The Express. — London, England, 1851-09-08 00:00:00

What an insidious and tor? and 1 breath of at 81 councils awed tbe of fuhion whither be forth forbidden. a certain -_ - nonnecmcnt serves to advertise and to - serve . hotel. But if the hotel is unmentioned, does it net also neve the person? Are there not people who Iles ea aid by the high attention paid them, to lib= as announcement of their coming to town is er important a part of their ways and mesas se at Ow of Mr. NIIVART ? Why not charge drum ad nfielbetnent duty? The Times of the ether Ilenning gave us a list of young bibs. soiinat at an American watering place, whose s~nllsies were duly published in the local organ. Time were advertisements, but is there nothing of thokiad here ? Is the arrival of Mrs. So-and-So end her fair daughter at Brighton or Cheltenhasa risegg kilted intho public press? Most the paper uot for every mention of a belle? Or Pralis amg of Inland Revenue not dun the illodeleos MINIM ial the amount, as in the above noun it dwe.tens to do with regard to the hotel ? The aim end end of the journal is the open modal nein. News fill its every column. It pays tax, SW, en the paper employed; then it pays a stamp Ibty for the liberty to sell. Thirdly, it pays a tax en every announcement, avowedly and evidently or Wetly for fiscal benefit ' fhb Inland Revenue, ]Meter, steps in, and shows that it an construe pine of news to be profitable, inci dentally or eOpllip, to osso person or another t end it accordingly pewees to seise its triple duty on every portion el thejellnell. What have the jour nals done to the load of Island Revenue to be thus the subject of its indemilabbiezesation ? Its last attempt has boss to the monthly press to all the expense of y press es the ground that its monthly eltreniole of events in news. If to this it should add seccon in compelling all news even in the daily press to pay the advertise. ment tribute, on the score of each Dim at news being profitable to some one, the British Island Revenue-office will certainly have rivalled and est. done its brother of of Austria, Plumb, and France in their crusade of 18.51 against the preen. There is no knowing, in fact, where these gentle men will stop. So vane is the act of parliament, and so legally indefinite is the word news, that although it is quite manifest that the legislature in its acts never contemplated any such stretch of finality and persecution as that perpetrated by the Inland Revenue, still there is room for every kind of interpretation and every degree of injustice. In sash a state of things resistance becomes a duty, and we. for oar part, have determined to try the qatelley and shall therefore publish to-day, and any or every day the arrivals of eminent persons at the Cis. rendon, NIIVART% or at other places of town residence. We do this and have done it purely for the information of our readers. Medal for such of our readers who may want to find at and wait upt.n these eminent visitors. We never imagined that it was for the advantage of Mr. MIVART, or if it was, that it was other than a secondary consideration. But we have no idea of being restricted in our sphere of usefulness and pro hibited from publishing news, because it pleases the terrier of the Inland Revenue to smell a five shilling job in each simple paragraph. of these, but one has demanded in Wow die Pa= den el the powers of Luis Napeleoalm= mai his asked for the re-establishment of sod hereditary monarchy ; four have voted aphid zilonevision ; and two have declined to express any upon political subjects. Accounts remain to be received from four councils only, namely, those of the Gard, Isere. Morbihan, and Mum. A terrible fire broke out on Thursday night, about 10 o'clock, at Elbeaf, in the cloth factory , of hL Grandin. The impartial de Bowen of this aiming states that the extensive factory has been bused to the g round, and seven hundred persons hive bz this calamity been thrown out of employ. The budding wu insured for 1,495,000 francs ; but the loss is said to exceed three millions. The fire had reached some other factories and houses, but by the exertions of the firemen it was extinguished before very great ohmage had been done. bevel= who audited the firemen received severe hem the lidliag materials; among them ere N Pads the mayor ar Elites!; M. Lesoonve, the deputy mayor; and M. Laurent, the ex-mayor. &MOLT EVININO. Brigadier General Creny, of the army of Africa, now in Paris, on leave of absence, has been placed on the non-effective list, for having attended the commemoration of Louis Philippe's death in Eng land, contrary to the rules of the service, which pro hibit an ?Meer from going to a foreign country with out ion from the executive power. Ordre, which yesterday gave a general con tradiction to the statements of the letter in the Times, asserts this morning, that in spite of the in nions attempt to convey a contrary impression, the letter states nothing in substance but what they themselves have been saying for several weeks past. Foe M. Guizot's personal inferences, transparent in the letter, the Ordre professes to have very little M. Carri has written a letter of explanation in the Erenewient. He positively denies that the state ment that his brother-m-law, M. Anthoine, lived at his house, was made by him. But ho admits that M. Anthoine gave that address in his pre sence, and that he did not contradict him from motives that may easily be conceived. He saw the commissioner of police take a note of M. klarchais's letter to M. Ledru but he knows nothing further about it. No thing was said in his presence of any paper being miming, and he saw no one searched. Had he done so, and had the commissioner exhibited any scruples with regard to himself, he should have told him as a magistrate to dismiss his scruple, and to do his duty. M. Carte adds that he has been 16 years at the Paris bar, and 20 years a magistrate, and that he is quite ready, mite has always been, to account far his words and actions. The Councils-General of the Morbihan and of the Rhone have voted for the revision. I have not heard of any more arrests to-day. The name of the plot has been changed from the " Paris Plot" to that of the " Franco-German Conspiracy." This is more appropriate, for out of 176, which is, I believe, the exact number of persons arrested on the 3rd and 4th instant, more than 150 are Germans. Up to the present hour there arc no grounds for forming even a conjecture u to the real nature of the i conspiracy