The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-23 00:00:00

I ICI Ewe erprtins. TO Columnu map, A Smog UMW " The Ittiogeb" es be mem reastalfe Warne Is inlaid owl Tweeds, awl Frebp *OA, be Übe fir pat. IbibeeteAerledl be "The Swab" Lambs Snobs poen mot be Abe 011se. newiribeweet, by Two Able ea the day et paldireler - - 'BIOS WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE . ?se DaT—II ei. Ora Artemisia, lb- 19u. Temaiwor—lieralag. St. 4im Arianism. 10%. 11906 LONDON, MONDAY, .TUNJ 23. Lon', ELLENBOROUGIi this evening calls the atten tion of the House of Lords to a ease that greatly re- ' quires explanation from the Court of Directors of the East India Company and the Board of Con troL We refer to the course the Indian govern ment has deemed it right to pursue towards LALIA Jove?. PeasuAun, a Ilindoo gentleman of wealth, activity, and character, who, in great emergencies, had moat effectually served the interests of that go vernment. The facts of the case lie, notwithstanding some slight attempts that have been made to explain them away t in a nutshell. JOTEE PERSTIArD is a wealthy native of the Upper Provinces, a man ac customed to great and extensive transactions--as large probably as those in which our own Mr. BRUSLY and Mr. Pero have been so suc cessfully and honourably engaged in the con struction of our great railway works. With the great means and perfect organisation at his disposal. JOTLE PERSIIAUD undertook to subsist, and did ad mirably subsist, the Anglo-Indian armies during the war in Atightinistan—an operation not very dissimi lar to what we should have to provide for were we invading with some 100,000 men, Siberia ; and which it is admitted there was not in all India another man capable of carrying through ; perhaps not another capable of seriously making the attempt. JUTE? PERNIIAI'D was, of course, only able to carry through this great undertaking by native agency. Carried on by such means, and at such a distance from any complete and effective system of check and supervision, it is not at all unlikely that irre gularities in detail occurred over which he had not controlling power; and that at the close of the war, all his accounts were not as plain, clear, distinct, or well vouched fur as those of our own commissariat during the Peninsular war; though had, indeed, 11111 , 4 have been JOTEE PERSIIAVIA balance-sheets U they would not have borne a very favourable coin• parison with our own un-audit-able accounts of the Lot Kaffir war. 'rho Affglian war over, JOTEE PERSHAUD claimed a balance of half a million sterling from the Indian government. It was disputed, contested, denied, and not paid. Years of discussion, and controversy, and debate on the accounts followed ; the Indian au thorities wearying out and disgusting the perti naciousMinden; when, in the whirligig of Indian polities, the hostilities in the distant and then little known Punjaull broke out. These at once revived in them a sense of Jortat's wealth, resources, power, influence., and organisation ; and, superci liously overlooking the harsh manner in which they had treated his former services, the military authorities applied to him to do in the Pun jaub what ho had done in Affghanistan—main tain their great armies. JOTEE PEItiIIAED reso lutely and firmly declined to do so; he resented their treatment, and refused to be again connected with their commissariat. This refusal affected, and might have controlled, had it been persisted in, the very fate of India, which was then supposed to be involved in the ambitious designs attributed on very slight evidence. however, to the Sikhs. Every effort was mode to induce the Lalla to yield; and at last, he did give way; but upon two con ditious, that his past arrears should be promptly adjusted as soon as the new war was over, and that after the due performance of the new contract, a title of honour should be conferred on him to soothe his past mortificutions, and to reward his forthcoming exertions. Ile accepted the new contract, and main tained the armies in the l'unjaub campaign in a manner which it is admitted on all hainl very greatly accelerated its final success. Having thus honourably and faithfully fulfilled his I part of the undertaking so forced upon him, he turned to the Indian government to fulfil the stipula tions of its pledged faith. Herein he was again disap pointed. Instead of his old balances - being dis charged, his new accounts were subjected to vexa tious criticism, the promised title of honour, so dear to Hinds) vanity and pride, was refused him, and his character was aspersed. After once more sub mitting to years of cruel trifling and ungrateful dis putation /ores PERSII %ED had either resolved to emit or had actually gone down to Calcutta from the Upper Provinces. to commence legal ings against the Indian government, in the El r t7t t l e f l u l s court, before the Qvsi:s's judges, of that capital; that being the only tribunal in which, as he thought, he could hope for the shadow of justice in prosecuting such a claim. 'fo this action against them in the tat FEN'S Court, the Indian government replied by in stituting criminal proceedings against JOTEE Pea =Aro in their own court at Agra ; the charge against him being swindling and tierjury, or subornation of perjury. On these accusations ions. PEESHAED was amsted, obliged to put in heavy bail, his recogni lances were estreateu because of his failure to appear at Agra . before his prosecutor's own court on some trifling interlocutory proceedings, and at last he was hurried oil from Calcutta, where he was attending to hie own action, to take his trial for felony at Agra before a judge, a jury, and a prosecutor, all nomi nated by the government, which was his undoubted debtor to an enormous extent, and which owed him more gratitude than it even did money. llappilv for JOTEE PERI+IIAUD, in this crisis he chose for his defender Mr. LANG, a barrister residing in the upper provinces, and there conducting a jour nal of respectability and influence; and in Mr. LANG he found high courage as well as great ability. The trial lasted 12 days, in a court-house crammed with native gentlemen, and exciting an interest quits unparalleled in the generally tranquil districts round Agra, where usually government power reigns supreme over public opinion. All India seems to have been swept for witnesses where with to procure a conviction ; but not even by means of those produced could a case be made out against this Ilindoo gentleman ; whilst, in his defence, Mr. LANG called such a succession of high government authorities to speak of JorEs PEE. 811.11:11S services and character that he was at once acquitted ; and so strongly did the current of popular opinion run in favour of the verdict that, fur the first time in the history of the British power in India, native enthusiasm on such an occasion overcame all their scruples, and, breaking forth, offered to chair JOTEE PEESR %VD from the court-house into Agra. _ Now, what on this