The Express. — London, England, 1852-06-07 00:00:00

0 4 ghe erprego. TO COURRSTONDINTS. etse.d Ceita:e• " I it• tapes; eeetatelad 'be ease 'entree • lut4te," la published every Theeday eiad M relay sista, tu yap Ur post dam toretsata Weeded 'se "the Uprise,. Insides Evertme pope!. •14se et tit: I idler, Ileeverie•etrtee, Twe en the de, el rebilleellelle NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOK TNI. V•11-.-N0111111/. ih. ten .-...Aftiprosse. Ms. %lha. .assaav—Seistag. 66. Gs. 35•6 LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 7. Is it true Vat Gore House and grounds are pur chased, or to be purchased, as a site for a projected building to be Aapted to such purposes as the Com missioners of the Great Exhibition shall think fit ? la it efae that the pardiaas money is to be taken out cubs megime Ong to Have the eimmins mum who wend get Om a krtideg towards Ile ma seemest7 fee dm geeseenellea of the cheapest and and awl bail dmt bee been erected in linglemil he many pars !met s bees timmerd by the limbs ef employ ing the smells, In the erection of ear brick and smear abortion P Are the conmeitiee the bon& slaves of thole members of their body vibe ms am& ter:s and bitable? Now, it is lemma a her number ci persons, who declare that they Yee Miami granule for their belief, answer all tbeee *wise/ be tie eillemative, that we have twee.' tbs jontiens before the public. There is a Abet et Moe between the commissioners of the sergine end the subscribers to the Great Exhibition. No eme an say that the subscribers have hurried the esetandedenens to a de cision. We ourselves were willing to give the lOW Mintollen credit for good and able intentions, whwa they proposed to apply the fund to the parpeesa of industrial education. We applauded the and gave some suggestions as to the application ef the fund► list we have lifted up, and ever will M up, our voices against the investment of the fund in brick and mortar. We have no hesitation in saying that the result of such a step will inevitably be a job. In the present case there is no reason nor even a decent excuse for sacrificing our money to please the builders. The surplus fund, in itself, is insuffi cient to build and endow any building of sufficient magnitude for the carrying out any comprehensive plan of industrial education from which the whole country is to benefit. Now, it is essential, upon every principle of fairness, that the provinces which contn bated so largely to the general fund should share in whatever benefits are to bo obtained by the application of the surplus. It will be ittipossible, however, to convince the pro vinces that London is not running away with the giant's share of the spoil and leaving only an insig nificant share to be split up into still more insignifi cant fractions in their behalf, if the surplus is in vested in some unwieldy building in the metropolis. Already the dela y . which has taken place in the mani festation of their intentions by the committee, has ex cited suspicion in the minds of several of the provincial committees who have in consequence applied for the , restitution of their subscriptions. The commission en of the Exhibition may rest assured that the an nouncement of the erection of a metropolitan building out of the surplus fund would increase the number ot these applications in such a manner as to inter fere materially with the quiet prosecution of their plan. It is very generally supposed that had the commissioners shown any very great eagerness to preserve the Crystal Palace it might have been re twined. The inference therefore will he, that they willingly connived at the destruction of a magnifi cent building in order to have liberty to erect a very common-place one just opposite to it. The Great Exhibition has been the one undertak ing in this country which has met with unqualified success. The building was a marvel, the contents were unrivalled from their vastness and splendour, the arrangements were perfect. The exertions of the com mittee were unwearied and guided by consummate skill. The money result —a great feature in the eyes of an Englishman—beyond all expectation. If any thing more used be said to indicate the immense slicCein which it achieved, it may be remarked that there was only one dirsentient in the universal storm of gestifie.tina. and that was Colonel Stetnoar. The commissioners aoginred, therefore, and deserved a great popularity. Prince ALBERT in particular added largely to those claims on the public favour which have rendered him the most popular prince consort that has ever appeared in England. We feel that the public opinion in this case is founded upon such just grounds, that we should grieve to see any portion of it forfeited by a mistake. A building, it must be reiterated, will be a great mistake. We must not have the fund in hand spoilt to make profits for greedy contractors and incompetent architects. There are buildings enough and to spare in London, in which any plan for industrial education may be matured and set in action. If it succeeds, the intim will be but too willing to supply_ what buildings ea psrienee tells are requisite. Whereas if the sem mittee begin to build first, the certain end of the while must be that the surplus will be frittered away by jobbers, and parliament will be applied to to finish, or perhaps put • roof to, some wilderness of walls, which posterity will be right in designating as the SURPLUS YOLLT. Tut news from the Cape of Good Hope shows clearly en oug h that the war in that ocloey is tar from finished Sir HAIIIT SMITH spoke of the struggle as virtually settled, and talked of his having left the South African Treasury without a debt. If that treasury had had to pay the cost of lighting the Heflin, it would long ago have ban bankrupt, and if now the millions that go Sin England to carry on this intonate war were stopped, where would the Caps colony be ? We fear there is little real pound for the boasts of the ex-Governor, and that his summer in office has, indeed, work essera n • hand. Hitherto the cattle captured from the have been driven off over the frontier—often tali to be re-captured by their original owners. One of /rat orders given by General CATHCART MOM tohave been to destroy all captured stock. This may be an effectual plan, but it carries another feature of waste and desolation into this dreary and protracted con test. It is to be hoped our commander there has other plane in store, and those more effectual than Sir HARRY thetrn's banking of sticks, and savage chiefs bun his boot, a In neater. Divide nagger should surely be the policy. All the natives of the Cape colony are not hostile Kafiri. The Boers never wished for war, it was their ruin. There are tribes of Liars hostile the one to the other. The Hottentots lona a distinct clue; and lastly, there are the well-Mums! , and the Fingoes—the mortal foes of the rs. Amongst