The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-22 00:00:00

r F COMMUTED ARMY PENSIONS. Sir D. L. EVANS moved for returns relative to com muted army pensions, comprising warrants and directions Issued on the subjeet in 1832, and correspondence upon the subject at different periods. The hon. and gallant officer observed that this matter had been brought several times before the house, and the case was a wry hard one on • number of poor soldiers, who had served their country bravely, zealously, and faithfully. These poor soldiers were offered, some years since, four years' pension in advance by way of commutation, together with grants of land in Canada. When these poor ignorant men emigrated, they found their grants of land worthless. Advantage had been tskenof them, and they could get no redress. It was very much to the discredit of the government to attempt to profit to the extent of some 300 e sum, by withholding the pensions of the sur vivors of the poor men who bad been thus defrauded. Mr. HUME said that, having been a party to the original arrangement by which the pensioner represented by his hon. and gallant friend had been wronged, he could not abstain from giving his strong support to the plea put for ward on their behalf; for, when he had at first consented to the commutation of their pensions, Ito bad not reflected how little fitted a veteran soldier was to sit down for the remain der of his days in the back woods of Atnerins. lie hoped the government would act generously. not to say honestly, in the matter, and not, for the sake of a few hundred pounds, suffer these old and deserving men to become parish paupers in their age and decrepitude. Mr. F. MAULE said that the papers required by the hon. and gallant member would mostly be found in the library of the house. But Le did not hesitate to admit that the government, baring found the system of commutingpensions for land to be a bad one, had discontinued and discounte nanced it. With regard to the individuals rem. genteel by his boo. and gallant friend, he was prepared to ear, that pro vided they could be identified as the persons really entitled to the pensions of which they were deprived, there would be no difficulty in restoring them. Ile at least was not cue who would refuse this boon. Lord J. RUSSELL said there would be no difficulty in restoring the pensions, provided the identity of the man was proved. After a few words from Sir D. L. EVANS, the motion was by leave withdrawn. CROWN LANDS COMPENSATION. Mr. HUDSON drew the attention of the noble lord oppo site to the circumstance that he, being recently in charge of a railway bill which would require for its ulterior purposes some portion of the ' lands of the Duchy of Lan caster, bad been told, at the moment when the remaining formality of giving the assent of the crown to it remained to be fulfilled, that, unlen he signed a paper which was presented to him at the same time, by which he bound hin:self to pay whatever price might be required for the duchy lands, the royal assent would be withheld. He did not consider the discourtesy with whicot lee had been treated by the Chsneellor of the Duchy of Lancaster a suffi• cient ground for bringing the subject under the notice of the house ; but he certainly thought he was justified in asking the noble lord opposite whether the practice of rendering the assent of the crown to measures passed by the two houses of legislature contingent upon the price exacted for lands under its control or in its possession was to be sanctioned in future, as his experience previous to the case which he had men tioned had given him no reason to think it ought to be, or, indeed, would be ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had no knowledge of the circumstances to which the hon. member referred. All he knew on the subject of crown property was, that these in charge of it were bound by the duties of their office to see that the rights of the Queen were takes due care of before the royal assent was given to private bills effecting them. The subject then dropped. VENTILATION,—DR. REID. Mr. R. YORKE moved for certain correspondence and minutes of proceedings taken in committee in 1346, relative to the disputes which had prevailed in regard to the rival plans of Dr. Reid and Mr. Barry fur ventilating the new houses of parliament. The hon. member said that the noble lord at the head of the Woods and Forests had acceded to ' , his motion and therefore that all he had to do was to express the deep sense of gratitude entertained by him towards Dr. Reid fur the plan of ventilation introduced by him. Sir It. Notts and Mr. lItNDLSY both concurred in this sentiment. Viscount MORPETH likewise agreed in the estimate of Dr. Reid's services, and hoped that the proposal which would be sent in by him for ventilating the Commons House of Parliament would be such as could be accepted. The return was then ordered. The hours adjourned at balf-past five o'clock until to morrow (this day), at one. ght epprzoo. MAILS - . - The overland closed maiM, via Mane Hies, to the Mediterranean, f=tiden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, he., will be made up on the of the 24th July. The mails for Vigo, Owl o, Lisbon, Madeira, Gediz, and Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of the 27th July. The maiLs for New South Wale*, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 3150 July. The West India mails, including those for Mexico, Honduraa, and the tlavanash, au be made up on the morningof the 2nd August. The mails for British North Amerioa, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the 3rd August. Tbs orerian4 malls for Gibraltar, MaltA,Grecce, the lonian Isianda, ArrO, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, via Southampton, will he made up on the morning of the 3rd August. The naafis for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam. kw, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the trolling of the ith August. the southern provinces of China, men like YLIING and his " boys of the belt" generally stand in a sort of JONATHAN WILD relation of alternate fend and al liance with the rabble of great towns like Canton, and the pirates who swarm between Chnean and Hainan. Both of these classes are at this time highly exas perated against the English. The latter, hopeful of plunder, are straining, like greyhounds in the leash, to be let loose upon them—chafing at the hand that withholds them. The former, under the impression that the English are availing themselves of the un manly terrors of the Mandarins to make these intriguers and oppressors the instruments of wresting houses and farms from respectable families, or, at the least, of raising the rents upon them, are writhing under the supposed injustice. A very different policyonght to be pursued towards these two classes, yet the English at Canton seem resolved to recognise no distinction between them. This is more to be lamented than wondered at in the case of the majority of the merchants—so many of whom, though settled so long in China, have not even attempted to learn the language of the people among whom they dwell, and by dealing with whom they have grown rich. But it is surprising that the English consul should have acted so iajudiciously as to refuse to receive the temperate and creditable memorial presented by the elders of Ilonan. It is fortunate for this country, at a tine when so little would be necessary to embroil the English and Chinese at Canton in inveterate hostilities, that a man like KEYING is placed over the province. The diplomatic talents, general information, and judicious spirit of inquiry of this Chinese statesman are admitted by all British diplomatists who have come in contact with him. His natural dignity has left a strong impression on every Englishman high or low who has seen him. lie has been the unflinching and unvarying advocate of a pacific policy and extended commercial intercourse with Europeans. And on the