statement,the Indian authorities, both at Calcutta and in Loudon, have to clear them selves from are the grounds which it affords for imputing to them-1, injustice in not settling their creditors' just claims ; 2, ingratitude for not dealing liberally and handsomely with one whose services were con fessedly so great ; 3, breach of faith for not fulfilling the engagements they had entered into with JOTEE I) as an inducement for him to tindertakethe supply of the Punjaub army; and 4, above all, a vindictive interference with his proceedings against them in the QUEEN'S Court by concocting unsustain able criminal charges against him in their own courts. These are grave and serious imputations I on the Indian government; they must be met ; and answered. For, had not this Hindoo gen- dem= met with Mr. LANG, it is more than pro bable that he would by this time have been on his way as a convict to Singapore; because he had the courage to seek justice against the Indian government in the Supreme Court of Calcutta. This is not the spirit in which Lord DALHOUSIE was sent out to govern India ; though perhaps, as that noble lord is seldom or never at the seat of his government, his share in the responsibility of this prosecution is really smaller than at first sight would appear. But what a sense of justice, of right, and of mo rality must they hare who did i nst it ute t h ese proceed ings'. The spuit which eacrifioed Nrsconen pre sided over the prosecution of 'orris Prinsutcn. And if the most powerful llindoo in India is thus treated, what security can there bo for the millions of his inferiors ? Lord limutowar, the other night, in the convert*. tion which arose on Lord WHARNCLEEEEN motion, remarked that there must be something wrong in a government which, out of a gross revenue of some twenty-five millions sterling, did not annually spend half a million on public works. That is bed enough. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1851. 4v- Bat worse far must be that government which repels other printed in London. The author was sentenc ed honest and just pecuniary cl aims on its treasury by totem years' imprisonment and one thousand francs criminal proceedings against the claimant, and file. Yestar which supports those proceedings by testimony that The CoMmittbs'on the treatise of , La Plata is proved to be false. day gave its apprebatien to the report babe. It recoalmends the Aseembq to adopt the yes oncesd In the government for . the ratification Tiara years ago Lord SrawLtz would not Auffor of d m L c vmsro„ treaties. the House of Lords to repeal the obsolete Navigation The parliamentary club of the Rue des Pyramids Law. In 1849, he was less obdurate, or his followers hs i d „wog yesterday evening to rooted to the were in lees perfect drill, and the repeal passed the monthly renewal of its Wean. M. Montalembert upper house of landlords as well as the lower—every was elected president in the sword Admiral Ceeille, Ilardwicke, Eglinton, and Richmond protesting at an d M. A u b er tin, questor, to replace M. Augustin the top of their or t hodox Voices that the glory (J i m a The bureau is now compose d es follows : of England was thereby jeopardieed, and the do. MM. de Broglie, de Flasigny, de Mootalembert, minion of the seal was sure, in CVISIVIeneeg to s pro4idyr . 4 . , •• •• = l . MX, Dam% Totipa, I I" 2:rB°s., .paro away. Lord STANLEY, himself, ett that and Aubertin, pesters. occasion, talked more Pcelishly. If the Cr If the Ba n k c ontinues for some time longer to experiment must be tried, he would console If absorb the metallic capital without replacing it by with the reflection of having warned in vain and notes, it will soon absorb more than one-half of the having done his duty; but should it fail, as he prog- specie in circulation. It is said that the directors of nosticated it would do, then he trusted that the re- the Bank are at last beginning to be moved by this turning sense of the country would speedily justify state of things, and that they are not averse to make those who thought es he did in counselling a prompt advances to the department of the Seine for the exe and penitent return to the ways of their forefathers. elation of the central balks of Paris and of the Rue Well, the competition of the seas has been thrown de Rivoli. The establishment might also be induced open, and fora year and a half the avariciotui foreigner to advance 100 millions for the execution of the has been permitted to fetch and carry for us just the Lyons and Avignon Railways, if M. Dufaure's plan same as our own winged sea-horses. And, according to should be admitted by the Assembly. The Bank Lord STANLEY and his Liverpool lack-aday-men, could readily lend 100 millions at 4 per cent., in all the mischiefs and miseries have come to pass that ta ki ng f or guarantee the revenue of the portion of were foreshadowed. Spain remains as stupid as the Lyons line now at work between Paris and ever, France as jealous, and the United States, with Chalons. It would not run any risk, and would re professions of perfect reciprocity on their lips, have store to circulation a part of its unemployed capital, shown cunning and equivocation in their construe- whilst assuring to its shareholders a new profit of tion of the words " coasting trade " with regard to four millions a year. California. There has been an increase of strange Th e funds continue to improve. To-day the Fives sails in our harbours, and a fall of several shillings closed at 92.90, with a rise of 20. The Threes rose per cent. in our freights. "The ling that braved a 13c., and closed at r 5.80. thousand years the battle and the breeze" is about to be lowered before—well it is hard to say before what or whom, that interesting particular is not yet clear, but certainly before that of some other nation (to be hereafter named); and a case for prompt and peni tent retrogression in the matter or navigation laws has manifestly therefore arisen. Whereupon Lord STANLEY, in his usual off-hand style, undertakes the patriotic task of demonstrating the proven accuracy of his past forebodings, and the necessity of doing something effectual and immediate to avert the im pending ruin of our marine. But the faith of the chief priest in their exploded mystery is dead. Diana of the Ephesians may be great as ever still, when a mob is to be piled or a tumult to be raised; but silver shrines are made for her no more; the great goddess is no longer wor shipped by the world; and if it were not for the sake of decency and form, her effete worship would be silently abandoned by all the craftier of the craft. Lord STANLEY made the other night one of his vehe ment onslaughts on the government for having re pealed the navigation law, and stated at length the various hardships to which competition had subjected our mercantile marine. But when he came to name his remedies, far from proposing in any way that we should retrace our steps, his consistent lordship earnestly . adiocated a remission of the stamp duty upon marine insurances, and—oh, tempora ! oh, mores! —that the owners of British vessels should be at liberty to hire foreigners instead of true-born Britons for their crews, inasmuch as the foreigners might be had cheaper in wages and food. Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG, we feel for you. From the bottom of our economic heart wo tender you the tribute of our sympathy and pity. " Drops of compassion tremble on our eye - lids To be thus trifled with and mocked by the great chief and champion of monopoly and retrogression. It is more t bun human patience can be expected to endure. Lord STANLEY'S suggestions are all, with a single ex ception, in the direction of more complete and perfect competition. Ile would by all means try to pick a quarrel with Spain, or some other country, because it did not reciprocate our unconditional offer of free shipping. But who imagines that it was for any other consideration than our own self-interest we abolished our navigation laws? Who, then should we vex by what are termed measures of retaliation, more than ourselves? If the Spaniards, or the French, have not the wisdom to follow our good example, more fools they. But if the principle of free navigation be worth anything, the idea of retaliation is absurd. SVIMAT ETENINO, The amendment of M. Sainte-Brave was rejected yesterday by a majority of 393 votes against Wo. All the interest of the debate on the law of clubs turned on the question of electoral meetings, for there is no point upon which all shades of conserva tives are more united than in their dread and abhor rence of political clubs properly so-called, which, so far from becoming a source of enlightenment, breed confusion, and inflame passion upon subjects in which it is of the highest importance for the peace and order of society to avoid both one and the other. It may, therefore, be regarded in the present state of French society as a settled axiom that no govern ment can co-exist in France with the liberty of clubs. On the other hand, the right of holding electoral meetings without being subject to prohibition or dis persion by the agents of the executive power is claimed by all parties, which are independent of the government, and regarded us the main guarantee against the erection of an arbitrary and absolute authority. But there is by no means so clear a distinction between an ordi nary political club and an electoral meeting in point of practice as in theory. Hence the doubt and diffi culty of the conservative parties as to the exercise of the right of electoral assembly; for they know that complete freedom could not be grantcl during any considerable term, for the exercise of such a right, without the soil of France being covered with swarms of conspirators, under the pretext of assembling for electoral purposes. This is so obvious, that even a staunch legitimist, like M. de Kerdrel, is obliged to confess the necessity of deferring to the govern ' ment the powers necessary for the instantaneous dispersion and suppression of electoral meetings. This, rightly considered, is equivalent to the admis sion that France cannot be governed in the present state of things without vesting a discretionary abso lute power in the hands of the executive. The rejection of the amendment of M. St. licuve is the most unreserved proof of confidence which it is pos sible to place in a government, for the law of clubs, which it proposed to mitigate in favour of electoral meetings, puts into the hands of Louis Napoleon and his ministers an authority as absolute as that of the King of Prussia. In the legislative signatures attached to such a carte blanche we have conclusive proof of the insincerity of those who, like Jules de Lasteyrie, never lose an occasion of imputing ambi tious designs to Louis Napoleon. Logically, a legis lator who made the speech of Lasteyrie ought to have put in a saving clause against the sway accorded to the executive power. In his conscience he must have felt that the intentions of Louis Napoleon were too honest to need such a clause. Why, there fore, rake up the stale story of the Dix- Decembre conspiracy, the Satory reviews, &c., when all such arguments militated against the vote which M. de Lestcyrie and his friends were about to give? As for the power of the Assembly to interfere in order to arrest the abuse of such ex traordinary authority, a practical eye like that of Alfred Nettement sees clearly encfugh that such a reserve is illusory. It is a control which must ar rive a day too late, and after the elections are finished and a new Assembly has already entered on its functions. Hence the ultra-legitimists proposed, through the organ of M. Yoshi, to reduce the term of three months for freedom of electoral assembly to forty days. This amendment was rejected by a majority of 130, in a house of 630. FRANCE. PARIS, BATOIDAT EVINING. To-day the President held a grand review in the Champ ae Mars, of the Ist division of the garrison, coni.ting of four brigades of infantry and one brignde of cavalry, under the orders of General Car. relet, • hose head-quarters were in the Place Vendome. General Carrelet, you may remember, was the suc cessor of General Neumaycr. The manceuvres were executed with complete success and great brilliance ; I but the weather was sultry and clouded, and the troops were drenched with fitful thunder showers, which drove the spectators to shelter under the fringe of lime trets round the plain. No disorders occurred. The President was received with more than usual favour by the public, and the cries of Vive Napoleon," were more g neml than ever. To-day the Assembly proceed e d to discuss the bill for authorising the government to close clubs and political meetings of all kinds, the report on which was laid on the table yesterday by M. Jules de The Madrid Gazette of the 16th publishes an order Lasteyrie. Urgency was adopted. M. Chauffeur from the Queen for one of her ministers to proceed objected to the bill as unconstitutional. M. Pons- to Seville on the approachingoccasion of the accouche- Tande took the same line of opposition. M. Madier ment of her Royal Highness the Duchess de Mont do Moutjaa recalled to remembrance the eulogies pensier. The corps diplomatique and a deputation which had been passed upon the Right of the of the grandees of Spam are invited to attend, in Assembly by the greater part of those who were now order to do honour to the event. exerting all their efforts to destroy it. Ho dwelt in MADRID, Jrxm 16. conclusion upon the perils to which they would ex. The Chamber of Deputies was crowded to-day with pose the country by giving to the government an persons anxious to hear the debate on the vote of arbitrary control over the power of meeting. censure against ministers, moved by 1). Manuel Ber- M. Jules de Lastcyrie defended tho bill. After mudez de Castro. That deputy is one of the most showing the necessity of suppressing ordinary politi. vehement members of the old moderado party of cal clubs, organised for the express purpose of con- Sartorius and Narvaez. Owing to the long financial spiring against order, ho came to the more delicate statement with the budget of 1832 read by Bravo question of allowing the government power to put Murillo, the motion of Bermudez de Castro did not down electoral meetings. After dwelling with cm- come on till nearly four this afternoon. 