all these by making them our real allies we should find the bulk of our real strength—the regular army—forming • central force. Sir HARRY fismt had all the elements of MOONS at his disposal ; the British troops might have formed the nucleus of operations, and with Balks against Kaffir., and Hottentot and Fingo against them, and Dutch Boers and English colonists against them, their early defeat was certain. If Boors and col.). mists did ant rally round him, it was because he knew not how to inspire them with confidence in his ITICIMUM or attachment to his person. H this Hot tentots desert him, it is not "became (Piths Word of Dot," but because of their belief that sash a general must be defeated. Bats, we know, desert the falling house or sinking ship. But Sir HAIIIIIT is back again, and having been himself rather ill-treated, the less said about his failures the better, if his 1111COONOCII will take warning by his mistakes. It is now clear that the war is not finished, par have affairs been left "in a fair position," as Sir HAKIM SKITII says, for his successor. We moot hops fo the best. ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDEN~, REGENT'S-PARK.— The emend exhibition of American flowers took placer at these gardens on Seturdsy. Is consequence of the un favourable state of the weather on the previous der of rxhibi•ion, the gardens on this occasion were better attended then is usually the c“e upon the American days. The gnat attraction of the day, in respect of Rowers, wan the roll. etion of rhododendron. and azalea., which. though not yet fully blown, wete exeeerlingly beautiful. The fragrance of the different flowers in bloom was delieious. Amongst the inompany present were the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke o f &name, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Lieut.- Deneral Sir John Doveton, Lady March, Sir It. I. Murchi eon, Major-General Bourcheir, the Bithop of Chester, Lord Blaney, Lady Desert, lAA, Adel e Nort on , L or d Shel burne, Sir Charles Slingsby, Lieut..flen. Sir E. liowater, 800. Lady Mak", Su. James Luhingtoo, to. • I FRANCE. .• PARIS, SATOILDAT ?IMMO. j An immense sensation has be to-day at the Bourse and in political ( ' a fresh article of 111. Granier de Caunagnae on the subject of Belgium. The grave feature in this composition is the declaration of the writer that the aggressive arti- I des of the Constihationnti against the Belgian go vernment have been undertaken with the express sanction of Louis Napoleon, and composed under his auspices. This is so important that I shall give you M. Omelet. de eassagnse's own words : The Belgian journals, hostile to the Pripet President, preload to believe that the war of tariffs, announced in our preeediag article, was • mere menace, bigot of our fancy, invented by our caprice, and altogether bridge to the views of the French government; sad they add, that the catholic party in Belgium begged of the Blysto, end of ()oriels's, this comeniustory manifesto, with the view of influencing the elections in their favour. Resigned so we are to our modes and position in journalism and politics, we twat allow to ho imputed to us ancient levity to treat with • native, at from equal to equal, is our own name. What serious man can believe, that having the hewer and being bound by the duty of slo ths bead of the state we should =re! so far wanting . to the respect due to his person ✓ed te his power, as to implicate his ;silky in matters so smiasatly grave and delicate, without having previously his intentiee gad convenience. It is not, there to.% is ear owe name, believe UP, that we have spoken of the ease Ia whiels the essantercial relations of Belgium with Faso might be beam For the rem the Belgian govern- MIMI hr as sesbesesdise to inform it of the truth, If oar weeds de sot represent this with endieient credit. Here then we have M. Grainier proclaiming him self as the distinct penman' organ of the President's piney; and unless the editor of the Constitution's*, resew° some striking disavowal, we must receive the communications of this writer, as a far surer glide of what the government intends to do, than die notes of the Moniteur itself. In fact by this revelation of his authority, M. Grimier confounds the latest note of that official organ, which solemnly disavowed any interference with the domestic , alike of another nation. In the present article the right to interfere in the concerns of the Belgian state is asserted in the broadest and least disguised way, se you will perceive from the following Poor l The espreme aim of the French government ought, thireehre, to be to make to prevail abroad as well as at hew* the solemn wish of France, that is to say, a strong metheeity, a discreet liberty, pesos sad severity for all wider the mei, of the laws. Although Frame has no desire to uselle with the internal affairs of Belgians, she is not =Ft*gam der attacks upon her dignity and security the Ms, our with the coanivanto of , the Belgian goverment The Meet that she can do in such acmes uto wata this IWO= modes of the path in which their ministers • kodits. he woad by their wisdoms a rapture of relations mid&leMYlYes against France would reader as onsary mei iamaiseet. Now, what the hostilities comp'ained of as being exercised by the Belgian government against France may be is left in the dark ; for, bating the vague ac cusation that some of the radical Belgian papers have spoken their mind more freely about Louis Napoleon than is tolerated in the press of France, no other offence is mentioned. Is it hostility to permit French gendarmes to carry their jurisdiction through Belgium, as they did when accompanying the prisoners released from Ham ? Is it hostility to disperse those prisoners in submission to ,the jealous dictation of the French government, in different Belgian towns, so as to keep them apart, and maintain a strict surveillance over their acts and movements? Here the lamb is accused of muddling the stream that flows down to it from the wolf. Belgium has carried her submis sion to the dictates of Louis Napoleon to a stretch that has drawn severe complaints from those who expected from the King and ministers of a country whose independence was guaranteed by Europe, an independent and fearless attitude. The Bulletin litimsois was put down, and its editors, although absolved by the courts, were expelled by the govern ' sent. As to the personal attacks against Niypottoo _in the press, every reader of As Isailptadasce must have observed the Ibis= INN In which the ministerial organ has eildnined lit em qualifying the worst acts of Louis Neosho% ash as, for instance, the confiscation of the Orissa property, which heavily amerced the Belgian Kin. Notwithstanding this excessive mo deration the Iwilpeowlaswe is continually seized at the Paris Post-office, end prohibited from circulation in France. Although only one