present occasion he has shown himself as superior to the mass of his countrymen in moral courage as in intelligence. Ho has—it is apparent from the Emperor's resoript—dared to tell his sovereign the plain unvarnished tale of Chinese discomfiture at the Bogue forts and Canton, and to advise the adoption of a just and conciliatory policy, instead of unavailing attempts at retaliation. It is for the interest of Eng land—of the whole civilised world—that the empire of China should be preserved intact to its full extent; with a frivolous, ignorant, and over-weaning central government, it will be no easy task to avoid contri buting to its dilapidation. A statesman like KEYING, fall of national pride, yet far in advance of national intelligence, is in such circumstances invaluable as the channel of communication between his country men and their foreign visitors. Would that we could say as much for the repre sentatives of the British government in China ; but it is impossible. There is much of official departmental talent there. Colonel D'AcuitAn has approved himself by his conduct of the late expedition a master of his trade. Mr. Consul MACGREGOR is great as a statist. Others might be named were it necessary. And yet the whole direction of British alLars in China has of late been one series of blunders. We say nothing of the pitiful and captious legislation by which our trade has been hampered in the Chinese waters; nothing of the miserable mis takes, financial and municipal, by which the progress of Hong Kong has been impeded. It is enough that from the illegal condemnation of Mr. Comeros to the rejection of the Henan memorial the conduct of the British authorities has been characterised alternately by rashness and timidity, each characteristic being displayed with a "curious felicity" exactly at the time when it was most likely to do harm. the cause is that there is no head there—no person qualified to take the lead. The present is the critical period which must decide upon the nature of our future relations with China. A man of independent habits of thought, and great self-reliance—a man of clear discrimination to know the good from the refuse of a foreign people—a man of indomitable courage to assert our rights, yet of strong self-control to prevent passion gaining the mastery over him—is wanted there, to turn to account that providential dispensation by which a character like KEYING has been placed so high in the Em peror's confidence, at the time when China is for the first time disposed (or compelled) to cultivate more extended relations with other countries. THE unusual lull of party warfare on the eve of a general election might be turned, and, in some cases, we hope, will be turned, to great public advantage. Constituencies have, on the present occasion, un wonted facilities for selecting candidates with a view rather to their personal qualifications than to the co lour or faction to which they belong. In 1811, the majority in most counties and boroughs would rather have chosen a blockhead or a scamp than a political opponent. The field of choice is now widened ; and there seems reason to expect that the new parliament will contain more than the usual amount of political knowledge and ability. It would, however, be better that the election should be decided, as in former times, by a trial of strength between two great rival parties, than that active cliques and sectional interests should turn the armistice to their own purposes by making their support exclusively contingent on the disposition of a candidate to further their own imme diate objects. A readiness to give pledges on isolated questions is always a sign either of dishonesty or of imprudence. It is seldom possible to tell what form they will have assumed, or in what relation they will stand to the general political system, at the time when the pledge will have to be redeemed or ne glected. When Benedick said he should die a bachelor, it did not occur to him that he might live to be married. It follows that those who exact such ' pledges as the condition of their support, not only disregard, in the exercise of their electoral franchise, the wider considerations which ought to determine their votes, but give an advan tage to those candidates who display the greatest amount of levity and unscrupulousness. There are many questions which stand quite apart from general politics, and yet interest particular bodies in the strongest manner ; contests between different lines of railway, excise regulations, factory bills, and even personal questions, are naturally urged . by those whom they concern on the attention of their would-be representatives: but although such considerations may sometimes turn the scale of a nicely-balanced contest, there has been a general understanding that they are subordinate to general polities, and that a candidate who differs from a vote on the merits of the gauges, or on the innocence of the Rajah of SAT TARA, may nevertheless be well qualified to represent general wishes and interests in parliament. Unfortunately, the false issue which many ill judging persons are endeavouring to force upon con stituencies at present belongs to the department of religious politics, which have always formed the most formidable disturbing force which has affected English legislation. Love for proteetantism, and hatred of popery, or a disposition to advocate sec tarian theories, are everywhere held out by active sections of electors as the grounds for choosing one of the sovereign body of the empire, which is the greatest in the world, and which comprises the greatest variety of races, languages, and religions among its subjects. It is not so much because those who require religious pledges are in error, ma because they turn a grave political decision into a sectarian dispute, that we protest against their narrow and exclusive dictation. The English Roman catholics have already in excusable self-defence determined to act at the election with a view to the advancement of catholic interests only, and in Ireland the clamorous hostility of the ultra-protestants may well provoke corresponding virulence on the part of the priests and of the people whom they govern. In the mean time the great body of intelligent electors and by-standers, who believe t!te functions of parliament to be of the highest importance, and yet think that to decide between religious truth and error is no part of its duties, see themselves reduced to silence by • quarrel which ought to take place, if at all, in a wholly different arena. Eligible candidates are rejected, or intruders thrust upon constituencies, because they feel, or neglect, the scrup les which may arise when pledgee are required not to endow the Irish clergy. We are not arguing in favour of the endow ment, but we may appeal to all reasonable men whether an opinion that it may at some time be de sirable is one that should exclude a fit candidate from the representation of such bodies as the City of London or the University of Cambridge? Unfortu nately, the probable remoteness of the question from actual decision or discussion in parliament, has tempted too many candidates on both sides to par chase support by giving the desired pledge. That TO CORRESPONDENT& patent. Ishmael Aar Tar Xrpraw, Lesiatt earzla ... paper, mast M at Oa Oita Ity Two Vakatate Oa er► a pa RION WATER AT LONDON-11111D91. Tut. Ihr—MalTalai, prIS a, Alliarree. 7 als. past 9. To•Mozao•—Alersista 39 AAA we 9. altsrame. 17 Na. p.. 10. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 22. In the House of Lords yesterday the business was merely of a routine character. Ire the House of Commons the Bishopric of Man chester Bill was again made matter of discussion on the question of the third reading, Mr. HUME moving that the bill be read a third time that day six months. The principal speakers were Sir J. GRARAM and Lord J. RUSSELL; and on a division the original motion was carried by a majority of 93 to 14. After a clause proposed by Mr. P. Boarnwicx had been negativel without a division, the bill pnased.