The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-06 00:00:00

1w Co to if de ai se • li • 1 1 . 1 • 1 I e I t I • . security Could be may given to his without injury to the landiurd, because if there was rent due to him he was to ree ive it from the sale of the occupancy bolero the tenant could touch any pert of tke perchase money. It was a ea tural feeling that men would not lay out their mosey 00 what was insecure. It was urged @gaunt tenant right that if the incoming tenant purchased the eccupeney he would be deprived of that capital which ought to be laid oat on the land. But he would ask, were not landlords and agents now peel fines? which was jest the game thing under adiffereof name. lie did not mean that the law should ex any number year,' purchase, but merely that the tenant should have the powe rof goinginto the open market and disposing f of en's his lan.. The present was a period of great agitation o m mind., but that hoes • could d o much to alley it, by doing justice to the people of Ireland. The hon. and learned gen them in said that there had been too much legislation fur Inland since the union. He begged to remind him that it was the opinion of the predecessor of the present Chief Jun tire of the Court of Queen's Bench in lretand, that all at legelation was it favour of the l andlords and against that lll.W.s. While member , in that house were desirous to quote evi te opinion against the people iof Ireland he ohs reed that there was - a significant silence with reepect to the pamphlet of Ma Wiggins, en English g entleman, who resided tor 30 years in halted. He said that injustice to, and spoliation of fie tenant, was the rule in Ireland ; that he was kept in a Lew state of serfage; that he was ill-veered by the land lords and the agents; that he was deprived of all the profits of hi- industry ; and that any attempt at making • bedew appeerance in the world, sod at improves[ his hem% only afforded a pretext to the landlord or vestment to iameiteelhe rent. It would be well for that hots to consider these things. They were well worthy of its serious consideration. Vie/emit CASTLEREAGH felt bound to say, that this bill having been brought forward with the best and kindest intentions had been taken up by others in a way that rem demi it extremely difecult for the friends of order to give it theirsupport. At %bosoms time, k eowing the confidence placed by the people of Ireland in the hoe. member tor Rhdale d , he should he prepared to give it his suppert, iit were arrange that it should be referred to a committee up stairs. If at were not agreed to, he must, unwillingly, vote against it. Capt. ARCHDALL said that charges had been made against the orangemen ot Ireland, of which he felt bound to say that no more unfounded statements ever were placed before the public. lie was glad to tell the hon. member for Lime sick that there were 100,000 orangeesen in the north of Ireland prepared to stand by order, and to put down the ill eft , eta of the hon. membees poi-oeous agitation. Sir J. B. WALSH expressed his belief that the good landlords of Ireland were the large majority, and the bad landleris the eareption. He was unable as yrt to arrive at et the conclusion tbat the sweeping alteration of the law landlord and tenant, involved in the bills before them, wo.ild be ultimately conducive to the benefit of Ire land. As far as he could learn, the agricultural 'peen' of Ireland had been one of progressive improve ment, and he believed the relation of landlord and tenant, as it existed in Ireland, had worked, and would continue to work, for the benefit of all classes in that country. lie urged the necessity of improving the °hooter of the farm buildings in Ireland, as the first step towards improv ing the condition of the farming classes themselves. It was perfectly clear to him that the tenants would trot the so desirable amelioration. He apprehended that the setting aside of the landlords by this and similar legislation would very materially tend to increase that subdivision of agricultural property which, to the extent it had already re .•h. d. operated so prejudicially upon the rural 'emulation of Ireland. Mr. F. O'CONNOR deprecated the suggestion which had been threwn out, that in order to soothe the Irish mind seeder its existing excitement, it would be well, though the bill were not to be agreed to ultimately, to refer it to a select committee, as though it were intended to adopt it by arid by ; the only way to deal with the Irish people was to deal with them frankly ; to tell them fairly and fully of any good contemplated for them ; or to tell them candidly it there was nothing eto be done for them, so that they might know the worst. He quite concurred in the statement that it would be meet expedient to improve the character of the farm buildings in Ireland. It would be a mode at once of improving the comfort of the rural population, and of giving them a pride in the avoca tion which they practised. He warmly supported the ova :lire before the house. There could be done nothing per cuanently to elevate the condition o f the agricultural population of Ireland until there sou & rester fixity of tenure, secured to the tenant,soas to give him an interest in the soil upon which ho was called to expend the sweat of his brow. The rule at present in force as to leases in that country, was a premium to the very idleness which so unjustly was made a reproach against the Irish people. Agricuiture was not only the chief, but the only, profession which could be ad vantegeously pursued in Ireland, and it was meet essential that all the impediments which Irish landlord i sm had hitherto placed in the way of the expansion of title industry should be removed. And the landlords of Ireland, bad as their conduct had been towards the farmers, were yet better than the farmers, whose conduct towards their labourer , bad been most oppressive and most cruel. No contract was kept with the labourer when the former chose to break it. Hitherto, there had been no legislation in favour of the tenant. In the reign of Oeo. 111. there had been 61 acts of parliament passed to regulate the relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland : not one of these laws was in favour of the tenant ; in the same period there had been six acts to settle the relations between landlords and tenants in England, end every one of these acts was in favour of the tenant. He commended Lend Clarendon for sending teatimes throngh out Ireland to communicate a knowledge on itaeleeleweel suleects to the rural population. It was a measure which, if followed up by other measures in , the spirit wouJd ge ‘ a great way to attach the people of aims eonntrito Bagels sway. Str 0. GREY opposed the bal. Every dimension on the subject showed more and more convincingly the difficulty of settling by legislation the relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland. He controverted the proposition that the difficultim had arisen from ire pediments thrown in the way of popular legislation by Irish landlords im the home. The difficulty was inherent in the cimomatances of the ease them selves. Be contended that it was always in the power of a party desirous of becoming tenanted land, which he proposed to improve by cultivation, to stepilate for such • tennis es would compensate him for his outlay. to the present mo ment, lendlorda tlueugbout Inland weee exhibiting the utmost readiness to meet industrious and taistweethy tenants with such leases as would fuLy justify them in expenein their capital and their energies upon the lands. th theey. eve might he disposed to occupy. As We the proposition ry t e nant who fulfilled the condeiong of ors iindustrial oc cupation was to be entitled to oompensatima feom the land lord, over and above the profits whice ha might have reshot from his outlay, it seemed Tete preporeemos. There weft, of course, cases in which a texant was equitably entitled to some considecatMn in this