The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

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CONSIDERING that two articles have appea red in the English and French government journ als, boast ing whet English and French diplomacy is about to achieve in the estuary of the Plate, and in the rivers which descend into that greet water already open to the world; reasonable and better informed people begin to have their fears and apprehensions that Lord Sl.sunsto . ast and M. lteouvN tie L'llurs can scarcely appreciate the character of the people they have to deal with,—can hardly understand the past history of these countries,--and are running the risk of losing substantial advantages for European commerce by grasping at too much. Sir CIIARLE.4 GOTHAM, the British Minister re molly sent out, is, no doubt, a clear-headed, sensible man, well acquainted with the languages of South America, and having some experience of what, how ever, may tend to mislead rather than to direct him, Ramos Ayrean politics. But, as he must be guided by his instructions, it is very impor tant that those instructions should be reasonable and moderate in their tenour, and give him a very considerable latitude, not merely as respects their contents, but as toeo-operation with his French colleague, M. DE Sr. GEORGES. Of that gentleman nothing is known, except that he had previously be n in South America in a subordinate position. But, if he be directed to use at Sante Fe the language of the French government journal in Paris, he may prove • very dangerous associate fur the British minister; for what France hitherto has aimed , at is to establish political influence, whilst England can only want trade in these countries. When Sir CHARLES GOTHAM lately met, on reaching the shores of South America, the gallant Admiral GRENFELL, he naturally solicited that commander's views and asked has advice. The reply . Sir CIIARLES received was pregnant with practical wisdom:—" Vgau attrmpt nothing, you will rain earrything : if you attempt anything, you will gain malting." And the reason for this reply is very obvious. The upper provinces of the Argen tine Confederation, having at last thrown off the supremacy of Buenos Ayres and destroyed the ty ran uy of Itos.es, are now assembled at Santa Fe, again to try to form and consolidate • federal republic, in which all the separate states shall have' equal rights and privileges, and so be protected from the p red ominance of the frontier province. Now, hitherto European diplomacy has only been known as dealing with and recognis ing Buenos Ayres; and on that account it will be suspiciously received at Santa Fe. The chiefs and people there met are not the representatives of well-organised communities, of long-seasoned states, or of • population en lightened according to European notions. They are naturally simple, but, when roused, savage men, who have been harassed, perplexed, and injured by internecine wars and con flicts; desirous of peace, to turn the advantages of their tine country to account; resolved no longer to be tributary and subject to Buenos Ayres; but having no great internal mental resources to rely on, no eminent statesman to direct them, no constitu tional habits or traditions whereon to repose, they meet to construct, according to their own fashion and in their own way, political society ; and they must be permitted to do so without let or hindrance from wiser nation.; for they alone can work out their own redemption. At their head is URQUIZA, • successful, and, in the midst of his success, a moderate and temperate soldier. URQUIZA is, however, only • guacho is hie origin. Ile passed from herds to arms in the troubles of his province • has acquired distinction and wealth ; and, besides being now Governor, is now the chief proprietor of Entre Rio.. Of the policy of his own country, URQUIZA has defined views ; and these, if allowed, he will carryout ; but if thwarted therein may force upon the Confederation. Like the rest of his contests ',varies and rivals, Uagnus, however, knows l ittle of, and cares but little for, European wishes or wants. They happily accord with his policy, and, if kept in the hWtground, will p robably prevaiL But if brought prominently forward, they will excite = jealousy and bring LIGE himself into disparage ment. Limiting then their proceedings to the courtesies of diplomacy, to congratulations on the liberation of the Confederation from the terrorism of ltos.ts, to general encouragements now to complete that con stitution which for the last twenty years bas been suspended, and to expressions of European interest in the fitter, of the States—Sir Cn.uxtts 110171 AN sad M. ox ST. 06011431.4 will do well. But going farther, they will get on to dangerous ground. Applied to for advice and counsel, after they have by a judicious abstinence from interference excited and secured confidence, European experience may be of great value in solving Argentine difficulties and in laying down great principles. But if they attempt hastily to snatch out of this distant assembly political capital for Lord MALMEABVIIT and M. MIAMI DI LMUTB, tires hiltw will await them. The first thing MCA is ouch an adjustment and I settlement of the esastitution of the Argentine Confedenttion as will secure peace and good govern ment throughout its states; for without these political blessings any extension of their own commercial relations is hopeless. Now, the die malty here is to regulate the pretensions and material superiority of Buenos Ayres to the asesasidee id the upper provinces, less advanced in civilisation. It is from them that the future wealth and greatness of the Confederation must spring; and they are naturally and properly unwilling to be for ever tributary to baenos Ayres. The position of that port, its acquired wealth, its intelligent population, and its connexion • with Europe must, of course, always enure for it important advantages. But the interests of the upper provinces are quite opposed to its having any monopoly of their trade, or any ex alesive levying of import duties. And therefore it is that whilst they seek, Bums Ayres opposes, the free navigson of the upper streams. The second thing to be secured is consequently the free navigation of the Parana, the Paraguay, the Piloomayo, the Vermejo, and the Salado, to the fluriatio states themselves; to place the island of Martin Garcia, which commands their flow into the estuary, under the protection of the Confederation, and to fix the capital of the Confederation at a point on the Parana, say at Santa Fe or at Bajada opposite, where the government will be central sad from position powerful. And here lies the tempta tion for European diplomacy. It CIO hardly resist trying to procure this extension of free navigation to European commerce. That is most desirable. Bet it is just the subject on which Admiral Gerstrztt's advice should be followed—" Ask for nothing, and you will gain everything." Involved in this question of free navigation are the finances of the Confedera tion ; and until a fiscal system for their collection be arranged, any serious attempt to gain free admission for British navigation might be regarded as directed to escape (as we formerly did when Portugal had a colony at Colonist) from taxation; if not to establish political influence and control. The greatest caution is therefore necessary; and the freer Sir CHARLEI fiuTuAii allows the deliberations on this subject to at Santa Pt, the more likely are British vowels to gain admittance