1). Manuel phasis upon the disclosures with regard to the Society began by attacking the violent and arbitrary l of the Dix Decembre made in the notes of M. earlier, acts wh i ch had disgraced the elections. This and alluding to the manceuvres of the government in accusation, it may be observed, would have obtaining signatures to the petitions for revision, he come with more propriety from the mouth of one said that it was law which put wide powers into the less intimately connected with a party notorious as hands of the government, but the Assembly always that of Sartorius for its unscrupulous manoeuvres by had the means of revoking those powers, if force and fraud upon electoral occasions. Therefore, it should find them abused for ambitious purposes. when D. Manuel spoke of banishment of candidatesl M. Sainte Bence then moved the following amend- of the opposition, dismissals of einp'oy,is en mos*, mcnt to the bill on clubs, as an additional paragraph with appointment of relations of the milliliters in their to the Ist article:—" Nevertheless, the provisions of places, threats of assault, and fire and pillage by these laws shall not be applicable to the electoral hiredruifirms, he enumerated no more than what every meetings e held during the three months preceding one knows to be the invariable accompaniments of either the.election of the National Assembly, or that S ish elections under the modemdo rule, and of the President of the Republic."—M. Leon Faucher w 'eh disgraceful aids to the ministerial can op need the amendment,which would annul the law. didatures had been used by no government Bacjsupported it, and drew the attention of the more freely than that which had the complete Aseenibly.to an article which appeared this morning approbation and support of the speaker. D. Manuel fa the...issenibleeNutionaieontitled, " League for the then said that if any one doubted his word for these Public Good."—M. do Kerdrol then occupied the facts he was ready to drop the privileges of a deputy tribune. to maintain his assertions. He was surprised that Among the usual procession of representatives no judicial investigation had been ordered by the charged to present petitions for the revision, M. government into the violations of correspondence Discos was signalised by the mass which he we. which had been committed, and no employes of the sented on behalf of the Electoral Union, signed by government prosecuted. Two royal orders had been citizens of Paris. M. Laurent (de l'Ardeche) pre- despatched forgiving a district its whole debt of rented a petition against the law of May, signed by arrears to the treasury, which had been revoked as • great number of citizens at the offices of the B - soon as it was known that the same district had publiqrse newspaper. The petitions presented by M. voted against the ministerial candidates. He charged Duca to-day in favour of revision bear 23,7.17 gig. with base ingratitude those who, owing their pod naturest those presented by M. Laurent against the tion to Sartonas ' former Minister of the la. law o f M a y sre signe d by 20,76/ c i t i zens of Pans . tenor , committed a thousand illegalities to The Cmatitutionnel attempts to make the most of insure his election. He then accused Bravo the petitions for revision, the signatures of which Murillo of trampling upon and insulting the amount to nearly a million; 30,000 have been fur- press by the daily confiscation of newspapers, which niched by the Meuse, and 13,000 by the arronclisse. he accused of falsehood. This deputy was expected ment of ltheims ; 13,000 have signed at Sainte& to speak for another hour after the closing of the The committee of revision met to-day to examine post. His harangue was listened to with great at the various motions which have been submitted by tendon by a crowded house. representatives for revision. MM. Larabit, Payer, The Senate has beea r 4T r .gi occ u p ied with discussing the Cretan, and Bonhier de rEclme, eaccessively dove - mode of procedure with to the concordat,which loped their propositions. The committee adopted is to remain, as usual, three days upon the table. The no resolution, but adjourned till Tuesday next, when Minister of Grace and Justice, Oonsalesitovero. made If. Odilon Barret is expected to be appointed re- a speech in eu l ogy of this treaty with th e H o ly see , porter. which was re garde d as an important pledge of the 1 understand that the note of remonstrance of the adherence o the present cabinet to the most retro- Senate of Hamburg against Austrian occupation was grade measure of the preceding one. For the not not officially distributed to the representatives of the this minister's speech was a complete failure. foreign powers. Jews 17 The Quirt of Amine has given sentence to day by The debate on Bermudez de Castro's motion 'of default against Ledru-Rollin in the matters of the censure against ministers goes on increasing in vie publication of two pamphlets entitled respectively, lence' and irritation. Yesterday, at the close of the "Le 24 Fevrier—Les Elections," and Le 13 Juin." sitting, Bertran do Lis replied, but entirely without The former was lithographed at Brussels, and the effect, to the charges of Don Manuel. The minister's SPAIN. speech 4teginthien a bile. Bermudez de Castro 'pined today the renewed debate with a rectifica tion, in which Se pointed to the seam ien n the de laee the cabinet of the charged having violated ce. Escomara followed, and traced the = 1 :1 11 the progressista party towards the go verment, showing that the cabinet of Bravo Ma nila bad deserved no quarter at the hands of the liberals, but had repeated, with an affectation of li berality and economy, the system of oppression and extraverMos pursued by its predeassom He ended , , ile ggi ng• the illegalities committed at the Mich had been exercised not less against tiss premimeieta than the other partie s o ppositioa. ,Pidal - Ordered that neve r a ped iny former occasion l suet steee'sous means of intimidation and cor ruption been need at the elections in the interest d the government. Pidal's attack upon the miMefty was, however, far from being so direct and vehement es that of Be rmudez de Castro. He sought an ex cuse for opposing the government in the necessity of declining the responsibility of defending a blameable course of conduct. Bertran de Lis, imitating thel tactics of Arrazola in flying off at a tangent from the main point in question ' succeeded in irritating the moderado opposition by his recriminations, while he afforded no satisfaction to the rest of the home is answering distinctly and directly the charges against