respect, on sur rendering occupation—as , for instance, where he bad erected permanent 'farm building at his own cost. Be should be mite ready, however, to refer thin' measure to the serious oasideration of any committee up stairs to which the government thessum railed be submitted. (Hear, hear.) As to the statement that bands of armed orangemen were wandering about the north of Ireland a denial, it w as scarce(' worth hit while to give the statement Mr. FAGAN said that the English tenant was much better eff than the Irish eacueier of the land, notwithstanding a far greater proportera of the population of t his country de penied wholly_ en ehe cultivatioa of the soil. The bill of e hon. rnembelfor Rochdale was mach wanted in order to rtstrain the entel system of eviction that was pursued in Ire •land, and he should give it his hearty support. Col. BLACK ALL had heard the speech of the right hen. baronet opposite (Sr O. Grey) with great satisfaction, as it would tend to correct much vague apprehension on the sub ject of leases which now prevailed in Ireland, relative to the transfer of the fee of land to the occupying tenant. He should o ff er his decided opposition to the motion of the hon. member for Rochdale. Mr. P. SCROPE was of opiniou, speaking ss an English member, that the speedy settlement of the tenant-rieght ques tion in Ireland was most essential to the tranquillity of the empire. The hon. member for Rochdale bad, it seemed to him, brought forward the measure before the house with the best possible motives, and also in impudence with and the gen rela eral sentiments of the agricultural classes in Irel. The called for tions between landlord and t e nant in that country Use immediate and most serious attention of the legiseeture and in his opinion no permanent tranquillity could bepooked for in Ireland until the tenant farmers of that country were placed on a more equitable footing than they bad at present with regard to the landlords. A large number of the agri cultural population of Ireland had declared their determina tion not to endure any longer the frightful evils inflicted on them by the present defective system, and rerpetuated by the defective state of the law. All the agrarian out rages e doh had prevailed in Ireland for so long a period could be distinctly traced to the inse curity of tenant-right ; and it was generally admitted by all writers on the social condition of Ireland, that the evils oboreable in that kingdom were solely attributable to the detective laws which regulated the relations between landlord and tenant. If the question was not settled satis factorily by some such bill as the present, there would be a frightful scene of convulsion witnessed in Ireland, which the landlords would have much more reason to deplore than they would to regret the concessions that the measure before the house proposed to grant. lie should, for the reasons he had stated, support tee second Col. RLWDON regretted the course the government had taken in regard to the bill before the house, which should have his support, subject to any modification that might be deemed necessary in the committee. Mr. SCULLY said that if the tenantry of Ireland were expected to improve the land under their cultivation, they ought to possess a right of occupancy and of remuneration for the capital laid out by them. The bill before the house provided that right for them, and he should give it his sup. port. At the same time it was necessary to observe that im provement, and not mere occupation of land ought to con stitute the real ground of tensahright and of remuneration for dispossession of the tenancy. This was particularly ne cessary to be observed in the south of Ireland. Mr. 8. CRAWFORD reiterated his former arguments in favour of the bill, and declined to withdraw the maninim upn . the offer of the government to take it into considera tion in conjuaction with the tenant-right la, brought for ward by the hon. baronet the member for Drogheda. He should persist, therefore, in dividing the :house upon the second reading. The house then divide.l.—For the s econd reading 22 Against it GREAT YARMOUTH FREEMEN DISFRANCHISE- biENT BILL. Mt. Y. SEYMER moved the second reading of the above 1 bill, and promoted to read extracts from the midmost ham before the Great Yarmouth committee, to prove the same city of Initiative interference with the elective Genchise is that borough, in so far as the freemen are eoncereed. [The material facia quoted by the hon. member have akeady appeared in OW report of the proceedings of the committee.] The motion was *greed to, the bill mad a second time, and the committee lined for ednesday next. N W EW WRITS. On the motion of Mr. Rums it was ordered that In all ewes where the seat of say member has been declared void by an election committee, on the grounds of bribery or treat ing, no motion for the hating of a new writ shall be made, without previous notice being given in the votes. BUSINESS OF THE ROUSE. On the motion of Mr. at/1111 it was ordered that the orders of the dity he disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the paper, the right being still reserved to her Ma jesty's ministers, of placing government bills at the heed of the list, by previous notice, in the rotation in which they are to be taken on the days on which government bills have precedent*. That, at the time flied for the commencement of public husinees, on days on which orders have pro:mastic* of notices of motions, and alter the notices of motione have been disposed of on all other days, Mr. Speaker direct the clerk at the table to read the orders of the day without the question being put. The house adjourned at half peat 6 o'clock. ELECTION COMMITTEE.—TEBTERDAY. BODMIN. Witnesses were examined to prove agasnat the aitting members the promise of situations to cer tain voters ; after which Mr blereweather summed up for petitioners. The rooms as then cleared, and the committee decided that the chargef bribery had not been proved. The defence on the charges of treating wee then proceeded with. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(BI.) TONS OF COALS DEOVOIiT ANN VALLI COASTWISE TO LONDON; COASTING VESSE. S j RBOISTERID Vressin ; 1814 to 1847.-111'1814, there were brought coastwise to London 1,430,463 tons of coals; in 1826, the quantity had increased to 2,040,201 tons; in 1847, it was 3,280,420. In 1814, the number of sailing vessels engaged in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom was 126,477, their tonnage 9,043,600 ; the number of steam vessels 888, their tonnage 124,073. In 1847 the number of sailing retools thus engaged was 142,818, their tonnage 10,316,888 ; the number of gleam vessels 17,218, their ton nage 3,902,916. In 1814. the number of registered sailing vessels belonging to the United Kingdom was 21,067, their tonnage 2,391,182; of registered steam vowels the number was 1, the tonnage 69; in 1847 the number of registered sailing vessels was 23,381, their tonnage 3,114,221 • the registered 01 giEtaTed steam semis 1,028, their to nnage 140,132. The immense development of steam na these rvigation e• during the period is the most stnking feature of PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ELECTION RECOONISANCES BILL. Ignioarrr of Tito Ile who voted against the third reading of this MU. Adair, U. E. Evans, W. leGregor, J. Seymour, Sir 11. Bailey, .1. Ferenumn, Sir R. Marshall, W. Smith, U. T. Bellew R. M. Fordyce, A. D. Mitchell, T. A. Stanton, erne, R. Forster, M. Morpeth, Visa. Stuart, Lord D. , Sammie, Ka. E.Poz, W. J. Morrie, D. Talbot, C. B. U. Bowniag, Dr. Chmkeil, JAIL Warp, lin. E. 'Chickasaw, R.A. Brotherton, J. Graham, Sir J. Napier, J. Thornely, T. Buller, C. Greene. T. 