The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

Di lams has needlesel; assumed towards Belgiam, a weak and vulnerable. ally, an attitude of bullying, which almost drivel, us to the conclusion that the object seems to lit, rather to test the political spirit of Belgium than to settle commercial claims that may have been in discussion between the two countries. To render Belgium practically and palpably sub servient to French interests and wishes la the avowed aim of LOUIS NAPOLEON and his ministers. Demand has followed demand during the last nine months on various subjects, but more especiallyon points relative to the extradition of political exiles, and to the free dom of the press, each more exacting and more sum mary than the previous one ; and all but too obvi ously tending to convey to the King and statesmen of the Low Countries, that independent and secure neutrality will not be permitted them; but that sooner or later they must either agree to form an un annexed dependency of France (like Westphalia and I Naples in the former days of the Empire), or elm i prepare for the consequences. I Had King LEOPOLD been contented to adopt the former alternative, the opportunity was afforded him by the break-up of M. Itoolea's administration, for tacitly giving hostages to France for his future sub missive behaviour. The park pears are ostentatiously Bonapartist in their sympathies, from the Rhine to the Adige; and the ministerial crisis having been brought about by their influence, it would have bests easy for the Sovereign, under the show of an affected compliance with the will of a nominal majority in the Chamber of Deputies, to have summoned to his councils an ultra-catholic Ministry. Nor would it have been possible for him to have consti tutionally done otherwise, had the majority been in point of fact wholly or substantially ultra-montane in their opinions. But the vote which overthrew the late Liberal cabinet was obtained by the momentary junction of tho mode rate Conservative section of the chamber with the bigotted or reactionary opposition. And no sooner was the result seen, and the chuckle of exultation in Paris, at tho emb arrassment and humiliation thus caused, overheard by the section alluded to, than they began to repent them of what they had done, and to show how little unity of sentiment or purpose there exists between them and those who had con trived to make use of their temporary aid. Hence the rapid dissolution of the majority of last July, and the redistribution of the legislative body into its more natural and more honourable proportions, which for twenty years have almost with out interruption presented the spectacle of a decided prepon dera nce in favour of true religious equality, genuine freedom of educa tion, perfect liberty of the press, and gradual eman cipation of trade from all differential preferences. The moderate Conservatives in Belgium us in Piedmont yield to none in their spirit of nationality, and their aversion to priestly rule. Their fear of democratic innovation may sometimes mislead them into taking up a wrong position in party warfare; but the first shadow of foreign encroachment, whether Pspal or imperial, that darkens their path, is sufficient to warn them of their error, and to drive them cordially into the ranks, once more, of those that rally in defence of independency of thought and independency of the soiL It is upon the sustainment which such a party can give him, in concert with that of the decided Liberals of all shades, that King LEOPOLD relics for the maintenance of his throne and the integrity of his realm. In the hands of an ultra-montane cabi net both would infallibly have been lost. To believe this it is not necessary to ascribe personal baseness and treachery to all the individuals who might have composed it. It is possible to imagine that amongst them men would have been found whom the exor bitant demands or overweening insolence of France would have ultimately stung into resentment, perhaps into resistance. Bat their remorse would have come too late. Formed under such circumstances, an ultra-catholic admiuis tendon would have been deemed by Europe, and, —what is more important,—by the mass of the Bel gians themselves, as nominees of the Elysie. No diplomatic assurances given by them would have read in any other light than as enclosures in the despatches of M. DRUMM DE Lnuve; and no legis lative enactments or administrative appointments would have been regarded by the people as untainted and independent. The loyalty of the nation to its institutions would have been wounded even unto death ; and in weariness and loathing men would have begun to think whether incorporation with the renascent Empire would not be less degrading and more safe than so anomalous and despicable a condi tion. Bat Belgium has now a Liberal government to whom the friends of progress may look with hope for the maintenance of constitutional liberty in that country. Rumours which have recently prevailed about the terms said to have been dictated by Russia, Prussia, Austria, and England, as the condition of their joint protectorate of Belgium against France, will naturally cause men to look with some degree of anxiety at the measures of tho now cabinet. It is confidently stated that one of the principal causes of M. DE BROUILEZE'S failure in his first attempt to form a ministry some weeks ago, arose from his re pugnance to accept any base condition, and there is no reason to suspect him of any instability of pur pose on this fundamental point, or to doubt the fidelity of the King to the principles whisk have characterised his his and reign. The WWI= of the Moderate Conservatives, though tardy, has bow timely, and we will not suffer ourselves to beams that their votes in favour of M. DinriOSSl, as.presi dent of the chamber . , were won by any concession on the part of the Liberals inconsistent with constitu tional or national honour. Cosuctiox or • NOTORIOUS BriklAlt.—At the Somenetshire us deem this week, Wmisa Ilagge, a sots rims b• Dar, the bowler a peg whisk Ye /On Woad the neighhwYM of Pram, was MEd sulky otstoolisg • quantity at milk salaamed : tok. The yardman atessimkos by . bow aka* appeared in this peps, k be remseabsiod that he was tried as the last Susismetakire arises Y em asstka with Had and Intro . awed wltb murdering a ring girt is Roma. At t a ms.. he was Indicted be is hoe look goloilly of Mk the pmpsm of Mr . .