The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-07 00:00:00

120; Malt, coastwise, 192 ; Oats, coastwise, 817, foreign, 264; Flour, 462 sacks. NIMPOHT (lets Or WIOHT), Feb. 5.-A good supply o f Wheat at our market today, which sold readily at last week's prices. Barley was in good demand; best samples fetched Is. per qr. more than last week. Beans and Peas lower. Oats the tame as hut week. Wheat, per qr., 48s. to b2s. Barley, malting, 291. to 32..; grinding, 275. to 28s. Beans, 40s. to 425. Peas, 40s. Oats, 225. to 265. Nonwicu, Feb. 5.--At our market to-day the farmers offered a fair supply of Wheat, and prices ruled a shade lower than last week ; the same may us said of foreign as regards price. Flour was offered at fad. per sack less money, and a considerable quantity ehanged needs at the reduction. Barley met a dull sale at Is. per qr. reduction in price. Oats remain the same. Beans and Peas offered at late rates. Wheat, white, 625. to 565. per qr. ; red, 48e. to 52e. Sisley, malting, 275. to 315. ; grinding, 265. to 275. Oats, 265. to 2.85. Beans, 405. to 42a. Peas, 405. to 41s. Fine household Flour, f. o. b., 3.55. to 35e. 6d. per sack of 2801bs. withone month's discount, purchasers finding sacks ; retail, 2s. per stone. , NOTTINGHAM, Feb. 5.-We have no great amount of DUO nett passing in the Corn trade to-day. Prices of last week are not exceeded for Wheat and Oats; but Barley sad Beans were fully as dear. Best Wheat fetched 575. to Me per qr. ; inferior, 51s. to 561., per 18 et. Barley, 32a. to 355. Oats, 225. to 275. Beans, 425. to .50s. PETERHOROCOH, Feb. 5.-We hare a good supply of Wheat and Oats, but that of Barley short. Good dry Wheat is not I,wer, but the greater part offering being in bad eon • dition caused the grain to rule dull. Barley in demand, and rather dearer than last week. No change in the value of Oats and Beans, yet both were in demand at late rates. Currency to the growers .-Wheat, new, 425. to 465. ; fine, 52e. to 535. ; old, 50s. to 52a. ; tine, 51.. Barley, 295. to 30s. ; fine, 315. Oats, new, 20s. to 225. ; line, 245.; old, 28s. to 305.; fine, 324. Beans, 50s. to 525. PETWORTH, Feb. 5.-The trade in Wheat continues dull, at about former rates. Barley in good demand, on rather improved terms. In Oats, Beans. and Peas but little doing, though an improved demand for seed may shortly be anticipated. Wheat, white, per load, 12!. 10s. to 131. 10s. ; red, 111. 10.. to 12!. B malting, 31s. to 335. per qr. ; grinding, 28s. to 304. Oats 21s. to 235. Beans, 425. to 455. Peas, 425. to 445. - - • •• • RE ..mss, Feb. 5.-We have still to report a dull sale for Wheat, at rather drooping prices, except for the driest qua lities. Barley trade was quick. at Is. to 2s. per qr. advance. Oats and Beaus are inquired for for seed, and rraliie Is. to 2s. per qr. more money. Peas are a dull side, without altera tion in value. SAFFRON WALDEN, Feb. 5.-There were more damp sampies of Wheat than usual, for which prices remain as before. Barley has advanced Is. per qr. Some Peas are appearing, which maintain a good price, say 40s. per qr. Beans and Oats no alteration. SVNDERLAND, Feb. 5.-The market continues steadily supplied by the farmers with all sore of gr. in, and the ar rivals coastwi,e have been, during the week, 430 quarters Barley and 330 sick' of Flour. For NVbeat there wag a ready sale at the rates of last week; the finest samples are worth 58t. to 60s. ; good average qualities, 64a. to 565. ; and inferior qualities, 495. to 52e. There are no south country Wheat' ea offer, but good parcels are in demand, and foreign Wheats are without quotat . Malting Barley is in de mand, ai 32, to 35e. There have been considerable transac tions in Oats, at 235. to 265. Beane, at 40s. to 441.; and grey Peas. at ;Ss. to 40,, are in moderate demand. The consumption of Flour continues steady, with a ready supply, at 42, to 435. fur south country, and 395. to 41s. per sack fur home made. American is charged 28s. to 30e.; and Indian Meal, 16s. to lid. per b ant. WARMINATFR, Feb. 5.-Wheat brisk; some of the finest white sold at 20s. per sack ; best red, ats. ; inferior, from Zit. to 26.. It trley trade go al, the top qualities making 36, to 375. per quarter; some fair malting, 355. ; com mon sorts, 30s. to 31s. B.lrleymeal, 31s. per quarter. Oats, beat Euglidi-grown Polands, made 275. per quarter; second quality. 24, ; common feed, 20s. to 224. Beans were lower ; the top price sos. per qr. ; good new English, 46s . Peas, boilers, 465. per qr. ; maple, 4!5.; grey, 435. to 455. WINCH E.TF.11., Feb. .s.—There was an improvement in the Wheat otf. red. Several lots of fine white made 141. 149. per load ; red, 111. 51. ; old dry English, 14/. 10.. ; foreign, poor, at 131 to 131. 3.. ; inferior, English, 121. 10.. In Barley, trade brisk ; some up en lid Chevalier., weighing 561bs. per bushel, sold at 360. per qr.; good samples, 31s. to 335. ; modem'', 325.; common, 30s. Oats were a tutu in favour of the seller. Best heavy old Beans, though on the decline, made .50s. per qr. ; good English, new, ticks, 445. to 465. Peas were also a little lower, about 64. per sack; white, 445. to 449.; grey, 1 2 9.; maple, 40s. New winter Tares, is. 6a. to Bs. per bushel; old, Gs. 6d. ; spring, is. to Bs. WISIISCR, Feb. 5.-We have a fair supply of all kinds of grain at this day's market. With a return of open weather the condition is much ,allen Mt and the Wheat trade must in consequence be rep..red dell at lux week's prises, whilst for Oats and Bans the demand is good, and in some in stances a small advance es obtained for each. Prices to the growers: Wheat, fine new white, 621bc to 639.., per qr of 36 stone, 54.. ; good run., 611!s. to 62115, 525. ; fine new red, 62:be. to 631h5., 525. ; good runs, 611ba. to 621b5., 505.; fine old red, 621bs t 63110., 51s. Oats, fine new waling, per stone, 11d. to 1111 ; good new, 101 d. to 1111. new, 36'. to 3Ss. WORCESTER, Feb. 5.-A fair supply of Wheat. Iced, 19a to 20s. per bag of 9 stone 1011 n. ; white, 20s. to 21.. Malting Barley, 4s. 61 per imp. bushel. Old English Beans, 22.. to 245. per bag of 11l more ; new, 16s. to 20s. Orey Peas, 16, per bag of 10 score ; white, 17s. per bag of 3 bushels imp. measure. English Oats, 3s. to 4.. per imp. bushel. Irish, 3e. to 3.. 3d. per bwhel of 3911,.. We experienced a dull market for every di seription of grain. Yeovix. Feb. 4.-Our market to-day was very well at tended, and business assumed a hr sker appearance than it bas for some time pm:. Wheat sold at from 61. to fn. 9,1. per bushel. Berl, y, 284. to 31s. per qr. Beans, 63. to Ba. 3d. per bushel. YORK, Feb. 5.-We have more Wheat offering to-day by the growers, who sell more readily than they did last week, and the dealers hive been able to pureliase on rather easier terms. Very little Barley offering, and not many Oats, and the prices nary bus little from what was given last market day. Wheat, white, 535. to 565. per imp. qr. ; red, 50.. to 530. Bsrlty, malting, 3ls. to 345. ; grinding, 294. to 30s. Beans, 3.85. is 424. Rye, 375. to 39.. Malt, 625. to 611. Oats, 101 d. to 111 d. per stone of 14Ibs. Flour, 375. to 425. per sack of 280.b0. Dumas, Feb. 4.-During the present week, our canals having ta en closed by frost, and our roads fur some days in terrupted by snow, our supplies have been very limited ; weverthelen they have proved fully equal to the dt mend, and the tendency of prices has been gent rally downwards. We reduce our quotations b.r Wneat and Oats each 6.1. per barrel 6d., and for Oatmeal, Gd. per cwt. Indian Corn is also a slow sale at 1.. per qr. less money. The following was the general currency : Wheat, re I, 231. to 29.. 6d. ; white, rr 2801h5., 275. to 30s. 64. Oats, per 1961b1., 10e. to lls. 6d. Barley, per 2241bs , 131. to 17s. 64. Oatmeal, lls. to 12s. Gd. per cwt. Secou4s,Flour, in sacks, 16s. to 16s. Gd. per cwt. American, 275. to 295. per barrel. Indian Corn, 28e. to 335. per 48011ia. BELFA.T, Feb. 3.-Since our last report we have had small supplies from the country, owing, in a great measure, to the settee frost; but, on account of the continuarce of dull and .!echninct markets on the other tide, the supply is fully equal .to: the demand, and prices of every article are tenting downwt;rds. Should, as we anticipate, our as plies now increase, we expect a further decline. In 'lndian Corn little is doing, and we have no further arrivals this week to report. Prices:-Indian Corn, white, 81. 10a. to 81. ls,. ; yellow, Si. to U. s*. per ton. Indian Corn Meal, white, 91. to 91. 