The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-11 00:00:00

3"1"I'd NEW PAMPHLET OM ART. Mos reedy, is ash Pete of pRE-RAPHAELIIISM. By the Author Reacts Pels9tri." Lades : Smith, Elam sad Co., 6.1, CershllL A Hes Mike Hite VAS) of "Rodent Pcintets," volume the amt. gfte erpreols. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Sewed Whim sf " Tra Eterms." esstsistiii .114 man emmiser " (Amite." is pratriheil emu Tuesday sad Irina, Willis la Ist post. urements into...ten for "The Lap ' s" Lesion Evening paper, w t t o . aUK Itnee, 10. flourene-elMet b Tye °Work on the My of ratification. PURR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tolle DAT—Magnin, Ih. Om. Afternoon. 2n. MIL T..lBllo.—Xutninit, 20. Xs Altman, 21. Os. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 11. THE SeSSiOn is over. The national representatives hare done their year's work ; it is now for their con stituents to say how they are satisfied with the way in which it has been done. We do not mean that the electors of any county, city, or borough, have at this moment a special call to express on opinion of the conduct of their own particular represt Motive or repmentativew With a very few exceptions there is just now little to choose between any members of " honourable house?' Every succeeding session shows a diminishing I amount of business got through, and that in a more ensatisfactory manner. Fur this no one appears to be to blame more than another. Mr. This and Mr. That, ministers and miniaterial irits, conservative:4 progressive and conservatives obstructive, whip and something more, and independent liberals, MI seem alike to have come to a dead lock, to be imapuble of dui ll g anything. It is no single constituency that is called to sit in judg ment upon its own representatives; the aggregate constituencies of the empire are called to sit in judg ment upon the aggregate representatives. It' little or nothing is done in parliament, it is not because there is little or nothing to dn. There are still large arrears of what was promised in I:430 as the sure and speedy results of a reform bill to be paid up; and during the twenty years that have since elapsed, changer have taken place in the body politic that render necessary changes in our laws and insti tutions to adapt them to the novel circumstances. This, if denied by any party in parliament, is denied by a very small party, and very faintly; and yet no thing is done, or nothing to the purpose. For this anoinalcua position of affairs various rea m:Ha may lie asaignetl, all of them helping. But there is tine which is more influential than any of the others, one that can more easily be amended than uny of the otheru, and th at is the unsatiaffietury composition of the Hour of Commons:. 'the lb l'orm Act of was an incomplete lam of work. It was demanded without modifica tion by the people, and that wisely ; for, as matters stood when it pawed, if they had not got it, they might burn got nothing. nut it is obvious that a good deal of skilful juggling had been employed to patuerve a great number of purchaseable and ninninatimi boroughs ; that even the ten pound qualification fur electors excluded a numerous class, who, us possessed of political power, ought, in ac eord.witv with all wand political principle, to have been made loyal to the constitution by being made u part of it ; that the ten pound franchise was with held from nearly one-half of the constituencies; and that limitations were imputed on the choice of dee tore in the shape of a property qualification fir members of parliament. and captious and unmeaning oaths admiinstered to them before tiny are allowed to take their seats. And the origitial (*.erects of the measure have been much Moreau d by ,lounges that have occurred Mine it passed. The' distribution of the population has altered materially; some towns and districts have becaus e more populous while others have become less fro Tlw distribUtioll Of property has altered mate riidly ; whisk, classes are rising to comparative wealth, while others. if not retrograding in this re- ' spect. are Math:oar; . Lastly, changes in local ad unniatration have created new official classes, who hate siert:what to the influence fornwrly exercised by the old. Even had the Iteform Act of the late Earl Gass gisen us a constituency identical with the politically powerful population, the changes which Lave taken place since it beanie law are enough to make it leave many without voto or sole° who are amply entitled to both. The national constituency is no longer identical with that part of the population which in virtue of its intelligence and independent position possesses political power. As toil us a constitution ex cludes from the exercise of the elective fran chise a part of this section of the community, the ilou- ut Colon 11l l s mars to is; a fair exponent of the national will. And as soon its the House of COHIMOHS Malt in this manner to hen fair exponent of the national will, it loses its power for good. Sectional interests obtain an ascen dancy in it that enables them to thwart and bottle measures required for the common benefit. When the power of these sectional interests is sufficiently great to enable them to effect their own petty and selfish schemes then n remedy, though often a rough one, is at hand, for the nation refuse's to tolerate them. But in this country at resent they are only strong enough to thwart the national will, not to make their own law. In this condition, however, they are aide to make the Hour of Commons more con temptible in proportion as it is less dangerous. 'the utter intitieienty of that braneh of the legislature, so univemally complained of, is attributable to the in fluentv which cliques and coteries have obtained in it through the defective condition of our electoral system. Lord JOHN Ressm. telt as that he is going to remedy this. But lord Jona Ressm has fur some years hero nuking many promises which he is either unwilling or unable to fulfil. Ile was to bring the Jews into parliament, he was to reform our sanitary police, he was to reform the municipal government of London. With sorrow we say it, a promise from Lord Join RUSSELL that anything shall be done is enough to warrant grave fears that it will not be done. If we ore to have such a reform of the House of Commous as will make it work well, we must not lie on our oars and kayo the task to Lord Jolts Et:saw— Btvides, we have no means of knowing in what spirit or after what fashion Lord Jonv proposes to set about reforming the House of Commons. He has been most frank in telling what he will not do, but he has been close as a church-boa when asked what he will do. The plan of reform which he is to de velop next sc.