The Express. — London, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

~........... 41•1. One -aril proprietors was well dispob, - d of by Mr. ! next general election than this. Th e quar re l )(raw in : I between Protection and Free Trade is over and /Lc re.alat hon. path :nth had hose most singularly tan- done. The existence of a Coalition Ministry renders fortssAre in re v retenting that the bill did not mainly , sii.ct, I the revival of the old hereditary battle-cries of Whig ~,,„,,,,,,,,,, i,ut these of rmall prop. riy. ano trades- i W. ': . .. . What ‘11:15 the fact ? Tradesmen in towns , and Tory no longer c ley. But the people every '''. ''' "". Thi n. iy le.oeholders, soil they would benefit by this I where feel that in the way of all further advancement ' l "' ' Ile - e a ainst the hill nut a senseless and scandalousbarrier is bJ. There hid I..en nu •mons•ranc tr . g interposed by ef j„,. r ,--,eareely a petition against it—certainly no large the power of landowners in the counties, and of the r , h . , meh tines in o;lewition to it. The press were gem- possessors of money i n t owns , t o b a ffl e the free • 1 ,4 y.. tit on n.i . : tivacure„ though they were rarely slow , choice of representatives in Parliament. A great „ deleting II gricsance. contest is therefore approaching between venality and Mr. WaLtaw Witt.t.tats and Lord Jolty RUA- vassalage on the one side, and free voting on the sal. also contributed to the exposure of Sir JOUN other. The issue may a little longer be delayed, but I , ooN ,,y,lN's plea for landlord exemption from a I the result cannot be doubtful. jast and proper tax. Let us hope that these and :. : b c ,. spetehes, and their own good sense, will keep the ]h rhsites as a body from being led into any selfish and u-doss opposition. We live in days when every teed change must be made in a spirit of honesty, and the class is hose interests the ex-Secretary for o w Colonies lag night advocated will consult their hest interests and sustain their personal honour most sartiv by surrendering with a good grace a feudal priv liege they ought never to have ob tained. Any insolent demand for exemption for the future might possibly some day kvJ to requirements of restitution fur the past; whilst graceful and timely concessions to justice may save trouble hereafter. The whole Liberal petty regard the Duty on Successions to be the best pppa,'tion of the financial year—the Conservative representatives of towns can scarcely hold a different opinion. How many county members may allow self interest to blind their view of a plain and honest case remains to be aeon. The Bill will tuatiredly peal. MK. BERKELEY'S annual motion upon the Ballot stands in the List of the House of Commons for this evening. The time is certainly propitious for the practical discussion of such a question. Never, perhaps, in the memory of this generation has such an amount of public disgrace been beeped upon our existing representative system. During the last three months the public ear has been daily forced to listen to disclosures the most scandalous in a moral sense, the most damaging in apolitical one. From Lancaster to Plymouth, the evidence taken before Election Committees, though diversified in detail, all tends to the same result. Corruption anal intimida tion revel with impunity at the people's cost, and to the people's shame. Voters arc bribed and bullied without disguise. Seats are no toriously disposed of by rival brokers in Lon don, to opulent candidates without capacity, or toruined row's without principle. Half the contests, at the last general election, are proved to have been mere gambl in g struggles, between lavish prodignli ty on one rde and accomplished knavery on the other. Not in one case out of twenty, in county or in town, have the constituencies had the selection or nomina tion of candidates. As between the competitors who have been put forward by overbearing local influence, or by the impudent dictation of a West-end club, the electors have, indeed, been nominally called upon to decide. But even this semblance of power has seldom been truly left them. The poverty of some, the cupidity of others, has been confessedly worked upon without stint or scruple ; while a still more numerous class have openly and ostentatiously been browbeaten into voting against their deliberate con victions and opinions. All self-respect in our middle classes is boldly set at naught. Save for the purposes of indecent and disgusting exposure of par ticular individuals, the inquiries lately made by Ejec tion Committees have been utterly devoid of results. In some half-dozen instances the inning of writs has been suspended, but in a far greater number of cases even this clumsy homage to public decency has not been paid. Major BMW-9EORD has had the tip of his ear pinched by a Committee, and received an admoni tion to be more cautious ift future how he commits himself in writing. Sir F. Swim is declared by the House of Commons to be a soldier and a gentleman, and, as such, not amenable to the obsolete laws which our great-grandfathers passed against bribery. Messrs. COPPOCK and BROWNE coolly declare that they have, for party purposes, withdrawn so many petitions for bribery, as against so many others, without ever consulting the parties con cerned, either candidates or constituencies; whereupon the llonse has merely stared for a moment, laughed a little, and passed without comment to the orders of the day. Redress or remedy under the present sys tem seems almost hopeless. Prevention alone remains—the simplest and purest remedy, yet hitherto the only one that has never been tried. All who are not mere political empiric. feel that the likeliest way to check the recurrence of this moral typhus, is by checking the generation of its causes, and preventing, as far as is possible, that contact with corruption, of the fatal effects of which we have so many proofs. If measures for the promotion of public health will not eradicate every seed of physi cal disease, is that any reason why we should hesitate to labour at the work of prevention, or to strive for the curtailment and circumscription of the pestilent power of contagion? So with Secret voting. Nobody means to say that bad men will not still be influenced by selfish motives in giving a silent suffrage as they are now ioflommed in giving a noisy one. Nobody argues that the hungry expect ant will not mutely endeavour to bring into power the party amongst whom he reckons his patrons. But what the advocates of the Ballot Insist on Is thin that thousands of industrious men, who have no paltry interest to serve and no personal gain to seek,' will be enabled by means of the Ballot to vote without being intimidated; and that an equally an morose section of the community will be saved from • the degradation and the defilement of direct and personal corruption, because the tempter would have no security, if he offcred his money, that he would receive in return the consideration he now exacts. If the Ballot could only prevent one half