The Express. — London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

itantotto Mammas), Nov. 25.—We hod • fair tep id, et pato. Wkut, 6a. U. to 9.. Jd. ; Oat% 2a. U. to pi. 3d. liortoy. Si. to Si. 61. Bow, Co. 6d. to Si. per bead. Taitateerssl i Wee. 16.—We have bat a moderate sandy ef this bat demand is limited, and the trade Idasealba p dell. Wheat, for the bat pea* sweaty =MN= prim; kaferser sorts ere .hear * /Sway 4 r kip la per qr. lower, Aare parti wad* De slatsailealhasp quality. Brans and Per ewes; . her Inquired In. 140 alteration to Oata Wheat. vliNq Na la ids.; rid, 46.. to 6V. Dation Als. 321. ; ;taw. ila Wass, asw, its. to 3.55. Y.••. 38.. 411. OW, SOL lie. pet er. KIN,ICALDT, Nov. 16.—The washer kyles the week has bees sway sad Isointerem lad a Pea 4.5101 vall has sewessanse el whist Whist mak; ka hen see peak& At ear aunty stokes this week we had mama sank* ri all Ida& of area. the deka& wee flew far Wheat sad Darby, at prick It faker of the b= Oak wen ask loquired after, sad were the tans this law week. Here kday we bad rather a eaten ef Meet, the coalition of whisk wee lush anted ;V wet weather. Saks wok easeedkilp Aar, at shoat 2e. per qr. mamba week't rase. We had peed ranks of BaeW sad Creir. Math sold et about 6d. pr qr. below lost sew Itebdies earreasy. Want, 445. to 56.. per qr. Haley, Ma AL to 30s. Oats, 17a. 6J. to Zia Oiterea4 per bed et fiNbe. Wt. HA113117a41, Nov. 13.—Wheat: Polish, 115 135; Ask. see M. d, red, in 136; white 137 ISA ; mart& * Broadish. Ito 136• Wei. Itssa., 1111 137; Helier* 110 131; lame 117 1111.-11,14 ask Med., 64 10; Mute . Meek.. Fem. 111 /I Ifterhu.llll 0.-1//11 M.U. ant Oder, 33 61; Masa ad ANL, So Si; lIPMf Ma. IMMO, 46 31; pato (.skew), 4. 14.--13614: Skek. int Usladre. SI 41 ; Lower Elbe, a 3 Bum 34 II; 1.01.113 SO; Velar" 1111; Sipe seed, 1 331443. 1 HAY. Aro dank.—Mesers. Cooper ari Davie lepers trade vrty = w rotive As, so tows ..thes Pt 1 I Maw /3t. t0t3.11.1~....dakt0 1111. CATTLE, 8,:c.-Total of Lank received in London by the Leers Castles Railway, for the week ending Nov. 25:-BeadsV6s; Calves, 90; Shen, 6,873; Pip, 104. COLCIIINTIM, Nov. 23.-The show of Sheep was very baited, end this demand 'streusel, slack ; last week's rims wen not maintained, rent for the best qualities. Then wars several lota of good fat Beast., scarcely any of which were disposed of until neasly the close of the market, whoa the majority were sold teal. Lowdon Weser, at a decline of from 2to 3 per cent. upon last wtok's rates. Lean stock nontinems to hare on hand. and only a few lots of the palmist qualities could find pureiresere as prices equal to those et last week. Salts were more easily affected in Pig., bet with no particular alteration In p ri ces. Supply : Sheep, 1,010 Berta 247 ; Pigs, 264 ; Calves, 8 ; Horns, 30. HAE.Donoro ea Fan, Nov. 23 aid 4.-A full fair, and well attend. 4. Sales were briik. Some pens of very Sao Cotswold Withers made Is. each mon money than the prices given at other fairs last week. Ferst.rate Downs al o ors. neandod raker higher prices. There was 11404 good demand for flarvate Ewes for breeding. and Lambs for stn k. There wore several per of Ewes, having Lambs by their side, whisk 'old at from 48s. to 30s. r complier. Some tios Darer Herr, down lambing, reached 460.; Down, 45e. ; soma quality, quality, 40s. w 42s. ; large Wetheva, 425. to 411 . ; moderato, 36a. to 3eis. ; Ter. at trim 33., to 361. bed ; s-cond.rate, 30a. to 32.. ; eat Writers, of hest quality, fall mouthed, wade 4s. W. to 41. 101. per stone of 811 i. ; sccond•rate, two and font-tooth, 4s. to 4s. 6.1. ; fat Ewes end so:and-rate Shoop, 4s. to 4a. W. Large Herefords, Drier, and Start bons were In good number, yet but tow found yar dmen% though offered at much lower prices ; smaller threoryeubld Beasts sold rather better, yet they had to go at a considerable sacrifice to th e sell s. Nonwthz, Nov. 2.5.-Oar market exhibited a very liege show of Bests, Snort-horns, Irish, and, and other settle; wide may be sossidered the wont for weeks past, and men thee bait the B.s roman unsold. Fat Beasts, nano worth nisdr. The peas wen badly tilled; Sheep and Lambe met with a dull pale, sad late ratio were barely supported. Pat Shsee 7s. to 71. 6d. per same, with a slow demand. Goad mere Pap, blie. to 30e. pm lard. Fat Pork, 75. per Mom of 1411 m. IbIAPTISNITRT Pus.-Then wen more than usual of Ism MUM NOM the surroaadiag counties, as well SS Oat of North sod Both Wales. Trade ix all lowa of largo Seeds isa sLck, ar:11 smelt lager ; dealers declare that they Wow taut so post a fall in to short a Um as they have as =sines beginning of last October, many of teas sues the sad Short•honsa Wog warts less by 31. per heed wow tout what was gives for them thee; then wen nos sold, yet many left without thriving meatus. Fine Owewyeer old Oast sold at 111 to 121. each; others at from • to 101 ; seat black cattle, at from 61. to 71. ; ties heifers, awor waiving, let, same se low as 101. • Cows an Cal{ with their third, at 141. to IM. ; eismooth . Calves, at U. to 4/. • ewe um* 302 A goad show of Sheep, seasisti Dews; hem Wilts sad Dorset, hums and kali-brads teem Dwws sad Seesseret. The holders were moan for am advance ; but ia wy few lastmoss did they obtain each. At about the pearly all sold. Some Au Duvet Wethen nuked 48.. seek; flalfebrode, 462 ; Duras, 432 to 44e. ; Ewes forward la lamb (hens) fetched 48e. ; mast, 4i. Tip mkt quickly, at 116 e. to 465. seek. Toe finest peat of Imp Lembo were up Wham 345. to 36e. sash ; moderate, 211 e. to 302 • smiler, SOL to 24a. Then were maay very saps also litt'llbsep; UM largest 160eolit when sold at Olt to 7d. per lb.; sous wry owpwrior Dowse reached Tid. ; ord6 eery Sheep sad he beim Imes hardy noshed ed. Down MARTINMAS Pus.-This I the last of the year tithe larger Scottish trysts. The weather was wet through eat the whole day. The supply of both Sheep sad hack Cattle wee sot to large as usual at this fair, and seemed to owesist meelly of the outwales of former seukets of Sheep; bleshheed EMS seemed to feet the principal part of the Meek sad sold at frost lit. to 151. each. There seemed to be no Wadden is the market. Oa the whale, it may he mid, that sash Sheep as were sold wen 2s. a bead below the pieta °biased at Doom Letter Fair, held about a =oath ago. This supply of black cattle was also small, sad priest ems* be quoted cheaper them at last Maas market. Berke ;mid at from 21. to 41. ; two•mar•oble, from 41. 10s. to 61. 102 Low country cattle : Mirka, 41. 10s. to 61. 10a. ; two year.olds, 41. 