-ion may, or may not, meet the wants and wishes of the country. If it does not, and the people have not been bestirring themselves is the meantime, there wilt be a session lost. The recess is the time in which all who are im pressed with a clue sense of the urgent necessity of a further reform in parliament ought to be indefati gably Nov. Let them take counsel one with another, aid be prepared when parliament meets, in the event of Lord Joitv IffsseLL's proposing an in adequate reform, to say not merely "your lordship's plan will not suit us,' but "here is the measure of reform that we want." Two days before the prorogation of parliament— that is to say • hen for all pramical purposes of legis lative information they would be of no possible use —the annual returns of . agricultural produce in Ire land were printed and circulated among the members of the House of Commons. This is not the first time that this has been done. When the first volume was announced for the year 1848, some al lowance was reasonably asked and accorded on ac- Count of the novelty cdthe attempt. When the second. that, namely, for 1849, we forbore to criticise with seventy the culpable dilatoriness that rendered its publication, when the session of last year was over, comparatively useless. But we are un willingly compelled to ascribe the repetition of the offence on the present occasion less to negligence than design. The withholding of important docu ments from the legislature until it can hardly be made use of by any except those official infallibili ties who are responsible for its being thus kept back, seems to be part of a regular system. It is an other specimen of the desire of the bureaucratic clique to oust popular control, nay to baffle representative inquiry with a smooth floc of feigned unconsciousness. The shameful revela tions of the Irish tenses were unwarrantably with held for weeks after they might have been laid before parliament, and would perhaps hare been THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1851. tires, professing the most ardent admiration for the polities of that journal, and desiring to become sub scribers. One of these representatives, M. Wein, says, that when a year since he had an interview with the Count de Chambord, one word suffictd to inform the Count of his line of policy.. lie told the Count that he followed the banner of the Opinion Publique. If he were to visit the Count de Chambord again, ho should have nothing more to say. The schism therefore between what may be called the republican-legitimists and the Bonapart-legitimists is wider than ever. The committee of permanence held their first meeting to-day; M. de Melon (Ille-et-Vilaine) was appointed secretary. M. Detain is to preside when in Paris, and in his absence one of the vice-presidents of the Assembly. The next meeting is to be held on Thursday, the 21st of August, and the succeeding meetings on every other Thursday throughout the recess, unless extraordinary circumstances should! render more frequent meetings necessary. The canal from the .Marne to the Rhine is to be opened between Nancy and Toul on the let of Oe tobcr. To-day the Assembly met for the last time befog the vacation; not more than 300 members were pre-' sent when the chair was taken. This number gra- ' dually diminished. After transacting some matter of course, business of the most uninteresting kind, M. Lacrosse observed that there were not members enough present to make a house, and that the pro rogation had been voted. The Assembly then dis persed in silence at half-past three. PARIS, SUNDAY ET7NINO. The 3/0/titeue contains a letter of thanks from the English ambassador to o'.e Minister for Foreign Affairs on the part of Lord Granville and the Royal Commission of the Exhibition, jury, &e., for the cordial reception given them by the government and the municipality of Paris. Mr. Gladstone's letters and Lord Palmerston's speech have made a great sensation. To impugn the veracity of Mr. Gladstone's evidence is felt to he a task so hopeless that it is hardly attempted. The ' apologists of King Ferdinand are therefore driven to improve the occasion by heaping abuse upon Lord Palmerston. The wrath of the Assc»d•Me. requires time to embody itself in adequate words. It pro mimes in another article to treat his lordship's lan newith all the severity that it deserves, averring e meantime that Sir de Lacy Evans's question, evidently concerted, was,aurned to account by Lord Palmerston to propound doctrines the most subver sive of the independence of foreign governments and nations, and the most perfidiously calculated to keep up and encourage the revolutionary spirit upon the continent. The Vourfitutionnel admits that Mr. Gladstone acted under a praiseworthy impulse by disengaging conservative principles from the -respon sibility of such nets as he denounces, hut laments that the facts stated by him will be made use of by 1 demagogues as a confirmation of their own inventions. I It then admires the adroitness with which Lord Palmerston contrived to pursue his favourite policy, under the shelter of a name so respected as that of Lord Aberdeen, and is very indignant at the un seemly terms in which he spoke of the Neapolitan government. The republican journals are loud in their praises of Lord Palmerston. It would be inhu man to think that the French government can approve the cruelty and injustice which Mr. Gladstone has brought to light, and M. Baroche was no doubt sincere when he said the other day that he would recommend the King of Naples to use greater moderation. Rut the tone in which M. Baroehe imputed exaggeration to Mr. Gladstone's statements, I and the evident disposition of the ministerial journals to gloss over and explain away the enormities of . Neapolitan tyranny are sad evidence of the dire political necessity which compels the French govern ment to curry favour with ultramontane despotism. At Lyons, on Wednesday evening, some women, relatives of the prisoners now on trial before the court-martial, were overheard by the proeureur general and a captain of gendarmes making some remarks on the proceedings at the door of the Palais de Justice. An altercation ensued, which resulted in the arrest of three or four women. A meeting of the counsel for the prisoners took place afterwards, at M. Michel de Itourges's hotel, and it was agreed that, in order to avoid any occasion of irritation, no mention of this arrest should be made in open court. The counsel then had a private interview with Col. Couston, the president of the court-martial, and re presentill to him that neither the demeanour I.f the prisoners, nor the mode in which the defence would be conducted, would be calculated to produce any agitation out of doors; but that the extreme severity of the measures which had been taken were likely to produce a contrary impression, which in itself was dangerous to a certain extent. 'nuc colonel pro mised to report these observations to General Ca-'el lane. The women were released the next day, and the demonstration of military force around M..Mielitl de Bourges's hotel was less conspicuous than it had been. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. ROSIF JuLY 31, The paternal government of his Holiness con tinues to remind the Romans from time to time of its beneficent existence, by varying the tenor of its official announcements, not " from grave to gay, from lively to severe;" but from imprisonmentsand con demnations to forced loans and extra taxes, and rice rerso. I mentioned in my last letter the contri butions required from the nation to make up for the deficit in Signor Galli's budget, a document which, for the correctness of its details and the integrity of its calculations, would hardly stand the searching inquiry of Mr. Hume. Fortunately, however, for the Roman Minister of Finances, it is not the cus tom of his government to allow tax payers to remon strate against the weight or examine the ',thwart of their annual burthens, and, faulty as the budget may be, it must certainly be accepted as an improvement upon that system of hallowed mystery which has hitherto veiled the apostolic cyphers of the Pope's treasurers, functionaries who never deigned to give any account of their administration of the public money, and whose ac knowledged right it was to step at once from the office of treasurer to the dignity of cardinal. In the very inexact statement which Signor Galli has driiwn up, one cannot help feeling surprised at the omission of some of the most important items of in come and expenditure; such, for instance, as the expenses of the Austrian troops, which cannot amount to less than 80,000 dollars a month, on one hand, and the suns of ;:00,000 dollars, which Signor null has to pay the government fur the purchase of the ...Ippounaggio property, on the other. Renee it is evident that, much as the annul publication of estimates may be hailed as the day star of an im proved system of financial administration in the , Papal dominions, still, until the right of looking into these estimates is granted to the people, or their delegates, there is nu real progress made, and the state budget will be always drawn up according to the political tendencies, or interested motives, of men in power. I must not omit to mention one very remarkable change in public feeling at Rome, with respect to the French army. Those who, on its first entry into the city, applauded it for bringing back the Pope by the force of its victorious bayonets, now take no pains to hide their aversion whilst, on the con trary, the mass of the people, who received the French soldiers with the greatest disgust in the first instance, now begin to perceive that a prolonged French occupation can only have a result favourable to liberal opinions, nor would they hesitate to give the French army some proof of their convictions, if the political oppression under which they groan did I. not hinder them from making any sort of demon- ' stration. The Itomans of the lower orders are beginning to have a confused idea of the difference which exists between the actions of the French go vernment and the wishes of the French nation, and are losing their dislike to Frenchmen, as individuals, although they arc fully aware that the French go vernment is sold to the priests. The police autho. rities are just now excessively enraged at three of their myrmiions. three choice sbirri, having been arrested by the French, and sent to the Castle of St. Angelo. Their offence was that of having demanded to go out of the city at art hour when the gates are shut, without any written order from the Roman police, and then, although allowed to go out accom panied by a French soldier, their having run away from him as soon as they got well beyond the , walls. The soldier has been placed under arrest for not having fired upon them as soon as they attempted to leave his escort, and the Airri themselves arc to be tried by court martial, and some people affirm will be sent to the Toulon ' galleys. Some such lesson is necessary for these worthies, who seem to have considered themselves men of great importance ever since they commanded the French patrols. The dismissal of government and municipal em p!uyels still continues in Rome and in the provinces. A case which has recently excited the indignation of every well-thinking person is that of Signor Blasi, of Civita Vecchia, a man as well known by his indi vidual merit as by the moderation of his political opinions, and who has been deprived of three different employments which ho held, because, forsooth. ho is said to have formerly written a copy of verses in which the King of Naples was not spoken of with due respect. Such, at any rate, is the apparent cause; but well informed people name another motive. M. de Coe cellos, the French envoy, consulted Signor Blasi as to whether the Papal government was really as ab surd as was reported, and whether so many reforms were required as was pretended. Signor Blasi could not deny the great necessity there was for reform, and, on M. de Coreelles pressing him so to do, he drew up a memorial setting forth the principal griefs of the state. When M. de Coreelles went to Gaeta, he mentioned these proposed reforms to his Holiness, and laboured to have them granted; but Cardinal Antonelli assured him that such requests could only come from demagogues, and that good citizens wished for nothing of the kind, on which M. do Coreelles drew forth the memorial written by Signor Blasi, and told the cardinal that it was not the work of a demagogue. This proved quite sufficient to have Signor Blasi placed on the black list, and he is now deprived of his three cm- ployments. Another shameful dismissal is that of the assessor of police at Bologna, a functionary who, although declared innocent - by the Council of Censure, has been deprived of office by special order of the Pope, or at least in his name, for Laving testified his ap probation when the Roman troops left Bologna to undertake a campaign against the Austrians. But a truce to such doleful accounts—a list of all the present Papal persecutions would fill your columns. GERMANY. THE PROPOSED POLICE FOR TILE GERMAN EMPIRE. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, AtG. 7. Many persons, among them foreign statesmen and diplomatists, were led to apprehend by the exten sive alterations which Austria proposed to have made in the constitution of the confederation that that body would cease to possess the mere defensive functions for which it was organised, and would assume the position of a power in the European polity capable of assuming the aggressive. It can not be denied that the puerile weakness of I'russia and the general political aspect of Germany in sonic degree justified such apprehensions. But the course of time and the progress of reaction hare re produced the same state of parties, the mine conflicting interests, the same desire to main tain thee• independence on the part of the minor, to weaken their equals and crush their in feriors on the part of the larger states which existed previous to the momentous year lfilfi. This is fully established by a fac which has just come to my knowledge. In the sitting of the Engere Rath on the I;th of July, the representatives of Austria and Prussia jointly appealed to the Diet, inquiring, by a motion fur the introduction of a federal police, whether the Diet felt itself ccmpetent to main tain peace and order in the confederation, and to secure the legitimate forms of ;iiverninent. Such an appeal naturally required consideration, and time was allowed for the representatives to appeal to their go vernments for instructions. I have just learned that the