to these great rivers. By means of steam navigation thereon a new world would be opened to Europe; we should be come as familiar with the interior of Brazil, with shy and timid Paraguay, with the upper states of the Argentine Confederation, and with Uruguay, as we no•r are with the hanks of the Mississippi and the design Ins less of the late Secretary of the Board of Trade will be sensibly and widely felt. The integ tit y of the deceased, his elegant and varied accent pgshments, and his amiable disposition, conspired to yonder him a cherished ornarvnt of • wide mail eisele. His "Progress of the.Naties," sad other eon tribstlons in statistical literature,Mutelevated him to the rank of an authority . in discussions on most mold sad economical questions. And his indefati gable idostry, combined with his amenity, intelli gens% and knowledge, made him a public servant of the very first clam. It is literally true that Mr. PORTER worked himself to death. A colleague used playfully to allege that PORTER pretended to avail himself of the holidays allowed in the ethos. but that if strict search were made, he would doubtless be found hid in some obscure nook, working away as usual. In no circumstances would it be easy to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the loss of such a man. The clam of the PORTERS and DEACON HUMES is at no time a very numerous one. But the reckless spirit of jobbing in patronage evinced by the present Ministers since their accession to office, and the eagerness to tamper with the returns of the Board of Trade evinced by several of them, even while in opposition, warrant our anxious distrust as to the manner in which they may see fit to confer the ap. pointment under the Board of Trade left at their disposal by the death of Mr. PORTEJL Some curious expressions have been made recently by provincial journals about the extent to which go- vernment patronage, especially in the department of the Admiralty, has been distributed, apparently with no other view than to confirm the fidelity of minis terial votes in Parliament. The loss of Mr. Pow= rivals the yet recent loss of a young man of kindred dispositions and talents, who was rapidly rising la the civil employment—Mr. Joscr• Fterenea. Ad the loss of Mr. FLETCHER suggests the question— bow has the office he held under the Committee of the Council of Education been filled up ? On this head nothing is known beyond the appearance of a kind of commessiqwei, which went the round of the newspspers about the time of his death, to the effect that an appointment, similar to that which FEMMES held, had been bestowed on the son of some obscure local journalist, remarkable only for his unscrupulous ministerial partisanship. If this be true, one of the most important offices under the edu cational department of government —an office hitherto filled by Mr. Fterensit, or others like him, who by long service had acquired extensive know ledge of the material and moral wants of the people, and experimental experience in the best modes of promoting education—has been bestowed as a reward for electioneering services in a few counties or boroughs, upon an entirely unknown person—per haps upon some raw ignorant lad. The im= experiment of the Committee of Council on tion will in this case have been shelved—perverted into a mere screen for parliamentary jobbing. It is obvious that what has been unblushingly done in two departments of government, is nary likely to be repeated in • third. But there are ample grounds for fearing that a still more daring malversation may be attempted in fill. ing up the vacancy opened by the death of Mr. PORTER. A most barefaced attempt was made to tamper with the integrity of the establishment of the Board of Trade when the Protectionist ministry, which was afterwards shattered by Sir It. Peres corn law abolition, came into office. On that occasion an intimation was conveyed to Mr. PORTER (sad to other Liberal holders of appointments under the Booed) to the effect, that, if they would resign, every amosision would be made to facilitate their retire meet, to avoid the disagreeable necessity of dis *sin them. But Mr. PORTER and his colleagues were too much men of the world, and too courageous, to be intimidated or confused by so shallow a stratagem. They quietly replied that their tenure of offies was is titans ant eulpans, and that if any reifies was to be laid to their charge, they would, conscious of their innocence, stand on their defence, instead of flying like guilty cowards. Not another word was spoken of their dismissal. Now when this attempt to frighten out of the de partment of the Board of Trade men whose only offence consisted in their contributions to accurate statistical knowledge and sound economical science was made, the Conservative party was composed of the more liberal and intelligent element which has since seceded from it, along with the dull, bigoted, politico-Jesuitical element of which it is now exclu sively made up. A DERBY-DISRAELI Ministry is likely to be much less scrupulous as to the meansby which it converts the Board of Trade into a mere instrument for the dissemination of garbled statisti- al facts, and false and fallacious economical &c -arless, than was a Putt. ministry. And such per- ValliOn of government patronage is less difficult doer a vacancy has been created by death, than it would have been had manceuvring been previously required to produce a vacancy. Had oar object been to surcharge the DERBY- Diessau ministry with odium, and socelerate its downfall, we should have kept silence at present, and left it to appoint in quiet a successor to Mr. Poston, who might connive at, if not actually compile. trade returns desisted d la NEWDROATE, d render other little sseellars et the kind to Protection ism. But without usimalaing the iaa_portance of getting rid as 110011 rod et the Iwactionary gr ministry, we attach where impartanoe to the the Board diktat not only we, but, like wife, above envision. We have, there in*, thee way end attention to the manner in 'u tbe many seesawed by the death of Mr. Patna is likely isle filled up, in the hope that a lIIMNIOMMOS of the public eye being upon them may Misr Mbeisten from perpetrating any job they may Have in esnisimpladas, We will gladly allow them and their press sabilitte the triumph of calling us take prophets, if qa sin only frighten them into abandoning their corrupt attempt by predicting it. FRANCK. PARIS, ■fOKDAT $lll3llllO. The tone el the government organs seems to pre lude some fresh and decisive rasamire against the press, to Anish et once with all opposition. In this view, a fresh article front a pen prophetic of ill, that of M. Grapier de Cassagnac, la worthy of particular attention. This sinister composition, a condonation of others under the heading of " The Government of December 2 considered in the point of view of reason and mo rality," defends what he calls the " reform" introduced by that government in the law relating to the press. To appreciate this reform it is, he says, necessary, in in the first place, to resolve this general question,— "To what extent have the governments of great nations in all ages permitted freedom of thinking and writing r This question he answers, to kis own sa tisfaction, in these terms : . . _ History teaches that the absolute liberty of writing and thinking proscribed by the governments of all lettered nations of antiquity, is a modern theory of revolutionary origin, never brought to the test of experience till less than a century ago, sad