'Surreys, Sir D. Towashend,Capt. Cabbell, Grey, Sir 0. O'Connell, SI. J. Trelawny, J. S. Cantwell, E. limile, Alex. Ogle, 8. C. It Tufaell, IL Carter, J. B. Beak, Arch. Palmerston, Visa Ward, IL 0. Clerk, Mr O. Hawes, B. Parker, .1. WAITS, J. T. Wee, 11. B. Hester, W. 0. Philips,.SO 0. R.Willom, B. P. ,W. 0. Henry A. Pnoe, Sir R. Wood, W. D Cr a,Piir U. R. Hill. ened M. Rewrinsi, Cot• WInW, M. Damon, Hem. T. Hohhonee. T. B. Rive. E. R. Douglas, Sir C. Hume, J. Rich, H. TALUS.. Duncan, Vim:. Jervis, Sir J. Rutherford, A. Elliot, Mr. !Juneau, G. Lewis, 0. C. Seynier, H. K. ULU, Sir B. Ehringtort, Vlact•Liaeoln. Earl J BWISH DISABILITIES BILL—(IN COMMITTEE). Known of 9 9 to 199, intmen who votad for Sir U. Willoughby's amend- ment gore embalm Jewe from any Mace to the gift ur app ot MI liIM MOM& bow heirs or wormers, to which the appointment Or VOIMIOPM z 4 b I:I any OiiiCe or preferment whatever in the and nasal 4 end Ireland, or in the church of Scot boil, may ben& Ailinektp C Crimp, W. Florham, Lord Richards, R. B. N. Aliwiner, Currie, U. Ing estre, Vise. Rushout, Capt. Anniall, CepL Davies, D. A. S. Inglis, ~ir R. Sanders, O. Blinn, E. U. Desks, W. Jones , Capt.. roan, Haw. F. iris, 0. Dick, 14. Knintley, Su C. Berner, IL K. Dimirt, P. Dod, J. W. Knox, Col. Murky, E. J. i Batimok. Id. G. Ihnloombr,lin.O.Law, Lion. C. E. Sibthorp, Col. Beneind, W. Do Pte, C. O. Lockhart, A. E. Smyth, J. O. W. Rest, isir J. IL Lockhart, W. Somerset, Cflpt. e el,. Viset. Palter, J. Lowther, H. Sommer. R. IL Yeliowes, E. Weekenne, W. F.Mmut, J. Firmer, Mr E. M.Sleghten,Sir E.Tbreiger, Sir F. =WV. Floyer, J. Manner*, Lord C.Tollemeebe, J. WM, Fos, S. W. L. Marta; Earl of Trollop*, Sir J. Bens, C. 1.. Fuller, A. E. Miles, W. Turner, G. J. Ink, L. W. Oaskell, J. M. Morgan, 0. Urquhart. D. Bair, inr J. Y. Goddard, LL. Moody, E. M. Verner, Sir W. Bey, W. M. Oregon, E. Napier, J. %loran, J. E. Ne ode gate, C. N. raw, R. U. IL 11. 4:7 o:ret 4 , W B :H B : P. G II:Ztt I , I F. R. Coniston. Lord Weddington,l l .S. Christy, S. 'limy, Lord A. Palmer, R. Walpole, S. IL Clive, O.K. 1111dyerd, R.C. Plumptre, J. P. Witham*, T. P. Cebbokl, J. C. 1111dysrd, T. B. Plowden, W. ILC. WalshTlMlAll. Wiiosot, Sir J. Prime, R. , Sir i • 11111111rer Hope, A. linden, 0. W. J. Willoughby,Sirll Ccellon,aseM.H.lloisby, J. Ilmsemin et 109 to 203, who voted in favour of Sir B. loglisb weiminawswer that Jewe be excluded trom holding the office of judge al aft Ober UMestrecourtoot law, or be members of her Iliffeety's memetknownle Privy_CounciL =CAM- Con, IL B. Kildyerd,T. B.T.Ptiirle, R. ,N. Cotton,FlLW.lLllope, Sir J. Raphael, A. Matta, Copt. ConMena4. lord Mope, A. Renton, J. C. Beiduch, R. U- Uoroby, J. Richards, R. Deldiek 0. Ts= D.A.B. Hainan, Lord Rushout, Capt. alle. oo VT• Deeds. W. Inane, Vint. Scott, Hon. P. Bann R. IXek, Q. Inglis, Sir R. IL Seymer, U. K. Bee lord. W. Dad, J. W. Jones, Sir W. Shir, E. J Bolder°, IL G. Duricoentre,lin.oJoaes. Capt. Shir ley th, J. 0. ,W. Du Pre, C. G. Knightkry, Sir C. Sroollett, A. el., giIICL East, Sir J. IL WWI. C o I. CO SOWllet, Capt. K. PgertDO,Sif P. Lindsay, Spooner, IL Farrer, J. Lockhart, A. E. Stafford, A. , =y, IL Fracture, E. Tocidiart, W. Stuart. J. Drone,. Lord Palmer, Sir E. Lowther, 11. Thesiger, Sir F. Brown„,l3. Player, J. 114 'Keine, W. F. Tollesuchr. J. Bean C. L. C. Forbes, W. APPlenten, IthE.Trollope, Sir J. Bask, L. W. Fox, 8. W. L. Mennen, Lel. C.S.Tunier, G. J. Buller, Sir J. T. Fuller, A. E. March, Farr of Urquhart, D. Bunbery, W. M. Oucidurd. A. L Maxwell, lin.J.P.Verrier, Sir W. Cobbs% It. R. Goring, C. Men; Sir 11. .'pee, It. IL R. OunplasiLllmW.Grognin, E. Morgan, 0. Waddington,ll.S. Carew, W. IL P. Gern, 11. Moody, F.. M. Walpole, S. IL eter, Lord Banta, P. U. Napier, J. Wen, Sir J. B. Chrissy, 8. Cot. Nesoligute,C. N. Willoughby, It. Clim, IL R. Heald, J. Oesenton, Lord =URAL Cobbald, J. C. Henry, Lord Plumper*, J. Law, Mr. Codrington,SirWlliblyord. It. Plowden, W. IL bilnorp, Cot. . _ THE DEBATE ON POLISH AFFAIRS.—ERHATIN. —Mr. Chisholm Anstey presents his compliments to the editor of the Express, and requests the favour of his correcting . an error in the report of Mr. C. Aunty's speech of last night, on moving the address to her Majesty on Polish afire. Mr. C. Ansley said that "he was co•scans of no unfriendly feeling towards the noble lord opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, and the government collectively considered over which that noble lord presided ; whereas he is reported in the Express to bare said "He said this out of no hostility towards the noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreiun Affsira ;" which involve► • palpable contradiction to the rest of his speech.—liouse uf Commons, April 5,1648. _ __ _ _____ ._ _ the )4reoo. MAILS. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lathan, Madan, Cadiz, and Gibraltar \ will be made up on the morning of the 7th April. i The overland ciceed mails, eni Marseille., to the Mediterranean, WM., Aden, Ceylon, India, Hoag-Kong, au., will be made up on the evening MO.* 7th April. The mails for British North America, and the Ualted States, wad e Vrestua?;l:ivlZazgclUfdgil i ltr l zfu r ta, N Ilavanna4 Honduran New Orleens, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico and iscluding three for Madeira, tamed, Cartagena. Santa Martha Magma, Penman, West Coast of South America, and St. Junn-cle. Nicaragua, will be made up oei the evening of the kith April. The overland me l ds , o lilbralta, Malta, Greco*, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceyeo India, Bong-Kong, and Chink Ms Southamp ton, will be made up on the morning of the 20th April. Its de for New South Wale., Van leemaith Land, sad New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 30th April. The mails for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made up on the evening of the 30th April. The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Vi be made up on the , evening of the 4th si 22 , 2 _________ _ _ NOTICE TO ADvEßTismws. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp•oftlee, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was .........• 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent, ef the number and lamed to the Morning Re told, Morning Chronicle, Morn P u t, Post, ALL PVT TOOPTHIR. In • don to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, TEE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were Wined either to the Globe or Standard , Evening Papern TO OORREIWONDENT 3. 'nu 41' 4 tutuhim Tmdmdua" mumea would oink Eaghdd Om mall• t.ou ot aWA .1 ate MM. ul ease Laarmatire wad& va. MN to p CR. . mud herds nate* Ma Its poslutes migt? em tub vibe , earret, Bourringrun. Ttronlot . tbrd4V P3r re 111013 RATES AT LO:IDO!. 044-11orelas, ast. pa. L I.4.sossow—limaiag, ti was 4, Mummy, OWLm g 4 LONDON, of THURSDAY, APRIL pester- 6. THE Hamm Couttorts met at 12 o'clock day.—On the motion of Mr. J. E. Demos, I select comm ittee was appointed to inquire into the manage ment of the Ecclesiastical Commission. —The motion for resuming the debate on Mr. S. Cuswroan's Out going T enan ta (Ireland) Bill, having been agreed to, Mr.NAPIER rose in opposition to the measure, and was followed on the same side by C9t. ARCHDALL, Sir S. WALSH, Sir G . GREY, Col. BLAU:ALL, Sad Lord CASTLMEACHI (unless the bill were referred to the consideration of a select committee), the speakers in favour of the second reading being Mr. J. O'CONNELL, Mr. F. O'CONNOR, Mr. FAOAN, COIOReI RAW DON, and Mr. ScuuT, when, after THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1848: a reply from the hon. member for Rochdale, the motion was rejected by a majority of 123 ; the num bers, 146 to 22.—Bir 0. GREY, in reply to a state ment of Mr. J. O'Cortnanes, that bands of armed Orangemen were wandering about the north of Ire land, intimidating and overawing the people, said it was scarcely worth his while to give the statement a denial.—Mr. Humes motion, that in all canes where the seat of any member has been declared void by an election committee, on the grounds of bribery or treating, no motion for the issuing of • new writ shall be made without previous notice being given on the votes, was agreed to without a division.