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TO CORRESPONDENTS. drertisnanita Intended kw •' The Express," London Erasing pope; vaunt be tbe office, 10, nouVarinbinreM, ►) Teo .'dart on the day et publication. 111011 WATER AT LONDON ERTDGI Trt. Dki—blernanf. 6S. i115..........Aftern00n, ;b. I Imo. To4f unow—lllarning. 7b. Wm. .....Afterooon, WA. IS. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. Iv ever chief or sovereign had an excuse for quarrel ing with and defyieg a body of troublesome cennsel• lore, imiwesed upon him by the state, LOUIS NAPOLEON has certainly that excuse; for never, esrtainly, were a set of politicians so inveterate, and impracticable, and inconsistent, so unable to sgree amongst them *elver or govern by thi motives, and yet at the same time so determined to let no one else govern, as that cola c' ion of totables who constitute the par:earner tar; majority in Paris, and who are and were the leaders of opinion in influential and general society. 'lbis knot of politicians lent their utmost efforts to placing Lows Neeoetos where he is. They did so avowedly in their own interest,. For, first of ell, they offered the presidency to General teveweaC, and w( uld have supported and carried his election, setting at the same time Lows Neewetoe aside, had General eAVAIGNAC consented to conditions, and given assurance" that he would govern by the advice of the professional politicians, and not by the counsels of republeane, however m•vderate. General revale• NAP woul make no such promise, and the parliamen tary notable-. flung their influence into ,the scale of Louie Nerettroe. What has he done since to disoblige them? He offend them the government personally if they would have it; hut M. BERRTER, the legitimist, and M. Tutus, the Grleanist, could not in decency be minis ter, t the republic. Tney not socering, Louis NA V.. 1 gave office and power to men most accept able in these parliamentary magnates, whilst his policy, f (reign and domestic, has been in direct ae corditece with the most retrograde and ultra-conserva tive policy. The preen has been pot under severer reetreeion than in the time of Lusts PHILIPPE its orgars of any spirit ruined by fine, their editors by proscription aid imprisonment, whilst even the conservative press his been rednetd to nul lity by the individual signature. The popular ▪ ..as teen crippled Go vi at least one third of the voters. Education has been given op to the clergy, arid everything that EL, poS sibls done to deste y municipal independence. In foreign policy Lowe NAPOLEON consented to sUow his generals to play the part of Heyteu in Italy. crashing the last veviges of liberty, constitutional or unconstitutional, whilst in German politics the French cabinet has with little variation abetted the design* of Austria and Ramie. To please these same parliamentary notables, Louts NeroLnos's ministers joined the cabal last year against Lord I'ALMERSTON, and Ors 3 ear against Prussia. Such • complete mono poly of power could never have been wielded by the alts ieid rusts under ar y morarchv, any minis try, or any other form of eoverament. And yet they are higliir dissatisfied with Louis Nerohlox. Lows PHILIPPE would give the BARSOTS the MOLES, and the Till ensee no power at all, and they roused the people to overthrow him and the monarchy too. During the last two years Louts NAPOLEON has given them all power. And yet they treat him with the same c interne ly as Louis Filthier!, and are jest as eagi r rind inveterate in getting op =termedc forces to destroy him. The fact is, that however amenable Lows NAPO LEON has been in his policy, the more the political notahles harm of him, t ,e lees they would like hints a master. Foe were he completely master, they are sot the minister, to whom Le would trust power, or giro mobil' nee. There is a dash of the' libertine and the adventurer about hint, that leads him to enjoy other compsoions than sack • pundit as 'el. Deem. And were the great miltory and fiscal resources of such an empire as Frame in the bards of Louie Nerotene, there is se knowing or imagining what he might or might sot do with them. Bot this is the great defect of monarchy founded ors military ircitutions. In a purely civilian monarchy like oar owe, the sovereign is inevitably and neces sarily in the hands of smelt parliamentary notables as those we speak of in France. But in • military monarchy or a military republic, those forms of go vernment which have now b:come the fashion, and which prevail in Europe, and which the French notable* have so strenuously end( avoured to establish, civilian coussellors in reality go for little. What need Lows NAPOLEON care (or M. Tutees, Of the King of PRUSSIA for Herr MANTRUPPEL, or his young Majesty of AUSTRIA for liter BACH, Mt even Prince Beerweaeeensac? The real weight his with the RAIIET:4I,P4, the WRVIGELI, and the CHAROARNIERS. The army has taken the place of the people in these sew monarchies and new republics. Real power I. is the camp, and in the opinions of the camp. Up to this moment the soldiers throughout Europe have behaved, as a body, with great modesty and foe hearancre. Whatever brutality bus been committed, has bees is consequence of the orders of the monarchic' generals. But the soldiers, as a body, in or out of France, have shown a most praiseworthy moderation to support the government of the time being, do its bidding, and in nowise take management or influ ence into their own hands. That this forbearance of the military will last very long, we do not believe. Those who rally possum power soon come to be conscious of it ; and if slug gish in thin respect, there are abundance of in terested and cunning persons to tell them. The most unwise thing, however, that civilians could do would be to inform the army, prepensely and openly, that they are the people and the source of power, and that to them is to be made the great appeal. Now this, unfortunately, is what the French Na tional Assembly is ab nit to do in quarrelling with the PRESIDENT, and erseing a military standard, for so they threaten, against him. Loris NAPOLEON, SS we have shown, has been in reality as amenable as the parliament could desire, or ought to expect. He has rendered his policy subset vitnt to them, and has sacrificed his character and popularity by that sub serviency. And yet, notwithstanding this, the As sembly, full of mistrust, refuses the PRESIDENT the mili tary command even in the capital. Because he objects to such • slur upon his dignity, the Assembly resolve to refuse him the same memos they motet last year. Of course Louts NAPOLEON rebels. He sees that all hisobsequiousnew has not earned for him either trait or gratitude us the part of the Assembly. It was not to be expected that