102 to 81 ; Calving Cowchoto 71.7 u to 91.9 a. ; a tow ;latish besets sold at about es ed. to 7s. ed. per Data stem. The Hone searket was thialy supplied, aid es Maly attended as ordinary li draught ons bruserlst from 101. to 261.; a few poales sound, at prices varying fres 61. to 101. Fee' palmist& inambeis ace ha pap. the Op:profs. ens bend, sail" shiellnot" os the othsr. Awl tie @MIAMI dIOSIMINft we publish today samosas* the total diewidlas title Sway, on the Leaden sad North Wadies b• ad reboil of the reastitation c=shr taw • Weld: while the previous a the Western, that they ne se to moss* the heath Wedges with as =Doh fa es over rie the Windsor exteatios—the " =a besty • sotwithstrding—will swab say one to eatimate the pastas value of the segodatisa in g o t q uitter. Os the wbob view of the owe mosey alba that thew surely never was a whom of squid naiads& were bully brought forward than this bee '-enoed on a basis man radically an - ontsialy doomed to failure mend; and 'men by the very principle, plan, and essential owe &time of the arrangement. The result we foretold last week is already consummated; the'rope of mod has dissolved. The hopelessness of en attempt to unite these adjacent bodies on the principle of keeping them virtually separate as he as any useful purpose of junction is concerned, the radical vice of this design, has broken up the intended league at the first step taken to settle positive terms of mien. The absurdity of calling the public to arms against an abortive proposal like this, the ridicule of raising such a bray of rage and alarm as it provoked from the nmes, in ignorance of the nature of the plan or its chances of success, without even an inquiry how far it might be feasible, before denouncing it as formidable—this diverting exhibition has rarely been excelled by any public blunderer or blusterer whatever. The readers of the ltrpress have already been somewhat better informed ; and, for the facts now et ficially made known, they have accordingly bees duly prepared. The scheme, as we told these lately, could never hare been in any way alarming to the public, for this conclusive reason—if for no other—that it could never be eon summated is the way and for the object sought by its ant cos; nor could it be so altered as to assume any mire practical or probable character on ground to which they would sweat. It is scarcely necessary to add, with respect to a design doomed from its very birth to impote ce, that it was one which neither the reepr sentatlves of the national system of railways, nor the nation itself 'mild properly sanction. It arose, as we have said, in the desire of the exceptional party to make good, at the expense of its neighbours and with a positive denial of the only conditions that could recommend any union, that false and injurious posi tion to which it has condemned itself—to the manifold Wary of its own prospect., of the railway body at large, and of the national interests concerned in tree veiling and traffic, by adopting the crotchet of an engineer unluckily ambitious of singularity with( at regard to its consequences. Some of these consequences are now beginning to press heavily on his followers in this imprudence; and we may trace in the amal , smation project not only the wish to escape from its effects, but also the obstinate determination, in spite of them, to give up no single iota of the cause. It will have struck any sensible reader of the resolutions that, to re tain the difference of gauge as a prime condi tion of the treaty, is precisely to deprive it of the only feature that could renter a com bination worth seeking by the other parties to this negotiation. It was, in ether words, to say that the several railway bodies shall be made one is ✓espect of expenditure, debts, obligations, Isms, is., consequent upon the battle of the gauges, bat should remain as utterly disunited as ever in these practical conditions of gauge that favour interchange of traffic , and the profitable working of a joint business : is Mort, that all which could render an amalgamaden of interests reasonable or valuable Meal& be left set of the question, and that the only object at the treaty should be to obtain an indemnity to the author of the past confusion, for which this main point of uniformity would be the only sufficient compensation. It would have been, indeed no common triumph of dexterity to have accomplished an adjustment of the maim be this lop-sided fashion. The Morning Herald, which, we observe, is always i very promptly nformed of what is said and wished,* Paddington, unconsciously gave some curious revela tions on this had in a leading article of yesterday. It let out the fact that on the matter which called forth the objections from the London and North Western, sad which has broken up the whole arrauge. meat, the Great Western deputies had insisted, with the v'ew of preventing any future limitations even of the evils of discordant g auges , that the North Western members of the joint board should be excluded from such discussions. The future consti tution of a joint board and of its quorum was accordingly to be ordered on a quite peculiar principle of representation, on the ground " of the wisdom of an arrangement which, in some special ass (LOIN invoking the gauge) made the rotes of the groat Western section If the board equal to that of the two other sections." One dime not know what most to admire in this revelation—the modesty or the hope- fulness of such a purpose as a means to future him may, or the ingenuous confeseion of a deign to place one exceptional party on a footing of fall equa lity with the other two; toequalise, in short, in &joint deliberaticg body the minority with the majority ; to give the millions as many votes as thirty-two. The view thus innocently revealed by the Morning Herald shows at once how truly we stated the real origin and character of the scheme, and the improbability of carrying to any practical ex tent whatever the adjustment of conflicting details by • diresiou founded in accordance with it. The wells tie New Muth Wass, Vw Mara% Lad, sad New BMW mill he weds up we the wafter the 10th Mar. Ile was hr the Welt Cosa et gar dad Nadeau will le wage apes Daewielag et the Mk Nem tee mile ter BMW North LIIMIRION eat the United Sat% wi Ibe web astir mein et t .letDia The Welt Notht. laikuttag laraula, Nowa ezeleWa, Haawas, Ma=New Odra% mad Naziectg than Jumde.tilcuraiva. New O , nes* CIA art Pim will be Erb tip ea the neesilas of the led Dee. The uJis ter UMW" the Nreslle. est Imes Ayres, will be lei up ea the emits tithe 4th Die. The wits ter Vim o= t rbsa. OAK sad Means Mil be wale ca the et the Dee. ne doled male. Ilawallea. is the Nediterresew, =A". 0 •0 28 4 MIK smizam win be nude up es the et the tut Dia The eemeteM mile kr ONwilia, Melte. Orem, the loelma Iskaes. loaf. Adis. ORO" Neapiewt. owl OW% ao aosump los. wiil be wale wee the efarefhig - o the Mb Doi. WAIIIIII AT LONDON lIID4III. 11= 1133 .. . I ma. II Olft man 3. 1/433•4434.33 min pent S. gra Is 413•Akera. 