—The Great Yarmouth Freemen Disfranchisement ; Poor-houses (Ireland) Act Amendment ; the Mutiny, and Marine Mutiny ; Bills were severally read a second time.—Sir W. SOMERVILLE brought up a bill for amending the Public Works (Ireland) Act, which was read a first time ; and Mr. ANSTEY renewed his motion on the subject of the independence of Poland for Tuesday next. le felt the annoyances of such a position. As en individual obliged- to oppose hi principles—as a minister obliged to defend what as a man he is well-known to oondemn—his position was a painful one, not only to himself but to his friends. They even venture to offer Lim a hint. When he felt, and keenly too, the constant ann)yanoes and difficulties of the poor-law debates, he boldly said, " not stand here to defend the acts of others, in whose affairs Ido not participate. The commission most have a chief directly responsible to parliami nt." The affairs of the church are only second if they are at all inferior in importance to the affairs of the poor. Why not have for a time a recounised and responsible head of the ecclesiastical commis.ion? Why should Sir G. GREY accept a responsibility which all s friends well know not only to be excessively &wasteful to him personally, but absolutely to have the effect of placing him in • false position with parliament and with the ---- - country? The government may rely upon it that nothing less than a measure of this sort—a measure which involves en entire remodelling of the ecclesiastical commission —will satisfy those who have scrutinised, as Mr. RORSNAN and his supporters have done, carefully and laboriously, the woi king of the existing system. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, following Sir ROBERT PEEL, and anxious no doubt to wipe remarkable appeal, promised government measures of amendment to proceed from the body of the commissioners them selves. In the words which have recently overthrown thrones and broken crowns to atoms, we are tempte to exclaim " It is too later A you ago internal reform m ight have sufficed. But now, the principle throw is as sailed; the system is impugned. We do cot the blame on the commissioners. They have admi nistered, to the best of their powers, a law that was ' moat faulty ; and which, however destined to reform ' abuses, certainly has contributed to prolong, if not to ' perpetuate, them. Ix directing attention to the revenue returns for the year and quarter ending . on the sth inst., we once more warn our readers against the fashion in jour nalism of drawing positive inferences from them re specting the state and prospects of the country. The increase on the quarter of 402,5751. would, in deed, appear to warrant a hope that trade and in dustry were resuming a healthy tone. But, in the disturbed state of Europe, it were rash to found san guine expectations on such a basis. And theenormous decrease of 2,218,5111. on the year tells unequi vocally how far we have drifted to leeward, and what lost ground we have to make up. In only two items of the ordinary revenue is there an increase on the year ; and in both there is an in crease on the quarter also. One of these items is " taxes ;" and consequently the increase only shows that, spurred by the all-prevailing deficiency, the agents of government have been unwontedly on the alert in collecting the taxes. The other item is more consolatory :it is the " Post-office -" and an increase of 46,0001. on the year and 2 , 00 01. on the quarter shows that, amid all official impediments and the obstacles of a distracted time, the inherent sound ness of the new system continues to make itself mere and more felt. But the great lesson read by these returns is the necessity of a stern and unsparing retrenchment of public expenditure. With a falling off of more than two millions in the year's revenue, in the disturbed state of all Europe threatening to impair the means of so many of our customers, it would be the height of profligacy in government not to save every penny that it possibly can. The diminution in the public revenue is but a faint index of the diminution in private revenues : to comFeasate for it by increased taxation at such a time would be revolting. To trust to the chapter of accidents, and by increasing the debt bequeath heavier burdens to future genera tions, would be scandalous, even if such a course of policy were not calculated to endangerthe permanence of our institutions. There is but one remedy—rigid economy. Would that the antecedents of the present House of Commons warranted more confidence in its disposition to read this salutary lesson authoritatively to ministers ! TUB English minister at Turin acted upon very old and very proper instructions, when he dissuaded CHARLES ALBERT from marching into the Lombard territory. Non-interference, non-provocation, were of course the burden of oar advice to all Italian paten- tate*, Austrian as well as Piedmontese. The great novelty of circumstances in North Italy, however, was such as to warrant a departure from old rules of policy. And if CHARLES ALBERT marched merely, as an Italian sovereign, to put an end to the struggle between Austrians and Milanese, without eating himself up personally as a claimant of the Loin- ' bard crown, we do not see that there is so much to accuse him of. We think, moreover, that the best advice which could be now given to Austria would be, to abandon the idea of a defensive war in North Italy,where good or ill success would be alike fatal to Austrian power. Bad success would but add to the demoralisation of its armies and the waste of its resources. Whilst a victory would not only unite Italy against Austria, but infallibly bring a French army once more across the Alps. But such considerations as these are for a cabinet to ponder, not a general to act upon. And thus we find General ltsnertet manceuvring with the troops that he has saved from the rout of Milan, on the supposition that the Austrian is about to make a decided war for Lombardy. On ciuit ting Milan, RADETZKI, instead of prosecuting adirect and hurried flight eastward, marched toward Lodi with the purpose of collecting and rallying the Aus trian troops and garrisons of the towns on the Po. With these he proceeded by Creme and Orci-novi to Brescia. Had the Milanese been organised or alert, and the Piedmontese sent to their succour been in sufficient force, they might easily have followed and attacked RAJ:lrma on his march, since they had the advantage of the rail road as far as Treviglio. But CHARLES ALBERT, contented with sending a division to Milan, had himself led the greater body of his army through his own dominions towards Pavia and Piacenza. Should the Austrians remain firm in their purpose of dofence,they can main tain against Lombards and Piedmontese pretty much the same positions that they did against NAPOLEON. They hold Mantua : they are in force atVerona, and on the Adige. And had RADETZKI remained at Brescia, or in any of the positions westward of the Lake of Garda,and in communication with the Tyrol, he would menace the flank of any army advancing to force the passes of the Mincio and the Adige. Such were the positions of the Austrians against B LION A PARTE in 1796, except that at that time BUONAPARTE had possession of Peachier& and Verona. The Lombards and Pied montese still want these passes of the two rivers ; but, on the other hand, their friends the liberals are in possession of Padua and Venice; and if the Ro magnese, so boiling for combat, were now to indulge their propensity, and advance beyond the Po to dis quiet the Austrians and preserve Venice at least from c oanter-revolation, they would more effectually serve the cause of Italian indep e ndence than by all their peat pamphleteering and insurging. By the latest accounts it wou ld appear that R A DETSKI, either through superior orders, or of his own will, had abandoned Brescia, and the positions to the wart of the Lake of Garda, and had marched, where it is now surprising