this theory 'will appear now to all right thinking men, as daring a long course of centuries it did appear in the eyes of great nations, false, dangerous, and impracticable, if, as reason and equity require, it be judged by its results. This is not the plan to expound in detail the eonstant practice of the two groat nations of lettered antiquity, the Greeks and Homane, with respect to the liberty of thinking and writing; some general traits ' will suffice to refresh the memory or the reader in this par ticular. It is well known with what severe orthodoxy the dogmas of the state religion were protected by the laws of the Greek republics against the novelties of the philosophic schools. The boldest freethinkers themselves outwardly professed to respect the belief of the people, and two eels bested religiose prosecutions (the trial of A lcibiades for the mutilation of the Hermes, and that of Socrates) mark in the ancient times of the western world the commencement of that era of the energetic defence of religious dogmas, which, fi nished Is enders times by the condensation a Voisin, Senates, sad the Chevalier de Labarre. A man who in the nineteenth century supports an argument against the liberty of the press by citing as precedents the poisoning of Socrates and the burn ing of Servetus, is evidently not an advocate to do his work by halves. Passing from the Greeks to the Romans, M. de Cassagnac refers to the persecu tion of the Christians by the Roman emperors for three centuries, and to the laws of '1 beodosins and Valcntinian, when Christianity bad bet oome the state religion, by which it was made death to deny any Leta of the Nicean creed. The governments of the middle ages, and that of France in particular, faithfully followed this tradition of ancient nations, and thus from the first of the capitularies to the last of the ordinances three generations of kings protected, by severe laws, the trust of the public creed against the temerities and aberrations of individual reason. M. Oranier seta the stamp of his approbation upon the above mentioned monumental acts of tyrann, held up through all history to our execration, in time words : "If good and wise spirits reflect, they will acknow ledge that the conduct of these governments was equitable and sensible." Thus, in the opinion of the chief writer of the government press, the execution of 8,800 heretics by the first grand inquisitor was an "equitable and sensible" proceeding. While the text inscribed over the constitution of January 15, 1852, is the pre serration of the principles of the revolution of 1788, M. Oranier speaks of the moot fundamental of those guarantees, the liberty of the press, as a pernicious concession of Louis XVI. He proceeds to show the "equitable and sensible" way in which the First Con sul dealt with the press, and concludes that the li berty of thinking and writing has never been a right,' but is a mere prejudice, incompatible in the troublous times of the last half-century with the existence of government and society, at least in France. I cannot but regard this manifesto as the precursor of a fresh blow to the press. The articles of M. Oranier have a more important scope than to console people for lost liberties, and to reconcile them to the iron sway under which they live ; they pioneer to fresh inroads, they blow the trumpet-blast to fresh on slaughts. The Debars, which has long ago bowed the head and given up the composition of leading articles upon matters nearer than China and Japan, or interests higher than auriferous quart; or steam packet companies, may be allowed to exist, if such vegetation can deserve the name. But the Prams will assuredly be crushed, and perhaps the Sleds. The others are not worth talking about. As an agreeable poison is more dangerous to life than the blow of a mallet, so Dr. Veron is, through a plausible and pleasant style, a more insidious foe to liberty than M. Grimier with his lion's akin and club. The doctor begins an article in the Comas tioosnel to-day by comparing Francesurrenderiag her liberty to Louis Napoleon to Madlle. de La Vanier* entering the convent, in which she expiated the vices of another. " Madame," said this fair penitent to the superior of the Carmelites, " I come to resign into your hands the liberty of which I have so evil a use." It is certainly pleasant in this comparison to think of Louis Napoleon as a father-abbot receiv ing the vows of contrite France. The doctor then cries out, in the language of Virgil's celebrated lines: Mine 'alma seaminess= netnews seek Ne prohibete ; thus reminding one of the feat which Louis Napo leon ascribed to himself en the 29th of March, that he had found the pyramid of society on its point, and had set it on its base. We shall see how long it will remain there. The Moniker contains a decree, promoting Gene ral-at-Brigade Lapene, in command of the Bth mili tary division, to the rank of grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Another decree promotes M. Blaniui, of the Institute, and M. Palette, professor of philosophy at the Collego of Louis-le-Grand, to the rank of officers. General St. Arnaud, is &circular to generalellsere commanding divisions, informs them that, after the general inspection of 1853, infantry captains will be required to satisfy the inspector-general et their ability to manage a horse le front of a resiment hies they sun be promoted to the rank d field- AMR Zla miaister of war dweLs upon the sub jest as one of peat importance. It appears that 11111111 y odium en receiving the epaulettes of a chef ell whim ftsd laimiselms an horseback for the first time in &dr les% end *sir lameatable ignorance of assitatien hes Isd to ridicule. scenes. Orders hare him given Ihni the riding-eshmis of cavalry ree -1 meats shall he aimed at all convenient times to each imilunry edam se may be dadrated by the colonels d their regiments. It appears from a report et M. Taschereau, an iminsat librarian of the Bibliotheque R li daily appeiniel le eignrintend the conopis:tet i C Waken*, that the of that work has bun fully as slow as the eldo kindred andertakiag in the Brinell hiassine. 11. Tedwreau was appointed to his promotion in the 24th of January last. The cataloger Imi then been making since 1838. In logo a esonnieden had reported that it would set be finished hr Om years more. The work had got as far as letter L, which was expected to be finished in about • year. In 1852, however, M. Tasehereau found the clerks still stuck fast at letter L, and there they are to this day. He had been some months at his post before he found out that an amount of work which seemed to him ye accountably little for twenty months was in hit dos result of two years' labour. He elves it as his decided opinion that according to the system he faind in operation, the catalogue would never have been finished, became new books accumulated faster than the old ones were catalogued. lie proposed numerous reforms, which greatly shocked some of the experieneed men in the department. For in stance, ho thought that for the future it would be unnecessary to make a catalogue of-1. Bills of tan of restaurateurs and lists of prices of furnished lodgings; 2. Prices current of perfumery; 3. Prospectuses and advertisements of long-life lozenges, sirops, and quack medicines ; 4. Go vernment printed forms and speeches made in any public assembly by functioi sries and persons of distinction. Ho also thought that legible calli graphy was all that was necessary, and that time need not be lost in imitating curious print with the accuracy of a fancy wriling master. H. 