prosecution of a Bel vim journal has been known to occur during 20 yours for traducing the King, since the coup Vial 'et Dec. 2 several Brussels newspapers have been brought to trial for disrespectful language con cerning the President of the Republic. The hos tilities exercised by the Belgian government against France are, therefore, to all appearance, a lying ex cuse for picking a bulley's (laurel with a weak neighbour. What else can be implied by the follow ing language? - - What! dl a. jaunts& who are the avowed organs of the Belgian cabinet attack the Fres& pvernmeat ; all the =tussle the bold and ilinetriees chief whom Frame es herself; Belgium is bum. publicly the pleas of refuge of all who think end webs spinet the Primo Pre sident, and yet it is anskiened strange that, in prisms, of as hostility so epee, se gratellema, sad se completely de void of mess or psamt, Prose, °Minted in her weeny/ci ty. her digaity, end is her moderation, should lay to ▪ " Tee bank as, be it so ; het then let there be no mom relations hetwesa us." Siam what period has a couli l B, boa GAN* to receive its deelamd enemies ? Article 7 of des raft of limits 19 1839, taped by Bel- Frans% !mai% , Prussia, Ruse* and the pointed out will diem .7l.o.= seutral mate. Bhe will be bowl to shone that tuft sattrality towards the other state." swots ask, Ease 'skis* assetieatiously oh m* the swedost se • woad pressmen ? Can it be (ailed wentratity to keep op walk relation with , journals and with peesem who attack the Flea* pawn meat ? Is it tostrality to astbsoke bosonat la ssies wise • plow whoa nests has twist freely awl siismoly rested as he. dist t Bed net Yews • *hi to save herself fleet so *yet by saving Metope ? and eta we net, without the gaol pleasure of the Belgian liberals, head • presosoust if two shale., sod no Iles vow st eight smalls et sat ? Thy /Owe Goeumessat, whisk had • t MLA a 011 i to ihe belt et A4O IM has net ases P r; n t teemed the lalsiaa pap* at the tosdsst of *Or govers mat it Nib karma to *ln that a system st tooesrited Valid sosassadly hod to the mhos aseamer eil haters* the two sautlise ; it ono the =lll:peep* a• opprotooi z y pi tt otiose sad &Islas ; it • appial to ask =di mood faith—sad pot We is Nwsd el. W bireelsoa bettor to hays said *cubits to Use shwa se winds. bwe it have %TAM OS 1.11 ateeestodows be ••treaty et assmares, e 1 *us by taking the two swim usiawstas to how them their ia tareets mills ma ems think so." M. Prather, the llgarde& esalpter. Mid yester day at Beregival, el sesplezr. He was walking on the bash of the lobi witii a party of friends and papilsorbea he suddenly fell down is a flt. He was carried Into a asighbrarias hoes% sod medical aid was speedi.y premed, but he sever recovered his senses, and expired in the decree of the night. I have to-day to call your attention to a very re markable peerage in the speech delivered by General de Castellani, at Lyons, at the banquet of the Fete dee Aifles. The general in contrasting the pacific attitede of the army of Lyons during the days of December, with the deeds of the army of Paris on the Boulevards, mays : I regard it r the greatest Implorer in lay career to have beta able to organ without fighting. I right have given battle, end have obtained tht reby advantages fin the wry of Lyres, whoa sender rendered hen do not count r eargeras ; but It has the conseieses of having Nullified its duty, sad the right to MUM' for its device " Abases ties sad Hower." Thus, not the least severe reflection on the mail. mere of the Boulevards has been dealt by the com mander-in-chief of the army of Lyons. Tho Curse steamer brought into Havre on Thurs day morning four English boats, taken in the act of dredging for oysters within the French lines. At the Bourse, the Four and • Half per Cents. roes 0, closing at 1110.13 ; the Three per Cents. fell 10, and closed at 71.43. The Four and a Half ocr Cents. recovered towards the close of the market, I after having been es low u 99.90, owing to some heavy sales attributed to the article in the Conalitu lioasel. Bank of France shares fell 10 ; the Mar seilles Railway fell 11.25 ; Rouen, 6.23 ; Orleans, Central, and Strasburg, S each ; Lyons, 3.75 ; Havre and Northern, 2.50 each ; Bordeaux, and Tours and I Nantes, 1.25 each. SUNDAY EVINI?4O. Never was that characteristic feature in the isdicy or the which consists in alternate aggression in is nii official organs, and disavowal in OffiCilli, dia played iu a more remarkable way than at the present moment. 1 called your attention yesterday to the new stamp of official interpreter of the views and in tentions of Louis Napoleon openly assumed by M. Granter de Gaasagnac in his second assault upon the Belgian government. The Moniteur has lost no time in repairing the damage thus inflicted upon its THE EXPRESS, MONDAY *Amid FAlit s t ,t he inkx.islty iturea/:s9 inttunty !nth the !(Woloyed iN l l 4; editokof the Condi* Wtelsitel. Thublill*, sign ,I , Coenspentivel:' 6s s follows : 1 , • It is lotto lewd to attribute to the movenemost the ideas pet forth by the journals which usually iffffolpoit it ; but when such journals give those ideas as the Omit* ex prudes of dto matheents of the had of the state they expose themselves to the reproseh of antth Uth (tidefi*/) or of exaggeration. They thus assume, in fact, aii official language, which lends to their articles an Importance which them ought to have. When the government watts' to make known its real intention, it confides that intention in the Moniteur, its sole organ. No publication in any other newspaper can eager the government's responsibility. The thesotith limners article of this day obliges us to We this decla nada. It does not, notwithstanding, remain thp Ism true that the views set forth with MMeV= is the articles of M. (busier de oftenegmes as them entertained and expressed by Louis Napoleon, and, in spite of the ounununtques of the Ataniteur, people will look to the communications of that Wawa editor to learn the " real intention " of the Preliset. Was it not M. Grimier who first protein& the his. pensable solution of prolonging the Posdatethgewee for ten years? Did not the INIMMIPMI fret reveal the " real intention " of abolishieg the law of if tral . , and restoring universal suffragmorkne the aided by the declarations of tieetiolate s Ineehee and Baroche, announced that no such intention stee harboured, and that the law of May wee the flag of the government ? Was it not M. Oranier who, on the eve of the 2nd December, warned the leaders of the Noting Asessably that the 'stern hand of justice Mewed them stfl within an inch of their collars. The valleadese which foi -1 lowed these repeated predictions had already won for i the communications of M. Grasier de Convene the credit of the highest source, which he claims so em phatically in his Is. article that credit is in so wing impaired by the proems easasmairst