the government, He concluded by b i r r il ayt that the party of the preceding cabinet were more interested than any other in not ripping up certain questions. Pidal challenged with warmth the Minister of the Interior to speak out, and repudiated the insinuation which was used as a screen foe wading explanation. Barzanallana, in answer to a allusion by Bermudez do Castro, referred to violationof public correspondence, and insisted tom knowing whether the ministry meant to ins pde any such act to the preceding administration. He then made a startling disclosure, which forms the event of the day : He charged Bertran Is Lis with having intercepted a letter ad dressed to him (Barzanallanc) by an employe. , ' Senor Wise, who was immediately dismissed from his post after the Minister of the Interior had satis fied himself of the contents. Great sensation is pro duced by this charge, to which Bertran de Ls is now rising to reply. The minister denies having intercepted the letter of Cries, but he confesses that be read it. (Murmurs from the tribunes and benches of deputies.) He excuses this act by saying that every day his secretary receives and opens 30 or 60 letters for him (M. Bertran de Lis). Among this correspondence was found, he knows not how, the letter of M. Cries, which was handed to him open. Although he knew that the letter was not addressed to him, he supposed that it concerned him, from the circumstance of its being put with his correspondence, and therefore ho read it. The explanations of the minister are very embarrassed, and exceedingly ill received by the house and the public tribunes, from which break forth frequent murmurs and interrup tions. M. Bertran de Lis having appealed to the testimony of Don Bonifazio Fcrnandcr de Cor doba for the corroboration of these facts, that deputy and functionary, decrepit with extreme age, stood thrth to speak. So far, however, from cleanng M. Bertran de Lis, as everybody expected, ho said that the minister opened the letter, and such was his displeasure at the contents that he turned deadly pale, and staggered as if about to fall. At this un expected contradiction to the minister, who denied having opened the letter, loud murmurs buret from all the benches, and still louder from the public tri bunes. Order having been restored, Bravo Murillo rose, and was left speaking. It appears from the financial statement presented yesterday by M. Bravo Murillo that the budget of expenses for 1832 amounts to 11,838,9741. The es timated receipts for the same year are 12,889,969/. Thus there is a deficit of nearly two millions sterling.l The account of the budget of 1852, presented in the ordinary correspondence from Madrid, differs somewhat from that of our correspondent. Accord ing to the former the ordinary expenses amount to 10,838,935/., the extraordinary to 142,600/. The estimated receipts amount to 11,379,264/.; thus pre senting a surplus of 377,728/. It is to be observed that in the budget of expenses the interest of the debt, set down in preceding budgets at 1 , 080 , 000 L, is given in the present estimate of expenses at 1,682,3971. Compared with the budget of 1831, the estimated receipts for 1832 present an augmentation of nearly half a million sterling. The Ga:ette also publishes the bill for the settlement of the debt, which is identical with that presented to the last Cortcs. GERMANY. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin dated the 20th instant, brings the statement of a decision on the part of Austria in a question about which much has been said of late. _ . . It has been diversely stated how Austria would act with regard to certain reservations made by Prussia in reference to the mode of numbering the minutes of the Frankfort Diet. On the surface this question has no political bearing, but at bottom it assumes importance from the fact that it involves the recognition or non-recognition by Prussia and her allies of the proceedings of the Diet previous to their joining that assembly. The telegraphic despatch from Berlin says :—" It is stated that Austria has declared in reference to the reservations of Prussia with regard to the minutes of the Diet, that each party will be at liberty to interpret these reservations as they may think most convenient." This decision of Austria, if real, seems to leave things exactly in state quo. Further intelligence from Berlin of the 20th announces the departure of Marshal Paskiewitsch for Warsaw. The negotiations for replacing M. Rabe, minister of finance, by M. Duesberg, are stated to have failed. It is said that the Diet at Frankfort has prolonged for six months the plenary powers of Austria and Prussia to settle the Hesse Cassel question. The question of the provincial states or diets is likely to become further complicated by a ministerial decision meddling with the states of circles, or parts of provinces. Government has, it is said, determined that in the meetings of these states of circles no votes will be held valid except they be unanimous. Num bers of the revived provincial states and states of circles continue to declare their incompetency to deliberate. _ _ . Letters from Vienna of the 15th instant announce that the mission of Count Dictrichstein to Paris, for the purpose of urging at the Elysee the policy of admitting all the Austrian states into the confedera tion, has failed. We learn from Vienna that the Austrian Minister of the Interior has called upon all Frenchmen in the states of the Emperor to make a declaration of their being there, and to state whether they are residents or merely travellers. This order has been issued at the request of the French government, in order that the new census of the population of Franco may be eomplete. We learn from Friburg that the Court of Assizes of that place has delivered its verdict in the caso of the three brothers Carrara and their 37 accomplices, who were tried as the principals in the late insurrec tion. The three Canards have been declared guilty of the crime of high treason without any extenuat ing circumstances. Six of the prisoners were found guilty of the same offence, but with extenuating cir cumstances ; twelve were found guilty of aiding and abetting in the crime ; one was condemned for excit ing to revolt, and sixteen have been acquitted. The Moniteur Algtlrien of the 16th contains the following : We stop the press to announce the receipt of favourable news received by the mail from the cut. General St. Arnaud, in spite of the bad weather and the great difficul ties of the ground, had beaten in several engagements the mintingents of the tribes to the west of Djidjefiy, who en dleavisamiii to resiffithlm. 411 the circle of Djidjelly to the wok and ma Mural Mass, have made their submission. J The lessee if the Plena column are confined to a few men weradod. Guard Cantor, after inflicting some chmtisoment oa arm tribes on • his route, had just arrived amongst as Deral-Minewm, at 10 kilometres from Susie. The lienslimm fan place marched to join the column. U 11•111111 Can % with that reinforce ment, will 111924 e the east to the Devi-Sliman, where the proximity* Smiled fit. Assami will facilitate his action. Geflgollimmee has also received numerous sub ' THE 'PACO! COLO:PI:WT.