he did not proceed at first, —to Mantua. In this march the Piedmoatese seem to have come up with him at the passage of the river Chiesa, near Monte Chiara, and to have gained probably from his rear guard some trophies. If the stemmas of Austria be wise they will admit that the re-edification of their empire can never take place by the recovery of Lombardy. They may arm and keep a bold face , and act on the defensive ; but it is sot on the side of Italy that Austria can retrieve. Germany is now borne, by a tide too powerful to be resisted, against Russia, and the Austrian government will be forced to go along with this movement, which mast end either in the defeat and subjugation of Germany by the Cossacks a thing impossible —or by the liberation of Poland. This resuscitation of one of the first countries of Europe will establish an effective barrier to Russia ; but it, at the same time, cannot fail to rob Austria of another two millions of sub jects in °enjoin. How can Austria indemnify itself for such ruinous losses north and south—each a fearful lopping off of Poles here and Italians there ? The way is clear. Austria, impelled and driven from the west, must advance eastward, - most take under the wings of its double eagle the Danubian provinces, now existing but under sufferance betwixt the conflicting influence of the Turks and the Russians. Let the Austrian empire stretch along the Danube, give itself a port at the mouth of that river, and share the trade and dominion of the Black Sea with Russia. Let it rally and protect the lung-oppressed Christian races of Mol davia, Wallachia, and Bulgaria, and take advantage of the present catachlysm, not to seek to repatch a European empire after the pattern of CHARLES the FIFTH, but to match a new empire eastward, that will be not only conducive to its own greatness, but to the extension of civilisation and of the great prin ciples of European tolerance and liberty. THE speeches of Mr. HoasilAN, which have had so much effect upon the church and on the clergy, are beginning to tell upon parliament Radon the country. They have elicited from Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the course of the debate, a speech truly re markable and characteristic; a speech much in ad vance—not of his own party—that were nothing ; nor of his previously. expressed opinions—that were little ; but a speech infinitely in advance both of ' the ministers of the day and of the day itself. It is said that in the tropics, during the storms which usually succeed a drought, you may absolutely see many of the plants around you shoot and grow. So, after the silence occasioned by a dearth of exciting topics, should a debate arise that portends a storm, a careful political observer may rt mark that the opinions of Sir H. PEEL expand and fructify almost under the eyes of the Howe. It was curious to watch the wily ex-minister on Tuesday night : the sudden start when Lord ASHLEY arose—the deep attention paid to him—the careful watching of Mr. Pixm rraE—and then the disposal of the hat, the arrangement of the hair, and the significant " hem," which gave poor Mr. GOOLBURN to understand that the notes he had been taking would be useless, for that his great leader was about to occupy the table and to overthrow in five minutes all the arguments his unhappy subordinates had been six weeks in gathering together and ar rang he s ing. Tpeech of Sir ROBERT PEEL is, no doubt, the great fact of the discussion. Bat the motion itself is of no secondary importance, involving as it did to a great extent the fate of the ecclesiastical commission, and that of some ten or twelve thousands of the under paid and overworked clergy of an empire. The circum stances connected with the arrangements of the ecclesi astical commission, whereby the episcopal and common fund are dissevered, are of a nature perhaps less ge nerally understood than their importance warrants. The commission was appointed to re-arrange and re-distribute the territorial tights and poosessions of the church. Universal consent accorded that the property of the church was moat unequally divided — that the establishment, as SYDNEY SMITH expresses it, was made up of two sets represented by Dives on the one hand, and by Lazarus upon the other. The ecclesiastical commission was to reform all this. What did it do? By eomo accident—as the secretary describes it—an accident, the eirt-umstances of which have never been explained—words crept into an act of parliament regulating the commission, whereby the revenues derived. from bishops were ne cessarily kept apart from the revenues derived from other sources ; and the bishops' simple revenues were specially devoted to episcopal purposes, though what those purposes were was ac t ually left in doubt. Such an unexpected occurrence might, it would naturally be supposed. have placed the commissioners in consi derable difficulty. They might, as one would have thought, have felt great delicacy in dealing with a fund like that derived from episcopal incomes, certain to present an enormous surplus, if only episcopal wants and wiohea were to be provided for. But the commission soon found that not only episcopal wants grew fast, but that episcopal fancies required to be consulted. Oar bishop had no house—the commission proceeded to build him one ; they built it on his own plans ; they erected where he liked, and when he liked andy bought esta ; they speculated in rever sions oubtful titles ; hey built gorgeously and far beyond the wants of the best endowed pre late; they pulled down where to pull down was destruction they built up where erection was unnecessary. In this way they squandered hundreds of thousands of the money of the church. In the meanwhile what became of the poor clergy? Hundreds upon hundreds of pastors existing upon a miserable stipend of from 501. to 2001. a year \ urgently craved aid from the commission. The most deplorable representations were daily made to them. To some they gave hopes: by others they dealt more n A le je d n u : i tK , ti f l o ey r t i h s :Lt d oo a k re n po o notice e p th n eir appg c s. i. sions, and what did it prese nt? Some tundred or two of livings raised to 1501. or 2001. a year in pro portion to population ; some trifling assistance given for the erection of parsonage houies, and a general paragraph, expressive of deep regret that the state of their funds precluded their receiving any . further ap plications. And yet all this time the episcopal fund was producing annually its surplus thousands. Mr. Hoassue, who has taken in hand the case of the working clergy of the church, moved the house to abolish this iniquity by abolishing the distinction between the funds. Lord ASHLEY seconded the motion. It was no small testimony to the importance of Mr. lioasmstes proposi tion—it was no small recognition of the sin cerity, the good faith, and the power of his appeal—that the noble lord, one of the most difficult of all our aristocrats to lead or to guide, should almost as it were spontaneously have started up to place on record his opinion of the importance and the justice of the motion. Mr. PLOMPTRE and others aclmow lodged the importance of the noble lord's adhesion, and still more significant testimony was borne to it by 'cu" t he speech of Sir R. PEEL. It is a disadvantage of commissioners, felt by themselves as well as by the ministry and the pubic, that they are frequently obliged to be represented in parliament at " s econd hand." The HOME SE CRETARY is the reapplied oracle of the node siastical commission. In parliament he is its putative father. The unwonted irritation &- played by . the right honourable baronet on Tuesday night sufficiently attested how mtch tart' of the district on the charutrof having ditri Int;ed numerous copies of a circ ,in which ,t,,: no transition can be made without having forresult the suffer ii...i...._inesposiaily to bbeuregildirengtudfortutht in the e ti n r e e w . ? t e u rf ti an on of peo a