= Mr. Oils mom' MN posoor - AM Mr. Edward' aohoiol tbo pins& • Ana mod lithakr swore :=so bake sass the passer Magmas* one M his Olpsnow) aeMft assasr - 11NnEs ems m Ma diet Joss ; OM be wool op be Mom and mia smal M lobo Ohs Isle oseloily, bet lam tbrealesod to bad Ms Maas ast tv* =balsas. astl be was diked to MHz was sabseq= made be was eventually teaseled usio thi rie embralsb allege. He Melody roasted Wog impased. sod It wee sot sail ••snag body of sudsier arrived. owl Olmstead Miser him lit be he sunesilered. Far the dolma Mr. TlrdiZto OM stissigial to prove as saki. He called a slew maker, eemel Maar, who, thee* he had lived at Them all Ids Mims. my war Map, ssii he did not bars osl lad soar sass Ms lit osso. mid that ins as the vibes the M was midi to lave bast Os that nigh M i disesd Mat he shpt is the seam sum with hiss et the Rod 11100 100, at Trowisidge. Mr. Ode them wild a engem* at lake at Trowbridge, whe aware that the. was so beam by that name in the town. Theiney t ilzed roirA ft . guilty, and be was sentatood is 16 There is also a charge of borglary amiset Mae" kr which In will be tried at Me seat ardam Ttk sorsoopliso in this bur glary was sesvidsd at the last ce d ar, and sentenced to 10 ram' in obillos to 16 years, to which he Mad boos soNsoool at the sessions, making domes in as the asuedy will be relieved from the perate eft adds pap he setae yeses to come. Ma. CorroN AND ma CcrrroxiAtt Lisasex.— The knowing mama statement appeared in a late enealger el the evilly (pepled probably from some local Jentraell), rep oilis So Osaosim Library at Plymouth : t' This egemettee Irvin charge of the late Mr. Cotton's valuable collection of basks, prints, Re., which the de ceased gentleman hal bequeathed to the townallipe of Ply- Intratk and Plymtoe, have determined to throw the museum op= to the public free of chvge c ea two days in the week." We scarcely need say that the wh.ie of this paragraph is nun sr and we adz amiss it biome it is calculated to cause ;exist, and ems amen Kr. Cotton's friends, she reside at a distant be. Plymouth, and it should lbws. fore be contradicted. Ns. Cotton is still living at his residence at leybridge—we portion of his collection is. yet been removed to Plymentl—.maths has there been saw meeting of the trailer at WIND tie rembatiss stated in the Critic was propasad or oisgtol. We opt however inform our readies that the i.e. boil be the reception of Mr. Comae. very liberal gift (eel begotot), is new nearly completed. The ask frees a portal of the Pantheaak fries of the renames has boss plated Earl the upper pert of the walls, iseimeariedy beneath the me. eke, where they have • gm! sibol, rad the WWI SEW minted ceiling has been tinted la •Awele and drew mow um by Mr. S. Cask. As ma tborshoo as dro_poist Is salciently dry, we ssibirstand that s portion of Mr. Oat s ton's donation, ceasieling of • range of Anthem weed cabinets, contaitiag a mike of obsess esgraviap sod beam ea the In. arts, win be MIMI Si lON tom Ivplrldge to the new library at Plysteadi, a wry bisdassas piedmont, creditable by alike to t tie pteprietsio. mid the sreluteste sir toyed them. FRANCE • PARIS, ittIIDAT Bram:co. The following is a thethdrition eta document pre sented by Abd-el-Kedse. to the Prim President on the ocessiOn of his YW•to St. Cloud; " Praise be to the Wrgdd 1 May God retinue to give the victory to Neprisen, our lord, tot Zing of Kings ! May Qod be his 44 sod direct his seams 1 He who is sow thaw* yes is thethemse rimer wham rat city has delivered, rand who eases to thanr a. y r o a : for your bemille—All64l-Esder, the sou of Nibbl ed-Den. Us be amine to your highness to thank ricbe the r it which you hen conferred en , and to his eyes with your presence ; for I swear by God , user of the world, that you are, cur, damn* say and than say cm of those whom I have dens the me a thing which I am powerless *thank yea Ise seMaisadr, but wblsh wU not above your greet heart sad the selbstre dyer algal. You are not sae Mame who era bevels.' by lies and deceived by im- Tye hew MI sseliense ,in me • you have not fall Aitk la the WWII of those The ithobbi of sea ; you base set see at Ebert, I end I en my pm her sworn to yeti selanly, by tits }set of God, by lie plotter end his envoys. that I wth not de anythass mainly to the come dense Tibia yen lase pissed in me, that I Tim never fail in my possisse, that I will never beget your benefit., sod that I will weer spas site.. to tt Whs. it was Gots will Oat :4111 a. d wage war on the Preach,' did so; I oared the thooder of gunpowder to ▪ hard es long es I amid; bet when He decided that I *mild ern to seethe.. I selmiblel Is His decision, and gave wsy. Myroligionned pry sobbed& impose it on me se • law to observe qq oath, sad to repel all ides of deceit. lam sari/ ( tof the Pthphet), sad I will not allow that threw sherd hays ease to sense me of is room Mew, Ip=idl d diet be feels when your grilse hrboo towards me lit so striking a vassmitt Menalts ere a cord throbs round the neck of geemenswinded are. " I ems Worse to the greatness of your empire. the Arndt erre, beery the immensity of the wealth of !men the roily of her chiefs, and the straightforward chandler of their maims. It is not possible to believe that anyone era conquer you and oppose your will, unless it be Almighty God himself. I hope from your goodness and be novelettes that yen will preserve me a plus in your heart, for I was far ofi; and you have brought me within the circle of your friends ; tf Ido not equal than by my union, I equal them at least by the friendship which I bear you. tray Clod augment the love of your hinds, sad out terror into the hearts of your enemies ! " I have nothing more to add, szotht that i confide in your friendship. I address to you my goad wishes, and re new my oath. Written by Abd.el•litider-ben-hishhi-ed- Den, Oct. 3G, 1852." After this address the Prince; condserad the Emir over the palace. In the course of revaluation eras happy espraisions fell from AbdillMsder. The Minister of Justice, being presented to hiss, .boned how slight a In emblanee there su i ted bettemo his attributions and those of the Minister at Ric * • geed empire," said the Emir, "leans for support en judos sod the army." Several times Abd-41-ILader Webbed en du error generally prevail- ing that a Mersebesa It net bound by the each made to a Christian, sod petemed energetically against such a doc trine. The Zak, ill rgesking to the Prince obis gratitude , es ▪ "My Use OM eii , bet es to the rut of my body it has be mese meshy yen, berdits." The Praia was again *seed Massif to conduct the Emir to the stables, and plated out to him his favourite horses, which ibd.el-Kader math admiral. Ho was astonished at the beauty of the stables. "They are quite • little alace " end he. The MUM seasessell to the Emir that'll would shortly exhibit to his a rand review of cavalry, sad that for that occasion he meld lend bin en Arab horse. The Prime added that, as the link had set bees on lisersbeek hefora length of time, be most isms set Monday sal try the bone which lie should abet. Mb Madmen and dilution on the putt of hb Highness PINIMISI a *..Deed Whet se Abd-el•liader. The Emir IA at tie Ode*. His visit, which lasted upwards ef en hew sod a half, genineed a marked Imprenee es ell present. All were strut with the noble ness and dignity of his mousers. The extraordinary persistence of Abd-el-Trader in discoursing to the President about the binding nature of an oath would almost lead ono to suppose that he had been kept in ignorance in his Amboise prison of a very remarkable chapter of modern history. The Assernblee says it is in a position to confirm the news of the conversion of the Princess Caroline Vasa, but it adds that this conversion is spontaneous, inspired solely by conscientious feelings and wholly unconnected with political