—The colonelcy of the 6th Infantry regiment is not yet tilled up. The on dit is that either Major-General Riddell, RM.. or Major-General Lord F. Fittelarenee, will be selected. UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. On Saturday night, at seven o'clock, the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Harrison, arrived in the Mersey, from Bos ton and Halifax, leaving the latter place on the 13th inst., with about 70 passengers, 130,000 dollars on freight, and the usual mails from the United States and the British provinces. The royal mail steamer America arrived at Boston on the mornfins of the day on which the Canada left ;;:;lock. The royal mail steamer Merlin, of the West India service, left New York on the 9th for St. Thomas, via Bermuda. The intelligence by this arrival is not of great po litical importance. Our correspondent says : NEW YORK, JrNII 10. We learn from Washington that Josiah Randall, a respectable lawyer of Philadelphia, has been ap pointed minister to Russia. A semi-official docu ment has appeared at the scat of government, vin dicating the reputation of the present Secretary of the Treasury from a supposed taint arising out of his interest in the Mexican claims. It seems he had a large interest in one of these, and that beforo he took office he sold it to some friend. It is now alleged that this sale was not &mai fide. As it is to be presumed the commissioners decided those claims according to equity and good conscience, I do not see why Mr. Corwm's character should be assailed because he happened, as a private citizen, to have a claim, which proved to be valid, and which he dis posed of at a sacrifice before ho took office. One of the government revenue cutters, the Taney, has returned from a cruise in our southern waters. Her presence there was the signal for the breaking up of several predatory parties. The officers and men exerted themselves with the greatest alacrity. Quite a number of suspected persons were arrested and sent off to their homes. Cuba was all quiet on the 28th ult. Our domestic news is not particularly interesting. Jenny Lind has finally separated from Mr. Barnum, who, as I said he would, has made arrangements to exhibit himself at the World's Fair. Our warm weather is now fairly set in, and our townspeople arc getting ready for their summer ex cursions and retreats. I regret to say that the cholera is beginniug to assume a very disastrous ap pearance in our western states. The Willis and Webb affair is getting more com plicated than ever. Webb asserts the letters he holds are conclusive as to the guilt of some persons. I The question is who arc they ? The Postmaster-General has announced an ar- rangement, to take effect after July 1, by which ►etters to the West India Islands, ports in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Atlantic coast of South Ame rica, can be sent through the United States Post office, on prepayment of the United States postage to any such ports in the British possessions, and with the addition of the British postage, when destined for ports belonging to other governments. In the case of Scott, indicted at Boston for the rescue of the fugitive slave Shadrach, the jury were unable to agree upon a verdict. Although agreeing as to the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law, they stood equally divided on the question of con victing the prisoner. The district attorney has an nounced his intention of putting the case on trial again in a fev, days. The Mississippi river has risen so high at St.Lonis as to overflow the levee. A large amount of produce has been damaged, and the difficulty in shipping and landing goods has nearly caused a suspension of business. I fates from Mexico do not extend beyond the 20th ult., as at our last issue, but we have more complete details of the news. The government is in a state of great perplexity, and there are constant rumours of a revolution. The attempts to replenish the ex hausted treasury have proved ineffectual. It was proposed to invest the President with full power to raise funds without the concurrence of Congress, thus making him a virtual dictator. The country seems to be verging toward a state of anarchy similar to that which preceded the war with the United States. It was reported that the great commercial house of ltondero, in the city of Mexico, had failed. The amnesty granted to the Indians in the state of Puebla has been attended with the most favourable effects. The revolted Indians are surrendering them selves every day. The railroad from Vera Cruz to San Juan is about to be abandoned. The war in Yucatan is drawing to a close. The Indians are evi dently discouraged, and arc relaxing their efforts. They suffered a bloody defeat at Baccalar, which they endeavoured to take by assault, but were re ceived with such a heavy fire by the garrison that they were utterly routed, and choked up the river with their dead bodies. The whites sustained only a trifling loss. The state of Zacatecas is in great distress on account of the long-continued drought. No rain has fallen since August. Provisions are enormously dear, and a general famine is appre hended. CANADA. Our correspondent writes as follows: TORONTO, June 7. In our Legislative Assembly last night there was a debate in committee of the whole house, upon the resolutions of Mr. Merritt (late president of the executive couneil),for the purpose of gaining reciprocity with the United States. The principle of these resolutions is that the house pass an ad dress to the Queen praying her to impost such duties upon the agricultural productions of foreign nations as those nations impose upon the agricultural productions of Britain and her dependencies. Mr. Merritt made a long speech in support of this principle. Mr. Robinson, a member of the ex-conservative ministry, followed, and proposed a series of resolutions in amend ment, in favour of the principle of Canadian protection and the closing of the Welland Canal against the Americans. Mr. Ilineks, the inspector-general, followed. He ridiculed Mr. Merritt's scheme, as being absurd, and one that would be equally scouted by the protectionists and free traders in England ; and contended that the house would .stultify itself if it adopted it. Such seemed to bo the general opinion. The principle of Mr. Robinson he also condemned, being a free trader ; but he stated that it might be worthy of grave consideration as a measure of retaliation. The closing of our canals,he stated, would inflict the most serious injury on the American western trade, that would force them into the much-talked-of reciprocal free trade arrange ment. He did not state that this would be the policy of the government, but he gave it to be understood that this would be the probable