he should hold such a place, petaet deters to prolong his power, or be re eiscted it. It wse not in human nature that he, a BONAPARTE, should not have ambition of the kind, THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1851. and should not take all fair and legal steps to gratify it. In favouring his election the parliamentary notables must have foresees that he would act so, and by now quarrelling with his on that accoust they are really guilty of enthroning and elevating a pre sident for the selfish interests of the moment, which they must have determined to oppose and to put down later. By such policy as this, the pulls watery notables profusely sowed the _meds of civil war. And as they @Laced Loins Yfiturri: and his dynasty to their selfish vanity, so they are now doing the same with Loots NAPO LEON, throwing the country at both epochs and for both muses into convulsion and syncope. TM men who do this strike as as the most guilty and most foolish personages in all history. They have forced Lotus NAPOLEON into a position from which there is no issue rave in his destroying the Assembly or the Assembly destroying him. Whilst as the only mode of solution, different corps of the army will be called into play, ranged perhaps on different sides, under hosti:e cost menders, and even, if they do not fight, called to de cide according to their political predilections as to which shall preponoorate, the legislative or executive power. The idea of a party, professing to be chsm pions of order, awakening Bush antagonisms and appealing to such suffrages and such °hunts as these, is indeed • more monstrous act of folly than even French politicians have yet committed throughout their loos career of inconsistency and absurdity. THE Reverend the Exl of GUILFORD (the son, as our readers know, of a former Bishop of Winchester) has at last, in the ripenws of his years and the ful ness of his puree, yielded to that public opinion which he so long disre4arded and once 53 signally braved : an example of the most flagrant nepotism that ever degraded a protestant, and almost rivalling the greater enormities of the itomish church, and of the proving morality and earnest spirit of our times. Some years ago Lord GUILFORD resigned a canonry in the cathedral church of his episcopal parent; in September last he denuded himself of the three livings united for the benefit of bishops' sons in the benefice commonly called Alresford; in November he shed the great parish of St. Mary's Southampton ; and now, of all the profitable patronage show ered upon him by his lather, the Bishop, the old Earl only retains the Mastership of St. Cress ; attached to which is an information in the Court of Chancery at the suit of the Attorney-General, insti tuted on an Address to the QUEEN by the Hoene of Commons ; and it threatens to deprive him of some part of the wealth he has for forty years derived trom that Foundation; reformed in vain by as great a man and as resolute a reformer as England ever knew—WILLIAM OF WYREUAM. What time, they were when bishops could benefize on benefice accumulate on their sons! When the PRETTMANS and the NURTUS were the bu-sing and shining lights of a church with each pretensions as that of Ecgland ; when governments defended, and parliament sanctioned such acts and such men; when the gentry of England could see nothing wrong but everything right in such administration of patronage; when honest men who doubted its propriety were denounced as Jacobins and radicals; and when old GEORGIE ROSR used to throw a halo of sanctity about such transactions by talking, in connexion with them, of " the blessed comforts of our holy religion, sad the gloomy despair ct Atheism !" They have gone, however. Lord GUILFORD Was, perhaps, their last relic. With his resignations of Alreaford and S. Mary's, the coarse unscrupulous insolent nepotism of English bishops has finally expired. It is dead and buried, never to rise again. And for its destruction we can't be too thank ful ; for in times past its leaven leavened all our bread; its corruption tainted everything. There is hope sad health and strength for • nation that casts off such gangrene and decay. Bat, though this grosser episcopal nepotism has given way before the progress of public morality, let it not be supposed that nepotism of a more delicate and refined sort, of an order more inoffensive and less material, less of the earth earthy, is also extinct. No, it exists, and is more or less to be seen in every episcopal family in the kingdom ; adapting and conforming itself to the better sense of respo:monlity now current in sod recognised by society; pleasant, agraable, sociable, moderate, yet suf ficient. Bishops woe are no longer fat pluralists—that the law forbi&--that public opinion won't tolerate; bat jest as in these hard times the younger eons of aristocratic holm, may be seen picking up small appointments, from thit of Serjeant-at-Arms to Queen's Messengers • so bishops' sons may, in modest detail, be observed d ropping into substantial beta fiefs and first rate parsonage housee. Low prices have brought down these people's pretension!. Look, for example, at Alresford. There, as we have said, Lord GUILFORD held united three livings ;- 1. Old Alrosford, worth about tioo/. a year, with one of the best parsonages in England; 2. New Alreaford, 2,7•01.; and 3. Medeted, 6001. a year. From time whereof, as lawyers say, the memory of man rur.neth not to the contrary, these three conjoint livings have always been held by area, or sons-in-law of the 11:shops of Winton. In these times, however, such an union was no longer possible. So, on their vacancy, Bishop SumwEll has instituted three incumbents to the three benefices; uniewhat equalising the revenues of New Alredord and Medsted. But the precedent for Old Alresford having • bishop's son as its rector was too strong to be disregarded; and to it, its 8004 a year, its excellent parsonage, and its 600 inhabitants, Bishop Semmes has presented his son GEORGE; a young gentleman of very small pastoral experience, bat otherwise very well fitted for a large house, a good income and little duty. To another of these livings, and to one that required an experienced clergyman, he has presented a still younger ezelesi aerie who is believed to be a connexion in some way or other with the fortunate family of SUMNER; but the third, by way of compensation, he has bestowed on a gentleman qualified by previous training. Now, in this bestowal of these three liviLgs, there is nothing positively scandalous; but there isjust as mach nepotism and disregard of the real wants of two of the parishes as society will endure. There is nothing in this exercise of episeopal patronage that lay patrons having rich family livings