considerations. MM. d'Oms and Jallon, the new judges of the Court of Cessation, the newly appointed Presidents of the Courts of Appeal of Montpelier, Besancon, Douai, Colmar, Poitiers, Agen, Caen, and Angers, and eleven newly appointed provincial Proeureur-Uenerabi yesterday waited upon the President of the Republic, at St. Cloud, where the oath required by the consti- tution was administered to them by the President personally. The envoy of the King of Aehem (Sumatra) was received by the Prince President yesterday. The Prefect of the Loire Inferieure has closed the theatre of Nantes, upon the pound that the com pany is so bad that the public complain of their inefficiency, and that the tendency of such a state of things is to lead to a breach of the pease. The decree for closing the theatre further states, that no blame is imputable to the , whose hands were tied by contracts made by ird parties. The manager le, therefore, created a plenipotentiary, for the purpose of forming a new company, subject only to the previous approbation of the Prefect of every engagement. Who will say, after this, that France has not a paternal government ? The Ausiliaire Breton gives the following account of the destruction of the bridge of La Roche-Ber nard: Atrarrible accident, which might have been fatal, has happened to us. At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th a tremendous hurricane, which was felt all along the cornet, carried away the bridge of La Roebe•Bernard. The diligence from Nantes had just crossed over it, and by a providential chance no person was upon the bridge at the time. This bridge was a gigantic work. It united the whole southern part of Brittany with Nantes and the smith. It was formerly necessary to moss the Vilnius is a beat, and arming was so dangerous, that the swat of nearly a million was not thought tee mesh Islay fl e the oreetion of this beautiful suspension Wks, : midi bad se equal in Prunes ezoept that of Cabs& - There new »stains nothing of it beyond a few ropes and the essfeibag. It is curious that this bridsh was the work of the same architect who built - the bridge of Angers, famous for the terrible catastrophe which occurred there two years ago. The latest pews from Caen states that in conga goose of the great efforts of the inhabitants the Soak bad consrairsbly abated. MONDAT Evzsiso. I have just been a witness of, and even an actor in, one of the greatest events in the history of the world instantaneous interchange of thought between London and Paris. This memorable event occurred—moo far as Paris is eonorrned— in a little back office of the Ministry of the Interior, without parade, without much previous notice, and in the promos of Tay few inch- Weals. From sours trivial defect in the arrange ment—a defect certain to be remedied almost imme diately—the experiment was made with some diffi culty. For some time nothing intelligible could be deciphered. But at length the ques tion, "Are you Paris r convinced 111 that our friends did not quite know whom they were talking to. It was the opinion of the scientific men that the wires, either on the French or English coast, were not well connected. The experiment will, I believe, bo repeated to-morrow. It is thought that after the ill-samess which has at tended M. Lavaletteis efforts in the 'Air of theTuok ish loan, he can no loom remain at his pad in Constantinople. To-day being the festival of Afl Saints, the Bourse was not open, and no regular bodes= was tzsaisatfxL .~ Vie erovexiL ►iesond Glitloa of llse fa pier," eiedelabas the NMI Mutate " Car. tte," L published every 11sosiay end Vesday e4ht, la Na. Na t» divelueetaexte talesaed tee" The layeela" Leaded .NaEIM paw, our. be at the 001se, 10, Boavortepaireek by Toe &slush co tb• day et publleatioa. NIGH WATER AT LONDON 'RIDGE. Tins Mr—llownlae, 41t. fa. INUOLOW—ltotalas, 311.4101. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. TO-DAY the Free Traders meet at Manchester to prove their force, their union, and their readiness for the coming parliamentary fray. There will doubt less bo a gathering in tho Free Trade Hall of some three thousand stanch friends of unfettered commerce and political progress, headed by a larger number of M.P.'s than we usually find aetiog together in any other such public dcmonsbo ties. The meeting will be held under the mot cheering auspices as regards present commercial pros perity, whilst well-founded hopes of future successes throw increased light over the future. Free Traders are, however, by the very constitution of their minds, not the men to allow existing advantages to lull them into a dangerous security, or to permit a rose tinted far-off horizon to Wind them to the realities of things nearer home. Judging of political 'values by political results, they estimate Free 'Trade too highly to be hoodwinked into leaving it open to anything like risk. Itemembering well the true character of the men now in power, the public at large may surely expect from Manchester such an indication of in tended policy as shall compel the present official ene mies of commercial freedom not simply to proud the continuance of a Free Trade policy, but to accept and confirm it. The PRIME MDtIeYER himself stated the terms upon which he went to the nation at the general election just over. Those terms were, that the question of our commercial policy should be placed on trial before the country. That trial has been had, and the verdict has been given—a verdict favourable, by a large majority, to the doctrines of the Anti-Corn-law Leaguers. On his own chosen ground Lord DERBY has been vanquished; and it would be showing a great lack of wise vigilance if the victors permitted their crafty foe—and still real enemy—to escape from his self-imposed trial, until ho shall have accepted to the fullest extent the decision of the constituencies. Lord Denier must not be permitted to shuffle over the Free Trade policy as an evil before which he is compelled to bow, but must be compelled by the majority existing in the new pa rliament to endorse,—and to carry to its legitimate conclusion, — that commercial policy which has literally saturated the kingdom with active prosperity. Frio Trade, not being complete, cannot be re- Forded as a thing requiring only secondary service There in its behalf. is yet good work to be done. We have in the tariff ninny items from which sums comparatively nominal are received, and which, therefore, can only be permanently retained upon the exploded theory of " Protection." When general and unreserved Free Trade is adopted as the policy of the nation, these would naturally, and on the earliest convenient opportunity, be swept away. Carrying out the same broad view that all industry should be unfettered, we ought to be able to anticipate tho esrly advent of a time when our Eieise Laws would undergo such a revision as would at least render them less mischievous than they now are; and would rid us of all those imposts which—giving comparatively little to revenue—are yet vexatious stumbling blocks and impediment' to production and trade. Thus it becomes important both for the satis factory