The Express. — London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, -. 'it eirprzbit. fl t)- :RIPPON 1111:1119, • •00u4 1. 4.1 m •i" I!sa l are.. allaa.atac ev.n.3 iro els•M ua.,42^1 Tank) Ina triday algal, .a tto.o Poll. Mooltiormooto ioloo 'ea lot "Th. Esproce, • Uslon E.. - woo Trio, . 4 0 .Itp .• o.v. tbor•le•enst, t . 7 e ..n tt. Op of pokliwikou 111011 WATktL I.uNL)U\ BRIT( 1 11 Tine Day—irenfrat. ••• Sr h- 40 . le.sessorellwaml.„ 1111 i 17 . LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 11. LORD JOHN RU WELL proposes this evening to sum up the demerits of the first four months of the !homy administration;—for the notice which the noble lord has placed on tlw books of the MUM! of Commons refers not merely to the ICI' II ER COW. hut to the ,tare of public affairs generally. Aid in doing ao,Lord Joni acts rightly. In the presence of a dis solut um, and with a general election impending, it is fit and proper that the country should have a correct view of the wet of men who seek its confidence. Lord ions ltt•s4ll.l. will have an easy task to perform. Ills materials are abundant; the facts are pcpul .1' and 11 otof iUOS ; the inferences are natural and iireaiatible. A few bold strokes. happily dashed is t iir e all that is needful. With one momentous exrption (the new Militia Bill), Lord Di Ray and his colleagues are not to be judged by the mentors they have passed or introduced thiAwssion : for their legislation was all, more or less. replied fur them by their predecessors. For their law reforms they are indebted to the reports and labours of the commissions appointed by the late government. The utmost tredit they can take is that they have Irked into shape the suggestions they inherited), and that they availed themselves of the strong desire of parliament not to allow even this samoion to elapse without some large improvement. the County Courts Extension Hill is not theirs; the Metropolitan Urand Jury Bill is not theirs. So with the Metropolitan Water and Inter ments Sills ; Lord Joni MANNERs found the one actually intiodueed by Lord SErstoun, the other lyin all ready iti his portfolio. Of the New Zealand Constitution Bill Sir Jolt's Px•tscrox had all the materials and mane of the details prepared for him by Earl GREY. The chief of its merits are of Lord GREY'S preparation (as the draught of the measure now on the table of parliament testifies), the most glaring of its defects Sir Jolt's's. After the same fashion Mr. HEN LEY dealt with the Itesertion of Sea men Bill, whith Mr. U0'01%11E10: left behind him in the Board of Trade; he managed to engraft on it provisions utterly repugnant to the genius and spirit of our Irak which would have entitled foreign powers to search our ships; and fur their expurgation from the act as it now stands, the country has to thank Lord 'Witter STUART and Mr. Assns. The truth is that no sooner did these sucking ministers get into office than they ransacked the papers of their predecessors to extract therefrom sug gestions for small measures of improvement whereon to erect huge pretensions as great reformers. But in their clumsy unskilled efforts to make the stolen property appear their own, they tortured, and spoiled, and deformed it ; and it has only been by the original parents looking well after their bandings, that a few stein of improvement have been taken in a session which ought to have been most profitable for steam 'llw present Militia Bill and Lord MALMESBURY'S Extradition measure, like the Execution of Wills Bill, are all their own. The first they have been able to carry by the weakness of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the patronage of Lord PALMERSTON:; bat so bad a measure ts it, that no later than last week Sir Gattamt GREY was obliged to admit to the North Northumberland farmers that it would do far more harm than good. And as fur the Extradition Bill, it is too bad even for Lord MURDERS. It exhibits poor Lord MALMINDURY in a most pitiable light—ready to conciliate de President of the French Republic by any concessions; yet without the wit or the skill so to frame them as to give them a chows" of passing through the legislature. Undertaking in his rash ness and ignorance to settle and determine a ques tion which, for the last fifty years, has puzzled and defied the ablest of his predecessors, he has rushed into a convention with France which half an hour's consideration will convince the youngest apprentice in our law cannot be carried but by the abandonment of one of the most deeply cherished principles— that which throws round accused persons the protec tion and the safety of legal forms. And then their budget. With a surplus of two millions sterling, we have had not a single tax re duced or modified; but instead, after seven and thirty years of peace, we have six hundred thousand pounds thrown away on a militia. And why have no reduc tions been this year made in the public burthens? No man can doubt the reason. A larger surplus is next year wanted to be applied to the relief of land owners to shift the incidence of local taxation from yto labour; to refund the five millions of property it is falsely alleged the squires have lost shies 1845. Bat this is the positive—the absolute side of the gaieties. There is another; that which relates, not to what the ministers have done, but to what they ham undone, and this is by far the most important =whence to view the DERBY administration; for we leers the coarse they would have followed had they the power to work out their real will. First dell, them they have unsettled faith in the hemmer and integrity of public men, by now aban &Meg, and re-mabrad4 protection,—by now re ihrratiag their adhesion to their pest promises, by thee declaring that . progrees is the inevitable law d bursae affairs. Opin ions they may have, but policy, it is dear, they have Bone. Tbeylegan the minion with a is duty, and they end it by talking about a general revision of taxation. They commenced by mewing their intention to rob the people openly, to eslor them on the highway of their cheap loaf; the community able and resolved to pro test they now whisper into their fo ll owers' sl q eaues—• sit a little, and we will pick their pockets he pe emently.* Why, even Mr. S ewueo&tx (the Minded orator of the party) rejects this flagrant =l. Per the Immtiag after Mr. Ihmeemett's .o the limb dodoes appeared, the great Pesteetiosiet Aameiatios —to a deputation from wile net two yeses ago Lord DERBY exclaimed "U f oi ltik = amd at timese"-- this association published time advertisement : " At a of the &env committee of the National Ameleeleet he the wheel= et Industry and Capital throughout lb, BROM lamista, held at the South Sea- Mms r es Masi y, the 7th of Jose, 1862. C. N. ILP.,in to stair, the following molls. Neu peed :—" 'That, :—.. That, in the opinion of We eelelMilase.c• swatdisath news, of lazatioos eats Vairib edl ar a iss=:lloVasZ/CT;r ieftitu lows. s ra m i ii .'" f or leas mile issiffr the Imam te4ieli May Bawls prow a. spew f/if /me Wade. At the some time this smoriora tally admit that a revision of %elation mast he as • mattirofJustee, unless the err sent ememereisa be slevised; bet they coofidently recommend their sesetrymea is adhere to the policy which this sass. Bluffs Meow advocated." "That a copy of the foregoi2 ' suriatien to tormented to each tiv•tober of the gene oswatittsa, to the Meal societies, and that the same be also eavertimed."