can derive a good example from. It is very possible that the appointments may all, in the course of time, turn out satisfactory; but in respect of two, there is cer tainly very little security founded on experience of the gentlemen promoted, that they will. For them presentations, the motives were clearly per sonal, and to some extent selfish ; and if bishops, in disposing of their best livings, exhibit so small a sense of responsibility, what are we to expect from Lord Chancellors or lay patrons ? The diocese of Winchester is swarming with poor hard working curates; and they are, Dr. SymNrm tells them in triennial charges "t h e real martyrs of the present day." Yet, when three good livings fall Unit he quietly overlooks the "martyrs," and finds Imerpeesiag qualifications in his youngest son and a younger kinsman. This, to say the least of it, is unpleasant, disagreeable inconsistent. It is not principle, but personal whim, that dispenses patron age in this way ; and patronage so dispensed requires some control, some restraint. To pitch boys into good benefices, and to expect the parishioners to be thankful, is not reasonable. It is to treat a Chrkian ministry nes profession, not as a vocation. Leaving Alresford, its choice livings, and its small population, let us pass on to St. 'Mary's, Southampton, with its 3,0001. a year, and its 20,000 people. To it Bishop Sexesn has presented his friend Archdeacon WIGRAM. Now if yen ask the churchmen in this huge parish who and what Archdeacon WIGRAM they will tell you they know nothing at all about him. He may be a very excellent man, for all they can say ; and he may be utterly unsuited for their edification, for all they can ascertain. They are positively, com pletely ignorant of his person, of his powers, of his principles, of his piety, of everything about and con nected with him. Yet for the remainder of his and their lives probably this unknown man has to be their minister. Surely there is something very unreasonable is 20,000 people being compelled to have a minister oil whom they know nothing ? Considering . the rein. . lions that ought to exist between a minister and his flock, there is something illogical in itself and ill fitted to secure those relations in such an origin of their connexion. The inhabitants of St. Mary's have more or lees power in the selection of all their public functionaries; except when it comes to their rector; then the Bishop of WINTON sends them whom soever he pleases, without consulting a soul in the parish arid without knowing much about its state and wants—now, a clergyman who for half a century neglected them as Lord 0011.7011 D did; then a man from whom better things are hoped. Book a system at once places.the ineumbeat m an offensive position, stuffs him full of pretension hurtful to the promotion ' of religion, and creates a gulf between him and his parishioners which may, it is tree, be bridged over in time, but whisk it is vary difficult to bridge over. And, as with the appointment to, so with the division of this great parish. •The inhabitants are fit tom thlt „; ;; L r icaooll WIONA Oa to be their new rector ; and then they hear that their parish 'has to be quoad sacra divided. Bat, u touching his appointment none of them were consulted, so neither are they to have aught to do with the division. They are treated as children incompetent to judge of the efficiency or inefficiency of their minister to edify them, and of the manner and :tent to which their parish is to be divided. All that bas to be done for them at Farnham Castle and Whitehall-place; and when done so effectually that it can't be undone, they will have an opportunity of complaining aimlessly ; just as the parishioners of Bishop Weermouth had. The Bishop of WINTON will arrange with Archdeacon WIGRAM the terms and mode of the division. When Play have "made things pleasant," the Ecclesiastical Commission will bestow on their arrangement the force of law; and then the parish of St. Mazy's will be informed. Such is the process. This we say is unreasonable; the parishioners of St. Mary's are just as well, and probably much better, calculated to arrange this matter as the Bishop of WINCIIEsTER or the Ecclesiastical Commission for them. At all events, the division of the parish is their affair, their concern, their business; and by every analogy of public matters in this coun try, they ought to have some share and part in the division. Yet the 20,000 inhabitants of St. Mary's are to have no more to do with the re-arrangement of their parish than they had in the choice of their minister. Bishops may depend upon it that such a system will not in these days last ; its endurance is an insult to the intelligence of the public; and ecclesiastical affairs in this country can never, they may take our word for it, be satisfactorily arranged until the power of the laity is largely increased, and the authority of the bishops and clergy is greatly decreased, or rather strictly confined to its proper functions. FRANCE. THE NEW MINISTRY. PARIS, TACK/IDLY EVININO. At this moment it is certain that the new cabinet hu been formed. M. Drouyn de Pliuys, late am bassador to England, takes the ministry of Fo- reign Affairs; General Repault St. Jean d'An ply that of War; Baroche, Rouher, Fould, and Bineau retain their places. M. Dumas gives up the ministry of Agriculture and Commerce to M. Duos, and takes the department of Public In struction : lastly, the Ministry of Marine is offered to Admiral Leblanc, who is, however, expected to de cline it. This cabinet comes in pledged to suppress the mi litary command of General Changarnier. That ge neral's exceptional pusition having been created by a special law, the government will propose to the Assembly, without delay, the abrogation of that law. The majority of the Assembly showed, during the whole of the sitting, visible irritation, and when news was brought from the Elysee that the above cabinet had been formed, the dissatisfaction which reigned on the Right of the Chamber seemed at the height. The Elysean name of Gen. Regnault de St. Angely as Minister of War was particularly offensive to the burgraves. The weight of M. Drouyn de l'llays's name gives an aspect of firmness to the new com bination, and the fact of M. Beroche remaining in the cabinet, is accepted as an omen e f the successful accomplishment of the bold task which the new ministry have undertaken. The commercial world also regards with satisfaction the permanence of I M. Kuld u Minister of Finance. It was reported at one moment in the Chamber that a menage would be read from the President, but the sitting broke up without the occurrence of this incident. The time perhaps is come when reaction has cul minated, aad must abdicate before the common