10a. • yellow, 8L 10s. to 81. 15s. per ton. American,l6- 64. per ba rrel. Rye meal, Russian, Bs. per cwt. Wheat, red, 91. to 10a. 9d. ; white, 9s. 6d. to Ils. Flour • Prices at Inver Mills, superfine, 19s. ; bakers' Ist. 17s. Gd. : 2nd If.. ; 3rd, 14s. 6d. ; 4th, 10..: bran, Gs. Gd. per cwt. ; barrel, 265. to 301. per barrel. Oatmeal, 11s. tolls. 94. per cwt. Oats, 6s. to 7e. Barley, Gs. 6d. to 7.. Gd. Wheatenmeal, 13s. to 14.. Costa, Feb. 4.—We have to report another week of dull and dragging trade, with, however, and what under the tir cumstauces nem% extraordinary, no tendency sb any decline in the prices of pro•;uce. The arrivals of foreign grain are few, but still fully equal to our wants. Those of home grain are good, and, notwithstanding the dulness adverted tn, are taken off readily at rates varying little from thaws of last week. The value of Wheat is steadily supported, and the aroples arriving meet a tree sale at I .te rates. In prepared Wheat we base lie•le doing. The nominal price of the article is 2R.. to 20s. per barrel. Barley continues in fair demaed at late rates. Oats meet • good inquiry at a trifling advance un the currency of !eat week. In prepared Oats we hive but little the inquiry fel n the Eaglish "aving almost al together etas, d. We melte no cl.ange in our quotations of last week. Prime Flour has declined in value since our last to the extent of la. per ewt., and even at this reduction the trade in the aeticle is dull. Seconds, and inferior descriptions are in more request, but even in these qualities there is a tendency to lower prices. Indian Corn is dull of sale, and the primest Galata is offered in vain at Bf. 7a. Gd. per ton. Indian Corn Meal participates in the d , pension noticed in the raw material, while all other descriptions of meal are completely neglected. KIRKCALDY, Feb. s.—We had severe feast up to Wed nesday moraine:. sine° which we hate had a rapid thaw, and latterly • good deal of rain has fallen. At oar country mar kets this week we had a gond den! of What offering, which was readily taken ofr at I sat week's rates. 0 its were only in moderate supply, still prCes were rather in favour of buy ers. Of Barley we had a very small quantity offering, and needy buyers trail to pay Gil to Is. per qr. advance. Here today we had very moderate supplies of all kinds of grain, the demand for which was good ; prices are higher than last market day—Wheat and Barley about Is., and Oats 61. per qr. Wheat, 475. to 60s. per qr. Barley, 275. to 321. Oats, 225. 61. to 275. Oatmeal, per bag o, 2001b5., 3.55. • DANTZIC, Jau. 28.—Our land supplies have been selling cheaper, 101. to 455. ; and seeing this, the growers do not continue to provide the market even as sp tringly as hereto. tire, and some of them prefer tt store their Wheat. In Poland prices are higher than with us at present. ROSTOCK, Jan. 27.—The supplies for the last fortnight have been very insignificant, and they sro now next to nothing. For tine Wheats there are many buyers, at 465. per quarter free on board in spring. Barley, 21s. Extra boiling Peas, 32e. to 331. Low er qualities of Wheat down GENOA, Jan. 27.—Wheat continues firm ; soft Polish may be quoted 465. 6d. to 495. 6d. f 0.b., transhipped indepen-• dent of freight and cost of dunnage. For SaturJay's Markets aes kit page. to 40,7 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ➢USINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE LORDS. MONDAY, Pb. 7. NOTICES OP MOTION.—Lord Perartutv, to prevent •petition from Trelawney, to Jamaica. in 'elation to the sugarprodme colonies, sad to ank a question theifOrl.—Lord Moirmauta, to move that • rocosage be sent to Om House of Oxnmoon lb" copies of Pint and "mond Reports of Select COMMIMS of that House MI) on Pollerny Enactments. TVEBDAT, Pre. 8. Lord Lerma:row, to prevent a pecilloo from the Wormier Illommin Board of Education, on the puttied of the mansgement Mama re quired by the Committee of Privy Council to he inserted in tits treat Med. of eebools receiving aid from the parliamentary gamin BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE COMMONS. MONDAY, lona 7. ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Manse Beamm.—Jewish Disabilities BBL Armes.—Distillery front guitar ; Supply committee. NOTICE OF MOTION ON ORDER OF TUE D.lT.—Mr. firer- FORD to more that the Jewish Disabilities Bill be rend • second time that day six months. INDEPENDENT NOTICES.—Sir W. lIKATIVOTZ. to nominate the members of the Committee on Standing Ordens and the Committee of rielection.—Mr. Sy Woaverm, consideration of the petition of Lord Grenville Somerset, as to the recogainumm entered Into in the cue of the county of Monmouth petition (presented Feb. 3).—Mr. 1:111.1101.1d Aoerev, to refer the Dublin election petition presented Feb. 3) to the :elect oanamlttee on the petition of Sir Willoughby Jones, Mallen to the Cheltenham eleetion.—Dr. Bowers°, copy of the in structiom issued b the Colonial of to the governor of Malta, dated the 26th day of November last..—Mr. Ormossa, that t een petition M Jamm Wyld, FA., M.l'. (presented Feb. 3), pling of the recognioners entered into In respect a the petition inc the return for the borough cf tiodmin, be referred to the cOMMittos appointed to inquire into the petitiina of Sir Willoughby Mart., M.P., or be otherwise dealt with se the house may deem it a -31r. Serie:ant el.glanny that the petition of Sir Joshua Walmsley and Itithard Gardner, Esq. (presentsd 4th Feb.). relating to the reccgobaners entered into in the ease of the Leicester election petition, be referred to the select committee on the petition of Sir Willmighby J. 11,5 relating to the Cheltenham election.--Mr. plume, tabular returns of the rates charged by the Rank of England for discounting bills art exchange having two or three month. to run (distinguishing the rate I . h.aged upon each) from January, 1817, to the 4th day of February, 1848 ; from the branch Bank of England at Manchester, from the time of its establishment to the 4th day of Feb., ISIS; and front the branch bank at Liverpool, from the time of erilabliehment to the 4th day of Feb., 18451.—Mr. Huns, statement of all public works pm formed by the Ordnance in each year at thane and abroad since 1818 incisive; Mating the expense for each work, and the aggregate amount expended in each year for those public works—Mr. Saturn, select committee to inquire into the growth of cotton in Worths, that Mr. Solicitor-General be sub. mimed for Mr. Attorney-General, and that Mr. Ilayter and Mr. Stuart Wortley he added to the select menralttee appointed to Inquire into the petition of sir Willoughby Jones (Cheltenham election). — Mr. Arointr, that the petition of Sir Jcehtue Walmeley and Richard °radial, Esq., member. of parliament for the borough of letcrater led 4th February), relating to the recognisance. entered into g e t e a m arc of the Longford borough, be referred to the select coca- MUM on the petition of Sir Willoughby Jones relating to the Chet 111111610iMection.—Mr. P. armee, to ask :be Secretary for Ireland, clinling any and what legal peen (dings have been taken ithaing gni birds of guardiam or relieving officers as have negleentl the dinar imposed on them by the act Itt and I 1 Vic. a 31, 01 affording ate relief to the destitute poor.-- Mr. J. 017morria.., to lob whether, eceeddering the enormous and every day growing Increase destitution In many parts of Ireland, the nearly total want of .meananion/ her antoll farmers and agricultural labourer. to parr. there food and maintain their fernlike, and the inability of the poor- Law to rupport the over..helming hemp erion of the country, the govern ment hove not come urn-are real, for the providing of relief by Mil, of food or employment, and the. for preventing the wholesale wag and destruction of human life among the poorer dawn of Ireland.—Mr. lt.ty, to move that the petition of the lion. Ed ward Richard Littleton, M (presented 20th December), complain ing that the re :m entered into by John Gurney, in respect of pet ition against the return fur the borough of wa,a, is imulM eieut and void, be retertitl to the committee amointed to inquire into the petition presented by Sir Willoughby Jones, Rat., M. I'., and that it he an instruction to Os committee to Inquire Into the allegations in the petition of the nail Felwerd Richard Littleton, and to report thereon to the house.