of which the prisoners are to be accused. It has been alleged as an excuse for the mystery which envelopes the affair that most of the papers that have been seized are in the German language, and that several days will be required to translate them. The belief is general that many of the men in custody have been arrested in compliance with the request of foreign powers. A species of panic terror naturally prevails among German sojourners here, and the etiffs which they habitually frequent are deserted. The following rather remarkable passage from the Ga:ette de Cologne, of the 4th, is quoted by the Patrie : The fiebwartzenberg cabinet, convinced of the neceraity of maintaining the existing state of things, has resolved energetically to support the candidature of Prince Louis Napoleon. It is desirable to avoid any convulsion, and it ill precisely for that reason that the prolongation of lia Pre sident's powers would be preferred to anything else. . . It his been pertinently asked, what is the kind of support that, consistently with the dignity and indc pendence of France, an Austrian cabinet could give to any candidate for the suffrages of the whole nation ? And it has also not unnaturally been inquired, whether there is any connection between some of the recent arrests and the services which Prince Sehwart zenbe.rg may be prepared to render herea ft er. It is evident that a disposition exists in certain quarters to make the most of the plot, if plot there be. Rumours of large seizures of arms and ammuni tion are circulated, for which there seems to be no good foundation. The Bulletin de Paris alludes to the arms that were found in the waggon entering the Barriire de Remy as a seizure of arms in the Rue Pomme l omitting the statement which accompanied the original intelligence, that judicial inquiries nega tived the supposition that this affair had a political character. The papers justly complain of the wholesale lite rary piracy which is carried on in Brussels. Incre dible as it may appear, fac-similes of many of the Parisian journals, particularly of the Debate and Charivars, are fsbncated there on the day of their publication, and are forwarded to many parts of the Continent, where they often arrive several hours before the originals. This is explained by the execrable postal arrangements in Germany. A traveller mei new go by railway from Paris to Ber lin at Demos in 38 hours. Letters and news pal= =pest take four days. he the dime of the national guard in the Aspartame et the this will probably take pine in Octal.. It is and that previously an en deely new minimise be of the battalions and legions will be made. T he apparent object of the et:will be to .' the number of men in region and batftl bat the east will b e . to break up the tre e ion, In the flibrent companies, mad so to distribute as. numb= that they will have very little kassetedge of sob ail& toesereil that after the closing of the no ises of the esimcils-general, some sweeping dis- Wombs at mimes and sub-prefect will be ma&. M. !biers is about to pay a visit to Claremont, with a view to efface from the minds of certain mesa burs of the Orleans family the impressions made by M. Guest's counsels. - Mrs ethic/ Rase Tamiider, the miracle-worker of Satalabs, for sacrilege, b aa suddenly come to an ad, by the tribunal of Carpentras declaring itself tesempstent. The Jesuitical papers speak of the publiaty given to the disclosures made at the trial es a thing to be bitterly regretted. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING; SEPTEMBER 8, 1851.: A • \ r ITALY. • 110ME,41,vosisr 30. The Minbitor of Finance, with a vievito reconcile the etrigencies' of tho treasury with the interests of comnierco, has ordered that the custom-house of San Secondo, which was situated two miles within the frontier, shall be removed to the Cross of Castiglione, about a mile further. A correspondent of the Riargimento of Turin, of the 4th, says . : " I can announce to you that the whole line of railway from Ancona to Bologna hos been conceded to two English companies, whose names Ido not know. I learn only that the princi pal conditions are that the line from Ancona to Rome shall be terminated in 10 years, and that the govern ment guarantees 31 per cent. It guarantees no inte rest in respect of the line from Bologna to Ancona, which is not tabs begun until after 20 miles of railway from Ancona towat Rome shall have been com pleted, and the same distance from Rome towards Ancona." NAPLES, Aro. 30. The official journal (August 29th), contains an article of defiance, directed equally against her Ma jesty's government and Mr. Gladstone. First against the member fir Oxford, who is accused of exagge ration and falsehood ; and, secondly, against her Majesty's ministers as represented by Lord Palmer ston. The government organ promised " victo- riously" to clear his Sicilian Majesty's advisers by a reply to Mr. Gladstone's letters. The official article says " Had not the speech from the throne assured us that her Majesty's government was in friendly relations with foreign powers, we should have doubted such to be the case, from the character of Lord Palmerston's replr to Sir Do Lacy Evans." Mr. Gladstone's assertions are then designated as " false, absurd, and iniquitous calumnies." We are then re minded that Lord Palmerston has violated diplomatic etiquette, by distributing Mr. Gladstone's letters amongst the foreign governments. The public is told to expect from "authentic documents a full refutation of Mr. Gladstone's assertions. Now this declaration officially informs the world that it is the intention of the Neapo litan government to play out the game ; and endeavour, by adding a series of official falsehoods to a series of official frauds, to sustain their position, screened by assertions, while it endeavours to hide injustice, cruelty, and crime. Official documents! Why, a government that can degrade the highest offices of justice, by notoriously paying judges and witnesses to put innocent men in chains, can very easily produce any amount of " official documents . The Jesuits say, " Tell a lie and repent it: some will believe you, and many will doubt (who know the truth), if you constantly repeat the lie." It is really to be regretted, for the honour of monarchy, that King Ferdinand's friends will insist on completing his ruin in the estimation of every civil ised country. What a mass of small lies may be expected—what a mosaic of falsehoods! Does any one—even a Neapolitan minister—suppose that state ments coining from such corrupt fountains can have any weight? Ono fact is now certain, the King will keep his tools, and Peccheneda, the Minister of Police, will ride down all enemies, domestic and foreign. As I stated in a late communication, the King of Naples has no round to retreat on. We may now expect more injustice, more cruelty, and more unblushing hypocrisy. The government is by no means satisfied with Mr. Macfarlane's pamphlet. Let us see what they will do at home. The King remains at Gaeta, and it is now known the minority is to continue in office. I shall report the progress of the pending state trials in my next. an insidious and deadly blow is this at . The result of the deliberations 0181 councils gene- fashionable journals. Theriot*. 