51.. led 4. LONDON, TUESDAY. NO V. 28 . YESTERDAY morning the 7Trnes was positive that the directors of the three great railway companies were meeting, day . after day, to complete their amal gamation with sincerity of purpose and probability of emcees.' It sneered complacently at our "rather bold minutia* to the contrary, hazarded a few days ince." This the Times did on the strength of doca manta which we published yesterday, containing an interchange of " protests" and " objections" between the South Western and the Great Western magnates, showing that these companies had assumed positions entirely incompatible. And, while the gobemouelso who pin their faith to the Times were (swallowing and digesting this egregious specimen of the l og i c of Printing house-square, a circular from the directors of the North Western Railway to their shareholders (which we publish to-day) was actually passing through th e press, declaring that as "the directors are not pre pared to recommend to their shareholders to proceed with the proposed bill, it homes my duty to inform you that there is no longer any necessity to request your attendance eitber_personally or by proxy on the 13th of December." The bubble has burst while the Times was in the act of proclaiming it a solid globe : so much for the sagacity and prescience of the "lead ing journal." It will be seen from the documents we published yesterday how exactly the official statement corm speeds in every essential particular with what we said last week ; whether as regards the evident origin of the treaty; the loose and merely prelimi nary nature of the agreement produced by it; the exclusion of the sole point en assimilation, namely, of the discrepant s y s t ems t h at cou ld alone make any special combination advan tageous to the parties, or useful to the pub lic; or as to the confusion likely to appear the instant any practical attempt should be made to unite these virtually discordant elements, on the principle of retaining their essential . points of difference. It will be men that, even at this early stage, the proems bad given signs of a felling out on bath sides with the first moven hi the business; and it mast be allowed that a combination, which would hereafter be called up 'n to adjust many difficult matters of detail, looks an' rill ni-ing enough, when it cannot even reach the first general protocol without " protests " on the Ofea of the two presidential contests, to the issues of which the world has, for some time back, been look ing with no little anxiety, has terminated, and has, in its result, justified the expectations of the friends of social order and international peace. General TAYLOR is president-elect of the American Republic. The official declaration of his election will not be made until February next, when it will be pronounced in the Senate In presence of the Hones of Represen tatives. It is not technically cornet, therefore, to lay that he is yet elected—the only step as yet taken being the choice of the electoral colleges in the dif ferent states, an which devolves the election of resi dent. The election of Oen. TAYLOR is, therefore, so far, but an inference from the fact, that, being the Whig candidate, a majority of the aggregate number con stituting all the electoral colleges are whige, and re turned as his adherents. It is quite competent, how ever, for the electoral colleges in the States, which have goes for him, to cast their votes, when they meet, in favour of another party, but this, unless they were impelled to it by same extraordinary change in opinion in the ranks of the party itself, they are by no means likely to attempt. Although General TAY- Loa, therefore, is not yet actually president elect, his election is now so certain that we may regard the event as already alai accompli. It is not so much upon the encores of the indivi vidual as upon that of the party that we have at this moment to congratulate ourselves. These are days when violent men on either side are to be avoided, and when the rulers wanted are men of moderate views, as firm in pursuing a conciliatory policy at home as in maintaining tranquillity abroad. It is the moderate party that has triumphed in America, and the election of General TAYLOR is bat the evi dence of its success. The pacific aspirations of the party are fully typified in the views of its candidate. Although his profession is that of war, General TAYLOR is a man of peace. The duty which devolved upon him in Mexico he performed reluc tantly but gallantly. His moderation in victory was equal to his skill and courage in battle. The rapidity with which he rose in the estimation of his country men excited uneasiness in the micd of Mr. Pock, not only as to his own chances of re-election, but also as to the continuance of the ascendancy of his party. He accordingly checked the caner of his victorious gene ral at Monterey, and thought that he had sipped in the bud the civic honows which seemed to be blossoming for him, by sending General Bcorr to reap the chief glories of the campaign in the heart of the Mexican republic. But, like many other politicians, more astute than ingsauous, he overshot his mark. The game was pal pable, and this unmanly persecution of one who had only done his duty too well, endeared him all the more to his him& By the month of May last, the events of year had sufficiently developed them selves to teach the moderate party in America the ce croaky of having a moderate man at the helm during text presidential term. In nominating " Old and Ready „ as their candidate, their judg meat accorded with their inclinations, and it seems like a retribution on Mr. Pout that the first instru ment which he employed in his aggressive war against Mexico should now return to dispossess him of his exalted poet. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVZNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1848. rogral , stmosPbsP sw.r/1- 11 " mara n• bitga with expiate roam= = 41:: it wield have beim highly dangerous to bun bed a fleebened se for t he lent lbw years the resideatial ehte i r arf/addarees. His en di moue that we have recess to eerie, at the Meg of General Cass. This man ism essedrated, that even in times of pro. Amami ftsairillity, be would have been dangerous and diffienitte deal with. His hatred to England se es 1n we and quite is inexplicable as is that of a ball to 'maks( markt; and he is quite as rut', reckless of erussquarres, to dash at the object which modes Ids in. In a time like the present I I his mem maid have greatly added to the political perplesilim in which the world is drawly involved. To sem was this more apparent titan to his own conatryesee t and many, whose political ora -1 pathies sea Idestied with his own, but who preferred peace to . a rely *lime" either voted agate* him, or abstaiaed hem iet on that account. With so tempting a rine ss Cabs before his eyes, nothing is men likely than that he would have been ambitious of eirselising its administration by some libelous ear nisi. And, indeed, it is as well that the rumoured nerdistion concerning that Island, at Madrid, had set bass circulated earlier in the presi dential ounpaige, se awkward pledg es might have been exacted in respect to it. By TAYLOR'S Inc. MIN CASS has net only been defeated, but also virtually laid apes the shelf. Site the death of General HARBISON, a math after his inauguration, and the experience eibieh the Union had, consequent upon that event, of Mr. TYLER, both parties are of nominating men very tar advanced in life to the presidency. By the time the nominations take place in NU General CASs will be superannuated. We may, therefore, congratulate ourselves, if not upon his entire withdrawal from public life, at least upon an end being put to his power for mischief. W. shall hear no more of him, unless he returns to his innocuous bluster in the Senate. it isse sot 00111 e as get to this sibioseineal In the case of Mr. DISRAELI. lierwlitsry dulness has not gaits done with him yet; end lordly incepasity still hates the owner of Taraworth more than It scorns the tenant-at-will of Backinghemshire. Collectively the tones fear returning to the hard yoke of Pm., more than they resent the obligations of