—Mr. Ciamets, to move for various returns re lative I. the sup 4y of eater for the borough of Dublin, cord for de tailed amounts of the re nis,liscome,and expenditure Oil account thereof. —sir IL Hem. return of the amount .4Mo:salts in the several timings &mks In Ireland, on the lot day to' January, 15114 (being or rontinua tion of parliamentary paper, No. 90, of .me lon 1517) ; with column., showing the increase or decretee at each of the raring. hanks, a. comparerl with the return ma:. in 1847.—Lord G. liesvises, nomi nation of select committee, •• to Menthe into the present condition and prospect. of the iatereds connectol with and depen d ent on sugar and c.ilfee planting in her Majesty's E.W.t. ,cod West Itslian prow. son. and the Mauritius ; anti to consider whether any and what mea sure. eon be adopted by parliament for their relief - -Lord G. lien thick, Mr. Labouchere, )Ire. Goolhorn, Mr. N. (Aeon, Mr. Cardwell, sir T. Rath, Mr. 11. Hope, Mr.C. Villiers, Mr. P. Miles, Mr. J. 11 11- ron, Lord O. Mmners, Mr. Lethal, Sir J. Pakington, Mr. J. Matheson, and Sir E. Ruston. TUE.4DAT Tao ORDER OF THE DAY.—Secon;Vaiiin...—County Rate. Rill. EICEs or MOTION.—Mr. C. Anarry, wider., for paper., "ex cept ouch docuinentP ao hare been already laid before thin house," re lative to Lord Entmerratin's foreign policy. - Mr. Yr, return, showing the date of the appointment of each of the an sent Masters in Ordinary in Chancery, wnh the annual amount of etch of their re. speeder salaries, nml when pail; also, *toting whether any atrial w huh of such present ma-tern are unite any and what act or nets of acanhi. ment entitled, upon retirement, to any atul what retiring pension; and oars Mating whether any and what mmtern in ordinary have, since the year 1430, retired upon any and what retiring Pension, rut for what perioain the some were roipectively paid and reecised. Its turn of any application male to the government 44 Iraboul by the Lough Con.ab bit on avow at Visionary for the drainage of 1. sigh Garth, and of the letter of the chief orrretary for Irelomt, of the lath day of Dec .1117, with its inekwures on t nut -objeet. ildreseril to W. —Mr. Ilene, to move for toren.. ntar tin relative to the Ilydostrophic Department of the Admiralty, for the last ten point ; also atatement of the nature and locality oaf ail maritime surveys undertaken by the East India Company f, faidtat nit the rho igation of the vessels carrying on the increaparm conimemi• distinguishing the period when undertaken. those eurnpleted and in printer's, and those dinmettnuedanal the clause Alpo, Aleitract for each par sine,: InAl of the expenilitilio th, Ilydroaraphic Depirtnent of the Last India Company in Engl and and India, a ith • list of the charts or plans published, and whir , m,llly Whom sad, and a list of the lighthouse*, beaciam, Sae., cstablehed by the East Inks CAM, my or other panirw on any part, of the coed of India. he., and of naeasure+ taken by the East India 1701111.1111 V for LwitataSnar, purveying, and ~,,, or nothing known to shipping the entronse an, the r Irene, Re , on the must of India. —Loral J. It, -nu., to more for a fieleet committee to con-ider the best mode of pro. Wing ;additional mom for work, of Art given to the pidgin or purchased by means of parliamentary grants.— yr. Seems, to refer the petition sal J. Sadleir, Esq., M.E. (presented Dee. 2O;, to the select Comm ttee on the petition of Sir %V. Jonen, rn sting to the Clieltenlmiu election. —Mr. Yoou no, akin...fur return', of numbers of police con.lishulairy In England anal Widen, under 2 and 3 Vitt., c. 93; affront of plice •we f d each dintrt:t and account of the several exaenditurc for same, for year In D. - WE:NLAIIO . 6 . , 1.. U. ORDERS OF THE DAY.-Srfroso Ha torso.-Epiphany (Procter Seaton Bill. Comarrrast.-New Zealand Government Bid. NOTICES OF MOTION. --Capt. Pia nett, address for return from the Court of Mixed Comorbnion St the Cape of Good Hope relative to the ease of the olave vessel lb-dr .tnit-Ila, conoleainrsl in that court 110 the Aug.ll, Is 11 ; /.Im, return of all moils that have annually acerue/I knee the order of council of Pll, by reduction of the allowance of waste In the pros isions 1111 board Par maftstfo ships, tranoporta, and convict sWp. up to Ist o. July. PO; ; of all runt' that have accrued where puraery acerunts were Lep% Anil amount paid under the order In council or April, lain, for iigreamng the half-pry of payinaster• and pitmen/ Is. a day (non let July, I ; and of sums paid fiir creat ing a retired list for thew °dicers under the order in council of 1013, &Abut from the payment under the order in councilor .Ipril, 10.16. I ACHY/ AY, Fob. 10. NOTICES OF MOTION.-Lord Nearer, bill to repeal sir much of the set of the 2nd and 3rd Vet. as gives the power of applying the oystem of owner/de Imprint await to peroons before trial.- Viscount Morterrn, bill for promoting the public health. -Mr. Herr, rebel committee to consider the hest means shah Great Britain eau adopt for mitigating the herrn/ of the stare trade, and providing for Ito final estinction.-The o•Gonoss Matins, ocopy of a memorial datml November, 1847, and addressed to Lord John Ittiosell, from the ' Roman catholic archbbhopo and bishops of feel rod, cad the vicars apostolic of England and motland, touching certain grievances affect ing her Majesty's Roman catholic rollers; and, aim, the system of regimental education to winch their children are subjected.- ' Ate. Bat -101, bill to amend the pox-edam in respect of erders for the removal of the poor In England and Wales, and apt/coals therefrom.- Mr. CAW/WM.I, to bring uorier the oaks: of the house the report of • the select comminee appoint/ d in the yea. 1017, to take Into con idderation the present state /4 our commercial relations with China. FRIO IY, Fr s. It. ORDERS OF THE IEII%-Si-woo ILI,I/1,1110.-Administration of 'notice (No. I); Adminiotralun r/I Justice (No. 4;; Court. of Snerial and Petty Sessions; Protee kw of Junta., from Vexatious Actions; Bills. . . NOTICE OF MOTION.--Sir W. smiuivitt.t, bill to amend the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland. 3;.r 6,;i3:33,regg, MAILS The overland closed mai!., cut Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ades, Ceylon, !mita, 11...ng ►one, &c., will be made up on the evening of the 7th February. The =ail for Pritiah Not th America, iternoela, sod the Unite.] Mates. will be made up out the evenins of the 11th February. The West India Haile, cm:tiding Bermuda, News, Havanna, Honduras, New Orleuroi, Vera Cron, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and including those for Madeira, haemel, Carthagena, sante Martha, Cimgres, Panama, Weal Coast of South Arcrica, and St. Juanale- Nicaragua, will be made up on the roorninu of the 17th February. The mulls for Vigo, Oporto, Laabon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Ottarallor a ill be made up on the minim., of the 17th February. The overland mails for Gitraliar, hialui,(ireeta, the linden island. Egypt, Alleo,Ceylon, India, I innu.liong, anti Chin - t, tie Southampton wEI ►e made up on the 11101,1111 g of the 2Oth February. The mails for New 000th Writs, Val Ltiellielf“ Iwntt, aad New Zealand will he mete up on the evening of the 2 uh February. The malls for the West of Africa and Madeira wit be made up on the evening of the '2 9 th February. TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE number of S CAMPS ivolot to the DAILY NEWS by the authorities of tho Ptainp-oltive, during tne year 1847, was From JAN. 1, to Dec. 31, 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per edit. of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, snd Morning Post, ALL PET TOGETHER. In addition to the above, ioued to the DAILY NEWS, Mornino l'aper, there were jutted for the Eretung Edition, THE EXPRESS, From JAY. 1, to Dec. 31 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to the Gt,be or Standard, Evening Papers. • • MeerOsetarate latraded fer TO. Earase.. Loudon fret/lag paper / lama/ . hr at the olio/. lO.Bolgene.rrei. by Tao erlork oa the Jay o: 1011 OATEN AT LONDON ■IWO,. Two Da —IN onlag. de. NM 3 31 maw PAN 3. I.3leanow—lianft6 a .164.4 41 Man." a Nal- lON LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 7. TIIE parliamentary se-sion has re-opened with the unwonted spectacle of an adjourned debate on an un opposed motion. Such an exhibition would have astonished our ancestors of the Fox and Par era. If people were then, as is alleged, less clear-sighted to discern the true principles