The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-03 00:00:00

ghe ervrefso. • Mosel Ultimo .t" Tie Tkprock" cooloislogtM moo 'waives Cloaolto." Y pskikimcd sour lrociday awl Yrktkr Rigki. la Wm ler pout atm uslosonta intended tor " Tbo Talmo; Laois% Erudite pow. moot be at tics lace. lowrwalrooc. b Teo o'clock co the ilky of pokLiogloo. 111011 WATIK AT LONDON BRIMS. Tins Dia-11antag. 4 ‘.43la....—..afienroa, fie. • ha. Tomoasow—ilarsias, SO. —.—Utiressua, I. sla. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 3. YEATERPAY the Kingdom of Cotton commenced a fresh conquest osec the dark realms of Ignorance, and over those narrowed territories which Old school Toryism still guards with the grim tenacity of a second Giant Desiustr. The spacious, plain, but handsome halls of the Public Free Library of Man chester gave forth one of those hopeful signs of tho Present, in which the political and social Future may be clearly and joyfully read. A library, whose doors are from this day to be thrown open without restriction to all classes of citizens from the millionaire to the meanest artisan : whose books arc to be freely lent to and disseminated amongst all those who choose to borrow them, with no other restrictions whatever as to the social rank of the borrower, and with no other condition attached to the loan than fair usage, and punctual return, is, to this country a novelty and a blessing, which deserves to be especially commemo rated. It is fortunate for the success of the act of parlia ment recently passed fur the promotion of free libraries amongst the people, that it should have been inaugurated in the mighty heart of physical labour, Lancashire. No other place could have taught a more wholesome lesson, or could have so efficiently enforced it by example. Whatever may be said of the Manchester School (so pleasantly re ferred to by Mr. Cu IRLLS DICKENS in his speech), from that school has come forth some of the best and most practical graduates in so cial! and political science that this age has produced. Lancashire first taught, b of wonderful machinery, and skilfully capital, how the world could be supplied with c cap clothing; it then showed the way to vile the poor with cheap bread ;it now points how the lowly and humble and ignorant In therefore, access, not to cheap books merely, bu km without any fee or payment whatever. In therefore, that per tains to the physical, moral, and intellectual im provement of the strength and basis of every healthy community—its labouring population—the capital of Lancashire, Manchester, has justly become, and is looked up to as an authority by every other muni cipality in the empire. May the noble example it set yesterday be rapidly and effectually followed! 1 - he building—the very ground upon which it stands—when the purpose to which it is applied comes to be considered, has a peculiar signifiuince. In the days when the persistent ignorance of our rulers kept ups restrictive commercial policy, and when the ignoranceof the people,groaning under thatpolicy, took wrong modes of redress, the site of the Manchester public free library was that of a socialist hall. Yes terday the new edifice enclosed within its walls— adorned and covered, las they are, with twenty thousand civilizers and peace-makers—representa trees of all ranks, of all classes, of every shade of poli tical opinion. Professors of opposite religious creeds, sat together ; rivals in the great struggle of which modern existence is made up round themselves neigh bours. Prince ALEERT, the natural representative of monarchical institutions; America, the exponent and exemplar of democratic government—each sent a well-chosen. and though silent not the less eloquent, deputation of books. The two extreme points of the political compass veered to where the breath of phi lantropv listed, Protection shook hands with Free trade. The Anglican bishop and the quaker—the dis senting clergyman and the catholic priest—the soft skinned aristocrat and the hard-handed mechanic— sat on the same stage or shared the lame form. If, then, the mere temporary occasion can effect such wonderful amalgamations,—can even for an hour heal such wide differences, can bring people to gether whose habit it is to remain "wide as the poles asunder," by the simple but irresistible force of literary sympathy ; to what a millennium of peace and good will may we not look forward amongst all sorts and conditions of men when the permanent effects of that occasion—increase of intellectual knowledge and aeltrespect amongst the lowliest of the land—begin to operate and to be manifested ? The chequered opinions and sentiments brought together and Dented within the hulls of the Manchester Pa lie Free Library, arc but the foundation and the typed that co-operation and harmony which will—by ends agencies as that institution—be spread in time amongst all classes. The mere existence of seek institutions shows to the workman that his master cares for him ; that he loves to see him as well taught as himself ; while their contents diligently perused and rightly construed prove to him that identity of interests ought to bin! him end his maployer together as fellowobivers in the field of tabour. They will Wed ill teen diIIINSP tent, and will teach kin a bee, meanly, led ties odes remedy, should he be sebleeted to esimemeeed op- Even in a Bella aid emamercial pit of view, theproustima of pules free Rhumb. is the smeedemt licy.libpadmese les fully proved to semetheter lag - masters thee et all the dangers veld& set only trade, bat the sleek can have to contend vied, the greatest are simenees swept. of Duda, the weer/ =ausfao. taring proems am areb illis d arnhembal far limo dpubla a sigh Mmb. the Wed me have ems aid Wthe plebes aits ll oe i ee bed, it plebes all sorb el vise mod diseeeteet. Th e ever We work far idle binds to do. The Ostia Lod is therefore wise his 'entrance beetles his bosh by dainty literary hillealtare far neeteldlostion during the entirely useheolsel employment if their bodies. Wholesome essiteessb to the been mei imagine bah embeweelt leers, are the beet blame eitl maneeseelle bribes and debauched habits. ere the best antidote for socialist halls el die:melee aid der liemehep. They will prove the most power awl aleatheet of rekesers ; far they 1W aide the mow of the purls still bare wee thy of ea ealseded fnusdhise. Whether the., wise use them to study polities er poetry; te read hieboy oe weaker this remelt will ha equally attain ; tar habits el felellestual esseebe will insemihty angst the thmeghb into merest Ems* et nosesing via all eehjests, especially upon theme width ameba the penned welfare of the thinker. The From Library, thews/ere, will tend to educate relemures worthy et the eameei reformers who will Wig upon what is just sled proper; bat who instantly becomes sup porters el what i• already right mei prow when ever thst may be ignorantly throbbed trith attack or destruction. Ilamonr, then, to Manchester for the new and good example she has set to the whole empire by the foun dation of a Free Library. =Wake, which ear.ata learnt& undertake ostswsibir every day, of the falsest sews. The shrewdness that suggested this modifieation of the old threat should have carried the author further. It should have shown him that whilst meddling with the press be is not simply playing with dangerous edge tools,but is running with eyes open into the pitfall that proved fatal to his two predecusors, Cuutme X. and LOVIA-Pm- LirPE. He