mad of the nation. The assertion of the eight burgraves that an army like that commanded by General Changarnier is neceesary for the safety of the Assembly, is absolutely devoid of all verisimilitude. Nobody dreads any longer socialist ;nieutes ; nor does any one, but such people its M. Yon, suspect the President of any design against the Chamber. The reiterated assurances of his speeches during his journey through the provinces, the emphatic pledge contained in the last message t spect his oath, to observe the constitution, and to bow to the le,rally declared will of France, as regarded the prolongation of his powers—and more than ail, the man's known lineal and uprightness of character put all the doubts and misgivings expressed by the majority of the Assembly in their true light, as mere insincere pretexts for keeping the government designedly we..k, and retaining all power in its on n hands until the favour able moment arrive for a restoration of the monarchy. It is of great importance at the present moment to know what amount of support the President can obtain from the Left of. the Assembly as well as trom the Eight, in his determination to break the command of Gener.•l Changarnier. Well; nearly all the organs cf the several tractions of the Left take decidedly the President's part, and applaud his resolution; and even those democratic papers which have habitually opposed his govern ment are far more adverse to General Ctangarnier than to Louis Napoleon. No debate of importanee took place in the Assem bly. General Changarnier was the chief object of attention, and remained for a long time in the couluirs, the centre of an immense group of repre sentatives. The Constautsonnel gives the following details re specting the interview of yesterday : " The President said that he was ready to accept, for the formation of a new cabinet, the concurrence of those among his eight hearers who partook his opinion on the organisation of the army of Paris. He then turned to M. Dupin and said, " If you want troops you will have them ; but I promise you that you will have no enemies." It was expected that the dismissal of General Changarnier would appear in the Afoniteur of this morning. 7,700,000 f. have been paid into the Treasury by the Receiver-General. This sum is the first instal ment on account of the Five and Three per Cent. Renter, as adjudicated on the 31st of December. At the Bourse the funds were very firm. The Fives eland at 94.80, with a rise of 5 centimes on yesterday. PARIS lAN. 9. rar Moos,. ' Opening Illipest.l Long. Closing - 73 36 9,7 33 94 no 94 8 Nit Omuta. ll4 113 1 5e as ail se se 75 56 93 spi Qat& 1 9490 '94 83 NM N 33 94b0 $ do. New Loin IN 75 94 70 91 05 94 70 94 73 4NT Oats. 6. 1 w VI a .• 4 per N.M. w w » VP 19 Szahang• on Loads*: it sidttt, 23 34; 110 dap. 24 SI. 3 per Cents., New Lam. 66 80 Naples lento 9t 30 Kam o.4iwa, 3, 1640 Do. 3, itu — . Do. 18.30 Do m: It ~ Beak Mara nto - Piwlesoet 3 p.Ct.1849 84 93 ~ Borzoi.—St. Germain, 412 50; Venailles (tight bank), 162 60 ; ditto (left bank), 162 50 ; Paris and Orleans, 835 ; Paris and Rouen, 680 ; Marseilles and Avignon, 193 ; &mhos's and Bale, 136 25; Centre, 386 25; Orleans and Mardian:, 398 75; Mortis, 468 76 ; Paris and Straa bourg, 361 25; Tsars and Nantes, 246 26; Dieppe and 1 Facemp, 196. ROME DEC. 31 • The chief authors of the scene of May, 1849, when the confessions of the churches were burned, Cicero acohio and Carbonarello, have been condemned to fifteen months of forced labour. GIUMPAL But, says a letter front Tann, dated Jan. 3, died at Aleppo, on the Ilth December, after a short illness. Re died a biammiman, and thus received all the honours due to his rank. GALE AT LIVERPOOL—A very smart gale sprung up Ia the neighbourhood of Liverpool early on Thursday waning, but abated towards daylight. As the wind blew from the S.W. quarter, great Alan were entertained for the shipping is the Channel, bet the only cuualtie3 reported are a few small craft aahzre. Is all eases, the mews were saved. GERMANY. DRIPATCE. BERLIN, WEDNI•DAT EVIWIRO. In to day's sitting of the lit Chamber, the debate on the address was closed. The minister declared, after a speech of Champhatmen's, that the govern ment wee decidedly opposed to all revolutions. The simple order of the day wu decided on by 92 against 35 votes. _ _ The interrogation of M. Ammon was left un answered by the Premier, because it wu too general. and that it might be prejudicial to reply to it. Matzke has withdrawn his motion for a provisional budget. A correspondent of the Cologne Gazelle writes from Berlin on the 7th :—A note trom M. 'Mantenif , l requires that the Chamber should decide whether his post u deputy be forfeited by his nomination to the presidency cf the cabinet and ministry of foreign affairs. P. ussia has reason to be on her guard against Austria's commercial plans with respect to the Z./11- verein. That Austria will leave no means unlit tempted to destroy the Z diverein needs no proof, and we may fairly conjecture that many of tLe smiler states have been idluenced by her, on learning that she is striving to translate the Zollverein c . ingress, which was broken off in Cassel, to Dresden. Our correspondent at Dresden writes u follows : DRESDEN 'Ay 6. The first commission, in which Austria presides, for the sett'ement of the organisation of the supreme authority, together with the extent of territory of the confederation, has held several eittiogs without coming to any result. Divers plans, the nature of which is not communicated, have been laid before the commission and diecnssed, but not one has met with general approval. The plan which the Austrian minister proposed, appears to have been that which was mentioned in a former letter; viz., a sham kind of division of the executive power between Austria and Prussia; but with an additional authority by its aide in the shape of a council of three, composed of a representative of Bavaria, one for the other minor kingdoms, and one for the grand duke, which was to decide all questions in dispute between the two powers. This plar, which b.rore the appearance of an approach to the dualistic prin ciple, will, I believe, be found to hare been the origin of the various statements of the union of the two ministers, and of the settlement of the main points in a manner favourable to Prussia, by which so many persons bave been deceived. To this plan neither Prussia nor the minor . principalities can or will agree, and the first commirsion is under stood to have separated in a hopeless manner. It will not meet again for some time. The second commis sion in which Prussia presides met to-day. Baore it lies the section of the constitution on the powers and authority of the chief organ of the con federation, its