'Ye an 45 I . wli• telt 0154 76 ruultild ilt r court circular,, who flourish b • weir / w i /a . otho . sr: re : liaitbied; ie important duty, to eons • -- -77 r„,.„, '..44 ' to Ijip,h arc*, qf I what his brother orsister . is a ' .. • k in -4 ;We% y ire favourable , he is moving, and whir 441 be . 6 .:' II ,„.. ... cd azalkajorit of disida.fourths af 1 , innocent chatter or, has Z. J R 7 /1 • . i i elite , Sir it; sushi a i n uforicy, I , rbiddcn. Each paragraph is an silver- or anything approaching to it, is nnivettaally admitted , , quoth the Inland pundits, and worth to be out of the question. Five only have asked , number of shillings. For why, the sw- especially for 'the revision of the article 46; which .... ....yr. to advertise and to serve the renders the President ineligible to be re-elected; and , FRANCE. PARIS. EATUNDLT EVENING. It appears to be true that the conduct of M. Cane, a judge of the Court of Appeal, with respect to the affair mentioned by the Assembltse yesterday, is the subject of inquiry by the government. The Patric vouches for the truth of tho story as told by the itssentb4e. The details circulating in the Palais de Justice, and which have caused great excitement there, are as follows :—A warrant had been issued for the apprehension of M. Anthoine, who was em ployed in the office of the Voir du Proserit. When the commissioner of police arrived at the office to execute the warrant, he found M. Anthoine in company with M. Caere, who is his brother-in law. M. Caere explained the reason for his being there, which was, that on that very day his daughter was to be married to a relative of Anthoine, and the latter having left shortly before the commenoe meat of the ceremony, and not returning so soon as was expected, M. Carne had come to the newspaper office to look for him. While this conversation was going on, M. Marchais brought to M. Anthoine a letter which he had written to Ledru-Rollin, and re quested that it might be forwarded. The letter was immediately opened by the commissioner of police, who found that it contained a request for 2,000 f. from M. Ledru-Itollin to support a canvass in his favour for the presidency. This letter was laid = r the chimney-piece while the commis drew up his verbal. A few minutes eiterwards it had p e ared. The oommiasioner seerehed MM. Marching and Aathoine to no pur ge" bat M. Carte being a magistrate, he did not fa authorised to search his. On M. Caere bein I about to leave, however, the commissioner him to stay a little longer, and then M. Marerars, talking to M. Carri, expressed hie regret to find I himself implicated in the matter. M. Cared told him not to alarm himself, that after a three months imprisonment the accusation would be withdrawn, that it was a melancholy state of things, but that was the sort of justice to which they must become accustomed after the events of Lyons. M. Cared then insisted upon leaving, and was allowed to dose; but before he left had told the commissioner that M. Aathoine lived in his house, Rue Montaigne, No. 27. The polioc immediately went there to make a search, and were received by M. Cant's son, who, after some hesitation, admitted that M. Anthoine had never lived there, and that his domicile was at Saint Mande. It is asserted that M. Itouhcr, the minister of jus doe, is mush struck by the recital of these facts, and that if they should bo confirmed by a judicial report, he will cause M. Cared to be cited either before the Court of Appeal, or before the united chambers of the Court of Caseation to explain his conduct. M. Qirre was formerly President of the Court of Justice of Tours, and afterwards Prefect of the Indre and Loire. lie was appointed to his present position by M. Cremieux, when the latter was Minister of Justice. The arrests continue. A seizure of arms was made yesterday under the allowing circumstances. At two in the afternoon a belonging to Direr and Co., carriers, line entering Paris by the barrier of Bray, was reaped for the usual " =trot examination. A peek s. gal several seas addressed to a grocer in Paris, wise ississed to contain case and chicory, but on simnintien of one of the eases, it was found that unisesinth a layer of chicory several fowling pieces :Ira, many of the latter revolvers, were con- The waggon being taken to the nearest military post it was discovered that all the cases con tied arms. Notwithstanding the auspicious nature at then circumstances, which are in course of inves t/On, the latest accounts of the affair tend to show that it is unconnected with polities. Further disturbances have taken place in the Ar. cliche, in consequence of the determination of the authorities to prevent the usual annual fetes from being held. Os the SW vit. 60 infantry soldiers wise mat to Vinare by the lehrefeet of Largentiere, to sedum the order of the peellas sedr =oet the holding o f the Pr of Use Owe. The ley jeit i o r t io r the 'verbs georp mew I bled, the them irsaisiii, Arr. wards the pew sob, eel a *wee et elms wee usew• many of them toadies aeries, hirers ea doe aimed heft. Orden wow thee eras re dr edam to eh ranee to dr, and um meitets was olierengok but 111 Is Not knows with what reek the debt bolos deek. Them* bevies led, dr Mar gummed at melded do am ids were sent seam seem to Isegratless. Os the day the enhvelbet sad the peeress ef the arrived at Thum with a torhounsed e llni hood urger,Whe ru fob Ina lehdr II•• lit die ewer yembeion rude, who ie a per aede• Seemod ersode wow the wipe broolf art hie aidered. Yid m. Orin merle thee the amen given is the now of the eatienetha with the Delos de Neesoure at Claressent, is la alma tie ennts hworreet. It deans to imitate the eneyeeswe nit at that Mersa is