcher's squadron before we return borne. is only in momenta of danger when the worth and experience of Abernethy are seen: ho is a moot valuable acquisition me a line itiontethe ab o utxpt liti next September twelvemonths, directed to the care of Mr. Sievewright, Keith Inch, Peter head. I had forgotten a word about the engines: —We have ***** *seceded three knots with them in a dead calm ; they are at work r.ow, and work very well; our maxi mum speed has been 72 revolutions, with our ice-propeller of 6 feet 6 inches diameter, and 6 feet 6 inches pitch."— Nautical Standard. • Snood Weir, who hu had also idaters la the Po:ar &gips& BEAUMONT INETITUTION.—TME DUKE OF WEL LTNOVON AND Hts Tutu.—" The Duke of Wellington and His Times " formed the subject of the first of two lectures delivered last night in the hall of the Beaumont Institu- Gen, Beaumont-square, Mile-end-road, by the Rev. T. J. RowseU. M.A., incumbent of St. Peter's, Stepney. In commencing the lecture, he said—The desire of the direc tors was to make the lectures secular, and of a strictly secu lar character too, and that the institution should never be made the arena of bitter political or theological discussion. (Applause.) With reference to the particular subject of the lecture, he might observe, that the history of a great man was the history of his country ; and unless he benefited his country be could not be a great man. The desire to benefit his country was what made the Duke of Wellington great, and it might be said that had it not been for him the history of his country would have been written in different ' characters. As long as he lived he exhibited a standard of greatness to which future heroes would look up, and he might be called one of the brightest patriots who have ever served ' this happy country. (Applause.) In referring to the birth of the duke, he observed that however noble his family had been, he had made it ten times more noble by the acts of his eventful life. At the time of hie birth, the American war was in progress, sad the great Earl of Chatham was thundering in the British senate to those who would listen to him in language which Demosthenes might not have been ashamed to own. Burke and Fox weft also among the great men of that period. Napoleon and the duke were both children at the same time—thrmany gave forth the gigantic mind of Goethe—France, the great Chateaubriand —and Scotland had her Walter Scott, who in after times caused every breast to thrill who read his immortal tales. (Applause.) When they thought of these things, little did they know bow infants of the present day might influence ' future times, and therefore it was most important that in stitutions like the present should give a right direction to youthful minds, and endeavour to impirt to them solid and useful instruction. The rev. gentleman then proceeded to give a rapid sketch of the duke's military career, and said that in his next lecture he should apply himself more par ticularly to these brilliant events which distinguished the Peninsular war. RAWAL WATZIMEN AND LIGIITERWMes ASYLP3II. —The poor watermen of the river have many claims on the public for support ; as from the advancement of science consequent on the restoration of peace, the formation of docks, and above all the development of the mighty power 1 of steam, the labouring waterman hie been almost deprived of the means of his daily subsistence. Another and a strong consideration for their support by the pubic is, that they have been regarded by the legislature as one of the nurseries for the royal navy, and by act of parliament of the 4th and bth of Queen Anne the company Is corn polled, in time of war, to summon and provide such a number of watermen, to serve in the royal navy, as the Lord High Admiral of England, or the commissioners for executing that oilier, shall from time to time give notice they require : and such pereose se summoned are liable ' to, imprisonment and disfranchisement should they . fail to appear when called upon, and many eminent and distinguished naval Miura have borne testi mony to their excelleace as seamen. The propriety of forming an asylum for the poor aged, de cayed, and maimed watermen and lightermen of the river, and their wives or widows, was for some time under the consideration of the court of the company (a very ancient one), bur, being unali.e, from the state of their funds and the general distress of their members, to erect a building for that purpose, they were Induced some time sines to solicit antmeriptious from their friends and the public for the purpose; and by the liberality they experienced, and the gift of a piece of land at Penge by the president of the institution, Mr. John Bodin Brown, for the purpose, they bare been enabled to build 41 houses for the accommodation of 41 married couples, where many of e aged, infirm, and decayed members of the company end their wives and widows are now living in humble and decent retirement. It was announced at the dinner that the institution had been recently honoured by het mast gracious Majesty the Queen sod Lis Royal Highness Prince Albert becoming patrons of the same, and that they had contributed 106 f. towards the endowment (aid thereof. Also, that his grace the Duke of Northumberland had kindly consented to be come vies-patron thereof, and bad contributed a similar lam. The allowance to the inmates and expenses of repaint, &c., amount to neatly 6001. per annum, and which the committee almost entirely depend upon themselves, their friends, and the public to make up. SEAMEN AND :MARINES' ORPHAN SCHOOL.