present action of the Liberals in Parliament, and for the future welfare of the policy now so tri umphant, that a full, free, and undeniable declaration in favour of Free Trade bo given by the representa tives sent pledged on its behalf to the Parliament about to open on Thursday. The statement is still very current that Free Trade is to be alluded to in the (luxes's Speech as a ques tion settled. Should this rumour be verified, the allusion will, of course, be hailed with loyal satiefac tion ; but any recognition of the wisdom and cleverness of such • mode for making gracefully an extorted concession, must not blind us to any insuffi ciency that may be hidden under ' , Tames words to be put into the Speech from the Throne. That speech will, of course, bo taken for its fall worth. It will come from the pens of the ministers, and to them the country always looks for any responsibilities attaching to such declarations. A ministry of consistently honourable politicians might be safely left to work out their plans, after a virtual engagement on their part on any question at issue; but when dealing with a Ministry like that now in power, it is neces sary to have bonds and decisions much more full and exact than a nonchalant admission "that free trade is settled." A set of men who pursued Sir ROBERT PEEL with bitter and undying malevo lence, because be inaugurated the system we now thrive by—who founded their claim to office upon the championship of " Protection"—who gained power with that party try upon the lips, and wbo now are about to wheel subserviently round rather than give rip the power they . have made such ill use of—such a Ministry, we my, isnot to be trusted upon light promisee in the ve ry hoar of their treason to old friends. They "promised" the farmers when they wanted to get office ; they will " promise" the Free Traders now they wish to keep it. Hav ing broken the first pledge, how much real value attaches to the second? No. Whilst the Free Traders halve the game in their own hands, they are bound alike by duty and by prudence to see it made thoroughly secure by something more exact and real than an isgetnotis sentence in a royal speech, an imaginative and promising flippancy from Mr. Dlesacm, or • high sounding ova lien from the mouth or pen of Lord DERBY. Whether a division of the House of Commons on Free Trade may or may not be yet requisite, this is scarcely the moment to diesels, but at least all Free Traders should be full y spared for the moment when any dip of the may be requisite. The rawest at Ykesebestee Maly will show that dm maybe wipandaalwedoeithe Anti- Corn Law League are Neither despies war hristfol of the weees - fly whist iii mecum e were wee. They knew the value at =lidam—the ward et which eaa shoe keep relbesene tema all they need. —and keening that. divest swim and peneded ample not like y to be lost the Mime et re gress, both in and oat of Tim minhtafial minis in Belgium has been brought to a termiaadme the constitution of a new cabinet nailer the pommy of M. na BILOCCICERZ, a msa whose satesedents are decidedly libel and whose selection of colleagues at the ,pmeent isegerteot juncture proves him to be a man of esimietency, and, at the same time, of sembratioe. The mew Ministry has bees formed altogether el Liberal moterials. The Imile palsy of wahmeerieg to °maim heterogeneous smuts in the lease eeneeil, at all times imitative, world, at s mosseat like the prommt, have tam diestrees, if net tataL le the preens, of ewe" it is, above all thief% desitable that a gwomman should be liserhid,that iiftsese. shosid neither paralyse its designs war be empested of marring their mention. Without mum sestidence national Neely isitaperiblo, and national spirit to bear np under low at humiliation is not to be hoped for. Aid of sae fortitude Belgian is likely to have need ease& at. hog. An Imp is aware of the highly unsatidadsey Mato eller ',hams with the existing government et Frame ; and of the course pursued very recently by the new French Minister for Foreign Albin. nl. Daou TX IA Luu rs—for reasons never eatielhaterUy placed before the pablie—has treated the f Brims& wetly meekseletroited thatelloedwa two age. Bo b sism swilealyos to brook ell tions es pleb of esneperedve tdeepoetsaes, to order to sib a easy mime offsets. both on the public Wad of his owe sentry and that of its neighbour, he must have foreseen would I be of a highly exciting political nature. His abrupt departure from Londso was calculated, as everybody kiw, to create wises, if not angry feelings on both die et the grind—feeliogs which, as the east greml, within bet the meow of the highest isgseeet Mums, and whims se the part of our gerreeneeest would lave permitted to evaporate with allt wing mimalt In like sumer M. DROUTN THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1852. BEIGIUM. The Independance, of the 31st ult., announoes the completion of the new cabinet, and publishes the appointments given yesterday in the telegraphic de spatch of our correspondent. The indepentlemee says:—" To-day the new mi nisters will take the;eaths at the hands of the King, and to-morrow the Moniteur will contain a royal acre(,, countersigned by M. Itogier, accepting the 1 1 resignations of MM. Teach and Hoffschmidt ; another arreti, countersigned br M. lingier, naming M. 11. de lirouckcre Minister for Foreign Affairs; a third, countersigned by M. de lirouckere, accepting the resignation of M. Hogier ; and, lastly, two others, appointing MM. Piercot and Fader. The position of MM. Liedts, Van Hoorebeke, and Anoul is in no wise altered." None of the gentlemen who compose the new ministry are unknown to the public:; a word on their title to public confidence may not however be out of place. M. de Brouckere, after studying with bril liant success at the University of Liege, was nomi nated substitute of the I'rocureur of the King at Ituremontle, and afterwards Proenreur of the King at the same town. Elected in 1830 a member of the Conyres National, and appointed by that assembly to bo one of its secretaries, he took airorninent part in its glorious work. On the 29th of August, 1831, the arrondissement of Ruremonde elected him its repre sentative in the Chamber of Deputies. I n May, 1833, he was elated for ( Brussels, and represented the capital until 1848. In 1841 he was made governor of the province of Antwerp, under the Lebean ministry, and subsequently wu trans ferred in the same capacity to tho province of Liege. In 1880 he was appointed minister pleni potentiary of the Xing of the Belgians in Italy. It was M. do Bronekere who negotiated the treaty with Piedmont. M. Licdts, who, as a minister ed interim, was a member of the late cabinet, and had the same office in that which is now completed, is, like M. de Brouckere, a man whose wise and firm liberalism, intelligence, and experience, are generally seknow ledgel M. Liedts his been successively substitute of the Precurcur 1u Boi and judge. Like M. de Brouckere, he was ono of the secretaries of the Congres National; he well also a member of the chamber of deputies, and once its president. He only vacated his seat in consequence