shin pallidly to a esellineal ear orrietha, la to is pan whisk the Orin kale =1 to bulk that of M. Row Ols e Marts) lislotele MO minim SA bine having Ana dieemseed et Oniant s k wee etwennally I approved. i~ SPAIN. MADRID, arr. 2. General Armero bas arrived. It is said that he accepts the Ministry of Marine. On the day of the birth of their daughter the Duke and Duchess of Mootpensier gave 6,000 real Ito regale the garrison of Seville, 4,000 reales to the public charities of the city, 0,000 reale to be distri• bated by the Cardinal-a of the diocese among religious establishosere and poor people, and 1,000 realm to the poor sad rim Besides this, bread was given to pose and heart families. Au extraordinary are ham taken place in the =tore. Freya Si dassma, the thermometer k kW M. new as low u2O, and the weathse dra gtetdingrenlip eekL , The Gana pilaw the tent et the law organis. fad fhs Oseet el Assents. Mee smart will be cow ; pond eta proilicat, stzenasehre, a treasurer, and I secretary. The actual peaddent, IL Joaquim Ganes de Limo, and the seinsMon, MM. Ramon Lopes liesqaes, Jai Chissidila, Rafael Diaz de Riven, Freseismo Reiter. • la Vega, and Lorenzo Flores Calderon, neon in their ellen t M. Francisco Tames Kern is sprinted inamer, sad M. Francis°. Donn Cortes, secretary. FLowcz.—The magnificent collection of pictures belonging to the late Yampa Rinucciai, containing theft crwetweof the Italian marten, be sold by auction at tha Riauceini Palace, en the let of Kay, 1832 vie erprefos. TO rea ./ " CORMUIPONDENTS. Proud IrAh The Via,Lo Wror nor formiefr • b philArd over W Mary alibi. la dn. ir 1. .arresarmed " Tbr tamer," Lemke Verlag pew. Vi. at !be 110" 116. Illwrrwtrort. W Two Verret ea tbe Os et patilierirs. RION WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. T „„ --Mow" lb. ibis. Ir. fras..........Arterwa. fL om. LONDON, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. all this Moat than one change in the composition of the present cabinet scans probable, if not inevitable, before the end of the year. Declining health, it is believed, will indispose a prominent and influential occupant of the Treasury bench in the Commons to resume the Liberians duties he has hitherto per formed; and the increasing infirmities of two of his colleagues render it daily less reasonable or politic to ' I impose on them once more the toils and responsibili ties incident to the coming parliamentary campaign. Fee that it will be a campaign, in the true and full misting of the term, there can be no question. The last sessions have resembled more a tedious repetition of reviews than of pitched battles. Now and then there has been a real skirmish. and then long intervals have been animated by a dropping fire from Peelites in ambush and pro tectionists at sea, —heaving to consiosally, but hardly venturing to land. But of downright hard fighting for the posseados of power or the ascendancy of any great principle, we have seen little. The whir have been content lazily to coon py their old and low entrenchments from which any coca pact and vigorous band might have driven them. Tky have almost invariably kept their flag furled. and suffered their lines to go out of repair; while, sick of inaction and insolence, the rank and file have grown thoroughly demoralised, and cannot without difficulty be kept from mutiny and desertion. Truly the time is at hand when a rally and rein vigorauon of the whole liberal party must be attempted in good earnest. If net is 06:44 why then in opposition, we must try to redeem lost character, and to pull up lee way. The world is moving on, and we cannot for ever stand still. to have the honour of maw noble and right honourable imbecilities get into their family coaches and get out of them agsza—benevo kntly breakfast, languidly lunch, and dip dine together day after day. What is V l = of a government that aoes not attempt be govern ? We can't for the life of us see why ffia Board of Control and the Privy Seal, and the %Vasil and Forests and the Secretaryship for belarlanalli not be done by machinery that might be mole to move a pair of unmeaning hands and strike appointed sounds, all for half the money, ifthanis nothing more to bo done in those d than has been, is now, or ever will be pe e Z= lll.l 4 the wooden worthies that at present positions. No wonder there is discontent among the intelligent members of the party, en s : they nee these mock ministers and burlesque erste thrust into every place which can by easy bility be left unmanned. For these arc not men; they are mere lay figures tricked out in the Windsor uniform sad stuffed with Whig straw. When the push for power comes, lumber of this kind will be only in the way. Who would follow, who would fight for them! And fight for themselves they cannot. Let the clique who set them there, look to it in time; or they may . roe it when too late. But, as we have already intimated, the clique themselves—few and fortunate although they have hitherto been—are not immortal, and not the least considerable amongst them may have ere king to seek a softer pillow than that of an office in which be has done far less than many of his dis tinguished predecessors. We know not whether the chair of the new parliament, or a fo- reign mission, may appear the more desirable to the retiring statesman. The public are far more concerned to kaaw who is likely to be his enwerner. From what melba is he to be sought for ? Of what calibre is he to be I , And of what definite colour arc to be his antecededb and his principles ? We shall not name names •. the task, at all times thankless and invidious, whys candidature for high office is in question, becomes peculiarly uninviting when the post is not yet vacant, and ellen that post is a Seem taryship of State. We prefer confining . ourselves to the assertion of those plain and incontestible rights which the popular party have in such a matter, and the neglect of which in the chaise, whenever it is made, we do not hesitate be my ought Ile be and will be considered as unprintable. It fe high time to have done with Lilly Ape. The country is weary . of this species of inns hies. Right divine in a single perms is onlielestly hard to bear ; bat there is about the shier 1111. i an air of implode& Geed sr bad heat lend isles comparison, for a Lim or altar arra be eompand with others. Fellows he lath seas. That. too. is wesethiag. Dr to be leas& er d /X:= Dar eels& ef from the nit an i = li riese astik b a y nidel‘ sothiteg definable, and