—The eighteenth annual meeting of the Portsmouth Seamen and )larines' Orphan School was held yesterday after noon, at the rooms of the Institution, Lion-terrace, Portsea. The chair wee occupied by the Commander-in-Chief, Admi ral Sir Thomas Briggs, 0.C.M.0., and a large number of ladies and gentlemen were present, among whom were Admiral Douglas, Captain W. 11. Johnstone, superintend ent of Clarence yard ; Colonel Menzies, Commandant of Royal Marines ; Captain H. D. Chad', Captain Boyd, Captain Bastard, &c. The report of the committee was read by the Honorer , / Secretary , Captain A. R. Savage, A.M.A., and which was of a generally satisfactory character. Since the last report, the schools had been visited by Rear-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northumberland (First Lord of the Admiralty), Commodore Bir Thomas Herbert, Montague Clore. Esci , and others, the first named having presented a dons- I Lion of 1001. to the funds of the institution. The directors had also much pleasure in stating, that the endowment fund had increased from ball. to 1,1601., principally through the munificent donation of 6001. from Admiral Sir Themes Ogle and Iltnry Denton, Esq., tho executors to the will of the late Mr.. Henry Ogle. The building was nearly com pleted for the reception of • certain number of girls, to be boarded, lodged, and educated for domestic servants ; some additional Ain& being, however, required fur tl.is object. The Pura received from annual subscriptions had decreased nearly 201., ehiifiv through the deaths of some of the oldest supporters of the institute= ; an appeal to the generosity of the public wee therefore made, in order that tile bear finial operations of the institution might be carried out on the most extended basis. A series of resolution. having been paused, the children of the schools were regaled with • and dinner of toast meat end potatoes. PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. DIGHT SEYMOUR, M.P.— On Wednesday a public dinner was given to Mr. l)igby Seymour, ono of the representatives f[w the borough of Suuderland, at the Lyeenm-hall, in Lambton street, by about 100 of his political friends in the town, in testimony . [ of their sympathy with his principles, and to commemorate I bja ;flout election. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT that the national honour is now pledged to the per- , mutant suppression of the slave-trade. Ass proof of their sincerity the Chambers voted a credit for the construction of four war steamers, in addition to the eleven already engaged in tho service t and by the last advice@ tho most stringent rules had. it appears, been adopted to prevent any clandestine importations of new Africans into Brazil under the protection of passports, granted only for the transmission of old slaves from one port to another on the Brazilian coast. Such acts, we say, in the minds of rational men do inspire confidence; and it is by prompt and gene rous expressions of confidence in a nation, as in an individual, that persistence in a great and good career is best encouraged. THE partisans of Lord DERBY endeavour to con sole themselves with the persuasion that as the Libe ria opposition is divided to sentiment upon a variety of theoretical subjects, it cannot act with unity or concert on matters of practical importance, and that it cannot consequently displace the present infirm Administration. Tory infirmity of numerical strength in the Commons is no longer denied ; but hopes are fondly entertained that because the majority of the representatives of the people consists of ('hurelimen and Dissenters, new Ballot-teers and old-fashioned Suffragists, members of the Peace Society, and defenders of defensive armaments—the regime of incapacity, shuffling, and jobbery which accident inaugurated last March must continue un disturbed, and that the country will passively permit the affainrof its Church, its colonies, and its commerce to be made the sport of such a cabinet of marplots, as NIALMESBURT, IVALPOLE, PAKINGTON, and their associates. However cruel it may be to dissipate rudely such well-bred illusions, we are bound to tell the waiters in Lord DeaDv's