major part of the ministers to the Diet have re ceived their instructions within the last few days, and that by far the greater number of the govern ments of Germany have instructed their representa tives to reply affirmatively to the appeal of Austria and Prussia. In making this appeal two great powers of Germany contemplated, if it was replied to as they desired, reproposing in an altered shape some of the propositions discussed in Dresden. It will be recollected that the most important of these propositions wvtc ealetthsted to add most formidably to the power of the Diet and to place that power in the hands of that state which for the time being maintained the ascendant. These and all the rest must now fall to thp ground, and the labours of the three committees or the Diet, to whom the Dresden propositions have been referred, will have lit-en in vain. If the majority of the confederates declare that the Diet is sufficiently powerful to quell disorder and to crush insurrection when and where ever they may show themselves, the motives for (fleeting alterations in its organisation lose all weight. The federal commissioners have left the electorate of Hessen for good, and their commissions have been returned to the Diet. The German papers have led the public astray on this point by stating that they had merely changed the seat of their labours, trans ferring it from Cassel to Frankfort. The Elector of Hessen-Cassel and his adviser Hassenpflug are once again sole masters of the unhappy land over which they rule. The inhabitants are wasted in mind and ruined in pocket by a military occupation which has Lasted eight or nine months. Those who were able have emigrated; those who remain must submit to whatever the government may choose to exact. Deplorable accounts continue to anive of the vast damages done by the recent inundations in Baden, Bavaria, and Wurtembcrg. From Bruchsal to Em mendingen, in the first of these states, the lower lands aro still under water, to the irretrievable damage of the crops which were just ripening. The Rhine is rising too, endangering in every place its artificial embankments. Much damage has been done to the fortifications of Rastatt, the lower ease mates of which arc under water. In Baden liaden the waters rose to within very few feet of the large hall. A newly built Swiss cottage, inhabited by an English family, was carried away so rapidly that the inhabitants had barely time to save their lives. The Grand Duke, who was travelling at the time, has returned to Carlsruhe to assist by his pre sence the efforts making to relieve the distressed fami lies, who arc suffering from want in consequence of the inundations. A subscription list has been opened on which among the foremost stand the names of the Prince and Princess of Prussia with a donation of six hundred florins. The Maine is rising again but slightly however. Accounts from Basle aro of the same melancholy character. Lake Lucerne has overflowed its banks close to Lucerne, nod the Aar and Lutschener have done the same iu Interlaken. At Unterseen the Aar carried away a bridge whereby several lives were lost, the number of which is not yet known. THE WEST LYDIA COMPANY'S STEAMER TAY left Southampton on Saturday with the Brazilian mails. Amongst the mails, which was the largest ever known, were government despatches for the British minister at Lisbon. Amongst the cargo of the Tay was nearly 50,0001. in specie, principally for Rio. She took out also nearly 50 pa...senates. Although there arc still restrictions at the Brazilian ports on the goods traffic by these steamers, the success of the Brazilian line of mail steamers has exceeded all expectations. The profit on the specie, diamonds, French merchandise, and passengers conveyed by them must be very great. The intermediate traffic is enormous, particularly as to passengers, by the homeward packets be twten Rio and Lisbon. In consequence of this success, the improvement of the affairs of the West India Company ge nerally, and the settlement of the packet-station question, the company are about to erect a suite of splendid offices near the Southampton docks, similar to those erected there by the Peninsular and Oriental Company. The offices of the latter form one of the handsomest and most extensive buildings in the town, and in it was accommodated the Ncpaulese ambassador, with all his suite, during that prince's stay in Southampton. I DEPARTURE OF TILE MAIL STEAM SHIP CANADA.— ! On Saturday forenoon, at 11 o'clock, the British and 9 North American royal mail steam ship Canada, Captain Harrison, left the Mersey for Halifax and Boston, with very heavy mails for the United States, Canada, New ! foundland, &e. She had also on board a full and valuable cargo, and 130 passengers. THE CAPE MAIL—The Hellespont, Capt. Watts, with the mail from the Cape of Good Hope, is several days over due at Plymouth. The adverse winds which have prevailed for some time past would no doubt have delayed her arrival. The next outward mail leaves Plymouth on the 15th inst. TILE DEPUTY-SECRETARY AT WAR.—Mr. L. Suli- Tan, who, for upwards of forty years, has been in the War office, chiefly as Deputy-Secretary at War, was last week made a member of her Majesty'. Prig Council. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. The British Royal Mail steamer Asia, Capt. Jud kine, arrived in the Mersey yesterday at 1 p.m. from New York, with 150 passengers and 128,3001. specie on freight. The Asia left New York at noon on the 30th ult., and has therefore been 11 days on the voy age, which is longer than the average passages of this ship, and has been caused by the prevalence of strong head winds during tho greater part of the voyage : The intelligence of chief importance in a political point of view by this arrival is from liavannah, and relates to the late insurrection there, the accounts of which are, however, very contradictory. The ad vices from Havannah are to the 22nd ult., and contain, according to the New Turk Tribune. Full and important details in regard to the recent out break at Puerto Principe. The pronunciantento for Cuban independence was made on the 4th of July, signed by tho principal leaders of the revolt, Aguero Aguero, Aguero Estrada, and Artiaga Pins, as provisional repreFentatives of the people of Cuba. After enumerating the prin cipal grievances which the island has suffered from Spanish rule, this instrument declares that Cuba is, and by the laws of nature ought to be, independent of Spain, and owes submission only to the authority of those who, while awaiting the action of the people, are pro visionally intrusted with the command of each locality and of the military forces. The first real battle of the patriots took place after the issuing of the pronunciamento. A party of government troops, which had been sent out to make prisoners of the revolutionists, fell in with a guerilla force under Aguero Aguero on the 4th of July at the foot of the Cascorro mountains. On the previous day a skirmish uecurred, iu which the patriot leader Sanchez was taken prisoner, and a few arms captured by the Spanish troops. lit the engagement on the 4th the Cubans numbered 200 men and the Spaniards 300 men, consisting of 100 lancers and 200 infantry. After a vigorous contest the Spanish , troops retreated, having lost 21 killed, including the captain, and in wounded. 