policy. This announcement is of the highest importance to our mercantile interests. Every member who took part in the debate, which lasted for several hours, was in favour of some form of retaliation. The question was ultimately postponed for a fortnight, in order to await the result of the negotiations with the Ame rican government, Mr. Mucks having stated that he might have some important information to convey to the house in the course of a few days that would bear upon the matter. A bill has been introduced into the Assembly for prohibiting the erection of any more rectories, and for depriving the government of the power of presen t tation to the rectories and parsonages now in existence. A motion for a bill to fix the time and place for the meeting of parliament was opposed by the government, and was finally put down by the Speaker aa out of order. Mr. Holmes, the member for Montreal, stated as a mer chant he had had as many as fifty letters expressive of the very greatest alarm, from the western Mates, lest the Welland Canal should be closed by the Canadian govern meat, such course Miming been rumoured and discussed in the newspapers. He also stated that the closing of the canal would inflict a vital stab on the western trade of the States. Nothing else of interest has transpired during the week, except that Lord Elgin gave a splendid &Incur to the members of both branches of the legislature and a number of ladies and gentlemen of this city on Thursday evening. About 500 sat down. The de:framer and amusements were of the best deseription. [For markets ace last page.] EGYPT AND ITS RAlLWAY.—Regarding the rail way from Aleiasdria to Cairo, we have heard with regret that some trilling point of detail not having been clearly explained to his highness the Pasha, the agent whom he had sent over did not feel himself at liberty, under the cir cumstances, to commence operations without further in structions. We now learn with satisfaction that Mr. Robert Stephenson, with a zeal and liberality worthy of his reputa tion, is about to despatch en engineer to Cairo, at his own expense, to explain all details, and to conclude the contract on the spot. The British commercial public, who are sen sible of the advantages to commerce which this undertak ing involves, will, we are sure, appreciate the energy exhi bited by Mr. Stephenson, in which they will recognize an earnest of its speedy completion.—Morning Paper. TEE CAPS MAILA.—A correspondent says :—"The subject of the Cape of (}cod Hope mail-packet station is about to be reconsidered. Although the present station has some advantages, it has disadvantages of serious m 5.- ment—two of which are ita distance from tho metropolis, and its not being connected with London throughout the whole distance by a double line of railway. Some of the most influential of the directors of the company owning the packets are opposed to the present station. A few days will decide whether the important step of its removal shall take place or not." gbe Court. Her Majest' and Prince Albert, with the Prints@ of Wales and Prince Alfred, accompanied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, with the Duke doßrabant, the Count do Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, visited the Exhibition of the Works ,of Industry of All Nations on Saturday morning. In atteridanecon the royal party were the Viscountess Canning. Madame de blow,. snag:, General Wetnyee, Colonel Bouverie, Colonel d e Meerkerke, and Count Albert de Briey. The que en . PrincnAlbert, and the King of the Belgians arrived at the Exhibition at half-past 9 o'clock and left at half-past 11 o'clock. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, visited het Royakilighnese the Duchess of Kent on Saturday at het residence, Clarence-house, St. James's. The Prince also inspeetedßridgwater-house on Saturday afternoon. mobjesty the Bing of the Belgians, accompanied by the Duke de Brabant, the Count de Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte, and attakded by Madame de Mont anelns, Colonel de Moerkerke,. - and Count Albert do Briey, took a carriage drive on-Saturday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, attended by Miss Hililyaril, visited the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations on Sa turday. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert ho noured the performance of the Royal Italian Opera on Sa turday evening with their presence. The royal suite con sisted of ViseciunteA Canning, the lion. Matilda Paget, Lord Camoys, General Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, rode out on horseback on Saturday afternoon. Yesterday, her Majesty and l'rince Albert, the King of the Belgian., the Prince of Wales and the Prince.s Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the don:testis household, attended Divine Service in the priv.ite chapel in I Buckingham Palace. The lion. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. _ _ _ The Duchess of Rent attended Divine Service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Prayers were reia by the Rev. J. Ilelmore, the Lessons by the Rev. J. 1 homas, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The Sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. It. S. West. The anthem was "Let God arise' (Green). Sir G. Smart presided at the organ. The Duke of Welling ton attended the early service yesterday. The Rev. J. M. Anderson will preach next Sunday in the Chapel Royal. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce. Baroness de Speth, and Lord James Murray, honoured Hey Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. A deputation, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Macleod (rii a ,„ gow), rutd the Rev. Dr. ltobert , on and Mr. James Hop* (Edinburgh), had an interview on Saturday with Sir George Grey at the Home-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Canadas and the Governors of the other North American colonies. The Earl of Shaftesbury had an interview on Saturday with Sir George Grey. Lord John Thynno had also an interview with the right hon. baronet. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the \Vest India Islands. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday at the Council-office. The lord present were: The Chiet Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Chan. cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admi ralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. An appeal trout lien gal, " Navies Amin Tod Dowlah v. Split Rushin Ales Khan," was disposed of. Madame do Lisboa and family have arrived at the Brazilian Legation, Manchester-square, from the Continent. APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Herbert Poulton V. ~• - one of the directors of convict prisons, is appointed 1 • . •., e of prisons for the northern and eastern district, in tL• ••a of Mr. Frederick Hill, who has been appointed secretary to the Post-office. Captain Irvine Smith Wl,itty, governor of the convict prison at Portland, has la n ap• pointed to succeed Mr. Vottles in the office of director of convict prisons. Mr. William Carman is appointed clerk of the Pleas for the Supreme Court of New Brun nick. M. I de Nicuwerkerk is appointed assistant receivcr-gca,rill of Berbice, British Guiana.