hates the press, because it tells things too true to be pleasant. These he calls " false news." He doss not like certain facts relating to his own career to be repeated. The oath that preceded, 1 1 and the slaughter which followed, the 2nd of December are things he wishes forgotten. They are spectres of falsehood and murder terrible to the soul or their author--shadowing his path whilst living, and certain to stain his name so long as men may hereafter care to remember it at all. But what folly to think, whilst he stops the Cbreaire and proscribes Punch, that men can forget the character and career of Loris N trott:or. Strasbourg and Boulogne will suggest his follies in both, whilst the boulevards bare now for a part of their history the bloodshed of December. Ile and his friends declare that all he has done has been wise and net-dial, but it is absurd to suppose such assertions can have weight, whilst those who make them are afraid to let their oppo nents enjoy free speech. Truth requires nothing but a fair field and no favour, and LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE is self condemned before the world by his own act when he gags the newspapers. We said that the shrewdness which has led LOUIS NAPOLEON to modify his demands upon the Paris correspondents of London papers should have carried him further—it should have taught him to ascer tain the real position and duty of the press in England, France, and America at the present day. In all three countries there exists • public opinion which is the life-blood of their civilisation, and the mainspring, of their aspirations for civil and religious liberty. This public opinion is to a great extent the offspring of the press, and finds in the press its chief means of manifestation. The press is at once its index and its safety-valve. Speeches at public meetings, and discussions in public newspapers, are the chief forms in which public opinion makes itself known, and, when known, that very public opinion gives to the wise statesman the data for his calculations, and affords him a fulcrum for his levers of state. Crush the press and you do not crush public opinion ; on the contrary, you nail down the valve in which resides safety, and insure, sooner or later, an explosion. CHARLES the TENTH and POLIGNAC tried this suicidal plan, and paid the penalty in exile; LOUIS-PHILIPPE fell into the same error, and was soon afterwards, disguised as Mr. Sarni, on hie way to Newhaven. At this hour it is true areas exists in France, but then it is so like a sham, t ha t its true functions and its true usefulness are gone. Men know that the press is not free, and with that foreknowledge they disbelieve its statements and suspect its argument'. Lotus NAPOLEON uses ono or two papers for his own purposes, and straightway all which ap pears in those journals is ascribed to him. All their follies he gains the credit of—all their mis-statements and blunders are declared to be his. The authority of tho government gets mixed up with the articles in the newspapers, and confusion, doubts, disrepute, and national dis trust ensue. Emasculated journals share their weak ness with a cowardly and emuculated government until the public become equally weary of both. Public opinion, meanwhile, avoids the taint of this weakness ; but, left without its pabulum of wholesome argument in a free press— miming its printed representatives of different political parties—driven from the contest of words, it grows moody and sullen and discontented, and, when ' the timecomes, provocation and opportunity will again combine, and produce revolution. Gay, witty, brave, enlightened, prosperous, and impulsive France, cannot long be content with a gagged press. To avoid such a nuisance, she has already overturned two kings. Yet the hero of the coup detat seems too dull to read the moral of their fate. LOUIS NAPOLEON continues his contest with tho press, and though retreating from the first position ho assumed, seems determined to maintain the second. When some time ago he summoned the l'aris cor respondents of three London papers before his Agent of Police, that official declared he would bold ach foreign eorrtivindent responsible for what the t-,itor in England might think tit to say. The manifest injustice of this was so apparent tliat one ut,nersal feeling of repugnance was excited by it. To make • man responsible for a thing beyond his control was toy 6uJ even from the bans of the coup 4regat : and with a shrewd eye to sense quenccs,Lonts NAPOLEON,when giving a second warn ing to the English correspondents in France, modifies his requirements, and declares only his ;evolve to expel any one who may send from Paris for publi cation in London anything distasteful to himself— the ruler of France. The document declaring his now determination now says : Ministry of Urneral Pollee, Cabinet of the Director of the Press, &c. Paris, August 2£l, 1832.—The French government has the right of expelling fern its territory foreigners, of whatever nation, who may seek to trouble, by their manceuvres or their writings, üblic ord:r and 04'2 , 1141114y. The Minister of General Police desires not to use thle if& with oat serious Motive ; nor does he mean to reader the cor respondents of fonts *trash manmade Ow erdeles of political dieewelsa fir griehltion oubtiabsd by these jour nals bat he is sessnal wit to leave saiewilmed Mrs tease- THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1852 ‘:l' . •-• renewal of the Zellers's treaties), the said daderaties of the 21st in* noseste the Prassias government to drier how far it is wady to rowers', as basis tee a with Austria, the drift of treaties delivered terbdillii eselltr• ease br the said government" on the 25th lisp, and in what shape t will accept the said treaty of commerce and eta. tams. Iteferring to its declaration of the 20th Jul', the Prussian government cannot but interpret this question u implying that, in we the said g 00000 ments receive satisfac tory information regarding the extent of the terms for a treaty with Austria, they will secede to Prussia's vkw of the amenity of postponing negotiations for such till after the conclusion of the Zoliverein treatise. On this assumption the Prussian government (though a doubt regarding its intentions in this respect could hardly exist, after its previous repeated declarations) does not hesi tate to consent that, is groundwork for the negotiations to be commenced with Austria after renewal of the Zonverein, the said draft of a treaty of commerce and customs be adopted in form and substance, with the exception of the passages referring to a customs union, in Articles 1,4, 23, 21, and the separate Article 1, and under reservation of nearer deliberation on Articles 6,7, 21, the separate Ar ticle 7 and 8, the ninth paragraph of Appendix 11., and further under reservation of a mutual agreement touching Appendix I , which the framers themselves did not regard as sufficiently matured. After this declaration, the Prussian government may the more confidently hope to have convinced the said govern ments that it fully agrees with them on all essential points of a commercial treaty to he concluded with Austria, inu much as it has already explicated, in the Wiesbaden proto. cools referred to on 20th ult., that the future effectuation of a general customs' union must loom (vorachereben) as guiding point of view. It believes, therefore, that it may eapect at once a reply confirming the above interpretation