of political economy, less perspicacious as to the reciprocal rights and duties of the state and the citizen, more immersed in the susgmire of party than now, still it must be admitted that they had a more correct notion of the due subordination of speech to action. Their speeches were meant to promote or avert the motion under discussion ; they might speak fallacies or appeal to prejudices, but they kept to the point in hand. Their speaking was part of the business of the house, not a general delivery of ponderous pamphlets, in tended to show the research of the compilers, or to establish their consistency. However, it is not easy to see what other kind of talk than that which occupied the nights of Thursday and Friday last in the House of Commons could have prefaced the motion before them. The West Indians that they mast be ruined before Lord Ostrang rst e r e n it recg's committee can report ; ministers declare that their minds are made up, and that nothing can induce them to grant what the West Indians ask ; and the inquiry proposed to be made in committee is in part unnecessary, in part inconceivable. The committee is to inquire into the present condi tion and prospects of the interests connected with and dependent on sugar and coffee planting in the East and West Indies and Mauritius. What are these in terests ? Are the whole relations of each to be sub- 1 I jected to scrutiny ? The entire session might elapse before the committee could define exactly the field ofi inquiry opened up to it by these vague and extensible phrases. If it is meant simply to inquire into the I condition and prospects of the British sugar and coffee planters and merchants the inquiry is superfluous. The case was exhausted by the committees on the West Indies and the African trade of 1842. A few returns, which the Colonial-office and the Board of Trade could easily supply, supplementary to the blue books they emitted, will give all the additional in formation Lord Grottos can desire. But further, the committee is to consider whether any and what measures can be adopted for the relief of our sugar-growing colonies and dependencies. Are the members placed on the committee to hatch out these measures from their own intellectual eggs? or are they to issue an invitation to all the schemers and projectors of the age to come and drop their eggs in the committee's egg-oven? Such jostling and elbow ing of devices as that call would awaken has not been seen since the days of the college of Lapnta. The truth is, that the committee is a humbug, and that everybody, the mover for it inclusive, knows it to be such. Select committees have often been known to be granted as lightning conductors to draw off stormy debates from breaking over the heads of minis ters. But here is one asked for and accepted with a perfect conviction of its utter and necessary nullity. And the two nights' talk for which it afforded a pre text was every way worthy of it. The protectionist gabble compelled the CHANCELLOR OF TILE Ex- CIIEiIUER and tho PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD Or TRADE to re-assert the soundness of the prin ciples upon which the ministerial policy re lative to the sugar duties is based. Mr. JAMEY Witmer embraced the opportunity to produce some statistical facts in support of free-trade principles, and Mr. BERNAL to state the views of the more mo derate and practical of the West Indians. The rest of the discussion was a flourish of trumpets on the part of the protectionists, with a view to persuade their dupes out of doors that they are able to make a rally in support of their obsolete notions. Lord GEORGE. BENIINCK and Mr. Demme have come forward as the mouth-pieces of protection. They do not appear as the representatives of the West Indians, whom, indeed, Lord GEORGE. took roundly to task for faltering in their protectionist faith, but as the uncompromising advocates of pro tection for everything. Mr. De-maul's speech, in deed, as is generally the case with everything that falls from the hon. member for Bucks whenever he ventures out of his own especial cii de of graphic de lineation, caricature, and mummery, was unintelli gible. It was mystical as the " wondrous tale of Alroy," dry and lumbering a, an English imitation of German transcendental metaphysics. It defies com ment or reply, front being unintelligible. But Lord Gamete expressed, in plain English, the narrow and self-contradictory wishes of English protectionists. Lord GEORGE is no half-and-half protectionist. I le would give protection all round. Ile would protect the English corn grower, and when the manufac turer complains of dear provisions protect the manu facturer against cheaply ft d rivals from abroad. He would protect English shipping, and when British sugar growers complain of high freights, protect them against rivals who can have their sugars carried at a lower rate. Lord Geoeoe's specific for making and keeping all English interests—agricultural, ma nufacturing, estlelial, and shipping—prosperous, is simply this: he will in the first place enrich the agriculturist by compelling the manufacturer through the instrumentality of protective duties to pay him a certain amount of tax in addition to the natural price of corn. When the manufacturer complains of being thus placed at a disadvantage, lie will give hint re dress by compelling the agriculturist and colonist through the same agency of protective duties to pay tribute to him. When the colonist grumbles at this anangetnent he will be authorised in the same way to take toll of the manufacturer and agri culturist. And when the shipowner represents that the price of ship-building materials and stores is thus artificially heightened in price, he is told that the navigation laws enable him to charge all three of the aforementioned parties as heavily as he pleases. In short, A is made to pay, let us say, la per annum to 11; but A is compensated by being allowed in turn to take la per annum from C ; who is kept quiet b' being allowed to levy the some yearly amount of black-mail upon D ; who is again soothed by having an annuity of 10!. granted him, payable by K In the end everybody receives DM to which he had no right, and in return pays which there was no call upon him to pay. And Lord GEORGE BENTINCK and the wise men whose senti ments lie speaks, believe that all the parties are thus made richer by la per annum. If this ekildish game at Beggar my Neighbour stopped here, it would be well ; but we must be al lowed to follow out its workings a little further. Under the system of protectiee duties, A is not allowed to pay 11 his lot., and MO forth. A costly array of tax-gatherers is maintained to collect the duties, by the pressure of which the transfer is indi rectly effected. An expensive legion of unnecessary goeernment officials is paid by the protected parties, to work the system of protection, which leaves them as rich as before—minus this additional expense. Again, this protective system, by confining their dealings to the home market, by preventing them from trading with foreigners, limits the number of their customers, curtails the amount of their transactions, and keeps them poorer than they might otherwise become. In its direct operation protection is a juggler's trick which swells the sums both on the debtor and creditor sides of the trader's ledger, leav ing the balance of profit at the end of the year un augmented. In its indiiect operation it increases the trader's expenses and diminishes the number of his transactions, leaving at the end of the year the balance of profit less than it would have been but for protection. Viewed in the whole circumference of its working, not at isolated points as protectionist sophiAs are wont to do, this is the rationale and effect of protection ; this is the Gotham-like system of poli-y whi-h the protectionist party in the House of Commons have undertaken to prop up, with a view to prolong its sickly days. It is in the desperate hope of gaining time to allow of something turning up by accident, to resuscitate this obsolete heresy in commercial legisla tion, that the two first days of the re-assembled House of Commons have been wasted. The struggle is in vain. A simple comparison of the hostile bands of protectionists and free traders in the House of Com mons for VW, with their appearance in the same assembly for 1821, will show Its hopelessness. In 1821 a few resolute and enlightened theorists, com posed of Itiestwo, Hume, and others, argued and protested incessantly, but without influencing the votes of a house composed of the representatives of protected trading and agricultural interests, and of government officials taking their tone from those par ties. In 18-Ist the free traders are in a majority, and what is more, the practical traders are now the as- I serters of free trade. The protectionist phalanx is composed mainly of theorists—of theoristsrepresented by Lord G. BENTINCK and Mr. DISRAELI. MR. BABB IGE has written a pamphlet on the " Principles of Taxation, with reference to a Pro perty Tax." Of course it is shrewd, ingenious, and amusing. Like IttcAnoo and JPCrt.Loctt, the writer brings his powers of mind and lwic to support the claims of landed and realised wealth to be exempt from any amount of pressure or taxation propor tionate to that wealth. Mr. BABBAGE, in fact, puts his talents at the service of the higher classes of society, no doubt because he deems what he says in their behalf to be just and fair. We beg to think his arguments neither one nor the other. Mr. BtISBAGE sets out with the assumption that all taxation is the price which individuals pay to a government for the protection which it affords them. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1848. We dewy this. Protection is one of the duties of government, but it is not all. Government is something more than police. It is more than a negative carer for our safety. It may not have religions duties, bat it certainly has moral ones. And its efforts for even the physical prosperity and well-being of the popula tion, without taking any moral end into calculation, alone form a series of duties, very different indeed from mere protection to persons and to property. Mr. BABBAGE supposes that all the produce of taxation is employed in the great purpose of protec tion. And in order to follow out his argument he insists that this protection is merely for the year, the actual financial year. For on this principle he bases his proposition, that all annual incomes ought to be taxed alike, whether they proceed from life interest and professional earnings, or from landed and realised property. Because, earth he, protection, the basis of taxation, is for the present year, and not for the past or future. How could Mr. BABBAGE indulge in such a theory ' without reflecting that nearly two-thirds of our an nually raised revenue go to pay the interest of money alleged to have been spent for our protection half a century ago; nay, more, that the Duke of WELLING TON and Mr. PIGOU want to spend more millions for protecting us half a century hence ? What have the professional gains of a man of the present day to do with at least one of those kinds of protection, and that the dearest kind ? Taking for granted Mr. BABLIAGE'B principle, that all government is but protection, and that we must pay for protection, we cannot agree with the infer ences which he draws. For examp'e It is a frequent subject of complaint by professional men, that the uncertain income, dependent on health and other accidental circumstances, pays the same tax as the landholder. But it must be observed that, although the income is pre carious to the individual, its prote.tion is not less costly to the state; and, in whatever way it may be distributed amongst the weathers of a profession, the total income of the whole profession is often quite as perm:went as that of the landlord, and is more certain in its payment. . Granting personal protection to be the same in the case of the landlord and that of the squire, does Mr. Babbage pretend that it coats the state as much trouble to protect the cheque that aceompinies the lawyer's brief from its being drawn to the time when it enters his pocketbook, and after that in its expen diture—does Mr. BADBAGE pretend that this protec tion is equal in importance and amount to the sanc tion and security which the law gives to the perma nence of landed and of funded property—a sanction and a security which must necessarily embrace a ifo riee of years, and which:is summed up in codes, de fended by records and by judges, and by the most costly machinery that seer state possessed iWhy, the annual, and we might say, the diurnal earner and consumer costs but the price of the policeman at his door, whilst the owner of realised property causes the whole twenty millions of expenditure which go to protect and secure permanent, visible, realised property. AVe might go much farther N% ith Mr. TS tiIIIAGF:'S doctrine of protection, and draw much wider infer ences from the theory expounded in the above ex tract. Most life incomes do come from realised pro perty. The chief sums made at the bar, for in stance, are derived from the incomes of landed pro prietors. In pratelit4y these proprietors in their syst , m of entails, and the consequent difficulty of titles, the state really protects the lawyers and pro vides them incomes. And why should the state levy a tax twice over out of the same revenue for tho same protection? It taxes the esquire according to his income, and then taxes over again that income when it has passed into the hands of the professional man. If the amount of taxation, then, be proportionate to the protection given to property, the professional man and the life income should not be taxed at all, for the property which pays protection tax has been already mulcted of its quota before it reaches pro fessional or earning hands. We argue thus, merely to show the absurdity of the principle—that taxation should be proportionate to the protection afforded to property. And we have shown before, that, ad mitting the principle, it is one which, if rightly fol lowed out, would throw the whole weight of taxation upon landed property. Undoubtedly, no uthcr costs half so much to protect. A fairer principle is, that all arc batind to contri bute to the necessities of the state in proportion to their means, and, of course, in proportion to the per manence of their means. That is a principle which the wealthy thenisel% es have ever adinit.ed, before theorists began to weave sophisms on the subject. There existed a natural taxation, long before the legal one ; and then• exist still repeated instances of natural taxation, where the state dues not regulate. If the state is menaced by an enemy, dues not each man contribute according to his fortune ? If a famine lay prostrate the poor of the land, do not men come forward in proportion to their means and their independence? Is the lawyer, making 200001. a year expected to come forward on such an occasion in the same i ank and with the same figure as marquises and earls, who can make settle ments for sons and daughters on their broad lands, — who can be lavish without imprudence, and who can relieve the beggary of others without making beggars of their own children? _ . Surely Mr. BAIMAGE, upon some reflection, must perceive that he has been spinning out an ingenious argument against the plain dictates of common sense and humanity. Our Paris correspondence of Saturday is engrossed almost exclusively by the news from Italy, which we give, with all its most interesting details, below. The Chamber held its fifteenth day's debate on the address on Saturday. Count de Bussieres, who has just arrived in Paris from the I Lague, is ordered to proceed imme liately to assume his post of ambassador at Naples. His excellency was to depart for Toulon to-day (Monday), where a government steamer was waiting to convey him to Naples. The Count of Syracuse had not yet left Paris, but his departure for Naples was hourly expected. The Madrid mail of :he 30th ult. has arrived. Es partero was still suffering from the effects of his late attack of influenza, and had not been able to leave, as he intended, for Logrono. Another grand ball had been given at the palace on the 30th. As before, Es parteru's name was excluded from the list of in vitations. An extraordinary courier arrived in Paris on Saturday from Madrid with news to the 31st. Private letters say that the reception at the palace, on the occasion of the birthday of the Duchess of Montpcnsier, on the evening of the :10th, was most brilliant. Among the general officers present on the occasion was Espartcro, who attended in spite of the severe indisposition with which he was assailed, and although he had previously had a farewell audience of the Queen. The ball did not terminate till four in the morning of the 31st. It is announced that General Narvaez is engaged in making large reductions in the army, with a view to economy in the finances. The army of Catalonia is to be considerably redu..ed, in consequence of the almost total suppression of the Carlist insurrection. The Gazette of the 30th publishes a royal decree, approving the contract entered into between the go vernment and the Bank of San Fernando, in virtue of which the latter becomes the general cashier of the government, receiving all the taxes and contributions, and, in return, engaging itself to place the whole amount of the budget at the disposal of the govern ment in monthly instalments, varying in amount each month. The total of the budget is 1,283,631,396 reads. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 29th the debate on the bill respecting notaries was brought to a close. The F u •o states that M. de Ayllon is not to remain minister in Portugal. The Patna, of Florence, mar, " If we are well in formed, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, the English Pleni potentiary in Sardinia, communicated, on the 24th of January, to Count de St. Mahan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a note sent by Lord Palmerston to the Court of Tienna, in which it is declared that, in case an Austrian intervention should occur in Tus cany, in the Roman States, or in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, it would be considered by England as a declaration of war." We have received by the Levant mail our corre spondence from Constantinople to the 1 ith ult. There was no political news of general interest. Tranquil lity prevailed in every part of the empire. The cho lera had not diminished, 8 to 10 cases occurring daily. The weather was dreadfully severe—gales of wind and heavy rains. M. Mumma had a fall from his horse ; nothing serious occurred; he was to start in a day or two for Athens. Several fires had taken place, with but little damage. AU the Greek consuls had resumed their functions. Oar letters from Athens of the 20th mention a rumour of a change of ministry. 'rho senate was dis cussing the budget of 1847. The Chamber of Depu ties had adjourned for the Christmas holidays. The Athens journals have published the apology of M. Olaraki toAli Effendi in the Mu.surus affair, and also the Turkish minister's reply, accepting it, but at the Name time informing the Greek government that un less a treaty of commerce is speedily agreed upon, the Porte will take such steps as it considers necessary. All was quiet at Patras when the Locust left on the 25th. A grand funeral mass was celebrated on the Ist in the catholic church of Berne for the victims who pe rished at Milan and Pavia, in the recent conflicts with Austrian soldiers. Most of the Italians resident at Berne were present at the ceremony. An auto-du : l'e took place at Friburg on the 31st ult. The victims, however, were neither catholics, protestants, nor Jews; but papers connected with the political prose cution instituted by the late government in the early part of last year, and several instruments of torture, which, it appears, had been retained under the old system. EDICT OF THE KING OF DENMARK RE SPECTING THE CONSTITUTION. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 29.—0 n the 28th inst. the King was pleased to issue a royal edict respecting the introduction of a constitution, both to the Danish Chancery of State, and to that of Schleswig Holstein. It is as follows : With a view of carrying out the inventions of our lamented father, his late Majcty King Christian VIII., and of put ting into execution the regulations o: public affairs already assented to and announced in our letter patent, in a man ner which shall maintain the independence of the different pr , vinces of the country, as well as to consolidate the whole, we have resolved to take into our royal consideration the in troduction of a constitution, which shall at the same time secure the inalienable rights of our crown, as well as the ' rights and interests of all our loving subjects of the various provinces of our kingdom. To this end we purpose that united diets of our kingdom of Denmark, and of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, shall regularly at certain times, and at appointed intervals, assemble alternately in kingdom and in our duchies, at such places an shall hereafter be named, an equal number of deput es being returned by our kingdom and by the above-named duchies. The rights which we shall assign to these states in respect of several matters which are to he laid down in the constitutional law shall consist in a conclusive co-operation in the alterations of the tariff, and in the administration of finance, as also in framing laws which relate to the common interests of the kingdom and the duchies ; and we shall, therefore, permit that the said states shall humbly submit to our royal con sideration proposals touching such points of their operations as shall have reference to the common interests of the kingdom and the duchies. This constitu tion of the states which we introduce, of our own free royal will and pleasure, shall nut in any way alter the regulaliou of the 28th u: May, 1832, or the ord : nanee of the 16th May. 1834. respecting the establishment of pro vincial assemblies in our kingdom of Denmark and of our duchies, nor the permanent union of these duchies', and the relations of our duchies of Holstein and Lauenberg to the Germanic confederation, nor the constitution of the last named duchies, nor the establishment of the Icelandic Allhing, introduced by the ordinance of the Bth March, 1843. Lastly, the constitutional law shall contain suitable measures for the protection of the Danish as well as of the German language, in the districts of the duchy of Schleswig. Before we confer the plwer of few upon the arrangements which are to be introduced into the constitutional law they shall be submitted to the united care ful consideration of milightened and experienced men, who possess the esteem and confidence of their fellow burghers. The election of a majority of these repress ntatives, we shall, as a proof of our royal confidence in our faithful and beloved subjects, leave to the different classes of the council of the elected members of the provincial states, as well an to the clew, the prelates, and the resident nobility of the duchies of Schhowig and Holstein, awl the consistories of our universities of Copenhagen and Kiel. To this end, in regard first to our kingdom of Denmark, the deputies chosen by our faithful provincial states, for our royal residence of Copenhagen, and other mercantile cities, for the biaboprics of Zealand, Feinen, and Istaland, Falster, shall be permitted to send three of their members ; the deputies of the landhold ers in the above named bishoprics shall semi two, the small landowners of the same province shall also send two. The bishops and provosts of the above-named sees, as well as the Bishopric of Alien and Aron, which appertains to the king dom in an ecclesiastical respect, shall elect from the clergy of the before.mentioned sees, as also of the latter bishopric, two representatives; the bishops and provosts in North Jut land from the whole body of clergy in the province and of the parishes, which in an ecclesiastical respect appertain to the duchy of Schleswig, two; and the o.naistury of the univer sity of Copenhagen shall send one member. With respect, .econdly, to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, the mem bers of our faithful provincial c mined seat as deputies the duchy of Schleswig by the large landownenshall be per witted to send one of their tombs in, the deputies of the mer cantile to vns and the other cities in that duchy which have the right of election two of their members; the deputies of the small landowners and of the mixed elective districts of the same duchy also two; the mem!) TS of our faithful provincial council for the duchy of Holstein, chosen from the cisme( the large landed pr iprietora, shall send two of their members ; the deputies of the commercial and other elective towns of this duchy two; the el puties of the small land owners of this duchy also two; the general superintendent and the provosts of the duchy of Schleswig, from the whole body of the clergy belonging to it, in an ecclesiastical respect, one ; the presidents and the resident nobility of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein four of their members ; and the consistory of the University of Kiel one ut. nix r. For