pl an e. dares that the people of Berlin have dishonoured he of leatieengswinorewwelarlatiesibemwmillhanochaur 9:l4lneeltneiacqsawtcfdir:utlikaMubizdiechaearinoCecemill!hitate,:iftid a a p u resua th it oii re t n y t , to an of dcrt:ini create te w pro hi evi c ivc o e th lin er w: e on x : p hio ress on.c ion Tshere :Z ed self favourable to a reac ti on , --.' w y u al d tw eli ul v ;red ' li nu prison th er e in t o Kln. gth'seP°hawcedri: anfdoecre: the h ea d wthe„ll.asantethmeanminuierot wheraleitifgmethemth.. "Tragoofvethmemsetantet,imt; strengthen th e bonds of legal order, to animate confidence . , to im m e diately ever, being him. of trade and labour dependent on wages. The government liberty. The Will be referred to the oom years of peace, the Prussian army raise up the enfeebled credit, and to bring about the revival tribunals. ...itis calculated Meld 800 millions of thalem to the honour of Germany. It relies, therefore, on last t h irty-three i f ted " Di m et - , thau The Hamburg Boraenhalle contains a lette Tram h.locilloeunrdeefavirermanr to y p w re ir p e e nn e i x t, te an msl d to pea re c e e teire w peace t°l4 w ls ithin th e the healthy power of the citizens, who are now called has cost not i nn umtnt to abo sho r w eli th a s o t n thez e weze si ri d "p e c f e or of freed the om. high The t cm given in the full freedom of deliberation and conviction. No A note is said to have been received here from the upon an assistance which, when afforded, shall be only B ee ;i o , w hi c h nye: re one will be desirous of keeping altogether aloof from the ion - government, tcethe purport that the Emperor clots not • ... priesion which a powerful and unmistakeable expression of to interfere in the domestic affairs of Prussia ; but th o u* if public opinion is calculated to make. No one will wish to Prussia should resort to measures which might effect the t a - .. di ny that in certain times it is both beneficial and unavoid- tegr ity of the Polish Russian dominions, Russia woad Li able to act in a manner which at another time might not independently. according to circumstances It beet —,,,,, conscientioudy, appear advisable. Undoubtedly this high asserted, that letters have in the meanwhile r scrir ""L' a ssembly, during its deliberations, took into account the here from the frontiers, which mention th e a —„, altered c outtition of the state of affairs; looms e free games- the Ccesacks at Tilsit to 50,000 strong. I hear P of n e r eerie ; sion of its opinions this day will be we to the country, aggressions which these hordes hiel committed on th .P frontier. a.-well of the assembly, on the let, it was decided t m a i * eiewell as to his Majesty an en d te th r.d e ad in vise to n a of fr th ee e 7...1 3...T ii h m e Prussian people, sine. they have in the press . , and that the constituent assembly should meet iii foe FRANKFORT.—During the concluding prot on ,/ en public occasion' , of their most important affairs, must not forget that it is only in the strife of opinions that the truth breaks forth, and the' in order to maintain freedom every opinion sh , ou g l rea d li be y w eh ee trg ks ed at w F it ra h n t kf he o tu rt. k M of . aga Gag is e ting rn, o th l e l/ G ar e m m et an adt ic , th eui: freely and justly expressed. If the high united Diet, as proposed to elect a committee of 50 members, to hp well with regard to its composition as to ifs eights , until the meeting of the constituent LI differs from the future representations of the people, the port the interestsof the nation , ateltM y, to ND . g overnment still lays great weight upon its counsel, and in that spirit I submit the royal propositions to their investiga te lion and ezaraination. federal affairs, and confer the faculty of taking th e The royal commissioner then read the following initiative in making . proposals. Also, to invite th e projects of law Germanic Diet to join the committee in carrying r m the constituent assembly ; and, lastly, to charge th e We, Frederick William, by the grace of God, King of the affairs of the confederation until the meeting of th of e a a n m a e ti m o b n l al y constituent o lveljto Prussia, tic. ter. , to our states assembled in the Sec united Diet our royal greeting.—ln order to call into committee to convoke the present assembly ' existence the constitution promised to our faithful people on in case o f tea . that du:inte tile,t hial " the broadest basis, it is necessary to connect its provisions usseer people having a sledding vote (teschlassfohio). We have, demand that the Germanic Diet, in taking into NA . 1 with an assembly of freely-chosen representatives of the aid l e n ra t t h io e n si t t h ti e n e g st o a f bli th sh e assembly, should disavow any exceptional resolution establishment therefore, cauaed • provisional law of elections to be drawn ' rep containing the prop skims by which this assembly, of the Diet contrary to the fed eral act, and r ealm' which in the very nature of its mists is not susceptible of a division into [two . ] chambers, will be chosen and formed. 'The South Germans have proscribed the French Whim we submit this project of law to the last united Diet any of its members who may . have concurred in paes. which will be held in its present form, we recom- ing them, and putting them into execution. military vocabulary, and they have changed the words t battalion , . and company into hrerschaar, mend its speed . y examination , in order that, through the establishment without delay of a firm, popular, and open swyestehmaveofsigrocevererinymee.nidte, a al v l ou th re ose d to bless m isin ce mag , ati our se faTt h h i f r ul b relgilLen e , and noble people through a full and real development of a banter, and fahulein. The names of the officers were [ free constitution. This constitution, the project of which equally changed, and those of lieutenant and adjutant we shall lay before the new assembly formed on the basis of exploded. I the law of election should, according to our view, and in AUSTRIA.—We have no later dates from Views', order to fully attain its end, be similar in form to those of h Stadion, Chief Governor -.. many, and should be in accordance with the united efforts Count Redolp of Bohemia , the majority of the constitutional governments of Ger. but , we have some additional items of intelligeeee hitherto made for the formation of a general German consti- has resigned. Count Debut, just returned from ere cow, is dangerously ill. Baron K ebeck is also very Cation tor the confederation. —Glum at Potsdam, the 2nd of April, 1848.—Signed, FIiEDINUCEWILLIAX, CAMPRAUBEN, ill : should he die, the liberal Count Francis Stadion will probably take hie' place. Archduke John has been COUNT VON SCHWERIN, VON AVERBWALD, BOILNEM•NN, . VON Mrtal, HANSEMENN, and VON NETHER. PROIECT OP A LAW HP ELECTION for the assent., y el chosen as delegate to Frankfort. which will be convoked for the purpose of agreeing to the Prussian constitution.—We, Frederick William, &c., atter having consulted both chambers of our states, assembled is united Diet, and on the propoeition of our ministers of state, ordain es follows:-1. Every Prussian entitled to a domicile in the country, who is 2 4 years of age, who has not been deprived of his full civic rights, and who has re sided during one year in his district, shall h have the right to vote as an original elector ( Ureeililer), provided e does not receive p or-relief from public funds, or without menial pos sessing his own household , board , and wages, n a capacity (in einen die/minden verbsllnisse.)-2. The original (or prunst) electors of each district shell elect one elector. out of every . population of five hundred souls; and that right of election shall hold good even when the pooulation of adistrict is below 50 0 , but above 300 Should its popula tion be under 300 the land councillor shall connect that dis trict with one or more, in order to form an electoral circle. In districts of more than a thousand souls the election shall take pace in circles, to be limited in such a manner by the local authorities as not to allow of more than five electors (of the second category) to be cboaen for one district. Inhabited houses not belonging to a district union will be connected with reterence to the votes of the primal electors with some neighbouring state or district.