the intimi dation and bribery that now prevail, would not such a means of voting be a benefit to the nation at large ? The number of members in the present Parliament who pledged themselves on the hustings to vote for Mr. BERKELEY'S motion is considerably greater than that to be found in the late House of Commons. Even in that Assembly it will be remembered that the principle on two different occasions was affirmed by the vote of a majority. On the occasions referred to, however, the triumph of electoral freedom and right was more apparent than real—the numbers voting on each side being small, and the actual result being attributable in a great degree to the absence of the Tories from the divisions. It is not by acci dent or surprise that great moral victories can be' filched from oligarchical corruption ; and it is more important to the cause of safe and permanent pro geese that the great question of free voting should be fully and thoroughly discussed; and that, by a division in a full House, the country should be enabled to judge of every man who calls himself a represeetative of the people, whether he be for the existing system of bribery and bullying, threatening and treating, or whether he be a friend of electoral emancipation. Another general election cannot be very far off; and the vote which the mem bers of the present House of Commons may give to-night will assuredly be remembered in their favour or against them when they stand upon the hustings next time. No test is likely to be more rigorously or more universally applied at the FRANCE. PARIS. MONDAY EVENING. Count Panin, the Russian Minis:er of Justice, ar rived in Paris yesterday from St. Petersburg. He is said to be charged with a special mission to the government. The purport of this mission may be collected with tolerable certainty from the following article in the Asse»ihMe Nationale, a paper which in the character it evidently aspires to fill of the Russian Munitcur in I'aris, has, doubt less, received a communication from the Russian embassy. The .Assemblt:e says : We learn that a note from St. Petersburg, which arrived in Paris on Satiardey by a cabinet courier, has been commu nicated to the different courts of Europe by the different ministers. In this note the eahinet of St. Petersburg is said to declare that it is the intention of the Emperor to mein taio the demands which he thought right to address to the Porte on the maintenance of the privileges and guarantees of the orthodox Greek religion, in the terms in which those demands were drawn up in the la.t dispatch of Prince Menchikoff. After having developed the motives which induced the Emperor to exact new guarantees from the Porte, and to insist thereon, the cabinet of St. Peters burg is said to declare that the Emperor in unwise in tends to make war upon Turkey, or to seise this occasion for encroaching on the integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire. The cabinet of St. Petershurg adds, however, that in case the Divan should persist in re jetting the demands presented to it, the Emperor would think right to give to his army in Bessarabia the order to occupy Use Danubian provinces. This oecopatioa would not have the eharacur of a declaration of war, since the difference at this moment pending between the Porte and Russia enters into the category of those whiA, according to the terms of the treaties existing be tween Russia and Turkey, may lead to the occupation of the provinces. The communication of this note, if it be real, es we do not doubt, is of a nature to dissipate ell apprehebsiont. Ru.sia, in occupying the Danubian pro vinces, desires, no doubt, to constrain the Porte to make the emiceseions demanded from it, and which it still op poses ; but there vs every reason to hope that after the occupation of the provinces by Russia, diplomacy will in tervene, and that it will find means to conciliate all inte rests engaged in this sad affiir, which, we repeat for the hundredth time, did not merit all the emotion it has caused, and which it still causes, in the political and commercial worlds. Tease persons who may believe that war can arise fr •in misting complications, would give proof, iu our opi nion, of but little correctness in the appreciation of the character and the hearing of political events. If Russia be permitted to pursue the course indi cated in this article, without being treated as an aggressor, she will have gained an immense ad vantage from her own wrong, and will have the laugh against all the courts and all the fleets in Europe. There is no rightful pretence for her occu pation of the Danubian provinces for the purpose of exercising a pressure upon Turkey in support of the claims to the Protectorate of the Greek subjects of the Porte, put forward by Prince Menchikoff. That is a subject wholly distinct from the peculiar rights of Russia in those provinces, secured by the treaty of Adrianople. It is said, indeed, that a sum of money owing by Turkey for the expenses of the Russian occupation in 1848, would give Nicholas a right to enter the territory until the sem due—a million sterling, I believe—should be paid. But, as suming this proposition to be well founded, it is against common equity and common sense that he should invade the Turkish territory, avowedly with a totally different object. This note of the Assemblele has produced a marvellously good effect at the Bourse to-day, because it is considered as a positive avowal that the Emperor of Russia has no present intention of besieginfr Constantinople. But, if he be allowed to establish himself quietly in the Danubian provinces, he will have gained a most important step towards his ultimate object. The English and French fleets cannot be for ever doing police duty at the mouth of the Dardanelles, and it mast be borne in mind that their presence would' not suffice to prevent the taking of Constantinople by land, if Russia should be allowed to make all her preparations without let or hindrance. If the Sultan sets any value upon the preservation of his empire, be must treat the very step indicated by the Assembles as a declaration of, war, and I have every reason to believe that he is pre pared to do so. The French and English fleets have orders to proceed at once to Constantinople, if the Sultan, construing the treaties for himself, shall be of opinion that the peace has been broken by Russia. It is plainly to be inferred from an article of the Pays of to-day that the French government, contrary to the expressed opinions of the Russian organs both of Paris and London, is prepared to see the crossing of the Prath treated by Turkey as caress bell' There has been a still further improvement at the Bourse to-day, and the public securities have now nearly recovered from the unfavourable impression caused by the posture of affairs in the East. At the termination of business the Three per Cents. had risen 2f. 35c. for cash, and 2f. 20c. for the account ; whilst the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for money improved 2f., and 2L 20e. for the end of the month. Bank of France shares advanced 20f. Closing prices:l —For cash : Three per Cents., 78f. • Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 102 f. For the accou nt : Three per Cents., 77f. 90c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 20c. Bank Meek, 2,660. In the railway share market there was much ac tivity is business, and eventually a considerable ad vance in prices had taken place ;—Lyons to the Mediterranean shares rose 70f.; Paris and Rouen, 63f. ' • Paris and Lyons, 63f. • Westerns, 47f. ; Paris and Strasbourgs , 43f. ; an d Northam, 40E The Anal quotations were:—Northern, 8801; Paris and Orleans, 1,0121.; Paris and Strasbourg, 886 f.; Paris sad Lyons, 9001. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,016 E ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 7471.30 c. ; Western of France, 707 f. TURKEY. The Turkish goalies has passed into a new stage of development. The St. Petersburg steamer, which arrived at Stettin on the 7tk, landed five Russian cabinet couriers, who immediately resumed their journey by land to deliver despatches for the Russian embassies at the principal courts of Eurepe. The minister of the Czar at the French court, upon the receipt of one of these despatches, on Friday last, proceeded to remit to the Imperial government a diplomatic note, in which his master explains the attitude which he assumes towards Turkey. In this note the Czar deckles that he will not re ced e from the demands postulated in the last despatch of Prince Menchikoff; that lie has no intention of making war against Turkey, or interfering with the integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire; but that, in the event of the Divan persisting in its rejection of his demands, he will occupy the Danubian provinces with his army. Such occupation, how ever, would not be of the nature of a declaration of war, existing treaties allowing the occupation of the provinces under the circumstances. The declaration contained in this note while fulfil ling our previsions to the letter, materially modifies the situation. The forts of the Bosphorus, the fleets at Sebastopol, and_ - the bridge at Ismail, are all ex cluded from the scene to which the operations of the Russian forces are new limited. The Czar has wisely chosen to array his forces on a field inacces sible to the naval forces of France and England, and to a certain extent changed the character of oar in fluence over the events which impend. The declara tion of intentions which the Czar makes in this note as well as his novel interpretation of existing treaties, may . be rejected as surplusage. They are for the judgment of Europe. It will be for Turkey and her advisers, France and Eng land, to decide in what light an invasion of the Danubian principalities is to be regarded. One thing is certain, the treaties which regulate the rela tions of 'Moldo-Wallachia to Russia give the latter no right whatever to enter the principalities for rea sons unconnected with their pod government and the ' maintenance of tranquillity. At the present moment !both Moldavia and Wallachia enjoy profound tran ' quillity. It is not pretended that Turkey hat TiCfr lated the conventions which fix her relations to those states, or that any unredressed grievances require the intervention of the protecting power. It may, therefore, be safely affirmed in opposition to the lan guage of the Russian Emperor that existing treaties do nut allow the threatened occupation for the pur poses set forth in his note. lhe protectorate with the contingent right of occupation of Moldo-Wal- Ischia was attributed to Russia solely for the good of the four millions inhabiting its plains; for the Czar to exercise this power when the provinces do not re quire his aid, and when ho can plead merely his pri vate purposes, is to confound the very notion of a protectorate as well as violate public law. Tho English packet Caradoc, healing the orders of Admiral Dundas, arrived at Malta on the Bth. Letters from Constantinople of the 29th ult. state that Recording to the latest intelligence the Russian fleet in the Black Sea was composed of 13 ships of the line, of which 6 carried 120 guns, namely, the Varna, the Twelve Apostles, the Rostilar, tho Svia torlar, the Selafond, and the Thrie Swiakyteli ; 8 frigates of 60 guns; 6 corvettes; and 12 smaller vessels. Notwithstanding the difficulty of procuring accurate statements respecting the Russian arma ments, it had been ascertained from deserters that the crews of the various vessels hal been raised to their full complement, and that the 120 gun ships car ried a numerous artillery of large calibre. The Beet, however, had but very tew steamers. The revise of Vienna rectifies somewhat tardily a statement which originated with the Debuts. Prince Menchikoff has not undertaken any journey to St. Petersburg since he was at Constantinople. The prince is an admiral and not a courier. Accordingly on arriving at Odessa he sent his despatches to St. Petersburg, and then betook himself to Sebastopol for a few days to inspect the fleet, returning to Odessa in time to receive further directions from the Czar. Letters from St. Petersburg of June 2 state that Prince Gottschakoff, who had been appointed to command the active army of 120,000 men now on the Pruth, bad been summoned to the capital to re ceive instructions. The Grenadier corps had been ordered to be in readiness to march for Poland in case it should become necessary to withdraw troops thence. Letters from Warsaw state that Puke witsch is busy inspecting troops and arsenals. The Egyptian General Col man Paella sailed on the 2ud, in one of the Viceroy s vessels, for Constan tinople, accompanied by several officers of the staff. Previous to his departure he had a long conference with the British Constd-General. The Patrie says:—" A circumstance worthy of remark is, that since tho late affairs of the Levant the commercial movement between Russia and Turkey continues the same. The number of Russian commercial vessels arrived at the Turkish ports has beet augmented." The Liberti of Lisle says:—" Diplomatic relations have rarely been more active between France and Russia than at .present. On the 9th inst. our de partment was traversed at the same time by Count' Panin, Minister of Justice in Russia, proceeding to Paris on an extraordinary mission, and. the Marquis de Moussior, Minister Plenipotentiary of France in Russia, on his way from St. Petersburg to Paris." The Augsburg Gazette publishes the test of the recent correspondence between Russia and the Porte from original documents. According to this autho rity, the compositions which have been published in the Times as diplomatic documents are only par tial and erroneous translations. However this may be, the notes add nothing to our previous know ledge of their subjects, having been completely anticipated by our correspondents. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1853 GERMANY. Several foreign newspapers announce, on the au thority of letters from Vienna, that the Austrian go vernment has resolved to bring forward immediately the loan of 80,000,000 florins, which it is desirous of contracting in &foreign market. The unsettled state of affairs in Europe would teem to discredit this in telltgenee. The official document by which the government of Baden announces the abandonment of further pro. ceedings against Professor Gervinus, declares that it we. distrust of any jury which might be empanelled to try the indictment, which determined the ministry to escape from the judicial conflict. By a recent ukase, the Emperor of Russia, after having ordered the construction of an electric tele graph between Odessa and St. Petersburg, has also directed the postal service on that road to be en tirely re-organised. The rams decree declares that a railway in the direction of Odessa will be • work of public utility, and that orders will at a future period be given for its construction. CANADA. QUEBEC, MAT 28. The great measure of this session, the Representa tion Bill, has been finally passed through all its stages by the upper house by two votes more than a two-thirds majority. The bill will of course now become law, as, according to the theory of respon sible government, the Oovernor-Oeneral is supposed to hays given his assent to the principle before its introduction. I have before stated to you the object of this bill, but I may as well here repeat that it is to leers... the representation of Canada in the provincial par liament from 84 members to 130. The government look upon it as the Reform Bill of Canada. The event of its passage excites great interest in the province as is natural to suppose. To attain this sad a two thirds majority of both houses was neaten:7, accord ing to a provision of the constitutional act ; and for five or six years past this two-thirds majority was only not obtained by one or two votes every torsion lof parliament. This adds to the eclat of the present success of the bill. Various speculations are made an to its effect upon the future destinies of the province; and I think there is no doubt it will give a much more energetic ezpeesuoa to the popular yoke than at present, as well as Weider the representation more democratic. _ _ The elective council resolutions of the provincial secretary, of whioh I have before written to you, were discussed during the whole of the pest week, but no vote has yet been taken upon them. The probability is they will be carried. The Legislative Council has taken the decisive step of throwing out the Beiguorial Tenure Bill, which was very unexpected, and has excited great surprise. This was one of the pet measures of the government, and took a long time to mature. For the rest, there has been little of interest done since my last letter. ARRIVAL FROM AUSTRALIA. (sy =amain TILZOLLPH.) PLYMOUTH, MONDAY. The Anglesea, Thorn, from Sydney, 4th March, with nearly 30,000 ounces of gold, passed up Channel this afternoon. Price of gold at Sydney, 31. 16s. Exchange, 1 per cent. prem. The Melbourne steamer was to leave Sydney on the day the Anglesea sailed. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. The select com mittee appointed to consider if strangers can be allowed to remain in the House of Crimmins during divisions; except ing on special occesions, and to devise some means for deter mining the time when the doors shall be closed after a division is determined upon, have agreed to the following recommendations :—" 1. That, except when the Speaker, or the chairuran of a committee of the whole house, shall otherwise direct, his order for the withdrawal of strangers during a division shall be understood to apply to strangers occupying seats below the bar and in the front gallery, and shall be enforced by the Sergeant•at-Arms accordingly.- 2. That so soon as strangers have been directed to withdraw, the clerk shall turn a two-minute sand-glass, to be kept for that purpose, and the doors shall not be closed until after the lapse of two minutes, ea indicated by such sand glass.-3. That the doors shall be closed so soon atter the lapse of two minutes as the Speaker, or a chairman of • committee of the whole house, shall think proper to direct." I THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS. The following are the most recent items of infor- I matiun from the gold diggings as contained in the .31elbourne Argus of Feb. 23: SYDNEY. 15th February, 1853. The news from the southern gold fields has, as might have been anticipated, caused a great deal of excitement here. It must at the present juncture have the effect of still further emptying the valleys of the west, and sending the hardy race of miners who have hitherto laboured there to try their fortunes is Victoria. The rage for emigration to the Ovens which has pre vailed during the last few months, has been a most for tunate thing for oar government and its subordinate*. It has been as a sluice-gate in time of flood. The insane and suicidal piece of legislation called the gold fields manage ment, which was produced by the Macquarie-street con dom, last session, has roused to the most extreme indigna tkes all the western diggers, and had there not been the Oven and Victoria to fly to, they would have been desperate. By a portion of the press, as well as by the government, the position and the power of the western diggers ere sadly misunderstood. Although this class is burthencd by the set to nearly twice their former extent, and threatened with punishment es felons in the event of their being unable to meet the demands upon them, it is held that they have no real cause to complain of this measure. For their remon strances they have been ridiculed. The indirect menaces conveyed by the recent demoostratioos at the furon have been commented upon in a tone of scoffing defiance. All this is much to be regretted. The western miners are quite excited enough already, and need no spur. The commis sioners, who, residing on the spot, were the best judges. were perfectly aware of this fact, and of the dangers and difficulties in which they were placed. Their whole mea sures, therefore, were as conciliatory as was at all consistent with their duty. Yet, notwithstanding this wise policy, they barely escaped an actual collision, which would have been sanguinary in the extreme. The commissioners had made extensive and skilful prepa ratioas for defence, while the miners, although numerous and armed, were without discipline or competent leaders. At the Ant brush, therefore, on open gronad, the troopers would have lead the hist of it. Bat this would have been their only advantages. So soon as they emerged from the small spot of high grounds were their quarters were situated, and got among the broken ground about the river, they would have been cut off to a man; nay, their very quarters are commanded by higher ground, from whence a few rides would have done fearful execution. And there were men among the diggers quite alive to the advantages derivable from broken ground, when occupied by an undisciplined force acting against one better or