'the loss on the Cuban side was slight, only two or three men having been wounded I and none killed. Twelve of the Spanish soldiers deserted their colours and joined the patriot.. The effect of this battle was to inspir - e the people with fresh con tidence, and they soon increased the number of insurrection iota to over 1,000. They were divided into five guerrila partied of 200 men each, which were stationed in the strong holds about Cascorro and Puerto Principe, where they were drilled in military exercises and received strong revessions to their numbers. After the engagement of the 4th, the Spanish troops fell Lick oar Principe, some seventeen leagues from Caacorro. The announcement of the victory of the insurgents produced great excitement among the people of Principe. Nothing but the great number of soldiers in the garrison, over 4,000, prevented a general massacre of the troops. The general did not dare to scud out a tnree in n o a f h a fo ra popular reinforcement rising, Wild of wo ! pa o t f ernhte t i l irt i . e .l,.. C i,: u e, b n a ig n ne s ... , :rtg t er ir tiit fi v .a .i r meanti me,were gaining g strength and confidence. There are rumours of several other engagements, in which the government troops were defeated; but thus far wu have not sufficiently direct ac counts to furnish materials Inr an opinion. The New York Tribune adds: The letters of our Ilavannah correspondent corroborate tho views we have expressed in regard to the character of the new Cuban revolution. It now appears that the eastern half of the island, with the exception of a few points, has declared for the revolution, and that the insurgents are so well sheltered by the mountains that the government troops will find it difficult, if nut impossible, to dislodge them. Tho arrival of Gen. Limerick (or Lemery) at Ilavannah, and the departure of the government steamers for the eastern coast, leave no doubt that the government is less sure of the in significance of the movement than it first represented. The 11 - epo York Herald, on the other hand, says : It is impossible for us to form an opinion whether the Cuban authorities% or the insurrectionists have had the best of it in this reported outbreak. That, on the 4th of July, a portioa of the inhabitants of Cuba took up arms against the Spanish authorities, and declared fur independence, there is no doubt; but, according to the reports which have reached us, there is plenty of room for specula tion as to whether the rising was so general as is reported it was—embracing the eastern half of the island—or whether it was not put down by the Cuban authorities, us reported. While we give due credit to the people of Cuba for any effort that they may have made to throw off the Spanish yoke, we are digllOStill to believe that the reports which have reached the United States have been very much exaggerated. Whether this was done purposely or not,we cannot at present say ; but the contradictions of the reports concerning the mag nitude of the outbreak and the extent of the disatLetion, have been so numerous that we are disposed to place great reliance on the information which we received from there yesterday, through a private source, and which we deem , reliable. This information is to the effect that the uprising, of which we have heard so much within a few days, was of no account, that it was promptly put down, and that those who took part in it sued fur pardon, which was granted, and that this was the substance of the whole affair. If this is the case, all we can say is, that the advisers of those Cubans who wish to rid themselves of the Spanish yoke have conducted themselves very indiscreetly. The issuing of false bulletins never helped any cause, as the history of the world will show. We are, however, not sure that this s is tt e state of things in ulia. The: Creoles of that island have fur a long Limo past desired an =chore tim of their condition, or, if that could not be ob tained, independence. The n pronioneiumento, or declaration of independence, which was issued on the fourth of July, proves that separation from Spain was seriously contem plated by some, at least, of the inhabit an t s . A. f ar as th e United States is concerned, the question is—is this revolu tion in earnest, or is it not ? We confess our inability to decide one way or the other. We have received informa tion that the patriots have not only struck for independ ence, but that they were in a fair way of gaining it; while, by the very same arrival, we learn that there has been no thing but an ~ i iieute in that island—that a few ardent Creoles hoisted the flag of independence on the fourth of July, and were promptly , put down for so doing. It is not our province to reconcile the conflicting statements that have been received from Cuba by a few late arrivals. We will say thus much, however, that, according to all appear ances, the reports of the success of the insurgents have been much overrated, and that no serious or general outbreak has taken place in that island. We have conversed with an American merchant of the first respectability, who left Ilavannah on the afternoon of the 22nd inst., and who has come on from Charleston. lle states that the extra of the Fanal, of Puerto Principe, dated the 17th of July, had been received at Ilavannah on the 22nd, by which it appears that two small parties of insur gents had taken up arms ; that they were promptly defeated, and sued for a pardon, which was granted by the governor of Puerto Principe; that on the 17th of July the most per fect tranquillity prevailed at that pl ace • that no desertion of Spanish troops had occurred ; and that, in a word, all the reports published in the papers of the United States have been fabricated to deceive the public by the partisans and abettors of the revolutionists in Cuba and in the United States ; that no excitement or apprehension whatever ex isted at Harm:malt, and that the a hole affair did nut amount to more than a riot. This is on the authority of a gentleman last from that island. The llavannah correspondent of the Herald gives, however, a confirmation of the insurrection, describes the tactics pursued by the rebels, and states that the rebellion was general all over the island, and that desertion prevailed to a considerable ext en t among the Spanish troops. It is also stated that a body of 300 soldiers, under the command of General Conti, had been captured by the insurgents. Amongst these different statements it is difficult to decide upon tho true one. General Lopez still remained at New Orleans. Jenny Lind was at Niagara Falls, where she in tends to stay for a fortnight. It was said that she will give three or four concerts and leave for Europe ria 'ew York, about the 16th of August. A party of six Ojibway Indians called upon Jenny Lind at Rochester. She requested them to sing some of their war songs. They complied, when she paid them back with the Echo