'Basehereau states that he has invented a system of making a and. is virtue of au order of the court of appeal of Rouen, issued on the demand of the proenrenr-fgene- I rat caused to be .trick out from the recorth, in hia presence, a speech delivered by M. Hoot, an rix-judge of the tribunal. on 13th August last; the said speech having been delivered when the new judges had taken the oaths, and been installed, and when, con sequently, M. Hurt had ces.od to have any O lifficial character. . - • The Press., in its weekly eommereial ballet's, says : The orders for exportation which vioolly take piece in the spring were retarded this year, sad bow aft lisea a their former Importance, and _ipensamsemety tbs mamas returns foe the fret half yew of lin Anna a oraeldorobto falling elf, but there is mama to bane that tin renew Ow the so. , road bat year will be non revealable, mm the mainiosioa broken win avaerelly Moot bean to give their wan bean Biptwaliss, ban bon glebe *sal during the het this weeks. lisononla anon avory Wan& of industry was very brisk 4Amadei, end the miamaseturers in the provinces agree is senlias - OM ink In improved. Several orders have arrived It,. R. They are all for articles of the beet kind, as the rate of duties is so high in Ituasia that it doss not answer to import inferior articles. As regards the harvest, the fine weather has dissipated the exaggerated fears that were entertained, and many accounts now state that the yield is good. In the Bu-Rhin the prefect has informed the council-general of his department that he had reams to believe the wheat crop will exceed that of 1851, and that the crop of potatoes will be three or four times mere considerable than that of last year. We believe, how ever, notwithstanding what is now said, that the crops of 1852 will not be found to be good either in France or in the principal countries of Western Europe. The letter of Mr. Elihu Burntt to the Pays has produced remark. from two of the Pario journal., the Astemblee .Nationale and tho Siec/c. The Ae eembke says : An American citizen, Mr. Elihu Burritt, now in Paris, hes sent in copies of four friendly addresses of the prin cipel cities of Great Bntein and Ireland to the Mittens of Paris." Some astonishment may be felt at finding the principal cities of England selecting • foreigner for their representative; but he is a member of the Peace Congress, end as such is employed. The addresses in themselves have no importance, although that from London is signed by several members of parliament, and by up wards of 1,50 honourable persons; and those from Edinburgh, fillugow, and Dublin, bear the signatures of the chief magistrates of those great cities. In Great Britain it is always easy to find a number of honourable persons ready, by a dealt of the pen, to join in any philan thropical demonstration, particulu when the wishes ex pressed are so innocent as them of the Peace Congress. The addresses which Mr. Burritt states he is charged to remit to the authorities of the city of Paris would, consesuently, be perfectly insignificant without the circumstances in which they are etraed and the principal motive adduced by the rs. The article. of th e Times on France, to which the boo thought at to reply, appear to have produced a erunia mentlea mat eons' some alarm in England —at Men, dal bi to be imam& It.. the addresses in question. Bat this moan nab estenishment when the place which the Mom «espies In the English press is borne in mind. It is easy to call the Triton I. that journal pamphleteers or scribblers ; but so den will ponest the Times from being looked on in &TAW as the meet exact organ of public opi nion, of that at least ides* the government has most to show oonsideration to, of the rich and enlightened classes. The in- Buena and authority enjoyed by that journal arise from this fact, that the pesesaal feeling of ,its editors is always ready to give way to that of the public, which they are most anxious to express. Therefore is it that the articles of the Times concerning France are calculated to have in the eyes of all so great an importance. What is there more natural than that the interestsef commerce and personal sympathies for our country should have been moved an hould have desired to protest against what might appear to them to icoatieal an idea of hostility against Prance 1 The addresses which Mr. Burritt brings are in that way explained, and the sentiment which has led to them merits to be praised, as does everything that tends to maintain harmony between the two nations, But if these dezionstrations.are.hoomr- lade, theiire illusive, we do not like to say, ridiculous. The leek says : we are not exaggerated partisans of peace. If the system of peace at every price, peace without glory, in presence of the exigencies of Europe could still prevail in our country, we would oppose it uwe did formerly. Although sincerely devoted to all the great interests of humanity, we have the weakness to belong, as regards national sentiment, ld the France, which, republican or monarchical, in foreign coalitions or influence the right of di W her. hevertheless, we willingly admit, with the large and magnificent philosophy which embraces in its affections all human kind—all the advantages which progress de rive. from peace, and all those which France 111 particular owes to it. If the peace of thirty-seven years which we have enjoyed has produced a port of lethargy, lessened mirage, and materialised tendencies, it has permitted arts, manufactures, commerce, sciences, and theo rise to take an immeasurable flight. The means of com- mastication between nations have become inikllelglatall plied. Thom who formerly only saw es* ease in • moment sword in hand, or by the passing glum ornmew. have boatel themselves at the same table of , have become known to each other, and have ap ated earn other. The conflicts between governments Iwo been riliF dared more difficult by the mutual acquainting* of . nations. Nations are consequently no longer, as they were !rawly, at the mercy of perernal ambition and court intrigues. It is impossible to disregard these remarkable advankim Thus without taking any part in the quarrel which 3m arisen between several foreign journals and the presses government of France, we cannot see with • the efforts which are making in different states to mime dissensions between governments, or revolutions poor liar to certain States, from affecting the good relations be tween rations themselves. These efforts demonstrate an eseellent tendency, and are the presage of a future less sad than the past. What an immense conquest it would be if nations, which have been so often dragged by their go vernments into these ruinous conflicts, could gravitate in independent spheres and force in their turn all the chiefs of states to consult s olely in questions of war the national will and national interests. In this respect we recommend :4) our readers the addresses to the French people, which I are at this moment signed by the inhabitants of the piaci pal towns of England. These addressee express the very strong desire which the trading, middle, and higher classes on the other side of the Channel feel not to see the rela times of two nations, which were too long enemies, dis turbed. iiietter, signed " G. Smith," published in the Journal des D4bals, denies, by order of the Duke of Brunswick, that there is any truth in the statement recently made by the Cologne Gazette, that the duke is about to abdicate his rights; and says that " the Sovereign Duke of Brunswick will never renounce his hereditary rights." At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose 35c.., and the Thee per Cents. fell 45e. Bank of France shame roe, 10E The Lyons and Avignon Railway fell 10 ; Rouen, 5. ITALY. TUSCANY. In the sitting of the 30th ult. of the royal ooert of Florence, advocate Panattoni, one of the counsel for Onerraszi and the other defendants, moved that the amnesty granted by the decree of the 21st of No vember, 1849, be extended to all his clients, seeing that the exclusions mentioned in that decree were intended as safeguards of the constitution ; which being now aboliafied, all motives for exclusion had di appeared. In support of this argument, the learned counsel quoted the motives detailed in the report of the minister on the question of granting an amnesty. The advocate-general having opposed this motion, the court, after a long consultation, rejected it. Another incidental motion was then brought forward by the counsel of Montario, which related to him alone, and was intended to chew that he had been prosecuted after the date of the amnesty. This objection was also overruled, and the court adjourned t the following day. GERMANY. AUSTRIA. The Augsburg Gazette states that the Austrian police and customs officers in Silesia have been ordered to keep a sharp eye on the pocket-handker chiefs of the people. Handkerchiefs in large num bers find their way across the frontier, presenting a very orderly and proper appearance to the eye; but after a first washing a part of their colour disap. pears, and revolutionary manifestoes and addressee meet the sight. The Emperor arrived in Vienna on the 2nd from Ischl, and is shortly to leave for Yeah, where • succession of military manwuvres is appointed to take place. The Emperor's Croatian tour is expected to extend over a pencil of three weeks. Vienna letters state that the sentences in the affair of the Sociat de la Mort, at Mantua, have been pro nounced and submitted to Radetsky. The leaders of the society are condemned to death. The North American steam frigate Hyacinth an chored in the haven of Trieste on the 31st ult. THE CHOLERA. beyorm. the shorted dorsiMs, than round Cape Horn . These are great and noble aims which Lord MALMFSBURY must not be parmated to risk and endanger by undue precipitation and interference at Banta F.. The New Prussia., Genet& has the following from Warsaw, of the 28th ult.: —" Above 800 persons have died in the hospitals here, and the total number of those who have been carried of by cholera is pro tribly greater than 20,000. Cars, waggons, britsktui, and conveyances of every possible kind, are perpe tually conveying corpses to oar burial grounds. The pest rage ? most horribly among the Israelites. In one fortnight—namely, from the Bth to the 22nd of l August-1,8032 Jews have been buried." From Posen we read in the same journal :—" Forty-three persons died here yesterday (August 31); there are 403 ander medical treatment. The wife of the comman dant, General Tietsen, was one of the fated victims of the pest." Some deaths are said also to have oo curred on board a vowel at Hamburg. LLOYD'S LIST £ 11410.—Th• giant pub biked I.lsrdS List k Milne beers date Mk gad is in peoreelen glebe esembleir of Vorger, brie gamsewhat mese then is erstery di. we Ni rhos sealed re brew • tererehly sesseme impetus between the Iblgglag open. tier of tibe Wife elle INS 1112vug and the seiddie of the moidy. TM di Lieges Lid mom to have b that els of ma io di week guested es et serrow slip of ppor abed ast in leap eh& beau notables the prise of helm sod do noshes gives the MN of sachemss M balsa smentries ; Wee are es ems aide. Oa the MIMI Is what was then termed the " Marine List," which Ore a list of tweety•three engirds and twelve departures se English ports, with thirty-fear ships st anchor in the Desna There see also notices of four arrivals in Irish and Ineedgm purls, with advice of three Brit oh alive taken by the eeesny's privatrera Taraiog from this document, abich fveil a week'. news, to one oe the year 1800, published illy, we find it contains on an average notices o f seventy ' Ivo ships. This was in tins of war; and, comparing num ' ben, we find tit^ ships noticed as ten tome against the pre- I vans date. Following up the comparison, we turn to a Lope' List fur 1860; one of the fullest of these covered Utica pages in the Arrivals and Loos books for one day, I giving the amines of about four hundred and sixty vesse l,, &Mg six times the number of those in 1800, and as nume. Me as the lists of iere entire year in the previous CI ntury. —Lhektne. " Bowe/told Words." THE EARL OF CARLISLE AT A WRESTLING NATO's—Th.l Earl of Carlisle was present at the Tolkin Tam Wpm, Cumberland, the tuber day. and at the elms of a wrestling match for 121., whets the sixth and last Brampton, • rough, _ village . Brampton, with • feeling of true sympathy fur the de • feted, es( Isiosed, sufficiently loud to he heard by his lord ship. "The earl should ha ge'en the peer weaver •he sove reign." The noble earl immediately rime, walked up to Pearson, who was still *Landing in the riag stripped, and gave him • sovereign also. Iris lordship was then loudly sewed by the vietatan. —Leeds Isegailifincwr. . ezpenditure. ezpseti that the complete catalogues of the three im portant heads of "Ilistori of England," " History of France, " and " Medicine, may be ready for th e printer withl a few months. The proeareur of the republic of Havre went a few days ago to the Tribunal of Commerce at Fecamp, Paragraph, Debate, its Oermanic es sari usual for earriag" es and four horses t o drive up to the head inn at Springfield or Greta+ the happy occupants of which have been known occasionally to reward the " privets" with a fee of one hundred guineaa.—Edisbwrgh Witness. Tu LARGEST CAFE IS EUROPE has just been opened at Vienna. Not less than 14 billiard-tables are to be found there, and there are 150 gas-lighte. Fouitaine of water play in each room. _ t ne marriage. to the Lloyd the postponement arises from the advice given by physicians to the father of the lady, to insist upon delay, as her growth is not terminated, and from the fact of her mother having to undergo a surgical operation, and re quiring the presence of her daughter. The (kiwi assures its readers that it has been resolved to convoke the French Senate, and to obtain the decision of the pi ople on the guar lion of the empire, before the end of the year. t a ieed .r tant a t r oj w ay g d n e e for an d 2 l a . e d a ti t ; now are with the hanks of the Miesiasippi and the of • wreiiling match for 121., when the sixth and last states that he has invented a system . of making a I BAVARIA. and t catalogue of now works as they come in. He pro- The gfficial Gazelle of Munich, of the 2nd, pub- ochfarg2l.,eowraitotbleeirmlYpnProee7; __uTstipf;),:c.,,,,,iteit:olf, the V ie r n r n i n a of Oretaa.gr is now greatly on the wane—a circumstance emir ol ff Wasa ha: l ire ,:.,- pr a tri t o h ned ;. but will th ta t k t e t . , place. The . Miesouri; and gradually the great design of the , round , whtch was betreliW it a w terminated, namedPe t a h ne e n • m i mes , with government support, to finish the cata- Itches the text of the treaty . of extradition concluded whi c h n o n e will regret excepting the " priests” themselves sta T tes ill t ha t Oi l l s r s ria: A cil' A io Spaniards in fi rst wending and nettling in those i ( M i t ",: t r , w i n login) within