of the Jthenteur and pearls wit modem W leek be the eireatie and et the Panident in the Clusehts tieneel. mod Pepsi the Ihmwenals of the Ihniteur =a mane of eaglet dust in the eyes of elniplicity. Meanwhile the Pays pub lishes an article ou the subject of the manneraial Ibbeicade of Belgium, ignoring completely the state ment of hi. Grainer that this messes eaquressed the intention of the heed of the state. The Pays, whisk passes for the organ of M. do Pe y, regards the execution of such a threat as no less further removed from probability than downright war, and considen the threat itself as the protectionist system pro claimed in its most absurd extremes by the great protectionist organ, whereas " the government is now entering into a wise and progressive application of the theories of free-trade. " One cannot but admire the consummate mastery in dissimu lation which the taciturn Prince-President must have attained to show himself a free-trader to one party and a protectionist to another, so that the most opposite ideas are claimed upon equal authority as the veritable pensie of the government, which meanwhile marches with a stealthy pace to its own fixed ends. If these cannot be comprised without war, the latter eventuality must not be lost sight of ; and indeed the ministerial organs here take pretty good an to keep the subject in sight. Even the Pays terminates its pacific article in a way to make one believe it was written not so much tomes the improbability of a war of tariffs against Belgium, as to suggest the preference of an avowed invasion. " The war of tariffs" says this paper " would be as perilous as a war of armies. When France shall see her honour or that of her government en in a grave question, she will proclaim it a , and, sword in hand, cause her dignity to be respected. Then the responsibility of events will fall upon those who shall have provoked or justified them. A meeting has lately been held at the house of M. de Montalembert to consider the merits of the public instruction bill. From twenty-five to thirty mem bers of the Corps Legislatif, several cardinals, and many influential leaders of the church party were present. After a long discussion, two points were resolved unanimously. First, that the law of M. de Falloux (the existing law), notwithstanding the faults Inherent in all legislation, le an infinitely better law than that now proposed by M. Fortoul ; and secondly, that the catholic interest requires the maintenance of thepnom'pie of freedom of instruction. M. de Mom Ms taus up the subject with great "orgy 1 under be leadership a vast amount of church influence will be brought to bear upon the President with a view to obtain the withdrawal of the govern meat assure. The success of M. de Falloux's in the view of the church party has surpassed all ex pa, It was not without misivings that the Jesuits hoisted the flag of liberty, as applied to i etheoation, liberty, which in all thaw must aver in VIIIMV be Oboist to tbsia. Bat N. de Falloss is as sable as energetic. . At: o h:4l6d whim the I*. C ig t a y r tC P :t iP a e te, be knew that It w b e e dd liallig hete ll. been hopeless to have Weed for exclusive for the church. Bat he saw that the chrh o vi tE her powerful organleadsa,- vast property, aid aid basal inthesasse would beg hold her gm= heat all prLeate ammetidem The systematic of knowledge by Mani mei/tacos on a Urge seals would have boss diesgerous ; but with nothing bat widespread ignorance to work upon the victory of the church wee lure. He, therefore, boldly raised the cry of " liberty" against "monopoly," and car ded the day. Since the promulgation of the law the bishop have established no less than 150 new mi kes, MM. de Montalembert, de Vatemesnil, and de Palloux are delighted at the results of the mea sure. They turn a deaf car le the blandishments of the government, who new see certain gthillsges to the church se a bribe ter their smash a b. serve that what the government semi it may whitlow tomionnw, aml the amist by M. Forbid wail noes&. b lain stilt le be the waishweed of the thee* rely. They Nair is bin that the a. PIANO% AM all• meet be blind set Ie me that liberty abways gime the fret place to the meet sedges, the as. met" and the most in telligent, and that the abmok has everything to gain by liberty and everything to lose by favour. '• JUNE 7, 1852. SWITZERLAND. A ministerial contemporary states that at the con ference on Swiss affairs held at the Foreign-office on the 24th ult., Lord Malmesbory and the Prussian Envoy at this Court invited the representatives of Russia, France, and Anetria to confirm, by a re-ac knowledgment, the protectorate which, under the treaties of 1815, the King of Prussia claims to exer cise in the Swim canton of Neufchatel. The popu lation of the canton in question it will be remembered resolved in 1848 to disencumber itself of the doubtful " protection" which till then it had suffered from a foreign prince and to enter freely into direct and normal relationship with the Swiss confederation, its ancient ally. As neither Russia nor Austria recog nises the right of a people thus to regulate its own affairs at the expense of hereditary sovereigns it was natural that th. representatives of these two powers should at once express their readiness to concede the recognition demanded by the Prussian minister. That Louis Bonaparte, who professes to represent the self-determining . principle of a great nation should, through his minister, sign away the rights of the people of Neufchatel, is inconsistent enough but hardly surprising. The English public, however, is quite justified in the indignant astonishment with which it sees a British minister stooping to league with the fellow-servants of Haynau and Paskie witch, in order to make a little state submit to a yoke which the people had deliberately thrown off. "The King of Prussia," we are told, " felt aggrieved by an attack on the inheritance of his family," language which comes upon us like the apparition of a form which we had thought buried for ever. The r e vival of this mode of speaking nukes it necessary to ex plain that the property claimed by his Prue man Majesty is not in the land of Neufchatel; it is a right in the people which he affects 'to inherit and hopes to bequeath. An at ' tempt is wade to justify the royal movement for ' regaining power in Neufchatel, by pretending that the change of 1848 was effected by strangers to the canton, and alleging that the restoration of Prussian supremacy is still desired by its citizens. A simple answer may be made to both these allegations. The 'elections of members of the Cantonal Council took 1 place but a few weeks ago. The royalist party strained its every nerve for the struggle, and In the end relikd iag \ th a east imignifloant minority. We then psibliad the panthers, and at the same time a letter boa the King of Prussia to one of his