and Bird songs. By our last dates from Texas we learn that there was great excitement at Rio Grande, in consequence of the Mexicans refusing to surrender a fugitive slave. An armed company of Texans had threatened to capture Presidio. It is said that 2,000 slaves have made their escape into Mexico. The valley of the Rio Grande was still suffering from the ra vages of the Indians. They range over the whole country without restraint, carrying devas tation and bloodshed in their train. in addition to this, armed bands of Mexicans are roaming over the defenceless territory between the Nueccs and the Rio Grande, plundering the forests of the horses and cattle, which find pasture there in large numbers, and committing other acts of violence. Brownsville is greatly infested with robbers, and burglaries and thefts are of nightly occurrence. Intelligence had been received at New York from Hayti, which must be taken with some allowance, that a battle was fought between the llaytians and Dominicans on the 13th ult., in which about 900 of the emperor's troops were killed. It is stated that a large quantity of arms fell into the hands of the vic tors, besides 240 prisoners. The defeated army took shelter in the fortified town of San Juan, while the Dominicans returned in excellent order to the southern bank of the Yuma River. The news from Mexico states the demand of the British minister, Mr. Doyle, for the immediate satis faction of the claims of British creditors, had been promptly taken up for consideration in the Mexican Congress, with the intent, no doubt, of conciliating the forbearance of Mr. Doyle as far as possible. The French and Spanish ministers have stated that the example of the British must be followed by their governments. The Danish brig Prosper, with the Prussian minister on board, has been wrecked at Vera Cruz, but all the passengers were saved, ,-- rh a report of a rising in the state of Chiapas is con. firmed. The object of the revolution was to claim the dictatorship of Santa Anna. The leader of the movement had been defeated by General Maldonado, the governor of the state, but some of his troops still held out. The state of Oajaca was in a condition of anarchy and confusion. A ' revolution is said to have broken out in Tabasco. The object is supposed to be connected with the movements in Chiapas. The note of Mr. Webster, in reply to the announcement of the repeal of Camps grant, had been received in Mexico, but there aro different statements concerning the import. [For markets see last page.] CANADA. TORONTO, Jun Va. There has been a little excitement gut up iu this city during the week on the subject of the clergy reserves, Two meetings were held on one evening, one by the anti's, the other by the pro's. At each of these meetings resolu tions of a diverse nature were carried. At one the voice was very strongly in favour of the secularisation of the re serves, and applying them to the purposes of education ; at the other, loud protests were made ataiust any interference with the present settlement. A little disturbance took place after the meetings, but nothing of any consequence; and I should notdeein it worth while to notice it, if it were not for the constant practice made by many English journals, to take their reponse( Ca nadian news from the New York papers, which are always filled with gross and ridiculous exaggerations to our pre judice. There is a strong feeling tbroughont the whole of Upper Canada on this clergy reserve question; which, it is to be feared, will be increased with the repeal of th.. imperial act of luta. The ease is a had one; and there will b.; ex citement in whatever way it is decided. The House of Assembly went into committee of supply on Wednesday evening, and a considerable number of items were passed. Some amendments were propond, but none were adopted. The principal of those 'imposed con sisted of the substitution of 500/. instead of 1,0011/. fur each of the salaries of the two Speakers. There was an item postponed to vote Mr. John Arthur Roebuck 1,500 f. for services as agent to the late House of Assembly of Lower Canada. There will be considerable opposition to this item, but it will be carried. The total estimated expenditure for the current rear is 657,312/. 14s. Gil. The total estimated funds, 7.31,62:V. Of this expenditure the sum of ]g6, 580/. 15+. 2d. is .0 be ap. plied to public works. The navigation of the St. Lawrence and the gulf will he improved by the erection of light . houses, piers, &c. These improvements will no doubt be carried out ; and their effect will be to render tip , navitra tiou of the St. Lawrence much more secure, and reduce the rates of insurance. still still unknown to public scrutiny had not the general summary been pirated by some peeping devil of one of the Dublin journals, and thus the confession of the terrible truth been precipitated. And now the im portant complement thereto is put forth when all instruction or suggestion derivable from its details must be adjourned until another agri cultural year has in effect revolved, and until the good or evil that might have been observed, and either checked or developed in its progress, might have at least- been considered by those who arc nomi nally the guardians of the destinies of the nation. Better late, nevertheless, than never: and chequered though the facts and figures are which the tables of agricultural labour and capital in Ireland for 1850 display, we are glad to have them even now. They tend to fortify many convictions of deep moment to both England and Ireland. It must be owned that in many things they exhibit a state of things far from satisfactory. First of all we note that the total breadth of fil- Inge, far from having declined, has considerably in creased. In 1819 the extent of land under crops in the entire country was 5,513,718 acres ; in 1850 it was 3,758,292; slowing an increase of 214,541. The elements of this comparison are simple and striking. In wheat there appears a diminution of 82,779 acres, against which is to be set an increase in oats of 81,411. In barley and rye the falling off is stated at 32,171 ; while the increase in peas and beans amounts to 8,671. The total cultivated average under white crops in 1819, was 3,171,421 ; in 1850, it was 3,119,550, thus making a diminution of 21,888. This, out of a total of 3,174,421 acres de voted to cereal cultivation, would hardly in itself im ply any permanent or important decrease in the em ployment of land or labour. But happily it is more than counterbalanced by the augmentation that we find in the flax crop. 