ante-rooms, that they had better make the best use of their powers of importunity, far the dap of his lordship's burlesque premiership are numbered. Let no official organ deceive them with vain words. The Liberal party are indeed divided in opinion, as they have ever been and wo trust will ever be, on points of speculative interest and personal preferences. We should be very sorry if they weakly affected to bo otherwise. It is tho very essence and vitality of progress that is made manifest in such diversity. Toryism, or the gospel of things as they aio or were, admits of no earnest originality of thought, of no tentative change in institutions, of no faith in progress. True Tories ought to be always unanimous. True Liberals cannot, from the very nature of their creed, pretend to be so; for Liberalism is the Protestantism of po litics,—the assertion of the right of private judg ment in matters of law, government, and empire, — the realisation of that sacred freedom of civil con science which its old antagonist, Toryism, treated as sedition as long as it was able, and now idiotically laughs at as a sign of weakness,—not comprehend ing that it is, in fact, the very soul o: popular strength. We published yesterday a letter from Mr. Hume explainiug certain differences of view just now discussed between two sections of the Radical party. Some are in favour of urging the immediate con cession of the Ballot as tho one thing needful at the present juncture; while others, admitting fully the importance of efficient protection for tho humbler class of voters, argue that an extension of the suf &ego is equally indispensable, and that it were im politic to lay exclusive stress on ballot alone. And the dull Tories cannot see that the practical result of this disinterested and legitimate difference of opinion as to the best way of securing an increase of democratic rights is likely to be the creation of a ge nerous emulation between the two friendly sects of Reformers—the one taking care to pledge every new candidate at the hustings to vote on all occasions for the ballot, and the other insisting on an equally unequivocal promise to advocate the extension of the franchise. It is worthy of note, moreover, that the entire discuesion appear, to be carried on, upon the ' point of tactique, between honest and tried men, everyone of whoa have uniformly supported both claims on the part of tho people. They are per fectly of accord as to the duty and necessity of knocking the present system of corruption and in timidation on the head; but some are for striking the first blow on the left side and oiliers for dealing it on the right. And then we hear the abettors and accom plices of electoral corruption chuckling at its imagined safety, because, to all appearances, it is likely to receive its double death-blow in or about the same time ! The parliamentary biography of Mr. Hume is in itself the most triumphant answer to the absurd cry of division among the Liberals. The veteran mem o ber for .Montrose has probably voted oftener in small minorities than any other man that ever sat in the l House of Commons; yet he has lived to see point after point conceded in the successive ripening, and ' harvestings of liberal opinion; and we trust he will yet behold the accomplishment of many more righteous anticipations, before he ceases from his useful labours. Where would the Liberal cause have been now, had there not been at all times during the last thirty year, a certain number of devoted and unselfish men who felt more ardently and spoke more vehemently than their more mations allies, and who at the risk of many an unequal struggle and throughout the dis couragement of many an unsustained assault upon Toryism, stimulated at last the courage of the rest of ' their party, and dewed them the way to victory after victory ? But what do we behold on the ether side I How comes it that among a Intim who lave nothing to do but to remain stationary, or if possible to retrace the steps they have lately been unwillingly forced to tread—bow wines it that dismal= 11041 divi sion prevails aassagst then; air winnien do we hear the wrangling of &met is the ante el the only orthodox shrine P Iced Duey teak ides with pompous predisions eland for the "lodisation and fortification of the Established Church ; but already half his partisans are en the brink of mutiny, on the paned is in hears with that notion when they eill tltiteri, sad that if he continues to take amuse! of then who bar, persuaded him to roman Convocatiaa their duty as onagelini Chris tian will be to real his asseetwes wed Assert his 'naiad. Division she la the assegai gam not in oun. ladependeanef *aims gives rigor to Liberal insult. bat &animist Lord DZILBT's ranks must be sure death te his ,lists. PITCAIRN'S ISLAND. Mr. %oaks, the gentleman who has just arrived in this country from Pitcairn's Idea (says a corn- spondeot), went eat tram this country about 28 years since into the Pacific m a missionary teacher. He oflledated as ekeplain on board bar Majesty's ship the Portland, from Pitcairn to Valparaiso, the chaplain having been left ashore at the former place, during the absence of Mr. Knobbes. The stay of the latter to England will ba about three ism:oaths, and he will probably return via New York and Chsgree. One of the objects of his visit here Is to obtain ordination as a clergyman of the established church. Ace conking to hie mermat, there are not more than nine sue. amass amongst sU ths lahabitants of Pitcairn. The men live to about the age of 60, and Ma women to 60 years. Their honors are wooden and tarnished. There is no am e at Pitcairn, and when it blows hard, any vestal near is o to put to sea. A few years ago a Captain Canuaway, of the ship Baudicate, a native of Portsmouth, end who married a lady of flautharaptoo, was trading between Hobart Town and California, sad called off Pitcairn's island. While he was on shore it earns on to blow hard, and his ship was obrged to put to sea. Sin gular to say, he was entertained at this hums of Mr. Kilobbes daring the fortnight his ship was away, and now corresponds from Hobart Town with that gentleman. Captain Cannaway wrote to Southampton at the time an account of his being weather-bound at Pit cairn, and alludes to the rational and unaffected piety of the natives, their tranquil life, and beawiful climate. 'the Tellitan men who accompanied the mutineers from Otabeite to Pitcairn died childless. The flumes, there fore, derive their Tahitan blood from Taeitan women. The whole of the mutiarsen of the Bounty died violent deaths with the exception of Adams, and the tragedies which originally took place in Pitcairn were caused by disputes respecting the Otahite women who accompanied the mutineers. The recollection of the tar tile seems enacted by the first mutineen probably has been in some measure the cause of the temperance and milcioess of their durendanst. It was• son of "Christian," the arch muti neer, that fleet spoke the ship that re-discover .a Pitcairn, and revealed to the world the hiding place of the mutineers. The Briti.h government ought to act liberally toward. the interesting colony of Pitcairn, which presents psycho logiaal manifestations of which there is no previous ex ample. Possessed of the strong and restless intellects of the north, and planted In a soft and delicious china, they dis play all the virtues without the alloy of the vices of civi lised and savage life. COURT or DIANGERY.—Viso Chancellor Kinder'lcy will it at ktadley's Hotel, Southampton, on 'lneulay mat. Uis Honour bas already sat on two occasions, sad tipsditsd Chaucer; preecoolier. TUSCANY. Thecorrospondent of the Debota writes :—+Florence, Oct. 14: Three objects at this moment occupy public men in Tuscany—the new loan, the commercial league *ith Austria, as he change of ministry. The new loan is to be ono of seventy or eighty million franca. It is to serve for the repayment of the 25 million loan made in 1830, the 10 million loan of 1851, and the residue of the Lucca loan. The old and now debt contracted with Austria, and amount ing to 15 million francs, is also to be discharged, with 13 millions of the floating debt. There will remain, after these payments, 15 millions for the oonstroation of the new port of Leghorn, and the drainage of the marsh of Bicatina, between Lucca and Fl orence. - M. Butoji, the Leghorn banker, is to negotiate the loan The commercial league with Austria may be re girded as concluded ; but, as it is feared that it will not produce a good impression upon the country, the government will refrain from putting it into execu tion immediately. The construction of the new port at Leghorn is a consequence of the Anstro•ltalian league, for it is to be at once the naval and commer cial port of Atistria in the Mediterranean. I am assured, in fact, that one of the articles of the league provides that an Austrian garrison shall always oo cupy Leghorn. The Austrians will also guard the coast line from the Sardinian to the Roman frontier for the prevention of contraband. All persons agree in regarding a change of ministry as inevitable. The Grand Duke to anything but satis fied with his present ministers, whose opinions are more or less opposed to his on every question, bat most of all on *a concordat si ith Rome. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Letters from Corfu, of the Bth, in the Piedsnontese Gazette, announce the arrival there of H.B.M. frigate Spiteful, Capt. G. Parker, from Malta. The British fleet was expected at Corfu about the 13th. The Lord High Commissioner was expected back at tho same time. During the last ten days there have been 330 now cases of small-pox at Corfu, 71 of which proved fatal. The thermometer was at 82 Fahrenheit, and the drought was excessive. TIN TIOLZRA IN POLAND.