adherents in the canton. But for the atter failure of the attempt to regain his lost position in Neufchatel by a consti tutional agency, this protocol would never has been heard of. It is not, however, to the conduct of the Prussian King that we would call attention, so much as to the unnatural position in which Lord Derby and his foreign **eatery piaos Bilked, when they nes her power to destroy' the first rights of a people in favour of an arbitrary principle._ _ . BERLIN, Jos■ 4. Speiser 'a Amnia, which wu the first, to pub lish the notice about the London compact for res toring the King of Permit's sovereignty ►n Neuf chatel, states that, in spite of the denial given by the French press, it has ascertained by inquiry in the best iofcemed quarters that such compact has actually , been concluded. FRIBURG, Juin I. Last evening a party of gendarmes wu again sent out in search ofColonel Perrier, who has con cealed himself He has written to the president of the Grand Council to ask for a safe conduct only until after the session of tho committee. Then, he says, he will give himself up to his goaler. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 31. The Garette of to-day contains a decree, ordering the construction of a railroad (at the expense of the state), from Alcazar de San Juan to Ciudad Real, passing by Manzanares and Almagro. The works are to he publicly adjudged by definitive concession to the lowest bidder, the proposal presented by Don Antonio Alvarez serving as a type, but modified in some particulars. The guarantees of the road will be, lit, the responsibility of the state ; 2nd, the road itself; 3rd, the proceeding of the same ; 4th, the en gagement entered into by the province of Ciudad I Real to pay half. of the deficit which may result be tween the proceeds of the road and the in terest of 6 per rent. on the shares, by means of which the state will pay the works. The contract can be given to companies or to indivi duals. The price offered by the state for every Spanish league of 20,000 feet is 3,800,000 reels in shares of the railway. In this sum is to be comprised the cost of a subterranean electric telegraph with all its apparatus. Amongst the rumours industriously spread about the city, the taking of Mahon by the English still obtains. The Espana of yesterday thought it worth while to contradict it. _ il/N1 1. Bravo Murillo returned yesterday from Aranjuez, where he had, it is said, a long audience with the Queen. Many conjectures of a probable modification in the cabinet have bees made in consequence. There ' is now, perhaps, more foundation for rumours of this sort than there has hitherto been. Should the very general belief be confirmed, the ministers that will be sacrificed to tho new combination will be those of foreign affairs, war, and public works. Neither coups d'ettat nor protests by the moderate party are talked of for the present. The Clamor Public° reappeared to day, as a literary, scientific, and commercial journal only. It will resume political articles as soon as its responsible editor shall have been acknowledged by the government. The Heraldo will appear to morrow in a similar limited form. The Diario Espanol of June 1 says : The news that reaches us from the provinces is without interest, except so far as relates to railroads, An English company has under taken the line from Grande to Mama. MM. Mosby, Brothers, are at C .rdova. They have had en interview with the governor of the province on the subject of the Andalusian line. At Tern the works have been commenced on the line which is to unite that town with Tro cadero and Catlin. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. The Cologne GaretieiWaiee that the antagonism of parties in the Zollverein congress is at its height and must immediately lead either to concessions or to open rupture. In the sitting of the 25th ult. the Wurtemberg delegate not only repeated the Bava rian proposal (for taking into consideration the Vienna programme of eastoms union) but also a writ ten memorandum signed by the coalesced mem bers of the union and Baden, declaring that the Prussian answer, to the Bavarian pro ' position was not at all satisfactory; that they must insist upon the full discussion of the schedules A and Bof the Vienna protocol. The ac ceptance or rejection of this proposal they declare will be the measure of the aid which they can render in reconstructing the Zollverein, since they hold fast by the principle that the consideration of the Zoll verein treaty and of the Vienna projects must pro ceed simultaneously. The Prussian plenipotentiary is to give the answer of his government this day, June 7. The Kenn Zeilung remarks truly: "The coalition, which at first seemed disposed to disavow its doings at Darmstadt, nowiboldly takes the initia tive, and drives Prussia into a defensive position. And still we see no firm resolve, worthy the north German monarchy. ITALY. THE CASE OF EDWARD MURRAY. ROME, Mar 31. Up to the 29th inst., no permission had been granted to Mr. Moore Her Britannic Majesty's consul at Ancona, to visit Edward Murray. Aspectal courier arrived at Ancona by steamer fro& Trieste on the morning of the 26th, bringing instructions from her Majesty. government to Mr. Moore, which had been forwarded by electric telegraph to the British vice-consul at Trieste. It is inferred he will have to act energetically. Exchange on London, 494 g. Roman Five per Cents., 98. TUSCANY. A letter from PaLanza, of the 29th ult., in the Opinion of Turin, announces that the firm of Tala chini and Co. (Tuscany), have taken the contract for the railway line which is to connect Como with Oallereti and Leven° on one side, and Sato Calende on the other. This line is of great importance, in a military point of view, on account of the fortifications of Laveno, situated on the Lago di Garda. SICILY, PALERMO. MAT 22. The French fleet has left Naples, and is expected here. The steamer Volta, having on board the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, hes arrived. Tim AUSTRALIAN Matt.—The new screw steamer Australian, Captain W. Hammon, R.N., with mails for the Cape, Australis. and Van Diemen's Land, left Ply mouth on Friday. The defects which this fine sad power ful steamer sustained by rubbing against the pier at Mill bay was made good by the hands in the Royal Dockyard at Devonport, under the direction of the master shipwright, Mr. Edge. The mails, which were put on board in the dockyard, were very large. The principal portion was put en board on Wednesday, a further portion on Thursday, and the last on Friday morning, on the arrival of the London mail, immediately after which the vessel got under weigh, and proceeded on for her destination. The de parture of this steamer is a matter of considerable interest, it being the Brat attempt to run a mail steamer to so distant a port as Australia. It is expected she will maks the pas sage in about 60 days. THE STOCK EXCHANDE AND THE POLICE.