'this great and growing source of national im provement andprosperity, deserveerather to be classed with those of which we have been speaking than a ith what are usually designated green crops. The latter arc the means whereby food in the greatest quantity may, it is true, be produced in a humid climate for human sustenance or that of rattle ; and as such it is most desirable to see their growth expand, as every year it bids fair to do, in the sister kingaom. There were 1241,001 acres more under green crops in 18.50 than in 1819 ; besides an increase of 38,753 of clover and other arti ficial grasses. As compared with the comparatively trifling contraction of the space devoted to corn, tins is indeed most gratifying. The cultivation of wheat and barley, for which the climate must ever render Ireland less suited, and which an absurd and unjust law long stimulated for the sake of high rents to the exhaustion of the soil, and the still more fatal exhaustion of the tenant farmers capital, is gradually giving place in same degree to the more natural and safe cultiva tion of outs and beans on the one hand, and, what is still better, of flax on the other. We say better, ' because when the wheat is cut, and thrashed, and poem!, there is an end to the labour it affords. No flintier value can be imparted to it; while a serious depreeiation, from a great variety of causes, may take place before its price is finally paid by the consumer. Flax, on the contrary, passes from hand to hand with constantly enhanced value imparted to it by successive processes of skill and industry. It yields many profits by creating ninny employnients ; and once carefully saved, it is, comparatively speaking, insusceptible of depreciation or decay). Above all, it is the material of Ireland's best and must lucrative manufacture— nee which has steadily improved and expanded during the last century, and which seas never at any former period so healthy or so vigorous as at the present hour. In this aspect it is cheering to oh serve that while in 1819 the surface tilled for flax WUS 00.311 acres, in isao it was not less than 141,4)14), being an increase of more than 511 per cent. We could wish that the potato occupied a some what leas conspicuous place in the list of green crops. Out of 2,308.000 acres cultivated otherwise than with cereals, a third in round numbers (emu- rattly 873,337) were last year sewn with the capri cious root. Il'e are not going to re-enter upon the oft-debated question whether it is possible that other diet should be substituted to any great extent fur the potato during the present generation : but without paying too much attention to rumours already rile of the re-appearance of the old blight during the present season, wo may lie permitted to express our milgiriogn at all that scents to indicate a return to (tori:dams: on an esculent which, what ever its advantages when abundant, it is manifest . can nu more be relied on. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY EVE:4INO, Up to the present momenethe only result of the effort-4 which parties of every shade of politics are making to attain to unity of purpose has been to split them up into more numerous fractions. The close secresy which has been observed by the republican opposition with respect to their great meeting in the Rue Richelieu on Thursday evening naturally leads to the suspicion that the proceedings were rut very harmonious. The declared object of that meeting W 3.4 to elect a democratic committee to sit in Paris during the prorogation as a cheek upon the committee of permanence, to organise electoral committees in the departments, and to settle a proclamation to the electors, giving an account of the parliamentary con duct of the republican members. The total silence of all the deinoemlic journals gives an air of probability to an account of the meeting contained to the t //ion this morning. According to the Cajon, the meeting got no further than to resolve that in electing the committee a preference should be given to those members who desired to remain in Paris during the sweets. M. Colfavru then expressed a wish to be upon the committee. M. Mut, a Nlontagnard of the reddest dye, made a violent attack upon NI. Colfavru, whom he accused of having absented himself from an important meeting of a committee when the election of the committee of revision was in question. A violent scene followed, which ended in a vote of ex pulsion from the room against M. Colfavru. The latter left immediately, accompanied by MM. Aims, Baum, Baudin, and some other members of the revolutionary committee of 25, of which M. Michel (de tourgcs) is president. The meeting then broke up in confusion. It would appear from this that the ultra reds, who arc now commonly called the Thaborites, must have been the stronger party, for it is well known that since the compara tively moderate speech of M. Michel (de Bourges) on the revision they repudiate his chiefship. M. Odilon Ilarrot yesterday held a parliamentary levee at his house. Resolutions were agreed upon that the Ob ject of the vocation campaign should be to stimulate the councils-general to pronounce for revision, to encourage the people to continue to petition, and under the influence of the feeling in favour of the revision to prepare the way for the next general elections. These resolutions are nearly identical with those which were voted the other day by M. Berryer's club, in the Rue Rivoli. The main difference is that M. Odilon Barrot's followers speak of revision simply and not oftiat --- :total revision - which is the consecrated phrase in which the revision-legitimists express their real hopes and wishes. Mere revision is under stood to mean nothing more than that Louis Napo leon should be made re-eligible and in this sense the resolutions of the Odilon Barret meeting are interpreted by the Patric, who claims all the mem bers who attended it as partisans of the Elysiv. A further resolution of considerable importance was , voted unanimously, to the effect that the Assembly should proceed to its own re-election at a time suf ficientiv distant from that of the executive power to enable the government to provide effectually for the maintenance of the public peace. This must of course mean tkat the Assembly should shorten its own man date, for it has no power to prolong it. Whether the patriotism of honourable members who receive 23 francs per day can be wrought upon so as to in duce them to dissolve themselves and encounter the uncertainties of the ballot-box before the appointed hour must be at least very doubtful. M. Alfred Ncttement, of the Opinion reibliyue, writes in high spirits this morning. He says, that on taking his seat in the Assembly yesterday he was surrounded by a crowd of legitimists of all shades of opinion, who expressed to him their regrets and affectionate sympathy on the occasion of the letter of MM. de lltteesasseegmer and do Chaulieu which I sent to you yesterday. But what must be still more consoling, the leading columns of the Opinion Publigne contain 12 letters, most of them from legitimist represents.- gut court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by tho Countess of Desert, the lion. Flora Mic,lonala, COlone! Bucklev, and Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. A. Gordon, visited * the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations at nine o'clock on 'iaturtlay morning. Tile Queen and Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palate at ten minutes mutt ten o'clock.