of the law of incompatibilities. Ho was a member of the liberal ministry , of 1840 to 18141 ; and in the latter ear was made governor of Iteinault, and of Brabant. M. Faider, like M. Bronekere, studied at Liege. He was first nominated substitute of the procureur du Roi at Louvain, and afterwards transferred in the same capacity to Antwerp. In time he became Ad vocate• General at the Court of Appeal at Brussels, and subsequently Advocate-General at the Court of Cassation. M. Faider is an able lawyer and a man distinguished for lucidity of intellect. lie joins mo deration of character to great firmness of principles. M. Fiercot, who before accepting the portfolio of the interior was burgomaster of Liege, is a native of Brussels. lie, like his colleagues, received his edu cation at Liege. Ho afterwards became awes of the Court of Appeal at Liege, and had not abandoned legal pursuits when he was called to direct public affairs. M. Piercot is a firm and sincere liberal, and it is said en excellent speaker. The /adept:dance, of the 30th, says " The tele graphic despatch which announced to the 2111K4 the election of M. Delius.° to the Presidency of the Chamber, qualified him as the radical candidate. This error ;is calculated to give foreigners false and misleading ideas of our situation. M. Delfosse is a liberal, not a radical ; and here it is well known there is a wide difference between the two opinions." GERMANY. Letters from Berlin state that the 12th article of, the constitution, freeing the exercise of political rights from all dependence on the religion of the citizen, is ono of those which will bo most seriously modified by the revision of the charter now impend ing. Tho exclusion of the Jews is tho first aim of the reactionaries, who are anxious that Prussia should bo "a Christian state;" but the liberals in Prussia rightly fear that if the retrograde party can succeed in depriving the Jews, who avow that they are no Christians, of their votes, they will not be long in pretending to decide on the claims of other citizens—the free communists, German catholics, and other nonconformists—to be considered Christians for the purposes of the constitution. Count llatzfeld, the Prussian minister at Paris, left Berlin on the 28th ult. for his post. Letters from Breslau state that of the 20,428 primary electors entitled to vote in that city only 4,272, or less than one-fourth, exorcised the fran chise in the late elections. I The Panluskirehe, at Frankfort, in which the German National Assembly voted the imperial crown to tho King of Prussia, was restored, on the 24th ulr.,to ecclesiastical uses. the Vienna Gazette states that the negotiations for a concordat with the Itomish see are to commence forthwith. By desire of the Pope, they will be con ducted at the Austrian capital. The Augsburg Gazette, the strong Austrian ten dencies of which are notorious, relates by its Agram correspondent a most atrocious ease of Austrian per secution, the victim of which was an ex-editor of an opposition Croatian newspaper—the Sad Slarisehen Zeitung. This newspaper, like some of its fellows, has disappeared with the returning restrictions on the press, but its conductor remained, the easy object of revenge ; accordingly he was the other day seized and placed in the ranks of the infantry regiment Grand Prince Constantine. The pretext of this pro cedure is that M. Prans, the ex-editor of the narra tive, was six or seven years ago drawn for the army. He was, however, then dismissed to civil life upon the report of the examining surgeon of the army, and felt himself at liberty to settle for life. Now that he is a husband and the father of three children, he is suddenly taken from home, his wife and children are left without father or husband, and the only pretext for this violence is, that some informality attended the first discharge of its victim from the claims of the military authonties. ITALY. PIEDMONT. TURIN, Oar. 28. We are still in a state of doubt and uncertainty respecting the composition of the new cabinet. Every one is looking to Count Cavour for a list of the persons with whom he paposes to take office, but as yet none has &prate& This afternoon he has left Turin for the King's country residence, and should the new cabinet be definitively constructed, I i the name of its members might be looked for in to morrow's Gazette. Yesterday, a cabinet council was held under the presidency of the King, at which several persons, not members of the government, were present. After the council, M. Charvas, the prolate re- 1 cently appointed to tho See of Genoa, at the desire of the King, waited on his Majesty. At a me• went when general anxiety is felt for the safety of the constitution, and the complete development of that policy which has already freed us from many priestly i trammels, the visits of the high clergy to the p a la ce are regarded with great jealousy. - The P . antes° probably do well to regard the son of Charles Albert with a generous confidence, but any approximation on his part to- 1 wards a transaction with Rome should be watched with suspicion. Reports are current that Count Cavour, able financier as he is, and liberal as he has been believed to be, has returned from Paris dis posed to make large concessions to the clergy. Whe ther this assertion rests upon better grounds than the fact that ho has subscribed about 161. to the Newman fund I know not. M. His Butenval has left for Paris. Our Turin correspondent, writing on Oct. 20, says : "Count Cavour has abandoned the task of forming a ministry, as he would not consent to make the con cessions to Rome which it appears were required by the preemies of foreign influence. It is Count Balbo who has undertaken to form a ministry, which will be a great retrograde step. Neither M. d'Azcglio nor General Lamarmora would enter a mioistry with him and Revel, who would be the Minister of Finance, with Balbo at the bead of the government. The French ambassador. M. de Battenval, who was about to leave, now remains." ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on tho 24th October, states that Sir Henry Bulwer left Rome on the prooeding morning for Florence, leaving behind his nephew and secretary. Ho had been partially successful in the objects of his negociations. Fresh executions were to take place shortly amongst Murrav's fellow prisoners. The Duke of Modena had left Rome. Brigandage was rife around Velletri. TWO SICILIES. NAPLES, Oct. 22. The King, during his tour in the provinces ' has liberated more than fifteen hundred political pri soners. In the province of Catansaro upwards of a thousand constitutionalists have been sent to their homes. ou will remember that in the official reply to Mr. Gladstone the number of political prisoners was stated to be six hundred. I have already forwarded yon the sentences on the May lb affair. As I anticipated, those sentenced to death have not been executed. His Majesty has commuted the decision of the Grand Court thus : Darden°, Spaventu, and Barbarisi are to pass the rest of their days in the Ergaitolo; Scialoja and Leopardi are to be exiled; and the rest, condemned to the