—Observer. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.. OXFORD, JUNE 21.—The following award of tho examining masters "In Disciplinis Mathentaticis et Phy. sicis " was made this afternoon, viz. :—Class 1. Isaac Brck, commoner, Queen's; Thorna; Hewitt Campbell, fellow; St. John's. Class 2. Gilbert Bradley, commoner, Univer sity; John Buthenshaw, scholar, Corptu Christi ; Jonathan G. N. Darby, commoner, Christ Church ; *Robert Steward Falcon, taberdar, Queen's ; Thomas Rennison, talwnlar, Queen's; *George Ridding, commoner, Dallied. Class 1. tJohn Caldicott, scholar, Pembroke ; Frederick Sharon Len, commoner, Wadham ; Charles J. Bullock Marsham, commoner, Merton. Class 4. Albert Bartle, commoner, Pembroke; Hudson G. Heaven, commoner, Trinity; Rickard Hichens ' commoner, Exeter ; Samuel Flood Jones commoner, Pembroke; Benjamin Buckley Rogers, scholar, Wadham; Alexander J. Wallace, commoner, Trinity; James Robert Walker, gentleman commoner, Chnsa Church. • Fart clans to (lattsicn, r Second clarN in Munk". In a Convocation holden this morning, the nomination of Charles 113ridle Daubency, M.D., of Magdalen, and of Henry Wentworth Acland, M.D., of All Souls, to the office of public examiners in the faculty of medicine, met with the unanimous approval of the house. DUBLIN, JUNE 21.—The following gentlemen aro candidates for the Whatelcy Professorship of Political Economy in Dublin University:—Thomas Wibion Barnes, Esq., A. 8.; Thomas Edward elide Leslie, Esq., LL.B.; Edward Graves Mayne, Esq., A.B. ; Richard Hussey Walsh, Esq.; LL.B. The election will be determined the week after next. PITT THE SORROWS OF A DISTRESSED SHIPOWNER. —We lately published a long list of vessels belonging to Mr. David Dunhar, who is loudest amongst the loud in proclaiming the ruin of our shipping trade, in consequence of the repeal of the navigation laws, amounting to an aggregate tonnage of 33,000 tons; the greater part built and purchased very recently, whilst the ruin of British shipping was in daily progress. It is with pain that we are obliged today to an nounce an addition of other 1,000 tons to Mr. David Dunbar's distressed family of 33,000 tons. The birth is thus announced in the Durham Adrretisa. of Friday :—" On Monday last a splendid new ship, the largest ever built in the pert of Sunderland, was launched from the yard of James Laing, Esq., Dept ford, named Vimiera, Al, 13 years, burthen 1.027 tons. She is the propertript David Dunbar, Esq., of London." Nothing, then, It isrto be feared, can save this infatuated protectionist from tlic worst cakuni ties of free trade. GREENWICH ELECTION.--On Saturday Joshua Morris, Esq., the returning officer for the borough of Greenwich, pursuant to precept from the high sheriff for the county of Kent, gave notice that the nomination of a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Greenwich in Parliament, in the room of the late Mr. Barnard, would take place at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, the 26th instant, on the hustings, in front of St. Mary's Church, Greenwich. A numerous meeting of the supporters of Alderman Wire took place on Saturday eveuiug, at the Greyhound tavern; the friends of Alderman Salo mons assembled at the Stags. The great and nearly complete agreement in the political principles of the two aldermen almost reduces the electors to seek the grounds of their preference in the more pk vomit qualifications of the candidates. A very large number who would have supported Alderman Salomon a year ' ago, in the present posture of affairs object to a candidate who would feel himself precluded from supporting the' go vernment in its endeavours to repress the attempt. of the Rooth& ecclesiastics to establish an arrogant despotism in the name of liberty. Others, well disposed towards Alder ' man Salomon, and giving him full credit for the intention he has expressed of claiming and taking his seat in tho House of Commons if elected, look at the actual state of the law, and fear that his return would practically prove the loss of a representative to Greenwich. Mr. Wire has the advantage of living in the borough. His votes upon all general questions, it is urged, would be such as his rival would give, while he would be free to support Lord John Russell's anti-papal measure. THE MONMOCTIISHIRE BOROCOrI9.—Some of our neighbouring contemporaries are giving currency to a num ber of idle rumours with respect to the representation of the Monmouthshire Boroughs. We have been assured, on pretty good authority, that Mr. Blewitt has no wish or in tention to retire from the post which he has filled so long. In case of a dissolution, we do not believe that any one of the highly respectable gentlemen who have been named as the opponents of Mr. Blewitt will come forward to contest the Boroughs against him.—Monmouthshire Merlin. RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M.P., AND THE PEACE Mottos.—The following letter relative to Mr. Colslen's motion of last Tuesday has been received from the hon. gmtleman by our townsman, Mr. Ilarvey: " London, 18th June, Sir,—l am much obliged by your letter, with an account of the very spirited meeting held in Leeds in support of my motion yesterday. You will observe by the report that, at the earnest desire of many of my friends, I abstained from going to a division. As a general rule, I think it is best to ascertain one's strength or weakness by a vote of the house ; but, on the present occasion, I yielded to the wish of my parliamentary friends, who seem anxious to persuade themselves that Lord Palmerston will do all that we wish him to do without a vote of the house. I hope they may not be disappointed ; but if, after the lapse of another year, it shall be found that nothing is done or at tempted-by the noble lord, then I trust that the friends of our pacific and economical policy will pursue a bold and .Independent course, totally regardless of the views or wishes of the minister of the day, whoever he may be. I shall feel happy to be out, of the members of the Leeds delegation to the Peace Congress ; and believe me, faithfully yours, 80. COlDEN.—Thomas Harvey, Esq."—Leeds Mercury. FIRE IN becks out in the premises . aRE lAtht even ing Groves, S. No. 11, Little Marlborough-street, Golden - sq uare. T h e organ buil a fire builder, d &Nee originated in the ground-floor workshops, and speedily eztended to the two upper floors. The fire, having rushed out of the back, commenced attacking the premises mina , bored 10, 11, 12, and 13 in the same street. In a very brief period half a dozen engines were on the spot, and plenty of water was procured ; but the Haines continued to rage for some time, and before they could to subdued much demean was done. 7 I 4_