vengeanoe they are forced to confess to Dzewst.r. They are not wholly unoonacions, too, of their helpless condition In peril& limes whir., eines Lord (#EOIOI BENTINCK:II loss, they are literally reduced to • state bordering on , 1 mental destitution. Plenty, there is nothing for it next session bat an incessant display of rhetorical fireworks, and there is consequently no choice but to keep their only sparkler in good humour. Possibly he himself moreover seeks, by • refinement of pliability and outer mhos of self-denial, to outwit his distrusted and distrusting patrons. True I he has made them as a party what they are. True ; he found them dumb and lent them articulate speech. True; he found them blinded by imbecile rage, and he showed them a way of present revenge, if not distinct means of recovering what they had eei, defrauded of True ; be has been for then diving the last three years and more, the scheming brain, and versatile pen, the ready hand, and unscrupulous tongue—without which the inorganic mass of protectionism must ever have con tinued without form and void. And such being his incomparable fitness for command, and unrivalled claim to fill the vacant post of lmder, it is possible that he is willing to save himself f rom the humilia tion of being openly rejected on the oondition that he is furnMhed with a suitable donkey, whom he may ride or drive at will. A thorough-bred donkey it must be—ducal blood would be preferred—docility of temper is indispensable—and, saga bent, he must be able to work for any length of time on fasting fare, such as nettles, bitter herbs, or the like. But— If Bee had a donkey that would but go, Do you think that he'd Wray him 2 —No, Do, no. He'd coax. and encourage, and puff him so, That you'd hardly the creature know. Where to fled one, however, is the difficulty. The aged Haulms is too feeble, and the youthful NEWDE %Tit too obstinate; STAFFoRD has too much of the skittish piebald look, much prized by lovers of *fancy team and the traces of early drudgery en other avo cations are too palpable in HENLEY and in Law. Were the last-named even like his brother of Som. nanth-gates renown, an effort might be made to do with him for • stage or two, until better could be found; but VIVL%N GREY is far too shrewd to trust himself anew upon the slippery pens ssinerem of protection with so armoire a stepper. No choice seems, therefore, to remain, save that between the very reverend baronet who sits for Oxford Uni ver.ity and RUTLAND's stammering heir. Nor is it clear that either of these would appre ciate the distinction of being made prime puppet in the dizzy show; or agree to talk and walk as his flattering but exacting master-in-private would require. Cramming occasionally, cramming even occasionally is hard work enough, to those who have not been used to it ; but to be compelled to cram upon all subjects of either political, or domestic importance that may arise, not for a week, or two, or three, but for month after month during half the year, with no higher hope than that of being puffed in the Murning Herald, and cheered " amidst much laughter," by the most diligent and deliberate of backers, such a prospect may well appal the self-devo tion of a stouter heart and harder face than that of poor Lord GRANItY. No wonder that in such a state of things, wistful looks should recently have been directed towards the email bat efficient band who held fast by PEEL so long as he would suffer them, and who now, with the instinct of self-preservation, seem disposed to hold fast by one another. As destitute of troops as the country party is for want of officers, the mutual necessities of the two sections would indicate the wisdom of their reunion. But then who is to command, and under what flag are the combined forces to be arrayed ? Atter being tricked into defeat on the corn law in Pith, to assent, without any deception, to an abrogation of the navigation laws, is too much for protectionism to gulp; and to take rank subordi nate under shallow LINCOLN or slippery Gi.snirrons, is more than one so vastly their superior in fame and intellect as Dlsettett can be expected to brook. Hence the summary withdrawal of the flag of trooe lately waved by Lord STANLEY; and hence the renewed bitterness of recrimination and reproach to which the organs of the rival houses of toryism have aban doned themselves. But however sincere our approbation of the charac ter of the new American President, and of the princi ple of his party in their foreign policy, we cannot forget their inveterate attachment to commercial protectieo. Prominent amongst the articlesof their political creed Is their advocacy of a high tariff. It is certainly not to support the tariff bill of 1816 that Ocn. TAYLott has been elected by the whigs; at least it was not et the understanding that he would do so, that he received the suffixges of Pennsylvania. His success indicates to a certain extent reaction out of doors ; but it is not conclusive as to there being any immediate danger of reactionary measures in the legislature. General TAYLOR, without the two Houses of Congress, is impotent, in this respect. For the time being he has got the lower house with bins, but there is yet a decided democratic majority in the senate, the mem bers of which are not to be managed like a flock of sheep, or to be cajoled, like some other upper houses that we know of, into obedience to the behests of the government existing for the time being. Any bill, therefore, which might pass the House of Repre sentatives of a decidedly reactionary character would be disposed of without a hearing in the senate. But it remains to be proved that the House of Represen tatives is disposed to approve of such a measure, al though the whigs are in the majority. What indictment can they prefer against the bill of 1846? they must ad mit that it has disappointed their hopes and falsified their predictions. They foretold, and earnestly hoped for, as its result, a largely deficient revenue—instead of which the exchequer has overflowed. They pre dicted the ruin of the home manufacturer, instead of which he has flourished as before, at the same time that there have been increased consumption and com fort amongst the muses. They prophesied that the American could not compete with the European farmer in the English markets, instead of which, he has poured his accumulated products unceasingly upon our shores. In what then has the bill of 1846 failed? If in no one object, for which it was framed, why seek to disturb it ? It has failed in one thing which, however, was not amongst the objects for which it was framed— it has failed in giving the manufacturers the protec tion which they desire. It is on this plea, then, alone that they can seek to overthrow it ; and even, if the bulk of the party has the hardihood to admit that their policy is grounded on such selfish considerations, we much question whether the whigs from the south and west, which are meet benefited by free trade, will be found ready to stand by them. These two great sections of the country cannot now consent to return to the tariff bill of 1842, or to anything ap proximating to it; and if the whigs attempt it, it will no longer be open the plea of providing for the re emus, but for the