galleys, have already had tho chains put round their bodies. But they again have received a com mutation, and are to suffer half the named periods in icor. Thus, them sentenced to thirty years will wear the chains fifteen, and so on. Now, as the periods are all long ones,s.he clemency of the King, whoa properly weighed, is illusory, because it is well known that the class of persons in question seldom live in the galleys morVthen half the time which the commuted period will give them. The official print of the 18th, 19th, and 20th pretends that the men who have mitered imprisonment, without knowing why, fur more than four years, are so grateful for the King's goodness as to follow the monarch with blessings wherever he goes; and the populations of towns and villages are mad with delight on seeing their constitutional King amongst them. How ail these things are done and officially reported, you havo an example at the present moment nearer home. The Neapolitan government is, in a certain degree, changing its policy. The death of l'occhen eda ha s no doubt facilitated this improvement. And hero I may . record a singular anecdote of the lato I noted min ister of police. Ho bad lived with the! wife of a coin dealer for many years, when the hue -1 band died some months ago. Pecelieneda on his deathbed was advised to marry the lady; but it turned out that in early life ho had taken the vows of a priest, and could nut therefore expiate his crime with the sacrament of marriage. Sumo of the Italian journals attack the statement forwarded to the Luily News (with reference to rail ways) on the Baancial position of the Two Sicilies, but none venture on figures. It would appear that miracles aro not alone confined to the church in Naples. The government is stronger and richer alter revolution, war, augmented national debt, and a double amount of army and navy—the Five per Cents. are at 1011 ? Speculators must not be derived now a-day by such quotations; let them come into the market and see how the game is played. Whilst the funds aro at 1091,, government contractors are unable to get their money, the army alone is paid punctu ally. Since 1848, the Neapolitan national debt has been augmented by 14 millions of ducats, and 20 millions have been added to the Sicilian debt, with this paper the government prospers fur the moment. I repeat I have only one ohjeet in exposing the state of Neapolitan finance, and that is protecting the English public from imposition; those who "get up" foreign railways protect themselves. Neapolitan Fives, 1091; Sicilian Fives, 105; Ex change on London, 571. TURKEY. We find the following telegraphic message in the Wooer Zeitung : BEYROUT, Ocr. 13. The Drusea, assisted by the Bedouins, have com menced hostilities against the Turks. They attacked the Turkish camp in the night. An official report states that 400 insurgents were killed, and 200 made prisoners. Many persons, however, doubt the cor rectness of this statement, since the commander-in chief has seat for reinforcements to Napless. The roads in Syria are more dangerous than ever; com munication with Damascus is interrupted. or court. WINDSOR, Nov. 1. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Cam bridge a/d Prince Hermann of Hohenloho, went out shoot ing this morning, attended by Lietst.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, and Major the Hon. J. Macdonald. ---- Lieut.-Colonel the Ron. A. Gordon has relieved Lieut.- Colonel F. H. Seymour as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince. The DA° of Cambridge left the Castle this afternoon for London. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury hare been invited, and are expected to arrive to-day, on a visit to ha Majesty. His Excellency the Baron Bentinek, Minister of the Netherlands, returned to his residence in Lowndes-square, last Sunday, from the Hague. The Hon. William Ityam, Mr. Francis Shand, and Mr. Joseph Liggins, delegates from Antigua, had an interview with Sir John Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial office. Despatehes from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands were received yesterday at the Colonial office. Despatches were sent off yesterday from tho Co!onial office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-oltice. It vas attended by the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lansdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secre tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Pakington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Northumberland, tho Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Earl of Hardwiuke, and Lord John Manners. The council sat three hours. FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. A conference took place yesterday, at twelve o'clock, be tween Lord Hardinge, the Lord Mayor elect, the Dean of St. Paul's, Sir Richard Mayne, and Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, upon the subject of the arrange ments to be observed upon the octagon of the funeral of the Duke of Wellington. The consultation lasted elect uar sod com miss ione rs of an hour, alter wthheiclytahned Lord d rozo ld lra polies had a sitting at the Dean's house, in St. rout's churchyard. The orders awl regulations to be observed upon this solemn occasion will be published se soon as they shall have received the sanction of the respective authori ties. It is understood that the procession will leave Apsley-house at 8 o'clock in the morning, and will reash St. Paul's Cathedral not later than 12. A NEW DOMESTIC MATERIAL.—In the hall were 1 an umbrella and hat-stand, a slab, and a standard lamp. all of slate. The weight is a favourable quality in the first and last of these articles ; but, greet as is the advantage of the lamp not being liable to be upset, the colour of slate is too dark. Dark lamp-stands absorb too much light. In the dining-room was a very handsome round table of elate —variegated somewhat like marble, and delightfully clean looking, smooth, and level. Its weight makes it all but immoveable, and this may be an objection ; but there is no doubt of its beauty—with its moulded rim, its well-turned stem, and finished pedestal. At the Knight of Kerry's house we had seen a carved mantel-piece, with fluted pillars of slats ; and here we saw other mantel-pieces, va riously carved. The fenders were delightful ; — s moothly turned slopes, which invited the feet to rest and be warmed; simple, effectual, and so neat as to be really pretty. There was nothing that we liked so well as the fenders un less it was the paper-weights, simply ornamented; or the bookshelves—perfectly plain, with their rounded edges, and their evident capacity to bear any weight. No folios, bow -1 aver ancient—no 'Oulu, however magnificent, can bend a shelf of slate; and I very much doubt whether the spider can fasten her thread to its surface. No insect can pene trate it; and this indicates the value of slate furniture in India, and in our tropical colonies, where ants hollow out everything wooden, from the foundation of a house to its roof-tree. Hearth-stones of slate were a matter of course in this house; and we wished they had been so in some others, I where there has been repeated danger of fire from sparks or hot ashes falling between the joins of the stones competing the hearth. Then, there were a music -stand, a what-not, a sofa-table—and probably many more articles in the bed rooms, kitchen, and offices, which we did not wt.