of the de claration of 21st inst., and thereby euabliag it to resume negotiations with the whole of the Zollverein government'. Should, however, au immediate reply not be feasible, and the further interruption of the conferences prove =avoida ble the Protean government cannot too urgently recom mend the greatest possible expedition in answering. The whole position of the negotiations, and especially the ar rangements to be made in accordance with the eleventh seperate article of the September treaty, render it Impera tive to settle the extent of the future union in binding form by the let of October next, at the latest. In order to leave time for the necessary preparations to this end, a definite reply must be given as soon es possible, and, in any case, by the middle of September, to the question, whether a common basis of negotiation exists. The Premien government deems itself mare of unanimous agreement in this respect, and cherishes the hope that, within the said period, it will receive the desired reply, without which it would not be able to enter into further negotiations with the whole of its Zollverein allies. In conclusion the Prussian government cannot omit taking notice of another question, touched on in the decla ration of the 21st inst. In article 41 of the older treaties of union, as in article 8 of the treaty of 1641, a duiation of 12 Year. is fixed ; and, in accordance therewith, not only has a like duration been given to the union with Hanover and Oldenbcrg, dating from January 1814, but was also ex pressly proposed in the Prussian invitation to the present conferences for the renewal of the Zollverein treaties. The Prussian government hu hitherto had no grounds for , doubting, that its view on this weighty question met with unanimous approbation; nor does it, deem it self warranted to deduce from the declaration of the 21st inst. grounds for such doubt ; but since, in the said de claration, the duration of the future treaties of union is mentioned as a point still to be settled, the Prussian govern ment cannot hesitate to repeat its view on this question, and to urge the inconvenience of giving to the treaties of re newal too short a duration, thereby stamping them with a provisional character, to the great detriment of the commer cial and industrial interests in all participating states ; while, on the other hand, the fixing of a period of twelve years nowise precludes the entering into negotiations fora further approximation of the two customs districts. FRANCE. PARIS, 11r111DAT By far the most important Woke yet dealt on the peen has been inflicted to-day upon the journal con ducted with so much talent by M. Emile de Oirsrdin. The Freese (am you have been informed through the telegraph) has received a second warning from the minister of police for the answer to M. Grapier de Cassagnae. It follows that from henceforth, by a sired, act of the minister, without appeal to any tribunal, that important organ and extensive com mercial concern may be at any moment besought to a dead stop, and be supiwessed daring two months. The circulation of the Pnsee amennts ekes July to 19,500 copies. Nothing ism addle in a more alight the sort at - seeerity tibia exists for in Firma sadly the velment of 2. The Opissidutheensi is presisely in the same piths, her* bon also twice waned. Thus two el the three mot attar 'Moly sionialed Ohms* hen from the reties thread of will, and dot set the highest, but of the head of a mines dspertmint. The antes unused he the second waning of the Prom is deaths nipped Wish sentain aehmolems in landers' ageing the goaromat. I. het, the only tattoo for the esup VW is the oppositism, sow paddy gratuitous. that the esentry was saved fres era greater disaster. Otherwha the hisedihed in the days of Deemether, and the sealmatian of all liberties sines, mot poser ate of the Heeled poli tical ernes that his ewer Netted the iamb of man kind. This has been, therefore, the jially dons of the geammemat that but for Lois Heyde= a myelin at minessi and amemintien would have deesialed Fromm Wit of Cikaudia in asmiling this monline hypetheds was a very doll ish as& He led inekll. Oranier de Campo and his_mellei impeder, withott griming the person al the Mid at the date. But it mama en reading thh odds, as if the writer had beam betrayed into saying mere Oath them he handed by the impetu ous aresheatiem of his vehement pa. In this heat be tags primes to wham, and hiss out freely in i tt n exteld style. (The arta& given in fall It moll be difficult to expose mess embiarithig imposture sombated than by Lail Haggises that his dollisesee was em the tad et Hammier, when it is panda that he saved moiety by theme tray joiffle who led en deemed the sesiallit l them erhme. How is it it be serpent that such met meld Swear pillage and imease. M. Amalie de Own gees SR mating la the Aye the refuted sends= of M. Grainier de °soignee. The article is ably addressed to Raghol, which, it is said, shows by the alarm and attacks el her pros the might a/ France and her har and anger thereat. It has been generally reported that Osnmal Motel- Nee, the French ambassador to the °mot of Pars* now on leave of absence in Paris, would set Mani to St. Petersburg. But I understood that the Em peror Nicholas has made it a swill reined to lads Napoleon that this diplanatht, with when he has the best understanding, shield not be rowed Utiles something unexpected should occur to alter point arrangements, I believe General Cestelbejao will shortly resume his functions in the Bind= ospitaL The Monitexr consains a decree, something the municipal and departmental cotnmialan the functions of the council-general of the de l of the Seine for its ordinary session for 3rd et November next, to close on the 17th. The councils of arrondissement for the same department are to assemble on the 23rd of November for the second part of their session, which is to last five days. lly another decree, founded upon the report of M. do Maupas, minister of police, • commission is ap pointed to examine into the question of the brigand age now carried on in Conies, and to devise the best means of putting an end to • state of things soincu rious to the honest and industrious portion of the in habitants of that island. M. Bonjean, president of election in the council of state, is president of the commission, and MM. Conti, councilllor of state, Seneca, director of criminal business and pardons in the ministry of justice; General Baron Bertrand Lobes, marine engineer of the first class; Dupuy, head of a division in the ministry of the interior; Tonnet, director general in the ministry of police; Beim, inspector of highways and bridges; Blonde!, director general of forests; and Bellied, an ex-di rector general in the ministry of the interior, are members. By another decree the costume of commissaries of police in Faris and the departments is regulated. Several ap nts and promotions is the Legion of Honour ofmembers of the corps dvilemotipui p =the Meniteur to-day. Count Itayneval, am at Rome, is made a mend allow. The Duke of Bamano, envoy extraordinary and minister pleni pstentlary of Franco in Belem; and M. Dmesse, emvoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Denmark, are promoted to the rank of commanders. Baron klisseval, minister plenipotentiary in Bavaria, i is made an ; and M. Roux, chant:lollm of the French embassy in Loudon ; M. Henry hiss &Baur second secretary of the embassy there ; M. Adrien De! Insert, secretary