—On ... —.— Saturday afternoon, about three o'clock, some stir was created at the entrance of the Stock Eachenge, by one of their officers refusing to admit Storey, a City detective, in pursuit of a criminal. For some time Storey has been em ployed by a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Thames street to apprehend a young man of respectable connexions, who had robbed him of a considerable sum. On Saturday afternoon be was in search of the offender with the plun dered person, and in pas big the entrance of the Stock Exchange in Threadneedle.etreet, they observed the indi vidual whom they wanted run down the paeans and enter the Stock Exchange. Storey, who was in private clothes at the time, immediately pinned the party, and as he was entering the latter building, he was stopped by the beadle, who demanded his business. lie produced his warrant card, and stated his case. The beadle refused to admit him, and demanded to know the name of the party he was in search of. Storey refused to satisfy him, and was then re ferred to the secretary of the Exchange, in New-court. He proceeded round the building, and was then informed that his authority did not extend to the interior of the Stock Enhance, and that their officer had acted right in refusing him admission. Storey went into the particulars of the case, and urged its importance, and ultimately found ad mission, but the °Bender hed escaped by tome other en trance. It is supposed that the criminal entered the Stock Exchange by pretending that he wus a clerk to one of the stockbrokers. _ WESTMINSTER-BRIDOL — It is stated in a parlia mentary paper printed on Saturday that a new temporary bridge would cost 12,0004 and could be built in a year. T~iE UNITED STATES. --- ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. About half an hour alter midnight on Saturday night the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Lang, arrived at Liver pool tram Boston and Halifax, with New York letters and papers to the 23th of May inclusive, being three days later than those brought to Southampton on Saturday morning by the Washington. By this arrival we have advices from Boston to the 26th ult., on whieh day, at 1.15 p.m., the Canada left that port, and from Kalifax to the 28th ult. On the 27th she passed the Cambria boned to Boston. The Canada brings upwards of seventy passengers, specie to the value of 193,000 dollars, and the mails from the United States and British America, in the charge of Lieutenant Grant Raymond, ILN., Admiralty Agent. The United States mail steam-ship Humboldt, with the mails from Southampton and Havre, arrived out at New York on Sunday, the 23rd May; and on the same day the screw steam-ship City of Manches ter, from Liverpool, with 347 passengers, arrived at Philadelphia Wharf. Her Majesty's ketch Nutley and troopship Resist ance were lying in Halifax harbour. When the Canada left, the Distance was to convey the 42nd regiment to England, and was expected to sail on the 29th ult. The contract propellers Levantine and Osprey had been appoiutcd to convey the Cambria's mails to Bermuda and Newfoundland. The Senate had been engaged with closed doors in debating some new treaties with the Indian tribes. Mr. Hall, the senator from New Hampshire, had brought forward a motion relative to tho expenses of capturing and remanding fugitive slaves, but it was quietly defeated. With a single exception, all the candidates for the presidency declare themselves in favour of the maintenance of the Fugitive Slave Law. A letter from Washington states that President Fillmore will not enforce the strict observance of the Tehuantepec treaty by Mexico, but that, in accord ance with the suggestions of President Arista, nego tiations will be entered into for a right of way across the isthmus. On the 22nd and 24th ult. the House of Repre sentatives was outraged in the discussion of measures for the suppression of Indian hostilities in the various federal dependencies. It was agreed that arms and ammunition should be placed at the die poul of the inhabitants of New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and California; but some members suggested that it would be a far better plan to station a suffi cient number of properly equipped dragoons in those countries, not only to keep the Indians under subjec tion, but also to compel the hordes of white despera does to obey the laws. It was also said that the Indians are not by any means the only savages who ' murder and plunder the natives. Two Mexicans were recently arrested at Browns ' villa (Texas), suspected of being connected with the ruthless bands infesting that locality. They bad curiously-made bullet-proof °oats, made of cowhide and wool, and supposed to be used by them while engaged in marauding purposes. These cortsetswere composed of an inner and outer coat of hide, filled with wool, an inch and a quarter in thickness, and elaborately stitched with thongs. When worn they formed a complete panoply for the body, and were impervious to a pistol shot if not to a rifle. The Governor of Boston has disbanded the Rox burgh Light-truards for refusing to turn out as a part of the military escort to Kossuth on the day of his reception in Boston. Only 1,500 dollars were raised for Kossuth in Albany. The Dutch frigate Prince of Orange was in New York harbour, after •cruise of three years : she was to sail for Holland on the 26th. A portion of a regularly macadamised road was discovered recently mar Fairmount, Virginia, by the washing away of a hill-side. The road is ab out six teen feet wide, runs along the bank of the river, and the stone is broken to about the size used in the formation of modern roads. In the bed of the road was found the stump of a chestnut tree, at least 150 years old, giving evidence of the existence of a popu lation there at some former age of the world. The 71-ibune of the 25th May says : Several lumps of gold were discovered in a ravine in the village of Mineral Point (Wisconsin) on Saturday, the tat inst. ' worth from 2 dole. to 4 dole. On the Monday follow ing, half the town turned out to search for the " hidden treasure," and in a short time found a " lead," containing gold, silver, and diamonds, and before noon 200 dole. worth of these precious metals were taken from the earth. Madam e Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind) gave her farewell concert at Castle Garden on the evening of the 24th ult. Seven thousand persons were as quietly seated as though only seven hundred. The concert was as successful as the warmest wishes of her friends could have desired, and her reception supremely triumphant. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. ------- -- -----_____. NEW YORK, MAT 25. The high price to which all the principal stocks and loading securities have attained has a tendency to restrict operations and check speculative movements ; the sales to day, therefore, have been moderate, with but little varia tions from Saturday's prices. Foreign exchange has been in good demand, with an upward tendene in rates. We quote :—London, 110 to 1101 ; Paris, 5.16 5.15 ; Ams terdam, 401 to 411; Hamburgh , 36 to 36 ; Bremen, 781 to 781. Corrox. Our last report of the market was advised per Washington on 22nd inst. On the 22nd the sales amounted to 3,600 to 4,000 bales, at very full rates ; and to day, 24th, 3,000 bales were reported, prices tending still upwards. We have revised and advanced our quotations of evening of 21st inst., finding them fully le. below the rates paying for the better grades. ..--.--- ---- Atlantic New Ortega& Clurf Po;ts. Markt 74 to I 7 to si 7; to 8 Low to good Ile to 9 .«3 to 9 ... to 9 Nld.Tart r ." 10: to a tO 1 2 01 I I 1 :3 101 Floe a.-There has been a fair demand for flour to-day, and prices are well sustained. Superfine No. 2, 3 dole. 62/e. to 3 dole. 68/c.; common state, 4 do), 061 c. to 4 dole. 12/e; favourite ditto, 4 dols. 181 e. to 4 dole. 25c.; mixed westerns, 4 dole. 03/c. to 4 dole. 12/c. ; straight Michigan and Indiana, 4 dole. 12/e. to 4 doh. 18/e. ; fancy Michigan, 4 dole. 181 e. to 4 dols. 25e. ' • good Ohio, 4 dole. 12/e. to 4 dols. 25e. • round hoop, via Canal 4 dole. 181 e. to 4 dots. 311 e. fancy 'Ohio, 4 dols. 37/e. to 4 doh. 75c. ; fancy Geneseee, 4 dole. 62/e. to 4 dole. 871 e. ; extra Ohio, In diana, and Michigan, 4 dols. 75c. to 5 doh. 121 e. ; extra Germane, dole. to 5 doh. 76c. Southern-4 dole. 37/e. to 4 dols. 62/e. for common to good brands Alexandria, Baltimore, Brandywine, and Georgetown; fancy, 4 dols. 75e. to 45 dots. SOc. Rye flour, 3 dole. 25c. Corn meal : Jersey, 3 dole. 25e. ; Brandywine, 3 dole. 50c. to 3 doll. 561 c. Corn continues in request; 30,000 bushels have been sold is lota at 62c. to 62/e. for Western low mixed, 83c. to 64/c. for high mlxed,and 65e. to 67e. for Southern yellow, the latter price for strictly prime. No movement in wheat this morning. A choice lot of Genesee white, 2.400 bushels, sold at 112/e. Oats are in moderate request at 40e. to 42c. for state, and 40c. to 42c. for Jersey. Rye brings 75c. PROYISIONS.-Pork is dull at 18 dole. 25c. for m sae, and 16 doh. 50e. for prime; clear is held at 19 dole. 2.5 c. to 19 doll. SOc. Country mem beef, 10 dole. to 10 dole. 50e. ; city ditto. 11 doll. to 13 dots. . • extra ditto 13 dols. 50e to 13 dole. 75c. ; prime, 6 dole. to 7 dole. 50c. Beef hams, 16 dole. Cut meats have a downward tendency ; dry salted and pickled shoulders, Sc. to Bje; hams, ditto, 9/c. to 10e. ; western middle rib, 9/c. Lard is dull and firmer, prices ' scarcely sutained ; kegs, 111 e. to Ille.; bble., 91c. to 10e. Owes* in moderate request at 6c. to 7/c. Ohio butter, 15c. to 17c.; state dairies, 15e. to 18c., and Orange Co. 18e. to 21e. MMES.-Sales of potashes have been made at 5 dole., and if pearls at 6 dots. 23c., which is a decline from pre vious sales. . . . FILIBIOLITS.—We have no alteration to notice in rates to Liverpool :—Cotton, id. per lb.; flour and meal, 10d. per bbl. ; heavy goods, 124. 6d. to 17s. 64. ; grain, in bulk, 3d. to 34d. per bushel. To London : Flour, Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. ; turpentine, 21. per 28014 s ; measurement goods, 15s. to 201. per ton ; heavy good., oil, &c., 15s. to 20s. per ton. ; beef, 3a. 6.1. to 4s. per tierce ; oil cake, Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. per bbl. To Havre: Cotton, square halm to. to je. per lb. ; ashes, 5 doh. to doh. per ton ; rice, 8 dole. per ton ; quercitroa bark, 8 dole. per ton ; measurement goods, 8 doh. per ton ; whalebone, &c., 4c. per lb. New ORLIANS, MAT n. At noon to-day 2,000 bales of cottora bad been sold, but prices wero irregular. Good middling brought 9fc., and fair Ile. Mess pork is dull at 17 dole. to 17 dole. 26e. Eschange--Biglsty bill to three-fourths discount. THE Naw METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.— At a meeting of the Markets Improvement Committee con nected with the Corporation of the City of London, held at the OuildhaU on Friday last, Mr. H. L. Taylor in the chair, a considerable quantity of business was done having reference to the newly proposed cattle•market for the metro. polls. Steps were taken by the committee for the purpose of mgotiatiou with the proprietor of the area of ground in the immediate locality of Copenhagen-fields, Islington, and closely contiguous to the Great Northern Railway ware houses and terminus. An offer has been made tr Mr. Bat son, the freeholder, by the corporation, of 7501. per acre for 72 acres, hut at iire‘sent the contract has not been ratified. MARYLEBONE BANK.—The Master has directed the official manager to carry out a compromise of all claims with creditors at this matter, WEST INDIA, MEXIC ‘N, AND THE PACIFIC MAILS. The Royal West India mail steamer Orinoco, Cap. taro Chapman, Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Eller man' R.N., arrived at Southampton on Satu r d ay with the West India, Pacific, and Mexican mails. Her dates were Vera Cruz, 9th May; Tampico, 7th; Chagres, 10th; Carthagena, 12th; Jamaica, 15th; Demerara, 13th; Trinidad, 12th; Barbadoes, 14th; Antigua, 16th; Martinique, 15th ; Grenada, 13th; Porto Rico,lBth ; St.Thomss, 22nd : La Guayra,loll l , Valparaiso, 10th April ; Coquimbo, 11th ; Arica, 16th; Piece, 19th; Callao, 23rd; Huasco, 12th; Copiapo, 12th; Cobija, 14th; Islay, 17th; Puna, 26th. Her cargo consisted of specie to the amount of 1,386,673 dollars from Vera Cruz and Chagres, of which only 9,000 dollars were on account of Mexi can dividends, as far as it was known on board, 367 serene of cochineal, 14 serons of jalap, I tierces of coffee, 3 casks and 3 bags ditto, 4 bales tobacco, 2 boxes of arrowroot, 36 bundles of sarsaparilla, boxes of succadees, 24 kegs of ginger, &c. The freight from Tampico, amounting to about 390,000 dollars, could nut be shipped owing to the heavy surf on the bar. 