—A discussion at the instance of Sir D. L. Eves ensued on the sub ject of commuted army pensions, where the parties bad accepted lands in Canada as an equivalent which had turned oat to be worthless. Mr. F. MAULE in timated that the system had been abandoned ; and Lord J. RUSSELL said there would be no diffi culty in restoring the pensions provided the iden tity of the parties could be proved.—The sub ject of lands belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall, required for railway purposes, and the conduct of the Chancellor of the Duchy in reference thereto, was made matter of observation and complaint by Mr. HUDSON.-Mr. R. YORKE having moved for certain correspondence relative to Dr. Itein's case, as con nected with the ventilation of the new House of Commons, Lord Moue ern acquiesced in the motion, expressing his hope that the proposal about to be made to Dr. REID for carrying out that object would be acceded to by him. TUE news from China is of a chequered character. Such events as our " Superintendent of Trade" cap turing the Bogue forts, and dictating terms to the governor of Canton at the Factories, could not be ex pected to pass over without leaving something like irritation in the minds of the Chinese. Consequently, we find excitement enough, and to spare, among the people of the " Central Flowery." Care most be taken, however, to distinguish between two entirely distinct classes of the excited. On the one hand we have to deal with a shrewd, sturdy class of disputants, much disposed at all times to stand upon their right, and having that disposi tion heightened at present by wounded national pride into something very apt to become obsti nacy. We allude to the classes represented by the elders of Honan, who waited upon Mr. Consul MACG REGOR, to present a memorial respecting the propoeal to assign a piece of ground on the south side of the Canton river, under a building lease, to the English. The details are given elsewhere in this days publication, and are worthy of serious atten tion. The venerable and dignified appearance of the elders appears to have impressed even the most thoughtless of our English residents (and a more reckless set than some of them it would be difficult to find) with respect. The memorial speaks the language of clear-headed men of business. And the manner in which the delegates from 48 villages met, prepared, and adopted their memorial, betokens a people among whom habits of popular self-govern ment have grown to maturity under the shadow of a sham government. On the other hand, we have the incendiary rabble of Canton, and such characters as the prefect of Sin hing-fu and his "braves." The former are merely reproductions, in Chinese forms, of characters that are to be found in every great European town. The pro testant house-burners, roused to action by the weak Lord GEORGE GORDON, were their exact counter parts. Even their silly insolence to foreigners is not without its European counterpart: in the Liverpool docks we once saw the rabble who incommoded a crew of Lasears by their impertinent curiosity, spit in the faces of these sailors when civilly asked to leave the vessel. The class to whom YEE' NO and his band of " braves " belong, as any one may learn from Mr. MEADOWS'S ‘' Desultdry Notes," is merely creature frequent enough under all imbecile govern ments—a reckless intriguing courtier, with a band of unscroludous dependents to work his bidding. In THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1847. each of them as are ultra-protestants or indiscriminate opponents of all ecclesiastical endowments, may be justified in complying with the popular demand, we do not dispute, but we believe that many . have merely given their promises for the sake of imme diate support, in the hope that the practical agitation of the question may be indefinitely postponed. The union of religions parties in the opposition to popery is singular enough. The dissenters, hating Items much, but Canterbury more, are more earnest in their opposition to endowment in the abstract than to the endowment of error in the particular case. The low church party, on the other hand, instead of looking on endowments as abominations, think them things far too good to be shared with a body of benighted papists. Determined to ignore such precedents as those of Scotland, of Canada, of Malta, and of India, and obstinately refusing to recognise the constitutional equality of catholics with protestants, they rely on the objection that by endowing more than one sect, the state proclaims its indifference between truth and error.--a conclusion which we willingly admit, and can scarcely repel till wo find that parlia ment has some means of ascertaining religious truth, as well as au authority to proclaim it. It is clear that these two parties, if they are right in demanding the pledge which they agree in exact ing, cannot both be right in the diametrically opposite reasons which determine their conduct. If they were opposing a distinct practical measure, the inconsis tency would instantly be felt, but at present they are engaged in the difficult and complicated task of proving a universal negative. We are es willing as any opponent of popish claims to allow that many very objectionable schemes might be devised for en dowing the Irish priests; but till a scheme is actually drawn up, we are equally unwilling to pledge ourselves to support or to oppose it. A parliamentary grant would stand on quite different grounds from a transfer of the revenues of the Irish church to the prevalent denomination, and it is unnecessary to sug gest that in either plan there might be innumerable modifications on which its eligibility might depend. We doubt whether a calm and logical dissenter, how ever zealous, would deliberately adhere to the pro position that the Irish catholic church should, in all cases, be debarred from holding corporate property, from whatever source it might arise. That church already possesses endowments, and is legally qualified to hold them on a larger scale. The Eoglrsh Pro testant sects, all we believe, without exception, Possess endowments, some to a very great amoant. Ile last Scotch secession has resulted in the estab lishment of a church which already counts its posses- Sio/18 by hundreds of thousands, and if the English Church were stripped of its possessions to-morrow, it would in a year be again the richest corporation in the kingdom. We are not arguing on one side or the other. We only ask the religious bodies to wait till a measure is proposed before they pledge their representatives to resist it. When it has become a party question, perhaps they will not find that candi dates will give pledges so lightly. As a specimen of the absurdity of selecting mem bers exclusively on the ground of their adoption of some isolated proposition, we may refer to a circular of a not very powerful body, called the Peace Society, which, like the National Club, exhorts electors to set aside all considerations but the maintenance of its own peculiar hobby. There is not, we suppose, one mem ber in the existing parliament, and we hope there will not be one in the next, who would carry out the scheme of the society by refusing, in all cases and at all times, to concur in a just and necessary war. It is, however, not quite so certain that an unscrupulous candidate might refuse to purchase half-a-dozen crotchety voters by promising to carry their views into effect. They will not have advanced the cause of peace, but they will have taken an airing on their hobby, and have thrown their weight probably into the wrong scale. More powerful and impor tant bodies should avoid a similar error, and not choose the candidate who agrees with them in one proposition, in preference to an opponent who may perhaps represent their wishes on all others. At the last general election a Welsh farmer met a stranger nding over the hills, and inquired of him, as