relation to the individual states, as well as those of the latter to each other. It is not expected that any result will be ob tained in this commission. Indeed, as the ques tion now stands there appears to be but very slight probability of the Dresden conferences settling the affairs of Germany. Prince Schwarzenburg will not, under any circumstances. consent to the establish ment of the dualistic principle in the government of Germany. The influence and power of Austria must remain paramount; and in order to elect this more thoroughly he wishes to mediatiso the smaller states of central Germany, which have always been most faithful allies of Prussia. The share in the taxation of the confederation hu been made a vital question by the Ket.g of Prussia, and is, in point of fact, the only question of great importance to Prussia in the settlement of the political port of the affairs of the confederation. It has been wen that Austria gives but a sham consent to this demand ; in all other qaestons however, Austria may be brought to terms, for the Prince Schwarzenberg has discovered the error made by the Austrian government in permitting he eat tblishmmt of the &therein under the influ ence of Prussia, and he, therefire, attaches very little or no importance to any of the other political points in question. The political organisation of Germany has become a matter of secoadary consideration when compered with the immense victory to be gained over Prussia by the destruction of the Zoll verde. To effect this all the machinery of Austrian diplomacy, and even threats, will be used. An important item in the Austrian plans is, that during six years the duties on corn, cattle, and all raw materials shall be abolished. It cannot be denied that a proposition more advantageous to the Hansa Towns, Hanover, and many perm of Prussia. could not be made. To the province of Silesia it would be a real blessing, seeing that it suff,rs most from the want of tree trade in grain and the frequent recurrence of bad years. Du. in six years Austria proposes further that a commirmon, or general organ for the protection of the interests of mull commercial system shall be esta blished; each system to send three rerrsentativis. Tne Zollverein three, the Steuervert in three, and the liens' towns three, and the Austrian states three. Toe b dy of nine to decide by a majority all ques tions respecting the relations of the tariffs of the dif ferent beetle., and each body of three to decide equally by et majority of vo'er, all Teleions relating to the tariff of the body they specially represent. Combined with these plans, the Austrian govern ment ha another scheme for withdrawing the reve nues of the states of Germany from the influence of parliament. She intends to propo eto the govern ments of the Zollverein the introduction of a tobacco monopoly, the consumption of which article has increased of hte years so enormously in Ger rn.try, that, if well managed, such a mono poly could not fail to set the governments to a great degree free from the anxiety and constquences of a refusal of the taxes by the parliamente. Not satisfied with this, the Austrian govtrnment goes still further and intends to recommend priociples of taxa tion to Germany which the moat enlightened modern political ecsinomists reject. Tire Austrian govern ment is desirous of carrying out in Germany the prin ciples of indirect taxation more thoroughly than has ever yet been attempted, and, as I am informed, has drawn up a plan for the general taxation of etch country on this principle. The government of Austria hos drawn up these great plans with equal skill and dexterity, and if the energy and determina tion with which they are promoted be equally great. Prussia will lose all the power which the Zollverein so uselessly placed in its hands. BEULIN, JAN. B.—Volantary Lou, 1061 ; New 1•011.11, Four and a-Half per Cent.., 091; Natloasl Debt, 841; Cone inercial,Merise Society. Ptennuts,l2B ; Bank Shane, 951. VIZNNA, JAL 7.—Firs pis Cent. Metalline's, 951; Pour-and-a-Halt per Cents., ditto, 821. Bank abuts, 1142. Exchange on London, 12.40. MALTA, Jew. 2. I have in my former letters announced to you the arrival of the fleet in this port, after a long absence. The Oberon has received orders to proceed immedi ately to England, and was last night ready for sea. She has not, however, yet left port. Lieut. Drury, R M., placed at the bottom of the list of lieutenants by sentence of a general court martial, goes home by her, as does Lieut. Forbes, 8.A., on leave till Jane next. En,ign Dunne, 44th, also goes home on leave, but not per Oberon. On Tuesday the case against Lieut. Barchard, Lieut. Micklethwaite, and Ensign Colpoys, 44th Re giment, was decided in the Criminal Court, to which they had been committed, before Dr. Y. Bruno, LL.D., one of her Majesty's judges. As I announced in my first letter, the charge of premeditation was not substantiated, nor could it have been. Ensign Colpoys, is whose favour as a pacificator the prosecutor him self deposed was acquitted. Lieutenant Bernhard was found guilty of a common assault, and sentenced to a fine of six pounds; whilst Lieutenant Mickle thwaite was found guilty of an assault, and the using of olprobriotur language, and sentenced to suffer an imprisonment of fifteen days, to commence from the first day of his incarceration by the police, and to pay a similar fine as that to which Dr. Suchard was sentenced. Ilia imprisonment will therefore cease on Saturday morning next. Mr. Arrowamith made some efforts to quuh further proceedings, but it is reported here that the Governor interfered to prevent it. Be this as it may, the Governor gave a party on Monday, but neither the colonel nor the major, nor, as far as I can learn, any of the 44th were present. Few of the garrison were, however, invited. His Excellency is very un popular. THE AUSTRIAN CUSTOMS LEAGUE TARIFF. The Augsburg Allgenieins Zeitung, under this head, gives the draft of a projected tariff, copies of which have been sent to the various states whom it is pro- posed to include in the new cantons, league. The following are the rates proposed:—Duty on coffee, 11 florins per quintal, being 7 kreutzers less than the present duty in Austria, and 1 1 above the ZAlverein duty; sugar, 14f. per quintal; crushed sugar for the chocolate manufacture, 7 fl., being a reduction of 16 krs.; cocoa, reduced from 12 fl. 30 kre. to 7 fl. 30 krs.; pepper, reduced to 10 if.; herrings and dried fish, 1 fl. the quintal ; olive oil, imported into the Adriatic Haven, will pay 2 fl.; linseed, rape, and cocoa nut oil, 45 krs., and undenominated fats 45 kn. The customs treasury will sweain yearly a loss of 30,0008. by the reductions in oil and fat. Chocolate is to be reduced to fifteen florins. Firewood will pay an import and an export duty of 25 kreutzers per 100 cubic feet, and a transit duty of 10 krs. ; common woods for manufacturing purpoees, 45, and 10 kre. under the same circumstances. Cochineal and Indigo will pay 45 krs. per quintal ; sulphur, 5 kre.; lead, 29. 