The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-21 00:00:00

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice, in any way, any communication that to sent to no anonymously but Huse who choose to Ocher no In confidence will find their confidence respected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MA.IUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. Adsertiaements intended for The Express must be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day of publication. start WATER AT LONDON-BRIDOE. TIM DST . Mot Wag, 13 min. pot 2 ; A ft ernoon, 31 min. pad 2. Toaiossow.—Morninft, 49 rain. put 2 ; Afternoon, 3 lain. pest 3. LONDON, WEDNESDAY ~00T._21. SOME weeks ago there appeared in the Espanol, Madrid newspaper, a summary and extracts of Lord PALMERSTON'S note, presented to the Spanish Government by Mr. BULWER. Now, there appears in the Revue des Deus Mondea a similar dis aware of the main arguments employed by M. GCIZOT in rebutting Lord PALMERSTON'S accusation and protest. It would be unfair and unsatisfactory to attempt to draw conclusive inferences from these garbled documents, for which each journalist has no doubt culled those parts and assertions which most favour his view of the question. Besides, we have ample time for coming to a judgment on the merits of LOUIS PHILIPPE, M. GCIZOT, Lords ABERDEEN and PALMERSTON. We have quite sufficient information as to the fact of Spain having been juggled out of her constitutional freedom and independent action, and of England's having been tricked out of that just influence and weight in the political arrangement of Spain, to which her services and sacrifices to that country justly entitled her. The bare idea that, — after having waged the Peninsular war in order to keep a French Prince out of Spain, concluded the Quadruple Treaty, and sent our ships and marines to combat in Spain to defend the freedom and inde pendence of the Spaniards,—the result should be the introduction of a French Prince to the Spanish throne, by undermining the freedom, abrogating the constitution, and destroying the independence of Spaniards, is indeed monstrous. It cannot but hand down England and her politicians as a laughing stock to posterity. In the future fables which will illustrate the deeds of our day, we may surely reckon that Louts PHILIPPE will be Reynard the Fox, and England the Gibby Goose, of the middle of the nine teenth century. The past, however, is one consideration ; the future is another. The marriage of the Duke de MONTPEN BIER with the INPINTA is a point at which we evidently come to a break or close in our policy. It is the full termination of a chapter in a book. And it offers the opportunity for taking breath and consider ation, as to how far it may be wise to continue the old policy, or to persevere in that line of diplomatic argument and conduct which has produced such mor tifying results. Those of our contemporaries who are honoured with the confidence of the Foreign-office, and who un dertake to declare and defend its policy, have got astride the Treaty of Utrecht, and join Lord PAL MERSTON in making it a chervil de bataille for tilting against the King of the Fazriert and his Government. We should, for our part, much prefer basing our rights on common sense and common fairness, than on either the letter or spirit of a worm-eaten treaty, which Mr. GLADSTONE amused himself by tearing up last year, in the House of Commons, and which M. OVIZOT can quite as ingeniously put his foot through now. One need go no farther back than the Quadripartite treaty to establish, that for the French King to take advantage of our exertions in the execution of that treaty, and marry his son to the heiress of the Spanish throne without consulting us, and against our interest and consent, was an act of the greatest treachery and injustice. Nor do we require to disinter or expound the Treaty of Utrecht in order to characterise such conduct ; and to warrant any degree of resistance or retaliation, which it may be politic to adopt. The only advantage of invoking the Treaty of Utrecht would be, the thereby enlisting the other powers of Europe on our side, and inducing Austria, for example, to join us in protesting against re-marriages between the Bourbon families of France and Spain. Since Austria, however, pro tests against the rights of ISABELLA, and maintains those of the son of DON CARLOS, as best calculated to preserve Spanish independence—a view which expe rience unfortunately proves not quite so erroneous as it has been thought—we cannot have Austria for :an ally in the invocation of the Treaty of Utrecht. Prussia dreams of trade, not of a war of succession, and will certainly not take up arms for the Treaty of Utrecht. As for Russia, provided she can set England and France squabbling, she is satisfied ; and therefore very unfit to be trusted or consulted as an ally. . . ......... England, therefore, is left alone to hoist the Treaty of Utrecht as a banner ; and we are afraid this banner may lead to false moves of policy, as it has already produced no good effect in persuading or dis suading the French. We hear it whispered by our Foreign-office journals that England has protested or will protest against the offspring of the Duke de MONTPENSIER succeeding to the Spanish throne, and that this protest is based upon the Treaty of Utrecht. Such a measure must be either a brutum fulmen, en empty menace, or it is the proclamation of a future war. As either one or the other, we must deprecate it. To suppose that any threat' could induce the King of the French or the I Duke de MONTPENSIER to disinherit the offspring of the latter, is absurd. The French themselves would fling contempt and its consequences on a prince who could be capable of t.uch an act. If, therefore, our prediction respecting the Spanish succession prove true, future governments of England would be bound either to make war upon Spain and France, or to take up that semi-hostile attitude towards the Court of Madrid, maintained at present by the Eastern power. What results or advantages are thus to be gained, we do not see. The marriage of the Duke de MONTPENSIER to the Infanta was, we admit, a most untoward and un warrantable act, and one for which the King of the FRENCH merits whatever vengeance we can take. But the young prince and princess are not to blame, still less their offspring; and we ought to shrink from en tailing war or enmity, either upon them or upon our selves. The marriage is like many that take place to the extreme annoyance of all theme ders interested ; that is to say, it was a marriage have been pre vented by every possible means. But if, in despite of vigilance, the union has taken place, it then only remains to make the best of it. And herein we think the Treaty of Utrecht some what inapplicable. It evidently