—From an official report ma o by the authorities of Warsaw, it appears that the whole number of cholera cases in that city, since the 21'h of May, when the die, as* first appeared, till tho 21st of August, was 26,685; of these, 11,461 died, 10,798 were cured, end, at the latter date, 4,323 were under treatment. The number of cases till the end of September, when the disease abated, will probably be given in • second return. to l'oiwn it still prevails, but nut in the most populous towns, nor to any alurruing titent. Tho cold woatbor &MeV W 1 41* obeseksi 14• HOUSE OF LORDS. PROROGATION TO THE FOURTH OF NOVEMBER. Parliament was yesterday further prorogued until the 4th of November, in pursuance of the official notice pub lished in the Gaulle haat week. _ _ _ The Loan CIIANCiLLOII appeared upon the floor of the Rouse of Lords shortly after two o'clock, end, advancing to the front of the throne, his lordship announced that her Majesty had been pleased to direct the issue of a writ under the great seal, proroguing the parliament until the 4th of November, and the parliament stood adjourned ac cordingly. The Usher of the Black Rod was then directed to go :for the Commons, and after.; an absence of a few minutes he returned, attended by some of the clerks of that house. . _ Mr. Shaw Lettere, the chief clerk of the House of Peers, then read tho writ of prorogation, tos.ether with the proclamation, declaring the royal will and pleuure that the said parliament should, on the said Thursday, the 4th day of November next, be held and sit for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs; and the lords spiri tual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burgh. of the House of Commons, were thereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the 4th day of November next. The Loan CIIANCELLOIL then bowed to the officers of the Commons and retired. The proceedings, which were purely formal, did not occupy many minutes. Zly Court. WINDSOR, Ocr. 21. The following had the honour of dinirg with her Majesty yesterday : - The Princess of Hohenlohe Langen burg, Prince Hermann of llohenlohe, Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington ' the Chevalier Bunion, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. F. 0. Hood (commanding 3rd Battalion (irenadier Guards). The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon. The Equerries, Lord Charles Pita- Roy and Lieutenant. Colonel F. 11. Seymour, attended on horseback. The Prince of lloheolohe Langenburg arrived at the Castle today en a visit to her Majesty. The Chevalier Bunsen arrived yesterday, on a visit to the Queen . Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Hon. C. B. Phippe, Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Sey mour, drove to Eton this forenoon in an open carriage, where the l'rince laid the foundation steno of a new chapel for that parish. His Royal Highness proceeded afterwards to Eton Col lege, and remained to luncheon with the Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Provost of Eton. A deputation on the subject of a railway from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the New Brunswick boundary, had an in terview with Sir John Pakington, yesterday, at the Colo nial-office. The deputation consisted of Mr. Oliveira, M.P., Hon. Mr. Cunard, Mr. Macgregor (Glasgow), M.P., Mr. (hassle, Mr. Dewolte Cochrane, and Mr. Phillipps. A deputation of licensed victuallers of Colchester, con sisting of Munn, Abbott, Pargetter, Miller, and lir.imby, had an interview with Lord John Manners, yesterday, at the Office of Public Works and Buildings. Mr. Deedes bad an interview with Mr. Secretary Wal pole, yesterday, at the Home-office. Archdeacon Bethune (Toronto), Mr. Anetruther, Dr. Stanger, and Mr. J. Montague, had interviews, yesterday, with Sir John Pakington. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the Governors of West sod South Australia, Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Mauritius. FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. (Prom a Boppletnent to the LOll4lll Ggiefte of Tatiday.) Earl Manhareoffice, 1, Parliament-greet, Oct. 21, 1862. Her Majesty having signifled her Royal pleasure that tho public solemnizat ion of the funeral of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington shall take pinee as soon, as practi cable after the assembling of Parliament: This is to request that all Privy Councillors under the degree of the peerage, the Vice-Chancellors, the Barons of the Exchequer, the Justices of both Benches, Knights Grand Cross, Knights Commander., and Companions of the Most llon. Order of the Bath, and her Majesty's Law Offi cers, desirous of being 'present in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul on the occasion, will signify the same to me, by letter addressed so above, on or