of legation at Bogota; M. Boulango Bodin, French consul at Moscow ; M. Bruant, French consul at Ostend; and Dr. Fauvel, physician to the quarantine at Constantinople, chevaliers of the order. M. Fould is expected in Paris on Saturday, when he will immediately resume his duties as Minister of State. M. de Persigny Is also expected to-day from London. An impression is abroad, which requires to be cor rected, that a reduction is taking place in the French army. The error is not surprising. General Marian in a recent speech, alluded to the formation of an army of reserve in terms naturally leading to tho inference that a reduction in the regular force was in contemplation. A late decree, fur the suppression of thirty-six picked companies of the marines, was interpreted by an English journal as the commence ment of the proposed reduction, the fact being that the composition of those companies being considered objectionable, they were replaced by troops selected upon a different principle, but the marine force has not been reduced by one man. Within the last few days orders have been issued that soldiers whose time of service expires on December 31 should be allowed to return to their homes immediately. This again has been supposed a part performance of the promise understood to have been made by General Megrim. lint simultaneously with these orders a presidential decree calls into active service 40,000 recruits on the roll of 1851. Of these 32,417 are for the land, and 7,533 for the sea forces. They are all to join their respective regiments by the 20th of October. The decree states that the outgoing soldiers will bo sent home sooner than their time is out, in order to prevent " any increase" in the effective force of the army. It is, however, to be observed that to this anticipatoy liberation there are many exceptions. It does not apply to men in actual service in Algeria belonging to the artillery, train, engineers, and several companies em bay s :. local works. Another most important ex ception is that all commanding officers may detain the old soldiers till the new ones arrive,if they think it necessary so to do. Besides, the troops . of the army of occupation in Italy, the " discipliniures" of the light infantry battalions in Africa, those of the fusilier and pioneer companies, all men who desire to re-enlist at the expiration of their time of service, and all who desire to servo out their full time are authorised to remain with their respective corps. Assuming therefore the number of the men entitled to their discharge on the 31st of December to be equal to that of the new levy there is still reason to believe that the army will be materially increased instead of diminished. Some old soldiers, it is impossible to tell how many, will doubtless accept the facilities offered for re-en listment, and an indefinite number for one or another of the many reasons suggested will in fact stay with their corps till December 31st. It is worthy of no tice that the men who may be discharged before their time will still remain on the rolls of the army. The regulations state that they cannot marry without per mission from the military authorities. They may at any moment, either in ease of war, or otherwise if the government should think fit, be called upon to join their regiments. They will receive a route with payment of travelling expenses to their homes, but their definitive discharge will not be given them till the end of the year. People have been surprised to-day at learning that M. Maichain, brother of the ex-representative of that name, has received orders to quit Franco in virtue of a decision come to in March last, by the mixed com mission, of which ho had never heard till now. Three men and one woman were yesterday found guilty, by the tribunal of correctional police of the crime of evil speaking against the Prince President of the Republic. They were all sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from three to six months, and three of them were besides fined 100 fr. each. The correspondent of a German journal, M. Sur. vady, who had been recently arrested, but was set at liberty at the request of Prince Camerata, has just been definitively expelled. lie made efforts to re main, but his passport was sent to him. Count Excelmans, the son of the deceased marshal, has been thrown from his horse near St. Cloud. It has been reported that the accident occurred near the spot where his father met with his death, and that the results were likely to be no less fatal. I hear, however, that, although the fall was severe, and Count Excelmans is obliged to keep his bed, he is in no danger. He was not thrown in the same road as that in which the marshal fell, but at *spot further from Paris, near the Chateau of St. Cloud. °seat timer, latelyiliniatitof Fin ance in Sar dinia, is et preesut in Patin. I The dhestervemeral of the ender hen Pet pub lished the Adel returns et the ferelis eusisesee of France in 1831. We collect find thin the follow in information : Die penal seaman of Pisan with be minim and =pews% amoeMsd, ha 1861, import' on snorts mere aa Aoki tons of 2,717 dillisesor !s -of 02 edans as the ranks of no wed* year. Idelvo to So moor elks ion temor yam%w noroass Y rid makes, or 11 por ant (laloakted atessieg ts the Indite in wad tent Mad for the year 1001, dm n ames@ do not ameillit tomonar to dors than 1,1114 ; Ibis monk oompod with no akin amount of 2,717 millions, Min a ammo of 173 selithm eye 7 pet seat. la the shoe sista saint if 1.7 w million, the kiwis nisi kr 1,168 Mink omi w award for Mlle million no vino st the mew do =less by 10 millions, ce 1 pee net., than k malt of 1860, bet it woods by 2 *Moat the rank of no loionsanisl period. Is tbo 'sports n o =m la know KOS millkas, or I pee mat, as ans. paid with 111111, sid of 311 milliemeoe It pee ee eetopepel wilt the average of the pea. to the men taboo, she total amend t b i si go . dess of steads at 1,006 millibar instead of and tin of ensile at 1,111 land at 1,623, • &f -ines@ of tad 7 pie ma. somostively. Thee sots pawnaty to gonad edam..As far as re delaidelb the amount of Ike ea r UN milions, bong 116 milling, or 6 pee oat owe Ikea la WO, and 171 mime, es@ SI per ant. man nn lbs atone of Ike in pronddi non la and who no nu of lA/ milling Is newt Is WI mans. oi Mks a Minns* of 07 Wakes, no emaislis if ge ammo. Is dinki Me ya milk= in imports, on us• air kr =psta 11eg ansuate, am com pea with the pastels ahem amaturel if lheo, sad the rid do 2vo non dhow an ineran of 10 pin cent. d Ijee oat. GERMANY. ZOLLVEREIN. BERLIN, AUGUST 31. The Prussian government having, it appears, come to an understanding with the Hanoverian prime minister, who is at present here, yesterday convened the Zollverein plenipotentiaries, and delivered to them its reply to the Stuttgart declaration. I trans late the document at full, not only on account of its importance, but because its ambiguous character pre clude@ the giving it in extract. German diplomacy always so many loop-holes open, that one can never lied& what it says, unless one pays particular attendee to hew it says a thing; it expresses itself to 11•11 h a Namur. that it shall bo able to turn and twist the Natter at will. In tho present case, too, when se mach depends on the temper of the irirtirs, the tone et negtiation must be narrowly watched. The dosnineut (of which a summary was gi% en in our columns yesterday) is as follows : Is the sitting of the Nth July, the Prussian government designated