—Dickens's Household Words. ANOTHER SUP ON THE GREAT NORTHERN Raievrar.—Early yesterday (Monday) morning, another slip of earth occurred in the Spittal-gate cutting, on the main line of the Great Northern Railway, within a short distance of the place where a 'huller accident happened on the 13th ult. Since that time watchmen have patrolled the cutting day and night, in order to keep a constant and vigi lant inspection of the embankment, and to give timely notice of any probable casualty. The recent heavy rains, it is supposed, bad loosened the soil, which is of a treacherous character; and yesterday morning, about an hour before the daily passenger traffic commence., one of the men on duty observed the scarp next the up-line give way, and presently a considerable quantity of earth fell upon both lines of rails, completely blocking them up. Notice was immediately given to the station s' above and below the cutting, and as soon as possible a large force of men was collected, and set to work to clear the obstruction. It was not expected, however, that this would be effected before last night or this morn ing. In the meantime the through passenger truffle between London and Y or k ,. and nice versa, has been sent round by the loop line from Peter borough to Retford. 'the trains between Grantham Stam ford, &c., draw up at each end of the cutting, and Ate par wagers are transferred from one side of the clip to the other by a temporary road across the buried rails. The chairman of the Great Northern visited the cutting during the morning. A POLITICAL SAVANT.—The great body of natura lists in this country will bear, with great regret, than an appeal is now being made on behalf of Rees von Rseenbeck, one of the most distinguished botanists in Rumpe, who hav ing lost his professorship in consequence of his political activity in 1843 and 1849, is now literally threatened with death from old age and hunger, and is residing in a loft, over a cow-shed, in one of the lowest suburbs of Ilreslau. His extensive library has long since been sold to pay his debts, and his large collection of plants, which in some parts is described as unequalled, be has in vain endeavoured to dispose of. At a recent congress of the German natura lists at Wiesbaden, none of his former colleagues could make his miserable case known, deterred, no doubt, from political motives. A subscription has been opened in this country by the editors of the Zoologist and the ilkdscal rims. DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC COMNIUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND PAPAS. Towards the close of last week the new line of telegraphie wires lately being laid down in troughs over the old London road to Dover, and so corm.cting the sub marine telegraph between Dover and Celtic, which again is directly attached to the line of telegraph between Calais and Paris, with the batteries of the Submari ne T e l egraph Company, whose Almeria in Cornbill, wascompleted, ' , e a yesterday, for the first time, messages were exchanged direct between London and Paris, the message being trans mitted from capital to capital instantaneously, an d as i n . stantaneowily being replied to. The signitieunce of th e 1 event has been somewhat antedated, since the su b mar i ne telegraph across the Channel ie now a famili ar wee d er; 1 and the break which, until yesterday, exi s ted at D over, however seriously delaying the messages of men o f b us i ness, did not operate to diminish or to postpone the congratula tions of the civilised world. Yet—not merely technically, br but really—London and i ' aria were only yesterday ligbt into absolutely perfect telegraphic intercommunication; and the directors of the English public company to wheat Europe is indebted for the consummation of the submarine system, seem to have taken a proper view of the importance of the work they had finished, in calling together at their offices in the City the large and eminent party of m ntle men—cemmercial magneto, railway notabilities, and m e .. tinguisbeil foreigners, proximately aud indirectly repremmt- I log other nations—who yesterday out to " aseist' in and celebrate the great fact. Very little need be said, in recording thee result, termini the pujilic of the circumstances in which the Submarine Telegraph Company originated. The submarine telegraph across the Straits has been in work shout fourteen month., bat until yesterday—completion of the line bet wren Beier and Ostend being the rendition of the incorporetion—te JP !separate companies, now at last amelgantated, have been carrying on the telegraphic business between London and Paris. The chattered company which now tsists Inie a concereiin from the French government of a monopoly of the route, as far u France is coucerned, far a period of ten years; and it is proper to state that this conevaien, which was made iu 1849, was to have been null and void if the parties had failed to effect the work they had undertaken by October, 1851. In fact, August ofthat year hail ar rived without the English Company hitting obtained the requisite money ; and it was only at the last moment that Mr. Crampton (who with Mr. Wollaston it the engi neer of the line), witk a bolduees which does bins honour, and will be remembered, came forward with a lance sum of money, and, backed by the directors, offered to complete the line—completing it, too, in good time to save the concession. The break spoken or at Dover was secs eioned by the messages entrusted to the :Submarine Cora. pany being hitherto conveyed as far as Dover by the wires of the South-Eastern Itailwey Company. That com pany insisted upon terms which the Submarine Com pany refused to pay: and hence the trough-line over the highroad, and the direct intercommunica tion at lent established. What was done yesterday was terlinically no more than making this trough a line—a line which Mr. Macgregor, the chairman el the South Eastern, predicted recently would he a failure, inasmuch as the system had been a helmet; in l'russia ; but. as before said, the importance is to be attached simply : , tl ,:. pi r feeted completiun of a submarine telegraph. 1 Lis lea, the solo view token yesterday by the engineers, M. sos. Crampton and Wollaston, who have succeeded iu their work, in spite of all the hostile predictions of mest of the great engineers of France, not to mention some seep. tical authorities at home; and it could not but occur as a matter of fair national pride to the Englishmen assem bled to exchange congratulations and exclamations that this European enterprise, so potent for great pulitic a l, meta l, and commercial results to the whole world, has been en tirely in the hands of Englithmen, who have depended on their own capital and their own energy, and have received the pecuniary aid neither of the French nor of the Eaglith governments. We have, indeed, in considering the subject, to bear in mind that had it not been for the selt.relionee of the two engineers we have mentioned, the submarine tele graph system might have been retarded fur many years, since the early efforts to throw wires from the English to the French coast were dimetrous while the sub sequent experiments to connect intend with Ire land have been failures. The cost of the sub marine line from Dover to Calais has been about 75,000/. The cost of the trough line has been, we understand, about 5,0001. The "Submarine and European Telegraph Cum pany "is now in a condition to afford to the public the transmission and delivery of despatches to and from Great Britain and all the telegraphic stations in Europe (several hundred in number) by a single payment fur the whole distance. As between Paris and Loudon the direct com munication gives a saving in time of one hour, the saving of money to the public being proportionate. In the last report of the Company the following paragraph occurs ,—" With the traffic to be received on the opening of the Belgian line, added to the great increase of telegraphic intercourse between London and Paris, which may reasonably be ex pected to follow on the opening of the uninterrupted land line, and the consequent almost instantaneous corameffica tion between the two capitals, the managers confidently anticipate that a dividend of from 81. to le:. percent. will be immediately realised on the capital of the twocotapanies, irrespective of that graded], hut certain, increase which will arise as additional foreign lines are opened, and the inter course by telegraphic agency becomes more and more a matter of social necessity." The experiments-at the office in Corahill yesterday com menced at one o'clock, and from that hour till evening a stream of messages poured along the wires to and from the Place de la Bourse at Paris. After the first messages of instructions to the officials at the different stations came the following inauguration mes sage from the directors to the President of France. Oar readers will probably think that a commercial body of Englishmen would have shown more discretion if they had paid their compliment. to Louis Napoleon without so em phatically anticipating "the empire," which it was not exactly their business to take for granted ; but it was the proper occasion for an expression of amity and peaceful Food will, and we hope that the courtesy will have its influence : "The Directors of the Submarine Telegraph Company beg leave to approach his highness the l'rince President wish the exprossom of their best thanks for the assistance which he has uniformly given towards the estahlishment of this instantaneous means of communication between France and Great Britain. May this wonderful iqvention serve, under the empire to promote the peace and prosperity of the world.—Date d Nev. 1, 1852, 30, Cornbill. There was some hope that an offiaial answer to this ad dress would have been returned, bat none arrived. '1 he Prince President was motions. A message by . Brett's Printing Telegraph was transmitted by the Submarine Company's intelligent superintendent, Mr. G. V. Robinette, at 7 30 p.m., to (Wail, as follows : " Cernhill to Calais.—Permit the end asement of the sentiment—' When France is content, the world is tran quil. Viva la Ligne !'" At 10 minutes past 2 (London time), the question was asked of Paris, " What time is it ? " The answer was "2.10 p.m." A question was then asked of Arras, a French town be tween Calais and Paris, as to the state of the weather. The answer received immediately was, " overcast and dull." _ _ The inquiry was made of the name of the transmittiog clerk. The reply was " Brassard." A further menage was forwarded:—" Lord De Mauley presents his compliments to M. Foy, and begs him to allow experimeats with the needle instruments between Paris and London." Lord de Manley, it should be stated, is the chairman of the board of directors. The following are other messages which were forwarded during the experiments : " From Paris to London.—M. Fey (director genre.' of French telegraphs) presents his compliments to the lion. F. Cadogan." Shortly afterwards a mestage was received, "Foggy in Paris." A menage was transmitted from London to Paris: " Strangers are visiting the London office. Please send a few wordy" The answer well, " Wait." In a few minutes the following came for Paris "'lbis day is very unfavourable for transmisaion between Loudon and Paris. The atmosphere is very damp. We are to try double-needle instruments in direct communication between Paris and London." The fogginess was shared by London, and in an explona tory communication handed to us, the superintendent sops, " The rain and foggy weather of this day d.d not pi rant of the apparatus experiments between London and Paris taking place as favourably as we could have swished; nut this single trial is sufficient to explain the facility with which direct correspondence can be established when the wires are perfectly right; the epee(' will then b, aug mented five times, and the two capitals will be able to com municate with each other instantaneously." The insult meet used was Breguot'e. The experiments daring the day at Curnhill were per formed by MM. Gniehon and Deschay, on the part of the French government; and by Messrs. A. D. Evans and Banks, on the part of the company. Among the party collected at the invitation of the com pany were—John Idasterman, Esq., M.l'.. Ssnaucl L Esq., M.P., Earl Cadogan, W. Chaplin, Count de Flahault, Baron Kubeek, Count strelcski. C. 8., Ernest Bunsen, Esq., Samuel Gurney, Esp., Sir Janie' Weir !loge, Bart. (Chairman of East India Company), the Astronomer Royal, lion. F. Byng, lion. Colonel Dawson Darner, Chevalier Colquhoun, John Masterman. pm, Esq , Sir James Carmichael, Dart., Hon. F. Cadogan, John W. Brett, Esq., Meters. Davies and Campbell, W. Beebe', I Esq., John Greene, Esq., M.l'., W. Gladstone, Francis Edward., Esq., Major Dixon, Sir Claude seett, Bart., J. li. Tufnell, h Dr. Colquhoun, W. 11. Smith, jun., Esq., Charles Knight, Esq., /Award Willruer, C. Surgey, Esq., Chevalier liebeler, Baring, Esq.. C. Klinglerman, Hs*, lion. E. Cunard (member of the New Brunswirk Provincial Assembly), Colonel Morse Cooper, Captain Douglas Dalton, It.E., 11ev. James MI, A M., Flt.A., James ltamsay, EA., Colonel Chauncey. Major Carmichael Smyth, Mr. Statham, Kr. Gsley, Mr. Park , hunt, F. Itickette. I:sq., Simpson, Esq. (of lA°l 4 111 r. Hughes (Hughes, Kearney, and Co.). O. Keotters Esq., J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., Messrs. P. Friend, Copper, Ford, Godwin. Collins, Barclay. Gillman, Nicoll, Edmonds. White, Maxon, Rairmay, Cox, Keathley, l'aimer. &C. TIIR LIBERAL PARTY IN lIHREFoRDSRIRE hare by the recent revision materially mended their position• la Rise nod Ledbury their Increase amounts to 130. the Ikr,fiiret Times states that, were the electoral roll in the, sam., rate at the last elietien as it is onw, Mr. eJrne! ai, Lewis would be is all probability one of the attic members. I I . the wall ligig