the ten years, and without exceeding between Bavaria and Switzerland on the 28th of , ititn wist , ,e w a u th;, he r n es , c tu al i i i i d te w w i l t r h e ' s a t t e l o r e 'sveree nby the riubte v e ic a . ri r , streams would be accomplished, viz., to secure as r much joy. One of the who must sigh for the times gone by, when it was not un: two rf of th r e en e ee mpir i e will s plece,;: j the ina marriage. a e i n e °c cor a dTn a g easier access to the countries beyond the Andes, on spectators, • rough, homely, inhabitant of the village o f the original estimates of expenditure. Ho expects Juno last, and now definitively ratified by both usual for carriers and four hones to d r i ve up to t h e head to the Llosd the postponement arises from the advice given the shores of th e Pacific , than round Cape Horn. Brampton, with • feeling of true sympathy fur the de- that the complete catalogues of the three important powers. It is to be in force for ten years. Its pr e . inn at firrinfrav dor Oretn's, the happy occupants of which by phy s i c i ans to the fath er of the lady, t o insist up on d e l a y, have been known occasionally to reward the '• priests" with as her growth is not terminated, and from the fact of her rested, ex, lanned, sufficiently loud to be heard by his lord headset . " Ilistori of England," "History of I. ranee," visions are not applicable to political ref These are t an noble Rims which Lord • ship " The earl should ha ge'en the peer weaver 'he sore- and " Medicine, may be ready for the printer within -- * a fee of one hundred guinea . —Edinbwrgh Witness. mother having to undergo a surgical oration, and re- MALRESSURT must not be permitted to risk and I mi n • ... The noble earl immediatel , walked up t a few months. A paragraph, which has been copied from the TIIR LARGEST CAPE IS EUROPE has lust been quiring the presence of her daughter. The' l lord assures endanger by undue precipitation and interference at ps!rsoa, who was still Wooden in the ' g nag stripped , an d opened at Vienna. Not lees than 14 billiard-ta des are to its readers that it has been resolved to convoke the French e proeareur of the republic of Havre went a few Dehats, states that the Minister of France to the be found there, and there are 160 gas-lights. Fountains of Senate, and to obtain the decision of the people on the qua, Santa P. gave him a sovereign also. Ilis lordship was then loudly I cheered by the spectator.—Leeds lagellisfewer. days ago to the Tribunal of Commerce at Fecamp, Germanic Diet, had presented a note to the Diet, water play in each room. non of the empire, before the end of the year. complaining of the attacks made by several of the Garman journals on Prince Louis Napoleon. By a letter from Frankfort of the 28th ult., in the Corres pondent of Hamburgh, we see that it was to the Senate of Frankfort, not to the Diet, that the note was presented, and that it especially coca &hied of the German Journal of that city. SPAIN. MADRID, Auousr 31. M. Campana has arrived from Cadiz. lie is said to be the bearer of propositions to the government for the construction of the railway from Seville to Madrid, passing by Estremadura. M. Campana represents the powerful houses of Zulueta and Julian Lopes. It is thought that the new Portuguese Minister at Madrid will be M. Pairs, formerly Minister Pleni potentiary in Paris. A letter from Corunna states that the service of steamer, from Malaga to London, touching at Cadiz, Corunna, and Santander is now completely organized. The boats will run twice a month. The Diario Espanol says it has observed with regret in the Gazette not a shower of gold, but a shower of extraordinary credits, amounting in the whole to 5 million. of real'. This journal expresses uneasiness with regard to financial prospects. BELGIUM. The Augs?urg Gazette states that tho Austrian Envoy at Brussels has remitted to the Belgian go vernment an energetic note on the indignities offered to liaynau a fortntght ago at Brussels. TURKEY. The correspondent of the Trieste Gazette writes from Constantinople that there is every probability of the speedy reinstallation of Reschid Pacha, Ali Pacha, and lciad Effendi, in their former ministries. Reschid Pacha is reconciled with Halil Pacha, his chief enemy, and the best possible understanding now exists between them. More than 5,000 families are left houseless by the recent fires; 3,000 have, as yet, found no place of shelter, and the government has granted them the use of a sufficient number of military tents. In Adrianople conflagrations have caused the destruction of property to the value of 4,000,000 piastres. According to reports from Syria, Abdurahman's band had fallen upon Hebron and pillaged it. glo Court. BALMORAL, Bart. b. Her Majesty drove yesterday in an open carriage to the Ballock Bhule, accompanied by the Princess Hohenlohe Langenbourg. Prince Albert went out deer•etalktng The dinner party yesterday included the Dueller of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, and Lady Augusta Bruce. The Right Hon. J. W. Henley arrived in town on Satur day night from the Continent. The right hon. gentleman transacted business yesterday at the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Winchester had an interview with Mr. Secretary W►lpole yesterday, at the Home-ofnce. Mr. Bond Cabbell, M.P., had also an interview with tho right hon. secretary. Despatches were received from the Governor-General of Canada yesterday at the Colonial-Gince. Despatches were also received from the Governors of the West India Islands. The nomination of the Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll as Minister at the Court of St. James's, in place of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence, resigned, was confirmed by the Senate of the United States on the 21st ult. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary embarked on board the Fire Queen, steam-vessel, at Ryde pier, at 11.15 yesterday morning, and took a cruise round the squadron at Spithead. Each ship there, comprising the Arrogant, 46 ; Encounter, 14; Mean der, 44; and Inflexible, 6, manned yards, and fired • Royal salute of 21 guns. Her royal highness then earns into harbour,when the Victory,flag ship, fired another Royal salute. At the mouth of the harbour Port-Admiral Sir Thos. Brins, G.C.M.G., attended by Flag-Lieutenant Palley, was in waiting in his barge, and took the royal party on board., conveying them to the Victory, which vessel they visited, the crew manning yards. The august party re mained here about half an hour, when they left, the Vie tory firing another salute of 21 guns, and proceeded to the Neptune, 120, on • similar visit. Having remained here some time, ha royal highness left, on which the Neptune fired another royal salute, making in all a discharge of 126 guns within a space of en hour and a half. They then pro- ceded to Clarence yard, where they landed at half-past 1 precisely. A SHIP•BUILDEIt ON NAVIGATION LAW REPEAL: The new iron screw steamer Eagle, intended to run In connexion with the paddle steamer Sea Nymph be tween Liverpool and Newry, was launched for Mr. Dugan, of Dublin, from the yard of Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Sons, on Tuesday. After • successful launch, • select y sat down to lunch. Mr. Vernon, sen., stated that the Eagle was about the seventeenth iron vessel they had buillt ,• and, haying briefly adverted to the fears which the repeal of the navigation laws had inspired, but which re peal bad only tended to draw out the