selfish and unmistakable object of making money invested in a par ticular manner more profitable than that in vested in any other; an object which they can only fulfil through the instrumentality of a body, whose constitutional power is limited to the imposition of taxes for the sole purpose of raising a revenue, and net for the protection of any one interest at the ex pense of another or of all others. If any such attempt is made, the eouth and west will indignantly crush it. There was at one time reason to fear that the deans crate would recede a little to conciliate Pennsylvania, whose mining interests suffered most by the reduc tions of duties effected two years ago, and which has, as anticipated, revenged itself by going over to the whigs. But this it has done by so trifling a majority as scarcel, to constitute the whig triumph in it into a very decided demonstration against de mocratic policy ; and the state elections next year will in all probability restore her once more to the demo- cratic fold. Oar congratulations on the MOM of Gen. TAYLOR need therefore be alloyed with no serious apprehen sions. With Case we should have had free trade, but in ominous juxtaposition to the mcbability of inter- national difficulty. A high tariff with peace is prefer- able to free trade and war. Indeed, the two latter are incompatible, war being in effect the highest of all tariffs. But with Gen. TAYLOR we have the pros pect or continued peace, with only a very remote possibility of commercial reaction. Republics are accused of being prone to war. In this instance, the American republic has given a prac tical contradiction to the assertion. We trust that the other great republic, which has, as yet, but oom pleted its birth, will hasten to imitate the example. With Cacaos= and TAYLOR at the helm of affairs in their respective countries, the world might breathe freely for a while, which is more than it could do, with CABB and Louis BONAPARTE. Whatever may be the fate of popular governments in Europe, a greater testimony could not have been afforded of the stability of democratic institutions in America than that just offered by the calmness with which twenty millions of people, nattered over so vast a surface, anlreresenting so many conflicting interests, have proceeded, in a time of almost universal political ex citement, to that which is the greatest trial of their system—the election of a chief magistrate. And it is not =instructive to obsematat, whilst so many eye tems have been tottering around us, and whilst it has been so fashionable to malign the people as in every instance the sole cause of the wrecks which have taken place, and the confusion and anarchy which have prevailed, the only political fabric which has not only stood firm amid the storm, but has not even been assailed by a menace, is that which rests upon a purely democratic basis, which, in fact, begins and ends in the people. All which, indeed, is very natural and not unamas ing ; but we still recur to our first interrogatory— what is Mr. DISRAELI to do for a sham chief to head the party whom, in the Commons, he in reality leads? FRANCE. PARIS, llonn►T, 11 A.Y. An evening journal having stated that Count Mole had declared in favour of the candidateship of Oen. Caviugnac, on the occasion of an animated dis cussion with M. Thiers at the Rue de Poitier, the Conatilulionnel of this morning says that there is not one word of truth in the statement. The Moniteur publishes a report of the returns of the indirect taxes, which exhibits a deplorable picture of the state of French commerce throughout the pre sent year. Last October, as compared with the cor responding month in 1847, shows a decline in the customs from 1,237,000 f. to 990,000 f. The decline for the fret ten months of 1848, u compared with those of 1847, is from 112 millions to 72 millions' The importations of every kind (raw cotton alone excepted) exhibit enormous diminutions. The like is exhibited in the exportations, with the exception of those aiticics on which a bounty has been paid. The falling off in the commercial shipping amounts to one million of tons. A great manifestation ' called a family banquet of the 12th arrondissement took place yesterday at the Parc aux Moutons, at Mont Rftge. 2,000 guests including men, women, and children were assembled at is. 3fL a had for the men, 10d. for the women, and 21d. for children under fiften. Among the gnesta were remarked MM. Pierre Leroux, Lagrange, Deville, Doutre, and Oreppo, members of Assem bly. The females present were numerous, many of them being attired with much elegance. A letter from Madame Georges Sand was read, and received with great applause. The effect of Saturday's debate was apparent yes today in the transactions at the Passage de I'Opera, when the Fives rose to 65 50 and closed at 66 26. The following letter appears in one of the journals of this morning with reference to the personal colli sion which took place between MM. Felix Pyat and Proudhon. . We, the undersigned, declare, that after an atlercation which took place yesterday in the coiffure of the Assembly, between MM. Pyat and Proadhon, we, in the name of M. Pyat, wafted on MK. Jesnglois and Freury, Men& of K. Proudhon, with the view of requiring from the latter satis- Mellon by arms. M. Lased' and Freury answered that M. Proudhon considered himself to be the offended party, and would neither ask ner give satisfaction. (Signed) F. BAUER. MARTIN BERNARD, representatives of the people. The two competitors for the presidency have just procured written characters and recommeadatunis from two very eminent and conscientious men. M. Dufanre gives the highest character of General Cavaignac ; M. Barrot gives a much more qualified opinion of Louis Bonaparte, u not the candidate be should have preferred, bat u the beet to be had, and u the one most likely to reconcile the citizen clue and the populace. Louis Bonaparte, says M. Barrot, would be beet able to reduce the army and taxation, and avoid a national bankruptcy. These are cer tainly - reasons and recommendations. The WHAT is Mr. DISRAELI to do P After all his trouble in forming a party, and still more arduous labour in moulding and training himself to be a leader, the country party refuses flatly to follow him, and his very pre-eminence as fugleman and drill-esrgeant of "the mutineers" constitutes the principal obstacle in the way of his becoming thtir recognised chief. ma • hard fate and a strange one —worthy of note and remembrance by all who, gifted with talents to serve their own class by manful and independent effort, are tempted to don in preference the thankless livery of aristocracy, lured by the vain hops that by length of faithful and un faltering service they may at lad earn equality, or perchance attain to mastery and chieftainship. The colours of enlistment are nay enough, and the first days of the dupe's noviciate dazzling to his plebeian sense. He is bidden to eat of the bread and drink of the cup of the highborn. With ordinary accomplishments he easily becomes thefreedniaft of fashion. Glittering rank and haughty loveliness smile on him. It suite their whim, their interest, or resentment, to flatter that they may retain him, to intoxicate that they may trust him, in seeming to