—C. N. NSWOROATS, chairman; ClinaLes Baas, essestary." Bet free trade and taxation are not the only things they have unsettled. The principles of Irish educe- I tion are again at sea. Those thew are going to exarsine. Bat as for the terms of saministration of the British educational grant, they have altered without even the formality of inqairy. And again, they . lime opened up for painful and distressing die warm the whole Irish question, by the attack they have encouraged on May nooth College. Lord DERBY i " Areerriew mmsiey" still. la short, on no one domestic question of the alighted importance have they pursued a plain, straightforward, born at, and intelligible course. They leave played and trilled with, and unsettled every thing without giving any real substantial hopes of snaking hereafter a single rational improvement. They have dealt fraudulently with protection, and they propose to deal still more fraudulently hereafter with taxation. They denied with one , breath any extension of the franchise to the growing ! Intelligence of the country, and next day they offered it to all the penniless vagrants nurchaseable tor a six pounds bounty. With a huge surplus, they have refused to remit any taxation; cram tang into the estimates of expenditure, as an argument against re daction, a great sum for the Rallis war, which they are now compelled to admit is not required. In Dublin their Lord Lieutenant has surrounded his meet with all the old bigotry; and in Loudon the traetarians have at last gained areas to, and inflame! in, the COUII6Is of the crown. Abroad they have appraised the Urea of .• • men at the SUM of 2201. Go where we w travel where we please, we are 'l‘o longer ROIIOW ; we may now be cut down and salved tot 1,001 frail:- ersteoni, if only the foreign gavernment, so indulging is ruffianly salient, will r..y it as a measure of lota-' penaation and not "as an act of generosi.y." ' France we aresupr •rting and upholding and cucourag and 5i, 4 611" extratii:ion treaties (which we had refused to eonerude w itb t w u count it ut halal monarchies and a republic) with a despotism fouuded on the principles and practices of brigandage. In Switzer land we are signing protocols with the gnat de spotic powers to overthrow the liberties of the gal lant little canton of Neufchatel. In Spain we have ceased to have any influence whatever; and our um ! basaador is coming home on six months leave—to avoid probably seeing the extinction of that constitution, to the establishment of which we con tributed so largely. Front Austria we have sun. Milted to outrage and insult—we have allowed her police to drive away in the midst of winter missionaries whom we were bound to protect. And, protected by Austria, the court of Home threatens to deprive an English salved of his life for an offence of which no one in England knows a single authen tic pot Ocular. With materials so ample as those we have rapidly run over Lord dons ltussiaa.'s duty this evening will be clear enough ; and with such a catalogue be fore the country, the duty of the voters at the coming election will be even clearer. FRANCE. PARIS, SVITUDAY RVENIXO. A highly important result has taken place today in the Corp.. Legislatif. The government proposed that the new sumptuary laws should be referred to the committee of the budget. The house, however, decided that the laws in question should be referred to a special committee. On a show of hands the government was beaten by a considerable majority, a result which occasioned an immense sensation. It is proposed to modify the budget fur 1833 in the following particulars :—From the date of the promulgation of the new law. landed property is to be rated for the purposes of levying the stamp duties on conveyances and transmission of property, at 23 years purchase, instead of 20, as is now the ease. From and after the Ist of August next, the duties on pure alcohol are to be mired to 43 francs. In the city of Paris the ditty is to be 61 francs. From and after the same period a duty is to be laid upon paper. This duty will be 10 cen times per kilogramme upon packing paper and paste board, and for all other papers 25 centuries per kilo gramme. From and after January 1, 1833, a duty will be laid upon private carriages.. At Paris this duty will be, on foul-abet:led carriages, 120 f. ; on two-wheeled, 60f. In other parts of France the duty will be, on four wheeled carriages, GO, 30, and 20, in proportion to population ; and on two-wheeled car riages, 43, 30, 13, and 10. A further duty of 301. must be paid for armorial bearings painted on car ' riages. Private carriages habitually employed in transporting goods and merchandise are exempted. From and after January 1, 1833, there will be a duty et 60f. upon riding horses in Paris, and of 43, 30,13, or 10 in other places. Stallions and mares kept for breeding are exempted. A tax of 31. per head is put upon dogs from the same period, shepherds' dogs and dogs kept to guard the house only excepted. M. Billault proposed that as the bill just presented related to the budget it should be at once sent to the budget committee. (Several murmurs.) M. Daude larre said that the questions raised by the bill were most serious, and were deservilg of attentive exami nation. Ile moved that the bill be referred to the bureaux, who would elect a special committee. (Loud cries of " Yes, yes.") M. Mercier (de l'Orne), would add, that to send the bill to the budget com mittee, would be contrary to the regulations which prescribed that every new law should be sent to the bureaux for examination. (Yes, yes.) M. Roquet observed that it was impossible to deal with the measures now introduced as mere additional items of the budget ; they were essentially new bills. M. Omuta said—the committee of the budget had examined with care the budget which had been submitted to it; it had prepared Important amend ments therein which it was necessary to send back to the Council of State for its examination. Before re ceiving the opinion of the Council, it could not termi nate its labours. In tho present case new taxes were in question, which the house was celled upon to vote ; he thought that it was indispensable that they should obtain the opinion of the bureaux upon the projects now set forth. seeing thatthey were entirely now. A member observed that in the projects just laid on the table taxes were proposed which should be collected during this year, whereas the budget commission was appointed to consider the budget of 1853. (True, true.) The President then put the unison, when the reference to a special committee was ferried by a large majority. It was then decided AM two committees should be nominated, and Miniay was appointed for that purpose. I enderstand that the sitting of the tonne du eon at which the Orleans affair was to be tairto -day, has been adjourned until Monday. etext for this delay is the alleged indispoei dub of M. Corandet, the reporter. But if lam rightly Warmed, the real modes is to change the reporter, as it is known that M. Osenadet's report is unfa vourable to the views of the rearament. People s e a rr ofy as to affirm that ilhe pmsea who will be with the new nem. is IL Boniadgaier. I ma not gaits ewe that M. Rewerehass, the commis mime et the government on this gamitios, hes been at ia l esai asi= se th j e s t ra r s he=r b ed M. lance ; to Oreilhat of the adios, de estetentieux. that, in his requisition, he mold net seal concluding in 'avow of the erimpeteses of the ordinary tribunals to adds epos the legality of the seizure of the Orleans MINN of Mama= and The eommittee of the bald has adopted by a mr‘wity of two webs, the ommatont of M. Merode, g to molipt from the dump duties and re daces Go Appiumil yminety which the 'of Orissa isoillsoi to all is outaapience of the Amanita Jan G. I unitsimmi that a mi s ting of some of the most dmimultilltenosta of the Elyse* has been lately held, milt Go vim et ergaakiag a society for the sake of 0111Ztho puma - it the Prince Louis Napoleon. Oiddialemeste I believe of the Elyse, seems to bum bum the presiding spirit at this meet ing. He *MI the personal danger to which the prince ass MIMOSA by his fearless policy, and pro posed the' limmeilea of a phalanx of ardent and de voted adherents, who should be ready at any moment to devote their lives for the safety of the President. This may be regarded, if true, as a proposal to revive the society of the 10th December. I understand that the Rouen Railway Company is to have the Cherbourg railway disputed by the Western Railway C.ompany. This is expected to mate a rise in the Rouen shares. The fusion of the Lyons and Avignon Company and of the Avignon and Marseilles Company as said to be highly probs. bk. A guarantee of 4 per cent. has been demanded from the gov ernment . This has not been yet granted, but is expected to be. M. de Persigny has returned to Paris and resumed, his functions. A decree in the Monsieur puts an end the ad interim administration of M. Lefebvre- Dandle. I I The definitive junction of the Versailles (Right ndlway with the Western line took place this weak by scam of the connecting line of Virofla It is desided that the Strasburg railway will b y. e opened ae dlr as Nancy on the day fixed, the 17th instant. The municipal council of Nancy will cele brate the asemien by public fetes. A dinner of 200 covers will be given. At the Beams the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. refue l 15, closing at 100.53. The Three per Cents. rose 3, and closed at 70.15. The railway market was of an undecided character. Most of the lines fell PARIS. SUNDAY EVENINO. Not one of the newspapers mentions this morning the defeat sustained yesterday by the government in the Corps Legislatif. Yet no fact more deserving of notice, or tame egnant, perchance, with grave results, bas for a long time stirred the inner political world than this, no trace of which appears upon the surface of publicity. Perhaps no more remarkable proof could he alleged of the fist prostration and (wren insignificance of the daily press than this universal omission of the only incident of the day wortKrocording. The importa nce of rsteering the neve*ritptuary laws to a special committee is evi dent, but the moral fleet of &successful retdatance to the overbearing dictation of the government spreads beyood the immediate question, and the effort eviani a spark of vitality eomfortab'e to witness at the outset of pi t parliamentary journey which is to lie through sixtong years. The proposal of M. Bill:mit to refer these hi is to the ; committee of the budget shows the sort of deference to standing rules to he eXpected front a spent er of the house appointed by the executive. By this manteuvre it was hoped, doubtless, to prevent that peculiar impersonation of the opinions of the Cham ber touching the new bills which results from the election of a committee in the bureaux fur their spe cial examination. This rule is the more indispen sable as regards the present legislature, inasmuch as no amendment can be referred fur consideration to the Council of State until previously adopted by the committee. The strong objections very general y entertained against the new sumptuary laws will probably cause the special committee appointed to consider them to be much less favour able in their conclusion■ than the ccm- mit tee of the budget. Meanwhile, it may be not amiss hero to describe tie nature of Rome of those obligations. A sumptuary tax is held to be an Ineligible mode of balancing the deficiency of the revenue, because its net returns are inconsiderable, ittitnode of collection vexatious and arbitrary, and its effect prejudicial to industries which produce the ar ticles of luxury taxed. The tendency of Frenchmen, particularly during unsettled times, being frugal and economical even to parsimony. a wise government should rather encourage expenditure and foster luxury than seek to raise revenue from the rare mani festations of a disposition to indulge a costly taste. But it seems especially inconsistent in the present government, which loses no occasion of displaying its love of magnificence, to impose with one hand the check of taxation upon luxuries which it fosters with the other. Functionaries have theirsalaries increased that they may be able to indulge themselves and their families wtth carriages and horses; ministers and pre fects are ordered to give great entertainments, all with the view to promote that expenditure which it is now proposed to repress by taxation. 'the ex ample of England in this matter is nothing to the purpose. Ihe rich there spend their money freely, undeterred by political fluctuations. But even in that luxurious country the sumptuary tax produces little more than a million sterling. Then, again, us to the conditions of the amount imposed, the distinction between town and country, between different classes of towns, is equally untounded in theory and incon venient in practice. The richest proprietors arc those who live nearly the whole year round in the country, and these will pay . only 301 r. for a four-wheeled car riage, while a Pannell is obliged to disburse lour times as much. Many other objections urged on various grounds, from different quarters, 1 omit. Suffice it to say, that whenever a proposal has been made in the French Chambers for the imposition of a sumptuary tax, it has been always put to flight by the host of objections stated on all shies. In the long sitting of the Council of State on the loserptuary laws an incident took place which shows dot some of the councillors are in the habit of ex pelling their opinions freely, notwithstanding the presence of Louis Napoleon. M. Boinvilliers, an en-representative and old advocate, said that such projects of taxation as were now proposed were cal iodated to create a belief that the government was week, and sans nectar. Upon this Louis Napoleon addressed the hardy councillor, and -aid, es I am in breed: I beg you, sir, to believe that my govern- Pent is not a weak one ; and I have every reason to believe that it is not sans arenir." By a decision of the minister of the interior the subsidies that were allowed by that department to Polish refugees have been withdrawn. To-day is the Fite Dieu. In my letter of Friday last I mentioned that the government, weer ing a former decision, had authorised the public elevation of the host in the streets of Lille on this day. It has been determined to encourage the revival of religious processions throughout the country to the utmost ex tent compatible with any unrepealed law, however obsolete. In Paris this morning the churches have been crowded, and in many of them the ceremonies of the day have been conducted with much of the ancient long-forgotten pomp. At the Madeleine a long procession marched round the exterior colon nades. From the perystile in front of the Rue Trtemhet, the Abbe Deguerry, the curl of the parish, gave his blessing to a large crowd that knelt down upon the pavement as the procession passed by. I have not seen, or heard of, any procession appearing in the public thoroughfares in Paris. But wherever any garden, court, or open inclosed ground adjoin. ing a church has enabled the letter of the law to be evaded, the processions have come out and displayed themselves as much as possible. In the 10th arron dissement the national guard was ordered to attend in arms at the church of the Missions Etranffne, to escort the procession. In the provinces it is - believed that the revival will be observed with still greater ostentation. Much astooishment has been felt at Lille by an announcement that the provisions of Na poleon's imperial decree, dated from the Palace of St. Cloud, the 24th Measidor of the year XII., with tea pet to the presence of the military at religious pro saism/ are to be acted upon on this occasion. Ac adia, to this decree, when the host passes within Fight of any military post the troops are to turn out and present arms, kneeling on the right knee with the right hand raised to the head. Officers en to salute with their swords at the Mai of their troops, carrying the left band to die bead. The Wears are to salute. Each post will tandsh at lest toe soldiers as an escort. The decree farther contains splatases for the manner in which troops of all arms dims up in battle array are to receive the proceeds' In the principal place* of the town. The artillery will fire three salvos during the promies. lle lamb secrecy has been observed in aid /mem apes this subject, that I have been sable to kilo whether the revival of this decree usumatee Mostly from General St. Arnaud, the Mlakiter at War. It seems improbable that the =1 oceseanding the military division at Lille haw token upon himself to resuscitate a de ems sthktie bough unrepealed, has not been acted upon kr nearly half a century. If the order has been general, we shall hear of this extraordinary em ployment of the French army, in 1832, at Rouen, Brest, Arras, Limoges, Nancy, and many other places where these street processions have been authorised. 'f he oath has recently been refused by M. Marie, the mayor of Binic; M. Perret, the mayor of Clouray, and M. Houvenagle, captain of the national guard of St. Brienc--all ex-representatives of the people; by the Marquis of Doris, councillor-general of the Somme; and M. Bayard de Saint-Mess, receiver oldie domains of the canton of Oisemont. The re tinae hitherto publicly announced give but an im gesinotion the total number of abstentious. of Asa dpralm et eminence who avail them selves d tea rsedl oath to make a political de emiisliallse Ida* it fi nd their way at once to Paris. But en stay . members of the councils general and municipalities in the provinces who do not intend to take the oath, whose names have not yet been struck off the lists. The prefects is many instances postpone this final measure es long as possible, to leave time for repentance and the operation of official influence. M. Marie, the mem ber of the provisional government, is a councillor. general who has hitherto made default without stating his reasons publicly. A zealous prefect in one of the departments has occasioned some amuse- aunt by stating in a printed circular that ho expects the oath to be taken with " sincerity." It is inferred that this prefect can have but little experience in i polities. Petitions for the establishment of the empire are now extensively circulating in the department of the Basses Alper. At Barcelonnette, Beyne, Javie, and Terriers, a large number of signatures have been collected. The government has at length determined to abo lish the butchers' monopoly in Paris. A measure for this purpnee was in contemplation long before the 12nd of Dec., and has since been repeatedly upon the lapis. The strenuous efforts of interested part ies, aided by absurd prejudices, have hitherto parried every at tempt to effect this desirable reform. It was firmly believed by a large proportion of the good citizens of Paris that, without high artificial profits assured to the butchers by law, there would be no securitY for a steady supply of meat to this vast city. A succes sion of statistical reports, showing that London and other large towns where no monopoly exists, are always abundantly supplied, has well nigh dispelled this delusion from the minds of all but the -- - most obdurate. The experiment of alloy big private individuals to purchase whole carcases by auction at the Central Hallos has been productive of the best effect. This innovation, for which the public is in debted to M. Curlier when prefect of the police, has taught the Parisians to calculate tho heavy price that they have been paying fur the interposition of the prie ilcued butcher. The bill now in preparation, and about to too immediately presented, proposes to re peal all laws and rovultet ions restrictive of the flee ' dom of the trade. of n butcher, and especially thou• bens which limit the number of butchers, oblige them to deposit caution-mo cy, or to form themselves into corpotuttons. The caution-money already deposited by existing butchers at the bank at