provided for a period of despotic government, when the whole power and authority in France and in Spain was concentrated in the will of the monarch, and when the people were like other chattel property, to be disposed of by will, or carried away by succession. Not so now. The reigning sovereign in all countries is checked and barred by popular opinion ; and as for the right of succession, the people and the re presentative assemblies, in all countries, have taken upon themselves to decide. The English people, the French people, the Spanish people, have all exercised that right ; and in exercising it, have virtually rendered null the old micro-sanctity of the law of royal succession. The question, therefore, of who is to occupy, who succeed to, the Spanish throne, instead of being, as in the days of the Treaty of Utrecht, a question for a congress, for diplomatists and monarchs, has simply become a question for the Spanish people. It is for them to decide, not for us. And by appealing from them to the Treaty of Utrecht, or to the Court of Vienna, or to the Coart of the Tuilleries, we are merely going backward to an illiberal and retrograde state of public and international law. Instead of protesting that the MoNTPENSIER mar riage is contrary to the Treaty of Utrecht, and that consequently its offspring cannot succeed, we should better understand and admire a protest that the Spanish constitution has been violated, the Cortes packed, and the court enabled by foreign intrigue and military predominance to exercise undue violence both un the rights of the QUIIEN and of the nation ; a court coterie and a French Ambassador wresting and procuring, by means at once fraudulent and violent, the mock consent of IS4BELLA and of the country. But to such might be replied, that it comes too late. England has suffered long since the over throw of the Spanish constitution, the abrogation of Spanish liberties, and the instalment of a military dictatorship. By tamely suffering, and content edly acquiescing in this, England drew down upon herself, and deserved, the consequences which have now followed, in the total loss of her influence, and in the transference of the Spanish crown, as, for a long time previous, of the government, to the House of Orleans. WE regret to perceive, by the report of the Bishop of LONDON'S charge, that his lordship's assistance is not to be calculated upon in removing the difficulties which obstruct a comprehensive scheme of National Education. Ile thinks the present not a proper time to enter upon a new system ; objects to the separation of religious and secular instruction ; and recommends co-operation with existing societies. It is passing strange that those who will not hear of the voluntary system in religion, should prefer it, and rely upon it, for education. The experience of half a century, dating from BELL and LANCASTER, or , of above three-quarters of a century, dating from RAIKES, has fixed the stamp of failure (as to nationality of instruction) upon the purest zeal, the most determined perseverance, and the most generous liberality. Devoted men have put their hands to the plough, never looking back ; they have flung the seed broadcast over the land ; and yet what a wide extent of it remains a wilderness ! How much longer is the vain experiment to last? We are told that more is done and doing ; but still the increase of population outstrips all increase of scholastic in struction. The tortoise will never catch the hare, however diligently he may mend his pace. With the returnsof untaught children, of the meagre and useless attainments of those who aro somewhat schooled, and of the ascertained proportion of adults unable to write or read, staring us in the face, a continued reliance upon voluntary effort is not rational faith, but blind credulity. In his anxiety that religious and secular instruc tion should not be separated ; nor children be led to undervalue religion as something foreign from the concerns of life ; nor a race of school teachers be found devoid of all religious character; the Bishop of Los- DON loses himself among details and words, and is forgetful of facts. According to the strictness of theological demarcation, the fractions of a creed divided people are doomed to be mutually irreligious. For us, there can be no national education, as, indeed, there can be no national existence, without toleration. ' , Diversity of faith is a fact which we are compelled to recognise in our political institutions and our social union. Let the heads of the Church recognise it in refe rence to education,and the great difficulty is surmounted. There are hundreds of accredited school teachers now, patronised by the State, who are not religious in the sense of the Bishop of London, as his favoured teachers are not religious in their sense. We cannot see the desecration, or, in itself, the difficulty, of em ploying them for combined instead of isolated labours ; and in the same, instead of separate, school-houses. The principle is already conceded ; and the concession cannot be recalled. The State is the actual paymas ter of those who teach different systems of religion. Whether they teach in different buildings, is a very subordinate consideration. And as children do not undervalue the teacher of geography, or his lessons, because he may be a different per- 1 son from the teacher of penmanship, there seems no reason for the Bishop's fear lest religion should be undervalued when it has a separate teacher. If the child's appreciation of the task be guided by his estimate of the teacher, an opposite result may be expected. The social grade of the clergyman, and of the dissenting minister, will generally be deemed higher than that of the mere schoolmaster. In the religious lessons, the child will be in the presence of his parents' teacher, and often of his teacher's teacher. This cir cumstance alone will tend to produce a conviction of importance in the subject, and a sense of its sanctity. And although the master of a parish or district school, comprising pupils of all religious denominations, and some of no denomination, should be devoid of prose. lyting and sectarian tendencies, it by no means follows that he should not be, in the purest and broadest sense of the word, a religious man. Unless ho is, he can be but ill-fitted for his functions. Nor is there any reason why,—and this would utterly demolish one of the bishop's difficulties,—the secular teacher should not also be the religious teacher of that portion of the school which consists of chil dren of the same persuasion. There is nothing in any of these details that would not soon give way before willing minds and hearty co-operation. Dis senters have their demnrrings as well as the clergy ; but they would not resist the influence of an earnest and liberal example. The heads of