adopt that effectively they may use him. Then when his bed days and noblest powers have been squandered in their (muse, and the purpose of their enmity or desire has been attained, superfluous wit and genius ig thrown lightly by, and its indignant reproaches met with a imondul shrug or a sneer. Yly strong_ ream.. following is M. Barrot's letter : Bir,—You have dons me the honour to consult no apse the best choice to be made between the two candidates who are presented to the suffrages of Prams for the Presidency. Like yourself, I would have preferred a totally different can didate; but, compelled to prosoomes one of the two names which aloes have the Amos of honing atom the MI. lot.box, I will say, in reply to yaw decreed, dirt ohm many nesitatioas, I shall probably decide in favour of M. Louis Bonaparte, for the mum that, not being pledged to any of the political parties who have brought about the revolution, he will be the mare easily able to find capable men in every party wink( to cotopmeto with him, and to moomplish 111111 the work of has ooaiNa doe, without moiling cries of Mersa moos his easiest Mamie. I will add, that tbe advent of Loots hi to power, gratifying the mast lively of popular will probably pot an esti to that sntagoalem is so der gams, between the operative classes and the sad will at less Mame the ground of party = fts t alaiweeder seriously the national sovereignty; I em re. is respect it, and to came others to respect it, whir ovir is map In called in remetics, the government, whatever may be, which skin bane from mimed suffrage and that this may be the um easy, I desire that the chosen of the people may ism from the ballot box with • majority sufeciently great to save the country from excreta leg perilous privilege of election ; to discounts violent attempts; and, in floe, to give to the sovereign power suffi cient lora to be able without danger to reduce, with the may, the budget which laeremes upon us, which mashes us; I to save us from • bankruptcy only too imminent ; and, in Bee to nreatablish and manure society. Such are the prifielpal motives which influence my determination in fa vour of Louis Napoleon. I confide them to yes, on account of the tethootty of esteem which you give me, and not to snake proselytes to my opinion. It is sufficient to be answer able for oses own vote, without undertaking for those of others." . . _ . The following is M. Dafstun's letter: You are rlOt when you my that the declaration whisk you require bun me is contrary to all my . habits. My ofil dal pudic* may, usksown to you, diminish the confidence which you are disposed to piece io me. IrAlms me, how ever, to give aa answer. My silence would authorise suspe dons which would be far from the truth. It would of itself be • re dy to vottrquestions„ but • very incorrect and faithless one. Anoordiug to you, the iodic/ of Omura' Cavaignac is known. He has given pledgee of his love of order, and goa mattes of • good and honest government. But some doubt still exists as to his charester and his intentions. You desire to know how I appreciate them. I will tell you plainly in few words, and with perfect sincerity. I had directed my attention for • long time, in my parliamentary studies, to those young officers who on the soil of Africa so gloriously sustained the honour of our flag; prepared by a severe edu cation, tried by the fatigues and varied thence, of mili tary life, I saw them, strangers to our co:isthmian' conflicts, resolutely pursuing the line traced out to them by their duty, and laboriously gaining at the price of their blood all their grades on the field of battle. I felt that they formed the strongest and most serious part of our generation„ and I re spected them from the bottom of my heart before I saw them, without divin;ng that society in France would ore day owe to them adebt of gratitude for the repression of the most criminal disorder in the terrible days of Julie. I have bzeu for two months in intimate and continual relations with one of these officers of Africa, now become chit( of the Exe cutive Power. The opinion which I had conceived is now mere firm and mere heed. lam not new in the study of man in the direction of public affairs. I have been able to see closely, I have observed Unison, for four years past, all the statesmen of these times ; I have known none whose language was more sincere, whose heart was more correct and more disinterested, Whose mind was more just and more clear, than thee. of General Cavaignsc. I consider him to be the true republican of our times, a republican of wisdom, fiernue-s, end cenviction. He has a very decided opinion that the republic can be founded in France only in the midst of peace. Ho ft ars that a war would expose us either to interne) convulsions or the domination of a victori ous get-real. Hence his efforts to maintain peace, and he is assisted in this noble enterprise by the confidence which he has been attlo already to inspire in all the governments of Europe. Gen. Cavaienee knows as well as you and I that • republican government, Ike any other, would be impossible in France unless it shuttle make it an absolute duty to pro tect all liberties and energetically maintain public order. He has not in any respect or in any degree those despotic or anarchical ideas which by different modes would alike lead the country to ruin. He combats both with equal resolution. 1 ant really astonished that his intentions should appear doubtful to the., who have seen for five months how he has maintained order under the most diffeeilt circumstances, amid the warm uno ions which followed the days of June, and the ardent anxieties which precede the election of the 10th of December. I could not conceive the shadow of • doubt in thou who can read at the bottom of his heart. As for me, sir, es you speak of my personal feelings, I am sen sible how delicate and difficult would be the position of a minister under the form of government organised by the constitution. Nevertheless, lam ready to accept it with General Cevaignae, convinced that we should have the same views, and seek to realise them by the note means. I am quite one that we should neither of us have any other ambition then that of solidly establishing the first [funds tione of the French republic by an honest, regular, and en lightened administration; and I venture to believe that we should succeed if the National Assembly should give to us its s • vereign support. It is said, I know, that the day after his election General Cavaignee would choose other ministers than those of the 13th of October last. Yen will compre hend that I do not demand from him any engagement lon this subject. What I can akin to you very positively is, that the fears propagated on this head appear to me no. tameable, and that General Cavaignac will certainly accept, without hesitation, the ministers who man be indicated by the majority of the Natioral Assembly. Whoever they may he, they will only have a sere and honourable part to per form. Placed between those who find our new constitution too democratic, and those who reproach it with not being sufficiently socialist, they will only have to govern in the spirit and according to the dictates of the constitution. They will leave to others the