'f ho Admiralty agent had great difficulty in crossing with the mails after a detention of 24 hours. The Orinoco brought about 100 pasaengerii, amongst whom were Colonel Ramon de Cevallus, from Vera Cruz ; General tirdanetta, from Carthagena ; Dr. Cameron, from Demerara ; Colonel Ward, Lieut. Aynesly, R.N., and Colonel Ashmore, 36th Regi ment, from Barbadoes ; and Judge Foster, from St. Thomas. The Orinoco left Southampton on the 3rd ult. at 3.35 p.m., and she arrived at St. Thomas on the 17th at 3.40 p.m. She left St. Thomas at noon on the 22nd ult., and arrived at Southampton at 2.30 p.m. en the sth. She has thus made the passage out and home in 14 days each voyage, a vast improvement on the old system. The weather during the home ward voyage was very fine ; head winds and sea, however, for some days after leaving St. Thomas, still the Orinoco made an average of 260 miles a day, or nearly 11 knots an hour. The greatest extent of speed under sail and steam was 12.4 knots an hour; under steam alone, 11 knots. The company h as now two other steamers running equal in speed to the Orinoco, viz., the Parana and Magdalena, and in about six weeks or two months the La Plata will be ready for sea. There will then bo four powerful steamers to do the work between Southampton and St. Thomas; and when the tran shipment of cargoes and the coaling of the steamers can be accelerated at the latter port, and the four new gigantic steamers get into good working order, the performance of the Atlantic voyages by the West India steamers will be all that can be desired. There is one point to which we beg to draw the attention of the directors of the West India Com pany, and from the courtesy and attention which they have always shown towards the press we are confident it will receive due consideration. It is this—the continual failure of the foreign and colonial journals and despatches of the I.ondon newspaper press, owing to the confusion and hurry of tran shipments. If the directors would impress on the pursers of the inter-colonial packets the importance of carefully handing over to the special care of the purser or any other officer of the homeward-bound packet at St. Thomas such despatches and journals, so that they may come immediately to hand at Southampton, they "would confer a very great obli gation both on the press and the public. By the Orinoco we learn that her Majesty's ships Iteaum and Albion were at Port Royal; the Alarm at Barbadoes; the Persian at Grey Town; the Sappho on her way to Port Royal, having been re lieved by the Persian. The Edwards, transport, had left Trinidad for Barbadoes. A brig, with ordnance stores, was lying in the English harbour at Antigua. The Spanish man-of-war brig General Valdes was off Sacrificios, and the Mexican squadron at Vera Cruz on May Bth. At Port-au-Prince, Martinique, French frigate Sybille, flag of Rear-Admiral Le Valliant ; steamer Milan. The Royal Mail steamer Thames on the Mexican route, but transfers mails and passengers to the Dee at Jamaica, returning to St. Thomas with the mails for England, being next homeward steamer. The Great Western was on the Chagres route, also the Trent ; the Derwent on the Demerara route; Eagle on the Trinidad route, having been repaired and coppered. The Esk was on patent slip, having arrived leaky from Barbadoes. In lat. 40.55 N., lon. 32.40 W. the Orinoco boarded a wreck apparently some time deserted, a brig of about 200 tons, waterlogged, with remnant of Ame rican colours flying, name not discernible nor any thing left on board to identify her; she was laden with shingles and staves. June Ist, lat. 42.30, lon. 29.10, spoke the English barque Bell, homewards. June 3rd, lat. 46.55, lon. 16.10 W., spoke the English ship Jane, outwards. Lat. 47.30, lon. 14 20, spoke the English barque Johanna Catherine, home wards. The advices from Mexico are important. blame. diately before the departure of the Thames from Vera Cruz, on the 9th ult., a telegraphic despatch ' addressed to the British Vice-Consul was received, announcing that the city of Mexico was in a state of revolution ; the details of the outbreak have not, however, reached us. The news was received at Vera Cr ux on the evening of the Bth ult. The Thames was detained a day and a half at Tampico, owing to the bar being impassable, and she was obliged to leave without taking on board the usual remittances of specie, which, to the amount of 400,000 dollars, were ready for shipment. The mails and passengers were, however, get off. There is nothing new on the subject of the Tehuantepec difficulty, but it was exciting great uneasiness. The mines at Zacatecas had ceased to be worked, for want of funds. The Panama Star, of the 6th of May, states, that the President of the Republic of New Grenada had issued a message to the executive and legislature relative to the .Flores expedition against Ecuador. By this message it appears that, owing to a treaty of peace, amity, and alliance, established between New Grenada and Ecuador in 1831, the one power is at all times bound to render military and pecu , niary aid to the other in case of foreign invasion. To this end the President has proclaimed that there bo raised in New Grenada, either by loan or force, the sum of 16,000,000 reale (equal to 2,000,000 dole.), and further, that 20.000 men be called to serve under arms to assist the adjoining republic. The President declares hie intention to oppose Flores and all coun tries rendering him aid, and accuses Peru of fitting out two vessels, and Valparaiso one, to take part in tho expedition. lie further states his belief that Flores is merely endeavouring to carry out his re volutionary movement of 1846, and that the object of the present revolution is to re establish a monarchi cal government on.the South Pacific coast under the old Spanish rule. JAMAICA. There is great complaint of the paucity of medical men in Jamaica, to mitigate the ravages of the a lull pox now raging in the island. The Tretairny congratulates the parishioners on the happy change of weather—the setting in of the May seasons. On Thursday evening last, that paper says,— Dense and opaque clouds were observed over the sea and in the interior, indicating a heavy fall of rain. With the rapidity peculiar to the tropics, these clouds speedily spread over the town, and a smart shower of about an hour's duration commenced. There can be no doubt that the rain fell more heavily and continued longer in the country. On Saturday there was a heavy and steady fall of rain, which appeared to be diffused far and wide ; it was accompanied with thunder and lightning. We trust the electric fluid has operated in cleansing the atmosphere, consequently in abating the virulence of the present epidemic. 'We hope, too, that the "former rain" which has now commenced, will be followed by the "latter rain" in due season and that they may prove beneficial to neat year's crop, no far as it may be determined on to continuo the cultivation of the soil. The rains had extended to the parish of St. James, and to various other districts. A few cases of smallpox had appeared in the houses of several respectable families in the town of Falmouth. The disease, however, was evidently de creasing. A correspondent of the Fct,itinuth Post informs that paper that should thu disease visit Hanover, the authorities of that parish are deter mined to resort to inoculation, as it is generally be lieved that there is no possibility of procuring vaccine matter, the purity of which can be depended upon. We regret to state that the disease has not abated in the parish of St. Ann. The Reporter states: , Since our last, the scourge of the human race has pro' greased rapidly in this town. Whole establishments have been deprived of their operatives, who are suffering from