being probably better informed than himself, which of the two candidates would by his return be most likely to raise the price of wool. He (the farmer), for his part, was determined to vote for the friend of wool. The stranger confessed his inability to answer the question, and respectfully suggested that the result of the contest for the county might perhaps not be de cisive in the wool market. Welsh bill farmers, how ever, seldom change their opinions, and we have no doubt the voter went to the poll and voted for his fleeces. It is to be hoped that he reaped his reward ; but if his present representative is a good member, he must, as far as the farmer's vote went, be considered a happy accident. NOTHING is more common in France. than what are called pot de rims, gratuities to people who enable others to get a good contract, or to conclude what is called a tonne affaire. The memoirs of °I:VR.4RD and those of Gisouer most fully disclose how these things are managed and regularly expected in affairs of the first, as of lesser magnitude. When omnibuses were invented, M. GISQUET acquaints the curious public on what terms the public functionary, charged , with sanctioning them, did sanction them. How could railroad enterprises prove exceptions to the general rule, or that host of undertakings which sprang up simultaneously with railroads, such as mines and forges? M. TaSTE was a barrister of first-rate practice. Marshal Sourr induced him to give up his practice, and take a portfolio in his cabi net. M. TESTE, for this, abandoned a handsome in come, and for this, perhaps, was entrusted with that department, of which he knew nothing, viz., Public Works. Just at the moment that M. TesTE gave up his practice at the bar for practice at the French public works, railroad companies were formed in England to execute French lines. That of Rouen and Paris was one. M. TEFTE'S mode of administering the French Public Works department is perfectly well known in this country. M. M.'.RnN was Minister of Public Works before M. TESTE, and M. MARTIN amassed a very handsome fortune. This is one of the terrible vices of centralising all power in the hands of government, especially in a re publican country like France. Ministers and func tionaries are poorly paid, yet poor men are put into these places of immense power, and charged with the sanctioning and adjusting demands and claims made by the wealthiest capitalists. It is almost impossible, but that corruption must come of such a system. The other offices of a French ministry have power and patronage of great extent. These are used by Home office, and Foreign-office, and Finance-office, for what one might call the legitimate purpose of strengthening the government, and acquiring electoral and parlia mentary support. Public works could not be ma naged with such a purpose and to each an end. We see that it was not maintained free from corruption. It becomes a serious question, where this sanction and authority over public works, or over works in which the public are mainly interested, should be placed. Parliamentary committees and parliament itself have been made the scenes of very disgrace ful struggles. Our own early railroad projec tors could tell stories of the House of Lords, and of the mode of influencing it, which we think would startle the believer in parliamentary and aristocratic independence. Science may make, at no distant day, a discovery that would occasion, and de mand, as much outlay and enterprise as railroads. The most advanced countries are finite unprepared to deal with such a state of things. Placed in juxtaposition with each other, England tried the system of non interference, France all-interference. The English system has turned out the purest and best. A more tangled turmoil than the French government dealings with private enterprise could not well be found ; and of the purity of the direction we may form an idea from the late trials. Will errors mend, or will exposure care ? We doubt it. What law has as yet eradicated electoral corruption ? What example can abolish ministerial corruption, if the thing be in the habits and tolerance of the people? When M. PELLAPRA heard of the danger that threatened him for having bribed a high functionary, he replied, " Pooh, I have been doing it all my life." And M. PELLAI'RA would find ready and safe means of pursuing his avocation to-morrow. The wonder in the present instance is not the cor ruption that has been disclosed, but the foolish frank ness and confidence with which it was carried on. General CURIERES states the whole business on the broad sheet of a letter, and TESTE, when he gets the money, invests the sum in his own or his son's name. 'the most trifling precaution would have rendered conviction impossible; and so impossible did TESTI'. deem it, that ho scouted all the considerate offers of the government to stop the proceedings, if of the 36th regiment, and one of the bandsmen of the 62nd, piumgere on board the Hindoetan, died suddenly on the 16th ; their funerals were attended by their fellow-passen gers, the commandant and the medical otlioen of the hos pital, the medical officers of the ships in harbour, and a lieutenant from each ship. The Antonio, Dutch merchant vessel, called in last night with her ensign half mast high ,• she is from Batavia, and has on board the body of C olonel fiteiaachea, of the Netherlands army, who died at sea two days ago. He is to be interred here this afternoon with military honours ; the programme of the funeral procession has inn been issued by the commodore, and will consist of boats end officers:from the Mariner, Wanderer, Tortoise, and Penelope, and the officers and marines on shore. FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE IN A BELGIAN COAL MINE. Bitusence, iI:LY 19. On the night of the 16th inst. a destructive Are broke out on the premises connected with the Marihaye Coal Works, near Seraing. It originated in the engine•room near the mouth of the pit, and rapidly spread, catching in its progress, and burn ing, the ladders and ropes which served for descending into the coal pit, and thus cutting eff for the time all means of escape for 161 workmen who were at work therein. The first signal of their danger was the appearance of dense columns of smoke which came down the mouth of the pit. The workmen immediately rushed to the ladders, but the foremost, after ascending them a short distance, were either suffocated and fell dead to the ground, or killed by the falling of burning materials from the top of the shaft. Ihe fire was, after great efforts, mastered, and a descent into the pit made, when a most frightful sight presented itself. The dead, the dying, and the wounded, lay all scattered about the place. Forty.one dead bodies were taken out of the pit, end thirty-one alive, but most of them badly wounded. Search was being made for the remainder. ITALY.—NAPLES, JULY 9.—lt appears that great disturbances have occurred, and still conunue, in Calabria, which now abounds with Deigned!. A band of these, to the number of 200, well mounted, and commanded by a priest, carry terror through the country. Another band, of the same number, and equally well mounted, is in Apulia, Ind both are endeavouring to make a junction. The excitement occa sioned at Naples by this intelligence livery great. Seven bat talions of soldiers have been sent to the assistance of the troops already on the spot, and it is stated on good authority that the minister of police is going is person to the scene of die. turbance. The immediate cause of these risings is the pre. sailing misery and want of the peasantry, but whether there may be other causes is not known. It is anticipated, from the present state of the country and the spirit of the people, that considerable difficulty will be found in putting down the move iO ment. ILLAND.—THE HAGUE, JULY 19.