before the 4th day of No vember next (after which no application can be received), in order that places may be reserved for them. NORFOLK, Earl Marshal. CON VOCATION. (From Ilia Dal sew.) THE truth about the story of the revival of Cony a cation is understood to be this—that, though bird DEILBY and his colleagues have not as yet dared to actually advise their Sovereign to issue the ltoyel license required by the Act of Submission for Convo cations to proceed to what is popularly called business the High Church and Tractarian party are under the strong belief and persuasion that their recent comma. ideation with the more influential members of the Cabinet have nearly brought the government to that determination. And it is further believed that any general encouragement given by the public to the scheme will induce ministers to make at least the attempt, by giving her ISIAJF:STY that advice. Whether, if the advice were so given, it would be followed is, however, another question. That it would be most distasteful is pretty notorious ; and the better mascot' the Court might desire to have some expression ofparliamentary opinion before astounding the country by the exercise of a prereipitive which has long ken considered obsolete. And as part of the theory of the Tractarian has been to make a distinction between the Sovereign as head of the Church and as chief of the State, they way, it is quite possible, on this occasion, find that distinction ener. seed in a way more agreeable to the rest of the Quessi's subjects than to themselves. la such a matter there arc, the public may rest assured, other personages than Prime Ministers to gain over. This much, however, is now apparent on the very surface of things, that from the first formation of the present Administration there has been a secret understanding between some of the leaders of the Tractariau party and several members of tho Cabinet. Scarcely had it been settled in power, when Mr. O. A. DEsisoN was to be seen in intercourse with it; and the result of his intercourse were those serious alterations in the Managememmt Clauses of the trust deeds of the Church of lingl Ind Schools receiving grants from the Privy Council, that Lord JOHN letsew. brought before the House of Commone—et measure which Mr. DENISON, how ever, openly declared he only took as an instalment of what was due to the Church in respect of the education of the people. During the summer the ' Tractarian party were to be found taking unusual care and forethought in what before had become mere matter of form, the election of l'roctors to Convoca tion ; whilst the other . party, little dreaming of the approaching danger of its possible revival, mad e no preparations. Since then, Lord DElttiV has berg pre-rewarded for his intended concession to 'fracta nen views and objects by his election as Chancellor of the University of Oxford ; the Bishop of that See, with perhaps renewed hopes of now reaching the Primacy, being at once one of the most ardent Con. vocationists and one of his warmest supporters. Oa Ithe vacancy of an Irish Bishopric the other day one of the most offensive of Irish High Church-men re ceived the appointment. And throughout the distri bution of its other ecclesiastical patronage that same influence may be perceived operating on the preatlit government. With ell these, and a hundred other minor, indica. tions and evidences before our eyes, it is impossible to doubt that the Tractarian party have at last esta blished a practical influence in the councils of the Crown ;—that the ecclesiastical policy of the present government is of an ultra Iligh Church character ; that their enormous patronage will be distributed by them with a view to the supreetary of that party and their principles ;—and that part of the plans agreed on between the Tractarians and Lord Denny (unknown to his Royal Mistress, and, it is said, to one at least of his principal colleagues), is the revival of Convocation. We have long, says the il.risiny Chronicle (existing chiefly for Tractartan purposes) been in possession of this report. But the stymy, it adds, has been mis understood by the TioleA ; for it is not, it says, in tended to revive Couvreation in its present state: that is, we presume, with merely the powers and authorities which it pos‘essed when silenced, but to call it together to devise and recommend a scheme for self-reform and reconstruction,according to the altered condition of the Church and society." No doubt this is the design. Convocation, as silenced in 1717, would not answer the ends of its present revivers; they want a council which shall have power at once over the temporalities, and authority over the doctrines and formularies of the Church ; and it is with a view to its re-modelment in this sense that the late elec tion of I'roctors was so assiduously attended to by the Tractarian party. Lotits