the Church, however, are practically the arbiters of this momentous question. Against their protest and hostility there can be no national education, properly so called; nor can they provide any adequate substitute for the blessing they prevent. Their power stops with the negation. We had hoped, before the delivery of this charge, that a deep sense of the pre vailing ignorance and depravity had prepared them RE EXPRESS, WEDNESIA to arm:mats with the Government in whatever prise d . will mitigate the evil ; sad we will that his Grace of Lostem may have bees precipitate, than yield to the bitterness ettiesppointment. Dr. CHALMERS has taken an impressive farewell of public meetings in his address on " the most effectncl methods of diffusing a thorough education, both Christian and common, among the working classes." His point of view is different from that of the Bishop of LONDON, and he passes by the ques tion of State interposition. The kreat ob ject to which his solemn and fervid eloquence directs itself, is that of completely accomplishing the instruction and Christianising of particular rather than allowing the waste of beneficent efforts by spreading them over s larger surface, where they are likely to reach the surface only. This considera tion is a most important one , as relates to " ragged schools" and similar endeavours for gaod. We may add that it also bears upon the necessity of calling the powers of the State into action. The depths of igno rance and misery require a longer plummet-line to sound them, than that of individual, associated, or congregational benevolence. We may almost regard this address as the dying warning of that accqm pliahed Christian philosopher and philanthropist, against trusting to " the mere attractive power of education." It must be brought home to the people. It must be provided and required. It must become a national institution, and it will soon be prized as our noblest national heritage. THE curious case of BERKELEY v. the Constituency of West Gloucestershire is going on with great spirit. We had the declaration, in the shape of Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S first letter ; the replication, in the joint epistle of the representatives of the constituency, was printed in the Express of the 17th ; and now we are favoured with Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S re joinder in his letter, which will be found in our columns of this day. There is certainly good ground for demurrer in this remarkable communication, on the score of ungramma tical lan , ruage ; and for that it is, in other respects, " informal, unintelligible, and otherwise insufficient." We never remember to have read a more RADCLIFFE like document. " The predominant shadows " brood over it like the undisclosed mysteries of UDOLPHO. There is " a disgraceful submission," and an attempt to " force by his (Lord FITZHARDINGE'S) own acts, at the instigation of another, Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY into a position which incapacitates him from doing his duty to his constituents." Then the " private arrangement " looms larger and larger upon us, as something which affects Mr. BERKELEY'S " pub lic position ;" but anon, he dashes the subject from him, as " scorning to call for any additional sympathy from the public, or to seem to seek friends other than the abstract public quarrel may require." It is a most mysterious business altogether, and has a sort of rightful-heir, behold-the-murderer, bluefire Victoria smack about it. The horrid secret is to burst on the constituency "at the right time;" when the wicked brother will be unmasked, the " predo minant shadows" cleared away, and the injured in nocence of Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY proclaimed, amidst the " tears, cheers, and laughter" of a genuine "blaze of triumph." Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, in his first letter, accused Lord FITZHARDINGE of throwing him over, without complaint made, explanation given, or opportunity offered him of changing his coat ; of advancing to the Radical, or receding to the Tory ranks, according to the will of the noble nominor. The same epistle charged certain influ ential persons of the West Gloucestershire consti tuency with giving way to this cruel determination of the elder brother, and calmly allowing poor Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY to be made a JONAS of, in order to allay some darkly revealed domestic squall in Berke ley Castle: the Earl threatening, if they did not submit, that he would no longer defray certain registration expenses for the county. The letter containing these charges was commented on, with a freedom provoked by the singularity of its grammatical structure, the very un-English character of its language, and the peculiar picture it presented of an independent county constituency, lackeying the will of a resident nobleman, and blow ing hot and cold in obedience to the signals from Berkeley Castle. The comments it gave rise to could hardly have been pleasant to the active persons who took upon them to personate the liberal electors of West Gloucestershire. They retorted, accordingly, with an indirect disavowal of the base imputation laid on them by Mr. BERKELEY, declaring: That the revolution come to by the meeting was principally caused by the knowledge of Mr. Grantley Berkeley having, in the year 1145, in the stroogest t ilgus, announced his determination immediately to resb ri/se is ti e Sni i l E P ari b riatirn lm ge were som l'frfievetd.arnAln,Emelt be tweenarcee that, upon a revival of a discussion upon this private matter, the Liberal interest of this division might be placed in extreme Jeopaidy by the sudden retirement of the honourable gentleman at any moment be might think fit, and when it might be inconvenient, if not impoesible, to bring forward a candidate to supply his place.. In other words, that the BERKELEY family were con tinually quarrelling; and that Mr. G. BERKELEY might be pitched over, or pitch himself over, at any moment, either carrying a portion of his supporters with him from the Berkeley Castle cause—in other words, the Liberal cause in the county—or so petrifying them between the neutralising fears of abandoning a BERKE LEY, or opposing the BERKELEY, that the enemy might profit by the opportunity and return a Tory. West Gloucestershire, they argued, rests on the house of BERKELEY. The house of BERKELEY is divided against itself, and cannot stand. In its fall, down goes the Liberal interest of the county. Overboard with Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY. This 18 their ver sion of the matter. The victim's rejoinder puts a different and more discreditable interpretation upon it. The meeting at which they decided on withdraw ing their support took place on the 15th of September, at Gloucester, and was convened by Lord Frrzaan- DINO& Another meeting was held, at the instance of the victim nominee, on the 6th October. At that meeting they confessed that the price of poor Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S sacrifice was the registration expenses of the county, hitherto paid by Lord FITZHARDINGE. The victim restates this fact ; and declares, in lan guage and with a figure worthy of Lord CASTLEREAGH, that " the man or gentlemen, be they many or few, who deny that such was the information afforded to me, tarns his back upon the fact, and is guilty of evasion." This is what he calls "distinctly replying, collectively, severally, and separately to each of them." This, says the belligerent nominee, letting out his irresistible punch-on-the-head tendencies, " I declare, and will maintain my declaration in each and every possible way that man may defend the truth." But he has a better argument for the truth of his representa tion of the affair than this method of defiance ; which a good deal resembles that of the Irishman who trails his coat through the fair, requesting any gentle man present to tread on the tails of it, and assert the self-destructive proposition that the white of his eye is black. - . _ The victim has letters from one of the very influ ential electors who signed letter No. 2. He quotes one addressed to him on the let of August, before Lord FITZHARDINGE'S veto had been promulgated, in which the writer declares, " I have only to say I see no reason why I should not support you as I hare &limys done ? and if you wish to co ..e into this part of the world to see your oonstanenta I shall be most glad to.see you, 5x as long a time so you like to remain." This ready courtesy is amusingly contrasted with the next extract from a letter by the same hand, of the 24th of September, at which time the BERKELEY ban had gone forth against the rebellious broth er. Thus writes the warm and hospitable friend of August the 21st. " One little month ..rhens are few things would plead me more then to serve you, but I cannot do so at the expense of forsaking the earl, who is the old friend I bare in the world. I hare always supported his nominee, and I hope I shall continue to do so. You MU me I pro. mimed to support you. I said I saw nn reason then why I should not give you my support as real, but I trust this letter will exploit' to you why I gannet do ex" There is no getting over thin. This liberal gen tie- Man has rivetted the collar of serfdom about his own neck with his own hands : " Liter" scripts Inaoset." We have it in black and white. He has always sup ' ported the Earl's nominee, and hopes he will continue to do so !" Just as a man says, " I have been sober, or honest, or charitable, or anything else that is creditable, hitherto, and hope to remain so." He is too humble to say he ti// remain so. Humanity is frail, and ho may not have strength to hold to the right. But "he hopes to continue !" Excellent, humble, striving elector ! " When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own," says the proverb. When nominees and nomi nors quarrel, independent men learn what decides elections. The picture is a repulsive one; but may have its uses. It shows many who would be slow to be lieve it on less unmistakeable evidence, how the interests of an electoral district, and the credit of a constituency, may hang on the discreditable private feuds of a noble family, or the paltry meanness of a few " in fluential electors "—who sell, not their own, but their party's political birthright, for a few hundreds of registration expenses. It uncovers the feet of very vile clay on which rests the golden idol of our repre sentative constitution, and shows how poor a guarantee there is in liberal professions for an honest discharge of political duties. For Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY himself, so far as we can understand his letters, which defy ordinary rules of interpretation, he seems to have been treated in the style, which, if there be a political as well as a poetical justice, should be specially reserved for the no minee. He has abdicated his self-dependence, and is taught the lesson how unstable every other support may prove. He has allowed himself to be nose-led, and, by the inevitable progression of such cases, ends by being kicked. But he is the victim, and as such claims a sort of pity. The influential electors who signed the declaration in the second letter, have no such character to shelter under. They arc, in plain English, the abject politi cal toadies of Lord FITZIIARDINGE. For "certain monies " they sell their voices, pr:nciplcs, influences, and consciences. They hardly venture to evade, much less deny, the charge of having done so. Yet, while indirectly confessing, they complicate their slavishness with duplicity ; and attempt to glow over the contemptible meanness of their conduct, with specious professions of regard for " the best interests of the Liberal party." There is hollowness in all partisanship ; and the best cause is seldom free from the alloy of underhand design and sordid self-seeking. But it belongs to all that is noble and pure in Liberalism, to disown such supporters as these Berkeley-castle flunkies, who dis grace the colours of truth and progress in West Gloucestershire. Despot, tools and victim,--each branch of the triad is worthy of the other. The Paris journalists still return to the appa rently interminable and inexhaustible question of the Spanish marriages, and the treaty of Utrecht. The ministerial journals take it up by turns. On Sunday the Journal des Debate mounted guard, and was re lieved on Monday by L'Epoque, in an article of four long leading columns upon it. These journals con tinue also the res yes& of the nuptial spectacles from hour to hour, up to the evening of the 13th, on which day the royal brides with their bridegrooms, amused themselves at the exhibition of bull-baiting, and in the evening went to the Theatre del Principe. ministerial journals advert with apparent satisfaction to the return of Mr. Bulwer to Madrid, and his presence at the reception at the palace on the 12th. The Espanol, a journal understood to be in communication with the Britiah legation, has published a statement intended to explain his presence on that occasion: " The appearance of the British ambassador, " says that journal, " produced a thousand very natural comments. That minister had abstained hitherto from being present at any ceremony where he might be supposed to sanction by his approval the Montpenaier marriage. Thus he declined being present at the ceremony of the double marriage. But when invited to a reception declared to be ordered by her majesty on the occasion of her marriage, he embraced the opportu nity of signifying by his presence the approbation of his