latent energy of Englishmen, and to their bene fi t rather than injury, he then glanced at the revolution which wu being effected in the shipping world by the adaptation of iron to the par poses of shipbuilding. We find (continued Mr. Vernon) iron screw steamers being employed in the American trade, in the Cape of Good Hope trade, in the Australian trade, and in other important trades ; and I have no hesitation in saying that ere long wb foreign trade is carried on by British capital an* British enterprise, there must iron screw-steamers be employed, as it will, ere long, be dis covered that no other description of ships are equal to them in point of regularity, safety, efficiency, and economy. Now, if this really be the ease, what have we to f ear from the repeal of the Navigation-laws, or even from Free Trade ? The Nay*ation-laws, as they now stand, will be neutralised, and not affect us at all, inasmuch as foreign vessels will have no chance in coping with British screw-steamers; and no foreigner can build iron ship, so cheaply and so perfectly as imam. It is true foreigneis may ultimately get in the way of making steam-engines and iron ships. But merely to turn how to build an iron ship is not enough; for there is in that, r well as in all other trades, • continuous progression towards perfection; and we, as • nation, have got the start, and are, in fact, • long way a-head; and our distinguishing capabilities and oar national and local alma • tags* will always facilitate our onward course, and give us the pre-eminence in this trade over all the nations of the earth; so that foreigners who, • short time ago, we were afraid would bring their ships and perform • considerable part of the trade of this country, now &aye to abandon that ides, and to come to us for iron screw-steamers to perform ' their own local trade. And thus, what was once thought to be a great national calamity, will, I have no doubt, turn out to he • great national advantage. (The expression of theft sentiments was received with loud cheers by those present.) In conclusion, Mr. Vernon proposed the health of Mr. Grantham, the naval architect of the Eagle, and under whose superintendence she had been constructed. Mr. Grantham, in the course of some remarks to the mune effect as those by Mr. Vernon, said, iron vessels were about to be built for the East India and other trades. Some of these were ordered, and others were contemplated in quarter. the most unlikely, a short time ago. And now, instead of creasing the Atlantic to get ships there, or going to Whitehaven to have them b u ilt, they were coating to Liverpool and its neighbourhood to get large and eubetantisl iron sailing ships built. They knew the great superiority of the Americans over this country, especially in building large ships. But lately, a gentleman, to whom he had been introduced, came from America to this country to inquire into the building of iron skips; and, on the close of his labours, he asked him the results, and he said that it wee impossible for him to get over the difficulty of building and purchasing iron ships in this country. Tice American. had had the superiority, but, by means of iron ships, England would have it back again. After other touts had been given and responded to the company separated. RIVAL. Parrett Of GRETNA-GM:EX.—At a Justice of Peace Court, held at Ecelefechan, in Dumfries shire, on the lath ult., Simon Lang or Laing, resitting in Springfield, wax charged with assaulting John Douglas, residing there, on the Ist of August test, and pled not guilty. Evidence was then led in support of the charge, from which it appeared that th e a ccuse d en d t h e assau l te d party are rivals as priests in celebrating " Oretna•green marriages;" that, on the morning in question, Douglas was walking through Springfield with two couples of males and females he had met on the arrival of the train from Carlisle, when the accused came out of leis house, and supposing, it is thought, that the persons wished to be mulled, he wanted to take the job out of Douglas's hands, and thrust him aside, and then struck him severely with a walking stick over the head and shoulders. The justice held that the charge was eleArly •••• and sentenced Lang • AN AMERICAN EXECUTION. PHILADILPHIA, AI:FOUST 4. This morning the execution of !Matthias Situ pieski. for the murder of the lad Lehman, in January last, took piece in Moyantensing prison. The number of per sons present to witness the condemned man expiate his crimes on the gallows aa prescribed by the Act of A sh m. lily, was limited. ibis arrangement having been art ' nouneed in the Ledger of Wednesday, had the desired effect in preventing an immense crowd within and without the prison walls. Those admitted besides the officiating officer, was Deputy Sheriff John Miller, the Esecutiuu Clerk, Stephen Kingston, nine other depuths connected with the sheriff's office, the Deputy District APorney, William B. Mann; Recorder Lee, the three interpreters. Henry Shawinski end Towsig, who had then with the condemned upon several occasions; Drs. Wall, Burden and A. C. Hellen onvill, the inspectors of the prison, one reporter fur the press, and the jury uf ,twelve men, composed of ?ileum. Daniel Deal, Fred Gaul Smith, B anneri Thomas, Martin Van Dawn, jun., Henry Delany, George K. Childs, Charles Wartmaa, Peter Fisher, Albert Coffin, Alexander 'lexica, and A. G. Duhensmel. These persons entered the pr.son at 9 o'clock, and soon after tho Sheriff visited Skupinski, with a view to prepare him for the doom which a wa i te d him. Matthias was with the two Roman catholic clergy ' men, Rev. Messrs. Etthuffer and William, with whom he had spent Thursday night in religious exercises. He ex pressed himself willing to die, and as the Sheriff was shout to leave him he handed him a paper, of which the following is a copy: " I, Matthias Sknpinski, in the name of God, beg and implore, as a last request, that when William Deal, Esq., High filiteriff, shall have executed the law upon my body, end when I shall be so long hung by the neck that my b o d y shall be dead, then my body shall be cumulated to the tare of Rudolph Etthoffer and Celestin William, the Roman ca tholic clergymen who have been my cont.:awn when living, that they may see my body interred. SKUPINBII MATAISZ. Friday morning, eight o'clock, August 6, tBs2." The place of execution was then duly examined by the proper authorities, and the rope placed round the beam, which was ten feet from the ground. Everything being in readiness there, some time was a:lowed the condemned man before he was executed. At 10 minutes before 11 o'clock, Sher,ff Deal and his deputy, Mr. Miller, went to the cell, and adjusted the cord about his arms, and at 11 o'clock he was conducted from that place of confinement, dressed in a blue frock coat, black pants and black silk vest. He walked down to the gallows with a degree of firmness that surprised all who noticed him, with nothing to disturb his apparent determination to boldly suffer the penalty of the law, except when he met the gam of Mr. Skawinslti, the l'ole who seine weeks ago made an affidavit before Mayor Gilpin. 