NAPOLEON iniOit indeed as well restore liberty to France, by summoning to gether the Etnts-Generaux of the last century, as the Tractarians try to work out their schemes of eccle sisstical license by the old former Convocation. TIMI they have repeatedly declared and avowed. Hear on this point Mr. SEWELL, who in the fantasies of PLATO finds the true theory of Church government: " Convocation is a civil creation ; a clerical parlia ment instituted for purposes of finance ; not a Synod of Clotia ministers for proclaiming His Creed." What he wants is to turn Convocation into a Synod to frame canons to be enforced by anathema. " What form of Synod, under which niodifleation, and with what precise jurisdiction, would be most suited to our wants, will be a question for the pro foundest research." _ And that questiornord DERBY now contemplates stirring. Where it will lead poor Mr. SEwuL to we already know, for he has expressed a prefen , as for being guided in the matter by" the precedents of tbo early centuries!" So the chances we, Con vection will become a sort of Council of Constance, and sacrifice its martyrs. The audacious Mr. BENNETT, writing on the G.it- MN came, has spoken out even plainer thin Mr. SEWELL :-" We must have liberty—not the chains and entanglements of a State Protection; which while it embraces kills'; while it flatters pieces— the freedom of the children of God." To plain, practical, rational Englishmen, then a a sort of semi-lunacy about such nonsense as tb..; and a year ago, when we had in power a niii,i..ty who treated it as nonsense, we might dis; such ravings. Bat when, now-a-days, it is such etch:missal:al revolutionists as Mr. SEW ELL, Mr. Ih.Nserr, and Mr. G. A. De.siisos, that have access to the QUEEN'S Cabinet when they have almost persuaded it to restore Convocation. and when their avowed purpose is to remodel it on them principles and for these objects, there is danger, and great danger too, in the movement. Instead, therefore, of restoring an old institution, their object is to create a new ecclesi a stical power in England; a power which shall make the episcopacy of the Church not its rulers but its executive chars; a power Which in all matters ecclesiastical, be they temporal or spiritual, shall supersede Parliament; a power which shall unite theurisdiction of Convoca tion to the authority of Syno d; and possess an 3;10- late jurisdiction in doctrinal matters, as well as jin right to remodel cathedral chapters. It is a nov7lty of the most extensive description, not the restoneien of worn-out Assembly, which is, aimed at. And it 1 against this that we have to prepare resistance. Such a scheme cannot, we know, be carried out ; —it may, however, be attempted. The good ecru. of the couutry will put it down ; but the bad sow of tho government may essay it. What, then, we have at present to protect ourselves against is being 616. turbed and annoyed by the attempt. For oily imagine Convocation assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber, to devise a scheme of self-reform. Then would meet a body of men unused to cot together ; unaccustomed to submit to order and decision ; untried in speech; always leaning on external aid for support in every movement ; cut off from pi.% tradi tions and ignorant of present wants; but stimulated nevertheless into a morbid activity. Why the very thought of such an assembly is madness; and the Minister who permitted it to enter his mind must either be a maniac,—or something worse. Not e ven Mr. GLADSTONE, in his highest flights of pious Platonism, ever proposed a Synod which should exclude the Laity. :b o il the he Church Chur Church t E h n e g y li vi sl the words of the Dean of Bitisvot, a Church sereated by law, upheld by law, paid by law, and which may be changed by law as any other inatitutiou !I! the land ;" not a Church claiming inherent powers of self organisation or authority. w i ll tolerate; estand THE LORD MAYOR WILL LEAVE Lo'DO' this morning, one visit to hi, nt.tive town, Bury St. Edniiir hewing aceepted the invitation of the Mayer of th it am eat borough to a banquet to be given thin day in the Gal et which the alwritfe of London and Itliddiesex, and a num Der of the resident gentry, will be present. INAUGURATION OF LORD DERBY AS CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Heads of Colleges of the University of Oxford, preceded by the Vice-Chan cellor, the Rev. Dr. Phial:4re, Llr.Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church, the four Pro-Vice-Chancellors the Warden of Wadhem College, the President of Sr. lohn's College, the Provost of Worcester College, and Warden of Merton, as also the two senior proctors, the Rev. Mr. Lake, of Balliol, and the Rev Mr. Pritchard, of Corpus Christi, attended at Downing-street, to formally announce to Lord Derby, by the vote of the House of Convocation, his election as Chancellor of the University in the room of the late Duke of Wellington. The deputation was also attended by a large body of the clergy, and introduced to his lordship in his °S kid room. The ceremony, which is merely of a forma' nature previous to the installation, having been concluded, the deputation withdrew. THE REVIVAL OF CONVOCATION. Our ministerial morning cotemporary, in the most conspicuous part of its columns, and under the heading, "The False Reports of the Revival of Convocation," ears : " We are authorised to give the most unqualified contra diction, for the second time, to an assertion, which hu been published by the Times, that it is the intention of het Modesty's ministers to unction the revival of the active powers of convocation. There is not, and never has been, the slightest foundation for such a rumour. Iler Majesty's government have not, we most distinctly declare, enter tained the question for one moment." All that has as yet transpired relative to the terms of the amalgamation to be proposed between the North Western and Midland Railway Companies, is that such terms are rather more favourable to the Midland than those formerly offered by the North Western. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—PROPOSED PUBLIC IsaTlTUTtox.—Lot evening a preliminary meeting wes held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose as en-' premed in the advertisement, of taking into consideration the propriety of erecting a permanent memori a l of th e na tion's gratitude in honour of the Duke of Wellington. Only about halt a dozen persons, betides the repceters, were pre sent. S. F. Bilton, Esq. bar:rister,presibed. rod Mr. Teminty, who acted as hon. secretary, read• peespeetes of • proposed 'institution for tho relief of not.eess— ed ease% sol diers, sailors, and marinas, and their widows and miens and aat ries of resolutions expressive of the desirab il ity of such an institution were proposed and carried. It was also resolved to hold a public meeting in promotion of this ' object. THE CRYSTAL PALACE, HYDE PARE.—We under stand that the offers of large sums made by several parties for a monopoly of the " pickings" to be found beneath the boards of the Crystal Palace were all refused by the con tractor*, Maas. Fox and Henderson, who generously gavo permission t 3 the labourers employed upon the spot to ap propriate to themselves any treasure trove" which they might chance to light upon in remoniog tho planks of which lie floor wan composed, and in turning up the turf below. The findings have been quite a God-send to some of the men upon the works. Coins of copper, silver, and gold, crochet-purses, studs, rings, de., with silver and gold headed canes, have turned up daily, and the other flay a poor man was fortunate enough to stumble on a puree con- mining as much as 71. or 81. It would seem from this that all the treasures lost lost year in the (Irma Exhibition did not fall into the hands of the light-fingered gentry, though many of them, doubtless, made a harvest of the spoils, but that a large portion of it slipped through those provoking boards which, as our readers will doubtless remember, stood , just wide enough to swallow up any stray Arnim or six- ' pences wtich might drop from their hands, but were, un happily just too narrow to afford the loser a ohmse of re. coiirj . . - - Jews AND GENERAL LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC TAIITITCTJON.—The session 1832-9 of this admirable insti tution was opened lest evening at Sussex Hall, Leadenhall street, by a coirsrsasione, at which was collected a very brilliant company of ladies and gentlemen to the number of oee thousand, which is about the present number of members. The advantages of the institution consist of all excellent library, a news-room, and of evening lectures; and these characteristics, and the influence of such a society upon the mental culture of the younger genera tion of the Jewish community dwelling in London were fully en., interestingly expatiated upon by the different g,n,10n , 91 who delivered addresses—the Pre- Nathauiel Monteflore, E'q., Sampson Samuel, Esq., Mr. Clarke, he. After the speaking there was a concert, and apparently the music gave still greater satisf►ction I than the ora. ,, ry. It may be mentioned that the " Jaws and ❑eneral Literary and Scientific Institution" has one character peeteiar to itself, and which might be Imitated with beneficial results by all 'image societies. Every Fri day evening (that is on the Jewish Sabbath, and when the working classes are released from labour) there is a lecture, literary, social, or wientifle, given at Sussex 1101, the ad mission to which is free ; and in consequence tho inhabi tants of the poorer Jewish quarters of East Lon4pn flack into tho hall, einduct themselves well, anal return to their homes, there can be little doubt, better and wiser people. 1:p