30kre. ; raw iron, 45kre. ; rolled iron, 28. 30krs.; quicksilver, 7fl. 30krs. The greatest re duction:of duty Is that on raw cotton, which is lowered to a merely nominal sum, viz., 5 kreuzers. The cus toms treasury will sustain a loss of 680,000f1. under this item. The export duty on raw silk is reduc dto 25kre, in order to assist the Lombardian provinco against the competition of the East Indies. The commission cannot come to any agree ment on the question of the duty to be imposed on eaten yarn. Six florins is an admitted rate for the lower numbers of yarn. The majority of the com mittee do not desire to establish any distinctions of fineness, as the distinction is very difficult to carry out in practice, and as scarcely any numbers above 80 are spun in Austria. The ministry wish for a duty of 6 florins for all numbers op to 61, and of 7 fl. 30 km for higher numbers. The spinners who have been consulted are favour of a duty of 7 florins on lower numbers, and of 10, 12, 13, 25, and 30 florins on the higher. Worsteds fixed, as hitherto, at 6 florins; liven yarn is raised from 21, to 6 florins; but a drawback of florins is guaranteed upon finest and medium linen fabric!. Coarse fabrics are subject to an average duty of 20 per cent. on the value. Leather is to pay duties —fine, 12 O. 30 krs. ; common, 78. 30 krs. Leather wares, common, 23 fl. ; medium, 50 fl. ; fine, 100 fl. Common paper, the eporco centner, 45 krs. ; fine piper, the netto centner, 7fl. 30 krs.; coloured and ornamental paper, 25 fl. The export duty upon rags is materially reduce", viz., to 2 fl. ; while the manu facturers asked for a duty of from 4 to 5 florins, as in the union tariff. From these particulars it mill be seen that the aim of the authors of the new tariff is, on the one hand, to pre mote domestic industry by making sacrifices of revenue to cheapen raw mate rials, as cotton, sulphur, tallow, quicksilver, indigo, and cochineal ; and, on the other hand, to dis accustom the manufacturers to protection by a moderate admission of foreign articles. Tile govern. ment is setting a good example; the rates proposed for lead and sulphur show that it is ready to sacrifice its own monopoly for the good of the whole, at a time when the sulphur works of Bohemia are appealing to munificence for support. The export duties have been so lowered, that a loss of 200,000 flories is ex pected in that item. The commission started from the principle, that the export duties should be abo lished on all articles whose exportation it is not de sirable wholly to prohibit. But for scientific and statistical reasons the principle was deviated from, in order that the customs tables might supply a record of all the movements of commerce, and thus the unaccustomed figures 1,2, 5 and 10 icreu'zere ap pear in the new tariff for quintets of exported wares. For the same reasons, the duty of 5 krs. has been laid on imported cotton. According to nathentic statistical tables, the importation of raw cotton into Austria amounts to 424,460 eenhaers, which would give a revenue of 3.5,000 flu. at the new rates ; hardly the cost of their collection. The transit dues arc, on the contrary, slightly ii.creasr-d, bat are still lower than those of the ZJllverein. A few valuable manufactures (Parisian ornaments, silk waree,shawle, I, atiste, of which a large quantity find their way into the Danubian provinces by way of Leipsic), 30 krs. per centner is to be paid. The concessions to the 7Allverein are worthy of notice; a fact which, in the opponents of the measure, is made a ground of re proach. SEVERE GALE AT BRISTOL, AND IN THE BRISTOL CNANNEL.-00 Wednesday afternoon a very heavy gale, which weft d from S.W. to W.N.W., wan experienced in the Bristol Chancel, as well as in the city of Basta and the surrounding neighbourhood. A good deal of damage was done to shipping as well se to house property, when situated WOO, elevated points. The barque Berbice, for Aberdeen, drove and went ashore near the mouth of the river. The crew took to the rigging, where they remained till the tide receded, when they left her. A boat in attempt ing to go to them was oversrt, but the hands mart ashore. The trow Dolphin, laden with coals from Sydney, anothr r trow, seems unknown, and the shop William, from Bullo Pill to Cardiff, with iron ore,foundered in the river's mouth, but their crews were happily saved. At Clifton a house near Portland-place was stripped of its tiles, Fee., and a quantity of furniture was forced by the gale out of a window and fell upon a hackney fly, which it greatly damaged, but fortu nately without injury to fare or driver. At Mr. Itouch's timber yard, near the sea banks, a large shed, 40 feet long by 20 feet deep, was thrown down and scattered over the yard. A recently erected brick wall neer the Linatkllr. Dock 'dotard:l, was levelled with the ground, and retire were stripped of their tiles at more than one point of the city. Our correspondent writes that there were more than one narrow escapes; but up to the time of his writing he had rot heard of anv injury to life or person. STORM AT PLYMOUTIL—On Wednesday Ply mouth was visited by a very severe storm, the wind blowing terrifically and the rain falling in torrente. The elves and tiles of several houses in many of the streets flaw elf in all directions, and great danger was incurred by persons walking. One chimney stack was blown down in Notte-street, fortunately striihout doing any damage. During the day some anxiety was felt for the homeward bound ships in the channel, the sea running very high, and the storm continuing without any abatement. In the course of the afternoon the Three Brothers, Mr. Peak, muter, belonging to Mr. Yeo, laden with cora, from the Mediten aaaaa , got on the rock. during the gale at Deadman's Bay, where she remained for several howl., until the flow of the tide, when she was got off with some amount of damage. Further down the Catwater the schooner Heroine, of Dartmouth, got on the C►rpenter's Poin , , but was shortly afterwards got off--Plymoulls Journal DEPARTURE OF THE BRAZILIAN MAlL.—Yesterday being the day for the commencement of the running of the Brazilian steamers, ucder the new contract between the Wes. India Company and the Government, the Rlyal Mail Steam packet C'mpany's steamer Teviot, Captain &vett, left Southampton with the mails for Lisbon, Madeira, Te neriffe, Peraszobaco, Bahia, Brazil, Monts Vide*, end Buena Ayres. The mails ware much larger than were expected. The Teviot took out also 44 passengers for the various places on the route ; amongst whom were Lord and Lady Eastnor, for Madeira, and Admiral Grenfell, for Rio. Her cargo consisted principally of specie, in gold and silver, to the amount of 67,0351., chiefly for the Brazils. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEAT.—Yesterday the annual general meeting of the governors of this charity was held et the London Tavern, John Masternian, Esq., in the chair. The minutes of the last court having been confirmed, the secretary read the third annual report. This document, after expressing grati fication in the prosperity and increased usefulness of the institution, proceeded to state that during the put year 2.573 persons obtained relief ft , in the charity, making a total since its formation, in 1848, of 7,489. The majority of the patients have resided is the City and adjacent districts, but many have bean received from other and distant localities. The financial sheet showed that at the close of 1849 there rum sized a balance of 311. 71. 11d., and during the succeed ing twelve months donations and subscriptions to the amount of 6,0931. 13,. 3d. had been received. The expenaiture of the year amounted to 1,2771. 156. 94., making, together with 301. 15s. 64. expended on account of the new building, a total of 1,3001. lie. 34., and leaving a balance of 3,8161. 91. 11d. to the credit of the institution. Three thousand five hundred pounds of that sum having been depo sited with Messrs. Overend, Gum, y, and Co., at 3 per cent. interest, there remained at the bankers 3161. 9s. Ild. at the close of the year. From numerous plane submitted in com petition for the proposed new hospital at Victoria-park, the committee had selected the design of Mr. F. W. Ordish. That plan afforded accommodation for 80 in-patients, as well as the necessary details for the out-patients department. The cast of erecting the central portion was estimated at 9,0001., and the committee were anxious that this part should be completed at once ; the contractors were already actively engaged is enclosing the ground with stuns coping and iron railing, and it was hoped that the building would be com menced during the ensuing summer. The report, after stating that her Majesty and Prince Albert had become patrons of the hospital, and had accompanied the announce ment with a donation of 1001, proceeded to state that similar contributions had been made by the City corporation, and the worshipful companies of Goldsmiths and Grocers.' Oa the motion of James Foster, Esq., seconded by H. B. Gamey, Esq., the report was adopted unanimously. The treasurer, trustees, and committee for the present year were then sleeted, and a vote of thanks to the medical and other °Mien, and to the hog. chairman, cloud the bueinees of tke meeting. VW Court. WINDSOR, THUASDAY, JAN. 9. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The royal family took walking cad pony exercise. Prince Albert went nut shooting this morn• trig, accompanied by the Duke of Cembridie, Lord John Russell, the Right on. C. Shaw Lefler*, and attended by Lord Waterperk, Colonel the Hon. Castles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel r'. H. Seymour. . . . _ The Duke of Cambridge took lease of the Queen and the Prince to-day and quitted the Castle. The Right Hun. the Speaker and Mrs. rinser Lcreirce took their departure from the Castle to-day. Toe lien. Charles A. and My,. Murray are expected to attire at the C-s le to day, on a stet to her Majesty and the Prince. Toe royal dinner party at the Castle this ev , ning wfl include the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady C. Layman Gower, Lnd ant Lady John Rusiell, Lady Fanny Howard, Baronets da Speth, Hon. Charles A. acid Mrs. Murray, Sir George Cooper, and Cot nel Woven,. The band of toe Coldstream Gaards will attend during dinner. Mr. Clarks Horton Pulley, vestry clerk of Heck. nip, had the honour of attending on Sir Georg* Gray at the Hoine•office yeserday, with the address to the Qaein from the inhabitants of that parisb, on the subject of the recent aggression of the Pope of Rome. The Rev. Dr. Adamson had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-officr The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday at their office, in Whitehall. place. Mr. Cooke, the Mayor of Richmond, Yotkshire. transaced business at Os, li,me•cfi'ice on Wednesday, and presented memorials on the subj, , ct of tagrat.o.y. Despatches from the Governir of the Gambia were received yesierday at the Colonial SERIOUS ACCIDENT 10 SIR ROBERT FEEL. Oar Birmingham correspondent writes : "Intelli gence was received here this (Thursday) afternoon, that an accident of a very alarming character had occurred to Sir Robert Peel. It seems that the hon. baronet was out hunt ing yesterday in the neighbourhood of Faz•ley ; the bores stumbled, threw bis rider, and fell cn him in such a way as to seriously injure Sir Robert's head. He was taken up senseless, and this (Thursday) morning was in a very pre carious state." METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS ACT. VESTRY MEEIING IN BT. JAMES'B.-SEWERS A vestry meeting of Sr. James's, Piccadilly, was held yesterday in the parish veotry.room, the Rev. Mr. JACK,UN, M.A., in the chair. The report of the committee appointed to inquire respect ina the rem,val of the burial gioun:s in the parish, and the compensation to b 3 having been read, Mr. LEWIN moved th e e, adoption of the report. Mr. NELSON, in seconding the motion, said that he hoped when the oominiseionars receivcd tapir report they would order the grave.yords to tc closed at once, and the vaults beneath the church to be hermalicilly sealed for ever. In Oe:obcr, 1849, the General Board of Health or dered those grave-yards in the metropolis, which 'ere known for years to be nuisance, to be clop d. But in conse quence of some opposition to the closing of the Tottenham court-road graveyard, they did Lot insist on the order being carried into effect. The consequence was that, while some of these grave yards ware closed, others were kept open; but immediately on the loterments Bill passing shay said that people might go co to bury in the cturehyards u last as possible ; and, as might be antici pated. the graveyards wnich had been cloaca were again opened, and all the horrors of the deep grave ustem were revived, and were gains on at the present moment. (Hear.) Mr. G. A. WALKER said he wished it might be dia . . . . tinctly understood that be had nothing whets ver r io do with the interments Bill. Hie province was to cillect Lots ether than to find remedies. The magnitude ut the isil of ixtra mural interments hart so impressed him, that, so fat back u 1E139, he stated in a book published