every class of the representatives a substitute is to be chosen. The election shall be under the dir. ction of commissioners whom we shall he pleased to nominate for the purpose. The leetions shall take piece in the course of the month of March next, on such day as shall be determined by the appointed commissioners. The elections for the prelates and nobility, and for the consietory of both universith s, shall take place in the usual manner, and also in the month of March. After the said elections shall be over, and the result communicated to us, we shall nominate for the object in question eight members of our kingdom, four for our duchy:of Schleswig and four also for our Duchy of Holstein. The number of de puties who shall thus be graciously appointed, in part by ourselves and in part elected according to the above regula tions, and whose names 'hall thus be publicly annouaOed, will amount to twenty six for our kingdom of Den mark, and to twenty-six for our Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein ' • making a total of fi ft y-two. Two months, at the furthest, after the close of these elections, the said represents- ' lives shall assemble in our royal residenti try city of Copenha gen, on a day which we shall hereafter appoint, and under the presidency and guidance of our highest officers of state, shall commence their labours, which they shall continue till such time as we shall be graciously disposed to command their termination. We reserve to ourselves, independently of the immediate objects which we have designated above for their assembling, to submit to their united consideration several matters relative to the legislation and administration, which wi.l have to be brought I .ter in the year before the provin cid ar emblies for their deliberation, viz , the introduction of a general liability to military service, the regulation of the mint, and further resolutions in regard to the treatment of royal and private propositions, in the assembly of the provincial states. The members may m their deliberation., as it shall seem best to them, make use of the language of either of the two countries, and to this end the protests shall be drawn up in both languages, by officers who shall be graciously ap pointed by us. The results of their deliberations shall then be submitted for our royal decision, by the government dele gates appointed for conducting the usu el questions. It is a true gratification to us to carry out the work commenced by our lamented father, and it is the more pleasing to us to announce this our royal veolution nn the anniversary of the birth of the lamented King Frederic VI., and thus to combine with the memory of the founder of the institution of the s stem, the present manure for which, by those institu tions, he prepared the way. We hereby make publicly known this our royal will and pleasure. The Royal Danish Chancery, Jan. 28, 1818.—(Signed) Stemann, Oersted, Bentsen, Holm, Algreen Coring." The Berlin Gamete, together with this edict, publishes an announcement of the chief of the Copenhagen chamber of police stating that he has received from the Denish Chancery of State the communication of a royal reseript, by which the King enjoins the Chancery especially to mak kno en that, while his Majesty is convinced that his faithful subjects will receive with gratitude the boon which he has been pleased to proffer in his edict of the 28th, it is his wish that this grati tude may not lee =mit - sated in any way which is not in strict harmony with the deep sorrow which he feels for the death of his mucb-'oved father. Ihe remains of the late King will he conveyed to the palace at Amalienburg. A funeral hymn has been written by Ochlenulthiger, the music by Glawr. SOUTH AMERICA.—A letter from Callao, dated Dec. 12, gives the following items of news from the Pacific. The French frigate Poursuivante, with the flag of Admiral Tromlin, together with the corvette Batelle, were at Valparaiso en the 30th of November. M. Dillon, formerly French consul at Newcastle, came out in the Pounuivante, as eonaul to the Sandwich Islands. Merchant shipping was very scarce, and freight., still rating high, from ad. os. to 51. 15e. per ton for England. Ecuador was in a wretched state of disorder : there had lately been an abortive attempt at • revolution in Guayaquil, in consequence of which several families had been banished. Murder and robbery were of very frequent occurrence iu the city, with scarcely any attempt at the discovery and punishment of the perpetrators. Foreigners were threatened in printed papers posted and circulated in the city, in such terms se the necessity of " watering the tree of liberty with their blood," &c. Mr. Horatio Cox, acting British consul, in the absence of Mr. Cope, who was at Quito, has written to Sir George Seymour, urging him to send • British ship of war for their protection. General Wright had left Guayaquil ostensibly f r Mexico, but no doubt with a view of aiding and uniting Flores, who, it is known, is at Jamaica planning • return to Ecua dor. It is stated that he has every chance of regaining the presidency. Velasco had been proclaimed president in Bolivia, in the room of Ballivian. Messrs. Jeoffroy and Co. and Signor Itudolfo's proposition, for constructing a rail road between Lima and Callao, it is said has passed the lower house. PORTUGAL. The Oriental steam-packet Jupiter, Capt. Meehan arrived at Suuthampton yesterday, and landed 114, mails, under the charge of . Lieut. Rainier, Admiralt v agent. Her dates are—Gibraltar, Jan. 26 ; (2.44 , 2'7 ; Lisbon, 30; and Vigo, Feb. 1. There wu no communication with Oporto, on account of the weather. The Jupiter was placed in a very critical situation while rounding the Needles point, by the breaking et the cross head of the air-pump of the port e totally disabling the machinery when most required, It occurred at a most fortunate period,as, had it taken place five or ten minutes sooner, nothing could hav e prevented her going on shore. The steamer came up , with the assistance of her second engine. A subscription, to he applied to the relief of the wives end relatives of the crew of the Avenger, had been set on foot by the officers and crews of the squadron in the Tagus, and the following are the sums each ship has collected: St. Vincent, 122/.45. 2d. ; Canopus, 102/. 10s. tid.; Howe, about 451.; Queen, 551. Os. 10d. ; Amphion, 51/. 19s. 10d. ; ra 43/. 9s. 3d.; Scourge, 36/. 13s. ; Jac 8/. 19s. 7d.; Terrible, 371. Iris, 3d.: making a total of 523/. 19s. 10d. Should the sum exceed 1,000/., the surplus to be applied to the relief of the relatives of the officers left destitute by their loss. The squadron were very healthy, with the exception of the St. yin. cent, which was suffering severely from small-pox, and several of her crew have fallen victims. h i . fluenza was general among the squadron, but Rash abating. LISBON, JAN. 29. The Cortes have now been in session nearly a whole month, and hav • no one day mimed a sitting (lie crowns per day each member), and this long time by been frittered away upon the most frivolous discussions. Not COO single sublect of national importance has yet been touched upon, nor have they even decided upon the usual prelimi nary of replying to the address from the crown. The only subject of interest that has to he recorded is * motion made by Costa Cabral, in the House of Peers, call ing for the production of all papers awl correspondence, of whatever nature, connected with the armed interference of the nations parties to the Quadruple Allience, as also of those relating to the protocol, and to the coovention of Oramido. doze Bernardo Cabral, his brother, has also, from the lower house, moved for the production of similar docu ments ; so, from this proceeding, we are left to argue that the two brothers are nut in a hurry to leave Lisbon for the seat of their embassies in Paris and Bruit, although they have contrived, even with the poverty of the Portuguese exchequer, to extract, and have received, large sums in advance, under the head of outfit and wary, The Queen has also appointed Rebell° Cabral, another brother, to be President of the Chamber of De. parties ; while her confessor, the notorious Padre blame, named vice president. The non arrival of the rest of the deputies, only seventy being in Lisbon, is rea!ly acircurastsace difficult to be accounted for, and, coupled with the fact of two of the members for the Douro tarring retuned their seats, gives