—1 t is in tended to enter into an arrangement with Sweden to par ticipate in the profit which will result in the opening of the new canal from Helsingborg to Landakron. An arrange. went of this kind will be a loss to Denmark of its principal source of revenue, forithe trade of the Sound brings an amount annually of two millions of dollars. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette is of opinion that these new relations will, probably, render the Danish government more tractable, and that if Prussia would resume the negotiations which have several times been interrupted, she would succeed in sub. stituting for the toll levied on the Prussian vessels, en annual sum, which she will pay to Russia. GALICIA.—LEMBERG,JCLY 3.—Aletter from Lem berg, of July 5, states that for some time past a great number of Jews have been emigrating from Russia into Galicia, in consequence of the late measures adopted by the Russian government relative to their worship. The Jewish popula tion of Galicia being, in consequence of this influx, aug mented a seventh, the government of Galicia has decided on establishing colonies of Jews in liukowina, where the popula tion is rather thin. EGYPT. DAMIETTA. PET CROCODILES. A dreadful event took place at Damietta in the early part of June. The governor of the town, Arif Effendi, kept in his gardens two crocodiles he had succeeded in taming. One of the negroes whose duty it was to attend to these favourites having ill-treated one of these animals, its natural ferocity returned, and in its fury it sprang on the governor's son, a youth about 12 years of age, who was walking by the negro's side, and strangled him. CAPE DE VERD.—It is well known that volcanic craters exist in most of the groups of islands in the Atlantic. The island of Fogs, the chief of the Cape de Verd Islands, contains several; but the volcano had been for fifty years at rest, and the seven mouths through which the lava was wont in its fury to rush forth, bad been nearly filled up by huge masses of rocks, which hod from time to time fallen into them. It was, therefore, to the no small terror of the inha bitants of the island of Fogs, that they were made aware, by continual internal rumblings, that an explosion was in pre paration. Accordingly, on the 9th of April last, the volcano burst forth with a violent noise, accompanied by a shock which was felt over the whole island. The rocks which obstructed the craters were thrown up into the air, and the passages thus freed for the lava which poured down from the seven mouths thus opened to it, carrying destruction before it, killing, on its way to the sea, a distance of three miles, several head of cattle, and destroying an immense number of plantations. An unfor tunate child was surprised by the lava, and fell, the only human victim to the eruption. The land thus laid waste was inhabited by about 50 Portuguese colonists, who fled, leaving behind all they possessed. A subscription has since been opened for their relief. These details are taken from the official account delivered by the Portuguese authorities of the place to tho Governor-General of the Cape de Verd Islands. CALIFORNIA.—FiIes of the Californian (a paper published by the Americans at Monterey) to the beginning of March, were received at Hong-Kong on the 3rd of May. They contain General Kearney's proclamation on assuming the civil government of the state, dated the Ist of March last; an ordinance by Walter Cotten, chief magistrate of Monterey, relative to the employment of Indians; and another from the same source to prevent the sale of stolen property. The tone of General Kearney's proclamation ap pears to imply that California is considered as permanently incorporated with the North American Union. A free go vernment, similar to the governments of the states of the union, is to be granted with the least possible delay. In the mean time " the laws now in existence, and not in conflict with those of the United States, will be continued." The ordinances referred to show that at Monterey, as at Vera Cruz and Tampico, the North American invaders have con ferred upon their neighbours of the Spanish race realcffective municipal government for the first time. SANDIVICH ISLANDS.—Papers from these islands to March 27, were received at Hong Kong May 3. The foragers for the United States troops in California had cleared the market at Oahu of all that was disposable. The inhabitants were in consequence feeling the pressure of scarcity. The impartation of beef, pork, flour, &c., into California, free of duty, for six months, had been proclaimed. the following them up was likely to prove &mastery i to him or to the general character of the public administration. Never was the dew cult perdere more fully exemplified than in the demented conduct of ThrrE. Even at this moment, in Prance, TESTE is, perhaps, as much the object of pity as of blame. CUBIERES certainly far more pitied than blamed, if blamed he be. The advantages of the example, or of the moral lesson, are, therefore, we fear, very small. society must purge itself of crimes like this. Private as well as public opinion must learn to discountenance and contemn, and not leave it to courts of justice to punish 1 that lack of honour which no fear of detection can obviate, and no judicial sentence can crush. The Paris journals of Tuesday have reached us. It was rumoured and generally believed in Paris, that Marshal Soult had again sent in his resignation; and that in a couneil of ministers, which we announced yesterday es having taken place, that resignation had been accepted, and a courier sent off to Marshal Bugeaud, bearing an offer of the portfolio of the war department. The result is not known. It was also settled that M. Guizot was to become president of the council. M. Cunin-Gridaine has, it is said, expressed his intention to withdraw, and ho is to be replaced by M. Muret de nerd. M. Pellapra has given himself up. The Moniteur announces that his trial will commence on Friday next, the 23rd inst. The Union Monarehique says that the alarming rumours that bad been current as to the state of health of M. Teste are confirmed. His health is in jured to such an extent that his family begin to en tertain serious fears for his recovery. A demand in separation de biens has just been formed by Mme. Marie Catherine Teste, wife of M. Teste. The French squadron, consisting of four vessels of the line and four frigates, under the command of the Prince de Joinville, arrived at Palermo on the 4th. The debate on the Lyons Railway was still continu ing in the Chamber of Deputies. The Madrid journals of the 14th and 15th have come to hand, with our correspondent's letter of the 14th. The Queen, who, as already stated, had ap pointed the 17th for her journey to San Ildefonso, was to be accompanied by the Minister of Commerce, and her private secretary, M. Ventura de la Vega. In consequence of the Queen's determination to erect a monument to Arguelles, the Marquis de Foyer, says the Herald°, has resigned his post of gentilhombre to her Majesty, and refused to perform the service at court, which devolves on him as a grandee of Spain. The Duke de Sotomayor had addressed a letter to the Her aide to confirm the statement made by his colleagues in his late cabinet, in reply to an article in the Caere°, to the effect that they did not foment differences between the Queen and the King, and did not side with the King to the prejudice of the Queen. The duke adds' that at no time during his ministry was the personal support, either of Queen Christina or the King, soli cited, but that his ministry confided exclusively in the sentiments of the Queen, and left her majesty to the free exercise of her prerogative. The Faro states that the ministerial crisis has ceased. Major- General Fernando de Cordova has been appointed Inspector-General of Infantry, but he is to con tinue to discharge the ditties of Captain-General of New Castile until his successor, Lieutenant-General Mendez Vigo, at present Captain-General of Galicia, shall be able to take the post. The accounts from the provinces represent that bands of