1 hen he seemed agitated, but for an instant, and, passing Mr. Skawiaski, proceeded calmly to the place of execution, followed by the officers and jury. Upon arriving at the stairway leading to the platform he ascended in the same firm manner, ac companied by the sheriff and catholic clergy. Rev. Mr. Etthoffer asked Matthias repeatedly in the Polish language if he hail anything to say, to which he re plied " Nothing ;" but, turning to the Rev. Mr. William, gave a nod of his head, and that gentleman read from a paper as follows: " The criminal who stands before you desires me to state, before he undergoes the extreme penalty of the law, that he begs pardon of all whom he may have injured or wronged by his crimes. Front his heart he forgives all mankind the injuries they have done. Ile is ready to submit to the severe sentence to which eff,nded justice dooms him. He bears no resentment or illdechng to those who were instrumental in his arrest and bringing him before the tribunal that passed sentence upon I him. Already he has made his peace with God, and like the penitent Prophet, he has wept over his crimes in the bitter ness of his soul. And before he is launched into eternity —before he appears befure his God, and your God—has Judge and your Judge—he wishes to he reconciled openly to has fellow mortals. lie begs me to request your prayers ' for him, that when his soul leaves this prison of clay, the Almighty God may be merciful unto him, and may admit him into the company of the blessed." The noose was then adjusted around the neck of the cri minal by Sheriff Deal. After the clergy and officers had taken leave of him, and the two outside props having been taken from under the drop the cord attached to centre prop, which was all that supported the drop, was pulled by the Sheriff at precisely nineteen minutes pant 11 o'clock, and Matthias Saupinski was launched into eternity. Thus he suffered the requirements of the law, and after the lapse of two minutes and a half life was extinct. There was not l a single motion of the body far several seconds alter it fell, and the only evidence of life was severe twitches of the legs and arms. Nothing besides this was recognised. The body was suspended 37 minutes, and was then cut down by De. puty Sheriff William S. Mann, and delivered over to the clergy' in accordance with the request of the executed criminal. The back part of the head was quite warm, and the body was alas warm. The milieue ut the neck was broken, but the vertibrm was neither Woken nor dis located. A cut of the face was subsequently taken by Dr. A. C. Cournonville and Mr. Vannucci, an Italian, of this city.— New York Tribuu. EVENING CLASSES FOR YOUNG MEN.—The annual meeting of the society by whom these classes are conducted was held last evening at Crosby Hall, Dishopsgate•street. There was s crowded attendance. The Lord Mayor pre sided. In introducing the business he c ngratulated the meeting on the success of this institution, whose objects he regarded as of the utmost importance. Itesolutions were adopted for carrying out the objects of the society. - - CAPTURE OF A SEA HORSE.—The romantic and beautiful little town of Bundoran on the se. coast of Donegal (one of the fi nest bathing places in the north of Ireland), was, it is said, within the last fortnight, raised from its ordinary tittle-tattle by the appearance of a huge sea monster which had visited ita shores. Early in the morning a gentleman living in Enniskillen, on going out, discovered that the water was disturbed by a sea-horse of enormous size. Having his double-barrelled gun with him at the time, sad it being ready (the piece was loaded to do its duty), b e discharged the contents, which lodged in the body of the monster, which immediately sank, and rose again in time to receive a shot from the other barrel. Ile fired, and the result was mortal, as the leviathan did not again appear. Rumour, I learn, is rife in your town that the monster was washed ashore after five days, and that the fishermen here had made a fortune out of the oil which its carcase produced; but I assure you they have skimmed nothing but froth, for the shooting of the sea-horse must have been imaginary, as the morning was stormy. The ra tional conjecture is, that the gentleman in question shot at a wave and not a living inane.—Correspondent of Ferma nagh Reporter. MURDEROUS ATTACK OX A LAROCRER.—EarIy on Sunday morning last, the quiet village of Middridge, about four miles distant from Bnhop Auckland, became the scene of a moat disgraceful attack on a poor unoffending Irishman, named Junes Boyle. The facts are these:— A party of four or five English labourers from Chapel Row, ' with two or three others, were drinking at Davison's public- house, in that village, on the Saturday night. In the course of the night, • fight took place in the house between Mark Mooney mad some others. The party were soon after put out of the house. It appears that much angry feeling had previously been shown towards tho Irish, who, as well u Boyle, are in the employment of Mr. Newby, an eaten sive farmer there. On the Chapel Row men leaving the house they proceeded at once to Boyles cottage, and knocked loudly at the door for admittance. Boyle unfortu nately came out to see what they wanted, when one of the fellows inetantly stepped forward and stabbed the poor man in the abdomen with a knife, the party running off in time to escape detection. An alarm was immediately given, and medial assistance, es well as • police officer, was speedily obtained. The wound was found to be a serious one, but it is hoped, from present appearances, that it will not prove fatal. Mooney was soon afterwards found concealed (it is now thought from fear) in Davison's house, and was appre hended. Ile was, however, liberated from custody on Tuesday, on his own recognisance, to appear again on the 9th of September, as it does not seem, from inquiry, that he was even present at the time, but was coming up the village at the moment when the attack was made. Boyle was regarded as a very quiet, industrious, and steady man. The police of the district arc making every exertion to discover the perpetrator of this outrage, in which it is earnestly hoped that they will be successful.--Veireasfle Guardian. THE mysrealors DEATH OP A WOMAN AT Sr. Apure.—During Friday a variety of rumours were in circulation respecting the circumstances attending the death of the unfortunate deceased. These rumours all tended to show that the public generally, and those acquainted with the deceased, and her connexions and associates, were of opinion that her death was not her own act. Enquiries were, of enure, made with a view of procuring evidence to throw any additional light upon the subject ; but they failed to clear up the rovatery by which the circumatances under which the deceased met with her untimely end were sur rounded. In the course of the day • post-mortal's exami nation of the body was made, and towards the evening the deceased's miring shawl was found in the water, about sixty yards from the spot where the body was discovered. It appears that the deceased was • woman of dissipated habits, and that she and her husband have for some time lived very inharmoniously together—quarrels which usually ended in blows being of frequent occurrence. The adjourned inqutst was held on Friday evening, when the jury held a lung consultation. We understand that some of the jury wished for • further adjournment, but the majority were of opinion that if an adjournment did take place, they would probably be in no better position when they met again, and that should any ether facts be brought to light, the case could he brought before the magistrates. They ultimately agreed to return a vtrdiet of " Found drowned." EXIORATION.—A number of offimrs belonging to the ships of the Royal West India Mail Steam racket Com pany have resigned in order to emigrate to Australia. ___ r