an air of credence to a flying report that an influence is in action, before which even D ions Maria mast yi e ld , and that t he con , equence will be a f arc, d dissolut:on, and a new election. Sir George Seymour, it is also reported, ha handed in a note to the Portuguese government, c attaining, amongst other demands, an immediate one for the payment of the execute incurred by the operations o. the British squadron, and in the capture of the Portuguese patriot fleet in May last. The debate upon the Queen's opening speech, re are pro mised, will commence on Monday. Although the Cortes proceedings drag their weary length so tediously, the press at least is active end belligerent enough, and the Unioo, a Cabral paper, hes brought a cam plete storm stout its eau. for, in an article in which the desperate state of the l'ortuguese finances is admitted, the UMW comes to the rescue, and puts forward a most notable scheme tor replenishing a bankrupt exchequer—it is by the sacrifice of the Portuguese colonial permissions by sale, and that sale to be, as at as auction, to the highest bidder. England, it is hinted, would jump at the opportunity of becoming what pour Mr. George Robins would have phrased, the " fortunate purchaser." Then comes an estimate of 'slue, which is quietly dotted down at one hundred millions of erusado', about ten English millions sterling. The journals of the national parties, both Septembrista and 11' elite, have flown to arms, and denounce the outrage with all the bi•terneas of wounded nationality. A severe article appears iu the Name of the '27th, and no it embodies the feeling of the prise geuerslly, with the exception of the Cahral-Tojel clique, woo already imagine themselves in mato ly of the bags containing the " ten millions," why 1 have ventured to translate it: w e h av e peen to.d.,y (nays the Karoo; a moot remarkable COMM,. nieslian t.oertrd in the / ).;no, from which it i% to he concluded tbat the nece-eity has arrived for puttiog up to public SAle, and dipposa to the higheat bidder, of au•alry of the hraaehes of the withered trunk of Perim:4l. And what are thaw branch,-! Heir, then. Po, ce":„;7„.1.‘7,;".t-nks . r.:l nor*, fle, of Cabo Verde, the rominen;..ltet ritory of Cabo Verde, the Wand of Sao Thome and Principe,latm, D.inim, Dm, Solor, and Tilllool . Thl. !turtling plan for improving our finance% i% a sample of the thorn, U 'tarty, and of a government. We are Portanteq and are proud of bring on, slid we cannot but we with the bitterest indignatom that a Portuguew dlould be the advocate for tai. infamy. It was reverved tin for our duva that a Portuguese propos the , Poringue* should be reck..ned ae the lobate that twriah, and be submitted to, and diapoeed of. by public suction. On board the English squadror., I am pained to state, there prevails consiuerable sickness, tonal.-pox haying shown itself, as also a species of influenza, that has been tatsi in many cases; them have been several di:lth.. The St. Vincent, the admiral's ship, has been particularly unfortunate. The day before yesterday they lost their gun room stt ward ( Wilkins), and I am told that of that ship alone there are nearly one hundred and sixty men on the sick list. The proceed ings of the court•martial recently held span a young ' marine officer (Charles Pyle), belonging to the queen, have terminated. The charges were of a trumpery nature, rooms disobedience of orders ; the sentence was that he be placed two yews back in hie promotion. The youth of the lad, it is thought, might have pleaded for a more lenient judgment, as nothing in the investigation carried with it the slightest censure upon a character for honour or for gentleutanli con duct. A most liberal subscription hu been commenced on board the squadron on behalf of the widows, children, and distressed relatives of the poor fellows lost with the Avenger; it was first set afloat, I believe, by the fine crew of the Canepus. " the pattern vessel" of the fleet, and I am told that the admiral has actually found it necessary to limit the amount of individual contribution, fur so deep is the feeling of sympathy that exists throughout the fleet that numben of the men offered and pressed to be allowed to subscribe a mouth's pay towards the fund; the subscription has however, been limited to a day's (fay tram each Miker and man, this alone will produce a handsome sum, and should -his truly generous example be contazieus, and reach the Mediterranean command, as doubtless it will, a com fortable provision will be realised for the afflicted families of the bet crew. . In tradingdoings there is little of novelty and less of en. couragement to relate, for commerce, through late Events, and more so from the scandalous di.honesty of the govern meet, has received a shock it will be 10.. g ere it recovers. Two or three of the minor English houses are spoken of as in a tottering state, and one is said positively to have sus pended peyote at, so far as creditors in England are concerned; but in the absence a a formal announcement it would be irregular to name the firm. In the exchanges there are some alteration,: on Landon, at 30 days, 321 ;90 days, 531. In metals no alteration. A report prevails that the Lisb...n Bank have succeeded in rais ing a considerable loan in Parts, but with their notes at from 40 to 50 per cent. discount I give but small credit to the rumour. COLONIAL. NEW SOUTH WALES.—We have received journals from this colony to the 11th of September, 1847. Curiously inough, a complaint of inadequate definers is being made in the legislative council of New South Wales just as in the parliament of Great Britain. Our antipodean countrymen appear, bowers r, to have less of absurdity in their panic. The motion, indeed, of which notice has been given in the legislative council at Sydney, would, if carried and ge..erdlv adopted in the other colonies, enable this country to dispense with part of its warlike expenditure. Mr. Grant gave notice for the 10,1 of September, that he would move—" That *respectful address be presented to his excel lency the Governor setting forth the detes.celta state of the colony in gen,,ral, using to the r, , cent removal of a great portion of the military force to New Zealand.nnd rdici trig kis excellency to promote the organisation of militia or vilu,.teer corps in Sydney and the various towns of the colony.' Whether it is from Tahiti, or the Sandwich group, or from Navigator's Islands, or the New Hebrides, that an invasion is apprehended at Sydney, does not appear. But we are glad to see that the panic-stricken of New South Wales, unlike the panic-strick. n of Landon and Brighton, who clamour for fortifications and soldiers to fight for them, are willing, as they are able, to fight for themselves ; and instead of adding to the load of army Unction in the eld country, would relieve it entirely of the expense of protecting them. The A-sessment on Stock Bill was read a third time, and passed, without a division, on Wednesday, the 25th of August. Dr. Bland, however, Lid also Messrs. Lone, Berry, Robinson, and Cowper, while admitting that oppo v ition was vain, declared, in the strong. at terms, their convicti es of the injestice of the measure. Messrs. Wentworth and Foster were the only non-official members who spoke in support of the bill. These files contain one highly gratifying piece of intelligenee—the monopoly in the working of coal in New South Wales has been abolished. On Tuesday, the 17th of August, a message from the governor was sent to the Legislative Council to the effect that, perceiving they had ap;sointed a committee to in vestigate the privileges granted to the Australian Agricultural Company oa their undertaking to work coal at Newcastle, his excellency desired to inform them that an arrangement had been made by eke directors of the company with the Secretary of State for the Colonies by which all privileges, both on the part of the company and the government, were to be given up, without entailing any charge on the colonial funds. The announcement was received with cbeen. CLARK v. FRELItAN.—QUACK rILLs.—We are re quested by Mr. John Freeman, chemist, of Blackfrian-roed, to state, that he is not Vie maker of the pill. falsely adver tised u "Sir James Clarke's consumptive pills." That per son's name is also Freeman ; and had, it will be reme rubered, an injunction moved for against him in the HAW Court on Tuesday last, by Sir J . Clark, for the uaauthorised simula tion elks nasue.i Ow-