Poissy will be returned to them within three months. The late storms have done much damage in the south of France. The rivers Sez and Mosson, near Cette, have overflowed and swept away a public bathing establishment and several houses. Many of the roads in the neighbourhood are impassable. Bridges have been carried away by the floods. The water has made a breach of several hundred yards in the embankment of the Cette and .Montpellier railway. The Vistre overflowed, and the waters rushed with impetuosity along the Cais sargues high road. It is reported that several per sons have been drowned in attempting to swim across the torrent. At Cette a custom-house officer and a Genocst• sailor have been killed by lightning. The accounts from Nimes are as disastrous as from Cette. The Vidourle bad overflowed, and the Gardon was menacing. Fortunately the waters of the Rhone arc not very high. BELGIUM. The King of the Belgians left Brussels on Friday morning for Wiesbaden, accompanied by M. Conway, Captain Coffinet, nn orderly officer, and his Majesty physician. The King is expected to be absent fur a fortnight or three weeks. The Wrier Gazelle contains an article on Belgium. where " important events, not precisely the suppres siun, but certainly great modifications of the consti tution," arc said to he preparing. The objectsof these modifications are, it is stated, the repeal of several laws passed by the liberal ministry, the increase of the royal power, and the admission of the catholic party to offices of state from which they are at pre sent excluded. The article represents much more nearly the wish of the parti pretrn than the proba bilities of the case. Louis Napoleon has conferred the Cross of the Legion of Honour on M. Delwin auras, a Belgian, who served is the grande aware. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, Captain Burney an iced at Southampton, this morning, with the Peninsular mails. Her dates are : Gibraltar, the 3rd June; Cadiz, the 4th; Lisbon, the oth; Oporto, the 10th; Vigo, the 10th. Among her cugo are five packages of specie. The Brazilian mail steamer Teviot had not arrived at Lisbon when the Iberia left. The Queen returned to Lisbon on the 2nd inst. The new auditor from Home is ex pected ut Lisbon shortly. Exchange, 5-11. Discount on Lisbon Bank notes, 2 per cent. SPAIN. MADRID, Jose S. Although the Espana announces with a certain air of authority that the portfolio of the war depart ment is to be given to General the Marquis of Novaliches, it is thought that either General Cam parAno, commanding at Valencia, or General Lam will be the new war minister. There is to be a grand review at Madrid towards the end of the month. Orders 'lave already been given to the troops a( Arragon, Estremarlura, and in other garrisons in the pro vinces adjoining the capital, to hold themselves in readiness to march to Madrid. It is expected that an army of 30,000 men will be collected. GERMANY. The Second Chamber of the Duchy of Hesse has received a message from the government, relieving it from the duty of deliberating upon • bill for regu lating the press, inasmuch as • press law for all Germany will soon be promulgated by the Germanic Diet. SYRIA. DAMASCUS, MAr 10. The National Gazette states that Mehemet Pacha has not been able to penetrate into the Agilum moun tains to proceed with his recruiting, in consequence of the resistance of the inhabitants. He had obtained reinforceme ts, consisting of two battalions of in fantry, 200 cavalry, and several cannons, but all this force proved insufficient. On the 18th ult. ho sent messengers to Horan, to treat and to endeavour to calm the population. The people, however, continue to resist, and threaten to set fire to their crops rather than give up any part of them to the town of Da- DISSCUS. Letters and journals from Syria of a day later speak of the state of the country u continuing to be exceedingly serious. Almost all the tribes were in open insurrection against the authority of the 'Sultan. THE UNITED STATES ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. At ten o'clock on Saturday night, the British and North American royal mail steam ship, Africa, Cap tain Harrison, arrived at Liverpool from New York direct, which port she left at noon on the 2nd init., thus making the passage in a few hours over ten days. She brings 100 passengers, and 408,374 dolt. is specie on freight, with the mails from the United States and British America. The royal mail steam ship Asia, from hence, ar rived out at New York at half-past six on the morn ing of the Africa's departure. The Arctic arrived out on the 30th ult. The intelligence by this arrival is again without iamb importance to European readers. The people wee occupied in the various states with as busy preparations for the presidential election es we in I England are just now engaged in for the forthcom ing parliamentary contest. In tho Senate, a number of petitions had been presented in opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law, but they were quietly and almost contemptuously set aside. At Baltimore, Young America was reported to be having it all her own way. The members of both houses of Congress were at that place in considerable foroe, in attendance on the Democratic National Convention. Among the strangers was Lord Wham cliffe. The city had never before exhibited so thronged an appearance. Kossuth had returned to New York, but the en thusiasm formerly felt in his favour had given way in presence of Meagher, who was raised to the rank of " illustrious" by the press. The friends and countrymen of the latter were holding meetings be the purpose of preparing a g= ill et esiC A Ls os seedunctioli with the common council. quantities of ire have gone down the Ilbsissippi this spring, which have proved very Illegal in cutting off and breaking to pieces the snags ' in the river, and levelling the sandbars in the river bed. The St. John's, New Brunswick, papers give de , tails of the disasters that ha.e arisen from a fire which has been raging in the woods in the vicinity of Bathurst and Frederiektoo for some days pre viously. In the former town three or four dwellings with their outhouses were consumed, and at the latter a farm-house with barns and all the live and Aped stock were destroyed. The cathedral was at one time threatened with destruction, as burning ' ; cinders from the forest were felling thickly in the streets around it, but a heavy shower happily checked the tire in that quarter. The New York herald and the Tribune give the following Alexican intelligence, but do not meatiest the source whence it is derived: We have dates from Mexico to the 19th ult. The news generally is unimportant, except a report that the Chamber of Deputies had passed a bill granting the right of way mow the Tehuantepec to Colonel A. O. Sloe, of New Orleans, by a vote of 60 to 20. By the arrival tit Mr. Lewis Morris, United States' (*maul, from Campeachy, which port he left on the 2.lth ot April, we are informed that Ottnend de la Veto, now iii command of the Yueat in army, has been appointed minister of war. The general sea daily expected to arrive at Camp achy to take his de• • insure fur the capital. A courier arrived at Campeachy on the 6th of April, bringing the news that a detachment of the army had penetrated the Indian country to the banks of the Rio Ronda, which riser divide.' the English posses slo' of Belize and Honduras from Yucatan, where they fell in with and captured, alter a alert li4ht, an English schooner laden with arias and munition 01 war intended for the Indians. Vire or as Indian leaders were captured and immediately shot, and the ve.sel burnt. By a late decree of the Menic in OnefIllla•Itt the port of I...guna ha% been opened, and is sow a port of entry. YeNsel. may protead to Laguna dirt et, without touching, as heretofore, at Cain peachy to pa) tonnage duty. The ship Ttniteuste put into New Orleans fur te pairs, came into cullisiuti with the barque Fairmount, bound to Philadelphia, on the 21st May, run over and sank her in a kw minutes, only the fist mate and one seaman being bayed. Thu captain, a lady passenger, and eight of the crew were drowned. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JUNE 2. Foreign exchange is in fair drntsnd, We quote Louden 110 to 1101 ; Paris, 4.161 to 0.15 ; Amsterdam, 401 to 41 ; !Limburg, 361 to 361; firemen, :9 to 791; Frankfurt, 40t to 401. Under the steady accumulation of capital in all the com mercial cities, money here still continues very abundant, and in the absence of a correaponding increase in desirable securities to absorb it. the balancer are now unpreeedenttdly large. At the seine time our city hanks were to ver more successful in the prompt collection of their discounted paper, which shows an uneawi pl el state 01 prospatrity among all classes engaged in hitsin. es pursuits. The die' count houses continue to he the roe intents of large &posies at 4 per cent. interest, and are deify in cm-not:tit 1011 with the banks in the purchase of paper. In Walls there is no, change. CoTToN.—liulders generally am very firm and show no desire to accept lower prices, not% ithstand ng a feeling which prevails that the Avis, now due, may show some trifling yield in Liverpool durirg the reminder of the I week, ending May 21. The quotations of last week are renewed, but they_ must be considered so nominal. The total sales since May 24 to last evening have been 14,000 bales, of which about one-half has been for i sport to Liver pool, the remainder on speculation and for home consump tion. The export during same sires has been as follows : Liverpool, 8,480 bales; Havre, 838; Rotterdam, 179; Antwerp. t 444 ; Bremen, 263 • Stockholm, 71 ; St. Peters burgh, 867. Tote], 11,472 hales. The Southern markets maintain their firmness, and the ride/thee noticed in May last circular Middling qualities in Mobile, on Saturday, May 29, being quoted at 91e. and in New Orleans on same ante, 94 to 10e. for Good Mi ddling. Freights were lower, and shipments for Liverpool had been made at id. BRIANSTUIPTA.—Western and state flour opened very firm, with a fair home and eastern inquiry, and a moderate shipping demand. but elmi d doll and less buoyant. The export demand has fallen off this week, end is now mostly confined to Canadian, which is without change to note. Thr stock of bonded is limited. Southern is steady. The ar rivals continue :fight, and the demand moderate. Rye flour and corn meal are steady and quiet. There is very little wheat offering; the demand is moderate for the cast and for the local trade. Shippers ore not in market at present prices; the firmness in Ireigldit and the absence of de• arable lots restrict transactions materially. PROVINIONN.—Pork is dull. ?den may he quoted at 18 doll., and prime, 16.24 dots. Beef in without alteration. Mew, 10 dole. to 13.75 dots.; prime, 6 dots to 7.40 dols Beef hams, 16 dols. Cut meats are dull. 400 tierces of lard bold ut 91 to 10 cents ; kegs are Beane, and command 11 to 111 cents. Sales of clear pork have been made at 19.371 dols. Woof..—The recent advice, from Europe, based chiefly on accounte from Australia, have had a tendency to make holders less anxious to realise; lint the slightest advance in prices has not taken place. It is aster ained that there is nt ~reaeut in the country sufficient to supply manufacturers of the country fur at least sixteen months, without futther im portations from abroad. FUNIONTN.—To Liverpool flour is offered more freely at 1 grain, 3ld. to 4d. ; cotton. 1 to 8-16 heavy goods, 12s. ad. to 14s. To L ondon GO tierces 303 bbl,. beef were taken at 3s. 6d. 30 pipes wine, Its. Gel. Flour may be quoted at Is. 9d. to 2s. Naval stores 214. Measurement goads, Ils. 6d. to 30s. Heavy goo ds, 13, to 20s. To Ilavre—Cotton ' Ashes, 5 dolt. to 6 Saha Rice, 8 dols. Quereitron bark, 8 dol.. Whalebone, Ic. Measurement goods, 8 dole. To Glasgow—Wheat, 4d. Flour, Is. ad. INDIA AND CHINA THE OVERLAND MAIL. THE WAR IN BURMAII. We have received our usual papers and despatches in anticipation of the Overland mail. The dates arc Bombay, May 12 ; Calcutta, May 1 ; Madras, May 8 ; Hong Kong, April 23. Our Bombay correspondent writes as follows : BOMBAY, MAY 12. In my last I sent you extracts from the papers re ceived on the morning of the mail's departure, giving a pretty correct account of the capture of Martaban and Rangoon; the official despatches will probably have been published in the London Gazette long ere this reaches you, so of course any detailed account from my pen at this time of day would be super- RUINS. The military tactics of General Godwin on the 12th to the 14th April belqre Rangoon have been rather severely criticised, and it is generally thought with a good deal of justice. The Europeans are said to have been landed in full dress—red coat, shako, &c. ; and after being exposed to an April sun till noon, they were directed to encamp in a salt marshy locality, where they remained inactive for thirty-two hours. What could be expected to follow but sickness? and accordingly, by the time Rangoon was ours on the 14th, cholera and fever had seized on every tenth man of the Europeans at least, and dozens of brave fellows were hurried to premature graves. Majors Griffiths and Oakes, of the Madras army, died of coup de soled on the first day, and several more had a narrow escape. Captain Hunt, 80th Foot; an officer of the 35th M.N.1., name not given ; and the Rev. Mr. Baker, of H.M.S. Fox, died of cholera. Lieutenants Doorin, 18th Royal Irish; Ensign Armstrong, 51st H.0.L.1. ; and Lieu tenant Donaldson, Bengal Engineers, were killed be fore Rangoon ; and Captain Blundell, 51st Foot, died on the 18th, of a wound received in the stomach on the 12th. The number of casualties, therefore, amounts to nine officers, fifteen rank and file killed or died, and twelve officers and 120 rank and file wounded. How many soldiers have died of disease has not been stated, but a great many have been cut off. Nearly all the casualties occurred amongst the Europeans, as the price laid on their heads (Si.) by the Burmese authorities was nearly double that offered for those of the Sepoys; and many a poor wounded European was decapitated by the savages for the eske of the reward thus offere d The steamers had been basilyy engaged all along the river destroy ing the stoakadesand :fortified places, and by latestae counts (23rd ult.) not one was left-all had been burnt to the ground. The king's steamer had been seized up the river by the Tenasserim, but her back break ing while in tow, her engines. &c., were taken out, and she was burnt. The Phlegethon had been sent as a guard vessel to Martaban ; the Berenice and Zenobia to Vizagapatam to convey over to the seat of war the sth M. N. I.; the Salamander to Penang and China; and the Rattler (with the admiral on board) and Fire Queen had gone to Calcutta, whence the former was to return on the 3rd, Admiral Austen having gone merely to consult with the Governor-General as to future proceedings. Some say that no further opera tions are to be entered on till after the rains, while others again aver that an immediate advance on Protne is to take place. If our force remains inactive at Rangoon, the mortality amongst them will most likely be dreadful; if kept in motion, the climate will not affect them one-tenth part so much as if they remain where they are. Tho idea of the force returning to Calcutta and Madras for the rains, is in my opinion absurd. Her Majesty's 51st occupy the south-east angle of the fort, the 18th It. I. the south, the 80th the west, the 40th B. N. J. the oast, the Madras artillery the north. The two Madras corps, 9th and 35th, were in the stockades outside the fort. Many hundreds of the inhabitants had returned, but the prices charged for provisions of all kinds were exorbitant. The ex.governor was believed to be in the jungles with only 100 or 200 men, all his brave fellows having deserted him. On the 20th a mes senger from him had waited on General Godwin with a letter, which stated that though we had won one battle, there were yet two other dreadtul con flicts to ensue before we could ever hope to reach Ave,. but that he was willing now to treat with us to prevent our getting a good thrashing hereafter. The messenger was told to go back to his master and tell him that for having fired on our flag of truce on the 10th, he would be hung on the highest tree in Rangoon should hands be laid on him ; if the autho cities wished to treat, none but a special messenger from the king himself would be listened to. Mean-1 while it is said that the king is dead, and hsa been succeeded on the throne by the prime minister. A large quantity of treasure, 20,0001., is said to have been found in the Great Pagoda, with .arge stores of powder, iron, sulphur, &c. The brig Serpent, and steamers Pluto and Phlegethon, were about to proceed up to Pronto to 61-0 what the enemy were about—and it IS not iniproluble these vessels may give them a taste of what is in store fur them. Colonel lteignolds, Idth ILI., had nssumed command of the Bengal brigade, when Brigadi er Warren was struck 111.11%.11 by the suit ; the latter bad returned to Calcutta—it is not stated whether or not lie goes bock to Rangoon. Colonel Ctott•, had completely recosend from his sus -stroke. flu the night of the 1411 t April the Burmese thought to catch us napping It Nlar ahem said uct•urdetgly entlettvotned to surprise us, with what result me follewing account of the affair, copied fru:st the Morelmein 7'intra,will Show : On %Veda( relay morning lut•t another inaiitioue attack wit made upon our truops at l4urtaben by a party of the +ooty. au puoind to lie about a,W.t airtrug. Thry ee ad, tl the et:delay of the parquets on the heights, and eauic down to about the distance, us we are credibly informed. of not more titan :100 yet da from the Vamp, and km lit up a smart tire on our troop■. The piequo le then retreated to the camp, alp, the guns were kept in reitilmeaa to oµ•n a tile upon the enemy ea sow ita they enter d the gete. Thy tiring tom , menet d, according to the best accounts, ut lu den ht, tot did not cease till four o'clock a.m. lie daring mist drls.r. mused were the eiti of that hitt bur the guns our troop, would have int ettattly la rn all killed. Fortutiate:y ate Aare only two artillt•ryuiea slightly notiloied, WO w a driver, awl Li,ut. 11.1 W Kra,.d by a Ion:. tun the 1.1 knee. We cannot tV4 11 gut, the camAlii.,, ou tic enemy's aide, tor the deed and woutitled ilfll 11 them se e m to have bet n removisl loom our eiallt. ci• „m l„ dreadful eat:cotton ue beeeve no • thmigt,; Ilti lire Ir.. our Mope 16101 murderous—abut, Omit, crape, rocket•., and Certesses were wait among them with 1,. et rapidity--the discharge of ittutki try was raking, kW :0 the enemy woo strong. amid thickly ml togethir, wu doubt 1101 lull that Ihrlf h., was etn,vitleraige. 111 my last I stated that Sir Colin Campbell and his force had returned to Peshawar from Shuhkudr, the Momunds haring retired from the neighbour hood of that jolter. Latest accounts from Pe hawur inform us that another hiree h rd been ordered out to the Swat ltiver, IM re to encamp anii await further orders. This is to consist of her Map sty's 22m1, the 2f4th N. 1., 120 troopers of the 2nd irngular cavalry, and a few heavy guns. The Swat teem are to be severely chustiaed this ti ttttt t if they cm he got at, but there's the rub—we never can get a fair fling at them. The bridge of boats acrows the Cabool riser had been swept away, and boats for the crossing of the troops were being colk-cted from all parts. The %chiles! Motounds were inclined to treat with us. and had Nent a party to an iuHur•utial native in our service to intercede fur them. The terms they demand are said to he as s:— 'l'he The hirt at Miehnee is to be made over to them, or if this is refused, a certain allowance is to Ix nude them for protecting the road, they considering them selves in the pay of the Btilish, and conducting themselves in all things as British subjects. It is said that the nuthorititu have sent a imsitive refusal to agree to these terns, stating that the tort will re main in our possession, and that unless they give hostages they will not treat with them. T•he Mo munds of Miehnee are also said to have been disap pointed in the jagheer of +4,04)0 rupees promised to them by Gholam Itaider Khan, and thi-, combirud with an evident desire on the part of Saadut Khan to throw them over, is gieen out as the reason of their wish to come to terms. . _ . Major Mackeron had returned from Kohut, hav ing succeeded in bettling the quarrel at the village of Murree Aboo, at