go vernment respecting the marriage of the queen. His con duct on the occasion of the reception rendered his object evident. He felicitated her majesty upon her marriage, but offered no similar compliment to the infanta ; and when her royal highness addressed to him the usual inquiry after the health of his sovereign, be answered simply that her Majesty Queen Victoria was well, but did not add one word more." The departure of the Queen and Royal Family for La Granja was fixed for the 14th. Meanwhile festi vities continued to be got up in the city. Dancers hired for the purpose performed everywhere in the streets, collecting crowds around them—a convenient substitute for natural and spontaneous enthusiasm. The Heraldo, the ministerial journal, complains of the delay of the amnesty, an expedient, says the C'on stitutionnel, familiar to all ministerial journals, to give increased value to a concession at once incomplete and inevitable. • The apprehension of Carlist disturbances is not dis guised. It is certain, says the Heralds, that the most ardent fraction of the Carlist party is eager to throw itself into the miMe. Incendiary proclama tions are circulated. The Carlist Chiefs have started from their respective places of abode ; and it cannot be doubted that an attempt is contemplated, sup ported by the Miguelite party in Portugal. Great military precautions have been taken at Corunna, where an outbreak is feared. The itationnel ascribes the refusal of the northern courts to co-operate with England in its diplomatic protests against the Spanish marriage, to their unwillingness, even indirectly, to acknow ledge Queen Isabella. fhe French Government," saysthe Constitutionnel, " bad hoped to present to Queen Isabella, as a dower, the scknow ledgment of her sovereignty by the Courts of Vienna, Ber lin, and St. Petersburg, while England wished to induce the same powers to concur in her views respecting the mar riages. It is pribable that these Courts will disappoint both expectations. n They will keep themselves out of the dispute between the Cabinets of London and Paris. They will endeavour to sustain and perpetuate this dissent, which it will be easy to turn to the advantage of absolatist princi ples. To invoke against Isabella the treaties signed by Phillip V., would be implicitly to acknowledge her his heir. No et, the royalty of Isabella will long be considered by them a usurpa tion, against which there are many other arguments than those which England borrows from the Treaty of Utrecht." Advice from Geneva inform us of the continuance of tranquillity there. The Journal de I 'Ain, of the 16th says : We learn this morning that French troops have been ordered to advance upon the Swiss frontiers. A division of artillery from Lyons was to go a part to Nantua and a part to Feeney, to remain there till further orders. Two batallions of the 68th Regiment, in garrison at Lyons, are ordered one to Nantua, and the other to Ger. Two companies, detached from these betallions, were to reinforce the garrison of the Fort of Eclase. It is said that Austria and Sardinia were also about to march troops upon the Swiss frontiers. The frequent and agitated movements of the most ardent Swiss patriots raise an apprehension that some new attempt is about to be made, either against Basle or Fribourg." The tr anquillity and order maintained at Geneva have extorted the reluctant approbation of the French Ministerial and Jesuitical Journal& The Rhone, a Ministerial Journal, publishes a letter from Geneva, dated the 13th, as follows : " This City is as calm as it is possible to be after such events; although the principle of authority is destroyed, the principle of order is maintained. The provisional govern ment evinces its conciliating spirit by convoking the militia. It is only at Geneva that one could see such changes without peril. To-day an Emeute, with the Hotel de Ville OCCu pied by the insurgents of the Faubourgs—to-morrow the very quarter of the Enseute guarded by the soldiers which had just been employed to attack it, and all this without bluster, without offensive language, and without even per sonal inconvenience. No one has been insulted, and no one maltreated." The Algemeine Zeitung of the 14th inst. renders full justice to the conciliating policy and capacity of the Provisional Government of Geneva : " Our city," says the correspondent of that paper, " enjoys a tranquillity extraordinary after a revolution. The Provi sional Government, which is composed of capable men, has inspired public confidence." The elections for the Constituent Assembly are appointed to take place on the 25th hut. There is every present prospect of a majority favouring the views of the actual government. The question of postal reform begins to be agitated in France. The Constitutionnel on Monday devotes the whole of its first page to an analysis of the question of a uniform and small postage, and reproduces, mutatie mutandia, all the old arguments the force of which finally established in England Mr. Hill's system of penny postage. Thus it demonstrates , that the actual cost of delivering letters does not ma terially vary with the distances to which they are transmitted, and that, consequently, a comparatively heavy rate of charge to the greater distances is unjust. A uniform rate of twopence for all distances is advo cated. It is easy to see that this measure of reform must soon prevail in France, and probably throughout Europe. The Free-trade agitation continues. A meeting was announced to be held on Monday at Havre, in the Salle des Bala, to which the merchants, and all other persons interested in trade and industry, arc invited. The Detbats devotes three leading columns to an analysis and refutation of the manifesto issued by the saga elation of Protectionists at Lille, and which was read at the great Protectionist meeting held last week at that city. It would be idle to repeat either the arguments of the Lillois or the answers of the Dibats. The English public has them by heart. They are identical word for word with the Bond-street mani festoes end the Covent Garden harangues. But the French public has still to learn what the English pub lic have been taught by years of Free-trade agitation. The National publishes a letter of its Lisbon cor respondent, dated the 7th inst., containing an account of the events which attended the political changes effected by the Queen. It appears that a plot of the Cabralist party, favoured by the Queen, had been working for some time, and secretly undermining the Palmclla Cabinet. The bank had been directed to shut its coffers, extinguish credit, and throw commerce into embarrassment. The Ministry were deprived of the funds necessary for the pay of the troops. The Spanish Legation held daily communi tion with the Palace, conveying the Cabral correspond