Montemolinists had reappeared in Gerona. The Eco del Comercio states that the Captain General of Catalonia has determined to piste troops on some parts of the public roads, in order to prevent the destruction of the mails by the insurgents. The Corm, the semi-official organ, an nounces that the plenipotentiaries of the three allied powers had signed a new convention for the pacifica tion of Portugal, which declares, among other things, that the fort of For shall be given up by the English and occupied by the Spaniards. Accounts received in Paris from Rome, under date of the 10th, inform us that Cardinal Oizzi had resigned, and that Cardinal Ferretti, Legate of Pesaro and Urbino, had been appointed his summer. The holy father had announced to him his nomination in au autograph letter. Cardinal Ferretti, who belongs to a noble family of Ancona, is 52 years of age. He was very intimate with the Pope before hie election to the pontifical chair, and has made himself remarked both by his firmness and piety in the legation which he governed. He is the brother of the Major Ferretti who, in the time of Napoleon, was considered one of the bravest officers of the Italian army, and who lately refused the Grand Mastership of the Order of Malta. The Pope convoked on the Bth a congregation of cardinals, to take into consideration the municipal law, and other urgent measures. MADRID, JULT 14. The Correo denies that General Concha has applied to the government to dismiss Senor Aylion from his post at Lisbon. The arbitrary proceeding of ministers here, in pro hibiting a meeting of their opponents at the Bank of San Fernando, which was to be held, in the intention of peti tioning the Queen to take some prompt measures for the relief of the money market, has occasioned much clamour against them from all parties. The Gazette contains a decree, declaring the intention of the Queen to have a monument erected to Arguelles, in acknowledgment of the zeal, loyalty, and respectful affec tion with which he discharged the duties confided to him by the Cortes, as guardian of the Queen and her " very dear and beloved sister." The monument is to be erected in the cemetery of St. Isidoro. A competition is to be opened at the Fine Arts Academy of St. Fernando, when the models of the monument will be submitted to the inspection of judges. Another decree aappresses tho present general direction of the post, and unites that branch of administration to the department of Senor Benavides, the government of the kingdom. The Queen intends shortly to visit the royal site of San Ildefonso, but is notexpected to leave Madrid before the 17th. It is said that only one of the ministers will accompany her Majesty, which is not known. Another skirmish with the rebels has taken place in the mountains ef Toledo, in which the Cabecilla Rojo has been killed. There is a good deal of news about the Carlini bands, and more details are given touching the last brush of the troops with the Students, and the burning of the mail near Igualada. It seems that the Student presented himself on the morning of the 10th, with thirteen men well erased and mounted, at Pe,sactas, eight leagues from Burgos, on the road of Santan der. While he was burning the letters which had been brought by the Santander mail, he was overtaken and at tacked by a column which had left Burgos on the night of the 9th. Two of his troop were killed, one of whom was his " secretary," and both he and his brother fled, slightly wounded. The rebels had stopped the diligence of Bilbao as well as the Santander mail ; but fortunately they had not lime to plunder it, or to molest the passengers. On the night of the 7th, at Barcelona, the brig Prueba, arrived from Ilavannah, with 340 bales of cotton, took fire. The lonia estimated at 40,000 dollars. ASCENSION, Jung 21. Her Majesty's brig Wanderer, Commander Mon tresor, has just arrived (2 p.m.) from Sierra Leone, with 18 men down in their hammocks with fever. As the yellow flag was hoisted at the foremast head for some time after her an ival, and the Ilindostan may take home exaggerated ac counts of her sickness, I think it right to inform you that the fever is not of a malignant type ; that the Wanderer has already received pratique ; and that her sick will be imme diately landed at the hospital. The vessel will be cleared out, tune given to recruit here, and she will afterwards take the best part of the station—the south coast. She was 25 days on her passage from Sierra Leone. The only fatal else that has yet occurred on board was that of a man who died two days after leaving Sierra Leone. This is the second out break of fever in the Wanderer; the first, from which the crew had perfectly recovered, while stationed off the Cape Verdes, was incurred at the Congoe. None of the officers have suffered this time. The Ilindostan arrived on the loth inst., and will sail this day, after taking on board 209 tons of coals and seven or eight turtle. Tne Oriental Company, it is said, are to make Ascension one of their depots, and we are to be gratified with a visit from one of their ships every month. We are at present in good condition to be viewed by a vessel on an experimental visit. Our monster ship, for Ascension is nothing else than a large raan-ofiwar, is in the finest order and disci pline, and in perfect health. The weather is beautifully cool, the thermometer rearing from 75 deg. to 83 deg. The squadron on the coast are perfectly healthy as far as our accounts roach. Tho Mariner (12), Commander Mat- Union, will be off this evening or to-morrow, for Sierra Leone; she has been some time here awaiting the arrival of the Wanderer. The Penelope steam-frigate, with the flag of Sir Charles Hotham, which has also been waiting her arrival, will. now that the commodore has received his des patches, sail immediately for St. Helena and the south coast. Our noticeable events here are few. Of the gang are— The celebration of her Majesty's accession to the throne, which was duly celebrated yesterday. The French frigate Belle Polite, from Bourbon to Brett, spoke in here on the 13th. She only remained long enough to allow two draughtsmen to come on shore and finish a sketch of the for tifications. The French commodore also landed to pay his respects to Sir Charles Hothatn. He was received by • guard of marines and a salute of 13 guns, and was conductql over the little establishment by the commandant, Captain Frederick Hutton. Our sad events have been funereal. Dr. Jones, surgeon COLONIAL. CEYLON.—Lord Torrington, the new governor, arrived at Oalle on the 28th of May in the liaddington. He reached Colombo next day at 4 p.m. He immediately pro ceeded to the council clamber, where he was sworn in in due form. One of Lord Torrington's first official acts appears to have given (and most deservedly) general satisfaction. Mr. Smith, a member of council, having resigned his seat on proceeding to England, Lord Torrington, on the ground that he was new to this country, addressed a communication to.the chamber of commerce requesting them to recommend one of their members to supply the vacancy. Mr. Ackland, one of the oldest merchants in Ceylon, was in consequence recommended and appointed. The Overland Ceylon ob server announces the arrival of the Dutch steamer Merspi from Batavia with mails for Europe, in consequence of the atrange incident at Singapore. WEST INDIES.—GuIAreA.—Our papers are to June 18. Several hundreds of Portuguese and Coolie im migrants arrived within the fortnight. The combined court had resolved to meet the year's excess of expenditure by an ad valorem tax of 4 per cent. on cottons, cloths, coals, and other articles not specifically taxed. The proposal wu very unpopular, and a vigorous opposition was organising. The weather had been rainy and squally, and some damage had been done. CHINA. CANTON, MAY 23.