by him on the stoject " chit eovernment would lie driven to adopt some means - for preventing burials in towns." Toat prophesy was fulli'oed en 1840. As to the way in which ft was fulfilled be would say nothing on that occasion more than that some of the dames of the bill were very objectienable. lio had already pointed out in a little work the means of abolishing the nuisance. The question lay fn a nutshell. AU that wee reqaisite was to get land and a cheap mode of transit. Wokiog.common would have been an eligible site, and he 111.4 suggested it in 1342 ; but be believed Sir R. Broome had now made arrarucmciam ter the purchase of that place. The South Western Company would have conveyed the dud bodies for lid. a piece. Turn could be no sea °cable objection to this mode of disposing of the uead. As things stood now, the living population el London were every slay walking over 5,000,000 (mad bodies. Under their pariah aura anti even brneaLh the very room where he wu speaking, there were hundreds of dead bodies. After 8311111 minvenstion, the motion was agreed to. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMBSIDGE, JAN. 8.-1)EATII OF THE REGIUS Priorwon or Mitutctun.—Dr. liariland, the gentleman who has held the aborenamed appointment ►lnes 1817, I. spired at his residence :n Trumpinitton.atreet early this morning. Dr. Daviland graduated as 12th Wrangler, and a member of St. J.hn's College, in lbO7. In 1 , 11 he was elected Professor of Anse my, which appoin:ment he resigned on his promotion to the ens he held at the period of his decease. He practised for nary years as a physician in the town, and held the honorary office of oinsulting physician to Addenbrot.ke's Hospital. lin was years et age at h's demise, which, though somewhat sudden at the lust, was not surprisir.g, as the deceased had sulfated fur years from con stitutional infirmity. Ti.. doccaeol's lady, whit a numerous nuttily, survive him. . . SUILECT Post TUB SIATONIAN Pace Poste.—A clause of Mr. Seaton's will, dated Oct. b, 1739.—"1 give my Kislie gbury estate to ..he University of Cambritge for ever : the rents of which shall be disposed of yearly by the Vice- Chancell..r fur the time being, as be, the Vice-Chancellor, the Hester of Clue Hall, and the Greek Professor tor the time being, or any two el them, shall agree. Which three persons aforesaid shall give eut a subject, which subject shall for the first year be ore or other of the perfec:i Ali or attri butes of the Supreme Being, and so tte suceeeding years, till the subject is exhausted; and afterwards the subject shall be either Death, Judgment, H , Hell, Purity of Heart, &c., or whatever else may be judged by the Vice- Chancellor, Master of Clue Hall, and Greek Protessor, to be mut conducive to the honour of the S .preme Being, and recommendation of virtue. And they shall yearly dupes* of the rent of the above estate to that master of arts whose poem on the subject given shall be best approved by them. Which prem 1 ordain to to alw.ye in Euglish, and to be printed, the expense E.l which shall be deducted out of the product of the estate, and the residue given as a reward for the composer of the poem, or ode, or copy of verses." The sebj.et of the poem for the present year is "Samson." Each candidate for this prise is to send his performance, without his name, to the Vice Chancellor (fairly written, or it will not be attended to), on or before the 20th of September next, with some Latin verse upon it ; and he is at the same time to send a paper, sealed up, with his name written within, and the seine Latin verse en the outside. The papers eonoining the names of the unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed unopened; by which regulation the delicacy of thou who might otherwise fear a repulse is, it is hoped, effectually consulted. If any poem shall appear to resew distinguished merit a premium of 801. will be adjudged. SPORTING. TAITERSALL'S.—TnunaDAT. CIiESTER CUP. 40 to 1 laid to about 501: aget 6;onck, and 300 to 5 eget Seaman. Olen to lay 25 to lor take 30 to 1 about Rhesus. DERBY. 1,000 to 30 laid apt liuTi; - 7melle, 50 to 1 to 1001. seat Lightfoot, and 200 to 10 mat Conatellatl n and Mariburough Buck. ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAT.—An accident of a most distressing nature again occurred on the above line of railway on Wed nesday, the Bth inst., by which one of the company's ser vants, named Rodwick, lost his life. On the moraine in question, about five o'clock, Mr. Atkinson telegraphed dims the line to " keep clear." Thu was nearly one huur ante cedent to any of the ordinary trains starting from the Shore ditch terminus. Answers were duly received from every station except Ponder's End ; omission, however, at that point was not apparently considered • matter f import ance al stein o'clock a special train, conveying a gentlemen en route to Cambridge to attend at his father's demise, left the terminus and proceeded at a rapid rate in safety as far as Ponder's End, where some second class carriages left by the up goods train were being 'hunted across the line by deceased and two others. At this juncture the special train ran into the station, strik ing the second clue carriages in its progreas, forcing them off the line, and jamming the unfortunate man between them and a bnck wall. He was taken up in a most pitiable con dition, and conveyed to a neighbouring gentleman's house, where, on medical attendance being procured, it was ascer tained that his spine was fractured in several places. He lingered in intense agony until slate hour last evening, when be expired without being removed. Deceased had bean in the company's service a considerable time, and was much respected, and filled the triple situation of signal man, points. man, and telegraph attendant, at the Ponder's End station. The fatal occurrence is rendered yet more lamentable by the fact of deceased having for the last five years been the sole support of an aged father confined to his bed with paralysis at 25, Essex street, King's Cross. Information of the acci dent wee forwarded to the coroner, and en inquest appointed to be held forthwith. ----- FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.-Ati explosion Of fire-damp occurred at Csrmbach, on Thursday lut, in a level belonging to the Yniecedwyn Iron Works, when four peneas were severely burnt. One of the sufferer. died shortly after being brought out of the level, and another le not expected to survive. The accident is attributed to the carelessness of the men, in allowing the safety-lamp to be carried into the level before them, by a little boy, who could not detect the presence of the fatal gu, the men following with candler; in their hands, and thereby causing the expiation. I