-3. No one is entitled to be a .econdary elector except in the electoral district in which he ' is a primary elector. —4. The election of the secondary electors shall take place by electing cards, and be de cided by an absolute majority.--5. Every Prussian entitled to a domicile who has completed hie 30th year, and has not forfeited the possession of civic rights, or who does n ot re ceive poor relief from public means is eligible as a deputy.— 6. For every circle (or rural councillorship), as well as for every town which does not belong to such circle, there shall b e one deputy chosen. Shou ld the population of the circle of the state reach sixty thousand souls two deputies shall be chosen, and there shall be an addi tional deputy for every farther 40,000 souls; so that three will be chosen for 100,000 souls, four for 140,000, and so one n. —7. The population shall be reckoned acc ording to t census of 1846.-8. The primal elections of the secondary electors will be carried on under the direction of the muni cipal euthorities, or (where no aldermanie body ezists) of the burgomaster. Our minister' of state will determine on the necemary.arrangements respecting the carrying on of the elections in rural districts, and with reference to the verious differences existing in the institutions of the provincial dis tricts. In the circles the election of the deputies shall be carried on under the direction of the rural councillors, and in towns not belonging to any, rura l councillorship under that of the municipal autlionties.--9. The election of the deputies shall take place through cards inscribed by the electors themselves, and according to an absolute ma joins • and moreover, so far as the elections in circles are concerned, in the chief place of such circles. When there are more than three deputies to be chosen the election must take place by circles, the limits of which the authorities called te the direction of the elections will deter mine.-10. The elected deputies vote according to their own independent conviction in the assembly to be convoked, and are not bound by any missions or instructions.-11. The in vestigation into the legality of the elections is the business of the future assembly. After reading the foregoing royal propositions the commissioner declared the Diet open. It was all but unanimously resolved to vote an address to the King. A committee was appointed to draw it up, which was done in the following terms : Your royal Idejesty has assembled us around yea at a moment in which the German people, long restrained by divisions and want of a free state of affairs, now rise to unity and freedom with all their original form. All races give to each other a fraternal hand, and Prussia desires nothing wester than to be a spirited member of the worthy whole. But freedom alone gives animation. It is now enured to the entire German fatherland through the repre sentation of the people in the German Diet,_ a representation now in cou rse of formation. Thin liberty is assured to Prussia through the institutions which your Majesty has promised as the foundation of the Prussian constitution ; and now that we are assembled for \ the last time, we feel deeply convinced that for the future a real representation of the people will preside over the destinies of our fatherland. We are still, however, the legal organ of the country, and in that capacity we have duties to perform. In the patent of the 18th of March of this year, in the proclamation of the 21st, and in your de -11 MOM of the 22nd and 28th of the same month, yours M aj jests , gave the assurance that you would lay bef the representatives of the people the following projects of law;—On freedom of the press; confirmation of personal freedom; right of meeting ; independence of judges; aboli tion of exemptions from ordinary jurisdictions, and the privi lege of administering the police in private domains; public and mid judicial p r oceedings, with juries in crimi nal cases, and especially for all political and press offences ; equal poli tical and civic rights for all religious creeds ; constitution of a general national guard, with free choice of officers ; a po- pular law of election', representing all the interests of the peo ple ; the co-operation of the representatives of the people in the assembled legislature and in the economy of the state, by a simple majority ; responsibility of ministers ; the oath to the constitution to be taken by the army. Your Majesty has further ensured the co-operation of Prussia in the changes to be mule in the German union of states into a confederacy, with real representation at the confederacy. Whilst we I thankfully receive this assurance, and whilst we recognise 1 , that constitutional monarchy will now exist in Prussia on , ' b h u e t u tr a e ;a o f rte "i peo " jele, ot oni p/eSe our t e to uu..ti s. tuti . g e al pe du op eL GERMANY. will not, whilst it rises to freed w om ch, abandon i russia hasts historbecy. It ----- honours the monarchy under hi Pome OPENING OF THE SECOND U NITED DIET. Breit; it sees, in its constitutional establishments, the surest PRUSSIA. —Our correspondent writing from Ber- tee of the freedom, the welfare, and the unity of ' and considers it as necessary for the internal union lin, on April 2, says, " This being the day appointed Var oti a berman confederacy. It recognise+ that Germany, for the above ceremony, the civic guard were stationed under its banner, will remain united, and that it all round the palace, in the BO called white hall of cannot lie dismembered by any dangers that might place. Germany, determined to defend its which the Diet, as on the former occasion, was held• tahe nationality from all sides will have right for all. We o Shortly after twelve, the royal commissioner, fully greet therefore the decree of your Majesty by w h i ch Herr Camphaneen, president of the council of minis - the grand duchy of Posen has been granted a national Te ter', and the rest of the members of the cabinet, organuation. Your Majesty has taken a mat appropriate entered the hall and took their places on the left of resolution at • momentous period. hav e hays called to the the throne. The royal commissioner then advanced highest offices of the crown men who the confidence of th th e us ce s untry.. The . popular, works of the e xecutive power in front of the assembly, and, in a clear and distinct s treng th ened will con fi rm the feel ing or unity between to voice, read the royal speech, of which the following ey e nation and its prince . , and aga i n restore confidence is a translation: commerce and industry. The government will take under His Majesty the King has given me orders to open in his its care the state of the working and manufacturing classes name the second united Diet. Great events have disturbed in town and country, and put an end in a legal manner to a part of Europe, and have not left out fatherland un- the illegal condition of some portions of the countey. Die. touched. They threaten us with increasing danger, and sensions in the country disappear ; the people and the ewes- open for us a pregnant future. Prussia and Germany will tive are not opposed; on both sides beat heroic WM% alai i pass over the time of transition, if with moderated courage the holy love of fatherland unites them in one kasegsgekg and well-ordered power it MOTES on the new way which has whole. The government of your Majesty can been struck out. The unity of Germany was long the goal to bringing order and legality into the present unsett c rAtMeli. which oft hopeless wishes were directed ; now, with quick ton, on the strong support of all good citizens, who at , pwe advance towards it, and his Majesty offers a help- know that respect for the law of the fatherland can alone log'hand, by the aide of which 15,000,000 joyfully stand preserve it from disorder, end being the newly . blown flower The extension of political rights of the citizens in the of freedom to a beautiful fruit.