two points. the settlement of which at the re sumption of the esehiseess it domed Ib eU bound to regard es essididers ere tie esstinuese et the eonferencea and fur the Author pastidgetisa of all seveniesats in the same. From the deshretise. given by Bavaria, Eason), Wur temberg, the two Hewes, end Nassau, on the 21st inst., it appears that, as regards the first point, the said govern ments have drawn, from the discussions in the conference on the subject, the conviction that the Prussian proposal for uniting the Steuerverein with the Zollverein forms no obstacle to the renewal of the Zollverein treaties, and that they would be ready to accede to the said proposi lion with such moditlcans u have resulted from the negotiations hitherto held thereon: While tieFrussii; government, after this declaration, may assume that unani mity said on one of the most important objects of tho pre. ,cut negotiations, it cannot but recognise herein, with un feigned satisfaction, a realisation of the conviction, expressed by all Zollverein states on former occasions, as regards the high importance of amalgamating both unions. Touching the second point (the postponement of all nego tiations for a commercial treaty with Austria till alter the PORTUGAL Letters from Lisbon, of the 23d ult., confirm the li news of the retirement of M. Seabee from tho post of minister of justice. M. Fonseca .Nlagalhaes, Minis ter of foreign affairs, has been charged ad interim with that department. It is thought at Lisbon that the ministry will not be completed before the meet ing of the new Cortes, the decree for which was shortly expected. The latest intelligence from the Caucasus, via St. Petersburg, states that the iahabitasits of three villages on the Argun, above Wahl, having much disturbed the population subject to Russia by their incursions, the Lientenant.Coloncl Prince Tscheinkagem determined on their ehastisment. He oolleeted, says the Russian account, 150 men, including four Don Cossacks, surrounded the villages, and, alter a sanguinary soothe; took and burnt them to less. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ADELAIDE AND MOUNT ALEXANDER. In consequence of the numerous persona who left Adelaide, in South Australia, (or the Mount Alexander gold digging*, and the complaints of those persons of the want of communication between the diggings and their families, an overland route from Adelaide to Mount Ale:asides was planned and effected in February last, by a Mr. Tolman, of the former place. The diary kept by Mr. Tolman during his journey, and which abounds with information of the highest interest to intending emigrants, was published in the Daily News of Saturday last. The distance of the route is 400 miles, and was beset with difficulties which were happily overcome, and a regular gold escort seta bliehed. Mr. Tolman, on arriving at Mount Almender, was I received with the utmost enthusiasm by the Adelaidean diggers, who met immediately and proposed a testimonial of a bag of gold to the Australian Waghorn. Mr. Tolman and his party took charge of the gold destined he Adelaide, and also an everbind mail. On hie return to Adelaide, with his escort, is charge of the to eat arsO, be was welcomed with great rejoicing. headed an account of it with the words alseTus g r i we—Arrival of the Overland Gold Escort hem Illeme Abszsader Diggings" fa large type. A public me was WI to dunk Mr. Telma. The names of all the venial= the Aeliblis of geld by the ant asset were published in jimsab together with the quantity y re. matted. mg cis arose , of partial to when It was esmig the aed. Thus ammo was several haairei b naiaber, oat the Cr:whisk sash iadiildael tramahapi waled hen • swab to a lbw ounces. Mr. %km hail the mesh hoes sod eseallea et the geweemeaut auttheohlua to alba the overheat undo, mad he bee groped that Nadas sal town** _shall he tuned elm oho main The holges at the side enigmas* Meted% VIM reaelowl be AAr softeeel gnat Meteor behestesigrate dos ealathelossat et the ~h re ad reale, la an at issegularby fa the geld mittals's* the awl the ishlaiis diggers also were le Ruch ineoavesiesse and engem by being to seat their treasure by way of Geeing or Melbourne. THE GREAT GOLD-DUST ROBBERY ON BOARD THE NELSON. By the arrival of the ship Vanguard yestarday is the HIM, from Melbourne, we hays been r v i l ls audi gemeasien of the detail of the trial of the parties in the eztnesilisary piratical bearding of the Ship else% bewail to sad the robbery newly PO, aof geld dust, seedgui to the Australian Beak, Austiabless. The leaden of the "paroled party" wen anseine Lades thieves, arsenates, sad swell nehnesa, whir had be tioasented to the ;sissy, sad hang yenned by eine awn gnats of leave, wen ambled ispdaMpsle at 1:x sad annit this dartag roll The wen erwrigni ea the shair g i a s . k , man were Saha Isnea alias Mena, /wan sod Isms Dann They WIN Wined, the wish Wag pbralisally Undid a mien nod amid the Mink beingin Se u l e urert a Gleagow, sad stereßag thssetraa COO named dam; secondly, with having wounded the chief (Henry Draper), with latent to murder him. The AnesepOneral fee tie co rm it s ua resents& bar the wows. The trial was a ems, saddle evidene Wend was exceed = fun velunisaus, but the saigened narrative will be found to contain** sans _ — The Nelsen was a tetras, 900 tone berths., hair ging to Messrs. Potter sad Caw, meehanta, otOlaeow. Oa her arrival at Gee. the Warr. Noble endea voured to persuade the sea l• ten by the j, and to astir in discharging her. El offers, however, were fruit ier. For weeks and weeks the ship continued deserted, the master unable to get hands to work at any cost. By great inducements and high rate of wages he at length got seven men to join, with which, and the aid of his officers, he got the vessel cleared cut, and obtain ing a freight, amongst which was 8,600 ounces of gold dust, consigned to an Austra li an bank, in Auetinfriars. .He sailed from Geelong in the latter end of March, and brought up in • day or so in Hobson's Bay, off Melbourne, for the pu pae, of seeking hands to complete the number of the ship's company. It should be observed that she wee fifteen short of her number. The gold dust was in twenty-three boxes. On its being received on board it was placid in the after hold of the ship, but it was subsequently removed, and placed in a locker in the lazaretto, and well pro ' tented by bags of bread and other articles placed round and over it, so as to conceal it from view. The captain placed it there one night, for hater security, the first and second officers who assisted him being the only persons in the vessel who wore cognisant of its attest whereabouts. The piracy was committed on the night of the 2nd of April. The muter, Mr. Wright, was proved to have been ashore at the time, at the shipping office in the town, endeavouring to persuade men to join and com plete the number of his crew. The mate, Mr. Henry Draper, was left in charge of the vessel ; and besides the second mate and seven hands, there was a mate of another vessel (the Royal George), then lying in the harbour, on lizard, who had, it seemed, been on friendly terms with the first mate, and lied spent the evening with him. At about eleven o'clock all hands turned in, except the second mate, whose watch it was on desk, when, between twelve and one o'clock, he observed a boat full of men being rowed off from the shore, but had no suspicion of their intention till it was alongside, when he was " thunderstruck " by their jumping on board ; in another moment he , was secured, and lashed hands and feet. Th e ' night, however, enabled him to sec the features of Nivea! at the fellows. There were about ten of them, all exhidritieg fire-arms, and some cutlasses. They were not a dam of men accustomed to laborious work. They were well dressed, but some wore disguises, such as crape over emir fame. and wearing large cloaks to conceal their undiredress. The hand' forward were all seised at the rim moment, the men levelling their pieces at their braes, and with horrible threats vowed every soul shou'd be mamaczed if they dared to thwart them in their pur pose. Having lashed the whole of the crew similar to the amend mate, excepting the cook, wbo by some stra tagem escaped their observation, they entered. the cuddy, and the prisoners addressing Mr. Draper, the chief mate, said, "We want your gold; where is it? out with it." The mate; after being subjected to great brutality, pointed it out. The locker was instantly torn open, and the boxes of gold taken out and handed up one after ano ther to the fellows in the cabin, and by them to others at the gangway and in the boats. Clearing the locker of its contents, they commenced ransacking other parts of the ship, imagining there was more booty to be load ; and the mate, observing them breaking open the captain's drawers and tearing up his papers, attempted to expostulate with them, and said, " Who is your chief? It's no use your de stroying the captain's things. He's got no gold "—one of them (Morgan) turned round, and levelling a pistol at him, exclaimed, We'll show who our chief is ; take that," at the same moment discharging the pistol, the contents of which passed through the fieshy part of his leg, and lodged in the partition of the cabin. Satisfying themselves tha. they had obtained the whole of the precious metal, and in order to prevent the crew of the Nelson making any effort to fol low them, or raise an alarm, they dragged them to the cabin, las hed as they were, and with the mates and that of the Royal George, forced them into the secret place where gold had been deposited. The fellows then closed the imp upon them, and after fastening them down and piling a quantity of heavy goods on the top, so as to render the escape of the crew less likely, they fled from the ship. The cook, who, as previously observed, secreted himself in the fore part of the vessel, and so escaped the notice of the robbms, on perceiving them leave the ship and get far away, emerged from his hiding place, and, going aft, discovered where his incarnates were imprisoned. Ile imimedi itely set about to release them, a tame of no ordinary difficulty, but he eventual y succeeded in rescuing the poor fellows. As has already been reported, the mate took the most prompt steps to apprise the authorities at Melbourne I of the robbery ; and although the coast was spee dily scoured, no clue of the delinquents could be disco vered. The boat with which they had gone off and efficted the plunder with had been stolen from a wharf in the her hour'; awl alongside a road near the beach, where they had landed, some of the boxes that had contained the gold were found, of course emptied of their contents. ' Weeks elapsed and no trace could be obtained of the depredators. At length one morning, the mate of the Royal George, who, it will be recollected, was on board the Nelson at the time of the rubbery, happened to be in his boat alongside the quay, at Williamston, when his attention was drawn to a well-dressed man carrying a carpet-bag and cloak, on the quay side. He instantly rec o gnised him to be ono of the leaders of the gang who plundered the ship— the prisoner Morgan. Watching him into a boat, he saw him row to a schooner lying iu the harbour ' and which was about to proceed to Sydney. H e was a t once token into custody on board the ship after being identified by the mate, and some 201. In gold and a draft bill for 501. was found iu his possession, and in the carpet-bag, which he had with him, among other articles, the identical disguises which sonic of the men had on when they boarded the Nelson. He could give no explanation as to how he became possessed of them, and on being brought ashore he was identified as having been a convict, who had served part of his time, and an associate of thieves. About this time the police had received information of the other prisoners ' also convicts, who had recently open e d an account at the Union Bank at Geelong, and their conduct had excited the suspicion of the bank clerks. Corroborative evidence was adduced in supporting the guilt of tl e prison.,, and that they were the principal actors in the robbery was satisfactorily established. The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoners guilty, and on the following day they were sentenced to be transported for the term of their natural lives. There were five other prisoners to be tried for being concerned in the act of plunder. The amount of gold found on the whale prisoners did not exceed 7,0001. ; consequently, there is upwards of 20,0001. yet to be recovered of the stolen treasure. A SECOND WARNING TO " LA PRESSE." The honest indignation of M. Girardin against she Bonapartist calumniator of France has brought down a second warning on La Press.. The following mis sive reached the office of that paper on Wednesday evening: The Minister of General Polies having examined the article published by the journal La Freese on the 31st of August, commencing with the words "you summon this morning," and ending with the words "you calumniate and lie," and considering that this article contains calum nious insinuations against the acts of the government, orders, in virtue pf Article 31 of the organic decree on the press, dated Feb. 17, 1852, as follows: Art. 1. In the terms of the organic decree on the press dated 17th February, 1852, a second warning is given to the journal La Prose, in the person of M. Emile de Guardia, editor, and M. H. Itony, publisher, of that journal. Art. 2. The Prefect of Police is charged with the execu tion of this order. Pans, &pt. 1, 1852. Marrac, Minister of Police. PISTRI, Prefect of Police. The article which has brought down the power of the French government upon La Prase, was epito mMed yesterday in our Paris letter. The following is a literal version:— UNIVPIIDAL PILLAOZ AND MURDER. To Monsieur Oranier de Casiagnac. You this morning summon (in the Pays) the government of December 2nd before the trib , =al of morality and meson. Such is the aim which you profess in the title of a series of articles of which that of this morning is the second. I not leis than you am opposed to the separation of power into two rival branches, the executive and the , legislative, but under the express reserve that that wild* Is collective shall be separated from that which la Individual. Yes, there should henceforth be but one soda power—the power executive ; but on condition thes this revocable power shall be narrowly shut up to the man agement of public affair', and shall never restrain private liberty which is the inviolable right dell and the legiti mate property of each. To justify what you call the thunder-bolt "of December 2, you say. " Considera bly imlbehled in 1816, moderated in 1830, an d having, notwitir shading this, led the way to two revolutions, the principle of the initiative of assemblies expanded itself triumphane to the constitutionof 1848. To what did it bring Franco& two