eseemsig amply because they have all inter ried, or have mere and mats in common, this is West the most mass and bemired asentation we in herres—a mere meld caked and mosey making oespersey spinet the intellect, werth, wealth, and rank of the reales. To break up this odious intensification of oligarchy, and to prevent its reverfence when owe it has been prostrated. we want electoral reform es smelt as for anything else. The system has lasted too long, and all uses are sick and ashamed of it. But, as it is doomed by public opinion, and sooner or later must go, it were well if the whigs for their own sake word yield the point frankly and gradually, and above all in tune. If every dull and ;hammering cadet of the grasp-all families is not by this time jwortiled for, we cannot help it. They have had a eisar mo nopoly of imperial prey for now Ave years minter- ruptcdly ; and were it ealy far itereja sake the routine of the set we heseedorth ho deported from. This, however, is net all. The middle dosses of this merry, the inesative, creative, highly eformed, and praotioell=a the people, isomad their share in the government of the conany they have contributed men then say er than ev= t. ther ekes of the eaaverisity to reader sad free. The exclusion el great, power, save those who have ebt:: way contrived to WNW alliance with tuiereacy, is hateful in the eyes of the malcontent nosy. la the cabinet et mareentile England there is not a merchant, IKE f has there been that we an call to mind. A eiebeend trader, armed of the scares of his wealth, and vein of the raw lowers of a rank in which he is lordly seknowledned. hems me exception to the role. No eau of Weave of a groins, would ever he adulated theinm cleaves to a participation of that power w es moat theirs of right as the ttep et the right of every rats-paying householder. The monerl3f of administrative authority is as gross a fraud upea the practical talent and intelligence of the middle dress. u the maintenance of the neadastioa er the exclusion of three millions of ratepayers a voice in the representation. They are in truth part and parcel of the same corrupt sad system—the system which *ands in the e =i tin i effectual probing of our perilous social ills, and of all genuine efforts at redeeming the ignored labouring mass from Gallen and toooding enmity to the things that be. Ws cannot well embalmed the meetives of the Board of Inland Rovemeas Y extindhig, or to extend, the opeallea the; mum odium illiek . il A unproductive tax, the advertisement duty. Whether the buoy officials really Ma at reaferiag the tax mom extortionate, or whether they mar* Irish rim = the absurd rem= and at its wading, we am* my. Taber it is a NUM of MOM MOO- Sold to those gentlemen to Sim their deed set forth and feral in journals and Whidnab pais their quiet and basest mem viand drunk. of the expose suippemealba OM awaked Om pia the , goatlemen et the MUM The Ni s i Sane* of the eth er labia the ef bedmud pity tyreamp hill . " &k= met to ha I Mork, toes tits Mean et or of Ike ot optitoopoto et looortiog a 114 at " Antoolt et " I ire oituottil to Woos yak est fit obuelloomool imp sena= to sub sommoossoto mow et of Mut NMI OM say mit Y et is. Ida tho hew sowed, MI be enespd V super oar alitostlao. VENICE. The Piedmontese Gazette of Sept. 4, states that the plans of MM. Dah!crap and Bujacowich, for the organisation of the marine have been transmitted by the Emperor to Lieut. Wimpfen, the provisional com manding officer. An Admiralty council will pro bably be formed. Several Austrian cadets are about to be sent to the naval school at Copenhagen. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, SEPT. 5. Despotism is generally accused of being short sighted ; but I am about to-day to give you an instance of the long-sightedness at least of its fears and precautions. I am informed from very good authority that a radical change in the constitution of the Prussian army is in contemplation, as both the Frankfort Diet and the Prussian government think its present constitution may be eventually dangerous to authority. To show whence this fear arises, I must remind you how the Prussian army is actually constituted. Every able-bodied man in Prussia is a soldier. Thom who have received a collegiate education are obliged to serve one year in the line, and all others three years. Of these one year and three year soldiers the army of Prussia, excluding of course officers, is entirely composed. After the expiration of their tams of service these soldiers are sent to their home to follow their respective civil callings, bat they ewe not to be soldiers; they belong then to the Landwehr, are every year drilled and ex noised in military manoeuvres, and continue in this suet etimilitii service till they arrive at the age of fifty, when they are transferred to the " Sturm " veterans, who can only be called upon to take arms to repel invasion, or on some equally pressing I emergency. Now, you see, by its present constitution, the soldiery of the Prussian army undergoes almost a complete change ever.) , three years. But in these three years the recruit has become expert in all mi litary exercises, has acquired much military know ledge, and, when thus accomplished, the government loses his services, and the people, it may be, not the state, gains a stout soldier. The danger incurred by despotism is thus two-fold : Ist, it possesses no phy sisal-force arm on which it can confidently rely; and, 2ndly, a military population is formed with which it may have to contend. Hitherto, however, the army so composed has been found thoroughly effective, both in war and in peace. The government has fully relied upon it, and its con fidence has never been deceived, whilst, owing to its Marcitizen character, it has ever been held in na fond estimation by the people. Its consti tution has been an object of admiration to the whole world ; and its moral character, arising therefrom, so mtperior to that of eve other military force, has been universally acknow Of no mob-fratcr ideation has it ever been gni ty, and its patriotism, of which his Majesty of Prussia and his ministers boast so much, has ever shown itself on the side of go vernment and of authority. The distrust which the Prussian army is now pros pectively awakening must originate, therefore, in some prospective policy much more stringently de spotic than Prussia has as yet ever known. A standing army hie that which other countries pm = will be substituted, I am informed, for