ence with the Queen. The Chargé d'Affaires of France had frequent interviews with Dietz. Saldanha had frequent audiences at the Palace. Meanwhile 1)on Carlos Msecarenba, a furious Cabralist, and former Commander of the Municipal Guard, intrigued with the former Commanders of regiments, and enlisted them in the conspiracy in the Queen's name. All the preparations were completed on the 4th, but the blow was not struck until the night of the Gth. The details of the coup d'etat have already appeared. The correspondent of L'Esprit Public says that Don Caesar de Vasooncellos had crossed the Tagus, and raised the banner of insurrection. Many young men of the capital had flocked to join him : " Nothing is yet concluded; on the contrary, we are only at the commencement of a revolution, which will have for its inevitable result the subversion of the throne of Donna Maria. Here are the elements of the crisis: the Court, long suspected by the people, throws off the mask with an impudence comparable only to the perfidy of its measures. The ministry, dishonoured by the treachery of Saldanha its chief. The treasury empty ; credit ruined ; the troops without pay ; five or six thousand Spanish Progressistas assembled at the depiits of Cascaes and Peniche, from which tho Septembrids will not hod it difficult to induce them to issue forth ; the British squadron in full sail for Lisbon; the Miguelite party or ganised in the north, and ready to rise ; Espartero in Lon don ; and the Count de Montemolino at large. The conse quences of such a state of things are not limited to Portugal. Spain is put on her guard. The Spanish squadron stationed at Vigo has sailed. Troops from Pontev ed re and Santiago are advancing by forced marchesto the Portuguese frontier." Extensive importations of grain arc made at the port of Marseilles. From the Ist of July to the 30th of September more than 200,000 hectolitres have been admitted. 73,000 are at this moment unlading, and more than a million of hectolitres ore soon expected to arrive. Those who speak of duties forming an ob stacle to the importation of foreign corn are deceived. There only exists at this moment in the Mediterra nean ports a nominal duty of 2id on the importation of foreign corn in French ships. The Madrid journals of the 14th inst. inform us that on the previous day the royal family were all assembled at the bull fights. The French princes appeared to take great pleasure in this entertainment. In the evening the royal party went to the Theatre del Principe. Or. the 14th the Queen, Don Fran cisco, the Duke and Duchess of Montpcnsier, and the Duke d'Aumale, left Madrid for the Escurial and La Granja. They were to return on the 15th for the royal bull fights. The Ministers were engaged in discussing the terms of the proposed amnesty, and were said to be by no means unanimous in their opinions. On this subject, El Clamor Public° states, " a journal announces that the Infanta Louisa will not remain long in Paris, for the Queen has declared she cannot be long separated from her sister." The same journal remarks, " there are persons who assert that there have arrived in Spain, from France, two chests of the crosses of honour, to be distributed, as the fears de lys were at the Restoration." FRANCE.—The importations of corn continue to be considerable in France. There are at Marseilles 75,000 hectolitres in bond, and one million more are expected. The Baron Davißier, Peer of France, an old and respected banker, died in Paris on Sunday, aged 88. TheCenstitutionnel announces the escape of Colonel Francisco tirande, who was attached to the house of Count Montemolin, and had remained at Bourget after the depar ture of the Prince from that town• DIPLOMATIC ARRANGEMENTS. The Comte de Rossi, as we have already announced, will not leave his em bossy at Rome, and will speedily resume his post. M. de Bois Lccomte, Minister at the Hague, who is considered sine of the cleverest members of tho krench diplomatic body, is to be appointed Amhassador in Switzerland, in the room of Count Pontois, recalled. M. de Bussires will replace M. de Bois Lecomte at the Hague. AFFAIRS OF ALGERIA.—The Akhbor of Algiers of the 11th has the following from lljemma-Cihazsouat :—" An aide-de-camp of the Minister of War has arrived with des patches authorising negotiations for the release of the French prisoners who arc still at the Heirs of Abd-el-Kader, in Mo. recto. These are all that remain of more than 300 prisoners who were in the hands of Alxl-el-Kader a year ago." FATAL ACCIDENT.—A few days ago, as two chil dren, one nine years old and the other three, were playing in a village near Strasbourg, a forest-keeper, related to the younveo of w ood , st, came up and wishing to kiss him, laid his carbine on o p , an d sitting down, took the child en his knees. The other child, the son of a schoolmaster at Stras bourg, took up the carbine unseen by the forest-keeper, and in playing with it, whilst it was pointed towards the man and child, pulled the trigger. The child received the whole of the contents, and was killed in the arms of the man. ArrEstrrED MURDER.—On Thursday night, about eight o'clock, while Mme. Brunet, of Petit i'illiers (Loiret) was making up her provisions of grapes for the next morn ing's market, she was fired at and wounded severely by shot and slugs in the body, by a man whom she recognised to be a servant she had lately discharged. On hearing the report and her screams, the neighbours came and carried her to her bed. Two hours afterwards, while she was surrounded by her friends, anxious about her fate, another' shot was tired through the chamber window, but fortunately struck no one. The police were in formed, and the officers were in search of the eases sin, when they too were fired at in the dark, but were not either of them hit. He could not be discoveted that night, but the next morning his boots, which he had taken off to prevent his being heard on approaching the house, were found near it, and with them his gun, one barrel of which had been discharged, while the other remained loaded, but the capsule had exploded, and the gun missed fire. At a later hour M. Brunet, the husband of the wounded woman, met the man face to face on the bridge. The fellow was astounded, and exclaimed, " Why, I thought I had killed you !" The officers came up, and the assassin was secured. He, on finding himself in safe custody, said to M. Brunet, " This is luck for you, for I should have killed you this evening." Madame Brunet, who is about twentv-seven years of age, and had been married only a very short time, lies in a dangerous state. The assassin avows his intention was to kill M. and Madame Brunet, but persists in declaring that he had no thought of injuring the officers, and that when he fired at them his gun was loaded with powder only. ITALY.—The Roman government has just sent the following circular to the several authorities of the Pontifical States : " The manifestations of satisfaction which have been hitherto made in the several Pontifical States, in cele bration of the seta of the new Pope Pius IX., our most cle ment sovereign, have made known how great is the general ; joy at his happy accession. The joy of the people is the happiness of the sovereign and his government, and the august Pontiff has been greatly moved by it. However, his mind always inclined to Prefer the well-being of his subjects to his own glory, feels a degree of pain mingled with his joy, when be finds that these festivals are the produce of volun tary contributions, and is unwilling that on his account his people should be burthened with expenses. The Holy Father, moreover, sees with grief that the masses of the population, by abandoning themselves to this enthusiasm, neglect their ordinary occupations from which they acquire the means of subsistence, and his paternal heart is doubly afflicted by this ' loss and detriment to a portion of his subje cts. From these motives, his Holiness wishes that there should be an end to these expensive demonstrations, and that every one should return to the management of his private affairs and receive peaceably the measures of the government for the general good. You will hasten to make publicly known these senti ments of the Holy Father, and particularly on occasions which may give rise to applications to the municipal or other authorities for permission to celebrate new festivals, which may bring from town totown fresh assemblages of the people. If in any place collections have been already made for such festivals, and it be not possible to restore to each contributor the sum he has given, such contributions maybe usefully ap plied in providing subsistence for the peopled wring the winter, through the means of some work of public utility. From this his Holiness will experience a double consolation, in re cognising, in the first place, an obedience in his subjects to his desires, and in seeing, in the next place, a turning to the relief of the indigent that which had been gathered to do honour to his name, in a manner perhaps more brilliant, but less worthy of and less agreeable to him, than the bless ings of the poor and needy.--Signed CARDINAL GIZZI." BELGI U M.—STATE OF THE PON: LATlON.—During the year 1845 there were in Belgium 143,018 births (of which 9,724 were illegitimate, and 6,006 still births). The number EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1846. > ~ ~\. of twins was 2,536; there were, moreover, e ; (14 boys and 10 girls), and t wo quadruple (41t gi r j e ht Ph 114 41 deaths, exclusive of the stillb orn , sinounted tfi,. Metope the uumher were sixteen centenarians and nine women), six of whom lived in the and There were 29,260 marriages by e e i- F e t a l and 22 divorces. The population of the kingdo m . ~ of 1845 was 4,298,562; in 1814 it wrs 4, 0 5142 - Gazette. G Elt MANY. —VlEN nin N ei a : . tt , esrta oCr otef am l nu ft : . c — e 0; : R ikbt a megra . l ider : : again current that, owing to the great increase of ha lo the President of the Hof yammer , Bum Ku hr}_ be appointed president of the financial and r e al eme b n r g l i a l l i m en d.i n t :his it o o h r f t an h th e o e ti th t i c il l e r o o f e r ka mi l tmer are to be pl aced ( 41 present Goveroor of Tries and the coast carried Bl.; on the Central Presburg R ail way are being eie - 7., great activity. The accounts from Ofen state that the able Archduke Palatine is recovering from his late attack of illne a. The health of the Grand Ducks. — Russia still causes much anxiety. Her Majesty, elk of Parma, and the Viceroy Austrian Italy, wer e point of leaving for Italy. In No vem b er the Em peror Empress of Austria intend spending a few days 0. a . " The Sardinian Ambassador is still absent from %%el m ,: it seems that the settlement of the differences bet s , tria and Sardinia has wade but little progress. emit BERUN.—The King of Prussia is compl e t e b, revered from kin late alight indisposition- Bey.; ?sfajesty entered Oppcln (Silesia) it wu intimated t o eZ Retchenbach that he RIM not to wait upon his li e - " Strict measures are taken against a n y per.. — I'M having aided the Polish insurgents. The results of meetings of the Zollverein at Berlin will be published ing the course of the present month. A correspordent of the .Franifort Ce,:ettelrfik from St. Petersburg. that the protest of the Brinell a* m anent against the Montpensier marriage had be m favourably received in that capital, and that Ramie * ready to go hand-in-hand with England. A letter from the Oder, dated Oct. 13, is ti Dettosche Allgemeine Zedung, says: " We are marry ** ; the affair of the Spanish marriages the gre a t N eva powers have thought fit to remain neater. But we, i t , theless, are of the opinion, though it is not likely that a crowns of France and Spain will ever be united On thes e , of a member of the Orleans family, if such should le 0 case, not only Germany, but all Europe, would rise* are as was the ease in 1813 against Napoleon. But Flea** not expose herself to another coalition. Germany a ft ; content with protesting against future eventualities, assj, that it is sufficient for Austria and Prussia to ague, 7 1 ,, two powers will see that France does not obtain tee pan preponderance over her neighbours. BAVARIA.—M.UNICII, OCT. 12.—This day, A.M., the King of Bavaria laid the foundation -robe of 0 new Pinacotheka, or picture-gallery for modem mate * to be erected at his own private cost, and which is to nem no pictures painted before the nineteenth century. R Majesty, before placing the first stone, made the lallaira address: " The new I'inacotheka is to contain pis., this and (Maiming centuries. The higher art of pei n ti s o fallen into decay, when suddenly in th e nineteenth ow e it rose again in Germany a pllcenix from its ashes; ace she come alone ; she came hand-in-hand with the odiere and sciences. Art is not destined to be regarded as mono of luxury ; she must be manifest to all, and sup into lb then only is she what she ought to be. With joy snip' I look upon my great artists. The deeds of the state* will hare been long sunk in oblivion, hut the eorks al 0 artist live for evermore." His Majesty's speech was sneered by loud cheering. The following articles ve placed by his Majesty in the foundation stone: /teeters' of the building ; its destination on china ; a portrait Sih Majesty on porcelain ; and thirty-six historical medalt MESMERISM IN AUSTRIA.