yeas ? To a system of universal pillage and murder s the organisation of which was prepared, and the used d'ardes given, when France was awakened at the verge of the dim by the thunder-bolt of the 2nd of December. " Wan W:yeen you the right, Monsieur, to say that the elections 9, 1852, would have been universal murder and pla t Is, then, the French nation a race of cut-throats and ? Rita nationofeowards ? Say that all the ex =S the transported, all the interMs after the god of , to the number of 10,000 or thereabouts, were eat-threats and robbers, were there not, ou the other side, 10,000,000 alesters who would not have submitted quietly to robbery sad murder What could ten thousand have dose against tea 11111110na ? But it is a gratuitous and un- Itrar j ust makes robbers and marderen of the t i v e d i T h rirre transported and expelled, in which num her are the four generals, Bedean, Changarnier, Lamori , dere, end Lefio. I speak not of Victor Hugo, to whom you ewe le much. But you are not content with insulting 10,000 isilow•citisens. You insult also, in counting them far nought, the 21000 men who compose our gendarmerie. and the 400,000 who form the army. Was not this a force eadielent to maintain the law ? If it was sufficient on the Sled elDessmber, 1851, when a universal or partial refusal etjedleiod or administrative support was to be foreseen and leased, how should it not be reckoned more than sufficient en the 9th of May, 1852, when all that was to be performed was scrupulous observance of the constitution ? In what e could the danger have been greater in May, 1852, r witr e t constitution, law, and magistracy, all in one's favour (Louis Napoleon's), t han in December, 1861, when Lo had against him the constitution and the law, and might justly fear the judges who bad sat at Bowles and at Versailles, where they had condemned Harbin and Blanqui, Ouinard and Ledru Rain ? You who to-day sit on the legislative benches and at the table of the council general, you say,—you have the audacity to say,—that the constitution of 1818 had conducted France to &system of pillage and murder. You he, monsieur, and this I say not of myself ; it is the election of December 10, 1848, which took place in virtue of the constitution voted by a constituent assembly ; it is the election of May 13, 1819, equally prescribed by that constitution, which speaks. In April, 1848, in December, 1818, in May, 1849, in De cember, 18.51, in February, 1852, the exercise of universal suffrage before and after the constitution of November, 1818—before and after that of January, 1852, show us a single fact like pillage or murder. And who are you then, monsieur, that thus stigmatises universal suffrage I—must I remind you that it has made you what you are 1 Must I urge that if you area deputy and member of a council general you arc there only by um versal suffrage ? Must I tell you that if the nephew of the Emperor returned to France in 1848, and is in 1352 the chief of the state, this is only die to universal suffrage—in other words to the will and wishes of the people whom you bold up before Europe as a nation of plunderers and cut throats ? Shame that the journal which calling itself theTelys, can thus calumniate France. No, no. a thousand times no ; the elections of May 9 would not have been pillage nor murder. First, because France is not a nation of plan deren and murderers. Secondly, bscause the immense ma jority of electors had the greatest interest in maintain ing order and upholding the republic. Thirdly, because it would have been the honour of the Elect of De cember 10 intrepidly to defend public order and universal suffrage If they had been attacked. Fourthly, because in every commune the gendarmerie would have dorm its duty, and no peril would have been too great for its courage. Fifthly and lastly, because the army has shown to what point it carries the spirit of mili tary discipline and the practice of passive obedience. Army, gendarmerie, president, administration, magistracy, suffrage universal, electoral body, reckoning more than 10,000,000 voters, all units to tell you that when you write "the elections of Mal , 9, 1852, would have been universal robbery and, murder, ' you calumniate and You lie ! Extras de 0111J8DIN. OE COWL THE QUEENS PROGRESS TO SCOTLAND. The royal party arrived at Cupar Angus at ten minutes past eleven o'clock OR Wednesday, where they partook of some refreshment in the station. They then took carriage•, and proceeded by the Spittal of Glenshee, where luncheon was served. They arrived safely at Balmoral in the evening. • The FArl and Countess of Derby left Longmhaw. lodge, the seat of the Duke of Itutland, yesterday for Knowsley, Lancashire. Mr, Deedes, M.l'., Mr. I'erey Henry Crutchley, and Mr. Ormsby Fiore had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Walpole at the Home•ofice. Archdeacon Bethune, Mr. Baillie Cochrane and family, Mrs. Thanes and family, were among the paset•n gers who emb irked on board the General &con Navigation Company's steam ship, Ravensbourne, yesterday morning, at the St. Kettarine'i Wharf, for Antwerp, en route to the Rhine. THE CHOLERA. The Board of Health have, hi consequence of the recent news from abroad, expressed their formal opinion to the government that two medical officers should bo specially appointed to take 011101 steps as may aeem best cakulattsl to meet and mitigate any attack of cholera upon this country. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. MEETING IN ST. MAItfIN s HALL. Last night, a numerous meeting was held at St. Martin's Hall, for the purpose of organisim a natioit.it association to promote a system of emigration for the trial cluses, upon such a basis that, whilst th e hi g h er an d wealthier classes might as.ist in its formation and develop ment, it would be altogether tree from the semblance of charity, and would not trench on that spirit of iodepn denee which is characteristic of the holiest artisan. The Earl of Devon, who was to have occupied the chair, was unable from illness to attend. In his alistuce, Mr. BM.- WAY WAS called to preside. The CHAIRMAN said that ho regretted the absence of the noble earl who was to have presided en the present occa sion. His object in appearing there was to guard persons wishing to emigrate from the numerous sharks who in fested this town. (Hear.) The plan about to be pro pounded to them was that of Mr. Harris, who would him self state the details of it. And, although he did not go the whole hog with that plan, he believed that it contained a great deal that was good, and was propounded in perfect integrity of feeling. When people now went to the colo nies, it was to look for gold; hut better than gold was to find for the well-conducted and industrious =MI the means of earning an hum livelihood at such labour as lie was fit fur and accustomed to. (Cheers.) Mr. Haunts then came forward and entreated the indul gence of the meeting *whilst he stated to them the details of his plan —a plan which, if carried out in the spirit in which it was conceived, would do the greatest possiblr good to the colonies and to those who were sent out. The plan was based on the principle of the "Australian Employers' and Emigrants' and Registration Office." The only drawback on that office was that it required communication to pass be tween this country and the colony before it could effe et the good it was calculated to accomplish. But by his plan a machin,ry would be established fur sending out those desirous of emi grating without waiting for these communications from the colonists. All that the employers in Australia wanted was that they should be ensured the labour which they wanted. If for every 201. sent by the employer in th e co l ony , he was sure of having a stout English heart remitted in return, no bank would be able to bold all the money which would be sent to this country. (Hear.) He would now proceed to state the details of his plan. After a statement, that it was proposed to raise a capital of 100,0001.. and to obtain power to increase the same to 1,000,0001., the advantages of the plan were thus summed up:—The advantages to the emigrant and the colonist of the proposed undertaking are as follows: —To the emigrant—let. If he be of good character and can procure sureties, not for the payment of a sum of money on his behalf, but for his integrity alone, he may have the means of emigrating provided him and employ. ment when in the colony. 