—The Emperor's reply to Keying's desp►tches intimating the collision with the British at Canton and its lasidia has been published in the CAina Mail. It is as faipiirs:_ iieitan - reOsty;d tL. a dd iidliestion presented tom by Key ing, Ishesditi west on dm Mb day et die Mt mum the English mantlismk. wilt a mem at ssillima. molamly entered the proviu cdal Awe. Assa•ig r ar of ee viseroy, the sad merchants alligal that tbsk eldest mis Is the Walt. they had remiumikain kepi& er Me ; they ales desire rantsmniens mom Ms ;pm* ; halides • Estietobsd reoamt to a pieties artimprodmsktsty. fear seslatilimenteryematheamid hrlipme• how Immtakrably mil s mill saw that e Nmeeildisdyemerad maw, oltk midkra; It Immaselliele brass soar coennienee Gem mil gnaw sassrdidity. • Mumlam howmer, they have some NOM kr big 1111 swims I. imkr th• dly do* in itself thinks maim st imparlemm The mid Mehoy =dila eel lempasimast set he dlssmaselmi at whit has bappmed. ear must =Milk the hest rime. hesetot amee mmidlah lath dm MAI and Gems as supyrU sad ast r mit the Wilma at any amps it Yon as lie mim. da pe the gene Mowry het are mthai. Sayler mid Swims Onsmad the same u s pmfaiments Mrs isms who want abersad whisks delmseeit the prim hot he mart dame op all thetas caw to So bawd Mpantimmets. altar theissibte kr again prevent a skilemmt. lhtsmaet temei eOO le (about Ile miles per day. Ouirdiemil la he be hams. Ikapast this. The most important LaMar, of Ude document is pointed out by the editor of the Mail.—the evidence it contains, that Keying had the moral courage to relate truthfully the events which had occurred, and that the Emperor (or his ministers), although his pride has obviously received a shock, ' sufficiently appreciates Keying's merits to retain him in office, although he has been unfortunate. It is to be hoped that these indications of character, so creditable to both par ties, so important in enabling us to estimate aright the men with whom we have to deal, will not be overlooked either by the British government or their agents in China. The proceedings of the local authorities at Canton seem also to indicate • desire on their part to fulfil honestly the conditions of the treaty imposed upon them, so far as the turbulent character of the people they govern, and the ina dequate force at their disposal to maintain order, would permit. Tho agreement between Sir John Davis and the Canton authorities embraced seven arti cles :-1. The opening of the city of Canton to British subjects, after two years, from the 6th of April. 2. The liberty to British subjects to roam for amusement and exer cise in the neighbouring country, as at Shanghai. 3. The punishment of the eggressots on the two seamen in October, and on Col. Chesney and others, at Fuhshan, in March. 4. Space for dwellings and warehouses to be le a sed to British merchants on the Honan side of the river. 6. Space a for church to be granted in the neighbourhood of the factories, and for cemeteries fn Whampoe. 6. A flying bridge to be erected between the two gardens, and no sheds to be per mitted against the walls. 7. The river front before the far, twin to be kept clear of boats. The first article of course must remain in abeyance for two years. An edict fur the enforcement of the second was segued on the 13th of April. A despatch from Keying, dated the 2nd of Mgy . and received at Hong-Kong on the 6th, intimates the punishment of the parties who had attacked the sailors. With regard to the sheds against the walls (article 6), Hog-lane had been cleared by order of the Chines authorities, and notwithstanding considerable excitement among the rabble the order was steadily enforced. Nieto. tiatioua were in progress for the purchase of houses in Hog lane and Old China-street, with a view to erect a church on their site. With the cemeteries at Whampoa no difficulty was anticipated. The moat delicate point was lensing of ground for warehouses and dwellings on the south side of the river. To this article no illusion is made in the royal rescript above quoted, and it is obviously, in the words of the Chins; Mail, " • point which, without great prudence and for bearance on the part both of the Chinese and English, seems not unlikely to lead to trouble." Keying having indicated an eligible piece of ground on the Honan shore, Mr. Pope was sent on the part of the English on the 15th of May to survey and stake off ground at a place called Chau.tandsui. The landholders were unwilling to let the ground, and fearing that compul , ory means would be u,cd to make them do it, delegates assembled on the 17th from all the villages of Henan, in the college of Shwang-ehau to the number of several thousa n d s , an d agreed upon iletter to be presented to Mr. Macgregor. Their memorial is well and temperately drawn. It represents 1. That the English have already enough of ground at the thirteen factories and in Hong-bong ; that the ground at Florian in entirely occupied for tillage or fish-poncla, or ances tral sacrifices, sad that widows and orphans have th e i r annuities secu red on it. 2. That it is against the faith of treaties to rely upon the strength of governors, prefects, a n d magistrates, to compel the people of Henan to elk nate ground which they require for their own use. 3. That it is unwise in the English who come to China to make for. tunes to provoke strife by thus irritating the people. 4. That the scholars and elders who have drawn up the memo rial can bear witness to the intense excitement which exists among the people. The memorial was prose .ted on the 20th by about 150 elders of Henan—venerable old men, dressed in their robes of state—to Mr. Macgregor, oho declined to receive it. On the 22nd a resolution was adopted to petition Keying. His reply was in these words : toreigners are permitted, awarding to the treaty, to root hours and ground for erecting butidlage, In all the emporiums where they carry on trade. The Eoglish are 111.1111desiroua to rent at a Ligh rate those houses and toil ground. Since this is in wan donee cab the treaty, I faro deputed a high officer to manage Ws affair proaerly. and to endeavour to see twit justice be done to both parties. The gentry need not entertain any mispieion, but wait until our utUcer bas managed it. While these negotiations were in progress, the more hot headed of the country population and government officers, and the rabble of the town, were endeavouring to precipi. tate a collision. Early in April, Yeung, prefect of Sing.hiug fu, a district in the province of Canton, came to the city with 2,000 men, urging the authorities to allow him to raise the people en :oases against the English, but was refused. The Canton correspondent of the China Mail writes, on the Bth May, that Yeung had returned to Canton, and in vain re newed his attempts to induce Keying to allow him to act against the English. Failing in this,_ he privately endea voured to get up an expedition against Hong-Kong. An at tempt was made while one of the numerous meetings of the natives relative to the Henan affair was being held in Canton, on the 20th of May, to set fire to some new build ings connected with the factories. Our local correepondeut thus desci Pies the attempt of which he was an eye-witness: The meeting was Said within a short distance of the factories; great excitement prevailcd, and the street, were crowded with Id l thieves and blackguards. About half-past 2 p.morkile the fleeting ass still in deliberation, my attention win attracted be an °mend disturbance and clamour of many voices among the boat repute's / . At no great distance from my own dwelling I perceived a number of Chinamen busily engaged placmg mats against boat houses recently erected with the consent of the public auCtordies. Immediately after ward., a light was brought, and in a few minutes the tints were in • blaze, which speedily ignited the piles of which the hos.liouois us constructed. Many natives were in the immediate vicinity of the Vet where this took place, but not one of them etireed bawl nr foot to arrest the progress of the incendiaries, or to eltlngiu.h the ars when kindled. The consul soon arrived, and a party of the