—We remain, in deepest state was a more deeply felt want, inasmuc h as the people humility, your faithful, united Diet of the assembled states. had attained a degree of edaeatioa which at least placed Berlin, A ill 2. them on an equality with other nations lieing under free The was also all but unanimously voted , constitutional rams. Hill laaj••• 7 has Promisee a 174 e c° ll- and committees were appointed to report on the fors stitutional government, sea we are already assembled „ inf . in order to lay the foundation-4one of the durable propositions. The Diet then adjourned till edifice. Let us hope that the work will quickly pro- le eray after to-morrow. teed, and that it may be connected with the great The civic pool of Wanzleber, arrested the Km- WEST INDIA MAIL. CIAO , Male Diat.o Tase• ProPor rca-0 4 _ _ ir — o.n iWan Chin* leopre PRP.," App. t Ditto I Cued Escis Muni Teed Prop , root 4 CIISA Imin UPI • me* with tor pace met * pod com &box nen the the a fe the sta, As we announced yesterday, the Medway brings news of more fighting on the isthmus, arising oat of the miserable tracasseries concerning the yon 4 savage called King of Mosquitia, in which the British government has allowed itself to he involved. Our readers will recollect that the last news from this quarter related to an attack upon Truxillo, in the state of Honduras, north of the Mosquito coast. This time the scene of action his been shifted to the river of San Juan de Nicaragua, at the southern extremity of the coast. We give the latest respecting the northern operations before taking up the thread of the southern. The Central American Times publishes the protest of the supreme government of Honduras relative to the aggressions in that state. It is dated the 6th of January, and signed by Juan Lindo, for the President Santos Guardiola. The protest states that : The British government have recognised the pretended nett which the so called hill,/ of the uncivilised and mall ki ibe, unpaved, denominated the Mosquito salon, claims to a on pot a the territory of Honduras on Site north coast, by outman.; re pupport the pretensiens of the said king by force, who, We government of Great Britain stone acknowledge'', ead who lese *of himself under its protection. The captain of the corvette Alamo! the royal English navy, has taken possess/ on of that territory, erred. We tt as far se the ROMA river ; it afterwards eemmitted in the square itself of e mote lo positive acts of hostility and agatenice ca 71 the state, by diseking troops in the said port, with the vire reqnlring oonamandant by an armed foree to rause the w uard situated in the river of A ga to evacuate winedtely he ex even been &w owed as it should be, from e ari•es the apeciese pretmaion of right of the Mosquito chief to the terntory is qaestsw; and which it only h e by employing three. Neill:al the beer nor his protector, the Brithh government, hare made the claim d the caae / the accredited agents according to the principles M. milted by the unanimous wrest of the eiviliwd natio, orate world. On these statements is founded a solemn protest that these proceedings are prejudicial to the republic of Central America, of which Honduras is an integral part, and that the territory occupied belongs to Ika duras in virtue of " agreements entered into between the Spanish monarchy and that of Great Britain." The cause and objects of the operations on the San Juan de Nicaragua are entirely unknown; but they appear to have been directed against the state of Nicaragua, also belonging to Central America. All that is known is that H. M. ships Daring and Alarm, with the steamer Vixen, were at San Juan on the 6th of February ; that a detachment of the 38th Regiment was there also, and the late Mr. Walker, her Britan nic Majesty's Consul-General to the King of Mosquitia. Their object is said vaguely enough to have betas to settle some misuoderstanding or dispute between the Nicaraguan government and the King of Mosquitia" To this end we presume it was that an expeditioe, composed of the Vixen and the ships' boats, up the river San Juan, was undertaken on the 7th February. A small fort, about half a mile up the river, wistakm and destroyed without resistance. On the 11th news reached Saa Juan that the forts of the Sarapique l2d miles up the river) had been taken after some resist ance and that the expedition had proceeded up wards agaiiist Fort Carlos, near where the San Juan lames fro Lake Nicaragua. On the 26th of February in telligence reached San Juan that the fort of San Cat. los had been taken without resistance. Captes Loch, of the Alarm, who commanded the a pedition, had sent an officer to the city d it Grenada, where the Nicaraguan government it at present established. [We presume that is the circumstance of Grenada being the city IS which the enemy was sent that has made the exile site geographers and statists of the Standard rep* sent those operations as directed against the pram ment of New Grenada.] The loss incurred in taking the forts of the Sur pique amounted to three 'seamen killed ; one midhltl man, two seamen, one boy, one marir.e, and two 971. diers wounded. The Vixen had her starboard paddle box damaged, and received two round shot. The Nicaraguans' are said to have had 30 killed led wounded, and 10 taken prisoners. The affair cell lasted 40 minutes. In the present state of our information we refrain from comment ; but it is to be hoped that some mem ber of parliament will call upon government to ee plain how it is that we find ourselves at war with two states of Central America. What is the nature ol our connexion with the Mosquito coast? What is the character and pasition of the Indian being calle d the King of Mosquitia, to whom the late Mr. Walker was consul, and after whom our fellow -subjects in Jamaica were lately running with as much servility as they could have shown to the Autocrat of all the [ Rissoles? From the Santa Martha Gaceta lifercantil of Feb. we learn that an English sweet was in the port Wl' ing on board a cargo of sugar, cocoa, &c. JAMAICA.—No incidents of mark have trans pired since the previous mail. Money continued WM without any prospect of improvement. Owing to tts reduction of stocks the prices of sugar and rum bad sl* perienced a rise ; the former from 12v. pear 00 N. to tween 15s. and 19s. • the latter in • sligh degree. Le d ' Henry Capadoes, icting commanding officer in Jasin., o l died suddenly on the lit of March, in his 70th year. s aw n. Jacob du Paz, a Hebrew merclumt, whose hospitalitie issls s pleasant the memories of many of our navy officers, deed—in his 02nd year. GUIANA.—The Court of Policy have postPes4 the consideration cf the estimates for the current , yea ee t he 15th of May, on the g round " that under existing w; curnstanses the members dare not guarantee the psyssnl; any estimate whatever that might be framed, hoin"'" WINDWARD ISLANDS.— BARBAnoEs.-11,1 Mercury says Owing to the late paled at which the island was fonng d ...f.. 3 rein last year the geese number of shoots thrown out in the were torn "to blab assen t for they have not matt is rt: andaerelore tai lie ciao um in the boiling-boom. There ie stn .. Mobs _es Ur da t a et skill, helm impreseon seinen , e ":l„,,e • the Wmg of the Maar th everything thst •" - Sar bY tiat stil sett,. 11511 his nociataking• s • loolediale egliellewle ios cl, and monomY "r •— s osier tn. lOW • laid to relief tress moot lo mot mg would be Idlest plain.... sad is , degas p peewee a ewe liet teleasted to ware Sae 1 1.." perteet swerados. 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