—An imitator of y es mer and Cagliostro lately made his appearance at Vest under an as,umed title of Count —. By his dude* pretensions he assembled round him, two evemoga in i week, ladies distinguished for their birth and poinesi society, till the attention of the police was mlloi tons extraordinary meetings. At first he was supposed tele' emissary of the Propaganda, but his rrsl character e soon discovered, and his assemblages were found tote' more than cloaks for fraud and intrigue, which had,. jealousy in the minds of more than one husband. Ike disant Count was arrested, and found to be a Veneta consequently an Austrian subject already well-knan the police. At Wiesbaden, on the 13th instant, one o f ti richest heiresses in the Russian empire, the Courts As de Henske, was married to the representative of ancient and illustrious house of the Vendable", C4ll George Maiszech. M. de Balzac was one of the mime The bride and bridegroom left Wiesbaden immediately is er mo gre the a r i.gre who e. w a ss iece by of bi t n he h chies Easan and Count George, who is ars I the n) R ,er r p . hn m w ec ei:esr:oki of the h, Maria e the lL e brid e ; Ke h l koaf Poland, is descended in the des line from the father of the celebrated and unfortunate Cmi Marina Mniszech, whose history has been written by 0 Duchess d'Abrantes. . EFFICACY OF PILGRIMAGE. Dr. Arnold i, Archbishop of Treves, so famous for his part in the "hi coat " affair, has addressed a circular to ill the ccelwere of his diocese, recommending them, in the mat psi terms, to employ all their influence to discourage the feitil from further pilgrimages to Troves, and stating that in demonstrations, far from being acts of piety, were rad prompted by vanity, savouring of superstition. TUE " DAILY NEWS" AND THE INDIAN MAIL. Under the above head, Austrian Lloyd's Gazette of the If inst. says :—" A correspondence from Lonilon, instal our yesterday's paper, alludes to two articles in the IM News, namely, those of the 19th and of the :nth &Omni concerning the overland moil. It will be undentoods we did not allude to them before, though in our possei As, however, the Gazettes di Venezia of the sth °Mabel taken up the hest of these articles (the Indian rasa! Venice), in which the superiority of Venice as a point departure is held up, we cannot refrain from a reply, sari ing out to its attention the article which we now insert,ta from the Daily News of 25th September, a journal it the Gaselta ds Venezia justly styles as one of tl.c most see dited. Then follows a translation of ' Communicating India, by a Constant Reader,' as inserted in the Daily Ni of With Sept." POLAND.—DEATII OF COUNT PLATER.—A from Posen announces the death, at the age of 72, day the most esteemed men of Poland, Count Lotda Plater, one of the last companions in arms of Kozciusko. GREECE.—ATHENS.—Letters from Athens di 4th inst. contain a report that the Pasha of Candia had dared the independence of the island with the congest the Greek and Turkish population. Pirates still Wet Archipelago. The Greek corvette Ludovieo has jut Smyrna in chase of four pirates who attacked a Greek Ye the Elpida, whilst at anchor off Cape Crio. A heavy of earthquake was felt at Gallipoli on the 19th. Mt court. WIN DSOR, TG ESDAYEVENI NG. —PretiOßSly to Court leaving the Castle yesterday, for Cashiobury-piet, Majesty honoured Mr. Winterhalter, who hat been ends in taking a portrait of the Queen during the past weet, l a biting of upwards of an hour. The royal family . were taken out for their m airings this morning an the private grounds around Castle. This afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Pr of Wales and the Princess Royal took cquestri in exercise their Shetland ponies in the Home-park. Priuce Alfred the Princess Alice were also taken out for an airing, atts by the Dowager Lady Lyttalton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent pm naded, in the afternoon, in the royal gardens at Freer Upon the return of her Majesty and Prince Al to Windsor Castle, after honouring the Duke and Dian Norfolk with a visit, which is expected to terminate Thursday, the 29th inst., the Court will remain at Wig until after the 9th of next month, which will be the filth niv, nary of the birth of his Royal Highness the Prins Wales; on which occasion a grand entertainment will given by her Majesty, at the Castle, in celebration of event. According to present arrangements, her Majesty the Prince Consort will leave Windsor for the Isle of Nti within a few days after the 9th proximo. The Connie pected to remain at Osborne-house for about a famish three weeks ; should the weather, at that late period at autumn, continue favourable. A great number of 7 0 trees will be planted in the vicinity of Osborne-Nose as Barton, ander the superintendence of the Prince Cow during ' the sojourn of the Court at the island. This wrl her Majesty's last visit to Osborne-house during the peel year. The Court, on its return to Windsor, will ramie the Castle for the winter season. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glove returned to town yesterday from a tour of visits in the no Her Royal Highness proceeded to her residence at Riding His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived Richmond in the afternoon from town to pay a net to Royal Duchess. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) returned to his scat, Bowood Park, Wilt'., from a visit to Majesty at Windsor Castle. Count de Reventlow, the Danish Minister, to acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. ail E ' leery the Brazilian Minister also transacted business Ye , day at the Foreign-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colas office from the Governor of Sierra Leone. Viscount Melbourne has been entertaining View and Vi, , oountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady &aurae, oi select circle, since Friday last, at Brocket-hall, Herta. The present Earl of Yarborough intends to keep the splendid huntingestabfishment of the late earl. MARRIAGE IN 111611 LIFE.—The marriage of Li Charlotte Elisabeth Herbert, second daughter of the 1 and Countess of Powis, and Mr. Hugh Montgomery, offi Abbey, Coanty Antrim, son of the late Mr. Wilhain, Lady Amelia Montgomery., was solemnised ) sterile)* at George's church, Hanover-square. The venerable At deacon Clive officiated at the ceremony in the presence large circle of relatives of both families. The Earl Countess of Powis gave a sumptuous rbje tier to wedding party. Among the guests, were the Dow' Duchess of Montrose and Lady Caroline Graham, the and Countess of Antrim, the Earl of Winchilsea, Nr , Mandeville, Viscount Parker, Viaconnt Clive, Lord SO Lord Bangor, Lord Wm. Graham, Lady Charlotte Cl wynd, Lady Amelia Montgomery, H on . Captain and L Mary Hood, Hon. Robt. H. and Lady Harriet . chr , Misses Clive, Ladies Lucy and Harriet Herbert , S e N"' t W. Wynn, Bart., lion. Capt. Percy Herbert, Rear-Adr Bowles and Miss Bowler, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Clive, Mr. Mrs. Henry Clive, Mr. H. Bolton Clive, Capt. Hart '