Inth. Its of Irish won extinguished the dames. The wind blew directly towards the factories; the houses ate at this season all matted over, on x. count of the great heat. But for the promptitude of the cousul and the soldiers, the factories must inevitably have been wan in a blaze, and the house of the United States' minister would have been first ignited. The lloog Coolies—our own servants—refused to lend any assistance. The Pluto was stationed off the factories, and the Scout ordered to move up as near to Canton as possible. A fresh supply of ammunition was forwarded to the troops there. In this unsettled state of affairs, of course commerce is para lysed. Our Canton correspondent writes on the 23rd of My: Imports are positively without price. The mental men continue to withhold their cash from the Shrills; and even opium is drag:ing at 625 dollars, is only kept at that rate by nem holders, and must immediately decline. Freights continue 61. to London; Exchange, do.; six months' bills and Company's accepted, have been quoted st 212 rupees per 108 dollar.. The China Mail of the 24th speaks to much the same purport : is of opinion, however, that other elements are in play : Tejo matter to gyrating at pnreat in keeping up irritation and a feeling of uocertainty moot injurious t r trade; but the present dull. Deal may to no email degree be attributed to other causes. The gene ral lull at this season has this year been Increased by • prostration of native credit, in consequence of the halides among the !longs; one of the oldest ot which lunching) has followed ekes upon those of Foo.the and Aming. The debts in the pre sent inetanee arc said to amount to seven lahks of dollars, partly arising from old lases, and partly from Lto.ching's forced coo , tribudon to the Canton indemnity money in 1811, which was almost entirely squeezed out of the Hoeg merchants—a mode of paying the claim which has e, tooled the trade of the city ever since, and Bias probably mused more damage to foreign commerce than the value of the payment to Great Britain. Many of the wealthy tioog, have slice withdrawn from busineca leaving it in the hands of a few smaller traders, who have been speculating far beyond their mesas We are assured that the native failures in four months have been to the amount of three millions of dollars, while the uggrejate aiietsdo NlNol.o.—The Overland Register (Hong-Kong) pub lishes a letter from Ningpo of ith May, intimating teat the schooner, Young Hebe, had gone ashore in the Bay of Hang chow-fee during a spring tide, and that the sands wire dry for miles around her. " The captain has writtea to Ningpo, expreating a fear that the Chinese are preparing to attack him. The consul has in consequence despatched an officer to the spot, to call on the native authorities to protect him." SitaNahat.—The latest accounts received at Hong Kong from Shanghai were to the 29th of April. They were brought by the Antelope and the Torrington, each of which made the passage in five days, and that at a season when unfavourable winds are expected. The commercial news brought by those vessels wits favourable. Both brought a considerable quantity of cotton, which cost 12 dollars per piccul on board,—a prim it was feared too high for the Canton market. A Shanghai correspondent of the Hong-Kong Register wrote by this sp• portunity, respecting the building by foreigners You would be astonished to see the city rising at Shanstal. Is fact I can only compare it to another Hong-Kong. You see sat ire but bricks, mortar, ma'am, carpenters, and tape lines from morning to night. A church and several new private buildings are on the p.iot of commencement. Roads are being made, and good mintsa. hal bridges thrown over the ditches and mauls that cross their hom— e/id all this in the centre of Mos. Mr. Alcock, the British consul, intimated on April 13, that a liberal arrangement had been concluded with the Tacutee for the remission of duties on unsaleable goods which it might be necessary to re-ship. " it will be seen," says Mr. Alcack, " that sittually all the advantages of s ' bonded warehouse' are now permaneatly secured; the necessity of advancing the duties iu the first instance will probably be held to be more than couriterbalancod by the privilege retained of storing goods in the merchants go down, free of all extra rent and rxpeose, and the nsk sod trouble that might attend the lodging of goods irkspubls storehouse, under the joint custody of British and Chmese. The British merchant intending to re-ship to a port not within the Chinese dominions, must intimate the following particulars to the British consul, and so the consul's com municating them to the Taentae, that officer will, on the: being found correct, give the necessary directions to the custom-house. The nature, quality, and quantity of goods. The name of kip it which they were imported. The numbers and marks of packages a which they were imported. Amount of duties paid upon them. The place where, and tee date when, payment woo mute. The male of vessel in , lush they are to be re-shipped. The part for 'Ouch Ms clears out Ho will farther make declaration that such Oahe, basis, or package, have not been opened since they car e into his poems" and are in every respect the same as when they passed We Calms custom-house. The English residents had already introduced the salient! sport of horse.racing. The Chinese correspondent of Oa Ghana Mail at Shanghai thus speaks of the first " come of: At the late English races, the natives of the soil were permitted le stand outside the race-course and bok on. If any one tniaarreiwa the Undo, kind word. were used to induce them to to off. and tPri were not violently driven away. Thu is a just mode of procerdAll and much to be commended. Peel:.—The China Mail frequently devotes a column to news from the l'ekin Gazette, and this is not the lest interesting feature of that ably conducted journal. From this source we learn that Keying and the peace pa rr ! a" stall in the ascendant at court. On the recommeudation cf Keying great honours hare recently been conferred on each of his friend' as were either directly concerned in negolialtat the peace at Nankin, or present at the restoration of Chula. Lin, however, the head of the war party, has again come for ward with recommendation! of many officers for Preferment This it is remarked is a proof that his credit at court is mill strong, as he would not make such suggestions without eau' hope of their being adopted " a refusal is tantamount to degradation." " Various rumours are abroad of a desperate struggle for power now going on. That there is some md' In it nobody in the least degree aoqusinted with Moms ut- Woes will doubt." Serious riots have taken plea shoat the land-tax in the province of Pe-che-le. la case !pence of a bad harvest the farmers petitioned for delay in collecting the tax, and, this having been refuel , organised an insurrection and forced the government to mot to terms. The taxes have been remitted in the province or Kokoner, which has been wasted by war ; and the samba' been done (very reluctantly) in some districts of }smite"' Abuses have been detected in the conreyance of rice to the metropolis; this, with the numbers of Mongol and ;Veatch is ! dependents and " royal relations," whom the court b" feed, is a serious a ff air. The Pekin Gazette has of late : 41 . 0 remarkably uncommunicative: u if afraid to let the in. habitants of any one province know hew dis o bedient those of other provinces were, and with how much impunity. ACCIDENT ON VIE LONDON AND NORTIOVESTER N RAILWAT.—On Tuesday afternoon as a passenger (Ilia from London arrived neer the Tring Station, the engin driver, it is stated through not regar..ing the signal cannon ing him of danger, ran into a luggage-train which was on the line. The coming in train was a very long one, and the shock of course very great. Many of the passeng It er!, seems, were severe bruised, but nothing of a more senow nature occurred.