ganised. And if blood be once s he d for the maintenance of des detested law, it will be like a spark applied to a barrel or gunpowder. The diggers, it must be remembered, are or armed population, leading a life of hardship, not die shailar to that of the soldier on active service, and having, with but few exceptions, no domestic ties to restrain them. What would be the effect of even 600 or 800 such men taking to arms in the mountains ? The question is rather a startling one, but it is one which ought to be well con sidered. The diggings in the vicinity of Gundagai, de. are turning out pretty well. From Adelong Creek, parcels of fine scale gold have been sent to Sydney, of which as much as an ounce and an ounce and a half was got in an hour or two by a couple of diggers. The gold anniversary dinner passed of tolerably well, no allusion, of course, being made to the troubles which bad legislation bad brought upon our mining interests. The absence of Mr. Hargraves, indeed, threw somewhat of a damp over the proceedings, particularly as it was generally known that his indisposition was not a mere excuse, as in many cases, but a sad reality. The hero of the day was in fact labouring under a high fever, and could net have attended without endangering his life. The arrival of the Overland Mail, this morning, brings a letter from a highly respectable commercial firm in your city, to a gentleman here, stating that at the Canadian Oully three more monster nuggets had been found, one weighing 77 lbs., one 69 lbs., and one 175 lbs. weight. Although abate doubt exists as to the authen ticity of this statement, it has excited a great deal of sensation here, and will probably have soots effect on mer eentile affairs as it will certainly turn the tide of emigra tion in your direction again. At present, however, though there is a steady business doing, no signs of speculative spirit are evinced. Prices are very much as they were, although there is a decided tendency in brandies to look up. Teas and sugars are much in demand and stooks keep ontremely ban. Bottled beer is still on the rise, and for the most inferior hands excessive rates am asked. None can be bought ander 141. 6d. Beer in wood is almost unobtainable. Flour remains steady at 231., but I de not think it is so Mandy as it was. Invoices of every description are eagerly sought after, mid merlins% are making immense profits. Gold 'slut at last rates, say 31. 13s. 9d. for Port Phillip, Urge easserts are being looked out for. The supply from tell our Wise ere on the increase, and taken generally, sae na ls or i jorgation have done very well I and by *air assumption of clothing, luxuries, end asithees of all deeeripuon, give what promises to be a permanency to our present commercial prosperity. The Sydney Escort from the Ovens is being looked for, and it is anticipated will bring a considerable amount of gold hens the Adelong diggings. February 18th, 1863. The news to-day from the mining districts is iatareettag. Front Braidwood I learn that the greater poetise of the southern diggers have paid their lianas fee quietly. Is the west appearances are still threatening. A reartheeemosat et about a dozen troopers, and forty men of the 11th Regi ment having arrived at Wale, the ONIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIII. have commenced, - with great caution, to put the obnoxious pro visions of the act in force. Tea unlicensed diggers have been taken into custody, and each fined ten shilling, ; eight paid the fine at once, and the remaining two on the following gday. In the meantime, however, the miners have held secret meetings, and have pledged themselves to resist she payment of the license.fee under the present act, even to the death. The commissioners, having heard pro bably of these secret associations, were wise enough to abstain for the next two days from any further coercive roceedings. Thus the matter stands at present. Some disturbances are ,almest inevitable. Their extent will de pend mainly upon the course pursued by the commissioners. The proothdinks at the Ovens will have anything hut a thothing effect upon the miners. Trade continues brisk for actual demand from the dealers, but it is still remarkable for the absence of anything like speculation. I should, however, perhaps modify this last observation, by confining it to the transaction& for the sale of imported goods. The sales of produce for exportation are not, I an con vinced, characterised by a similar discretion, and it is to be repotted. The price, now being readily glen for produce leave a very small margin indeed between them and latest reported London rates. Boma lots of wool at yesterday's gale realised Is. 11d. per lb., and a large quad% was sold from Is. 6d. to Is. bd. Even admitting that the late sales have been favourable, these pnoa most be looked on as extremely speculative. Tallow is also very high, Wag sold at 271. and 281., while hides fetched es musk as lie. 6d. to 9s. id. Prices ma hardly he said to have varied, although in some deacelptioss of articles the importations have both large. Flour is firm at 231. ; a large quantity, say 1,300 bar rels, arrived per Clarendon, joststtlly, nowitid tx Mew as s. Barker, the large nallms ; but it been expected to arrive for some time, it will not in any way affect the market. Brandy is still very muck in demand, and disposed to rise, whether from some private imethlatiens in the market I cannot say ; I think, however, this is net the ease. for moderate quantities, it swath be quoted under lls. 6d. to 12s. OM is also eagerly sought after, and realises high and somewhat increasing rates. Rums.—The stock on hand is both large and a large portion of it of good quality. Priem remain at tut quota thus. RANK OF AUSTRALASIA. The nineteenth annual meeting of this bank wu held yesterday, at the establiehmeat in Aastintriare. Mr. T. W. Hi took the chair. The SZCHTTAILY reed the report, from which we make the following extracts : " The director, have thesatisfaction of presenting to the proprietors the following statement, showing the result of the business of the bank daring this the first financial year that has elapsed since the discovery of the Australian OWd Fields, ending the 11th of October, 1&52, the day on which the accounts were balanced in terms of the charter. Balance at the credit of profit and lose account, at 13th October, 1851, 60,3271.75. 6d. To this are now to be added the net profits in the coloales and in London, for the year ending October 11, 1852, 193 , 2821 . 75. Bd. From which are to taken the following sums paid to the proprie tor, Dividend at April 1862, at five per cent. per annum, 22,5001. Dividend at October 1862, at six per cent. per annum, 27,0001. Leaving a balance of undivided profit at October 11, 1852, 194,1091. 15s. Id. The assets and liabilities at the same period stood us fol lows :—Assets : Government securities, specie, and cash, 2,121,9081. 13r. 1 Id. ; Bank premises, 35.255/. ls. 2d. ; bills receivable and other securities, 2,086,7331. Bs. 7d. ; total, 4,243,8971. 