the gamma military organization. But exceeding ha din e - e wows will be even the attempt to effect this e . flied of this the government are aware, for it is to brought about by gradual, almost imperceptible, steps. Nevertheless, however desirable, however es modal, for the purposes in view, a mercenary anti sYim ms, be, I doubt about the enterprise bike leek undertaken. The hazard is too great. The whorls army and Landwehr, which constitute the milatres whole strength, would declare against it. Aweerious mention of the project would raise a nest edlnensts about the ears of the court; and with a Eespeoppressed discontent, wide spread throughout the nation, to alienate the affections of the army, to delve them to make common cause with the people, is what I think no cabinet will be found sufficiently isualated to do; though it is hard to say what the idli mp eseselli cabinet will not Es or where they will , in their headlong beelloperd course. A reflection hos dams mm. With • citizen army, eed a military paradise Prussia has guns ,ugh a gnat rwssindis. The dew army angpsting aeilliority, and the militia, tip showing no disposition to rise aphid it. PII M •tlll.lhst bete the world, who can say that Primula ima sevebeimesty stantry ? On the contessy, after the INC mehrialt. the Prussians have eseeied the spirit of sabsoissits and of obedience to excess. All parties here who have ever been capable of exert bee the sights* Whence would have been perfectly matist had ets government only kept to the son stational mad, however slowly and cautioady it might have awed thereon. Never were a pee* more moderate in their demands, never could a peo ple be morewilly and many, by gradual temperate indlillisd into all the advantages of Ilea freedom. Yet the great body of the nation— Asftding every lady opposed to the court—arc de eeMed by the goverment as dangerous revolutionists —es entettaining doctrines subversive of all order sn4 all soeiety—and dealt with accordingly. A standing army in place of a citizen army—will that be the end of this Cossack calumny of Prussian pa triotism ? A petition of four ultra-conservative Hamburgers to the Diet is somewhat curious, and not a little sag nifieant. These humble persons apply to the Diet to know what is to be done to hinder the subversion of the legitimate city constitution, which certain evil-dis posed parties contemplate. They am in great per plexityto know towbat authority to applymtheirclis tress ; they do not know whether thecompetency of the Band reaches their case, &c., and yet they place it with all humility before the consideration of the Band, and pray for its protection. The meaning of all this is of course to show the necessity of a federal interference in the affairs of the free cities, and these persons have no doubt been put forward with this petition, in order that the subject may be thereby advantageously introduced. There is a report of a congress of princes, in which the /taperers of Russia and Austria and the King of Praida will take the lead, during the autumn. Thk elarsas will deliberate upon general European alms, as much as upon the state of Italy and of Germany. AUSTRIA. The imperial edicts of August 20th, by which the constitution of March 4,1849, is cancelled, have been transmitted to all the ministers representing Austria at foreign courts, together with a circular written by Prince Schwarzenberg, with the object of explaining theircharneter andeffect. ThcAustrian premier com mences his circular by rapidly sketching the situation of the empire in the twat months of the year 1849. At this epoch, he says, the revolution was everywhere. After having suddenly broken out in Vienna, it spread into Hungary, and extended to the Loin bardian provinces; and this perilous situation of Austria was aggravated by the troubles of the other Germanic states. In time, however, the imperial armies obtained great advantages, and made considerable progress. It then seemed to be, before all things, the duty of the administration to find a certain site on which again to rear the unity and indivisibility of the empire and the authority of the throne ; it was thought that a constitution dealing with the country as a unit, might prove such a site, and for this reason his im perial Majesty issued the letters patent of March 4,1849. !But affairs pressed, and time was wanting to study, select, assemble, and arrange the funda mental principles on which such a constitution should repose. Those principles were borrowed from the charters or the constitutions which had been promul gated in other European states, and to speak the truth, the constitution of March 4, was nothing but a copy of foreign models. Such a work could not suc ceed; it has not succeeded. Very soon, and from all quarters, the mistakes and defects of the new scheme were made obvious. In proportion as order was re-established in the monarchy, it became more evident that the executiou of the constitution was an impossibility, that its realization could not be attempted with impunity, or, indeed, without ex posing the state to the greatest dangers. Such is the conviction of the Emperor himself, who has con sidered that the time has come for putting an end to the general incertitude, by abolishing the fiction which the act of March 4th has been nourishing, by suppressing the series of provisional measures which have accompanied that act, and by taking the de cision of the whole question to himself, to whom it exclusively belongs. The Emperor, who gave the letters patent dated March 4th, of his own free will has never bound himself to them, whether by an oath, or by any concession or abandonment of his imperial authority. lie is not, therefore, under any obligation to maiutain the letter of the constitu tion, which, on the contrary, is to be ranked among those measures R hich the sovereign, in the exercise of his plenary power, adopts, modifies, or abrogates after his own conviction, and for which he is respon sible to God alone. His Majesty, resolved to put a period to a state of things full of trouble and anxiety, has issued the ordinances of the 2nd ult. The circular then goes on to explain the meaning of ministerial responsibility, as understood by the Vi enna cabinet, and why the constitutional institutions of the empire are to besettled according to theparticu lar views of the Emperor. Prince Schwarzenberg, concludes by declaring, in the most explicit and for mal manner, that the Emperor does not intend to enter upon a policy of reaction ; he protests against any such idea. His Majesty proposes nothing but the establishment of a system of government strictly and perfectly legal ; neither will he seek to re-esta blish any of the privileges, exemptions, or excep tional positions which have disappeared within these few years, nor attack the material rights which have been acknowledged since 1848, as fur as concerns persons and property. Ens Electric Tegreyb.] Garr. 5. The subscription for the loan will be opened os Tuesday nest. THE LEVANT. ARRIVAL OF AN AMBASSADOR FROM PERSIA LN ENGLAND. Among the passengers by the Euxine which, as stated, arrived at Southampton on Saturday, was his Excellency Sketlah Khan, an ambassador from Persia to the court of St. James. He was the second fo reign ambassador which arrived at Southampton in the Oriental Company's steamers during last week, Count Lavmdio, the Portuguese ambassador, having landed at Southampton from the Montrose a few days previous. As an accredited ambassador direct from the court of Teheran has never been known in this country some considerable interest was excited in Southampton by the arrival of his excellency. He is a fine handsome man, about forty years of age. He was dressed in the costly and p!eturestine costume worn by the highest ranks in Persia. The sleeves and collar of his cloak were ornamented with gold embroidery; the clasp of his girdle was studded with diamonds, and a bril-1 liant star was suspended on his breast. He wore the high conical cap of the Persian country. He was accompanied by a dragoman and a servant. An extensive suite accompanied him from Persia to Turkey, nearly the whole of which he took leave of at Constantinople. On arriving at Southampton, the ambassador claimed the courtesies from the go vernment authorities, invariably accorded to the accredited representatives of foreign countries. Unfortunately, however, the Custom-house au thorities had received no notice of his anti cipated arrival, nor any Treasury order to pass his baggage, consisting of about 30 packages, without examination. His excellency stated that Sir Stratford Canning, our ambassador at Conatunti tinople, was aware of his mission to England, and had engaged to acquaint the English government with it. It appears that the Persian Ambassador was stopping with Sir Stratford during his stay in Con stantinople. Of course all the courtesy which the autho rities at Southampton could show the ambassador consistent with their imperative duties were shown him, and telegraphic announcements to the government departments in London were sent by them stating the arrival of the ambassador and soliciting imme diate instructions how to act. Although the Shah of Persia is independent of the Sublime Porte, the Ottoman vice-consul at Southampton, Mr. Jourdain, telegraphed to the Turkish embassy, and almost im me&ately received instructions from bL Mussurns, the Turkish ambassador, to pay the representative of the Shah every respect and attention, but unfortunately these instructions came too late, for his excellency bid left Southampton for London by an early train, apparently displeased with his reception in South ampton, and leaving all his baggage in possession of the Custom - house authorities. - On - his arrival at the railway station, to proceed to London by the 11.30 a.m. train, the railway authorities paid him every respect, and the superintendent of the station gave him a coupper for himself and secretary. The ambas sador reached Constantinople by way of Trebisond and the Black Sea. During his voyage in the Euxine he sat at table in the saloon with the other passeers, and was not more particular in his diet than liberal Masselmen usually are. lie drank his tea out of a glees tumbler, making it sweet and hot, without milk or cream. He rigorously abstained from wines and spirituous liquors. He smoked much. His manners on board during the voyage were extremely gentlemanly, and he is evidently a man of education and refinement. He cannot speak English. His secretary, and who acted as dragoman, is a true born Persian, and was educated in India. After the de parture of his excellency from Southampton, orders were received there from the government to allow him all the rights and privileges accorded to ambas sadors of the highest rank. It is probable that the accident to the United States steam-frigate Mississippi, referred to in Saturday's Express, will alter the present des tiny oi Kossuth, and instead of being taken direct from Turkey to the United States, his wishes will be 'gratified by visiting England first. It is highly probable now that Kossuth , will embark at the Dardanelles on board the l'enin- solar and Oriental Company's steamer Tuguq, which calls there on the 20th of this month, and if so Kos suth, his family, and his distinguished fellow-captives will arrive in Southampton Water about the sth of next month. AMERICA. THE CUBAN EXPEDITION. Shortly before eleven o'clock on Saturday night, the British and North-American Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Ryrie, arrived in the Mersey from New York direct, which port she left on the 27th alt. at noon, thus performing the passage in ten days ten hours. The Africa brings the usual mails from the United States and the British Provinces, 73 pas mongers, and 831,333 dollars in specie on freight. On the 28th ult., when one day out from New York, she signalled a steamer, supposed to be the Asia; and on Saturday night, at a little before eight, she passed the Europa from Liverpool, which steamer was taking the north course on her outward run, as the Africa did on her homeward passage. The chief topic of interest in the United States, am well as here, is the Cuban expedition. In the southern states of America, indeed, that interest has amounted to a perfect fury of excitement, which in ' some places has manifested itself in actual riots. The fate of Lopez, as far as we have received advices, re mains uncertain. The government of the United States have despatched a frigate to Havana, with in structions to inquire into the circumstances attend ing the capture and execution of the American citizens recently shot at that place. An investiga tion will also be had into the firing upon the Falcon 'by a Spanish cruiser. The government continue to take the most stringent measures against the viola tion of the law by Americans, in engaging in an ex pedition against Cuba. From Mexico we have some very important items of news, although the