d. plorable courage of dreaming already of overturning it, and of attempting another revo lution in an unfortunate country which desires the repose which would render it so fruitful and prosperous. This, sir, is my reply. If it leaves still some doubt on your mind, I am ready to give you all the explanations that you may dubs. In such grave circumstances, and in a question on which the future tate of our country is V3strongly engaged, I am cr• deed to exercise, although • minister, the right possessed by every citizen to express his opinion freely. ITALY. THE POPE BESIEGED IN HIS PALACE. We yesterday gavo particulars of the insurrection at Dome, to which we now append the letter of our correspondent: ROME, Nov. 16. After the death of Rossi a sullen pause ensued, in which the day closed, and we hoped last evening that the holocaust of that obnoxious politi cian would have appeased the fierce democracy. It is true that towards evening groups of mingled soldiers and citizens, with lighted torches, were heard sing ing in charm along the streets: Benedetta quite mano Che 11 tiranno (Rated) impala. which is only a translation of the Greek ditty about Harmodius and Aristogeiton. But during the night the popular ringleaders were on the alert, and every thing was organised for a demonstration to-day. This morning, at half-past 10, a gathering began in the great square del Popolo, and symptoms of a me nacing character to any eye cognisant ot Roman pe culiarities were perceptible in the leading streets. The civic guards and troops of the line in fragmentary sections commingled with the people and the cara bineere, whose uniform had hitherto been invariably arrayed against the populace, were now for the first time seen to fraternise with the mob. From the terrace of the Pincian-hill the spectator could count nearly 20,000 Romans. in threatening groups, and mostly armed. Printed papers were handed eagerly about, all having the same purport, and containing the following " Fundamental Points : —l. Promulgation and full adoption of Italian nationality. 2. Convocation of a constituent assembly and realisation of the federal pact. 3. Realisation of the vote for the war of inde pendence given in the Chamber of Deputies. 4. Adoption in its integrity of the Programme Mamiani, sth Jane. 5. Ministers who have public confidence —Mamiani, Sterbini, Cambello, Saliceti, Femoral, La- nati, Sereni, Galletti." Their ostensible object wu to proceed with these five points to the Chamber of Deputies in a constitu tional manner. Bat the chiefs finding themselves in such unlooked for force of numbers, and many of the deputies being found mixed up with the crowd, the cry was raised to march to the Pope's palace, and accordingly the procession moved on orderly enough through the Corso, another column advancing through the Babuino, and reaching the Qui rinal by the avenue opened by Sextus Quintus. It was now one o'clock. The members of the chamber presented themselves as the mouth piece of the multitude, and transmitted the five points to the monarch. In about ten minutes the president of the late ministerial council, Cardinal Snits, came forth from the private apartments, and informed the deputation that his Holiness would re flect on the subject, and take it into his best consider ation. This angora was proclaimed to the people, but a general murmur of dissatisfaction gave evidence of its insufficiency to meet the crisis, and the crowd insisted on the deputation getting a personal audience with the Pope. This was obtained, and in about a quarter of an hour Galletti, the ex-police minister (and, strange to say, for such a functionary, the most popular man in Rome) appeared on the balcony to acquaint the people that the Pope had positively de clined adhesion to their request, and had stated that "he would not brook dictation." It was now 2 o'clock. The position of the Pontiff began to grow ethical. All the avenues of the Quirinal Palace were blocked up by dense crowds, and as no preparation had been made for this unanticipated influx of visitors ' there was but the usual small detachment of Swiss guards on duty. These men were known to be resolute, and had there been but a few more of them, the monarch might have cut his way through the mob and gained Sikhism in the Appenines, whither it had often been a question of retiring front the rabble of Rome on pre vious outbreaks. As it was, one of the advanced sen tinels having been seized a ndi disarmed by the mob, the Swiss body-guard instantly flung back and barred the gates of the palace, presenting their muskets, in readiness to fire at once on the immense mass of mul titude which beleaguered the Quirinal. At this stage of the proceedings it was evident that the die was cast. From the back streets men emerged bearing aloft long ladders wherewith to sc24huton tifical abode; carts and waggons were up and ranged within musket-shot of the win owe to protect the assailants in their determined attack on the palace; the cry was, "to arms, to arms," and musketry began to bristle in the approaches from every direction; faggots were produced and piled up against one of the condemned guts of the building, to which the mob was in ellact of seines g rs a beige discharge of firelocks scattered the •—` in that quarter. The multitude began now to perceive that the e would be a determined resistance to their. _further eh, rations, but were confident that the Quitted, if i st taken by storm, must yield to progressive late s t The drums wore now beating throughout the and the disbanded groups of regul ar troops and A s bineers reinforcing the hoethe display of assed** and rerderiog it truly formidable. nandom de s t a were aimed at the windows, and duly responded the outposts, one after anot h er, b eing taker, by est le s people, the garrison within being too scanty to a ft the outworks. The belfry of St. Carlin°, l AA ' commands the structure, woe occupied. Frail*. hind the equestrian statues of Castor and Pen h a group of sharpshooters plied their rifles, and sh ut 4 o'clock Monsignor Palma, private secretary h e ei s Holiness,was killed by a bullet p ene t rat i ng hiseeeehat As if upwards of 6,000 troops of all ranks were ace considered enough to reduce the little genie* of a couple of dozen Swiss, two 6-pounders now appe lle e on the scene, and were drawn u p an d duly mew against the main gate, and a truce haring bee n p o . claimed, another deputation claimed entrance lad audience of the Pope, which the monarch order e d * be allowed. The deputation were bearers of the people's tillunntrws, which was a reproduction of th five points before stated, and they now declared thee they would allow his Holiness ote hour to comider, after which, if not adored, they announced the* firm purpose to break into the Quirinal and mete death every inmate thereof, with the sole and singl e exception of his Holiness himself. Pins the Ninth no longer hesitated, but eent fee Galletti, with whom he remained in conference feee six till nearly seven, when the following new minis. try was formally proclaimed to the people :—F Affairs, :detained; Homo and Police, Galletti; F. nance, Lunati ; Commerce and Public Work, St ee . bini; War Minister, Cambelln • Public Instructiaz and President of the Council, leismini. You will see that the last distinguished name is the only one which the Pope bus determined should be of his own seise. lion ; the others are all tamed by the people. Sten bini is the leading writer in the Gotemporaneo, and has often figured in this correspondence. The genies and orthodoxy of Hostaini, who presides over a minis. try so composed, will have ample scope for exercies, And so we now retire to rest after one of the mod startling days which even this eternal city has bilis* Nov. 1 I.