—At twenty minutes pea ten o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Princess Helena, left Buckingham Palace for Osborne, Isle of Wight, attended by the Countess of Desart, the II n. Carolina Cavendish, Lieutenant-Colonel the Ilan. C. It. Phipps, Colonel Buckley, Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. A. tier ots„ and Major Ilidilulph. Iler Majesty and his !Loyal High ness were attended to their carriage by the Mast; r nt the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, Lord Carney', Lord George Lennox, Lietia.nant- Colonel the lion. It. Boyle, and Colonel Wyble. The royal party occupied three of tke Queen's earriage4, and were escorted to the Nine Elms Station of ill,: Smith- Western Railway by a detachment of the Sth Illi-sors. A special train was in, waiting to convey the august party to Gosport. OSBORNF:, SCNDAY, Al'O. 10. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prinet,s Helena, attended by the usual suite, arrised at Gosport in a special train from the Nine Elms station, at 20 mend+ s Mere 1. o'clock yesterday afternoon, and embarked under the usual salutes, in the royal yacht Fairy, fur Os borne I'icr. The Countess of De.strt, the Hon. Caroline Cavtralish, the Hon. Colonel Phipps, Colonel Buckley, the lion. Colonel A. Damon, and Major Bidaulph, were in attendance. The royal party reached Osborne at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell arrived, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond, who had been at Osborne, as Oroont in-Waiting, during the Queen's absence in London, re mains on a visit to her Majesty. They both had the honour of receiving invitutioni to dinner. The Oxford University Commission had a meeting on Saturday at the official residence of the Pint Lord of the Treasury, in I/owning-street. Present:—The Bishop of Nowich„ the Dean of Carlisle, the Mader of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. (.Liddell, J. L. Dampier,;Lvq., and the 'ter. A.l'. Stanley (secretary). Mr. Francis Russell and Mr. Joseph Robinson had an interview with the Right lion. lleny Laboucherc on day at the Board of Trade. Sir Robert Stanford had an interview on Saturday with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office. Mr. William Smith had also an interview with the noble earl. Dev;,ntettes were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Webt India 'viands. ller Majesty, it is now arranged, will leave town by the Great Northern Railway on the 27th, and remain all night at Doncaster, when the Angel Inn will have the honour of receiving the Queen and court, who proceed next morning to Scotland. A pension of 2001. a year on the civil list has been conti:rred upon Mr. Silk Buckingham, who has contributed much to literature, especially - by his useful records of travel. A pension of 21)01. a year has also been given to Colonel Torrent', the author of several works on political economy. Mrs. Jamieson, the authoress of Characteristics of Women," The Female Characters of Slmk%pere's Plays," de., has also received a pension on the Civil List of 1001. a year. APPOINTMENTA.—IIugh Low and P. W. Bulgier, Esqrs., are appointed members of the council at Labuan. Captain Knight, now superintendent of military prisons in Canada, is appointed superintendent of the convict prison at Portland, in Succession to Captain Whitty, promoted to be a member of the board of government prisons in London. Mr. IleatUam, of the Chancery bar, M.l'. for Newcastle upon-Tyne, will, we understand, be immediately added to the list of Queen's Counsel. Mr. Arnold, the inir ' istrate at Worship-street, will take the place of Mr. Burrell, in the Westminster court at Queen's-squarc, and will he succeeded at Worship•strect by Mr. D'Eyncourt, the newly-appointed magistrate of the police district.-01merecr. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. On Saturday, the Crystal Palace was revisited by the Queen and Prince, who arrived soon after 9, and left the building at half-past 10, alter remaining some time in the Zollverein department. . . . Fur the first time on a Saturday, the price of admission was made 2s. 641., and the result was an attendance double that of the former five shilling days. In the course of the afternoon 18,348 visitors arrived. The following is the Cash account, August 9. Season tickets At the doors Total rceeipts LlfiO9 I. 0 DETERMINED SUICIDE IN NORTHAMPTON GAOL., —Francis Wright, horse dealer, formally years well known at Stamford Deeping, Peterboro', and other towns in thi neighbourhood, committed suicide in Northampton county gaol on Tuesday, ,the 29th ult. At Northampton assizes held last March, Wright was convicted of having com mitted a brutal assault upon Samuel Walton at the Dolphin Inn, (indle, on the 20th of February, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. From the evidence at tho inquest, it appeared that Wright had been excused tread wheel labour in consequence of a recommendation by the surgeon of the gaol, but he had been employed at the hand-labour machine for some time, until it was found necessary to order him into the infirmary, he having be come more than usually eccentric iu his habits, and having laboured under certain delusions. On the 28th deceased was in much better spirits, and early next meriting, on being served with his breakfast, nothing unusual was ob served in his manner ; but shortly afterwards, during tho temporary absence of another invalid prisoner and the at tendant upon them, Wright succeeded in hanging himself in his room. On the previous day lie had complained of pain in the head, and the surgeon ordered a blis.er to be applied to the back part of it, giving Wright some band ages to enable him to tix it: one of these bandages he hail used for the purpose of depriving himself of life : after making a noose he put his heal in, and tied the other end of the bandage to the bell-pull, and he was found by the warden of the gaol quite dead ten minutes after he had been seen apparently in good pirits. The bell-pull wag only 5 ft. 6 in. from the floor, and Wright was: , ft. 11 in height: he was found with his feet upon the Hoer, his knees projecting forward. Verdict of the coroner's jurT• " Temporary Insanity."—Lincoln Mercury. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.— .I fearful accident, by which a young man named James killed his uwn bro ther, occurred at Monmouth on Wednesday last. JaMCF, who is one of the ringers of St. Mary's Church, commenced rising the bells, which had been rung as usual on the occa sion of the judge's arrival for the assize, wheat he found, after a few pulls, that there was an obstruction in the ma chinery. He accordingly repaired to the bell-loft to ascer tain the cause, where he found, under the bell he had him self rose, his young brother, a child of 11 years of age, a shattered corpse. The little fellow, unknown to his 'Tither, bad gone to watch the bells, and must have had his h ead within the reach of the machinery when his brother COm , menced his peal, his skull being literally crushed to atoms, and the brains scattered round the roof —Bristol Moyurg • THE MILITARY ltlOTit IN EDINBURGIE—Ftve 'Oi -1 dims who were implicated in the riots of the 2lth June last were brought to trial on Thursday at Edinburgh, and sea enced to sat months' imprisonment.