affairs of that country seem to remain in a very disastrous state. Our dates arc to the 22nd July, when Congress was still in session, but little business was transacting, the chambers almost every day adjourning for want of a quorum. The pecuniary embarrassments of the government remain without relief. No plan for obtaining a re venue has been adopted. A convention of the go vernors of the several states has been called to meet in the capital on the 10th of August, fur the pur pose of considering the present condition of the finances, and suggesting a plan fur the relief of tho treasury. This convention is summoned at the in stance of the minister of finance, but the measure is condemned by the chambers and by public opinion generally. It was considered doubtful, in view of the objections lying against the proposal, w hether the convention would be actually held. A good deal of excitement has been produced by the publication of the letters of Payne to the presi dent of the committee of Mexican bondholders in ... - London. It seems that the assertion of Payno that he was Charge' d'Affaires of the Mexican legation to London, and was commissioned to adjust certain matters pending in Europe, was entirely destitute of foundation. On the publication of the letter con taining these statements, and others equally untrue, a resolution was introduced into the Chamber of Du puties, inquiring . by what authority Payno had re ceived the appointment of Charge, and how much ' money was appropriated to his mission. The minis ters replied that Payno had never received the com mission from the government, but that 20,000 dole. had been applied to defraying the expenses of the voyage. In consequence of this information, a com plaint was lodged against the former ministers of finance And of foreign relations. The affair was also taken up by the senate, which has recommended Lacunza as minister to England. The appropriation of the church property to the necessities of the government has been warml y, re commended by some of the public journals. fhe estates of the clergy and of various religious incor porations amount to 50,000,000 dollars. 'Phis sum, which has been accumulating in unproductive hands for the last three centuries, it teas main tained, would save the country from bankruptcy and ruin. The Junta l'atriotica, a body of men for the purpose of regulating the annual celebration of the Nlesican independence, has been dissolved by the president, their regulations not being approved by the govern-. ment. An abortive attempt at a pronunciamento in favour of Santa Anne has been made in Guanajato. The plot, which probably had plunder for its chief object, was diseoveredbefore it had come to maturity, and the leaders were taken into custody. A revolution has broken out in Chiapas, aiming at the abolition of the internal custom-ho'isec. Colonel Munoz, commanding the battalion of Guerrero in Tehuantepec, was ordered to proceed to Chiapas and aid the government party in the suppression of the rebellion. His men began to desert soon after the commencement of the march, and before he had ad- vaned fifty miles from Tehuantepec he had not more than 70 men. The revolt is headed by Mel dono, one of the wealthiest and most influen!ial men in the state. _ Our correspondent writes as follows : NEW YORK, Arc. 27. Up to Sunday last the greatest uncertainty pre vailed with regard to the news from Cuba. In my' i last I sent you copious extracts from tho letters re ceived here from Havana. Since then tho story of the shooting of fifty Americans, who were captured on their way along the coast in four launches, is fully con fi rmed, and there is no doubt the greatest indignities were practised upon the remains of the' unhappy dead. No doubt the Spanish authorities were justified in making a terrible example, but in mutilating the lifelessbothes of men who met their fate with a heroism worthy of a better cause, they have most . assuredly laid up for themselves the most bitter reta liation. This Cuba question is a difficult and delicate ono. . t If the rule be, once a colony always a colony, then there is no more any relief from oppression. Cube - is the worst governed territory in the world. It is even worse than old Spain. The most detestable ro: ligious bigotry, the most oppressive restrictions Oa;., commerce, and the most painful restraints on per sonal liberty,are there concentrated. The government is a bloody, political. and religious inquisition; and the large majority of the people sweat and gram under a weary life. The question is whether, under,„ these circumstances, they are not as much entitled to. the sympathy of the protestant world as were tint .. Greeks, or as have been the Spaniards sad; , Portu in the days when England allowe4- b • to be caroled for the protection or , humanity. I cannot very well see the differ-,,, once. (hubs, as a republic ander the guarantee of England and the Umted States, would become is; • nation, and a nseftil friend of both. Why it should exist merely for the purpose of sustaining the /go. tligato court of Spain, a country almost without pile of decency and civilisation, is more than I MN understand. I believe that it will be free, and ilia " manifest destiny "much quickened by the li ',, idea! that the Cubans have gained by their pet , lui:1 course with the United States will hasten the era .1 its emancipation. The popular feeling just now in the United States is entirely in favour of giving aid and assistance to the Culiims ; and Mr. Arebster's opinions, expressed when he was secretary of state on a similar occasion some years ago, are now revived as evidence that he will not allow this bloody execution to pass 112110 tined. When the execution was about taking place, the crew of the sloop of war, Albany, lying at Havana, asked permission of Cap t ain Randolph to go ashore and rescue their countrymen. The intelligence which ws have of the movements towards and in Cuba is up to this moment very con tradictory, but highly important. There is no doubt but that oonsiders,ble accessions to the forces of the invaders from the United States are going on, and the steamer Pampero, which took out Lopez ,has not only appeared boldly off Havana, and been signalled from the Moro, but has landed her forces, and re turned to the southern coast for more. Two or three ' steamers have also taken c ver reintormments. It wont pectic the!, and , creol is, ill on. 411, U 1 of N ton, At thu gus the hoe dot isla ago 1 dcl. of t 10(1 len