—To-day is calm, and quiet seems nsterni. The Swiss guards, whose bravery in the admiration et all but the Romans, are no longer to be around the person of Pius, whom they so gallantly defended. The eon of Rossi, standing over the dead body of hie father, vowed awful vengeance on the mordent, whom he says he will devote his life to discover and kill. The Duchess of Rignano had written a moat pressing letter tr the prime minister, cautioning him not to attend the senate-house on the opening day, The document was found on his person. The tabu. Radon of France and Russia were inside the Quin t al while the onslaught lasted, a space of three ken. The whole facade of the building is riddled with musket halls. Tile influence of these two days' events on the rest of this peninsula is incalculable. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—Wo have news from Berlin of the 25th instant. As the day approaches for the assem bling in Brandenburg of a traction of the National Assembly, the rumours respecting the intentions of government rapidly increase. Amongst them are the following :—Should there not be 202 members pre sent (the number required to form a house), ministate will either dissolve the Assembly altogether, and ad. vise the King to grant —pr&prio nota —a constita tion, or summon to Brandenburg the deputies of the dissentient members—a locum tenens having been Ichosen at each election, with power to sit and vote in the Assembly in the absence of the principal member. The still prevailing impression in well-informed quarters seemed to be that the Assembly would to dissolved in a few days, particularly as it is under. stood in those quarters that the commissioners from the central executive in Frankfort have not succeeded in proving the necessity . of the formation of a popular ministry. Certain it is that one of these commis- Montt , ' (Herr Simeon), a gentleman of sound consti tutional views, has returned to the above free city. Baron Von Gagern, tho president of the Ka dotal Assembly in Frankfort, is expected to arrive in Potsdam in a day or two. It is possible that he may bring fresh suggestions, if not instructions, from the vicar of the empire. M. Rodbertius and Von Berg had left Berlin for Frankfort for the purpose of carrying a declared= to the National Parliament, signed by the president and 200 members of the Prussian assembly, in which they affirm that all the assertions made by M. Buser mann, in his report to the minietry,respecting the ap pearance of the city, were false even to the minutest details. They declare that M. Bassermann in his quality of envoy, from the central power, neither ne gotiated nor even nalde the slightest attempt to nego tiate with the Prussian assembly, or, as he says, with the deputies who remained at Berlin. AUSTRIA.—We have intelligence from Vienna to the 21st inst. Count Stadion has accepted the poet of Minister of the Interior. It is thought that, after all, ministers are willing to come to a peaceful ar rangement with Hungary, on the condition that Kos suth be given up. It appears that on the 12th inst. a portion of the imperial troops bad advanced as far as Csakatburn and Redelitz, and had taken posses sion of the im portant island of Mur. The Emperor of Russia has forwarded to Wiudischgratz the grand cross of the order of St. George, and to Jellachich, that of the order of Wladirair. The Hungarians have broken up the roads in those parte of their coun try which adjoin Austria, in order to impede the pro gress of the imperialists. On account of the execution of Robert Blum, the people of Trieste have resolved not to return a deputy to the Frankfort National Assembly, until they learn what steps have been taken by that body to protect its members. Gratz has been declared in a state of siege, as s measure of precaution against the numerous fugitives from Vienna. FRANKFORT.—It was stated in the National Assembly, on the 24th inst., that the President (Von Gagern) had gone to Berlin, in order to learn the exact state of affairs there. The Minister of the Interior declared th‘t he had no official knowledge of the al leged alliance, offensive and defensive, entered into by the cabinets of St. Petersburg, Berlin, and enna. The answers to certain questions relating to Austria were pestponed. In reply to a question re specting the execution of Robert 13111 m, the Minister of Justice gave the following reply : "A copy of the de cision of the Assembly of the 16th, regarding thin affair was immediately forwarded to the imperial commissioners, with instructions to communicate it to the government in Olmtits, and to demand adequate satisfaction (literally, atonement) for this violation of right. A despatch from Olintitz, under date Nov. 18, had been received from the commission, contain ing a report of their first interview with issaenberg, who was very courteous, and promised all due atten tion to their communication. The further results of the last instructions must be awaited. The 13th and 14th articles of the constitution were then voted. The Assembly next passed motions, to the effect that the Central Executive take steps for preventing the carrying out of the new fundamental law of Holland in the duchy of Limburg (" one inseparably united with Germany"), that the law relating to bills of exchange, as voted at the Leipeic congress, be re cognised as binding on all Germany, and that that law come into operation on the let of May, 1849. LISBON, Nov. 19. Since my last, of the 11th inst., we have had a ministerial crisis. The ministry are divided in their policy. Toe Duke de Saldanha is convi:.ced of the necessity of moderate and conciliatory measures ; others are for the most severe measures, whether legal or not. The court and the Marquis de Fronteira are for the latter ; conscquently, several persons have been arrested; others were ordered is depart for some remote place, and others were shipped or. J. M. Mend. a, who bad been ordered to the Azores by the Marquis de Fronteira, complained to the Duke of Sald:mks of such en illegal proce edi ng. Fronteira, however, per sisted in his determination to exile this iadividu : Sarah's being determined not to allow Fronteira to have the better of him, sent to stop the vessel ready to take M. Modes to the Aso-es, and ordered him to be released. Fronteira, actor puled by his brother, Din Carlos Dlucaranhas, commandant of the mnuicipal guard, and first gaoler of the political pri son at Caruso, called upon Saldanha to demand en esplans• non, enter: that such an act of Sada:she was a proof that ha did not Lajey the contlience of the goo, rnaseig, and, r such, that he begged leave' to tulips. Don Culos used the Kola gin Oa, Thai Oa aid' bon' Nal Wet has is a rise in 11 Tay] Toti tied Veto go' cl tal fl: