The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-24 00:00:00

L THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1852. gut .341°,00* TO COKRZSPONDINTS. - frooLsl Ratko ef " Itspoos" easisimisi !So moo tftsfte. 0 Garotte," .5 podgiest m a r Tssoky sal Fri• Jay ftdtti. la toft Ow poet 44ftetionseatelstiftio 4 Oft °Via lapnes" Leaks F•esisi piper, ems S. tbe Oil% 11.45ftrisiftsio. by Iwo °Waft Qs tho dsr QC pabliostics. NIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIDON. 110 DAT-4AALACOA.Zes.. Misrusea. Oh. C. TlMliabow—Norhiha. 91- .... --aftralies• LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21. LORD JOtttt Russtu., when pronouncing at Ster ling an elaborate eulogiunt on the Duke of WEL uairreN. said : " Perhaps I am the more justified in saying what I have done because there were few, perhaps there were no, persons, except the late Lord Metiovivi• and mj self, who can bear this testimony—that however he (the I)rKr) might differ in political sen timents with the person who held the chief office in the political service of the State, he was as wilting, as rrfulT, as forward in giving every assistance that he thought for the benefit of his country, to one who differed in political opinions, as he would have been to the dearest of his political friends." This is, indeed, high praise—praise. the value of which is infinitely increased, when coming from the mouth of a political opponent. But few persons know so well as the Wing leader the value of the influence which the DIAE exercised. The House of Peers is notoriously behind the age in its knowledge of the signs of the times. Neverthe less it may be affirmed of members of this order that however they may be below the level of general public intellipnce. they are often practically wil ling to recognise the realities of their position. Conscious that they were themselves unable to collect sufficient materials to form lucid ,judgments upon great questions, many of them—for instance — threw themselves unreservedly upon the great prao tical common sense of the Dtt&E. Often and often has his Grace had in his pocket enough votes to give a majority in the House of Peers. He has had—it is known—as many as sixty proxies confided to him. The Duke of WELLINGTON by his death has thus surrendered the keeping of some sixty consciences, which depended upon his Grace for ground to stand upon. These will now be wandering about, as sheep without a shepherd. They will be the prey marauders. They will listen to the exciting tabs d political TRI rES and NIONT 1G1.7E. 4 , and show themselves beggared before the bar of public opinion, calling frantically for vengeance upon their deceivers. Lord Jolts Itussit.t. can well understand the loss that many " hereditary legislators" hare sustained. It is truly a matter of serious consideration to know what the Upper House will do without the Dt kr. Ho had the same power over a large number of volatile subjects as VIRGIL'S 'EGLI'S had over the winds committed to his care. He wits placed, like the classical god, high above his roving subjects. He held his sceptre firmly. He alone could soothe their minds and temper their wrath. He, like klott's, knew his subjects well, and felt certain that but for him they would sweep over the political heaven and milk over the court and the nation, and create a twit* which they would bare no power to put dew s). Where is t heNEI`TVNE in the House of lasi wins as in Viiinit.'s fable, will lift his placid head above the troubled waters, and bring the jarry elements to tepose? Let us remember, when we endeavour to speculate upon what will be the future conduct of the House of Lords, with regard to the great questions that will come before it in the next maim, that a sixty-vote Moderator is gone. One broad feeling of sym pathy, which was sufficient to produce a certain unity of action amongst very discordant elements, has vanished. The House will be split up into parties, without having any definite principle to guide them. They will have all the mechanism of an integral portion of the constitution, but they will want • motive power they long relied on. - Hem tells a story of an automatic man, constructed by an inge nious Englishman, which, by the means of a com plex arrangement of springs, performed all the ordi nary functions of humanity. It would have pealed muster as a genuine specimen of the human race amongst any assembly. Nevertheless, the automaton had just sense enough to know its own defect. It found out, alas! that it had no soul, and it set to work forthwith to tease its creator to give it the grand desideratum. It followed the unfortunate artist all through the world with the reiterated re quest, " Give me • souL" The House of Lords will be in the predicament of He ms's automaton. The only difference will be that it has lost what the auto maton never had. The Tory members have lost the soul of their body; and we know not, however loudly they may cry, where they will get another. It would be difficult to point out any other clam which is characterised by such features of hopeless mediocrity as the Tory party in the present House of Peers. With respect to ourselves, we have nothing to fear from that body. Its power for mischief has been long since neutralised, and its power for good has been diminished by the death of the DUNA. With Lord Dmv the case is different. He may find to his cost that a House of Peers without a ruling spirit may—although powerless in its offset upon the nation—be a terrible thorn in the sides of a Minister. He may anticipate with tolerable cer tainty an satieDeafir party, as his colleague in the other Howse may look for an anti-DisLtxtl party, as the result of the sins of each with regard to Pro tection. The PRIME MINISTER will look in vain for that shield which has protected so many Minis ters and aided so many ministries. He will have to stand or fall by the naked merit of his actions. No friendly power will come to his aid be cause " Her Ildwesn's government must be carried on." He will have to fight the battle of Protection against Free-trade, and d Bigotry against Liberality, without the hope of aid in case of failure, or a refage in twee of defeat. If those grieve most deeply on account of the occur rence of any event, who lose the most by it. few men will have better cause to lament the absence of " the Dues" than the Earl of DERBY. Titeae is nothing so unsuccessful as Imitati The as. that aped the lion—the daw that feathered itself to be mistaken feta pescosh—the hog pant out like a ball—instead of deceiving the world, de ceived no one but themselves. They were laughed at, failed, and made miserable ends. Tim', in sow mon with all Imitators, only copy externals ; they eta copy nothing which is not aka de*, for they an see no deeper than the eartese, end they can do nothing which they have not semi done Wan. If the future career of the arch-imitator al the age, LOUIS NAPOLEON, be prophesied by this eels, that prince will not be exempt foes the usual fate of his else. Unless he strike oat something new; something original; something not copied foes the historical programme of his uncle's life, ho will theft with • series of crosses for which he will not lad compensation, even in the gigantic plagiaries of as imperial crown. Second-hand files, and seesall• hand decrees may for a time please and dazzle as easily satisfied and not very penetrating nation; but secondhand commercial policy will end in national discontent and princely dieaster. Even the protective system pursued by NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Wt' a century ago, although wrong always and everywhere, may have partially succeeded in France, because the rest of Europe at that time believed in, and acted on, protection principles; but it cannot succeed now, when Free-trade is the rule generally acknowledged, and is, where practicable, acted upon. The last bit of political reproduction on the part of the Great French Nephew, was announced in oar second edition yesterday. The threat remind flung at Belgium, of a war of cossseeial tariffs, has been opened. A decree, dated ;awe then a week since, but only just promulgated, impose se additional 10 per cent. duty upon . all the seal end iron to be imported from Belgium into Frame. Tbe same sort of excuses for this aggr ession are tatin as those growled forth by the wo lf to the lam ; they prove nothing, but simply a wish to quarrel. The Brussels Inthlpentitince states doubtless ou authority—that " nothing has been dons on the p6t of Belgium which en give any motive for, or even justify in any degree what some this act of the French government." The only s hadow of excuse was adumbrated some little live since in an alternative presented to the Belgian gerarnent either to adopt a modificatien of the Franco-Belgian tariff proposed by France in 1843 (a plagiarism this time from Louts-Pint-trim) or to consent to an addition of 10 per cent. duty upon all Belgian produce taken into France. The merest accidence of political economy—the faintest lessons of commercial experience—are vio lated by this measure. In selecting coal and iron, with which to strike the first blow of Protection mischief, the would-be Emperor has taken the most powerful weapons wherewith to strike it ; but it is a blow which will hit him harder than it will hit his opponent ;—we say " him," because he is yearning to commit one more plagiar ism,' and to be able to tar, like Loris XN .—Le Prance, ("est reel ! The nation will suffer in the end. Coal and iron are to manufacturing . operations (those sources of solid national prospe rity) what water is to fish; and to restrict the flow of them articles into a manufacturing country is about as wise as to attempt to improve fisheries by draining lakes. To ono Belgian coal-owner or iron-master who would be injured by this impost in the degree of ten to the hundred, dozens of French manufacturers of every article fabricated by means of steam machinery—of which iron and coal are the materials—will be losers in the degree of some 20 per cent. A tax upon bread or beer or any non-productive article—any article which is at once consumed, and does not help in the production of other articles—only injures buyer and seller in an arithmetical ratio, or at simple in terest ; but a tax upon machinery, or its matenals, by whose agency all sorts of manufactured merchandise are produced, punishes the buyer in a geometrical ratio, or at compound interest; for it is an indirect tax upon —in this instance every object of commerce and comfort to the manufacture of which coal and iron are applied. The Belgian seller, to whom coal and iron mean nothing more than coal and iron, will suffer little by the new impost, compared with the loss the tax will occa sion to the French buyer, to whom coal and iron mean hundred-fold-producing machinery. But French manufacturer'', it may be answered, are not dependent upon Belgium for all their coal and all their iron. This is true ' • but the fact does not touch the principle ; it only reduces the injury self-inflictedin degree. If the principle be, as threatened, fully carried out, and aB Belgian imports into France be taxed at the rate lean additional 10 per cent., the war of tariffs ma le mess disastrous than a war of gunpow and lead, for, although Belgium may suffer, Frame is certain to be beaten in tho end. If the pais prints of that country can, under a rigid censonW Wool. LOUIS NAPOLEON'S popularity rests 'MeV Wm lb, ss=of the humbler orders of the nabob A Ne proportion of them are engaged in staawitt tnre, and if once a check be given to manufactrakag raity by a" war of tariffs," discontent will Weal Section, and there is no knowing what atq happen. Although to anticipate anything soy disastrous to the present government of France kes a 10 per cent. duty on Belgian coal and koaa's,' appear hyperbolic, yet "great effects from alb causes spring ;" and empires have been jeopardised before now from smaller beginnings than a bleeder in customs duties, and a weak plagiarism from the 'defunct and wretchedly unsound Continental system." A kw plagiarisms from Alan Bitrrn and frent alto Send commercial policy of this country ! wadi be amore solid service to Loris NAPOLEON in CINIM solidating his position than all the tariff wars—all the fetes, and all the elaborately prepared triumphal, itineraries that he can possibly copy from the bril liant original, from whose recorded acts he seems to derive his every rule of conduct and diplomacy. If he would copy a leaf from the political economist, he would prove an exception to the general rule ap plicable to imitations and imitators. mad it may earoguently be withdrawn Its. understanding daub' be sear to between tla two goismainta. There Y so dada bat ibutleiginamollil be led &Owe ea aka seriously ea tbe bid danaliaa ia *WI *sod bilassif, a tbs OZitel dammed Imparteat tawas ag ber m u se d allestal kg IL The s = a=na ad laa yam ated to IT . tepth ; Asa at art Ma vete 011: 1 : gulabda but It mast sot be appall that we wish sere in 1847, and that lbw la to lemma lry the a ss e ta glom to vat w e.., ealiaprinan paw isms asa eta i dent M show wait interest Solglan boo In obtaiglag Use I withdrawal ot a aurae ilia ea sorisady Masa ler alma industry. The Dant, nye cat the sem eel** t Thus Use Peary man& Wag the lailoparable ele ment of tutorial as well as miles),, whisk asastitute the stealth of northern Plane, the inereased duty with which they ire struck would essunse an eseressetew character of Callif it wan es be unartem, and NM ewe so if it used's Deigirite eater liar s wow et With. In sash ea neat levied. ea eithsr sib might le to an Wait the limit of which it Is dldaalt to foram. Let u hope that it will not be so, and that Belgium will uadentand that the exceptional favours extended to her by our tariff are well worth in return some concessions for our wines, Mika. ie., which would do no harm to her own industry. The Preen anticipates immediate reprisals on the part of the Belgian government. Belgium, it says, must be the greater sufferer of the two, as she has exported to France annually products to the amount of 177 millions of francs, whereas France exports to Belgium only to the amount of 134 millions ; but on the other hand the exports of French wines and other products for Belgium were annually increasing and this branch of French commerce will now be materially checked. To-day I observo a notable change in the view taken by the government papers of the merits of the Duke of Wellington. The Pays, after having in sisted that " the present epoch has furnished a gallery of European renown. of the sin of Wellington, seems to have received orders from head- nailer. to make the aniende honorable to the deceased hero. It now admits that England has lost a great captain and a great citizen ; but uses these tardy concesnons merely to usher in some questionable allegations concerning the favourable opinion which the Duke had formed of the government of tho 2nd of Do comber. The article is as follows: England has lost, in the person of the Date of Welling ton, a great captain, and a great citizen. It is for her to render homage to him memory ; and we honour, even in its exaggeration, that national sentiment which inspires in our neighbours that unanimity etregret and praises with lamb it surrounds the yet cps tomb et this ilkestrions Ma. la leaving to his country 11:70 1d r i ieneeiriat him and to history that of *0 smut which distinguished Ma es • , we shall only cell le miad a merit dna wee eel long carter, whist' le, Penal% bee baliewaLeal pit Nat the salutary Wasson whisk me Dag Of Wellognm swerebed in the wade of his aseelly with repot le Ile halo:elation.. Thal mh► ma of battle-dela egg se oodeled billet Pea any sae IP only eisellog ilidety pallA sell we oe media bias pa !al te M an sa he slowed himiN m every ommka Melt: pull= of to ire that ossall maiatabs =tte the Meeks, betema Immo and Thesobs* wee eimmolemoil gad in ititi the most osadems leolowlear, and he mese owed to age the meeklemble Maim, which he exassied over the Maim of hh sovemmeat and over pablie opinion, is eider to roam war games of dieseet which might wise be- tween the two oseablia. lingered with as seciasenj Pot and upright .dad, the Debi et Weinman fedlnl the actsof the 2nd Deeesslii se Wen hilt these ; and in hie unshakeable pal some, be has never le. dilated to ad andl e i re d lintkpliedekt, la Lade Napoleon. the saviour et oldie - as well as of beach society. Re lately debased lagliaalla firers Lemke In order to p MOM Fresh Embrey, and Ina In Eli 'ebb:sties of eat ale of the UP Amu" sad be wee hood to espies We wet thee It het aft aim_ le bin le propose Ile bids of the Ihtmo ltiaiese. The Dole of Wellington, him a eamaisaliess Iselin, rebid blown above hi ova memoirs. After herbs, wee the appossat of the lkegem, he knew how to admit in hi Yak MI @Mew aessoury lam, whom missies it would be so ispeedliste as ft weellibe MOM to shackle. to. drew to dad in the legitimist wpm, L'Union, the following panegyric of England's " =nice :" r lively and profound may be our legitimate esith• gable against England, we have never hesitated to nee& olio lie groat qualities which make our ancient rival ONO the Ilse astiOni in the world ; and we are among those who di& that is the mutual esteem which the two powerful =naturally enemies ' should have for one eke her, ity and courtesy, which honour bath weft, shavil be displayed. Now at this moment, we maw is diflaslop la gavot, that all Great Britain gives as alieilkuamil eatable spectacle, by the unanimity as seek lb op by lb, agitate of the embalmed, praises with which Ile epees the mina of one of Me meet illustrious dead et Let as plies odds the • flights of as t aill o ar ro sniffler te doe English solimm il V i t e p to we iting:t excusable la Iliseese. Therossomialbe most ed sow mad e. at unanimian iitteet mot sees. Poem the met of the coven 's to lba met mat Pep la Po sky ' • hew the elevated ewes et the ariseessery and of toryian, to the elm= pat e& et denseersey, there is only ana • seatiamst, posespia. This 11= 1 : im il selio,Z 11 ohm haw wash pails rids._ sod dimaimes oad wip i r i bLead ahem al Ist Lad it dem a* to rem* thet seep pained. Row many siatessma. hew we woke% beer ow ma of goatee, there an who lieetllmemed the memo MIK their fellow-citizens, in our may waft. who ham only rarely or lately obtained *Mai Tho end to gratitude which death Welt OS ed summend doewhem, the Duke of Weil.la sh leimismg sebe dories Ps long existence. lie lc= owe hem ames - lemeemWsea he. All the tithe mg Pet hoeiga ldeposeld esesed, all the dishes ime, Ilee= sad Pala that tbs semesohy sad the MON, have bees gwidipft bestowed =llls b• lames in the asneW vet even greater thee lie In the army. He saw statues erected to is reproducing him em Achilles, England made h demi a &sake,. Why ? Boo rmaegabsi to him mepai m r of wracksd akchlo, of bet hem es' let . h moo keie• laboolem ba , eat patient spirit, fun of hi kat elsohle mehteace, posilsoi before an, seeking the awed, bomeo. lima solely he the endessal grandeur, ping amp Milt eldest without Waft aside. sesolved to die at do pet sr Matnever dedelsfeg, heeling down all obles a ti by amine% by peree= y ofte s = o never discouraged. allowing im a, r lr s da. . lll " .l. o 4l ts. 47llfwessiiitgliNhis: ' =aziksZughend i? ia l. • us the idea of eeebee , g Ste welsh fe rm.Gcyre. and bee si bisiwy of oar dep. And yet awhile imesease the geseamm of a eillimea or a Milo so musk se the metre* of lis ag• ieweeke. The Deka of Wellington weed=sa to the awl aphis of mews times. That an will us& In belie jog. _lt is that swaged= Zaglaad oh. latilaa la kw oelhaelma she est se mash the lim” hissolle of the ammo of war es the ieetement el the ehleisee psi,/ whisk, after bevies three times reamed nee of s Zawpeaa coalition, alter baring r esisted the owipste • f the wield, faded by Weak, owe the =esiewon, and be Pa/ aft ilia ea the reek Sam ; Oda julep which, whoa freed hen nso hglihris wrawohy W Whisk it was for a time Ppm to aelsteoete meek its laws to the waive= gene& theethe Dohs of Wawa had she geed bream Yet to be ea aemegliee in the modal/awry smememes ef which Lied TaMmelea was the anti that he hid the let L= loam of ouppeetheg the omeadpodisa et selbelles, sat that at dr some - thee bo seholoil tbe demsenne a whom, Ilme s amdeg character in its no- BoV it swd onaservative features. We Ilea dm to soy, Pat is bseseZ =its, that Weiss me et their per r . Bet what seems te as l arisre woolly of sir masa In the asters of Pose =Menai psalm. Is the celner sag be the owesmun what is admire* above ell Woad the Mown h tbe sea of daty—daty towage his osealey, whit be smog alibeet ever MEW say. Oleg ew lie ewe sealitisa IP own mown— daty ammo the he of whisk ia dot amity of liberty awl appeals& he wee Ps art ihitisfel 'abject and the meet dielatwooled eseesellse—duty towards the old leolitudees ef hiseseafty. to whisk he bed kith, whisk be piled, whisk he delmiod, men at the pen his papelarity, and mew to the of me peke Mow* to the snub of the , wWilm asesped with the cold awl rchM Wm widish sousedd has to allow lie lattalleas to P r = duty pine and to eliegpow winsome 'meeting to Mime tom hem Phalle at whisk the y to Walt er to dig. This is what lapsed i=i ss a the D o h s of WeWagtea, sad met so the hobo of him who beide. served Ir i goTtle people who pen it es puha*. Wheel in prossees of thew analmeas possowdes homage., of this sessiemay pia eallswisem, we eansh day the Geodes Vaasa net of meth s in k tb, peed, the olowkameate of ear erastry, we ese &pod to eon it ems of eminent elsonworistios of hat rival, mod la hobs that wish we do lea set drapes. sad puiselms. Lie labia of ywiaary ~lag or: awlideteablp assepted by the goverment for the wan; legislative w o hich east te kite plan ea foenbe r Paris, aid M. Mask ermain 4rt, the mime of the Mayors of Paris- fer Ow Lease. 31. i wompleadetive • for the Ilksalt, Desmoot, ri ll e irte. =end for th e Puy-do - Dime, M. de Pemstier. It is that M. Cabias, Mayor of the Croix-Dewar, is Mee& eg hr the Rhine. If. Me mm, the last government candidato against Cleastal Cstaignas, has addressed a letter to the electors of the Olt cfjectoral circumscription, declining be Mead so e ar at the approaching election. The bet tusk lam Bordeaux to Angouldme car ded pirmakto as _the 20th. liLii.l4" osoft yesterday sent for the editors dose asyspipsrs ia Faris, and informed them that fke the future telegraphic despatches received by the government would be communicated to all the Jour without reference to their political opinimas. At Lyods several banners were displayed by the counianes bearing the old republican device of lilksirl/, Equality, and Fraternity," and the Gallic cock was ems much more frequently than the eagle. I This must not, however, be understood as indicative of any political demonstration, which certainly would not have been permitted. The communes brought out their old colours, having probably in many cases no others. Tho Prefect of the Haute-Oaronne, M. Chapsys Montlavelle, to prepare the inhabitants of his de partment for tho President's visit, has issued • pro clamation, which in its hyperbolic and nauseous adu lation transcends anything that can be imagined of the lower empire. It is the choicest specimen of Napoleon worship that I have yet seen. lie cells Louis Napoleon the hero of tho 2nd of December, raised by Providence, in one of those grand moments consecrated to mercy, for the salvation of French society. Warming with his subject, he proceeds to affirm that the genius of Louis Napoleon is universal and infinite, and all that is universal and infinite must come from on high. Alluding to the restoration of the cross upon the church of Ste. Gene vieve at Toulouse, he calk on the people to regard it as a sign of the ill of heaven, givinx a character to a new epoch, and pointing to and consecrating the chief destined to lead France happy and triumphant through the vast fields of the future. lie finishes with this rapturous burst : To the incense which will burn on your altars, to the chaunting of the hilly priests, and to the prayers of the faithful, will be joined the expansive joy of the people. Prepare, then, your holiday clothes, adorn yourselves with ribands and flowers, take laurel in your hands, and come to Toulouse, tho queen of cities, to curer with flowers, with laurels, and with benedictions , best and greatest Prince of our age. A letter from Marseilles, of the 20th, states that at six o'clock in the morning of that day, the fireworks preparing for the ?fete were destroyed by the acci ; dental explosion of a bomb. The roof of the work ; shop was blown off, and the building nearly shattered to pieces. Several persons were seriously . injured. The director of the manufactory, M. Camoms, is not . expected to survive. It is thought that there will • not be time to prepare fresh fireworks for the fdto ; getting up for the Prince President. BELGIUM. FRANCE. PARIS, THCBADAY EVLNINCI. It appars from the latest telegraphic despatches received at the Ministry of the interior an hour ago, that the President left Grenoble at eight this morn- , ing, escorted by . an immense crowd of the:population, both of the capital of the lucre and the surrounding districts. The President, after traversing 'eve. ral towns whore he was received with the usual demonstrations, stopped, at four this afternoon, some minutes a t St. Romans. He then proceeded to Valence, where he was received with the pealing of bells, and other honorific manifestations already used at the preceding halts. The cries of "Vice l'Empe reur! , were louder and more general than ever, and in the midst of an immense crowd the Prince made his way through the principal street to the prefec ture. Since the speech at Lyons the idea of the = has assumed a more palpable form than People have long seen it coming, but they now sl as if it had strived. M. de Persigny returned vestcrday evening to Paris, where he has resumed has duties at the Ministry of the Interior. Owing . to the shortness of hui absence there has been no interim. The President, on presenting a bracelet to the Countess de Ouyot, the wife of the Prefect at Mon. line, said that he preferred presenting it at that mo ment instead of the next day, that he might have the pleasure of seeing her wear it at the belL Seek anecdotes are repeated gravely. To what degrader tiro is the press fallen , . The Journal dos Cher says: Reports are current at Banes that a criminal attempt as the life of the Prince President was to hats been made at Kadin', mad that the authors of the scheme had been • arrested. From inhumation which we bare obtained, we L can my that them rumours were entirely unfounded. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose 33, and closed at 10.1.60; the Threes rose 20, and closed at 78. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The following article in the Cluistifutiosnel con tainsexplimatious with regard to the important aug mentation in the import duties on Belgian coal and cast iron: Tit gemenmemS Wag 11•Nbies • deers* rekbag the duty en lefties Seel efew Mem 1, hen 16 ie ■ Ns- Um, awl IS Disiesires bun IL es 61. the Meisel gads- Bw elowsweikes see sesserry ee swab Ihe isa cotthis aerie. Is the fret flees it mot be emir thin Me treaty ef 1045 did set Wiwi di Me shmesses whist Press. pasted se MOM feehelleb Ms% seetsitisseadin the agleam ef - theteway. ire euileusti le the ailsgemi el me The essi id Mee )elms bus = paid My 16 maim per Motel, Mil *Oh subject es the Nest of the Chews' he a liefarea ess. Mu. M with Nips* le /we bee, whiskies aimiNsi el 4t, while Memilit was moiled le Fey II We hid pad row" this, le dela bus Belgium mesa eMelijes rams for these IBM* we testisued to pet bee apes seal wei ism. This was Me Males of the gewsmine, _whisk issieted. it is mid. Ore Ulla awl wises @Mil maim te be adslOM te the Ni Med dat ls y stipulelel le the Issety of 11166, awl wbY isoseeese at mesa applieshie to the ealle ela limed the Zelleersia. lisightes est having esseisil le Ile 11w , =r oa st WA laving Wald difwbir whisb am be leasseestemmust to a selheei, ear jpemmeet Ihsett y take as The stimilei the Miss se apes . . i dealrn awl Ms. The misses k whiskies gessemud bee Mei met le se. Ist the psist of view if eseamise inrer = twe mass of resehiss Mika =Ms Miss es B4ith mi. to mini these es The molt would have hen tbe sem se ihr es eves& MUM. Ms by bilk asses the Mow peed to has prelude waif be reuunsi. It wet list be for that the Chamber of Canueeree of Rouen ra t stawn up antral petitions in favour of the for. mgr mans—that L to say, of lowering the duty on English coil to the same rate as on Belgian, and fears might have been entertained that such a course would be followed. The government, however, on this or:cadets hu shown that it does not Wend to depart from the p rotection given to maternal labour. It has not lowered the duties on Eng lish esal, which would have dealt a dieutrous blow to our soul miss ; it has, on the contrary, increased the duties on Belem coal; Mailed of decreasing protection it has swasjahmed it. We think it the more useful to thus lioreseeries the resolution adopted by the government, as it elalefle is sous way the declarations' which it has recently frM hi favour of the protective regime, and that it is of • sesame m trewpdHiss the minds of those who have been readessi wens, by lying reports. The decree, more Me over, Me act pso far es might be infer red from the note pubiliwl by the official journal. It would, in fact melt beet that note that Belgian coal and ant-iri s Mee to have been replaced under the geared Ode ne Belgian coal still preserves a real ad vents's. The duty is, it is true, only 30e. on the comet of the Atlantic, but it is 50e. on the mama the Channel, and it is there that Belgian coal comes intocompetition with the English. Thus in the part of Frame where the two pro ductions come into contact, the English sod will pay a duty of 50c., while the Belgian will be admitted with a duty of 30c. Hems it follows that Belgium will still have an ad vantage over England. This inerease of duties cannot, however, be regarded u definitive. It has been caused by a refusal to satisfy the demands of the Preach government, ITALY. Wo have received amounts from Rome," says the DEW', •, to the 14th. A long interview which Sir Henry Bulwer had, a few days since, with the Cardinal Secretary of State, is the subject of general conversation. The following is, according to thu reports current in the political world, the substance of what took place. The first subject talked of was the maintenance of friendly relations between the two governments, relations which had been some what compromised on the ono side by the introduc tion of the Roman Episcopal hierarch into England, and by the prosecution of Mr. Murray, and on the other by several recent legislative measures and by the trial of Dr. AchillL In order to establish a vod understanding for the future, the envoy of Lord Derby is said to have suggested whether it would not be well to accredit at Rome an agent with a higher title than that of consul, for instance, an ordi nary minister. To that suggestion, the answer is said to have been, that the time for discussing that question would be when a Papal Nuncio should be admitted at London, and that, as far as regarded Mr. Freeborn personally, the Pontifical government, by not removing from him its exequatur, showed very clearly that the recall or the maintenance of that agent was a matter of indifference to it. As to the communication of the documents relative to the affair of Murray, which Sir Henry Bulwer is said to have demanded, the reply of the Cardinal Secre tary was, it is reported, peremptory and clearly given, by a awn possum. It is even pretended that be said, ' a judgment has just been given in England, which has astonished and afflicted us. But, notwithstanding these feelings, wo will not call in question the decision in that affair, pronounced by the legally instituted justice of a regular government, master of its penal legislation. We aro also a regu lar government. We have our penal legislation, which differs from yours, but which is sanctioned by the Prince, applied for many years iu the country, and working according to rules the justification of which wo do not admit any government to have a right to demand from us. Murray has fallen under that penalty. It was regularly applied to him according to the forms usual in these proceedings. To demand the communication of the documents of his trial would be equivalent to a suspicion of the judgment not being correct, a suspicion which would become an insult for Roman justice, and fur the state which has confided to it the honour, the property, and tho lives of its subjects. This insult, therefore, we reject, without even wishing to combat it, and we will not establish a dangerous precedent by coin municating to you the documents you demand. Once more, I repeat, the affair has been decided, and the judgment legally pronounced.' The conversation is said to have afterwards turned on subjects of secondary interest, such as a few words on railways, and some insinuations on the deplorable state of Ire land, after which an end was put to this painful interview. Satisfaction is generally felt at Rome at the issue of the affair, and the turn which the matter has taken." GERMANY. THE ZOLLVEREIN. The Officio/ New Munich Gazette asserts that the coalition will renew its demand for the conclusion of a treaty with Austria, simultaneously with the re newal of the Zollverein, and that on the reception of this declaration in Berlin will depend whether this be the last word in the affair. SPAIN. The Madrid Oa:. tie, of the 18th, publishes an article on the death of the Duke of Wellington, in which it is said that Spain should participate in the sorrow of England, and that in the Duke the English army has lost its greatest glory, and the Spanish army a distinguished general. PORTUGAL. Our Lisbon correspondent, writing on September 19, says : Mr. Ilislop arrived by the last packet with several en gineers to make the necessary surveys and plans relative to the contemplated railroad to the Spanish frontier. The line is the Central Peninsular Railroad of Portugal, and not (as published in some papers) the Northern line of railroad, the latter having been decreed on the 30th ult. The com pany is a provisional one, and must carry out the contract within four months at the latest from the date of the con cession. The French war steamer Heron sailed on the I Ith, on which day the Barracouta, British war steamer, came in from Madeira, and sailed again on the 14th. On the latter day the war steamer Petrel came in from ltochfort. On the 13th Le Newton sailed. State of the Treaury for the month of August :—The former balance, together with the amount received in the month, 'mounted to 701,027,343 Tele., and the payments to 594,225,955. Among the receipts were, from the Custom house, 180,736,973 rms.; the Sete Cuss, 69,108,038; duties on grain, 13,756,660; Mint (stamp duties), 13,415,868; and post .office 11,011,822 reis. Among the payments were 18,000,000 rein. to the Junta do Credito Publico, monthly instalment for the amortisation of bank notes, and 86,430,16.5 reis on account of its consignations; besides the payments, 17,000,000 in papers of credit entered into circulation, and 2,025,000 reis in treasury billets were received by the ens tom-house and Sete: Cuas for amortisation. Rio de Janeiro is declared infected with yellow fever. I regret to say that the agitation in the wine district still continues, which fears and uncertainties rather tend to increase than diminish. Exchange, 54. Discount on Lisbon Bank notes, 21 per cent. INUNDATION OF THE RHINE. Letters and newspapers from Alsace are filled with accounts of danger and devastation produced by the overflowing of the Rhine. A telegraphic despatch dated Strasburg, Sept. 22, says: The whole plain comprised between the Rhine and the strategic road is one immense lake. In each village a cer tain number of houses have been swept away ; but the inhabitants have been saved and sheltered. TM most dangerous point is Rhinan, where the Rhine has formed a breach of 160 metre', by which a very river precipitates itself into our plains. We work at the dyke, but the trans port of materials is very difficult. I (the prefect) have organised in each chef lieu els canton a service of distribution of succour, comprising each a group of submerged villages. The waters are subsiding everywhere. Despatches received in Paris on Wednesday state that no resistance was any longer possible where the dykes had been broken down. Sixteen villages in the department of the Bas-Rhin aro inundated, and all the plain round Strasburg is under water. Every means of rendering assistance has been organised under the direction of the engineers, the prefect, and Den. Andrg, who commands the division. The core- 1 mune' on the banks of the Rhino in tho arrondisse ment of Wisaembourg, warned by the authorities of the inundation with which they were threatened, had time to remove a pert of their crops from the low grounds. The garrison of Lauterbourg rendered material assistance not only in the neighbourhood of that town, but even rt Berg (Havana). 'lle last accounts from Lauterbourg announce that the two first dykes were overflowed by tho water, but that the third had been strengthened, and from its height appeared likely to be able to protect the parts of the couo near it. Between Lauterbourg and Berg the plain formed an immense lake. As soon as the accounts of the misfortunes caused by the inundations of the Rhine reached the Minister of the Interior, he placed at tho disposal of the Pre-' fects of the Haut et Has Rhin a sum of 18,000 f., to be divided between the two departments for the re lief of the sufferers. 'l'ho Minister has also requested the Prefects to visit the inundated localities, in order to advise on tho measures to be adopted for the re lief of the inhabitants, and to give them the assur ance of the personal sympathy of the Prince Presi dent and of his government in their sufferings. The Minister 9t Public 'Works has also adopted all the measures revired by circumstances, and has placed at the disposal of the Prefects the necessary credits to provide for the rent urgent wants. a st rßs rg paper, of the 21st inst., sa ' y l e 'h : e spite A:arieiof all the precautions taken at R ' hinan and all the effort" made to ma i ntain the embankment, hod risen to a prodi lisni' ok , the river, which : gious height, rushed with such I.`nectuosity against the defensive works that during the night of the 19th it broke them down at three diff....7cut points, and the waters precipitated themselves witit unheard of violence upon the plain, submerging and &grey ing everything they found in their way. Very soon, throughout the whole distance from the upper boundary of the Bas-!thin up towards Stras burg, the country between the Rhino and the canal from the Rhone to that river, Was nothing but one immense lake, in which only a few points of land were visible. It was a piteous sight to eke in the different villages, as, for instance, at La Krafft, at Gerstheim at Obenheim, and at ft zheim, the wretched inhabitants &a of the lower parts of those communes seeking refuge for themselves, their cattle, and their horses upon the high lands, and bivouacking upon the public reads, with the fear of luiviug to seek a new refuge further otf. From Sunday, towards nine o'clock in the evening, six small houses have been overturned at Gerstheim; at Obenthcim there have been as many ; and at Booftlzheint five already. The river continued to increase with frightful rapidity, and the ravages will be very considerable. More than half the houses had become uninhabitable, and everywhere ruin seemed imminent. But all this is no thing, in comparison with the disasters that have been experieneed by the little com mune of Daubensand, all the inhabitants of which, without exception, have had to flee Mr safety to the neighbouring communes; it is nothing com pared with the ruin of the great commune of libitum which counts a population of 1,562 Heels, and from which the communications have been cut elf. This misfortune has been caused by the breaks of the embankments which defended the commune. The breach at Robertsau is of the size of 100 metres ; but the waters have found a considerable vent by an old arm el the 111. Workmen are busily employed in repairing the injured dyke. During the night of the 20th the embankment of the Kohigiesen on the heights (,1 Drusenheim was in part sub merged, and the waters made their first irruption upon the country below Strasburg. This accident was contrary to all anticipations, and in spite of every precaution taken Mr its prevention. The whole village of Dalhausen and its env irons nre under water, and the inhabitants have had to take refuge at Drusenheim. The lower portions of the environs of Strasburg arc almost completely sub merged. The waters of the 111, which were yesterday morning near the mills up to 2 metres, have risen this morning (Tuesday) to 4 metres. The Rhine, on the contrary, continues to lower sensibly. This morning it stood at 3 metres 80 centimetres, that is to say, it has decreased 74 centimetres since yes terday. We have reason to dread that we shall hear of frightful misfortunes in the Haut-Rhin. Upon the whole extent of the left bank, from Bile to Marckolsheim, the floods have overflowed the em bankments, and hare inundated the country. More than twenty communes arc under water, and have suffered the same disasters as in the Bas-!thin. At the same time there is no case of a rupture like that at Rhinau ; the waters having simply overflowed, and without the damage, which has been caused by