2nd. He will preserve his inde pendence and these feelings of self-respect which would he compromised if he became) the object of charity. 3rd. Ile will find a " home" provided for him on hie arrival in the colony, without being liable to become the victim of sharks, ever lurking in the path of the Munger. To the colonist-1. Instead of subscribing his 101. to a common fund to be remitted to this country for the pur pose of causing emigrants to be sent out, with the uncer tainty of the description of person required by him being , sent out, and if sent that he will be enabled to engage him, he may, by simply advancing, in place of giving, a sum double that amount, ensure a duly qualified person for his service. 2. A depid in the colony where would always be found, ready to be engaged, a number of emigrants bound by duty, interest, and honour, faithfully to serve whomso ever they might engage with. T o shareholders the advan tages offered are of no ordinary character. When the busi ness of the association is fairly in operation, that portion of capital employed in conveying emigrants from this country would not be required until the like amount has been actually deposited in a bank to be applied to its repayment. whilst the various works upon which other portions would be employed, could net AIR to be highly remunerative. The Mr. BRAZIER proposed a resolution recommending the formation of an association, to be called the " Employers' and Emigrants Registration and Investment Auumation," founded on the plan of Mr. Harris. Mr. BARNARD seconded the resolution. Mr. BOWYEa said he did not rise for the purpose of frustrating the plan proposed by Mr. Harris, but he wished to tell them it was founded on the same principles u the " Employers' and Emigrants' Registration Office " in Bloomsbury, which existed for some two or three months. That office required a fee of 10s. on registration, but what good did it do? (Hear, hear.) He saw no funds to carry out the scheme ; he saw no responsible parties at the head of it ; and he would only recommend them not to part with their money till they knew to whom they gave it. (Hear, hear.) In its present state ho did not think the plan de served their confidence. (Hear, hear.) If the colonists wanted a particular class of labour, they could get it through their correspondents in England. (flair, hear.) Br. OXLEY said he did not quite understa nd plan, nor did he entirely approve of it, b u t h e wou ld recommen d them to study it, and adopt it if they found it to be good, without reference to the persons by whom it was proposed. (Hear, hear.) After a few words from the CHAIRMAN and Mr. HARRIS, the resolution was put, and, on a show of hands, declared to be carried. Mr. AILCHIM moved that the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Devon, and Mr. B. B. Cabbell be requested to act as trustees. The motion having been seconded, Mr. BOWYER wished to know if it was with their consent. The CuiLiamex said the words were that they be re quested to act. (A laugh.) The resolution was carried. Mr. HARRIS proposed that the Duke of Newcastle, the Harbor Harrewby, Carlisle, Devon, and Shaftesbury, Lord It. Grosvenor, Lord It. G. Paget, Messrs. Sidney Herbert and B. B. Cabbell, be requested to dct as patrons. The CHAIRMAN proposed to add the name of Sir J. Pakingtou to the list. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Mr. BOWYER—And the Queen and Prince Albert. (Laughter.) - - The resolution was put and carried. The CUSHMAN then proposed that the committee management should be selected from those present. A Votes—Mr. Bowyer. (Cheers and laughter.) On the name of Mr. Dick being proposed, Mr. Mica said that he should refuse to be a party to sending out Englishmen to the colonies. (Cheers, and cries of Oh, oh.") After being broken down by the capitalist and landowner at home, he would not be a party to send ing out the working men of England to raise wealth for others elsewhere. (Cheers, and cries of " Oh, oh.") A committee consisting of Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Harris, Mr. Brazier, Mr. Archer , Mr. Taylor, Mr. Nicholay, Mr.Cob bett, Mr. Thornton Hunt, Mr. Milliken, Mr. Oxley, and others, was proposed for adoption. Mr. Oust refused to act. Mr. Bewrzu also refused to act. An Imminent on the platform said that the names, with a few exceptions, were quite unknown, and the public could hare no confidence in them. (Hear, hear.) Mr. NtcnoLor said that great credit was due to Mr. Harris for propounding his plan, and if it was not properly discussed it was not his fault. (Hear, hear.) For himself he was ready to lend his aid in carrying out any well de vised scheme for promoting emigration. (Hear.) The resolution was put and adopted, and the meeting adjourned. TILE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS OF TioT.OONA has opened a competition for 1853 for first-class prises. Artists of all nations are admitted to it. The subject for painting is," Saul terrified by the Ghost of S aim I," to be taken from Alficii*. !t az( ity of Soul." The paiutio.g is to be on canvas iu oil, .if the height of one metre and 10 rend metres by two metres and 25 centini,tres in bre ulth. The tinkled for sculpture is, " St. Theresa, absorbed in Divine Love, faints away in the Arms of the Angels." The prise for each of the ..e subjects is a Fold medal of the value of SO sequins (about 880 f.) The subject for a drawing is, Charon tearing away the Souls," as described by Dante in the 3rd canto of his " Inferno." The drawing is to be 68 centimetres in height by 90 centimetres in breadth, exclusive of the mar gin. The price is 25 sequins (about 2711.). For perspective the subject is :—A vast square, rendered irregular and pic turesque by the various situations of the buildings and monuments of various ages, their preservation or state of decay; while a portion of the facade of a splendid public palace in the oginl style of the thirteenth century stands in the foreground. DimensionsoB centimetres high, 90 broad, exclusive of the margin. Prize: A medal of 20 sequins (220 f.) The works of the competitors must be seat in to the secretary of the Academe on the 30th of June, 1813, before sunset at the latest. The names are to be con tained in a sealed cover, marked with a motto, to be re peated on the picture, itc. In another paper the artist must explain the considerations which guided him in his work. The unsuccessful articles are to be returned, with the scaled covers respectively belonging to them.