3s. Bd. Liabilities : Capital, 900,0001. ; circula tion, 659,646/. ; bills payable, and other liabilities, 281,3411. 75. Bd. ; deposits, 2,288,8001. Os. 11d. ; profit and loss, 194,1091. 15s. Id. ; total, 4,243,8971. 3s. Bd. The statement sf suits and liabilities now submitted, when eempared with the corresponding statement for the pre vious year, shows that the circulation has risen from 149,0.501. to 659,6461., and the deposits from 707,5651. 134.9 d. to 2,208,8001. Os. lid. The advises received since Oc tober confirm the continuing expansion of the business, and the directors congratulate the sharehnhlers, not only that this corporation has already benefited so largely from the extraordinary prosperity of the Australasian colonies, but that its position is such as permanently to insure for it • full participation in all the advantages which may justly be expected from the further development of their great agricultural, mineral, and commercial resources." The report was adopted, after a few remarks from the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned. Vie Court. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at tame o'cleck yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. At the court Shad Khan had an audience of the Quern, and delivered to her Majesty hie credentials as Envoy Ea traordtnary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Shah of Persia. The Count de Vitzthum bad an audience and delivered to the Queen his credentials as Minister Resident from the King of Saxony. Thtir Excellencies were respectively introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, E.G., the Queen's principal Sieretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir Edward Cwt, K.C.H., her Majesty's Muter of the Ceremonies. The Persian Minister was attended by the Secretary Interpreter of the Legation. The Vice-Chancellor Stuart was presented to the Queen at an audience by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home De partment, and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by the Queen. Mr. Richard Bothell, Solicitor-General, was presented by Viscount Palmerston, and received from her Majesty the honour of Knighth ood. Joseph Francis 011iffe, M.D., Physician to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, was pre sented by Viscount Palmenton, and had the honour of Knighthood conferred upoa him by the Queen. The Privy Council was attended by Prince Albert, E.G., Earl Granville, Lord President ; the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., First Lord of the Treasary ; Viscount Palmerton, 0.0.5. Secretary of State for the Home Department; the Earl of Clarendon, N.G., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Oak, of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir James Graham, Bart., First Lord of the Ad miralty; the Hight Hen. Sidoey Herbert, Secretary at War; the Duke of Norfolk, K. 0., Lord Steward; the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T., Lord Chamberlain ; and the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Coun cil in Waiting. After the Council, Captain Wardlaw. Elton of her Majesty's Yeoman of the Guard, had an •adi eace and received from the Queen hi, silver stick of office. Captain Wardlaw was presented by Viscount Sydney, Cap tain of the Yeomen of the Guard. Her majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Breadel bane, Earl Granville, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir James Graham. The court was attended by the Marquis of Anglesey, K. 0., Gold Stick in Waiting; the Earl of Mulgrave, Treasurer of the Household; Lord Ernest Bruce, Viee Chamberlain ; Lord Druntlanrig, Comptsollerof the House hold ; Lord Rivers, Lord M Waiting ; aad Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at Buck ingham Palace. The company included the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Genoa, the Prince** Adelaide of Hohen lohe,Marquis D' Areglio, Sardinian Minister; Count de Vies thum, Saxon Minister; the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lady Anna Merle Dawson, Earl Mulgrave, the Chevalier Mae serail D'Azeglio, the Marquis de St. Marian, A.D.C., Count Della Valle, A.D.C., Count Avogadro, the Marquis Rapallo, Colonel Wylde, and Lady Caroline and Miss Bar rington. The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the Palace during dinner, and performed the following selec tion : tolonalee—Ted Overture, Brides of Venire" Seeedict. Waltz, "bongs of the Therms" GungL Selection.. Robert le Wale ...... Galop—Champegner Lumbye. The Duke and Duchess of Sase Coburg Gotha arrived at Buckingham Palace at 2,5 minutes to 11 o'clock last night, on a visit to her Majesty from the Continent. Their Royal Highnesses travelled from Dover yesterday evening by the South Eastern Railway to the London Bridge terminus, and were conveyed with their suite, the Baroness Wangcn helm, Baron Siebach, and Baron Treskow, in two of the Queen's carriages, to Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses were received in the Grand Hall on their arrival by Prince Albert, attended by the Groom in Wait ing, the Equerries in Waiting, and the Master of the Household. The Duchess ofCambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelit: visited the Duchess of Kent at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. A deputation of the friends of voluntary education had an interview with Earl Granville, Lord President, as Presi dent of the Committee of Council on Education, yesterday, at the Council Office, on the subject of the measure now be fore parliament. The deputation consisted of Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Joeiah Conder, the Rev. John Burnet, and the Rev. J. Hinton. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. Apoley Pellatt, M.P., and Mr. George Redfield, M.P. THE DUKE OF GENOA. PORTSMOUTH, JUN 13. His Royal Highness the Duke of Genoa arrived at this port from London by the mail train at 12.30 a.m. to-day, being accompanied by the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Sardinian Ambassador, the Marquis St. Marna, Count de la Valle, Colonel Wylde, Count Rapello, Count Avrogadro, and suite. His Royal Highness proceeded to the George Hotel, where he stayed for the night, and this morning he was waited upon by the Commander-in-Chief, Viee-Admirel Sir T. J. Cochrane, K.C.8., the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Simpson, and the Superintendent of the Dockyard, Rear-Admiral A. Fanabawe, C.B. At 10 o'clock he left the George in Admiral Cochrane's carriage for the Dockyard, over which his royal highness was wrested by Admirals Cochrane and Fansh►we. Having gone over the various departments the duke went on board the Fire Queen steam-vessel, blaster Commander Paul, and pro ceeded out of harbour to Bpitbead, where his royal highness went on board the magnificent screw-ship Duke of Wel lington, of 131 guns, being saluted by her. Having made a lengthened inspection of her he again embarked on board the Fire Queen, under another salute from the