currents like that which has been admitted by the giving way of the embankments. The meadow country on both sides the 111, however, has had to deplore immense losses. INCREASED DUTIES ON COAL AND IRON. The Belgian Mwwteur has the following remarks upon Louis Napoleon's decree imposing additional duties on Belgian coals and iron : „A decree of the President of the French Repub lie has just augmented the duty on coals and iron entering France by the Belgian frontier. In signing the treaty of August 22, the Belgian government was far from expecting that a measure of this cha racter would so soon succeed an arrangement which, according to the terms of its preamble, was intended to confirm and consolidate the g ood relations sub sisting between the two countries. The Belgian Legislative Chamber will meet in a few days. In Lying the whole of the negotiations before the base, the government will explain the line of conduct which it has followed in presence of the exigencies which have lately arisen." The Ministerial Independence says: "To the note, of the Illosikier we are able to add the following explanations. The convention of December 13, 1843, It is known, was to expire August 10, 1832. From the commencement of the year 1861 the Belgian government opened prelimi em.y negotiations with the French government sr the conclusion of a new commercial arrange ment: its starting point was this, that if the braes of the convention of 1843 were to be re-adopted, a compensation was due to Belgium on account of the notable diminution which had taken place in the importation of yarn and tie sues of Belgian flax into France, a diminution wbbili contrasted with the considerable immune passmial by the importation into Belgium of French palms to which admission on favourable terms was aimed the convention. The Belgian government that this compensation should bo given by preference to the linen manufacture itself by means of a now reduction of duties. It expressed the formal desire that the convention should expressly guarantee the limintenance of the French tariff for coals and iron, and finally, without speaking of the other points, the government declared itself ready at the wish often manifested by the French cabinet with respect to the international acknowledgment of literary and artistic property, supposing that the conditions should be such as Belgium could accept. The pre liminary negotiations were commenced in 1851 in writ ing; they were continued from February, 1852, in verbal conferences. The negotiation Ism pursued as far as to July, and on the 9th of that month the members of the cabinet offered their resignation to the King. This event was immix dlately brought to the knowledge of the French government, to whom it was proposed at the some time to prolong the convention to the end of the year, in order that the new cabinet might possess the entire question, and determine it in full liberty. The French cabinet rejected this proposition, which , to a great extent, from facts which should tC p s e li k retluded any objection : it declared that it would hear of no prorogation, even for a single day, unless the Belgian government would at once consent to sign a literary and also a customs' convention. It is needless to say this demand was absolutely rejected. " At a subsequent period the French governmr - desisted from one of these two conditions, and the immediate signature of the literary convention alone wan ismaaded. Every one must perceive that for the mks of obtaining the simple prolongation of the seenantisa of 1841 for a few months, the Belgian not grant a concession of this Modelly no guarantee of the defini tive hems ot the negotiation were to be given. The negotiations continued for several months. en the ground of prorogation, when, in consequence of bolo which will, doubtless, bo laid before the Chas- Um. the cabinet found itself , authorised to beet for a dellnitive arrangement. Four several combinations were then pmmmmated for the consideration of the French ; two of these had for their basis the renewal of the convention of 1845, which it was pro. pod shwa 'militia° in force until January, 1863. The ether two constituted a final solution of the whet question. The one combination re-produced the elements sf the convention of 1813, with the exception that Belgium should resume the concession relative to woollens, to compensate for the considerable reductions of its exports of fax products; on the other hand, the government offered to give up the reprinting of French literary works, demanding, at Ye time, a guarantee on the subject of coals. The mood =tabulation presented by Belgium was limited to soo• stipulations concerning the literary qessties, with certain indemnities to Belgium, and was especially to form the pledge of continued go h o e d relation between the two countries. French government was invited to choose freely between the four propositions, each of which excluded the other, anl it pronounced in favour of the fourth, the object of which is expressly stated in the words of the preamble " to ammo and consolidate the good relations subsisting between the two countries." From the manner in which this agreement was made, it resulted that Belgium was loft entirely at libe rty to resume or decline negotia tions for an ulterior arrangement : in any ass, after signing the convention of August 22, the idea of reviewing the convention of 1845 in its original form could never have been present to the minds el the Belgian government. " However, in spite of all the grounds which the government had to feel assured as to the future et the commercial relations between the two coun tries, a fortnight had scarcely elapsed from the con clusion of the convention of August, when it received ma invitation, almost comminatory, to reanimate im esdiately the convention of 1843, and this with no modification whatever, except to open an ulterior negotiation. The Belgian government was at the mine time warned that unless it obeyed this injunc den the French tariff would bo modified to the eliellivantage of our coals and iron. "We Love it to our renders to judge whether this proceeding can be reconciled with the charastcr of l ets convention of Aug. 22. It tends to rob Belgium of the moral advantage of that arrangement, while France preserves its conquest, and reopens before us the unknown path of a new negotiation. The French proposition, apart from its intrinsic evil, strikes at One fundamental pact, which does not give our government the right to cancel or institute I treaties of commerce without the mei/crone of the legislature. For this reason the cabinet rejected the propositions which were made to it. Willing, however, to persevere in the way of conciliation the cabinet expressed its readiness to .i fe i within twenty four hours a convention on the bans of the third of the foregoing combinations. But the French go vernment maintaining its proposition, refused to dis cuss anything which departed from it, and only re laxed its demands by allowing the Belgian Chambers an opportunity of discussing the convention, requir ing at the same time that they should be convoked with the least possible delay. In presence of such demands the Belgian government could only refer to its anterior resolutions, and thereupon appeared the threatened decree in the French Muniteur:' Vbe Court. BALMORAL, SiPT. Mar Majesty drove, yesterday, in the open car riage, towards Gairnshiel. Prince Albert went out deer-stalking. The Earl of Derby left Balmoral yesterday. for England. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Balmoral yesterday, and will remain on a visit to her Majesty. In consequence of the lamented death of the Duke of Wellington, her Majesty and the royal household have gone into mourning for a week, from this day. A deputation of the Metropolitan Commiselbners of Sewers, consisting of Mr. Jebb (chairman), Sir John Sur- Boyne, Major Dawson, Captain Vetch, Mr. limiting, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Spencer Smith, and Mr. Ilawkshaw, with Mr. Woolrych (secretary), had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home•oflice. Lieut.-Colonel Waldo Sibthorp had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday. Despatches were received at the Colonial.ofllce yesterday, from the Governors of the West India Islands, and from the Governor of St. Helena. Despatches were sent yester day to the Governor of Sierra Leone and the Ouveraor of the Gambia. DISASTER AT SEA, Tho schooner President Jeremie, lying in this port, got under weigh on Friday morning last fur St. Vin cent, but hail only got as far as opposite the Five Islands (a few miles from the anchorage ground of Port of Spain), when en accident of a most unusual and very terrifying nature occurred to her. The muter of the vessel had ob served some threatening weather coming on, and hail prudently taken in all sail, when he addilenly found his vessel enveloped in the vort:a of what is commonly known as • water speuto—of water, how ever, ho saw none ; but of the wind—or whirl wind—more than In all probability he would like to see again, or seeing, be lucky enough to survive to tell the tale. His little vessel, as ho describe, it, was carried down into a kind of well (or vertex), and there thrown on her beam-ends. She recovered her position; was again thrown down in the same way, recovered herklf a third time, and was a third time prostrated. In the court, of these throe upsets, 7of the 11 persons on board were thrown off the deck into the water ; the master himself was thrown over board a second time, after once getting on board out of th e Torte:. Finally, the whirlwind passed over, and of the seven overboard, five ascended in getting on board again, but two, unfor tunately, were drowned—they were both sailors of the vessel. One oldie two men drowned was an elderly min. A passenger, who was supporting himself by a hencoop he had been lucky enough to fi nd floating about, ga ll antly gave it up to him, seening his age and infirmity, and swam off to a watercuk floating at a greater distance; but the poor man could not keep his hold of the coop, and was drowned. The other man who perished was not seen from the moment he fell from the deck into the sea. The deck cargo fell or was swept overboard, the long boat was partially Moved in, and the mainsail, although it had been previously lowered, was much rent. The vessel returned to town to report and repair damage, and sailed again on Sunday. A brigantine coming into hairier very narrowly escaped being involved in the same catastrophe.—Port of Spain (Trinidad) Gazette. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday last a coroner's inquest was held at the Swan Inn, before Alexander Cuth bertson, Em., touching the death of Thomas Thomas, labourer, aged -19, who was unfortunately deprived of life under mreumstances singularly painful and horrifying. From the evidence adduced before the coroner sad jury, it would appear that the deceased, together with a lam named John Sullivan, was at work on the day preceding, at the Maesteg Iron Works, and was engaged in tilling black band in a calcined state from a " clamp," preparatory to its being conveyed to the blast furnaces. The two men had just completed the process of " driving the piles," a kind of massive iron wedge, down into the clamps by means of sledge hammers, for the purpose of separating the molten ore, and were, at the moment of the accident, engaged with a large iron Isar in detaching portions of the cre, which often consists of solid lunips of several tons weight. and which having succeeded in effecting, they Beth unfortu nately lost their footing, and were in an instant precipitated ,into the burning chasm, between the clamp and the lump which had just separated from it. Sullivan succeeded in making his escape, severely, though not dangerously , huger , ; while nil less fortunate companion was iu the space of a Tew minutes literally roasted alive, the smoke and sulphur ren dering it impossible to know the precise spot where ho lay, until the devouring element had effectually done its work. The charred remains of the deceased, who but a few minutes previously had so vigorously wielded the ponderous iron sledge, were eventually taken out of the tire by means of a coker's " rabble." Verdict, "Accidental death." Deceased was a man of good character, and wm a consistent member of the Calvinistic Methodist Society.—Sicanse.l Herald. THE SVLTAX, Captain Brooks, Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Lyster, arrived at Southampton yesterday, with the heavy portion of the India Mail. Iler dates were— Alexander, Sept. 9, Malta 13, Gibraltar 18. She brought 86 passengers, and the largest and most valuable cargo of hale goods ever brought to Southampton. In addition to her own cargo, she brought the valuable freight of silks conveyed by the Erin from Bombay to Sues, and which missed the last Alexandrian steamer from not arriving at Sues in time. On board the Sultan there were 2,245 bales and boxes of ailk, 9 bolos of wool, 26 cases of shawls. 62 packages coe of an e d l , e3 , l 2 linta'eeth 03i16gebnoexes ral m ocra ci i i s a i n ns d , i, l e 6S Ix: railway across the packages gyptian Desert was progressing tapidty —everyman from the army and fleet was sent to assist. It was feared that the Austrian 'team-packet Australia, bound from Trieste to Alexandria, was lost. ~in Au,st,rian baiE of war bad been lent is scorch at her. and char 1/113 root at a Min heal had in tl plim Linn war• font the 1 it • via( conj the It imp of t mad ton Eori grey rim twig caul dial' win diffi whi ads wu said the DO. 'Cr' deb 11111 Lor tior Cit mei stn tha nbl4 ;le in' pre of t the coo Cit pul frit can tell intl Pt+ tur gre ma to hit see set ma the it I aid to, '1%"4 (L 4 TeC tha aid Po , nc, thi It of tit oh, oh, wra C L.• in L. rr b. Ls 10 it It tt of ;1 to ks at a {to he 1' It nd of I TII Ye ou sly calm eorPo ie the she :he c' late I