which pace he ordered 300 Wm. try, a troop of cavalry, anti two gun., to he htatiuned tiff the future. The Moutunds who had been fined .5001. had refused to pay it. and those of the people who had sided with our force had been illtrested by the Eusuizaiees, one of their head men haring been . • murdered. Altogether matters are now in as bad a state on our north-west frontier as ever they were. A good deal of sickness prevailed at Peshawar, and the 32nd Foot had lost seventeen men since their arrival at the station. Colonel Franks, 10th Foot, had reached Wuzeerabad, and assumed command of the station. The 96th Foot was to go out on the 3rd instant from Anarkullee to Mean Meer. Very stringent orders had been issued to officers pro ceeding on leave to Cashmeer, that they were on no account to take provisions or provender for their cattle without paying the full re gulated price for every article supplied them. To this day in India it is a common thing . for the servants. of civil servants especially, to go into villages when travelling and take whateser they like fur what they like, often not paying a penny. Of course, this zoolum (imposition) is placed at the door of the masters, who all the while arc being charged by their servants double and treble the fair value of what their menials, in fact, steal from the villages. Rules for the guidance of officers going on pleasure parties in the Punjaub, pointing out to them which places are dangerous to travel, which safe—but, unless there be danger, an Englishman thinks there cannot be pleasure. Hereafter, should misfortune overtake officers when out sporting. by their not attending to the Governor-General's parental warning and advice, they will have none but themselves to thank for it. We have no news from Scinde. A tremendous thunderstorm and fall of rain hail occurred both at Kurrachee and Hydrabad on the 30th April, and again at the former place on the 2nd of May. Lteut. Lambert, A.D.C. to General Godwin, who was struck down by the sun before Rangoon, and who brought the despatches to Calcutta, goes home on sick furlough : he has been appointed an hono rary A.D.C. to the Governor-General. Messrs. A. F. Bruce and Swetenham have resigned respectively the Madras and Bengal civil service. Dr. J. E. Mayer has been appointed acting assay master at Madras. Mr. It. Burgess has been removed from the office of First Judge, Madras Small Cause Court, by order ofcoart of directors, and Mr. K F.Elliott, whose hands were already full as chief magistrate and super intendent of police, been put in his place, because be was thought deserving of a higher salary than was allowed for the appointments he before held, so another was given him, the duties of which with these of magistrate it is utterly impos sible he can properly perform. Such is the way busi ness is managed for a protege by the Honourible Court of (blockheads) Directors at home. The Seth Bengal N.I. have gone quietly to their destination: eight of the ringleaders in the Barrackpore mutiny have been dismissed the corps. The 37th Bengal N.I. at Berhampore has volunteered to a man fa Burtnah. The ship Earl Grey, from Bombay to London, grounded on the 19th ult. off Cochin, but by the exertions of Lieut. Selby and the officers and crew of the lI.C. brig Pahnurus she was floated again on the 22nd, with little damage. Dr. Doig has retired from the Bombay medical service. Dr. Boyd has succeeded him as superintending surgeon, and Dr. !Woke replaced Dr. Boyd as medical storekeeper at Bombay. Mr. Gustav Vents has been appointed Consul for Hamburg at Bombay. The attorneys have sent home a memo rial against the late fee reduction order of the Supreme Court. During Ap•l 1,601 people died in Bombay, 264 of whom were cut off by cholera or small pox ; 22 Europeans were amongst the nunalwr of deaths. Mr. It. X. Murphy has succeeded the late Mr. Vaupell as chief interpreter, Supreme Court. Lieut. G. H. Wilkinson, 16th 80.N.1., is said to have been killed by a tiger while out shooting near Asseeghur. Lord Falkland continues at the Hills: it is expected he will pay a short visit to the presideney before settling at Poonah for the rains; he and lady Falklander*. now said to be quite well in health. The following appears in the Calcutta official Gazette of the let inst. : the omissions here apolo gised for had been made the subject of severe ani madversion by one or two Calcutta papers Fort William, Foreign Departraint. May 1, 'SU. The Most Noble the Governor-General in council three:. that the following 'street of a further despatch recciit3 from Lieutenant-Gen, cal Godwin, C. 8., COMITIR11111:16: the forces in Ave, Arracan and Tenaserrim province', bited the 22nd ultimo, be published for general information " I sincerely regret having omitted to bring to the DOW, of the Must Noble the Governor General in council, in sir despatCh No. 3, of the 15th instant, how much l am in debted to Mr. Crisp, junior, for his able assistance in e , 'n' ducting the army through very difficult ground. on i" grew to the Great Pagoda, which he pert°, ro,d antler the are of the enemy with great coolness and courage. "1 rejoice greatly to say the wounded are doing re*, the skill, the labour, the attention, and the hunniad7 Supenntending Surgeon Montgomerie, and of the me hou department generally under him, call for the warrant tf probation of the government. " Major Fraser, Commanding Engineer, ha. been cadet,tigable in his exertions in his own department, and everywhere, to get this place into some order and oleo. " Ile has requested me to bring to the notice of the vcrnor•Oeneral in Council the gallant comfit et of Lieutenant W. S. Trevor, assistant field ea¢ineea *lO the first on the ladder, and there wounded, at the tit'''' House Stockade. on the 12th—as also of Lieutenants (r,' ter, Bengal, and Mayne, Madras engineers, who wee' forward on the same occasion. " My greatest pleasure, however, is to bring Itefdre Ito 9 i 1 ship in council the admirable conduct and temper of I • its d °me. ce ptionable. he Gov neknonh buperinteno learn that wound , d ra Th e °eve to the office Trevor and Lieutenant Crisp•jun , papt-Gener 13y order Cassiahie panure of t Quicreo strung. lat in chtio acon of lisca2 thochAY. the 28ch 31Avitui berm R. Vasper, 31. C. (.1. Bou ll Coptmin 1.. doiniuiung, BENGAL. Easittuon N. 1., at kt mond, 190‘ lioNo I which Hoi deecribed The nu creased ; 57 ; of Fiera, wi arrived of The Hi miramis I ship Heri gers, IA hi recent Cr of the 1 pleading discharge to be hun tory's ma fifteen yt been tills and aura labour, Tho I One of usual act with bus eouusitb Those ds days ago murder of two I himself. z 1 he weather pang of peal of t rent. 1 oonstaat vessel lc staple e Americs in Afric The efft ealculat In col attive h kola. 1 the ezc ceeding SOW Cr° Our I ea the I very Ito all the to the tal. 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