Duke of Wellington, and proceeded down the Solent to Osborne house, which his royal highness viewed. He then returned into ►arbour and landed at toe Sallyport, where the COM mander-in-Chiers carriage was in waiting for him, and conveyed him to the railway station, his royal highness leaving for London by the .2 p.m. train of the South Coast Railway. The utmost respect was paid to his royal highness at this port, the awe of the ships manning yards and the garrison saluting h m from the platform battery. SECRET TRADITIONS OF ROME. Yesterday Professor Filopaati gave the first of a series of lectures at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on the secret tradition@ of Rome, the object being to vindicate the autleafisity of the early history of that country against the representations of Berthold Niebuhr. The lecturer eounneseedi by observing that within the last few years it had benne She fashion to take it for granted that the early histery WI the eternal city was nothing but a eollsetiwa of legeniery Polka. and, according to Niebuhr, snit manse as Romelne sad Nun were imaginary and weldsierical. Hie pument purpose, therefore, was not only to the auk el the : history which has been i dawn tar hem lie earliest ages, but also to ex pldin. ant 'mein as the development of that history by the vrtadof Indkins hitherto secret and unknown. ea tieditises bed sins into his penesion by legitimate nuns% but it was net nessesary for him to explain what them meow were ; *at he should endeavour, to the beet of his ability, to deimmlefelle tb truthfulness of tha eemminniestiaes et width belted bees merle the channel. Al =the only binned Rosie was replied the most paned the mann el mankind he might mare his heiress** dm tradition alluded.to wen still more Interest ing eminementie, and in order to annoy ea idea of their na ture, he went on to observe tbat:they sombilshed the theory that the destinies el the eternal city were from the earliest ages powerfully iniesseed a Keret society, founded by a man of 'god's. who was ti ther to Romulus by his mar riage with Rh ea Sylvia. The founder and the Sodality" considered theeeselne as an especial priesthood appointed by divine ',widows. to further by occult meow the spread of liberty aad el to the whole human race and be (the lenner) eaemed that most of the marvello us jail dents related In Roman history were neither miracles, as believed by easiest supareation, nor legenduy fables ea le Illeused by a modern school of criticiato, bee gamine hats due to the invisible agency of this mys terious amoslation, whose adepts had it in view, by their hidden eastrineces, to cane the new city to appear to the world es constituted under the immediate protection of Heaven. Professor Filopanti proceeded to demonstrate his views by the testimonies of ancient historians, and by re prance to monuments and utronominl obeervstions, which he contended gave abundant cause for astonishmeit that the theories of Niebuhr should still find so many votaries after the grand discoveries of Nineveh. Niebuhr, be maintained, had offered to his country the greatest injury that it could ever be in the power of a literary man to in flict, and feeble as he (Profemor Filopanti) was, he would endeavour to combat his doctrines through the medium of truth and reason, which he was quite sure would always prevail with an English audience. The lecturer was lis tened to with much attention. A RELIC OP TILE ORION.—On Wednesday, We were shown • gold watch guard chain, and small shield, which had been recovered a few days previously by the divers from the wreck of the lated steamer, the Orion, which, as our readers will recollect, went down off Portpa trick, under most unhappy circumstances, exactly three years ■ ago. It appears that the owners sold the wreck, as it lay under the waters, to a person who has from time to time employed divers to Ash up whatever was available and could be removed, and it is understood that the spe culation has paid him decently. These submarine work men accordingly, while engaged in their operations, discovered a small chain in the crevice of a rock, and when rubbed up a little it was ascertained from an inscription on the shield, to be the property of Mr. Tait, baker, George-street, in this city. Through the agency of Mr. Shaw, baker, Stranraer, the long-lost chain has been transmitted to our townsman, by whom it has been acknowledged, and the divers duly remunerated. When the Orion went down, Mr. Tait being in a cable berth, eking with his little boy, and in the struggle for bare life, he had something else to think of than the gold watch and chain, which, when retiring to rest, he had placed under his pillow. Mr. Tait, with his son, found a place in the first boat which left the sinking ship, but she was im mediately swamped. Many were drowned ; and our towns man, along with his son, reached the shore under almost miraculous circumstances. The watch and appendages were thought to have been lost for ever, but the chain has turned up, as we have said, although the watch itself must have been ground off by the abrasion upon the rocks below. The chain will be treasured by our townsman as a memento of the most eventful circumstance in his life.--4llasgete Herald. IRELAND. DULLIN, JUNE 13. The writ for the Clare election was met ived by the high ant:riff on Saturday, but the day for the no milli:man h as no : vet been announced. In the mean time, both parties . m; making active p re p arat i ons f or the struggle, of which :. 1 e Roman cath o li c c l ergy . 1 arc resolved not to b e ;die witnesses. Bishop Vaughan assembled a number of his priests at his residence, and they came to the determination to oppose again, as far as in them la:. the election of Colonel Vandeleur. Sir Edward Fitzgerald, Bart., nephew of the late member, will, it is toderstood, bo one of the liberal candidates. The meeting at the Rotund° to-day is likely to be a boisterous affair, if indeed it do not end in some thing worse than noise. The Rev. Tresham Gregg has publicly announced his intention of attending the meeting with a strong party of his followers, tor the purpose of moving a counter-resolution, and has given notice to that effect to the preparatory com mittee of the meeting. If he persists in his deter mination a scene of indescribable confusion must be the result; but as the authorities are thus timely notified, precautions will of course be taken to pre vent any breach of the peace. The following is the official communication referred to above as the reply to the application of the Dublin Protestant Association : _ Dublin Castle, June 10, Ma. Slit,-1 am directed by the Lord-Lieutenant to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 9.h instant, transmit ting a petition adopted by the committee of the Protebtont Association, and to inform you that every care will be taken to preserve the public peace on the occasion adverted to. 1 am, sir, your most obedient servant, MOMAS It. Liacent. J. Martin, Erg., 1, Upper Mount-t•treet. Petitions against the Nunneries Inspection Bill were placed on tables yesterday (Sunday) outside the doors of all the Roman catholic chapels in Dublin and its neighbourhood, and received many thousands of signatures. Saturday was one of the half-crown days at the , Exhibition, and the number of visitors was 6,7)0. There was a performance on the great organ in the afternoon. MUSIC. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The seventh concert of the season took place last night. Its programme was as follows: PART I. Overture _ 1 Scher-cot Song, with Chem, "You (Totten k . A Midsummer „ end .... ickn. snakes," 'Slim Luning Ppm acid (Night's Dream '` Madame Viardot gtonurtio, March, and Final Mono i Duette, ..,Nella none," Mdmc. Viardot and Freer Formes (Lee Huguenots) Meyerbeer. I le t it • / " 1:°11 si a PP rema" { %I t ' i l i " l:lB l icri u n imi r G ir l :fg Duettlno " Quota volts " 1 Overture, °Leonora" (Don Carla) Coate PART PART IL Sinfonla Erwin Beethoven. Brett. "Armida dispistata n 0 (Amide) Madame I Aria " Lancia eh' io piano'. i Viardot Daudet. Quartette. "Oran Nume, in vent erento," Mir Loui,a Pyle, Madame Vianlot, Edgmie °ardent, and Licrr Norm's (Gerusdrinme Liberate) Rightni. Overture, o Ireisehute Weber. This concert was announced to be "by Special Desire;" the phrase usually employed to intimate the intended presence of the Queen at a performance of this kind ; but her Majesty was prevented front fulfilling her intention. An announcement was dis tributed in the room, that an extra concert is to take place on the 4th of July by her Majesty's special command. When the concert was about to begin, the directors received notice that Miss Louisa Pyne had been attacked by a sudden hoarseness, which rendered her totally unable to sing. In this emergency Madame Castellon was applied to; with that kind and oblig ing disposition for which she is remarkable, she readily complied, and arrived in time to sing with Clardoni Costa's duet from "Don Carlos." When she appeared in the orchestra the audience, who had been apprised by Mr. M'Murdie, one of the Directors, of the application which had been made to her in consequence of Miss Pyne's indisposi tion, greeted her with the warmest applause. The duet was exquisitely sung, and probably never pro- duced a greater effect. In the two-part song," You spotted snakes," Miss Pyne's place was supplied by Miss Chambers, oae of the chorus singers, who acquitted herself in a very satisfactory manner. The whole of the "Midsummer Night's Dream" music was delightfully performed, and applauded with enthusiasm. The two great orchestral pieces, Beethoven's " Sin fonia Eroica," and his overture to "Leonora," were played as the Philharmonic orchestra only can play them. We never were more struck with the grandeur and beauty of these wonderful com positions. The duet from the " Huguenots," and the fine air from one of Handel's Italian operas, displayed the greatness of Madame Viardot's style, her highly-finished execution and im passioned expression. This great dramatic singer had a reception worthy of her genius and reputation. Formes had been iudisposed, but seemed pertectly recovered, acd sang with all his usual energy and effect. The room was extremely crowded ; and the con cert, notwithstanding the disappointments we have mentioned, went off with the utmost spirit and sue- OM. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.-MONDAY. The room was crowded toa high pressure degree through out the afternoon, the rain preventing the subscribers from having the usual range and accommodation on the terrace and lawn adjoining. Much inconvenience wnild, however, have been obviated had a suitable awning been spread over the whole length and breadth of the terrace : for all such occasions some provision of the kind should be made. The chief business was the settlement of the Ascot so ' counts, which were for the most part heavy, and on the wrong side of the book for "the ring." Several balances were left open, and the non-contents were unquestionably in a majority. We would suggest that it be made a rule of the min that all parties who settle bl• deputy should bo compelled to give notice thereof to the keeper of the room, whose busi ness it should be to place a written announcement to that erect on a board especially provided for that purpose. Late in the afternoon a few beta were made at the prices given below. The principal investments were on Castor dale and GoidSeder for tU Northumberland Plate—.s to 1 was taloa to upwards of 2001. about the former, and 8, 7. and 6 to 1 to various sums about the latter, the last bet that was booked about him was 600 to 100. SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES. 6 to 4 on Mr. W. Cooper's Torment (t) 4 to 1 agst Captain Lowtber's Raekapelt (t) NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 6to 1 agat Mr. G. White's CoNterdale (t) 6 to 1 Mr. Palmer's Goldtioder (t) 7 to 1 Mx. Henderson's Coomburland Stathea• mon) 10 to 1 Mr. Wid (t iants's Chief Justice (t) 12 to 1 Mr. Knapton's St. Andrew (t) 100 to 7 Lord Olasgow's Doublethong (t) ST. LEGER. II to 4 agst Mr. Bowes's West Australian (t) 6 to 1 Mr. Powney's Cineas (t) 6 to 1 Mr. Thellueson's Ratsplan (t) DEBBY. 12 to 1 Mr. E. R. Cooper's Autocrat (t) 20 to 1 Lord Derby's Ortolano (Verbena c.) (t) 25 to I Mr. Bowes's Marley Hill (t) HAMPTON RACES. Subjoined is • list of the entries for the Plates, which closed on Monday night. INsimirEns' PLATE.—Three quarters of a mile. An tonina, 3 yn; Ada, 3 yrs (601.) ; Massaroni, 3 yrs rO1.) ; Cotton Lady, 4 yrs (501.) ; Lady Isabel, 4 yrs 501 ; Nightshade, 3 yrs (60 1 .) ; Tittle Tattle, 3 yrs (501.) ;"V entze a-tetre, 6 yes (501.); Theorem, 6 yrs (501.) RAILWAY PLATE.—Five furlongs. Cataplasm, 3 yes (601.); Anne Page, 3 rs (501.) ; Noisette, 3 yrs (5011 Little Kitty, 2 yrs (501. ; Acute Angle, by Auckland, 2 yrs ; Nightshade, 3 yrs 501.) ; Lioness, 2 yrs (501.) HER MAJISTY'S PLATIL—Two miles. Nonsuch, 4 ITS (h b) ; Sleeping Partner, 5 yrs ; Anne Page, 3 yrs; Don Quixote, 3 yrs ; Torment, 3 yrs ; Rack spelt, 3 yrs ; Per fidious, 3 yrs ; Economy, 6 yrs ; Corybantes, 3 yrs ; Hybl*, 3 yrs ; Masaaroni, 3 yrs ; Anonymous Letter, 4 yrs ; The Monk, 4 yrs ; Stamford, 6 yrs; Nightshade, 3 yrs ; Dame Tattle, 4 yrs ; Sweetheart, 6 yrs; Ventre-a-terre, 5 yrs ; Carbuncle, aged. BALLOT.-MEETING AT GREENWICH. A public meeting was held last night in the lecture hall of the Literary Institution, Greenwich, in aid of the ballot movement. The chair was occupied by MOXTAOU CHAMBERS, Esq., M.P. The assemblage, which was nu merous and highly influential, was addressed by Mr. Hep worth Dixon on behalf of the Ballot Society ; after which speeches were delivered by Messrs. Thwaites, D. bass, W. C. Bennett, Laing, Noble, and J. Bennett. The proceed ings were charactensed by great enthusiasm fur the ballot, A petition to the House of Commons in its Nowa was adopted, and a ballot local committee appointed. 'rho/meet ing separated with three hearty cheers for the FIRMA of Mr. H. Berkeley's motion in the Hogs! of Commons to-night.